How do you think my threads don't stop once they start? :D thank god for cut and paste!

 

The only problem being I have nothing to copy and paste from as I'm writing these commentaries as I go along. I just keep forgetting to post new ones / not feeling like doing one. :P

Ah i write all my blurbs before I start a thread to word then just paste on daily. I'm working on my next one to the one i'm running at the mo, the 80s albums one is all written :D

 

Especially with this one which I know must take up more time and effort than most people think......well done on it by the way

#28

THE WANTED
“All Time Low”
from the album “The Wanted”
[August 2010]
1-5-8-10-15-19-24-14-23-22-28-36-34-28-36-40-42-34-48-58-70-51-



~ 1,576 points // 22 weeks // #1 peak ~

I said in the commentary for All Night Long that there was only one more song to come which didn’t get support from Radio 1 - I retract this statement, there are in fact two (plus Journey which I’m not certain about due to not having access to 1982 Radio 1 playlists) and this is the first. Any guesses what the last one is? This was the first of just two songs to go to #1 in 2010 without Radio 1’s support, the other being Alexandra Burke’s Start Without You (feat. Laza Morgan) which we already came across. A couple of charity singles only got the obligatory few weeks on the C-List and Olly Murs’ Please Don’t Let Me Go was only begrudgedly added after it topped the midweek charts but only this and Start Without You failed to even grace the In New Music We Trust list. Anyway, for a first single by a boyband, All Time Low is actually quite a good song. It does reek of ‘this is a boyband song’ but they are, after all, a manufactured boyband only put together to capitalise on the success of JLS so you can forgive them for that. At first it looked like it’d follow the pattern of being bought by their fanbase of teenage girls who don’t enjoy their music but buy their songs anyway just because they’re attractive (disclaimer: not all The Wanted fans are like this) and then plummeting from that point, but its chart run did actually manage to stabilise and it spent a very respectable 16 consecutive weeks in the top 40 (and 17 in total including a one-week re-entry as shown above) and 31 weeks in the top 100. However, second single Heart Vacancy proved this may have just been a one-off long-lived hit for them and 2011 fourth single Gold Forever did nothing to reverse that proof, peaking at #3 and spending just 9 weeks in the top 100 despite being the 2011 official Comic Relief single. Third single Lose My Mind being a post-album single somewhat excuses it of being further proof, but #19 still seems like an awfully low peak for it especially given their album was hardly massive, peaking at #4. And, to close off this commentary with style, I present you a useless chart fact: on the week All Time Low entered the chart at #1, a band also named All Time Low entered at the exact opposite end of the top 100 with their song Weightless. Yay for weird coincidences!

Edited June 4, 201114 yr by Bray

I don't like All Time Low. I find it incredibly boring.

To be fair, there probably doesn't need to be as much said about all of the songs as there is. However, if you did it for #200 you can hardly post less now...

To be fair, there probably doesn't need to be as much said about all of the songs as there is. However, if you did it for #200 you can hardly post less now...

 

I don't really mean for them to be as long as they are, they just sort of turn out that way. I begin writing a commentary for a song then I keep thinking of other things to add and it normally just ends up looking like a complete mess :lol: The commentaries near the start of the countdown look tiny compared to what they're like now. :drama:

Edited June 4, 201114 yr by Bray

#27

EMINEM
“Not Afraid”
from the album “Recovery”
[June 2010]
2-6-5-6-5-10-14-14-15-23-22-24-28-35-41-49-51-47-55-60-68-79-95-x(7)-89-



