ithinkheknowsoutsold Posted October 25 Posted October 25 On 10/23/2024 at 12:32 AM, wigglytuffer said: I just found out that Let's Get Loud didn't even chart in the UK (💀) So decided to check J.Lo's UK stats and didn't realise she had quite the impressive run in the early 2000s #1 - Love Don't Cost A Thing (Jan 2001) #3 - Play (May 2001) #3 - Ain't it Funny (Aug 2001) #4 - I'm Real (Nov 2001) #4 - Ain't It Funny Remix (Mar 2002) #3 - I'm Gonna Be Alright (Jul 2002) #3 - Jenny From The Block (Nov 2002) #2 - All I Have (Mar 2003) #11 - I'm Glad (Jun 2003) *justice for I'm Glad* #3 - Baby I Love U (Mar 2004) #1 - Get Right (Feb 2005) #6- Hold You Down (May 2005) #2 - Control Myself (May 2006) #11 - Do It Well (Oct 2007) From LDCAT to All I Have, this would surely make J.Lo the fastest female soloist to chart 8 consecutive top 5 singles in the UK right? I know it's trendy to laugh at J.Lo's singing career but this is seriously impressive considering she never toured until the Dance Again era, hopefully she'll realise there's a world outside the US when she does go on the road again and visit Europe properly On 10/23/2024 at 1:31 AM, descg said: All the popstars have that run chart in the UK in the 00's. Look Xtina, Britney, P!nk, etc... For example; Come On Over: 8 Nobody Wants to Be Lonely: 4 Lady Marmalade: 1 Dirrty: 1 Beautiful: 1 Fighter: 3 Can't Hold Us Down: 6 The Voice Within: 9 Car Wash: 4 Ain't No Other Man: 2 On 10/23/2024 at 1:37 AM, BambiStar said: Baby I Love U randomly smashing in 2004 Well the UK chart system was basically one where you would wait for your song to build airplay and pre-orders for months and then once it had enough airplay you would release the CDs and that would allow the song to get a top ten peak with like less than 10 weeks on the chart in total to get an inflated illusion of popularity. In J. Lo's case, of her 12 top ten hits in the UK zero spent even 20 weeks on the chart; Get Right was the only one to make it past 15 weeks. For Christina, only 1 out of her 12 top ten hits made it to 20 weeks. Most of their units weren't even accrued until well into the streaming era. Therefore UK peaks are rather arbitrary and not a 100% accurate barometer of a song or artist's popularity (although both artists were indeed very popular in the early 2000s due to high album sales for their albums). 1
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