^ 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!!!

 

I love "Only Girl" but I had to rate it at 3 because I prefer WMN and S&M. When Rihanna releases her fourth single it'll probs not be as good as her first 3 (apparently it's CKB which I haven't heard yet)

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

 

Yeah, I know it's not eurodance. I was careful to add the "influenced" in there. :lol: Rihanna knows the US wouldn't accept a song like Swedish House Mafia's too well (although hopefully Only Girl might've eased open the gate for that type of music to get more popular there again).

 

And I'd say What's My Name? is much more RnB than it is pop.

 

I agree that Only Girl sounds like Sexy Chick a lot.

 

There's quite a lot of mash-ups of Only Girl and One on youtube. I saw one a few months ago, which was really good, and it was that which made me realize they're quite similar, but I've been trying to look for it again, and I can't find it. :( There's loads of other mash-ups on there though, but a lot of them clash, or don't play the choruses of both songs together, or aren't even mash-ups at all, but they might still demonstrate the point. :lol:

 

I love "Only Girl" but I had to rate it at 3 because I prefer WMN and S&M. When Rihanna releases her fourth single it'll probs not be as good as her first 3 (apparently it's CKB which I haven't heard yet)

 

Yeah, it's California King Bed. I don't like it that much, although I can see that it's a good single choice after S&M. I was hoping for Man Down, and that's been getting a lot of airplay tbh.

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

#44

TINIE TEMPAH FEAT. LABRINTH
“Frisky”
from the album “Disc-Overy”
[June 2010]
2-5-9-11-15-19-17-26-28-30-34-41-44-54-58-64-61-50-64-69-70-89-x



~ 1,362 points // 22 weeks // #2 peak ~

In 44th place is the second single by one of 2010’s biggest success stories, Tinie Tempah. His first single Pass Out was produced by Labrinth and featured Labrinth’s vocals in the chorus, but he wasn’t officially credited. Frisky, which was also a Labrinth production and essentially followed the exact same formula as Pass Out, was credited as ‘Tinie Tempah feat. Labrinth’. That seems a bit unfair as it strips Labrinth’s association with a much bigger hit which he gave the same contribution to, but hey. Frisky looked set at first to become Tinie’s second UK #1 with ease but was stopped in its track by a midweek release from fellow UK rapper Dizzee Rascal (or to be precise, Shout by Shout For England feat. Dizzee Rascal and James Corden). It still had a very respectable first week sale of 87,209, just 4,793 short of Pass Out’s opening. Despite the good start, Frisky never came close to the overall sales of its predecessor and has since been outsold by Tinie’s third single Written In The Stars (feat. Eric Turner). It’s also arguably been forgotten by the public, at least to a much larger extent than Tinie’s first and third singles. In the New Year chart of 2011 which sees older hits rebound up the chart due to people claiming songs with the iTunes gift vouchers they received as Christmas presents, Written In The Stars climbed back to #25 and Pass Out back to #36, but Frisky only managed to re-reach the dizzy heights of #99. It’s also the only one of Tinie’s first three singles to have ever dropped out of the top 100, with Pass Out and Written In The Stars still there as I type this, on their 56th and 26th weeks respectively. Now, this just leaves one question - would you risk it for a chocolate biscuit?

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by Bray

I always preferred Frisky to Pass Out, but I think it's one of those cases where Pass Out just completely overshadows Frisky, since they're so similar, and the general opinion is that one is definitively better.

 

Always loved the "risk it for a chocolate biscuit" line. I remember being like WTF when I first heard it! :lol:

 

Although, I heard "risk it" rhymed with "biscuit" in an Eminem song before Tinie did it though. :kink: Although I'm sure Eminem wasn't the first to do it either. :lol:

'Frisky' was SO hyped up around where I live, literally a week after 'Pass Out' was released everybody was singing, and still to date, I haven't known a song to be that well-known by everybody I know.

'Frisky' was SO hyped up around where I live, literally a week after 'Pass Out' was released everybody was singing, and still to date, I haven't known a song to be that well-known by everybody I know.

