I don't understand what's so bad about that Lil Kim song. Buzzjack's sampling-phobia coming back out the woodwork again. :lol:

 

Nothing wrong with sampling, but Lil Kim's song was one of the most pointless US rap songs ever. Of course, Phil Collins agreed to it because he was just thinking $$$ *.* $$$

Isn't she in prison?

She was in prison years ago. Now she's probably on the game, on the dole or in rehab.

 

She was like the 1990's version of Nicki Minaj and she used to hang around and make music with Biggie.

Edited November 23, 201212 yr by Pablo Escobar

I hear she charges one dollar for fulll sex...but that's another story :D

 

Seriously, that was a piss-poor cover and she was VERY lucky it made top 40. Taio Cruz....crap, crap, crap. I remember hearing it on TV and thinking he could sue himself for plagarism! What was insulting was this came above Whitney Houston's "I Look To You" and Mini Viva "I Wish"

Edited November 23, 201212 yr by StAndrews1875

ONE LOVE- David Guetta

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/One-love.jpg

 

PEAK POSITION: 46

SALES: 18K

FOLLOW UP TO: SEXY BITCH

 

After ruining her own follow up here’s Estelle ruining Guetta’s chart profile with this flop. Title track to his album, Guetta was otherwise in fine form in 2009 topping the charts himself and helming the Black Eyed Peas there as well, the problem may be here that this doesn’t “sound” much like your typical Guetta track circa 2009.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY- ESTELLE= THE ANTI SANDE

 

EGO- BEYONCE

 

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Beyonce-Ego.jpg

 

PEAK POSITION: 60

SALES: 18K

FOLLOW UP TO: TELEPHONE

 

The notion of a follow-up in the case of Beyonce and her “I Am...Sasha Fierce” period is always a slight problem but this was the first song to chart post “Telephone” so it gets the honour. As it was the 714th track to chart from the album perhaps it was little surprise that the song failed so conclusively .

 

MORAL OF THE STORY: KNOW WHEN TO MOVE ON!

 

NYC (CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS CITY)- CHARLES & EDDIE

 

http://991.com/newGallery/Charles--Eddie-NYC-Can-You-Belie-277446.jpg

 

PEAK POSITION:33

SALES: 17K

FOLLOW UP TO: WOULD I LIE TO YOU

 

With a little sampling of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What it’s Worth” duo Charles & Eddie unleashed this track onto a largely disinterested audience in February 1993. Far too laid back and meandering, it bobbed around in the lower reaches of the charts before being forgotten about entirely. I hadn’t realised that Charles had actually died way back in 2001. During the week this was released it went head to head with another track which sampled the same track, the far cooler (such a 90s word) Oui 3 who had a slightly bigger hit.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY: ESCAPING THE TAG OF ONE HIT WONDER ISN’T ALWAYS THE EASIEST THING.

 

 

Ego :wub: (Nothing was ever going to top Telephone though :kink:)

 

One Love really got overshadowed at the time of its release, but it's actually quite decent!

Huh? Beyonce is only featured on Telephone.

Huh? Beyonce is only featured on Telephone.

It's a joint credit I believe. :o

I think it's Gaga feat. Beyoncé everywhere... Except on Spotify but they mess those things up all the time.

I think it's Gaga feat. Beyoncé everywhere... Except on Spotify but they mess those things up all the time.

THIS is why I try to avoid doing threads post 2007 :lol: I was sure it was a joint credit- but i-tunes, the OCC, and the vault here suggests it was only a feature so I'll conceed it was. Wikipedia supports me though :D .With Chart stats gone and Polyhex down then I can't check them- anyway consider it bonus.. :(

Not sure if we've discussed follow-ups from 2012 yet:

• Florence and the Machine - 'Spectrum' - scheduled to be followed by 'Lover to Lover'. 'Breath of Life', the soundtrack release to Snow White and the Huntsman reached #87, so you could argue this was it's 'flop' follow-up. In the eyes/ears of the public though, 'Sweet Nothing' (#1), could easily have passed as 'Spectrum''s successor.
• Sam and the Womp - 'Bom Bom' - the inevitable follow-up to this is going to flop. It's currently doing very well in Australia/New Zealand, putting even more pressure on the band to follow it up with something decent. Saw them live back in September and all their material sounds very same-y, so hopefully they've got some different production/a collaboration lined-up to prevent them being one-hit wonders.
• Ne-Yo - 'Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)' - he's become the new Flo Rida, only managing one 'hit' from an album ('Beautiful Monster' and now this). Second single, 'Forever More', was in the iTunes top 100 during the album's release week; but I can't see it doing much (though it did for 'One More Night').
• The Script f/ will.i.am - 'Hall of Fame' - 'Six Degrees of Seperation' is getting support from R1, and is showing up in the T100 on iTunes, but I don't reckon it'll do much - and certainly won't be reaching the top 40; which is a real shame.
• PSY - 'Gangnam Style' - 'nuff said really. Though he is planning on releasing more English-based lyrical songs on his next 'album'.

