Looks like the summer of the Ig to me and franly I am surprised that she is doing this well, though not shocked. Both “Fancy” and “Problems” are as good as modern dance mash Hip Hop gets and look as though they are settling in for a long stay at the top. As long as “Blurred Lines”? Maybe not though…
After seven years in the wilderness, the not best song on Paramore does the trick and gets them back on the singles chart. A fun video helped no doubt. SOrt of pop punk meets pop dance and not a bad polace to put the band. The two Iggys are great… but you already knew that.
While simply because of his work at last years “Sinatra In The Park”, Legend has a lot of brownie points in my world, as a songwriter he puts me to sleep. But here, he has a 0.09% beat on Pharrell. I don’t seem I am exaggerating when I call John’s Love In The Future rancid.
Again, not the worst singles chart I’ve ever seen. The Azalea song is a real keeper and one I’d have missed if it wasn’t on the charts, proof positive that our fate lies not in the charts but in ourselves. I bet you wish you’d thought it up. Me? I wish it meant something.
That run from DJ Snake to the end is the best I’ve seen in months and months and months, all of it is good and Timberlake’s “Not A Bad Thing” is one of his greatest moments ever. As pure and as perfect a pop song as you will ever hear plus? It isn’t connected at the hips with a dog as it is on the album
Not one new entry in the top ten and the top seven are THE SAME AS LAST WEEK and except for Lil Jon and Onerepublica trading places, this is the exact same as last week!!!! BUT coming up soon, as I predicted the minute it was released, Ed Sheeran’s “Sing” will be rocking the charts all summer. Be afraid.
Meet the new chart same as the old chart. Well, at least Aloe Blacc is doing well. Plus you wanna see devolution in action? from “Get Lucky” to “Blurred Lines” to “Happy” (to” Sing” -but it will be a coupla weeks till that one shows). There is devolution in action.
Yeeeeesssss! Lil Jon is back on the charts to tell the truth to power on this real old fashioned slice of EDM heaven. This is House as written with a catchy catchy hook and flying synth lines into the outer stratosphere. Lil Jon said this about the song to Spin: ” It’s amazing, because that’s what I’ve been doing all my career: just getting people amped up and hyped up.” And remember he al… oh wait I already used that line.
We appear to be in a period of extended mediocrity within the upper reaches of the charts. The album charts are so volatile it has no middle ground any more. In 2011 albums were staying in the top ten for months on end, today the album charts reflect something at all. Meanwhile, the single charts are so conservative and static they seem set in stone. Nothing on this list is good enough. It is a dreadful disappointment
How many times can I express my loathing for “Let It Go”, the standard formusical numbers is so low really ever since “Wicked” made the point and kept to it, that anything that rises from key to key to a full scale scream can be considered a power ballad, we have been heading for this place where everybody has given up on song for spectacle. An abominable, apocalyptic piece of crap.
The top four are exactly the same as last week, and the following six are minimal changes and NOTHING NEW made it on AND… Oh, I guess that’s all I got.Proof that the US Hot 100 is the most conservative and reactionary charts in the history of the world. FYI
Foxes (aka Louisa Rose Allen) is yet another DJ’s discovery, this time Zedd discovered her and this song is her second hit. The album is dropping May 12th, though whether we get it, and whether we care, is a subject of some debate.
John Legend performs the terrible drag of an “All Of Me” on the Grammy’s once and the next thing you know he has a top ten hits. Legend is Alicia Keys in male drag and he is just as boring a performer though not without a certain amount of charm, true. None of that charm is at work here. None of it.
It is one of the wonderful things about the record biz. Dan Smith was a bartender writing songs on his laptop two years ago, and one, based upon the infamous city, went onto his first album. Today his life is changed forever, he is a sensation, and whether I (or you) can stand the song is irrelevant, the man hit the jukebox jackbox. PS we don’t like the song at all.
1. Fireworks – Katy Perry 2. Grenade – Bruno Mars 3. What’s My Name – Rihanna 4. Raise Your Glass
1. Fireworks – Katy Perry 2. What’s My Name – Rihanna and Drake 3. Grenade – Bruno Mars 4. Raise
1. Fireworks – Katy Perry 2. Raise Your Glass – Pink 3. What’s My Name – Rihanna 4. The Time
1. Raise Your Glass – Pink 2. Firework – Katy Perry 3. Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna 4.
1. Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna 2. Raise Your Glass – Pink 3. Like A G6 – Far East
1. JLS – ‘Love You More’ 2. Take That – ‘The Flood’ 3. Ellie Goulding – ‘Your Song’ 4. Rihanna
1. Like A G6 – Far East 2. Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna 3. Just The Way You
1. What’s My Name? – Rihanna – Your name is nananannaaaaa 2. Like A G6 – Far East Movement –
1. Like A G6 – Far East Movement 2. Just The Way You Are – bruno Mars 3. Only Girl
1. Like A G6 – Far East Movement 2. Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars 3. Just A
1. Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars 2. Like A G6 – Far East 3. Teenage Dream –
1. Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars 2. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry 3. Love The Way You
1. Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars 2. Love The Way You Lie – Eminem 3. Only Girl
1. Alexandra Burke – ‘Start Without You’ 2. Taio Cruz – ‘Dynamite’ 3. Katy Perry – ‘Teenage Dream’ 4. The
1. Teenage Daydream – Katy Perry 2. Love The Way you Lie – Eminem 3. Just The Way You Are
1. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry 2. LoveThe Way You Lie – Eminem 3. Dynamite – Taio Cruz 4. Just The Way
1. Love the Way You Lie – Eminem 2. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry 3. Dynamite – Taoi Cruz 4. I
