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

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-3-5-7-10-10-15-18 [16 wks]

 

Release date: 26-05-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Star Trak, LLC

 

Sales: 1,300K+

 

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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

I wish Blurred Lines would swap places with Get Lucky! :(

This to leave and Give It 2 U to enter soon please!

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

 

Ohh, didn't know this went top 40. Was this a single or just cherry picked? Brilliant song!

Holy Grail :wub:

17 (from 14) Jay-Z Feat. Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail [D]

 

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Chart Run: 24-15-17-11-7-9-13-13-14-17 [10 wks]

 

Format: download only track

Label: Universal Music (Pty) Ltd.

 

Sales: 200k+

 

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Biography

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known by his stage name Jay-Z (sometimes styled JAY Z), is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is one of the most financially successful hip-hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2012, Forbes estimated Carter's net worth at nearly $500 million. He has sold approximately 50 million albums worldwide, while receiving 17 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations. Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all-time, he was ranked number one by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. Three of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001) and The Black Album (2003), are considered landmarks in the genre with all of them featured in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

 

As an entrepreneur and investor, Jay-Z co-owns the 40/40 Club, has a minority stake in NBA's Brooklyn Nets and is also co-creator of the clothing line Rocawear. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. He also founded the sports agency Roc Nation Sports and is a certified NBA and MLB sports agent. As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with 12. Jay-Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist. On December 11, 2009, Jay-Z was ranked as the tenth-most successful artist of the 2000s by Billboard as well as the fifth top solo male artist and fourth top rapper behind Eminem, Nelly, and 50 Cent. He was also ranked the 88th-greatest artist of all time by Rolling Stone.

 

Jay-Z married American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles in 2008. They have a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter, born January 7, 2012. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

Jay-Z

1997 30 Can't Knock The Hustle (Jay-Z Feat. Mary J Blige) -1-

1997 31 Ain't No Playa (Jay-Z Feat. Foxy Brown) -2-

1997 09 I'll Be (Foxy Brown Feat. Jay-Z)

1997 65 Who You Wit?

1997 25 Sunshine (Jay-Z Feat. Babyface And Foxy Brown) -1-

1998 13 Wishing On A Star (Jay-Z Feat. Gwen Dickey) -2-

1998 38 The City Is Mine (Jay-Z Feat. Blackstreet) -3-

1998 02 Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) -1-

1999 24 Can I Get A... (Jay-Z Feat. Amil And Ja Rule) -2-

1999 11 Be Alone No More (Another Level Feat. Jay-Z)

1999 48 Lobster And Scrimp (Timbaland Feat. Jay-Z)

1999 58 What You Think Of That (Memphis Bleek Feat. Jay-Z)

2000 18 Anything

2000 29 Big Pimpin' -1-

2000 17 I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me) -1-

2001 21 Izzo (H.O.V.A.) -1-

2002 11 Girls, Girls, Girls -2-

2002 35 Honey (R. Kelly And Jay-Z)

2003 02 '03 Bonnie & Clyde (Jay-Z Feat. Beyonce Knowles) -1-

2003 17 Excuse Me Miss -2-

2003 25 Jogi/Beware Of The Boys (Panjabi MC Feat. Jay-Z)

2003 01 Crazy In Love (Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z)

2003 06 Frontin' (Pharrell Williams Feat. Jay-Z)

2003 32 Change Clothes -1-

2004 12 99 Problems/Dirt Off Your Shoulder -2-

2004 14 Numb/Encore (Jay-Z/Linkin Park)

2006 01 Deja Vu (Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z)

2006 38 Show Me What You Got -1-

2007 01 Umbrella (Rihanna Feat. Jay-Z)

2008 35 99 Problems

2008 33 Swagga Like Us (Jay-Z & T.I. Feat. Kanye West And Lil Wayne)

2009 01 Run This Town (Jay-Z Feat. Rihanna & Kanye West) -1-

2009 02 Empire State Of Mind (Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys) -2-

2009 10 Young Forever (Jay-Z Feat. Mr Hudson) -3-

2010 41 Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) (Jay-Z Feat. Bono, The Edge & Rihanna)

2010 38 On To The Next One (Jay-Z Feat. Swizz Beatz) -4-

2011 30 H•A•M (Kanye West & Jay-Z) -1-

2011 28 Otis (Jay-Z And Kanye West Feat. Otis Redding) -2-

2011 48 Lift Off (Jay-Z And Kanye West Feat. Beyonce) -3-

2011 25 Talk That Talk (Rihanna Feat. Jay-Z)

2012 10 Ni***s In Paris (Jay-Z And Kanye West) -4-

2012 37 No Church In The Wild (Jay-Z And Kanye West Feat. Frank Ocean) -5-

2012 22 Clique (Kanye West, Jay-Z & Big Sean)

2013 03 Suit & Tie (Justin Timberlake Featuring Jay-Z)

2013 07 Holy Grail (Jay-Z Feat. Justin Timberlake) -AT-

 

Justin Timberlake

2002 02 Like I Love You -1-

2003 02 Cry Me A River -2-

2003 07 Work It (Nelly Featuring Justin Timberlake)

2003 46 Rock Your Body {Import}

2003 02 Rock Your Body -3-

2003 13 Senorita -4-

2005 02 Signs (Snoop Dogg Featuring Charlie Wilson And Justin Timberlake)

2006 01 SexyBack -1-

2006 02 My Love (Justin Timberlake Featuring T.I.) -2-

2007 04 What Goes Around... Comes Around -3-

2007 01 Give It To Me (Timbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado And Justin Timberlake)

