Mid-Year Lists 2010
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koganbotMid-Year Lists 2010
Singles First Half 2010: "Blah Blah Blah" is the big hairy dance-mess that's dancing over the world, while Aggro and Dizzee are the only other representatives here of 2010's dance-pop mess. Not enough country on this list, and at this time of year that's usually my fault, but this time I think it's country's. (Probably not enough dancehall or hip-hop or kuduro either, but vuvuzelas are represented.)
1. Ke$ha ft. 3OH!3 "Blah Blah Blah"
2. Selena Gomez & the Scene "Naturally"
3. Princesa "Más Fuego"
4. DJ Sbu "Vuvuzela Bafana"
5. I Blåme Coco ft. Robyn "Caesar"
6. Intocable "Estamos en Algo"
7. Lil Wayne ft. Eminem "Drop The World"
8. Dizzee Rascal & Florence + The Machine "You Got The Dirtee Love"
9. Didi Benami "Play With Fire"
10. Wiley & Chew Fu "Take That"
11. Little Big Town "Little White Church"
12. Didi Benami "Rhiannon"
13. M.I.A. "Born Free"
14. Hurts "Wonderful Life"
15. Rihanna "Te Amo"
16. Martina McBride "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong"
17. Wiley ft. Emili Sandé "Never Be Your Woman"
18. Sade "Soldier Of Love"
19. 2NE1 "Try To Follow Me" (a.k.a. "Follow Me")
20. Katie Melua "The Flood"
21. Dizzee Rascal "Dirtee Disco"
22. Sophie Ellis-Bextor "Bittersweet"
23. Tinie Tempah "Pass Out"
24. SNSD "Oh!"
25. Aggro Santos ft. Kimberly Wyatt "Candy"
26. Plan B "She Said"
27. Lena "Satellite"
28. Trace Adkins "Ala-Freakin-Bama"
29. DJ Zinc ft. Ms. Dynamite "Wile Out"
30. Cali Swag District "Teach Me How To Dougie"
31. Laura Bell Bundy "Giddy On Up"
New year's irresolution: I did not begin the year by saying to myself, "2010 will be the year when I actually like a Katie Melua single."
My tracks list (as opposed to this singles list, though with huge overlap) is over on poptimists.
Country Singles First Half 2010:
1. Little Big Town "Little White Church"
2. Martina McBride "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong"
3. Trace Adkins "Ala-Freakin-Bama"
4. Laura Bell Bundy "Giddy On Up"
5. Kenny Chesney "Ain't Back Yet"
6. Brad Paisley "Water"
7. Jaron And The Long Road To Love "Pray For You"
8. Sarah Darling "Whenever It Rains"
9. Jake Owen "Tell Me"
10. Randy Montana "Ain't Much Left Of Lovin' You"
Albums First Half 2010: Hmmm. I think I've listened to a grand total of eleven new albums. Now, hearing a lot by a performer can definitely enrich my understanding of that performer, albums at times can feed and grow wonderfully as tracks interact, etc., but I'm swamped in music coming at me from all directions, and I just don't know where people get the time. Here's my list so far:
1. Ke$ha Animal
2. Marina And The Diamonds The Family Jewels
3. Princesa Más Fuego
New Year's Resolution: "Will this be the year I finally fall for Allison Moorer as I always expect to but never do? Probably not."
On first listen, the SNSD album is shiny and smooth on too many of the nonsingles, but shiny and smooth can often have delayed impact and this may be a grower. Probably occupying fourth place at the moment. In quick listens neither Holly Miranda nor Kelis bathed me in warmth. Need to listen to Traband again to remind myself of who they are, where they're from, and what they sound like. I haven't listened to Kylie yet; not at all bowled over by Sleigh Bells singles, but haven't made my way to the album. And there's still a danger that if I don't find a lot I like, the Heidi Montag alb will make my top ten.
Video: Here's a vid:
h/t Mat
Singles First Half 2010: "Blah Blah Blah" is the big hairy dance-mess that's dancing over the world, while Aggro and Dizzee are the only other representatives here of 2010's dance-pop mess. Not enough country on this list, and at this time of year that's usually my fault, but this time I think it's country's. (Probably not enough dancehall or hip-hop or kuduro either, but vuvuzelas are represented.)
