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 Aug 11 2021, 04:17 PM
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On the back of selling out the O2 Arena in 12 minutes, Wizkid looks set to achieve his first top 40 hit as a lead artist with 'Essence'. I'm surprised it's took his this long, he's an absolute massive name in African music but Burna Boy has seemed to have much more success than him when it comes to the UK charts.
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Aug 12 2021, 10:27 PM
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can we find love again?
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Bieber remix out at midnight
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Aug 13 2021, 08:36 AM
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No why :/
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Aug 13 2021, 09:30 PM
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I love this but Bieber is so unnecessary lol
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Aug 13 2021, 09:39 PM
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It's still will be the return of the Mack.
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Does this sample something? Sounds like it does but not sure what.
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Aug 14 2021, 01:53 PM
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Bieber was not needed on this at all I don’t need him ruining one of my favourites songs of this year .
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Aug 14 2021, 02:17 PM
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Bieber is never needed on any remix tbh
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Aug 14 2021, 04:43 PM
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can we find love again?
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Bieber's fine on it IMO, he doesn't add lots but I don't think he ruins it either. Song is decent if inessential either way for me.
(nevertheless, the point is to increase the song's reach more than anything I expect, a job that it's already doing extremely well) |
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Aug 14 2021, 05:50 PM
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Livin' like a 90 year old
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Not heard the Bieber version but I really hope that doesn't become the de facto version - we've waited 5 years for another song by just African artists to make the Top 40 and that stat would be somewhat ruined if the general public end up just associating the song with Bieber.
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Aug 14 2021, 07:09 PM
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QUOTE(PeteFromLeeds @ Aug 14 2021, 06:50 PM)  Not heard the Bieber version but I really hope that doesn't become the de facto version - we've waited 5 years for another song by just African artists to make the Top 40 and that stat would be somewhat ruined if the general public end up just associating the song with Bieber. Which is what I’m worried will happen . The song is great on its own accord I don’t want this Bieber version to overshadow it . |
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Aug 24 2021, 02:16 PM
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this song makes my bussy not so much pop but slowly bloom
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Aug 25 2021, 02:40 PM
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QUOTE(PeteFromLeeds @ Aug 14 2021, 06:50 PM) Not heard the Bieber version but I really hope that doesn't become the de facto version - we've waited 5 years for another song by just African artists to make the Top 40 and that stat would be somewhat ruined if the general public end up just associating the song with Bieber. What was the last one? |
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Aug 25 2021, 02:41 PM
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The Bieber comments are fair but work both ways. Pretty sure everyone in the UK at least associates Despacito with Bieber, but at the same time if it wasn't for Bieber these people would likely have never listened to the song in the first place so...
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Aug 25 2021, 05:00 PM
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'Essence' was already becoming a UK hit even before the Bieber feature was added though so it's not exactly the same situation as that.
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Aug 25 2021, 05:13 PM
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Actually from memory Despacito was already charting before the Bieber feature so they are somewhat comparable. Just that they obviously became much bigger afterwards (well we still don't know how Essence will ultimately perform but at the very least Bieber's involvement has certainly helped even the original version).
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Aug 25 2021, 05:33 PM
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waking up is so violent
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The first week 'Despacito' charted in the UK top 100 was definitely after the Bieber remix was released (the remix dropped on 17th April 2017 and it first charted on W/E 27th April, so that included 4 days of tracking for the remix). It may have been making some very minor chart moves before that - I don't really care to dig out old iTunes/Spotify threads to check for this
 - but nowhere near as much as 'Essence' which was already a top 40 hit and rising with 9 weeks in the top 100 before the remix came out!
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Aug 26 2021, 08:52 AM
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Ah yes you are right. I was confusing it with the accreditation. The first 3 weeks in the top 100 Bieber wasn't being credited but yes it was his version they always played on the chart show.
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Aug 26 2021, 12:47 PM
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waking up is so violent
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Oh yeah, I had forgotten that they didn't originally credit Bieber on it (and then made the rare decision to actually change the website to credit him when it got to #1).
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Aug 28 2021, 12:57 PM
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I'm collapsing to my knees, won't you shelter me?
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QUOTE(Mack. @ Aug 13 2021, 10:39 PM) Does this sample something? Sounds like it does but not sure what. I think it has that Loleatta Holloway 'Love Sensation' sample in it that's in quite a few other songs as well (like Black Box - 'Ride On Time' and Chase & Status - 'Blind Faith') anyway I absolutely love this, smooth as butter 
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Aug 28 2021, 04:24 PM
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Livin' like a 90 year old
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QUOTE(Dobbo. @ Aug 25 2021, 03:40 PM) What was the last one? New Girl by Reggie and Bollie! (although even they had settled in the UK when that song charted) |
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