Many artists struggle after long breaks. Of my faves, Pink seems to be the only one capable of taking a break and coming back just as strong.

 

Speaking of which, really pleased Pink is holding up really well!

Shania Twain should be #1 with Swinging' With My Eyes Closed -_-

It's sad that more than 2 or 3 years away can bump off an artist, just look at Nelly Furtado who could've bee Rihanna level imo but she left it SIX years after Loose and it was just too long and all hype etc. had fizzled out :( Then again the album wasn't particularly that good so that didn't help.

It's sad that more than 2 or 3 years away can bump off an artist, just look at Nelly Furtado who could've bee Rihanna level imo but she left it SIX years after Loose and it was just too long and all hype etc. had fizzled out :( Then again the album wasn't particularly that good so that didn't help.

 

Absolutely - it was both things!! She moved away from commercial music and left it for 6 years baking pies. She was WELL placed to be like Rohanna after Loose. However, her high pitched vocals would have worn on people faster.

 

Look at Screech - she sold like 26 000 last week :lol: - people moved on. Justin Bibber has the OPPOSITE problem - overexposure and the threat of reurning to joke status at any moment. Last year every 19/20 yr old I spoke to at work was like OMG BEIBER!! This year, they are embarrassed and nobody admits to liking him.

 

But that Shania Twain song is utter garbage - urgh.

He got kept off #1 when he released at the same time as Adele and then he toppled her. If he can topple Adele, I'm sure he can topple Little Mix

Long breaks don't hinder Justin Timberlake or P!nk :o But I guess they're more of an exception than the rule as it does hinder about 95% of artists!

 

I'm really intrigued to see how Kelly Clarkson fares with her new album. She managed to make a genuine hit out of 'Heartbeat Song' and managed to get a decent selling album out of it too... plus the last thing she was in the public eye musically was for her 'Piece By Piece' performance.

 

She's always been, like P!nk but on a much smaller scale, one of the more credible pop females/people don't seem to have a bad word to say about her or her music.

He got kept off #1 when he released at the same time as Adele and then he toppled her. If he can topple Adele, I'm sure he can topple Little Mix

 

Sorry was one of the first mainstream songs of the tropi-bop trends. On fact he kinda started. He's coming back 2 years later with a somewhat similar song, when he's been copied 100 times in the mean time. I don't think it's surprising he's not doing as well.

Kelly has always been pretty consistant with her eras like P!nk has. I can see a long running top 20 single and gold album for her.

True Kelly has always been pretty much like Pink on a slightly smaller scale. I remember everyone going on when My December flopped but bar that she's always able to get hits (and Never Again was actually a hit).

 

It's not always the long breaks but drastic changes in sound can alienate fans. Nelly was a good example (just what was Big Hoops?) but Anastacia equally is one. I love Heavy Rotation to bits but it was 4 years after the previous album, it wasn't a patch of the previous one and she was going for anything but the sprock sound we all loved. She's recovered quality wise but not commercially and she never will.

Bieber is literally throwing out leftovers and getting nice hits many in the music industry would die for.

 

''Friends'' is meant to help BloodPop further his name and project. It's not launch of a new Bieber album.

 

 

05. Naughty Sesh

Hopefully P!nk will get back to #1 on iTunes today. Not surprised to see Justin falling already. His streams should help him get a top 10 or top 5 debut though.

Justin was always gonna get dark red updates at this point, even if he was selling triple what CNCO & Little Mix are selling - he's an artist with a huge fanbase and the fanbase effect wears off around this point for any artist. Little Mix will probably have a few dark red updates before the weekend's over too.

5 Majestic & Tigermonkey - Naughty Sesh

Long breaks have certainly hindered Pink as the streaming is now upon us, she is struggling to crack the top 50 on most countries streaming charts

Long breaks have certainly hindered Pink as the streaming is now upon us, she is struggling to crack the top 50 on most countries streaming charts

 

And yet she can still enter the top 5 officially with low steaming which not a lot of artists have managed. She hasn't been hindered that much all things considered.

Yeah, the people saying that P!nk has debuted poorly or with 'only 26k' (which is ridiculous... 26k is a lot in the current chart climate) need to realise it's still top 5, and after 4 years or so since her least proper album era finished it's amazing she's had such an instant smash.

Little Mix dark red

 

I really hope they get to #1 this week although it's looking unlikely now

Sorry mdna but 26k is really bad. She's over.

Sorry mdna but 26k is really bad. She's over.

 

And yet she clearly isn't.