 

Really? :o I don't think I even heard the song until around May time! :o

 

It was very popular. The other day some kid on the same bus as me was blaring it out. I was like :dance:. :lol:

#43

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS
“This Ain’t A Love Song”
from the album “Everybody Wants To Be On TV”
[April 2010]
1-1-2-5-7-11-17-28-31-37-44-53-56-56-58-54-47-52-58-68-82-91-x



~ 1,363 points // 22 weeks // #1 peak ~

Next up in the countdown is possibly one of the least predictable #1s of the year. British indie-ish pop band Scouting For Girls (Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse, Peter Ellard) first appeared in mid-2007, near the end of the mid-00s ‘landfill indie’ era where hundreds of almost indistinguishable British male rock/indie bands bombarded the charts with endless supplies of almost indistinguishable songs, of which about 3 are still remembered to this day. They had some success, scoring three top ten hits (#7 She’s So Lovely in 2007, then #8 Elvis Ain’t Dead and #10 Heartbeat both in 2008) all of which had fairly lengthy chart runs. In fact, She’s So Lovely could just about pass for a genuine big hit. But by 2010 the landfill indie era had well and truly ended and indie/rock had rapidly disappeared from the charts. So it’d be fair to assume those Scouters would utterly fail on their attempt at a comeback. But their comeback single This Ain’t A Love Song pretty much shocked everyone by not only getting to #1, but staying there for a second week. It’s not even as if it had no competition - in its first week it easily saw off competition from Plan B, whose She Said was widely tipped to go to the #1 spot but instead made only #3, also stalling behind Lady GaGa’s Telephone (feat. Beyoncé). The deciding factor in the massive success of This Ain’t A Love Song was almost certainly the fact that it received massive airplay - maybe because, shock horror, it sounds *exactly* the same as all their other singles! They’d proven they could easily make a radio friendly song and to further prove their point, they released that song a seventh time and finally got to #1. (As well as their three 2007-8 top ten hits they also released It’s Not About You twice and I Wish I Was James Bond once, both of which also sounded exactly the same as their other singles). Unfortunately, it seemed seven releases of the same song was the limit for the public - the follow-up single Famous only got to #37 despite also garnering big airplay and the third single Don’t Want To Leave You (or Silly Song, as it is credited on the album) only got to #69 and even radio had practically given up on them by now. Given the Scouters’ second studio album Everybody Wants To Be On TV only got to #2 (stalling behind Plan B’s The Defamation Of Strickland Banks in a nice reversal of fate) and sold far less than their self-titled début, is it possible This Ain’t A Love Song was the definition of ‘fluke hit’ and Scouting For Girls’ career is, after all, screwed? We’ll find out if/when they go onto album 3.

Edited April 2, 201114 yr by Bray

Heartbeat was definitely my favourite from SFG. I really liked This Ain't a Love Song at the time, but I got really bored of it after a while. It was basically a poppier version of the songs from their previous era, at least to me.

 

Famous sounded quite a bit different though (not to mention, it was better).

Was quite glad This Ain't A Love Song went to No1.

Shame their two singles didn't do well but hope their third album is good.

 

This Ain’t A Love Song”

 

I think they've made a mistake this is a love song!!

#42

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FEAT. PITBULL
“I Like It”
from the album “Euphoria”
[July 2010]
4-6-9-8-12-14-17-19-25-27-34-20-30-32-36-47-55-66-75-x



~ 1,383 points // 19 weeks // #4 peak ~

42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything, so says the late Douglas Adams, but it’s also the position I Like It by Enrique Iglesias featuring American rapper Pitbull (real name Armando Pérez) has finished in this countdown. Mr. Iglesias has had an astoundingly consistent chart career with every one of his releases since his only #1 Hero back in 2002 having made the top 20 (and indeed before that only Rhythm Divine, #45 in 1999, had missed the mark) but 2010/1 arguably saw him the biggest he’d ever been - though he didn’t quite score a second #1, this, the follow-up Heartbeat (feat. Nicole Scherzinger) which reached #8 and 2011’s delightfully titled Tonight (I’m F**kin’ You) (feat. Ludacris and DJ Frank E) which made #5, marked the first time Enrique ever managed three UK top ten hits in a row. It’s also notable that all three of these songs made the top 10 without even gracing the C-List on the Radio 1 playlist and though the latter two hardly had stunning chart runs, I Like It spent four weeks in the top ten and nine non-consecutive weeks in the top twenty! It helps that it’s probably the only halfway decent thing Enrique has ever put his name to. It was the seventh top ten success for Enrique Iglesias and the fourth for Pitbull. Of those first four Pitbull top 10 hits (also including his own I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) and Hotel Room Service, plus another featured appearance on Alexandra Burke’s All Night Long) a full three of them had progressed no further than number four, though Hotel Room Service only peaked at a lowly #9. It seemed Pitbull had a curse whereby any song featuring his vocals could never reach the top 3, however he has literally just (two days ago at the time I’m writing this) broken that curse by doing a song with a no more unlikely a name than Jennifer Lopez, her comeback single On The Floor to be precise, which topped the chart. Well done Pitbull.

Edited April 5, 201114 yr by Bray

I Like It was amazing on first listen, but I find it really boring now, and it's very generic imo. Heard it all before. The sample is the only interesting bit in it.

