September 22, 201313 yr 19 (from 18) Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines [D] http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r2000/015/Music2/v4/49/83/b4/4983b4cc-14a4-8e23-a87b-41055ea234b2/13UMGIM59314.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 1-1-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-3-5-7-10-10-15-18-19 [17 wks] Release date: 26-05-2013 Format: download only single Label: Star Trak, LLC Sales: 1,300K+ Video here: yyDUC1LUXSU 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
September 22, 201313 yr Annoyed that Holy Grail is growing on me. :( Blurred Lines needs to disappear, though. :drama:
September 22, 201313 yr 18 (from 16) London Grammar - Strong [D] http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music4/v4/79/55/b4/7955b4c1-eca0-c606-c800-85a253dc2261/5051823095549.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 17-16-18 [3 wks] Release date: 01-09-2013 Format: download only single Label: Metal & Dust Recordings Limited Sales: 30k+ Video here: 6drfp_3823I 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
September 22, 201313 yr ENDLESS WUBS as usual for 'Strong' :wub: 3 weeks in the top 18, absolutely incredible.
September 22, 201313 yr What a pleasant surprise to see Strong this high, I had no idea it was still to come. Really growing on me strong recently. :heart:
September 22, 201313 yr Strong is performing so much better than I expected. I'm not complaining though, it's sounding really fresh in the chart right now.
September 22, 201313 yr London Grammar and CHVRCHES in the same chart :wub: The most important is that they are in the main chart, not the indie chart. :yahoo:
September 22, 201313 yr 17 (from 11) DJ Fresh vs. Diplo Feat. Dominique Young Unique - Earthquake [D] http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/049/Music4/v4/a9/5a/da/a95adaa5-b1d3-7d20-f7f4-656b770bff55/5051823095440.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 4-8-10-11-17 [5 wks] Release date: 18-08-2013 Format: download only single Label: Ministry of Sound Recordings Limited Sales: 100k+ Video here: UJ30WRNXBZ8 Download Track Listing 1 Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) [Edit] 2 Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) [TC Remix] 3 Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) [Vato Gonzalez & Jaguar Skills Remix] 4 Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) [Delta Heavy Remix] 5 Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) [Astronomar Remix] 6 Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) [The Golden Boy Remix] 7 Earthquake (feat. Dominique Young Unique) [WestFunk & Steve Smart Club Mix] Biography Born in 1977, Dan Stein, aka DJ Fresh, is one of the most influential figures on the U.K. drum'n'bass scene. Influenced by tapes brought back from illegal raves by older friends, he bought his first turntables in his teens, and while at university, started playing late-night sets on local pirate radio stations. In 1999, as part of the drum'n'bass collective Bad Company, he founded record label BC Recordings and the scene's most popular website, Dogs on Acid. After leaving to pursue a solo career, he remixed tracks for Pet Shop Boys, DJ Shadow, and Apollo 440, and founded the Breakbeat Punk label, which later merged with Adam F's Kaos Recordings to become Breakbeat Kaos. In 2006, he released his debut album, Escape from Planet Monday, and four years later, follow-up Kryptonite produced his first hit single, "Gold Dust," which reached number 24. Building on the commercial success that Kryptonite brought, DJ Fresh released the single Louder, the track - used in a Lucozade advertising campaign - became the first dubstep single to reach the top of the UK singles chart. 2012 saw the release of Fresh’s third studio album, Nextlevelism, which featured collaborations with Rita Ora, Dizzee Rascal and Juliette Lewis. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi / iTunes Chart history (Year peak title): DJ Fresh 2003 58 Signal/Big Love (Fresh BC) 2003 60 Dalicks/Temple Of Doom 2004 73 Submarines -1- 2004 74 Colossus/Hooded (Fresh BC) 2004 68 When The Sun Goes Down (DJ Fresh Feat. Adam F) 2004 60 Capture The Flag (Fresh) 2005 59 Supernature (Baron And Fresh) 2005 60 Tarantula/Fasten Your Seatbelt (Pendulum And Fresh Featuring Spyda) 2010 24 Gold Dust -1- 2011 01 Louder (DJ Fresh Feat. Sian Evans) -1- 2012 01 Hot Right Now (DJ Fresh Feat. Rita Ora) -2- 2012 06 The Power (DJ Fresh Feat. Dizzee Rascal) -3- 2012 13 The Feeling (DJ Fresh feat. RaVaughn) -4- 2012 22 Gold Dust (Shy FX Re-Edit) -5- 2013 04 Earthquake (DJ Fresh vs. Diplo Feat. Dominique Young Unique) -1- Diplo 2011 13 C'mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise) (Tiesto vs. Diplo Feat. Busta Rhymes) 2013 04 Earthquake (DJ Fresh vs. Diplo Feat. Dominique Young Unique) Dominique Young Unique 2013 04 Earthquake (DJ Fresh vs. Diplo Feat. Dominique Young Unique)
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