1. Louder (Radio Edit) - DJ Fresh

14. How We Roll (feat. Tanya Lacey) - Loick Essien

41. Louder (Club Mix) - DJ Fresh

103. Freedom for Palestine - OneWorld

150. Louder (Flux Pavilion & Doctor P Remix) - DJ Fresh

190. Louder (Drumsound & Bassline Smith Remix) - DJ Fresh

 

I wonder how high the three remixes of Louder will get (and if the Hervé remix will join them in the top 300)? They seem to be slowing down a bit now.

A few days ago I say loads of people discussing one of the remixes of Louder. I imagine it's the sort of song that could have amazing remixes, although it'll probably take me ages to get around to listening to them. :lol:

Britney needs a top 5 desperatly. Makes me mad that slag Lady Gaga keeps getting hits.

:wacko: Any more comments like this, and I will up your warn. Have a nice afternoon :)

He does have a bit of a point though. I'd really want Britney to be more popular again, and without being offensive, I prefer her songs to Lady Gaga's. :lol:

 

She's doing really well worldwide though (infact, in terms of their 2nd singles, Till the World Ends was massive compared to Judas in the US), and that's what really counts, rather than the puny little UK, so she's still big enough to do another album after this, if she wants to (or rather, if her record label wants her to :lol:).

To continue about On The Floor, I really think it's been pretty much the most obvious #1 of the year (aside from Grenade probably) - I thought it would be #1 from the moment I first heard it. LMFAO and Adele have been the most surprising #1s of the year for me, didn't expect either and it looks like they will both go on to be the biggest ones of the year too.

To continue about On The Floor, I really think it's been pretty much the most obvious #1 of the year (aside from Grenade probably) - I thought it would be #1 from the moment I first heard it. LMFAO and Adele have been the most surprising #1s of the year for me, didn't expect either and it looks like they will both go on to be the biggest ones of the year too.

Agree totally about OTF - I thought it was a surefire #1 when I first heard it.

 

If it wasn't for the BRITS, Someone Like You would have probably been a 3rd single and had a smallish chart run comparable to SFTTR so far....

For Britney to be popular again (which i doubt will ever happen in UK again) she needs to start making quality music, her music is so trshy right now no orginality and no uniqueness which stops her from standing out on radio or tv, people are just bored with it really. Gaga is creating much better music at the moment, which most importantly STANDS OUT, thats what you need to get hits on the radio and on TV songs which offer something different and stand out.

 

The first time i heard On The Floor i knew it'd be #1, it just had worldwise smash written all over it, not because of J-Lo or Pitbull just because the song itself was a summer smash just saw it coming.

 

I love Louder, its my gym tune, gets me so motivated! :lol:

 

Noooooo SFTTR to #19, its guessing its quite close between #19-#14 at the moment as theres been quite a lot of changes over this week. Still hoping for #20 on todays official chart *fingers crossed*. Want to see it climb a few places every week, needs that video out!

Nice to see SLY and RITD still selling well, SLY at #34 and RITD #43. :)

Edited July 3, 201114 yr by Karma

I never expected Someone Like You to get #1 either. Sure, I did expect it to be big (most songs that get cherry-picked a lot on album release end up being really big hits when their promotion campaign begins), but I didn't expect it to be a million-seller at all!!!! :o :o Also obviously didn't expect it to get popular so soon either, since we all thought Set Fire to the Rain would be the 2nd single, and Someone Like You would be 3rd (i.e. getting released around now).

 

However, I remember on the night of the BRITs, the iTunes feed updated a few minutes after the performance, and Someone Like You had jumped from #50-something up to #9. In ONE update. So from them I think it was clear it was gonna be a smash. :lol: But before I would've predicted it to sell more like 300,000 or something when it got released.

 

For Britney to be popular again (which i doubt will ever happen in UK again) she needs to start making quality music, her music is so trshy right now no orginality and no uniqueness which stops her from standing out on radio or tv, people are just bored with it really. Gaga is creating much better music at the moment, which most importantly STANDS OUT, thats what you need to get hits on the radio and on TV songs which offer something different and stand out.

 

Personally, in terms of uniqueness and un-genericness, I think Lady Gaga and Britney are both as bad as each other. Pop songs with dance beats are really just about as generic as you get, and from both artists, that's pretty much all they're releasing at the moment. I think Gaga stands out more for her image than her music. Although both are generic, I prefer Britney. I just find her songs catchier. Till the World Ends, for example, I find it so epic and anthemic. Everybody has different opinions, but nothing Lady Gaga has released yet has matched that imo (infact not even close for me).

 

However, I admit I'm a bit biased towards Britney because she always reminds me of when I was little, so I love it when she's in the charts.

Edited July 3, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

To continue about On The Floor, I really think it's been pretty much the most obvious #1 of the year (aside from Grenade probably) - I thought it would be #1 from the moment I first heard it. LMFAO and Adele have been the most surprising #1s of the year for me, didn't expect either and it looks like they will both go on to be the biggest ones of the year too.

 

I agree about "On The Floor" - listening back to it now, it seems like the most obvious #1 of the lot. I think that seeing OTF, "Party Rock Anthem" and "Give Me Everything" all being big #1s virtually in succession is pretty much the absolute peak of that kind of dance-pop-urban club banger-type song (god, I sound old when I say it like that) in terms of chart success and it wouldn't surprise me if by the end of 2011 the subgenre was on the decline. You often see the defining song of a movement coming right before it starts to fade away ("Numb" by Linkin Park being a good example, it pretty much marked the end of commercially viable nu-metal) and any of those three could be seen as that defining song in years to come.

