Eric_Blob

I've thought it for ages too. Same with Firestone (well, not 100% sure that is going to #1 especially as it's not been held-back but it was obvious it was going to be a big hit). I wonder why Rihanna's new song has disappeared. Might just be iTunes being glitchy.

^ YESS!! DJ Snake and Diplo back to save the charts!

I think this is good tbh. Firstly, as we've discussed before, most people who listen to the chart show aren't specifically listening to it, just listening to the radio and hearing what's on at the time. I'm not an expert on radio listening figures, but I imagine 4-6 on Friday will have a much higher audience than 4-7 on Sunday, so the official charts will reach more people this way. Also, having it cut down to 2 hours is good too, I think it'll make the show more enjoyable to listen to. Perhaps in 2005 when there were loads of new entries a week and 10 weeks in the top 40 would be considered a long-runner it would have been bad as not all the songs could get played, but it's very different today, and frankly nobody wants or needs to hear All Of Me or Thinking Out Loud played in the top 40 anymore. Now they can miss out 10-15 songs from the top 40 each week, so they can miss out those songs that have been charting 20+ weeks or the "Radio 2" songs which often do really well in the charts (Train, Lumineers, that kind of stuff). Last couple of weeks they could've almost missed out the original version of Lay Me Down to save playing it twice. I've wanted Radio 1 to do that too for a while given how slow the charts have been recently (and also given the fact that a lot of big songs never make the top 40), but that would've worked better on a 3 hour show, with 2 hours I think them venturing outside the top 40 will be even more unlikely now, but I wouldn't mind if they did. I think the previous DJ has been playing the #41 immediately before the chart show recently, but it would be better if they played the highest new entry outside the top 40, as the #41 can often be a song that's already been top 40 for months which people are fed up of hearing. It's funny, because most of the songs which just won't ever leave the top 40 are in that situation because Capital FM and/or Heart FM just won't ever stop playing them, and a lot of the songs Radio 1 supports that miss the top 40 do so because their rival stations refuse to ever play them.

I heard that song on Capital FM. It might be one of those songs they only play at night-time though, but if it gets day-time airplay on Capital it should get in the charts. But yeah, this is the sort of modern-sounding electronic R&B I prefer over the retro ones (although I still enjoy most of those too).

King seems like it's going to be the biggest dance-pop-ish chart hit in ages (maybe since 2012? There's Wake Me Up and Timber, but those wouldn't have been #1 hits if it weren't for the folk influences imo). But one big hit doesn't mean it'll cause a comeback. For example, Baby Cakes was a #1 hit in 2005 or some time around then, but it didn't kick off a revival. But I'm not sure if it'll start making a comeback yet, it still wasn't that long ago when it was dominating, other musical trends take much longer to make a comeback usually (like this minimal house music trend, it was last a big force in the charts in the late 90's(?), so it was a very long time before it made a major comeback). I think R&B has been doing pretty well in the charts the past couple of years. Not dominating, but I'm happy that there can be big R&B chart hits again now. The main thing I noticed though is that it's usually the retro-sounding or adult R&B songs which do well. The modern electronic R&B that dominates now doesn't really do that well in the charts (with a few exceptions like Drunk In Love or Loyal), and it'd be nice to see more of that over songs like Suit & Tie, Happy, etc. Even ones like Talk Dirty and Problem are retro sounding with their brass instrumentation, reminding me of stuff from the 00s like Amerie, J-Lo, Beyonce. I think the old-sounding ones just have broader appeal.

I think Ed Sheeran will definitely get #1 next week. Other songs in a similar situation from the past few years that got #1 (Spectrum, Gettin' Over You) weren't even top 40 the week before release but got #1 after the remixes. In this case the original has been top 40 for weeks, so that suggests to me it'll get #1. Unless the OCC are stupid and chart the song separately like they did with Sam Smith (but I think that might have had something to do with it being a charity single tbh).

Out of those I think All Day is going to be the biggest. That Deorro song was a hit last year, I don't see the point in re-releasing it. Chris Brown is famous, but I don't think it'll help much. I don't think it's even that good either, unless the beat has been re-done for this?

Natalia Kills was so horrible in that clip I saw of her. What's wrong with her? I really want to know what goes through her head to make her say things like that... But to be fair, Champagne Showers has probably sold over 100,000, which isn't bad, it wasn't like it went #38-#71-OUT or something like that. She probably wishes she got to feature on Party Rock Anthem instead of Lauren Bennett. :lol:

That's the first song that came to mind to me, but I knew that missed the top 40. He has some other songs with Skream from Magnetic Man too, like this one: 1Sey_0rJZzg Maybe in ~5 years when we get a dubstep revival he'll finally make top 40. :lol:

In a normal case yes, but I don't think this song is getting much airplay on Capital or Radio 1, so it's impossible for it to get to #1. It's nice to see P Money in the charts though (I've seen him high on iTunes before, but I don't know if he's ever got a top 40 hit).

