tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292077162024-03-19T00:00:33.381-04:00TwostepcublogA Collection of musings on music, life, and the world as we know it by someone who shouldn't know better.twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.comBlogger11023125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-57914759135503423842024-03-19T00:00:00.090-04:002024-03-19T00:00:00.137-04:00Songoftheday 3/19/24 - I like the way you look in them pants said ya fine, lil' momma a quarter piece she far from a dime...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcySNeGkWQupL07tgD6gD2MGBUsEQpChyeHMNOe0pozYLLJdAW83IFLjb_YbxVWhAE6guQox8putn8Dt9yDf9qDNpif2bOHXFcxVEiXVTkxWPpx7YOn1tI867pqcjth77rcIkjfK5tunr32GfqRbKMG9x7YMru7_Als0lhvwRQtsOv0b5fXeBzvw/s300/chingy%20rt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcySNeGkWQupL07tgD6gD2MGBUsEQpChyeHMNOe0pozYLLJdAW83IFLjb_YbxVWhAE6guQox8putn8Dt9yDf9qDNpif2bOHXFcxVEiXVTkxWPpx7YOn1tI867pqcjth77rcIkjfK5tunr32GfqRbKMG9x7YMru7_Als0lhvwRQtsOv0b5fXeBzvw/w400-h400/chingy%20rt.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0l3GEbH3CviUytD6iX4wzg?si=18584dfe56184522" target="_blank">Right Thurr</a>" - Chingy</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jackpot-Explicit-Chingy/dp/B00009WHRP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27RA5NU8P582W&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3Q8iF4JJMr-gDsFsxW3yGxCcVJq2HAw-oepE2qdRLl_sQjAhZixLyFu58M14Kly0.oqSRa771PDK_FP6dKgR0xTKz4JiV8tVLiHAT-hun5Es&dib_tag=se&keywords=chingy+jackpot+cd&qid=1710803891&s=music&sprefix=chingy+jackpot+cd%2Cpopular%2C131&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Jackpot</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #2 (five weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 28</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from rapper Howard Bailey Jr., who records under the stage name <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chingy/?hl=en" target="_blank">Chingy</a>. Chingy grew up in the St. Louis area, and after garnering a local following toured with fellow Missourian Nelly. However, it was Atlanta hip-hop star Ludacris who signed the rapper to his Disturbing Tha Peace label, where he released his debut album <i>Jackpot</i> in 2003. The lead single from the record was "Right Thurr", written by Chingy with the Trak Starz production team of Shamar Dougherty and Alonzo Lee. The party record's lyrics are straight up about macking on a prospective woman he wants. This involves throwing some cringe lines like "<span>I know your grown a 'lil bit, twenty years old, you legal" and "</span><span>Like to be seen, she got it honest</span><span>, in real life girl remind me of Pocahontas". At least it's not reliant on a rote sample and has a bouncy backing track from Trak Starz to support him. It does lean too heavily to the "thurr" regional tag, and his nasal tone is <i>very</i> much like Eminem. With that and a remix featuring Jermaine Dupri and up and coming rapper Trina, the single filled the gap between Nelly hits in that St. Louis sound...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y2aDHUa35FE" width="320" youtube-src-id="Y2aDHUa35FE"></iframe></div><br /><span>"Right Thurr" climbed all the way to the runner-up spot on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 in August of 2003, while spending a week at #2 on their R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song peaked at #5 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, took two weeks on top of the Mainstream R&B airplay list, went to #16 on the Dance Airplay chart, and spent seven weeks at #1 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. Internationally, the single went to #1 in New Zealand, peaked at #6 in Australia, and made the top-40 in Canada (#11 Sales), Denmark (#12), Norway (#15), the United Kingdom (#17), Switzerland (#25), Italy (#29), the Netherlands (#29), and Belgium (#30 Flanders). The <i>Jackpot</i> album, released in July of that year, spent a week at #2 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, and got to #2 on the R&B Albums list, spending over a year on the lists and selling over two million copies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>Both Chingy <i>and</i> the <i>Jackpot</i> album will be back to the series.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>(4/10)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>(Click below to see the rest of the post)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span>The remix with Jermaine Dupri and Trina (who eventually will be in this series) sported its own music video...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iO476kD-k0g" width="320" youtube-src-id="iO476kD-k0g"></iframe></div><br /><span>Here's Chingy and Dupri performing before an awards show in 2004...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5WtqATFGVUs" width="320" youtube-src-id="5WtqATFGVUs"></iframe></div><br /><span>and lastly in concert...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSrTYBYZRB4" width="320" youtube-src-id="zSrTYBYZRB4"></iframe></div><br /><span>Up tomorrow: Singer/songwriter asks about satisfaction.<br /></span></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-63790167069846043822024-03-18T16:00:00.028-04:002024-03-18T16:00:00.128-04:00Robbed hit of the week 3/18/24 - Da Brat's "In Love Wit Chu"...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRsEplbIXZ_xRRj9CzUjfRZL3BL6ZZpkHuVhSK_vrlqLDMJ2ldq8T0P3_W9_wpBSP0Bpqxk9GooP9PUj3Pz9lj8cmjFSdcWOXCN9ByQn7A_DOLj6eHNRL51QcguaDcstv2aUx_ESQ4dLHa4rWsDlVEMoxhh81lrYIEFMTl8vrLXfDPLoVmE5G3A/s300/dabrat%20ilwy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="300" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRsEplbIXZ_xRRj9CzUjfRZL3BL6ZZpkHuVhSK_vrlqLDMJ2ldq8T0P3_W9_wpBSP0Bpqxk9GooP9PUj3Pz9lj8cmjFSdcWOXCN9ByQn7A_DOLj6eHNRL51QcguaDcstv2aUx_ESQ4dLHa4rWsDlVEMoxhh81lrYIEFMTl8vrLXfDPLoVmE5G3A/w400-h397/dabrat%20ilwy.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #741b47; font-family: arial;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/564OSRbqySMYtqpyCXwXbP?si=5383d46fe4214c48" target="_blank">In Love Wit Chu</a>" - Da Brat featuring Cherish</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #741b47; font-family: arial;">from the album <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Limelite-Luv-Niteclubz-Bonus-DVD/dp/B00009PJT8/ref=tmm_acd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5oZQMzkpGXYShCZhKjLfag.XmO0QraC_qnAcsvfqlVq3pJe97RYSWpB8GFC18PAzkU&qid=1710718129&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i>Limelite, Luv, & Niteclubz</i></a> (2003)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #741b47; font-family: arial;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #44 (two weeks)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />This week's "robbed hit" comes from rapper <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sosobrat/" target="_blank">Da Brat</a>, who had last grazed <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 top-40 in the summer of 2000 with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2022/05/songoftheday-51422-i-like-em-brown.html" target="_blank">What'chu Like</a>" featuring R&B singer Tyrese. A year later, the artist born Shawntae Harris appeared in Mariah Carey's trainwreck movie <i>Glitter</i>, and was featured on the remix of Mariah's #2 hit single "Loverboy". But at the same time, she was convicted of assault which involved probation and fines. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2003, Da Brat returned with her fourth album for So So Def Records, <i>Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz</i>. The lead single from the record was "In Love Wit Chu" (she <i>loves</i> her "chu") which featured the newly-signed four-sister R&B female vocal group Cherish that hails from Atlanta. They concurrently released <i>their</i> debut single "<a href="https://youtu.be/IVRthpS9QhU?si=KDX1SzWw7z90INZz" target="_blank">Miss P</a>", which Da Brat guested on, which went to #87 on <i>Billboard</i>'s R&B Singles chart. Written by Da Brat with producer L.T. Hutton, "In Love Wit Chu" is a profession of love as the rapper name-checks musicians Rick James, Teena Marie, Maxwell as well as boxer Roy Jones who shows up in the music video (along with Mariah Carey). The production is breezy and easy for the rapper to ride, and Cherish provides a nice choral backdrop At least Da Brat dropped the forced menace from her past albums, but the music video still had her judging male muscleheads on the beach....<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yq5RoJ8Zwjg" width="320" youtube-src-id="Yq5RoJ8Zwjg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While "In Love Wit Chu" made it to #32 on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Mainstream Top-40 radio chart, #25 on the Mainstream R&B airplay list, and #9 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format, the single stalled below the top-40 on the Hot 100 in June of 2003, while making it to #32 on the R&B Singles chart. Internationally, the single hit #11 in New Zealand, and peaked at #29 on the Canadian Sales list. The <i>Limelite</i> album, released in July of that year, came in at #17 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, and #6 on the R&B Albums list. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A second single from the album, "<a href="https://youtu.be/esCOYrLPRUM?si=L7MaTfyM1bf5Zd0I" target="_blank">Boom</a>", stiffed, but another track from the set, "<a href="https://youtu.be/bDNs_QYG1IY?si=woWMqHKZWIZBdRey" target="_blank">Got It Poppin</a>'", was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Solo Rap Performance, losing to Missy Elliott for "Work It". As for Cherish, they will be making their own Top-40 debut as a lead in the future.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(5/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-30990716011078192232024-03-18T00:00:00.174-04:002024-03-18T00:00:00.132-04:00Songoftheday 3/18/24 - Honestly If I tell you, what you want to know love...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3Jo5eXa12Ze5oJtjDjRcAQVB18leVp8kwtDduflfdOLnSOKLp70Mb26LU2apvUj5BPmh237sp0wiIJCIarjk9VbfIEJkn1-9JAFGGQmzia923BxWnqStD0bcSRRkAvuNz0aqPjtUkVX_fKUZFNi9bCFG0E5gN6Q1DkeEQHzBe2Gpy7I0Lf7cOg/s300/lumidee%20nly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="300" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3Jo5eXa12Ze5oJtjDjRcAQVB18leVp8kwtDduflfdOLnSOKLp70Mb26LU2apvUj5BPmh237sp0wiIJCIarjk9VbfIEJkn1-9JAFGGQmzia923BxWnqStD0bcSRRkAvuNz0aqPjtUkVX_fKUZFNi9bCFG0E5gN6Q1DkeEQHzBe2Gpy7I0Lf7cOg/w400-h355/lumidee%20nly.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1AjQE5MtP5jHQMyDepbvLI?si=e333828c0488425e" target="_blank">Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)</a>" - Lumidee </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Famous-Lumidee/dp/B00009V7SX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IUI9V3EG6OZO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GYNJonLADw8TqL8JnhiNoQ.mBRE8wJLF3BhSatzJmqyBnpN7n-goBD8vMGp1iN4HQ0&dib_tag=se&keywords=lumidee+almost+famous&qid=1710717078&s=music&sprefix=lumidee+almost+famous%2Cpopular%2C77&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i>Almost Famous</i></a> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #3 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 16</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from R&B singer <a href="https://twitter.com/lumidee" target="_blank">Lumidee</a> (CedeƱo), who grew up in New York City before starting a music career locally. Hooking up with producers Ted "DJ Tedsmooth" Mendez and Eddie Perez, Lumidee released her debut single "Never Leave You" on the independent Straight Face label in 2003. The song was written by the trio using the Indian music-inspired Jamaican beat called the Diwali Riddim, which gives Jamaican dancehall producer Stephen Mardsen writing credit. Diwali had already anchors two big crossover successes in 2003 with Sean Paul's "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2024/01/songoftheday-11524-woman-get-busy-just.html" target="_blank">Get Busy</a>" and Wayne Wonder's "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2024/01/songoftheday-11624-got-somebody-shes.html" target="_blank">No Letting Go</a>". What's different here is that Lumidee is singing soul over the beat, and although the lyrics are the oft-trodden fidelity promises, she delivers with a untrained swagger with that Uh Oooh tag that grabs you. A radio remix that includes A-list rappers of that moment Busta Rhymes and Fabolous, got the song widestream exposure, though their two verses kind of drown her out a tad. With getting picked up by monolith Universal Records, Lumidee found herself riding the Diwali trend at just the right time....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QhKj93rPIDo" width="320" youtube-src-id="QhKj93rPIDo"></iframe></div><br /> "Never Leave You" became Lumidee's first and only top-40 hit on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100, reaching the top five in August of 2003, while making it to #9 on their R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song peaked at #15 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Mainstream Top-40 chart, #8 on the Mainstream R&B airplay list, #4 on the Dance Airplay chart, #33 on the Latin Pop Airplay list, and #5 at the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. Internationally the single was just as big, topping the charts in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), and Switzerland, and reaching the top-40 in the United Kingdom (#2), Denmark (#2), Romania (#2), Austria (#4), Croatia (#4), Czechia (#5), Belgium (Wallonia #8), Hungary (#9), France (#12), Norway (#15), Ireland (#17), Sweden (#18), Spain (#20), New Zealand (#25), and Australia (#33). Lumidee's debut album, <i>Almost Famous</i>, was released in June of that year, peaked at #22 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, and #11 on the R&B Albums list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Despite the success of the single and top-40 placing of the album, Lumidee's follow-up, "<a href="https://youtu.be/G3iYDlH4bPQ?si=dA8vOTlpof1N8mGE" target="_blank">Crashin' A Party</a>", which also featured a rapper in this case N.O.R.E. as well as the singer taking a turn to rap, failed to make any noticable impact in the U.S., though it was a top-40 hit in Germany (#23) and Belgium (#31 Flanders), and a minor hit in the UK at #55. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2005, Lumidee was featured on reggaeton artist Speedy's single "<a href="https://youtu.be/0b1yp2iAnnI?si=a-Z_iaN_LaFzNjbR" target="_blank">Sientelo</a>", which reached the top ten in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, and Switzerland. Lumidee and rapper Fatman Scoop teamed up for a song for the <i>FIFA World Cup</i> football tournament in Germany with "<a href="https://youtu.be/cCKYPlDu1a4?si=LATwb9hDIRnQxqA_" target="_blank">Dance!</a>", which interpolated Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody". While it was a hit in Europe, hitting #4 in Hungary and #5 in Germany, Austria, and Finland, again it went unnoticed in the States. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The following year, Lumidee returned on the indie TVT label (once home to Nine Inch Nails) for her sophomore effort <i>Unexpected</i>. The first single was a left-field mid-tempo rap/sung cover of Patrick Swayze's <i>Dirty Dancing</i> hit "<a href="https://youtu.be/_qegkqUkL3c?si=YbtcXINqbH_iFqj9" target="_blank">She's Like The Wind</a>" with Tony Sunshine. The intended update to the Latin Freestyle cover duets of the 80s did rather decently on the radio, reaching #18 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart and #23 on the Rhythmic format, but missed the Hot 100 top-40 at #43. It did get to #29 on the Canadian Airplay chart, and made European lists in Denmark (#6), and Belgium (#14 Flanders/#22 Wallonia). The <i>Unexpected</i> album came in at #44 on the <i>Billboard 200</i>, but spent only three weeks on the list. Another cut from the record, "<a href="https://youtu.be/J4mLojTDsMw?si=BBWXEDxFm6H1hmS3" target="_blank">Crazy</a>" with Pitbull, was a modest success in Germany (#35) and Belgium (#35 Flanders/#40 Wallonia), but again was ignored in America. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Since then, Lumidee has appeared on a few international artists' singles, and released music on her own, creating the LOGY Music imprint, where the singer put out her most recent studio album <i>10 13</i> in 2021. In 2023, she released the single "<a href="https://youtu.be/ElObmJZyMEU?si=_eAHs0oy9LsYJMhe" target="_blank">Honestly 3000</a>", an update of a song from her debut. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(6/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the original version without Busta and Fabolous...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PBLaruol2gk" width="320" youtube-src-id="PBLaruol2gk"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lumidee performed the song on the <i>Ricki Lake Show</i>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ffC7GIGSXw" width="320" youtube-src-id="7ffC7GIGSXw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and lastly, in concert...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r_QtlRRMRGM" width="320" youtube-src-id="r_QtlRRMRGM"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: St. Louis rapper is pretty present. <br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-21178298424017532462024-03-16T00:00:00.183-04:002024-03-16T00:00:00.135-04:00Twostepcub's music chart for March 16, 2024...<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaffE26mgcACdUEx4b2osnIPB7oMW6N06Bl3ikLm751ehJFzK_mRo-CmU1Xg5IvevQFkoOD7HrQ2mFndm2Mv6UQkL3LgOZ3qRyRemMNggQUE7tFN0o3Hk8Gjy-B-qXrZNgJI-yLsbvuEc8SjHl3F0wBd9fKTVC__EYRAw-gPi_DgHsMpBSUvFcEA/s525/beyonce%20the.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="525" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaffE26mgcACdUEx4b2osnIPB7oMW6N06Bl3ikLm751ehJFzK_mRo-CmU1Xg5IvevQFkoOD7HrQ2mFndm2Mv6UQkL3LgOZ3qRyRemMNggQUE7tFN0o3Hk8Gjy-B-qXrZNgJI-yLsbvuEc8SjHl3F0wBd9fKTVC__EYRAw-gPi_DgHsMpBSUvFcEA/w640-h548/beyonce%20the.gif" width="640" /></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Saturday's here, and it's time to run down my top 100 "hits" of the week. Noah Kahan spends a second week at #1, while Beyonce (pictured above) leaps into the top ten. Former big hits from Green Day, Linkin Park, Mitski, Eliza Rose & Calvin Harris, and Rema & Selena Gomez drop out, while songs from Pearl Jam, Green Day (again), and Jordan Davis make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in <span style="color: red;"><b>red</b></span>). And under the list everything is Spotify playlisted for 5 1/2 hours of the biggest in pop, rock, R&B, country, and dance music. TikTok you don't stop...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Stick Season - Noah Kahan (1)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Lose Control - Teddy Swims (2)</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Loving You - Cannons (4)</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Is It Over Now? - Taylor Swift (3)</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Houdini - Dua Lipa (7)</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. Texas Hold 'Em - Beyonce (14)</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Yes, And? - Ariana Grade (9)</div><div style="text-align: left;">8. Water - Tyla (6)</div><div style="text-align: left;">9. Where The Wild Things Are - Luke Combs (5)</div><div style="text-align: left;">10. Run Away With Me - Cold War Kids (10)</div><div style="text-align: left;">11. Lovin' On Me - Jack Harlow (15)</div><div style="text-align: left;">12. On My Mama - Victoria Monet (8)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>13. Beautiful People (Stay High) - The Black Keys (23)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">14. Neon Pill - Cage The Elephant (22)</div><div style="text-align: left;">15. Pretty Little Poison - Warren Zeiders (19)</div><div style="text-align: left;">16. One More Time - blink-182 (12)</div><div style="text-align: left;">17. A Symptom Of Being Human - Shinedown (17)</div><div style="text-align: left;">18. The Painter - Cody Johnson (18)</div><div style="text-align: left;">19. I Can Feel It - Kane Brown (21)</div><div style="text-align: left;">20. Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellie-Bextor (24)</div><div style="text-align: left;">21. Get Him Back! - Olivia Rodrigo (11)</div><div style="text-align: left;">22. World On Fire - Nate Smith (16)</div><div style="text-align: left;">23. Good People - Mumford & Sons f/Pharrell Williams (27)</div><div style="text-align: left;">24. Greedy - Tate McRae (13)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>25. Dark Matter - Pearl Jam (53)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">26. What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish (26)</div><div style="text-align: left;">27. The Glass - Foo Fighters (33)</div><div style="text-align: left;">28. The Tower - Future Islands (28)</div><div style="text-align: left;">29. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift (29)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">30. Burn It Down - Parker McCollum (42)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">31. Feather - Sabrina Carpenter (41)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">32. Leave A Light On - Papa Roach (39)</div><div style="text-align: left;">33. 