#56

 

KATY PERRY

“Teenage Dream”

from the album “Teenage Dream”

[september 2010]

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~ 1,212 points // 17 weeks // #2 peak ~

 

The second of five entries for Mrs. Russell Brand in the top 200 is the second single and title track of her third studio album Teenage Dream. As someone who hated her 2008 commercial breakthrough I Kissed A Girl but loved the three follow-up singles, I was unsurprised to find myself liking this after hating its predecessor California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg). Annoyingly that song has finished higher, but it was also released a lot earlier so it had a slight advantage. Anyway, one thing that some people criticised about California Gurls was how the chorus sounded eerily similar to Ke$ha’s TiK ToK. This may have been because both songs were produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco, with the former also having extra production from Dr. Luke’s often production partner Max Martin. For Teenage Dream Katy decided to go for the same three producers a second time - hey, it worked the first time - and so we were left with another song whose chorus sounds almost exactly the same as TiK ToK’s although slightly slower. Teenage Dream became her third #1 hit in her native USA, spending two weeks at the summit and has since become a top 10 hit again with a fairly quick off the mark cover from Glee Cast selling enough downloads to net them their second (only second?) top 10 hit at #8. However, it stalled at #2 for two weeks here, once behind Olly Murs’ Please Don’t Let Me Go then again behind Alexandra Burke’s Start Without You (feat. Laza Morgan). The Glee version was only released in 2011 here and made a not-too-impressive #36, though Glee can claim three top 10 hits in the UK as in addition to the worldwide hit Don’t Stop Believin’ (#2 here) they’ve scored 2 additional #9 hits here in the forms of Halo / Walking On Sunshine and Total Eclipse Of The Heart (feat. Jonathan Groff). With our chart being based totally on sales and no airplay, it’s much easier for them to score top 10 hits here than in the USA, where they’d have 7 top 10 hits including 2 #1s if the airplay element was removed. Right, enough about Glee as they still have an entry coming on this countdown. This song came 97th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

I prefer this song than California Gurls to be honest. A good summer song this was.

Loving the reports that go along with each song.

Wow at Fight For This Love! :o

 

I didn't really like Teenage Dream. I preferred California Gurls and Firework to it tbh. And all those songs also sound similar to Dynamite, which I think also had the same producer. :lol:

#54

KATY B
“Katy On A Mission”
from the album “On A Mission”
[september 2010]
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~ 1,228 points // 18 weeks // #5 peak ~

Next in the countdown is the biggest hit from the dubstep genre to date, as I mentioned in the commentary for I Need Air by Magnetic Man feat. Angela Hunte a while ago. Katy On A Mission, the début single by British singer Katy B (real name Kathleen Brien), was originally just an instrumental titled Man On A Mission by Magnetic Man member Benga, but Katy B laid down some vocals and claimed it as her own song. Her reward for this was a #5 hit which spent six weeks in the top ten including four weeks locked at the #8 position. Katy B became a somewhat unexpected hate figure on BuzzJack. I say ‘somewhat unexpected’ because she’s a female solo artist, yet many BuzzJackers seem to hate her. I certainly don’t hate her and I specifically don’t hate this song, which is among my favourite songs of 2010. Shortly after the release of Katy On A Mission Katy B (who is by the way of no relation to Plan B) made a guest appearance on Magnetic Man’s second single Perfect Stranger. The coming together of two artists who had both scored quite big top 10 hits resulted in… a fleeting #16 hit. Katy’s second release as the lead artist, Lights On (feat. Ms. Dynamite), fared slightly better, peaking at #4 for three weeks at the end of 2010 into the start of 2011 (with a very unusual run of 4-11-4-4). Both of these songs are taken off the singer’s début album On A Mission which is due for release soon after the third single Broken Record.

Edited March 7, 201114 yr by Bray

By the way, 10 weeks into 2011 there are already 49 songs with more points than the end of year #200 for 2010 (Inna's Amazing).

