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

[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.