~ 1,578 points // 24 weeks // #5 peak ~

The first of the two Eminem entries I mentioned earlier is this, the first single from his aptly titled Recovery era, Not Afraid. His fifth studio album, Encore from 2004, was a big era for him, producing two UK #1 hits (Just Lose It and Like Toy Soldiers) and two UK #4 hits (Mockingbird and Ass Like That). But by the long-awaited release of sixth album Relapse in 2009 it seemed Eminem had lost his wide appeal - although it oddly enough produced two *more* UK #4 hits (Crack A Bottle (feat. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent) and We Made You), neither were particularly big or memorable. The latter did manage to spend a respectable seven weeks in the top 10 but Marshall Mathers just didn’t seem to be as big as he always used to be, as reinforced by third single Beautiful only peaking at #12. Two ‘promotional singles’, 3am and Old Time’s Sake (feat. Dr. Dre) also charted, at #56 and #61 respectively. But when Recovery (originally planned to be titled Relapse II but renamed presumably because Eminem was so ashamed about Relapse - more on that in a second) came around, he was back in style. Not Afraid was arguably his first really big hit since Like Toy Soldiers. Although it only peaked at #5, not quite managing to add a seventh #4 hit to his collection (he had the four I’ve already mentioned plus Cleanin’ Out My Closet from 2002 and When I’m Gone from 2005 greatest hits collection Curtain Call - The Hits) it did spend three weeks there, starting its chart run with a five-week yo-yo between 5 and 6. Of course the follow-up to Not Afraid was quite a bit bigger - Love The Way You Lie (feat. Rihanna) which became officially the biggest selling single of 2010 despite only peaking at #2. But more on that when we get to that song, which will be in a while. Anyway, as I said, Eminem seems to be somewhat ashamed about the whole Relapse project - in Not Afraid he says, quote “let’s be honest, that last Relapse CD was ‘ehhh’”. It takes some guts to actually admit in a song that your last album wasn’t very good. This song was promoted one point due to the OCC error which printed its position one place too low. This actually put it on the same points as #26 but it remains #27 due to having a lower peak than the next song on the countdown. And believe it or not, there’s still one more points tie to come…

Edited June 9, 201114 yr by Bray

Personally, I actually thought Relapse was very good. Just that the main two singles from it were literally two of the worst songs on the album. Honestly, with different singles I think that album would've been so much more popular.

 

I think maybe Encore was his worst, but maybe that's because I had the highest expectations ever for that album.

 

And I don't think he was "ashamed" of Relapse. I think since Beautiful got so popular (it didn't do that well in the charts, but got a very good critical reception), he decided to make a whole album of such songs, for which a title of "Relapse II" wouldn't be appropriate. :lol:

YES I KNOW. I'M WORKING ON IT.

I'm going to make a concerted effort to get this finished in the next couple of weeks. However, if I don't live up to this promise, well, don't be surprised. Because I probably won't live up to it.

 

As I said I would, here's how the 2011 top 40 is shaping up at the halfway point (I won't say what points they're on though :P)

 

1 Rihanna - S&M

2 Adele - Rolling In The Deep

3 Adele - Someone Like You

4 Bruno Mars - Grenade

5 Jessie J feat. B.o.B - Price Tag

6 David Guetta feat. Rihanna - Who's That Chick?

7 Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - Hello

8 Chris Brown - Yeah 3X

9 Lady GaGa - Born This Way

10 Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude

11 Adele - Make You Feel My Love

12 Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are

13 Katy Perry - Firework

14 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)

15 Cee Lo Green - F**k You!

16 Rihanna feat. Drake - What's My Name?

17 Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown - Champion

18 Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta - Sweat

19 LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem

20 Dr. Dre feat. Eminem and Skylar Grey - I Need A Doctor

21 P!nk - F**kin' Perfect

22 Taio Cruz feat. Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy - Higher

23 Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - On The Floor

24 Mann feat. 50 Cent - Buzzin

25 Noah And The Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

26 Diddy - Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey - Coming Home

27 The Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough

28 Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath

29 JLS feat. Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut

30 Katy Perry feat. Kanye West - E.T.

31 Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi - Beautiful People

32 Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite - Lights On

33 Kanye West feat. Various Artists - All Of The Lights

34 Tinie Tempah feat. Ellie Goulding - Wonderman

35 The Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)

36 Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow

37 Birdy - Skinny Love

38 Chase & Status feat. Liam Bailey - Blind Faith

39 Ke$ha - We R Who We R

40 Ellie Goulding - Your Song

Edited June 26, 201114 yr by Bré

YES I KNOW. I'M WORKING ON IT.

