March 9, 201412 yr Hmm, Lily really needs to decide which style she's sticking with - Air Balloon sounds a lot more like her old stuff, but it completely contradicts Hard Out Here (& SOWK, though that was more a seasonal thing)
March 9, 201412 yr Air Balllon sounds a bit like Roar to me, in the verses/production at least. Far from her best but I absolutely love it, more than her last 2 singles.
March 9, 201412 yr 6 05 03 A Great Big World And Christina Aguilera Say Something Is There Anybody Out There? | 2014 http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music4/v4/3f/c0/16/3fc016b7-e0ac-a0c5-e7d4-aecac4e9b49b/886444342643.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 4-5-6 Release date: 16-02-2014 Format: digital single Label: Epic Records Sales: 100k+ Video here: -2U0Ivkn2Ds download track listing 1 Say Something (A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera) 2 Say Something Biography A Melodic singer/songwriter duo A Great Big World feature the talents of Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino. Formed while Axel and Vaccarino were music business students at New York University, the duo toured in 2011, playing their own songs as well as covers by such artists as Ingrid Michaelson and Five for Fighting. In 2012, they officially adopted the name A Great Big World and released a Kickstarter-funded self-titled EP. In 2013, the duo's profile was raised significantly after their song "This Is the New" was covered on the Fox TV show Glee and licensed for use on various other TV shows. That same year, A Great Big World signed to Epic and released the three-song EP This Is the New Year, which featured the single "Say Something," a duet with Christina Aguilera. Their full-length debut, Is There Anybody Out There?, followed in early 2014. - iTunes Chart history (Year peak title): A Great Big World 2014 04 Say Something (A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera) -1- Christina Aguilera 1999 01 Genie In A Bottle -1- 2000 03 What A Girl Wants -2- 2000 19 I Turn To You -3- 2000 08 Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) -4- 2001 04 Nobody Wants To Be Lonely (Ricky Martin With Christina Aguilera) 2001 01 Lady Marmalade (Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & P!nk) -OST- 2002 01 Dirrty (Christina Aguilera Feat. Redman) -1- 2003 01 Beautiful -2- 2003 03 Fighter -3- 2003 06 Can't Hold Us Down (Christina Aguilera Feat. Lil' Kim) -4- 2003 09 The Voice Within -5- 2004 04 Car Wash (Christina Aguilera Feat. Missy Elliott) -OST- 2004 05 Tilt Ya Head Back (Nelly And Christina Aguilera) 2006 02 Ain't No Other Man -1- 2006 11 Hurt -2- 2006 08 Tell Me (P Diddy Feat. Christina Aguilera) 2007 17 Candyman -3- 2008 14 Keeps Gettin' Better -1- 2010 12 Not Myself Tonight -1- 2010 75 Express -OST- 2011 02 Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5 Feat. Christina Aguilera) 2012 16 Your Body -1- 2013 05 Feel This Moment (Pitbull Feat. Christina Aguilera) 2014 04 Say Something (A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera)
March 9, 201412 yr I'm really liking Air Balloon. :o A lot better than Hard Out Here for sure, hadn't gotten round to it because she hadn't been so great this era so far; this is the best of the three already.
March 9, 201412 yr Love lily but don't think this was a great choice for the second single. I thought 'Hard Out Here' was great though. Perhaps she should have released 'Hair Balloon' instead!! :lol:
March 9, 201412 yr This is really growing on me (just hoping I don't hear it a million times after this). Christina actually sounds really good on it (a rarity these days).
March 9, 201412 yr 5 02 03 Sam Smith Money On My Mind In The Lonely Hour | 2014 http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/v4/d3/d8/86/d3d88692-1d87-3501-7121-e4b0bf9b38b6/13UAEIM19781.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 1-2-5 Release date: 16-02-2014 Format: digital single Label: Capitol Records Sales: 100k+ Video here: K0G9T5Bnjlc Biography Although the first solo single from soul-inspired, London-born artist Sam Smith was issued in early 2013, it was his soaring vocal contribution to Disclosure's October 2012 U.K. garage track "Latch" which brought him to most people's attention. For most of his teens, Smith balanced study with music, soaking in the raw and passionate approach to performance exemplified by his favorite artists at that time such as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and Chaka Khan. "Latch" hit the upper reaches of the U.K. singles chart when Smith was 21, and many were surprised when his debut solo track took a more tempered path. The production on February 2013's "Lay Me Down" — also courtesy of the ordinarily dancefloor-focused duo Disclosure — recalled the stripped-back material that had proved successful for Adele in the preceding years. Next, Shahid Khan — aka Naughty Boy — decided to follow his Emeli Sandé-fronted U.K. Top Ten hit "Wonder" with the infectious, Bollywood sample-driven "La La La." Featuring Smith's powerful lead vocal, it became an instant May 2013 U.K. number one single following his spring tour in support of Sandé. - iTunes Chart history (Year peak title): 2012 11 Latch (Disclosure Feat. Sam Smith) 2013 01 La La La (Naughty Boy Feat. Sam Smith) 2014 46 Lay Me Down -1- 2014 01 Money On My Mind -2- Album Discussion Here
March 9, 201412 yr I find this Sam Smith track hard to listen to now....Cringy chorus! Edited March 9, 201412 yr by highlander69
March 9, 201412 yr The chart was sounding good until we got to Lily Allen. This Sam Smith track is bland. I struggle to remember how it goes.
