rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here

It's Danish, btw.

ah ok. i can't stress enough how much it's being played on the radio here in miami. also the new trina single which is pretty bug. the chorus sounds like kind of icy techno and verses talk about intimate details of dating wfb. it's really weird. trina sings the hook though and it's not half bad. not that a good look for her though.

haha, I always read "wfb" as "wtf"

3rd soulja boy single that's genuinely funny

I'm still confused about Trina dating William F. Buckley.

"aaaaaaaanway, i think it's because i'm living in a pretty hispanic-dominated market right now, but i keep hearing this great "calabria 2007" track on the radio (as much as say, "kiss kiss" even) a really great cheap sounding dancehall/reggae thing even though i think it comes from sweden. the beat is just this simple plastic horn loop but it's fire. i think lil jon samples it on new pitbull single."

I love the new version of "Calabria" with those hypnotic female dancehall vocals. In Australia this is basically received as house music (which, technically, the track actually is) - there was a rather tiresome bootleg with the vocal from Crystal Waters' house track "Destination Unknown" that remains inescapable on commercial radio.

It reminds me a bit of the dancehall/house fusion that Bob Sinclar's been trying to getoff the ground recently. But I like the idea of it being picked up and misappropriated in the US.

Yeah, but it has the reggaeton "dembow" rhythm, so I imagine it's being recieved as reggaeton here. This coincides with the trend in reggaeton toward faster bpms and a more four-to-the-floor feel.

jordan you should hear some of the other mary j songs on that album that are even better than Just Fine.

the thin thing --> not too much synth on a lot of tracks, but the beats/bass is not thin at ALL. really packs a huge punch.

For comparison:

Nejo & Dalmata, "Algo Musical" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjiPsRQ9-lk
Wisin y Yandel, "Sexy Movimiento" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oFveyv94E
Tego Calderon, "Quitarte To" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8I4A7VSyhY

xp

"Yeah, but it has the reggaeton "dembow" rhythm, so I imagine it's being recieved as reggaeton here. This coincides with the trend in reggaeton toward faster bpms and a more four-to-the-floor feel."

yeah sorry I meant to make it clear that I can totally see how this would happen - it's partly because of the lack of a proper reggaeton scene that this probably won't happen in australia.

but i keep hearing this great "calabria 2007" track on the radio

My girlfriend heard that on the radio the other day and then made me listen to it on iTunes. It's pretty cool!

So, it's the second Billboard Hot 100 of 2007. What's happening:

"Low" spends a second week at #1, the rest of the top 4 is unchanged. "Soulja Boy" does rebound to #5, a rebound I'm assuming is gonna be short lived. "Apologize" apparently can't get over the hump and must be happy with a #2 peak. Other than Soulja's leap, not too much going on in the top 10, though Sara Bareilles is not just a one week wonder here. Does she have the staying power of Colbie Caillat or of Feist?

Sean Kingston's "Take You There", Good Charlotte's "I Don't Wanna Be In Love" and Taylor Swift's "Our Song" and "Teardrops on My Guitar" are steady climbers, the latter two being the biggest country crossover hits since "Before He Cheats". "Big Girls Don't Cry" is airplay gainer wtf. "Piece of Me" already falling. "Into the Night" and "Don't Stop the Music" are slowly crawling up. And "See You Again" jumps into the top 50, yay.

"Low" is growing on me more and more. Not the best f/ T-Pain hit but possibly the best rapping on any f/ T-Pain hit.

I'm feeling less and less charitable towards the Bedingfield/Kingston song since it's now official that "Babies" won't be on her U.S. album and whatever chance of it ever being a single here is nil.

From Fred Bronson, the #1's of 2007:

7 weeks: "Umbrella," Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
7 weeks: "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," Soulja Boy Tell'em
5 weeks: "No One," Alicia Keys
4 weeks: "Beautiful Girls," Sean Kingston
3 weeks: "Makes Me Wonder," Maroon 5
3 weeks: "Kiss Kiss," Chris Brown featuring T-Pain
2 weeks: "This Is Why I'm Hot," Mims
2 weeks: "Glamorous," Fergie featuring Ludacris
2 weeks: "Don't Matter," Akon
2 weeks: "Give It to Me," Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake
2 weeks: "Hey There Delilah," Plain White T's
1 week: "Say It Right," Nelly Furtado
1 week: "What Goes AroundýýComes Around," Justin Timberlake
1 week: "Girlfriend," Avril Lavigne
1 week: "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')," T-Pain featuring Yung Joc
1 week: "Big Girls Don't Cry," Fergie
1 week: "Stronger," Kanye West

some things:

-heard 'paralyzer' for the first time today. thought the music was pretty good but the vocals are way too aggro for me with like this big burly dude growling "I WANT TO MAKE YOU MOVE". no thx

- i dunno if they play birdman/wayne's 'poppin bottles' anywhere else (i've heard it like 12 times in the 3-week-long span that i've been home and not coincidentally all 12 times have been on the station where dj khaled works and 10 of the times have been on his show [this is the station that named "i'm so hood" the #1 'hottest' track of 07 mind you]) and they totally bleep out when wayne says "po it on the models/shut up bitch swallow/if you can't swallow/shut up bitch, googles" so it's like 2 seconds of silence and it's really disorienting every time and i can't ever remember a song that had that long of a censor

Down here in central NC they play "Poppin' Bottles" plenty frequently, and this makes me very happy.

Yeah "Pop Bottles" has been on the radio here constantly for weeks, if not months. And they don't even censor that swallow/gargle (lol googles) line except for the b-word. It's great to hear Jadakiss on the radio again, even if only as a 2-bar sample, especially since they leave the bottle popping sound effect from his track in there.

I think the longest stretch of dead air from censored lines on a recent hit was "Make It Rain," couple lines in a row that's nothing to references to bricks and weed and lean that made for a real garbled radio edit.

lol googles

interesting i thought no one outside of dj khaled had the patience for birdman anymore

well i mean obviously the song functions as part of the wfb hit parade more than a birdman song (there are SEVEN songs w/ wayne on his new album), but i actually do like his verses on "pop bottles" too.

i actually really like wayne's verse the more i hear it. kinda falls in between his serious rapping voice and his dumb-ass hyena howl.

birdman starting out the second verse by basically talking is hilarious.

birdman starting out the second every verse by basically talking is hilarious.

Chart news Miley Cyrus's "I'll See You Sometime If My Record Company Ever Notices That My Single Is A Hit And Decides To Play It On Their Own Radio Station" looks like it's stalling in the upper 40s. Snoop Dogg's "I Have Decided To Become A Novelty Act" jumps from 39 to 21; everything else is in stasis. (Remember two years ago when the Hot 100 was jumping every which way?) 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.") Would like to know more about Natasja, who was killed in a car crash last June. Was she Denmark's first dancehall star?

Hey, career artists are allowed to have a novelty hit now and then.

Also, a pretty funny review of the Birdman alb from Kelefa several weeks ago:

Birdman, a microphone, and no help in sight

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.")

still loving the shit out of this

really liking new missy!!!

aka FUCK THE HATERS

like this pwns 90% of the new top 20 by like a mile and a half

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.")

video to this = i would have sex with all this white girls

gr80808080

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

xd

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"