1. Ke$ha ft. 3OH!3 "Blah Blah Blah"
2. Selena Gomez & the Scene "Naturally"
3. Princesa "Más Fuego"
4. DJ Sbu "Vuvuzela Bafana"
5. I Blåme Coco ft. Robyn "Caesar"
6. Intocable "Estamos en Algo"
7. Lil Wayne ft. Eminem "Drop The World"
8. Dizzee Rascal & Florence + The Machine "You Got The Dirtee Love"
9. Didi Benami "Play With Fire"
10. Wiley & Chew Fu "Take That"
11. Little Big Town "Little White Church"
12. Didi Benami "Rhiannon"
13. M.I.A. "Born Free"
14. Hurts "Wonderful Life"
15. Rihanna "Te Amo"
16. Martina McBride "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong"
17. Wiley ft. Emili Sandé "Never Be Your Woman"
18. Sade "Soldier Of Love"
19. 2NE1 "Try To Follow Me" (a.k.a. "Follow Me")
20. Katie Melua "The Flood"
21. Dizzee Rascal "Dirtee Disco"
22. Sophie Ellis-Bextor "Bittersweet"
23. Tinie Tempah "Pass Out"
24. SNSD "Oh!"
25. Aggro Santos ft. Kimberly Wyatt "Candy"
26. Plan B "She Said"
27. Lena "Satellite"
28. Trace Adkins "Ala-Freakin-Bama"
29. DJ Zinc ft. Ms. Dynamite "Wile Out"
30. Cali Swag District "Teach Me How To Dougie"
31. Laura Bell Bundy "Giddy On Up"
New year's irresolution: I did not begin the year by saying to myself, "2010 will be the year when I actually like a Katie Melua single."
My tracks list (as opposed to this singles list, though with huge overlap) is over on poptimists.
Country Singles First Half 2010:
1. Little Big Town "Little White Church"
2. Martina McBride "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong"
3. Trace Adkins "Ala-Freakin-Bama"
4. Laura Bell Bundy "Giddy On Up"
5. Kenny Chesney "Ain't Back Yet"
6. Brad Paisley "Water"
7. Jaron And The Long Road To Love "Pray For You"
8. Sarah Darling "Whenever It Rains"
9. Jake Owen "Tell Me"
10. Randy Montana "Ain't Much Left Of Lovin' You"
Albums First Half 2010: Hmmm. I think I've listened to a grand total of eleven new albums. Now, hearing a lot by a performer can definitely enrich my understanding of that performer, albums at times can feed and grow wonderfully as tracks interact, etc., but I'm swamped in music coming at me from all directions, and I just don't know where people get the time. Here's my list so far:
1. Ke$ha Animal
2. Marina And The Diamonds The Family Jewels
3. Princesa Más Fuego
New Year's Resolution: "Will this be the year I finally fall for Allison Moorer as I always expect to but never do? Probably not."
On first listen, the SNSD album is shiny and smooth on too many of the nonsingles, but shiny and smooth can often have delayed impact and this may be a grower. Probably occupying fourth place at the moment. In quick listens neither Holly Miranda nor Kelis bathed me in warmth. Need to listen to Traband again to remind myself of who they are, where they're from, and what they sound like. I haven't listened to Kylie yet; not at all bowled over by Sleigh Bells singles, but haven't made my way to the album. And there's still a danger that if I don't find a lot I like, the Heidi Montag alb will make my top ten.
Video: Here's a vid:
h/t Mat
Re: Why Japanese music has a huge domestic share 2 of 2
Date: 2010-08-15 03:30 am (UTC)For TV shows, tv series for example:
This is the opening of a TV series called BOSS from 2009, featuring the song Alright by Superfly
This is the opening of currently airing TV series GOLD, featuring the song Wildflower by Superfly too
This is a recent ad for two cellphone models, the 1st part features Free Planet by Superfly:
The songs Wildflower and Free Planet are not out yet, and will only be released on the 1st of September, on the same single.
Now, the single will be released in August, but the ads started running in . This is also why in Japan, music sales tend to be concentrated in one or two weeks and then fizz out. Because often the song has been heard on TV for weeks or months before getting released, so most people interested already know about the song.
Usually Japanese singles have 3 to 4 tracks, of those tracks, there are usually 2 songs, sometimes 3, and the rest is karaoke (vocal less) versions of the main songs. And the more a single had tie-ups, the more it has chances to sell. For example, track 1 is tied up to a movie, track 2 to an ad, and track 3 to a TV show.
So, since music promotion is done on TV, artists not able to come to Japan often won't appear on music shows very often. The only significant music promotion venue left to them is tie-ups.
But the thing is that the companies ordering the ads, or the TV stations producing the shows, the movies etc. usually want part of copyrights or percentage on sales of the artists getting tied-up, and many foreign artists are against that, and don't understand what a boon tie-ups can be.
There's also the fact that Karaoke is huge in Japan, so songs which are easy to sing at Karaoke are basically what sells:
songs with an easy to remember melody and rememberable lyrics (which doesn't work with songs not in Japanese of course). While in the US, songs which are danceable sell.
And K-Pop idol bands are making an impact in Japan lately, albeit this is only due to pragmatic economic reasons: the South Korean music market is small and plagued by piracy, and CD prices are low, while Japan has the highest CD prices in the world and the Japanese market is 2nd biggest after the USA, and n.1 in physical sales because of the huge dip in physical sales in the US, so it's very enticing.
While Japan's music industry is 2nd in the world despite barely exporting, and thus doesn't feel the need to export. The Japanese music industry still imports more than it exports.