January 7, 20224 yr Author 20 | | 22nd week Dermot Kennedy Better Days 1st single from forthcoming studio album Released: 28th July 2021 Label: Riggins Recording / Interscope Records / Island Records Chart Statistics NE (29/07/2021) | 49-46-50-53-53-41-40-35-31-26-24-16-19-19-18-23-21-27-37-77-98-x RE (13/01/2022) | 20 Sales: 200k+ Certification: Silver Status: Standard Chart Ratio 05 Sales 31 Audio Streaming 32 Video Streaming Video 3gqbE9jDI1g Biography Dermot Kennedy’s rip-roaring, free-flowing folk-pop grew out of years singing over rowdy crowds at local bars and open mics and in the streets of Dublin. Born in 1991, the singer/songwriter was raised in the small Irish village of Rathcoole, where he began writing songs as a teenager before studying classical music at Maynooth University and forming folk band Shadows and Dust. He soon set off on his own, busking on Dublin’s Grafton Street, the same spot favored by famous street musicians like Glen Hansard, The Frames frontman and Once actor. Kennedy built up his raspy, throat-ripping howls on the pavement, but found his largest following online after he self-released romantic ballads like 2015’s “An Evening I Will Not Forget” and 2016’s “After Rain”. A larger audience exposed him to a few key producers, including Stephen Kozmeniuk (Koz) and Mike Dean, both of whom have helped enhance the poetic intimacy of Kennedy’s songwriting with rumbling beats and expansive electronic production. Finding a delicate balance between soaring folk and understated hip-hop has been the key to Kennedy’s sound, starting with his 2019 debut album, Without Fear. His strengths come in turning quiet melodies into rousing anthems, including “Power Over Me”, a propulsive paean that captures the intoxicating rush of becoming enraptured, and “Outnumbered”, which feels almost gospel-like in its cathartic chorus. Meanwhile, his voice—a slightly weathered mix of grit and gravel—ties it all together, bringing the raw intensity he learned as a busker to pop charts around the world. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2019 06 Outnumbered -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 27 Power Over Me -1/3- 2019 89 All My Friends -AT- 2020 12 Giants -4- 2020 05 Paradise (Meduza feat. Dermot Kennedy) 2020 77 Don't Cry (Bugzy Malone & Dermot Kennedy) 2021 16 Better Days -1- 0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 5 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100 Social Media Dermot Kennedy http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 7, 20224 yr Although Bieber sometimes realeases fairly good singles, I never have warmed to him as an artist ever. If he retired tomorrow I wouldn't shed a tear.
January 7, 20224 yr Good to see Where Are You Now reaching a new peak! Hopefully it'll keep climbing.
January 7, 20224 yr Ghost is excellent. I'd love it to be a big old Top 10 smash like Biebs used to do... but it won't :(
January 7, 20224 yr Not to sound like a broken record but shame this missed top 20 so that Dermot Kennedy can linger around there for another week or two
January 7, 20224 yr Yeah this feels like a pointless reset, it's not going to climb from #20 and has denied plenty of tracks beneath it a better position! Same for the likes of Drive and Meet Me At Our Spot! My least fave of his top 40 hits imo!
January 7, 20224 yr Not understanding why this got a reset, but its not a bad song because the label asked for one. why they bothered to us another question
January 7, 20224 yr Author ALBUMS 1 Ed Sheeran - = 2 Adele - 30 3 ABBA - Voyage 4 Little Mix - Between Us 5 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
January 7, 20224 yr Author 19 | | 13th week Coldplay and BTS My Universe 2nd single from Music of the Spheres Released: 24th September 2021 Label: Parlophone Records Chart Statistics NE (07/10/2021) | 3-12-15-5-7-13-12-17-19-24-86-92-x RE (13/01/2022) | 19 Sales: 200k+ Certification: Silver Status: Standard Chart Ratio 01 Sales 12 Audio Streaming 12 Video Streaming Video 3YqPKLZF_WU Biography Coldplay Coldplay frontman Chris Martin once joked that the two biggest challenges in his life were trying to follow Radiohead and trying to follow Brad Pitt. The Pitt reference was personal, of course—Martin had been married to Pitt’s former fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow—but his self-assessment still felt remarkably apt: Coldplay isn’t just one of the most popular bands in the world, but also torchbearers for a kind of mainstream art-rock whose roots reach back through Radiohead, U2, Pink Floyd and even The Beatles. Yes, the music is anthemic enough to fill arenas—“Clocks”, “Speed of Sound”, “Paradise”, “A Sky Full of Stars”—but detailed and atmospheric, too, stretching the conventions of modern rock without ever losing the emotional thread. Formed in London in the mid-’90s, the band debuted with 2000’s Parachutes. Seasons have changed—the arty experiments of 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the electro-rush of 2011’s Mylo Xyloto, the eclecticism of 2019’s Everyday Life—but the core of their sound