It’s ridiculous that the OCC haven’t excluded these One Direction album tracks from the chart. :manson:

 

Um, they did the previous week. It's fair play now that the album is already released.

Oh 'You & I' :wub: Another fab track from the album!

'You & I' did at least get some genuine cherrypicks, probably enough for it to have been top 100 on legitimate sales, so it's not QUITE as egregious inclusion in the top 40 as 'Don't Forget Where You Belong'. But still. 1D's chart history will forever be a reminder of how stupid the OCC sometimes are. (Unless of course both of these songs are released as singles and re-peak anyway).

 

'Don't Forget Where You Belong' was decent enough and far better than the 2 singles. This also sounds better than the 2 singles but quite dull.

You & I is really good :o :heart:

18 (from 13) Katy Perry - Roar [D]

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-2-2-4-7-6-4-7-11-15-13-18 [13 wks]

 

Release date: 01-09-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Capitol Records

 

Sales: 600k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

A former Christian artist, Katy Perry rebranded herself as a larger-than-life pop star and rose to prominence during the summer of 2008. Before she topped the charts with songs like "I Kissed a Girl" and "California Gurls," though, she spent the better part of a decade recording music under a different name. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (or Katy Hudson, as she billed herself on her 2001 gospel album) was born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California. Raised in a religious household as the daughter of two pastors, she was forbidden to listen to secular bands as a child, although a childhood slumber party introduced her to the music of Alanis Morissette and Freddie Mercury. Religious music remained at the forefront, however, and Katy released a self-titled Christian album in 2001 under her original name. She would later abandon the genre (and her given surname) in favor of a pop career.

 

At age 17, she began working with hitmaker Glen Ballard, who had produced and co-written Alanis Morissette's chart-topping Jagged Little Pill in 1995. Several years later, she teamed up with the Matrix, a Grammy-nominated production/songwriting team whose résumé included collaborations with Avril Lavigne, Shakira, and Korn. Tired of producing music for other artists, the Matrix had plans to record an album of their own, with Perry serving as one of the group's two singers. The project was ultimately shelved, but not before Perry appeared in a 2004 write-up by Blender magazine, who hailed her as "the Next Big Thing!"

 

With the Matrix's unreleased album sitting in the vaults at Sony Records, Perry went back to the drawing board and began working on a solo album for Columbia. The project was eventually canceled, although two of its songs were later given to Kelly Clarkson, who scored a Top 40 hit with "I Do Not Hook Up" several years later. Perry (who, by this point, had shed her original surname due to its similarity to actress Kate Hudson) then signed with Capitol, who encouraged their new client to write her own music and helped establish her image as a boisterous, tongue-in-cheek pop star. Perry's debut single, "UR So Gay," generated a small buzz with its mischievous lyrics and clever music video, but it was "I Kissed a Girl" that proved to be her breakthrough hit, topping the charts in 20 countries and pushing its accompanying album, 2008's One of the Boys, into the Top Ten in America. Perry supported her debut by joining the Warped Tour that summer, where she toured alongside her boyfriend at the time, Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes. Meanwhile, "Hot N Cold" became her second multi-platinum hit, "Thinking of You" (one of the album's three songs written solely by Perry) cracked the Top 40, and "Waking Up in Vegas" cracked the Top Ten.

 

Such success meant that Katy Perry had officially become one of the industry's biggest pop stars, celebrated as much for her outsized behavior and outrageous fashion choices as the music itself. She continued touring through the summer of 2009 (albeit without McCoy, whose boyfriend status had been revoked earlier that year) and found time to tape an installment of MTV Unplugged, which was released in November. Meanwhile, she worked on a new album and started up a whirlwind romance with comedian Russell Brand, eventually becoming his fiancé. Recording sessions for her album wrapped up in early 2010, and Perry scored her second number one single with "California Gurls," which was released that May. The accompanying album, Teenage Dream, followed in August. The album would be reissued in 2012 as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, with the bonus track "Wide Awake" earning Perry a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2008 01 I Kissed A Girl -1-

2008 04 Hot N Cold -2-

2009 27 Thinking Of You -3-

2009 19 Waking Up In Vegas -4-

2009 03 Starstrukk (3OH!3 Feat. Katy Perry)

2010 03 If We Ever Meet Again (Timbaland Featuring Katy Perry)

2010 01 California Gurls (Katy Perry Feat. Snoop Dogg) -1-

2010 02 Teenage Dream -2-

2010 03 Firework -3-

2011 03 E.T. (Katy Perry Feat. Kanye West) -4-

2011 09 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) -5-

2011 18 The One That Got Away -6-

2012 01 Part Of Me -7-

2012 09 Wide Awake -8-

2013 01 Roar -1-

2013 21 Dark Horse (Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J) -PS-

2013 35 Unconditionally -2-

 

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37 Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster [D]

 

Probaly will be released in the US on top 40 radio soon once his next album came out.

