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'The One That Got Away' rightfully back inside the top 20 :wub:
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X Factor Finalists - Wishing On a Star

Emeli Sande - Daddy

Kelly Rowland - Lay It On Me

Jason Derulo - Fight For You (if it doesn't this week)

Beyonce - Love On Top

Bad Meets Evil - Lighters

Example - Midnight Run

 

Bad Meets Evil - Lighters? :o

 

Is this really getting its official release next week despite being on iTunes for months and even making the UK top 10 about two months ago?

 

Anyways, I sadly have a gut feeling 'Wishing On A Star' will easily be #1 next Sunday but I also have a gut feeling it will be very short lived and will probably be leaving the top 40 within 5/6 weeks.

Bad Meets Evil - Lighters? :o

 

Is this really getting its official release next week despite being on iTunes for months and even making the UK top 10 about two months ago?

 

Anyways, I sadly have a gut feeling 'Wishing On A Star' will easily be #1 next Sunday but I also have a gut feeling it will be very short lived and will probably be leaving the top 40 within 5/6 weeks.

 

I'm not sure when its official release date is/was (not that it would matter much with Bad Meets Evil, since they're not the type that would release a load of remixes or anything :lol:), but I think it might re-enter next week because it's 59p. I guess it depends if it stays 59p the whole of next week or not.

 

I agree with you on Wishing On a Star. I think it'll spend 1 or 2 weeks at #1, and 2 or 3 weeks in the top 10. I haven't heard it yet, but I don't expect it to be good.

 

The only good thing about the charity song last year (in terms of the chart) was that it gave us a good 3-way chart battle on its 2nd week (vs. Ellie Goulding and Nicole Scherzinger).

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To be fair, Most of the x-factor charity singles are ''Weak'' It doesn't stop them getting #1 and having the biggest first week sales of the year every single year does it? ''Wishing On A Star'' will 100% be #1. :)
To be fair, Most of the x-factor charity singles are ''Weak'' It doesn't stop them getting #1 and having the biggest first week sales of the year every single year does it? ''Wishing On A Star'' will 100% be #1. :)

 

It seems obvious it will, but then again we said the same thing about so many similar singles recently. Last year's one showed these singles are losing their power at a great rate, so I'm hoping there's a chance it'll not get there.

Just watched the video for the X-Factor charity single - basically Misha, Janet, one of the girls from Little Mix and Marcus - everyone else either hardly appears or sounds awful. JLS and One Direction only come in for the last ~20 seconds (although the bits they sing are mixed in with all the X-Factor Finalists, so you can hardly tell).

 

I reckon it will get #1 - purely for the fanbases of JLS/1D - else I don't think it'd do it. I'm just interested to see where Emeli Sande debuts with the incredible 'Daddy'!.

I actually really really like Wishing On A Star - 1D and JLS are absolutely pointless though, all they get is a 'JLS! 1D!' shout out thing and then they harmonise with a big note the whole final 16 do. That's it :mellow: Definitely tacked on, it's working though as the YouTube vid has countless comments of 'ZOMG ZAYN 4EVA 2K11!!!1!!!1!!1' and the likefrom the brainless teenage girls :rolleyes:
To be fair, Most of the x-factor charity singles are ''Weak'' It doesn't stop them getting #1 and having the biggest first week sales of the year every single year does it? ''Wishing On A Star'' will 100% be #1. :)

 

The XF charity single didn't have the biggest first week sales of the year last year or the previous year (and that's even excluding the X Factor winner - Fight For This Love opened on far higher sales than You Are Not Alone, Everybody Hurts thoroughly CRUSHED the first week sales of Heroes). And it's not going to happen this year either, as I said the other day the XF charity single has so far been a massive case of diminishing returns and it'll need to sell a good 10k more than Heroes to beat What Makes You Beautiful :P

Olly will still have a bigger opening week than the recent singles by Cher, JLS and One Direction though. I thought all 3 of those were guaranteed #1s (or #2 behind The Collective in the latter case - oh dear) while I was predicting Olly would get to about #4 so it's pleasing to see DWMT looking like being the biggest hit of the four. I do really like 'With Ur Love' and like 'Take A Chance On Me' too but DWMT is hands-down the best of those four.

 

Its an interesting discussion, why have a=most of the X-Factor reality acts flopped this year, usually after a live X-Factor performance most singles would rocket but most havent this year apart from maybe Pro Green? Is it an OA/OS reason or are the songs just particularly poor?!

