No Sleeep

Mya and Blackstreet’s Take Me There. It wasn’t on Spotify, then it was for a while, now it’s gone again. Just a remix is still there but not the original.

If you’d have told me a decade ago that Kylie, Britney and Madonna would have platinum certified top 10 hits in the 2020s I’d never have believed it!

This country (the legal system, the media and the people!) has a serious problem with admitting when they’re wrong

Yes! I just found it odd that it wouldn’t let me accept the certificate (or whatever it is lol) and left me stuck on the 404 page. I’ve worked out I’ll just have to search Buzzjack.com/forums to let me onto here. Just glad it’s not just me!

I’m not really sure where to post this :blink: For some reason Buzzjack just does not load on my new phone, it gave the “This connection is not found” warning and when I tried to get it to trust the website it just wouldn’t work. Now it’s showing a 404 error. I’m posting from my old phone where it still works. Just an odd issue, I have no idea how to fix it :( Edit: nevermind! For some reason it only works if I type in the URL but without the www

So the charts can become even more artificial? :wacko:

I was hoping Imogen Heap could’ve snuck into the top 40 this week

I remember this and not understanding why it didn’t do any better! Janet Jackson’s “Make Me” also only made something like #73 after she performed it there that year, although to be fair it was a mash-up with All For You. It was her first top 100 entry in 3 years and her last one to date so she did see some positive effect. The X Factor wasn’t always a miracle worker, but No Doubt were undoubtedly the biggest losers.

Not necessarily, it performed decently around the world - #34 US, #23 Canada, usually with pre-orders something like that could’ve made top 10 here. There was just absolutely no promotion and radio’s ageism got even worse around that time. If the timing was different and Settle Down got an X Factor performance instead I’m sure it could’ve been a modest hit

The handling of that era was very frustrating. IIRC they never even released Settle Down here, if they’d have performed that instead I imagine it’d have fared a lot better. Then Gwen made the same mistake a few years later by never releasing Baby Don’t Lie here, Fergie got a decent sized hit with L.A Love (thanks to pre-orders), Gwen could’ve at least got a top 20 hit if she bothered to release it here I bet

I don’t know if it’s already been mentioned but No Doubt’s “Looking Hot” comes to mind. It only got to #397 in the charts after an X Factor performance in 2012 when that was basically a guaranteed top 10. Can’t think of a much bigger flop than that.

Agreed. I’ve been somewhat isolated the past 2 months so I’ve only really felt Christmassy this past week. I’m just getting into it and the rest of the country is already over it!

I’m sad Mariah isn’t top 100 in albums update, Merry Christmas has been doing better in recent years I’m surprised the 30th anniversary hasn’t inspired more physical sales

As nice as it would be nothing can force people to buy music again :cry:

I know I’m just repeating what’s been said for years but Brenda Lee’s success here just feels so artificial. In 2007 and 2008 when Christmas classics first started appearing in the charts again, she was barely scraping the top 100 (#94 in 2007 while Mariah was #4!), it just exposes how… Americanised and standardised Spotify’s playlists are and I wish they didn’t have so much influence on the charts

Well it’s disappointing they only gave the Sugababes 3 weeks on the C-list

I think Band Aid 40 will be lucky to make top 40 honestly! Even LadBaby struggled to shift downloads towards the end, unless there’s a massive campaign for Christmas number one (which wouldn’t work anyway considering the release date), I can’t see it. It seems to be a pretty slap dash effort anyway if it’s just a mega mix of the other 3.

I’m surprised SWV’s album wasn’t already silver or even gold? It peaked at #17 in 1993 and spent 18 weeks in the charts!

Yeah this is what I mean really! Like if, for example, Billie Piper decided to release a new album I have genuinely no idea whether it’d go top 10 or top 200

In theory I can understand that but then you have random pop artists from that era like Steps, Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne who are still able to get really good first week sales. It’s just hard to understand why some from that era can still shift albums but others just can’t

Exactly. Not just The Cure but the amount of random artists and bands (a lot that I haven’t even heard of before) that can get a top 10 album these days is insane. It just surprises me that a lot of artists I like and that everybody knows can’t even get top 100.

It is frustrating though that big female popstars can find it harder to hold onto a fanbase. Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera, Mary J. Blige, Gwen Stefani, JLo, Mariah Carey, all household names but none of them can get a top 40 album, or even top 100 in some cases, these days.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t want the headline of Kylie getting another top 40, it was a big deal when Dancing got there. I know after getting a top 10 and a top 20 last year they’re probably not that bothered about barely scraping a top 40 but it would look good on paper, and they’d probably sell a bit more physicals if they did co-ordinate it since we know what Kylie fans are like with chart battles :D Just feels like it’s one step forward two steps back with BMG.

No Gwen Stefani or Mary J. Blige even in the Monday update makes me very sad.

He died on Christmas Day, there’s not exactly any other situation to compare it to! It’s like if Michael Jackson had died on Halloween I imagine Thriller might enjoy an extra resurgence every year :lol: If it only started overtaking Mariah gradually after 2016, what other reason can you suggest for this?