I've decided to update the commentaries for Dirtee Disco and My Name to mention Daniel Pearce was in One True Voice and McLean is related to Bitty McLean. I've also updated the commentary for Poker Face, OG(ITW) and Russian Roulette to mention their positions on the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

 

If anyone has anything they want me to add to the commentary feel free to mention it.

#92

FYFE DANGERFIELD
“She’s Always A Woman”
from the album “Fly Yellow Moon”
[May 2010]
99-14-7-9-15-20-29-36-33-42-60-76-66-70-84-90-x(16)-61-x



~ 906 points // 17 weeks // #7 peak ~

British singer Fyfe Dangerfield (real name Fyfe Hutchins - shame Dangerfield couldn’t have been his real surname, it’s one of his middle names though) only had one top 20 hit with his band Guillemots, 2008 #20 hit Get Over It. He embarked on a solo career in 2010 with an album called Fly Yellow Moon but got off to a very slow start with the lead single not making the top 100 and the album only getting to #65. But then John Lewis came along and let him sing a little known Billy Joel #53 hit from 1986 for their advertising campaign and everything turned around. The cover itself peaked at #7, débuting at #99 on two days of sales, while the original Billy Joel version reached a new peak of #29. His solo album was then re-issued with the cover included and reached a new peak of #12. Unfortunately the newfound interest in the Fly Yellow Moon project didn’t translate into interest for further singles from the album and this is still his only solo hit. After its original chart run it re-entered a few months later at #61 after a performance of the song by X Factor soon-to-be winner Matt Cardle.

#91

MAGNETIC MAN FEAT. ANGELA HUNTE
“I Need Air”
from the album “Magnetic Man”
[August 2010]
10-13-14-18-22-23-32-39-44-52-51-49-62-85-93-x



~ 908 points // 15 weeks // #10 peak ~

This song signified the start of what is possibly a new era of chart music. The first top 10 hit ever for a relatively new genre, dubstep. Magnetic Man (Adegbenga Adejumo/Benga, Oliver Jones/Skream, Artwork) are a ‘super-group’ consisting of 2 of the biggest names in dubstep and a third guy named Artwork who’s also pretty big in the dubstep scene. Benga had a #98 hit in collaboration with Coki in 2008, Night, which was one of the earliest signs of the impending dubstep ‘revolution’. Skream was of course notable for his Let’s Get Ravey remix of La Roux’s 2009 #2 hit In For The Kill which came close to being as popular as the original and brought the dubstep genre properly to the mainstream. Artwork is just Artwork. If you know about dubstep you might know about him. Anyway, I Need Air was a surprise hit for the trio. It features a singer called Angela Hunte. Someone of the same name is partly responsible for writing Jay-Z’s 2009 monster #2 hit Empire State Of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys) but something tells me that’s probably not the same Angela Hunte. Since the release of this song they had a smaller #16 hit with Perfect Stranger (feat. Katy B) and their début album Magnetic Man charted at #4, proving dubstep could have potential on the album chart as well as the single chart. There has also been a significantly bigger dubstep hit… but what is it? You probably already know, but if not all shall be revealed in time, as that song is still to come.

On the radio they said it was the same Angela Hunte who made the hook for Empire State of Mind.

 

Also, I Need Air is amazing. :lol: I love the version in the video, with that high-pitched melody going over the song at the end.

 

And I'd reckon Skream's remix of In For the Kill is probably more popular than the original. I mean, it's only sold about 100,000 as opposed to, the 550,000 or whatever the original has sold, but I still hear the Skream remix everywhere, whilst I never hear the original anymore. Plus, I usually see Skream's version in the top 1,000 on iTunes, even now, whilst it's rare that La Roux's version is ever there.

Edited January 8, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

On the radio they said it was the same Angela Hunte who made the hook for Empire State of Mind.

 

Also, I Need Air is amazing. :lol: I love the version in the video, with that high-pitched melody going over the song at the end.

 

And I'd reckon Skream's remix of In For the Kill is probably more popular than the original. I mean, it's only sold about 100,000 as opposed to, the 550,000 or whatever the original has sold, but I still hear the Skream remix everywhere, whilst I never hear the original anymore. Plus, I usually see Skream's version in the top 1,000 on iTunes, even now, whilst it's rare that La Roux's version is ever there.

 

The original has sold upwards of 700k, and is still pretty well-known - better in the general public than the remix by far.

The original has sold upwards of 700k, and is still pretty well-known - better in the general public than the remix by far.

