October 6, 201312 yr 27 (from 34) Robin Thicke Feat. Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz - Give It 2 U [D] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fjuJECL0L._AA160_.jpg Chart Run: 61-34-27 [3 wks] Format: download only track Label: Star Trak, LLC Video here: TH8m6J3gPH0 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 27 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 27 Give It 2 U (Robin Thicke Feat. Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz) 2013 01 Talk Dirty (Jason Derulo Feat. 2 Chainz) Discussion Thread Here
October 6, 201312 yr Thank God Blurred Lines is finally on its way out, I must have heard this about 1000+ times this summer! I'm not sure about this new one, sounds a bit...odd? A bit like an experimental version of Blurred Lines.
October 6, 201312 yr Glad Jasmine Thompson's version of "Ain't Nobody" made the top 40! Hopefully it'll climb higher next week. Also happy to see "Give It 2 U" climbing. :D
October 6, 201312 yr 26 (from 19) Lady GaGa - Applause [D] http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music4/v4/39/de/37/39de3718-e4ee-0e89-cd98-502bab6de8c0/13UAAIM69752.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 5-9-7-8-10-15-19-26 [8 wks] Release date: 13-08-2013 Format: download only single Label: Polydor Ltd. (UK) Sales: 100k+ Video here: pco91kroVgQ Biography Glamorously gaudy, a self-made post-modern diva stitched together from elements of Madonna, David Bowie, and Freddie Mercury, Lady Gaga was the first true millennial superstar. Mastering the constant connection of the internet era, Gaga generated countless mini sensations through her style, her videos, and her music, cultivating a devoted audience she dubbed "Little Monsters." But it wasn't just a cult that turned her 2008 manifesto The Fame into a self-fulfilling prophecy: Gaga crossed over into the mainstream, ushering out one pop epoch and kick-starting a new one, quickly making such turn-of-the-century stars as Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears seem old-fashioned, quite a trick for any artist to pull off, but especially impressive for an artist who specialized in repurposing the past — particularly the '80s — for present use, creating sustainable pop for a digital world. Perhaps unsurprisingly given her flair for grand gestures, Lady Gaga has deep roots in drama. Born Stefani Germanotta on March 28, 1986, the future Gaga played piano as a child and pursued musical theatre in high school, regularly auditioning for New York-based television shows, notably landing a background role for a 2001 episode of The Sopranos. At the age of 17 she enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in their Collaborative Arts Project 21. As she studied, she continued to eke her way into show biz, winding up with an appearance on MTV's short-lived post-Punk'd reality show Boiling Points in 2005. Not long afterward, she left school so she could concentrate on her music, fronting a band called SGBand, which released two EPs prior to splitting. Germanotta then teamed with producer Rob Fusari, a collaboration that produced not only her stage name Lady Gaga, but recordings that led to her signing with Def Jam in the fall of 2006. Her association with Def Jam was short-lived: the label dropped her early in 2007. Gaga rebounded by working with performance artist Lady Starlight, the two developing the Lady Gaga & the Starlight Revue, a tongue-in-cheek neo-burlesque act that gained positive press and proved to be her last stop before signing with Interscope later in 2007. While at Interscope she created a bond with Akon, who convinced Interscope head Jimmy Iovine to have her co-sign with his Kon Live imprint, and then Gaga began working with producer/songwriter RedOne, a union that led to the songs that would bring her fame: "Just Dance," "LoveGame," and "Poker Face." These songs formed the foundation of The Fame, the debut album that appeared in August 2008. Initially, Lady Gaga had greater success in Europe, thanks in large part to the "Just Dance" single, which earned club play in the U.S. and chart placement in other territories. Gaga's march toward the top of the American chart was slow but "Just Dance" reached the peak position in January 2009, followed swiftly by "Poker