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Post by badrobot on Dec 29, 2015 17:38:32 GMT -5
I wonder if it was a label thing -- new label on wanting to profit because they didn't own the original?
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Post by Gary on Dec 29, 2015 17:43:11 GMT -5
This sums it up pretty well from WIki
Re-recording and re-release[edit]
"Unchained Melody" reappeared on the Billboard charts in 1990 after The Righteous Brothers' recording was used in the box office blockbuster film Ghost. Two versions charted in the US that year - the original and a new recording. According to Medley, he was interested in having the original recording released due to the renewed interest in the song, but was told that there were issues with the licensing. Although Hatfield was no longer in the same condition vocally than when he first recorded the song, they decided to re-record the song for Curb Records.[38] The re-recorded version was released as both a cassette single and a vinyl single. It received minimal airplay but recorded excellent sales, peaking at number 19. The re-recorded version was certified Platinum by the RIAA on January 10, 1991,[39] and received a Grammy Award nomination.[40]
The 1965 original Righteous Brothers recording was reissued by oldies-reissue label Eric Records, under licensing from Polydor Records (which had acquired the rights years earlier).[41] The original version received a lot of airplay, and topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart for two weeks in 1990. However, sales were minimal in the US since it was only available as a 45 RPM single and the song peaked at number 13. For eight weeks, both versions were on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously and the Righteous Brothers became the first act to have two versions of the same songs in the Top 20 at the same time.[42] This re-released song reached number 1 in the UK where it stayed for four weeks, becoming the UK's top selling single of 1990 and as of 2012, it has sold 1.04 million copies.[43] It also reached number 1 in Australia, staying at number 1 for seven weeks through from November 1990 through January 1991.
Due to the success of their re-recording, The Righteous Brothers also re-recorded other songs and released as them part of a budget-priced CD compilation by Curb Records. For the original recordings, Polydor had licensed the CD rights to Rhino Records for a premium-priced 1989 compilation of Righteous Brothers hits from various labels;[44] later in 1990, it issued its own regular-priced Righteous Brothers greatest hits CD that included the recording.[45]
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Post by Gary on Dec 29, 2015 18:01:26 GMT -5
Another note on that song. AT40 which still used the Hot 100 at the time placed the song at 39 on its year end countdown (combining both versions).
Meanwhile on Billbiard, it did not make the YE 100
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 18:18:58 GMT -5
I thought that "Lean Back" was a chart atrocity, but these recent dance songs are just f**king lazy as hell, it's sickening to see them rise on the charts. I'm not a fan either... and the more I think about it... the more I realize that it's about more than just the song these days... it's about at the interaction (or action, dance) that goes along with it and posting it to social media. I guess there's been a long history of dance move-based songs becoming big hits since the beginning of time, really... "The Twist" being the biggest example, followed maybe by "Macarena"... Da Dip, Soulja Boy... the list goes on and on. it just seems like there's a lot lately.... and they do a fine job of wearing out their welcomes, don't they? i'm cool with them hitting, but not for a year at a time please.  This brings me to this question: how is it that all of these people who post videos of these dances on Vine are aware of these songs' existance before they become big hits? Does the artist promote these songs locally for them, is it a social media thing where the artist interacts with the audience, do the artists promote these songs on their school, etc.? I'm just curious to know about that. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Dec 30, 2015 6:19:23 GMT -5
A few observations for this week: -Let me start with this. I still hate that 52 week re-current rule. I wanted to see the legit amount of weeks that Trap Queen would last. I would love to see at least 1 song chart for 100 weeks Are you a fan of recurrent rules at all, then? Songs could easily get 100 weeks if we were back under really old rules where there weren't any recurrent rules. I thought it was going to be another #1 hit, I dunno, maybe it's a case of late single syndrome, this will be his 4th in this 50 Shades/BBTM era afterall. I would still like to be right, I don't like getting predictions wrong, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. BTW, anyone know which big act is planning something for Q1? I can only think of Rihanna's new album. Ariana, probably. He said "big" acts. |
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Post by Dylan :) on Dec 30, 2015 6:30:42 GMT -5
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Post by carreramd on Dec 30, 2015 8:14:52 GMT -5
A few observations for this week: -Let me start with this. I still hate that 52 week re-current rule. I wanted to see the legit amount of weeks that Trap Queen would last. I would love to see at least 1 song chart for 100 weeks Are you a fan of recurrent rules at all, then? Songs could easily get 100 weeks if we were back under really old rules where there weren't any recurrent rules. He said "big" acts. Don't know what you mean with "big", since her 2 studio albums was #1 and the last one, particularly, was a huge success, with very smash hits. By the way, The Weeknd just blew the charts after Love Me Harder, thanks to Ariana. |
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Post by purplefebruary on Dec 30, 2015 9:18:16 GMT -5
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Dec 30, 2015 9:32:20 GMT -5
Are you a fan of recurrent rules at all, then? Songs could easily get 100 weeks if we were back under really old rules where there weren't any recurrent rules. He said "big" acts. Don't know what you mean with "big", since her 2 studio albums was #1 and the last one, particularly, was a huge success, with very smash hits. By the way, The Weeknd just blew the charts after Love Me Harder, thanks to Ariana. The Weeknd blew up because of Earned It |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 9:44:30 GMT -5
^ "Love Me Harder" was the song that got him exposure to the general public, "Earned It" was his breakout song.
