rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here

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DAAMN "Ching-A-Ling" is pretty redonkulous.

Natasja Saad

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

http://brownsista.com/wp-content/janet/janet-discipline.jpg

^^purported discipline cover

I like the concept but she looks dead in the face. She needs to learn how to *smile with her eyez*

ftr i don't really care about this record i just think that cover is fire

Enur f. Natasja "Calabria 2007" at 60 but not yet taking off the way it seemed it might. (Billboard is now calling it "Calabria 2008.")

The Anthem - Pitbull feat. Lil Jon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5nFbWLfRMc

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I'm posting this link here, even though this is a Japanese song, because I think it would interest some people who post on this thread (and will be lost on the "world music" thread), and it sounds close to stuff going on in US pop rock now (and it is a hit). Maybe there is a better thread? I would have stuck it on the rolling teenpop thread, because it's close enough, but the new title of the new version of it makes me think, nah.

Tokyo Jihen - Senko Shojo

(I have to say, a lot of their songs aren't this poppy. In fact, this one has taken me longer to get into probably because of how pop it is, but I like it, especially in combination with the video.)

new flo rida produced by timbo here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9qWS9V0BLRA&feature=related

idk what i think of it yet but i reserve the right to like it in 2 months

the way they double-track flo rida 8 times over is so annoying

stuck on my umbrella ella ella vator! wicka wicka (bored!)

6/10

i dont know if its charted anywhere, but i'm loving yin yang's new joint, "DROP"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SfyuBO_YmM

Do i hear a faint JT in the background?

(in "Elevator")

I tried to get this girl to sing on a record i'm working on. Never happened, but i still digg her voice

woah grady8080 808080808080808 this song is gooooooooood

i would not be mad at ying yang having another massive single

the beasties sample really makes it

also haven't gotten sick of "please don't stop the music"

grady do you like "the way i are"

a lot.

yeah the ying yang song reminds me of that kinda, the keyboards esp.

also kinda like that dj felli fell single

So um they finally revealed who Asia Cruise is. Asia Cruise: The New Paula DeAnda/Cassie?

what is this slow piano ballad that never goes anywhere that's been getting all the play lately?

there are a lot of those

oh shit its a timbaland song?? 'apologize' wtf

it's not really a timbaland song he just put some asstastic drums on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHfyDxy8i5o&feature=related

I'll be the person to actually stand up and say they like friggin' "Apologize".

The video is pure lulz. I don't think that's what they were going for, though.

have we talked about wynter gordon - surveillance here.

it is grebt.

i think i mentioned it in the r&b thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbgqU4In8gs

My, my it is very nice. Thanks for the heads up. As for chart discussion, Yael Naim's "New Soul" just debuted at number 9 on the Hot 100 based strictly on digital sales from its inclusion in a MacBook Air commercial. It was only played on three Hot 100 stations according to Billboard. Pretty amazing for a pretty run-of-the-mill song. And I know, I know a one week digital sales spike can happen at any time, but this is one of the most indisputable cases of radio play not being at all necessary anymore.

Buckcherry back in the Top 10 with a horrid, horrid song. I enjoy a good comeback but not this one.

Yael Naim is up 9 to 7 this week - surprised me, if no one else.

Impressive that Rihanna's gone to No. 3 with the fourth single off that album. I thought the success of "Don't Stop the Music" might help Michael Jackson's revisited "Wanna Be Startin' Something," but no such.

Flo Max is still at No. 1 and may never ever leave. Unless Mariah, who's in at 78 with "Touch My Body," bullets to the top with a full week of airplay. (Is it a digital single yet?)

On the bright side, Lupe Fiasco's "Superstar" has become a bona fide hit, this week up from 25 to 21.

that's not a bright side.

I like "Superstar," but "Kick, Push" deserved it more.

^cosign

every top 10 this year has been so dire

i mean it's a pretty bad sign i think when i'm excited that the 3rd sean kingston single is hanging around in the top 10

HOW IS APOLOGIZE STILL IN THE TOP 5 HOW HOW HOW HOW HOWH OWH OWHOW HOWHOWHO WH WOHWOHW OWHOW

glad to see sensual seduction up there though

kind of crazy that "Independent" is already peaking 20-something spots higher than "Wipe Me Down" ever got.

half the songs in the top 40 are so old i don't even think i've heard them this year.

Keyshia Cole's "I Remember"got to #1 on the R&b charts this week. Well deserved, finally dethroned fucking Alicia Keys. EUGH.

"Falsetto" moving up from 51 to 39 is pretty big... "Feedback" is a officially a flop now I guess (56 to 61...).

yeah this is a pretty unremarkable top 40 but it's only February... plus there are some interesting moves being made. "Sensual Secuction," "No Air," "Falsetto," "Touch My Body," "Suffocate" , etc.

and yeah it is kind of shocking that "Independent" is becoming so big... great song tho,

I dance on "Feedback"'s grave, preferably to the beat of a better song.

woah Miley Cyrus actually crossing over to legitimate pop radio.

I think Janet's new single "Luv" will do fairly well

ok cool about "falsetto" and "independent"

I'm the only one around here who likes "Apologize", am't I?