Snow Spiider

Isn't that usually the case at this point of the year, and then near Xmas when the sales increase dramatically a whole plethora of them shoot over the 1 million mark?

-1 5, 6, 7, 8 {Just dire, I cannot, cannot like it, even if Lisa's body in the video is just :wub:} 7 Last Thing On My Mind {had heard at the time that LTOMM was inspired by the ABBA sound so I was immediately interested in hearing this, when I did (after buying the CD single without previously hearing it), I really liked the song, with the ABBA similarities extremely obvious} 11 One For Sorrow {first saw this performed on GMTV and it was at this point that my obsession started. This is the Steps' equivalent of pop perfection / ABBA's Dancing Queen. I adored this song at the time, and still do; I also genuinely think this song has stood the test of time and could easily be a Katy Perry / Leona Lewis / Kelly Clarkson / heck even at a push Beyonce track. Great, easy to learn dance routine coupled with a simplistic, but extremely effective, summery video. And WOWOWOWOW at Claire's body in that one!!!!} 5 Heartbeat {didn't really get this song at all; the only saving grace was the cheesy as hell video and oh yeah at Lisa's (Faye's?) high kick on the ice queen!} 9 Tragedy {@wub@ @ the dance routine. I genuinely cannot escape a family party without this track being requested and being forced to do the whole routine surrounded by a circle of family members. Oh the shame :blush:. Still, great track though and definitely the sound of the party and pop club scene in late '98 / early '99. Glad this track finally rose to #1 in the New Year after being denied initially. I remember seeing them at #1 on teletext and froze the teletext screen and stared at it for about 10 minutes as I was convinced it wasn't reality - after OFS had missed out on #1 along with this track initially I thought that might have been their chances gone} 4 Better Best Forgotten {I think when this was released, they were at the height of their popularity coming off the back of 2 successful tracks (LTOMM and OFS) and a mega-smash in Tragedy. Unfortunately, this was one of their weaker tracks for me, and while it commanded astonishing first week sales (only the Comic Relief Boyzone track managed to stop it from #1 - god they really were unlucky until Stomp sneaked in later) it didn't deserve it and only managed those sales IMO through the track being released 2 months after Tragedy peaked. Dance routine weas complete and utter rubbish as well. All in all one of their weaker efforts of their entire career} 9 Thank Abba For The Music {Loved this collab with Billie, Cleopatra and Tina Cousins. Although wish Steps had a more substantial element of the vocals. Great performance at the BRIT awards - was that the joke year when they were snubbed for Belle & Sebastian? :(} 10 Love's Got A Hold On My Heart {I remember hearing this one coming back from a night working in the pub - I'd missed the CD:UK performance from earlier in the day, but as CD:UK was repeated for all the club goers at 1am, I set the VCR to record it. Fell in love with the song immediately. I replayed the performance until 6am on loop that morning and the obsession got even deeper ... Still think that the "Darling there's no way out, nothing can help me now" line should have been followed with another rhyming couplet with the exact same melody before the "Love's Got A Hold On My Heart" line, it sounded odd on first listen. LOVED the dance routine to this one too!} 9 After The Love Has Gone {A mini One For Sorrow, still excellent but not quite as stunning. Best bits of the song - Claire's fantastic vocal, the oriental theme dance and the middle eight instrumental where they get in a line and do that pincer thingy with their hands} 8 Say You'll Be Mine {great video, really inspired IMO but song kinda weak; the more H in a song = the less likely I am to love it} 10 Better The Devil You Know {Wow! First heard this on the Steptacular tour and couldn't get it out my head whatsoever. Loved the Kylie version and this was almost a direct carbon copy but I genuinely didn't mind as the melody of the song is just top notch. Wish they'd kept the Kylie middle eight in though - I don't like the "Woah, woah, woah-oh-oh!" bits} 9 Deeper Shade Of Blue {One of their two "cool" tracks. I remember so many people who didn't like Steps and/or thought they were just embarrassingly cheesy that actually liked this track. Also remember this as being one of the first (and few) times they performed live on TV - Blue Peter got the honours of H's strained vocals for this one. Overall extremely solid track, and again a great video - looking back Steps had some great videos really} 3 When I Said Goodbye {As dull as the black and white video and saved to an extent by Summer Of Love} 8 Summer Of Love {Didn't hear this for ages as was in America at the time and although I knew about it from the official Steps forum, it was impossible at the time to find anywhere on the net to listen to it. Great, fun, uptempo track, I love the dance routine to this one (so much I punched someone at a concert as a result of the "Dance, its the summer of love" bit where you progressively raise you hands in the air) but how the hell did they do the video? I've always wondered that, so if someone can shed any light on that ... :)} 10 Stomp {bright uptempo track with a stomp-ing beat. I absolutely love this track and I'm glad it bagged them a 2nd #1, even if their sales were low that week. It was definitely a better #1 than the late challenger that week - "Who Let The Dogs Out", who were catching up all week having a starting Tuesday midweek of #14 ... really fun video and was this the first point Lisa had her braces (or was it Summer of Love?)} 8 It's The Way You Make Me Feel {The 2nd of their two "cool" tracks - again this managed to actually get a "pass" vote from the anti-Steps brigade. Lovely melody on this one I thought, and a great live performance on TOTP with a fantastic high note from Claire. Absolutely beautiful video - my girlfriend was mocking Steps the other day so I dusted down the VCR and punished her with my Steps performance & video collection - needless to say the Victorian theme of this one resulted in a retracted opinion and a lovely breakfast in bed the following day :)} ?? Too Busy Thinking About My Baby {What single was this released with? Was it even an A-side?!} 8 Here And Now {A definite change in sound for Steps this one - more "grown-up", less poppy than normal. Although the video was hardly any more mature than otherwise. Lisa in this video = :wub: :wub: Hot hot hot!!!} 1 You'll Be Sorry {The worst of all the Steps singles since the abomination of 5,6,7,8. This is probably the only single that I can barely remember the melody to, and on that basis alone it tells me all I need to know} 9 Chain Reaction {Fantastic track (and a very naught video) but misses out on a 10 as it will always remind me of their last ever performance together at the end of their final arena tour, and Claire's tears as the ticker tape dropped from the ceiling. I agree with Tom Kay, it doesn't really add anything to the previous version other than an updated production which gives it just a bit more oomph} 2 One For Sorrow (2001/Tony Moran US mix) {Should be listed in all music classes/teaching/lessons as the epitome of the way to completely destroy a fantastic track through the apocalyptic decimation of the melody. 2 points only for the fact that it still is OFS. Booo!!} 9 Words Are Not Enough {Love this song! Its so simple in construction but that works. One of their best ballads and I liked the closure of this and IKHSW as the final double-A side. Solid live vocal performance of this on TOTP as well} 9.5 I Know Him So Well {I loved the Elaine Paige / Barba Dickson version of this song, so when I heard they were recording this I was interested to see if they could pull it off. I really like Claire's vocal on this and to be honest while the song necessitates at least 2 singers, she should have been given more IMO - inclusion of Faye/Lisa is workmanlike at best and doesn't quite take the track where Claire could. A great way to bow out and again a great live vocal performance on TOTP} ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1st Claire Richards = the voice of Steps. 2nd Lisa Scott-Lee = the sex in Steps. Here And Now = :wub: 3rd Faye Tozer = Not dread-ful at all; except when she thought she was too "cool" for the band (quite obvious in numerous interviews) 4th Ian 'H' Watkins = a pass simply for trying to sing on numerous occassions and for the suspense at which of his Idol's tracks he would perform badly on tour 5th Lee Latchford-Evans = pointless and jsut a complete and utter waste of space. Must have been taunted something dreadful by his mates and he was clearly just embarrassed to be in Steps; which is poignant as most of Steps' fans were equally embarrassed that he took up the 5th place in the band.