Katy On A Mission. :o :wub:

 

Somehow I thought it'd be higher... Best Dubstep song that's been big for me, marginally ahead of Shot Myself In The Foot Again! :D

#53

JLS
“One Shot”
from the album “JLS”
[November 2009]
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~ 1,255 points // 21 weeks // #6 peak ~

One Shot, the third single from JLS’ self-titled début album, concluded a release strategy that seemed to work so well that JLS decided to repeat it in 2010. You see, JLS’ début single Beat Again was an up-tempo song released in July 2009 which went to #1. They followed it up with a ballad in November, Everybody In Love, which also got to #1. The album, JLS, was released the following week and also got to #1 and they completed that album campaign by releasing another up-tempo song, One Shot in early 2010 which peaked in the low top 10 (#6 to be precise) but had a good chart run. Their fourth single The Club Is Alive was an up-tempo song released in July 2010 which went to #1. They followed it up with a ballad in November, Love You More, which also got to #1. The album, Outta This World, was released the following week and got to #2 and they completed that album campaign by releasing another up-tempo song, Eyes Wide Shut (feat. Tinie Tempah) in early 2011 which peaked in the low top 10 (#8 to be precise) but had a good chart run. Déjà vu. Anyway, this was the best received of the first three JLS singles on BuzzJack, much like Eyes Wide Shut was the best received of the fourth through sixth JLS singles on BuzzJack. There was good reason for that as well as it was easily the best of their first three singles. The video for this song was released far too early which saw it get to #6 four weeks before the physical release. It had dropped out of the top 10 before the physical came out but the physical saw it climb back into the top 10 for one more week. If you need even more déjà vu regarding JLS’ release patterns the exact same thing happened with Eyes Wide Shut which got to #10 5 weeks before the physical release due to the video being released ridiculously early and fell out of the top 10 before re-climbing on the physical release week, albeit this time to a new peak of #8. I think it’s fair to expect the exact same sequence of events in 2011-2 and indeed for the rest of eternity (or at least as long as JLS remain in the public eye).

I've got to do 5 more today to catch up. I've caught up a few times before and I'll catch up again.

Edited March 13, 201114 yr by Bray

#52

ADELE
“Make You Feel My Love”
from the album “19”
[October 2008]
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~ 1,256 points // 17 weeks // #4 peak ~

And we have a winner in the ‘weirdest chart run’ category. British singer Adele (full name Adele Adkins) first released this, her cover of the Bob Dylan song Make You Feel My Love, as the fourth single from her #1 début album 19 near the end of 2008. It originally peaked at #26 to become her first single to miss the top 20 (following #2 Chasing Pavements, #19 Hometown Glory and #18 Cold Shoulder) and disappeared after just six weeks in the top 100. It briefly re-entered the top 100 for two weeks in March 2009 but then remained a non-hit until X Factor season 2010. After a performance in the audition stages by hopeful Annastasia Baker the song shot back up to a new peak of #24, but this boost was short-lived as you’d expect. Baker got no further than the Judges’ Houses round. Make You Feel My Love had dropped as far as #102 when suddenly it was propelled to another new peak, this time a *lot* higher than the old one, going as high as #4 to become her belated second top 5 single. What could have caused that? Well, it was The X Factor again. This time in the boot camp stage, various contestants had a go at the song, most notably Gamu Nhengu who also (controversially) got only to Judges’ Houses despite being an early favourite for the win. She was going through problems with her visa and at one point it was rumoured she’d be forced to return to her home country of Zimbabwe. Fortunately, she has been allowed to stay in the UK, but her visa troubles may have lost her a decent placing in the X Factor. Make You Feel My Love started to drop again after this, before yo-yoing a bit between 17 and 27. It then went back into the top 10 at #9 after yet another performance on X Factor, this time on the fifth live show by eventual second-place finisher Rebecca Ferguson. It dropped to #12 the following week before returning to the top 10 a *third* time, climbing back up to #9 the next week. The X Factor wasn’t the reason for this third top 10 entry. The song was used prominently in the BBC Children In Need telethon prompting yet another spurt of interest in it. Its chart run finally seemed to be dying as it went on to drop to #21, then to #31… then it climbed back up to #26. Long story short, it’s continued to yo-yo up and down ever since and is still top 40 as I write this. It even scored a *fourth* entry to the top 10 in early 2011, climbing back up to #7 after being skated to on Dancing On Ice. In its current top 40 run it’s switched between climbing and falling fourteen times, one more time than the mammoth original top 40 run of Kings Of Leon’s Sex On Fire. It’s also one of just three songs in chart history to have reached the top 10 on four non-consecutive occasions within one run in the top 40, the other two being Mr. Acker Bilk’s Stranger On The Shore in 1962 and Elton John’s Something About The Way You Look Tonight in 1997. This song came 85th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited March 13, 201114 yr by Bray

