Bohemian Rhapsody #116

Who Wants to Live Forever #361 :wub:

 

Billie Jean #146

Home Run only 59p now already, I've just downloaded. Hope its at least #10 come Sunday!

Well, it has an advantage being 59p. But it has to be top 5 by Wednesday to have any chance of the No.1 spot.

Someone Like You # 55

Nothing Compares to U # 71 (Also at 183)

A Whiter Shade of Pale #74

Everything I Do (I Do It For You) #79

The Drugs Don't Work #92

Don't Look Back in Anger #104

Bohiemian Rhapody # 115

House of the Rising Sun #123

Billie Jean #142

Gangsta's Paradise #149

Wuthering Heights #152

Don't You Want Me #165

Bridge Over Troubled Water #186

 

Erm, what? I can understand not liking it, or thinking it's overrated, but surely it must be pretty bloody obvious why it's a big deal as a track?

 

Not really - that's why I made the comment I did. ;)

 

I mean, everyone has trouble getting *some* of the biggest singles - after all, even the most successful sell to no more than 2-3% of the population. :)

There are some songs that I can't understand why they're so popular in the charts (e.g. recently Moves Like Jagger or Love the Way You Lie), but Bohemian Rhapsody is so obvious to me! :lol: It's a very unique song for starters.

Love The Way You Lie makes sense to me, but Moves Like Jagger's MASSIVE success does baffle me personally. I see why it's done well, but quite how it's done as well as it has baffles me. And, I'll never understand the obsession with Somebody That I Used To Know myself, but I'm probably blinded by my hatred for it on that occasion, I'll admit.

Love The Way You Lie makes sense to me, but Moves Like Jagger's MASSIVE success does baffle me personally. I see why it's done well, but quite how it's done as well as it has baffles me. And, I'll never understand the obsession with Somebody That I Used To Know myself, but I'm probably blinded by my hatred for it on that occasion, I'll admit.

 

Yeah exactly. In 10 years time, if someone asks me to explain to them why Someone Like You was such a big hit, I can give them a massive explanation about the music scene at the time (dance, autotune, overproduced, synths galore, etc.), and how Someone Like You contrasted from that so extremely, I can mention her BRITs performance, the worldwide success of her album, the lack of good vocalists in the mainstream, people's (ridiculous) fascination over Adele's weight, etc. You can write a whole article on Someone Like You's chart success (infact, last year quite a few news sites did articles about the Adele, Ed Sheeran, etc. wave).

 

What can I say about Moves Like Jagger? All I can think of is that it was played on the radio a lot. I could also mention about Adam and Christina being judges in a US talent show, and I could also mention about Maroon 5 abaondoning their pop-rock sound to a more mainstream disco-pop sound, and the Mick Jagger reference from Tik Tok, and the whistling trend with Pumped Up Kicks, Good Life, I Wanna Go, etc. That's all I can think of really.

 

I'm not trying to criticize Moves Like Jagger, just I can never explain to someone why it was such a massive hit. I'd also have trouble explaining Love the Way You Lie's success tbh (although I love the song).

 

Songs don't sell over 1,000,000 just because they're catchy. Lots of insanely catchy songs out there never reach the iTunes top 1000. There has to be more than just "catchy" for a song to be such a massive hit.

Edited July 16, 201212 yr by Eric_Blob

11. Home Run (Radio Edit) - Misha B

24. Wonderful - Angel

35. Turn Up the Love (feat. Cover Drive) - Far East Movement

60. The Fighter (feat. Ryan Tedder) - Gym Class Heroes

64. Sad - Elton John vs Pnau

 

64. Sad - Elton John vs Pnau

 

Love this! It better do well

Yeah exactly. In 10 years time, if someone asks me to explain to them why Someone Like You was such a big hit, I can give them a massive explanation about the music scene at the time (dance, autotune, overproduced, synths galore, etc.), and how Someone Like You contrasted from that so extremely, I can mention her BRITs performance, the worldwide success of her album, the lack of good vocalists in the mainstream, people's (ridiculous) fascination over Adele's weight, etc. You can write a whole article on Someone Like You's chart success (infact, last year quite a few news sites did articles about the Adele, Ed Sheeran, etc. wave).