A big red face for MW if they have got that one wrong - the two artists couldn't be more different! :o

Erm, no, they specifically talk in the article about the X Factor and Cher finishing 4th :P

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1046366

Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger 20 Jessie J - Who’s Laughing Now 15 Rizzle Kicks - Down With The Trumpets 8 Nicole Scherzinger - Wet 22 Selena Gomez & The Scene - Love You Like A Love Song 75+ Calvin Harris - Feel So Close 2 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - The Death Of You And Me 13 Sean Kingston - Party All Night (Sleep All Day) 40 Dev - In The Dark 50 Will Young - Jealousy 3 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks 30 DJ Fresh - Louder 23 The Wanted - Glad You Came 11 Adele - Someone Like You 40 Bonus 1) - 8 points Will the number of occurrences of the letter Y in song titles in the title in the top 40 (as published on the OCC website) be i) odd or ii) even? Odd Bonus 2) - 12 points Will at least two of the following songs (59p on iTunes) be in the top 75? Semisonic - Secret Smile, Eminem - Stan, Florence + The Machine - You’ve Got The Love Yes Bonus 3) - 12 points Will there be five or more non-movers within the top 40? No

1 Olly - HSAB 2 Calvin - FSC 3 Will - Jealousy 4 Maroon - MLJ 5 Wretch - DG 6 Christina - JOH 7 Emeli - Heaven 8 Rizzle - DWTT 9 Ed - TAT 10 David - LBG #1 Chris/Justin - Next To You #2 6 #3 Will

When was Guetta/Hudson released?

How many weeks is Katy Perry going to be stuck @ #2? :(

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/1...-avicii-collide

Leona/Avicii situation now appears resolved:- Tweets from Avicii:

Rizzle Kicks - Down With The Trumpets 8 Jessie J - Who’s Laughing Now 24 Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger 14 Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger 3 Emeli Sande - Heaven 2 Drake - Headlines 52 Wretch32 feat Josh Kumra - Don't Go 1 David Guetta & Afrojack - Lunar 75+ Nicole Scherzinger - Wet 22 Game feat Chris Brown - Pot Of Gold 40 Jay-Z & Kanye West feat Beyonce - Lift Off 70 Modestep - Sunlight 12 Maverrick Sabre - Let Me Go 36 The Wanted - Glad You Came 10 Bonus 1) - 8 points Will the number of occurrences of the word "the" in song titles in the title in the top 40 (as published on the OCC website) be i) odd or ii) even? Odd Bonus 2) - 12 points Will Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar be in the top 40? Yes Bonus 3) - 12 points Will any song climb more than ten places within the top 40? Yes

1 Wretch - DG 2 Emeli - Heaven 3 Maroon - MLJ 4 Nero - Promises 5 Christina - JOH 6 Guetta - LBG 7 Ed - TAT 8 Rizzle - DWTT 9 JLS - SMMW 10 Wanted - GYC #1 Eminem - Space Bound #2 6 #3 Adele

Hopefully this bodes well for Steps' comeback later this year :D

Title of Dev ft. JLS Part II?

