I though Ego was very boring tbh. Better than Forever is Over? Yes, but most things are. That song was dreadful! :o And I was thinking, if Oopsy Daisy wasn't released the same week as it, that would've got #1 on very low sales, probably! :o

 

Missiing You and Higher are so much better than Ego and Forever is Over, it's actually embarrassing.

Ego had a good video but i agree a bit boring.

I've just had the assumption that with "Forever Is Over" and "Missing You", the Saturdays' record company is putting them out as a lead singles because they know they'd do very little if they were released after their respective albums so it's sensible to release them as lead, with a certain top 5, and then release the guaranteed smash ("Ego", or its poorer relation "Higher") afterwards so you get two top 10 singles instead of a probable #1 and a subsequent flop.

 

I think it's just that the Saturdays fans on here would rather see them score a #1 whereas the people in charge (and maybe the band as well) would rather keep their fairly impressive top 10 run going.

I love Justin Beiber most.

#46

DAVID GUETTA AND CHRIS WILLIS FEAT. FERGIE AND LMFAO
“Gettin’ Over You”
from the album “One Love”
[August 2009]
RE-41-1-4-7-10-13-16-18-18-24-27-28-31-38-43-55-59-80-90-x



~ 1,316 points // 19 weeks // #1 peak ~

At #46 is David Guetta with his third number one single Gettin’ Over You. The song is given joint credit with US singer and long-time Guetta collaborator Chris Willis (formally Christopher Willis) and on featured credits are US singer and Black Eyed Pea Fergie (real name Stacy Ferguson) and US hip-hop duo LMFAO (Stefan Gordy/Redfoo, Skyler Gordy/SkyBlu). The original version of this song, titled just Gettin’ Over, had Chris Willis as merely a featured artist and no mention of Fergie or LMFAO - they just jumped on board for the single release. In the run up to the release of Guetta’s #2 album One Love the French DJ followed in the footsteps of Eminem and The Black Eyed Peas and released several ‘promo’ singles, new songs which weren’t proper singles but were just put out to increase interest in the album. Gettin’ Over managed to chart at #86 back in August 2009 because of this, so if you order his #1s by the date they first charted this is actually his second #1, first charting the week before Sexy Bitch (feat. Akon). The week before it got to #1 this song managed to chart at #41 based solely on sales of the original version - had it just sold a bit more it would have broken P!nk’s record for the biggest jump to #1 within the top 40 (her So What jumped from 38 to 1 in 2008). As I mentioned in the commentary for Nothin’ On You, the week this was #1 it sold less than 50,000 copies, but it managed to escape non-#1 status by actually having a fairly decent chart run. The actual song just sounds like an amalgamation of the entire back catalogue of David Guetta with a bit of The Black Eyed Peas’ Boom Boom Pow thrown in (Fergie even repeats the ‘people in the plaaaaaace’ part from Boom Boom Pow), so we’ve certainly had some more original #1 hits. The title of this song is a real bitch to type on MS Excel because it insists on changing Gettin’ to Getting’. Not that you needed to know that.

I read somewhere that the Black Eyed Peas wanted Gettin' Over to be on the E.N.D., but David Guetta didn't want to give them the song. :lol:

 

Although, tbh, I'm glad they didn't get the song, because it sounds too similar to I Gotta Feeling, and it probably wouldn't have been released as a single, and been a #1.

 

I love Gettin' Over You though. I was so happy when it got to #1! :heart:

Edited March 20, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

has bray forgotten bout this?

I haven't actually FORGOTTEN as such, I've just failed to remember it. Don't worry, it will be finished by the end of the Easter holidays (in about 4 weeks) at the *very* latest :P

#45

RIHANNA
“Te Amo”
from the album “Rated R”
[April 2010]
94-71-51-30-19-14-17-18-18-18-23-22-27-31-35-33-36-42-49-68-79-88-x



~ 1,339 points // 22 weeks // #14 peak ~

The fourth appearance in the top 200 from everyone’s favourite Barbadian female (no, not Shontelle) is Te Amo, the third single from her very confused Rated R era. Why confused you ask? Well, Russian Roulette was always the first single, that was fairly clear. However, another song from Rated R entitled Wait Your Turn bizarrely received a video at around the same time as Russian Roulette causing it to chart at #45 in the same week (neither received an official single release, so both charted as album tracks). Hard (feat. Young Jeezy) was released as the second single in the USA and so received a video. UK TV channels, believing Hard to be the new single, promptly started playing it and it entered the chart at #55. The next week it climbed to #42 and the real second single Rude Boy entered at #52 after the revelation that Hard was in fact only the second single in the USA. Rude Boy overtook the next week and soon shot into the top 10 peaking at #2 but some channels just didn’t get the message and continued playing Hard, causing that song to manage eight weeks in the top 100. Rude Boy was released third Stateside. Another song from Rihanna’s album, Rockstar 101 (feat. Slash), looked like it’d become the third single as it was the fourth single in the USA. However, Te Amo was released instead. At first it seemed to be zooming up the chart with little promotion (as Rude Boy had done) and looked likely to become another huge hit for Rihanna but as it happened it ended up peaking before the video release at a rather pathetic #14. Later Rihanna realised her mistake and gave Hard a proper release, but it had already lost too many sales and couldn't get any higher than #64 the second time around. Musically Te Amo was very different from the previous two singles, adopting a clear Latin sound. The title is, for those of you who A) haven’t heard the song and/or B) aren’t blessed with the skill of bilinguality, Spanish for ‘I love you’ - had Rihanna not gone all Español on us this would be one of the most boringly named songs ever.

