rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here

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?

I don't hate it

"independent" is rad

this should be charting higher, imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu9KBjAflK8

otm

i think flo rida is my least favorite popular rapper of the past 3-4 years. maybe chingy. i'll stop listening to music if i ever like a flo rida song bcuz of flo rida. his new single w/ timbaland is passable but his verses are the worst thing in the milky way right now

this is it: http://videos.onsmash.com/v/5QwLJwTL35aDzyW6

i mean has there been a more generic looking rapper in the history of the game? he's like what an snl parody of 50 cent would've looked like in 2004 right down to the motherfucking wife beater

i thought dude was gonna be nice bcuz ppl were talking about that he had song w/ rick ross like it was some real underground/overlooked smash like how people talk about like dg yola or fam lay but he is the worst of all bad pop-rap shit. dude is really the fucking colbie callait of rap.

that he had song w/ rick ross that song he had w/ rick ross

u mad

"Ghetto Techno" = +++

u mad

otm

i like the chingy/ amerie joint

yeah like i don't think i've ever minded a chingy single really (actively like "right thurr" and kinda feelin his new one w/ luda) but he's almost inexcusably vapid imo

"One Call Away" 4eva.

joint with Amerie is good but almost too slick for Chingy, like if Zac Efron did a romantic comedy without corny song interludes.

damn Jordan, I wouldn't say Flo Rida is above criticism, but it's weird when someone who gives a pass to Plies turns around and goes THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE about two inches over.

Plies aounds enough like T.I. that I'm cool with him.

yeah it's not like i won't ride for mediocre rappers (or at least songs by mediocre rappers) but flo rida popularity baffles me. i mean obv i know it's bcuz he has a decent song w/ t-pain on the hook (hello plies) but still i'm surprisde more people aren't calling flo rida out for being a chucklehead. i guess ppl don't care?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjnFdeuW7sY

Have we talked about "Rock With U"? Oh shit oh shit oh holy shit this is awesome.

Janet, u r forgiven.

Q - who was the last French artist to have any kind of hit in the US before Yael Naim? I'm struggling to think of anyone...

j0rdan's pretty otm, plies is way more defensible

Q - who was the last French artist to have any kind of hit in the US before Yael Naim? I'm struggling to think of anyone...

Best I can come up with: Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime ... Mon Non Plus" reached #58 in 1970. Claudine Longet had five songs in the Hot 100 between 1966-68, though none reached higher than #30. Edith Piaf's "Milord" hit #88 in 1961.

I'd have thought that there'd have been a new-wave band from France, but I guess they were all British and German. And Technotronic was Belgian.

Don't forget Daft Punk. Both "Around the World" and "One More Time" reached #61 on the Hot 100. Although, I'm not sure those really qualify as hits. I'm actually surprised they got that high.

Wait, really? I didn't even look them up because I assumed they wouldn't have placed at all. Wow.

dude "Around The World" was pretty big

That was during my dark period, admittedly.

Yeah, it really was, but to me it seemed like it was something I would've expect to be number one on the Club chart but maybe not on the Billboard 100.

Okay, whenever I heard the "it's too late to apologize" line I immediately want to sing "and I can't beeeeee without you babe".

haha woah that is a little uncanny.

hahaha wooooahaha

Don't forget Daft Punk. Both "Around the World" and "One More Time" reached #61 on the Hot 100. Although, I'm not sure those really qualify as hits. I'm actually surprised they got that high.

-- matt2, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:00 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

...and "Music Sounds Better With You" reached #62. Daft Punk be placin' in the low 60s.

warning track power

Crazy. I seriously thought for a long time that "Music Sounds Better With You" was like blog-house or something; I didn't hear it until 2004 (probably via an ILX poll) and had no idea it was from the '90s, much less a semi-popular song.