I can't remember which day it was but one day this week three separate Justin Bieber things were trending on Twitter. And that was only UK, they're worse in the states!

Who do you think will be #21?

 

:kink: I remember being quite surprised it had got this high. [/not a clue]

I'll guess at Tik Tok for #21.

#21

EDWARD MAYA FEAT. VIKA JIGULINA
“Stereo Love”
from the album “The Stereo Love Show”
[May 2010]
4-5-7-12-21-23-29-21-21-25-27-30-25-23-22-30-32-37-43-46-59-67-77-86-100-x



~ 1,653 points // 25 weeks // #4 peak ~

The highest representation from the European mainland then is this, Romanian producer Edward Maya (real name Eduard Ilie)’s European-megahit-turned-UK-semi-hit, Stereo Love (featuring vocals from Moldovan-born, Romanian-based vocalist Vika Jigulina, born Victoria Corneva (why didn’t you just stick with that name instead of using an unpronounceable stage name?)). The song was a chart-topper in France, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and oddly enough Ireland where it was a massive hit despite the Irish tendency to just copy the UK chart’s #1s with a few obsure Irish acts thrown in for good measure. It also went top 10 in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, the UK (as you can see above), Belgium and Canada. But perhaps its most interesting success is in the United States of America. You see, the USA are extremely xenophobic charts-wise. Take a look at the Billboard Hot 100 at any given moment and you’ll find maybe one or two British acts, a few Canadians and Rihanna. The rest are American. I exaggerate slightly, but the Hot 100 is usually around 90% American acts. But despite this, the US public charted a song, which I remind you is by a Romanian producer with vocals from an unpronounceably-named Moldovan-born Romanian-based vocalist, at #16. And it actually went three places higher than that on the US airplay chart which is possibly even more xenophobic than the sales chart. Really big Euro hits can cross over there and this is a fine example. Jennifer Lopez’ 2011 comeback single On The Floor (feat. Pitbull) sounded a lot like this song and was rewarded with pretty much revitalising JLo’s career everywhere, becoming a third #1 and her biggest hit ever in the UK and a respectable top 3 hit in the USA. Anyway, hopping back over to the UK, compilation, er, compilers just couldn’t get enough of this song in summer 2010 and it seemed to have a new version in the iTunes top 100 from a different ‘50 massive club hits!!!’ album every week. As such, although it quickly vacated the top 20 after just four weeks, it spent a marathon 12 weeks floating between #21 and #30 and it’s because of this that what was in all other respects just another biggish-but-not-huge hit has made it as high as #21 on this countdown.

I feel that was enough suspense :kink: Top 20 should start tomorrow.

BTW, I know I said before that Vika is Russian. Blame Wikipedia which did say she was Russian back then but now says she's Moldovan.

Edited July 15, 201114 yr by Bré

I love Stereo Love.

 

And it was a massive hit considering it spent 3 weeks in the top 10 and peaked at #4. It felt like one of the biggest songs of the year (well, it was, but you know what I mean :lol:).

#20

KE$HA
“TiK ToK”
from the album “Animal”
[November 2009]
-4-8-12-14-16-18-23-29-31-36-38-38-41-38-41-51-53-62-62-75-79-76-54-57-74-74-75-81-84-72-90-76-82-98-x



