A Year In Pop: 19

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Straight in at No.1 - it's McFly!

No.5 for Scooch, slightly astonishingly.

Over to you.

[Poll #985036]

Last week's poll received sadly sparse tickage, I think.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

McFly's continued popularity is very interesting! Because in all the various discussions of traditional teenpop's current popularity, we've been kind of assuming that the audience for this kind of band (non-credible, basically; not rock enough to be rock even in comparison to eg Avril, despite the real instruments) is dead. Begs the question - if McFly still clearly have a young school-age audience, why don't [insert pop acts X/Y/Z here].

Don't like either song though, I can appreciate what they're doing on 'Transylvania' but the song reminds me too much of Queen (ugh).

The Booty Luv is OK, the rest are inconsequential and I will rise above them.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oooh the new R Kelly is lurking just outside the top 40 - that is BRILLIANT. (I mean 'I'm A Flirt' not 'Same Girl', bloody time lag.)

Haha CSS also new into top 75, why is the British public so SLOW to KEEP UP.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I'm going to have to poll CSS aren't I? I think I might rule it ineligible (AND THE GOSSIP RETROACTIVELY). Terrific song but it's already won about 10 poptimist polls.

"I'm A Flirt" is grebt - thought it was someone ft. R Kelly tho.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They're both proper official re-releases though, not random re-entries, neither of which had been in the top 40 before! Though whereas other songs prob don't get ticks because people haven't heard them yet (at times I think even poptimists live under rocks) I can't imagine this problem would afflict The Gossip or CSS.

Orig 'I'm A Flirt' was Bow Wow ft R Kelly - I have not heard this, I think it was released late last year in the US to promote the Bow Wow album, but not in the UK. The rmx is R Kelly ft TI & T-Pain, that was released in the US this year as the lead from the R Kelly album and has been combined with the Bow Wow original over there, and is the version at No 44 here. CONFUSION REIGNS.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

if McFly still clearly have a young school-age audience, why don't [insert pop acts X/Y/Z here]

Because the drummer is well fit? Mmmm, Drummer McFly...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

He is. But I prefer Dougie.

I also LOVE that a major part of their marketing strategy these days is getting nekkid at every conceivable opportunity.

[koganbot]

Does anyone know if there's been any attempt to break McFly in the U.S.? There seems a need. (The totally so-what B5 seem to have faded, and the somewhat better than so-what Jonas Brothers are somewhat better than so-what, but still kinda so-what.)

[maura.livejournal.com]

they were featured in the lindsay lohan vehicle 'just my luck' -- one of the characters (i think he was the romantic interest, although i didn't watch the whole thing) was their manager.