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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.

Sorry if it wasn't clear but I meant there are niche reasons people would want to buy vinyls. The sound quality from a vinyl is unparalleled by even the common digital formats today. .wav is maybe one of the best common ones but even that can't produce sound as accurately as a vinyl. So for listening to music at home people may legitimately prefer a vinyl. And DJs mostly use CDJs but with digital files so they can mimic mixing with vinyls how they did in the past, but mixing properly with real vinyls takes a huge amount of skill so some will genuinely want vinyls to increase their credibility. So that's two reasons people will want vinyls today for good reasons. Cassettes are purely a novelty or a collectible, I don't think a single person buys them for actual musical reasons. I know vinyls have a collectible/novelty aspect to them too but there are actual reasons to still buy them. I can't think of one reason someone would buy a cassette because all the reasons they were a good format at one point are defunct today.

Nobody buys cassettes anymore, they're basically useless these days. Only hippies, collectors and people doing it for novelty would buy them. They were good at the time because you could play them in the car or tape from the radio onto blank ones (and probably they were cheap but I don't know). Vinyls at least have some vague use these days if DJs want to show off that they can mix on vinyls and they have a sound quality that is difficult to replicate digitally even these days.

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

With Roselia being in the charts and also Volbeat being in the charts, have their been any other Pokémon making the charts before?

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.

It's funny how outside of Buzzjack most people think Levitating is the clearest case of plagiarism. Go check on YouTube which is a far larger and more representative of the general public. On here it's like a parallel universe with people saying the opposite. :lol: Yeah, it's a song on SoundCloud that had 100 views, but it's the same in every way, even down to some of the lyrics which is the biggest giveaway. Only thing that is different is fewer synths in the original. Most likely one of her songwriters stumbled across it once or heard it online or on TikTok or on a jukebox in an alternative bar or something and forgot about hearing the song and ended up thinking it's something he came up with. So it might be accidental, but they're too similar to be completely separate creations and you come off as delusional if you claim they're nothing alike. In pretty much every of these court cases I can always hear the similarities, and pretty much every song I hear in general reminds me of something else. When I first heard Levitating I thought it sounded like 24k Magic by Bruno Mars and Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees, but it's only "similar" to them, no big deal that case. As far as Ed Sheeran goes, I think his song which is most similar to another song is Thinking Out Loud with the Marvin Gaye song. I remember years ago I heard the Marvin Gaye song being played on Big Brother and it took me about half a minute to realise it wasn't Thinking Out Loud. At least with Bad Habits and Bronski Beat, whilst very similar, you can tell the difference (or at least I can). No Scrubs and Shape Of You are similar as well, although I had to hear them side by side to notice it but there's a vocal melody in them which is almost identical and it's a lengthy one too. I remember when Shape Of You came out it got widespread comparisons to Cheap Thrills I guess mostly because the synths are similar but those kinds of synths were in hundreds of pop songs for a few years. The New Shape Of You case, that song is similar too. Although in this case I think it's within the realms of possibility they are independent creations, although it's true the song is like a slowed down Shape Of You in a few ways (not just the "Oh aye, oh aye, oh aye" bit although that is the most prominent similarity).

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.

This to me is funny because 10 years ago Kings Of Leon and Nickelback weren't rock music and they couldn't play them and now they're apparently playing Avril Lavigne? :lol:

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.

The DJs aren't allowed to play anything off the playlist, ever. I used to listen to Capital FM every day for years (it was torture), and there were a lot of moments where a member of the public calls in, requests a song that's not on the playlist, and the DJ is like "I love the song, but we can't play it, how about this song instead". There are rare cases where things happen like when Madonna released Give Me All Your Luvin, Capital FM premiered it once on release day. So obviously there was a deal made, but they decided not to playlist it so they never played it again after that. So if there's a time you hear a one-off spin of a song on Capital it's probably something like that. Otherwise with any other song you're likely to either hear it 100s of times or 0 times. No inbetween with that station.

That didn't stop the OCC tring to combine Tinie Tempah - We Bring The Stars Out with Pass Out. :lol: I think only last minute they got seperated into two different chart entries.

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:

Yeah, technically a sample has to be directly taken from another song. I think the proper term for this is an "interpolation". But you still have to credit the original writers and pay them royalties, and can be taken to court if you don't. The OCC, Rolling Stone, Vogue, NME, Vulture and Billboard have all apparently incorrectly used the term "sample" in their coverage of the song! :o There's a chance, and I think it will hold up for the rest of the year better than Driver's License, but we saw Bad Habits come through in the middle of the year last year and somehow overtake everything effortlessly. I didn't think that could happen but obviously it can, so we can't be sure.

Definitely ACR. These soundtrack songs, as well as songs young children like, always hang around for ages. I'd be extremely shocked if it just fell out of the top 10 naturally next month.

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.