March 26, 20223 yr I'd forgotten about this one, does it get used anymore? No, I can only find a couple of examples of it. I wish it had been used more frequently though, I quite like the idea of one act introducing another to the public!
March 26, 20223 yr According to Polyhex there was this as well Rebel MC Introducing Little T - Rich ah Getting Richer Released 30 years ago and made no.48. As an aside, of course the title is even more relevant today sadly.
March 27, 20223 yr the "x" is hilarious and pointless, it should be just "&". I get the nuances of others. Edited March 27, 20223 yr by Sour Candy
March 27, 20223 yr Found another term.. Paul Oakenfold (vocals Tiff Lacey) - Hypnotised made no.57 in 2003 Edited March 27, 20223 yr by Smint
March 29, 20223 yr Author Just imported a CD now and one of the tracks was labelled as "Starring" which is not one I have come across before, but it has come up on Polyhex search.
March 30, 20223 yr Its very hard to look up x on Polyhex but the earliest I think I can find is Oliver Heldens x Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) from 2014, are there any earlier songs with x I wonder? It turns out searching " x " (with the spaces either side) on Polyhex does work for this! You're correct in that Gecko was the first to chart; earlier entries which come up using this search are just those which legitimately have X in the artist's name e.g. Liberty X, X Factor Finalists. Looks like "featuring" has been around as long as the chart has existed, there are several examples from the 50s with the earliest #1 being in 1956 (The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon - Why Do Fools Fall In Love)
March 30, 20223 yr I just thought "x" was a modern pretentious stylistic thing, I do recall Oliver Heldens x Becky Hill being the first instance I saw of it and had no idea it'd stick. It doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as the trend of titles all in lowercase though. Seriously, WHO is responsible for making that a thing? :arrr: (sorry for deviating from the topic)
March 30, 20223 yr Author It doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as the trend of titles all in lowercase though. Seriously, WHO is responsible for making that a thing? :arrr: (sorry for deviating from the topic) I always attribute the lowercase song titles to Billie Eilish because then artists like Olivia Rodrigo, Tate McRae and even Taylor Swift all started doing it too for various spells. Here’s another one… Who is responsible for the TikTok trend of adding additional text in brackets to a song title? Case in point: George Ezra – Anyone For You changed to Anyone For You (Tiger Lily) Who decided to start this trend and why have others copied it? :blink:
March 30, 20223 yr Anyone For You hasn’t taken off on TikTok though, so it’s not totally related to that.
March 30, 20223 yr yes, not tiktok related, its to facilitate searching for the song anywhere, on Youtube, on Spotfy, on itunes cos people know the Lily part but not the title but did it start a trend? are others doing it too now?
March 30, 20223 yr Remember that brief period in 2013/14 when hash tags at the start of song titles were becoming a thing (like #thatPOWER & #Beautiful). Glad that didn't become a regular occurrence like the 'x' thing.
March 30, 20223 yr Author Remember that brief period in 2013/14 when hash tags at the start of song titles were becoming a thing (like #thatPOWER & #Beautiful). Glad that didn't become a regular occurrence like the 'x' thing. That’s another good point I had forgotten about. Yes that was a lot more isolated back then and didn’t take off.
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