I think Capital FM is going to start playing it, if it does it'll chart top 40. I wish Preditah's song was higher. :( With pre-orders not being included on the iTunes chart on release, I think it's going to make songs debut even lower now. There'll be a lot of songs which will miss out on the top 10 effect. GDFR might never had made #1 on iTunes if it didn't have the pre-orders to boost it there. So basically I think this'll make the charts move even slower. Also, The Big Top 40 Show people aren't going to like this, as a lot of the new releases aren't going to be top 10 by 6pm on Sunday anymore. :lol:

You can't have enjoyed the 2010's then, since I think either Sam Smith or Flo Rida have been top 40 for most of this decade so far. :lol:

It was the same with Prayer In C, the two versions charted separately. It's in the best interests of the song/artist/label that they'd be combined imo, but in both cases they got #1 anyway so probably didn't matter too much.

FourFiveSeconds has done well enough imo. But it's a bit unfortunate that it's probably going to be her first lead single in a while not to go to #1. And she's never had a post-album #1 before except What's My Name? Wonder if she'll release a 2nd pre-album single this time?

Surprised Blurred Lines has been boosted so much! :o It's almost 2 years now since the song started being a hit, it's flown by.

The beats of the songs DO sound very similar (then again, I think everything sounds similar :lol:). On the other hand, Pharrell has done songs similar to this in the past (e.g. Usher - Twisted, Madonna - Give It To Me), so I can believe he didn't copy the song, it's just the style of music he does sometimes, 7 million dollars might seem a ridiculous amount, but it's because it was one of the biggest hits of all time so would've made bucket-loads in royalties. If they've decided that Marvin Gaye deserves a writing credit or whatever, then his share of the money has got to be paid, and in the case of Blurred Lines, it's a LOT!

Sam Smith, John Legend, kings of soul. Let them SUCCEED.

Wow, Jess Glynne is doing so well on pre-orders! :o Is it possible Sam Smith could get #1 this week over Years & Years or Flo Rida? It's only Tuesday, and the song was selling/streaming pretty well on Sunday and Monday anyway.

Do you know if John Legend is going to actually get credited? Is this the "single version" or a remix?

I heard it a few times over the past months but not that much. Capital has been playing GDFR (not sure about Radio 1 though). Seems like the sort of song that'd be big on Vine too. Also the song has been around for an eternity, they've held it back for probably about 6 months. Still wasn't expecting it to get #1 on iTunes though.

Well, it's #391 on iTunes atm, and it's release week is in 2 weeks. I think it'll miss the top 40, unless the remix exceeds expectations and boosts it a load. It's not getting any significant radio airplay, so there's no way most people are going to know the song even exists.

I listened to Me & U and Unwritten earlier today and now they're in the top 100. Quite a coincidence! :o It's nice to see Major Lazer in the top 40, they don't usually do well in the charts.

I agree with you too. Low seems like it's somewhere in-between dance-pop and hip hop/crunk imo, probably why it was such a big crossover hit. Love In This Club is an R&B song with loads of synths imo (there were loads of songs like that around that time like Ne-Yo - Bust It Baby Part II, Ray J - Sexy Can I, T.I. - Whatever You Like, Sean Kingston - Take You There, etc.). They were very electronic/synth-heavy, but didn't have the 4/4 dance beats like Closer, Forever, SOS, etc. These kind of songs, along with most of Timbaland's hits and the crunk hits seem like they bridged the gap between R&B/hip hop which dominated before and the full-fledged dance-pop which ended up dominating afterwards. I'm wondering where mainstream music is going to head next, since I feel like the house trend is dying down, and the retro funk/R&B/disco trend surely can't last much longer either, after so many million sellers people must get tired soon. :lol: I don't think dance-pop will make a comeback yet since it's only been a couple of years since it faded out.

I listened to the new Jess Glynne songs a few times, and it doesn't seem like a song that would go #1 to me, but we'll see. It's not terrible, but I don't really like it that much, I was thinking it'd not do as well as Right Here or Real Love, but then again I haven't looked at its pre-orders yet so who knows. I never really know what to expect from a Flo Rida song in terms of the charts. The songs I thought might go #1 (Whistle, I Cry) didn't make it, then he has other songs like Good Feeling and Club Can't Handle Me which managed to surprise me and go #1 (for different reasons though that I won't go into as it'll take too long). And his biggest/signature hit, Low, never even made #1.

Most of Sean Paul's discography is great for working out to! King had such a big lead. :o Probably will be another song that stays at #1 for weeks, unless there's another huge release coming soon? All I can think of is Bloodstream, which I think could get to #1 seeing as the original is already top 40 and there's still a while to go. I think this sort of thing is very common to be honest. I saw people comparing Sigma to Duke Dumont, and I agree that Higher is probably going to miss #1. However in this case I think Higher is weaker than the two #1s, so I don't mind so much. In Duke Dumont's case it was a bit sad since Won't Look Back is such a good song, and better than I Got U imo.