If it was legal to marry a song, I would absolutely marry this London Grammar song. Absolutely beautiful.

Don't like it as much as "Wasting My Young Years" yet but lovely to see it in the top 20 :wub:

London Grammar's Strong. :yahoo: I prefer it to WMYY now. :wub:

Strong isn't actually that bad, the vocalist is giving me Florence + The Machine vibes. Good to see that it's outpeaked WMYY.

Such a promising group. I think I still prefer WMYY to this though.

This song reminds me of Massive Attack so much :)

First time hearing this London Grammer track. Not bad actually. I likey :)

Strong is beautiful and it reminds me a little bit of Massive Attack - Teardrop :)

Strong is amazing. The verses remind me of "Trouble" by Coldplay which also uses the phrase "caught in the middle" :wub:

 

Not as the good as his last hit wish should have been released as the followup to "Troublemaker" in the US in my opinon

Completely agree with you!

 

Strong :wub:

16 (from 11) Sean Paul - Other Side Of Love [D]

 

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Chart Run: 7-11-16 [3 wks]

 

Release date: 18-08-2013

Format: download only single

Label: VP/Atlantic Records

 

Sales: 30k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

Dancehall superstar Sean Paul began scoring hit singles in Jamaica in 1996 and steadily attracted international attention thereafter, eventually breaking into the pop mainstream in 2002 with Dutty Rock. Born Sean Paul Henriques on January 8, 1973, the multi-ethnic Paul (his parents had Portuguese, Chinese, and Jamaican forebears) grew up comfortably in St. Andrew, Jamaica, his mother a renowned painter. He was a skilled athlete, excelling in swimming and especially water polo, playing for the Jamaican national team in the latter. Although his education was enough to land him a prosperous career, dancehall music remained Paul's first love, particularly crafting rhythm tracks. He became a DJ after he began writing his own songs, patterning his style largely after Super Cat and finding a mentor in Don Yute; he also found contacts in several members of the reggae-pop band Third World in 1993, which helped open up business connections.

 

Paul released his debut single, "Baby Girl," with producer Jeremy Harding in 1996; it proved a significant success, leading to further Jamaican hits like "Nah Get No Bly (One More Try)," "Deport Them," "Excite Me," "Infiltrate," and "Hackle Mi." In 1999, Sean Paul started to make inroads to American audiences; he was first commissioned to collaborate with fellow dancehall hitmaker Mr. Vegas on a production for rapper DMX; titled "Here Comes the Boom," the song was included in director Hype Williams' film Belly. Also that year, Paul scored a Top Ten hit on the Billboard rap charts with "Hot Gal Today." Unfortunately, Paul had a very public falling out with Mr. Vegas over the packaging of the latter's remix of "Hot Gal Today"; still, it didn't slow Paul's career momentum, as he played the Summer Jam 2000 in New York City, the center of his American popularity.

 

That fall, Paul released his first album on VP Records; the sprawling Stage One collected many of Paul's previous hit singles and compilation cuts, plus a few brand-new tracks. Dutty Rock (2002) and The Trinity (2005) were extremely successful. Both albums peaked in the Top Ten of the album chart and featured a handful of mainstream smashes. His 2009 release Imperial Blaze featured the singles "So Fine" and "Hold My Hand," the latter a duet with Keri Hilson. The loose Odyssey Mixtape dropped in 2011 and was followed a year later by Tomahawk Technique, a more pop and dance-oriented album with production from the likes of Stargate, DJ Ammo, and Benny Blanco. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2002 32 Gimme The Light -1-

2003 16 Make It Clap (Busta Rhymes Feat. Sean Paul & Spliff Star)

2003 05 Gimme The Light (2003 Re-issue) -1-

2003 04 Get Busy -2-

2003 59 Breathe (Import) (Blu Cantrell Feat. Sean Paul)

2003 01 Breathe (Blu Cantrell Feat. Sean Paul)

2003 03 Like Glue -3-

2003 02 Baby Boy (Beyonce Feat. Sean Paul)

2004 06 I'm Still In Love With You (Sean Paul Feat. Sasha) -4-

2005 02 We Be Burnin' -1-

2005 12 Ever Blazin' -2-

2006 11 Temperature -3-

2006 71 Cry Baby Cry (Santana Feat. Sean Paul & Joss Stone)

2006 22 Never Gonna Be The Same -4-

2006 31 (When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me (Sean Paul Feat. Keyshia Cole) -5-

2009 25 So Fine -1-

2010 13 Do You Remember (Jay Sean Feat. Sean Paul And Lil Jon)

2011 11 Got 2 Luv U (Sean Paul Feat. Alexis Jordan) -1-

2012 02 She Doesn't Mind -2-

2012 12 Summer Paradise (Simple Plan Feat. Sean Paul)

2013 01 What About Us (The Saturdays Feat. Sean Paul)

2013 07 Other Side Of Love -1-

Brilliant for London Grammar, definitely wasn't expecting them to stay top 20 earlier this week!

