Chartfridays

Finished listen to Maiden's album so put this on out of curiosity. This song would have sounded dated even when JLS split up.

Yeah HRVY absolutely baffles all logic. He's had all the exposure he could ever dream of - including going on Strictly Come Dancing in front of weekly audiences in the tens of millions, and yet none of his songs ever seem to stick as a commercial hit. A few top 100 songs might be nice but I can hardly imagine it's bringing in the money either for him personally or his label. His album seems to be stuck in developmental hell, presumably it will only be released when he actually gets that top 40 hit he's been trying to find for donkeys years?

If the label have chose that, they're idiots.

The NMF yet again treating rock like shite. Days of Future Past listed for Maiden - seemingly purely because it's 4 minutes long - there's far better tracks on the album.

I don't think they can get much more media coverage for anything than they got for the launch last night. They've completely ballsed up this if they wanted to be in the charts again. Also think purely due to streaming Don't Hold Me Down will end up charting higher than I Still Have Faith in You in the long run.

I looked for a thread for this but could find one beside the album battle so sorry if I'm missing the obvious. One of the biggest metal bands of all time are still pumping out albums more than 40 years after they first formed with their 17th studio album, and what's more is these albums are every bit as good as the albums they released. It's been a 6 year wait, relatively long by Maiden standards, but well worth it. A brand new album from Iron Maiden called Senjutsu came out today. Writing on the Wall and Stratego have already been released as singles from it. Disc 1 1. Senjutsu 2. Stratego 3. The Writings on the Wall 4. Lost in A Lost World 5. Days of Future Past 6. The Time Machine Disc 2 1. Darkest Hour 2. Death of The Celts 3. The Parchment 4. Hell on Earth

Given some of the absolute nobodies on there you'd think there's be room for one Drake song. ABBA not being no 1 is insanity.

I didn't mean of the song I meant of the media segment that came after with Bjorn and Benny, I was only tuning in for the songs.

The other one got the full video treatment in the press conference. I don't know if don't hold me down did as I got bored of it before they played it.

Driver's Licenses falls well and truly into faux rock though.

Yup, seems absolutely ridiculous to release them at 5.45pm on a Thursday in the dead zone? Wonder if they don't realise it's a dead zone for the UK charts. So many sales tonight that won't be counted. Unless they're confident they'll do huge streaming numbers anyway, or simply don't care.

To be fair they're always going to well on itunes and physical, the question is whether the streaming generations are on board which they really need to be. On a broader point if ABBA can get to No 1 with a ballad do we think we could see ballads finally coming back into fashion and a gentle move away from rap. dance and faux rock?

They have been waiting for the hologram tour to be a goer which was presumably due last year.

Oh yes. New BMTH music is always welcome.

They've dropped the ball massively on this one by releasing the songs at 5.45pm on a Thursday night given no streams for the next 4 hours - including most curiousity streams will land in the dead zone between the two chart weeks.

Sorry but if you're not even going to tour outside of one city, you should probably just do real live performances rather than going to this much effort.

Top 10 quite possibly, no 1 seems a stretch but I suppose it's possible given how they seem to be one of those bands that cross generations.

https://twitter.com/EdSheeranBrCom/status/1...226940553121798 Honestly can't see this spending 10 weeks at No 1 thank god.

Shamelessly lifted from wiki, he's also mentioned in a number of other songs unsuprisingly. Most notably aside from Come on Eileen - We Didn't Start the Fire by Bill Joel which reache #7 in the UK and #1 in the US in 1989. Others include Don't Need A Gun by Billy Idol and Sometimes We Cry by Van Morrison.

They do make sense Yjneb Nosbig = Benjy Gibson backwards - a producer who's worked on a number of tracks for the likes of Ellie Goulding, Ed Sheeran and BTS Furtado / Jenkins are credited for the original track. Robbie Yates is the one that makes no sense but his a pseudonym for Fred Again apparently. Tbh I imagine the use of Rain Radio is likely to allow different artists to come in and out on different tracks without releasing them as collabs - we'll see from their second single.

