This song is amazing! A shame it never got top 10 on iTunes.

 

It did, for a few hours IIRC.

 

Assuming this is still not supposed to be a single, surprised it's holding up so well especially with the gift card effect. Quite good on first listen.

I mean seriously, Drunk in Love makes Crazy in Love sound like A Whiter Shade of Pale in comparison.

If that's the song from the Beyonce album that people have chosen to cherry-pick, then the rest of the album must be pants.

 

It's far from the most radio friendly song on the album, but it's selling more because the music video is on Youtube and it features Jay-Z.

28 :arrowup: (from 29) The Killers - Mr Brightside [D]

 

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Chart Run 2004: 10-26-38-60 [4 wks]

Chart Run 2007: 73-xx(20 wks)-64 [2 wks]

Chart Run 2008: 60-73 [2 wks]

Chart Run 2009: 70 [1 wk]

Chart Run 2010: 59-75 [2 wks]

Chart Run 2012: 48-47-52-xx(9 wks)-50-47-xx(2 wks)-58-52-59 [8 wks]

 

Chart Run: 57-xx(48 wks)-75-29-28 [4 wks]

 

Release date: 2004

Format: download only track

 

Video here:

 

Biography

The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001, by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards) and Dave Keuning (guitar, backing vocals). Mark Stoermer (bass, backing vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums, percussion) would complete the current line-up of the band in 2002. The name The Killers is derived from a logo on the bass drum of a fictitious band, portrayed in the music video for the New Order song "Crystal".

 

The group has released four studio albums, Hot Fuss (2004), Sam's Town (2006), Day & Age (2008) and Battle Born (2012) and sold more than 20 million albums.[4] They have also released one compilation album, Sawdust (2007) and one live album titled Live from the Royal Albert Hall (2009). A greatest hits compilation, Direct Hits was released on November 11, 2013. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2004 28 Somebody Told Me -1-

2004 10 Mr Brightside -2-

2004 18 All These Things That I've Done -3-

2005 03 Somebody Told Me {2005}

2005 11 Smile Like You Mean It -4-

2006 02 When You Were Young -1-

2006 15 Bones -2-

2007 15 Read My Mind -3-

2007 53 For Reasons Unknown -4-

2007 13 Tranquilize (The Killers Feat. Lou Reed) -1-

2007 34 Don't Shoot Me Santa -EP/1-

2008 03 Human -1-

2009 40 Spaceman -2-

2010 53 Boots -EP/2-

2012 18 Runaways -1-

2012 70 I Feel It In My Bones (The Killers Feat. Ryan Pardey) -NAS-

2013 23 Shot At The Night -1-

'Mr Brightside' :wub:

Yay! The Killers stay Top 30 for another week! :w00t: :cheer:

From the hell to the paradise. Come on Mr Brightside! :yahoo:

'Mr. Brightside' nearly doubling its weeks in the top 40 already :lol: Hope it can hang on for at least that one more week! Fab to see it climbing though I still expect it'll plummet the second iTunes puts its price back up.

Never been big on The Killers, but Mr Brightside is a tune :D

Mr Brightside doesn't seem like a song by The Killers any more - it's a song that's much bigger than the band that performed it (c.f Chasing Cars, Take Me Out)/

Mr brightside remains the killers best song!!

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I've known this song for a decade and I've only just noticed the riff there that sounds like Beethoven's Ode To Joy :o

Unconditionally's beat sounds like Wrecking Ball in the chorus.

27 :arrowdown: (from 25) Katy Perry - Unconditionally [D]

 

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Chart Run: 60-64-xx-71-47-35-35-34-25-27 [9 wks]

 

Format: download only track

Label: Capitol Records

 

Sales: 60k+

 

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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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I really don't like 'Unconditionally', by far the worst single she's ever released. Excited for 'Dark Horse' though!

Unconditionally another week top 30! :dance:

I think it's time to move on to single #3 rather quickley now Katy!

I've known this song for a decade and I've only just noticed the riff there that sounds like Beethoven's Ode To Joy :o

 

Hence the popular maxim - if you're going to plagiarize, do so from the public domain. :P

I wish Unconditionally made the top 10. Her best song :(

I really don't like 'Unconditionally', by far the worst single she's ever released. Excited for 'Dark Horse' though!

Isn't dark horse American single #3 only?