 

I'm sure the original can't've sold over 700,000. Maybe 700,000 in total for the song, but the original would've sold that, minus the sales of the remix (which were very high; it got to #11 on iTunes, hung around the ages, and has been out-selling the original for months now), because their sales are combined.

 

I can only speak for the people I know, and what I hear on the radio. I definitely hear the remix more on the radio, but perhaps that's because of the radio shows I choose to listen to, and if we talk about In For the Kill, it's always "Oh, that dubstep song from a couple of years ago?". I went to the cinema the other day, and they had the Skream remix of In For the Kill playing. It's been months and months since I've heard the original version anywhere. I've only heard it when I've gone on the Internet and actively sought it out to listen to it. The Skream version, you just go to a party and it'll probably get played. But again, I mainly socialize with male teenagers, so that might be the reason why I think it's more popular. Perhaps older people might play the original version more (although I wouldn't think they'd still be playing either version anymore).

 

Infact, the phrase "In For the Kill Skream Remix" now gets searched more than "In For the Kill La Roux" on youtube.

Edited January 9, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

'Russian Roulette' gets far too much hate, the production on it is actually amazing as is her vocals, the lyrics and the video being her best imo. I much prefer it over 'Only Girl (In The World)' too.

'Russian Roulette' gets far too much hate, the production on it is actually amazing as is her vocals, the lyrics and the video being her best imo. I much prefer it over 'Only Girl (In The World)' too.

 

Yeah, maybe I'm unfairly harsh on it. It's just such a dark and depressing song, and you could easily mistake it for being about suicide. Rihanna has done some other dark songs like Disturbia and Love the Way You Lie, which I enjoy listening to, but I thought Russian Roulette was just in a whole different league, in that it just makes me depressed. :(

 

Although I guess the song conjuring up those emotions in me probably is probably simply a testement to how well-written, etc. is it. :lol:

Yeah, maybe I'm unfairly harsh on it. It's just such a dark and depressing song, and you could easily mistake it for being about suicide. Rihanna has done some other dark songs like Disturbia and Love the Way You Lie, which I enjoy listening to, but I thought Russian Roulette was just in a whole different league, in that it just makes me depressed. :(

 

Although I guess the song conjuring up those emotions in me probably is probably simply a testement to how well-written, etc. is it. :lol:

 

No, it's just a dirge. Poor song, poor music, and I'm afraid a poor vocal performance.

 

 

--

Richard

 

 

I love Russian Roulette! It's dark because it relates to the Chris Brown incident.

I love Russian Roulette! It's dark because it relates to the Chris Brown incident.

No, it's just a dirge. Poor song, poor music, and I'm afraid a poor vocal performance.

--

Richard

 

I was really disappointed when it came out. I mean, I've liked pretty much every single Rihanna single, ever. She just comes out with incredible song, after incredible song, for years on end, and then Russian Roulette came out, and I was like "Oh no, I don't like this. :(".

 

The only other Rihanna singles I didn't like were Don't Stop the Music and Te Amo. I liked Te Amo at first, infact, it was my favourite track on my first listen of Rated R, but I got fed up of it once it became a single.

#90

KATY PERRY
“Firework”
from the album “Teenage Dream”
[October 2010]
5-6-4-3-5-8-11-12-12-8-



~ 936 points // 10 weeks // #3 peak ~

US singer Katy Perry (real name Katheryn Hudson) makes a total of six appearances in the full list here. The lowest, Hot N Cold, is #746. This is mostly down to it being released in 2008 and only recharting in 2010 for one week at #90. Her other five appearance (three as the lead artist, two as features) are all in the top 90. Firework, the third single released from her third studio album Teenage Dream, is the lowest of these entries. Strangely, despite being released after her album, it still managed to enter the chart in the top 10. That’s because it was selling almost nothing as an album track when it suddenly received a huge boost when it was performed on the X Factor practically a full month before its planned release. It received another boost later on in the series when Matt Cardle performed it in the grand final. Well, it wasn’t really a boost as such, it just prevented it from falling, keeping steady at #12. It climbed back into the top 10 the following week, possibly because the song’s lyrical content makes it a perfect New Year’s anthem. The first single from Teenage Dream, California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg) was a #1 hit, while the follow-up Teenage Dream got to #2, so it followed that Firework would go on to peak at #3. Can we expect a #4 hit for her next single E.T. which may or may not feature Tinie Tempah for its UK release? We’ll find out in time I suppose. This song managed to actually outsell the previous single Teenage Dream before the end of 2010, which was a pretty impressive feat, though to be fair it was aided greatly by the fact sales are higher at the end of the year anyway. This song came 63rd in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Firework is such an incredible song. :wub: I love it so much. It fully deserves to outsell Teenage Dream, since it's so much better, in my opinion. I found Teenage Dream really dull and repetitive.