23 - Chayce Beckham (37)</div><div style="text-align: left;">34. Save Me - Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson (34)</div><div style="text-align: left;">35. I Remember Everything - Zach Bryan f/Kacey Musgraves (25)</div><div style="text-align: left;">36. Landmines - Sum-41 (40)</div><div style="text-align: left;">37. Northern Attitude - Noah Kahan f/Hozier (32)</div><div style="text-align: left;">38. Exes - Tate McRae (43)</div><div style="text-align: left;">39. Strangers - Kenya Grace (35)</div><div style="text-align: left;">40. Mother Nature - MGMT (30)</div><div style="text-align: left;">41. White Horse - Chris Stapleton (31)</div><div style="text-align: left;">42. Lil Boo Thang - Paul Russell (36)</div><div style="text-align: left;">43. Snooze - SZA (38)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>44. Selfish - Justin Timberlake (58)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">45. Still Believe In Love - Mary J. Blige f/Vado (20)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>46. Agora Hills - Doja Cat (56)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">47. Gimme Love - Sia (45)</div><div style="text-align: left;">48. I'm Alright - Mammoth WVH (50)</div><div style="text-align: left;">49. Good Good - Usher f/Summer Walker & 21 Savage (47)</div><div style="text-align: left;">50. Creek Will Rise - Conner Smith (52)</div><div style="text-align: left;">51. Devil You Know - Tim Montana (46)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>52. Dilemma - Green Day (72)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">53. Fast Car - Luke Combs (51)</div><div style="text-align: left;">54. Yes, I'm A Mess - AJR (54)</div><div style="text-align: left;">55. Made For Me - Muni Long (55)</div><div style="text-align: left;">56. Artificial - Daughtry (48)</div><div style="text-align: left;">57. Truck Bed - HARDY (59)</div><div style="text-align: left;">58. Wondering Why - Red Clay Strays (62)</div><div style="text-align: left;">59. Legends Never Die - Bad Wolves (63)</div><div style="text-align: left;">60. Seasons - Thirty Seconds To Mars (64)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">61. Don't Tell Me - Disturbed f/Ann Wilson (73)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">62. Tucson Too Late - Jordan Davis (79)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://billyjoel.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">63. Turn The Lights Back On - Billy Joel (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>64. Wanting & Waiting - The Black Crowes (74)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">65. Past Life - Felix Jaehn & Jonas Blue (65)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://thelastdinnerparty.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">66. Sinner - The Last Dinner Party (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.norahjones.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">67. Running - Norah Jones (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">68. Paint The Town Red - Doja Cat (68)</div><div style="text-align: left;">69. Used To Be Young - Miley Cyrus (69)</div><div style="text-align: left;">70. Something Better - Blanca & Tauren Wells (70)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">71. Ice Cream (Pay Phone) - Black Pumas (85)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">72. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone (82)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://calvinharris.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">73. Lovers In A Past Life - Calvin Harris f/Rag N' Bone Man (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">74. Krazy - VASSY (78)</div><div style="text-align: left;">75. Strangers - Lewis Capaldi (75)</div><div style="text-align: left;">76. Nothing Matters - The Last Dinner Party (80)<br />77. Drums - James Hype f/Kim Petras (77)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://dualipa.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">78. Training Season - Dua Lipa (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">79. Man Made A Bar - Morgan Wallen f/Eric Church (83)</div><div style="text-align: left;">80. Praise Jah In The Moonlight - YG Marley (81)<br />81. Thinkin' Bout Me - Morgan Wallen (76)</div><div style="text-align: left;">82. Mamaw's House - Thomas Rhett f/Morgan Wallen (86)</div><div style="text-align: left;">83. Need A Favor - Jelly Roll (71)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://scottymccreery.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">84. Cab In A Solo - Scotty McCreery (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">85. Through The Night - Maeta f/Free Nationals (89)</div><div style="text-align: left;">86. Can't Get Enough - Jennifer Lopez (90)</div><div style="text-align: left;">87. Everybody - Nicki Minaj (87)</div><div style="text-align: left;">88. Prada - casso f/RAYE & D-Europe (88)</div><div style="text-align: left;">89. Love Like That - Phillip Phillips (93)</div><div style="text-align: left;">90. Not The 1975 - The Knox (94)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://laineywilson.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">91. Wildflowers And Wild Horses - Lainey Wilson (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">92. Not My Fault - Renee Rapp f/Megan Thee Stallion (92)</div><div style="text-align: left;">93. When We Were Young (The Logical Song) - David Guetta f/Kim Petras (99)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://tylerhubbardofficial.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">94. Back Then Right Now - Tyler Hubbard (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">95. Saving Up - Dom Dolla (95)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://zaralarssonofficial.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">96. You Love Who You Love - Zara Larsson (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://loudluxurymusic.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">97. Young & Foolish - Loud Luxury f/charlieonafriday (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">98. Sign of Life - Motionless In White (98)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://gwenstefani.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">99. Purple Irises - Gwen Stefani & Blake Shelton (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">100. What Are We Waiting For? - for KING & COUNTRY (100)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="352" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7leYMRwQjMhbrCd3r3KTWa?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There are eleven songs making their debut on my chart this week (highlighted in <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">blue</span></b></span>), and if you click on any of them, you'll connect to that artist's official website for more information on them. And here they are on video, after the break...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;">The top debut of the week up at #63 sees the return of veteran singer/songwriter/piano man Billy Joel, with his first new pop single in almost twenty years, "Turn The Lights Back On"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UOf6CMbHPuA" width="320" youtube-src-id="UOf6CMbHPuA"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">As the British all-female rock band the Last Dinner Party linger on the list with "Nothing Matters", their follow-up single, "Sinner", moves in at #66...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oFsJuYb42hw" width="320" youtube-src-id="oFsJuYb42hw"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Norah Jones is back at #67 with her latest effort "Running". It's from the Grammy-winning artist's new album <i>Visions</i>...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9TjrBFYqGNs" width="320" youtube-src-id="9TjrBFYqGNs"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Scottish DJ/producer Calvin Harris and English blues-rock singer Rag N' Bone Man team up at #73 for "Lovers In A Past Life"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uksTezIJqA4" width="320" youtube-src-id="uksTezIJqA4"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">While Dua Lipa rises to #5 with "Houdini", her second single from her upcoming <i>Radical Optimism</i> album, "Training Season", punches in at #78...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZjBZ8MUnB0E" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZjBZ8MUnB0E"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">There are three winners of <i>American Idol</i> on my chart this week, as 11th season winner Phillip Phillips and 19th champ Chayce Beckham are joined by 10th season's Scotty McCreery who drives in at #84 with "Cab In A Solo"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7M3gdcnM6eg" width="320" youtube-src-id="7M3gdcnM6eg"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The sole woman country radio deems to have repeated success these days, Lainey Wilson, arrives at #91 for "Wildflowers And Wild Horses", her third hit from her Grammy-winning <i>Bell Bottom Country</i> album...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kvfHSKojdiI" width="320" youtube-src-id="kvfHSKojdiI"></iframe></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Also on the country front, Tyler Hubbard, formerly one-half of Florida Georgia Line, lands at #94 with "Back Then Right Now". The song previews his upcoming second solo album <i>Strong</i>...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uPRxiBLaXnI" width="320" youtube-src-id="uPRxiBLaXnI"></iframe></div><br /> Swedish pop singer/songwriter Zara Larsson shuffles in at #96 with "You Love Who You Love", from her album <i>Venus</i>...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBNYVArkExQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="YBNYVArkExQ"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Canadian dance music production duo Loud Luxury recruits American newcomer charlieonafriday at #97 for "Young And Foolish"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y4gbmkrzOU8" width="320" youtube-src-id="y4gbmkrzOU8"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The final new entry at #99 is from husband-and-wife A-listers Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton who pair up for "Purple Irises"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/46T0LDRsHCc" width="320" youtube-src-id="46T0LDRsHCc"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-90406265612028381392024-03-15T00:00:00.069-04:002024-03-15T00:00:00.239-04:00Songoftheday 3/15/24 - I've found peace of mind I'm feeling good again, I'm on the other side, back among the living<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvqaKfn_5UgdTvSuAsXF7bsWkOUDWsxKWizT-CITd4gzWMJ2casyQaHk5myew0_pGd1V1qWSpKZGJWPnWiNqn_gFA_ZMihEEovDkgMqmdvEtvZc5KLg_f-aOzEL0OGfTt5OwxYVioMMhFEcVt0g4NFvAB7mSQpf9ZKo5-0raNA97Sh6BU0HMbYQ/s300/waynej%20sg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="300" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvqaKfn_5UgdTvSuAsXF7bsWkOUDWsxKWizT-CITd4gzWMJ2casyQaHk5myew0_pGd1V1qWSpKZGJWPnWiNqn_gFA_ZMihEEovDkgMqmdvEtvZc5KLg_f-aOzEL0OGfTt5OwxYVioMMhFEcVt0g4NFvAB7mSQpf9ZKo5-0raNA97Sh6BU0HMbYQ/w400-h397/waynej%20sg.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2HEMdZPNfOLF9W3LeE7dkC?si=0a7b0d2eb39741fe" target="_blank">Stay Gone</a>" - Jimmy Wayne</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Wayne-Enhanced-CD/dp/B00009V7VD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=53L90FLNRM8L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2uaIl-x6ker877Tw63hI9qOmNKKJmw_t3ssk8u2V4nfbjsZYk6TYlclrLMQLnDXWTyM-m9WA1wAie1u_7UNi-U0fAIJ3MjWGByQUQ4pB0uCPkGo4dgqq6_0w01gyAhDDwuqH3LMeglMk2OT5YmI3npEZiMEaLFSNxk4VXn0OrXPu4bc_7EUlO--EWJGtVwvg79h1Q4zlLCk-DaVOdf77JOq67tsf7Ae1C0LCAzJHGic.hU_id9pqGjEYQwxJ8iqTGz_0YOffgdsMXQZlE_MREzE&dib_tag=se&keywords=jimmy+wayne+jimmy+wayne+cd&qid=1710457983&s=music&sprefix=jimmy+wayne+jimmy+wayne+cd%2Cpopular%2C93&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Jimmy Wayne</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #32 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 6</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from singer/songwriter <a href="http://jimmywayne.com/" target="_blank">Jimmy Wayne</a> (nee Barber), who grew up in North Carolina, partly in the foster child system because of a fractured and troubled family. Eventually taken under the wing of a couple and working his way up, Wayne moved to Nashville to start a country music career. Wayne first got success as a songwriter, helping pen Tracy Byrd's 1999 hit "<a href="https://youtu.be/C-hRrJOXanA?si=vOjzn8toMdXAClY3" target="_blank">Put Your Hand In Mine</a>", which <i>just</i> missed the country radio top-40 and reached #76 on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100. After the turn of the century, Jimmy was signed to DreamWorks Records' Nashville division, where he released his self-titled debut album in 2003. The lead single from the record was "Stay Gone", which he wrote with Billy Kirsch. The lyrics has him sad but resolved about a breakup, and needing to keep that other person out of his life. He's gotten over it, but knows if they return it will just bring him more heartbreak. It's a very mature way to handle loss in love, and a hard lesson to learn (trust me). The production from industry pros James Stroud and Chris Lindsey is meaty but doesn't overpower Wayne's strong vocals that crack at just the right times. It's a simple but well-executed sad slow song, and in return Jimmy scored his own first hit. The music video has the singer getting away from it all with the help of a tent and his trust pooch...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ELjlvLTUFvA" width="320" youtube-src-id="ELjlvLTUFvA"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Stay Gone" crossed over to the top-40 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in June of 2003, while spending three weeks at #3 on their Country Songs airplay chart. The <i>Jimmy Wayne</i> album, released as the single was cresting that June, came in at #64 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, and #7 on the Country Albums list, spending a hefty 85 weeks on the latter. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wayne's second single from the record was "<a href="https://youtu.be/aoLFISIdH8g?si=o3RaOM7mIQTXHzoj" target="_blank">I Love You This Much</a>", which he tapped into the pain his familial past had brought. The song climbed to #6 on the Country Songs chart, and peaked at #53 on the Hot 100. That was followed by the power love-ballad "<a href="https://youtu.be/_X8uXJINrlc?si=Pj78MnFMxBTmwlLv" target="_blank">You Are</a>", which rose to #18 on the Country Songs list, and "bubbled under" the Hot 100 at #108. Lastly, the track "<a href="https://youtu.be/-UVIZpRm8ks?si=u4LKbe6Po3rkrV28" target="_blank">Paper Angels</a>", which was a tie-in with the Salvation Army's Christmas charity campaign, also got to #18 on the Country Songs list and again "bubbled under" the Hot 100 at #108. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jimmy Wayne <i>will</i> be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(7/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>Here's Jimmy performing the song on Country Music Television in 2003...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h46Fyty9quI" width="320" youtube-src-id="h46Fyty9quI"></iframe></div><br /> and lastly, in concert a year later...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1oAMcAozjnk" width="320" youtube-src-id="1oAMcAozjnk"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tomorrow I'll roll out my top tunes of <i>this</i> week, then on Monday SOTD will be back with a New Yorker that promises fidelity. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-14095905903197792732024-03-14T00:00:00.134-04:002024-03-14T00:00:00.133-04:00Songoftheday 3/14/24 - Now that love's taken over I'm 100% sure that it's here to stay...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNrWfMyeExIubJ0LTPZErRMdDEuRm-SH6GKrphL5vXNIeuGWVbN-G9YAMzj9EbinnYZowXKxaOKCmlMw9QLhMiHOrOP-CWVkXVx6UxWyVuD-aGpKOkiJAAOEvFOh1vKE8uULSeGkt_F73YcUwyV-XXJat5rKOPRH_HXmt719Yh-9mUlZrkBZKKQ/s600/lilmo%204ever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="600" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNrWfMyeExIubJ0LTPZErRMdDEuRm-SH6GKrphL5vXNIeuGWVbN-G9YAMzj9EbinnYZowXKxaOKCmlMw9QLhMiHOrOP-CWVkXVx6UxWyVuD-aGpKOkiJAAOEvFOh1vKE8uULSeGkt_F73YcUwyV-XXJat5rKOPRH_HXmt719Yh-9mUlZrkBZKKQ/w400-h395/lilmo%204ever.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/64IrqnZBUoCFmF8BXGOHnK?si=8e9d01432021431b" target="_blank">4 Ever</a>" - Lil' Mo featuring Fabolous</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Girl-Next-Door-Lil/dp/B01JT2I4VG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NFS65E418XL8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ofGOCBHgCY71Bofa7YDNFw.bjuSG7kUtw4QUwmKu-SOQy1dwFgz9HD-CqLiGxrfOd4&dib_tag=se&keywords=lil+mo+meet+the+girl+next+door+cd&qid=1710370244&s=music&sprefix=lil+mo+meet+the+girl+next+d%2Cpopular%2C93&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Meet The Girl Next Door</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank"><i>Billboard</i></a> Hot 100 peak: #37 (two weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 3</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from singer and rapper Cynthia Loving, who records as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thelilmoshow/?hl=en" target="_blank">Lil' Mo</a>, whose debut album <i>Based On A True Story</i> had spun off a crossover hit in its second single "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2022/09/songoftheday-92222-baby-they-cant-play.html" target="_blank">Superwoman</a>", which was tweaked into a "Part II" remix that rose to #11 on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 in the spring of 2001. However an attack on her that summer had not only derailed the promotion of the album but affected the artist's psyche greatly of course. Thankfully, Lil Mo eventually bounced back, and was featured on two big hits from radio DJ/rapper Angie Martinez with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/08/songoftheday-81623-if-i-can-chose-place.html" target="_blank">If I Could Go!</a>" and <a href="https://www.fabolous.com/" target="_blank">Fabolous</a>, who had guested on "Superwoman", with his top ten "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2024/01/songoftheday-12324-baby-girl-you-know.html" target="_blank">Can't Let You Go</a>". She also followed Martinez's lead, appearing as a radio host sporadically. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mo returned in 2003 with her sophomore effort <i>Meet The Girl Next Door</i>. The lead single from the record paired her again with Fabolous on "4 Ever". Written by the pair with producers Brian-Michael Cox and Craig Love, the song does a callback to her first hit in the intro, before settling into a breezy Mary J. Blige-esque groove about wanting to settle down herself with her man. It's notable how strong Loving's vocals are on this one, and the production fleshes it out with tight harmonies that recall the early-90's R&B group era while letting her voice not get drowned out. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's <i>very</i> well executed, and deserved to have a wider audience. But Lil Mo and Fabolous (whose verse is nice but not striking) managed to get back into the top 40 with the song...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pCtm4wVcAP8" width="320" youtube-src-id="pCtm4wVcAP8"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"4 Ever" became Lil Mo's second top-40 hit on the Hot 100 as a lead artist in June of 2003, while climbing to #13 on <i>Billboard</i>'s R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song went to #24 at the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format chart. The <i>Meet The Girl Next Door</i> album, released in April of that year, came in at #17 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, and #4 on the R&B Albums list. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second single from the album, "<a href="https://youtu.be/h2Z2Bl4WcNQ?si=vrV88nhgzpzq_XhG" target="_blank">Ten Commandments</a>" with fellow diminutive rapper Lil' Kim, missed both the pop and R&B charts (though coming a notch away on the latter's "bubbling under" list). Instead, an off-the-fly answer record to 50 Cent's #1 hit "21 Questions" called "<a href="https://youtu.be/_aqi7hseB94?si=dAnd3wSktCyAopmh" target="_blank">21 Answers</a>" featuring multi-hyphenate artist Free, went to #50 on the R&B Single chart, and appeared on a re-release of the album. After the lackluster push behind the album Lil Mo left Elektra Records which was in its waning years as it was.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The singer/rapper signed on with Cash Money Records, and began to record a new album there. However after a lead single "<a href="https://youtu.be/bzgSgLmiyPw?si=oqLG8IXmUJ-j7NMu" target="_blank">Hot Girls</a>" with Lil Wayne failed to make the main pop and R&B charts, and follow-up "<a href="https://youtu.be/AZEk0ypCJZg?si=nfFRyFXhUN8DzF2y" target="_blank">Dem Boyz</a>" stalled at #86 on the R&B list, the project was cancelled. The problem was that Cash Money didn't know how to handle a good singer like Loving. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Loving's eventual third Lil Mo album, <i>Pain & Paper</i>, came out on the indie label Drakeweb Record in 2007, and took a sole week at #112 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> and peaking at #14 on the R&B Albums list. Since then, Lil Mo has release two more studio albums independently, most recently <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> in 2014. She's semi-retired from music, but frequently appears on television, showing up on both the <i>R&B Divas</i> and <i>Love & Hip-Hop</i> reality show franchises. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(6/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span><a name='more'></a></span>Here's Lil Mo performing the song in concert in 2019...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e1i5m6FiriI" width="320" youtube-src-id="e1i5m6FiriI"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: The country newcomer wants a permanent break. <br /></div><p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-15406345639937209672024-03-13T00:00:00.031-04:002024-03-13T00:00:00.155-04:00Songoftheday 3/13/24 - I have always been a little shy, I've always been the quiet type till now...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7o_sgTseJviW0NGbgkcCfwhsRfvknONJJAPC9YpUoAJ3oKP4K8uTAWsPSgY7mFi0A3uM01usSgcNAU4GbM_jVe1UxB_8bieKrOM3fs7lgveg1ZrfQ0hsngtuIKNSpE6L3gTqskxXKN-h2vRWaV-a9l4LSUh_DFb3aP4whO1NInU7SaD1WYNWrxw/s540/rascalflatts%20lyol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="405" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7o_sgTseJviW0NGbgkcCfwhsRfvknONJJAPC9YpUoAJ3oKP4K8uTAWsPSgY7mFi0A3uM01usSgcNAU4GbM_jVe1UxB_8bieKrOM3fs7lgveg1ZrfQ0hsngtuIKNSpE6L3gTqskxXKN-h2vRWaV-a9l4LSUh_DFb3aP4whO1NInU7SaD1WYNWrxw/w300-h400/rascalflatts%20lyol.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2WsWOqZk5YKJD1WTGKihRp?si=972d2fdf04b84c60" target="_blank">Love You Out Loud</a>" - Rascal Flatts</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Melt-Rascal-Flatts/dp/B00006L7XO/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2QJ2WYPWF241T&keywords=rascal+flatts+melt&qid=1696205626&s=music&sprefix=rascal+flatts+melt%2Cpopular%2C81&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i>Melt</i></a> (2002)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #30 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 3</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from the trio <a href="http://rascalflatts.com/" target="_blank">Rascal Flatts</a>, who had scored their first #1 country radio hit with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/10/songoftheday-10223-norma-jean-aint-that.html" target="_blank">These Days</a>", which crossed over to <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 Top-40 at the close of 2002. The second single pulled from their second album <i>Melt</i> was the diabetes-inducing "Love You Out Loud". Written by industry vets Brett James and Lonnie Wilson, the lyrics are nothing but exuberant performative romance, where Gary LeVox and the boys have to sign their loved one's praises at the top of their lungs. The production from the band with Mark Bright and Marty Williams is so sunny as to require shades, but at least the fiddle is prominent here for some grounding, and their harmonies are spotless as always. The result is gold for the soccer mom crowd...<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RUvCk_2qnss" width="320" youtube-src-id="RUvCk_2qnss"></iframe></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">"Love You Out Loud" became Rascal Flatts' third single to reach the top-40 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in June of 2003. On the radio, the song spent three weeks at #3 on their Country Songs airplay chart. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Both Rascal Flatts and their <i>Melt</i> album will be back to the series.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(5/10)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;">The "official" music video tried to bring the energy by showing a live concert version...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fqW97HaS4Xs" width="320" youtube-src-id="fqW97HaS4Xs"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: two rapper come together in eternity. <br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-13413639691505948992024-03-12T00:00:00.176-04:002024-03-12T00:00:00.132-04:00Songoftheday 3/12/24 - I'm just a simple girl In a high tech digital world, really try to understand all the powers that rule this land...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjww4KzW6tfvRz6aYbhayc8gz00fnWuX3qolMadhIxH3SJAAJJVgnVvopU3EZGKZhge9-Yupq5TPOclju6fwKfzyZkPGAlvO1AaOu3beSV4Xi4VmzjuulDZXAFZb1griu9oeti58Vccv9lhQ6mvnmSYbPH3dF14Q1_PbayFmCT8KMU2Kj4xzNWtAQ/s341/jewel%20intuition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjww4KzW6tfvRz6aYbhayc8gz00fnWuX3qolMadhIxH3SJAAJJVgnVvopU3EZGKZhge9-Yupq5TPOclju6fwKfzyZkPGAlvO1AaOu3beSV4Xi4VmzjuulDZXAFZb1griu9oeti58Vccv9lhQ6mvnmSYbPH3dF14Q1_PbayFmCT8KMU2Kj4xzNWtAQ/w400-h400/jewel%20intuition.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1DQEvkPTtRJ4E0Lmk6sfIc?si=8d655a30f22049e9" target="_blank">Intuition</a>" - Jewel</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/0304-Jewel/dp/B00008OWZE/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.anFMN0BLV7UJ8x6PqqzbnPX-YmfCCQQyleYwSFdAARw.JKxs8JZb0FRz__KIqGrroqSD6a68xghDYUcUfFNpIao&dib_tag=se&keywords=jewel+0304+cd&qid=1710191366&s=music&sr=1-1" target="_blank">0304</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #20 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 12</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from singer/songwriter <a href="http://www.jeweljk.com/" target="_blank">Jewel</a>, who had went from her indie-folk roots on her multiplatinum debut to veer into the adult pop lame, reaching the top-40 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in the beginning of 2002 with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/03/songoftheday-3823-cutting-through.html" target="_blank">Standing Still</a>". But there was definitely foreboding that her musical path would go even more leftfield, as one of the follow-up singles, "<a href="https://youtu.be/cjqzKat0GzM?si=4X53iLc2wWGwGI0W" target="_blank">Serve The Ego</a>", was transformed into a club banger, and ended up hitting #1 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Dance Club Play chart. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the spring of the following year, Jewel returned with her fifth studio release <i>0304</i>, mostly produced by Lester Mendez, who would be more known for helming the likes of pop vixens Nelly Furtado and Shakira. The lead single from the record, "Intuition", was co-written and produced by Jewel and Mendez. The lyrics start off from inserting current pop trend buzzwords like J-Lo and Kate Moss, under the guise of the materialistic capitalist culture in the Bush era. However that's all flushed down the toilet when it's revealed the single was part of a marketing campaign for a shaving razor of the same name, which followed the equally blatant co-op of Celine Dion by auto maker Chrysler for her remake or Roy Orbison's "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2024/01/robbed-hit-of-week-1824-celine-dions-i.html" target="_blank">I Drove All Night</a>". With "Intuition", though, at least it was an original co-written by Jewel, who fits in a younger bracket. And with incessant promotion, the song <i>did</i> have a measure of success; but in the long run sullied Jewel's standing in the folk and rock communities where she started to be cast as just another one of the "slut babes" her song railed against. The production starts oddly with an accordian before the wall of noise swirls around the singer. The music video had Jewel vamping it up in the city streets. It's definitely aiming to be a parody, but leans so heavily into the joke that it's just ending up looking bizarrely self-exploitative...<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Ilh1ewceco" width="320" youtube-src-id="8Ilh1ewceco"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Intuition" <i>did</i> manage to crack the pop chart, climbing into the top-20 on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 in July of 2003. On the radio, the song peaked at #7 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart and #5 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 airplay list. There were also a myriad of dance remixes of the track, which helped Jewel spend a week at #1 on the Dance Club Play chart, as well as get to #9 on the Dance Airplay radio list. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Australia (#4) and the Netherlands (#9), and made the top-40 in Romania (#15), Spain (#17), and New Zealand (#17), while stalling down at #52 in the United Kingdom. The <i>0304</i> album, released in June of that year, had Jewel reach her highest rank on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally in its first week at #2, but ended up selling just under a half million copies (her first set not to go platinum). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The follow-up single from the record was "<a href="https://youtu.be/ELFaFkpBVIs?si=mjgCC-gSD__HqlWi" target="_blank">Stand</a>", which failed to make the Hot 100, but did get to #37 on the Adult Top-40 radio chart. But again, it was Frankensteined into a club track, and landed a third #1 Dance Club Play hit for the singer/songwriter. It also climbed to #21 in Australia. That was followed by "<a href="https://youtu.be/QMnjYDWOxD4?si=x_aWKaqqUcM6biUZ" target="_blank">2 Become 1</a>", which pleased at #33 at the Adult Top-40 format. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The reception to <i>0304</i> seemed to have shocked Jewel, who waited three years before re-emerging with a more organic and personal album <i>Goodbye Alice In Wonderland</i> in 2006. The record, her sixth and final on Atlantic Records, came in at #8 on the <i>Billboard 200</i>. The first single "<a href="https://youtu.be/IZQ-AnaHylw?si=KrmLcye6Nish6XpN" target="_blank">Again And Again</a>" popped on to the Hot 100 at #80, while becoming a minor hit on the older radio formats of Adult Top-40 (#16) and Adult Contemporary (#37). A second try, "<a href="https://youtu.be/WXpW9D5-ZvE?si=z01TXc8ZR3VszmfF" target="_blank">Good Day</a>", rose to #30 on the Adult Top-40 list. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Leaving Atlantic, Jewel took hints from her older-skewing audience and steered her music into the country genre, signing on with the Valory label. She had dabbled in Nashville before, guesting on icon Merle Haggard's single "<a href="https://youtu.be/cQWZd5do660?si=ej4YJFtc7Fu81jQJ" target="_blank">That's The Way Love Goes</a>" in 1999, which went to #56 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Songs airplay chart. She also was married to rodeo star Ty Murray, which gave her an "in" with the culture already. With the help of former Lonestar member (and future right-wing clown) John Rich, Jewel released <i>Perfectly Clear</i> in 2008, which peaked at #8 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> and topped their Country Albums list for a week. Three of its tracks got enough airplay to place on the Country Songs radio chart, with lead single "<a href="https://youtu.be/QaXr2vGDQwk?si=T0TSULIl4VKmEyIJ" target="_blank">Stronger Woman</a>" cresting at #13. The following year, Jewel with the help of Fisher-Price independently released <i>Lullaby</i>, a collection of softly-produced songs aimed at the children's market, which got to #117 on the <i>Billboard 200</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2010, the singer put out a second country album on Valory, <i>Sweet And Wild</i>, which came in at #11 on the<i> Billboard 200</i> and #3 on the Country Albums chart. The first single "<a href="https://youtu.be/pyv-KWf_AlI?si=_o2z_JUuTnpdjA-G" target="_blank">Stay Here Forever</a>" reached the Country Songs top-40 at #34. The follow-up, "<a href="https://youtu.be/ArAlk3yf5hI?si=YytuIa5N_B-VF4LC" target="_blank">Satisfied</a>", went to #57 on country radio, and crossed over to the Adult Contemporary chart at #27. "Satisfied" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, losing to Miranda Lambert for "The House That Built Me". The third release from the set, "<a href="https://youtu.be/ruWVhyAu0N0?si=5tr9Q9XJSXwF8P4b" target="_blank">Ten</a>", is her most recent Country Songs chart appearance at #51. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Since then, Jewel has released a second children's album, another holiday album in <i>Let It Snow</i>, which hit #43 on the <i>Billboard 200</i>, and a studio album on the Sugar Hill label, <i>Picking Up The Pieces</i>, which made the <i>Billboard 200</i> top-40 at #28 in 2015. A couple years prior, when her former label released a <i>Greatest Hits</i> collection, a previously unreleased song, "<a href="https://youtu.be/Apk3JUFZ3A0?si=OdHCOby3nYpPKWx0" target="_blank">Two Hearts Breaking</a>", climbed to a respectable #13 on the Adult Contemporary airplay chart. She's dabbled in "reality/competition" TV, winning a season of <i>The Masked Singer</i> as well as being on the stunted American version of <i>Eurovision</i> in 2022. That same year, Jewel released her most recent studio album, <i>Freewheelin' Woman</i>, which took a week on <i>Billboard</i>'s Current Album Sales chart at #89.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(4/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's Jewel performing "Intuition" on <i>The Tonight Show</i> to promote the album...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uYow_OLEc64" width="320" youtube-src-id="uYow_OLEc64"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next up, one of the club remixes from Todd Terry which helped the song top the dance chart...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6P7wBRa7r_M" width="320" youtube-src-id="6P7wBRa7r_M"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And lastly, for the <i>AOL Sessions</i> web series...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DLIp2iiX_Us" width="320" youtube-src-id="DLIp2iiX_Us"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: This country crossover band doesn't want to hush. <br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-73825439358055767872024-03-11T16:00:00.126-04:002024-03-11T16:00:00.135-04:00Robbed hit of the week 3/11/24 - White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army"...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7e4znVAhT-m9f0MzYfxwFZqQH7uIvUxp55yk0FsHHoPULjKlfMW3W9gwNq2ukRYXhxVt6tkdsxSLAIkUrqjR87f-WGlyq-Cd85JIfPb-GwijxMOnvUJBg0m66WYr8BCm6mIsn_YpmAtf_q9NpV8reMv50yQIfluOXwmZy9bIOCXz7QZAy3VoNQ/s400/whitestripes%20sna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7e4znVAhT-m9f0MzYfxwFZqQH7uIvUxp55yk0FsHHoPULjKlfMW3W9gwNq2ukRYXhxVt6tkdsxSLAIkUrqjR87f-WGlyq-Cd85JIfPb-GwijxMOnvUJBg0m66WYr8BCm6mIsn_YpmAtf_q9NpV8reMv50yQIfluOXwmZy9bIOCXz7QZAy3VoNQ/w400-h400/whitestripes%20sna.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7bxon8K9DP6stYx5ZO9WlK?si=72fbd1eb5a4744ba" target="_blank">Seven Nation Army</a>" - The White Stripes</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-White-Stripes/dp/B08XL9QFKH/ref=tmm_acd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp&qid=1710085971&amp&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Elephant</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><a href="http://www.billboard.com" target="_blank"><i>Billboard</i></a> Hot 100 peak: #76 (two weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This week's "robbed hit" comes from the <a href="http://whitestripes.com/" target="_blank">White Stripes</a>, who came together in Detroit in the late 1990s. Despite portraying themselves as brother and sister, Jack and Meg White were actually married from 1996 to 2000. Jack, who had shuffled amongst bands earlier, enlisted Meg as his drummer in the duo. After releasing a couple of singles themselves, the pair signed up with indie label Sympathy For The Record Industry, where they released their eponymous debut album in 1999, which featured the single "<a href="https://youtu.be/R3IJ5rI-Cao?si=PZzzYFIlUwJaDxqZ" target="_blank">The Big Three Killed My Baby</a>", which satirized the local automobile industry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Despite divorcing out of the spotlight, Meg proposed to stay on professionally, and the duo put out their sophomore effort <i>De Stijl</i> the following year. A third album on the Sympathy label, <i>White Blood Cells</i>, would be the set to use the critical acclaim they've been receiving to a wider audience, when Richard Branson's new label V2 (his first, Virgin was a huge success that he sold off) released it under the Universal distribution umbrella which carried Jack's Third Man Records imprint. The single "<a href="https://youtu.be/fTH71AAxXmM?si=g_1BcfA8OMzU7ev6" target="_blank">Fell In Love With A Girl</a>", one of two songs from the album to reach <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Alternative Rock Airplay at #12, while "bubbling under" the Hot 100 all-genre list at #121. The music video from Michael Gondry, which used Lego blocks to "animate" the pair, was a huge success on MTV. The <i>White Blood Cells</i> album also placed on the <i>Billboard</i> <i>200</i> sales tally at #61, going on to sell over a million copies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2003, Jack and Meg returned with their third album, and first recorded <i>for</i> the Third Man/V2 label, <i>Elephant</i>. The lead single from the project was the blues-punk of "Seven Nation Army". Written and produced by Jack, the song is a <i>tour de force</i> of angst about dealing with scrutiny in becoming famous. The lyrics are bare boned and cryptic, but contribute to the sonic menace the thumpy rhythm pace Meg throws down. The music video, with its geometric onslaught of red, white, and black, was just as iconic as the Lego clip, and MTV was definitely on board. However, pop radio in America, which was in its separation from non-electronic alternative music, somehow stayed away, but rock radio picked up the slack...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0J2QdDbelmY" width="320" youtube-src-id="0J2QdDbelmY"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While "Seven Nation Army" spent three weeks at #1 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Alternative Rock radio chart, as well as getting to #12 on their Maintream Rock counterpart, the song stalled in the bottom quarter of the Hot 100 in May of 2003. Internationally, the single did much better, reaching the top ten in Italy (#3), Switzerland (#3), Germany (#4), and the United Kingdom (#7), and made the top-40 in Australia (#17), Austria (#18), and Ireland (#22). The <i>Elephant</i> album, released in April of that year, came in at #6 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, going on to sell over two million copies. At the Grammy Awards, "Seven Nation Army" won for Best Rock Song, and was nominated for Best Duo/Group Rock Performance with Vocals, losing to Warren Zevon and Bruce Springsteen's entry "Disorder In The House" (probably from Zevon's sad passing the year before). The <i>Elephant </i>album also won for Best Alternative Rock Album, and was up for Album Of The Year, which went home with rap duo Outkast for <i>Speakerboxx/The Love Below</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second single from <i>Elephant</i> was "<a href="https://youtu.be/K4dx42YzQCE?si=x8VAkkuWlRDoNCMZ" target="_blank">The Hardest Button To Button</a>", which made it to #8 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Alternative Rock radio chart, and #23 in the UK. That was followed by a cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic "<a href="https://youtu.be/wzDG0jA3XVY?si=rmIpgSV1Dequo-Be" target="_blank">I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself</a>", which rose to #25 on the Alternative list, while making the top-40 in the UK (#13) and New Zealand (#34). A fourth release, "<a href="https://youtu.be/HyjEyD2z1zM?si=v2pXLO1_mHtgwK-Y" target="_blank">There's No Home For You Here</a>", was promoted to little fanfare (sadly). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jack and Meg would eventually conquer the Hot 100 top-40, but nothing they've done would have the lasting impact that the lo-fi masterpiece of "Seven Nation Army" was. It was actually hard writing, as the song invokes more emotion that analysis in me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(10/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the White Stripes on <i>Conan O'Brien</i> in 2003...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h35VbsZbUZU" width="320" youtube-src-id="h35VbsZbUZU"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The following year, they were on the Grammy Awards where they picked up two trophies...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/14rqlqFRu28" width="320" youtube-src-id="14rqlqFRu28"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up next, live in concert in Bonaroo in 2007...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tfnxW2anDDE" width="320" youtube-src-id="tfnxW2anDDE"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lastly, Jack White brought SNA back at his solo Glastonbury stint in 2022...