Paramore

Between Spotify and Music TV I cherry pick my favourite songs and make MixTapes. I've been making mixtapes like that since I was 12* when I realised that at best I liked half the songs on a compilation album. I can churn out a 20 track CD maybe 4 times a year when the going is good. During the mid-00's (04-07) it was lean, I was getting 2 to 3. *with Downloads I can now do it legally! I still buy albums though, the albums have to be really good though. I've bought more albums this year than ever before.

Group A Drake feat. Rihanna – Take Care En Vogue – Don’t Let Go (Hold On To Love) Flo Rida – Good Feeling Elbow – One Day Like This Slow Moving Millie – Please Please Let Me Get What I Want The Saturdays – My Heart Takes Over JLS – Take a Chance on Me Tinchy Stryder feat. Calvin Harris & Burns – Off The Record Afrojack & Steve Aoki & Miss Palmer – No Beef Jessie J – Who You Are Westlife - Lighthouse One Direction – Gotta Be You Cher Lloyd feat. Mike Posner – With Ur Love The Collective – Teardrop Group B Christina Perri – A Thousand Years Snow Patrol – This Isn’t Everything You Are Lady Gaga – Marry The Night Rebecca Ferguson – Nothing’s Real But Love Avicii - Levels Bruno Mars – It Will Rain Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight Kelly Rowland – Down For Whatever Pixie Lott feat. Pusha T – What Do You Take Me For? Birdy – People Help The People Lucenzo & Qwote feat. Pitbull & Don Omar – Danza Kudoro (Throw Your Hands Up) Loick Essien – Me Without You Maverick Sabre – I Need Nicole Scherzinger – Try With Me

The 'performance' was mimed which is ridiculous. They just stood there pretending to sing to an autotuned track

Cowell has his minions well trained, they'll download after tonight's show or tomorrow. It depends if that can be eroded during the week. I still can't get over how the Children in Need single flopped

I guess we should enjoy the moment. The X Factor 'Charity Single' is next week

Jeez, Reggie that was annoying. Yay for Rihanna, saving us from the X Factor menace

Seek Bromance and My Feelings for you are great songs, naturally they didn't chart as well. :P

Thanks, I was wondering what YTD meant. Year-To-Date, now I feel like a fool! :rolleyes:

First time I've heard this Drake song, its stunning. Does anyone know if Moves Like Jagger has cracked the top 10 of the year yet?

Ah Reggie, Rebecca's a scouser, home of Cream. Of course she loves dance music. Its in the blood. I love her new song.

The Born this Way era hasn't really worked for her in the UK. If she'd have brought out Marry the Night after Born this Way it would have done a lot better. Its the second best song on a disappointing album. I hope she returns to her fun electro party pop roots.But then, I hardly understand her anyway. Monster was better than Alejandro but she released that to radio instead. :unsure:

Not at all. The Spice Girls got great ballads. The great ballads in the charts today, Adele obviously, Lana Del Ray 'Video Games' , Charlene Soraia 'Wherever you will go' -Its a cover so does it count? and Christina Perri (A Thousand Years)

It won't matter much. Call them the Saturdays or Little Mix, its the same songs. These bands need to be lucky enough to get good songs. That ballad from the Sats is shockingly bad but so were the ballads from Girls Aloud. Life Got Cold, I'll Stand by You and See the day are not the Girls' finest moments. Little Mix will get the same rubbish. Good for RiRi there, got her CD in Amazon's Black Friday

Paramore are the only group I have complete faith in. There is only one song of theirs in their entire back catalogue I haven't liked. 'The Only Exception' was mediocre and unlike Paramore.

I'm astounded Mirrors wasn't huge. Its such an epic song, but I guess S&M by RiRi stole its thunder

Going to get all the ire I can tell but this album disappointed me. It felt a bit samey. None of the songs had individual personality like 'For Emma'. I keep listening to this, hoping it will click because I loved 'For Emma' so much but it just isn't. :snif:

Ben Howard is the type of artist I would think Fearne Cotton pretends to like to get some cred. Also, this and Charlie Simpson's album are my favourites of the year.

The £5 CD won't disappear. It will perhaps take longer to discount. You can get Noah and the Whale's- Last Night on Earth and Tinie Tempah's- Disc-Overy for under £4 at Amazon now. That is the type of deal that will become the £5 CD. I can't see how this is going to help retailers though. HMV itself is going through a bad time even with a thriving online business. This is just going to reduce profits for them even more and lead to more closures of stores. If HMV can't survive, there is no hope for the indies anyway.

Its kind of funny how it took illegal downloaders to shift the music industry into a more efficient form of distribution. The same way the pirate radio stations revolutioned the music industry.

Levels doesn't feel like it starts until a minute in and even then the electronic sound is a bit weak. Good on Flo Rida for bumping it up to something sounding more substantial. The vocal is great though.

I'd be OK with Gaga or Nirvana. I'm not a great fan of projects like the Military Wives Choir. Why couldn't they plop it out for rememberance day?