How did Taio break so big?

[koganbot]

Any idea how Taio Cruz's first U.S. single "Break Your Heart" hit the Billboard number 1 only a week-and-a-half after it was released? Any tie-ins or visibility that I don't know about? It's getting decent beginner's airplay (19th rhythmic and 26th top 40, in the fifties overall), but nothing that would explain all the downloads. It helps that he's had a British career, and that the song fits into the DeRulo, Iyaz, Jay Sean pretty-boy sweet-AutoTuned r&b-dance amalgam, but still, this is his first U.S. single. To leap so high and so fast right off, you usually need to win American Idol.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I really hate the way mediocre-to-bad artists monopolise the conversation. It puts me off wanting to take part in the conversation. This is a larger, non-specific thing triggered by a) the canon discussion on freakytrig, b) Ke$ha, c) this. I don't want to talk about any of these things, I think they're all not just bad but boring, I want to talk about the Lloyd EP!

~tumbleweave~