Everything posted by Fitzswiftie
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UK Singles Chart: All Women Soloists occupy top 6, only second time ever
Taken from James Masterson Blog on the UK Charts "For now we have a quite intriguing Top 3. The blues and soul revivalism of Sienna Spiro at the top and two American neo-country stars at 2 and 3, Ella Langley and Stella Lefty lining up in order. The three preside over a Top 6 made up entirely of female solo artists (the first time this has happened since 2023), male stars accounting for precisely 25% of the credited performers in the Top 10 overall. One of the biggest gainers of the week is Adela, the trap beats of Nicole Kidman leapfrogging the track's predecessor Ain't In LA once and for all with a massive climb to No.4." Sienna Spiro Ella Langley Stella Lefty ADÈLA Dua Lipa Olivia Rodrigo The first time since happened since August 18, 2023, where it was an all female credited top eight Billie Eilish, What Was I Made For? Dua Lipa, Dance the Night Olivia Rodrigo, Vampite Taylor Swift, Cruel Summer Peggy Gou, Nanana Olivia Rodrigo, Bad Idea Right? Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice, Barbie World Becky Hill, Disconnect Additionally only the 3rd ever all women top 5, following December 18th 1998 B'Witched, To You I Belong Cher, Believe Billie Piper, She Wants You Mariah & Whitney, When You Believe Honeyz, End of the Line Mel C (with Bryan Adams), When You're Gone
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No.1 hits that feel like No.2 hits
As a representative of three unique things occurring in the Obama half of the 2010s — social media making superstars instead of labels (also applies Biebs), 2010s British Invasion (1D, Wanted, Jessie J, Ellie Goulding, Cher Lloyd, Olly Murs, Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande, Florence, Calvin, Sam Smith, Mumford etc) and the overall teen pop scene (Bieber, Wanted, Ex-Acts Trio, Austin Mahone, 5H, Little Mix, Hunter Hayes, Hot Chelle Rae, Ariana, Bridget Mendler etc) — One Direction are the perfect representation for all of those things.
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No.1 hits that feel like No.2 hits
They said on the Bluesky post that an alternate world where "No Diggity peaked at #2 for eight weeks behind Un-Break My Hearts makes as such sense as it being a number one".
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The Hollywood Reporter predicts Taylor Swift as Best Original Song frontrunner
well unreport it because only fool would predict that La Bola Negra doesn't win this award
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No.1 hits that feel like No.2 hits
Saw this post by a billboard staff member on Bluesky and got me wondering what everyone else thought applied Listened the podcast discussing it and they say that the best number twos are: • Songs by generational superstars before they reach their commercial peak (Paint It Black, You Make Me Wanna, You Belong With Me, Problem. Hotline Bling, Don't Start Now) • Critical darlings having their most commercial moment (Like a Rolling Stone, Dancing in the Dark, Work It) • Songs with weird structures compared to the rest of pop music (Bohemian Rhapsody, Love to Love You Baby, Purple Rain, Bad Romance, Take Me to Church) • Songs that represent an artist or sub-genre that is tied to a specific moment in time but were never thee most popular (ie, Creedance Clearwater Revival, En Vogue, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, One Direction, Fetty Wap, Twenty One Pilots, pre-streaming country songs like Big Named Sue, Take Me Home, How Do I Live etc) • One Hit Wonders (or artists that feel like them) (Peter Frampton, The Game
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Kelly Rowland and Sir Tom Jones duet on national television.
- Olivia Rodrigo received only two nominations at the VMAs. Why?
Because she isn't attending or performing at the ceremony. I thought we knew this by now, the folks with major noms are the ones who will show up.- Hot 100 | Final predictions (8/29/26): Texas #1 (x19), Boston #2, Loser #18
He's choosing Santa I can tell- Spotify | Benson Boone - The Time of My Life | Day 9: 535,945 streams
He needs to reheat The Killers "Day & Age" nachos imo, "Sorry I'm Here for Someone Else" is his best (hit) song and that is fully him in Brandon Flowers drag.- MORNING DEW (DONK) debuts with 1,064,523 streams on Spotify, reaches #3 on Global AM
But Nigerians on Twitter told me nobody in Africa cares for her ?- MORNING DEW (DONK) debuts with 1,064,523 streams on Spotify, reaches #3 on Global AM
Top 50 is pretty much guaranteed, it's numbers in both Apple and Spotify are similar to "Spend Dat", but "Donk" has better pure sales to make up for the airplay difference.- Robyn - "Dancing On My Own" Revival Thread
Voicemails for Isabelle using this song was a narrative mess, because in the story it's two 10 year old girls in Texas in 2010 who are huge Robyn fans. there is a absolutely know way two ten years olds in Texas in 2010 even know though Robyn is nevermind huge fans of hers.- Louis Tomlinson doesn't perform to watch football game on stage
- Songs meant for / passed on / taken by Rita Ora (Master-list)
- Songs meant for / passed on / taken by Rita Ora (Master-list)
- Name a bigger downfall than Lizzo's
- Could Beyoncé do a split?
- Is "Beauty and the Beat" the most early 2010s song?
The most early 2010s song by encapsulating all of the peak trends of the era • social media teen heartthrob • max martin assisted melody and production • club ready and drop (courtesy of DJ Zedd) • Nicki Minaj guest verse If not, then what else could be considered the most early 2010s song and perfectly incapsulates the era?- Grammys announce changes to BNA and albums, add 5 new categories
'Defying Gravity' winning Beat Pop Duo Group scared them so much they made an entire new category (Traditional Pop Performance)- Most and least streamed female Hot 100 #1s of this decade daily. Any surprises?
Sabrina's two No.1's (Please & Manchild) being country songs.- Most and least streamed female Hot 100 #1s of this decade daily. Any surprises?
This has to be playlist fodder driving this because genuine likes this.- Where does MAYHEM stand along TFM / BTW?
- who are the biggest celebrity power couples of all time?
Inspired by the newest Forbes update and browsing Wikipedia, the only romantics pair on the billionaires list are Jay-Z and Beyonce, and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Were these two the most powerful and/or biggest celebrity power couples of recent times, and is there any prior power couples on a similar scale as them?- A New Jeneration? "On The Floor" soars to #31 on Spotify WW (2.64M Streams)
The people just want dance, and love, and dance, again- Michael Cimino serves body and cake
Always been hot, the facial hair and short hair cut make him even hotter. - Olivia Rodrigo received only two nominations at the VMAs. Why?