Guys, the new Jay-Z/Kanye/Beyonce/Bruno song is the follow up to H.A.M. :lol: Just saying, we can't know what to expect. :lol:

 

That could go to #1 though! :o I mean, Jay-Z's fanbase alone got H.A.M into the top 10, so it should sail to #1 with the other fanbases, surely?

 

There's also a Dr. Dre/Beyonce/Jay-Z collab coming up soon! :D

Guys, the new Jay-Z/Kanye/Beyonce/Bruno song is the follow up to H.A.M. :lol: Just saying, we can't know what to expect. :lol:

Just because "H•A•M" wasn't a particularly strong song doesn't mean that "Lift Off" won't be. I really hope that it'll be another "Run This Town" type song that will smash everywhere.

Just because "H•A•M" wasn't a particularly strong song doesn't mean that "Lift Off" won't be. I really hope that it'll be another "Run This Town" type song that will smash everywhere.

 

Yeah. To be fair, I was expecting the album to a load of Run This Towns. Clearly H•A•M proved me quite wrong. :lol:

 

A song like Empire State of Mind would be great too, obviously. It's easy to imagine Beyonce/Jay-Z collabs, since they'd done like 10 of them, and Jay-Z/Kanye collabs are easy to imagine too. But I can't really imagine Bruno thrown into the mix. I'm currently trying to imagine Bruno Mars on some of their other songs. It just seems weird.

 

About Run This Town, I found this funny "Hunt Chris Brown" video of it. :lol: It's the same guy playing Kanye West, Chris Brown and Jay-Z, which is a bit worrying, since he does each of them so well! :o Obviously, a different person plays Rihanna. :lol:

 

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H.A.M. is a fantastic song, it was never going to do well commercially because of the type of song it is. If the rest is album is anything like as strong it will be one hell of an album.

Better Bruno than Rihanna

 

Bruno is not seems like chart freak doing collabs just for breaking records like Rihanna does

Bruno will definitely see a boost next week, he's already climbed so quickly, i still think he'll be #1 at some stage, hoping next week.

 

Set Fire To The Rain now #36. :heart:

Better Bruno than Rihanna

 

Bruno is not seems like chart freak doing collabs just for breaking records like Rihanna does

 

If you're talking about the all-time record that Rihanna just broke in the US (congrats to her btw :heart:), only 5 of them were collabs (Jay-Z, T.I., Eminem, Drake and Britney Spears).

 

Umbrella, What's My Name? and S&M all had Rihanna solo versions. Jay-Z is like Rihanna's manager, so he did a rap verse at the beginning of the song, to "introduce" her new era to the world, so to speak. The rap verse on What's My Name? made the song. The song was originally just a Rihanna solo song, but Drake wrote a verse for it, and they loved it so much that they put it in the original song. Rihanna was originally going to release it just as a normal song. With the Britney collab, Rihanna asked her Twitter followers if there was anybody who they wanted to see her collab with. Britney was the resounding response, so she collabed with her. It was a favour to her fans, more than anything.

 

Live Your Life is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Rihanna was helping T.I. out, if anything. That song would never have been a hit in the UK without Rihanna (similar can be said for Run This Town, not the most mainstream song, but anything with Rihanna on gets played on the radio). Love the Way You Lie wasn't a collab just for the sake of it. Eminem wrote the lyrics about domestic violence, and Rihanna was probably the most well-known victim of domestic violence in the entire world at the time. She made the song connect with people so much more.

 

Rihanna doesn't sit there thinking "Oh, what record can I break next?", and then give Jay-Z a call, and sort out a collab to attempt to break the record. There's always a valid reason for her to collab.

 

Unlike Bruno, at least Rihanna didn't have to rely on collabs to break the mainstream. :coffee:

 

Talking about Rihanna collabs, I think she might be doing another one with Eminem soon. Adele might need to kiss goodbye to her year-end #1. :lol:

 

Oh, and welcome to the forums. :)

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If you're talking about the all-time record that Rihanna just broke in the US (congrats to her btw :heart:), only 5 of them were collabs (Jay-Z, T.I., Eminem, Drake and Britney Spears).

 

Umbrella, What's My Name? and S&M all had Rihanna solo versions. Jay-Z is like Rihanna's manager, so he did a rap verse at the beginning of the song, to "introduce" her new era to the world, so to speak. The rap verse on What's My Name? made the song. The song was originally just a Rihanna solo song, but Drake wrote a verse for it, and they loved it so much that they put it in the original song. Rihanna was originally going to release it just as a normal song. With the Britney collab, Rihanna asked her Twitter followers if there was anybody who they wanted to see her collab with. Britney was the resounding response, so she collabed with her. It was a favour to her fans, more than anything.

 

Live Your Life is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Rihanna was helping T.I. out, if anything. That song would never have been a hit in the UK without Rihanna (similar can be said for Run This Town, not the most mainstream song, but anything with Rihanna on gets played on the radio). Love the Way You Lie wasn't a collab just for the sake of it. Eminem wrote the lyrics about domestic violence, and Rihanna was probably the most well-known victim of domestic violence in the entire world at the time. She made the song connect with people so much more.