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ehxW9MKRH0" width="320" youtube-src-id="3ehxW9MKRH0"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-54004510197879110682024-03-11T00:00:00.136-04:002024-03-11T00:00:00.139-04:00Songoftheday 3/11/24 -So I'm outside of the club and you think I'm a punk, so I go to my loaded tech nine that's off in the trunk...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyjLRk4vPQxVR932Hlb_ehAKX3AV6lQ4w-jMmEoQ6YD67UUjWEC-uPqSxqkC4B6MSBqF0Nixx-9NEGOfm7uUpovjchk6rJ4bdnlNTq50S4wzRvHxHWHkTaV0GUy0cNIP2hXzsTUcQehNdCpbSZ7nQm-DUzS2P070SKFRSkrCPfKMkUCIGkOUzrA/s220/bonecrusher%20ns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyjLRk4vPQxVR932Hlb_ehAKX3AV6lQ4w-jMmEoQ6YD67UUjWEC-uPqSxqkC4B6MSBqF0Nixx-9NEGOfm7uUpovjchk6rJ4bdnlNTq50S4wzRvHxHWHkTaV0GUy0cNIP2hXzsTUcQehNdCpbSZ7nQm-DUzS2P070SKFRSkrCPfKMkUCIGkOUzrA/w400-h400/bonecrusher%20ns.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4kmIO0yPq92dXtKCL28RfC?si=2b2b2feb6f7e466d" target="_blank">Never Scared</a>" - Bone Crusher featuring Killer Mike & T.I.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Attenchun-Limited-Bonus-Bone-Crusher/dp/B01GUGB6UA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QQ0347GCOF4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.0y0-y5su_6ptRTMWtwc_Kw.X6Tc6UAnXjlWtK2nXwLurbRTiQOImM41DlS_nszFayg&dib_tag=se&keywords=bone+crusher+attenchun&qid=1710085112&s=music&sprefix=bone+crusher+attenchun%2Cpopular%2C90&sr=1-1" target="_blank">AttenCHUN!</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.billboard.com" target="_blank"><i>Billboard</i></a> Hot 100 peak: #26 (three weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 6</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from rapper Wayne Hardnett Jr, who records under the alias <a href="https://www.instagram.com/therealbonecrusher/" target="_blank">Bone Crusher</a>. Hailing from Atlanta, Hardnett got the attention of producer/rapper/mogul Jermaine Dupri, who signed Bone Crusher on to his So So Def label on Columbia Records. His breakthrough single "Never Scared" came out in the spring of 2003, a couple weeks before his debut album <i>AttenCHUN!</i>. The track featured rappers Michael "Killer Mike" Render and Clifford "T.I." Harris, who share writing credit with Bone and producer Avery Johnson. <a href="http://killermike.com/" target="_blank">Killer Mike</a> had previously guested on fellow Atlantans Outkast's single "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/03/songoftheday-31323-see-this-is-way-that.html" target="_blank">The Whole World</a>" which made the <i>Billboard</i> magazine Hot 100 top-40 in the beginning of 2002. Earlier in the spring of the following year, Mike released his debut album <i>Monster</i>, which went to #10 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally and spun off the single "<a href="https://youtu.be/nFibI_1ZPV4?si=3sYCQy3PM9VicpFc">A.D.I.D.A.S</a>." featuring Outkast's Big Boi and associate Sleepy Brown, which went to #60 on the Hot 100, #42 on <i>Billboard</i>'s R&B Singles chart, and reached the top-40 in the United Kingdom at #22. As for <a href="http://officialti.com/">T.I.</a>, who also came from the Atlanta hip-hop scene, he was at that time a relative unknown, first being signed to Arista Records, but after his debut album stalled at #98 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> despite being pumped up with heavy hitters in the production side like the Neptunes and Jazze Pha, he was dumped from the label. (It's notable he sold in the 100-200K range, something today's artists would kill their family for.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For "Never Scared", Bone Crusher doesn't play it easy, handling getting thrown out of the club by threatening to grab armory out of his car. Killer Mike comes in and brags about naming his weapon after a girl and using it using quite sexual terms. T.I. rounds out the third verse with more threats of hospitalization, and by now it's getting tired. There's <i>no</i> way this was getting pop radio airplay, but there were enough sales of the single to propel the song up the Hot 100 and R&B charts, with a somewhat tamer "remix" featuring different rappers getting some play on urban stations. Johnson's production is an attack of noise, to anchor the marketing of violence that this was, but at least it's a catchy groove. The music video of the original track has Bone Crusher as some sort of King Kong menacing Atlanta in a comic book pastiche...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(BTW I cannot get out of my head that I think Bone Crusher is sing-rapping "Paw Patrol" in the chorus)<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ryIjCkw3Jfg" width="320" youtube-src-id="ryIjCkw3Jfg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Never Scared" became Bone Crusher's first and only hit to make <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in June of 2003, while climbing to #8 on their R&B Singles chart and #6 on the Rap Songs list. On the radio, the song (mostly the remix) peaked at #5 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Mainstream R&B Airplay chart and #23 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. The <i>AttenCHUN!</i> album, released in April of that year, peaked at #11 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, and spent one week at #1 on their R&B Albums list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A year later, Bone Crusher put out a single "<a href="https://youtu.be/ZjQkoMtneiQ?si=610EMSuZ_xNQ9TCn" target="_blank">Take Ya Clothes Off</a>" featuring the Ying Yang Twins, which stalled down at #67 on <i>Billboard</i>'s R&B Singles chart, and he was summarily faded out of So So Def. He did manage to place back on the R&B Singles chart in 2005 as a guest on rapper Tango's single "Wobble & Shake It", which crested at #73. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bone Crusher re-emerged in 2006 with his own label, Bone Crusher Music, and a new album, <i>Release The Beast</i>, which popped on to the R&B Albums list at #86. He released three more albums independently, most recently <i>Planet Crusher</i> in 2008. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As for Killer Mike, along with being the frat-boys answer to hip-hop as part of Run The Jewels, has put out five more solo albums. His most recent, <i>Michael</i>, swept the rap categories at the Grammy Awards in 2024 (before getting arrested for assaulting a security guard). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Out of the trio T.I., who was the least known, will surpass all three by miles and will be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(2/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A special remix for the single, called the "Takeover Mix", featured Cam'Ron, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes along with Bone Crusher...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cCJbEP8BBeQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="cCJbEP8BBeQ"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And lastly, Bone Crusher at So So Def's 20th Anniversary concert in 2013...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nNfIzS5VX8Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="nNfIzS5VX8Q"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: An Alaskan singer has a hunch.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-63440279428091293472024-03-09T00:00:00.088-05:002024-03-09T00:00:00.140-05:00Twostepcub's music chart for March 9, 2024...<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOp530YYVRC8BkugXL0KUS6Agq78e3tt9bapt4f9p6bYtZqvcDWVKCHGj_I6Rjw1E3OIoQCAaU5kQaHcPfwBjaXtPz2CUm7DCXFVBInEJsyMk7rY5z2duK8To5FQ8CYdnZ376yPAz_Q_J906K3YmW_UU5pBP2VE5C8hGT3-lBEJYT3iStzQC955w/s480/lipad%20houdini.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOp530YYVRC8BkugXL0KUS6Agq78e3tt9bapt4f9p6bYtZqvcDWVKCHGj_I6Rjw1E3OIoQCAaU5kQaHcPfwBjaXtPz2CUm7DCXFVBInEJsyMk7rY5z2duK8To5FQ8CYdnZ376yPAz_Q_J906K3YmW_UU5pBP2VE5C8hGT3-lBEJYT3iStzQC955w/w640-h360/lipad%20houdini.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Saturday's here, and it's time to run down my top 100 "hit" tunes from the previous week. Noah Kahan climbs to #1 on my list for the second time in his career, while Dua Lipa (pictured above) vaults a couple of notches in the top ten. Songs from the Red Clay Strays, Cage The Elephant, and Mumford & Sons make some of the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in <span style="color: red;"><b>red</b></span>), while former big hits from Miley Cyrus, Brittany Howard, and Marshmello/Pink/Sting drop off the chart. And under the list everything is Spotify playlisted for 5 1/2 hours of the biggest in pop, rock, R&B, country, and dance music. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Stick Season - Noah Kahan (2)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Lose Control - Teddy Swims (1)</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Is It Over Now? - Taylor Swift (3)</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Loving You - Cannons (4)</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Where The Wild Things Are - Luke Combs (5)</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. Water - Tyla (6)</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Houdini - Dua Lipa (9)</div><div style="text-align: left;">8. On My Mama - Victoria Monet (8)</div><div style="text-align: left;">9. Yes, And? - Ariana Grande (16)</div><div style="text-align: left;">10. Run Away With Me - Cold War Kids (14)</div><div style="text-align: left;">11. Get Him Back! - Olivia Rodrigo (7)</div><div style="text-align: left;">12. One More Time - blink-182 (12)</div><div style="text-align: left;">13. Greedy - Tate McRae (13)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://beyonce.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">14. Texas Hold 'Em - Beyonce (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">15. Lovin' On Me - Jack Harlow (15)</div><div style="text-align: left;">16. World On Fire - Nate Smith (11)</div><div style="text-align: left;">17. A Symptom Of Being Human - Shinedown (17)</div><div style="text-align: left;">18. The Painter - Cody Johnson (19)</div><div style="text-align: left;">19. Pretty Little Poison - Warren Zeiders (23)</div><div style="text-align: left;">20. Still Believe In Love - Mary J. Blige f/Vado (10)</div><div style="text-align: left;">21. I Can Feel It - Kane Brown (25)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>22. Neon Pill - Cage The Elephant (32)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">23. Beautiful People (Stay High) - The Black Keys (27)</div><div style="text-align: left;">24. Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor (30)</div><div style="text-align: left;">25. I Remember Everything - Zach Bryan f/Kacey Musgraves (21)</div><div style="text-align: left;">26. What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish (20)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>27. Good People - Mumford & Sons f/Pharrell Williams (37)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">28. The Tower - Future Islands (28)</div><div style="text-align: left;">29. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift (29)</div><div style="text-align: left;">30. Mother Nature - MGMT (24)</div><div style="text-align: left;">31. White Horse - Chris Stapleton (18)</div><div style="text-align: left;">32. Northern Attitude - Noah Kahan f/Hozier (22)</div><div style="text-align: left;">33. The Glass - Foo Fighters (40)</div><div style="text-align: left;">34. Save Me - Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson (34)</div><div style="text-align: left;">35. Strangers - Kenya Grace (31)</div><div style="text-align: left;">36. Lil Boo Thang - Paul Russell (26)</div><div style="text-align: left;">37. 23 - Chayce Beckham (39)</div><div style="text-align: left;">38. Snooze - SZA (36)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>39. Leave A Light On - Papa Roach (49)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">40. Landmines - Sum-41 (45)</div><div style="text-align: left;">41. Feather - Sabrina Carpenter (47)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">42. Burn It Down - Parker McCollum (52)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">43. Exes - Tate McRae (53)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">44. Body Moving - Eliza Rose & Calvin Harris (38)</div><div style="text-align: left;">45. Gimme Love - Sia (35)</div><div style="text-align: left;">46. Devil You Know - Tim Montana (46)</div><div style="text-align: left;">47. Good Good - Usher f/Summer Walker & 21 Savage (43)</div><div style="text-align: left;">48. Artificial - Daughtry (48)</div><div style="text-align: left;">49. My Love Mine All Mine - Mitski (33)</div><div style="text-align: left;">50. I'm Alright - Mammoth WVH (50)</div><div style="text-align: left;">51. Fast Car - Luke Combs (51)</div><div style="text-align: left;">52. Creek Will Rise - Conner Smith (54)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://pearljam.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">53. Dark Matter - Pearl Jam (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>54. Yes, I'm A Mess - AJR (64)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">55. Made For Me - Muni Long (55)</div><div style="text-align: left;">56. Agora Hills - Doja Cat (61)</div><div style="text-align: left;">57. Different 'Round Here - Riley Green f/Luke Combs (57)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">58. Selfish - Justin Timberlake (68)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">59. Truck Bed - HARDY (69)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">60. Under You - Foo Fighters (60)</div><div style="text-align: left;">61. The American Dream Is Killing Me - Green Day (41)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">62. Wondering Why - Red Clay Strays (76)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">63. Legends Never Die - Bad Wolves (73)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">64. Seasons - Thirty Seconds To Mars (74)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">65. Past Life - Felix Jaehn & Jonas Blue (65)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">66. Take My Chance - MK (66)</div><div style="text-align: left;">67. Lifeline - Alicia Keys (67)</div><div style="text-align: left;">68. Paint The Town Red - Doja Cat (58)</div><div style="text-align: left;">69. Used To Be Young - Miley Cyrus (59)</div><div style="text-align: left;">70. Something Better - Blanca & Tauren Wells (70)</div><div style="text-align: left;">71. Need A Favor - Jelly Roll (71)</div><div style="text-align: left;">72. Dilemma - Green Day (79)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>73. Don't Tell Me - Disturbed f/Ann Wilson (83)</b></span><br /><a href="http://blackcrowes.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">74. Wanting & Waiting - The Black Crowes (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">75. Strangers - Lewis Capaldi (75)</div><div style="text-align: left;">76. Thinkin' Bout Me - Morgan Wallen (72)</div><div style="text-align: left;">77. Drums - James Hype f/Kim Petras (77)</div><div style="text-align: left;">78. Krazy - VASSY (82)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.jordandavisofficial.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">79. Tucson Too Late - Jordan Davis (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">80. Nothing Matters - The Last Dinner Party (84)</div><div style="text-align: left;">81. Praise Jah In The Moonlight - YG Marley (85)</div><div style="text-align: left;">82. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone (86)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>83. Man Made A Bar - Morgan Wallen f/Eric Church (93)</b></span><br />84. Lost - Linkin Park (80)</div><div style="text-align: left;">85. Ice Cream (Pay Phone) - Black Pumas (89)</div><div style="text-align: left;">86. Mamaw's House - Thomas Rhett f/Morgan Wallen (91)</div><div style="text-align: left;">87. Everybody - Nicki Minaj f/Lil Uzi Vert (87)</div><div style="text-align: left;">88. Prada - casso f/RAYE & D-Europe (90)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>89. Through The Night - Maeta f/Free Nationals (RE-ENTRY)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">90. Can't Get Enough - Jennifer Lopez (94)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://lovelytheband.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">91. Nice To Know You - lovelytheband (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">92. Not My Fault - Renee Rapp f/Megan Thee Stallion (92)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.phillipphillips.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">93. Love Like That - Phillip Phillips (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">94. Not The 1975 - The Knox (98)</div><div style="text-align: left;">95. Saving Up - Dom Dolla (95)</div><div style="text-align: left;">96. Alive! - Bakar (96)</div><div style="text-align: left;">97. Calm Down - Rema & Selena Gomez (97)</div><div style="text-align: left;">98. Sign Of Life - Motionless In White (100)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://davidguetta.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">99. When We Were Young (The Logical Song) - David Guetta f/Kim Petras (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://forkingandcountry.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">100. What Are We Waiting For? - for KING & COUNTRY (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="352" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/5LZCs38mfg9eA7XW7VV3Ir?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Along with a re-entry from Maeta, there are eight songs making their debut on my chart this week (highlighted in <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">blue</span></b></span>), and if you click on any of them, you'll connect to that artist's official website for more information on them. And here they are on video, after the break...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>Rocketing on to my list all the way up at #14 is Beyonce, who's country excursion "Texas Hold 'Em" is the current #1 song on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jCOX8dT9q8M" width="320" youtube-src-id="jCOX8dT9q8M"></iframe></div><br /> If it wasn't for Beyonce, Pearl Jam would garner attention for placing at #53 in their first week with "Dark Matter". It's the title track for the veteran rock band's twelfth studio album...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Fx8LprPMIU" width="320" youtube-src-id="6Fx8LprPMIU"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Another throwback to the 1990s, blues-rock group The Black Crowes, return at #74 with "Wanting & Waiting". Their ninth release <i>Happiness Bastards</i> is coming out next week...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rHBu97e--xA" width="320" youtube-src-id="rHBu97e--xA"></iframe></div><br /> The fourth single from country singer Jordan Davis' <i>Bluebird Days</i> album to make my list, "Tucson Too Late", arrives at #79...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZDT4dMHJsY" width="320" youtube-src-id="aZDT4dMHJsY"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Indie-rock trio lovelytheband are back at #91 with "Nice To Know You"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0zlFJGwpFlo" width="320" youtube-src-id="0zlFJGwpFlo"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>American Idol</i> eleventh-season winner Phillip Phillips returns at #93 with "Love Like That", the second song from his <i>Drift Back</i> album to make my chart after "Dancing With Your Shadows"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9v1I-c8EPKM" width="320" youtube-src-id="9v1I-c8EPKM"></iframe></div><br /> French dance music legend David Guetta pairs up with Kim Petras, who is already at #77 with "Drums", for "When We Were Young (The Logical Song)". The song interpolates the 70s pop hit from Supertramp...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBGtzfK5Bak" width="320" youtube-src-id="YBGtzfK5Bak"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The final new entry at #100 comes from Christian rock band for KING & COUNTRY who slip in with their adult-pop crossover hit "What Are We Waiting For?", the title track from their 2022 album...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f3LAHvGG2PM" width="320" youtube-src-id="f3LAHvGG2PM"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-15205802331931721232024-03-08T00:00:00.063-05:002024-03-08T00:00:00.179-05:00Songoftheday 3/8/24 - I can sit and watch the fields fill up with rays of glowing sun, or watch the moon lay on the fences like that's where it was hung...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAAlSudzCFVlplKV_n9zBVNfP1L-gTBMy3SRD6B2FDaomx5vX0pIcoQeSqeLmWKdmeM9Wi9tlPigVFHeXc5aata7Il_t1Mjw_QdM9_Xu9wM6cHKRqfv48xdtdHyGrM0sAnrF6F2g-vp6OuaQMFzaDSw3Npigq93ti_n9vDbz36fwuzknwyz1Hjw/s316/lonestar%20mfpli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="316" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAAlSudzCFVlplKV_n9zBVNfP1L-gTBMy3SRD6B2FDaomx5vX0pIcoQeSqeLmWKdmeM9Wi9tlPigVFHeXc5aata7Il_t1Mjw_QdM9_Xu9wM6cHKRqfv48xdtdHyGrM0sAnrF6F2g-vp6OuaQMFzaDSw3Npigq93ti_n9vDbz36fwuzknwyz1Hjw/w400-h397/lonestar%20mfpli.