August 31, 201412 yr Quite a stale start to the chart with two feisty female songs that I once adored but now I am rather tired of. Luckily, I'm a fan of Kiesza's follow-up (not so much 'Changing', though for Paloma. Granted, it isn't her track).
August 31, 201412 yr Shame 'Giant In My Heart' is looking to be out the Top 40 soon. I do prefer it to 'Hideaway' these days. :(
August 31, 201412 yr 38 58 02 Katy Perry This Is How We Do PRISM | 2013 http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music4/v4/59/04/3b/59043b1e-6342-00a4-6eea-3e28b1abd5a6/14UMGIM36671.170x170-75.jpg Chart Run: 58-38 Release date: 25-08-2014 Format: digital single Label: Capitol Records Sales: 20k+ Video here: 7RMQksXpQSk download track listing 1 This Is How We Do (feat. Riff Raff) 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 Feat. Katy Perry) 2010 01 California Gurls (Katy Perry Feat. Snoop Dogg) -1- 2010 02 Teenage Dream -2- 2010 03 Firework -3- MILLION SELLER 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- 2014 22 Birthday -4- 2014 38 This Is How We Do -5- http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_185.png
August 31, 201412 yr Katy top 40, I was not expecting that this week! I'm a little undecided on the track - the chorus is a bit of an earworm but the bridge is so lazy and the chants/bring the beat back is rather cringe. Quite cool production, though!
August 31, 201412 yr This is a pretty weak Perry track. Can't believe she didn't release Walking On Air, gem of a track completely overlooked!
August 31, 201412 yr So happy TIHWD has cracked the top 40. I hope R1 A-list it before dropping it as it seems to have a lot of momentum behind it at the moment, and maybe, if it's successful we might get another single (Legendary Lovers pls) :heart:
August 31, 201412 yr Hmm, I'm not sure this really suits her at all - plus AlunaGeorge have a way, way better song of the same title (which would never do as well :() Edited August 31, 201412 yr by Chez Wombat
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