 

One Love! :heart: One of my favourites from the same titled album, should have been much bigger than a lousy #46. Don't know why it flopped - perhaps people were still loving Sexy Chick?

 

I don't think Ego was released in the UK (neither was Diva, Video Phone nor Why Don't You Love Me) just an "airplay" single, although it was released as a single in other countries I believe. It's very debatable, but still Ego still deserves a place here.

THIS is why I try to avoid doing threads post 2007 :lol: I was sure it was a joint credit- but i-tunes, the OCC, and the vault here suggests it was only a feature so I'll conceed it was. Wikipedia supports me though :D .With Chart stats gone and Polyhex down then I can't check them- anyway consider it bonus.. :(

 

Album tracklisting says 'feat. Beyoncé' so I use that in my spreadsheet but I have seen both!

Not sure if we've discussed follow-ups from 2012 yet:

• Florence and the Machine - 'Spectrum' - scheduled to be followed by 'Lover to Lover'. 'Breath of Life', the soundtrack release to Snow White and the Huntsman reached #87, so you could argue this was it's 'flop' follow-up. In the eyes/ears of the public though, 'Sweet Nothing' (#1), could easily have passed as 'Spectrum''s successor.
• Sam and the Womp - 'Bom Bom' - the inevitable follow-up to this is going to flop. It's currently doing very well in Australia/New Zealand, putting even more pressure on the band to follow it up with something decent. Saw them live back in September and all their material sounds very same-y, so hopefully they've got some different production/a collaboration lined-up to prevent them being one-hit wonders.
• Ne-Yo - 'Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)' - he's become the new Flo Rida, only managing one 'hit' from an album ('Beautiful Monster' and now this). Second single, 'Forever More', was in the iTunes top 100 during the album's release week; but I can't see it doing much (though it did for 'One More Night').
• The Script f/ will.i.am - 'Hall of Fame' - 'Six Degrees of Seperation' is getting support from R1, and is showing up in the T100 on iTunes, but I don't reckon it'll do much - and certainly won't be reaching the top 40; which is a real shame.
• PSY - 'Gangnam Style' - 'nuff said really. Though he is planning on releasing more English-based lyrical songs on his next 'album'.

 

I actually prefer 'Forever Now' to 'Let Me Love You' - but I think the problem is that they sound too similar and too generic.

I'm not too sure why 'Six Degrees of Separation' isn't doing a little better than it is, but I do know that there are better single choices on the album - 'If You Could See Me Now' would have been a GUARANTEED Top 40 hit!

Agreed about the Psy/Sam & The Womp follow ups, they're gonna do nothing!

 

'Breath Of Life' was released before 'Spectrum'.

I was listening to Ego earlier today. It's a brilliant song. Especially the Kanye West remix, he did such a massive verse for that remix!! :lol:

 

I forgot about One Love. It's still weird it didn't reach the top 40, although I suppose Estelle maybe was part of the reason.

I knew Charles and Eddie would be on this list. Im sure there will be at least one more song from 1993 here

 

*cough Shaggy cough*

 

R.I.P to Charles btw.

 

Not sure if we've discussed follow-ups from 2012 yet:

• Sam and the Womp - 'Bom Bom' - the inevitable follow-up to this is going to flop. It's currently doing very well in Australia/New Zealand, putting even more pressure on the band to follow it up with something decent. Saw them live back in September and all their material sounds very same-y, so hopefully they've got some different production/a collaboration lined-up to prevent them being one-hit wonders.

I don't think we'll ever see Sam And The Womp again in the UK charts.

Poor Estelle, shame as that was a David Guetta track with character! I proudly have my copy of it in storage :D

 

"Ego"....never liked this, then yet again a lot of Beyonce's stuff is average. Strong voice, but very average songs. Ditch Jay-Z and perhaps find a better song-writer to showcase her voice.

 

The Charles and Eddie track is decent, but not "Would I Like To You" They came back again in 1995 with this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGgEbtw-Ak

I am actually a fan of Taio Cruz, I really liked 'No Other One'

 

I also like Sam and the Womp so I imagine I will like their future releases (even if they don't chart well :w00t: )