Eric_Blob

Who wants me to post a list of sexist/racist/homophobic/transphobic Sidemen videos and The Kunts lyrics? :heehee:

It wouldn't surprise me. Have you seen it's chart run there? It had a run at #1 early 2021 and another run at #1 early 2022 and was in the top 10 for almost the whole time in-between and probably a while after its 2nd stint at #1 too. In fact it was #1 the same week in two consecutive years. For something that's not a Christmas song it's really Incredible.

Without knowing the context, I would think you were talking about Lady Gaga here. :lol:

Can you imagine if Harry Styles didn't exist (or didn't release an album this year or released it later or had a less commercial lead single) then Bad Habits would be year-end #1 twice. Bad Habits has been a smash single for Ed, no doubt about that, its first day streams do not matter at all now haha. Although it was quite surprising at the time still.

I only speak a tiny bit of Spanish because I lived there for 4 months, but I noticed that in English words that end in -ity are usually the same in Spanish but with -idad at the end. But as far as I know navity is not a word? :o I would guess nativity but that should be natividad in Spanish.

I honestly think The Kunts will be #1 this year. They seem to be doing a lot better on iTunes, and once it gets even a slither of media coverage the sales will skyrocket imo. A song called f*** the Tories is probably the singular most popular thing you could release at the moment. Even the rich people and racist people seem to hate them at the moment.

It definitely is a UK garage classic! It would probably be on most of the UK garage classics playlists, compilation albums, etc. And it really is a wonderful song imo.

The most recent one that I actually like is Mad World.

I strongly suspected it for a long time because fairly obscure artists I listen to keep appearing on big generic Spotify playlists, too much for it to be coincidence My #22 is One More Sleep by Leona Lewis.

Nice analysis, and of course we have the far more sinister cases of charity where some have turned out to be fronts for human trafficking or child abuse, so I'm always suspicious of charities to be honest, I'd hate to give money to help enable something so bad. Labour and Conservatives are honestly 90% (or more) the same as each other. So I wouldn't really get too wound up in who supports who. I remember in 2010 when it changed hands, I was really scared that I would become even poorer, but in the end pretty much nothing changed. It will be the same whenever it changes hands again. It's a waste of time getting so invested in it all. And yes, I had to use a food bank before, and I also had to live in supported housing for a while, and I am currently on Universal Credit, so nobody have a go at me telling me that "I don't know what it's like to be poor" please.

I don't think so necessarily. People like PewDiePie, iDubbbz, Jake Paul, etc, have released singles and not got anywhere near #1. There's many other factors at play.

I actually could believe it. I reckon there's a lot of people who don't listen to much music outside of Christmas, and that those kinds of people aren't likely to have Spotify or Apple Music but might have Amazon and Alexa.

Yeah that's true and I do remember that. I think I only watched it briefly once but it was just a camera in the Radio 1 studio + music videos where the songs were playing. Which was a bit half-assed really but a nice attempt at something. But I was thinking something more like Graham Norton show I guess, but with as many live performances and guests from the chart as they can get each week.

That's a guaranteed segment on Kate Bush but I can't remember what other big stories there were in pop music this year's unless I'm missing something obvious. A weekly chart show on TV might have some viability if we had lots of old hits (or artists) entering the top 40. The TV audience is getting quite old now I don't think there'd be much interest in the charts as they are now. The other thing I think could be viable could be doing the Radio 1 chart show in video form with as many performances and interviews as they can get each week and streaming it on YouTube or TikTok.

It's really Incredible that it avoided the #3 position for so long.

In the US, Brenda Lee has been gaining on Mariah gradually each year. And also WITHIN each year she gains on Mariah as well as it gets closer to Christmas like how WHAM do in the UK. So, I think it's inevitable she will get #1 one day.

She even had 3 in the top 10 around this time in 2010. Which I guess doesn't sound impressive anymore but it was very impressive at the time. But one of them was a feature on a David Guetta song. And amazing stats Tuttavilla, thanks for sharing them!

Also I Ain't Worried. :lol:

Why is this in the chart?! :o I used to love this song, the lyrics are a bit cheesy though. :lol:

A rule change of songs getting automatic resets if they reach a new peak would guarantee FONY (and a lot of other Christmas songs) getting to #1 in future years. We'd have Michael Bublé, Brenda Lee, Elton John, Ariana Grande and others getting there with those rules. Probably 1 or 2 each year. And probably by the time we've got through all the current big Christmas songs there will be new ones which can get to #1. I don't know if this rule would ever be implemented but it would have solved a couple of recent controversies and prevent inevitable future ones so maybe it will happen, and it seems sensible to most people imo. The situation with 505 this year has been ridiculous. And Kate Bush but they fixed that at least.

That's funny but it's ridiculous to read into that. A hundred under 50's can phone in and they just ignore them and claim nobody did. You wouldn't pull a stunt like that in the first place if you liked the song. They obviously hated it and just wanted to ridicule it using the "Young people GOOD. Old people BAD" narrative that we have to put up with in Western countries. I'm 30 now and I like the song.

The thing about TikTok is that it sounds a lot like California Gurls.

^2011 having a whopping 17 songs on this list supports my theory that it would have been the best time to achieve a 2 million seller. It just makes Happy's sales even more impressive though. I know it's all subjective but Blurred Lines and even Get Lucky seemed bigger to me. I don't really care though, it's just surprising.

I can't believe Happy has sold so much given that it became big after sales had a big drop. I would have thought a song that was a hit in 2011 or 2012 would have been better positioned to sell 2 million.

I don't know if anybody here has noticed, but David Guetta seems to have released about 5 songs since I'm Good. The only one that's done moderately well is the one with Sam Ryder.