A New Decade In Pop: Weeks #1 & #2

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Back by reasonably popular demand, it's the weekly chart polls! Iyaz is the UK's newest #1, and despite humming the chorus all weekend I still keep finding myself calling him 'Jason Iyaz'. If Iyaz ever does a cover of 'I'm Yours' we will be in trouble.

[Poll #1510075]

2004 decade polls will resume later this week.

Comments

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

Despite Tom in the Grauniad having called for number ones with more of a sense of event "Replay" must be one of the least eventful of number ones. Dull and seemingly assembled out of a Lego Build Your Own Club Banger Kit. Suspect marketing rather than actual public interest is the culprit here but it's #2 on Billboard so stupid public settling for the mediocre for the millionth time can't be counted out. Wiley and Alicia (3 tracks in the Top 40! Go girl!) are the only other ones here which merit ticks.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes why did they not listen eh.

It's alright I suppose, forgotten how it goes already. It's done 110k copies according to THE OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY TWITTER FEED - no idea whether that's a groundswell of support or submission to inescapability.

The only thing about Ellie Goulding that intrigued me is the word "folktronica" completing its journey from the corners of Momus' imagination to top of the BBC Sound Of X list. I still can't read it without thinking of TOOG.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The Replay/Riverside "battle" did seem to have an element of for-gods-sake-givvus-summat-anythin-new-plz-thx to it. So props to their record companies for good marketing during December, when they were the only new things on rotation on e.g. CapitalFM.

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention that Sidney Samson was also worth ticking; fine wobbly dancey stuff which would have been an immensely better successor to "Bad Romance."

So where will the year's big "hauntology" commercial breakthrough appear or was Mad Florence it?

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

Iyaz is already 2010's Boris Gardiner.