May 19, 201114 yr Author By the way, I have EOY lists for this points system going back to 2005. That chart run for Jay-Z would be enough for #8 back then. The points for the #1 increased each year between 2005 and 2009 but they took a bit of a tumble in 2010. The current YTD #1 of 2011 (Rihanna's S&M, believe it or not) after 20 weeks would place 25th on the Y/E 2010 chart, but of course there are still 32 more chart weeks in 2011 to go. Assuming this thread will still be running after the 26th 2011 chart is published (which it surely will at this rate), I might post a little mid-year update for 2011 in here. :P Edited May 19, 201114 yr by Bray
May 19, 201114 yr I must be an amazing feeling for Jay-Z and Alicia to write these lyrics about their city, and then have everybody all over the planet singing them. Katy Perry said it's this song that inspired her to make California Gurls (which ended up even bigger world-wide than Empire State of Mind! :o). The song is okay. It's an interesting beat, and very suitable for the song (it sounds so anthemic and classic), but I found it kind of boring. And then Heart FM went and ruined the song completely for me. :( I reckon Empire State of Mind Part II could win this actually. It was popular towards the beginning of the year, and it sold loads, but only peaked at #4, which must've meant it spent ages in the chart, thus accumulating lots of points. I also think Telephone could win, because of its 4 month climb to #1, and then it stayed around for quite a while afterwards too. Or maybe Love the Way You Lie, for having almost 10 weeks in the top 5, and then being top 40 until the end of the year.
May 19, 201114 yr By the way, I have EOY lists for this points system going back to 2005. That chart run for Jay-Z would be enough for #8 back then. The points for the #1 increased each year between 2005 and 2009 but they took a bit of a tumble in 2010. The current YTD #1 of 2011 (Rihanna's S&M, believe it or not) after 20 weeks would place 25th on the Y/E 2010 chart, but of course there are still 32 more chart weeks in 2011 to go. Assuming this thread will still be running after the 26th 2011 chart is published (which it surely will at this rate), I might post a little mid-year update for 2011 in here. :P I guess S&M is top because of it's climb throughout the top 100 to its peak all this year. Would be amazing if it could keep top for the end of year. Scoring first in longevity is brilliant for a track.
May 19, 201114 yr Author I reckon Empire State of Mind Part II could win this actually. It was popular towards the beginning of the year, and it sold loads, but only peaked at #4, which must've meant it spent ages in the chart, thus accumulating lots of points. I also think Telephone could win, because of its 4 month climb to #1, and then it stayed around for quite a while afterwards too. Or maybe Love the Way You Lie, for having almost 10 weeks in the top 5, and then being top 40 until the end of the year. I can exclusively reveal at least one of these is at least in contention for #1. But stay tuned for a few more months and you'll find out :D
May 19, 201114 yr I must be an amazing feeling for Jay-Z and Alicia to write these lyrics about their city, and then have everybody all over the planet singing them. Katy Perry said it's this song that inspired her to make California Gurls (which ended up even bigger world-wide than Empire State of Mind! :o). The song is okay. It's an interesting beat, and very suitable for the song (it sounds so anthemic and classic), but I found it kind of boring. And then Heart FM went and ruined the song completely for me. :( I reckon Empire State of Mind Part II could win this actually. It was popular towards the beginning of the year, and it sold loads, but only peaked at #4, which must've meant it spent ages in the chart, thus accumulating lots of points. I also think Telephone could win, because of its 4 month climb to #1, and then it stayed around for quite a while afterwards too. Or maybe Love the Way You Lie, for having almost 10 weeks in the top 5, and then being top 40 until the end of the year. Another song which I think has a great chance is Pass Out
May 19, 201114 yr Another song which I think has a great chance is Pass Out Maybe OMG aswell. I remember it hanging around for an eternity.
May 24, 201114 yr Author #30 ELLIE GOULDING “Starry Eyed” from the album “Lights” [March 2010] 4-4-4-5-7-12-12-19-19-21-28-31-38-45-51-63-70-70-69-76-86-92-75-68-65-84-83-96-x(11)-98-96-x PULdPep_xfs ~ 1,539 points // 30 weeks // #4 peak ~ And we say another final hello to Ms. Sound of 2010 Ellie Goulding. Her highest song on this countdown is her former biggest hit, second single and first proper single (Under The Sheets being a ‘hype’ single) Starry Eyed. With this song she easily eclipsed Sound of 2009 winner Little Boots’ highest peaking single, Remedy (a #6 hit in 2009) and of course she later charted even higher with her cover of Your Song that we already came across so long ago. Starry Eyed spent its first three weeks locked at its début position of #4, which is somewhat rare for positions outside the top 2 but not remarkably so. Daniel Merriweather’s Red, for example, spent its first *four* weeks at #5 back in 2009. For much of its early chart run Starry Eyed stayed very close to Jason Derülo’s In My Head, which entered at #1 on the same week as Ellie got to #4 for the first time. For the first 19 weeks of the two songs’ chart runs the average gap between them was just 3 places (rounded down). Go ahead and look up In My Head’s first 19 weeks and compare it to Ellie’s, you’ll be amazed. Ellie eventually pulled massively ahead of Jason though and thus finishes quite a bit higher on this countdown. And that’s pretty much all I have to say about this. Good song though.