Um, they did the previous week. It's fair play now that the album is already released.

 

No, it's not fair play. They would have been low top 100 at best if iTunes didn't screw things up by attributing fake sales!

Another song that reminds me of summer. :P

 

Unconditionally to be higher than this soon please!

Kinda gone off 'Roar' a bit, but it's still a great song! Just not as good as 'Unconditionally' (:wub:)

I was a bit slow finding Roar - absolutely love it now though.

Roar :wub: another of Katy's best, took me a while to PROPERLY get into this but I LOVE it now.

It’s ridiculous that the OCC haven’t excluded these One Direction album tracks from the chart. :manson:

 

How on PLANET EARTH is it fair to exclude the biggest selling songs of the week from the chart?! :manson:

Katy Perry looks well fit in that Roar video :wub:

17 Afrojack Feat. Spree Wilson - The Spark [D]

 

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Chart Run: 17 [1 wk]

 

Release date: 24-11-2013

Format: digital single

Label: PM:AM Recordings/Universal Music BV/Island Def Jam

 

Video here:

 

Biography

Following the success of Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, and Fedde Le Grand, Nick Van de Wall, aka Afrojack, is the latest DJ, producer, and remixer to break through from the burgeoning Dutch dance music scene. Born in Spijkenisse in 1988, he began playing the piano at age five, but after getting his hands on a copy of music-sequencing program Fruity Loops, he started to play around with samples and create his own songs. After discovering the Rotterdam club scene, he began performing short DJ sets before traveling to Crete to hone his craft, playing at various clubs over a five-month period. Returning to his native Holland, he signed to the independent Digidance label and released his debut single, "Afrojack: In Your Face," before forming his own record company, Wall Recordings, scoring club hits with "Math" and "Do My Dance." Following performances at dance festivals Tomorrowland and Sensation, and a collaboration on David Guetta's One Love album ("Toyfriend"), he was invited to remix the likes of Madonna's "Revolver" and Lady Gaga's "Alejandro." In 2010, he teamed up with electro-pop vocalist Eva Simons on his first U.K. Top 40 hit, "Take Over Control," and also released a rarities album, Lost and Found, featuring nine previously unreleased tracks, in the same year. In 2011 he collaborated with Miami rapper Pitbull for the hit single "Give Me Everything" and released his own hit track "The Future." A 2012 tour of America was followed by the announcement that a new Afrojack album would be released in 2013.

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

Afrojack

2010 24 Take Over Control (Afrojack Feat. Eva Simons) -NAS-

2011 01 Give Me Everything (Pitbull Feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer) -NAS-

2011 25 No Beef (Afrojack Feat. Steve Aoki) -NAS-

2013 21 As Your Friend (Afrojack Feat. Chris Brown) -NAS-

2013 17 The Spark (Afrojack Feat. Spree Wilson) -NAS-

 

Spree Wilson

2013 17 The Spark (Afrojack Feat. Spree Wilson)

 

Discussion Thread Here

The verses are kind of annoying but I really like the chorus of this ^_^ :heart:

'The Spark' is good, undeniably very generic and not a patch on 'Take Over Control' but I like Spree Wilson's voice and it's pretty catchy and whatnot. Glad to see Afrojack finally getting a top 20 as a lead artist.

Yay for Afrojack finally having a top 20! The song's nowhere near the quality of 'Take Over Control' or 'No Beef' unfortunately however :(

Re Robbie's next single removing Lily Allen, it'll be because of overexposure. Hard Out Here is already being overshadowed by Somewhere Only We Know and I'm sure both Lily and the label want a big build up for the next single considering they can't rely on the success of a cover to sell the album.

How on PLANET EARTH is it fair to exclude the biggest selling songs of the week from the chart?! :manson:

They are not among the 40 best selling songs of the week.

Re Robbie's next single removing Lily Allen, it'll be because of overexposure. Hard Out Here is already being overshadowed by Somewhere Only We Know and I'm sure both Lily and the label want a big build up for the next single considering they can't rely on the success of a cover to sell the album.

Whats going on with Robbies next single? Missed this!