#51

MUMFORD & SONS
“The Cave”
from the album “Sigh No More”
[February 2010]
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~ 1,271 points // 36 weeks // #31 peak ~

Just missing out on the top 50 are one of the most unexpected success stories of 2009-11, British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons (Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall, Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane) with their third single The Cave. If someone had said a London folk quartet would have two top 50 hits both here and in the USA plus an album which sold over a million copies and peaked at #2 in both territories before Mumford & Sons broke out, you’d have thought they were insane. But that’s exactly what they did. Their début album Sigh No More took a while to peak both here and Stateside, getting to #2 here on its 72nd chart week after winning the Mastercard British Album of the Year award at the 2011 BRIT Awards and getting to #2 in the USA on its 47th chart week after a performance at the 2011 Grammy Awards. The song they performed was this, The Cave, which propelled it all the way to the top 5 on US iTunes and #27 on the US Billboard Hot 100 to become their second top 50 hit there, following #45 hit Little Lion Man (which racked up an impressive 22 weeks in the Hot 100 despite its lowish peak). Little Lion Man was also their first top 40 hit here and their highest peaker to date, peaking at #24 in 2009. Their second UK single Winter Winds didn’t fare as well, peaking at just #44 but they returned to the top 40 in a big way with The Cave. While Little Lion Man spent just two weeks in the top 40, The Cave managed six, not even peaking until its final week in the top 40 (it spent three weeks at #37, then two at #32 and finally one at #31). However, despite The Cave spending much longer than Little Lion Man in the top 40, it’s the latter that is ahead in terms of top 100 weeks albeit by a tiny margin, 40 weeks to The Cave’s 39. The Cave has been one week behind Little Lion Man for some time, as its last 6 weeks top 100 (the last three shown in the chart run above and three further weeks in 2011 after the BRIT Awards, which also saw them get a fourth top 100 hit in the form of #71 hit Timshel which they performed at the cermony) have been shared with Little Lion Man.

The Cave is probably my favourite song of 2010- its so brilliant! :wub: :wub:

So, this is the top 50 in alphabetical order by artist.

 

3OH!3 FEAT. KATY PERRY - “Starstrukk”

ALEXANDRA BURKE FEAT. PITBULL - “All Night Long”

ALICIA KEYS - “Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down”

ALICIA KEYS - “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart”

B.O.B FEAT. HAYLEY WILLIAMS - “Airplanes”

BRUNO MARS - “Just The Way You Are”

CHERYL COLE - “Parachute”

DAVID GUETTA AND CHRIS WILLIS FEAT. FERGIE AND LMFAO - “Gettin’ Over You”

DAVID GUETTA FEAT. KID CUDI - “Memories”

EDWARD MAYA FEAT. VIKA JIGULINA - “Stereo Love”

ELIZA DOOLITTLE - “Pack Up”

ELLIE GOULDING - “Starry Eyed”

EMINEM - “Not Afraid”

EMINEM FEAT. RIHANNA - “Love The Way You Lie”

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FEAT. PITBULL - “I Like It”

EXAMPLE - “Kickstarts”

FLO RIDA FEAT. DAVID GUETTA - “Club Can’t Handle Me”

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - “Dog Days Are Over”

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - “You’ve Got The Love”

GLEE CAST - “Don’t Stop Believin’“

IYAZ - “Replay”

JASON DERÜLO - “In My Head”

JASON DERÜLO - “Ridin’ Solo”

JAY-Z FEAT. ALICIA KEYS - “Empire State Of Mind”

JOURNEY - “Don’t Stop Believin’“

JUSTIN BIEBER FEAT. LUDACRIS - “Baby”

KATY PERRY FEAT. SNOOP DOGG - “California Gurls”

KE$HA - “TiK ToK”

KELLY ROWLAND FEAT. DAVID GUETTA - “Commander”