2007 11 Lovestoned/I Think She Knows -4-

2007 02 Ayo Technology (50 Cent Featuring Justin Timberlake And Timbaland)

2008 01 4 Minutes (Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake)

2008 16 Rehab (Rihanna Featuring Justin Timberlake)

2009 04 Dead And Gone (T.I. Featuring Justin Timberlake)

2009 05 Love Sex Magic (Ciara Featuring Justin Timberlake)

2010 06 Carry Out (Timbaland Featuring Justin Timberlake)

2010 68 Love Dealer (Esmee Denters Featuring Justin Timberlake)

2013 03 Suit & Tie (Justin Timberlake Featuring Jay-Z) -1-

2013 01 Mirrors -2-

2013 07 Holy Grail (Jay-Z Feat. Justin Timberlake)

2013 61 Tunnel Vision -3-

2013 24 Take Back The Night -1/4-

 

Album Discussion Here

19 16 4 Sean Paul - Other Side Of Love

 

i love it :cheer:

 

30 12 2 Neon Jungle Trouble :(

 

 

This means London Grammar have climbed :cheer:

Strong :wub: :wub: Just fab.

16 (from 17) London Grammar - Strong [D]

 

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Chart Run: 17-16 [2 wks]

 

Release date: 01-09-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Metal & Dust Recordings Limited

 

Sales: 10k+

 

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download track listing

1 Strong (Edit)

2 Strong (High Contrast Remix)

3 Strong (Hackman Remix)

4 Strong (Fracture Remix)

5 Feelings

 

Biography

English trio London Grammar combined sparse electronic pop in the model of the xx with dramatic, big-voiced lead singer Hannah Reid, whose vocals evoke contemporaries Florence Welch and Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes. Reid and guitarist Dan Rothman met in the dorms of Nottingham University where they began writing music together in 2009 and later added multi-instrumentalist Dot Major to complete the lineup. The following years saw them refine their sound with atmospheric electronics and subtle percussion and they often played to rooms of no more than ten people. Their popularity rose with the 2012 release of "Hey Now" which they uploaded to the internet and instantly found an online cult following. Their fans were not just in the U.K., but also on the other side of the world in Australia, where their self-released 2013 debut EP Metal & Dust reached the Top 5 of the iTunes chart. The same year they signed to Ministry of Sound and the single "Wasting My Young Years" appeared as the first release on the label. 2013 also saw them play a sold-out show at the Islington Assembly Hall and make an appearance at the Great Escape Festival in Brighton. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2013 31 Wasting My Young Years -1-

2013 16 Strong -2-

 

Album Discussion Here

Absolutely love this song. So beautiful.

 

 

No Jamelia, her voice is not "insane".

 

I hate her flippant use of that word.

Strong is growing on me. Good to see it doing well :D

:wub: fallen in love with this in the past week, fantastic to see it climb. Great album too.

I don't know whether I like this yet or not...

London Grammar :wub: her voice is so stunning.

What a beautiful song this is :wub:

 

Still reminds me of Massive Attack and Teardrop.

I think Strong might be even better than Wasting My Young Years after a few listens, so good :heart: I really need to listen to London Grammar's album, she reminds me a lot of a more subdued Florence & The Machine.

Hmm I'm still not feeling this Rizzle Kicks track.

15 (from 9) Rizzle Kicks - Lost Generation [D]

 

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Chart Run: 6-9-15 [3 wks]

 

Release date: 25-08-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Universal Music

 

Sales: 60k+

 

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Biography

Responsible for bringing the flower-power hip-hop sound of the late '80s back into the charts, Brighton duo Rizzle Kicks are one of the few successful male acts to emerge from the BRIT School that spawned the likes of Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Leona Lewis. Childhood friends Jordan "Rizzle" Stevens and Harley "Sylvester" Alexander-Sule first started making music together in 2008 on the Minor Breaches of Discipline mixtape, which saw the pair rapping over samples of tracks by Lily Allen, Gorillaz, and Arctic Monkeys. Compared to the likes of De La Soul and Dream Warriors, their laid-back production and humorous non-confrontational rhymes earned them a deal with Universal Records, and in 2011 they released their debut single, "Prophet (Better Watch It)," followed by "Down with the Trumpets," which eventually reached number eight in the U.K. charts. Following a guest appearance on X-Factor runner-up Olly Murs' chart-topping single "Heart Skips a Beat," support slots with Professor Green, the Streets, and Dizzee Rascal, and a remix of Ed Sheeran's "You Need Me, I Don't Need You," they were invited by Take That's Gary Barlow to appear in his Children in Need charity supergroup alongside the likes of N-Dubz, Wretch 32, and Ms. Dynamite. Following three MOBO nominations for Best Newcomer and U.K. Hip-Hop/Grime Act and Video, their debut album, Stereo Typical, was released at the end of 2011. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi / iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2011 08 Down With The Trumpets -1-

2011 01 Heart Skips A Beat (Olly Murs Feat. Rizzle Kicks)

2011 08 When I Was A Youngster -2-

2011 24 Teardrop (The Collective Feat. Labrinth, Tulisa, Chipmunk, Dot Rotten, Ed Sheeran, Ms. Dynamite, Mz Bratt, Rizzle Kicks, Tinchy Stryder & Wretch 32)

2011 02 Mama Do The Hump -3-

2012 44 Traveller's Chant -4-

2013 06 Lost Generation -1-

 

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