rolling pop 2011

Ladies and gentlemen, a rappin'-ass rap song is #1 on the pop charts.

"black & yellow"? billboard site says it's bruno mars, maybe it hasn't updated yet?

Pink Friday just pulled ahead of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in total sales this week.

i find this hilarious btw - and surprising, even if pink friday is a way better album than most dismissed it as.

and also, its entire "inspire the teenage girls" ethos really works, and lends uninspiring production choices an extra frisson of meaning - eg "moment 4 life" is only ok but it feels like there's something at stake in it.

"Moment 4 Life" is good precisely because of the prodcution!

(http://www.billboard.com/news/wiz-khalifa-s-black-and-yellow-tops-hot-1005029612.story)

Cee Lo Green's former top 10 "F**k You (Forget You)" claims the Hot 100's Airplay Gainer Award, jumping 19-16. The song, which, as previously reported, reaches a new peak on the Pop Songs chart five months after its release, also rockets to a new highpoint (42-23) on Radio Songs (44 million, up 42%). Green is expected to perform the song with Gwyneth Paltrow Sunday (Feb. 13) at the 53rd Grammy Awards. Among its four nominations, "F**k You (Forget You)" is up for coveted record and song of the year honors.

this song is gonna go #1 here isn't it :'(

very happy to see "black and yellow" get as high as it deserved though... but srsly get that horrible dre/eminem song off the charts now

We are all the subjects of stargate

ok so katy perry's new single "e.t." was just released and it has a kanye west feature

i remember that song sucking when i heard the album but maybe i'm misremembering

b/w this & the "pretty girl rock" remix getting mad radio play i guess kanye is back in the remix rotation

oh i called it "forgettable", eh

"misrememberable"

b/w this & the "pretty girl rock" remix getting mad radio play i guess kanye is back in the remix rotation

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

don't forget the towering monolith of awfulness that is the "Deuces" remix

ha, heard that on the radio and audibly yelled "nooo"

Tinie Tempah is on the bubbling under chart. (Unfortunately not with "Pass Out", but with "Written in the Stars")

yeah, i think they bought an itunes banner to promote the single. so fucking pissed that this is the single that will (presumably) get him noticed here

I hope it at least means that we get "Pass Out" next.

Or maybe something awesome and new.

jessie j has broken the hot 100

this is just the beginning

i hope that one day when the books on 50 cent as a marketer AND viral marketing successes in music are written, that everyone remembers when 50 cent came on to dance to jeremih's "down on me" w/ some random internet dude in a video that now sits at 29 million views (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=50+cent+down+on+me+keenan&aq=) in the process vaulting a jeremih song that no one cared about to one of the biggest rap/r&b hits of 2011

that's pretty weird! i've heard the song on the radio a lot for a while, though, don't know if that video really has anything to do w/ that.

idk if there's any way to check a song's billboard performance by a week but i'm almost positive that the song had a fairly large re-entry into the hot 100 (like into the 80s maybe) the week after that video dropped & has risen slowly to where it is now

yeah it's possible, i could see it getting a bump from that but it seemed somewhat pre-destined as a hit (at least moreso than any other recent Jeremih and/or 50 song) from the jump

that jeremih album was mad underrated around here, not a lot of possible singles like the first one (which is a classic) but i guess by virtue of having fiddy this one's a good choice. not one of my favorite songs from it tho

http://acharts.us/song/58713

check the boxes for the "us singles top 100" (the hot 100) and "us airplay top 100" (hot 100 airplay) then click the "draw graph" thing to have it draw a pretty picture for you. to me it looks like a pretty typical chart trajectory: debuts, falls a little bit because initial sales begin to lag while airplay catches up, then eventually things align pretty well until it eventually peaks. that video was released november 8th, which was during billboard's sales tracking week going from the 8th to the 14th. for whatever strange reason, this corresponds to the chart dated november 27th, which is actually when the track debuted on the hot 100 at #67.

that said, i think that vid has definitely done something because i have at least one friend who only heard the song because of that video.

in other news, i am kind of shocked that a jennifer lopez song is in the upper reaches of the itunes singles chart right now.

it was dormant for two months (on itunes in mid sept), video w/ famous internet star is posted, track debuts in the top 70 of the hot 100 = a pretty good case that the video made it a hit (or at least sparked it to be a hit)

oh wow, it was out in september. yeah that definitely makes sense then

oh so that's why that jeremih song has been hanging round the uk charts too despite no evidence of any promo push lol

down on me is a drumma boy production fwiw

i doubt that anyone cares about such things but the pitbull/t-pain hit is suuuuuch a rip off of "sexy bitch"

I don't think I've been able to listen to it long enough to go into comparisons.

"Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)" is so soul-killingly unpleasant it makes me want to forget ever listening to and enjoying any music by either Pitbull or T-Pain.

the lyrics in the chorus are beyond nonsensical

the funny thing is that benny benassi apparently is trying to do some david guetta thing & he got t-pain on the first single called "electroman" or some shit & it sounds juuust like the pitbull song minus anyone caring about it

"Hey Baby" is also the only top 10 hit T-Pain's had in the past 2+ years besides "Blame It," which is just so wrong.

i almost feel happy for pitbull that he can just go top 10 on autopilot now but yeah that song

it's almost like T-Pain is purposefully pronouncing his R's like Ke$ha now

"Hey Baby" is also the only top 10 hit T-Pain's had in the past 2+ years besides "Blame It," which is just so wrong.

So so true.

Pitbull released at least two singles last year that are exponentially fucking better than this.

PitbullEvery musician that released two singles last year released at least two singles last year that are exponentially fucking better than this.

Except Ke$ha.

RIHANNA AND CIARA ARE TWITTER BEEFING

ciara Ciara
Trust me Rhianna u dont want to see me on or off the stage

someone fucked someone

yooo

rihanna Rihanna
Good luck with bookin that stage u speak of

yooooooooooooo

Rihanna could NEVER

Good luck with bookin that stage u speak of

burn!

rihanna Rihanna
Ciara baby, I love u girl! U hurt my feelings real bad on TV! I'm heartbroken! That's y I retaliated this way! So sorry! #letsmakeup

from what i can tell, ciara was doing a fashion police kinda thing on E! tonight & she must've said something about something rihanna was wearing