 

Rihanna doesn't sit there thinking "Oh, what record can I break next?", and then give Jay-Z a call, and sort out a collab to attempt to break the record. There's always a valid reason for her to collab.

 

Unlike Bruno, at least Rihanna didn't have to rely on collabs to break the mainstream. :coffee:

 

Talking about Rihanna collabs, I think she might be doing another one with Eminem soon. Adele might need to kiss goodbye to her year-end #1. :lol:

 

Oh, and welcome to the forums. :)

 

Another keen Rihanna fan is present it seems. :P

 

I agree with you for what it's worth (not much haha). I think the collaborations that featured Rihanna wouldn't have got to #1 if it wasn't for her and regarding S&M, Britney needed the collaboration FAR FAR MORE than Rihanna. Also, I would hardly call 'Umbrella' a proper collaboration (I guess the same can be said for WMN). I say this because it's only the introduction of the record rather than a key bit. But yeah, Rihanna hardly contributes to collaborations simply to break records. :lol:

 

Come on, Bruno get that #1.

 

 

Another keen Rihanna fan is present it seems. :P

 

I agree with you for what it's worth (not much haha). I think the collaborations that featured Rihanna wouldn't have got to #1 if it wasn't for her and regarding S&M, Britney needed the collaboration FAR FAR MORE than Rihanna. Also, I would hardly call 'Umbrella' a proper collaboration (I guess the same can be said for WMN). I say this because it's only the introduction of the record rather than a key bit. But yeah, Rihanna hardly contributes to collaborations simply to break records. :lol:

 

Come on, Bruno get that #1.

 

I do tend to get a bit passionate in Rihanna discussions, yes. :lol:

 

If we're looking for someone who's bad with collaborations, surely Lil Wayne? But even then, it's more other artists "using" him, and him just going along with it (I bet he's got a massive encyclopedia of raps ready to use when asked :lol:).

 

I'm actually surprised Rihanna and Lil Wayne haven't collabed tbh. They're both in similar circles, musically (i.e. they're both friends with Nicki Minaj and Drake). Perhaps they don't like each other. :unsure:

 

And also, the person who held the record before Rihanna was Mariah Carey, and she's probably collabed with everybody that Rihanna has collabed with (apart from Britney Spears and Eminem).

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What's this record Rihanna has broken in the USA? :unsure:

LOL. I wonder what genre it even classifies as. :lol:

 

EDIT: Is 'Gregorian chant' a genre? :kink:

 

A song with Gregorian chanting got to number 1 in 1990. Sadeness Part 1 by Enigma.

#35 - Set Fire To The Rain :wub: Wonder how much longer it can climb till starts dropping again after graham norton performance impact stops.

What's this record Rihanna has broken in the USA? :unsure:

 

Shortest time for a female artist to attain their first 10 #1s. She narrowly beat Mariah Carey's previous record, I believe, and she wouldn't have broken it if it wasn't for the Britney remix of S&M, so I think some people are a bit annoyed about it. :lol:

 

Katy Perry might threaten to break the record soon though. She's on her 5th number-one already and she's only been around 3 years! :o And only one of them is a collab too.

Shortest time for a female artist to attain their first 10 #1s. She narrowly beat Mariah Carey's previous record, I believe, and she wouldn't have broken it if it wasn't for the Britney remix of S&M, so I think some people are a bit annoyed about it. :lol:

 

Katy Perry might threaten to break the record soon though. She's on her 5th number-one already and she's only been around 3 years! :o And only one of them is a collab too.

 

*cough*California Gurls AND E.T.*cough* :P

*cough*California Gurls AND E.T.*cough* :P

 

Oh. I forgot about California Gurls. :lol: Well, she's on 40%, whilst Rihanna is on 50%. :lol:

 

Having a quick skim through, the only artists with more US #1s than Rihanna are Mariah Carey (18 of them!!! :o :o), Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elvis Presley, The Supremes. The Beatles have the most with 20. As a person, Paul McCartney has the most, most, with 29! :o

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Judas has just been used on BGT. Hope it can climb due to it, I don't want it to fall too much more before the video release on Friday so hopefully that will help it slightly.

GaGa's management/label are nearly as bad as Syco judging by her recent releases. The songs are decent enough but the lousy scheduling is, well, pathetic. Saying that though, BTW was extremely underwhelming and cliched and 'Judas' is a bit of an incoherent mess. :lol:

Set The Fire To The Rain is among my favourite songs of 2011 so far. So glad to see it this high already! Top 5 SMASH has to happen (please.)

Britain's Got Talent Effect

 

27. Judas - Lady GaGa

52. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown

55. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown

211. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown

247. Bad Romance - Lady GaGa

426. Feeling Good - Muse

826. Feeling Good - Michael Bublé

891. So What - P!nk

 

Britain's Got Talent Effect

 

27. Judas - Lady GaGa

52. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown

55. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown

211. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown

247. Bad Romance - Lady GaGa

426. Feeling Good - Muse

826. Feeling Good - Michael Bublé

891. So What - P!nk

What about poker face and sexyback? :P