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Chart round-up: who is buying Mika singles, and can they stop, please?

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by Mike Diver

Today, nothing is sure in the world of the singles chart. No longer will the winner of Reality Show X be guaranteed a number one with just three days’ sales behind ‘em, not now that some old song from 1845, or some other year before mp3s, can theoretically prevent Mickey Bland Eyes from claiming the top spot. Oh no sir: it’s all change at the top this year.

But not this week: Leona Lewis remains at number one even though some rubbish poo-face called Mika (don't look into his eyes!) has been tipped into 2010 by the sound-alikes at Music Week and beyond. ‘A Moment Like This’ outsells Eric Prydz vs Floyd’s ‘Proper Education’ (really, really bad), which in turn outsells ‘Grace Kelly’ (so bad the world's really surplus simply isn't big enough to accurately emphasise its shite-ness).

A place below We Shall No Longer Speak His Name is Just Jack, whose ‘Stars’ exceeds all expectations by landing at four. Well done, Just Jack: your song’s too boring to even be regarded as shite, but considering what’s above and beneath it, it’s probably the best damn thing in the top ten. At five is Take That’s ‘Patience’, at six JoJo’s ‘Too Little Too Late’, at seven Booty Luv with… oh, you don’t care.

Interesting, to some, new entries: The View’s ‘Same Jeans’ is at 11 (review); Klaxons‘Golden Skans’ makes 16 (review); and Koopa’s rubbish but they’re unsigned so it’s okay ‘Blag Steal & Borrow’ makes 31. Well done, rubbish unsigned boys. You’re shit, but unsigned, so it’s cool, ‘cause you’re socking it to The Man, with your shitty pop-punk, but it’s cool ‘cause you’re unsigned, and you’re stuffing those contracts up The Man’s arse, and…

Jamie T’s ‘Calm Down Dearest’ (review) is at 40, on downloads; The Cooper Temple Clause make 41 with ‘Waiting Game’ (review); and Lynyrd Skynyrd are at 61 with ‘Sweet Home Alabama’. Mental.

Albums: Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ goes to one, while last week’s top-seller, Take That’s Beautiful World, falls to four. Below Miss Winehouse – snort – are James Morrision, Snow Patrol, Take That and The Fratellis, in that order. The Fratellis? Who the shit is buying that shit, still?!

The only new entry in the top 40 is Kylie Minogue’s live album, Showgirl – Homecoming Live. We’ve a copy here. We’ve not played it yet. Sorry. At 50 is Gruff Rhys with Candylion, his second solo record, and Nas’s Hip Hop Is Dead is at 71. Which implies, rather, that it isn’t.

Quite. Some other records are available, some of which are in the charts. But the charts don’t mean a damn now, right?


Lynyrd Skynyrd

and so it begins. :-D


i really dont like

any of this


I've always been a champion of the charts

or even a 'chart champion' but now it all seems wrong. Sunday nights gathered around the radio between 5 and 7 just isn't that same as it used to be.

Can I go now?


i think its really bad

ive never i tunes or any other sort of site to buy online.

i think this has ruined for how i thought of music as art and sellable art.
not the chart change just the sale of downloads in general.
:(


On a positive note..

Amy Winehouse is OK by me.


i think thats

the best article i've read on DiS yet.

classic


what has

their dad got to do with anything?!


I like how Jamie T's "Calm Down Dearest"

appears right after Diver's anti-Koopa rant


yeah thats the best bit

"and Koopa’s rubbish but they’re unsigned so it’s okay ‘Blag Steal & Borrow’ makes 31. Well done, rubbish unsigned boys. You’re shit, but unsigned, so it’s cool, ‘cause you’re socking it to The Man, with your shitty pop-punk, but it’s cool ‘cause you’re unsigned, and you’re stuffing those contracts up The Man’s arse,"


logicalmike-he's not mad

so, it appears that I am not mad..mika..what is that all about, why the hysterical screaming, why?..is it because his single has not got a real, genuine hook, you know a chorus,or is he just looking forward to meeting elton bloody john. But boys and girls, I have written a song about Grace Kelly, and all I can say I am looking forward to the comparison..kick against the pricks and burn like a candle with a wire wick and be just like Bill Hicks,
I dream of this and more, especially when I open my front door..


"I have written a song about Grace Kelly"

is the first line:
"the cut-rate mime walking through the dirty streets..."


nah...

it is because he is the first attractive clebrity gay man since Rufus Wainwright. All mny gays love him. All the other celebrity gays are mingers innit?


what

the fuck?

it'll all end in tears...


diver roolz tha roost

to use just jack's stylingz.


Mikka

Mika is a born genius and the most beautiful man on the face of the earth. GET BUYING THOSE MIKA SINGLES EVERYONE!!!
Sarah