The best thing Rihanna has done in an AGE :wub:

The best thing Rihanna has done in an AGE :wub:

Your signature is terrifying.

Rihanna's voice is horrific on this.

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

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-2-2-4-7-6-4-7-11-15-13-18-24 [14 wks]

 

Release date: 01-09-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Capitol Records

 

Sales: 700k+

 

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) -IG1-

2013 35 Unconditionally -2-

 

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This really needs to switch places with Unconditionally now. :lol:

OK, if you wish, it's just very boring that it's the same years each week, nothing that goes back very far at all and there's no real background behind just a list with some sales numbers attached.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed it esp with the info, so most Xmas singles were released to the shops on the 1st dec back then too & unless they were by big current artists they would take time rising up the chart!!

 

Must be the most classic top 3 in the history of the top 40!

2010 19 The Writer -4-

What a LOW peak for such an amazing track!!

 

Agree, one of my favourite Ellie Goulding tracks :wub:

 

This Rihanna song is pretty good - By her usual standards, she's dragging out this era quite a bit. Usually, she'd already have released a new album!

Just realised (yes, very late I know) that the first 30 seconds of "Roar" sounds like it is Pixie Lott singing

I wish 'Unconditionally' would have the same amount of success as this :(

Roars longevity is quite good although I thought that was to be expected. Really gone off it quite a bit now. Too much exposure.

23 (from 22) AWOLNATION - Sail [D]

 

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Chart Run: 73-54-49-39-42-31-22-23 [8 wks]

 

Release date: 25-09-2011

Format: download only single

Label: EMI UK

 

Sales: 100k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

A solo project of Aaron Bruno, AWOLNATION began as a creative outlet for the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Bruno, who had been a member of Home Town Hero and Under the Influence of Giants, needed a break from the collaborative process and hoped to find a place for some of his songs that didn’t fit with his other bands. With AWOLNATION, Bruno built a kind of creative free-for-all for himself, allowing him to blend genres as he wanted in a style reminiscent of Beck, blending live instrumentation, electronic elements, and slick production into an electro-pop hybrid that draws from the whole of pop music. In 2011, AWOLNATION made its full-length debut, releasing Megalithic Symphony on Red Bull Records. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2013 22 Sail -1-

Sail :wub:

Love 'Sail'! :wub:

Edited December 8, 201312 yr by ►ej

I think I'd prefer this as an instrumental, it's just dawned on me that it's the guys voice that puts me off this. :P

Quite like this :heart:

Still one of the best songs of this year! <3 ('Roar' obviously, but I am growing to like 'Sail'!)

Oh AWOLNATION dropping :( Still #15 on iTunes though so hopefully it'll climb again next week.

OK, if you wish, it's just very boring that it's the same years each week, nothing that goes back very far at all and there's no real background behind just a list with some sales numbers attached.

You are over stepping the line there calling Gezza's weekly hard work 'boring'. It is pretty informative with the sales and this is how we have done the retro here for many years. It is the same years every week so we can be consistent with the retro and people can follow the progress every week along with the current chart - plus it is comparable to each week in different years.

Still one of the best songs of this year! <3 ('Roar' obviously, but I am growing to like 'Sail'!)

 

And last year. And 2011 :P

Wow! Storm Queen's falling quite fast. Although it has got old pretty quickly for me.