November 18, 201113 yr i would choose 'F*** you' by Lily Allen, she deserves that number 1 hit plus this song is a huge statement and is very anti-establishment.... second choice would be Gaga's 'Bloody Mary' just to teach her a lesson about single releases choices.... That #1? She's had two...
November 20, 201113 yr The campaign for Nirvana currently stands at 91,435 members, and has got 11,208 talking about it.
November 20, 201113 yr Why can't there be a campaign to get a new song to number one, instead of one that's 20 years old and had it's chance (albeit it's verging on becoming an all-time classic). I really like the song but hope this campaign flops big time.
November 20, 201113 yr 90,000 seems a little low atm, but it will obviously increase over time - I can see this being more successful than last year's but not as successful as the year before, either way its pretty much guaranteed a new peak :wub: Edited November 20, 201113 yr by C.W
November 20, 201113 yr I like campaigns to be fair. And it may be a suitable 'campaign-song'. I am neutral for the time being but I guess I could be somehow converted same way I was for RATM.
December 2, 201113 yr THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1? This, (released on December 19th), Single could well be the Christmas No.1. 'Wherever You Are' - Military Wives with Gareth Malone. I cannot make my mind up, if I like it or not. I hate War, but, it is not glorifying War, it is telling Soldiers that they are missed & loved, & I see nothing wrong in that. It is the style/sound of it that I cannot get into. It is a bit too 'wet' for my taste. It makes Westlife sound like the Sex Pistols! Already, it is showing signs of being a huge Christmas Hit. It has made a massive Percentage gain, (in Pre-Sales), on the Amazon.uk Movers & Shakers List - which shows which Singles & Albums have risen the most in Sales, in the past 24 Hours. It has risen by 4200% - to be the 2nd Biggest Music Seller on Amazon! I've never seen a Single as high as No.2 in their Music Top 100 before - it is usually almost totally dominated by Albums:, MOVERS & SHAKERS:, http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/music THE AMAZON TOP 100 - MUSIC BEST SELLERS It has jumped from No.86 to No.2! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/mus...0325242-6559966 We will see what happens in the Christmas Day Chart - the plan is, (obviously), to try to get it to No.1 on Sunday 25th December, for Sales from Monday 19th to Saturday 24th.
December 2, 201113 yr there is a reason why these rock songs didnt go number 1, and i am not going to back a bunch of rock and grungers to get this stuff top. i agree that a xmas song must be the challenger for number 1, not some roarrrrrr nonsense. And what reason is that? Smells like Teen Spirit hasn't gone out of fashion in 20 years. Its a musical milestone and changed music ever since. Without the success of Teen Spirit would we have seen the rise of the Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Pearl Jam or Hole? Would Britpop have succeeded in its aftermath? You can even thank it for the return of plain old guitar music after the spectacle of Hair metal in the 70's and 80's. I also think modern rock can learn more from Nirvana. Kurt was inspired by POP music, the Beatles in particular. He wasn't up for screaming unless it was making a point, he was an introvert. He knew the importance of melody and the music was stripped back to the tried and tested Chorus/Verse/Bridge formula.
December 2, 201113 yr Nirvana has no chance now. If anything can beat XF's second week it'll be the Military Wives.
December 2, 201113 yr And what reason is that? Smells like Teen Spirit hasn't gone out of fashion in 20 years. Its a musical milestone and changed music ever since. Without the success of Teen Spirit would we have seen the rise of the Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Pearl Jam or Hole? Would Britpop have succeeded in its aftermath? You can even thank it for the return of plain old guitar music after the spectacle of Hair metal in the 70's and 80's. I also think modern rock can learn more from Nirvana. Kurt was inspired by POP music, the Beatles in particular. He wasn't up for screaming unless it was making a point, he was an introvert. He knew the importance of melody and the music was stripped back to the tried and tested Chorus/Verse/Bridge formula. Precisely. Grunge was effectively Punk Mark II in that it stripped back all the pretentious crap that had gone before (Prog for Punk, Glam for Grunge) and told your average teen that you could pick up a guitar and conquer the world without having to wear Spandex. Nirvana has no chance now. If anything can beat XF's second week it'll be the Military Wives. In the same way that people assumed John Cage would be a bigger threat than The Trashmen last year because it was for charity? Doesn't work. The campaign passed 100,000 members by the end of November. The main Nirvana Facebook page (which has 13.5 MILLION members, and is apparently being talked about by 85,000) promised to promote the campaign when it passed 100k so we could be seeing a major boost in numbers coming up. It's make or break really.
