March 10, 20197 yr Doesn't Google skew your results based on your previous searches though? Oh well, I reserve the right to recycle that joke if anyone says they don't know who A are. Or the XX Teens. Yes, it does. And your location too (e.g. someone in Canada who searches Dave will get different results to someone in the UK). Probably other things as well, it's a badly kept secret that all the big Internet companies share their information about users/IP addresses with each other in exchange for large sums of money. For example, if your online activity suggests you are obsessed with the TV channel called Dave, that would probably be the first thing that comes up when you search it on any major search engine. DuckDuckGo is a good search engine if you want more "neutral" and uncensored results. Googling Dave still brings up mostly results about him (a couple about the TV channel, but otherwise it's all reviews of his album and his social medias). Using just Dave as his stage name was a bold move but he's established enough now to pull it off. I get mostly Dave the artist too, but also a lot about some political film from the early 90's called "Dave". I agree though, that's it's a risky stage name. If I were a music artist I would choose something more unique where you know if people search you it will come up. But nothing with symbols or weird spellings, I think things like 3OH!3 or XO Tour Llife are risky in a different way lol. Edited March 10, 20197 yr by Eric_Blob
March 10, 20197 yr It does but I checked in an incognito tab to remove that bias and it wasn't really any different. A's Wikipedia article is still the top search result if you search for 'a band' as well (although not just the letter 'A'), Google is smarter than you'd think x
March 10, 20197 yr It does but I checked in an incognito tab to remove that bias and it wasn't really any different. A's Wikipedia article is still the top search result if you search for 'a band' as well (although not just the letter 'A'), Google is smarter than you'd think x Yes, Google is very smart. It actually gets pretty annoying sometimes. Apparently the algorithm is so complicated (and uses Artificial Intelligence) that none of the staff who work there know exactly how it works anymore. For the record, I notice little difference between using a private or incognito window in general. A better idea to test what the average person in the UK would be seeing might be to go to a public library computer and use that, although I do agree with you Dave (the artist) would probably be the main result at this point, but since all of us here use a pop music forum we can't really be 100% sure our results aren't being skewed. Edited March 10, 20197 yr by Eric_Blob
March 11, 20197 yr The 'impossible to Google' thing regarding musicians is always way overstated. Almost every single one of them can be solved by just adding 'band' or 'singer' as long as you know how to spell their name. The only ones I can think of that are a genuine concern are BOY ('boy music group' works though) and !!! if you don't know it's pronounced chk chk chk (but '3 exclamation marks band' works anyway).
March 11, 20197 yr Tbh the fact that there are people who don’t know Dave shows that Funky Friday was that forgettable of a #1
March 11, 20197 yr They will know though, it got 5 stars on Guardian so the Mercury Prize nomination is inevitable.
March 11, 20197 yr To be fair, I never recognise more than half of the Mercury Prize nominations :lol:
March 11, 20197 yr Ok so if #1 on charts or Mercury Prize (possibly) don't make you know the artist, wonder WHAT does? A song thread here on Buzzjack? Edited March 11, 20197 yr by SKOB
March 11, 20197 yr Mercury Prize has zero impact Being #1 in the #1 sure has, unless you live under a rock :)
March 11, 20197 yr http://i.imgur.com/zf9EQCp.png Official Singles/Albums Chart Update Top 100 Source: OCC Missing Data: Top 100 Singles 1 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (20,116) 2 Calvin Harris feat. Rag'n'Bone Man - Giant (19,904) 3 Mabel - Don't Call Me Up (13,352) 4 Ariana Grande - break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored 5 Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing with a Stranger 6-10 7 Dave feat. J Hus - Disaster (11,787) * 8 Dave - Streatham (11,767) * 11-20 11 Dave feat. Burna Boy - Location (9,668) * 21-30 23 Sigrid - Don't Feel Like Crying 28 Billie Eilish - wish you were gay * 31-40 39 Juice WRLD - Robbery * ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Top 100 Albums 1 Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 1 (13,739) * 2 Sigrid - Sucker Punch (11,761) * 3 Dido - Still On My Mind (11,625) * 4 Tom Walker - What a Time to Be Alive (9,545) 5 Dave - Psychodrama (9,373) * 6-10 6 Paul Weller - Other Aspects: Live at the Royal Festival Hall * 11-20 11 James Morrison - You’re Stronger Than You Know * 14 David Gray - Gold In A Brass Age * 15 Kate Bush - The Other Sides * 16 Juice WRLD - Death Race For Love * 21-30 31-40 31 Flight of the Conchords - Live In London * 38 Maren Morris - Girl * Click on the above relevant links.
March 11, 20197 yr Boo at Black being disqualified due to the 3 track rule. I hope it gets third most streamed track from his album so that can re-enter
March 11, 20197 yr outside the top 40 singles: 42 Louis Tomlinson - Two of Us * 46 Juice WRLD - Fast * 47 Wiley et al. - Boasty ^ [video effect] 48 Marshmello ft CHVRCHES - Here With Me * 53 Ava Max - So Am I * [not bad for this considering its lack of Spotify impact] 58 Juice WRLD - Empty * 59 Khalid - My Bad * 62 Foals - Exits ^ 67 Foals - In Degrees * 69 George Ezra - Pretty Shining People ^ 77 Rita Ora - Only Want You 91 Clean Bandit ft Ellie Goulding - Mama * 100 Foals - White Onions *
March 11, 20197 yr Any idea of the album sales yet? We will in 5 minutes when Music Week gives an update.
March 11, 20197 yr the occ just says Foals are nearly 2k ahead of Sigrid who's 100 copies ahead of Dido
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