Seeing P!nk #01 on iTunes after all of these years of being around is such a delight for me :wub: Some of her discography is the soundtrack to some of the best years of my life.

P!nk 1.0000

Little Mix 0.8348

Dua Lipa 0.7826

Justin Bieber 0.6090

James Hype 0.5162

Obv there's a boyband too, but seeing a mainly female dominated itunes top 3 is just *.*

CNCO wouldnt be there if it wasn't for Little Mix so we'll still count it as female domination, that More Than Friends song is a female vocal too so 4/5 of the top 5 *.*

And Biebs is a little bitch so we can count that too right? :kink:

 

I'M JOKING. Don't be saying i'm bullying JB now.

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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.

 

I don't think Nelly ever had a definitive 'sound'. Whoa, Nelly!, Folklore, Loose and The Spirit Indestructible are all so different and Big Hoops didn't seem like anything more drastic than some of the sonic moves she'd done in the past.

 

For her it was definitely the long break between English albums that killed off her relevance. If she'd released a follow-up to Loose in 2008 instead of/as well as the Spanish album she'd have scored a few more hits and another successful album, even if she'd changed her sound again I reckon. Waiting to 2012, six years after Maneater and Promiscuous, for another English album was just insane.

Edited August 20, 20177 yr by gooddelta

I don't think Nelly ever had a definitive 'sound'. Whoa, Nelly!, Folklore, Loose and The Spirit Indestructible are all so different and Big Hoops didn't seem like anything more drastic than some of the sonic moves she'd done in the past.

 

For her it was definitely the long break between English albums that killed off her relevance. If she'd released a follow-up to Loose in 2008 instead of/as well as the Spanish album she'd have scored a few more hits and another successful album, even if she'd changed her sound again I reckon. Waiting to 2012, six years after Maneater and Promiscuous, for another English album was just insane.

 

No, her first albums were quite unique to each other but the sound she went for in 2012 was the wrong one completely, just as I said for Anastacia.

No, her first albums were quite unique to each other but the sound she went for in 2012 was the wrong one completely, just as I said for Anastacia.

 

I think she could have picked a better or more commercial sound for sure, but I don't think much would have bagged her a huge smash in 2012. I feel like people had got over her a long time before that, her Best Of in 2010 did nothing either which surprised me as I always thought she'd do quite well with one. Night Is Young was more sonically similar to the stuff she'd done before and wasn't a hit either.

No, her first albums were quite unique to each other but the sound she went for in 2012 was the wrong one completely, just as I said for Anastacia.

 

You are reet tbh.

 

Before Loose, her style was 'folk alternative'. Her HUGE sonic shift to pop rnb was GROUNDBREAKING and trendsetting, being the first onboard the repetitive Timbaland train. It was the long break, baking pies, when she came back with something completely different and not in vogue, and with strange vocals, that sid it. The music was just odd, like a bridge between her pop and indie days. Didn't work.

Night is Young was, like the rest, a huge drop in quality.

Waiting For The Night was incredible, that should've been massive.

I think with better choices Nelly could have scrambled a semi successful comeback. Like Liam said, Waiting For Tonight is amazing.

Her new album is brilliant to my ears, way better than The Spirit Indestructibe, I'm gutted she's not relevant enough for a hit anymore as her cover of Alyssa's Sticks & Stones for one would sound great on commercial radio.

 

Sorry to derail this thread btw, I'm so impressed with how P!nk is holding up, What About Us is my favourite song from her since So What I think! Absolutely adore it and hope it picks up on streaming too. I know she's a 'legacy act' but I hope this doesn't mean 'the Spotify generation' pay her dust.

 

I'm pretty sure loads of teens bought Madonna and Cher singles in the late 90s/early 00s without batting an eyelid, I just wish teenagers of today wouldn't just ignore listening to music by anyone beyond a certain age or whose career has been going for more than a decade :lol:

Edited August 20, 20177 yr by gooddelta

Once Cher unleashes Ooga Boo, the world will listen. :smoke:

Once Cher unleashes Ooga Boo, the world will listen. :smoke:

 

This! #1 please :kink:

28. Miley Cyrus - Younger Now

 

I'm hoping Radio 1 playlisting 'Younger Now' will help it climb a fair amount tomorrow, I'm guessing this will debut around #70 considering it's in no high profile spotify playlists.

 

35. Katy Perry & Nicki Minaj - Swish Swish

40. Martin Jensen Feat Loote - Wait :wub:

121. CamelPhat - Cola

174. Ella Eyre Feat TY Dolla Sign - Ego [OUCH]

Night is Young was, like the rest, a huge drop in quality.

Agreed, I wish Girlfriend In The City was the chosen single from the greatest hits. One of my top Nelly F tracks.

 

I agree with others that the time gap was the biggest factor in things not going so well when she came back with TSI. I actually love the album, however the singles were all quite different in sound so it was unclear what to expect from the album (not that radio gave any of them attention after Big Hoops).

Like GaGa with Joanne - no one would guess from the first two singles that it was gonna be a country album!

 

Her new album is indie, but so much better than TSI, but it doesn't matter. She moved too far away from a natual progression amd waited too long.

40. Martin Jensen Feat Loote - Wait :wub:

121. CamelPhat - Cola

Haven't heard this yet but it's holding up surprisingly well! Martin in for his second top 40 in the upcoming weeks? :o

 

Also, Cola needs to hurry up and get a move on. I'm hoping it somehow gets a Radio 1 playlisting.

This convo has gotten me to listen to Nelly again and I forgot how many gems she had :wub: Try *.*