A New Decade In Pop: Week #30

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A blippy techno record is at #1! No, me neither, but Yolanda Be Cool and D Cup don't care. Slow week though - the highest new entry today is #20.

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Lower reaches watch: Jedward are in at #80 with their Blink 182 cover, the Mercury nominations have nudged The xx and Mumford & Sons further up into the top 100 (Laura Marling's album has jumped 82 places up) and DERE LORD "Don't Stop Believing" has been on the chart for 91 weeks :O

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[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"Double Trouble" vote = I haven't heard Lily & the Prof yet (and also want to give BOB & Hayley another go) so decision PENDING.

Also, an update on koganbot's challenge from last week. I'd say "What If" does have a strong tune, but at this tempo the song comes out a bit too Glee for my liking. Might work OK as an album cut, as a bit of filler between the bangers?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OK, "Airplanes" wins. Lily loses out by not actually singing the title (yes, I know Lindy Layton never sang the word "Dub" either but the bar needed to be raised this time). Mark Ronson is runner up - good beat and tick-worthy for that - but the song's not all that.

[koganbot]

And I wasn't around to see my challenge taken up!

In crucially important news, apparently Jason DeRulo is now Jason Derülo, with an umlaut over the u and the r lower case. I haven't done any research into this matter, but perhaps he is trying to counter the fact that no one knows how to pronounce his actual name, a problem that he can always blame on his parents, since he probably doesn't want to hold his fans accountable. (Née Jason Joel Desrouleaux, at least according to Wikip.)