December 3, 201113 yr THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1? This, (released on December 19th), Single could well be the Christmas No.1. 'Wherever You Are' - Military Wives with Gareth Malone. I cannot make my mind up, if I like it or not. I hate War, but, it is not glorifying War, it is telling Soldiers that they are missed & loved, & I see nothing wrong in that. It is the style/sound of it that I cannot get into. It is a bit too 'wet' for my taste. It makes Westlife sound like the Sex Pistols! Yuk, I almost threw up watching that! Awful, over-sentimental tosh.
December 3, 201113 yr RATM was understandable, it had a message and it clearly worked.... but again? And does it have to be 90s grunge rock everytime?? I petition to get someone silly like Sinitta would be more inspiring! Edited December 3, 201113 yr by ScottyEm
December 3, 201113 yr RATM was understandable, it had a message and it clearly worked.... but again? And does it have to be 90s grunge rock everytime?? I petition to get someone silly like Sinitta would be more inspiring! Rage Against The Machine aren't grunge :unsure:
December 3, 201113 yr The Military Wives Single is now the No.1 Best Selling Music 'Item' on Amazon.uk. It is outselling every Album on that Site. Never before have I seen a Single at No.1 in the Amazon Top 100. One that has got there on Pre-Orders, too. I think it is overly sentimental, but it looks like it will stroll to No.1 on Sunday 25th December - based on its Sales from Monday 19th to Saturday 24th. By the looks of things the Nirvana - and Wombles - Campaigns have no chance to have the No.1 Single on Christmas Day. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/music/ref=sv_m_h__3 It does not matter how many people dislike it. It is the people who do like it - and who will buy it - who will very likely get it to No.1 on Christmas Day. Edited December 3, 201113 yr by zeus555
December 3, 201113 yr those lyrics are amongst the most sickening I've ever heard, but there's something quite pleasant about it and at least its original looks like this could be a genuine chart battle between Nirvana, Military Wives and the XF winners second week :D
December 13, 201113 yr Author Has this any chance next week\? I still think it does. Lots of people are beginning to write it off now (well, lots of people wrote it off right from the start of course) but I still think this could work.
December 13, 201113 yr The RATM one had momentum, increasing coverage and hype, and a (garbled) message. This one has none of those. It's happened once and it won't happen again, simply because it has already happened. I downloaded the RATM one several times because I believed in it that much and it's still just about my favourite week following the charts. Plus it's one of my favourite tracks. I'll download this one too as a fan of the track if it looks like it's got a shot next week. So in summary, it won't work, but I hope it does.
December 13, 201113 yr Anybody know what the motivation behind this song being picked for the campaign actually is? Like it's been said above, Killing In The Name had a message and the campaigners were promoting a clear 'f*** you Simon Cowell' with the lyrics but Smells Like Teen Spirit is already incredibly popular in the mainstream, a much more accessible song and one of the most iconic songs of all time (plus you could actually imagine this being performed on X Factor by somebody - indeed on the Australian version it already was - whereas Killing In The Name would get an immediate producer veto for obvious reasons). Is the message behind this campaign literally just 'lets try and stop X Factor again and get this classic to #1 finally as a side effect', because if it is then that's fair enough but if they're trying to make this Rage 2.0 then it won't be because it's got none of the motivation and meaning behind the 2009 campaign and I doubt that people will become so emotionally invested in it. Especially when Little Mix almost certainly won't even be their biggest competition next week. Lightning doesn't strike twice and with each subsequent failed campaign, the memory of the Rage one will become diluted. I'm not saying or implying that this one is but the real motivation behind a lot of these Facebook chart campaigns is now nothing more than chancers trying to be the 'brains' behind a movement and attempting to make a name for themselves from the media coverage.
December 13, 201113 yr Author Essentially yes, it is 'let's stop XF from getting Xmas #1 again and conveniently get Nirvana there at the same time'. The fact SLTS is already an extremely well-known and popular song is the exact reason they picked it. A campaign for any other Nirvana song would have no chance in hell of working. I think it's also meant to tie in with the 20th anniversary of Nevermind. A recent boost in awareness of the band (what with the re-release) offered a convenient excuse to use a Nirvana song. Or THE Nirvana song, I should say. There are probably quite a lot of people in this country who don't know any other Nirvana songs.
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