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Post by imbondz on Jul 24, 2014 9:58:33 GMT -5
Hate non English songs.
So far Foils is the funniest song I've heard off Weird Als new cd. He's singing a song about how much he loves aluminum foil. Lol!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 10:05:42 GMT -5
^ you hate non-English songs, you hate "Fancy", you hate "Rude"...why you so hateful for, bruh? Por qué you gotta be so Rude? It's so not Fancy...
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Post by imbondz on Jul 24, 2014 10:34:14 GMT -5
I'm way more Happy than hateful. ;)
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Post by Gary on Jul 24, 2014 10:41:39 GMT -5
Then clap along if you feel like that is you wanna do
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Post by Gary on Jul 24, 2014 11:33:19 GMT -5
Is There a Backlash Against Summer Songs?
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By Sean Ross, New York | July 24, 2014 12:00 PM EDT
Remember when everybody loved "Blurred Lines"?
It was barely more than a year ago. "Blurred Lines" was still exciting – not quite oozing from listeners’ pores yet. It was the underdog choice, the first hit to steal the Song of Summer title from the presumptive winner in recent memory, and it had just passed “Get Lucky” in the home stretch. Then “The Colbert Report” turboed Robin Thicke and the whole Summer Song issue into pop culture. Most people chose to interpret the lyrics as playful, not predatory.
But burnout is inevitable with a hit of that magnitude. Then Thicke failed to follow-up. Then the consumer press rallied behind Daft Punk, just as they won Grammys for song and album of the year. Thicke got divorced, then spectacularly flamed out in public. Now, it’s hard to find people who remember buying in to the excitement. And by the way, they always thought the lyrics were troubling.
Even under happier circumstances, the Song of the Summer sets its artist up for a backlash. If a summer smash is well-timed and does its job correctly, you’re supposed to be a little sick of it by mid-August. It also creates the burden of having two phenomenal songs in a row, making it even harder for Thicke or Carly Ray Jepsen to follow-up. Katy Perry’s achievement wasn’t just coming up with “California Girls,” but coming up with another four hits of the same magnitude.
Last year, I was already confident handing the Summer Song of 2013 title to Thicke in early August. This year, the battle won’t likely be decided so soon. But whatever the winner, the remaining candidates are already not feeling the love that “Call Me Maybe” and “Blurred Lines” were at this point.
Some of the early candidates have long fallen out of contention. Perry’s “Birthday” was first to generate summer buzz, but has already fallen out of the top 30 on the Mainstream Top 40 Airplay chart. Ed Sheeran’s “Sing” sped in and out of the top 10 so quickly that radio programmers aren’t quite sure whether it was a real hit. Calvin Harris’ “Summer” was the biggest of the three, and managed a few weeks of unavoidability, but is now in decline as well. It may be EDM, but this “drop” won’t be followed by another build.
It was already clear in May that very few of the fun, uptempo, pop-flavored hits on the alternative chart were poised to come to top 40 anytime soon. The biggest pop hit of the bunch is Kongos’ “Come with Me Now,” which has also peaked already in the top 20. Milky Chance's "Stolen Dance" is often tipped as this year's "Somebody That I Used To Know," but it's still queued up at alternative and won't get to top 40 for months.
That doesn’t mean I consider myself wrong about the pop appeal of much of this summer’s alternative product. Top 40 would have benefited from more rock as part of the mix.
For starters, with so many songs having fallen out of the way, the leading candidate at this moment for Summer Song of 2014 is Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” followed closely by Azalea’s guest appearance on Ariana Grande’s “Problem.” It’s not that we haven’t had Hip-Hop summer songs before – “I Gotta Feeling” and “Party Rock Anthem” – but I’ve heard from several people now who don’t consider either song to be an all-ages, mass-appeal, entrenched-in-pop-culture crowd pleaser of the same order.
So what does that leave? Nico & Vinz’s “Am I Wrong” is a clear summer smash and does have a summery, tropical feel, but doesn’t feel like part of the Zeitgeist either. OneRepublic’s “Love Runs Out” had the potential to follow “Counting Stars” as a sleeper, and was, for a while, the song most heard punching from station to station. But it too has slowed down. Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” has the ubiquity, but not the tempo. “Maps” is another reliable Maroon 5 hit, but not more, yet. Charli XCX’s “Boom Clap” is quickly becoming huge, but feels more like Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” or Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” in timing – not quite Summer Song dominant yet, but when it is, it will be there for months.
The most obvious competition for “Fancy” at this moment is Magic!’s “Rude.” Like “Call Me Maybe” two summers ago, it came to America as a confirmed hit elsewhere. Being reggae automatically gives it Summer Song points. And it will be near the top of the charts for the remainder of summer. I think it has a certain affability that other candidates lack. But not everybody agrees. “Rude” is already creating the sort of polarization in some quarters that took “Blurred Lines” until after Labor Day.
