I'd LOVE if Maroon 5 went back to flopping but I'd still expect 'This Summer' will take off at some point, its airplay hasn't really properly started yet has it? And surely radio wouldn't just suddenly abandon them after arselicking them for years. It's actually, like 'Sugar', relatively inoffensive (slowly becoming a fan, did you slip something into my water supply T Boy???) but still hoping it flops and they can piss off to irrelevance again plz.

 

I'll never tell :P

 

Tbf, they premiered it ages ago and have waited too long to release it and any hype has gone. It's not even that good and they keep shoehorning swearing into everything. I haven't heard a radio edit but it must be pretty awful. My one hope is that if they go back into irrelevancy, they may tailor towards my taste again instead of chasing hits.

I'd LOVE if Maroon 5 went back to flopping but I'd still expect 'This Summer' will take off at some point, its airplay hasn't really properly started yet has it? And surely radio wouldn't just suddenly abandon them after arselicking them for years. It's actually, like 'Sugar', relatively inoffensive (slowly becoming a fan, did you slip something into my water supply T Boy???) but still hoping it flops and they can piss off to irrelevance again plz.

Haha they'll never piss off. They are like a bug that just won't leave you alone :P

 

(I like them as unpopular as it sounds) I do agree that they should stop getting so desperate and chasing the chart fashions but personally I don't mind because it shows that they are trying to at least experiment a little when it comes to this song.

Fake "Watch Me Whip" at #58

I heard Sugar for the first time in full at training last night... honestly not that bad.

 

Pretty inoffensive music. Not my thing, but don't hate it. Especially if you avoid listening to the charts or stations like Capital :lol:

I don't know why This Summer's Gonna Hurt has done so poorly (by Maroon 5's standards) in the US. It's actually quite a decent song imo (to the point I've actually chosen to listen to it a few times in the past few weeks, something which I can't say for any other Maroon 5 song since One More Night, and before that Misery, although granted I haven't properly heard a fair few of their songs so they could be good).

 

It seemed like they could get charts hits there with absolutely anything, since they scored massive hits with absolutely terrible songs like PayPhone, and some of their other songs, whilst not terrible, were just plain and forgettable yet still managed to be hits (I'm primarily thinking of Daylight, I listened to it once, probably because I liked One More Night and wanted to hear the follow-up, and it was so plain I can't remember what it sounds like at all, I just remember being shocked at how plain it was :lol:). Then all of a sudden this song, which in my opinion is actually fairly good, under-performs? So strange, I wonder what the reason is.

 

I wonder what the UK success of the song will be like.

Fake "Watch Me Whip" at #58

They need to hurry up and release the original

I wonder if Demi has an outside chance of a #1. While Ain't Nobody is a guaranteed #1 the week before, it's not looking *quite* as big as I thought it was going to be (although still pretty massive I should think). I'm not quite sure what to make of Silento, but I could see it being the 'Are You With Me' to Demi's 'Not Letting Go'. 'Heart Attack' was a solid top 3 hit, and if I remember correctly Capital weren't on board with that until release week. Therefore Demi is going to get the most airplay she has ever gotten (already on Radio 1 and Capital - no sign of Silento on either yet?), and over the past couple of years despite limited releases, her profile here seems to have got bigger and bigger (plus the UK seems to be the only place where Demi has consistently performed better than Selena over the past few years which has to mean something).

 

Cool For The Summer is arguably Demi's most commercial song yet, and if Katy Perry released it it would've gone straight to #1. I think Demi has a chance too, a very outside one admittedly - but a chance all the same.

She's got a pretty good chance. I'm sure Watch Me will get capital + radio 1's support soon enough, but on the whole I could see Silento with the streaming advantage, and Demi having the upper hand on airplay (presumably), as well as having a huge fanbase. We'll probably get a clearer picture in a few weeks though ~

With the Maroon 5 song, Radio 1 seem reluctant to move it above the C-List. I suppose it still has time but at the moment I can see this missing the top 20.

Scott did say when it was totd that he personally thought it was a miss and not a hit so we'll see. I hope it does go top 10 as I like it even if it is very unlike anything they've done before (except IWAY). If it's underperformed in their home turf then I doubt it'll do well here. Time will tell I guess~

2. Little Mix - Black Magic

3. Disclosure featuring Sam Smith - Omen

 

Oh dear to both

175. Rachel Platten - Fight Song

 

I'm guessing this will be a top 20 hit! It wouldn't surprise me if it gradually climbed rather than peaking in the first week! :D

pre-order update

 

59. Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor) - Charlie Puth (7th August)

119. Easy Love - Sigala (4th September)

146. The Party (This Is How We Do It) [feat. Montell Jordan] - Joe Stone (31st July)

164. Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) [feat. Jasmine Thompson] - Felix Jaehn (21st August)

169. Watch Me (Whip / Nae Nae) - Silentó (28th August)

173. Fight Song - Rachel Platten (7th August)

217. Don't Be So Hard On Yourself - Jess Glynne (14th August)

305. This Summer - Maroon 5 (14th August)

377. I Do - Only The Young (7th August)

402. Cool for the Summer - Demi Lovato (28th August)

459. Intoxicated (Radio Edit) - Martin Solveig & GTA (14th August)

849. Wet Dollars - Tazer & Tink (7th August)

855. Around the World (feat. Fetty Wap) - Natalie La Rose (4th September)

I'd have assumed 'Fight Song' would be an easy Top 3/5 hit, maybe at the very least it'd perform similarly to how Shut Up And Dance did initially

 

Joe Stone for top 10 next week? Certainly hope so, a simple but effective banger! Dead ringer for Bump & Grind 2014, but I doubt it'll peform that well.

 

We've had quite a few songs like that this year, such as Can't Stop Playing, Take Me Away & So Freakin' Tight. Kind of reminds me of the mid 00's which were full of looped-house tracks like this.

I think Joe Stone will go top 10, but it has the advantage of being the only notable new release.

 

I'm imagining #7 or so?

I'd LOVE if Maroon 5 went back to flopping but I'd still expect 'This Summer' will take off at some point, its airplay hasn't really properly started yet has it? And surely radio wouldn't just suddenly abandon them after arselicking them for years. It's actually, like 'Sugar', relatively inoffensive (slowly becoming a fan, did you slip something into my water supply T Boy???) but still hoping it flops and they can piss off to irrelevance again plz.

 

In fairness radio was beginning to go off them around 2007-09 time then they came back big style with the humongous MLJ and it continued from there into the new decade!

I think "This Summer's" the weakest single they've released for a while. I can somewhat see its appeal, but it doesn't work for me. "Maps", "Animals" & "Sugar" are all much better.

 

 

I think Joe Stone might be top 10 on sales but low top 20 overall, similar to say Pep & Rash.

Glitterball still has quite a lead, no?

Glitterball still has quite a lead, no?

 

No.