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2CVJECHIdpe8otFH0XFI4F?si=d5e6dd5bbe2145fa" target="_blank">My Front Porch Looking In</a>" - Lonestar</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <a href="https://www.amazon.com/There-Here-Greatest-Lonestar-Audio/dp/B00G2J1PLG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JDHL2ZA6QYC1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GaAUctIVCSqb_uMUReb0KtEFdzen5-bfMIZ7Zas2qgYXAH-IcQFvV5yB8durDteI.WaD1vpBoHwydFk0U2b2m2rqsQ5AQEYJdOIzWDdSaRhA&dib_tag=se&keywords=lonestar+from+there+to+here&qid=1709857248&s=music&sprefix=lonestar+from+there+to+here%2Cpopular%2C94&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i>From There To Here: Greatest Hits</i></a> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #23 (two weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 13</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from the country crossover band <a href="http://lonestarnow.com/" target="_blank">Lonestar</a>, who had scored two big radio hits from their fourth album <i>I'm Already There</i> that crossed over to the top-40 on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2022/09/songoftheday-92922-he-called-her-on.html" target="_blank">I'm Already There</a>" and "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/07/songoftheday-72023-got-picture-of-you-i.html" target="_blank">Not A Day Goes By</a>". In 2003, their label BNA Records released a hits collection titled <i>From There To Here</i> which caught them at their peak (as opposed to the usual greatest hits sets used to shuffle acts off labels). There were three new songs on the set, and the first to be released as a single was "My Front Porch Looking In". Written by lead singer Richie McDonald along with industry pros Frank Myers and Don Pfrimmer, the song exalts the simple family life, describing how great is was to just be home thankfully without having to dip into <i>what</i> area it could be, whether suburban or rural (it may be a stretch for a country song to pump up the city at that time). The chorus is a cutesy repetition of two "perfect" kids, and the production from Dann Huff runs at a mid-tempo breezy pace, a good change from trying to do another over-sappy power ballad again. It actually reminds me of the Tim McGraw uptempo songs of that time. They exude Hallmark Channel-level niceness but it's definitely not offensive (considering the era of <i>yesterday's</i> SOTD), and the group found themselves at the top of the country radio chart yet again...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z_Yst3QCXd4" width="320" youtube-src-id="Z_Yst3QCXd4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"My Front Porch Looking In" scored Lonestar's eighth #1 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Songs airplay chart, while reaching the top-40 on their Hot 100 all-genre list in June of 2003. It was <i>Billboard</i>'s top country airplay song from 2003. The <i>From There To Here</i> compilation, released in June as the single was peaking, was their highest-charting record on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally at #7, while spending two weeks at #1 on the Country Albums list, going on to sell over a million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, "My Front Porch Looking In" was nominated for Best Duo/Group Country Performance with Vocals, losing to "ringer" Ricky Skaggs (and backup studio band Kentucky Thunder) for "A Simple Life".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For the second released from the hits set, Lonestar covered the 1991 pop hit "<a href="https://youtu.be/SeDt9fpaLvo?si=zHgSdCjbW1qdEEdX" target="_blank">Walking In Memphis</a>" from Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Marc Cohn. The country but mostly faithful remake of the song rose to #8 on the Country Singles chart, and peaked at #61 on the Hot 100.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lonestar <i>will</i> be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(6/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>Lonestar performed the song on <i>Good Morning America</i> when they were promoting their next album...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YZYMEbwSzHk" width="320" youtube-src-id="YZYMEbwSzHk"></iframe></div><br /> And lastly, for a radio gig ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I4-vr5jA2-A" width="320" youtube-src-id="I4-vr5jA2-A"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tomorrow I'll run down my top hits of <i>this</i> week, then on Monday SOTD will be back with a trio of brave rappers.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-48105728703462129202024-03-07T00:00:00.097-05:002024-03-07T00:00:00.348-05:00Songoftheday 3/7/24 - Willie man come on the 6 o'clock news, said somebody's been shot somebody's been abused...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBfJnhfldJRQ4zhammAO7I6DVMB9WrOpAayclMUlpxPvY4sNZLoX1VvHoksfk3vyBX4WFYYcbHNgbeeXugJioV9W0CNBG0OScIbiIuQ4KuPefOHcUWGSAsUEYXrs_N2lR4FkS97PlNTX5cNjDvvbMosBirzT5TEKssSGjWlSYz8YCVdLBS_QdlCA/s196/keitht%20bfmh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBfJnhfldJRQ4zhammAO7I6DVMB9WrOpAayclMUlpxPvY4sNZLoX1VvHoksfk3vyBX4WFYYcbHNgbeeXugJioV9W0CNBG0OScIbiIuQ4KuPefOHcUWGSAsUEYXrs_N2lR4FkS97PlNTX5cNjDvvbMosBirzT5TEKssSGjWlSYz8YCVdLBS_QdlCA/w398-h400/keitht%20bfmh.jpg" width="398" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7pWSdjUXBKksqggB49v0RE?si=d205281c0f8c443c" target="_blank">Beer For My Horses</a>" - Toby Keith and Willie Nelson</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unleashed-Toby-Keith/dp/B000069EWD/ref=sr_1_2?crid=QSDY5LSLGVYL&keywords=toby+keith+unleashed&qid=1689721387&s=music&sprefix=toby+keith+unleashed%2Cpopular%2C113&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Unleashed</a></i> (2002)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #22 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 12</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from the recently deceased country music star <a href="http://www.tobykeith.com/" target="_blank">Toby Keith</a>, whose full-on dip into post-9/11 faux-macho jingoism from his 2002 album <i>Unleashed</i> had spawned two #1 country radio hits that crossed over to the top quarter of <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/07/songoftheday-71923-american-girls-and.html" target="_blank">Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue</a>" and "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/10/songoftheday-101323-here-you-come.html" target="_blank">Who's Your Daddy</a>". For the third single from the project, Keith toned it down for the more sedate love ballad "<a href="https://youtu.be/bTJYx6L58eo?si=B1ybNBEIQdoGOnFj" target="_blank">Rock You Baby</a>", but after pumping his fans up with musical steroids, this was a shock to their system. The song stalled under the top ten on <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Songs airplay chart at #13, while not even making the top half of the Hot 100 at #66. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So Toby went back to being <i>oversized</i> Toby, with the right-wing wet dream "Beer For My Horses". Written by Keith and Scotty Emerick, and co-produced by the singer with James Stroud, the song is an attempt on a comical take on vigilante justice. What's even more disconcerting is Toby brings in contry music legend <a href="https://willienelson.com/" target="_blank">Willie Nelson</a>, who we last saw in this series from back in 1984 on his duet with Julio Iglesias on "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2013/07/songoftheday-72113-winds-of-change-are.html" target="_blank">To All The Girls I've Loved Before</a>". And this supposed icon of "left-leaning" country music artists, who is probably just as known for smoking weed as his music, and ON HIS WEBSITE advertises t-shirts with his mugshot picture, is given the verse about literally <i>lynching people</i>. It goes back to Keith pontificating about "corruption" and "crime on the streets", which are dogwhistle words for certain profile of people respectively. And with the South's known history of who was lynched in the "good old days", it's really just a fun, watered down version of what would be Jason Aldean's craptacular "Try That In A Small Town". I really have to admit I didn't even glance at this seriously at the time it was out, but in reflection I simply cannot escape from it. It seriously is a "we'll finish what the law enforcement can't" which is pervasive in society now that excuses crime if it's "done by the people they like". It's pathetic, it's performative, and it definitely got the positive reaction it wanted at the time, reversing the momentum of the superior previous single to get the pair back to the top of the chart. The music video certainly makes a choice by using rap-music instrumental production at the start in the aftermath of the "crime", and uses the "cop in drag" joke that is old and unfunny.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o1JOFhfoAD4" width="320" youtube-src-id="o1JOFhfoAD4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Beer For My Horses" spent six weeks at #1 on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Country Songs airplay chart, while reaching the top-40 on the Hot 100 in June of 2003. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, the song was nominated in two categories, losing Best Country Song to "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett (another new/old cash-in) and Best Country Vocal Collaboration to James Taylor and Alison Krauss' "How's The World Treating You" (ditto). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Later that year, Keith guested on co-writer Scotty Emerick's debut single "<a href="https://youtu.be/I4yDiSapzaE?si=30Oy6MpfwbxoKZnn" target="_blank">I Can't Take You Anywhere</a>", which peaked at #24 on the Country Songs chart and #91 on the Hot 100. <br /></div><p></p><p>Since then, Nelson has released too many albums to count on your fingers and toes, and racked up a slew of Grammy nominations, winning six awards since 2004. His most recent studio release, <i>Bluegrass</i> from 2023, has Nelson remaking older songs of his in that style. </p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">(2/10)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;">Here's Toby and Willie performing the song on the CMA Awards...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O0_QSmxKJ8M" width="320" youtube-src-id="O0_QSmxKJ8M"></iframe></div><p></p><p>Up tomorrow: This country crossover band is on the veranda. <br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p> </p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-62029811646568602262024-03-06T00:00:00.084-05:002024-03-06T00:00:00.251-05:00Songoftheday 3/6/24 - So by keeping her heart protected, she'd never ever feel rejected...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvI0GarPYFdEGBS-kMVIbdKyFU6EYaNRMUqO09VWQ8ygZSZCZgxu4PdTSuixGlkogLrzPKTLYkyzbuilBgJYvmK7_KQMf_1-_SShwq4kLRyJ7kQMIbV4Zo3GD2MmJdo9DoudNEYZESP2UbTsRYd7L0EnGQy6TUwoTNzXMzjTEVvIKgHudzobTtg/s300/clarksonk%20mi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="300" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvI0GarPYFdEGBS-kMVIbdKyFU6EYaNRMUqO09VWQ8ygZSZCZgxu4PdTSuixGlkogLrzPKTLYkyzbuilBgJYvmK7_KQMf_1-_SShwq4kLRyJ7kQMIbV4Zo3GD2MmJdo9DoudNEYZESP2UbTsRYd7L0EnGQy6TUwoTNzXMzjTEVvIKgHudzobTtg/w400-h349/clarksonk%20mi.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1XeIUenmHr80CAtfGGbMhH?si=a68b76ecf67c4590" target="_blank">Miss Independent</a>" - Kelly Clarkson</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thankful-Kelly-Clarkson/dp/B00GC04BXO/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LCYX1FZCSXZB&keywords=kelly+clarkson+thankful&qid=1694564341&s=music&sprefix=kelly+clarkson+thankful%2Cpopular%2C96&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Thankful</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #9 (two weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 17</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from <a href="http://kellyclarkson.com/" target="_blank">Kelly Clarkson</a>, who had won the first season of the TV singing competition show <i>American Idol</i> in the fall of 2002. Her "winner's song", "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/09/songoftheday-91323-what-if-i-told-you.html" target="_blank">A Moment Like This</a>", became a hugely-successful single, selling over a million copies (between physical and digital forms). Kelly was hooked up with music business mogul Clive Davis, who oversaw putting together her debut album <i>Thankful</i>. For the next single, producer Rhett Lawrence took a track he had been working on for a while, at first intending for Destiny's Child to record it. When Rhett worked on Christina Aguilera's album <i>Stripped</i>, he fleshed it out a little with her and Matt Morris, but the result never made the cut. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eventually Lawrence again reworked the song with Clarkson (supposedly without her knowledge of Aguilera's involvement) to the finished version that's on the album. The lyrics lay out the plot of a young woman who's so guarded to protect herself from hurt, but yet let's that go when finding this one guy. I certainly hope that guy doesn't break her heart (which happens <i>all</i> too much), but she seems to be willing enough to take that chance. The production is sort of dated to the time, but her vocals (as have been proven time and time again) are what shine here. It's quite obvious from the phrasing in the chorus that this was a Xtina song, but Kelly has enough power to at least put in a respectable fire to the delivery. As for the music video, that period of the late 90s/early 2000s which loved to assemble models to randomly mack on each other is quite cringe, and I hope we <i>never</i> go back to that period...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dS1ZW0FdoIU" width="320" youtube-src-id="dS1ZW0FdoIU"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Miss Independent" proved that Kelly can move past the <i>Idol</i> winner's novelty, reaching the top ten on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 in July of 2003. On the radio, the song was even bigger, spending six weeks at #1 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart, and peaked at #14 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 list and #28 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format, and even got to #11 on the brand-new Dance Airplay chart. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Australia (#3) and the United Kingdom (#6), and made the top-40 in Ireland (#11), Sweden (#25), the Netherlands (#27), and Austria (#39). The <i>Thankful</i> album, which came out in April of that year, came in at #1 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally for its first week, spending 50 weeks on the list and going on to sell over two million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, "Miss Independent" was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, coincidentally losing to Aguilera for her "Beautiful". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next release from <i>Thankful</i> was "<a href="https://youtu.be/QD3YBM5mpQA?si=_B7wpsm4VCOzEeh4" target="_blank">Low</a>", an understated Frankenstein of country melody, rock attitude, and robotic production. The song went to #14 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Mainstream Top-40 radio chart, but without a physical single release stalled down at #58 on the Hot 100. (It did make the top-40 in Australia and the UK.) A Christmas tie-in with <i>Idol</i> with a cover of "<a href="https://youtu.be/g4YNlL7l7bY?si=NMST3JVaRsRCUjdQ" target="_blank">My Grown Up Christmas List</a>" got enough easy-listening airplay to climb to #17 on the Adult Contemporary chart at the close of 2003. Lastly, the <i>Thankful</i> track "<a href="https://youtu.be/ICwfXGjVeXw?si=Zwo0eue_BgaBFKsN" target="_blank">The Trouble With Love Is</a>", was featured in the movie <i>Love Actually</i>. The song went to #24 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, and #31 on the Adult Top-40 format, but only "bubbled under" the Hot 100 at #101 at the start of the following year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kelly <i>will</i> be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(6/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kelly came back to <i>American Idol</i> to perform the song...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/19ADgiGRMKw" width="320" youtube-src-id="19ADgiGRMKw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next up, a stripped down version for <i>AOL Sessions</i> in 2004...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tPdMwo2F3qE" width="320" youtube-src-id="tPdMwo2F3qE"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and lastly, at the iHeart Music Festival in 2023...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0mh9t-ITLf0" width="320" youtube-src-id="0mh9t-ITLf0"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: A problematic coupling of a jingoist and a legend about, well, rogue justice. <br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-58031789597033997672024-03-05T00:00:00.156-05:002024-03-05T00:00:00.159-05:00Songoftheday 3/5/24 - I look and stare so deep in your eyes, I touch on you more and more every time...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5gT1CvauCvA4EZwHuGfTy2vaX2w3Fk0ZR5VdxyMie6uB7kf9csU3HVPTVt5_wjhUI2FHNEptW3QsXtseocPbObSZigQ3oJSzFKoYV-QDqQ9S4D5_kTnbH6KV73257J73YLcohLPTv0oY21JYzI_xIcYAVzeJI-p7gDUxla1A8X6TUn4tmuQxOA/s974/beyonce%20cil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="974" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5gT1CvauCvA4EZwHuGfTy2vaX2w3Fk0ZR5VdxyMie6uB7kf9csU3HVPTVt5_wjhUI2FHNEptW3QsXtseocPbObSZigQ3oJSzFKoYV-QDqQ9S4D5_kTnbH6KV73257J73YLcohLPTv0oY21JYzI_xIcYAVzeJI-p7gDUxla1A8X6TUn4tmuQxOA/w400-h395/beyonce%20cil.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5IVuqXILoxVWvWEPm82Jxr?si=ed3c312bfa494d96" target="_blank">Crazy In Love</a>" - Beyonce featuring Jay-Z</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dangerously-Love-Beyonce/dp/B00TZILAJ8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=MAAPKPBPC8ZX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tQycHwjlnDB5S4HPLMWJUMHAUsNeQPmCX_Cs-xV-IoMP0iOUEee-7oUKw6tum0R5GbReBnDIPI2x40hvzHS67w.iYZ115d71PeKbPdShUIMM3EUB9Agg5BxwEF4IPtKdzk&dib_tag=se&keywords=beyonce+dangerously+in+love+cd&qid=1709603802&s=music&sprefix=beyonce+dangerously+in+love+cd%2Cpopular%2C186&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i>Dangerously In Love</i></a> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #1 (eight weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 24</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song is from <a href="http://beyonce.com/" target="_blank">Beyonce</a>, who had led Destiny's Child through three albums, three line-up changes, and four #1 hits on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 before embarking on a side solo career in 2002. Her first appearance as just "Beyonce" came with her starring turn in the franchise comedy <i>Austin Powers: Goldmember</i>, where she contributed the song "<a href="https://youtu.be/PQLySgRW6y8?si=PpLf2KDhtCNJXyJP" target="_blank">Work It Out</a>", which was stuntingly promoted as a single from the soundtrack. It missed the Hot 100 and R&B charts completely in America, but did manage to climb to #11 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Dance Club Play chart. Surprisingly though, the single did much better overseas, where it reached the top ten in Norway (#3) and the United Kingdom (#7), and made the top-40 in Ireland (#12), Denmark (#14), Australia (#21), Sweden (#23), the Netherlands (#26), New Zealand (#36), and Belgium (#40 Wallonia). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But solo fame wouldn't take long, and it would come with the man that she would eventually marry, rapper <a href="https://lifeandtimes.com/" target="_blank">Jay-Z</a>. They collaborated on the lead single from his <i>Blueprint 2</i> album, "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/09/songoftheday-92723-im-mashin-gas-shes.html" target="_blank">Bonnie & Clyde '03</a>", which became his biggest success on the pop chart so far, and her first, reaching #4 on the Hot 100 and #5 on the R&B chart. In March of 2003, a tentative "leaked" answer record to rapper 50 Cent's "<a href="https://youtu.be/M4XKNXMMvi4?si=c3OEbsdk2wAl83IX" target="_blank">In Da Club</a>" got scattered urban radio airplay, enough to rise to #67 on <i>Billboard</i>'s R&B chart. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the spring of 2003, Beyonce released her "true" first single from her debut solo album <i>Dangerously In Love</i>, and again it was a collaboration with Jay-Z. "Crazy In Love". The song was written by Beyonce and Jay with producer Rich Harrison, using a prominent sample of the opening of "<a href="https://youtu.be/4GqOt3gBSOA?si=-s-U4uW9l32Fqw8Z" target="_blank">Are You My Girl (Tell Me So)</a>" by the Chi-Lites, which went to #8 on the R&B chart and #72 on the Hot 100, and gave member Eugene Record writing credit. The record starts with the horn fanfare (which thankfully Bey trusted Harrison on) with Jay-Z serving as hype man for his woman, before she comes in with enough sass to blow the doors down. It's more a force of energy than a song, but that doesn't diminish the musicality of the record. Everything fits, including Jay-Z's verse, proving that not overthinking things can still produce great results. Beyonce shows wild passion in her words but control in her vocals, letting it out at just the right moments. The music video establishes the pair as the power couple that <i>wants</i> to be the power couple...