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Post by TheThorne on Jan 26, 2014 23:43:17 GMT 1
Only two songs in this batch that I charted and I don't really remember them especially Texas
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 27, 2014 0:14:04 GMT 1
from the last group I thought you'd remember Shout Out Louds.
Of the others, Sonic Boom Six have been my most successful act in the last 2 years and have another one higher placed. Flipron had a #1 in my chart in 2008 with Book Of Lies and Magic Theatre are former members of Ooberman, as well as having had hits on this chart before in their new guise. (Silent Snow being their first).
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 27, 2014 7:34:26 GMT 1
Yeh Shout out Louds is the other one but forgotten the song already
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 29, 2014 22:14:33 GMT 1
**69 Papers In The Park - Picture House 68 I Just Couldn't Eat As Much (As I'd Like To Throw Up) - Rotifer 67 Brand New Day - Kodaline 66 Diane Young - Vampire Weekend 65 The Broadwalk - Lizzie And The Yes Men 64 Emigrate - Sir Reg 63 Up To My Neck In A Hex - Penny Black Remedy 62 The Spirit of Bradford City - Simon Crabtree 61 Grimfinga - Breadchasers 60 Live Your Life - Mika *59 The Ballad of Mad Dog Coll - Rory & The Island
Picture House moves to #28 adding in the first 4 weeks of 2014. Rory & The Island had one week in 2012 which moves them to #50
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 30, 2014 8:22:36 GMT 1
Three I know here best by far is Vampire Weekend but it is a very crazy song for a lead single still surprises me when I hear it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 1, 2014 20:38:10 GMT 1
58 Let's Be Young - Evan McHugh 57 Don't Forget Who You Are - Miles Kane 56 Life Goes On - Villas 55 Delicate Cycle - Uncluded 54 Katy Don't Worry - Nevertones 53 Friday Night Don't Ever Let It End - Spector 52 Only One You Care About - BellaMaine 51 Ruby Sol - Mobbs 50 Friends And Enemies - Freedom Fry 49 The Dan Kelly Song - Hey Geronimo
We're now just inside the top 50. I think a lot of people here will know the Miles Kane song, and some more will know Spector. Freedom Fry are former Hidden Indie Treasures winners, and Spector have also appeared in the contest.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2014 19:19:24 GMT 1
**48 The Girl Who Likes Me - Hey Geronimo 47 Will I Learn - Pukes 46 Lighthouse - Lucy Spraggan 45 Generally...She's Fine - Stereo Electric Mistress **44 Let Me Go - Gary Barlow 43 Ain't Made To Measure - Soho Hobo Feat. Phil Daniels 42 Here's To Us - Halestorm 41 Mary Jane - Goodbye Moneypenny
** Hey Geronimo "The Girls Who Likes Me" spent one more week in the chart in 2014 at #68 which moves it up just 2 places to #46. That one and The Dan Kelly Song both peaked at #4. They have one higher placed too.
** Gary Barlow's "Let Me Go" spent 3 more weeks in the chart in 2014 (26,53,97) having peaked at #3. It still "only" climbs as high as #37. It is his first significant solo hit since "Open Road" in 1997 but of course in between he did make a comeback with Take That with two #3 hits in the later run, as well as having a hit duet with Robbie Williams which peaked at #2 and co-wrote his #1 hit "Candy".
Soho Hobo is the new recording name for Tim Arnold who previously had hits under his own name, but as The Soho Hobo also had a #1 hit in 2013 with "Little London Lou". Phil Daniels's previous hit was also as a featured artist, that being on Blur's "Parklife" which also reached #1 in 1994.
Lucy Spraggan's "Lighthouse" peaked at #3, but we know she has gone on to have a #1. Halestrom's "Here To Us" reminds me a fair bit of Terra Naomi's #1 hit "Up Here", and both contain the F-word. As is often the case, Halestrom date further back but I was unaware of them prior to their hit.
I know who the Pukes are, and know one of their members very well.
Others like Goodbye Moneypenny - if they can make a song as good as this how come I never hear any more of them? Yes, I know it is hard now perhaps to make a living but also releasing music is relatively low-cost and my charts now contain far too many one-hit wonders.
(Stereo Electric Mistress are showing up with 2 previous singles but having listened to them they're not that good).
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 2, 2014 19:35:23 GMT 1
Halestorm have had a few minor hits in my chart and this one would have done better but the swearing put me off tbh, it was a bit much and spoilt the song, as they sound great a modern Heart or a heavier Paramore.
