A New Decade In Pop: Week #12

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Gaga and Beyoncé's video epic has done the trick: 'Telephone' climbs up to #1 and The Fame gets the top album spot. Otherwise a quiet week, especially for poor old Goldfrapp (down to #76 already, yikes).

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[koganbot]

The UK chart is surprisingly good this week, one of the few weeks recently when it can hold its own with the U.S. Here's Billboard's top ten:

1. Rude Boy - Rihanna
2. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
3. Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz ft. Ludacris
4. Imma Be - The Black Eyed Peas
5. Nothin' On You - B.o.B ft. Bruno Mars
6. Hey, Soul Sister - Train
7. BedRock - Young Money ft. Lloyd
8. TiK ToK - Ke$ha
9. Telephone - Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé
10. In My Head - Jason Derulo

"Hey, Soul Sister" is easily the worst on either chart, and I'd say that of the best the Dizzee and the Tinie can compete with the Ke$ha and the Lady Antebellum (well, I'd definitely give the edge to the American two, but the Dizzee and the Tinie are at least in the same league; "Telephone" is on both lists so cancels itself out of the comparison; is a good song but I find the vocals too dogged, definitely prefer "Need You Now" and "TiK ToK" and "You Got The Dirtee Love," probably in that order). "BedRock" is really mediocre for a hip-hop hit. I do like "Nothin' On You"; rather sweet.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also sad that 'Imma Be' isn't at least somewhere in the UK top 100 (three other Peas songs are), it's much better than Rock That Body but according to comparemyradio (http://comparemyradio.com/artists/Black_Eyed_Peas/tracks) it's only getting about half the airplay over here :(

[koganbot]

Comparing the two charts I see that I ticked 6 out of 10 in America and 7 out of 10 in Britain (and probably should have ticked 8 or 9, but was feeling not in the mood for "Starry Eyed" that day, and Alicia fell just south of my borderline). My non-ticks were DeRulo on both charts; Cruz, Train, and Young Money in America; and Goulding and Keys in the U.K.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask you about Lady Antebellum. Heard her for the first time on the radio on Saturday and thought she sounded OK - a slightly more orthodox-country version of Taylor.

[koganbot]

Which Lady Antebellum track did you hear? They're up to their second album and have had a slew of hits here already. When I first heard them I thought "Air Supply" but with enough of a country tinge to be country, also something of a Fleetwood tinge, though not nearly as much of either as Little Big Town has (click the Little Big Town link and we'll see if you think of the same song I do). Best Lady Antebellum song by far* is "Need You Now"; Hillary Scott's got something of a Taylor quaver, but the melodies are more solidly adult California contemporary (not that this is a chasm of difference). Best track on the first Lady Antebellum album is "All We'd Ever Need" which is even more not traditional country than "Need You Now" but to my mind is solidly country anyway, there being about forty years of this sort of country MOR mixture that Xhuxk would know about far more than I would.

*Haven't heard much of their second album, so perhaps it's got further greatness beyond "Need You Now," but Xhuxk is meh towards it so far. Lady Antebellum's most recent single, "American Honey," has a strong enough Anglo-American "folk" feel to establish its country bona fides, and has a nice little tune, but doesn't break through for me. I write about it a bit on my lj.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

That "Need You Now" link doesn't seem to work for me Frank, I assume because of a UK/US thing possibly?

[koganbot]

Possibly is a UK/US thing; it's YouTube. See if this MySpace link works?

Who killed bembi?

[koganbot]

By the way, all the lyric sites say that the first line is "Picture perfect memories, scattered all around the floor," but what she's saying doesn't sound like "memories." It sounds like two syllables beginning with a b, "picture perfect bembies," which doesn't make any sense, and but it still is what I'm hearing, not "memories."

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

According to the Radio 2 website, it was "Need You Now" and "American Honey" I heard.