Chart Discussion

[Teal Ambition 47,805]

 Never thought Louis would do better than Liam

[Thrasher 22,980]

40 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

The EDM boom was inevitable. Dance music had been dead for nearly 2 decades, and pop music was already becoming very electronic and dancey by 2007/2008 (eg Janet Jackson’s Discipline, Kylie Minogue’s X or Britney’s Blackout album).

So retrospectively we can see how Gaga - as a new artist unaffiliated with any previous genres - by having her first two songs (both of which very synth and club heavy) hit number 1 she got credited with leading that fusion of pop with dance/electronic music that had virtually disappeared in the US charts since the mid 90s. Macarena was prob the last massive dance song in the US until Just Dance in 2008.

So she wasn’t the only one, but because she was brand new, mysterious and super massive she sort of became the poster girl for what would be coined “EDM” by rock magazines like Rolling Stone in 2010-2011, which essentially was just a fusion of underground dance and mainstream pop made into a 3-4 minute radio format. Even though ironically by 2010, just as EDM was taking off Gaga had already moved on to 80s rock for her next album, what would become Born This Way.

True EDM however (before the term was created) was stuff like Eric Prydz, Deadmau5 and Bodyrox from the 2000s, and was very underground and as far away from pop as you could get. It was anti-pop, with tracks that were 8-11 minutes long and mainly remixes of indie rock songs from bands like The Killers, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem. 

But as music festivals got more and more popular, these DJs switched from remixing obscure indie rock songs to hip hop songs, so much so that by 2008 the underground was spilling over into the masses. Kanye collabed with Daft Punk in 2007. By 2009 Akon and Kelly Rowland were doing collabs with David Guetta. By 2011-2013 EDM was peaking in radio success with many hip-hop/EDM crossover songs becoming successful, and then by 2014 all the subgenres like trap, tropical, deep house, dubstep were starting to fracture EDM as a singular entity.

Oh how time flies...

Thanks for this, it's very accurate! Yeah, Gaga's rise surely helped the industry to spread and blend the genre into a mainstream scenario, but the genre itself (and its sub-genres) had a strong tradition going on in clubs, festivals etc. for years and generations (and I say this as a regular of techno, trance and house clubs/gigs in my country). 

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

3 minutes ago, Thrasher said:

Thanks for this, it's very accurate! Yeah, Gaga's rise surely helped the industry to spread and blend the genre into a mainstream scenario, but the genre itself (and its sub-genres) had a strong tradition going on in clubs, festivals etc. for years and generations (and I say this as a regular of techno, trance and house clubs/gigs in my country). 

You’re welcome  Oh me too, I started going to clubs as an underage kid in the mid 2000s when trance music, techno and electro was so good and people were pure and didn’t give a f*ck about charts or selfies.

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33 minutes ago, Teal Ambition said:

 Never thought Louis would do better than Liam

 

ITS CALLED Talent !!!! 

Spoiler

Stream Bow down by beyonce 😂

 

[Thrasher 22,980]

10 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

You’re welcome  Oh me too, I started going to clubs as an underage kid in the mid 2000s when trance music, techno and electro was so good and people were pure and didn’t give a f*ck about charts or selfies.

I started later because of age issues but my main club (~20 minutes away from me) is like the temple of dance music in my country (currently closed but they're working for its relaunch), I'm so embittered for missing the 90s and the 00s there, which my sister fully enjoyed instead 

[corvus albus 38,031]

Remember that Joanne got back to #2 after the HTS

[ViviLittleM 3]

my wiiiig

 

[PanPikus 9,879]

4 minutes ago, corvus albus said:

Remember that Joanne got back to #2 after the HTS

Because it was her most recent album, with current single promoted.

BUUUUT

TF(M) re-entered at #4 + BTW at #29.

So yeah, she did THAT

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

23 minutes ago, Thrasher said:

I started later because of age issues but my main club (~20 minutes away from me) is like the temple of dance music in my country (currently closed but they're working for its relaunch), I'm so embittered for missing the 90s and the 00s there, which my sister fully enjoyed instead 

I feel you sis. When i was a kid in the 90s I was only listening to top 40 radio, which I enjoyed at the time but don’t listen to anymore. But then in my teens in the 2000s I discovered (via the world wide web and meeting new people) all the great underground DJs and songs from the 90s that I had missed out on. At least I caught the tail end of that late 90s-early 00s era. Better late than never 

I feel lucky just to even remember some of it! Whew, those were some heady nights! People - especially older people - were so fascinating to me back then. Now everyone is the same!

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2 hours ago, Teal Ambition said:

 

 SCREAMING

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Zayn’s drop from first to second album is a MESS. i hope he’s doing well mentally.

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[Teal Ambition 47,805]

let me guess... by the end of February there will be a Reggaeton remix?

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2 minutes ago, Teal Ambition said:

let me guess... by the end of February there will be a Reggaeton remix?

Lil Nas X's remixes were funny but this is just... stop Justin. Summer Walking remix is enough. The solo song was enough already. 

[weed 73,717]

so is feb 20th/21st off the table now or do y'all think it's still coming?  that pic leaking was major so I still feel like it's coming lmao it must be (almost) all prepared and everything