So Ella Henderson can sing. A vast improvement on the other two tracks.

A third really good single in a row from Ella IMO, shame the XF performance didn't have a bigger effect. #16 isn't TOO awful for a post-album single I guess, hope it can hang around a bit.

Definitely Ella's weakest song yet, not awful and nice in a wintery ballad sort of way but nothing remarkable.

15 07 02

 

Labrinth

Jealous

Take Me To The Truth | 2015

 

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Chart run: 7-15

 

Release date: 23-11-2014

Format: digital single

Label: Simco Limited

 

Chart sales: 40k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

Timothy McKenzie (born 4 January 1989), better known by his stage name Labrinth, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Initially, he was tipped to work as a producer, but Simon Cowell signed him to his record label Syco Music as a solo act. In the process, Labrinth became Cowell's first non-talent show signing in six years.

 

Labrinth made his debut appearance on the UK Singles Chart in March 2010, when his collaboration with rapper Tinie Tempah, "Pass Out", reached number one. McKenzie has collaborated with Tinie Tempah on numerous occasions since. Labrinth's first solo single, "Let the Sun Shine" was released in September 2010, reaching number three in the same chart. His debut album Electronic Earth, was released on 31 March 2012, having been preceded by the singles "Earthquake" featuring Tinie Tempah and "Last Time", which peaked at number two and number four respectively. He achieved his first number-one single in November 2012 with "Beneath Your Beautiful", featuring Emeli Sandé. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2010 02 Frisky (Tinie Tempah Feat. Labrinth)

2010 03 Let The Sun Shine -1-

2011 59 Let It Go (Devlin Feat. Labrinth)

2011 40 We Bring The Stars Out (Tinie Tempah Feat. Labrinth & Eric Turner)

2011 02 Earthquake (Labrinth Feat. Tinie Tempah) -2-

2012 04 Last Time -3-

2012 12 Express Yourself -4-

2012 55 Treatment -5-

2012 01 Beneath Your Beautiful (Labrinth Feat. Emeli Sandé) -6-

2014 16 Lover Not A Fighter (Tinie Tempah Feat. Labrinth)

2014 11 Let It Be -1-

2014 07 Jealous -2-

Jealous is diabolical.

16 00 03

 

Ella Henderson

Yours

Chapter One | 2014

 

Chart Run: 46-66-xx-16

 

Discussion Thread Here

 

16 is a bad result for Ella considering she performed it on last Sunday's X Factor, dropped the video for the song, got frequent AirPlay by Capital and performed the song on last nights Jonathan Ross. I hope the song goes top 10 next week

Edited December 7, 201411 yr by Hadji

Why are people keep on downloading (and deleting) these songs? Not enough iPhone space to store them all through the year?

They probably sell a similar number of copies each year to songs like Mr Brightside. The difference is that most of the sales are concentrated in the last few weeks of the year while Mr Brightside sells consistently throughout the year.

Going from a nice ballad to a considerably-less-nice ballad. Still pretty nice but I'm not hearing too many redeeming features.

I'm old enough too :o

 

I was 15 and thought the video is a bit weird to the song :lol:

 

 

I was 18 then :P

 

 

I was 6 and I barely remember it. Wasn't born for the Pogues :o

 

 

Thanks guys. I'm officially old!! :lol:

The theory that it's the same people buying Mariah/The Pogues etc. every year and then deleting them and buying them again is very easily debunked by the fact that iTunes won't physically let you do that (if you delete it and download it again you get it free and it doesn't count as a new sale). May not be true on other sites but the songs clearly do very well on iTunes anyway so there must still be a lot of new purchasers each year.

This is so so so so so painful to listen to. It must be incredibly difficult to make a song that is both painful AND boring at the same time.

Two actually. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway_Bay_%28song%29

And this, although it dates from after FONY

 

Happy for "Yours" and "Jealous" to hang around for a bit longer, both very nice ballads that fit it quite nicely amongst all the other ballads clogging up the T40. I cannot wait for next week when we get Bring Me the Horizon and Oliver Heldens to liven things up a bit!

It never really generates airplay in the US, other tracks seem to overshadow it on the chart (a bit confusing considering it's named after my state but...), but I'm happy I've heard it now.

Glad to see it pick up another fan :cheer:

11 for The Pogues/Kirsty. Had it on Now 10 - on vinyl ha! I think its the only instance of a Christmas song being on a proper Now album?

 

The Power Of Love is on NOW 46 and NOW 84

14 14 02

 

James Newton Howard

The Hanging Tree

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I - Original Motion Picture Score | 2014

 

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Chart run: 14-14

 

Release date: 24-11-2014

Format: download only track

 

Chart sales: 20k+

 

Video here:

 

Biography

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films. The recipient of eight Academy Award nominations, some of Howard's best known film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Dinosaur (2000), Treasure Planet (2002), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005), I Am Legend (2007), Blood Diamond (2006),The Dark Knight (2008), and, most recently Green Lantern (2011), The Hunger Games (2012), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), The Bourne Legacy (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and Maleficent (2014). He is known for his frequent collaborations with director M. Night Shyamalan, having scored all his films since The Sixth Sense (1999). Howard also has a reputation of being a fast composer, due to his work on movies such as King Kong and The Hunger Games, both of which were composed in approximately one month. - Wikipedia

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

2014 14 The Hanging Tree -OST-

The theory that it's the same people buying Mariah/The Pogues etc. every year and then deleting them and buying them again is very easily debunked by the fact that iTunes won't physically let you do that (if you delete it and download it again you get it free and it doesn't count as a new sale). May not be true on other sites but the songs clearly do very well on iTunes anyway so there must still be a lot of new purchasers each year.

 

I agree.

 

The purchasers are probably young teenagers who've yet to buy the song once.

Aww, 'The Hanging Tree' not even climbing in the end. Ah well, two weeks top 15 is pretty good :heart:

Top 5 in Australia this week, absurd :lol:

The Hanging Tree is a nice breath of fresh air in the chart~ Watched the film yesterday and it's great, the song's nice too