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Lorde

Royals

Pure Heroine | 2013

 

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Chart Run: 1-2-4-7-11-13-18-21-24-16-17-21-24-29-25-34

 

Release date: 20-10-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Universal Music Limited

 

Sales: 400k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

Employing a stylish mix of arty, confessional bedroom pop and club-ready electro-rock that has drawn comparisons to the likes of Grimes, Lana Del Rey, and Sky Ferreira, New Zealand singer/songwriter Ella Yelich-O'Connor, who goes by the stage name Lorde, became an Internet sensation at the age of 16 with the video for her debut single, "Royals," which garnered over 750,000 hits on YouTube. Her 2013 debut EP, The Love Club, hit the number one spot on both the New Zealand and Australian charts. The New Zealander continued her meteoric rise to fame in 2013 with a growing fan base and began sessions for her debut album, Pure Heroine, with producer Joel Little. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2013 01 Royals -1-

2014 38 Team -2-

This'll probably be the only week ever that Lorde has 2 songs top 40. (bowing)

 

Something very groundbreaking! :P

Pretty bored of Royals now.

 

Is Lorde performing at the BRITS?

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Katy Perry

Roar

Prism | 2013

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-2-2-4-7-6-4-7-11-15-13-18-24-23-15-8-11-19-20-25-36-33

 

Release date: 01-09-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Capitol Records

 

Sales: 800k+

 

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 19 Dark Horse (Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J) -3-

2013 25 Unconditionally -2-

 

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Pretty bored of Royals now.

 

Is Lorde performing at the BRITS?

 

Yeah I think with Disclosure? So her songs may get enough of a boost for 'Royals' and 'Team' to both be top 40 :P

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Wrong way 'Roar', exit the chart please! Thanks.

Okay this REALLY needs to go now. :lol:

Pretty bored of Royals now.

 

Is Lorde performing at the BRITS?

 

Yes. She's performing WITH DISCLOSURE !!1! I cannot stress how excited I am about this.

 

(Lorde is slightly questionable live as much as she is the queen of everything but it's just the IDEA of that happening)

 

What's with 'Roar' climbing? Did I miss something?

Nearly half a year top 40 - it doesn't feel that long at all! :o

You're gonna hear me Roar! Still sounds amazing! :D

2013-

1- THRIFT SHOP- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft Wanz (83,672)

2- WHITE NOISE- Disclosure Ft AlunaGeorge (41,303)

4- CLOWN- Emeli Sande (33,023)

5- MY SONGS KNOW WHAT YOU DID IN THE NIGHT (LIGHT EM UP)- Fall Out Boy (31,867)

6- SCREAM AND SHOUT- Will.i.am Ft Britney Spears (29,695)

7- DRINKING FROM THE BOTTLE- Calvin Harris Ft Tinie Tempah (29,108)

8- STAY- Rihanna Ft Mikky Ekko (28,099)

9- I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE- Taylor Swift (27,257)

10- BASSLINE JUNKIE- Dizzee Rascal (22,131)

 

2009-

1- THE FEAR- Lily Allen (69,002)

2- JUST DANCE- Lady Gaga (51,559)

3- TAKE ME BACK- Tinchy Stryder Ft Taio Cruz (30,745)

4- CRACK A BOTTLE- Eminem, Dr Dre & 50 Cent (30,634)

5- BREATHE SLOW- Alesha Dixon (30,390)

6- DAY N NITE- Kid Cudi Vs Crookers (30,006)

7- BROKEN STRINGS- James Morrison & Nelly Furtado (28,685)

8- CHANGE- Daniel Merriweather (24,030)

9- SINGLE LADIES (OUT A RING ON IT)- Beyonce (23,399)

10- LET IT ROCK- Kevin Rudolf Ft Lil Wayne (22,213)

 

 

2004-

1- TAKE ME TO THE CLOUDS ABOVE- LMC Vs U2 (49,339)

2- MILKSHAKE- Kelis (29,993)

3- HEY YA- Outkast (18,560)

5- SOMEBOSY TO LOVE- Boogie Pimps (16,094)

8- RUN- Snow Patrol (9,003)

9- I’M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU- Sean Paul Ft Sasha (8,931)

 

 

1999-

1- MARIA- Blondie (128,000)

2- YOU DON’T KNOW ME- Armand Van Helden (79,000)

4- PRETTY FLY (FOR A WHITE GUY)- Offspring (53,000)*

6- HEARTBEAT/ TRAGEDY- Steps (43,000)*

7- WHEN YOU’RE GONE- Bryan Adams/ Mel C (34,000)*

 

Roar refuses to get old :wub: absolutely love it still.