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Dec 30, 2015 10:35:04 GMT -5
^ "Love Me Harder" was the song that got him exposure to the general public, "Earned It" was his breakout song. We are not talking about exposure here, we are talking about blowing up. And he blew up because of "Earned It". |
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Post by imbondz on Dec 30, 2015 11:46:04 GMT -5
Earned It blew him up. Barely knew he was on Love Me Harder if not for this forum.
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Post by slw84 on Dec 30, 2015 12:47:48 GMT -5
I wanted Sorry to at least get one week at #1.
Maybe they need to push for Love yourself instead.
Something needs to topple hello before it reaches 16 weeks.
If Bieber's team was smart they'd get him booked for the People's choice awards on 1/6 or 1/7 and get that extra promo...or just reduce the song to 99 c or something.
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Post by Gary on Dec 30, 2015 12:49:01 GMT -5
We are at nine weeks right now, a little soon to be worrying about 16.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 14:14:54 GMT -5
I'm not going to be surprised if Adele replaces herself at #1 with WWWY. I've read some other opinions on the matter, some think there won't be a concept video, some think it'll be streaming (some say not)... but we are talking about Adele here, with a record company who has nearly flawless strategies and rollouts of her music... so who knows what they have up their sleeve for this next single? I have to assume they are going to do everything they can to score her another #1 since clearly the album is going to keep selling more and more with each accolade. Plus, I can't imagine there NOT being an official video for the 2nd single, regardless of how well the live version is doing. She has a visual to share, I'm sure.
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Post by DJ General on Dec 30, 2015 15:04:09 GMT -5
No sales predictions anywhere for adele this week? Haven'tseen anything in 7 or 8 days
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Post by velaxti on Dec 30, 2015 18:38:27 GMT -5
^ "Love Me Harder" was the song that got him exposure to the general public, "Earned It" was his breakout song. I knew this debate would start! Love Me Harder was a great boost to his profile, but I don't think it's solely responsible for him blowing up, unless it turns out that he wouldn't have been on the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack if it weren't for Love Me Harder. He was quite famous beforehand making it into the top 10 of the charts too (same goes for people like Skrillex and Lana Del Rey), and had lots of already famous artists potentially willing to collab with him, so without Love Me Harder or Earned It I think he might have still broken through later on with something else. |
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Post by Keelzit on Dec 30, 2015 19:44:35 GMT -5
I'm not going to be surprised if Adele replaces herself at #1 with WWWY. I've read some other opinions on the matter, some think there won't be a concept video, some think it'll be streaming (some say not)... but we are talking about Adele here, with a record company who has nearly flawless strategies and rollouts of her music... so who knows what they have up their sleeve for this next single? I have to assume they are going to do everything they can to score her another #1 since clearly the album is going to keep selling more and more with each accolade. Plus, I can't imagine there NOT being an official video for the 2nd single, regardless of how well the live version is doing. She has a visual to share, I'm sure. As you said, it's Adele, the same artist who only shot 2 videos for her 30 million-selling album. I wouldn't bet my life on a video for WWWY or any other song tbh. |
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Post by Caviar on Dec 30, 2015 20:16:21 GMT -5
Adele isn't a visual artist anyway (no matter how great Hello is) so my expectations are low for any concept videos this era.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 11:30:56 GMT -5
I didn't mean to imply that she's a visual artist in general, but this song/lyric is very visual, imo, and begs for a video. That combined with it being only the 2nd single.... I just can't imagine it not having an official concept video of some kind. I guess we'll see what happens, won't we?
