Cian'S Monthly Review: March

Cian'S Monthly Review: March 2012

Welcome to the third installment of my monthly reviews of the year. This month sees an increase of 12% on total plays of the month. Partially down to the beautiful weather, which always increases my plays.

We see last months high flyer, Maverick Sabre, soar at a respectable #11 this month, missing the top 10 by one play. Hip-Hop duo, Jay-Z & Kanye West, shoot to #1 with the highest months plays since Florence + The Machine in November of '11. Initially I was cautious on purchasing 'Watch The Throne' due to the monstrosity that was H*A*M as a lead single. Luckily the combination of 'Otis' and 'Niggas in Paris' restored my faith and luckily it paid of since Watch The Throne is one of the best albums I have heard in ages. Unfortunately I won't be able to see the duo play Dublin in May due to a complete lack of funds.

Drake played the O2 Dublin on the 24th of March and I was one of the luckiy crowd who went to see the Club Paradise tour. The lead up and aftermath of the concert are the reasons why Drake has re-climbed up to #2. Newbie into my collection, Ben Howard enters at #3 this month thanks to the beautiful 'Every Kingdom' album which set a beautiful musical backdrop to the great weather this month.

'Sounds From Nowheresville' by The Ting Tings, the surprisingly good follow-up album to 'We Started Nothing', was on heavy rotation helped the Ting Tings land in the Top 5, just beating Snow Patrol to the #4 position. 'Fallen Empires' the latest album by the Northern Irish band was also played due to the fact that I will be seeing them in July with Florence & The Machine.

Finally 'At Your Inconveniance' by Professor Green has been playing due to the fact Professor Green, Friendly Fires, Marina & The Diamonds, Labrinth, Ryan Sheridan & Rizzle Kicks will be playing a gig in my university, so expect to see all these artist feature in the April review. Also in April review expect to see a jmp from Ms. Onika Maraj (Nicki Minaj) as her album 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded' managed to get some last minute plays in before the end of the month, and will be played quite a bit ovr the following weeks, watch this space.

Total Plays this month: 1172 up 12.045%

Top 30 Artists

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TW (LW) Artist - Plays (%TW %change)

1. (39) Jay-Z & Kanye West - 92 plays (7.8% up 7.3%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 1

2. (11) Drake - 91 plays (7.7% up 4.9%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 8

3. () Ben Howard - 56 plays (4.8%)

peak: 3, weeks in Top 30: 1

4. (175) The Ting Tings - 49 plays (4.2% up 4.1%)

peak: 4, weeks in Top 30: 2

5. (163) Snow Patrol - 44 plays (3.7% up 3.6%)

peak: 5, weeks in Top 30: 3

6. (86) Professor Green - 44 plays (3.7% up 3.5%)

peak: 6, weeks in Top 30: 2

7. (3) Chris Brown - 43 plays (3.7% down 1.5%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 14

8. (2) The Weeknd - 38 plays (3.2% down 2.3%)

peak: 2, weeks in Top 30: 3

9. (10) Ed Sheeran - 37 plays (3.1% up 0.2%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 8

10. (19) Arctic Monkeys - 28 plays (2.4% up 1.3%)

peak: 2, weeks in Top 30: 10

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11. (1) Maverick Sabre (2.2% down 5.2%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 5

12. () Ellie Goulding (1.5%)

peak: 6, weeks in Top 30: 6

13. (14) Nicki Minaj (1.4% down 0.6%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 7

14. (8) Enrique Iglesias (1.3% down 2.5%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 6

15. (33) The Killers (1.3% up 0.6%)

peak: 11, weeks in Top 30: 3

16. (26) Marina & The Diamonds (1.2% up 0.3%)

peak: 7, weeks in Top 30: 5

17. (116) Clare Maguire (1.1% up 1.0%)

peak: 2, weeks in Top 30: 6

18. () Noah and The Whale (1.1%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 3

19. () Marcus Collins (1.0%)

peak: 19, weeks in Top 30: 1

20. (38) Flo Rida (0.9% up 0.4%)

peak: 10, weeks in Top 30: 4

21. () Ryan Sheridan (0.9%)

peak: 2, weeks in Top 30: 4

22. () Gorillaz (0.8%)

peak: 8, weeks in Top 30: 5

23. (70) Hard-Fi (0.8% up 0.6%)

peak: 2, weeks in Top 30: 3

24. () Christophe Maé (0.7%)

peak: 3, weeks in Top 30: 4

25. () Mark Ronson (0.7%)

peak: 25, weeks in Top 30: 1

26. (16) Friendly Fires (0.7% down 0.8%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 3

27. (77) KT Tunstall (0.7% up 0.5%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 3

28. (155) Noel Gallagher (0.6% up 0.5%)

peak: 28, weeks in Top 30: 1

29. (32) Rihanna (0.6% No Change)

peak: 2, weeks in Top 30: 9

30. (30) Kanye West (0.6% down 0.1%)

peak: 1, weeks in Top 30: 15

ties decided by preference as of 31/3/2012

% of total plays of the month.

Top 10 Tracks

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TW (LW) Artist - Track - Plays (%TW)

1. Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine? - 16 plays (1.3%)

2. Nicki Minaj – Starships - 13 plays (1.1%)

3. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris - 13 plays (1.1%)

4. Marcus Collins – Seven Nation Army - 12 plays (1.0%)

5. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis (feat. Otis Redding) - 10 plays (0.9%)

6. Drake – Practice - 10 plays (0.9%)

7. Gorillaz – DoYaThing (Feat. Andre 3000 & James Murphy) - 9 plays (0.8%)

8. The Ting Tings – Hang It Up 8 plays(0.7%)

9. Marina & the Diamonds – Primadonna - 8 plays (0.7%)

10. Drake – The Motto (feat. Lil Wayne) - 8 plays (0.7%)

ties decided by preference as of 31/3/2012

% of total plays of the month.

Edited July 31, 201213 yr by CianS