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Iggy Azalea Featuring Rita Ora

Black Widow

The New Classic | 2014

 

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Chart Run: 32-15-7-4-5

 

Format: download only track

Label: Virgin EMI Records

 

Chart sales: 100k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

In one of the more unlikely crossover success stories, blonde Australian beauty Iggy Azalea (born Amethyst Amelia Kelly) segued from a high-profile modeling career to become a southern hip-hop star. Influenced in her childhood by Missy Elliott, TLC, and Tupac Shaqur, she moved to the states in 2006 at age 16, stating that she was drawn to the birthplace of rap. Moving from Miami to Houston to Atlanta, she absorbed the Southern-style drawl of her surroundings and released a trap-inspired mixtape titled Ignorant Art in 2011, shortly after relocating to Los Angeles. A video for her song "Pu$$y" was uploaded to the internet and became a YouTube favorite due to its explicit nature. Around this time, Azalea's blossoming relationship with rising rapper A$AP Rocky earned her some headlines (she tattooed the title of his debut album on her knuckles), but her recording career stalled when plans to work with T.I. fell through due to label conflicts. In spring of 2012, she signed to Wilhelmina Models International and pursued modeling full-time, landing a job as the "New Face of Levi's Jeans." Later that year, her musical stock skyrocketed when XXL Magazine put her on the cover of their annual Top 10 Freshman issue, alongside Danny Brown, Roscoe Dash, and French Montana. As the first female, non-American rapper to make the list, serious hip-hop fans took notice, including Diplo, who hooked up with Azalea for her follow-up mixtape, TrapGold, before she signed to Mercury Records for her official 2013 debut The New Classic. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

Iggy Azalea

2012 44 Beat Down (Steve Aoki & Angger Dimas Feat. Iggy Azalea)

2013 17 Work -1-

2013 13 Bounce -2-

2013 10 Change Your Life (Iggy Azalea Feat. T.I.) -3-

2014 05 Fancy (Iggy Azalea Feat. Charli XCX) -4-

2014 01 Problem (Ariana Grande Feat. Iggy Azalea)

2014 07 Black Widow (Iggy Azalea Feat. Rita Ora) -5-

2014 49 No Mediocre (T.I. Feat. Iggy Azalea)

 

Rita Ora

2012 01 Hot Right Now (DJ Fresh Feat. Rita Ora)

2012 01 R.I.P. (Rita Ora Feat. Tinie Tempah) -1-

2012 01 How We Do (Party) -2-

2012 54 Young, Single & Sexy -AT-

2012 10 Shine Ya Light -3-

2012 18 Radioactive -4-

2013 18 Lay Down Your Weapons (K Koke Feat. Rita Ora)

2014 01 I Will Never Let You Down -1-

2014 04 Black Widow (Iggy Azalea Feat. Rita Ora)

 

Album Discussion Here

Black Widow has really grown on me recently! :D

New peak for Sam Smith. I guess that remix was a wise idea.

Amnesia is perfection, as is Story of My Life. Never tired of boy band ballads (minus covers by Westlife obv)

Black Widow has really grown on me recently! :D

 

Same here! It's sounding really good today :o

from Ten Walls to Blegh Widow, what a comedown :/

 

Black Widow :wub:

Black Widow :wub: :wub:

We'll done Iggy, staying very consistent. Hopefully it can stick in the top ten for a while!

 

Also, just listened to "Walking With Elephants" and it is quite lovely, so good on them.

Black Widow is everything I should hate in a pop track but somehow it's not turned out that way. Perhaps helped by that very cool video (and Dark Horse vibes) but I'm really enjoying it these days.

 

Excellent to see Ten Walls up at #6, little bit of a shame they couldn't get top 5 but this is amazing for the song, great chillout track.

from Ten Walls to Black Widow, what a huge improvement :D

 

^_^

06 00 01

 

Ten Walls

Walking With Elephants

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Chart Run: 6

 

Release date: 07-09-2014

Format: digital single

Label: Boso Records Limited

 

Video here:

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2014 06 Walking With Elephants -NAS-

 

Discussion Thread Here

Video reminds me (a little) of New Order.

 

 

 

^_^

err: no

 

^_^

SHOO.

And recalling the irrelevant factoid from earlier on, we haven't had a 38-7 move for over 30 years, the classic that is "Down Under" by Men At Work from January 1983!

I like these factoids, would like to see them more often! What was the last song to drop 2-13 like 'Won't Look Back'?

 

Walking with Elephant reminds me of Mr. Oizo. Not a good think 15 years later.

Sam Smith top 3! :o

 

'Shake It Off' grates on me now. :(

ACTUAL Swifty :lol: :wub:

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Taylor Swift

Shake It Off

1989 | 2014

 

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Chart Run: 4-4-6-4

 

Release date: 19-08-2014

Format: digital single

Label: Big Machine Records, LLC

 

Chart sales: 100k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's eponymous debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

 

Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 and was supported by an extensive concert tour. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Swift's third album, 2010's Speak Now, sold over one million copies in its first week of US release and was supported by the Speak Now World Tour. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards. Swift's fourth album, Red, was released in 2012. Its opening US sales of 1.2 million were the highest recorded in a decade, with Swift becoming the only female artist to have two million-plus opening weeks. The singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" were worldwide hits. The Red Tour is visiting worldwide venues in 2013 and 2014.

 

Swift is known for her narrative songs about her experiences as a teenager and young adult. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift's other achievements include seven Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, eleven American Music Awards, eleven Country Music Association Awards and six Academy of Country Music Awards. She has sold over 26 million albums and 75 million digital single downloads worldwide. Forbes estimates that she is worth over $220 million. In addition to her music career, Swift has appeared as an actress in the ensemble comedy Valentine's Day (2010) and the animated film The Lorax (2012). As a philanthropist, Swift supports arts education, children's literacy, natural disaster relief, LGBT anti-discrimination efforts, and charities for sick children. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2009 02 Love Story -1-

2009 60 White Horse -AT-

2009 51 Teardrops On My Guitar -2-

2009 30 You Belong With Me -3-

2010 57 Today Was A Fairytale -OST-

2010 30 Mine -1-

2012 67 Safe & Sound (Taylor Swift Feat. The Civil Wars) -OST-

2012 70 Eyes Open -OST-

2012 22 Both Of Us (B.o.B Feat. Taylor Swift)

2012 04 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together -1-

2012 30 Begin Again -PS-

2012 26 Red -PS-

2012 02 I Knew You Were Trouble. -PS/2-

2012 36 State Of Grace -PS-

2012 07 Everything Has Changed (Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran) -4-

2013 09 22 -3-

2013 45 Sweeter Than Fiction -OST-

2013 25 The Last Time (Taylor Swift Feat. Gary Lightbody) -5-

2014 04 Shake It Off -1-

 

Discussion Thread Here

Bloody hell, Sam Smith top 3. :o