The Buzzjack Sunday Chart Show Thread- 29th September 2013

September 29, 201312 yr

35 :down: (from 24) Rizzle Kicks - Lost Generation [D]

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Chart Run: 6-9-15-24-35 [5 wks]

Release date: 25-08-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Universal Music

Sales: 80k+

Video here:

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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-

Discussion Thread Here

September 29, 201312 yr

This is actually really good, took it's time to grow on me. :P

Skip to the Good Bit to be used heavily as a soundbed on X Factor or something please. :P

September 29, 201312 yr

Lost Generation :wub:

September 29, 201312 yr

I LOVE Harley from Rizzle Kicks but can't stand Jordan.

September 29, 201312 yr

From what I've heard of Skip To the Good Bit it sounds like the Mama Do The Hump to Lost Generation's When I Was A Youngster (chartwise not musically). I think that'll do well when it's released.

September 29, 201312 yr

34 :up: (from 61) Robin Thicke Feat. Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz - Give It 2 U [D]

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Chart Run: 61-34 [2 wks]

Format: download only track

Label: Star Trak, LLC

Video here:

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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-

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

Kendrick Lamar

2012 57 Swimming Pools (Drank) -1-

2013 50 F**kin' Problems (A$ap Rocky Feat. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)

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

2 Chainz

2013 50 F**kin' Problems (A$ap Rocky Feat. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)

2013 55 Mercy (Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz)

2013 06 We Own It (Fast & Furious) (2 Chainz Feat. Wiz Khalifa) -OST-

2013 03 Trampoline (Tinie Tempah Feat. 2 Chainz)

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

2013 01 Talk Dirty (Jason Derulo Feat. 2 Chainz)

Discussion Thread Here

September 29, 201312 yr

Yay at Give It 2 U making top 40, great follow-up to Blurred Lines. :wub:

September 29, 201312 yr

I LOVE Harley from Rizzle Kicks but can't stand Jordan.

Jordan >>>>>>>>>>

September 29, 201312 yr

YAYY for Kendrick getting his first (of many~) top 40 hits, even if it is on what could be the weakest song he's featured on.

September 29, 201312 yr

Kendrick Lamar finally getting a UK top 40 hit :wub: With... not exactly his best work but this isn't bad either. Kendrick's part is definitely the highlight of it.