May 24, 201114 yr Starry Eyes is BRILLIANT!!! :heart: Red was genuinely one of the most boring songs I've ever heard. I actually haven't heard it in so long, but I'm very greatful for that!
May 24, 201114 yr starry eyed was my anthem to 2010. Im still not bored of it, and I usually get bored of songs after 3-4 weeks
May 30, 201114 yr Author #29 LADY GAGA “Alejandro” from the album “The Fame” [December 2009] RE-96-54-40-28-29-10-8-7-8-11-11-14-18-22-26-32-35-47-52-54-62-66-74-89-96-x niqrrmev4mA ~ 1,546 points // 25 weeks // #7 peak ~ For the first time in a while this actually isn’t the highest entry for the artist involved! Indeed, Lady GaGa still has two more songs to come, as do (in no particular order) Eminem, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Florence + The Machine and Usher. will.i.am also has 2 entries to come, one solo and one as a member of The Black Eyed Peas. On a completely unrelated note, there are artists of six different nationalities to come - most of them are either British or American of course, but there’s also some Romanian, Russian, Australian and Barbadian (I wonder who that is) representation to come. Oh, right, the song. Alejandro was the seventh single released by Lady GaGa from her The Fame [Monster] era (third from The Fame Monster) and became her sixth top 10 hit. Until recently it was her second lowest peaking proper single only making #7 compared to her previous four #1s (Just Dance (feat. Colby O’Donis), Poker Face, Bad Romance and Telephone (feat. Beyoncé)) and one #4 (Paparazzi) but ahead of #19-peaking fourth single LoveGame, but 2011 saw the release of Judas which peaked at #8. After the massively hyped video for Telephone which saw the song glide to #1 for two weeks after 16 weeks in the top 100 as an album track, GaGa tried her hardest to do the same with Alejandro. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on what you think of GaGa) the Alejandro video didn’t have as much effect and it barely climbed at all despite selling significantly less as an album track - it managed one week at #75 on the week of The Fame Monster’s release but then vanished until May when a mixture of airplay starting and The Sound of Arrows remix being included on GaGa’s #3 peaking remix album creatively titled The Remix saw it re-enter the top 100. As Eric Blob will gladly point out though, Alejandro was a massive hit at radio despite its low sales peak, so it may well have been a significantly bigger hit if our chart was stupid like the Billboard Hot 100 and included airplay. Edited May 30, 201114 yr by Bray
May 30, 201114 yr No, but it is really unfair. Does a song that peaks at #7 one WEEK really deserve to be the 3rd most-played song on the radio of the ENTIRE year? 6 songs were more popular that week. Why didn't they get as much airplay (well, California Gurls did, but not the others). Kind of sad that Alejandro got ONLY to #7 when it was promoted so much. OMG, Pass Out and Airplanes managed to be much bigger hits with nowhere near as much promotion. Was ridiculous. All this sort of thing does is encourages artists to go and release MOR radio-friendly songs. Rant over, Alejandro is one of Gaga's better songs. The best song from The Fame Monster imo.
May 30, 201114 yr Starry Eyes is BRILLIANT!!! :heart: Red was genuinely one of the most boring songs I've ever heard. I actually haven't heard it in so long, but I'm very greatful for that! starry eyed was my anthem to 2010. Im still not bored of it, and I usually get bored of songs after 3-4 weeks I love you both :wub:.
May 31, 201114 yr Can I ask where Lady GaGa promoted 'Alejandro', except from by releasing the most offensive music video of 2010?
May 31, 201114 yr Can I ask where Lady GaGa promoted 'Alejandro', except from by releasing the most offensive music video of 2010? As far as I'm aware, the only promotion was the music video (which you mentioned), and the insanely huge amount of radio airplay (more than almost every single other song in 2010 apart from California Gurls and Empire State of Mind, but at least the other two were actually massive hits). As far as I'm aware, Lady Gaga didn't bother to come to the UK to promote the song, if that's what you're asking about specifically. But it did get a lot of promotion.
June 1, 201114 yr Author i love how we're now halfway through 2011 and we're not even top 25 yet Not quite halfway. June has only just started. :P It's halfway at the start of July If I do this again for 2011 I'm going to make sure I write everything out beforehand to stop this from happening again. :kink: Edited June 1, 201114 yr by Bray
June 2, 201114 yr Not quite halfway. June has only just started. :P It's halfway at the start of July If I do this again for 2011 I'm going to make sure I write everything out beforehand to stop this from happening again. :kink: How do you think my threads don't stop once they start? :D thank god for cut and paste!
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