I'm going to make a concerted effort to get this finished in the next couple of weeks. However, if I don't live up to this promise, well, don't be surprised. Because I probably won't live up to it.

 

As I said I would, here's how the 2011 top 40 is shaping up at the halfway point (I won't say what points they're on though :P)

 

1 Rihanna - S&M

2 Adele - Rolling In The Deep

3 Adele - Someone Like You

4 Bruno Mars - Grenade

5 Jessie J feat. B.o.B - Price Tag

6 David Guetta feat. Rihanna - Who's That Chick?

7 Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - Hello

8 Chris Brown - Yeah 3X

9 Lady GaGa - Born This Way

10 Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude

11 Adele - Make You Feel My Love

12 Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are

13 Katy Perry - Firework

14 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)

15 Cee Lo Green - F**k You!

16 Rihanna feat. Drake - What's My Name?

17 Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown - Champion

18 Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta - Sweat

19 LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem

20 Dr. Dre feat. Eminem and Skylar Grey - I Need A Doctor

21 P!nk - F**kin' Perfect

22 Taio Cruz feat. Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy - Higher

23 Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - On The Floor

24 Mann feat. 50 Cent - Buzzin

25 Noah And The Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

26 Diddy - Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey - Coming Home

27 The Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough

28 Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath

29 JLS feat. Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut

30 Katy Perry feat. Kanye West - E.T.

31 Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi - Beautiful People

32 Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite - Lights On

33 Kanye West feat. Various Artists - All Of The Lights

34 Tinie Tempah feat. Ellie Goulding - Wonderman

35 The Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)

36 Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow

37 Birdy - Skinny Love

38 Chase & Status feat. Liam Bailey - Blind Faith

39 Ke$ha - We R Who We R

40 Ellie Goulding - Your Song

 

 

:wub: :wub: Nice to see my fave song of the year so far (it won't be for long however as lmfao is overtaking fast) number one here too. I love this countdown (although tbh I'd love it more if it didn't take as long :P)

Nice to see Rihanna at #1 (although the song itself is only slightly above average, in my opinion).

 

I reckon S&M could actually finish up 3rd or 4th altogether. I think both Adele songs will overtake it (they're on the radio so much, so they'll have insane longevity), maybe something else aswell. Price Tag might, as it's also all over radio, but it depends how close the top 4 are.

 

Also, the other day, I realized that Telephone by Lady Gaga spent a whopping 11 months in the top 100!!!! :o :o :o I could be a very strong contender to win this I think. Pass Out aswell, although I was thinking that it had a similar chart run to Telephone (they were popular at the same time aswell), except it didn't have the 3 months of climbing up the top 100 before it got to #1, so I don't know. But I think it spent forever in the top 75.

Edited June 30, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

I'm taking some time to actually write the commentaries for all the remaining songs, I will then post all of them once I'm done. So I apologise in advance for the massive wait. It'll be the last one. :P

 

If I do this again for 2011's chart I will A) make the commentaries significantly less waffley and B) type them all up before I start the thread to prevent it from dragging on for 6 or 7 months again.

Edited June 30, 201114 yr by Bré

#26

3OH!3 FEAT. KATY PERRY
“Starstrukk”
from the album “Want”
[December 2009]
-6-3-4-4-4-7-6-10-16-25-30-33-33-25-26-37-39-48-55-69-81-96-x(5)-99-x(1)-90-x