LADY GAGA - “Alejandro”

LADY GAGA - “Bad Romance”

LADY GAGA FEAT. BEYONCÉ - “Telephone”

OWL CITY - “Fireflies”

PLAN B - “She Said”

RIHANNA - “Rude Boy”

RIHANNA - “Te Amo”

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS - “This Ain’t A Love Song”

TAIO CRUZ - “Dynamite”

THE BLACK EYED PEAS - “I Gotta Feeling”

THE SATURDAYS - “Ego”

THE WANTED - “All Time Low”

TIMBALAND FEAT. KATY PERRY - “If We Ever Meet Again”

TINIE TEMPAH - “Pass Out”

TINIE TEMPAH FEAT. LABRINTH - “Frisky”

TRAIN - “Hey, Soul Sister”

TRAVIE MCCOY FEAT. BRUNO MARS - “Billionaire”

USHER FEAT. PITBULL - “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”

USHER FEAT. WILL.I.AM - “OMG”

YOLANDA BE COOL AND DCUP - “We No Speak Americano”

YOUNG MONEY FEAT. LLOYD - “BedRock”

 

I'll catch up some more later on.

Edited March 13, 201114 yr by Bray

#50

BRUNO MARS
“Just The Way You Are”
from the album “Doo-Wops & Hooligans”
[October 2010]
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~ 1,296 points // 14 weeks // #1 peak ~

Opening up the top 50, perhaps slightly surprisingly given its low week count (four less than any other song in the top 50), is Bruno Mars’ début single Just The Way You Are. This was actually his fourth entry to the top 100 and his second as the lead artist - he had of course featured on top 3 hits by B.o.B and Travie McCoy as I’ve mentioned before, but he also made his first mark on the top 100 as a lead artist with not this but his EP It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, which charted at #97 five weeks before the release of this. It’s fair to say this completely crushed that chart-wise. It entered the chart at #1 on strong sales of 82,855 but seemed at first like being a one-week wonder. Then its chart fortunes were turned around by, you guessed it, the X Factor. After a performance by eventual series winner Matt Cardle the song shot back up to #1 on the download chart, although oddly just #2 on the official chart (a rare difference in the #1s of the two charts) as Cee Lo Green managed to stay ahead when his CD sales of F**k You! and more importantly sales of the digital EP, which are for some reason not included in the download chart, were added to his download total. However, the next week Just The Way You Are climbed back to #1 with sales significantly higher than its first week sales (116,684). It then went on to spend its first 19 weeks in the top 20. For some bizarre reason the OCC have taken to crediting this song as Just The Way You Are (Amazing), this despite the fact the extra parenthesised part does not appear in any other sources. Mars’ début album Doo-Wops & Hooligans first appeared in the Top 100 albums four weeks after Just The Way You Are’s release, entering at #79 on the strength of imports alone. Upon its proper release in 2011 it shot straight to #1, as did Bruno Mars’ second proper single Grenade. This song came 9th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

#49

KELLY ROWLAND FEAT. DAVID GUETTA
“Commander”
from the album “TBA”
[June 2010]
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~ 1,299 points // 20 weeks // #9 peak ~

Although some way off fellow Destiny’s Child member Beyoncé’s 15, Kelly Rowland (real name Kelendria Rowland) is some way ahead of third member Michelle Williams’ 0 in terms of total UK top 10 singles. (I’m aware there were other members of Destiny’s Child but these are the three main ones). Commander (feat. David Guetta) was the seventh top ten single for the American singer and her fifth as the lead artist. It was also Guetta’s sixth out of eight to date, so not bad going for either of them. It was the second time the two had been credited together on a single, as Kelly Rowland was the featured vocalist on David Guetta’s first #1 (of four in total) When Love Takes Over from 2009. When they flipped the credit they ended up eight places lower, but nonetheless the duo scored another big hit, Commander spending an impressive 8 weeks top 20 despite its low-ish peak. Kelly’s still-untitled third studio album was due for release in September 2010 but was delayed because of ‘changes in creative decisions’ (read: because the second single Forever And A Day bombed, reaching only #49). Will it become like Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s fourth studio album and never seem to surface due to singles performing underwhelmingly? That is yet to be seen. Kelly Rowland has at least seen the top 20 one more time since Forever And A Day’s flop by way of featuring on Tinie Tempah’s fourth single Invincible which reached #11 at the start of 2011.