Or is it just the unstoppable force of Rihanna and her song that fails to get old? :P
Its an interesting discussion, why have a=most of the X-Factor reality acts flopped this year, usually after a live X-Factor performance most singles would rocket but most havent this year apart from maybe Pro Green? Is it an OA/OS reason or are the songs just particularly poor?!

 

I think it's actually the songs themselves.

 

I've noticed this year, most artists lead with a europop, up-beat song, which always does extremely well, and then follow up with a slower urban song, which always does really badly. Examples:

 

Rihanna - We Found Love - europop - does well, then You Da One - urban, doesn't do so well

JLS - She Makes Me Wanna - europop, does well, then Take a Chance on Me - urban, doesn't do well

Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger - europop, does well, then With Ur Love - urban, doesn't do well

Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath - europop, does well, then Right There - urban, doesn't do well

Pixie Lott - All About Tonight - europop, does well, then What Do You Take Me For? - urban, doesn't do well

Jennifer Lopez - On the Floor - europop, does well, then I'm Into You - urban, doesn't do well

 

Okay, you get the picture. :lol: In this chart climate, the slower songs with drums (i.e. urban songs) nearly always do worse than the fast electronic songs with no drums.

 

So I think it's the fact that Cher, One Direction and JLS have released slower songs that they've flopped (I wouldn't say flopped, but not done so well). It's the general rule. There's only been a few exceptions this year.

 

So basically, I think they would've got #1 if they'd released more commercial songs themselves.

To be fair, Most of the x-factor charity singles are ''Weak'' It doesn't stop them getting #1 and having the biggest first week sales of the year every single year does it? ''Wishing On A Star'' will 100% be #1. :)

 

Has it a CD out...in that case it could do 120k or so with the xmas shoppers and stuff, like the winners single!

Or is it just the unstoppable force of Rihanna and her song that fails to get old? :P

 

 

But most of the songs sell only like 60-75k after an x-factor performance, which is poor then they fall down the chart as quick as anything. i seriously think its the late releases....god JLS are performing their 3rd single on graeme norton now - do you feel what i feel - they must have given up on Take a chance on me already!

Is Lady GaGa in the top 100 with "white christmas"?

 

Is it out yet? I heard she has a christmas EP coming out with this on it, she performed it during thanks giving in the us yesterday!

I think it's actually the songs themselves.

 

I've noticed this year, most artists lead with a europop, up-beat song, which always does extremely well, and then follow up with a slower urban song, which always does really badly. Examples:

 

Rihanna - We Found Love - europop - does well, then You Da One - urban, doesn't do so well

JLS - She Makes Me Wanna - europop, does well, then Take a Chance on Me - urban, doesn't do well

Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger - europop, does well, then With Ur Love - urban, doesn't do well

Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath - europop, does well, then Right There - urban, doesn't do well

Pixie Lott - All About Tonight - europop, does well, then What Do You Take Me For? - urban, doesn't do well

Jennifer Lopez - On the Floor - europop, does well, then I'm Into You - urban, doesn't do well

 

Okay, you get the picture. :lol: In this chart climate, the slower songs with drums (i.e. urban songs) nearly always do worse than the fast electronic songs with no drums.

 

So I think it's the fact that Cher, One Direction and JLS have released slower songs that they've flopped (I wouldn't say flopped, but not done so well). It's the general rule. There's only been a few exceptions this year.

 

So basically, I think they would've got #1 if they'd released more commercial songs themselves.

 

You Da One hasn't had a chance to be successful yet - just because it's underperforming a bit at the moment doesn't mean it won't be a big hit when it starts getting promo (although it'd have to do REALLY well to avoid 'not doing so well' in comparison to We Found Love, but you surely wouldn't expect that anyway given it's a post-album single...)

 

With Ur Love will probably outsell Swagger Jagger overall and it had higher first week sales despite peaking at #4, so I'd dispute her inclusion at all. Also surely Swagger Jagger is if anything the more urban song? They're both pure dance-pop but at least SJ has something resembling rap in it.

 

And again with Nicole, you're comparing a pre-album single to a post-album single. Based on the natural law of diminishing returns there I'd say on the whole RT was just as big as DHYB if not bigger.

 

Won't argue with your other examples though :lol:

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Is it out yet? I heard she has a christmas EP coming out with this on it, she performed it during thanks giving in the us yesterday!

 

 

Yeah, it was released yesterday on the EP

I've noticed this year, most artists lead with a europop, up-beat song, which always does extremely well, and then follow up with a slower urban song, which always does really badly. Examples:

 

Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath - europop, does well, then Right There - urban, doesn't do well

 

Right There sold 200,000, peaked at #3 and spent 12 weeks in the top 40! That's not doing 'really badly'?

 

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