Eric_Blob

Why haven't they done a 3rd single for Adele? It's absolutely bizarre. Loads of the album tracks are good. I do remember with her last album there was quite a long gap between When We Were Young and Send My Love, but it wasn't as long as this. I don't know if they're just sitting around waiting for one of them to take off on TikTok or something but you can't guarantee that will ever happen, let alone in the next few months. Maybe her album underperformed so they're freaking out, but it still did better than basically every other album in the past few years and if they don't do anything now she's going to get outperformed by Olivia Rodrigo which doesn't have to be the case if they try harder. I would say get one of her album tracks and re-do it as a piano ballad. That's what people seem to like most from Adele. Either that or get a good drum & bass remix of one of her songs and use that as a single as that's becoming trendy now and it would surprise a lot of people. There was a popular drum & bass remix of Hometown Glory back in the day.

Kate Bush's streams are just incredible! I don't know how fast it will drop down once the buzz has worn off but I think it will be in the top 200 for years after this. It was probably getting 20,000+ streams a day on Spotify before this anyway and I could see it stabilising at 50,000+ streams a day with its new fans. We already know it's a song that people will listen to for decades.

The thing that annoys me most about the royal family is the child abuse and human trafficking cover-ups. Which I'm probably going to be punished for even mentioning, but it's true and they are so powerful they can get away with it.

Well, the reason they can't is because they sign massive contracts at the beginning stating that they are not allowed to say a LOT of things. Lawyers are involved when they sign it, and will be involved if they break the contract. The pop star's pop music career is basically over if they reveal certain secrets about the inner workings of the music industry. The rare cases of people like Ke$ha who speak out, well she wanted out of her contract anyway. Halsey likely wants to continue her mainstream pop career so I don't think she will speak out. Which is why I think Halsey is doing this as part of an orchestrated marketing campaign here. This sort of thing fits very well with the image they've created for her over the years. And it's far from the first time they've used the "female artist goes against her label's orders" story as a marketing strategy. It's happened countless of times. You can basically tell if it's real by how much they get punished for it.

Also, I'm sure I saw lots and lots of posts here a while ago of people worrying that The Motto wasn't going to be a hit and even missing the top 40, so maybe it's worth looking on the positive side and being happy it's done well in the end instead of focusing on the negative.

It depends. A lot of them weren't eligible to chart. I can't remember exactly specific songs anymore, but I'm sure there must have been more which could've got 5+ in the official top 200 had they not been ineligible. There were also other cases of songs which had 10+ versions in the iTunes top 1000. Well it seems that in some cases there was some kind of action taken, because it happened quite often that some would get deleted. But normally another fake version would just zoom up the charts and replace it. But also, at the end of the day, they are just covers. Didn't Glee Cast once cover a song that had never been released in the UK? In this case it was a song from decades ago not a song due to be released in a couple of weeks but nonetheless, I don't think someone's not allowed to cover a song just because it hasn't been released in a particular territory. Another case I can think of which more people might consider legitimate is those Clubland compilation albums that used to be popular during these periods sometimes had covers of songs on them that hadn't been released here. Probably they couldn't get the rights to the original on their album so AATW hired some of their artists to make a cover/remix instead lol. But again it's obviously allowed. Another case I know of was in communist Czechoslovakia, pop music from Western countries wasn't allowed, but the Government would have their pop stars cover all the big hit songs from the US, etc, and many of those were massive hits there with the public and even the singers themselves being lied to that they were original songs! So basically if these cases were allowed, I don't see why these other covers weren't allowed. And yes, I'm sure those people did make a living off them, and still do today. If you look into these "bands", they are mostly karaoke bands. They were constantly accused on here of only covering held back UK singles to get a few thousand downloads, but it wasn't true at all. They cover an absolute plethora of songs. Album tracks, songs months after release, songs which are almost unknown, etc. They were mostly running a karaoke company by the looks of things. A lot of the time you've been at a pub singing karaoke they were using one of these bands. A lot of the karaoke videos on YouTube are from them as well. Hence why so many times they had a vocal version and a karaoke version. I even found one of these "bands" on social media (I think YouTube) and they were accepting REQUESTS of what song people wanted them to cover/make karaoke for. I think Ameritz are one of the most famous ones. They make a good amount of money for sure I reckon. And they make lyric videos (and I assume DVDs) so people can sing along for karaoke.