 

What can I say about Moves Like Jagger? All I can think of is that it was played on the radio a lot. I could also mention about Adam and Christina being judges in a US talent show, and I could also mention about Maroon 5 abaondoning their pop-rock sound to a more mainstream disco-pop sound, and the Mick Jagger reference from Tik Tok, and the whistling trend with Pumped Up Kicks, Good Life, I Wanna Go, etc. That's all I can think of really.

 

I'm not trying to criticize Moves Like Jagger, just I can never explain to someone why it was such a massive hit. I'd also have trouble explaining Love the Way You Lie's success tbh (although I love the song).

 

Songs don't sell over 1,000,000 just because they're catchy. Lots of insanely catchy songs out there never reach the iTunes top 1000. There has to be more than just "catchy" for a song to be such a massive hit.

Love The Way You Lie, I'd imagine was the combination of two massively popular artists coming together, Rihanna I'd say was probably at her peak of popularity at that point. It was quite a well beat driven song with the Alex Da Kid production, the really aggressive rap appealed to the big Eminem fans, but the softer chorus of Rihanna appealed to a different audience. It appealed to plenty of different audiences, and the fact it was basically a ballad means that people like my mum also like it too :lol:

Love this! It better do well

 

If it's that high already, it's doing alot better than I imagined. I do quite like this track though, shame it probably won't go Top 40 :(

Love The Way You Lie, I'd imagine was the combination of two massively popular artists coming together, Rihanna I'd say was probably at her peak of popularity at that point.

 

Not really relevant to your general point, but I wouldn't say Rihanna was at her peak at that point in particular. Her peak was definitely around the end of last year. 'We Found Love' is her biggest-seller ever (I think - it certainly must be her biggest-selling solo single at least...) and she released it off the back of her biggest album campaign so far (Loud). Just wanted to clarify... :P

Not really relevant to your general point, but I wouldn't say Rihanna was at her peak at that point in particular. Her peak was definitely around the end of last year. 'We Found Love' is her biggest-seller ever (I think - it certainly must be her biggest-selling solo single at least...) and she released it off the back of her biggest album campaign so far (Loud). Just wanted to clarify... :P

 

Well, I agree it certainly wasn't her peak before LTWYL was released. Her single before it in the US was Rockstar 101, which was a massive flop, and in the UK it was Hard, which also missed the top 40.

 

Her peak imo was late 2010 after LTWYL when Only Girl and What's My Name? were both dominating, or in 2008 when she had loads of massive smashes that year (Don't Stop the Music, Take a Bow, Live Your Life, Disturbia).

 

I wouldn't say it was around the end of last year, since she only had one song popular then.

Misha B is closing in on Katy hurry up and get in the top 10 !

Misha B cant sustain this it must be front-loaded even with 59p I can see her in mid 30's come Saturday.Maroon 5 :puke2:

Oh dear, hope Misha B can hold up :(

 

Everyone was saying she'd be bigger than even Little Mix and she's here struggling to go top 10 even with a reduction! Shame :( God knows how badly she'd be doing at full price!

 

(I know top 20 is nothing to turn your nose up at but with the hype and support she has plus a reduction she should at least be 6/7 ish by now I would have thought!)

Florence is back ahead of Maroon 5 combined. I think it will remain like this until Friday and then Maroon 5 will take over again like last week. Possibly a second week for Florence, but Maroon 5 more likely.

Songs don't sell over 1,000,000 just because they're catchy. Lots of insanely catchy songs out there never reach the iTunes top 1000. There has to be more than just "catchy" for a song to be such a massive hit.

 

I'd say most songs that have sold this much have huge crossover appeal. I mean, even my mum liked Moves Like Jagger :lol: . Other songs that I'd argue have cross over appeal are definitely Someone Like You, Somebody That I Used To Know etc. I also find that songs that have a lot of longevity tend to have a degree of crossover appeal too (different groups/ ages of people) like Video Games, Written In The Stars etc.

Edited July 16, 201212 yr by cookie_monster

misha performing exactly how I expected her to, fantastic! :D