Edited March 28, 201114 yr by Bray

Hard was also on the radio ALL THE TIME back in the day. :lol: Galaxy actually had both Hard and Rude Boy on their playlist. :lol:

 

I believe Wait Your Turn/The Wait is Over got a video because they were using it as a promo single?

 

Te Amo was dreadful though. It was my favourite on the album, when I first listened to it with one of my friends in a Maths lesson :lol:, but I got so bored of it after it became a single. It became too much of a radio hit, and it just wasn't the type of song that you can listen to repeatedly for years. Luckily, the majority of Rihanna songs are brilliant though! :D

Te Amo wasn't the best by Rihanna

 

Hard was good

Rude Boy classic Rihanna

I was disappointed with "Te Amo", one of Rihanna's worst songs - "Hard" is a much better song and should have been released after "Rude Boy" (or even before it)

Yeah, Hard is definitely my favourite from Rated R tbh. Extremely epic. :D

Hard *was* my favourite from Rated R but I later decided I preferred RB.

 

Rihanna's last 2 albums have definitely not been as strong as GGGB (in terms of the singles anyway, though 'singles' acccount for most of GGGB anyway :lol:). WMN? is the only really good single from either of the two albums, though RB, Hard and S&M are good as well. Whereas GGGB had three absolute classics (SUAD, DSTM and Disturbia) and Umbrella which was as good as those three but killed by overplay, though I'd still much rather listen to Umbrella than Russian Roulette, Te Amo or Only Girl (In The World)...

"Rude Boy" is definitely the best from Rated R. Loud and Good Girl Gone Bad will always remain her best albums, I don't know when she's releasing next but I don't think she'll have as good an era as these.

 

Good times don't last forever :cry:

 

SINGLES RATE: - underlined singles are those I have forgotten (flop Rihanna loon)

 

Music Of The Sun:

1 - Pon de Replay

2 - If It's Lovin' That You Want

 

A Girl Like Me:

1 - Unfaithful

2 - S.o.s

3 - We Ride

 

Good Girl Gone Bad:

1 - Umbrella

2 - Don't Stop The Music

3 - Disturbia

4 - Shut Up and Drive

5 - Take A Bow

6 - Hate That I Love You

7 - Rehab

 

Rated R:

1 - Rude Boy

2 - Russian Roulette

3 - Hard

4 - Te Amo

 

Loud: - this may change as this is her current album

1 - S&M

2 - What's My Name

3 - Only Girl

 

Featured Singles:

1 - Love The Way You Lie

2 - Who's That Chick

3 - Live Your Life

4 - All Of The Lights

5 - Run This Town

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by danielGaGa

^ You don't like Only Girl!?!!?! :o But, it's so similar to Swedish House Mafia! :lol:

 

And, to be honest, we can't say for certain Rihanna will never beat this era. This time last year, I never though Rihanna would outsell Umbrella, and now she's done it 3 times!!!

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

^ You don't like Only Girl!?!!?! :o But, it's so similar to Swedish House Mafia! :lol:

 

Er, no it isn't, at all. What a bizarre comparison :unsure:

Er, no it isn't, at all. What a bizarre comparison :unsure:

 

It is quite similar, I think anyway. Only Girl is euro dance influenced for sure (it has those famous eurogate saw-synths in the chorus), similar to the instruments SHM used in One, in particular.

I actually didn't like anything from Rated R, although I accept it was a good concept :( for me, she was at her best musically in 2007, even though literally EVERY single one of her songs gets killed by overplay

It is quite similar, I think anyway. Only Girl is euro dance influenced for sure (it has those famous eurogate saw-synths in the chorus), similar to the instruments SHM used in One, in particular.

 

It has eurodance influence but it's not eurodance. It's just pop. I generally dislike generic female pop (though I do love What's My Name? and I'm partial to some even more generic female pop such as Firework by Katy Perry - but these are rare exceptions)

 

And if anything it sounds like Sexy Bitch. Obviously S&M sounds much, much more like SB though :P

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by Bray