<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ViwtNLUqkMY" width="320" youtube-src-id="ViwtNLUqkMY"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Crazy In Love" spent two months at #1 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 starting in July of 2003, while taking three weeks at the top of their R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song led the Mainstream Top-40 chart for a week as well as the Mainstream R&B airplay list for three and the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format for a week. It also made the older-skewing station lists like Adult Top-40 at #29 and Adult R&B at #26. The dance remixes of the track, led by the house music reworks from Junior Vazquez and Maurice Joshua, helped "Crazy In Love" top the Dance Airplay radio chart for seven weeks and the Dance Club Play list for a week. Internationally, the single was big, topping the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Croatia, and reaching the top ten in Spain (#2), the Netherlands (#2), Australia (#2), Canada (#2 Sales), New Zealand (#2), Switzerland (#3), Greece (#3), Hungary (#3), Sweden (#4), Romania (#4), Italy (#5), Denmark (#5), Norway (#5), Belgium (#5 Flanders/#10 Wallonia), Germany (#6), Austria (#6), and Poland (#9 Radio), and peaked at #21 in France. The <i>Dangerously In Love</i> album, released in June of that year, debuted at #1 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> spending two years on the list, going on to sell over six million copies. At the Grammys in 2004, "Crazy In Love" won the awards for Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, and was nominated for Record Of The Year, losing to British modern rock band Coldplay for "Clocks". The <i>Dangerously In Love</i> album also won for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and two album tracks also won, "<a href="https://youtu.be/4Xemq4xCSEA?si=GiO5Z3S9hzOSkPy7" target="_blank">Dangerously In Love 2</a>" for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and her duet with Luther Vandross on "<a href="https://youtu.be/V4PMSjUbg88?si=MlFH8tRgzah0aYw5" target="_blank">The Closer I Get to</a> You" would nab Best Duo/Group R&B Vocal Performance (both would be minor R&B hits in 2004).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both Beyonce and the album (as well as Jay-Z) <i>will</i> be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(10/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Beyonce went on <i>Letterman</i> to perform the song...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9FtmdCrawcg" width="320" youtube-src-id="9FtmdCrawcg"></iframe></div><br /> Here's Beyonce and Jay-Z in concert in New York City...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LTyed-Mw8us" width="320" youtube-src-id="LTyed-Mw8us"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next up on her tour behind her <i>I Am</i> album in 2010...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N7U7AIKR4fo" width="320" youtube-src-id="N7U7AIKR4fo"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here we have her in Glastonbury England in 2011...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JCddJ4msdb4" width="320" youtube-src-id="JCddJ4msdb4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lastly, in 2014, Beyonce reprised the song in a completely new version for the movie <i>Fifty Shades Of Grey</i>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JxMZPdZLehs" width="320" youtube-src-id="JxMZPdZLehs"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: An <i>American Idol</i> breaks free.<br /></div> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-83292091115825278422024-03-04T16:00:00.046-05:002024-03-04T16:00:00.154-05:00Robbed hit of the week 03-04-24: Phil Collins' "Can't Stop Loving You"...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4qVflKkA1oiGWH-SBk5Y0lIIPNVFGPG8bnVAZN7t0HAXjPUGjL8bChIJXYdyRmI5kCX_RAdrjkC_702ILitQmvz_E_6KVxIrADMd6TpTeBKQdawaK_tshL046gom1w2qbqg43J_jbTulf1_IlAQ03ea5s_gneNjKw5RmdXT_7OALzA_V8lGBCw/s300/collinsp%20csly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4qVflKkA1oiGWH-SBk5Y0lIIPNVFGPG8bnVAZN7t0HAXjPUGjL8bChIJXYdyRmI5kCX_RAdrjkC_702ILitQmvz_E_6KVxIrADMd6TpTeBKQdawaK_tshL046gom1w2qbqg43J_jbTulf1_IlAQ03ea5s_gneNjKw5RmdXT_7OALzA_V8lGBCw/w400-h400/collinsp%20csly.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2riRXoBclL4a15GA43RfR9?si=7340a4d1994e4f5d" target="_blank">Can't Stop Loving You</a>" - Phil Collins</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Testify-Deluxe-2CD-Phil-Collins/dp/B01C6MO0SW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FHVVSSMBWSBL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.R11JgYnaJfJUR7uHr5I7-YNEZaUiRxiNXHlxDYw_fDwFQsXWUnsP01etydSXq2xrAVqOtOOXTIvOmRkbJm22ZAlv9vsIBlj54vSEpW88x1k.ybCKis3gXa0O2kER4HCqkFPPL2VQ9Oz5n9wAiXAPj_U&dib_tag=se&keywords=phil+collins+testify+cd&qid=1709508304&s=music&sprefix=phil+collins+testify+cd%2Cpopular%2C111&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Testify</a></i> (2002)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank"><i>Billboard</i></a> Hot 100 peak: #76 (three weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This week's "robbed hit" comes from one of the biggest music stars of the 1980s and 1990s, <a href="http://philcollins.co.uk/" target="_blank">Phil Collins</a>, who we last saw in the Songoftheday series with his song from the 1999 <i>Tarzan</i> movie from Disney, "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2021/11/songoftheday-11221-come-stop-your.html" target="_blank">You'll Be In My Heart</a>", which topped <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Adult Contemporary radio chart for nineteen weeks and made the top-40 on the Hot 100 that summer. Four years later, and after Phil battled partial deafness that turned out to have been complications from an infection that healed, he released his seventh studio album on Atlantic Records, <i>Testify</i>. The lead single from the record, like the one from his second set <i>Hello I Must Be Going!</i>, was a cover, but instead of redoing a Motown classic like "You Can't Hurry Love", Collins remade a song that was only a success in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. "Can't Stop Loving You", written by William Nichols originally for his own act White Horse, was a British top ten hit for Leo Sayer in 1978, reaching #6...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/brXNFdeLze4" width="320" youtube-src-id="brXNFdeLze4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Phil's version, which he produced with Rob Cavallo, who is more known for his work with rock acts like Green Day and the Goo Goo Dolls, substitutes the organic country-pop of Sayer's take with a cold robotic production prevalent in the time for "older acts trying to seem younger" (looking at Celine Dion). And he adds a bridge which borders on stalkerish and would have been better left off. Still, Phil is a pro, as well as Cavallo, and although it's not outstanding it's definitely not embarrassing. It looks like Atlantic poured some big bucks into the music video hoping for momentum from <i>Tarzan</i>, but that was four years ago, and mainstream pop radio at the time was <i>really </i>ageist...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mEnUhjmwjlI" width="320" youtube-src-id="mEnUhjmwjlI"></iframe></div><br /> While Phil's take on "Can't Stop Loving You" missed <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart completely, the song was huge on the "older-skewing" formats, spending 60 weeks on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") chart with a week at #1, and getting to #38 on the Adult Top-40 format. However, even with that the song stalled in the bottom quarter of the Hot 100 in Feburary of 2003. Internationally, where they are more forgiving for veterans, the single reached the top ten in Poland (#1 Airplay), France (#3), the Netherlands (#3), Czechia (#6), Belgium (#7 Wallonia/#16 Flanders), and Hungary (#9). It also made the top-40 in Germany (#11), Italy (#20), Sweden (#20), Austria (#23), Switzerland (#23), the United Kingdom (#28), and Ireland (#39). The <i>Testify</i> album, released in November of 2002, peaked at #30 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second single promoted in America from <i>Testify</i> was "<a href="https://youtu.be/K6kjELBKbt8?si=6pKNeeRnx-7jJxhY" target="_blank">Come With Me</a>", which rose to #16 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Adult Contemporary chart. Meanwhile, in the UK, a single featuring two songs they were pushing, "<a href="https://youtu.be/0dxFC09sX2I?si=k5ycuz4M7Sf27MME" target="_blank">The Least You Can Do</a>" and "<a href="https://youtu.be/XwzID90zhAc?si=m2JgN4RnFAbYmyNT" target="_blank">Wake Up Call</a>", was a minor hit on the British Singles list at #86. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(4/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>The song made enough of an impression Taylor Swift for her to cover the song on her appearance on BBC radio in 2019...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O6FXmdoGut8" width="320" youtube-src-id="O6FXmdoGut8"></iframe></div><br /> Lastly, here's Phil on tour behind the <i>Testify</i> album...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K8inZ2sg6d0" width="320" youtube-src-id="K8inZ2sg6d0"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-48793475267512039132024-03-04T00:00:00.084-05:002024-03-04T00:00:00.128-05:00Songoftheday 3/4/24 -Every now and then soft as breath upon my skin, I feel you come back again...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLm1lHTPoBGo0j1nblJUCn4gNvSHAWYw2M4GZ-pVSF1gMwdiYIeZvSFWW6pHKtVqplrewzX7B-3TYVEGYXySUPxyZhyzoF5PMf553ZDB9EQhMu_OsVs7Bi-bQXGy23WTotopGo10-krA68X8LOtKPmuKb_W3IGaLVDO5e-gdYf6zxmrtt98kDMcw/s600/diamondrio%20ib.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLm1lHTPoBGo0j1nblJUCn4gNvSHAWYw2M4GZ-pVSF1gMwdiYIeZvSFWW6pHKtVqplrewzX7B-3TYVEGYXySUPxyZhyzoF5PMf553ZDB9EQhMu_OsVs7Bi-bQXGy23WTotopGo10-krA68X8LOtKPmuKb_W3IGaLVDO5e-gdYf6zxmrtt98kDMcw/w300-h400/diamondrio%20ib.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6cTZQGs1U5xkWA1fgLc8tH?si=9cfef853ac584687" target="_blank">I Believe</a>" - Diamond Rio</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Completely-Diamond-Rio/dp/B000069KB4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=323I1BHITMAC7&keywords=diamond+rio+completely&qid=1693161417&s=music&sprefix=diamond+rio+completely%2Cpopular%2C99&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Completely</a></i> (2002)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #31 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 4</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from the country music group <a href="http://diamondrio.com/" target="_blank">Diamond Rio</a>, who scored a third top-40 crossover hit on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 chart in the autumn of 2002 with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/08/songoftheday-82823-going-out-of-my-mind.html" target="_blank">Beautiful Mess</a>". The second single pulled from their <i>Completely</i> album was "I Believe". Written by industry pros Skip Ewing (a successful country artist himself in the late 1980s) and Donny Kees, the song has lead singer Marty Roe mourning the loss of a loved one (presumably a wife). It leans heavily on the belief in the afterlife, as he sings how the spirit lives on in heaven as well as in those they've touched. It's hopeful without being too hokey, and the production from the band with Michael Clute sweeps in an orchestra in the beginning but does dial it back a little to let the mandolin and piano shine. But its the harmonies from Gene Johnson and Dana Williams that make it so sweet. In return, fans and radio gave the band their first back-to-back country #1 hits...<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/esD0MoGe8DY" width="320" youtube-src-id="esD0MoGe8DY"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"I Believe" reached the top-40 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in May of 2003, while spending two weeks at #1 on the Country Songs airplay chart. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, the song was nominated for Best Duo/Group Country Vocal (their third straight nod), losing to Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for the non-hit "A Simple Life". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The third release from <i>Completely</i> was the sugary-cute parable on aging, "<a href="https://youtu.be/cbV8Ou0_DIE?si=A96W43Q3YN3rVkVN" target="_blank">Wrinkles</a>", which peaked at #16 on the Country Songs chart and "bubbled under" the Hot 100 at #107. That was followed by "<a href="https://youtu.be/5hT7GE90o90?si=R8BVDTmWth0YA9x-" target="_blank">We All Fall Down</a>", which stopped under the Country Songs list at #45. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Diamond Rio was intending to put out a new album later in 2003, but after two preview singles missed the top-40 on the Country Songs chart, <i>Can't You Tell</i> was shelved. Instead, Arista Nashville put out a second <i>Greatest Hits</i> <i>II</i> set, including a new single, "<a href="https://youtu.be/CtXH4xllwk0?si=LwtOC1fk7bW9UEE6" target="_blank">God Only Cries</a>", which is their most recent chart hit at #30. That collection, which went to #62 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally and #12 on the Country Albums list, ended their stay on the label where they had been from the start. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The band veered towards religious music after that, signing on with gospel label Word Records, where they put out two studio albums. The second, <i>The Reason</i>, climbed to #41 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Albums chart. The record won them their first Grammy Award for Best Southern/Country/Bluegrass Gospel Album (in the last year of being a separate category). In 2015, Diamond Rio released a secular country album <i>I Made It</i>, which it their most recent studio release. Although Johnson and drummer Brian Prout retired, the band continues to tour. Last year, they returned with a new single, the rollicking instrumental "<a href="https://youtu.be/nPr26M65kw8?si=5_PDIBn28Zh8RZ69" target="_blank">The Kick</a>". (I wish the Grammys still had a country instrumental category this would've definitely made the cut).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(7/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the band performing "I Believe" for an awards show...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5Qb5HmyHTaA" width="320" youtube-src-id="5Qb5HmyHTaA"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: The pop power-couple of the millennium announce themselves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-25584394613430850452024-03-02T21:52:00.001-05:002024-03-02T21:52:26.227-05:00Twostepcub's music chart for March 2, 2024...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_E5xMH4OdDMpqh75ZWN_stgkKkBTfFaRNkmwgg1kuNM44yTjnwNxMF0fcXoo2iQqjJLJPDNO6XKnlhpJA_xXJzI-vLZx_wkeAqpvWPZorymRtIWE3CwAuIQMqbvzx99DTMcLo_0dnXtWfezAfQ_SssWyiFCqXvzmOncuKq0s_8IO6TIGyBhtouA/s480/combsl.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_E5xMH4OdDMpqh75ZWN_stgkKkBTfFaRNkmwgg1kuNM44yTjnwNxMF0fcXoo2iQqjJLJPDNO6XKnlhpJA_xXJzI-vLZx_wkeAqpvWPZorymRtIWE3CwAuIQMqbvzx99DTMcLo_0dnXtWfezAfQ_SssWyiFCqXvzmOncuKq0s_8IO6TIGyBhtouA/w640-h360/combsl.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">It's a little late, but it's time to run down my top 100 hit tunes from the previous week. Teddy Swims hangs in on top for a fifth week, while Luke Combs (pictured above) moves into the top five. Former big hits from Dua Lipa, U2, and October London drop off my chart, while songs from Mumford & Sons, Foo Fighters, and the Black Keys make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in <span style="color: red;"><b>red</b></span>). And under the list everything is Spotify playlisted for 5 1/2 hours of the biggest in pop, rock, R&B, country, and dance music. Another rainy day in New York City..</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Lose Control - Teddy Swims (1)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Stick Season - Noah Kahan (4)</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Is It Over Now? - Taylor Swift (2)</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Loving You - Cannons (5)</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Where The Wild Things Are - Luke Combs (7)</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. Water - Tyla (6)</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Get Him Back! - Olivia Rodrigo (3)</div><div style="text-align: left;">8. On My Mama - Victoria Monet (10)</div><div style="text-align: left;">9. Houdini - Dua Lipa (9)</div><div style="text-align: left;">10. Still Believe In Love - Mary J. Blige f/Vado (14)<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">11. World On Fire - Nate Smith (11)</div><div style="text-align: left;">12. One More Time - blink-182 (12)</div><div style="text-align: left;">13. Greedy - Tate McRae (13)</div><div style="text-align: left;">14. Run Away With Me - Cold War Kids (20)</div><div style="text-align: left;">15. Lovin' On Me - Jack Harlow (15)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>16. Yes, And? - Ariana Grande (28)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">17. A Symptom Of Being Human - Shinedown (21)</div><div style="text-align: left;">18. White Horse - Chris Stapleton (8)</div><div style="text-align: left;">19. The Painter - Cody Johnson (19)</div><div style="text-align: left;">20. What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish (18)</div><div style="text-align: left;">21. I Remember Everything - Zach Bryan f/Kacey Musgraves (17)</div><div style="text-align: left;">22. Northern Attitude - Noah Kahan f/Hozier (22)</div><div style="text-align: left;">23. Pretty Little Poison - Warren Zeiders (25)</div><div style="text-align: left;">24. Mother Nature - MGMT (24)</div><div style="text-align: left;">25. I Can Feel It - Kane Brown (26)</div><div style="text-align: left;">26. Lil Boo Thang - Paul Russell (16)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">27. Beautiful People (Stay High) - The Black Keys (41)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">28. The Tower - Future Islands (38)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">29. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift (29)</div><div style="text-align: left;">30. Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor (34)</div><div style="text-align: left;">31. Strangers - Kenya Grace (27)</div><div style="text-align: left;">32. Neon Pill - Cage The Elephant (40)</div><div style="text-align: left;">33. My Love Mine All Mine - Mitski (23)</div><div style="text-align: left;">34. Save Me - Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson (30)</div><div style="text-align: left;">35. Gimme Love - Sia (37)</div><div style="text-align: left;">36. Snooze - SZA (36)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>37. Good People - Mumford & Sons f/Pharrell Williams (61)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">38. Body Moving - Eliza Rose & Calvin Harris (39)</div><div style="text-align: left;">39. 23 - Chayce Beckham (43)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>40. The Glass - Foo Fighters (55)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">41. The American Dream Is Killing Me - Green Day (31)</div><div style="text-align: left;">42. Dreaming - Marshmello f/Pink & Sting (32)</div><div style="text-align: left;">43. Good Good - Usher f/Summer Walker & 21 Savage (33)</div><div style="text-align: left;">44. All I Need Is You - Chris Janson (44)</div><div style="text-align: left;">45. Landmines - Sum-41 (49)</div><div style="text-align: left;">46. Devil You Know - Tim Montana (47)</div><div style="text-align: left;">47. Feather - Sabrina Carpenter (51)</div><div style="text-align: left;">48. Artificial - Daughtry (52)</div><div style="text-align: left;">49. Leave A Light On - Papa Roach (53)</div><div style="text-align: left;">50. I'm Alright - Mammoth WVH (50)</div><div style="text-align: left;">51. Fast Car - Luke Combs (46)</div><div style="text-align: left;">52. Burn It Down - Parker McCollum (56)</div><div style="text-align: left;">53. Exes - Tate McRae (58)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>54. Creek Will Rise - Conner Smith (64)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">55. Made For Me - Muni Long (35)</div><div style="text-align: left;">56. What Now - Brittany Howard (42)</div><div style="text-align: left;">57. Different 'Round Here - Riley Green f/Luke Combs (57)</div><div style="text-align: left;">58. Paint The Town Red - Doja Cat (54)</div><div style="text-align: left;">59. Used To Be Young - Miley Cyrus (45)</div><div style="text-align: left;">60. Under You - Foo FIghters (60)</div><div style="text-align: left;">61. Agora Hills - Doja Cat (65)</div><div style="text-align: left;">62. Mind On You - George Birge (48)</div><div style="text-align: left;">63. Already Over - Mike Shinoda (63)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>64. Yes, I'm A Mess - AJR (74)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">65. Past Life - Felix Jaehn & Jonas Blue (70)</div><div style="text-align: left;">66. Take My Chance - MK (71)</div><div style="text-align: left;">67. Lifeline - Alicia Keys (67)</div><div style="text-align: left;">68. Selfish - Justin Timberlake (76)</div><div style="text-align: left;">69. Truck Bed - HARDY (73)</div><div style="text-align: left;">70. Something Better - Blanca & Tauren Wells (72)</div><div style="text-align: left;">71. Need A Favor - Jelly Roll (59)</div><div style="text-align: left;">72. Thinkin' Bout Me - Morgan Wallen (68)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">73. Legends Never Die - Bad Wolves (85)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">74. Seasons - Thirty Seconds To Mars (86)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">75. Strangers - Lewis Capaldi (75)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.redclaystrays.