23 The Killers - Shot At The Night [D]

 

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Chart Run: 23 [1 wk]

 

Release date: 11-11-2013

Format: download only track

Label: The Island Def Jam Music Group

 

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Biography

The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001, by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards) and Dave Keuning (guitar, backing vocals). Mark Stoermer (bass, backing vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums, percussion) would complete the current line-up of the band in 2002. The name The Killers is derived from a logo on the bass drum of a fictitious band, portrayed in the music video for the New Order song "Crystal".

 

The group has released four studio albums, Hot Fuss (2004), Sam's Town (2006), Day & Age (2008) and Battle Born (2012) and sold more than 20 million albums.[4] They have also released one compilation album, Sawdust (2007) and one live album titled Live from the Royal Albert Hall (2009). A greatest hits compilation, Direct Hits was released on November 11, 2013. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2004 28 Somebody Told Me -1-

2004 10 Mr Brightside -2-

2004 18 All These Things That I've Done -3-

2005 03 Somebody Told Me {2005}

2005 11 Smile Like You Mean It -4-

2006 02 When You Were Young -1-

2006 15 Bones -2-

2007 15 Read My Mind -3-

2007 53 For Reasons Unknown -4-

2007 13 Tranquilize (The Killers Feat. Lou Reed) -1-

2007 34 Don't Shoot Me Santa -EP/1-

2008 03 Human -1-

2009 40 Spaceman -2-

2010 53 Boots -EP/2-

2012 18 Runaways -1-

2012 70 I Feel It In My Bones (The Killers Feat. Ryan Pardey) -NAS-

2013 23 Shot At The Night -1-

Some songs are clearly falling faster because of the amount of new (and re) entries.

 

I love this Killers track, their best since 'Spaceman'. So gloriously 80s.

First time hearing this~

Woo! Shot at the Night made it to #23! One of my favourite Killers songs, even if it does sound a little bit like Higher Love. Also becomes the highest charting song that M83's been involved with.

Yay the Killers! Loving this, shame it missed top 20. Best song in the chart.

I thought Tinie Tempah was huge in the UK?! The charts have changed a bit during the break I took from them.

 

How is the album doing?

Shot At The Night :wub:

Really like 'Shot At The Night', shame it hasn't outpeaked 'Runaways'. (I'm sure I remember that going top 10 but clearly not!)

SO GOOD.

 

Liking this on the first listen. Nicely 80s.

I'm glad the track made it inside the top 30 in the end, I still prefer Human though.

A return to form for The Killers. :)

Liking this on the first listen. Nicely 80s.

I thought exactly the same, very 80s :D But I like it :dance:

22 (from 17) James Blunt - Bonfire Heart [D]

 

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Chart Run: 6-4-7-13-17-22 [6 wks]

 

Release date: 06-10-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Warner Music

 

Sales: 100k+

 

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download track listing

1 Bonfire Heart

2 Miss America (Acoustic Version from Angel Studios)

3 Next Time I'm Seventeen

4 Heroes

 

Biography

A former British Army officer, singer/songwriter James Blunt was a thoughtful performer with a knack for crafting melodic contemporary soft rock tunes. Born in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England in 1974 to a family with a long military history, Blunt entered the Army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Ultimately achieving the rank of captain, Blunt served with the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo and finished out his time in the military as a member of the Life Guard Regiment in the British Household Cavalry. Having long been interested in music, Blunt wasted no time in pursuing a pop career after leaving the Army.

 

A subsequent performance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, brought Blunt to the attention of 4 Non Blondes singer/producer Linda Perry, who signed Blunt to her Custard Records label. Released in 2005, Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam, and its hit single, You're Beautiful, were hugely successful — the single hit number one in over a dozen countries, and sold over ten million copies worldwide. Blunt toured for much of 2005 and 2006, then released the two-disc "odds and sods" live/documentary album Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions in 2006. He had been writing songs while on the road, and brought Back to Bedlam producer Tom Rothrock in again to record. (The songs featured writing collaborations with Mark Batson, Jimmy Hogarth. Steve McEwan, and Max Martin, while the recordings featured Blunt's live backing band.) His sophomore effort, All the Lost Souls — featuring the leadoff single "1973" — finally dropped in September 2007.

 

Disillusioned by success and what he felt as a perceived loss of artistic credibility, Blunt took a break from music before coming back in 2010 with his third full-length effort Some Kind of Trouble, a more optimistic, spontaneous album influenced by '70s U.S. pop/rock, which sold well despite not being critically well-received. In 2012 he returned to the studio with Tom Rothrock to track his fourth album Moon Landing. Featuring "Miss America," Blunt's tribute to the late Whitney Houston, and the country-folk-influenced single Bonfire Heart, the record was scheduled for release in October 2013. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2005 44 Wisemen -1-

2005 01 You're Beautiful -2-

2005 16 High {re-issue} -3-

2005 09 Goodbye My Lover -4-

2006 23 Wisemen {2006 re-issue}

2007 04 1973 -1-

2007 57 Same Mistake -2-

2008 20 Carry You Home -3-

2010 26 Stay The Night -1-

2013 04 Bonfire Heart -1-

I feel like I'm the only one who likes James Blunt! Great track :wub:

Yup, still find this incredibly bland. :(

Really liked that Killers song, so 80s and so different to most of the rest of the charts.

A late hello to everyone!!

Last time I heard Bonfire Heart on the radio I thought it was Story Of My Life, they must have similar intros?

I feel like I'm the only one who likes James Blunt! Great track :wub:

I like this as well :D

21 (from 13) Ed Sheeran - I See Fire [D]

 

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Chart Run: 13-21 [2 wks]

 

Release date: 06-11-2013

Format: download only single

Label: WaterTower Music Inc.

 

Sales: 20k+

 

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Biography

Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. Raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he moved to London in 2008 to pursue a musical career. In early 2011, Sheeran released an independent extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project, which caught the attention of both Elton John and Jamie Foxx. He then signed to Asylum Records. His 2011 debut album, +, containing the singles "The A Team" and "Lego House", was certified quintuple platinum in the United Kingdom. In 2012, he won two BRIT Awards for Best British Male and British Breakthrough. "The A Team" won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.

 

Sheeran began to be known in the United States in 2012. He made a guest appearance on Taylor Swift's fourth album, Red, and wrote songs for One Direction. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards and he performed the song in duet with Elton John during the ceremony. He spent much of 2013 touring North America as the opening act for Taylor Swift's Red Tour. His second album will be released in February 2014. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2011 03 The A Team -1- MILLION SELLER

2011 04 You Need Me I Don't Need You -2-

2011 09 Drunk -4-

2011 05 Lego House -3-

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

2012 35 Hush Little Baby (Wretch 32 Feat. Ed Sheeran)

2012 25 Small Bump -5-

2012 34 Wish You Were Here (Ed Sheeran/Richard Jones/Nick Mason/Mike Rutherford/David Arnold)

2012 07 Watchtower (Devlin Feat. Ed Sheeran)

2012 07 Everything Has Changed (Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran)

2012 18 Give Me Love -6-

2013 13 I See Fire -OST-