rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here

nice to see Ms. Badu place

wtf is a "Lady Antebellum"

so it tuns out i really like the second alicia keys single, despite those shitty twinkling bells

2nd alicia keys single has always good, 1st single surprised me by becoming good after a long period of sucking

help me, I like "With You"

lurving chris brown is nothing to be ashamed of

I know, it's just that his previous two singles were ridiculously awful and he's awful on that Lil Mama song and beyond awful on that Rihanna remix that I heard eight-thousand-seven-hundred-and-twenty-three times and just expected his to keep being awful awful awful.

yeah 'with you' grows on me every time i hear it which is thankfully not too often

chris brown mostly annoys me but the song "take you down" on his now album is a JAM. and of course he's on "no air" which redeems all of his other musical sins

Um, is no one else mindblown that Usher just popped up at number one after seemingly stumbling along with leaks that didn't get much of a reaction? What do folks think about "Love In the Club"? I know The Reverend doesn't think much of it from the R&B thread, but I'm kinda feeling it. Although the Jeezy verse could please disappear and I'd be quite happy. But still 51 --> 1 is a little surprising to me. I thought Usher may have lost his fire after the Luda thing just fizzled, but this is pretty impressive.

"Love Is in the Club" jumped to number one because it was first available on iTunes this week. He is still Usher after all. The real test will be to see how much staying power it has. Personally, I think it's pretty mediocre.

Yeah, Greg OTM. These big jumps don't really mean anything anymore.

I know I'm really late to the party, but "Low" is pretty good!!

lol. r u srs?

I don't really listen to the radio anymore; I have an iPod and I subscribe to a bunch of mp3 blogs, so I'm pretty self-sustaining. I need to get back into the game though. Are there any pop radio stations based out of Seattle besides KISS?

And does anyone else hear Timbo/Timba/Nelly's "Give It To Me" in "Low"? Those beep beep beeps in the bg sound a lot like it.

"Low" reminds me more of Unk's "Walk It Out" than anything else.

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

why is hallelujah by jeff buckley the number one song on itunes

a kid sang it on American Idol

ok figured i had missed a new apple commercial

lol ^^^ ilm in a doucheshell

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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"