#35

 

ALEXANDRA BURKE FEAT. PITBULL

“All Night Long”

from the album “Overcome”

[October 2009]

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~ 1,495 points // 25 weeks // #4 peak ~

 

The highest of four entries in the top 200 for Alexandra Burke and the second highest of three for Pitbull is All Night Long, the third (or fourth if you count Hallelujah) single from Burke’s début album Overcome. This song first charted in the first week of the album’s release in October of 2009, when it charted at #98 (three places behind The Silence which would later only get to #16 when released as a single) but it should be noted this was long, long before anyone even knew Pitbull would have anything to do with this single. Pitbull was drafted on for the single release, a tactic that is very common for artists who want their post-album releases to peak higher (Taio Cruz, Cee Lo Green, The Saturdays). As promotion began for All Night Long in around March/April 2010 it charted in the top 100 for a further 8 weeks before the single version was released. Initially on the song’s ‘release week’ the Pitbull version was being vastly outsold by the original, so in an apparent attempt to force buyers to buy the Pitbull version they deleted her entire album. This tactic worked a treat and the single version shot up leading to a peak of #4. However, it didn’t last long in the top 10, only spending 2 weeks there, the second of those actually being the previous week when it was still charting only on sales of the original non-Pitbull version - after peaking at #4 it immediately plummeted back down to #11 and proceeded to embark on a fairly decent chart run. They added Overcome back onto iTunes with the Pitbull version of All Night Long shoved onto the tracklisting, only to repeat the ‘delete her entire album’ tactic later with the single release of The Silence. Lightning clearly doesn’t strike twice in the same place, to poorly use a phrase. ‘Fairly decent’ would be a generous description of the song itself, but hey ho. A curiosity regarding this song’s title means Pitbull scored two #4 hits in 2010, one called All Night Long and the other sampling a different song called All Night Long - Enrique Iglesias’ I Like It (feat. Pitbull) incorporates a sample of the Lionel Richie classic of that title in its chorus. This is the second highest song on the countdown which never garnered a place on Radio 1’s playlist. Possibly third highest but I’m not sure about Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’.

 

I was hoping to be nearly done with this by now :lol: I'm surprised I was able to muster up the energy to type this all up, it's SO hot :drama: And the heat is draining all my energy

Edited April 21, 201114 yr by Bray

#35

 

ALEXANDRA BURKE FEAT. PITBULL

“All Night Long”

from the album “Overcome”

[October 2009]

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~ 1,495 points // 25 weeks // #4 peak ~

 

The highest of four entries in the top 200 for Alexandra Burke and the second highest of three for Pitbull is All Night Long, the second (or third if you count Hallelujah) single from Burke’s début album Overcome. This song first charted in the first week of the album’s release in October of 2009, when it charted at #98 (three places behind The Silence which would later only get to #16 when released as a single) but it should be noted this was long, long before anyone even knew Pitbull would have anything to do with this single. Pitbull was drafted on for the single release, a tactic that is very common for artists who want their post-album releases to peak higher (Taio Cruz, Cee Lo Green, The Saturdays). As promotion began for All Night Long in around March/April 2010 it charted in the top 100 for a further 8 weeks before the single version was released. Initially on the song’s ‘release week’ the Pitbull version was being vastly outsold by the original, so in an apparent attempt to force buyers to buy the Pitbull version they deleted her entire album. This tactic worked a treat and the single version shot up leading to a peak of #4. However, it didn’t last long in the top 10, only spending 2 weeks there, the second of those actually being the previous week when it was still charting only on sales of the original non-Pitbull version - after peaking at #4 it immediately plummeted back down to #11 and proceeded to embark on a fairly decent chart run. They added Overcome back onto iTunes with the Pitbull version of All Night Long shoved onto the tracklisting, only to repeat the ‘delete her entire album’ tactic later with the single release of The Silence. Lightning clearly doesn’t strike twice in the same place, to poorly use a phrase. ‘Fairly decent’ would be a generous description of the song itself, but hey ho. A curiosity regarding this song’s title means Pitbull scored two #4 hits in 2010, one called All Night Long and the other sampling a different song called All Night Long - Enrique Iglesias’ I Like It (feat. Pitbull) incorporates a sample of the Lionel Richie classic of that title in its chorus. This is the second highest song on the countdown which never garnered a place on Radio 1’s playlist. Possibly third highest but I’m not sure about Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’.

 

I was hoping to be nearly done with this by now :lol: I'm surprised I was able to muster up the energy to type this all up, it's SO hot :drama: And the heat is draining all my energy

Was there a bit of controversy over the music video??

