Norway's Eurovision entry this year is fairly effective.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 February 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
did that lithuania one get through? i do love the norway one.
― nathey, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
is the human named "robin" a boy or a girl?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
this was posted on wfmu's twitter which i thought was kinda neat...http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/02/10-seconds-from-every-top-100-song-ever-a-free-cut-up-software.html
I listened through 2011's top 100 songs and I was surprised by the frequent placements of generic-sounding country singles. I'm assuming there's a bunch of country songs that stick around in the lower half of the Hot 100 for a REALLY long time, long enough to actually place in the year's top 100 by the time it's actually compiled in December.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
country songs go top 40 or even top 10 pretty frequently these days, or at least it feels like more frequently in the past year or two than for a while before that
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
robin is a boy -- he's like the finnish justin bieber
speaking of biebs a new "viral video" featuring him and selena gomez and ashley tisdale and some other people has spurred a huge surge in sales for this sugary single by a canadian girl i have never heard of
apparently it was already a #1 single in canada
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
CRJ was a not-top-finalist in Canadian Idol a while back. She had one song - Tug of War - worth a damn off her first album:
'Call Me Maybe' is the lead single from her new EP - it's been around since November, when it crawled into Canadian charts. It hit #1 about a month ago and is only the fourth Canadian song to hit #1 on the Canadian charts since 2007, when Billboard took over the counting of these things (other 3 = Avril's Girlfriend, the Vancouver Olympics theme song and the 'Artists for Haiti' Canadian version)
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
It was written by the dude from Marianas Trench, who are the midpoint between 3OH!3 and Fall Out Boy I guess? Maybe more like FOB musically, but grosser/creepier than FOB.
It creeps up on you unawares until it has invaded your brain and you listen to it compulsively. Given that the Biebz' manager just signed her and it reached #1 in Canada without his help, I fully expect it to take over the US.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
It only just hit #1 a week ago, and then has been quickly usurped this past week by Madonna. I'm not sure what has caused this song to get such a surge in popularity, since I've barely been paying attention to Canadian pop music as of late, though I do know it was apparently mentioned by Justin Bieber as being a favorite of his back in January, and she just released her EP with it last week.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
And acually it was the rise in popularity of groups like Marianna's Trench and Hedley in the mid-2000's that put me off from paying any attention to Canadian popular music.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the only country songs that hit the top 10 last year were Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" and Taylor Swift's "If This Was a Movie" (and you could probably argue whether the T-Swift counts). But lots of country hanging around in the top 40, for sure.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
did green tractor not crack the top 10?
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
totally into "how deep is your love"
― surm, Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
x-post-if we can believe Wiki's reference to Billboard, "Green Tractor" only peaked at 18.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also Lady Antebellum's "Just A Kiss" but yes we're talking about top 40, top 10 was just an aside and not worth being pedantic about
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Let me have my pedantry, some dude. It's all I've got left.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
clearly you'll have to share it with me
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:56 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is disgusting in the exact way that most things that involve Billboard chart analysis are disgusting.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Let us have our chart pedantry, dude. It's all we've got left.
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
What did I do wrong exactly? I just thought it was interesting. Sorry for saying something that you found boring!
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 24 February 2012 03:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nothing! I think some dude was referring to my whining about the charts.
It was interesting, by the way, just depressing to hear that exactly half of the homegrown #1s of the last five years here were charity/event things.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Friday, 24 February 2012 05:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
"give me all your luvin'" hit #1 somewhere?!
