rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here

douche?

jokes (about the snobbery everyone on ilm is guilty of), bruv

musically: There's kube 93, but that's rap/r&b, rather than top 40. They certainly play the hell out of "Low".

Ah, KUBE. If I really were into hip-hop, I think I'd listen to X104 instead...it's a HS-run station out of Mercer Island with basically the same playlist but minus the on-air "personalities" and commercials. X104 used to be more like KISS, with Top 40 pop and R&B, so it's unfortunate that it changed. The station I would LOVE to listen to is C89.5, which is dance radio, but I cannot get it on decent reception and could only listen to it when I worked in Seattle city limits. Same with 90.9 (top 40, operated out of a college in Tacoma). Obviously I could listen to anything on my computer, but I've always had a wish to find a local radio station I really enjoyed that didn't sound like crap when I use my stereo.

I love love love "With You," it's the first midtempo Chris Brown song I've heard that was halfway decent. And yeah I just heard it a couple of days ago.

Huh. I get C89.5 just fine out here in Everett, but I've never managed to receive X104 at all. I only even know about it because I ran across the station's website, and I'm convinced it's as mythical as the minotaur. What is nice though, is that I can get the Beat 94.5, which is Vancouver's top 40 station, although truth be told, I've barely listened to them since they switched from the hiphop format they had roughly 2002-2005.

I shouldn't say C89 comes in "just fine", per se. It's a bit fuzzy where I'm at, but go about a mile in any direction, and it's crystal clear.

Tangent for chart junkies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_that_air_Casey_Kasem's_American_Top_40:_The_70's

Is Flo Rida a big star? I see him at the top of all these charts, but is it just a momentary thing/a fluke or is he a "Next Big Thing" to watch?

I guess Flo Rida is from my state, Flo-rida.

Flo Rida is not a big star at all, no, just one of the (many) rappers who got T-Pain on a hook during his hot streak, and somehow managed to ride it to a bigger hit than Plies or whoever did. He was barely even known in Southern hip hop before "Low," but that song's success I guess makes him an instant next big thing, Timbaland follow-up at all. I like him but I definitely don't see him as a potential A-list star.

I love love love "With You," it's the first midtempo Chris Brown song I've heard that was halfway decent. And yeah I just heard it a couple of days ago.

-- musically, Sunday, 9 March 2008 02:27 (19 hours ago) Link

u mad, his other midtempo songs ("Yo," "Kiss Kiss") are just about the only ones I can tolerate, "With You" is just lukewarm Stargate leftovers.

I know I'm way out of music's pop culture loop, but it seems to me -- and again, I'm just going by glancing at the pop charts once in a while -- that there are fewer and fewer A-list big stars with long careers. Seems like now there's more one-hit or a few-hit wonders then ever before.

But again, I realize that I might be laboring under a complete misperception. Am I?

I think that's part total truth, part misperception (because of course you only remember the A-list stars from the past, if you look at charts from way back then of course you'll see a ton of forgettable people with just that one big song), and part because hits are now very much driven by producers, songwriters and featured artists, which is why you get a big song "by" Flo Rida seemingly out of nowhere that's really just part of T-Pain's hit parade.

I am totally down with lukewarm Stargate leftovers.

'yo'>>>>>>>>>>>>>'with you'

'kiss kiss' is still the shit

blog house 'remix' the only bearable part of my unfortunate blog house club excursion two weeks ago

"Kiss Kiss" isn't midtempo, is it? Basically I meant that "With You" was the only ballad-y CB song I've liked.

I shouldn't say C89 comes in "just fine", per se. It's a bit fuzzy where I'm at, but go about a mile in any direction, and it's crystal clear.

Yeah, I can hear it in the car, but not at home.

well, I'll give you that "With You" is better than his other ballads, but I think "Kiss Kiss" is still midtempo (at least compared to stuff like "Run It" and "Wall To Wall" that beats you over the head with THIS IS A CLUB HIT signifiers).

Is it time for me to point out again that "Right Time" is by far the single best Chris Brown song and is both a ballad and midtempo? Also, "With You" is just fine, but c'mon who doesn't start singing "to the left, to the left" after the first 10 seconds. Stargate really, really have proven to be extraordinarily not diverse in their sound palette.