#89

CHIDDY BANG
“Opposite Of Adults”
from the album “The Preview”
[March 2010]
12-16-16-16-19-21-22-30-31-37-49-59-69-84-97-x(27)-86-x



~ 952 points // 16 weeks // #12 peak ~

Opposite Of Adults was a surprise hit for US hip hop duo Chiddy Bang (Chidera Anamege/Chiddy, Noah Beresin/Xaphoon Jones) in a week which had a fairly high concentration of new entries near the top of the chart (it was the fourth highest new entry at #12, behind Jason Derülo’s In My Head at #1, Ellie Goulding’s Starry Eyed at #4 and Sugababes’ Wear My Kiss at #7). Most predicted it to be a top 40 hit but not many would think it’d spend eight weeks in the top 30. This song didn’t go down particularly well on this site due to its inherent dislike for when rappers take other songs’ instrumentals and/or vocals and essentially rap over them. This effect was increased by the fact the song sampled in this case is a relatively BuzzJack-friendly song, MGMT’s 2008 #16 hit Kids. I personally hate that song anyway and I think the Chiddy Bang ‘version’ is a lot better. As is present in a few rapper’s début singles, most notably Tinie Tempah’s Pass Out, this song’s lyrics contain a lot of arrogance and bragging despite the people behind it not having achieved a huge amount to warrant it. Tinie’s career went on to be very successful but the same can’t be said about Chiddy Bang whose second single Truth (which repeated the indie-sampling gimmick, sampling Passion Pit’s Better Things) only entered at #50. This song re-entered the top 100 at the end of the year and again at the beginning of 2011 due to its use in an ad for the game Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, which also featured the song on its soundtrack. At the start of the song Chiddy says ‘fresh kid Z, fresh kid C, fresh kid P, fresh kid T’. If anyone can enlighten me on what the hell he’s talking about I’d be grateful.

Edited January 9, 201114 yr by ★BlindFaithBray★

#88

JAY-Z FEAT. MR HUDSON
“Young Forever”
from the album “The Blueprint 3”
[september 2009]
-27-19-13-13-10-15-19-24-33-46-57-66-74-63-69-100-x



~ 968 points // 16 weeks // #10 peak ~

Right from the moment of the release of The Blueprint 3, the eleventh studio album by US rapper Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter), it was clear which two album tracks would have the biggest potential as singles. In fact, two songs from the album actually made the official top 40 in the week of the album’s release - Empire State Of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys) which went on to be a #2 hit and Jay-Z’s highest selling single to date and generally his biggest hit ever was the highest entry, going in at an amazing #15 and joining the top 3 in its second week. This, Young Forever featuring British singer Mr Hudson (real name Benjamin McIldowie), entered at #35 and strangely climbed to #32 in it second week. After Jay-Z was done with the release of Empire State Of Mind he went on to releasing this and scored another post-album top 10 hit. The album itself was his first top 5 album (and indeed his first top 20 album), peaking at #4 and generally proving to be Jay-Z’s biggest era to date. I remind you it’s his *eleventh* studio album. How many other artists can you think of that had their best success to date with their eleventh album? Anyway, Young Forever is of course notable for stealing a verse and the chorus of Alphaville’s song Forever Young which would have been, on an unrelated note, the winner’s single of X Factor 2010 third placed boyband One Direction had they won the show. Mr Hudson benefitted from this collaboration by being one of the relatively few British acts to have a US hit within the last few years. It wasn’t his own hit but it was still a hit. His first UK single outside of his band Mr Hudson & The Library (who had a #53 hit in 2007 with Too Late, Too Late) featured Kanye West, so there was some US interest there already, but he hasn’t yet managed a hit as the lead artist over there. He’s even fallen out of favour here with his solo album Straight No Chaser bombing after entering at #25 and second single White Lies, unrelated to the band of the same name, only made #20. Ah well. At least he got the privilege to work with Kanye West and Jay-Z while he was still relevant.

Oops, I missed one out :lol: Young Forever is actually #88, I'll edit the previous post with the #89

I'm getting really lazy with this :( This should continue later today if I remember

You are doing a fab job, I know it must take a lot of effort, so whenever you find time is great, no rush! :)

I LOVE Opposite of Adults. :wub:

 

Young Forever is pretty good aswell. I remember they kept changing whether it was going to be called Forever Young or Young Forever :lol:

Edited January 12, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob