*shucks* you guys ...

 

Anyway, I'm not gonna turn this into the ask Alex Day questions thread, especially since last Christmas you were all moaning at how I ruin the charts by exploiting the remix rule :P

 

Ignore them, Robyn exploited the same rule in 2007 and got the stunning With Every Heartbeat to #1 thanks entirely to the combination of about 5 or 6 different versions helping her edge past Timbaland (despite no single version going to #1 on iTunes), I don't recall anybody moaning about that :lol:

 

Congrats anyway, Lady Godiva is at least as good as Forever Yours imo, it's more my sort of thing at least melody-wise.

Well presumably I'm supposed to be in the demographic of people that would know this Call Me Maybe song, no? I always find that 'hype' and 'airplay' is its own industry, they say it'll be big so it gets big, and it doesn't have any bearing at all on what people actually like and want to listen to. They've had fair warning that I was releasing my thing but nobody takes any interest. (Godiva's charting on iTunes in over ten countries as we speak <3)

Hmm yes fair point - Call Me Maybe is breezy teen pop for younger people (generalising here) and I imagine it's the same age of people who will follow your career and download Lady Godiva, even though Call Me Maybe has had the Bieber approval which suddenly makes everyone love it, when it's been out since October-ish.

2. Nicki Minaj - Starships

3. Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music

*shucks* you guys ...

 

Anyway, I'm not gonna turn this into the ask Alex Day questions thread, especially since last Christmas you were all moaning at how I ruin the charts by exploiting the remix rule :P

Moaning is the rule of thumb here i'm afraid :lol:

 

Feel free to put a link to your new single in your sig, btw (as long as it isn't too big and spammy!)

I turned down labels (re a video on my YouTube channel which I can't post the link for but it's called Record Labels Are Rubbish) as they want me to wait a year, release an album, not produce my own stuff, change how I speak to my audience, pander to radio etc etc etc ... this is far more fun :)

 

Lol, I remember watching this and laughing so hard when you met up with the A&R guy and "he said we can do this, this and this... no, really, he said we can do this "this, this and this"" :huh:

 

I watched that "Record labels are rubbish" video ages ago since I saw it trending on Youtube once. :lol:

 

Personally I think there's nothing wrong with having lots of remixes. In the US artists have been using remixes to get higher chart positions for decades apparently (by sending different remixes to different radio stations, etc.).

 

I hope Carly Rae Jepsen gets to #1. It's a very, very catchy song (and I DO actually like it, nobody has told me I have to like it).

Let's say hypothetically, Carly and her two fake versions stay in the Top 40 until Sunday. Will all three chart separately, or will the sales be totalled?

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SURELY, Nicki has #1 in the bag this week? Video coming out, Album version aswell and Carly seems to be progressing slowly.

Carly to #12. Shouldn't be too long until she's in the top 10 and the top 10 effect takes place!

Let's say hypothetically, Carly and her two fake versions stay in the Top 40 until Sunday. Will all three chart separately, or will the sales be totalled?

No, they would just both chart seperately as the fakes are effectively just covers, so on the chart show they would both get top 40 and be seperately played.

Casual music buyers buy what they like out of what they are exposed to, which yes is the songs with the hype and airplay behind them, because this is what they hear all day every day. I wouldn't say that it doesn't have any bearing on what people like and want to listen to, whenever I hear songs blaring out of people's phones in public etc...it's almost always chart hits.

 

Of course it's grossly unfair that the media dictate the shape of the charts and what consumers are exposed to to a huge extent meaning that independent artists, foreign language songs, Euro hits etc...go completely ignored, but people don't part with their cash to buy songs that they don't like, they're just buying what they like the most out of what they've heard on the radio/TV.

 

A lot of people don't search for music independently, they just rely on these two main sources for discovering new music. Even looking at the personal charts on here, at least half of them are completely tailored towards the UK charts and this represents a large proportion of society on the whole - if Heart, Capital and Radio 1 aren't playing it, then a lot of people will never hear it. History shows MANY examples of hugely hyped and airplayed songs that the public genuinely haven't liked and connected to and they've flopped. If a song gets huge hype and gets to #1 then it hasn't got there because nobody likes it, it's got there because it's a genuinely popular song that people have made a conscious decision to spend their own hard earnt (maybe!) money buying.

 

I appreciate all methods of people trying to get into the charts and get exposure though, it makes them a whole lot more interesting to look at and is always a good two finger salute to the radio and TV programmers who refuse to play these unexpected hits for whatever reason.

Great to see Sean Paul at #1 and Chris Brown down to #3

 

Call Me Maybe #12

iLL Manors #19 :o :drama:

Come on Carly!! Top 10 by 4pm please!! :D

Alex Day

 

Lady Godiva 14

Lady Godiva (Carrie Hope Fletcher Remix) 74

Lady Godiva (Acoustic Version) 80

Lady Godiva (Michael Aranda Godiva Remix) 97

Lady Godiva (Alex Carpenter Remix) - 137

Lady Godiva (Eddplant Remix) 142

Lady Godiva (Benjamin Cook Remix) - 167

Lady Godiva (a Cappella Remix) 180

Lady Godiva (Instrumental) - 199

Lady Godiva (Red Version) - 224

Lady Godiva (Narrator Remix) - 267

Lady Godiva (Struwelpeter Remix) - 279

 

Carly Rae Jepsen

 

Call Me Maybe 12

 

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What is with all of these remixes being released? Would an EP not make more sense? Are they so the fans by them all seperately and the song charts higher.

 

Don't have a problem with it, just wondering why every artist doesn't do this :lol:

I hear quite a lot of people listening to non-chart hits personally. The song I've heard the most this year (and I'm talking in real life, and everyday people that I DON'T know, not my friends) only charted at #39.

 

It'll be different for everybody though. What music people listen to varies with demographics. With a different age group in a different part of the country you'd probably hear different music when out and about.

Haha - "Alex Day is back?" - I never left! I'm a musician, I release songs, this is what I do. And I'm fine thank you :)

 

That's great to hear :). I have much respect for artists who manage to make the charts spending only a fraction of what the major labels spend to get there, so I wish you all the best. And if you're ever in Belfast, you're more than welcome to come into Queen's Radio.

What is with all of these remixes being released? Would an EP not make more sense? Are they so the fans by them all seperately and the song charts higher.

 

Don't have a problem with it, just wondering why every artist doesn't do this :lol:

 

Yeah, I think the same. If I were an artist, I'd have loads of remixes to a song, and I'd go even further and promote them seperately as if they were different songs (lots of remixes are different enough to pass as a different song).

Carly #11!!! Everybody prepare yourselves for a smash!!!! :cheer:

Call Me Maybe #11

Lady Godiva #14

Oh My Goodness #16