has been consistent: Propulsive, uplifting, grand but vulnerable. In crowded bars and lonely bedrooms, the effect is more or less the same: At the end of the day, Coldplay came for the heart. - Apple Music BTS Calling BTS a boy band is a little like calling a computer a typewriter with a screen. Yes, they sing. Yes, they dance. Yes, they have cool haircuts and their outfits always match in an interesting way. But they also represent the power of pop music—simple, catchy pop music—as a force for social transformation, touching on subjects—mental health, LGBTQ identity, class inequity—taboo not just in their native South Korea but in the sunshine-and-rainbows world of mass-market culture generally. The official name of their fans (the ARMY), is an acronym for “Adorable Representative MC for Youth.” But the subtext is clear: These are people willing to fight for what they believe. Formed in 2010 by K-pop impresario Bang Si-hyuk, the group—V, j-hope, RM, Jin, Jimin, Jungkook, and SUGA—swiftly became not only one of the biggest groups in South Korea (and eventually the best-selling artists in the country’s history), but an emblem for K-pop’s migration into mainstream global pop—a feat made even more impressive by the fact that the band sings almost entirely in Korean. More than just developing a brand, BTS crafted a rich, reference-heavy alternate universe that invoked things like Jungian psychoanalysis and Nietzschean philosophy—not your most bankable teen-pop references. (The video to their 2016 track “Blood Sweat & Tears” is, if not the only music video in history to feature both a coordinated dance routine and a quote from the Hermann Hesse novel Demian, certainly the only one to have been watched more than half a billion times.) But for as dense as the band’s mythology can get, their presence remains simple, clear, and uplifting. In 2017, they partnered with UNICEF in a campaign to protect young people from violence; the next year, their fans raised over $1 million in an effort to alleviate childhood malnutrition. SUGA once promised that if he got rich, he would buy his fans beef—a luxury in Korea. On his 25th birthday, he donated nearly $20,000 of it to orphanages. And he did it in ARMY’s name. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Coldplay 1999 92 Brothers & Sisters -NAS- 2000 35 Shiver -1- 2000 04 Yellow -2- MILLIONAIRE 2000 10 Trouble -3- 2002 02 In My Place -1- 2002 10 The Scientist -2- MILLIONAIRE 2003 09 Clocks -3- 2003 87 Remixes -EP- 2003 100 God Put A Smile On Your Face -4- 2005 02 Speed Of Sound -1- 2005 04 Fix You -2- MILLIONAIRE 2005 10 Talk -3- 2008 08 Violet Hill -1- 2008 54 Lost! -3- 2008 01 Viva La Vida -2- MILLIONAIRE 2009 28 Life In Technicolor II -4- 2010 88 A Message 2010 13 Christmas Lights -NAS- 2011 06 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall -1- 2011 01 Paradise -2- MILLION SELLER 2011 04 Princess Of China (Coldplay & Rihanna) -4- 2011 22 Charlie Brown -3- 2013 12 Atlas -OST- 2014 10 Magic -1- 2014 48 Midnight -IG- 2014 09 A Sky Full Of Stars -2- MILLIONAIRE 2014 70 Another's Arms -AT- 2014 95 Miracles -OST- 2015 07 Adventure Of A Lifetime -1- MILLIONAIRE 2015 52 Everglow -4- 2016 06 Hymn For The Weekend -2- MILLIONAIRE 2016 71 Up&Up -3- 2017 02 Something Just Like This (The Chainsmokers & Coldplay) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 70 Hypnotised -PS- 2017 54 Miracles (Someone Special) (Coldplay & Big Sean) -2- 2019 27 Orphans -1- 2019 93 Champion Of The World -AT- 2019 94 Church -AT- 2021 12 Higher Power -1- 2021 03 My Universe (Coldplay & BTS) -2- 2021 24 Let Somebody Go (Coldplay & Selena Gomez) -AT- 2 x #1 | 9 x Top 5 | 19 x Top 10 | 22 x Top 20 | 27 x Top 40 | 41 x Top 100 BTS 2017 90 DNA -1- 2017 43 MIC Drop (feat. Desiigner) -2- 2018 42 FAKE LOVE -1- 2018 21 IDOL -1- 2018 57 Waste It On Me (Steve Aoki feat. BTS) 2019 13 Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey) -1- 2019 68 Make It Right (feat. Lauv) -2- 2019 74 Mikrokosmos -AT- 2019 61 Dream Glow (BTS & Charli XCX) -1- 2020 46 Black Swan -PS- 2020 21 ON -1- 2020 100 Filter -AT- 2020 03 Dynamite -1- 2020 10 Life Goes On -2- 2020 66 Blue & Grey -AT- 2021 03 Butter -1- 2021 16 Permission To Dance -2- 2021 03 My Universe (Coldplay & BTS) 0 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 6 x Top 20 | 8 x Top 40 | 18 x Top 100 Social Media Coldplay BTS http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 7, 20224 yr because the label asked for one. why they bothered to us another question Yeah not quite understanding why they bothered with the reset is what I was meaning, sorry
January 7, 20224 yr Really not keen on "My Universe" - feels like such a shallow attempt at getting a hit from Coldplay and it's just a pretty average song really
January 7, 20224 yr because the label asked for one. why they bothered to us another question They need to keep him in the charts ahead of the album release I guess
January 7, 20224 yr If he retired tomorrow I wouldn't shed a tear. I'd say exactly the same thing about Ed Sheeran. :P
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