:thinking: Future chart hit? :thinking:

 

Jax Jones and Zoe Wees

Never Be Lonely

 

 

Non-album single

Released: 9th February 2023

Label: WUGD

 

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Biography

 

Jax Jones

When Duke Dumont topped the UK charts with his single “I Got U” in 2014, many listeners may have assumed that featured artist Jax Jones was the singer. In fact, Jones (born Timucin Aluo in 1987) was a co-writer and producer on the song, and its No. 1 position marked his auspicious debut. Raised in London by a Turkish father, a Malaysian mother and a Nigerian stepfather, the Apple Music Up Next alum grew up on a mix of American hip-hop, UK dance and African music, which might help to explain the mix of styles that swirls through his own tracks: His youthful fondness for Prince shows through in funk-infused cuts like 2015’s “Ocean Drive”, while Afro-Caribbean accents bubble up in 2018’s “Ring Ring”, a lilting tropical-house collaboration with Mabel and Rich the Kid. Though his beats generally follow the punchy cadence of deep-diving future house, he brings a hip-hop producer’s collage sensibility to the mixing desk: Many of his productions slyly interpolate other songs. “You Don’t Know Me”, from 2016, is built around the slinky hook of M.A.N.D.Y. and Booka Shade’s 2005 anthem “Body Language”, while “I Got U” contains a choice bit of Whitney Houston’s “My Love Is Your Love”. Whether on his own productions or his remixes for Ellie Goulding, Charli XCX and Missy Elliott, Jones’ habitual blend of pop polish and house groove is unmistakable. “I just thought I'd try it,” he told Apple Music about his relationship to dance music. “House is a collage of everything the creator is. If you love hip-hop, you can chuck that in there. If you love rock, you can chuck that in there too. It took a long time, but now it makes a lot of sense. It’s sample-based and also musical, so it's a very natural fit. Life is beautiful like that. They say you have to, like, get rid of yourself to go to the next level. And I think that’s what happened.” - Apple Music

 

Zoe Wees

A disarmingly honest singer-songwriter with a husky yawp and acute descriptions of her inner life, Zoe Wees (born May 13, 2002, in Hamburg) became known to German audiences in the late 2010s as a contestant on the talent show The Voice Kids. Her breakout single “Control”, a piano-led ballad in which she sang of the “spinnin’ out in space pressin’ on my chest” she experienced because of her childhood epilepsy and overwhelming anxiety, was a sleeper hit in 2020. Its worldwide success led to Wees being named an Apple Music Up Next artist in 2021. In May of that year she released her debut EP, Golden Wings, and tracks like the swirling “Hold Me Like You Used To” and the rage-tinged “Girls Like Us” established Wees as one of pop’s most vibrant young voices, with a pronounced talent for immediate, forthright songwriting. The following year, she released “Daddy’s Eyes”, a searing letter to her absent father, and the EDM-tinged call for hope “Don't Give Up”, as well as a cover of Liam Payne’s holiday cut “All I Want (For Christmas)”. Her debut full-length, Therapy, which collects her early singles and features new tracks, was released in the fall of 2023. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Jax Jones

2014 01 I Got U (Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones) MILLIONAIRE

2016 85 House Work (feat. MNEK & Mike Dunn) -1-

2016 03 You Don't Know Me (feat. RAYE) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 13 Instruction (feat. Demi Lovato & Stefflon Don) -3-

2017 07 Breathe (feat. Ina Wroldsen) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2018 12 Ring Ring (Jax Jones & Mabel feat. Rich The Kid) -5-

2018 08 Play (Jax Jones & Years & Years) -6-

2019 10 All Day And Night (Jax Jones, Martin Solveig, Madison Beer & Europa) -7-

2019 19 One Touch (Jess Glynne & Jax Jones)

2019 23 Harder (Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha) -8-

2019 67 Jacques (Jax Jones & Tove Lo) -PS-

2019 09 This Is Real (Jax Jones & Ella Henderson) -9-

2020 21 Tequila (Jax Jones, Martin Solveig, RAYE & Europa) -10-

2020 25 i miss u (Jax Jones & Au/Ra) -NAS-

2021 06 OUT OUT (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie)

2022 07 Where Did You Go? (Jax Jones & MNEK) -NAS-

2022 45 Good Luck (Mabel, Jax Jones & Galantis)

