All of Jennifer Lopez's recent output.

Not that it's worked for her at all.. http://r25.imgfast.net/users/2514/26/97/85/smiles/534932.png

 

 

'Booty' especially. Jumping on the all About That Bass, Anaconda, Wiggle bandwagon of making songs about big butts. and grabbing hot right now Iggy for a Feature,

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Remember wheb Tina Turner followed Cher's dance make over template in 1999.

 

THIS ... If I am not mistaken, apart from Tina Turner (When The Heartache Is Over), even Diana Ross (Not Over You Yet) and Lionel Ritchie (Angel) tried the same formula shortly after

 

Many recent attempts of artists trying to get a hit comes to mind... just flash plenty of skin, bootie, or use random brass instruments as a hook, and voila'

 

 

 

Everything Maroon 5 have done since Moves Like Jagger. Now that it's worked a couple of times, please go back to your old style.

THIS ... If I am not mistaken, apart from Tina Turner (When The Heartache Is Over), even Diana Ross (Not Over You Yet) and Lionel Ritchie (Angel) tried the same formula shortly after

 

Many recent attempts of artists trying to get a hit comes to mind... just flash plenty of skin, bootie, or use random brass instruments as a hook, and voila'

Dianna Ross, I rembember.Lionel,I don't.

Oh god yes everything SCREAMS desperation about 'Booty'.

Pretty much anything by Pitbull, Flo-Rida and Jason Derulo.

Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen "Good Time" - not a million miles away from Owl City's usual style, but this always felt like a very 'attempt at a summer chart hit' song

 

New World Sound & Thomas Newson "Flutes" - mainly because of the never-ending delays with the release date, and scrapping the instrumental version to push a Lethal Bizzle version instead (much like Tsunami being given a release with a UK rapper hm~~)

 

The Chainsmokers '#SELFIE' was clearly a desperate attempt to get a viral hit by cashing in on the selfie trend.

 

Anything Taio Cruz did after 'Dynamite'.

Most songs that sample dance tracks, particularly if it's 'Show Me Love' that's sampled.

'Booty' especially. Jumping on the all About That Bass, Anaconda, Wiggle bandwagon of making songs about big butts. and grabbing hot right now Iggy for a Feature,

 

Okay for Iggy bandwagon, but Booty was released with album release before Anaconda and All About That Bass were out. It was obvious that it will be single since she have performed the song many times and it was instant pick when album was released. So I wouldn't say that she have jumped on that 'big butts' bandwagon, since she had the first one the song about butt, and we all know that her butt is like 20+years one of the most popular in the world :P

you're all forgetting this iconic trendsetter anyway

 

Pixie Lott seemed desperate with Lay Me Down and despite OCC's News article and the TV advert, it didn't even get top 100! (71-80 on sales though).

Pixie Lott seemed desperate with Lay Me Down and despite OCC's News article and the TV advert, it didn't even get top 100! (71-80 on sales though).

 

I don't see how that song 'sounds' desperate at all.

 

'All About Tonight' (much as I love it) was moreso if anything, with its pop/dance sound which was 'in' at that point in 2011 and all the cliched phrases about going out partying thrown in.

Madonna - Give Me All Your Luvin'

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Oh, and that 'Tonight' monstrosity too.

 

 

Yes, it even smacked of "Ooh, I'm saying a rude word" and if we include it in brackets in the title too, that'll gain me extra publicity. And then I'll do a "clean" version too to get some people to buy it twice.

To answer the actual question, pretty much all of Skepta's top 40 hits (apart from 'That's Not Me' but it's telling that he waited until after 'German Whip' before properly pushing a grime single again), Lethal Bizzle's 'Party Right'/'The Drop' and Devlin's 'Runaway'/'Rewind' spring to mind, in addition to the likes of Wiley and Dizzee Rascal with various songs already mentioned (grime artists seem quite prone to this).

 

This.

 

Its telling in America that rappers can produce more "hip-hop" sounding songs and still chart whereas here you normally get nowhere near the top of the chart without a pop chorus/safe production- only real exceptions to this are Traktor, ill Manors and German Whip/That's Not Me. Its a shame as our rappers are talented and have the advantage of relatable lyrics (for us in the UK).

Completely disagree with this, I actually think that was a fairly risky first single from him considering his biggest successes from the first album were the MOR ballads and his previous attempt at an upbeat rap-singy single was pretty much his least successful single (only 'Give Me Love' spent fewer weeks in the top 40 than 'You Need Me, I Don't Need You' and that was released a good year after the album). If 'Thinking Out Loud' was the lead single then maybe.

 

Besides, Ed Sheeran going into his second album is pretty far removed from a situation where the artist 'desperately' needs a hit :lol:

 

I say this because although his first album was massive, it didnt produce a number 1 single which I'm sure he wanted to end :lol: To do this he enlisted Pharrell's help on production and vocals, using the man of the moment and his own name to ensure radio play and get casual fans to buy song to achieve a number 1 by avoiding his "marmite-y" ballad standard he was known for (particularly in America).

Edited October 16, 201410 yr by ML Hammer95

I say this because although his first album was massive, it didnt produce a number 1 single which I'm sure he wanted to end :lol: To do this he enlisted Pharrell's help on production and vocals, using the man of the moment and his own name to ensure radio play and get casual fans to buy song to achieve a number 1 by avoiding his "marmite-y" ballad standard he was known for (particularly in America).

 

But the point I was making is his 'casual fans' *were* people who liked his 'marmitey ballads'. Plus making another ballad would ensure radio play even more so considering how much radio played 'The A Team' and 'Lego House' vs. them more or less ignoring 'You Need Me, I Don't Need You'. And Pharrell's contribution wasn't even credited (well, apart from production and songwriting credits obviously but surely he would have publicised the collab more (i.e. with a featured credit) if it was really intended to ensure a big hit).

 

Honestly he'd have had a very strong chance of hitting #1 regardless of what he released, I was pleasantly surprised he didn't just come back with an obvious ballad to try and re-create 'The A Team'.

I think for an artist to be 'desperate for a number 1', they'd most likely need to be in career decline and need a smash, that definitely doesn't apply to someone like Ed Sheeran, I think he would've got to number 1 whatever he'd released as Bré said.

But the point I was making is his 'casual fans' *were* people who liked his 'marmitey ballads'. Plus making another ballad would ensure radio play even more so considering how much radio played 'The A Team' and 'Lego House' vs. them more or less ignoring 'You Need Me, I Don't Need You'. And Pharrell's contribution wasn't even credited (well, apart from production and songwriting credits obviously but surely he would have publicised the collab more (i.e. with a featured credit) if it was really intended to ensure a big hit).

 

Honestly he'd have had a very strong chance of hitting #1 regardless of what he released, I was pleasantly surprised he didn't just come back with an obvious ballad to try and re-create 'The A Team'.

 

 

You are right I suppose, he did really want that number 1 though :D