~ 1,578 points // 24 weeks // #3 peak ~

The second and highest entry from 3OH!3 is Starstrukk (feat. Katy Perry), the second single from their second studio album Want. Katy still has one more entry to come. At the time of this song’s release the group had just one big success in their native USA, that being Want’s first single Don’t Trust Me which reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. This, in comparison, only reached #66 despite Katy Perry’s star power. So after Don’t Trust Me relatively bombed in the UK reaching just #21 (and then #22 when it was re-released, becoming the last song to be a top 40 hit on two distinct fully promoted releases), not many people expected them to have such a massive hit. But they did. Originally entering the chart at #5 on Christmas week 2009, it climbed to its #3 peak three weeks later and spent ten consecutive weeks in the top 10. Unfortunately its remarkable top 10 longevity didn’t equate into remarkable top 100 longevity as it only spent a further 14 weeks in the long list before dropping out, although it re-entered twice more later. Thanks to its long stay in the top 10 being right at the start of the year this was actually #1 on the year to date points chart for quite some time, but its poor post-top-10 run has seen it plummet all the way down to #26. Bastardised spelling and grammar is quite a common thing in song titles, but this might just take the cake as the most annoying intentional misspelling to have made the chart in 2010. We’ve got four songs coming that drop the ‘g’ in a word endin’ with ‘ing’ and also TiK ToK, California Gurls, I Gotta Feeling and We No Speak Americano still coming on the poor spelling/grammar front (and Airplanes is CLEARLY meant to be spelled ‘Aeroplanes’). On the upside we’ve got Florence + The Machine saving the day with You’ve Got The Love. This song came 46th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

I changed my mind, I'd probably just forget about it entirely (again) if I post nothing until I've typed up everything left. :lol:

Again, sorry for this dragging on so long.

Edited July 2, 201114 yr by Bré

#25

ELIZA DOOLITTLE
“Pack Up”
from the album “Eliza Doolittle”
[July 2010]
12-8-5-8-8-9-9-12-18-20-22-18-15-21-32-39-46-58-61-73-70-93-x(2)-79-



~ 1,587 points // 23 weeks // #5 peak ~

The first and last entry for British singer Eliza Doolittle (real name Eliza Caird, disappointingly) is the rather nice Pack Up. Her first single Skinny Genes, taken from her ever-creatively titled début Eliza Doolittle, reached #22 on the chart with A) no Radio 1 playlisting and B) being extremely dull and not sounding at all like the sort of thing Radio 1 would playlist. So it was a bit of a shock when Radio 1 were very keen to support the follow-up. It does have a pretty massive sample though - the 1915 World War I anthem Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit-Bag. World War I anthems not really being a thing any more since the war ended 70 years before Doolittle was born, it was a bit of an odd sample to say the least. But it seemed to work as the tune and words of it, slightly reworked to include a mispronunciation of the word ‘cavalry’ courtesy of the uncredited male singer, creeped back into the public’s consciousness. And on a completely unrelated note the original song was later used in an advertising campaign. Nothing at all to do with the big success of Pack Up. Nothing at all. Eliza released a third single, Rollerblades, which failed to even go top 40 even after Pack Up’s massive success and receiving quite a bit of airplay itself. She then decided she’d run out of material and tried to re-release Skinny Genes. Radio 1 gave it a chance second time around but it only got back up as high as #64 at the start of 2011 (it had even been higher than that - #59 to be precise - around the time of Pack Up’s release, without having to be promoted). Her album did pretty well though, peaking at #3 and spending 46 weeks in the top 100, so there’s that. But don’t expect her to be anything other than a one hit wonder any time soon. This song came 87th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited July 7, 201114 yr by Bré

What I always found weird about Pack Up was how it got to #1 on the radio airplay chart, yet I literally never heard it on there. So strange tbh. And how did it sell so much? I never heard anybody talk about it before either.

 

Starstrukk had incredible longevity. I was surprised at how high it debuted aswell. I wasn't aware of the song before it was released either, but I remember it getting to #1 on iTunes straight after it was released! :o

 

Interesting that it didn't do well in the US either, despite having Katy Perry on it. Interestingly If We Ever Meet Again also didn't do well in the US. This was before California Gurls though. If those songs were released now I think they could've done much better.

What I always found weird about Pack Up was how it got to #1 on the radio airplay chart, yet I literally never heard it on there. So strange tbh. And how did it sell so much? I never heard anybody talk about it before either.