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">76. Wondering Why - The Red Clay Strays (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">77. Drums - James Hype f/Kim Petras (82)</div><div style="text-align: left;">78. Flowers - Miley Cyrus (78)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>79. Dilemma - Green Day (91)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">80. Lost - Linkin Park (80)</div><div style="text-align: left;">81. Modern Girl - Jack Antonoff & Bleachers (77)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>82. Krazy - VASSY (92)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://disturbed1.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">83. Don't Tell Me - Disturbed f/Ann Wilson (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">84. Nothing Matters - The Last Dinner Party (84)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ygmarley/?hl=en" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">85. Praise Jah In The Moonlight - YG Marley (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>86. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone (96)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">87. Everybody - Nicki Minaj (87)</div><div style="text-align: left;">88. Impressively Average - Brigitte Calls Me Baby (88)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://blackpumas.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">89. Ice Cream (Pay Phone) - Black Pumas (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">90. Prada - casso f/RAYE & D-Europe (90)</div><div style="text-align: left;">91. Mamaw's House - Thomas Rhett f/Morgan Wallen (95)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reneerapp.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">92. Not My Fault - Renee Rapp f/Megan Thee Stallion (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://morganwallen.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">93. Man Made A Bar - Morgan Wallen f/Eric Church (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">94. Can't Get Enough - Jennifer Lopez (98)</div><div style="text-align: left;">95. Saving Up - Dom Dolla (81)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://bakar.world/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">96. Alive! - Bakar (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">97. Calm Down - Rema & Selena Gomez (93)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.musicbyknox.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">98. Not The 1975 - Knox (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.beckyhill.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">99. Never Be Alone - Becky Hill & Sonny Fodera (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://motionlessinwhite.net/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">100. Sign Of Life - Motionless In White (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></b></div><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="352" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/2YjjSZth39NWHtNASjoJJO?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">There are ten songs making their debut on my chart this week (highlighted in <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">blue</span></b></span>), and if you click on any of them, you'll connect to that act's official website for more info on them. And here they are on video, after the break...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>Alternative country band the Red Clay Strays lay claim to the top debut of the week at #76 with "Wondering Why", their first song to make my chart...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JbxfFKvoAU4" width="320" youtube-src-id="JbxfFKvoAU4"></iframe></div><br /> Hard rock group Disturbed come together with veteran rock icon Ann Wilson of the band Heart for the song at #83, "Don't Tell Me". The song is from their eighth studio album <i>Divisive</i>, and the fourth song from the record to make my list...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YaEBglkCFVc" width="320" youtube-src-id="YaEBglkCFVc"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Joshua Omaru Marley, aka YG Marley, is the grandson of Bob Marley and son of Lauryn Hill, and now has a third-generation hit of his own at #85 with "Praise Jah In The Moonlight"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iD__IJWqwY8" width="320" youtube-src-id="iD__IJWqwY8"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Psychedelic soul duo Black Pumas follow up their recent hit "More Than A Love Song" with the entry at #89, "Ice Cream (Pay Phone)"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-YhOe5hnOmE" width="320" youtube-src-id="-YhOe5hnOmE"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Renee Rapp, best known now for her stage and screen depiction of Regina George in the musical adaptation of <i>Mean Girls</i>, pairs up with rapper Megan Thee Stallion at #92 for "Not My Fault". It's from the soundtrack to the movie....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C_kPDIXBCWQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="C_kPDIXBCWQ"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Morgan Wallen and Eric Church sit down at #93 for "Man Made A Bar"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sS8jpNdABgw" width="320" youtube-src-id="sS8jpNdABgw"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">English singer/songwriter Bakar rolls in at #96 with "Alive!" from his 2023 album <i>Halo</i>...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/52K2O8SnkJ0" width="320" youtube-src-id="52K2O8SnkJ0"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Nashville band the Knox name-checks the British modern rock group with their breakthrough hit at #98, "Not The 1975"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gF0HEdinEC4" width="320" youtube-src-id="gF0HEdinEC4"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Dance-pop singer Becky Hill teams up with DJ Sonny Fodera at #99 for "Never Be Alone"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-p5FeDRqLf0" width="320" youtube-src-id="-p5FeDRqLf0"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The final newbie at #100 comes from the metalcore group Motionless In White with "Sign Of Life"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pNeim8mpLQ4" width="320" youtube-src-id="pNeim8mpLQ4"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-14481714456533210932024-03-01T00:00:00.053-05:002024-03-01T00:00:00.346-05:00Songoftheday 3/1/24 - It ticks just like a Timex it never lets up on you, who said life was easy the job is never through...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiiDX3mKTmbZ3ApfZ9ZyXCqoyluwDfWfPDI6kRHd9wolDdpYML-1aAg03QYkg3OythTbmqBdlK7ed3FRriS5YBOjMUoNlCBFUO443TJ1zuOKfvT9b-E-EV6rfwhhNdgqVAxQf5BZRU3oX2JHJRAelJfuzY3z9CMUpLVFQZcvRhPf36eJW-kbnOw/s235/urbank%20ros.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="235" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiiDX3mKTmbZ3ApfZ9ZyXCqoyluwDfWfPDI6kRHd9wolDdpYML-1aAg03QYkg3OythTbmqBdlK7ed3FRriS5YBOjMUoNlCBFUO443TJ1zuOKfvT9b-E-EV6rfwhhNdgqVAxQf5BZRU3oX2JHJRAelJfuzY3z9CMUpLVFQZcvRhPf36eJW-kbnOw/w400-h400/urbank%20ros.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0capI6Wr0SYGiZ4fxvz5Gq?si=94bb89f1dc5e4c86" target="_blank">Raining On Sunday</a>" - Keith Urban</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Road-Keith-Urban/dp/B00006JOG7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17TRXLW00Z85B&keywords=keith+urban+golden+road&qid=1693789305&s=music&sprefix=keith+urban+golden+roa%2Cpopular%2C99&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Golden Road</a></i> (2002)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #38 (two weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 2</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from Australian-American country music artist <a href="https://www.keithurban.net/" target="_blank">Keith Urban</a>, who cracked the top-40 on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 for the third time with the lead single from his <i>Golden Road</i> album "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/09/songoftheday-9423-theres-new-wind.html" target="_blank">Somebody Like You</a>" in the late autumn of 2002. The second single from the record was "Raining On Sunday", written by Radney Foster and Darrell Brown, and originally recorded for Foster's 1999 album <i>See What You Wanna See</i>. The lyrics see the opposite side of a relationship that its predecessor, where lovers are there to rough out the trials of the week, and to "hide under the covers all afternoon" listening to the storms outside their haven. The production from Keith along with Dann Huff is smooth and understated until Urban gets his guitar solo, and the chord changes on the chorus flow quite nicely. The music video supplements the mood of the romantic song though his band being in the house with Keith and his love is a choice....<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DgV7RG9Qgvk" width="320" youtube-src-id="DgV7RG9Qgvk"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Raining On Sunday" became the second top-40 crossover hit on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in May of 2003, while spending a week at #3 on the Country Songs airplay chart. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both Keith and the <i>Golden Road</i> album will be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(7/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the original from Radney Foster from 1999...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X2j46sACFJg" width="320" youtube-src-id="X2j46sACFJg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and lastly, Urban, in concert...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0blpyUS3a_0" width="320" youtube-src-id="0blpyUS3a_0"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tomorrow I'll have my top hits of this week, the on Monday SOTD will be back with a faithful country band. <br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-67917120861298194222024-02-29T00:00:00.077-05:002024-02-29T00:00:00.135-05:00Songoftheday 2/29/24 -Baby when I think about the day that we first met, wasn't lookin for what I found...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5bQeFPm8XXZl8ahwuk2sW5S3t5agogIRNFpGZjpDqJTagzfXVjdLqmReT4X7iYNYdCsQbhxjsAguCR5Wpy8jT0B_u-pmwKmb_n30sKYqX5o0URDd_zzSP2BhNqtimiC5GJ-IG75ZNOPpCyFi88rzi7GHvAa8zOtXZCev5FyeHoo44ZDL33adICQ/s500/lopezj%20ig.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="500" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5bQeFPm8XXZl8ahwuk2sW5S3t5agogIRNFpGZjpDqJTagzfXVjdLqmReT4X7iYNYdCsQbhxjsAguCR5Wpy8jT0B_u-pmwKmb_n30sKYqX5o0URDd_zzSP2BhNqtimiC5GJ-IG75ZNOPpCyFi88rzi7GHvAa8zOtXZCev5FyeHoo44ZDL33adICQ/w400-h331/lopezj%20ig.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7AUfOfYTfiHhgg2Pw1aTpw?si=28429bfd538e4735" target="_blank">I'm Glad</a>" - Jennifer Lopez</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Me-Then-Jennifer-Lopez/dp/B000075AJB/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1695247554&sr=1-1" target="_blank">This Is Me...Then</a></i> (2002)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank"><i>Billboard</i></a> Hot 100 peak: #32 (four weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 5</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from <a href="http://jenniferlopez.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Lopez</a>, whose album <i>This Is Me...Then</i> had already spun off one of the most self-serving songs to become a "hit", "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/09/songoftheday-92123-from-in-living-color.html" target="_blank">Jenny From The Block</a>", followed by her collab with rapper LL Cool J on "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2023/11/songoftheday-11323-its-such-shame-but.html" target="_blank">All I Have</a>", which topped <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 for a month at the beginning of 2003. The third single pulled from the album was "I'm Glad", written by Lopez (s) with producers Troy Oliver and Cory Rooney along with Andre Deyo and rapper Jesse "Schooly D" Weaver Jr., whose song "<a href="https://youtu.be/m1mn9m_1h5U?si=V9iANLIxHDMmpBHe" target="_blank">PSK What Does It Mean</a>" was sampled for this record. The lyrics make this a gushy love song, which was on-brand at the time of her <i>first</i> highly-publicized romance with actor Ben Affleck. The production is lush and quite lovely, and they process her vocals enough to float over the beat adequately. The music video, though, is what got the most attention, as Lopez basically condensed the entirety of the <i>Flashdance</i> movie into four minutes and change...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pms9PrL67Gw" width="320" youtube-src-id="pms9PrL67Gw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"I'm Glad" became the third top-40 hit from the album in May of 2003. On the radio, the song peaked at #13 on the Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart, #34 on the Dance Airplay list, and #13 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. The remixes of the track, done by the likes of Paul Oakenfold and MURK! among others, helped it climb to #4 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Dance Club Play chart. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Canada (#8 Sales) and Australia (#10), and made the top-40 in the United Kingdom (#11), Switzerland (#12), Italy (#17), the Netherlands (#17), Spain (#19), Ireland (#19), New Zealand (#22), Belgium (#30 Flanders/#31 Wallonia), and Hungary (#37). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A fourth single from the record, "<a href="https://youtu.be/z142HK8V-hE?si=LIhyf8xSmiDr4W5x" target="_blank">Baby I Love U!</a>", which sampled the theme from the movie <i>Midnight Cowboy</i>, didn't get much traction under the beginning of 2004, where it reached #72 on the Hot 100 and #55 on the R&B Singles chart. On the radio, it at least made the top-40 at Mainstream Top-40 stations at #26 and the Rhythmic format at #15. But it got a much better reception overseas, climbing to #3 in the UK and #16 in Ireland. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jennifer <i>will</i> be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(5/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the "Perfecto" remix from Paul Oakenfold that helped "I'm Glad" reach the top five on the dance chart...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8G5kA6aORbw" width="320" youtube-src-id="8G5kA6aORbw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and lastly, a short version of the song from the <i>Global Citizen</i> charity concert in 2021...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B2doqXKWrxk" width="320" youtube-src-id="B2doqXKWrxk"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: Aussie country star gets some weekend showers. <br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-44744257905980365882024-02-28T00:00:00.189-05:002024-02-28T00:00:00.123-05:00Songoftheday 2/28/24 - A farmer and a teacher a hooker and a preacher, ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NK2F8zDr8jQAbGJPnfyFcjRKoA27lODaBW-tAHAJ4UF9VKaai3vV_ylq4wR-cztuxB36JeYlIF2OMpGxu7ycC25A3IWFN_1yqRIsFVGto0e1elt23nRn7EXFsSk_aMYoPi0JvC92OEKI3hy2UgFGPxI7TODsDZTBiFSsdhUQZ77vfY6E9iPvvg/s316/travisr%20twc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NK2F8zDr8jQAbGJPnfyFcjRKoA27lODaBW-tAHAJ4UF9VKaai3vV_ylq4wR-cztuxB36JeYlIF2OMpGxu7ycC25A3IWFN_1yqRIsFVGto0e1elt23nRn7EXFsSk_aMYoPi0JvC92OEKI3hy2UgFGPxI7TODsDZTBiFSsdhUQZ77vfY6E9iPvvg/w400-h400/travisr%20twc.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0riGx0wA6jMQsFmgdOUgcH?si=f00dfbad80a54d12" target="_blank">Three Wooden Crosses</a>" - Randy Travis</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Shine-Randy-Travis/dp/B00006LERX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Z5SJ52EWUDK8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PcqAnRUhIL50G3uPQ4X7T_2RoSQpkF7akt-edQoDGy_FeeZx1sZQGnaK6_4Uh0S6.W2witMc8fPsskQX9tf9CbLNFJcnxRX9yQ9Jvg_Efr_E&dib_tag=se&keywords=randy+travis+rise+and+shine&qid=1709077396&s=music&sprefix=randy+travis+rise+and+shi%2Cpopular%2C274&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Rise & Shine</a></i> (2002)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #31 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 5</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from country music veteran <a href="http://www.randytravis.com/" target="_blank">Randy Travis</a>, who
originally recorded under his birth name of Randy Traywick when he
released his first music. Born in south central North Carolina, he first
moved to Charlotte, where Randy met his manager and eventual wife
Elizabeth Hatcher. Moving to Nashville and signing with the indie label
Paula Records, Randy's single "<a href="https://youtu.be/altw36lbXIY" target="_blank">She's My Woman</a>"
grazed the lower stretch of the Country Singles chart for a month,
peaking at #91 in 1979. From there Travis disappeared for six years
before getting a deal with Warner Brothers under the possibly more
palatable name Randy Travis. His first single on the label, the cheating
treatise "<a href="https://youtu.be/pJgV-TGkFeU" target="_blank">On The Other Hand</a>", was originally another minor hit on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Country Singles chart at #67, but after the follow-up, "<a href="https://youtu.be/EJRl5GrW_34" target="_blank">1982</a>", climbed all the way into the top ten at #6, it was re-released, where it spent a week at #1 in 1986. Then came "<a href="https://youtu.be/VX8GKeCGv-c" target="_blank">Diggin' Up Bones</a>",
which followed "Other Hand" to #1 and landed Randy's first Grammy
nomination for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, which went to 70s
holdover Ronnie Milsap for his crossover single "Lost In The Fifties
Tonight". Although the "countrypolitan" side of Nashville won that
night, Randy's position as the stalwart of the neo-traditional movement
in the genre was solidified with a fourth big hit with "<a href="https://youtu.be/KP7TQvbt5Nc" target="_blank">No Place Like Home</a>", spending a pair of weeks at #2. Travis' debut album, <i>Storms Of Life</i>, topped <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Albums chart. While it stopped at #85 on the all-genre <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, the record spent 100 weeks on the list and went on to move over three million copies. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With
his position as the biggest star in the new traditionalist movement in
country, Travis' return in 1987 with his sophomore effort was <i>huge</i>. The lead single from <i>Always & Forever</i>, "<a href="https://youtu.be/sgJXbIP83A8" target="_blank">Forever and Ever, Amen</a>", was an <i>event</i>
record, the first I truly remember in the genre. The song went to take
three weeks on top of the Country Singles chart, and it was followed by
three <i>more</i> #1's in "<a href="https://youtu.be/vxb170oVxSw" target="_blank">I Won't Need You Anymore</a>", "<a href="https://youtu.be/ggKpDTlhLDE" target="_blank">Too Gone Too Long</a>", and "<a href="https://youtu.be/l-dX3yFkLVE" target="_blank">I Told You So</a>", each so different from each other yet equally great. The <i>Always & Forever</i> album, which also topped the Country Albums chart, scored Randy's first top-40 set on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally at #19, selling over <i>five</i>
million copies. In 1988, the album was nominated as a whole for the
Best Male Country Vocal Grammy, and won. Travis' next release, <i>Old 8X10</i> that same year, also won that award in 1989, and spun off a trio of #1 country radio hits with "<a href="https://youtu.be/gdda1hdPH3k" target="_blank">Honky Tonk Moon</a>", "<a href="https://youtu.be/hCgSbb_hJA0" target="_blank">Deeper Than The Holler</a>", and "<a href="https://youtu.be/KQ8cYwmouHA" target="_blank">Is It Still Over</a>". Travis closed the decade with <i>No Holdin' Back</i>,
which claimed his fourth consecutive #1 Country Album, accompanied by a
pair of Country Singles #1's with his cover of the Brook Benton soul
classic "<a href="https://youtu.be/SNKrBQCzQOI" target="_blank">It's Just A Matter Of Time</a>" and "<a href="https://youtu.be/XLlWE3-1Bqg" target="_blank">Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart</a>".
