26 :arrowup: (from 28) Chase & Status Feat. Jacob Banks - Alive [D]

 

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Chart Run: 48-28-26 [3 wks]

 

Release date: 15-12-2013

Format: digital single

Label: Mercury Records

 

Sales: 20k+

 

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download track listing

1 Alive (feat. Jacob Banks) [Radio Edit]

2 Alive (feat. Jacob Banks) [Todd Edwards Remix]

3 Alive (feat. Jacob Banks) [Mefjus Remix]

4 Alive (feat. Jacob Banks) [TCTS Remix]

 

Biography

Chase & Status — consisting of drum'n'bass DJs Saul Milton and Will Kennard — earned their stripes after remixing the rather questionable Capleton track "Duppy Man" to success in 2005. From there the duo had a few hit club singles — in 2007 with the double A-sided "Hurt You" b/w "Sell Me Your Soul" and 2008's "Take Me Away" — that hit the top of the U.K. dance and club charts. A full-length was finally released in 2008. Entitled More Than Alot, it featured appearances from Kano, Takura, and Digga, and was well-received critically; it won a 2009 Drum and Bass Award for best album. From there, Milton and Kennard dipped their toes into more pop-oriented production; "End Credits," a 2009 single featuring Plan B, entered the U.K. Top Ten and led to the 2011 album No More Idols, which featured collaborations with Dizzee Rascal, Tinie Tempah, and Cee-Lo Green. Spending 35 weeks in the U.K. Top 40, No More Idols went on to earn a double-platinum status. At the beginning 2012 the duo were nominated for Best British Group at the prestigious Brit Awards — a first for a drum 'n' bass outfit — yet were beaten to the gong by Coldplay. Not resting on their laurels, the duo spent 2012 playing live dates at festivals across the U.K. and Europe, including a sub-headline slot at the metal festival Download. As a thank you to fans for their support, the festival favorite "Big Man" — featuring vocals from Liam Bailey — was released at the end of 2012. In 2013, the duo released the single "Lost and Found" featuring Louis Ma^ttrs in preparation for their third studio album Brand New Machine which was slated for release later that year. ~ Chris True & Rich Wilson, Rovi / iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

Chase And Status

2008 70 Pieces (Chase And Status Feat. Plan B ) -1-

2009 45 Against All Odds (Chase And Status Feat. Kano) -2-

2010 09 End Credits (Chase And Status Feat. Plan B ) -1-

2010 11 Let You Go -2-

2011 05 Blind Faith (Chase And Status Feat. Liam Bailey) -3-

2011 70 Hypest Hype (Chase And Status Feat. Tempa T) -PS-

2011 21 Time (Chase And Status Feat. Delilah) -4-

2011 39 Hitz (Chase & Status Feat. Tinie Tempah) -5-

2012 68 Big Man (Chase & Status Feat. Liam Bailey) -NAS-

2013 09 Lost & Not Found (Chase & Status Feat. Louis M^ttrs) -1-

2013 05 Count On Me (Chase & Status Feat. Moko) -2-

2013 26 Alive (Chase & Status Feat. Jacob Banks) -3-

 

Jacob Banks

2013 60 Doing Ok (Wretch 32 Feat. Jacob Banks)

2013 26 Alive (Chase & Status Feat. Jacob Banks)

 

Album Discussion Here

another excellent song, a lot of dance this week :D

I feel sooooo alive listening to this dance track! :yahoo:

Gosh, this Avicii song needs to go now.

Your hate towards Avicii turns you slowly into a Michael! :lol:

 

But true, Wake Me Up is boring now.

C&S need to sort out their singles artwork - both the artwork for Count On Me and Alive give me a headache. :lol:

Afternoon. Not able to listen to the chart due to family commitments, but I'm sneakily following it on here. :D

 

Good to see Kelly Clarkson and The Killers Top 30 this a week. :).

All three of the singles from 'Brand New Machine' have been flawless. Shame the album hasn't done too well :(

Alive is another really great song from C&S, I really need to listen to the new album at some point (along with quite a lot of other albums).

All three of the singles from 'Brand New Machine' have been flawless. Shame the album hasn't done too well :(

Lost & Not Found :wub:

 

Shame its release was a mess :wacko:

'Alive' is another great track from Chase & Status! :heart:

25 :arrowup: (from 34) Katy Perry - Unconditionally [D]

 

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Chart Run: 60-64-xx-71-47-35-35-34-25 [8 wks]

 

Format: download only track

Label: Capitol Records

 

Sales: 40k+

 

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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 25 Unconditionally -2-

 

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What a flop this has turned out to be! :o I love the song but the X Factor performance did her no favours. :lol:

Great to see Unconditionally getting a new peak! :wub:

Well clearly not this year as Pharrell's looking to be #2 with ease, no competition there. :lol:

 

But clearly the XF is still competing this yr haha!

Uncle DeSean Ali top lelz init !!1!1!1! :rofl:

 

(gorgeous song, #25 isn't too bad after a crappy XF performance)

oh no, another atrocity but at least it looks like it won't reach the Top 20

OK sadly Unconditionally (semi)flopped, so let's move on to Dark Horse :D

She has been blaming issues with her mic for the terrible XF performance apparently.

Well, at least it's not her lowest peaking single anymore.

 

Ready for Dark Horse

So it didnt go number 1