Jump to content

iTunes Weekly Thread W/C 24th March 2013

Hitstastic
in UK Charts

Featured Replies

  • Replies 639
  • Views 58k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Has Scream and Shout already left top 40? :o

The Now! version is quite high, so combined it will be Top 40.

04. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - P!nk

18. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - P!nk

27. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - P!nk

 

#01 officially, please :(

I'd do anything to see Pink at #1 over PJ & Duncan this week - if there's one thing we don't need in the charts at the moment, it's gimmick #1s. Once the effect of it doing well in the charts wears off, it's going to bomb straight out of the charts, which is just a pain to see.

 

Hope everyone's anticipating the first-week sales/debut of "Need U (100%)" next week - is #1 a near certainty, or do we think it's been held back at bit too long?

44. Falling - Haim :cheer:

122. Twenty Eight - The Weeknd

125. Biblical - Biffy Clyro

133. Retrograde - James Blake

140. Need U (100%) - Need You 100 :lol:

155. Full Circle - Half Moon Run (doing extremely well already, must hear this soon)

 

112. What Would You Do - City High

^ classic track, Bastille did an

of this on their "Other People's Heartache" EP

 

'What Would You Do' would be a very welcome return to the top 100 for me. So many memories attached to that song and my secondary school days :wub:
Grin.

 

What I don't get is - if it only got to #9 originally, why is it doing so much better now?

Because Wet Wet Wet - Love is all around, All 4 One - I Swear, BC-52's, Let Loose - Crazy For You, China Black - Searching, Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate, Aswad - Shine and finally Grid - Swamp Thing are not so much in heavy rotation as they were in 1994.

 

 

Because Wet Wet Wet - Love is all around, All 4 One - I Swear, BC-52's, Let Loose - Crazy For You, China Black - Searching, Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate, Aswad - Shine and finally Grid - Swamp Thing are not so much in heavy rotation as they were in 1994.

 

And let's not forget that the majority of those are classics, which I doubt will be said for most of the current top 10

Wow. Mac Miller top 20 on UK iTunes. :lol: The surprises in 2013 continue.

 

It's a good song though. Ariana is welcome to smash if she continues doing songs like this. :coffee:

  • Author

What exactly is this Ariana track? (is it from a film, I genuinely have no idea :lol: ) I noticed it rocketed up to #1 on US iTunes but was surprised to see it top 20 on UK iTunes when I checked at lunch time.

 

Is it any good?

 

Edit; I'll just YouTube it and find out.

And let's not forget that the majority of those are classics, which I doubt will be said for most of the current top 10

 

Mirrors, Pompeii and White Noise BEG TO DIFFER! -_- :kink:

What exactly is this Ariana track? (is it from a film, I genuinely have no idea :lol: ) I noticed it rocketed up to #1 on US iTunes but was surprised to see it top 20 on UK iTunes when I checked at lunch time.

 

Is it any good?

 

Edit; I'll just YouTube it and find out.

She's from a Nickelodeon show, so obviously it's shit lolz.

 

It's actually not too bad, her voice is quite thin but it puts me in mind of an early Mariah Carey track. It's growing on me anyway.

04. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - P!nk

18. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - P!nk

27. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - P!nk

 

#01 officially, please :(

 

Ant & Dec should start freefalling now :angry:

Mirrors, Pompeii and White Noise BEG TO DIFFER! -_- :kink:

 

I said most, not all.

I think the success of "Let's get ready to rhumble" just proves surely what we already knew- namely that giving a song promo on a peak time Saturday night show (a la X Factor) is the best promotion you can get, coupled with the fact that many youngsters won't have heard it before, or recall that Ant & Dec were even popstars in the 90s.

 

And for older folk it's a chance to indulge in a bit of nostalgia obviously!

I think the success of "Let's get ready to rhumble" just proves surely what we already knew- namely that giving a song promo on a peak time Saturday night show (a la X Factor) is the best promotion you can get, coupled with the fact that many youngsters won't have heard it before, or recall that Ant & Dec were even popstars in the 90s.

 

And for older folk it's a chance to indulge in a bit of nostalgia obviously!

 

Not really. Songs like Trouble by Leona Lewis, Backtrack by Rebecca Ferguson, Shine Ya Light by Rita Ora, Looking Hot by No Doubt, Sight of You by Tulisa, were performed on X Factor.

 

Songs like Give Me Everything by Pitbull, Airplanes by B.o.B, Thrift Shop by Macklemore, Love the Way You Lie by Eminem, Good Feeling by Flo Rida, etc. the artists never had to perform those songs on TV. But those sold much more, as they had much better promotion.

 

You look at even songs like We Are Young by fun. which were performed. The performance got it, what, 20,000 extra sales? Where did the other 980,000+ come from? Only a very small amount of Titanium's sales come from its TV performance too. That song would've sold 900,000+ without being performed on TV.

 

Even the songs which got bigger boosts, like What's My Name? or Meet Me Halfway, the tens of thousands of sales they got boosted by are pretty small in the grand scheme of things, and those songs were already hits beforehand.

 

Even Beneath Your Beautiful and Someone Like You, their TV performance shot them to #1, but it was something else that was keeping those songs selling from week 2 onwards, and ultimately, it's just a small proportion of the sales that come directly as a result from the TV performance. If you perform on TV and have no other promotion after that you will just tumble down the chart, as many songs do.

Edited by Eric_Blob

Not really. Songs like Trouble by Leona Lewis, Backtrack by Rebecca Ferguson, Shine Ya Light by Rita Ora, Looking Hot by No Doubt, Sight of You by Tulisa, were performed on X Factor.

 

Songs like Give Me Everything by Pitbull, Airplanes by B.o.B, Thrift Shop by Macklemore, Love the Way You Lie by Eminem, Good Feeling by Flo Rida, etc. the artists never had to perform those songs on TV. But those sold much more, as they had much better promotion.

 

You look at even songs like We Are Young by fun. which were performed. The performance got it, what, 20,000 extra sales? Where did the other 980,000+ come from? Only a very small amount of Titanium's sales come from its TV performance too. That song would've sold 900,000+ without being performed on TV.

 

Even the songs which got bigger boosts, like What's My Name? or Meet Me Halfway, the tens of thousands of sales they got boosted by are pretty small in the grand scheme of things, and those songs were already hits beforehand.

 

Even Beneath Your Beautiful and Someone Like You, their TV performance shot them to #1, but it was something else that was keeping those songs selling from week 2 onwards, and ultimately, it's just a small proportion of the sales that come directly as a result from the TV performance. If you perform on TV and have no other promotion after that you will just tumble down the chart, as many songs do.

Re: your first point- indeed there will always be exception to the rule but the broad point still stands.

 

Secondly you're talking about performance and sales beyond the first week. None of us know how it will sell beyond this week but chances are you're right it will fade quickly and I doubt that LGRTR will trouble the airplay chart to any extent and will reflect its quick descent down the charts.

 

To argue the alternative I doubt that LGRTR would be where it is WITHOUT that TV performance (and its repeats) so to attribute its sales to anything else would be stretching the point. Of course the resulting press is keeping it there longer than a single performance would have

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
Go to topic listing

Recently Browsing 0

  • No registered users viewing this page.