~ 1,672 points // 34 weeks // #4 peak ~

And Ke$ha’s highest song on this countdown is one which was released in 2009. Although, to be fair, it did actually reach its chart peak in 2010 - it initially entered the chart at #6, then it held #6, then it dropped to #7 where it stayed for 3 weeks. It then climbed two places to #5 and proceeded to drop straight out of the top 10. But it wasn’t over then - it climbed back up one place to #10 in the final week of 2009 and with a little help from the post-Christmas iTunes gift card effect managed to re-peak again at #4 in the first week of 2010. But the oddities in its chart run didn’t end there - after exiting the top 10 a second time it dropped two places each week for 3 weeks in a row and it later spent 5 consecutive weeks at either #38 or #41. But for all of its great longevity (42 weeks in the top 100 is certainly not bad for a début single) it never quite blew up the same way it did in Ke$ha’s native USA where it spent nine consecutive weeks at #1 from the start of 2010 and was quite comfortably the biggest song of the year there. Ke$ha did eventually manage a solo UK #1 hit to follow-up her #1 alongside Flo Rida though - in early 2011 We R Who We R (also a US #1 and a rare #1 entry (only the seventeenth in the chart’s history) at that) spent a solitary week at the top before proceeding to plummet out of the chart with haste. But TiK ToK will always be remembered as her classic. Anyway, enough chart stats. TiK ToK first turned up on the interwebs under the title of Dolla (which you may note is never said in the song and was simply a reference to the dollar sign in her stage name) long before the song was of any note and long before anyone knew her name rhymed with ‘pressure’ and we were all calling her Keisha. It was entered to BuzzJack’s very own prestigious BJSC under that title and won, way back in July 2009. It had a few potential new titles including Dolla (P. Diddy) before they decided on TiK ToK, horrendous capitalisation and all. P. Diddy is mentioned in the first line of the song and even has a couple of lines in it, but is not credited as a featured artist. It was released mid-week in the UK but still managed to enter in the top ten being solely responsible for Miley Cyrus’ failure to finally break her top 10 duck with Party In The U.S.A., which had entered at #11 (being miraculously and unexpectedly stopped by a late surge from The Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling) the previous week and looked certain to climb in until Ke$ha came along and knocked her out of the iTunes top 10, messing up her momentum and actually causing her to drop to #13. And thank God it never went top 10 (Miley has still not managed a top 10 hit despite having 3 UK #11s and her last attempt, Can’t Be Tamed, stalled at #13 and she’s since supposedly retired from music). Since the release of TiK ToK two covers have also made the UK top 100. The Midnight Beast’s Tik Tok (Parody) (feat. St£fan) was the first, reaching #90 and Glee Cast took their version to #45 in 2011 while making the title less ugly, also changing it to Tik Tok. This song came 38th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

Edited July 16, 201114 yr by Bré

It's incredible how big a hit Tik Tok was! :o Especially in the US! I think it got the highest digital sales in a week!

 

I actually hated the song until about 12 months after I first heard it. :lol: So I only started liking it mid-2010 really. It sounds like Nintendo music. Like chiptune, but not quite, if that makes sense.

I overdosed myself on Tik Tok back around last Christmas, and I can't stand the song now. Can't even remember why. Take It Off and Your Love Is My Drug are far better.

 

I also overdosed myself on Blow recently. I need to stop doing that, considering it's so easy for me to hate Ke$ha, whenever I actually like a song of hers, I listen to it too much and become sick of it.

 

Tik Tok definitely has some WTF moments in it. It was quite a.. different song. http://broni.es/images/emotes/mlp-tshrug.png

Tik Tok was and is still brilliant, I remember thinking wow when I first heard in June 2009 and was annoyed with the long wait for the release which eventually came 5 months later

Tik Tok was and is still brilliant, I remember thinking wow when I first heard in June 2009 and was annoyed with the long wait for the release which eventually came 5 months later

 

I heard it around that time aswell. It was played on Radio 1, and they pronounced her name wrong, and I thought it was Keisha from the Sugababes! :lol: And after they played the song loads of people were texting in saying "This is the best thing I've ever heard" and stuff. I didn't like it on first listen, so I was a bit like WTF?

 

And then 18 months later it gets announced by Billboard as the biggest song of 2010 in the US! :o Crazy really. I don't mind the song now. I think if in the future someone asked you to play one song to show them what music was like in 2009-2011, I think Tik Tok would be a very good choice.

I heard it around that time aswell. It was played on Radio 1, and they pronounced her name wrong, and I thought it was Keisha from the Sugababes! :lol: And after they played the song loads of people were texting in saying "This is the best thing I've ever heard" and stuff. I didn't like it on first listen, so I was a bit like WTF?

 

And then 18 months later it gets announced by Billboard as the biggest song of 2010 in the US! :o Crazy really. I don't mind the song now. I think if in the future someone asked you to play one song to show them what music was like in 2009-2011, I think Tik Tok would be a very good choice.

I'd agree with that because a lot of other songs have been "inspired" by certains aspects of it such as california gurls and dynamite

I'd agree with that because a lot of other songs have been "inspired" by certains aspects of it such as california gurls and dynamite

 

Yeah, they're very similar, although it was the same person that compoesd all those instrumentals which explains why. I think the beat to Last Friday Night is a bit similar too (again, produced by the same person).

I feel the need to bump this topic because bre has broken his record for the longest time without posting on this topic once again

I feel the need to bump this topic because bre has broken his record for the longest time without posting on this topic once again

 

I was actually going to resume this today anyway as I really want to get it done before I go back to school and there's now only just over a week left. Thanks for bumping this again though anyway.

