The Friday Canon: DESTINY'S CHILD PLUS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

DC must rank as one of the most tumultuous groups in recent pop history! All you need to know about ver Child is that

Beyonce was in charge

Except her dad was really

They need no further introduction from me though I feel I must point out that their wikipedia entry is flagged as containing "weasel words", whatever those might be. To bump up the tick factor for today's canon I've included all the UK solo singles as well. You get NINE picks over the 29 songs below.

[Poll #923828]

Comments

Re: SO HARD

[koganbot]

Well, this is why you have to get a formula, rather than choose one over the other, but in the U.S. basically no one was buying singles physical singles after the mid '80s except teen girls buying pop hits on cassingles, dance fans buying 12-inches, and indie boys buying indie. So you'd get labels releasing singles but barely making them available, and withdrawing them as soon as the album came out (this would make the songs eligible for the chart, but basically only being used to promo albums). Of course, the problem with airplay is that it skews towards "desirable" consumers, those spending a lot on leisure goods that radios advertise, so 18 to 34 year olds who are not poor get disproportionate attention. But no, I don't think physical singles are a good matchup at all, though downloads makes it better.