Being the massive J-Loon that I am, I was convinced from the first listen of OTF that it'd go #1 :wub:

LMFAO and Adele have been the most surprising #1s of the year for me, didn't expect either and it looks like they will both go on to be the biggest ones of the year too.

 

All the more remarkable for 'Someone Like You' which is roughly two weeks (one week even?) away from bcoming a million selling single. Of course had Adele's live Brits version not been released as a single in its own right, then whilst 'SLY' might've still been #1 it wouldn't have sold over 100k for three consecutive weeks thus wouldn't be anywhere near becoming a million selling single.

All the more remarkable for 'Someone Like You' which is roughly two weeks (one week even?) away from bcoming a million selling single.

 

It'll be on around 995k after last week's sales, so it'll definitely become a million seller within the next few days. Hopefully the OCC will mention this. They don't always report when there's a new million seller (for example, they didn't report that Sex On Fire was a million seller until several weeks after it passed the milestone)

Edited July 3, 201114 yr by Bré

All the more remarkable for 'Someone Like You' which is roughly two weeks (one week even?) away from bcoming a million selling single. Of course had Adele's live Brits version not been released as a single in its own right, then whilst 'SLY' might've still been #1 it wouldn't have sold over 100k for three consecutive weeks thus wouldn't be anywhere near becoming a million selling single.

 

I was thinking that the other day actually. The live version would probably account for, perhaps about 200,000 of the sales overall now? But even so, it would've still been absolutely massive.

 

In a way, I'm kind of glad, since Someone Like You was our only chance of stopping Just the Way You Are being the biggest-selling song of the decade so far.

When I first heard On The Floor back in January, it was obvious that it was something special but I really wasn't sure if radio would get on board with it after her last era and the fact that she's in her 40s now and Radio 1/Capital don't often playlist artists of that age - they're shoved over to Radio 2 instead. The moment I knew it would be huge here is when Scott Mills started to play it and it became obvious that it would be playlisted - there's no way it wasn't going to be big with full support.

 

The success of almost every song is almost entirely down to how much radio and TV are willing to support them. There are of course exceptions (The A Team for one which has had so little support from either for a lingering top 3 hit that it's laughable) but certainly songs like that, which can't even rely on an existing fanbase to lift it into the charts in the first place, need the push of promotion.

I've noticed that too. Radio and MTV seem literally neccessary to create a hit now. The main other methods are obviously things such as TV performances and media coverage (recent examples of massive hits that had extensive media coverage at the time are What's My Name?, Price Tag and Someone Like You).

 

There's also songs that can just sell a lot because of who the artist is, without much promotion (recent examples are David Guetta and Lady Gaga), but even with them, the artists got so big in the first place through the promotion methods outlined above.

 

The songs that get pretty much none of the types of promotion mentioned about, have chart success like Down On Me by Jeremih. They sell a lot, but people have to discover the song themselves, so peak really low but spend 6 months in the top 200.

Agree totally about OTF - I thought it was a surefire #1 when I first heard it.

 

If it wasn't for the BRITS, Someone Like You would have probably been a 3rd single and had a smallish chart run comparable to SFTTR so far....

 

 

If it wasn't for the Brits Jessie J would have 6 weeks at #1.

 

 

DJ Fresh seems the most obvious #1 of the year, I probably saw Example coming as well before it was delayed a month.

I was thinking that the other day actually. The live version would probably account for, perhaps about 200,000 of the sales overall now? But even so, it would've still been absolutely massive.

 

Surely far more than 200,000 given it made up a large percentage of its sales in at least its first couple of weeks at #1...

I've noticed that too. Radio and MTV seem literally neccessary to create a hit now. The main other methods are obviously things such as TV performances and media coverage (recent examples of massive hits that had extensive media coverage at the time are What's My Name?, Price Tag and Someone Like You).

 

What's My Name? had 'extensive' media coverage? :unsure: I don't recall that.

Calvin Harris'Bounce proving a lot of people wrong, still holding strong at #5 :o

The A Team still #7 too!

While Spaceship is all the way down to #23. :lol:

Surely far more than 200,000 given it made up a large percentage of its sales in at least its first couple of weeks at #1...

 

I dunno. It's just an estimate. I think it was selling like twice as much as the album version for the first couple of chart weeks, so maybe more like 300,000. But the song would've still been massive regardless. And there's other songs that have had loads of sales from other versions too to be fair. In For the Kill probably owes like 100,000 sales to Skream's remix. And that remix of Beautiful People must've sold tens of thousnads by now.

 

What's My Name? had 'extensive' media coverage? :unsure: I don't recall that.

 

Yes. I'd say it was in the news more than Price Tag and Someone Like You tbh! They were going on about it for weeks. It was mainly because of Rihanna's and Christina Aguilera's (no stranger to controversy herself, bless :lol:) performances on the X Factor, where they weren't wearing much. I remember hearing it in the news like every day on the radio, and some company, Ofcom I think, had to do some investigation or something. I even caught a program on Radio 4 once where they debated on whether Rihanna and Christina's performances were acceptable to be shown on TV with lots of kids watching, and I'm sure there were other things like that happening.

 

I honestly think all this would've helped What's My Name?'s sales. I'm a massive fan of the song itself, but all the controversy over it, and all the angry conservative parents, I'm sure would've caused a few kids to end up buying it the song. :lol:

Edited July 3, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob