18 (from 19) Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines [D]

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-3-5-7-10-10-15-18-19-18 [18 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- MILLION SELLER

2013 34 Give It 2 U (Robin Thicke Feat. Kendrick Lamar) -2-

 

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) MILLION SELLER

 

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) MILLION SELLER

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

2013 66 Lose Yourself To Dance (Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams)

 

Discussion Thread Here

18 19 18 Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines

 

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You know it is :smoke:

 

Mr van der DILF and I do not agree deary.

Pharrell Williams

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

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

Get Lucky was a million seller too.

 

Edit - Too late it's been edited :P

Edited September 29, 201312 yr by Thermometer

My cousin just said he hates Blurred Lines and asked why it's popular. I said the video, and he said he's never seen it! :huh:

Is that even possible?

Wings is amazing. :wub:

17 (from 16) Birdy - Wings [D]

 

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Chart Run: 16-17 [2 wks]

 

Release date: 15-09-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Warner

 

Sales: 10k+

 

Video:

 

Biography

English singer/pianist Jasmine van den Bogaerde, who goes by the stage name "Birdy," was born in 1996 in Lymington, Hampshire. Precocious from the very start, Bogaerde began composing her own songs at the age of seven, and by 12 had secured the top spot (out of 10,000 competitors) at 2008's Open Mic UK, a popular live music competition that rewards the winner with a recording contract. In January of 2011, she released her first single, a cover of American indie rock outfit Bon Iver's "Skinny Love," which peaked at number 17 on the U.K. pop charts. Her eponymous full-length debut, released through Atlantic Records, arrived later that November. The record was a huge success, particularly in Australia, Belgium, Holland and France, where it shot straight to number one in the chart, while it also reached the UK Top 20. The collection of stripped back arrangements was mostly compiled of indie artists, including The Postal Service and Fleet Foxes, whose songs were overhauled by Bogaerde's haunting voice and sparse production. The follow-up to her debut presented a new phase in Bogaerde's development as her sophomore album Fire Within displayed her own songwriting talent with 11 original tracks. The album was written with help from collaborators such as Ryan Tedder (Beyoncé, Leona Lewis), Dan Wilson (Adele, Taylor Swift) and Mumford & Sons pianist Ben Lovett and was slated for release in 2013. ~ James Christopher Monger & Scott Kerr, Rovi / iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2011 17 Skinny Love -1-

2011 50 Shelter -2-

2011 33 People Help The People -3-

2013 16 Wings -1-

 

Discussion Thread Here

Get Lucky was a million seller too.

 

Edit - Too late it's been edited :P

A new thing Ben and I will adding now in the prep - I edited after when I realised!

Fun fact - The TV/YouTube advert for Birdy's new album features Skinny Love, a song which doesn't even feature on that album. That doesn't bode well for the album, if they have to use a barely related song to sell it.

Actually are we sure 'Wings' isn't a cover of an obscure unreleased Coldplay song? Just clicked with me how Coldplay this is. Not that it's anywhere near as good as Coldplay. Though it is growing.

That's 11 different positions out of Top 20 for "Let Her Go"

 

 

And, of course after coming up with that I had to run a program to find which record held the record, as it were. Turns out to be 2 real oldies from over 50 years ago.

 

 

Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock - (56 Weeks) 08/01/1955 -17-18-x(38)-13-8-7-4-2-3-{1}-1-1-2-2-2-1-1-6-8-14-x(32)-17-13-12-8-9-8-5-8-14-13-15-x(1)-24-25-x(1)-25-26-x(1)-27-22-x(582)-42-20-24-33-32-29-26-30-35-44-44-x(299)-38-32-27-20-17-12-13-19-31

 

Mr Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale - Stranger On The Shore - (55 Weeks) 02/12/1961 -32-16-14-6-6-8-{2}-2-2-5-8-7-12-11-13-8-8-7-6-7-13-12-10-15-13-12-11-12-11-11-9-9-17-19-18-20-19-18-22-23-27-30-32-31-38-47-39-35-40-33-31-45-39-43-37

 

 

 

both had weeks at 17 of the top 20 positions.

 

Bet you're glad I worked that out!!!!!

The backing for this is very Leona doing Snow Patrol. I like it!

My cousin just said he hates Blurred Lines and asked why it's popular. I said the video, and he said he's never seen it! :huh:

Is that even possible?

 

I've not seen it either :P

My cousin just said he hates Blurred Lines and asked why it's popular. I said the video, and he said he's never seen it! :huh:

Is that even possible?

 

 

I've never seen it either, but as I've seen about half a dozen pop videos in the last decade, that's hardly surprising

Mr van der DILF and I do not agree deary.

WHO?! if it were JoGo I'd accept :kink:

Oh, Wings definitely has hints of Stop And Stare by OneRepublic, in the chorus

16 Haim - The Wire [D]

 

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Chart Run: 16 [1 wk]

 

Release date: 22-09-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Universal Music

 

Video here:

 

Biography

HAIM is a rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band comprises sisters Este (born March 14, 1986), Danielle (born February 16, 1989) and Alana Haim (born December 15, 1991), along with drummer Dash Hutton, previously a member of Los Angeles bands Wires on Fire and Slang Chicken.

 

Most frequently compared to Fleetwood Mac, HAIM's sound has been described as "nu-folk-meets-nineties-R&B" and "music that sounds like it was written on a lakeside retreat attended by Stevie Nicks, John Waite and En Vogue". The band played at the 2013 Glastonbury festival, they earned a top ranking in BBC's Sound of 2013 poll, and signed with Jay-Z's Roc Nation management group. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2012 32 Don't Save Me -1-

2012 75 Forever -2-

2013 30 Falling -3-

2013 16 The Wire -4-

 

Discussion Thread Here

"The coolest 3 sisters in rock."

 

The Corrs? The Beautiful Corrs?

Actually are we sure 'Wings' isn't a cover of an obscure unreleased Coldplay song? Just clicked with me how Coldplay this is. Not that it's anywhere near as good as Coldplay. Though it is growing.

 

 

I thought that last week, certainly reminded me of "Yellow".

Cool Crooner Robin Thicke has officially given way to R&B Pervert Robin Thicke.