Some big fallers so far, all three are old so I don't mind them leaving the chart. ('White Walls' is old to me since I've been listening to the album for a year now). Also, not a fan of that 'Selfies' song.

I can't believe this is the first #36 hit in her career

 

I don't mind this, but then that's how I felt about the last two at first which wore on me very quickly. At least this doesn't look to be as big so there's less risk of that.

Edited February 16, 201412 yr by Dircadirca

I don't even like this song but I find myself willing it to do well :huh:. Such is my love for Ellie I suppose.

I still really don't like Goodness Gracious :( I hope it doesn't outpeak Figure 8 (easily my favourite of hers).

Still absolutely baffled by this single choice...

 

It was easily the best choice left IMO, apart from Stay Awake but they don't seem to want to release that. Really really like this :heart:

Not a fan of "Goodness Gracious", it's just so limp after the other singles she's released this era. Plus, I also hope it doesn't outpeak the amazing "Figure 8".

Now there's something I never expected - a fun Ellie Goulding single.

'Goodness Gracious' is such a grower. It also sounds quite 'traditional Ellie' which perhaps 'Burn' and HLWILY didn't. Glad it's managed to go at least top 40, I wasn't sure it'd get there.

 

Figure 8 > Lights> Starry Eyed > Anything Could Happen > Guns & Horses > Goodness Gracious> Your Song > Burn > Explosions> The Writer > How Long Will I Love You

Best Halcyon Days release yet for me, though it will be lucky if it hangs around for a tenth of the time that they both did.

I guess this is going to be the 'Figure 8' of Halcyon Days then, can't see it going much higher than it is now. The next single featuring DJ Fresh will probably do better especially as it's meant to have a new version.

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Katy Perry

Roar

Prism | 2013

 

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Chart Run: 1-1-2-2-4-7-6-4-7-11-15-13-18-24-23-15-8-11-19-20-25-36-33-35

 

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 11 Dark Horse (Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J) -IG1/3-

2013 25 Unconditionally -2-

 

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Actually, I wished they'd re-released "Figure 8" as the final single. It might've done well with a second push after the recent success Ellie's had.

Edited February 16, 201412 yr by APRIL J

I guess this is going to be the 'Figure 8' of Halcyon Days then, can't see it going much higher than it is now. The next single featuring DJ Fresh will probably do better especially as it's meant to have a new version.

 

Give it a chance, its A-List airplay from Radio 1 hasn't kicked in yet :lol:

 

Roar :heart: Still not old for me.

Urgh, can't this song piss off already :drama: And it'll probably stay in next week because of her BRITs appearance :(

This is still here :o Incredible longevity

Edited February 16, 201412 yr by Rob S-K

Actually, I wished they'd re-released "Figure 8" as the final single. It might've done well with a second push after the recent success Ellie's had.

Completely. Should have done SO much better in the charts </3

 

And her best choice would have been ditching 'Days' and starting on a new project.

Yes at American Authors getting a Top 40 hit! This is such a great feel good track! :w00t: :cheer:

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American Authors

Best Day Of My Life

American Authors (EP) | 2013 / Oh, What A Life | 2014

 

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Chart Run: 66-66-64-xx-68-34

 

Format: download only track

Label: Virgin EMI

 

Sales: 20k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

American Authors is an American indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, and who are signed to The Island Def Jam Music Group. They are best known for their 2013 single "Best Day of My Life". - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2014 34 Best Day Of My Life -1-

Brilliant - American Authors made it. It'll probably make the top 10 within about 3 weeks. Has "Best Day..." got much airplay?

This song has zero originality to it, a direct copy of Imagine Dragons.