The Hit Parade

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek when I mentioned the Nick Jonas song not being good. I mean, I do genuinely think that but I know that's not really what would make it lucky or unlucky. I don't think it's the sort of song that will seem in retrospect like it should have been a Number One though, it seems like the sort of song that does well because it's by an ex-boyband singer who likes taking his shirt off, and it happened to come out in a fairly quiet week. I understand the point people are making about it being denied by streaming but at the end of the day the sales have been done that way for months now, and they already were in his home country. The song was available to stream, it simply proved less popular in that format than something else.

The Jam - About The Young Idea... yet another best-of compilation to coincide with an exhibition in London. http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-art...-the-young-idea 22nd June

I don't really think Nick Jonas is unlucky. It's not like the song is any good.

Isn't that copied from 'Gonna Make You Sweat' by C&C Music Factory anyway? #oldpersonspost

Still not quite sure I get this thread - is it just everyone who didn't have a Top 20 hit?

I wouldn't have put it past them to collaborate, but as far as I know the only connection is this classic Live Lounge cover: l6-iUhBTUws I'm still surprised they played them anyway. I thought 'Ready For The Floor' was a great example of a song that's the acts's only Top 20 hit but necessarily their best-known song.

Maybe they think it's a bit early to write that off as a one-hit-wonder. Have they even tried to release a follow-up yet?

Is the Jamie T EP thing eligible? It's too long for the singles chart so it might be a budget album.

Maybe they were just creeped out by the thought of R Kelly having keys to people's hotel rooms. I certainly am.

I'm not sure if people who actually huge reggae fans are even that keen on Bob Marley, TBH.

Blimey, has Ferry Corsten really only ever had one Top 20 hit? I suppose if I didn't think of that neither would people at R1.

I'd imagine it sells fairly consistently most weeks and just hops up and down as sales of other albums fluctuate.

Surely if people couldn't cherry-pick tracks off the Now albums, they'd just download them as singles or from the albums anyway? That's the difference from the Live Lounge albums which have exclusive tracks.

Well, at least the awful lyrics aren't ruining a song that would have been good otherwise.

Thing with this DJ Fresh track is that it's perfectly pleasant but it's just SOOOOO formulaic.

Huh what? I mean, fair enough if you like the song and you might have a point about bias against reality TV singers, but at a time when about 20% of the chart always seems to be written by Ryan Tedder, covering a OneRepublic song is hardly going to be a "departure" from the rest of it. Especially not when Maroon 5 and the Script had songs charting as well.

Just realised Rik Mayall is in the list. Possibly should be mentioned that he had a Number One as part of The Young Ones.

Oh yeah, didn't notice the Top 10 bit, sorry. Is that part of the Radio 1 format too? Marmaduke Duke do indeed feature Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro. Similarly, Alex Turner (Last Shadow Puppets) had several T20 hits in Arctic Monkeys, and Jack White from the White Stripes was in the Raconteurs.

Few indie ones that seem to be missing: 'Long Time Coming' by Delays, 'It Ended On An Oily Stage' by British Sea Power and 'Rubber Lover' by Marmaduke Duke. I can only imagine R1 playing the last of those though. I presume James Dean Bradfield is excluded because of his credit on 'Lopez' by 808 State?

Is she definitely credited? I think I've seen different credits in different places. I know she's NOT credited on '5 Years' Time'.

Yeah, I know airplay isn't actually included in the chart, and probably doesn't even affect it this far into a single's life. Those were two separate ideas.

Maybe people aren't so keen to play a song with the phrase "I won't let this plane go down" in the chorus this week, given recent news events? I'm sure it must have affected airplay too.

I know I'm biased by not liking Haim, but I do find this track very dull and formulaic. Though obviously 'Summer' dull and formulaic as well, so presumably if they'd released them the opposite way around this would've been the hit.

I was about to say I hadn't heard the Sigma song but then I remembered I listened to the update on Wednesday and they played it then so I've obviously just forgotten it.

I though he was hidden under James Bay's hat.