Lol at this song actually going top 40 without R1 support. They must be annoyed that they have to play it :lol:

One thing about Dizzee, you'd never mistake one his songs as being by someone else!

Obligatory happy birthday to 'Breathe'. #1 on the day I was born and there still hasn't been a better #1, or a better song, since then (or before then). :wub:

Lol at this song actually going top 40 without R1 support

 

 

Won't be the only one in this week's chart.

Hearing the studio version (after liking the live version) I don't think I'm actually too keen, I much prefer his older stuff. :(

 

Also, Teddy Sky's voice reminds me of Jason Derulo. :P

39 (from 44) Rudimental Feat. Emeli Sandé - Free [D]

 

http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Features4/v4/e4/74/dc/e474dc0b-eb9a-44a7-b5b5-2a7e44e1f7e3/dj.hnjezgof.170x170-75.jpg

 

Chart Run: 44-39 [2 wks]

 

Release date: 17-11-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Warner Music

 

Video here:

 

download track listing

1 Free (Nas Remix)

2 Free (Maya Jane Coles Remix)

3 Free (Roy Davis Jr Remix)

4 Free (Jack Beats Remix)

 

Biography

Seemingly appearing from nowhere in 2012 with their U.K. number one single Feel the Love, London based electronic outfit Rudimental had originally come together a few years earlier as the production name of duo Piers Agget and Kesi Dryden. Agget's DJing brought him into contact with DJ Locksmith, who joined the pair, followed later by a chance meeting with Amir Amor at a studio in Hoxton, London. Rudimental's first release, the dancehall-inspired Deep in the Valley, appeared on garage, grime, and dubstep label Black Butter and was quickly followed by Speeding and Spoons. Picked up by Universal Records off the back of their first few singles, 2012 saw the release of the drum'n'bass roller Feel the Love. Championed by Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, the single reached the top of the U.K. charts the same weekend as the four-piece played on their home turf at the Radio 1 2012 Hackney Weekender. In 2013 Rudimental's debut album Home arrived. Working with some of the U.K.'s finest talent including the voice of 2012, Emeli Sandé, the album's mix of dubstep, R&B, house, and drum'n'bass received positive reviews and went straight into the number one spot on the U.K. album chart. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

Rudimental

2012 01 Feel The Love (Rudimental Feat. John Newman) -1-

2012 14 Not Giving In (Rudimental Feat. John Newman & Alex Clare) -2-

2013 01 Waiting All Night (Rudimental Feat. Ella Eyre) -3-

2013 14 Right Here (Rudimental Feat. Foxes) -4-

2013 39 Free (Rudimental Feat. Emeli Sandé) -5-

 

Emeli Sandé

2009 06 Diamond Rings (Chipmunk Feat. Emeli Sandé)

2010 08 Never Be Your Woman (Naughty Boy Presents Wiley feat. Emeli Sandé)

2011 02 Heaven -1-

2011 01 Read All About It (Professor Green Feat. Emeli Sandé)

2011 21 Daddy (Emeli Sandé Feat. Naughty Boy) -2-

2012 02 Next To Me -3-

2012 03 Read All About It Pt 3 -AT-

2012 17 My Kind Of Love -4-

2012 44 Abide With Me

2012 04 Clown -5-

2012 01 Beneath Your Beautiful (Labrinth Feat. Emeli Sandé)

2012 10 Wonder (Naughty Boy Feat. Emeli Sandé)

2013 08 Lifted (Naughty Boy Feat. Emeli Sandé)

2013 39 Free (Rudimental Feat. Emeli Sandé)

 

Discussion Thread Here

'Free' not doing as well as I thought it would, maybe people are finally tiring of Emeli Sandé overexposure.

It's great to see Emeli Sande back in the charts. I was worried that we hadn't seen her for a while. I'm sure we're all agreed that she should definitely be in the chart for the next 2 years.

They should have released 'Powerless', they've totally wasted the past two singles.

Only the second time hearing this, it doesn't really do anything for me ~ a bit bland.

 

 

Five years since 'Live Your Life'. :(

 

T.I definitely needs more love from the UK. Shocking that 'Whatever You Like' missed the top 40 here yet sold 3 million in the US.

This track is not that bad

It's great to see Emeli Sande back in the charts. I was worried that we hadn't seen her for a while. I'm sure we're all agreed that she should definitely be in the chart for the next 2 years.

 

I agree. She doesn't get the attention she deserves in the UK.

that Dizzee Rascal song was so bad :(

 

Free is ok but of course it's nothing on the likes of Feel The Love/Not Giving In <3

 

'Free' is going completely over my head. Doesn't even sound like a Rudimental song.

 

'Love This Town' is the worst single from Dizzee's album so far as well, really weak chorus.

This week's random retro is from 1996

 

Week Ending : 23/11/1996

1 (NE) Prodigy - Breathe

2 (NE) Warren G featuring Adina Howard - What's Love Got To Do With It

3 (1) Robson & Jerome - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted

4 (5) Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart

5 (7) Woolpackers - Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll

6 (6) Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler - One And One

7 (NE) Kula Shaker - Govinda

8 (3) East 17 featuring Gabrielle - If You Ever

9 (2) Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There

10 (NE) Garbage featuring Tricky - Milk

 

In my opinion, 1996 was the best year of the 90's in music. You could have boy bands, girl bands, brit-pop, dance tunes and some US r&b and hip hop all in the same top 10.

38 (from 26) Robin Thicke Feat. Kendrick Lamar - Give It 2 U [D]

 

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Chart Run: 61-34-27-27-28-15-22-26-38 [9 wks]

 

Format: download only track

Label: Star Trak, LLC

 

Sales: 90k+

 

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 15 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 15 Give It 2 U (Robin Thicke Feat. Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz)

 

Discussion Thread Here

T.I definitely needs more love from the UK. Shocking that 'Whatever You Like' missed the top 40 here yet sold 3 million in the US.

 

I don't remember it ever being pushed as a single in the UK? I love it though, along with 'Live Your Life' and 'Dead and Gone'.

Trucking bell, Martin Garrix is only 17 years old? Props to him.

 

Although this is worth reading if you want to know how he made it a #1: http://doandroidsdance.com/features/the-tr...garrix-animals/

I'm starting to tire of Give It 2 U now, or maybe it's just Robin Thicke in general. :P