March 9, 201412 yr Money In My Mind gets worse with every listen, it just seems so awkward and that Sam is trying too hard to show off his vocal ability
March 9, 201412 yr Anyone else think that if R1 don't announce the album chart by 6.30, th OCC should just gazump them, and announce it on their website anyway? :)
March 9, 201412 yr Album chart top 5 1 (new entry) Pharrell - "G I R L" http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music6/v4/7b/9c/58/7b9c58cb-71b8-44f1-5539-864ea5e505e2/886444495165.170x170-75.jpg Chart run: 1- (1 week) Top 100 hit singles from this album: 01 Happy Chart history: 2006 07 In My Mind 2014 01 G I R L ~ 2 (from #3) Ellie Goulding - "Halcyon" http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/v4/b0/3c/c8/b03cc88f-75be-7119-1855-2252bfa78b56/12UMGIM44631.170x170-75.jpg Chart run: 2-7-19-37-33-40-40-52-61-49-42-28-18-31-25-13-10-11-13-16-16-15-20-18-25-27-24-25-21-18-22-34-38-9-13-24-25-22-29-26-29-35-30-26-... ...-19-26-3-5-11-16-21-23-24-13-18-22-30-21-18-25-18-15-6-6-1-1-2-1-2-3-2-4-3-2- (74 weeks) Top 100 hit singles from this album: 01 Burn 03 How Long Will I Love You 04 I Need Your Love (Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding) 05 Anything Could Happen 13 Explosions 16 Goodness Gracious 33 Figure 8 Chart history: 2010 01 Lights 2012 01 Halcyon ~ 3 (from #1) Bastille - "Bad Blood" http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music6/v4/9d/16/6a/9d166a68-8831-191e-2580-93cc148cc409/UMG_cvrart_00602537477357_01_RGB72_1500x1500_13UAAIM41955.170x170-75.jpg Chart run: 1-4-5-7-8-7-8-9-12-10-11-13-6-7-19-19-13-11-13-18-20-23-18-15-13-9-12-9-15-19-26-31-39-39-44-48-43-39-12-23-28-26-11-6-5-4-7-6-11-... ...-10-1-1-3- (53 weeks) Top 100 hit singles from this album: 02 Of The Night 02 Pompeii 21 Flaws 28 Things We Lost In The Fire 42 Laura Palmer 90 Bad Blood Chart history: 2013 01 Bad Blood ~ 4 (from #12) Avicii - "True" http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Features6/v4/bc/73/bc/bc73bc8a-0c5c-1d56-0100-a3d62abd03d7/dj.fvilyrgx.170x170-75.jpg Chart run: 2-6-9-13-26-30-40-51-60-57-54-48-41-34-19-9-7-6-5-4-2-5-12-12-4- (25 weeks) Top 100 hit singles from this album: 01 Wake Me Up 02 Hey Brother 05 You Make Me 36 Addicted To You Chart history: 2013 02 True ~ 5 (from #2) Arctic Monkeys - "AM" http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Features6/v4/77/e5/d5/77e5d538-24df-e160-5830-5964bf6556c1/dj.oafezkuq.170x170-75.jpg Chart run: 1-1-4-4-3-6-4-5-11-18-19-20-21-23-18-12-8-9-12-14-11-14-11-2-2-5- (26 weeks) Top 100 hit singles from this album: 08 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? 11 Do I Wanna Know? 23 R U Mine? 76 Arabella Chart history: 2006 01 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2007 01 Favourite Worst Nightmare 2009 01 Humbug 2011 01 Suck It And See 2013 01 AM gwon Pharrell ~
March 9, 201412 yr 4 04 11 Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J Dark Horse Prism | 2013 http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Features/v4/ce/3e/2c/ce3e2c46-7877-de93-d916-05a2e0539b4a/dj.odfcxxif.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 21-41-42-xx(2 wks)-68-xx(12 wks)-70-19-11-10-6-4-4 Release date: 17-09-2013 Format: download only track Label: Capitol Records Sales: 100k+ Video here: 0KSOMA3QBU0 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): Katy Perry 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 04 Dark Horse (Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J) -IG1/3- 2013 25 Unconditionally -2- Juicy J 2013 04 Dark Horse (Katy Perry Feat. Juicy J) 2013 56 Lolly (Maejor Ali Feat. Juicy J & Justin Bieber) http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_185.png
March 9, 201412 yr It would have been nice if they'd used some of the budget getting this song a chorus :mellow:.
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