I really like her new song too. I dunno what it is about her though, maybe its just that she comes awkward but then she's always had confidence issues and being in a girl group full of 4 other beautiful girls wont have helped.

Combined pop bar positions:- # Artist 1st 2nd 3rd Tot Mvmt %lead 1 Nero 100.0 3.9* 103.9 -0% 34% 2 C'tina 77.7 77.7 +15% 8% 3 Guetta 72.1 72.1 +6% 9% 4 JLS 66.2 66.2 -6% 8% 5 Wanted 54.5 6.7 61.2 +4% 0% 6 Ed 58.1 3.0* 61.1 +2% 4% 7 Rizzle 58.7 58.7 +5% 8% 8 David 54.4 54.4 +19% 2% 9 Cher 53.3 53.3 -7% 4% 10 Beyonce 51.0 51.0 +4% 13% 11 Nicki 36.6 6.9 1.8* 45.3 +10% 6% 12 Fresh 36.7 4.0* 2.0* 42.7 -1% 12% 13 Chris 38.2 38.2 +1% 10% 14 Adele 34.6 34.6 +6% Mvmt = % Movement from pop bar position on Thursday 2pm Lead = % lead over next placed track * = estimated pop bar value

Too ... many ... jokes. I feel like Chandler in F.R.I.E.N.D.S :o

I know its not strictly accurate as we don't have pop bars for anything from 101+ but Nero is at #109 with the Skrillex mix (or whatever its called) therefore is marginally less than the #100 pop bar. Adding on 5.0% to the pop bar (fair bet given the incremental difference between bars at that part of the iTunes curve) would put Nero at 96.6%, not far off #1 and ahead of Guetta (and with the EP added almost certainly ahead of JLS). This is valid for comparison with the top 3 (in fact top 5) as none of them have another version charting in the iTunes top 300. Actually, based on updated pop bars, version @ #3 = 92.8425%; version @ #109 = 5.2% (say) giving 98.0425% overall, almost #1 based on iTunes singles sales alone. :)

1 JLS - SMMW 2 Nero - Promises 3 Guetta - LBG 4 Christina - JOH 5 Cher - SJ 6 Ed - TAT 7 Wanted - GYC 8 Rizzle - DWTT 9 Fresh - Louder 10 Beyonce - BTINH #1 Rihanna - OGITW #2 6 #3 No

Rizzle Kicks - Down With The Trumpets 8 Benny Benassi feat Gary Go - Cinema 18 Jay Z & Kanye West - Otis 22 Christina Perri - Jar Of Hearts 2 Adele - Set Fire To The Rain 12 LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem 25 DJ Fresh - Louder 9 Pitbull feat Marc Anthony - Rain Over Me 36 Jessie J - Who’s Laughing Now 40 Calvin Harris feat Kelis - Bounce 17 Eminem - Space Bound 28 Scouting For Girls - Love How It Hurts 38 Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall 37 Bruno Mars - Marry You 36 Bonus 1) - 8 points Will the number of occurrences of the letter Y in song titles in the title in the top 40 (as published on the OCC website) be i) odd or ii) even? Odd Bonus 2) - 12 points Will Chris Brown feat Justin Bieber - Next To You be in the top ten? No Bonus 3) - 12 points Will any song fall more than ten places within the top 40? No

The key difference between those releases and Pixie's is (as you say) that both Hard and Imma Be could be cherry picked whilst the video was in rotation, hence spreading out the sales. Pixie is in the opposite situation where legal sales generated from the 6 weeks of video play are all going to be compressed into week 1 on the whole, or certainly earlier than they would have been otherwise.

Spot on Bre. Anyone suggesting otherwise is talking nonsense. It will only help boost (repress) Pixie's first week sales. It might mean she doesn't have the longevity that she might have otherwise had, but the peak position will almost certainly be better.

Once again Karma proves himself a complete and utter embarrassment to all us Leona fans. I seriously hope he ***** off before September 4th so none of us are subjected to his ridiculous comments on the iTunes thread which I can already foresee:- If Leona hits the top of the iTunes chart, smug Simon Cowell-esque comments along the lines of "I knew all along she'd be #1, haterz take that!!!!" And if she doesn't, some loon-based illogical and delusional nonsense that it doesn't matter as Leona has sold more albums in the past / will go on to sell more in the future, or a complete tangential comment that fails to acknowledge what the previous poster said.

Does that mean a chilli is a fruit?