Kategori: Chart Spotlight
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Will In the End Be the Next Snow Patrol Hit?
Snow Patrol has released ‘In the End’ as the latest single off the Fallen Empires set. I’ve blogged about the previous hits ‘Called Out in the Dark’ and ‘This Isn’t Everything You Are.’ Via their home page, the group confirms attendance at the Portugese summer festival Optimus Alive where The Stone Roses, Florence & The…
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Elvis Presley Goes Cher on Suspicious Minds
Elvis Presley sounds suspiciously much like Cher on the Andrew Dawson’s Can’t Walk Out Edit.
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Pink Returns with Brand New Single Bridge of Light
Pink has released a brand new track called ‘Bridge of Light.’ The single vaults into No.8 on the German singles chart this week and features Happy Feet Two Chorus. The song is the theme for the 2011 film Happy Feet 2 and is co-written by Billy Mann who previously collaborated with the likes of Celine…
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Lana Del Rey’s Video Games Connects with Germans
Hailed as ‘Best New Track’ by Pitchfork this August, ‘Video Games’ with Lana Del Ray was also featured on Gossip Girl.
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Avicii Adds a Fourth Week Atop with Levels
Swedish DJ Avicii’s ‘Levels’ remains atop the Swedish singles chart, fending off challenge from Rihanna and Calvin Harris. Building on the 1962 gospel-inspired ‘Something’s Got a Hold on Me’ by Etta James, the sample also builds the chorus of Flo Rida’s ‘Good Feeling.’
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Will Amanda Fondell Go All This Way?
Amanda Fondell may have gone all the way in the Idol final, but there weren’t enough fans out there to send ‘All This Way’ to the top. Looking at the charts stats below, the trend is unfortunately negative for the past winners.
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Rebecca Black’s Friday Tops Time’s Top 10 Viral Chart of 2011
Please take the time to check out Time’s Top 10 viral videos of 2011. Not surprisingly, the list is topped by Rebecca Black. The 13 year old singer paid the production company Ark Music Factory $4,000 to create this video.
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Dance with Me Tonight Unexpected UK No.1
Being the runner-up of X-Factor and losing the final to Joe McElderry, it seems as if Olly Murs was the successful one. Returning to No.1 with ‘Dance with Me Tonight,’ Murs has successfully placed to tracks atop of the UK singles chart.
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Snow Patrol Goes Katy Perry on Last Friday Night Cover
Oh, no they didn’t? A cover of Katy Perry’s ‘Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)’ performed by the Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol has surfaced online. Included on Perry’s hugely successful album Teenage Dream, the track was issued as a single back in June this year.
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Fools Gold Became Stone Roses’s Breakthrough Hit
CHART REWIND. Managing to sell out their comeback concerts in less than two hours, WelcheMusic revisits Stone Roses’s breakthrough. ‘Fools Gold’ was the group’s sixth single, managing to place the group on the US alternative chart. Following ‘She Bangs the Drums.’