 

Starstrukk had incredible longevity. I was surprised at how high it debuted aswell. I wasn't aware of the song before it was released either, but I remember it getting to #1 on iTunes straight after it was released! :o

 

Interesting that it didn't do well in the US either, despite having Katy Perry on it. Interestingly If We Ever Meet Again also didn't do well in the US. This was before California Gurls though. If those songs were released now I think they could've done much better.

 

I highly doubt it did given it was released in Christmas week against "Killing In The Name" and "The Climb"... I do remember being really pleased when it jumped to #3 on iTunes some time in that week.

I highly doubt it did given it was released in Christmas week against "Killing In The Name" and "The Climb"... I do remember being really pleased when it jumped to #3 on iTunes some time in that week.

 

Maybe not then. I definitely remember it being at #1 on iTunes at some point though.

 

Although I think The Climb might've been released on a Monday, so maybe it was #1 just at the very beginning of the week, before the X Factor finale? But Bad Romance might've been.

Rage got to #1 on the Sunday. With an enormous lead.

 

EDIT: Actually, they didn't because iTunes was frozen all day :lol: But they probably would have been #1 with a huge lead if it wasn't.

Edited July 2, 201114 yr by Bré

#24

USHER FEAT. PITBULL
“DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”
from the album “Raymond V Raymond”
[July 2010]
20-20-20-20-21-24-17-14-7-11-14-18-10-15-24-31-37-44-52-64-78-85-72-



~ 1,605 points // 23 weeks // #7 peak ~

The lower of two entries in the top 200 from US singer Usher (full name Usher Raymond) is DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love (feat. Pitbull - for whom it is the highest entry). I’d call it the second UK single from his sixth studio album Raymond V Raymond as it was the second song from that era to chart, but honestly the singles situation with this album was a complete mess, especially in the UK. The first single was supposed to be Papers which was released Stateside but isn’t listed as an official single on Wikipedia. Then he released another song called Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) (feat. Plies), then a third song called Lil Freak (feat. Nicki Minaj). None of these three songs did particularly well. Then two more new Usher songs popped up. One was OMG (feat. will.i.am) which is still to come on this countdown and for all intents and purposes may as well be called the first UK single. The other was There Goes My Baby which also didn’t do that well and if my memory serves me right was actually released here before OMG before being promptly deleted. Then the album Raymond V Raymond finally came out. It did reasonably well. A sixth song called More was apparently released around this time as well, but I honestly can’t remember how the chronology of his releases goes. It was given a proper UK and US release after DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love and it managed a UK peak of #23 (#29 in 2010 - it just misses out on a place in this top 200 due to its chart run being split between 2010 and 2011). To boost sales of the era Usher decided to do a 9-track EP called Versus and he immediately started bombarding the world with tracks again. DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love was definitely the first single from this EP - but because the EP wasn’t available to buy on its own in the UK, it was tacked onto Raymond V Raymond as a ‘deluxe’ edition, with its sales combined and thus DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love is essentially another Raymond V Raymond single in the UK at least. Hot Tottie (feat. Jay-Z) was apparently a US single which never materialised here. Also included on the EP were two tracks Usher was merely a feature on but he sneakily stuck them on there anyway - his remix of Somebody To Love by Justin Bieber (which helped that song to peak at #33 in the UK) and Dirty Dancer by Enrique Iglesias (which has since been remixed itself to also feature Lil Wayne and given a UK release in 2011 where it has thus far got to #28). So are those technically two more ‘Usher singles’? Did he really release NINE songs from this only moderately successful era? It’s easier to just ignore all the flops and say the singles went 1. OMG, 2. DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love, 3. More. Oh, right, the song. It’s not great. Its biggest redeeming feature is that pretty quirky four-weeks-at-#20 start but it later peaked at #7.

Edited July 6, 201114 yr by Bré

wow, I never knew Usher's single releases for this era was so messed up :lol: I always thought it went OMG>DJ..>More and that was it :lol:

Edited July 6, 201114 yr by Chart Wizard