the charts are stagnating again.

but perhaps a lot easier to write about

Definitely. They had the whole 'first download #1' thing as well as being ex-celeb / trendy producer.

not easier to write about either, unless you need a gimmicky angle entirely unrelated to the music in order to profile an artist

and i'm aware that many do need this hook, but that's not my problem, and nor should it be yours

sure, i agree but as you say lots of writing does work this way. it's the paris/jarvis thing, the press often needs a gimmick to get in. i don't how this stuff works, is this to do with how articles are pitched?

it deserves to be number one for this long.

okay maybe not 9 weeks - it doesnt mean much beyond being a great song, but maybe thats enough these days.

"http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/07/why_i_still_love_rihannas_umbr.html";

thats one of the worst pics of rihanna ive seen.

That eh eh eh bit of Umbrella unfortunately reminds me of the eh eh eh bit in Zombie by the cranberries, after which there's no hope for the song.

I miss CD UK and TotP. It is like chart pop is another genre that you have to keep up with, rather than just being the default that's always there.

Now that strikes me as a very salient point. What's chart pop's presence on mainstream TV now? There isn't really any, is there?

Gentrification, "Coffee Table", the 90s, Broadsheets, False Consensus and "The New Punk Rock"

I keep reading this thread title as "the charts are staggering again" and thinking Britney was spotted drunk or something.

No One Admits To Singing, Writing, Producing Nation's No. 1 Song

landslide win for NRQ and his ping pongs

waht

what are your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck

i think 'my love' is less likeable than 'umbrella'. i think it's a sad thing that cynical bullshit like 'don't feel like dancing' is deemed more family-friendly now. 'umbrella' is the only actual song out of the ones acrobat named. do people no longer value that?

grace jones 'pull up to the bumper' (12")
prince 'i feel for you'
ciara 'oh'
rihanna 'umbrella'
television 'see no evil'
nico 'i'll keep it with mine'
bass-o-matic 'fascinating rhythm'
...
oh BOTHERED

Ban That one guy that hit it and quit it.

Ban Don Derun.

good effort brau

typing out most recently played off itunes is not what ilx is for.

if i MUST discuss popular music with you year after year it helps to establish occasionally an understanding of your preferences in the contemporary domain of said medium.

i basically have a preference for things i hear and like. fortunately most bands do something to piss me off before i need to hear them. this saves time.

i basically have a preference for things i hear and like

illuminating

18 weeks - Frankie Laine, I Believe (1953)
16 weeks - Bryan Adams, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (1991)
15 weeks - Wet Wet Wet, Love Is All Around (1994)
11 weeks - Slim Whitman, Rose Marie (1955)
10 weeks - David Whitfield, Cara Mia (1954)
10 weeks - Whitney Houston, I Will Always Love You (1992)

Source: Official UK Charts Company

ella, ella, ella, ey-ey-ey

7 weeks at number 1 for Mark Ronson in the Uk.

8 long weeks for Drake at number 1. 8 weeks!? longest run for a single in 9 years.

How does it go?

I can't remember the last time I paid attention to the charts... probably about 10 years ago or something. I always took more notice of the album chart, too.

It's been a minute for me, too. Are Wilson Phillips and Boyz II Men still a thing?

they're triple dating.

did "the sign" finally fall off the charts?

There's a special hell somewhere where that fucking Bryan Adams song is still number one, I'm sure.

this is nuts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36794105

Drake's single only topped the sales-only chart in the first three weeks of its reign. It's only the inclusion of streaming data (where 100 plays count as one sale) that has given him a lock on the number one spot. And that's something that's starting to worry the music industry, because now that the charts measure consumption rather than purchases, they have practically ground to a halt.

In the first six months of 2016, there were 86 new entries in the UK singles chart. Ten years ago, that figure was 230.

I noticed the other week that the top eight singles in the UK didn't change (not even order) over two weeks, which is... strange.

ten years ago the number of new entries only spending one week on the chart was probably also super high, so no use pretending the chart was problem-free then either. even 'big' hits would frequently enter at their peak and spend a pitifully short time in the top 10 for the majority of the digital music era until recently.

it's pretty common for the industry to have to adjust how it works its product after the charts undergo semi-radical methodological revisions. when soundscan and broadcast data systems numbers were first implemented for the hot 100 in 1991, the main finding was that, on the radio and retail sides, the strongest hits were both breaking much faster and sticking around much longer than would have been reflected by the old survey-based methodology. in order to keep 'playing the charts' as an effective means of marketing singles, some in the industry tried a bizarre series of strategies to try to manipulate the new methodology in their favor. others realized they could market songs to radio, and their parent albums to consumers, without the assistance of singles retail whatsoever. the result was that the hot 100 was both more and less representative of the current state of pop singles consumption for the greater part of the entire 1990s decade. by the time things were 'figured out' (around 1999) and the charts started seeing decent turnaround of singles that were actually popular, not just popular because labels wanted them to appear as such, the singles retail market was in its death throes due to the combination of unsustainable strategies the labels had assumed during those years.

i think this time around the industry won't have to bumble around as long to figure it out. or at least i hope. (they may very well kill the digital downloads market, though. r.i.p. itunes!)

Ed Sheeran. Number 1 AND 2 for 5 weeks straight.

His music's always been piss and shit, tbf.

Interesting thread here:

In a fitting end to the 2010s, Jeff Bezos is responsible for the last Number 1 Single of the year, Ellie Goulding's "River" (by Joni Mitchell).

Here's how:

1. You can't find it on Spotify, Apple, Google.
2. That's because - aside from Youtube - it's Amazon exclusive.

and...

— dan barker (@danbarker) December 28, 2019

wow, hadn't heard anything about that! Crazy story!

it was posted in the system glitch thread

https://www.billboard.com/charts/decade-end/hot-rock-songs

that's pretty grim. i can only handle about four of the top twenty.