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Post by Kurt on May 13, 2014 14:42:44 GMT -5
Big adds week imminent - currently sitting most-added with 41.
ETA: Yup - Most Added with 65.
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Post by BadRomance on May 13, 2014 17:54:29 GMT -5
Glad this will be huge, he deserved it what a voice!
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Post by theflying on May 13, 2014 18:08:18 GMT -5
He's about to blow up.
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Post by Sounds from the Other Side on May 14, 2014 11:53:29 GMT -5
This song is growing on me, I like it now.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on May 14, 2014 12:00:39 GMT -5
His album is already getting grammy buzz and it's not even out yet. I could see him being this year's big British act a la Adele & Amy Winehouse.
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Post by The Upper Hand on May 14, 2014 12:07:10 GMT -5
I've just seen his performance of "Stay With Me" on SNL. It was so on point, amazing vocalist.
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Post by getonthebus on May 15, 2014 15:42:30 GMT -5
His album is already getting grammy buzz and it's not even out yet. I could see him being this year's big British act a la Adele & Amy Winehouse. Male Adele is exactly what they're aiming for and they're nailing it. Soulful pop that's juuuust indie enough to not seem like Pop. Glad this is taking off, now put it on Spotify and get all the streaming points.
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Post by Ky on May 16, 2014 9:59:40 GMT -5
Big adds week imminent - currently sitting most-added with 41. ETA: Yup - Most Added with 65. Holy cow at the gains this song has! 4 days in the top 50 and it's already at #38!
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Post by allow that on May 16, 2014 11:29:37 GMT -5
Big adds week imminent - currently sitting most-added with 41. ETA: Yup - Most Added with 65. Holy cow at the gains this song has! 4 days in the top 50 and it's already at #38! Yea this is looking like a future Pop #1 for sure.
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Post by kanimal on May 16, 2014 13:36:47 GMT -5
His album is already getting grammy buzz and it's not even out yet. I could see him being this year's big British act a la Adele & Amy Winehouse. Male Adele is exactly what they're aiming for and they're nailing it. Soulful pop that's juuuust indie enough to not seem like Pop. Glad this is taking off, now put it on Spotify and get all the streaming points. What is the deal with this not being on Spotify or Google Play? It would seem like a song they want to put in position for a run at #1 rather than one used to promote a specific relationship with one e-tailer. Yeah, Hits Daily Double's Grammy-dar was way off the mark last year (the pub kind of made a fool of itself so aggressively advocating for the mediocre Timberlake and abysmal Jay-Z releases), but I think it's onto something with Sam Smith.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on May 16, 2014 14:04:42 GMT -5
Male Adele is exactly what they're aiming for and they're nailing it. Soulful pop that's juuuust indie enough to not seem like Pop. Glad this is taking off, now put it on Spotify and get all the streaming points. What is the deal with this not being on Spotify or Google Play? It would seem like a song they want to put in position for a run at #1 rather than one used to promote a specific relationship with one e-tailer. I think it will be there soon. I'm sure they want to squeeze as much out of sales as they can first, and its doing really well on iTunes as is. I think when the radio picks up, they'll also put it on streaming services but for now they want to maximize the bottom line. It's obviously going to be huge, they can get by without it on streaming for now.
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Post by jjose712 on May 16, 2014 14:43:37 GMT -5
At least one of the songs i like in the chart is slaying big time
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on May 17, 2014 10:32:27 GMT -5
At this rate, it should debut at the top 30 on Pop!
Pop: 56 32 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 1336 335 1001 10.196
+ 249 spins + 210 bullet + 1.431 AI
HAC: 23 20 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 1622 1395 227 8.614
+ 34 spins - 8 bullet + 0.240 AI
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Post by jjose712 on May 17, 2014 12:57:46 GMT -5
This is doing amazing.
And we talked a bit about Hozier when we started this thread and as i thought this is not going to stop Take me to church of being a hit. Maybe both singers have things in common but the songs are very different, and now i'm starting to thing that Take me to church could have a chance, it's doing really great on AAA and what's more important it's climbing on itunes and now it's top 200
It will be nice to have a bunch of solo male singers that are not the classical commercial dance singers for a change
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Post by Envoirment on May 17, 2014 13:00:25 GMT -5
Sam smith is going to be everywhere on radio this summer in the US. "La La La", "Latch" and "Stay With Me" all look like they're going to be big hits to some extent.
