rolling pop 2010

At No. 1 on Digital Songs, Bruno Mars' "Grenade" sells 559,000 downloads (up 164%) -- the third biggest sales week for a digital song in history. Right behind him this week at No. 2 is Katy Perry's "Firework" with 509,000 (up 165%) -- the fourth largest frame ever.

fuckin gift cards man

i'm beginning to think that "grenade" is a near classic tbh

so top 10 is:

1 Grenade
2 Firework
3 We R Who We R
4 What's My Name
5 Raise Your Glass
6 Black & Yellow
7 Tonight (I'm Fucking You) *smh at this*
8 Bottoms Up
9 The Time (Dirty Bit)
10 Just the Way You Are

really happy about wiz finally breaking the top 10

i have no beef with "grenade"

but like oh hey, a rap song that is actually a rap song in the top 10. never thought i'd see that.

i guess "6 foot 7 foot" was in the top ten last week. that's good too.

but it doesn't feel like nearly as much of a huge hit as b&y does

i thought it was called 6'7" but i'm seeing it listed as six foot seven foot everywhere, which kind of makes no sense

the sample goes "6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot, hut"

i feel like "bottoms up" hasn't dipped below #11 for two months or something

def happy for wiz

the sample goes "6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot, hut"

ha i can't even remember how it goes. haven't listened since that first underwhelming time.

and you're probably seeing it called that because that's what it's called.

http://www.lilwaynehq.com/images/blog/wayne-gunz-6-foot-7-foot-single-cover.jpg

yeah, "bottoms up" feels like it's been huge but really has just kinda been hanging there

the first single cover probably threw some ppl off

http://www.hiphopmusicdotcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Lil-Wayne-ft.-Cory-Gunz-67-Single-Cover.jpg

ah, hadn't seen that

it's sort of minor i guess but i like that it's called "six foot seven foot" instead of "6' 7"" -- the former sort of leans more on wayne's lovable playful side as opposed to generic swagger stuff

really happy about wiz finally breaking the top 10

― The Reverend, Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:05 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ finally -- a rap song with no R&B singer by a rapper who's never had a major chart hit before rising to the top 10 about two months after the song's release is pretty damn fast.

it had been hanging just outside the top 10 for 2 or 3 weeks.

LEX: Chery Lloyd signed to Roc Nation!

yeah just saw! hoping it's true, there are always so many rumours doing the rounds about x factor contestants and roc nation would have had to buy her out of the syco deal :/

will.i.am tweeted that he'd recorded a song with cher while he was in london, too

Yeah, Jordan, and others who commented, very much welcome with any contribution at all over at the dedicated k thread.

i don't see the two or so rap songs getting plays from pop stations as being a new renaissance for the genre or anything though -- rap still has an audience and might be integrated with the current aesthetic but i doubt it'll ever again be the driving force it was in the 00s

i don't think anyone claimed that?

just saying, it seems to be a popular sentiment among the fratboy demographic that wiz and kid cudi are part of a "new movement" in rap which i don't think will manifest itself in any real sense

Keke Palmer has put her 'lost' second album from 2010/11 up on soundcloud:

http://kekepalmer.com