Why would there've been controversy over the music video? :unsure:

 

Also, it's worth noting that the single version and the album version didn't differ from only the rap verse/bridge difference, but they also had different introductions and different instrumentals.

 

Also, All Night Long was the 4th single (including Hallelujah), not the 3rd.

 

One thing that always made me laugh with this song was one of the MTV channels I get always censors "LMFAO" out of Pitbull's rap. :lol:

Edited April 21, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

Also, All Night Long was the 4th single (including Hallelujah), not the 3rd.

 

It is, isn't it - sorry, I got confused. Damn Alexandra Burke failing to follow the law of diminishing returns! I always think ANL was released before BH :(

It is, isn't it - sorry, I got confused. Damn Alexandra Burke failing to follow the law of diminishing returns! I always think ANL was released before BH :(

 

Yeah, I think so anyway, since All Night Long was popular this time last year, whilst Broken Heels was popular at Christmas time and around the end of X Factor 6.

 

All Night Long is so much a better song though. Broken Heels got boring really, really quickly. :( It's so samey all the way through.

People complaining over the video for being too raunchy?

 

That's minor compared to other music videos.

People complaining over the video for being too raunchy?

 

That's minor compared to other music videos.

 

Maybe, I guess. Especially since it's Alexandra Burke too, who a lot young kids might like. If it's a music video by, say, Akon, people expect to see that, and the people watching it are more likely to be teenagers anyway.

 

You're right though, there's much worse out there, but people complain about anything, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone complained. I don't remember any controversy around it though.

#116

 

PIXIE LOTT

“Turn It Up”

from the album “Turn It Up”

[May 2010]

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~ 750 points // 13 weeks // #11 peak ~

 

This song was the third single by British singer Pixie Lott (real name Vanessa Lott) to be released after her #6 début album Turn It Up and the fifth release from the album overall. While it couldn’t come close to the chart-topping success of both of the first two singles Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) and Boys And Girls (both 2009), a performance on the lesser Simon Cowell related TV reality show Britain’s Got Talent allowed this song to outpeak the third and fourth singles. In 2009 third single Cry Me Out got to #12 and earlier in 2010 Gravity got to #20. It’s clear that while it had a higher peak Turn It Up had inferior longevity, as both of the two previous singles have outcharted it on this countdown. However, it has at least done better than the lead single from the re-release of Turn It Up, Broken Arrow which peaked at #12 and has fallen well short of the top 200 here. Since I’ve named all six other hits from the album, I might as well note 2 album tracks have charted from the album, the Kings Of Leon cover Use Somebody first charting in 2009 but peaking at #41 in 2010 and a song from the re-release titled Coming Home (feat. Jason Derülo) made #51 in the first week of the re-release. Bizarrely, Pixie has opted for Can’t Make This Over as the seventh single instead of Coming Home and is likely to be rewarded with a total flop. Ah well, Pixie was big while she lasted.

 

Just rounding it up to 5 entries posted today, because why not. Happy New Year to everyone.

Bet Pixie is annoyed that she can't get back to the Top10

Bet Pixie is annoyed that she can't get back to the Top10

 

I'm pretty annoyed too. Turn It Up and Gravity deserved to be top 10 hits. :(

 

And Cry Me Out got there? Wow, that song was dull...

I'm pretty annoyed too. Turn It Up and Gravity deserved to be top 10 hits. :(

 

And Cry Me Out got there? Wow, that song was dull...

 

CMO peaked at #12. Her two #1s are her only top 10 hits but she has 4 other top 20 hits.

CMO peaked at #12. Her two #1s are her only top 10 hits but she has 4 other top 20 hits.

 

Oh, sorry. I remember CMO being top 10 on iTunes, so I assumed it got there officially. :lol: That makes it less bad then.

 

Also, I'm re-watching the music video to Gravity again, and um... is that Jessie J in it!?!?! :o :o :o

 

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww316/janieiscool1/PixieJessi.png

Edited April 22, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

#34

ALICIA KEYS
“Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart”
from the album “The Element Of Freedom”
[February 2010]
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~ 1,505 points // 24 weeks // #7 peak ~

