April 14, 20233 yr I really didn't like Heaven in the first few weeks but has grown on me now. Also prefer Mother to MYL!
April 14, 20233 yr Well if that Meghan Trainor atrocity has now already peaked, I suppose that's one positive.
April 14, 20233 yr Well, no. He's changed collaborators making music, more successful writers over genuine talent. I also find his early era to be my favourite, Bruises is just so raw Eh, most of his big hits (Someone You Loved, Hold Me While You Wait, Before You Go, Forget Me & How I'm Feeling Now) were all written with the production team TMS.
April 14, 20233 yr Well, no. He's changed collaborators making music, more successful writers over genuine talent. I also find his early era to be my favourite, Bruises is just so raw But I thought all of his music sounded the same :P
April 14, 20233 yr Author 21 | 20 | 22nd week The Weeknd Die For You 5th single from Starboy Released: 25th November 2016 Label: The Weeknd XO Chart Statistics NE (08/12/2016) | 74-x RE (17/11/2022) | 77-69-79-79-79-94-x RE (12/01/2023) | 48-45-55-57-53-45-48-37-4-3-4-3-5-20-21 Sales: 800k+ Certification: Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 04 Sales 03 Audio Streaming 15 Video Streaming Video uPD0QOGTmMI Biography Nobody makes feeling bad sound as good as The Weeknd. Even the singer’s sunniest tracks (“Can’t Feel My Face”, “Starboy”) feel anchored by darkness—the sense that pleasure is pain and beauty decays and you can’t have the night without the morning after. The brainchild of Toronto singer Abel Tesfaye, the project took off in 2011 with a string of mixtapes (later collected as 2012’s Trilogy) that forged cavernous, falsetto-driven R&B with narratives drenched in drugs, sex and other regrettable decisions—a sound both sensuous and detached, featherlight and dead heavy. One of the earliest musicians to find his footing on the internet, Tesfaye originally offered his music through YouTube and free downloads, a move that felt radical then but is common now. Ethiopian by heritage (his parents immigrated to Canada in the late ’80s, just before he was born), Tesfaye—out from behind the mask of making art online—has since come to represent the changing face of Toronto, rooting himself not just in an international musical community but in a specific diasporic experience. Tesfaye’s music has become a symbol of hedonism pushed to bleak excess, with a series of albums—including 2015’s Grammy-winning Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s multiplatinum Starboy and 2020’s dense and atmospheric After Hours—whose narrators can’t seem to say no even if they hate themselves for it later. And though his music has gotten a little brighter over time, the prevailing mood remains heavy, even unsettling—the ride you want more of even when you’ve had too much. Speaking to Apple Music about the persona behind his songs, Tesfaye said, “I’m a chill person. That guy is who I am, but it is who I am to myself and in my writing. Sometimes you take him and then you create more, and then it becomes this beast. You add more to him, and then it’s uncontrollable—its own character. It’s like Scarface, the villain: It’s horrible, but you can’t stop looking at it.” Though he didn’t release a new album in 2021, he was a constant part of the cultural conversation, releasing a slew of singles, performing at the Super Bowl and on Saturday Night Live (think: “Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd”) and winning the Apple Music Award for Artist of the Year. