Rolling 2006 US Charts Thread

there's a video for it, but I got the impression that Jeezy just really liked the song and wanted to shoot a video for it, and got to because he has a lot of pull at Def Jam right now. but right after it came out, a video for "My Hood" came out too, which I think is the 'real' single they're pushing right now, so yeah, I don't think "Trap Star" is going to climb much higher. I like it, although the spelling in the chorus ("I'm a T-R-A-P S-T-R") makes me think of Homer Simpson ("I am so smart, I am so smart, S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T").

If that's the same Chuck Taylor who's been writing for Billboard for the past few years, then I should point out that (a) he writes for a Top-40-centric crowd, and (b) he's wholeheartedly and non-chart-orientedly a huge fan of pop music, prefab or no. If he called her "contrived" it may well have been a compliment by his standards.

And Blunt's takeover is the greatest insult to our nation's intelligence since Reality Bites. What the fuck.

It wasn't. He also called her a puppet, and basically said that she was too white to do dance funk. He was being a numbskull.

And as for this phenomenon, that was the year's major new release until the Strokes came out! We were looking at some lame laydown weeks for awhile there.

hey slight digression but has anyone seen the source's (new i'm pretty sure, i seem to recall it saying 'premiere issue' or some such) reggaeton mag? tego calderon on the cover, it's in spanish - turn it around and flip it and it's in english! fuego (king magazine's new latin mag) is probably more my style for, um, personal reasons but i'm still curious.

"Check On It" is still #1, by the way.

On what chart?? I have the new Billboard in front of me, looking at the Hot 100 chart,and I don't see any of those songs. Not noticing them on the Hot Digitial Songs chart either; where are you looking?

Latin chart "My Humps" fell to 49, still no other English language tunes. Album chart Matisyahu's live album jumps from 44 to 32, and it's been out a year; is his *real* album, which comes out next month I think, going to enter at #1? That will be so weird. Also on album chart Morningwood drops 102 to 169 after heavily promoted on TV first week; is "Nth Degree" actually gettting airply anywhere? It's not on a single singles chart in Billboard so -- maybe not a hit after all?

Just a guess, though. In the meantime, this is one of the more interesting singles charts I've seen in a while, s'far as big movements; and I like it.

I don't pay attention to the British charts, but since when don't novelty songs make pop charts *more* fun? Seems to me like something to stive for!

But my guess is that not enough people are using iTunes to download whole albums -- which is why I speculated that this was sort of an anomalous case: a soundtrack that has gotten huge TV exposure among a young audience but lacks a specific single, so kids are downloading everything. They've already seen all of the songs performed on TV, anyway, so they know what they're getting when they download what might be considered a deep cut on any other pop album.

As I predicted, all the High School Musical songs take a big tumble this week.

I have so far not heard James Blunt. I am sure I have a treat in store.

Young Jeezy "Trap Star" number 11 ringtone, peaked number 6! Holy fucking shit! "My Humps" still ringing at number 2; "Candy Shop" in top ten. Mancini at 15 and Lynyrd Skynyrd at 21. Ash not top 40 in the phones but big advertising push to give the gift of "L.O.V.E." on Valentine's Day, which is ironic given that in the lyrics girl friendship love trumps failure of girl-boy thing. That part won't make it to ringtone, however.

"Stripper" not yet getting played on Radio Disney.

Also, not to get self-righteous or anything, but the Grammys don't seem to get it, do they?

But at least Hinder got an entertaining review from AMG's Johnny Loftus (love the closing line):

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:llud6j6471l0

Released in September 2005, Hinder's Extreme Behavior revives the simpleton riffs and stupid misogyny of 2001 albums from Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback for a whole new batch of undergrads. This isn't even post-grunge -- it's straight-up dude rock. The artwork is a triggered response collage of boobs, lingerie, and Jäger, and the music is so obvious that it actually recedes from the ear. Like a stereo left on in the keg room, it's just a chatter of swear words and tuneless electric guitar blab. Austin Winkler sounds like a drunk shouting along with Chad Kroeger, and his lyrics? "Let's go home and get stoned/Cause the sex is so much better when you're mad," "She said she's sorry/With one finger/I said fuck that," "She said she loved the taste of my oh oh oh" -- Winkler doesn't even have enough class to fake sounding cool. When Hinder and producer Brian Howes (he co-wrote every song with the band; Nickelback producer Joey Moi also gets a credit) do try a little tenderness, they sound like a bludgeoned Wallflowers ("Nothin' Good About Goodbye"), thudding power ballad torchbearers ("Lips of an Angel"; cue the soaring solo stolen from hair metal), or bumbling Guns N' Roses thieves (the played-out "Sweet Child" rewrite "Homecoming Queen"). Extreme Behavior can't even make it as rote hard rock -- it's too insulting to women and your intelligence. That's why it's dude rock instead. Hinder are so egregiously dull they appeal not to fans of music, but fans of high fives.

What a weird band to be so popular at this point in time

All-American Rejected rise 18-11, "Before He Cheats" 25-16, Akon & Snoop doing teh Phil Collins crunk 20-17, "BAAALLLIN!" 29-19, Keith Urban 53-31, Sugarland 42-32, Brad Paisley 54-35, Gwen Stefani's "A Very Special Tribute to Goat Sex" 40-36.

Ciara places "Promise" at #45. Pussycat Dolls, Nelly Furtado, Lloyd, Bowling For fucking Soup, & Alejandro Sanz also debut.

Below, below: 'We Fly High' climbs to 16, 'Walk It Out' to 18. 'Waiting On The World To Change' has its habitual bit of inconsequential climbing - #22 from #27, if you're counting. Of larger consequence: 'Wind It Up' is up eleven to 25, 'Money In The Bank' is 29 from 37, Paula DeAnda's 'My Second Single Ever' is 30 from 43, 'Promise' is 34 from 45, and there's initial peeps into 50-land for KT Tunstall's 'Suddenly I See' (45 from 52 after nineteen weeks on), Fat Joe & Lil Wayne's 'Make It Rain' (47 from 55), and Cherish's 'Unappreciated' (50 from 57). Oh, and you know how the lead single off The Game's album was apparently 'It's Okay'? Apparently not - 'Let's Ride' shoots straight in at #46.

HOW the FUCK did Incubus's new album get to number one on the Billboard charts a couple weeks ago?? Seriously, how did this happen?? Did Sandbox ILM ever have a thread about this?? This is just insane!!

Incubus?? Fucking INCUBUS?!?!? All I know about Incubus is they had that one hit "Drive" LIKE TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO!!!! And then all of a sudden they release the number one album in the country???? Zuh???

Not that this explains why the fuck Incubus was number one, but I'm just sayin'

Totally forgot that this was once a rolling thread. Would love to resurrect it.

Funny how chart knowledge in 2006 was treated as this "wow, you're a real nerd" when like anyone now can just google "just timberlake discography."

i do find it charming that ilm used to do this (long before i came here)