For some reason, I was expecting Bad Blood to get a big boost when the album was released, and at least repeak from its original #90 peak... but maybe not :wacko:

Oh I haven't been following Bastille's album tracks, 2 other versions of 'Pompeii' in the top 100 now :o It should hold onto the top 3 if not #2 now I think! I'm assuming 'The Silence' and 'Laughter Lines' are only on the deluxe version since they're in the top 100 and don't have a second version top 1500 :P

Birdy up to 31

Birdy up to 31

 

:arrr: Thought that had comfortably stalled around the 50s. Not a song we need back in the top 40 (although at least it's not 'Skinny Love' AGAIN)...

 

94. Intro - The xx

Ha at an intro track charting (although it is pretty much a proper song anyway). Why is this here?

EDIT: Oh this is Top Gear as well. How bizarre that's had so much of an effect. Toto top version still climbing, to #77, second version down to #140 though.

 

Just checked to see if John Legend was charting because of Top Gear too, but there's no mention of it on the YouTube comments (there are a load of comments about the film Think Like a Man but that film came out nearly a year ago so wouldn't explain this suddenly being top 100).

Edited March 5, 201312 yr by Bré

That's because that's the last time where landfill indie was a massive force in the chart. Just like how landfill dance was everywhere in 2010-12.

 

But what even is landfill indie? I don't agree with the concept of it. I see passion and drive in indie just like I see passion and drive in dance. There's usually nothing in music that is produced that hasn't got a purpose.

Bastille is number 2 combined... about 93%. WOW.

Morning update: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=4234676

 

59p songs in the top 100:

 

21 The Script - If You Could See Me Now

38 Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

76 Ke$ha - C'mon

81 The Cranberries - Zombie

86 Kanye West - Jesus Walks

90 Maroon 5 - Daylight

Pompeii could stay at #2 this week at least then! :D

25. The 1975 - Chocolate :w00t:

Laughter Lines (Bastille) is free on iTunes if anybody was thinking about buying it.

Pompeii is on 95%... and increasing hard 2-3% combined in every update... WOW... maybe a new number 1 this week... They can do the DOUBLE.

Pompeii is on 95%... and increasing hard 2-3% combined in every update... WOW... maybe a new number 1 this week... They can do the DOUBLE.

 

that would be AMAZING

The EP of Pompeii is still top 10 (I think) or near enough which will also need to be factored in too...

 

Pompeii for number 1 :)

That'll be amazing if Pompeii gets to #1, as I can't see Justin getting 75k plus for the week since he did 85k last week, Bastille could increase 72k plus last week, it could end up pretty close.

Agreed with this, the change in the charts from 2008 to 2009 is remarkable - just take a look at the Now albums for proof. Xmas 2008's Now 71 has a huge amount of guitar/rock songs (Coldplay, Verve, Kid Rock, Kings of Leon, The Script, Razorlight, Ting Tings, Kaisers etc etc etc). Skip a year later to Now 74 and it's Fight for This Love, I Gotta Feeling, Sexy Chick, Bulletproof etc! Still a few rock songs on there (Sweet Disposition, Uprising, Just Say Yes) but even they're for the most part an endangered species by the 2010 albums.

 

It's funny because I found by 2008 the charts were sounding really tired with landfill indie, yet now in 2013 the Europop put-your-hands-in-the-air sound is starting to feel a bit stale...

 

Adele-mania in 2011 was the beginning of the end for dance-pop really. I knew from then that it was going to end, and I've never seen such a chart phenomenon before. I thought the Black Eyed Peas were huge in 2009 with 3 songs in the year-end top 10, but Adele's success completely blew that out the water, and there was an obvious reason why Adele was successful. Not a synth or a 4-4 dance beat in sight on her album. People now want MUSIC over image again.

 

As for dance-pop, I wouldn't trace its start to 2009 at all. 2006 was easily when it started. You can go on the Internet and see blogs, news reports, etc. about how dance-pop was making a comeback around then, especially in the US. That's the whole reason why Beyonce recorded a song like Sweet Dreams, why Lily Allen recorded a song like The Fear, why Chris Brown recorded a song like Forever, why Kelly Rowland, Akon, etc. collabed with David Guetta, why people like Britney Spears did dance-heavy albums. Alll those songs were recorded in 2008 or before. It was already happening well before 2009 and everybody knew it. 2008 was already a very dance-pop year with the likes of Basshunter, September, etc in the UK, and Disturbia, Womanizer, etc. in the US.

When combining Bastille, did you combine Justin Timberlake, too? I know it won't be much more, but Justin's second version is still comfortably top 100. So I wouldn't completely leave it out...

 

Every little helps etc... :kink:

Adele-mania in 2011 was the beginning of the end for dance-pop really. I knew from then that it was going to end, and I've never seen such a chart phenomenon before. I thought the Black Eyed Peas were huge in 2009 with 3 songs in the year-end top 10, but Adele's success completely blew that out the water, and there was an obvious reason why Adele was successful. Not a synth or a 4-4 dance beat in sight on her album. People now want MUSIC over image again.

 

I don't think Adele blew the Black Eyed Peas out of the water at all. The BEP's had managed to completely re-invent their image and sound from r'n'b/hop hop to full on electro-pop in the space of three years and made it look genuine. 26 weeks at #1 in the US, three massive worldwide singles, good album sales and a huge buzz around them wherever they went, I've never seen anything like it.

 

Adele dominated in 2011 but it felt more like she was being rammed down our throats than the BEP's ever were. Her airplay was insane and she was being hailed as the saviour of the music industry. No wonder her album was so huge, it was practically the only album that was getting any attention that year.

22 - The 1975 - Chocolate

 

come onnnnnnnnnn :yahoo:

 

Bastille Pompeii is 3/49/67 + EP is 27 :cheer:

Great to see The 1975 doing well, I expect they are going to have a great year - especially with ROCK and GUITARS breaking back on the chart in 2013! :D

That 1975 song is really good! Bastille and Imagine Dragons are growing on me too.

 

I agree, it's nice to have some variation back as much as I do love a lot of the electro pop/dance stuff.