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Yoshifan823 posted:are you me? aBagorn posted:Maybe? Are you both me?! I've been vocal about my love of Emotion in this thread and I actually started a thread over in PYF just to talk about Hamilton. It is billed as a hiphop musical but I think the Hamilton soundtrack has a lot of pop elements that would make it a treat for some posters in this thread as well.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Something which I believe is pretty unusual nowadays happened in the British music charts this week - the new Elvis Presley album (some of his hits re-recorded with new backing from the Royal Philharmonic) stayed at number one... and increased its sales. That doesn't often happen these days, does it? I believe people were saying it was going to be between the new Little Mix and Ellie Goulding albums, which are at two and three, respectively. The British pop charts are loving weird. The number-one single of 1972 was Amazing Grace as played by the British Army bagpipe corps.
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Are weird charity tracks and christmas novelties and stuff not a thing other countries have?
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bowser posted:Are you both me?! I've been vocal about my love of Emotion in this thread and I actually started a thread over in PYF just to talk about Hamilton. Thanks for the link, I am going to be posting SO HARD in there (big Musical dude here). For thread context (though I will agree that Hamilton is a really good pop album, as well as a really good hip hop album, AND a really good musical album), I'll have to agree with some of the recent posters in that EMOTION is overall a better album than Purpose. The Biebs undoubtedly has the better singles, but the rest of the album is just OK. Reminds me a lot of 1989 in that way.
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ninjahedgehog posted:The British pop charts are loving weird. The number-one single of 1972 was Amazing Grace as played by the British Army bagpipe corps. This song was once the #2 hit single in Britain
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ninjahedgehog posted:The British pop charts are loving weird. The number-one single of 1972 was Amazing Grace as played by the British Army bagpipe corps. It's because it's a much smaller market - traditionally, a song has to have very broad appeal to succeed in America because the audience is so much larger. That's changed thanks to YouTube, Spotify, iTunes and so on, and probably general trends relating to globalisation as well, and in the past five years or so it's started to have occasional impacts on the Billboard charts since they changed their formula to incorporate streaming, which particularly benefits songs which are popularly parodied (cf. "Gangnam Style", "Harlem Shuffle", "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)", to some extent "Call Me Maybe" in the sense that it was so widely parodied and homaged). There were novelty hits in America in the past ("Convoy", "Disco Duck" etc.) but those were piggybacking on broader trends or fads. I suppose a comparison with the British habit of sending popular ringtones and children's TV theme tunes up to top of the charts would be if "The Super Bowl Shuffle" or "The WrestleRock Rumble" had been massive multi-week number-one hits in the mid-1980s.
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Say what you will about the British pop charts being really weird, they allowed the superior a-ha song to get to #1 (Sun Always Shines On TV, duh). I'm OK with Take On Me, but it's been affected by the years of overplay. See also: Dexy's Midnight Runners and Come On Eileen. However, if you want to talk about weird charts, take a gander at the New Zealand charts. Did either the UK or the USA allow Joy Division to get to #1? I think not, although both NZ and the UK allowed a Killing Joke song (Love Like Blood) into the top 10 / 20 (respectively).
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That song is legitimately good
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 Christmas will officially begin with this Wham! cover on Friday.
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Great, one of the worst Christmas songs of the past 30 years.
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Mischalaniouse posted:Great, one of the worst Christmas songs of the past 30 years. I feel like Last Christmas is covered way more than it has any right to be. Come on pop artists, give me some Wonderful Christmastime or something!
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aBagorn posted:Come on pop artists, give me some Wonderful Christmastime or something!  I would love this. I agree, too many artists cover this. Jimmy Eat World's is probably my favorite in this trash heap of poo poo.
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Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) would've been a much better choice.
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The only Christmas single we'll ever need. 
