Eric_Blob

This isn't just you, lots of people have said similar things, but I don't think that's the reason. In the US almost everything is released straight away, and radio nearly always only starts playing the songs months later. The biggest hit of last year, Happy by Pharrell, was put on iTunes in summer 2013, but most radio stations didn't start playing it until 4-6 months later. Another example in the US is Latch by Disclosure, which was released in 2012, but radio stations didn't play it until 2014 and that still became a hit. It might hurt pop stars though, because there's the expectation that their songs are supposed to become hits immediately, and if they don't all their fans start panicking. :lol: But for other artists who don't have those expectations (i.e. any rock, dance, hip hop, country, R&B, alternative, etc. artist), it's not as much of an issue. I'm shocked that you don't think he's relevant. :lol: (I do think Madonna, Mariah Carey, etc. are relevant too, I think it's because they're females and their music is more pop that they don't get playlisted much anymore on Radio 1). I doubt California Roll will be a hit though.

Mine is: 1. Won't Look Back (easily my favourite, love lots of the remixes too!) 2. The Giver 3. Need U 4. I Got U (not bad but not much replay value for me) It's difficult for me to decide which is my favourite out of The Giver and Need U.

I remember Somebody That I Used to Know did get played, but considering it was the best-selling song of the year it didn't get a huge amount of Capital support really.

Lost Frequencies will be #1. I 100% guarantee it.

The top 6 songs are all at around 70 plays a week though. That's waaaaaay too much (well, obviously this is what makes Capital FM the most money, but it's far too much to make for an enjoyable listening experience...). I don't think it's even that current, in the top 10 it's mainly just the Taylor Swift and Avicii songs which are fairly new I believe, the others were probably all being played on Capital months ago. 30 70 Fetty Wap Trap Queen Atlantic 30 5 Wow, they are playing it! If they get it up to 50+ spins a week it'll probably go top 10 in the charts.

Their song Peanut Butter Jelly is a lot better than this imo... Same with Alesso - Cool, which did a lot worse than Heroes.

This is true, it's difficult to compare songs across years (especially comparing, say, 2004 hits with 2012 hits). But looking solely from a sales perspective, it's interesting. I can't believe how much Happy has sold, it's quite surreal. I hope it passes 2 million one day but it'll probably take a long time. This is honestly not a particularly good list of songs though. There are a few great songs like Uptown Funk, It Wasn't Me and Somebody That I Used to Know, but most of them are pretty MOR. I suppose they have to be if they're to sell this much!

Everybody keeps saying this song is dull, but the instrumental has proven to be a popular tune for quite a long time now (I remember hearing it on Halloween last year even). I've also had the pleasure of seeing Tazer in real life, so I hope this sees commercial success. :)

I reckon they probably didn't need a remix, just chose to send one. Maybe they're going to give it a full push and try and get other stations like Radio 1 and Capital to play it too.

20 years! Next time someone on Buzzjack tells some female pop star to "give up" just because she's released a few singles and none of them have gone top 40... Artists should never give up.

Streaming will eventually kill on air, on sale anyway imo. As we've seen, songs held back on streaming still take a few weeks to peak (usually), which makes holding them back quite pointless. Streaming counted for 65% of 'sales' last week iirc, so downloads still count significantly in the charts, especially near the top, but eventually it'll get to the point where holding back songs (at least on streaming) will be pointless, maybe even a hinderance.

He had a song a few years back called Out Of Control which I loved! I think I even mentioned it on here since it sounded a lot like As Long As You Love Me by Justin Bieber (except with rapping instead of singing).

It's 'sold' around 90,000 now I think, so it'll pass 100,000 soon. Would be nice if it went top 40 in the charts but I don't really care tbh, at least it just managed to scrape top 75. :lol: Its beat is quite similar to Natalie La Rose - Somebody which has charted high so I'll take that instead.

Carly Rae Jepsen on Radio 1! :o Trap Queen isn't in the top 40 on Capital FM. Maybe next week.

It's true. I don't think the general public ever really completely lose interest in an artist. In 2012 we probably could've said the public lost interest in Mark Ronson, Robin Thicke, Daft Punk and Pharrell. If you get a commercial song and the general public actually get to hear it, it's possible for almost anybody (except extreme cases like Gary Glitter or someone) to get another hit imo. But I think some artists get stuck in a downward spiral. They have some under-performing singles then record labels promote them less and radio stations play them less which leads to them performing even worse which leads to less promotion, and so on.

It's on Capital FM's playlist now, so if they're really playing it, and during the day-time I think it could. Would've had a better chance if Capital and Radio 1 had it in high rotation at the same time though (I'm sure Radio 1 will still give it a few spins a week though).

Yeah, remember their edit of Rihanna - S&M? :lol: However, making your own clean edit of a song probably takes quite a while... Perhaps they think spending 20 minutes editing swear words out of a song just for (what they think is) one play isn't worth it.

I'm not sure, but Firestone did the same by getting high streaming with no airplay. Maybe it's a Kygo thing. :lol:

Wow! :o If Capital are really playing Trap Queen (during the day-time) it could get it into the top 10 after all, or at the very least prevent a free-fall.

I've liked the original version of this song for ages! Would be nice if it gets in the charts.

Not to mention triple Sam Smith lower down. :lol: In the case of Thinking Out Loud Heart FM have had that in high rotation almost a year now, since they opted for it instead of Don't, and then continued playing it when it was actually a single. :drama: I kind of think after a while they should've put TOL down to 10-15 spins a week and chose another album track to play (or the original version of Bloodstream or Photograph). But oh well, they'll push Thinking Out Loud towards 2 million. :lol:

The reason Trap Queen is so high in the charts is because it was the most played song on Radio 1 last week! :D They dropped it off their playlist, and they were literally the only thing promoting the song so I think it'll probably drop fairly fast now (although streaming will probably keep it in the top 40 for a bit longer...). I imagine Radio 1 will love this song. Lots of DJs seem to like it, I heard it three times in one night a couple of weeks back, and usually I hear it at least once, even in mainstream clubs. Not sure on their total sales so I might be wrong, but Loyal probably did do better in the charts than Ayo? It got a lower peak, but Loyal wasn't held back so it had to climb into the top 10, which I don't think Ayo would've managed without being held back. And yeah, regardless of the charts, Loyal is obviously the bigger song of the two. This reminds me a bit of Breach's singles Jack and Everything You Never Had which did roughly the same in the charts.

A bit gutted Trap Queen is off the playlist as it was just about to enter the top 10 on Spotify, another week of Radio 1 A List could've got it in. I'm glad for Radio 1 play-listing it in the first place though, it's the only reason it's been top 40 the past month. :lol:

Yeah, but they don't have much of a choice really. It's either push back the release date and hope to be able to get more radio airplay so the song will sell or keep the original date and flop.

If they're ever going to include Youtube they should include all of it (it's unfair for them not to include stuff like unofficial lyric videos or the dance music channels when people clearly are listening to those for the song). If anything it's the official music videos which should not be included since you could argue people are watching those for the visuals and don't care about the music (but I'm sure in 90%+ of cases people are listening for the music). The unofficial user-uploaded videos are usually just an image in the background or lyrics along with the audio, those should definitely be counted. Who cares if a random song goes top 10 because of Youtube once a year (which is pretty much how often it happens in the US)? The UK chart used to be filled with charity singles, 'fake' versions of un-released songs, Glee Cast singles, old songs re-entering from X Factor, Facebook campaigns, promo singles, Global radio artists, old songs re-entering from discounts and someone dying. We've had Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead and Surfin' Bird get near #1 in recent years. We had Precision Tunes go top 10 lol. PJ & Duncan re-entering at #1. Youtube would be a double-edged sword though. Whilst it might liven up the chart with the occasional gimmicky entry (we've had a lot less of these since streaming was added), it would also keep the biggest hits in the top 40 for even longer. So I wouldn't mind that much if it wasn't included.