Love a bit of Ne Yo! Though this one is on the dull side. So much so, I forgot it existed!

Ne-Yo did really go on a musical journey from 2006-2015!

Edited Monday at 20:581 day by TheSnake

Quite like 'So Sick' but 'Nature's Law' should've got there over it!

Not much to say about the last few songs, but they're all roughly where I'd place them. 'It's Chico Time' feels like a time capsule of The X Factor 2005 that was closing by the time the single came out, even if it did remain a stock answer to "what time is it?" for a while. The production on 'Nasty Girl' sticks in the mind but I haven't any interest in the lyrics, 'Smack That' has some memorable hooks but doesn't really appeal overall, 'Star Girl' felt too close to McFly fanbase only territory to pique my interest, and 'So Sick' is OK but nothing exciting and I'd have preferred 'Nature's Law' to grab that week - Embrace even coming close to #1 would have seemed highly unlikely 5 years earlier, but they turned it around in the middle of the decade (until their World Cup song that is, which kind of killed them again oops).

Hope you feel better soon Jade!

Sorry you're poorly Jade! It's almost as if you timed it for Ne-Yo eek! I'd forgotten how So Sick went and I'd forgotten it was a number one, so that's not a promising start - it scraped into my top 40 in comparsison to his closest to number one in Beautiful Monster (#2) and top 10 for Closer. It sounds OK, nice production, there's nothing bad about it - but it just comes and goes and doesnt leave much of an impression for me. Good lyrics need something interesting melodically to shine.

I think 'So Sick' is pleasant enough, but not one I believe I've ever once listened to out of choice.

18 hours ago, TheSnake said:

Ne-Yo did really go on a musical journey from 2006-2015!

Agreed. 'So Sick' and 'Beautiful Monster' couldn't sound any more different and they were only released 4 years apart.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by montyj

"So Sick" is OK, but nothing spectacular. Embrace deserved the #1, but unfortunately they missed it close. My favourite song of them is "Gravity".

15 Orson - No Tomorrow

Kept off #1: nothing directly, but the highest non-#1 that week was Black Eyed Peas - 'Pump It' at #3

American pop-rock band Orson released 'No Tomorrow' as their debut single from the album Bright Idea. It debuted at #5 in the U.K. chart, before later climbing to #1, infamously with the lowest weekly sales for a chart-topper of all time, with just 17,694 copies sold. This record had previously belonged to the Elvis reissue of 'One Night' / 'I Got Stung' from the year before, which managed 20,463 sales. So Orson are the only act to ever sell less than 20,000 copies to reach the top. This was very telling of the era, where physical CD sales were nosediving and downloads weren't fully integrated into the chart yet, with an accompanying physical release still needed until January 2007. Orson reached #1 in March 2006, so Smash Hits was already over by this point, Top of the Pops was on life support and the first song to reach #1 on downloads alone (with its CD being released the following week) was about a month away. So this was a very transformative time for the industry and 'No Tomorrow' was the rock bottom moment before these changes set in.

I remember 'No Tomorrow' getting a couple of mentions in the 'What is the most Ordinary #1 Ever?' thread and I wouldn't quite go that far, but I can see why, as it's a pretty straight-forward pop-rock song and the band aren't particularly charismatic. However, I do quite like the power-pop energy in the chorus and the lyrics capture a feeling of youthful lust pretty well. So this position felt about right for me.

Orson members Jason Pebworth and George Astasio are also members of a song writing and music production group called The Invisible Men, who have quite a lot of hits in their repetoire over the years. Their first credit was as song-writers on Girls Aloud's 'The Show' and they were also involved on works for the Sugababes, Jessie J, The Noisettes and even on US #1 'Fancy' by Iggy Azalea and Charli xcx. So they've done pretty well for themselves!

These were the poor sales for the top 3 when Orson got to #1:

1. Orson - No Tomorrow (17,694)

2. Chico - It's Chico Time (17,365)

3. Black Eyed Peas - Pump It (17,360)

So that small sales gap between #1 and #3 was pretty unlucky for the Black Eyed Peas. But they swerved the 'lowest selling #1' tag all the same.

My first ever Jester's Top Tunes number 1 in the first week of Buzzjack! I have a huge soft spot for No Tomorrow because of this.

Most of the recent songs in this thread I have very few strong feelings towards, so haven't commented (except to say that 'Smack That' is hilariously inept), but 'No Tomorrow' is definitely one I like and hopefully a signal that we're getting into the good side of the 2006 #1s. Love its energy even if I could go years without thinking about it.

I haven’t heard that Orson track since it was out… just listened and it’s alright, the best one so far. It’s very much like if Maroon 5 went slightly more rock

3 hours ago, dandy* said:

I haven’t heard that Orson track since it was out… just listened and it’s alright, the best one so far. It’s very much like if Maroon 5 went slightly more rock

That's a very good description.

I'm starting to realise that I'm not at all familiar with a lot of UK #1's from 2006. ☹️