I heard this song for the first time in years recently and I wondered if this has ever been in the top 1500?

 

 

Charted at 163 according to Wiki.

Things have honestly changed a lot in the past couple of years when it comes to race in mainstream music. For example, it used to be rare to see a white person having a hit with an R&B, hip hop or soul song, but in 2013 and 2014 it's become very common (to the point where it almost seems more common for white people to get hits in these genres now).

 

That's not quite what I meant. What I'm suggesting is that if a record label had a choice between a white and a black rapper/singer of equal talent, they would probably choose the white one because they are more "marketable". Its generally a UK thing, since the majority of the population is white.

 

Your point about white people dominating black music genres is too true. Some of these cases are marketability over talent :(

 

Charted at 163 according to Wiki.

#163? LMAO :lol:

 

I meant has it appeared in the iTunes top 1500 at all? because every now and then we get some random re-entries for rap songs so I wondered if this was one of them.

GooglePlay have the following 99p albums as a 24 hour deal

 

Coldplay - Ghost Stories

Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

One direction - FOUR

All the Xmas classics (bar Mariah's highest version at #92) have now left the top 100 but Band Aid 30 are still as high as #36!

All the Xmas classics (bar Mariah's highest version at #92) have now left the top 100 but Band Aid 30 are still as high as #36!

 

Wondering if the 1D fans are keeping it that high with their gift cards?

Wondering if the 1D fans are keeping it that high with their gift cards?

 

Leona stay quite high last yr until new year perhaps it's due to its new Xmas release status in comparison to the old favs but OMS is the only comparison we really have in the download era.

How is 'Bo$$' benefiting so well? :o

 

Not that I'm complaining.

I think Bang Bang is the definition of a gift-card-beneficiary having three acts all with fanbases containing tweens/teens who will purchase the song with their gift cards (Ariana the most out of three, but still the combined effort of all of their fanbases is the reason for it being so high!) The same goes for Bo$$, with Fifth Harmony having a tween/teen fanbase that may not have their own debit card yet and have to rely on gift cards to purchase their songs!

Kworb Combined Update - as per 0.6 hours ago

1 1.0000 Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

2 0.5058 Taylor Swift - Blank Space

3 0.4784 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud

4 0.4515 Ben Haenow - Something I Need

5 0.3278 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

6 0.3135 Olly Murs - Up (feat. Demi Lovato)

7 0.2597 Olly Murs - Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

8 0.2551 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

9 0.2528 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang

10 0.2432 Take That - These Days

 

11 0.2174 Calvin Harris - Outside (feat. Ellie Goulding)

12 0.1934 Alesso - Heroes (we could be) [feat. Tove Lo]

13 0.1925 Ed Sheeran - Don't

14 0.1877 One Direction - Steal My Girl

15 0.1876 Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne - Real Love

16 0.1750 Sam Smith - Like I Can

17 0.1687 One Direction - Night Changes

18 0.1685 George Ezra - Blame It on Me

19 0.1472 Idina Menzel - Let It Go

20 0.1401 George Ezra - Budapest

 

21 0.1267 Sam Smith - I'm Not the Only One

22 0.1219 Sam Smith - Stay With Me

23 0.1127 David Guetta - Dangerous (feat. Sam Martin)

24 0.1069 Ed Sheeran - Sing

25 0.0966 Ella Henderson - Ghost

26 0.0937 MAGIC! - Rude

27 0.0914 Ella Henderson - Yours

28 0.0909 Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong

29 0.0898 The Script - Superheroes

30 0.0874 Calvin Harris - Blame (feat. John Newman)

 

31 0.0846 Sia - Chandelier

32 0.0818 Hozier - Take Me To Church

33 0.0758 Wretch 32 - 6 Words

34 0.0719 Labrinth - Jealous

35 0.0709 Maroon 5 - Animals

36 0.0699 The Vamps - Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) [feat. Shawn Mendes]

37 0.0690 George Ezra - Listen to the Man

38 0.0651 Oliver Heldens - Last All Night (Koala) [feat. KStewart]

39 0.0627 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind

40 0.0601 Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014)

 

41 0.0591 Ariana Grande - Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea)

42 0.0579 Nicki Minaj - Anaconda

43 0.0576 Ariana Grande - Break Free (feat. Zedd)

44 0.0575 Blonde - I Loved You (feat. Melissa Steel)

xx 0.0543 Fleur East - Uptown Funk (ineligible)

45 0.0533 Mr. Probz - Waves

46 0.0511 Jeremih - Don't Tell 'Em (feat. YG)

47 0.0498 Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars

48 0.0490 Pharrell Williams - Happy

49 0.0488 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd - Love Me Harder

50 0.0471 OneRepublic - Counting Stars

 

51 0.0431 Fifth Harmony - Bo$$

52 0.0422 John Legend - All of Me

53 0.0406 Vance Joy - Riptide

54 0.0403 Sigma - Changing (feat. Paloma Faith)

55 0.0394 Gorgon City - Go All Night (feat. Jennifer Hudson)

56 0.0391 The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)

