May 30, 200718 yr I'm preparing for #1 fight between Rihana and Mutya. Should be fun! There will be *no* fight - if Mutya couldn't beat Rihanna on downloads (and she was a million miles off), she's hardly likely to win on CD sales!
May 30, 200718 yr There will be *no* fight - if Mutya couldn't beat Rihanna on downloads (and she was a million miles off), she's hardly likely to win on CD sales! I wouldn't be too sure of that.. all Mutya has to do is get some of her people together, hand over a wad of cash and then spread them over the UK, telling the peeps to buy as many copies of the single as possible in HMV and Woolworths, go into cyber cafes and download a thousand copies seperately etc. I think she got a healthy enough settlement from the Sugababes when they split up, being one of the primary songwriters, to be able to rig the charts to at least be in with a shout. After all, Louis Walsh did it with Westlife in their early years, and noone has begrudged them their 14 no 1's. Doesn't look like she's corrupt though, going by how much of a deficit she trails by in the midweeks. Some people are just too honest to a fault, even if it does impact their solo career fatally. Sigh..
May 30, 200718 yr Teletext say that Mims, Armand Van Helden, Marilyn Manson, Tiny Dancers and Calvin Harris are in the top 40
May 30, 200718 yr I wouldn't be too sure of that.. all Mutya has to do is get some of her people together, hand over a wad of cash and then spread them over the UK, telling the peeps to buy as many copies of the single as possible in HMV and Woolworths, go into cyber cafes and download a thousand copies seperately etc. I think she got a healthy enough settlement from the Sugababes when they split up, being one of the primary songwriters, to be able to rig the charts to at least be in with a shout. After all, Louis Walsh did it with Westlife in their early years, and noone has begrudged them their 14 no 1's. Doesn't look like she's corrupt though, going by how much of a deficit she trails by in the midweeks. Some people are just too honest to a fault, even if it does impact their solo career fatally. Sigh.. Wow, you sure know your stuff :mellow: Back in reality, Mutya cant be number 1 - her CD sales would have to be double Rihanna's! She can get #2 though ^_^
May 30, 200718 yr I wouldn't be too sure of that.. all Mutya has to do is get some of her people together, hand over a wad of cash and then spread them over the UK, telling the peeps to buy as many copies of the single as possible in HMV and Woolworths, go into cyber cafes and download a thousand copies seperately etc. I think she got a healthy enough settlement from the Sugababes when they split up, being one of the primary songwriters, to be able to rig the charts to at least be in with a shout. After all, Louis Walsh did it with Westlife in their early years, and noone has begrudged them their 14 no 1's. Doesn't look like she's corrupt though, going by how much of a deficit she trails by in the midweeks. Some people are just too honest to a fault, even if it does impact their solo career fatally. Sigh.. Oh, you don't think that's already happened? It's a weak song with the only redeeming feature being the backing which, as luck would have it, is old enough for most kids to have never heard of it thus giving the impression of it being original. Her next single will be a barrel-scraped tune originally written for and rejected by one of the last wave of soloists. Something tawdry that her label have had lying around for years. ...and another thing, I've always had a problem with stars given the tag 'primary songwriter' when in reality they probably hummed a basic melody out of tune and contributed some of those awful, awful lyrics that the Sugababes (and All Saints and Spice Girls before them) are famous for. Their 'co-writers' generally receive a raw deal I feel.