Obviously I know Gary B and Lucy Spraggan both are songs that I playlisted for a week but were removed, heard Gary enough on TV/radio anyway without me playing it as well.
Your chart may have more one hit wonders but that isn't suprising when so many more established acts struggle to make your charts, you may have charted them when they were unknown but 4-5 years later you don't even playlist a lot of them, I know their are exceptions but generally more than half my list are returning acts where yours is about 20%.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2014 19:57:52 GMT 1
Much of what you chart I listen to and don't like. I am far more into "catchy indie pop", songs I can remember and sing along to. A lot of music has "the sound" but I can't find a clear hook or melody in it.
I hear too much of Gary B now as Carol likes to listen to her boring radio stations and they play it all the time. She does listen to my chart too so gets exposed to other music too.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 2, 2014 20:57:20 GMT 1
What about Vance joy - Riptide if that isn't catchy singalong indie pop I don't know what is and it even has ukulele in it but you didn't chart it all. Top 10 in my chart and the national chart and top 10 in many other personal charts.when you were struggling to make a playlist
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 3, 2014 7:18:48 GMT 1
"what about...." where do I find those songs??? What website gives the list?
I spend painful hours on a Monday trying to put together a playlist and there is no site I find that really gives me what I am looking for.
Looking at my spreadsheet, Vance Joy did not have anything on it in the second half of 2013.
It was like that back in the days of CDs too sometimes. If an artist released something and it didn't make it to a new releases website or onto the "new releases" section in th shop but just into the A-Z section there was no way I was likely to find it.
Incidentally I have never heard of Vance Joy. I have heard of Foy Vance.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 3, 2014 7:36:05 GMT 1
It is in the top 20 of the official chart hardly hidden snd was on iTunes. Top 100 since new year. When a dong like that is literally under your nose. It shouldn't matter if you didn't list it the week it came out don't think I did either. I know about the new release rack thing but this us different it actually somehow without getting a big push became a massive surprise hit and it is just the sort of song you like.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 3, 2014 7:47:04 GMT 1
And anywSy we are all new release racks me, Daz, frag , Sim , DarkStar. You , I try to listen to as many songs I haven't play listed from you guys some don't get enough attention but that's the way things are,
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 3, 2014 11:55:02 GMT 1
I haven't seen it in the UK chart, I see is as a release from April 2013, not just now. It must have got later promotion some months after release if it only just charted.
And even back in those days singles I had wanted used to enter the UK top 40 and I hadn't seen them.
Today I am going to have to compile a new playlist again and am very open to suggestions. By the way I always check iTunes "new releases". In the past few weeks they have added hardly anything and they are totally useless with regards to that, they only show their "featured" ones and you have to select every time if you want by release date rather than popularity, and then they are very likely to miss out something major. Suzanne Vega wasn't listed there nor on several of my other sites. It was on ManicK's I think which is where I found it for my playlist or I'd have missed that too, and it got to #4 in my chart, I think a bigger hit than Tom's Diner and only behind Luka as her biggest hit.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 3, 2014 13:15:20 GMT 1
Suzanne Vega was on my list and had been her biggest hit for me in years but still didn't make my top 75 and nothing will ever beat Luka one of the best songs of all time . 'Riptide' reached 10 last week in the uk charts and I think it was released around Xmastime as a single but why should that matter , you have charted songs months after they were released before , if it is new to you its new and it is what you want quality pop in the charts and it has been there the last few weeks, honestly make an effort to hear the new entries I know some are obviously songs you won't like but the top 40 can throw up surprises sometimes. It has a great video as well.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 3, 2014 13:18:57 GMT 1
iTunes is rubbish i used Spotify sites for 90% of my release finding I even steal from other random peoples playlists as people do this all over the world we are all hunting for new music as record companies can't get there act together and make it easy for us.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 3, 2014 15:37:45 GMT 1
I note it is even #2 in the combi-chart now. I would normally have expected that I'd have given it a listen. I gave it a listen, and whilst I don't think it would get anywhere near #1 in my chart I would have expected it to reach my playlist at least and possibly chart, especially in the weeks immediately after Christmas when my playlist was very small.