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2012 37 Crew Love (Drake feat. The Weeknd) 2014 48 Love Me Harder (Ariana Grande & The Weeknd) 2015 04 Earned It -OST/2- MILLIONAIRE 2015 64 Where You Belong -OST- 2015 03 The Hills -4- MILLIONAIRE 2015 03 Can't Feel My Face -3- MILLIONAIRE 2015 65 Often -1/6- 2015 72 Real Life -AT- 2015 74 Tell Your Friends -AT- 2015 78 Prisoner (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2015 90 Acquainted -AT- 2015 91 Losers (feat. Labrinth) -AT- 2015 92 Dark Times (feat. Ed Sheeran) -AT- 2015 48 In The Night -5- 2016 84 FML (Kanye West feat. The Weeknd) 2016 35 6 Inch (Beyoncé feat. The Weeknd) 2016 02 Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2016 51 False Alarm -IG- 2016 09 I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2016 17 Party Monster -3- 2016 26 Rockin' -4- 2016 30 Sidewalks (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -AT- 2016 39 Reminder -AT- 2016 43 Six Feet Under -AT- 2016 47 Secrets -AT- 2016 53 A Lonely Night -AT- 2016 55 True Colours -AT- 2016 68 Love To Lay -AT- 2016 73 Stargirl Interlude (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2016 03 Die For You -5- 2016 76 All I Know (feat. Future) -AT- 2016 78 Attention -AT- 2016 79 Ordinary Life -AT- 2016 81 Nothing Without You -AT- 2017 83 Comin Out Strong (Future feat. The Weeknd) 2017 38 Lust For Life (Lana Del Rey feat. The Weeknd) 2017 51 A Lie (French Montana feat. The Weeknd & Max B) 2017 78 Curve (Gucci Mane feat. The Weeknd) 2018 11 Pray For Me (The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar) -OST- 2018 07 Call Out My Name -1- 2018 17 Try Me -AT- 2018 18 Wasted Times -AT- 2019 09 Lost In The Fire (Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd) 2019 91 Price On My Head (NAV feat. The Weeknd) 2019 45 Power Is Power (SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott) -OST- 2019 10 Heartless -1- 2019 01 Blinding Lights -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 20 After Hours -IG- 2020 17 In Your Eyes -3- 2020 23 Smile (Juice WRLD & The Weeknd) 2020 33 Over Now (Calvin Harris & The Weeknd) 2021 02 Save Your Tears -4- MILLIONAIRE 2021 09 You Right (Doja Cat & The Weeknd) 2021 13 Take My Breath -1- 2021 15 Moth To A Flame (Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd) 2021 20 One Right Now (Post Malone & The Weeknd) 2022 10 Sacrifice -2- 2022 22 How Do I Make You Love Me? -AT- 2022 45 Is There Someone Else? -AT- 2022 07 Creepin' (Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage) 1 x #1 | 7 x Top 5 | 15 x Top 10 | 23 x Top 20 | 32 x Top 40 | 60 x Top 100 Social Media The Weeknd http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
April 14, 20233 yr Author ALBUMS 1 Ellie Goulding - Higher Than Heaven 2 NF - HOPE 3 The Weeknd - The Highlights 4 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent 5 Taylor Swift - Midnights
April 14, 20233 yr Eh, most of his big hits (Someone You Loved, Hold Me While You Wait, Before You Go, Forget Me & How I'm Feeling Now) were all written with the production team TMS. I was talking about the "Breach" era But I thought all of his music sounded the same :P When did i say that? I think you're talking to the wrong person :lol: Edited April 14, 20233 yr by Y'all Starlight
April 14, 20233 yr Author 20 | 28 | 4th week Bakar Hell N Back 1st single from Will You Be My Yellow? Released: 17th August 2019 Label: Bakar Chart Statistics NE (30/03/2023) | 41-35-28-20 Sales: 400k+ Certification: Gold Status: Standard Chart Ratio 00 Sales 43 Audio Streaming 00 Video Streaming Video BdrNvQ4YCng Biography Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr (born 12 February 1994), better known as Bakar, is a British singer. Known for his experimental indie rock style, he made his professional solo debut with the mixtape Badkid in May 2018, subsequently releasing the extended play Will You Be My Yellow? in September 2019. He released his debut album Nobody's Home in February 2022. - Wikipedia Top 100 Chart History 2023 20 Hell N Back -1- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100 Social Media Bakar http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
April 14, 20233 yr When did i say that? I think you're talking to the wrong person :lol: Sorry if you've never said that - plenty of people with your opinions on Lewis have done!