I think he'll do around 100,500 first week. But I couldn't see an option for that on the poll so I didn't vote. Sorry.

I think it's a beautiful song. LMFAO rap Shakespearian verses and Natalia Kills really shows off her incredible vocals in the chorus.

With the Go remix doing well, when was the last time that an original song and a remix both did so well that each could be considered a hit in their own right? Last I can think of is In For The Kill with its original and the Skream remix (where they're both genuinely famous and the song combined ended up doing extremely well in the weekly and year-end charts because of that). In the US this happened with Summertime Sadness but in the UK in that case it was all about the remix. I can think of Spectrum but original didn't do much the whole time, it was low top 100 at its peak. I know Bad Habits had some semi-successful remixes but they weren't that big. Look Right Through had an original version which I discovered at the time and loved but nobody else knows it, I've never heard it anywhere and I don't remember it doing anything on iTunes. Obviously I'm not including "remixes" where the song is the same but with an added verse from another artist. Proper dance remixes. I think the last time I happened is In For The Kill unless I've missed something.

What I find possibly even more amazing than the US climb is that Heat Waves in Australia reached #1 in early 2021 and now has reclimbed to #1 about a year later (and was top 10 almost the whole time in between). In fact in this exact week last year it was also #1.

It was found out she used the N-word a lot before she became famous. :lol: Although I think it would be unfair to cancel her. Other artists have done worse things like shooting people or sexually assaulting people and not been cancelled.

Yeah, I had a double take when I saw that. But it's possible they didn't mean it in that way. They might mean it like "It was a satisfying way of allowing him to try different music styles". But yeah, they could be saying "We're so pleased he didn't do more country-inspired songs", it's not really clear.

This was basically me in 2011. :lol:

Swedish Rhapsody (1953) What I will say is the springs and summers in Bohemia are much hotter than in Sweden (and England for that matter). The winters aren't far off though. :lol:

It's actually a really, really good song in full as well.

If Mr. Brightside does 60,000 each month it might end up top 30 on the year-end chart. :lol:

I love that song! It was one of my favourite songs of whatever year it came out in. I'm glad someone else here knows it.

It would be so funny if Queen - Greatest Hits ended up the biggest album of the 2020's. :lol:

Easy mistake. Tiga had a song called Bugatti (his best song) and Tyga actually has a Bugatti! :lol:

Well even Driver's License didn't sustain its success as well as it should have. I know it of course did really, really well, but given how big it was at its peak, the time of year it was released, and the fact that it was relatively unknown (both artist and song) when it first got to #1 (meaning that it had the vast majority of the rest of the population able to discover it later on giving it in theory huge longevity). Basically Driver's License should have been an easy year-end #1 but Good 4 U and Bad Habits ended up outdoing it in less time because they had more sustained success compared to Driver's Licence. It was a bit similar with Wellerman too on a smaller/larger scale (depending on how you look at it, but basically its anothe massive hit didn't sustain as well compared to others with similar-sized peaks). I would not have expected Drivers License to be out of the Spotify top 50 by autumn given how it started out and the circumstances (and yeah, I know its back now, who knows, maybe it will have more sustained success in the future but last year it was sort of frontloaded). But its nice to see that all massive hit songs don't have to hang around forever.

Yeah, Mr. Brightside was something like 11th for last decade, and that was basically with half a decade of streaming. With a full decade I think it would have a chance at #1.

It's probably just based on the past hour of streams. :lol:

I honestly think Ed will get much, much less than 9 million. Probably less than half. I think T.I made less than 1 million from Blurred Lines (which was almost as big as Shape Of You) altogether (we found out this after a court case a few years ago), and this was including YouTube, all other streaming services, downloads and physical sales, uses in TV shows, films and adverts, radio airplay, plays in clubs, bars, restaurants, shopping centres, songs which covered and sampled it, and so on. Pharrell and Robin Thicke made about 5 million each from the song from everything together. So I think Ed making anywhere close to 9 million from Shape Of You just on Spotify I think can't be possible, although he probably made 10 million+ from the song altogether. I know a guy who was in a semi-successful band in the 80's, and he said he usually gets a 15,000 pound or so every year (he gets it all yearly in December) in his bank account, mostly from recurrent radio play.

I will never forget them because the Frankie Knuckles remix of Good Thing is so beautiful.

People really think that about Baby It's Cold Outside? Anyone who thinks that is a nasty piece of work, and they'll take offence at anything.