May 30, 200718 yr Oh, you don't think that's already happened? It's a weak song with the only redeeming feature being the backing which, as luck would have it, is old enough for most kids to have never heard of it thus giving the impression of it being original. Her next single will be a barrel-scraped tune originally written for and rejected by one of the last wave of soloists. Something tawdry that her label have had lying around for years. ...and another thing, I've always had a problem with stars given the tag 'primary songwriter' when in reality they probably hummed a basic melody out of tune and contributed some of those awful, awful lyrics that the Sugababes (and All Saints and Spice Girls before them) are famous for. Their 'co-writers' generally receive a raw deal I feel. Mutya's next single is the Groove Armada collaberation masterpiece that is Out Of Control; it has had a stunning reaction from most people who have heard it and is possibly a future number 1. After that we're getting the Mutya-written Strung Out. Youre not one for stereotypes at all, are you -_-
May 30, 200718 yr Author No other chart info as of yet, we only have the Music Week report to go by this week. :cry: Anyone wants to phone a friend :unsure:
May 30, 200718 yr interesting about shakira and beyonce climbing in their 9th week but i don't think they can hold on to #2 cause Mutya is doing alot of promo this week to generate sales so she may catch them by the end of the week, but beykira are proving to be strong they are still shifting healthy sales they caught up on snow patrol and hellogoodbye when they were both ahead of BL in the midweeks whats strange is last week both versions of Beautiful liar suddenly starting to climb on itunes but why? i don't why :huh: it hasn't had any promo exposure so its hard to explain it but we've seen yoyo action from shakira with hips don't lie before so anything is possible with her. it had minimal drop in sales but its sales are falling so mutya should be able to shift 20k with physical and downloads, but mutya has no chance against rihanna for #1 that spot is secure for her
May 30, 200718 yr Mutya is already number 2. But a long, long way off of number one. Twang @ number 7. Reverend and the Makers @ 11, Mims @ 17 and Simply Red @ 18 Thanks to Airboy at CR.
May 30, 200718 yr Author Wednesday Update courtesy of Airboy 1 Rihanna (18k ahead) 2 Mutya 3 B & S Top 10 Twang Top 15 Rev & Makers Top 20 MIMS Simply Red Albums 1 Maroon 5 (7k Ahead) 2 Linkin Park 3 Pigeon Detectives Top 10 R Kelly Top 15 Chris Cornell Nelly F *climber* Avril *climber* Justin T *climber* Top 20 Josh Groban *climber*
May 30, 200718 yr Author Wednesday Top 20 Update http://www.planet.nl/upload_mm/0/1/9/1950689304_1999996021_rihanna1.jpg Singles 1 Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella 26k 2 Mutya Buena - Real Girl 7.6k Top 10 The Twang - Either Way Top 20 Reverend & The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The World MIMS - This Is The Way I'm Hot Simply Red - Stay Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby Top 30 Calvin Harris - The Girls (D) Armand Van Helden - NYC Beat Tiny Dancers - Hannah We Know Marilyn Manson - Heart-Shaped Glasses Kim Sozzi - Break Up Top 40 Zimmers - My Generation :o Enrique Iglesias - Do you Know (Ping) (Pong) (Song) (D) LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends Top 50 Scissor Sisters - Kiss You Off Lloyd feat. Ludacris - You :lol: Josh Groban (D) Top 70 Omarion - Entourage Jay-Z/Linkin Park Top 80 Pendulum Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care Hans Zimmer (D) Freeform Five - No More Conversations Top 90 Shiny Toy Guns ======================= Albums 1 Maroon 5 18k 2 Linkin Park 11k 3 The Pigeon Detectives Top 10 R.Kelly Top 20 Chris Cornell Nelly Furtado Avril Lavigne Justin Timberlake Josh Groban Sophie Ellis Bextor Top 30 Richard Thompson Jeff Buckley Top 40 Joseph OCR Mumm-Ra Infernal Top 50 Ross Cooperman Top 70 Joe Jackson Reiss from CFR
May 30, 200718 yr Wow, what's with Avril's climb back up in the albums? :o Looks like Calvin Harris is going to have quite a big hit then and hmmm I expected 'Umbrella' to have sold more by now. 50k by the end of the week do you reckon?
May 30, 200718 yr I wouldn't be too sure of that.. all Mutya has to do is get some of her people together, hand over a wad of cash and then spread them over the UK, telling the peeps to buy as many copies of the single as possible in HMV and Woolworths, go into cyber cafes and download a thousand copies seperately etc. I think she got a healthy enough settlement from the Sugababes when they split up, being one of the primary songwriters, to be able to rig the charts to at least be in with a shout. After all, Louis Walsh did it with Westlife in their early years, and noone has begrudged them their 14 no 1's. Doesn't look like she's corrupt though, going by how much of a deficit she trails by in the midweeks. Some people are just too honest to a fault, even if it does impact their solo career fatally. Sigh.. Sadly I can imagine that actually happening tbh. :( I remember reading AGESSS ago back in the late 80s how some guy went around the country buying about 4 copies of the same cd by some flop girlband until he got caught out and they had their single disqualified from the chart. Was so long ago that I forget what song it was... But I suspect this sort of thing does really go on - people are just more craftier about it these days. -_-
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