Yes. She's performing WITH DISCLOSURE !!1! I cannot stress how excited I am about this.

 

(Lorde is slightly questionable live as much as she is the queen of everything but it's just the IDEA of that happening)

 

Her performance was rather odd at the Grammy's :lol:

 

But Disclosure :heart: That should be an interesting collaboration!

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Avicii

Wake Me Up

True | 2013

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-1-2-2-2-2-3-4-6-8-11-17-21-20-24-29-33-18-24-27-27-27-17-15-16-22-26-33-32

 

Release date: 14-07-2013

Format: download only single

Label: Universal Music

 

Sales: 1,200k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

Cleverly using dance music blogs as the platform to launch his career, Tim Berg, aka Avicii, has since become one of the most prominent producers on the burgeoning Swedish house scene. Born in Stockholm in 1989, Berg only started making music at the age of 18, writing and remixing tracks in his bedroom and then leaking them onto various blogs. Influenced by Daft Punk and Steve Angello, his melodic house sound gained a huge following, and led to support from Tiësto, who invited him to perform a weekly residency at Privilege in Ibiza, and Pete Tong, who released first single "Manman" through his Bedroom Bedlam label. After he remixed tracks for Little Boots, Robyn, and Dizzee Rascal, Berg's first mainstream release, the Ministry of Sound instrumental "Seek Bromance," became a huge hit across Europe and later in the U.K., thanks to a vocal version featuring Amanda Wilson. In 2012 he released the song "2 Million" after reaching that number of followers on Facebook, while his single "Le7els" and its accompanying video were nominated at that year's MTV Music Video Awards. Towards the end of 2012 he released his highly-anticipated collaboration single with Nicky Romero. "I Could Be The One" was a smash hit and was featured heavily on reality TV shows and radio play across Europe. In 2013, Avicii teamed up with Ericsson and creates the first "crowdsourced" track which enabled the producer to connect to fans and promote his brand. The single "3 Million" was released to celebrate the 3 millionth fan on his Facebook page. "Le7els" was nominated for the Best Dance Recording at the 2013 Grammys but lost out to Skrillex & Sirah's "Bangarang". Ahead of his debut album #TRUE, he released the single "Wake Me Up" in June 2013. Featuring Aloe Blacc, it reached the top of the UK Charts and confidently showed off his new musical direction. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi / iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2010 13 Seek Bromance (As Tim Berg) -NAS-

2010 46 My Feelings For You (Avicii And Sebastien Drums) -1-

2011 04 Collide (Leona Lewis/Avicii)

2011 04 Levels -NAS-

2012 22 Silhouettes (Avicii Feat. Salem Al Fakir) -NAS-

2012 49 Superlove (Avicii Vs. Lenny Kravitz) -NAS-

2013 01 I Could Be The One (Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero) -NAS-

2013 47 X You -NAS-

2013 01 Wake Me Up -1- MILLION SELLER

2013 05 You Make Me -2-

2013 02 Hey Brother -3-

 

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This is also another track that needs to exit sharpish. Unfortunately that's not happening any time soon as it was performed on the Voice yesterday. :(

Avicii cracking 30 consecutive weeks in the Top 40 with WMU :w00t: Another oldie that still sounds amazing!

Wake Me Up should vacate the top 40 soon. It's a great song, but it's been around for far too long.

Superb longevity for 'Wake Me Up'! :wub: :wub:

Why could this not be the Red Hot Chilli Pipers version :(

Wake Me Up is so boring now. :(