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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Record Store Day: April 21, 2012

image from PopMatters.com

April 21, 2012 marks the celebration of the fifth annual Record Store Day. Independent record store employee Chris Brown conceived the idea in 2007 and the first one was held April 19, 2008. Approximately 300 stores participated. It has since been celebrated the third Saturday of every April.

According to the official website a participating store is defined as “a stand alone brick and mortar retailer whose main primary business focuses on a physical store location, whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation.”

One of the highlights of the day has become special vinyl and CD releases. In its first year, there were roughly ten special releases from artists such as R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Vampire Weekend, and Jason Mraz. In 2009, the number grew to 85 special releases from artists including Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, The Stooges, and Leonard Cohen. More than 1000 stores participated. 2010 saw the participation of more than 1400 stores and more than 150 special releases from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, and Gorillaz. In 2011, the Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, and Todd Rundgren were among the 150 exclusive releases.

The 2012 day celebates releases from Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, David Bowie, The Clash, Coldplay, Florence + the Machine, Metallica, Paul McCartney, Katy Perry, The White Stripes, and more than 100 others. See the full list here. The day’s official ambassador is Iggy Pop. Previous ambassadors were Ozzy Osbourne (2011), Josh Homme (2010), and Jesse Hughes (2009).

I capture the love of shopping in a record store in my latest PopMatters.com column, “Record Store Day: Spend Your Money on Music – It’s Better Than Therapy.”

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Top 50 Songs of 2011

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2011

These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from 30 year-end lists (sources at bottom of page).

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

    DMDB Top 1%:

  1. Gotye & Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know”
  2. Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe”
  3. Rihanna & Calvin Harris “We Found Love”
  4. LMFAO, Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem”
  5. Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger”
  6. Adele “Someone Like You”
  7. Fun. & Janelle Monáe “We Are Young”
  8. LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It”
  9. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us”
  10. Pitbull with Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer “Give Me Everything”

  11. Lady Gaga “Born This Way”

    DMDB Top 2%:

  12. Adele “Set Fire to the Rain”
  13. One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful”
  14. Kelly Clarkson “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
  15. Nicki Minaj “Super Bass”
  16. Jennifer Lopez with Pitbull “On the Floor”
  17. Christina Perri “A Thousand Years”
  18. Jay-Z with Kanye West “Niggas in Paris”
  19. David Guetta with Sia “Titanium”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  20. The Black Keys “Lonley Boy”

  21. Flo Rida “Good Feeling”
  22. Coldplay “Paradise”
  23. Of Monsters and Men “Little Talks”
  24. Ed Sheeran “The A Team”
  25. Flo Rida with Sia “Wild One”
  26. Eric Church “Springsteen”
  27. Imagine Dragons “It’s Time”
  28. Lana Del Rey “Video Games”
  29. Justin Bieber “Mistletoe”
  30. Jessie J with B.o.B. “Price Tag”

  31. The Wanted “Glad You Came”
  32. Lady Gaga “The Edge of Glory”
  33. M83 “Midnight City”
  34. Foo Fighters “Walk”
  35. Bruno Mars “It Will Rain”
  36. Luke Bryan “Country Girl (Shake It for Me)”
  37. Hunter Hayes “Wanted”

    DMDB Top 10%:

  38. Adele “Rumour Has It”
  39. Tony Bennett with Amy Winehouse “Body and Soul”
  40. Grouplove “Tongue Tied”

  41. Calvin Harris “Feel So Close”
  42. Chris Brown with Lil Wayne & Busta “Look at Me Now”
  43. Foo Fighters “Rope”
  44. Coldplay “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall”
  45. Michel Teló “Ai Se Eu Te Pego”
  46. Jessie J. “Domino”
  47. Florence + the Machine “Shake It Out”
  48. Beyoncé “Love on Top”
  49. Rihanna “Where Have You Been”
  50. Gym Class Heroes with Adam Levine “Stereo Hearts”

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First posted 12/28/2011; last updated 1/18/2023.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Rihanna “Disturbia” hit #1

Disturbia

Rihanna

Writer(s): Brian Kennedy, Chris Brown, Robert Allen, Andre Merritt (see lyrics here)

Released: July 22, 2008

First Charted: June 14, 2008

Peak: 12 US, 14 RR, 20 A40, 88 RB, 3 UK, 2 CN, 6 AU, 21 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 7.0 US, 0.6 UK, 13.2 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 0.4 radio, 330.1 video, 467.39 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

A year after Rihanna released her third album, 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad, she reissued the album as Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded. The original version had twelve songs; the reissue featured included a duet with Maroon 5, “If I Never See Your Face Again,” which shockingly stalled at #51 but two other songs – “Take a Bow” and “Disturbia” – went all the way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

“Disturbia” was a top-10 hit in more than twenty countries. Time magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel described it as a “fun-packed electro treat filled with sizzling beats and crazy vocal effects.” WK In fact, it was Rihanna’s first use of Auto-Tune, which gave vocals a “slightly robotic sound,” on one of her hits. SF Lyrically, the song is about “the experiences of anguish, anxiety, and confusion.” WK Songfacts.com described it as “like a horror movie set to song.” SF

The song was written by Chris Brown and his team with the original intent to add it to a reissue of his own 2007 Exclusive album. Brown was dating Rihanna at the time (he pled guilty to felony assault of her in 2009), and thought the song was better suited for a female singer.

The video reflected the creepy vibe of the song. Rihanna is imprisoned in a facility where she is tortured. According to the director, Anthony Mandler, the label was freaked out enough by the video that they considered shelving it. SF

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First posted 2/10/2023.

 
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