here it entered at #37 and promptly exited the top 40 :/
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 08:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's somewhat depressing how little of the music that fits into this thread i care about/how little music i like fits into this thread
that said, kelly clarkson's new single is one of those that's taken on a new lease of life for me now that it's an actual hit that i hear everywhere
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 08:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah. Stronger grew on me quite a bit. Need to double back to that album.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Friday, February 24, 2012 12:42 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm not sure if it's because of digital sales/more accurate counting or if there's actually just been a drop in successful Canadian pop since 2007, but in the early part of the 00's there were FAR more frequent Canadian #1s. And in the late 90s also. \(oo)/
On the other hand, those #1s were SoulDecision and so forth.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Stronger" the song has grown on me too but it's nowhere near her top tier of hits and Stronger the album has strangely pointed me toward the conclusion that All I Ever Wanted is a kind of underrated album
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I still feel like "Mr Know It All" is actually a Natasha Beddingfield song
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
it'd be aggressively vapid even by Bedingfield's standards though
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, the Stronger album is by and large the sound of Clarkson on autopilot ("You Love Me" needs to be a single asap though).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
kinda feel like she should've just done the inevitable country album already
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp If I'd spent some more time with that song she does with Jason Aldean last year, I might've voted for it in the eoy tracks poll. I sort of really love it now.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah she keeps going on about country and country performers and it'd totally suit her
kind of agree stronger is a bit autopilot but otoh it has more keepers than all i ever wanted
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really think the whole album is awesome. Except "you can't win". "Hello" will be my summer jam 4 sure. Like I don't get why people don't talk about it more! It's so gorgeous. And obvs "let me down" is 10/10 perfection
― nowadays suckers seem to be so fucking naïve (uberweiss), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
"you can't win" is the best!
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the drop in Canadian #1's after 2007 might be attributed to Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 replacing the Canadian singles chart. Now the Canadian Singles Chart, which came into effect in 2001 replacing RPM Chart, wasn't that great of a measurement either because I think it mostly dealt with the sales of singles and since Canada was never much of a singles market, it usually meant that the number one went to something that was exclusively a single like the song from the latest Canadian/American Idol winner. Of course for the longest time, I didn't know of the existnce of the RPM chart or singles chart and so my perception of hits came from what was topping the Muchmusic Countdown, and I'm not sure what they used as the basis for that.
― MarkoP, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've been curious about how canadian charts differ from american charts for a while so this is super interesting to me
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
RPM was awesome. And they have the entire archive of it from 1963 - 2000 online courtesy of the government.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
MusicMusic Coundown was pretty much based on video request to the MuchMusic tv channel, iirc. Comparing that and RPM/Singles Chart it had a bit more of the Canadian 'urban' stuff - Shawn Desman, Keshia Chanté, Rascalz, far too much Swollen Members, etc. and less of the Amanda Marshall, Sarah McLachlin, etc. Lilith Fair type stuff that was a mainstay on the RPM Charts. But Much also put out the annual MuchDance compilations, the soundtrack of a million 8th grade house parties.
RPM was a mix of sales and radioplay but was pre-digital sales mostly. There was still a fair amount of Canadian content on the charts as a whole though.
Canadian Singles Chart from 2000 - 2007 was, as MarkoP says, a pretty iffy means of measuring things.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was obsessed with mr know it all for a hot minute (maybe still am), even tho it sounded like a bedingfield
― surm, Saturday, 25 February 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
"mr. know it all/ you think you know it all/ but you don't really know it all/ ain't it something, y'all?" is a sleeper contender for worst lyric from a 2011 chart hit
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Sunday, 26 February 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^
― Tim F, Sunday, 26 February 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
In a crowded and competitive field, too.
― Tim F, Sunday, 26 February 2012 02:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
guys, i kind of really like that jessie j song "domino"
>_<
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 26 February 2012 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's one of those songs that would be so easily improved by a less talented singer if only to take the whole thing down a huge notch
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Sunday, 26 February 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah her vocal is a bit over the top but that's part of the appeal for me tbh
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 26 February 2012 02:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
At long last! Someone on ILM who likes Jessie J besides lonely old me.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 February 2012 03:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
MuchDance '93 still haunts my dreams.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Sunday, 26 February 2012 05:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like "Domino", too. Lots of self-hatred over this.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Sunday, 26 February 2012 09:31 (1 year ago) Permalink