BYE-BYE BLUNTY, BLUNTY GOODBYE... Yep, the king of blandcore has been dislodged after one week as Ne-Yo storms to the top from last week's 9, doing the Hot 100-Billboard 200 double. Rock music is reportedly 'miffed'. Elsewhere in the ten, no major waves - Sean Paul's slow clamber continues, up to 2 this week, and The Mighty Trance Warrior Queen that is Cascada is nudged out to 11 by Dem Franchise Boyz climbing to 'lucky' #9.
CRAP HAT ON THE MARCH - up 15 to this week's #14, with Bubba close behind at #15. Keyshia Cole's up 5 to #20, and there's some yo-yo-ing about down below, most notably with 'Rompe's eight-place climb to #31. New in the 50 this week: Sheryl Crow & Sting's 'I No Longer Want To Ride My Bicycle' is straight in at #35, and Rihanna's 'SOS', Kanye's 'Touch The Sky' and Kenny Chesney's 'Living In Fast Forward' occupy numbers 46 thru 48.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 9 March 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Worth noting, I guess, is that "So Sick" is the 6th #1 of the year so far. At this point last year, I think "Let Me Love You" was just finishing up its nine-week reign. So I guess that's a step forward of sorts.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Also loving the rapid turnover at the #1 position.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
This is a real song?!?
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
this is a sad state of affairs, Joseph.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
He's pulling your leg. The real title is "We Met In The Bordello".
― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej..., Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej...., Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
In the rest of the country, Laffy Taffy peaked at the time it hit number one. It wasn't played on the radio here (Seattle) til Octover/November. You have to remember that in Atlanta D4L are a local group and so radio there picked up on it before they were nationally known.
― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
* - 'cuz now Ne-Yo passed them all on the right, right?
― xhuxk, Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, the Times business section and Billboard both observed it before I did, so I can't take credit. Seemed interesting, though.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link
As a consumer, I really resent this line of reasoning; it's what led to the utter removal of the singles market in the late '90s (and thus can be held responsible for the dramatic Napster rise thereafter).
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
the print edition of Billboard magazine contains the charts that were announced a week earlier on the Billboard website, so you probably get your issue right on time, but it's info is always a week out of date. it's always kind of funny how the BB site phrases the announcements too, like "Ne-Yo will top next week's Billboard chart," as if it's predicting the future.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 10 March 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 March 2006 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link
(*not that I can find anywhere on the Billboard online site that will tell me what the difference is between a downloaded song and a downloaded track)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 10 March 2006 06:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 10 March 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Teen-rock (I guess) bands on the Billboad charts this week that I never heard or heard of before, and that I'm vaguely curious about:
THE FRAY - Who have a song with the intriguing title "Over My Head (Cable Car)" at #64 on the singles chart, so maybe they're from San Francisco? Also their album is at #110.
PLUMB -- "One woman rock act Tiffany Arbuckle," #177 on album chart.
FLYLEAF - #140 on album chart, and, judging from a photo elsehwere in the issue, they have a female singer.
Has anybody out there heard any of these bands? What sound they like?
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― deeeeeej, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
>For Immediate ReleaseMarch 15, 2006
MATISYAHU DEBUTS AT #4 ON BILLBOARD 200 WITH NEW ALBUM ‘YOUTH'
With Sales Of 119,000, ‘Youth,' Finds Matisyahu The Only Artist With Two Albums Currently In The Billboard Top 40
‘Youth' Captures #1 Spots On Top Internet Albums Chart, Digital Albums Chart And Reggae Chart As ‘Live At Stubb's' Lands at #3 On Reggae Chart
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Outside the top ten, there's reasonable climbs for 'Beep', 'Walk Away' and, er, 'Jesus, Take The Wheel'. Having peaked at #13 'Stupid Girls' slips for a second consecutive week, this week's #22.
New in the 50 - Matisyahu brings the great stuff kids go for at #28 from #61 last week, and Chamillionaire climbs from 57 to 36. Most intriguing one, though perhaps mainly from a British perspective, is Rascal Flatts at #49 with 'What Hurts The Most', the song that ex-S Club lead singer Jo O'Meara attempted to launch her solo career in the UK with last year. Over here, it peaked at #13 then vanished without trace. Its American progress may be slightly more successful, you'd reckon...
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― deeeeej, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
The big news for me this week is The All-American Rejects' "Move Along" shooting to #32, it's easily one of the best rock singles of the year so far (and much better than "Dirty Little Secret") and it's nice to see it pick up after a slow start. I hope it peaks as high as DLS did, making the AARs one of what, six rock bands this decade with more than one top ten hit? Nickelback, Creed, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park and Green Day are the only other ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Sean Paul going to #1 is sorta unexpected but a pleasant enough surprise, it's a pretty scorching single. Daniel Powter really worries me at #2 though, I dunno if I can take him and Blunt going to #1 within the same month. Is this a genuine White Guys With Pianos and Guitars takeover or what?
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
E-40 sold 93,000 not 50,000. But it still should have sold better.
― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
He's the new Connels!
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't understand how this one is so mega-successful, though. Maybe it's just because I don't have a roommate anymore to play it on guitar, but I felt like I heard Blunt all the time when it was threatening the #1, I think I've maybe heard Powter twice. Is it just me? Are other people out there feeling the Powtermania?
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
In other news, Norah Jones's band the Little Willies is a top ten country album, and there is some band called Hinder at #137 on the album chart who I never heard of. Is "Hinder" prononced with a long or short "i"? Also climbing up the Heatseekers chart are heretofore unbeknownst to me Aqualung. Do they sound anything like Jethro Tull?
― xhuxk, Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link