February 1, 20223 yr Author Number 6 – 364 points Olivia Rodrigo Drivers License Sales to the end of 2021: 1,303,800 Chart Run: NE (21/01/2021) | 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-18-21-27-28-34-38-37-43-40-35-x RE (21/01/2021) | 6-x Highest ratings: +12 x8 (Dircadirca, chartjack2, Smint, rio309, themodereviews, Waverly, London, coi) Lowest ratings: +1 x2 (Leonardo, Jason) 0 x1 (Dobbo.) Who can forget that time back at the beginning of last January? We had months of lockdown ahead and the singles market seemed utterly dead with the Spotify #1 being months old and barely doing 200k per day. Then this came from nowhere and exploded to doing more than a million on Spotify within a few days. Of course she went on to have a fantastic year and came out with another song that would eclipse “Drivers License” both in chart sales and, so it turns out, in Buzzjack popularity. But how much higher will her other song be and can it go all the way? ZmDBbnmKpqQ Biography hi there! my name is olivia! I’m 18 years old and writing songs is my favorite thing to do in the world. I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember and I fall more in love with it every day. The first song I ever got published was called “All I Want.” I wrote it for a show I act in and it was a super cool experience that opened up a lot of doors for me. On the last day before Covid lockdown, I met the team at Interscope/Geffen records and a producer named Dan Nigro for the first time. It turned out to be a very momentous day for so many reasons. I spent most of quarantine writing songs in my living room and producing them in a garage, including ‘drivers license’. It was always a really special song to me but I never expected the response it got. It absolutely blew my mind and I still to this day refuse to believe it all actually happened. The day I am writing this is actually the day that I turn in my debut album! I’m sooo excited for you to hear it and I feel so grateful that I get to make music for my job. - Spotify Edited February 2, 20223 yr by JulianT
February 1, 20223 yr Author So here is your Top 5! Reactions / predictions? Little Mix – Sweet Melody Lil Nas X – Montero (Call Me By Your Name) Olivia Rodrigo – Good 4 U Elton John and Dua Lipa – Cold Heart Adele – Easy On Me
February 1, 20223 yr Well, that's the best possible top 5 for sure! Ed Sheeran's songs were as it usually is with Ed Sheeran songs, and I loved the original Wellerman blowing up, but that Tik Tok version is abysmal, the dance beat is dull and does a single that's less than three minutes originally really require an edit to make it even shorter? :/
February 1, 20223 yr Good4You, then Easy On Me, would be winners I'm happy with. Not very fussed at all about the rest.
February 2, 20223 yr Oh thanks goodness that boring tat is out. Looking back I still can't get my head around how that spent NINE weeks at #1, definitely reflected the mood of the nation being in that long winter lockdown. Little Mix is my fave of the final 5 so that to win. But as long as Adele or Elton don't win I'll be pleased enough.
February 2, 20223 yr Oh thanks goodness that boring tat is out. Looking back I still can't get my head around how that spent NINE weeks at #1, definitely reflected the mood of the nation being in that long winter lockdown. . Drivers licence only spent 4 weeks at #1 (assuming that’s what you’re talking about lol)
February 2, 20223 yr Drivers licence only spent 4 weeks at #1 (assuming that’s what you’re talking about lol) I had to double check in case I was going mad but I believe JulianT has copied the chart run for Shivers there in drivers license's post. (Even 4 weeks would have been too long mind :kink:)
February 2, 20223 yr DL still sounds a bit gimmick-y with all the references to the blonde and to the tv show, but it's not a bad Taylor Swift copycat song :) at least it put Olivia on the map and she gave us better songs later in the year Edited February 3, 20223 yr by Bjork
February 3, 20223 yr Oh thanks goodness that boring tat is out. Looking back I still can't get my head around how that spent NINE weeks at #1, definitely reflected the mood of the nation being in that long winter lockdown. I agree with your last part of your comment that it was a song that reflected the isolation/loss/bleakness of 2021 lockdown but I come to a different conclusion overall and that it was amazing for that. It didn't sound so relevant during summer which is why it lost popularity slightly earlier than many predicted (although of course did stream very well). I was hoping it would be higher than 6 on this - was my no.1. Oh well!