 

From London Grammar to Sean Paul. :manson:

Fab song followed by.... this. :(

Glad to see "Same Love" going top 20. I hope it can go top 10 eventually. :wub:

I can't take Sean Paul seriously even when he sings semi-serious songs. :lol:

Yes at Blurred Lines going down :D

15 (from 10) Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines [D]

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-3-5-7-10-10-15 [15 wks]

 

Release date: 26-05-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Star Trak, LLC

 

Sales: 1,300K+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

One of the more charismatic, flashy, and commercially successful R&B acts of the 2000s and 2010s, Robin Thicke didn't have the toughest row to hoe to achieve stardom, but he was one of the least likely artists to acquire street credibility. He worked for over a decade as a modestly successful songwriter and fledgling solo artist prior to breaking through — assisted by the Neptunes — with 2006's The Evolution of Robin Thicke. On that album, his inspirations, ranging from '70s Marvin Gaye to Philly soul to classic Brazilian music, vividly coalesced with his somewhat brash personality and remarkable vocal skill. It was the first of several Top Ten R&B albums in a career that involved symbiotic collaborations with long-term associate Pro-Jay, Pharrell and Chad Hugo, Mark Ronson, and Polow da Don, as well as credibility-enhancing appearances from (or with) Lil Wayne, Faith Evans, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, and T.I.

 

Show biz is in Thicke's Canadian-American genes. The son of vocalist and actor Gloria Loring and theme song composer and actor Alan Thicke, he grew up in suburban Los Angeles, surrounded by the entertainment industry. A demo he recorded at the age of 14 was heard by Brian McKnight, who helped the youngster — subsequently nicknamed Brian McWhite — get a recording deal with the Interscope label. However, Thicke experienced his earliest success as a songwriter. Before the end of 2000, he either wrote or co-wrote songs for Brandy ("Love Is on My Side"), McKnight ("Anyway"), Color Me Badd ("Sexual Capacity"), Brownstone ("Around You"), Christina Aguilera ("When You Put Your Hands on Me"), and Marc Anthony ("When I Dream at Night"). He was also involved with several songs on Mya's Fear of Flying, as well as the majority of Jordan Knight's self-titled 1999 album, including the Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 hit "Give It to You."

 

Despite all the work as a composer, he was still finding his footing as a solo artist. Advances of his debut album, Cherry Blue Skies, surfaced in 2002, but the album was shelved, adjusted, and given a different title. The revamped version, titled A Beautiful World and featuring Thicke's future wife Paula Patton on the cover, was released in April 2003. It did not leave much of an impression and peaked at only number 152 on the Billboard 200, but the brash lead single "When I Get You Alone" — which sampled Walter Murphy's 1976 disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" — reached the Top Ten in Belgium, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Thicke's follow-up, The Evolution of Robin Thicke, didn't arrive until October 2006, but it benefited from a new alliance with the Neptunes. Signed to the duo's Star Trak label, though still technically an Interscope artist, Thicke scored a number one R&B single with the ballad "Lost Without U," and the album eventually went platinum.

 

Thicke then settled into a lengthy career as a widely respected artist — with occasional diversions into humorous, self-aware showboating — who remained true to his root influences while occasionally departing from '70s-indebted stylistic comfort zone. The focused and refined Something Else, a September 2008 release, peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, highlighted by the disco-soul throwback single "Magic." December 2009's Sex Therapy, led by its Polow da Don-produced title track, narrowly missed the top of the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Thicke's fifth studio album, Love After War, was his most swashbuckling release to date, issued in December 2011. He made a surprising crossover move in March 2013 with the lighthearted, off-the-cuff "Blurred Lines," a Pharrell production with instrumental cues taken from Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up." Assisted by its explicit video, it topped the Hot 100, a rare feat in 2013 for an R&B single. The album of the same title followed that July. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

Robin Thicke

2007 11 Lost Without U -1-

2013 01 Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams) -1-

 

T.I.

2005 04 Soldier (Destiny's Child Feat. T.I. & Lil Wayne)

2005 59 Bring 'em Out -1-

2006 22 Why You Wanna -1-

2006 02 My Love (Justin Timberlake Feat. T.I.)

2007 21 Pac's Life (2Pac Feat. Ashanti & T.I.)

2007 18 I'm A Flirt (R Kelly Feat. T.I. & T-Pain)

2008 47 Whatever You Like -1-

2008 33 Swagga Like Us (JayZ & T.I. Feat. Kanye West & Lil Wayne) -2-

2008 02 Live Your Life (T.I. Feat. Rihanna) -3-

2009 04 Dead And Gone (T.I. Feat. Justin Timberlake) -4-

2009 34 Remember Me (T.I. Feat. Mary J Blige) -5-

2010 22 Hello Good Morning (Diddy - Dirty Money Feat. T.I.)

2010 45 Got Your Back (T.I. Feat. Keri Hilson) -1-

2013 01 Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams)

 

Pharrell Williams

2002 16 Pass The Courvoisier - Part II (Busta Rhymes/P Diddy/Pharrell)

2002 07 Boys (Britney Spears Featuring Pharrell Williams)

2003 23 Beautiful (Snoop Dogg Featuring Pharrell)

2003 06 Frontin' (Pharrell Williams Featuring Jay-Z)

2003 62 Light Your Ass On Fire (Busta Rhymes Featuring Pharrell)

2004 35 Show Me Your Soul (Lenny Kravitz, P Diddy, Loon And Pharrell Williams)

2004 10 Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg Featuring Pharrell)

2005 13 Let's Get Blown (Snoop Dogg Featuring Pharrell)

2005 03 Can I Have It Like That (Pharrell Feat. Gwen Stefani) -1-

2006 15 Angel -2-

2006 31 Number One (Pharrell Featuring Kanye West) -3-

2010 07 One (Your Name) (Swedish House Mafia Featuring Pharrell)

2013 01 Get Lucky (Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams)

2013 01 Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams)

 

Discussion Thread Here

'Blurred Lines' out of the top ten! *.*

 

Summer is over. :(

Finally out of the top 10! :yahoo: :w00t: