Eric_Blob

I agree. Lifted was a good song imo. It did okay in the charts, but I still don't understand why it didn't do better. Maybe we're just the only ones who like it. :lol: But I can't understand what's wrong with it personally, it's not like it's boring or not catchy, at least to me. I'm not worried for Naughty Boy anyway. His career definitely is not over.

I think #1 or #2.

I'm surprised Zinc - Show Me isn't higher. Not quite as incredible as Kid Ink - Show Me, but it's very catchy and I heard it so much on the radio, I thought when I first heard it that it would go to #1.

It is! I really hope it can be as big as Turn Down For What. I think of the two Get Low is more likely to get in the charts. The songs sound pretty much the same, but Get Low is by Dillon Francis and DJ Snake who are producers, and producers get chart hits and radio airplay more easily than rappers at the moment. Bend Ova is by Lil Jon and Tyga, I think if they put some DJ's name on it it'd be more likely to be a hit. That said, Trampoline is also a trap song by two rappers and that was a big chart hit last year. I sometimes see Lil Jon's Get Low in the top 1500 on iTunes.

Both DJ Snake and Lil Jon's follow-up singles to this are great. DJ Snake - Get Low Lil Jon - Bend Ova

To be fair, the Million Pound Girl video looked even cheaper, so I people probably didn't have high standards for Fuse ODG videos after that. :lol:

Yeah, I thought the Dangerous Love video had been out for ages too, but I guess it was just the unofficial video that I saw. :lol:

Even in the US (and probably other countries) where it's all long-runners at #1, they still have some of the biggest hits every year that miss out. Even some songs that were year-end #1 in the US missed #1 in the weekly charts. So people here can complain about it all they want, but it's just a fact of life that people need to get over. Not all the biggest hits will get #1, it's just the way it is. To be honest, in the UK we've been pretty good with #1s in the past couple of years imo. Most of the biggest chart hits got there (apart from All Of Me, Just Give Me a Reason and Let Her Go?), whilst almost all the #1s have been actual big hits. Like someone else said, if people care THAT much about what is "really" a big hit, they should just look at the year-end charts. They give a better idea of longevity, etc. A simple chart peak based on 7 days is never going to give the full story.

lol I know what you mean. I bought a pair of high quality headphones last summer, and they're amazing, but in a lot of songs I listen to they have weird subtle sounds in the background, and I usually think they're from the real world, so I instinctively turn around when I hear any strange noises lol. I get so confused sometimes. :(

I would have loved to follow the charts when Bleeding Love was released. I remember last year being amazed by the slayage of Get Lucky, but Bleeding Love's sales were on a whole other level to that as it was released when sales were much lower. 2007 in general had lots of great chart hits, but I think Umbrella being #1 for 10 weeks would've probably got annoying after a while. :lol:

I love Suga Suga! :D Don't know if it was a chart hit, but it's a famous song anyway (although I doubt anybody else on Buzzjack would know it :lol:). As for Cheryl next week, I think she'll be #2 or #3 (Faded and Down On My Luck will probably do well, but I'm not sure if they'll get higher than Cheryl).

Low? All three of those will probably go top 10. :lol:

Can't believe Usher got so many pop adds already! :o

Bailando is such a good song. Why on earth did they think the Flo Rida collab should be released before it in the UK? Absolute madness. I'm sure it'll be a hit in the UK when it's released though.

His most famous song is I Luv This Shit. It's good, but it's quite dark and intense imo.

Yeah, a lot of UK artists make strange choices for post-album singles. Even the biggest ones like Disclosure, Rudiemental, Tinie Tempah, etc. imo. I think this is a great choice though! I haven't heard their album, so don't know if there're better songs, but the song itself is great imo.

I can see Latch similarities in this tbh. I heard this song a couple of weeks ago on the radio, and it's nice imo. Doesn't he work for Capital FM or something? Hopefully that means they'll play the song lol.

I think this could go #1 or #2. It has the same chilled-out vibe as Waves.

153. Clean Bandit ft. Stylo G - Come Over This is such a good song! :o Wow.

I predict #3. I can't see it being a massive #1 tbh.

Someone in the previous thread estimated that Cheryl sold about 15,000 iTunes pre-orders and that MAGIC! sold about 10,000, which would mean that MAGIC! would debut with about two-thirds (0.6667) of Cheryl's pop bar, so turns out his predictions were quite accurate! The more surprising thing to me is that Rude hasn't really closed the gap very much yet. I expected it to gain faster tbh, because its pre-order was selling more before the songs were released.

All three of her previous number-ones made the year-end top 40 iirc, so they usually sell well. Obviously, there's no guarantee this one would have that level of success, if it even gets #1, but all her #1s cleared 300,000 (maybe even 400,000) I believe? In my opinion she should have her next single out for the first week of the live shows, then after that they should start getting the post-album single on the radio while the live shows of X Factor are still on, then it might make top 10 this time. I remember 3 Words, which peaked very high, was already in the charts when X Factor was still on. Also, The Saturdays aren't the best comparison, as Higher, Ego, Up and Issues all spent ages in the chart.

X Factor probably won't boost her as much as it did in 2008 and 2009 with The Promise or Fight For This Love respectively for various reasons, but it would probably still help.

Cheryl should have released Screw You as a single. I think it would have charted higher than Under the Sun.

You make some good points, but the 9 months thing shouldn't be an issue. I bet lots of #1 hits (of many genres) were around for longer than that by the time they got #1. A good thing to compare it to is how lots of dance-pop songs started under-performing mid/late 2012, and after that they slowly started disappearing from the charts, and now today we usually only have a few in the top 40 each week. I think the same will happen to these house songs eventually, and ones under-performing like Gorgon City's latest single make me think we're in the start of the decline now.