#19

YOLANDA BE COOL AND DCUP
“We No Speak Americano”
stand-alone single
[July 2010]
5-2-1-2-3-4-4-6-9-11-11-15-21-20-33-40-43-46-52-69-82-87-x(2)-85-



~ 1,672 points // 23 weeks // #1 peak ~

The highest placed Australian act(s) on the list then are swing house DJ duo Yolanda Be Cool (Sylvester Martinez, Johnson Peterson/Durango Slim) and their fellow countryman and swing house producer with the hilarious stage name of DCUP (and a rather inoffensive real name of Duncan MacLennan). We No Speak Americano is one of those very rare things in the UK, a #1 single sung in any other language than English! To be fair there are hardly any lyrics in it at all, mostly consisting of instrumental and a man saying ‘pa pa Americano’, but the verse that is sung twice is sampled from Renato Carosone’s 1956 song Tu Vuò Fà L’Americano sung in the rather exotic language of Neapolitan (nothing to do with the ice cream flavour, it’s just a language some people speak in Naples, Italy, where Renato Carosone is from). Anyhow, it was the first fully non-English-language song to hit #1 in almost 23 years to the week, since Los Lobos’ 1987 two-weeker La Bamba, sung in Spanish. In fact, to further highlight this country’s xenophobia We No Speak Americano was the first entirely foreign language song to even go top 40 in over four years, since Sigur Rós’ Hoppípolla which got to #24 on its re-release in 2006 (having originally peaked at #35 a year earlier). Although it isn’t the Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP version that holds that latter distinction, it is in fact an opportunistic remix of Italian-born Canadian-based singer Marco Calliari’s recording of the original Renato Carosone song ‘conveniently’ made to sound exactly like the Yolanda Be Cool song and released a couple of weeks prior! They even renamed it We No Speak Americano to add to the illusion. Crafty. It’s one of a few ‘fake’ versions of songs which have made the top 40 due to the real version being unavailable, peaking at #26. Quite a few fake versions of the song - as well as the actual real version which was released and deleted a few times before its proper release - sold quite a bit prior to the release of this, possibly contributing to it ‘only’ entering at #5 despite everyone expecting a massive #1 hit. However, it did the almost impossible and actually climbed to #2 the next week and then to #1, almost unheard of for a release that had a lot of airplay and hype before being made available (which typically enter at their peak and disappear quickly). This song came 25th in the Top 100 Downloads of All Time.

At this rate I should be done in about 3 and a quarter years :lol:

Edited September 20, 201113 yr by Bré

Just end it up really, it's not that hard.

Just end it up really, it's not that hard.

 

I've just completely lost interest in this to be honest :lol: I am going to try my very hardest to get it done before the end of September. Hopefully the 2011 countdown will go quicker as writing a detailed comment for every song was a very bad idea which I'm not going to do again. I would stop it now to get the countdown over with but if I did it for 19-200 I can't really just stop doing it for the last 18.

We No Speak Americano is a brilliant song. :wub: It's one of those songs that's kind of gimmicky, but also genuinely good at the same time.

 

I was also very shocked it debuted at #5. As you said, probably one of the most hyped up songs of the year pre-release (a real version of it even went top 40 on iTunes like 2 months before it was released iirc!), so I was shocked to see it debut that low. So glad it got #1 though. Brilliant song. And also one of the only good songs Heart FM were playing that summer (along with Stereo Love).

By the way, We No Speak Americano was the last song whose position was decided by peak (i.e. it tied with TiK ToK points-wise) - the top 18's positions are all based entirely on points.

but the verse that is sung twice is sampled from Renato Carosone’s 1956 song Tu Vuò Fà L’Americano sung in the rather exotic language of Neapolitan

 

The verse isn't actually sung twice. That's just the horrible UK radio edit :angry: The real version, which is 4 1/2 minutes long only has one actual verse - as well as the intro, main instrumental (pa pa americano), a mid-song breakdown and a 'verse' of "whisky soda rock n' roll" (which ends the song in the UK radio edit)

 

On another note - wow at its views :o :o 43,034,129 is just amazing. Must be much more than the music video :lol:

 

Edit - the unofficial music video is quite close with around 38 million - the official UK radio edit video only has 24 million

 

Edited September 20, 201113 yr by danielXF