I liked Booyah at first, but I just find it annoying now -_-

That Justin Bieber song was so good. But it looks like his next one might miss the top 40. :(

'Roller Coaster' was at least finally something DIFFERENT from the rest of the Music Mondays tracks. But it was still pretty uninteresting. Still only claiming 'PYD' and maybe 'Recovery' from the lot.

 

Another new entry! They just keep on coming. 'Unconditionally' still ruined by the pronunciation of its title but it is growing.

6 weeks only for Showtek not great!

35 (from 47) Katy Perry - Uncle DeSean Ali Unconditionally [D]

 

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Chart Run: 60-64-xx-71-47-35 [5 wks]

 

Format: download only track

Label: Capitol Records

 

Sales: 20k+

 

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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This is by far the worst track Katy Perry has released! :(

Unconditionally :heart:

 

Although Dark Horse is my favourite from PRISM, this is still a great choice of second single, hopefully it can go top 20 A.S.A.P.!

Unconditionally is one of Katy's best I think :wub: She's on fire with this era.

LOVE. her best in ages

 

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I'm loving how we're getting so many new entries this week! Yay for 'Unconditionally', I'm preferring it to 'Roar'.

I find this track awful :puke2: The verses are at least listenable but I find the chorus awful!

'Unconditionally' is turning into my favourite Katy single :wub:

Not a fan of this song, and Katy Perry in general. 2 of her songs are decentish, but this isn't one of them.

I prefer Roar to Unconditionally.

Can't believe she chose this as 2nd single when 'Dark Horse' is a smash waiting to happen!

34 (from 21) Rizzle Kicks - Skip To The Good Bit [D]

 

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Chart Run: 44-34-21-20-16-21-34 [7 wks]

 

Release date: 27-10-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Universal Music

 

Sales: 90k+

 

Video here:

 

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-

2013 16 Skip To The Good Bit -2-

 

Discussion Thread Here

Aw it's a shame this has fallen just as it was taking off :(

 

Love it. :heart:

Ouch at that fall for 'Skip to the Good Bit' :( An AMAZING song, though :wub:

Oops at this. Never really liked it anyway, find them really irritating actually, but it's one of their more tolerable songs.

Surprised this has plummeted so fast, I thought it would be going top 10 just two weeks ago!