All good choices, although I'm getting a bit burnt out on Remember and Talk About now.

Introduction I thought that this might be an interesting exercise, it’s an overly ambitious project that will either never be finished or be finished in many years if I stick with it. I’ve deliberately not looked up the number of songs involved here so as to not scare myself off the idea. I’ll break it down by decade to start with - with the easiest decade to cover due to the lower length of the charts in the era - the 1950s. Charting song by song - once a day - the new entries to hit the chart in the order that they first arrived on the countdown, given full focus to individual songs - instead of the more typical way these can sometimes be done of combining them with various other new entries from the week or highlighting the favourites of each year in turn or just focusing solely on the number 1 songs of the chart or top 10s. The purpose of this is to allow each song to shine for discussion rather than the big hits of the week and favourites taking centre-stage and others being ignored. As well as experimenting in charting the changing face of pop music over the last 68 and a half years and beyond over the next few years if we do somehow catch up eventually. Obviously with the changes in distribution of music throughout this time period as well as changes in calculation of the chart itself and length there will be some periods which have far more entries on this chart than others. For the sake of my sanity this will focus on the Top 75 (once the chart gets that long) - allowing me to use the fabulous official chart books by Graham Betts as the source rather than the clunky and often erroneous official chart website. Although that will elongate the length of the project somewhat. If using these books as the source is a copyright issue, I’d appreciate it if a moderator could flag that now rather than months into the project. Unfortunately this method does lose some of the charm of focusing on the traditional top 40 alone but does give us a bigger pool of music to draw from. I'll attempt to keep my eyes peeled for songs re-charting due to unofficial remixes and treat the re-entries as new entries, but if anyone can flag these up as we get to close them that would be helpful. We’ll be following the OCC’s lead with regards to which charts to use to compile this project in the pre-Official Charts era (NME 1952-1960 and Record Retail 1960-69) so for anyone old enough to remember (that doesn't include myself) there'll be some inconsistencies between the songs that may have been played on radio charts at the time and songs that feature in these lists. Sorry if this has been done before on the site, please let me know as I don’t want to duplicate other people’s projects. So without further ado, let's focus on the first song from the first chart dated 14 November 1952, the first sales chart - having moved on from sheet music charts - which unsurprisingly contains New Entries - 15 of them in a Top 12, although quite a few of these had been hanging around the sheet music charts in the preceding months. #1 - Walkin' My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray Debut: 14 November 1952 Run: 12 / Peak: 12 / WoC: 1 / Woc T40: 1 IPYq_wjzjwk A jazz/pop standard first written in 1930 by Roy Turk and Fred E Ahlert this song had already charted in America in the 1930s thank to versions by Nick Lucas, Ted Weems. The Charleston Chasers and Lee Morse. It has been covered by many artists including Louis Armstrong, Paul Anka, Elvis Costello and Nat King Cole - who released a version in 1951 that charted and No 8 in the US in 1951 and likely inspired to the Johnnie Ray cover, that version doesn't feature in the UK charts. Johnnie Ray's song would spend a single week at the at the time lowest position of #12 on the UK sales chart before dropping out, although this will certainly not be the last time we see the 1950's icon on these charts, with him topping up plenty more hits in the years to come both on his own and as a member of duets with the likes of Doris Day and Frankie Laine - with him continuing to score success right up until 1959 was his star began to wane for various health related and personal reasons. He would have continue to sell out concerts worldwide and reminded incredibly popular in the UK as a live act - when he was well enough to tour.

Until Adele or the Arctic Monkeys announce an album release for then the next few weeks. :lol:

Slightly disappointed by the October 22 release date, would have thought it would have been sooner than that given many of the songs are finished and already released or will be by then.

Might do better than some of us would initially think