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Post by Hotlantan on Dec 31, 2015 13:41:38 GMT -5
^ "Love Me Harder" was the song that got him exposure to the general public, "Earned It" was his breakout song. I knew this debate would start! Love Me Harder was a great boost to his profile, but I don't think it's solely responsible for him blowing up, unless it turns out that he wouldn't have been on the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack if it weren't for Love Me Harder. He was quite famous beforehand making it into the top 10 of the charts too (same goes for people like Skrillex and Lana Del Rey), and had lots of already famous artists potentially willing to collab with him, so without Love Me Harder or Earned It I think he might have still broken through later on with something else. The Weeknd had two RIAA platinum singles (both now double platinum) and a gold (now platinum) album BEFORE "Love Me Harder". www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22The+Weeknd%22His 2012 album Trilogy debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 and #5 in Canada. His 2013 album Kiss Land reached #2 in both countries. Back then he was also a featured artist on Billboard Top 20 Pop and R&B hit singles with everyone from Sia to Drake to Wiz Khalifa. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weeknd_discography |
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Dec 31, 2015 15:30:52 GMT -5
Another note on that song. AT40 which still used the Hot 100 at the time placed the song at 39 on its year end countdown (combining both versions). Meanwhile on Billbiard, it did not make the YE 100 How did they handle the two versions inside the Top 40 for the show? |
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Post by imbondz on Dec 31, 2015 16:54:17 GMT -5
A little note on Unchained Melody. 2 versions by the Righteous Brothers charted as the same time in 1990. Both hitting the top 20. Had their been just one release, that would have gone top 10 as well.
Contours - Do You Love Me would have beat the Ben E King record but the reissue in the late 80s stalled at #11 The "Unchained Melody" situation in 1990 was such a mess. After the success of Ghost, the original version of the song went top ten on the airplay chart. That 60s recording was only re-released on vinyl (not as a cassette or CD single, an important component back then) and instead a newly recorded version was issued on cassette/CD. That version reached the top ten on the sales chart, but had minimal airplay. Billboard didn't combine the sales and airplay from the two versions, so the Righteous Brothers wound up with two simultaneous, near-identical songs in the top 20 but neither was able to go top ten. Except that "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers was top ten in both sales and airplay. So confusing and unnecessary! yep. the newly recorded version tho wasn't nearly as good as the original. the vocals sounded old and rough. the whole thing was a mess. they should have just re-released the old version, and guarantee it could have went to #1. |
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Post by Libra on Dec 31, 2015 19:28:31 GMT -5
Another note on that song. AT40 which still used the Hot 100 at the time placed the song at 39 on its year end countdown (combining both versions). Meanwhile on Billbiard, it did not make the YE 100 How did they handle the two versions inside the Top 40 for the show? They both charted together. Actual song play varied from week to week - some weeks it was heard twice, other weeks it was only one or the other. |
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Post by renfield75 on Dec 31, 2015 20:04:07 GMT -5
The "Unchained Melody" situation in 1990 was such a mess. After the success of Ghost, the original version of the song went top ten on the airplay chart. That 60s recording was only re-released on vinyl (not as a cassette or CD single, an important component back then) and instead a newly recorded version was issued on cassette/CD. That version reached the top ten on the sales chart, but had minimal airplay. Billboard didn't combine the sales and airplay from the two versions, so the Righteous Brothers wound up with two simultaneous, near-identical songs in the top 20 but neither was able to go top ten. Except that "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers was top ten in both sales and airplay. So confusing and unnecessary! yep. the newly recorded version tho wasn't nearly as good as the original. the vocals sounded old and rough. the whole thing was a mess. they should have just re-released the old version, and guarantee it could have went to #1. At the very least guaranteed top 5. The original version reached #3 on the Airplay chart and the re-recording hit #4 on the Sales chart. It's likely the original would have sold better than the re-recording, so #1 wasn't an impossibility. |
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