April 14, 20233 yr Author 19 | 17 | 21st week RAYE and 070 Shake Escapism. 3rd single from My 21st Century Blues Released: 12th October 2022 Label: RAYE Chart Statistics NE (01/12/2022) | 31-6-2-3-6-13-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-10-12-14-15-14-18-17-19 Sales: 800k+ Certification: Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 03 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 03 Video Streaming Video Dll6VJ2C7wo Biography RAYE When RAYE speaks of her music, she doesn’t just talk of songs but of “stories”. And the South London singer-songwriter (born Rachel Agatha Keen in 1997) has quite the knack for writing them. Nominated for the Songwriter of the Year Ivor Novello Award in 2022, RAYE first broke through in 2014 with her star-signalling self-released debut EP, Welcome to the Winter, followed by the Stormzy-featuring Second EP two years later. A stream of singles and collaborations, including with Stefflon Don, Mr Eazi and Jax Jones, hinted at an artist who could shape-shift between musical spheres—and excel wherever she landed. But despite such successes (her name has also featured on the credits of songs by artists such as Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding, Little Mix and John Legend), RAYE felt trapped behind the scenes. In 2021—just months after the release of her chart-topping dance-pop anthem “BED” alongside Joel Corry and David Guetta—the singer-songwriter wrote on social media that she hadn’t been “allowed” to release her debut album and that she was “sick of being slept on” by her label, an allegation that sent shockwaves through the music industry. And it was then that RAYE returned to those stories, as she came to work on her long-awaited 2023 debut LP, My 21st Century Blues, as an independent artist. On it, she explores being a young woman in music and the trauma of sexual assault and substance abuse, but also the things any woman RAYE’s age might be moved to write about: climate change, relationships ending, falling in love with someone new. “This is about me telling the stories I want to tell, in the order I want to tell them, through the sonic landscape I want to tell them,” RAYE told Apple Music at the time of the album’s release. My 21st Century Blues, she added, wasn’t made with mainstream success in mind, yet that’s exactly what it brought. After the confronting “Hard Out Here.” and the made-for-repeat-listening “Black Mascara.”, she unleashed “Escapism.” featuring 070 Shake, a viral hit on both sides of the Atlantic and the biggest song of RAYE’s up to that point. It signalled, without doubt, that her time had come. “It is just the most beautiful validation,” said RAYE. “To know that you’re right to back yourself when you feel conviction and you feel passionately about something. I made this [album] battling and figuring out freedom, and I’m so excited for the artist I get to become. This has set the tone for me.” - Apple Music 070 Shake Danielle Balbuena (born June 13, 1997), better known by her stage name 070 Shake, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Aside from her solo career, she is also a member of the musical collective 070, who have released a mixtape together titled The 070 Project: Chapter 1 (2016). Shake would release her debut EP, Glitter, in March 2018. In 2018, Shake gained attention for her involvement with American musician Kanye West's production work in Wyoming, with West later signing her to his GOOD Music imprint. She went on to feature on the songs "Ghost Town" and "Violent Crimes" from West's Ye, as well as appearing on Pusha T's Daytona and Nas' Nasir. Shake released her debut album, Modus Vivendi, in 2020 and released her second album, You Can't Kill Me, in 2022. - Wikipedia Top 100 Chart History RAYE 2016 15 By Your Side (Jonas Blue feat. RAYE) 2016 03 You Don't Know Me (Jax Jones feat. RAYE) MILLIONAIRE 2017 65 The Line -NAS- 2017 15 Decline (RAYE & Mr Eazi) -1- 2018 26 Check (Kojo Funds feat. RAYE) 2018 41 Cigarette (RAYE, Mabel & Stefflon Don) -2- 2018 66 Friends -NAS- 2019 41 Stay (Don't Go Away) (David Guetta feat. RAYE) 2019 55 Love Me Again -1- 2020 21 Tequila (Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with RAYE) 2020 06 Secrets (Regard & RAYE) 2021 37 Regardless (RAYE & Rudimental) -2- 2021 03 BED (Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta) MILLIONAIRE 2021 14 Ferrari Horses (D-Block Europe & RAYE) 2021 64 Call On Me -NAS- 2021 50 I Don't Want You (Riton & RAYE) 2021 50 Money Calling (Da Beatfreakz feat. Russ Millions, RAYE & wewantwraiths) 2022 67 Waterfall (Disclosure & RAYE) 2022 01 Escapism. (RAYE & 070 Shake) -1- 2023 69 Ice Cream Man. -AT- 2023 71 Flip A Switch. -2- 1 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 21 x Top 100 070 Shake 2022 01 Escapism. (RAYE & 070 Shake) 1 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100 Social Media RAYE 070 Shake http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
April 14, 20233 yr Escapism. still remains one of my favourite tracks ever, the storytelling is second to none
April 14, 20233 yr Author 18 | 18 | 18th week SZA Kill Bill 4th single from SOS Released: 9th December 2022 Label: Top Dawg Entertainment Chart Statistics NE (22/12/2022) | 15-20-32-4-3-3-3-3-3-4-3-3-4-14-16-17-18-18 Sales: 600k+ Certification: Gold Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 47 Sales 02 Audio Streaming 09 Video Streaming Video MSRcC626prw Biography Solána Rowe had a weird time growing up. Jersey suburbs, orthodox Muslim household, parents working their way through corporate America, wanted to fit in, couldn’t. She got bullied for wearing a hijab after 9/11 and became the kind of teenager who, on at least one occasion, drew the cops into a chase while joyriding in the family car. “[My parents] were only strict because they were reasonable,” she told Apple Music in 2017. “Like, they’re black, they come from the South and Midwest, they don’t come from anything…they’re not tryna take a gang of risks.” That Rowe had her own ideas about how to live didn’t help. “I rebelled really hard, and I learned everything the hard way,” she said. “I’m very hard-headed, very curious.” It’s a balance—rebellious but insecure, expressive but self-conscious, dreamy but alert—that has made Rowe resonant, but also an anomaly, the kind of artist who doesn’t ignore her quirks or contradictions, but brings them to the table in all their messy human glory. After self-releasing a couple of EPs in her early twenties (she took her name from the Nation of Islam’s Supreme Alphabet—Savior Zig-Zag Allah), she became the first female artist signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, joining future collaborators Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock. Released in 2017, her debut album, Ctrl, put her at the vanguard of contemporary R&B, mixing the expressivity of classic soul with a hazy, synth-heavy atmosphere and a playful sense of lyricism that brought Rowe’s inner monologue out. “Even with the heels and tighter clothes and other things, I’m still just me,” she said. “I still have a lot of anxiety about the world, and my thoughts and what people think about my thoughts.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2016 88 Consideration (Rihanna feat. SZA) 2017 12 What Lovers Do (Maroon 5 feat. SZA) 2017 82 Homemade Dynamite (Lorde feat. Khalid, SZA & Post Malone) 2018 55 The Weekend (SZA & Calvin Harris) -1- 2018 05 All The Stars (Kendrick Lamar & SZA) -OST- MILLIONAIRE 2019 45 Power Is Power (SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott) -OST- 2019 66 Just Us (DJ Khaled feat. SZA) 2020 44 The Other Side (SZA & Justin Timberlake) -OST- 2020 55 Hit Different (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) -NAS- 2021 13 Good Days -1- 2021 03 Kiss Me More (Doja Cat feat. SZA) MILLIONAIRE 2021 24 No Love (Summer Walker & SZA) 2021 38 I Hate U -2- 2022 67 BEAUTIFUL (DJ Khaled feat. Future & SZA) 2022 17 Shirt -3- 2022 03 Kill Bill -4- 2022 27 Nobody Gets Me -AT- 2023 36 Snooze -AT- 2023 78 Low -AT- 0 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 3 x Top 10 | 6 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 19 x Top 100 Social Media SZA http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
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