 

Ironically, that gives Pitbull connections to two different songs called All Night Long. :lol:

(apparently it's CKB which I haven't heard yet)

 

Bit late on asking, but aren't you meant to loon Rihanna?

Bit late on asking, but aren't you meant to loon Rihanna?

 

:drama: I know I'm a flop loon aren't I. Although I'm currently looning over "Party Rock Anthem" too, so that's 2 things to loon over. I don't normally buy peoples albums, I'm a singles type of person. So once California King Bed gets confirmed a single and starts becoming popular I might listen to it and hopefully it'll be good

Edited April 6, 201114 yr by danielGaGa

:drama: I know I'm a flop loon aren't I. Although I'm currently looning over "Party Rock Anthem" too, so that's 2 things to loon over. I don't normally buy peoples albums, I'm a singles type of person. So once California King Bed gets confirmed a single and starts becoming popular I might listen to it and hopefully it'll be good

 

When you have a moment, you should just youtube it. It only takes up a few minutes, but as a Rihanna fan, it's your duty to know her songs before everybody else does. :lol:

 

CKB is a bit like Take a Bow and Unfaithful, if you like those songs, although I don't think CKB is as good as those.

Don't Stop the Music and Disturbia are by far her greatest songs.

Just listened to parts of CKB and I'm not a fan of it, she can do good ballads but this isn't one of them. It might grow on me when it gets popular but don't really like it right now. I guess I'm not really a Rihanna fan lol, she's just my favourite artist atm. I also don't post in her AF forum, as most of my posts are here (after all I came to this site cos of the chart chat)

 

Unfaithful >>>>>>>>> Russian Roulette >>>>>>>>>>> Take a Bow

Edited April 6, 201114 yr by danielGaGa

#41

IYAZ
“Replay”
from the album “Replay”
[January 2010]
1-1-2-3-6-8-13-24-29-32-30-31-29-34-50-58-65-75-92-96-92-88-69-94-x



~ 1,402 points // 24 weeks // #1 peak ~

Just missing out on a top 40 position on this countdown (by 24 points) is the first new #1 of 2010, Replay by Iyaz. As I already mentioned way back, er, 16 entries ago (but it feels like months since I wrote it as I’m a flop host) on the commentary for Riverside (Let’s Go!) by Sidney Samson feat. Wizard Sleeve, this song kickstarted 2010 with massive sales selling 106,237 copies on its first week. It managed a second week at #1 with 86,814 sales, which is not a massive drop when considering its release had been held back several weeks which tends to lead to very frontloaded sales, but its chart fortunes after this weren’t brilliant with the song plummeting after six weeks in the top 10. It managed to stabilise around #30 for a few weeks due to various factors which kept it afloat but then went back into freefall mode. As for the actual song (I feel I spend too much time detailing chart statistics and not talking about the actual music on these commentaries) it’s fairly decent if you can ignore the fact it was at the time and probably still is among the most generic songs ever made. The producer of this song was J.R. Rotem, notable for the soundbite ‘J-J-J-J-J-R’ found at the start of many of his productions. Replay was the third of four #1s to date by the producer, three of which came in 2009/10 (the other two being JLS’ Everybody In Love in 2009 and Jason Derülo’s In My Head in 2010, still to come on this countdown) - a fact which I’m not sure is well-known or not is that he actually scored a UK #1 back in 2007 as the producer of Sean Kingston’s Beautiful Girls. He also had production credits on two UK #2s prior to 2009 when he became a notable name, Rihanna’s SOS in 2006 and Leona Lewis’ Better In Time in 2008. But after scoring his first three UK top 3 hits in three years, he managed a further six within just 30 weeks of each other - this, the other 2 #1s I mentioned earlier, Iyaz’s follow-up Solo and two other Jason Derülo singles Whatcha Say and Ridin’ Solo. He went MIA for a while again after this but has now returned and is, at the time I’m writing this, due to score a tenth UK top 10 hit as a producer, Buzzin by Mann feat. 50 Cent. This song came 52nd in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

SO, it took me long enough but we're finally up to the top 40 - I have the Easter holidays coming up which means out of a 24 day period I spend just 2 days at school. My INTENTION is to post two entries each day of the holidays so this can actually finish within the next month - what will actually happen is yet to be seen. Stay tuned folks.

Shame Iyaz's third single didn't do that well.

she can do good ballads

 

 

I really don't think she can do ballads. Her voice is far too whiny when she attempts them.

I really don't think she can do ballads. Her voice is far too whiny when she attempts them.

 

Unfaithful is one of the best Rihanna songs ever imo, Russian Roulette is good and Take A Bow is alright even though I didn't like it at the time