November 20, 200816 yr If it deserves No.1 pity it's up against Take That then! :P That's because nobody has taste!!!
November 20, 200816 yr Author I understand that many people don´t like Dido, however I can´t get the fact some people rave about the idea of Leona Lewis being #1 again. What does this add to the chart at all??? It´s just another marketing trick that worked well. The charts become more and more predictable with stuff like this topping. It just takes a robot puppet to do a song on X-Factor and release a single next week and Simon Cowell gets another instant #1 hit. I would even prefer Beyonce or Nickelback (even tough I detest their music) to be #1. At least it would be an "old fashioned" number one: artists who made songs and became popular trough public aclaim. With mass media getting more and more powerfull, the #1´s become more and more predictable. It´s just whatever puppet that gets shown on X-Factor or does some "charity". I don´t even remember when was the last time we had a "serious" Christmas number one. Christmas used to be a major event on the charts... the most popular artists of the country were fighting head to head to see who was going to have the most popular song. I remember the Spice Girls having the X-mas number one 2 consecutive years. How memorable is that? They achieved legendary status in just a few months of activity.... Those were the days for the charts. Now, when it comes Christmas it´s not even funny to bet who´s gonna be #1. Whoever it is, it´s gonna be the winner of X-Factor or another reality TV show. Someone who was anonymous in the previous weeks, suddenly hits the #1 on the most important week of the year. People like Leona, Westlife, Girls Aloud, etc have ruined all the fun there was in the UK charts. I´m not sayng that just because Dido flopped (cause she would flop with or without Leona, and in fact she´s even lucky to get #2 at this time of the year with such low sales...), but even during all these years that Dido has been absent of the music universe, the battle for the #1 has been just a battle for who can appear on most TV shows possible... I miss the time of slow building hits that conquered the public through being really catchy. I can´t almost understand why Dido seems to be sick of this industry so that she even refuses to do a TV show. Edited November 20, 200816 yr by Overstaged
November 21, 200816 yr It just takes a robot puppet to do a song on X-Factor and release a single next week and Simon Cowell gets another instant #1 hit. That's simply not true. Did Leon get to #1? No. Edited November 21, 200816 yr by Ethereal
November 21, 200816 yr I understand that many people don´t like Dido, however I can´t get the fact some people rave about the idea of Leona Lewis being #1 again. What does this add to the chart at all??? It´s just another marketing trick that worked well. The charts become more and more predictable with stuff like this topping. It just takes a robot puppet to do a song on X-Factor and release a single next week and Simon Cowell gets another instant #1 hit. I would even prefer Beyonce or Nickelback (even tough I detest their music) to be #1. At least it would be an "old fashioned" number one: artists who made songs and became popular trough public aclaim. With mass media getting more and more powerfull, the #1´s become more and more predictable. It´s just whatever puppet that gets shown on X-Factor or does some "charity". I don´t even remember when was the last time we had a "serious" Christmas number one. Christmas used to be a major event on the charts... the most popular artists of the country were fighting head to head to see who was going to have the most popular song. I remember the Spice Girls having the X-mas number one 2 consecutive years. How memorable is that? They achieved legendary status in just a few months of activity.... Those were the days for the charts. Now, when it comes Christmas it´s not even funny to bet who´s gonna be #1. Whoever it is, it´s gonna be the winner of X-Factor or another reality TV show. Someone who was anonymous in the previous weeks, suddenly hits the #1 on the most important week of the year. People like Leona, Westlife, Girls Aloud, etc have ruined all the fun there was in the UK charts. I´m not sayng that just because Dido flopped (cause she would flop with or without Leona, and in fact she´s even lucky to get #2 at this time of the year with such low sales...), but even during all these years that Dido has been absent of the music universe, the battle for the #1 has been just a battle for who can appear on most TV shows possible... I miss the time of slow building hits that conquered the public through being really catchy. I can´t almost understand why Dido seems to be sick of this industry so that she even refuses to do a TV show. 1- How else is a Leona fan supposed to respond to her getting a potential #1? 2- Please don't dump Leona in with all the other X factor clown acts, she is not the same. 3- Your assertions that songwriting ability>singing ability is just plain wrong, what people listen too is what goes in their ears. Great singing ability is the most important part of that. Songwriting may please the critics but the public don't give a damn.
November 21, 200816 yr I don´t even remember when was the last time we had a "serious" Christmas number one. Christmas used to be a major event on the charts... the most popular artists of the country were fighting head to head to see who was going to have the most popular song. I remember the Spice Girls having the X-mas number one 2 consecutive years. How memorable is that? Not very in your case ;) - they did it three years running and it became as tiresome as the X-Factor single every year. In fact it took Geri leaving to break the sequence. The last twenty Christmas number 1s suggest that the X-Factor hasn't broken a wonderful tradition, merely added to the dire nature of the annual chart topper. I count at a push five "legitimate" chart toppers. 1988 Cliff Richard Mistletoe & Wine 1989 Band Aid II Do They Know It's Christmas? 1990 Cliff Richard Saviours' Day 1991 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 1992 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You 1993 Mr Blobby Mr Blobby 1994 East 17 Stay Another Day 1995 Michael Jackson Earth Song 1996 Spice Girls 2 Become 1 1997 Spice Girls Too Much 1998 Spice Girls Goodbye 1999 Westlife I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun 2000 Bob The Builder Can We Fix It? 2001 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman Somethin' Stupid 2002 Girls Aloud Sound Of The Underground 2003 Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules Mad World 2004 Band Aid 20 Do They Know It's Christmas? 2005 Shayne Ward That's My Goal 2006 Leona Lewis A Moment Like This 2007 Leon Jackson When You Believe I miss the time of slow building hits that conquered the public through being really catchy. I can´t almost understand why Dido seems to be sick of this industry so that she even refuses to do a TV show. The charts are actually slower now than they were for a large stretch of the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s which was dominated by 1 week number 1s. They've almost gone back to how they were 17 or 18 years ago. In 2000 there were 42 number 1s. In 1996 when the Spice Girls broke onto the scene there were 24 number 1s. In 2007 just 17. Edited November 21, 200816 yr by 6weeksatnumber7
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