A Year In Pop: Week 3

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Delayed by a day or so, and I *still* haven't heard any of the new tracks, so my actual participation will be limited!

I've included the Moyesian re-entry of Billie, though you'll notice that reissues are italicised and will be included in the final year-end charts for indicative purposes (this is stats speak for 'we'll ignore them'.

[Poll #913675]

Mika is #1, if you didn't know, with Just Jack and The View #2 and #3. Where oh where is the chart full of old fogeys I was promised, eh?

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

The US version (new singles in the US top 40 this week):

Fall Out Boy - "This Isn't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
Corbin Bleu - "Push It to the Limit"
(Yup, that's all)

Bonus list of new to the US top 20 this week:
Daughtry - "It's Not Over"
Gwen Stefani ft Akon - "The Sweet Escape"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That Fall Out Boy title is awful/amazing/self-parody/genius - lord knows I never want to hear it though.

I quite like that Gwen track but come on, put out "Early Winter"! Keep Tom Keane in coke!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I shudder to admit that - having heard the song when seeing the video - I fear I could grow to enjoy FOB if I were exposed enough, although I find the band itself more offensive than I found hair metal bands when i was a teenager.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

But they're well into pop. I thought they were knobs at first but due to the exposure you mentioned, have since decided they're just Girls Aloud in a slightly different wrapper and where the ginger one actually gets allowed to sing.

[koganbot]

Interesting thing is that "Push It To The Limit" made the Top 40 with no play on the Top 40 stations and only a little Adult Contemporary play, meaning that it's doing it entirely on the basis of downloads, fueled by Radio Disney play and the Disney TV movie Jump In!. It's not a bad song, lite r&b-flavored dance pop, the sort of thing that Backstreet Boys used to do way better. Corbin's the fellow who played Zac's best friend in High School Musical.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Another interesting fact is that "Push It To The Limit" would have debuted even higher last week, in the top 10, based again entirely on digital downloads, except that a technicality prevented the downloads from counting. Fred Bronson explains it in his Chart Beat Chat (http://billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/chat.jsp) column. Basically there was a problem with the registration of the song that caused it not to be recognized by SoundScan. I kind of like the song, though it's not a top 50 single of the year or anything. It is one of the better curred Radio Diz hits. And do Radio Disney plays count towards the Hot 100? I think that they don't, maybe because it's an AM station or something, but maybe they do.

[koganbot]

Well wait, if they're not counting downloads or Disney, then how is it in the Top 40? It's not physically available as a stand-alone single, either.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Presumably the problem with the registration of the downloads was fixed between last week and this week, which allowed the downloads to be counted. The reason I think RD isn't counted is because Fred Bronson commented at the time that "Breaking Free" was #4 on the charts with literally 0 airplay points.