Commander is brilliant. I have an extended instrumental version of it, which is really fun to listen to. It's like a two-minute crescendo, then "Let the beat rockkkkkk!", then another minute-long crescendo, then "Let the beat rockkkkkkk!" for ages, then it fades out to just the drums and the kick. :lol: Always an enjoyable listen. Certainly gets the adrenaline pumping for me. :D

 

Can't give similar praise to Just the Way You Are, as much as I do enjoy seeing teenage girls spotaneouly burst into tears and fall to the ground, quivering, whenever the song plays. :drama:

I've done some recalculations and found I actually only have to catch up by one more entry to get this to end on 1 May. So if I can post one entry today and two tomorrow I'll be caught up for an end of April finish. I'm on this :P

#48

TIMBALAND FEAT. KATY PERRY
“If We Ever Meet Again”
from the album “Shock Value II”
[February 2010]
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~ 1,302 points // 18 weeks // #3 peak ~

The highest entry on the countdown for Timbaland and the third highest for Katy Perry is If We Ever Meet Again, the second single from Timbaland’s Shock Value II album. This single went against the normal rules of diminishing returns by actually outpeaking and outselling its predecessor Morning After Dark (feat. Nelly Furtado and SoShy). Whether it beat it in terms of quality is your own opinion. It’s my opinion that it definitely didn’t. Anyhow, this along with 3OH!3’s Starstrukk on which she also featured kept Katy Perry fresh in people’s memories after a year-plus absence, just as she was about to return bigger than ever. Not that she wouldn’t have been massive anyway - although both her collaborations went top 3 here they both underperformed in the US (#37 for this and just #66 for Starstrukk) but she was even bigger Stateside this era than she was here, scoring three Billboard Hot 100 hits plus a #1 album, with fourth single E.T. (feat. Kanye West) having recently topped the US iTunes chart and gone top 10 on the Hot 100. This, much like Perry’s own single Firework, had a surprisingly high début given it was from an album that had already been available for several weeks. Its airplay and video play just picked up so fast that it immediately shot up to the top 20 and then peaked in its second week on the chart. The video for this song has a weird bit at the end not present on the actual single. I personally would prefer if the song was just that the whole way through, or preferably if it was silent the whole way through.

I thought If We Ever Meet Again was the best song ever when I first heard it (perhaps that's why it climbed so quickly, because of how instant it was?), although I got bored of it quickly. :(

 

I agree that Morning After Dark and Carry Out were better. Most Timbaland songs are better tbh.

If We Ever Meet Again! :wub:

 

It's charming!

If We Ever Meet Again- best song out of Timbaland's 'Shock Value II'

#47

THE SATURDAYS
“Ego”
from the album “Wordshaker” (or “Headlines!”, take your pick)
[December 2009]
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~ 1,309 points // 23 weeks // #9 peak ~

I’ve already gone over the whole Wordshaker / Headlines! thing in the commentary for Missing You so I won’t repeat it here. Ego was the second single from their second album, whichever one you refer to it as. A not very interesting thing I noticed about The Saturdays’ discography is that, If This Is Love and Work aside, they get top 3 hits with shorter chart runs with their multi-worded titles (Just Can’t Get Enough #2 and 14 weeks, Forever Is Over #2 and 10 weeks, Missing You #3 and 14 weeks) but their single-worded titles peak outside the top 3 but have longer chart runs (Up #5 and 36 weeks, Issues #4 and 20 weeks, Ego #9 and 28 weeks, Higher #10 and 24 weeks). Right, now that stat attack is over, the actual song. Most people (me included) agree it should have been the first single, or at least Forever Is Over definitely should not have been. It’s just a far better song and has much more lasting appeal as the much longer chart run shows. Unfortunately, Ego’s release didn’t do much to save the album Wordshaker (remember when that album existed?). That album entered the chart at number nine then plummetted to #40 in its second week. Ego gave it a single extra week in the top 40, at #37. A planned third single, Here Standing, never surfaced and they instead moved onto new material.