Next up is the third highest entry from Alicia Keys. Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart was released as the second single from her fourth studio album The Element Of Freedom in the USA but was released third here, with them switching the second single to Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down at the last second after the unprecedented success of that song as an album track cherrypick. This decision annoyed many people including me as Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart was (and is) musically far superior and holding off its release until single 3 might ruin its chances of being a big hit. Alicia Keys had never previously been one to rack up loads of top 10 hits. In fact, before the 2008 release of her #9 peaking Bond theme Another Way To Die (a collaboration with Jack White of recently disbanded band The White Stripes) she’d only racked up three UK top ten hits. But since then every single with her name on it has made the top tier of the chart. This was the fifth in that run (preceded by the aforementioned Another Way To Die, a feature on Jay-Z’s #2 hit Empire State Of Mind, her own lead single Doesn’t Mean Anything and Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down). Although it may have never gone top 10 if it weren’t for her convenient performance of it on Brtiain’s Got Talent when it was stalling at #13. Let’s just be glad she did do that performance and this lovely song did indeed peak at #7, rather than #13.

Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart is amazing. Really, really, really excellent. Fantastic. Love it. :wub:

Agreed. Really far better than Empire State Of Mind (either version). Just an amazing song. :wub:

I am no fan of Alicia Keys, her songs are just boring and ESOM[PII]BD was so overplayed and it got boring - great thing they didn't release Rihanna's solo version of LTWYL (and made it album only) - S&M wouldn't have done as well as it did if they did. Alicia's best solo song for me is Fallin', and even that isn't great. TSWABH shouldn't have been top ten, I don't like it much and didn't really like it at the time

Edited April 22, 201114 yr by danielGaGa

I'm pretty annoyed too. Turn It Up and Gravity deserved to be top 10 hits. :(

 

And Cry Me Out got there? Wow, that song was dull...

 

And Broken Arrow :cry:.

#33

FLO RIDA FEAT. DAVID GUETTA
“Club Can’t Handle Me”
from the album “Only One Flo (Part 1)”
[August 2010]
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~ 1,509 points // 22 weeks // #1 peak ~

Club Can’t Handle Me is the highest entry on this countdown for both artists involved, Flo Rida and David Guetta. This is another case of ‘release a single not intending for it to be on an album, then release an album and include that song on its tracklisting so you can claim there are more hit singles on it’. It was, in fact, initially only going to be a song from the soundtrack to the film Step Up 3D. However, in this case, it’s more ‘so you can claim there is *a* hit single on it’. Flo Rida’s third studio album Only One Flo (Part 1) was a commercial failure, not even making the UK top 100 and when they released a single actually intended to be a single from it from the start, it bombed. Turn Around (5,4,3,2,1) only charted at #41 and the follow-up Who Dat Girl (feat. Akon) in 2011 performed even more miserably, making only #64 despite a place on Now That’s What I Call Music! 78 (a bit of a premature addition to the tracklisting there). Flo Rida sticks to one big hit per year - in 2008 he scored a big hit with Low (feat. T-Pain) which got to #2 and spent ages (75 weeks) in the top 100 and in 2009 he got his first #1 with Right Round (feat. Ke$ha), then this (his third #1 and second as lead artist) was his 2010 hit - but he at least managed a couple of top 30 hits as follow-ups to each of his two previous big hits! The failure of Turn Around (5,4,3,2,1) may have had something to do with Radio 1 failing to support it, this coming as a surprise as they showed big support for Club Can’t Handle Me. Anyhow, this was as I said the third #1 for Flo Rida and was also the fourth #1 for David Guetta as a credited artist. Another UK #1 Guetta produced but wasn’t credited on was The Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling. I can’t do this commentary without commenting on this song’s more than passing resemblance to Guetta’s ‘masterpiece’. The trick did indeed work a second time round though and in that produced easily the best song Flo Rida has ever released. This song never says its exact title in its lyrics, with the chorus saying ‘the club can’t even handle me right now’. There are still six more songs to come which don’t say their exact title in the lyrics - see if you can guess them all! (Or don’t). This song came 66th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited April 22, 201114 yr by Bray

And Broken Arrow :cry:.

 

Broken Arrow was THE end of her career, I don't think she'll ever come back big. It's just a shame she ended on such a rubbish song imo, she was just desperate for more album sales before she faded out of the public eye. Cry Me Out should have been top ten, it is better than Gravity and Turn It Up imo, and I think it sold well for a number 12 single (I read somewhere it outsold Boys and Girls, or got close)

Edited April 22, 201114 yr by danielGaGa

Flo Rida is the worst artist. Ever.

I thought Gettin' Over You sounded close to I Gotta Feeling than Club Can't Handle Me tbh (although both do sound similar).

 

2009 was definitely Flo Rida's best year for me. Right Round. Incredible. Sugar. Incredible. Jump. Incredible.