2022 70 Lonely Heart (Jax Jones, Martin Solveig, GRACEY & Europa) -NAS-

2023 14 Whistle (Jax Jones & Calum Scott) -NAS-

2023 28 Won't Forget You (Jax Jones, D.O.D & Ina Wroldsen) -NAS-

2024 00 Never Be Lonely (Jax Jones & Zoe Wees) -NAS-

 

1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 8 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 16 x Top 40 | 20 x Top 100

 

Zoe Wees

2022 62 All I Want (For Christmas) -NAS-

2024 00 Never Be Lonely (Jax Jones & Zoe Wees)

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 0 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100

 

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Suedehead has his commentary up already that was very quick!

I do like forever but I would much prefer Paul revere or you’re gonna go far to impact next week! Keeping fingers crossed at least one can enter the top 40!

The OCC have evidently forgotten about resets this week as neither Flowers nor Fast Car have got one.

 

Not bothered that Flowers didn't get one, but Fast Car missing out is a shame

New peaks and new entries outside the top 40:

 

47. Yung Filly - Grey (+2)

53. Hazbin Hotel Cast - Loser Baby (+24)

55. Hazbin Hotel Cast - Poison (+41)

63. Don Toliver - Bandit (NEW)

65. Travis Scott - My Eyes (+9)

74. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - Thank You (Not So Bad) (+6)

75. Hazbin Hotel Cast - Out For Love (NEW)

78. Newera - Birds In The Sky (NEW)

82. Rich Amiri - One Call (NEW)

84. Aimee Carty - 2 Days Into College (NEW)

85. Artemas - If U Think I'm Pretty (NEW)

87. Nathan Dawe - We Ain't Here For Long (NEW)

89. Goddard & Cat Burns - Wasted Youth (NEW)

98. Jazzy - Shooting Star (NEW)

100. Cat Janice - Dance You Outta My Head (NEW)

Never Be Lonely sounds like it owes a lot to ATC - Around The World, hopefully it will be a hit anyway!

 

I'm glad that Thank You (Not So Bad) has made the top 75 as 'big room EDM' hasn't been in the charts for ages (apart from the recent Calvin songs)!

Edited February 9, 20242 yr by TheSnake

Artemas is the first artist I've entered into a song contest on Buzzjack to subsequently make their chart debut - not the first artist (or song) I'd have chosen but good for him.

Quite a few top 100 debuts then but none in the top 60. Wouldn't mind seeing that Rich Amiri song blowing up, not exactly an innovative song (just sounds like the next iteration of Future and the likes) but it is a banger. Nice that Cat Janice at least just about registered somewhere I suppose. Two new entries for people named Cat :magic:

The OCC have evidently forgotten about resets this week as neither Flowers nor Fast Car have got one.

 

Not bothered that Flowers didn't get one, but Fast Car missing out is a shame

 

I came here to say that! I’m sure ‘Fast Car’ deserved a reset, looking at its Spotify streams.

 

Don't want to celebrate too early but happy to see Kygo stalling for now x

 

Also glad The Last Dinner Party didn't get too much of a boost from the album. That song is unavoidable on R1 right now and it's really starting to get on my nerves (not that I ever cared for it much).

 

'Alibi' still looking on track to eventually be a top 10 hit.

 

I’m mean it’s fine not to like the song and get it’s unavoidable on R1 now but it’s quite refreshing to see a band like TLDP charting in the top 20, it’s different, leftfield pop with self written songs. And it’s a band R1 have been pushing a lot compared to the commercial radio stations so glad personally it’s in there.

I don't really see what's 'leftfield' about 'Nothing Matters', it's pretty bland indie pop imo. It's nice to have new bands breaking through but I just wish it wasn't this song.

It’s not mainstream at any rate and they are a brand new band with their first album out so nice to see them doing well with it, leftfield maybe isn’t the best description but you get the point.

Edited February 10, 20242 yr by Steve201

I think it does sound pretty mainstream though (at least as far as the genre goes). If you just mean that it's different for the charts because not a lot of indie music charts then fair enough.

Yeh that’s my general point, the vast majority of charting indie music now sounds fairly mainstream but will hopefully lead to people discovering the rest!

Edited February 11, 20242 yr by Steve201

that would be my main criticism x The Last Dinner Party's album, it's very safe and polished and tame, I was expecting more rawness