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on May 18, 2014 12:30:35 GMT -5
TOP. 30. DEBUT.
Pop: 55 29 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 1615 362 1253 12.31
+ 279 spins + 252 bullet + 2.114 AI
HAC: 22 20 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 1679 1420 259 9.103
+ 57 spins + 32 bullet + 0.489 AI
Triple A: 11 10 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 324 313 11 0.861
+ 3 spins - 5 bullet - 0.004 AI
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Post by jjose712 on May 18, 2014 15:19:47 GMT -5
And right now he is number one on UK itunes, probably Stay with me will be his second solo number one. He has it all, and incredible voice (and very distinctive) and he seems to navigate successfully from dance tracks to ballads
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Post by DJ General on May 18, 2014 16:16:22 GMT -5
Obsessed with this. I wish it was longer.
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on May 19, 2014 13:32:08 GMT -5
Pop: 53 29 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 1828 395 1433 13.882
+ 213 spins + 180 bullet + 1.572 AI
HAC: 22 18 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 1716 1440 276 9.446
+ 37 spins + 17 bullet + 0.343 AI
Triple A: 10 10 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 326 317 9 0.853
+ 2 spins - 2 bullet - 0.008 AI
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Post by dajire4 on May 19, 2014 13:38:15 GMT -5
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Post by Libra on May 20, 2014 17:27:51 GMT -5
Second-most added this week with 36 adds.
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Post by leonagwen on May 21, 2014 10:53:19 GMT -5
He's got a great voice,but this song is too soulful and urban to do well on pop radio.
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Post by Taylor. on May 21, 2014 10:58:56 GMT -5
He's got a great voice,but this song is too soulful and urban to do well on pop radio. Uh, it already seems to be doing pretty well on pop radio lol.
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Post by Spidey on May 21, 2014 11:02:53 GMT -5
He's got a great voice,but this song is too soulful and urban to do well on pop radio. Uh... 47 27 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 2272 666 1606 16.226 +236 Spins +83 Bullet +1.311 Audience
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Post by M1tchD on May 21, 2014 12:06:51 GMT -5
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm really tired of boring ballads being released to pop radio. Last year was okay, "Stay" and "When I Was Your Man" were both decent songs. But this year is just awful. First "Say Something," which I couldn't stand. Then "All Of Me," which was only tolerable with the Tiesto remix. And now we have "Stay With Me," a song which I can't get halfway through because it just bores me to death. And all of these are smash hits?! I just don't get it.
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Post by irice22 on May 21, 2014 12:08:59 GMT -5
How old are you? You would have hated the 90's.
I think it's a perfect amount of ballads. The 00's hardly had any.
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Post by M1tchD on May 21, 2014 12:12:54 GMT -5
How old are you? You would have hated the 90's. I think it's a perfect amount of ballads. The 00's hardly had any. I'm 20, and I never really got into 90s music partly for that reason. I'm fine with the amount of them being released, but I hate the fact that most of them suck and get to #1 anyway.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2014 12:18:20 GMT -5
GET IT, SAM/SWM! :)
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Post by kanimal on May 21, 2014 12:26:46 GMT -5
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm really tired of boring ballads being released to pop radio. Last year was okay, "Stay" and "When I Was Your Man" were both decent songs. But this year is just awful. First "Say Something," which I couldn't stand. Then "All Of Me," which was only tolerable with the Tiesto remix. And now we have "Stay With Me," a song which I can't get halfway through because it just bores me to death. And all of these are smash hits?! I just don't get it. "All of Me" was only tolerable in the remix? Come on now. And I actually consider the "bad" ballads you mentioned to be considerably better than "Stay." Particularly this one - which just has epic vocals. And - there's actually a huge drought of ballads. The reason these stand out - is that they've become atypical for radio. I mean - you mentioned three ballads. Think how many non-ballad hits there have been in the time since "All of Me" and "Say Something" first got released. As others have said, there was a period when ballads from acts like Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey were all you'd encounter.
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Post by leonagwen on May 21, 2014 16:17:21 GMT -5
He's got a great voice,but this song is too soulful and urban to do well on pop radio. Uh... 47 27 SAM SMITH Stay With Me 2272 666 1606 16.226 +236 Spins +83 Bullet +1.311 Audience Its too early.It just came out.Its got a great start but will it have longevity?
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