Rolling UK Pop/Chart/"Few people would dispute that Elbow have given us the album of the year" Thread 2009

I didn't see the Icelandic entry, and the bit they showed seemed to be a random segment from somewhere in the middle. Was it really that good?

Rather a fine song, actually - conventional in format but she can certainly sing and there was a nice political subtext too.

WOW (and YAY) at that Eurovision chart invasion!

Non-scientific vox pop:

1. Yohanna's "Is It True?" (Iceland, #25) was my partner's favourite song from the first semi-final.

2. Alex Swings, Oscar Sings "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (Germany, Top 60) was the unanimous favourite of the six neighbours whose dinner party I crashed to watch the voting.

3. The co-worker who sits opposite me now has Urban Symphony's "Rändajad" (Estonia, #69) as his mobile ring-tone.

Incidentally, the jury-only voting results have now been released. Same Top Two (Norway/Iceland), but Jade Ewen moves up to 3rd and France's Patricia Kaas moves up to 4th.

Is Micky Jackson gonna be #1 on Sunday and with what? Billie Jean?

http://cascadabiography.com/images/Cascada-07.jpg

I'm not sure any song getting to number one has made me this happy in quite a while.

Why is Man In The Mirror, of all Jacko songs, the one at #2?

It's the Michael Jackson single that can double as (auto)biographical whitewashed story of his life slash sentimental anthem for our times a la "Candle In The Wind"??

At least that's popular and not very disturbing (c.f. "Childhood").

i'd never heard 'man in the mirror' before i saw it was the most popular on the charts. it's not great, is it.

i also didn't know until last week that the woman on 'in the closet' is PRINCESS STEPHANIE OF MONACO.

'stranger in moscow' would've been a far better autobiographical ballad choice

i also didn't know until last week that the woman on 'in the closet' is PRINCESS STEPHANIE OF MONACO.

LOL, whatever happened to etc... "Man in the Mirror" does seem to be a favourite among Jackofans

I think the position is reversed for most people though lex - they know "Man In The Mirror" very well but wouldn't recognise "Stranger In Moscow" (as fantastic as it is).

I saw "Man in the Mirror" done as a fabulous piano soul number on Australian Idol a few years back.

yeah, my first MJ memories are his 90s material and i only bothered acquiring bad last week.

it does seem that the off the wall stuff is doing oddly badly in comparison to everything else.

I like "Man in the Mirror" a lot and it's sufficiently jaunty. "Stranger in Moscow" would have been too dark, plus not his most popular era, as Tim says.

x-post Pre vs Post "King of Pop". Most of the coverage seems to skip from "Ben" to the first ten seconds of "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" to "Billie Jean".

Also you'd think the only singles on Thriller were "Billie Jean", "Beat It" and the title track.

'ben' is probably the biggest MJ hit i've never heard

I used to play it on the jukebox in my local boozer every time I went in, I was really popular

Ben still makes me cringe, actually.

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i wish Chart Stats guy would update his site quicker.

not particularly interesting but seemingly every site that lists the chart is pretty wretchedly designed (including the official CIN site's and yahoo uk music's) like they just converted an Excel spreadsheet to HTML and couldn't be bothered to dress it up or at least make it clearer.

'Man in the Mirror' probably best fits the MJ vision people would like to believe - flawed but with plenty of hope, or something like that - rather than the vision put forward by the nutso odes to paranoia and so on.

I try to be a good poptimist but the idea of Cascada being good is a few steps beyond my understanding.

cascada are just impossible to care about either way

prob still the 3rd or 4th best no 1 of the year so far though *cries*

was almost tempted to listen to Radio 1 on Sunday evening to see how they'd actually go about playing all the Jackson songs - whether they'd keep making light of this or try and play it down, or just only play some of them (did they actually play the 4 in a row?)

seriously over halfway through the year and LILY FUCKING ALLEN has made my favourite UK no 1 - this cannot be permitted to continue

also, wherefore the summer anthems?

(xpost) They played all of them. And before each one, there was a short clip from a celebrity/musician (Pete Tong, etc.) saying how much said track meant to them.

plus kinda want Jackson to destroy the charts in this way - sort of interesting to see how long it will take for the songs to drop back out of the 40

also, wherefore the summer anthems?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKEtHp-qJxc

;)

surely it's a prerequisite of a summer anthem that it has to be halfway decent

that is one lame stock photo cover

It's a bit like one of those enormous wallpaper mural things.

Xpost to Lex: I've *loved* this year's run of Number Ones - best in years! Comic Relief and Pixie Lott have been my only duds.

lily allen accidentally stumbling on her first and so far only good song and the black eyed peas on autopilot have been the only NON duds. i really hate the cheapo electro trebly sound that apparently is the hallmark of "pop" now. i wish taylor swift had got to no 1.

i like the ~idea~ of dizzee and tinchy being no 1 artists, the latter totally unexpectedly, but it's with material which is just so shoddy compared to what they're capable of

Ah, OK, that explains it - I'm a total sucker for those cheapo electro noises.

They appear to have permeated almost everything this year to an almost unprecedented level. I think the industry has cottoned onto them as the ultimate faux-unifying force.

'Bonkers' doesn't seem particularly trebly - probably why i quite like it now

'bonkers' is lame for difft reasons - actually it's not even that bad, there's the hint of an amazing banger in it, except it just sounds like all concerned gave up 5% into the process

^^^^ Such a spot on description.

Apparently this scottish band might be denting the charts with the summers big novelty hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-Z_psXODw

think its got a chance?

Jacko still dominating the top 40?

"Man In The Mirror" is at #3, every other MJ track has slipped down 10-15 places from last week. Still ten songs in total, plus a Jackson 5 cut.

As for Alestorm, they might just be the Joe Dolce in a chart full of MJ tributes, MJ re-releases, and other acts who are just treading water.

What might prevent it doing well is the vocals. But ilm will always get behind a keytar.

"Man In The Mirror" is at #3, every other MJ track has slipped down 10-15 places from last week. Still ten songs in total, plus a Jackson 5 cut.

― how wide is a lawnmower? (snoball), Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:47 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"They don't care about us" is up places, the rest are down.

Still, the top ten albums are dominated (6 albums are MJackson)..

Of the wall the lowest position?

"Who's Lovin' You" is also up from 118 to 36, following repeated mentions/archive footage at the MJ tribute show.

Other post-tribute bounces (outside the Top 40, in descending order): "Heal The World", "I'll Be There", "Will You Be There", "Human Nature", "Smile", "We Are The World".

just wait for the Alestorm cover version of Beat It.

Beat It, Wench