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GIVE IT TO ME ADELE BABY GIVE IT TO ME
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Nov 20, 2015 04:47
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7 MINUTES LETS GOOOOO
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Listening to the new Adele Stand out tracks so far- I Miss You- GODDAMN. That intro is everything. When We Were Young - Amazing. River Lea - seems like the albums "Set fire to the rain" Edit: No but seriously. I Miss You is FANTASTIC.  I hope its a single and we get an amazing video. Deserves an era.
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My brain started flowing into Royals during Send My Love and now I can't unhear it.
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Big Dick Bieber just burned down the AMAs
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PUGGERNAUT posted:Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) would've been a much better choice. Well, considering it's the only good christmas song in existence...yeah.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Well, considering it's the only good christmas song in existence...yeah. Christmas Wrapping would like a word with you.
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We don't really discuss sales in this thread, but it's a pretty huge occasion when Adele breaks N Syncs record of 2.3 million copies of an album sold in a week (US sales) It's even crazier that she broke the record in THREE DAYS. In this day and age where sales are in the pits, she effortlessly annihilates the record. Good god. Congrats. As far as the album itself, I've been listening to it nonstop but it's not really grabbing me. Aside from hello, I miss you, and all I ask everything seems like filler to me. It has a very "this has been done before and better (by her even)" vibe to it. It's not bad by any means, but I don't think it will leave a mark in pop history (aside from sales), the tracks are pretty forgettable.
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She crossed over into adult contemporary a long time ago, took a seat next to Celine Dion and Ben Folds.
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somnambulist posted:It's even crazier that she broke the record in THREE DAYS. In this day and age where sales are in the pits, she effortlessly annihilates the record. Good god. It'll probably break the record for biggest second-week drop, too. (Who has that at the minute? I think for a number-one album it's either Lady Gaga with Born This Way or Madonna with MDNA in terms of percentage drop in sales, though in terms of chart position it's an Incubus album or something.)
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Wheat Loaf posted:It'll probably break the record for biggest second-week drop, too. I.....dunno honestly. She's going into Black Friday, everyone and their mom (quite literally) will be snagging the album. I wouldn't doubt for a second if she sells 1M+ second week. The "record" for biggest second week drop is MDNA I believe.
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Adele is boring and rolling in the deep was her only good song. ty and god bless
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Adele is boring and rolling in the deep was her only good song. ty and god bless
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Someone Like You was her best song you crazy bastard
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somnambulist posted:We don't really discuss sales in this thread, but it's a pretty huge occasion when Adele breaks N Syncs record of 2.3 million copies of an album sold in a week (US sales) This is what happens when you don't allow any streaming of your album. Expect more artists to follow suit with Spotify/Apple Music/whatever getting albums weeks to months after release
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this is still the only interesting adele song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjiswvTXdzA I remember hearing this back when I listened to Radio 1 pretty often, before the original had really broken in America, and nothing else has lived up to it  Jamie XX should produce or remix more pop stars with a good voice but boring songwriting
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DjMT-qR9g This is still, by far, my favorite Adele song.
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I'm sure I've posted it in the drum & bass thread before, but this is one of my favorite Adele songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqR3J2B09DE
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Stalins Moustache posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DjMT-qR9g You know, I was going to say that Adele sux, but I didn't realize that she did this. She's still super boring.
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As far as white British women singing soul music go (Julie Driscoll and Amy Winehouse being at the top), I'd rank Adele maybe above Lisa Stansfield but below Alison Moyet. 
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I too have a favorite Adele song. Also yeah 25 is pretty boring but I don't think anyone had high expectations for it, especially after "Hello" was released and it was quickly relegated to song-meme territory next to "Hotline Bling."
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Hotline bling owns sorry retard
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abraham linksys posted:this is still the only interesting adele song Gotta say...it all sounds like leftover weird unaffiliated poo poo mashed together on an ipad. He literally lifted the clap rhythm off the Gil Scott Heron album.
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:Hotline bling owns sorry retard
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I think set fire to the rain is my favorite Adele song. It is so damned catchy and fun to belt out in the car when no one is looking 
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:Hotline bling owns sorry retard
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