57 0.0385 Charli XCX - Boom Clap

58 0.0377 Rixton - Me and My Broken Heart

59 0.0375 Tom Odell - Real Love

60 0.0358 Iggy Azalea - Black Widow (feat. Rita Ora)

 

61 0.0358 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

62 0.0345 Cheryl - I Don't Care

63 0.0338 Bring Me the Horizon - Drown

64 0.0325 Beyoncé - 7/11

65 0.0321 Wealdstone Raider - Got No Fans

66 0.0317 Union J - You Got It All

67 0.0309 Ed Sheeran - Photograph

68 0.0306 Clean Bandit - Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

69 0.0300 Katy Perry - Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J)

70 0.0297 Jeremih - Don't Tell' Em (feat. YG)

 

71 0.0292 Pitbull - Timber (feat. Ke$ha)

72 0.0284 Waze & Odyssey & R. Kelly - Bump & Grind 2014

73 0.0284 James Newton Howard - The Hanging Tree

74 0.0273 G.R.L. - Ugly Heart

75 0.0273 Kid Ink - Body Language (feat. Usher & Tinashe)

such a shame about Gorgon City falling so fast :( was inevitable really but it was holding up well until a few days ago (one of the JOYS of the gift card effect :mansoncheer:)

Tom Odell plummeting too :( But The Vamps getting a huge boost with Oh Cecilia *.* Cannot complain about that!

such a shame about Gorgon City falling so fast :( was inevitable really but it was holding up well until a few days ago (one of the JOYS of the gift card effect :mansoncheer:)

 

I think it'll pick up again once the gift card effect dies down and the new year comes into play. It was really picking up on streaming too, but then it got passed by a lot of Christmas songs. Once they die down in the next few days or so, it should rise quite nicely on streaming. It was #15 on iTunes Christmas eve, so hopefully it'll remain top 40 on Sunday's chart.

That's not quite what I meant. What I'm suggesting is that if a record label had a choice between a white and a black rapper/singer of equal talent, they would probably choose the white one because they are more "marketable". Its generally a UK thing, since the majority of the population is white.

 

Your point about white people dominating black music genres is too true. Some of these cases are marketability over talent :(

 

To be fair, before Emimem and even years after the idea of a white person in his genre was laughable. White boys cant rap. It was black artists like Pharrell giving white american artists some legitimacy in the genre in the mid 00s urban domination that started this trend.

To be fair, before Emimem and even years after the idea of a white person in his genre was laughable. White boys cant rap. It was black artists like Pharrell giving white american artists some legitimacy in the genre in the mid 00s urban domination that started this trend.

 

Yeah you can't deny Eminem's legacy. When artists like Plan B, Professor Green, Devlin and even Mike Skinner first broke through, they were all sold as the "British Eminem". It was almost like the only reference point :lol:

 

I suppose you can credit Timbaland with that too, although I can only think of Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado that fit your criteria :lol:

14. George Ezra // Budapest

17. George Ezra // Blame it on Me

30. George Ezra // Listen to the Man

To be fair, before Emimem and even years after the idea of a white person in his genre was laughable. White boys cant rap. It was black artists like Pharrell giving white american artists some legitimacy in the genre in the mid 00s urban domination that started this trend.

 

The Beastie Boys say hi.

I know they were initially promoted as a novelty act but they were genuine talents and were having big hits and critical success before "Emimem" was famous.

 

I think actually there's a subtly different thing going on, where black acts - or at least black men - are more likely to be perceived as "urban". Imagine if George Ezra sounded exactly the same way he does but looked different, for example. I don't think there's a lack of record company support from MNEK, he seems to hget quite a lot of investment after his failures as a solo act, but the media probably regard him differently.

Oddly, the effect seems to be different with women, nobody seems to have any trouble accepting Emeli Sande or Lianne La Havas as MOR singers.

14. George Ezra // Budapest

17. George Ezra // Blame it on Me

30. George Ezra // Listen to the Man

'Listen To The Man' NEEDS to go Top 40 this week!

If it hasn't gone T40 on weeks when it's been higher, I doubt it'll make it this week - if anything it might fall with all the Christmas songs that'll still be T40 officially. Fingers crossed for next week though, it's too good a track to miss out on the T40; and it'd be funny to see a third British male solo artist have 3 songs simultaneously in the T40!

If it hasn't gone T40 on weeks when it's been higher, I doubt it'll make it this week - if anything it might fall with all the Christmas songs that'll still be T40 officially. Fingers crossed for next week though, it's too good a track to miss out on the T40; and it'd be funny to see a third British male solo artist have 3 songs simultaneously in the T40!

I know but I'm hoping streaming will help it - I haven't actually checked how it's doing in the streaming charts but I'm hoping it's picked up over the last few weeks. Yeah it would be great to see Sam, Ed and George all have three songs simltaneously in the Top 40!

 

EDIT: Just checked and it's actually performing pretty poorly on streaming so you're right it'll have no chance of being Top 40 this week :(

Edited December 27, 201410 yr by Mango Ho Ho