February 3, 20223 yr Much prefer Driver’s Licence to Good for You - maybe that’s because I’m an old boring millennial rather than a young and hip Gen Z lol
February 3, 20223 yr I liked 'Goiod 4 U' and the lyrics were spiky but was a bit too Paramore-y for me to love But fair play to its success and hope it wins here (don't think it will mind).
February 3, 20223 yr Author Number 5 – 372 points Lil Nas X Montero (Call Me By Your Name) Sales to the end of 2021: 1,054,200 Chart Run: NE (08/04/2021) | 1-1-1-1-1-2-2-4-6-15-19-19-19-19-22-30-28-30-33-34-37-41-50-60-63-16-21-20-22-68-71-83-100-x Highest ratings: +12 x6 (Jade, SevenSeize, LMLou, Chez Wombat, Dot Branning, Mack.) Lowest ratings: +1 x5 (Mangø, Smint, …ready for it, steve201, Riser) 0 x1 (Jason) First up in a very tight Top 5 is Lil Nas X. This had a lot of good support but also some low scores dragging it down slightly. The deeply autobiographical track “Montero” was the title track of Lil Nas X’s debut album, and is also his real first name. The cover art is a recreation of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam”, with Lil Nas X playing both the roles of Adam and God. Four tracks left, but which of them has missed the Top 3 by just 2 points? 6swmTBVI83k Biography The way Lil Nas X tells it, it sounds simple, almost mystical. “I was just kinda bored,” he told Apple Music. “I wanted to put something up. So that’s what I did.” Not only did the “it” in question—“Old Town Road”—become a global phenomenon (and 2019 Apple Music Award winner for Song of the Year), it prompted surprisingly pertinent conversations about how we define and classify music. Was it country? Was it rap? Cowboy anthem or LGBTQ camp? TikTok novelty or legitimate pop song? It was, of course, all those things, and pity those who couldn’t live with the contradictions. Born Montero Lamar Hill in 1999, Nas grew up outside Atlanta but came of age on the internet, turning to social media and meme-making out of boredom and teenage loneliness—feelings compounded by his struggle to resolve his sexuality. (He later became the first artist to come out while his record was at No. 1, though he’d figured that between the rhinestones and rainbows and the general vibe, it would’ve been obvious.) “I didn’t know it was gonna do what it did,” he said of “Old Town Road” and its companion EP, 7. “But it did what it did.” - Apple Music
February 3, 20223 yr Much prefer Driver’s Licence to Good for You - maybe that’s because I’m an old boring millennial rather than a young and hip Gen Z lol I prefer drivers licence too and I just about fall under Gen Z :kink: but I do love both. Glad Lil Nas X made the top 5 although I was hoping he'd be highest male, instead that honour goes to Elton John: highest and (joint) lowest male *_*
February 3, 20223 yr 'MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)' is a good song as well but I wish it had been 'INDUSTRY BABY' instead (or as well) that reached #1 for him, that's become comfortably my favourite song from him and would have easily got my top points here! I also like 'drivers license' more than 'good 4 u' although again my favourite single of the era didn't get to #1, justice for 'deja vu'. (And my overall fave of Olivia's 2021 output was 'favorite crime' but that was an album track ofc). Happy to see 'Shivers' being the highest of the Ed songs here even if still quite low, 'Bad Habits' got old / played out for me pretty quickly but 'Shivers' still hasn't - this Ed album was pretty mediocre overall but 'Shivers' and 'Overpass Graffiti' are both great singles.
February 3, 20223 yr Pleased Montero made the Top 5! Easily one of my songs of the year and so was Industry Baby. Rooting for Cold Heart now.
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