This is my chart of the year topic, it would be better to have this conversation in my weekly chart topic, and I will be posting a new one soon as I have compiled the first chart of February. I will possibly indicate which of my new entries in that chart are making their debut and which have charted before. I feel I have to pick the best songs, but would ideally like to see no more than about 1 in 4 of my entries be a debut.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 3, 2014 18:16:23 GMT 1
I know this hijacked the thread but let's end at Vancr Joy is 100 times better than Gary Barlow and that was just one example I found
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 5, 2014 23:14:21 GMT 1
I'm slacking. Time f or some more chart positions. We are now inside the top 40:
**40 Love On Christmas Eve - Tich 39 Tripis - Porretas *38 A Home For The Brave / A Legend Of A Legend - Neo Retros 37 Everybody Knows (I'm Still In Love With You) - Yearning 36 It Starts And Ends With You - Suede 35 High Hopes - Kodaline 34 What A Night - Loveable Rogues
**Tich spent the final 3 weeks in the chart all of them at #1. 5 weeks in 2014, and although I credited "When It Was Beautiful" this counts as a single hit, and moves it to #11 in the chart. The run of "When It Was Beautiful" alone is sufficient to have got it onto this list and next year it may well come up like the Dropkick Murphys did this year. There's more of Tich to come but she is the woman in my profile/avatar picture.
* One week at #18 in 2012 only pushes the Neo Retros up 2 places to 36.
Tripis appeared in LingoVision and is a ska song performed in Spanish.
Neo Retros are Polish and have had an NM #1 (We're So Glad You Came) and a #2 (Billy And His Gun) and the double-A side above peaked at #3. All 4 songs sound different, the double-A side features a female singer and A Legend Of A Legend is medium-paced twee-sounding (a bit like the one immediately above it on the list here) while A Home For The Brave sounds more like Goldfrapp.
The hit by the Yearning was a big entry just before the 3 weeks and then failed to climb past #3. I think having Boy Least Likely To at #1 when it entered also had an effect so there wouldn't be two Twee-pop songs at #1 and #2 and Duckworth Lewis Method remained between them at #2. It's the kind of thing I can't understand why everyone doesn't love? The sort of thing I'd enter into HIT or Havenvision and be disappointed when it finished in the bottom half with several voters giving it nothing.
I'm not sure I really need to say who Suede, Kodaline or Loveable Rogues are. This was Suede's join biggest hit in my chart, they had several hits peak around #3 and #4 during britpop but never got any higher. It's good Kodaline have found some UK chart success when bands like this are constantly overlooked now.
Loveable Rogues seem to remain one-hit wonders for now, and they were on BGT but I'm not sure I watched that episode. I first came across them in the Jubilee gig at Hyde Park, headlined by the Jive Aces, and where I also first came across Tich.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 6, 2014 22:58:16 GMT 1
6 more:
33 Sweeping Out The Dust - Keeira Lyn Ford 32 Pink Eye - Tiger Room 31 Tina Weymouth - This Many Boyfriends 30 Tightrope - Walk The Moon 29 On No! - Wonder Stuff 28 Show Me The Wonder - Manic Street Preachers
Keeira Lyn Ford is one of the many country singers that now work their way into this chart, especially as Milliways was co-compiling my playlists last year and he seemed to like them enough to find them and add them even if he often didn't chart them later.
Tiger Room are one those retro-style rock & roll bands and come from the USA. This song spent one week at #2.
This Many Boyfriends are a British indie band whose sound is a bit like a cross between the Smiths and the Cure. The song is about a fanhood of Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads, and the kind of things fans do. This band have had 3 hits and this so far was their biggest. It entered as the highest new entry on its week and looked like a potential #1. Peaked only at #4 but spent more weeks in the top 5 than many of those around it so appears above a #2 and several #3s.
Walk The Moon are clearly not one-hit wonders with the follow-up to Anna Sun reaching #2. Anna Sun came 2nd in HIT originally then won the "champion of champions" edition, the only time I have ever won one of those. I also came 2nd in the Havenvision "champion of champions" edition having also come 2nd with the same song.
And then we get to two bands from the early 90s period. Well the Wonder Stuff had their first hits in 1989 and actually this one peaked higher than "A Size Of A Cow" but that song was competing with "Sit Down" and peaked at #4 behind that and two other (probably Cowboys & Angels and Promise Me or possibly The Whole Of The Moon, and on the subject of the Waterboys, you lot do know they did the original of "How Long Will I Love You"). So anyway that means that the Wonder Stuff had their first hits when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister and they probably are not that fond of her but her death prevented them getting to #1 as that Hefner song entered at #1 the week they climbed to #2.
And then we come to the Manic Street Preachers, who may not be as consistently good as they were in the 1990s but come still come up with the occasional great song, and this one wouldn't have been out of place among their peak days. It did fall just short of #1, a position they have achieved on my chart 3 times, and as with some of the other #2s, it probably was good enough to be a #1, just didn't quite happen.
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