If by "Right Time" you mean "Say Goodbye," that shit is as much a smudged xerox of Usher's "Burn" as "Burn" was a smudged xerox of his own "U Got It Bad." Even the bridge is just "ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, can you feel me burnin'?" changed to "oh oh oh oh oh oh, do you hear me cryin'?" Those who don't know their R&B ballads are doomed to repeat them.

Yeah, sorry wrong name. Not sure how that happened. I guess I am doomed to repeat my R&B ballads then (whatever that actually means). And I prefer "Burn", "U Got It Bad", and "Say Goodbye" to "With You".

Oh I agree, "With You" is balls. I'm just saying it's no more copied from a formula that "Say Goodbye."

colby o donnis (?) and akon- what you got

this is pretty good imo. added to the list of things i wouldn't mind hearing all summer.

i know i'm like a billion blogyears late, but "love in da club" is like angelic choirs on cotton candy clouds type shit

^ this means it is awesome

it's also an apt description for those of us who think the song is some weakass tinkerbell shit, too.

We should have a "rolling charts thread for people who just heard that song that's been #1 for 3 months".

it's also an apt description for those of us who think the song is some weakass tinkerbell shit, too.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:54 PM

yeah i figured it was properly ambiguous

somehow i got sick of "sensual seduction" before i got sick of "Low"

"Sensual Seduction" I pretty much ignored for a long time, now I'm like alright, this is a catchy song.

heard sensual seduction twice tonight and loved it as much as i ever did

the edited version>>>>>>>>>sexual eruption

true, actually

I'm not sure I've even hear the "sexual eruption" version. and I've heard "Sensual Seduction" in clubs with the swears in the verses left in.

This week: "Love In This Club" holds strong at #1, but Chris Brown is still beating at the door. "Touch My Body" is up to #16 on airplay only, pretty impressive and likely to be another chart topper for Ms. Carey once released on iTunes. "Love Song" is still pushing up there, and has had much more staying power than I would have predicted. It's been overplayed but I still like it a lot! Lupe Fiasco's "Superstar" pushes into the top 10. Miley Cyrus is still sitting just outside. "All American Girl" making a slow climb towards being another huge Carrie Underwood crossover success. Soulja Boy's next single enters the top 50, let's see if he can avoid being remembered as a one hit wonder.

Airplay gainer = "No Air", Sales Gainer = "Bleeding Love", which jumps up to #21 and is now officially a cross-Atlantic hit! And "Hallelujah" hits #1 on the digital sales chart, thanks to Jason Castro. I wonder how high it would be on the hot 100 if eligible. We'll never know!

Also "Bleeding Love" is now up to #3 on the iTunes top 100!

WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT THE BUCKCHERRY SINGLE?

I give them some strange sort of baffled propers for riding a Bush crib (BUSH FFS!) to their greatest-ever chart success, but it's really all been downhill since "Porno Star"...

has anyone heard the Cassie produced by Danja? I heard it's gonna blow up

The Buckcherry and the "Bleeding Love" make my eyes bleed tears of pain. I absolutely despise both of those.

So did radio reject Yael Naim, or simply not give her a chance?

48 57 Soulja Boy Tell'em Featuring Arab YAHHH!

^^this looks hilarious on the chart

48 57 Soulja Boy Tell'em Featuring Arab YAHHH!

^^this looks YAHHHHHHHH TRICK YAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

-- J0rdan S., Friday, March 14, 2008 2:53 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

'kiss kiss' Low is still the shit

blog house 'remix' the only bearable part of my unfortunate blog house club excursion two weeks ago last nite

-- deej, Sunday, March 9, 2008 4:31 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

shit teyana taylor "google me" is really good

i was all set to hate on it because i saw her episode of my super sweet 16 and she was a total brat and completely unlikable-- maybe playing up to the shows rep, and google me obv does nothing to mask her conceitedness-- but the chorus is really lush even though the rapping is just C+ at best

Ne-Yo - Closer

in the vein of "the way i are" and "please dont stop the music" or riding their coattails?

i think there was some talk about that in the r&b thread grady

i saw her episode of my super sweet 16

wait she was on the show??

google me is hotness

yeah like, pharrell was in it and they said she was signed to star trek. she was wearing bathing apes and ice creams etc. and i never thought i'd hear a word from her again but whaddya know

i give her the benefit of the doubt kinda because i'm sure mtv edits the shit out those to make every subject seem like a total bitchy brat

yeah i mean that's the draw of the show

MADE is filming at my school, and they've asked several of my friends to talk shit about their subject.