If listeners aren’t quite as enthusiastic about the current Song of Summer candidates, does that indicate a possible malaise with the topic itself? The Song of Summer quickly became America’s version of the British Christmas Week No. 1. After several years of intense consumer press scrutiny, it’s in danger of becoming more like New Year’s Eve, a time of mandated enjoyment that feels forced to some people.
People won’t stop listening to music in summer – or noticing the song they hear everywhere. However diminished broadcast radio may be, the top 40 format (and the other pop formats that hew closely to it at the moment) is a particularly shared experience at the moment. Having written about the Summer Song for a decade now, it seems unlikely to go away as a topic. But some summers are less carefree than others.
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Post by Enigma. on Jul 24, 2014 11:50:35 GMT -5
Crap.
Speaking of Birthday and K. Perry, what was her label thinking when This Is How We Do was chosen as the next single? Dark Horse will easily make people forget that one too.
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Post by Daniel Collins on Jul 24, 2014 12:14:14 GMT -5
"Word Crimes" is at No.6 on Streaming charts ."Stay With Me" is No.5 with 5.9 million. The VEVO charts has "Word Crimes" at 7.1 million , the difference could be in the cut-off dates.
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Post by josh on Jul 24, 2014 12:23:07 GMT -5
"Word Crimes" was posted 7/15, a Tuesday. Vevo charts are Sunday-Saturday. It should have MORE streams than the Vevo chart showed... right?
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Post by Verisimilitude on Jul 24, 2014 12:45:29 GMT -5
"Word Crimes" was posted 7/15, a Tuesday. Vevo charts are Sunday-Saturday. It should have MORE streams than the Vevo chart showed... right? Well, Billboard's streaming chart counts VEVO on Youtube, but not the VEVO site itself which could explain why the streams for "Word Crimes" are much lower than expected. |
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Post by josh on Jul 24, 2014 13:01:24 GMT -5
Really? That's dumb. You would think they would count both. Oh well.
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Post by Kris on Jul 24, 2014 14:50:18 GMT -5
Stay With Me at a 6th week at #1 here, wonder if it will hit #1 in the states before it peaks. Quite surprised Rude hit #1 when it only hit #6 here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 17:27:50 GMT -5
Stay With Me at a 6th week at #1 here, wonder if it will hit #1 in the states before it peaks. Quite surprised Rude hit #1 when it only hit #6 here. Pretty sure SWM will reach #1 on the Hot 100 as well now that it has that streaming boost and it is getting monster updates in airplay. And "Rude" is the "Call Me Maybe" of 2014. Both songs are by a Canadian act and peaked months earlier in Canada than in the USA but also ended up being more successful in the USA. Kinda odd for a Canadian artist to have chart runs like that. |
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Post by brady47 on Jul 24, 2014 19:52:25 GMT -5
Stay With Me at a 6th week at #1 here, wonder if it will hit #1 in the states before it peaks. Quite surprised Rude hit #1 when it only hit #6 here. Pretty sure SWM will reach #1 on the Hot 100 as well now that it has that streaming boost and it is getting monster updates in airplay. And "Rude" is the "Call Me Maybe" of 2014. Both songs are by a Canadian act and peaked months earlier in Canada than in the USA but also ended up being more successful in the USA. Kinda odd for a Canadian artist to have chart runs like that. Agreed, but I don't think Call Me Maybe was more successful in US than Canada. Even though it had 9 weeks in the US vs. 4 weeks in Canada, it had good longevity in the US, but AMAZING longevity in Canada. I mean 74 weeks on the chart, 34 weeks in the Top 15, 38 weeks in the Top 20, 63 weeks in the Top 40, 70 weeks in the Top 50. |
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Post by lyhom on Jul 24, 2014 23:04:04 GMT -5
Pretty sure SWM will reach #1 on the Hot 100 as well now that it has that streaming boost and it is getting monster updates in airplay. And "Rude" is the "Call Me Maybe" of 2014. Both songs are by a Canadian act and peaked months earlier in Canada than in the USA but also ended up being more successful in the USA. Kinda odd for a Canadian artist to have chart runs like that. Agreed, but I don't think Call Me Maybe was more successful in US than Canada. Even though it had 9 weeks in the US vs. 4 weeks in Canada, it had good longevity in the US, but AMAZING longevity in Canada. I mean 74 weeks on the chart, 34 weeks in the Top 15, 38 weeks in the Top 20, 63 weeks in the Top 40, 70 weeks in the Top 50. A similar thing might happen to Rude, too. It's currently at #14 in its 33rd week, and it's spent 27 of those in the top 20, despite the fact that it only peaked at #6 for a week. |
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Post by RadioBeatz on Jul 25, 2014 3:15:04 GMT -5
So the golden age of digital sales has peaked or ended it seems, it's looking like the biggest digital sellers of the decade will be early 2010s hits.
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