Face," the single that firmly pushed her into the mainstream, its popularity growing so large it often functioned as a punch line on TV in addition to winning a Grammy for Best Dance Recording. "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi" also appeared as singles before Gaga released The Fame Monster in time for the holiday season of 2009. The mini-LP, available separately and as a package with The Fame, contained the single "Bad Romance" whose popularity soon rivaled "Poker Face" and helped kickstart a stellar year for Gaga in 2010. That year, the hit singles "Bad Romance," "Alejandro," and the Beyoncé duet "Telephone," along with the successful Monster Ball Tour, put Lady Gaga front and center with the public as she worked on her sophomore album, announcing the May release of Born This Way on New Year's Day 2011. The steady march to its summer unveiling was preceded by the release of three singles —"Born This Way," "Judas," and "The Edge of Glory"— all leading up to the highly anticipated Born This Way. Arriving to mixed reviews, the album was a hit but didn't quite live up to its high expectations, yet it produced more genuine hits with "Marry the Night." A full remix of the album, naturally called Born This Way: The Remix, appeared at the end of the year, as did a holiday television special called A Very Gaga Thanksgiving and an accompanying EP, A Very Gaga Holiday. - iTunes Chart history (Year peak title): 2009 01 Just Dance (Lady GaGa Feat. Colby O'Donis) -1- 2009 01 Poker Face -2- MILLION SELLER 2009 04 Paparazzi -3- 2009 19 LoveGame -4- 2009 12 Chillin' (Wale Feat. Lady GaGa) 2009 01 Bad Romance -1/5- MILLION SELLER 2009 01 Telephone (Lady GaGa Feat. Beyonce) -2/6- 2009 68 Monster -AT- 2009 07 Alejandro -3/7- 2010 58 Video Phone (Beyonce Feat. Lady GaGa) 2011 03 Born This Way -1- 2011 08 Judas -2- 2011 06 The Edge Of Glory -PS/3- 2011 13 Hair -PS- 2011 23 Yoü And I -4- 2011 16 Marry The Night -5- 2013 05 Applause -1- http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_154.jpg
October 6, 201312 yr Give It 2 U is so weird. I love it. Like OMG without that cheering noise all the way through. :lol:
October 6, 201312 yr 25 (from 27) John Newman - Love Me Again [D] http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r2000/017/Music/v4/3c/dc/39/3cdc392c-5673-4dce-395a-ac206cc22286/13UMGIM48081.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 1-2-3-4-2-6-11-15-16-21-23-28-27-25 [14 wks] Release date: 30-06-2013 Format: download only single Label: Universal Music Sales: 500k+ Video here: CfihYWRWRTQ download track listing 1 Love Me Again 2 Love Me Again (Kove Remix) 3 Love Me Again (Gemini Remix) 4 Love Me Again (Ejeca Remix) 5 Love Me Again (Love Thy Brother Remix) Biography John Newman (born 16 June 1990) is a British singer and musician. He is best known for the track "Love Me Again" which peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart in July 2013 as well as being a featured artist on Rudimental's 2012 singles "Feel the Love" and "Not Giving In", which peaked at number one and number fourteen on the chart respectively. - Wikipedia Chart history (Year peak title): 2012 01 Feel The Love (Rudimental Feat. John Newman) 2012 14 Not Giving In (Rudimental Feat. John Newman & Alex Clare) 2013 01 Love Me Again -1- Discussion Thread Here
October 6, 201312 yr Sir Newman climbing again in anticipation of his base-slaying 3rd top 10 hit next week *.*
October 6, 201312 yr Hope "Applause" can stick around a while longer. It was used on Strictly yesterday so I hope it'll get more boosts from X-factor/other shows to help it out. :D
October 6, 201312 yr 24 (from 16) Haim - The Wire [D] http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/v4/2b/40/b9/2b40b9aa-66af-22a1-f0fa-3b6c759fc2ad/13UAAIM67933.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 16-24 [2 wks] Release date: 22-09-2013 Format: download only single Label: Universal Music Sales: 10k+ Video here: 1TffpkE2GU4 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
October 6, 201312 yr Really love 'HAIM' and the video for 'The Wire' is hilarious. Hope the album can manage #1 today! :D
October 6, 201312 yr This is ever-so-slightly growing on me, after adoring the first two Haim singles.
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