"It's Just A Matter..." was nominated for the Best Male Country Vocal
Grammy in 1990, this time losing to Lyle Lovett for his <i>Lyle Lovett & His Large Band</i> release.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Randy's first album of the 1990's was a duet album, <i>Heroes & Friends</i>,
which gave the singer his fifth (and so far last) #1 country albums
placing. It was his first, though, to fail to land a #1 country single,
with the sole solo cut, "<a href="https://youtu.be/yUCBQeKOJv8" target="_blank">Heroes & Friends</a>", stopping at #3 in 1991. His collaboration with George Jones from the album, "<a href="https://youtu.be/1o6Om5mGCKk" target="_blank">A Few Ole Country Boys</a>",
was nominated for a Best Country Vocal Collaboration Grammy Award, as
was Travis' track from the same album with blues master B.B. King on "<a href="https://youtu.be/ny90n5SHNTw" target="_blank">Waiting On The Light To Change</a>",
with both losing to Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits'
"Poor Boy Blues" (probably splitting the vote). He returned to the top
though on his next record <i>High Lonesome</i>, whose second single "<a href="https://youtu.be/6dCkx35td8A" target="_blank">Forever Together</a>",
co-written with fellow country star Alan Jackson, topped the radio list
later that same year. As a testament to his incredible success, Travis
released two separate volumes of <i>Greatest Hits</i> albums the same
week in 1992, which each hit the top-20 on the Country Albums chart, and
each produced a #1 country radio hit with "<a href="https://youtu.be/_LivzZkV2F8" target="_blank">If I Didn't Have You</a>" and "<a href="https://youtu.be/TbkdDLFEDEM" target="_blank">Look Heart, No Hands</a>". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The mid-1990's was a roller-coaster ride for Travis; his next studio album <i>Wind In A Wire</i>,
a soundtrack to a television series that was his first record not
produced by Kyle Lehning. The album stalled at #24 on the Country Albums
chart, and #121 on the <i>Billboard 200</i>, while neither of its two singles even made the country radio top-40, with "<a href="https://youtu.be/OmaGgwn1w3U" target="_blank">Cowboy Boogie</a>" stalling at #46. However his next release, <i>This Is Me</i> in 1994 which reunited Randy with Lehning, returned the singer to the top ten at #10 while landing <i>four</i> top ten radio hits including the #1 "<a href="https://youtu.be/_32OqcywBAA" target="_blank">Whisper My Name</a>". Also from the set "<a href="https://youtu.be/XuL8g2Szse0" target="_blank">Better Class Of Losers</a>"
was up for a Grammy for Best Country Male Vocal, which went home with
Vince Gill for his classic "I Believe In You". Randy's next album, <i>Full Circle</i>, his last with Warner Brothers, had only a pair of moderate country hits with "<a href="https://youtu.be/HhtcC_4dG4k" target="_blank">Are We In Trouble Now</a>" stopping at #24. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Randy moved to DreamWorks Records, hiring Byron Gallimore and James Stroud to co-produce his first record with the company, <i>You and You Alone</i>. The lead single from the set, "<a href="https://youtu.be/vtsv-aO8T_A" target="_blank">Out Of My Bones</a>", spent a week at #2 on the Country Singles chart, and was Travis' first to make <i>Billboard</i>'s "pop" Hot 100 at #64. That was followed by "<a href="https://youtu.be/168qygBZypI" target="_blank">The Hole</a>", which rose to #9 on the country list, while "bubbling under" the Hot 100 at #105. The third release, however, did the best, as "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2021/08/robbed-hit-of-week-82321-randy-travis.html" target="_blank">Spirit Of A Boy, Wisdom Of A Man</a>" not only spent a week as well at #2 on the Country Singles chart, lasting a week longer than "Out Of My Bones", and came <i>so</i> close to reaching the top-40 on the Hot 100, stopping at #42 in the beginning of 1999. The <i>You and You Alone</i> album became his ninth studio set to reach the top ten on <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Albums chart at #7.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Later that year, Travis released a follow-up on DreamWorks, <i>A Man Ain't Made A Stone</i>, which placed four singles on the Country Singles chart, but even the biggest of them, the title track, stalled out at #16, and stopped at #82 on the Hot 100. After this, Randy exited the label. Not only did he change who he recorded for, but he re-directed the focus of his work. The new millennium saw Randy concentrate on gospel and religious music, albeit within the country genre. Joining up with the sacred music imprint Word Records to be distributed on Curb, he released his first album of the 2000s <i>Inspirational Journey</i>. The record went to #34 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Albums chart, but missed the <i>Billboard</i> <i>200</i>. The only single promoted to country radio, "<a href="https://youtu.be/WUJ-JgSwV9U?si=D1FP6d0h6WSXcqKN" target="_blank">Baptism</a>", only popped on to the Country Songs airplay chart for a solitary week at #75. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Southern Gospel Album in 2002, losing to <i>Bill and Gloria Gaither Present A Billy Graham Homecoming</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That same year, Randy returned with this second set of Word, <i>Rise & Shine</i>, which perhaps wasn't as didactic as his initial gospel attempt. However that didn't mean he wouldn't lean on the parable, as he certainly did on the lead single "Three Wooden Crosses". Written by country music industry pros Doug Johnson and Kim Williams, the story-song starts out with the foursome mentioned in the title of this post (like it's the start of a "walk into a bar" joke). After an accident claims the life of three of them (hence the song title), the parable takes a turn to mourn those and what they left behind. The twist at the end is pretty predictable, but still packs a punch, with the message being there's always time to redeem oneself before the end. Now religion <i>isn't</i> a prerequisite of morality, but used in the right ways <i>can</i> lead that path, and the conclusion to the song is solemn without being too preachy. Of course Randy's deep velvet voice helps make the medicine go down smoother, and production from longtime collaborator Kyle Lehning is simple and reverent. In return the single became beloved by the country music audience especially in the time of the second gulf war, and it proved to be his biggest success as a lead artist on the Hot 100 as well...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UiDjPR9yRDU" width="320" youtube-src-id="UiDjPR9yRDU"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Three Wooden Crosses" became Randy's first song to reach the top-40 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in June of 2003. The song scored Travis' sixteenth #1 hit on <i>Billboard</i>'s Country Songs airplay chart as well, spending a hefty 34 weeks on the list. The <i>Rise & Shine</i> album, released in October of 2002, brought him back to the <i>Billboard 200</i> at #73, peaked at #8 on the Country Albums chart, and topped the Christian Albums list for a week, going on to sell over a half-million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 2003, the album won for Best Southern/Bluegrass Gospel Album. A year later, "Three Wooden Crosses" was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance (his seventh), losing to industry darling Vince Gill for "Next Big Thing". A second single from the record, the folksy "<a href="https://youtu.be/-bH2DUXOa6s?si=cWOD-w1NcqZnDPOE" target="_blank">Pray For The Fish</a>", placed at #48 on the Country Songs chart.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Randy returned later in 2003 with his next gospel set <i>Worship & Faith</i>, which again was a top ten success on the Country Albums chart at #9, and rose to #4 on the Christian Albums chart (and #90 on the <i>Billboard 200</i>), also selling a half-million copies. But I guess the reception of radio depended on the strength of the song, and with all covers of old gospel standards, it was pretty much shunned by genre radio. Still, the set won Travis a second Grammy for Southern Gospel Album. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dipping back into the traditional country pool with the religiously-nebulous <i>Passing Through</i> in 2004, country radio has pretty much aged him out, with two singles stalling in the 40s ("<a href="https://youtu.be/SZNehud7LCY?si=4zpgydpJMUyf2zj2" target="_blank">Four Walls</a>" and "<a href="https://youtu.be/wDw_aRQhi20?si=EYx88z51nb-L-6Jp" target="_blank">Angels</a>") on the country songs chart. and being his final placings <i>as a lead artist</i>. (Well, the latter song is really cringy.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Veering back to strictly relgious music, Travis released <i>Glory Train</i> in 2005, which scored another Southern Gospel Grammy Awards in 2007. After a Christmas set on Word, Randy returned to the Warner Brothers fold, where he began his major-label career in the 1980s. He put out a strictly secular set, <i>Around The Bend</i>, in 2008, which climbed to #14 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> and #3 on the Country Albums chart, even without radio playing any cuts to any degree. The record surprisingly landed Randy his first and so far only Grammy nomination for Best Country Album, which went to another veteran of the genre, George Strait, for <i>Troubadour</i>. A cut from the set, "<a href="https://youtu.be/jxYdpK0ruI0?si=vr4WpxqaJzennBvs" target="_blank">Dig Two Graves</a>", was also up for Best Country Songs (given to songwriters), losing to Sugarland's "Stay". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2009, <i>American Idol</i> winner Carrie Underwood would remake Randy's 1988 song "I Told You So", bringing in Travis for a "duet" version for the single, which will also bring him back to the series. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Travis would release three more studio albums on Warner Brothers in the 2010's, mostly of cover song material. His most recent album for the Gaither religious music label, with his most recent release, <i>Precious Memories</i>, which was an older live recording from 2003, arriving in 2020. However, the repercussions of a stroke in 2013 has made him unable to record anything substantial since. But he can rest on his laurels of being one of the best and most influential acts in country music.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(6/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(click below to see the rest of the post)<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's Randy performing an acoustic version for the <i>CMT Network</i>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/33S5cvl-IyI" width="320" youtube-src-id="33S5cvl-IyI"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and lastly, duetting on the song with fellow deep-voiced country singer Josh Turner in 2006...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LT1sNrgnJZc" width="320" youtube-src-id="LT1sNrgnJZc"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: The currently delulu diva is pretty happy. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><br /></div> </div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-32520733087941727522024-02-27T00:00:00.051-05:002024-02-27T00:00:00.144-05:00Songoftheday 2/27/24 -I can't believe you had the nerve to say the things you said, it hurt so bad that they ended our relationship...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCF1UlNeVF-6Y1GlAqmycTcVLC1dFSr78fWC-JzICPCUCqUjI6K-2DBLK-3bLr2M3rbOmdySVyFvcs3tSas2Dv3akbzL-BBzzM43fhBSlpGhg_O_MF2X0OmhPqeIJw28NG8rI5VpmfdbVYImAjlG-1XKROmhV1WICi9uUfciu67xPr9tKgpmChQ/s525/frankiej%20dwt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="523" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCF1UlNeVF-6Y1GlAqmycTcVLC1dFSr78fWC-JzICPCUCqUjI6K-2DBLK-3bLr2M3rbOmdySVyFvcs3tSas2Dv3akbzL-BBzzM43fhBSlpGhg_O_MF2X0OmhPqeIJw28NG8rI5VpmfdbVYImAjlG-1XKROmhV1WICi9uUfciu67xPr9tKgpmChQ/w399-h400/frankiej%20dwt.jpg" width="399" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/02y3FRLRlmzIpi2y8ZbN2w?si=f8ddcaa6309e4f50" target="_blank">Don't Wanna Try</a>" - Frankie J</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Man-Do-Frankie-J/dp/B00009KU6T/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?crid=32IMUM81E0BA2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9Ln28R0uJdY22L0sl1nN8IBeIwXjYG_qlMINHNU1QYg.626KAPUJirTj635fvBYMmUMglJ1wlgcxAnJ0OgvEzBM&dib_tag=se&keywords=frankie+j+what%27s+a+man+to+do&qid=1708992992&s=music&sprefix=frankie+j+what%27s+a+man+to+%2Cpopular%2C340&sr=1-3-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&psc=1&smid=A1AIVRBZSN2D48" target="_blank"><i>What's A Man To Do</i></a> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #19 (three weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 12</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from Latin-pop singer/songwriter <a href="http://therealfrankiej.com/" target="_blank">Frankie J</a>, who was born Francisco Bautista Jr. in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in California. Singing since school, Frankie has fluttered around the music business for awhile, signing with a few indie labels and having a failed attempt at a freestyle dance music career under the moniker Frankie Boy. This changed when at the end of the 1990s the singer joined the Kumbia Kings, a Mexican-American group fronted by Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla. Frankie was with the act for four years, during which they scored their first and only <i>Billboard </i>magazine Hot 100 hit with the boy-band pastiche "<a href="https://youtu.be/DS5UUCZWpls?si=D0T-6BIUQjfCeUn0" target="_blank">U Don't Love Me</a>", which peaked at #62 and also made it to #12 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Rhythmic format chart in the spring of 2000. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After three albums with the Kings, Frankie left for a solo career and was picked up by powerhouse Columbia Records. He released his debut album <i>What's A Man To Do</i> in the spring of 2003, only months after his last with the group. The lead single from the record was "Don't Wanna Try", which he wrote and co-produced with Jaime Galvez. The record starts out strikingly like Tender MC's 80s hit "Tender Love", with the lyrics having Frankie apparently breaking up with a cheating lover. But his vocal delivery is paced with the seductive phrasing that R. Kelly has locked down, which <i>does</i> seem a little out of place. His voice isn't the most powerful but he can carry emotion, and the piano throughout gives the single an organic touch. It's a juxtaposition of that genre of "cheating songs" that's usually flipped that would maybe seem more credible to me if he was singing to another guy? A man can dream...but the music video has him clearly cutting off ties with a woman...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PfdMcC7nyvk" width="320" youtube-src-id="PfdMcC7nyvk"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Don't Wanna Try" became Frankie J's first solo hit, reaching the top-20 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in June of 2003, while making it to #80 on their R&B Singles chart (though hanging on that list for four months). On the radio, the song peaked at #8 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. The <i>What's A Man To Do</i> album, released in May of that year, came in at #53 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A second single from the album, "<a href="https://youtu.be/F4Exz_UVobQ?si=A8f5ncsQLpqn5kdf" target="_blank">We Still</a>", climbed to #22 on the Rhythmic radio chart, but missed the Hot 100 completely. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Frankie J though <i>will</i> be back to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(5/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Spanish-language version of the song, "Ya No Es Igual", reached #11 on <i>Billboard</i>'s Latin Songs chart...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MlZ-gcaqsqE" width="320" youtube-src-id="MlZ-gcaqsqE"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and lastly, here's Frankie with an acoustic take for his <i>AOL Sessions</i>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xAqXP7DAS3Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="xAqXP7DAS3Y"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: A country music veteran counts the crucifixions. <br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-30456119134825586192024-02-26T16:00:00.066-05:002024-02-26T16:00:00.156-05:00Robbed hit of the week 2/26/24 - The Isley Brothers' "What Would You Do?"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnhwuuGjhfp0rkHWq34FG7NQw5MlWfBDCe69FWnohJXbVkC9BTMOcKRPTULXCRyPdiFnrvSRmnyo_rXUkMfF4VHdJ4ntMxGpbazkGJLngpUh42goknV28ICOatJP00u1IBAOV_MV5_yTydWEAVK7JUB1KcEYg63PU7eb-sKsitF547PY8YOKycQ/s599/isleybros%20wwyd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="584" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnhwuuGjhfp0rkHWq34FG7NQw5MlWfBDCe69FWnohJXbVkC9BTMOcKRPTULXCRyPdiFnrvSRmnyo_rXUkMfF4VHdJ4ntMxGpbazkGJLngpUh42goknV28ICOatJP00u1IBAOV_MV5_yTydWEAVK7JUB1KcEYg63PU7eb-sKsitF547PY8YOKycQ/w390-h400/isleybros%20wwyd.jpg" width="390" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7tVibpFBMdBkbMoGj8Icmp?si=5cf4f487cf5c4719" target="_blank">What Would You Do?</a>" - The Isley Brothers</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Body-Feat-Ronald-Isley-Biggs/dp/B0000931OT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YPF4FL5F21SZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nlxrQ130Y1nICa8naE3802kmWBr0zf8aSAW5cr-67f0.leRoa0YzfiGokTBGcwZxeFHxwzOI8IUF0C_3tTR5bPQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=isley+brothers+body+kiss&qid=1708909102&s=music&sprefix=isley+brothers+body+kiss%2Cpopular%2C272&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Body Kiss</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank">Billboard</a></i> Hot 100 peak: #49 (three weeks)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This week's "robbed hit" comes from the veteran R&B act the <a href="http://theisleybrothersofficial.com/" target="_blank">Isley Brothers</a>, who by the 2000s was whittled down to just brothers Ronald and Ernie. After the success of the siblings backing up R. Kelly on his top ten hit "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2020/03/songoftheday-31120-listen-girl-you-want.html" target="_blank">Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)</a>" in the spring of 1996, and especially with Ronald's alter ego in the music video as kingpin "Mr. Biggs", the pair had seen a resurgence. They released <i>Eternal</i> in 2001 and scored a top-20 crossover hit on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2022/11/songoftheday-111122-its-two-am-im-just.html" target="_blank">Contagious</a>". In fact, for their lead single from their second album on DreamWorks Records, "What Would You Do?", the label was credited as "The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley AKA Mr. Biggs". <i>That</i> takes a good self-worth (or a bit or delulu). Like almost all of the album save one track, the single was written and produced by R. Kelly. The plodding pacing of the track is definitely signature Kelly, with Ronald barraging the female audience with questions on what they would, well, <i>do</i> if he brought them on stage. It all presents as so circular with little payoff, but it <i>is</i> a vibe, as Kelly is a master of these things (if he <i>isn't</i> a master of keeping it in his pants when he should). The result got the brothers back on urban radio, and with singles sales back on the Hot 100. The music video is <i>weird</i>, with Ronald and Ernie on stage being usurped by Kelly taking over for some reason with wads of cash to hand out...<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qOF1NwQN57M" width="320" youtube-src-id="qOF1NwQN57M"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While "What Would You Do?" spent a hefty 27 weeks on <i>Billboard</i>'s R&B singles chart with a high of #14, the song stalled right above the halfway mark on the Hot 100 in May of 2003. On the radio, the song peaked at #17 on the Mainstream R&B Airplay chart and #2 on the older-skewing Adult R&B format. The <i>Body Kiss</i> album, released in May as the single was cresting, came in at #1 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally (notably deposing 50 Cent's massive <i>Get Rich Or Die Tryin'</i> album), and topped the R&B Albums list for three weeks, going on to sell over a half million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, <i>Body Kiss</i> was nominated for Best R&B Album, losing to Luther Vandross for his <i>Dance With My Father</i> set. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second single from <i>Body Kiss</i> was "Busted", which featured the sisterly trio JS, one of whom would go on and marry Ronald. The song went to #35 on <i>Billboard</i>'s R&B chart, and #15 on the Adult R&B radio list. It would also be nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for Best R&B Duo/Group Performance with Vocal, which again went home with Luther Vandross, this time for his duet with Beyonce on the cover of "The Closer I Get To You".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(4/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-19871799877742682912024-02-26T00:00:00.043-05:002024-02-26T00:00:00.177-05:00Songoftheday 2/26/24 - Silly of me devoted so much time, to find you unfaithful boy...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyukVoj87U5nhSFhJ6vs9AFHzzGb-YhaUHowT54dXgIdQ3jpqbQpyd83f2pGYd49UynK-JmZiq9EqcgNnXb-2G3o0np98Qeh2bblAtz9EBQht1NIZrJY4IRF8gBi-CXE6CYPd7N4qIEObRI-dAsinHkgnQZ2VSxk2s4Q9H-7RRJhhQOT76ltlaPg/s300/monica%20sg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyukVoj87U5nhSFhJ6vs9AFHzzGb-YhaUHowT54dXgIdQ3jpqbQpyd83f2pGYd49UynK-JmZiq9EqcgNnXb-2G3o0np98Qeh2bblAtz9EBQht1NIZrJY4IRF8gBi-CXE6CYPd7N4qIEObRI-dAsinHkgnQZ2VSxk2s4Q9H-7RRJhhQOT76ltlaPg/w400-h400/monica%20sg.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6BIcjFZIVDZxNAcofRFPx4?si=ea40bbf8f9214a67" target="_blank">So Gone</a>" - Monica</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">from the album <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Storm-Monica/dp/B008DVJK8Q/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YY119IML54P0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.KNFWo4ebdWA2Yz7X6JNyJkVBGz3Ody6ONA132EGedCzGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.RBnDGuVHLXeiQsAmdl1gFsq9_uVLOaJG-lAv-omcLqQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=monica+after+the+storm&qid=1708903502&s=music&sprefix=monica+after+the+storm%2Cpopular%2C285&sr=1-1" target="_blank">After The Storm</a></i> (2003)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.billboard.com/" target="_blank"><i>Billboard</i></a> Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weeks in the Top-40: 17</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's song comes from R&B singer <a href="http://www.monica.com/" target="_blank">Monica</a>, whose second album <i>The Boy Is Mine</i> in 1998 had spun off three #1 hits on <i>Billboard</i> magazine's Hot 100 with "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2021/08/songoftheday-8621-when-i-first-saw-you.html" target="_blank">Angel Of Mine</a>", "<a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2021/05/songoftheday-52921-boy-this-evening-was.html" target="_blank">The First Night</a>", and the <a href="https://twostepcub.blogspot.com/2021/04/songoftheday-42421-think-its-time-we.html" target="_blank">title track with Brandy</a> that spent thirteen weeks at the top of that chart. She laid low for a couple of years, where she contributed a couple of songs to soundtracks and acted. During that time Monica moved to Clive Davis' new label J Records, where she recorded her third album <i>All Eyez On Me</i>. However when the lead single "<a href="https://youtu.be/3zuK9iSTfMw?si=yEAG7pxhzeCQxUTg" target="_blank">All Eyez On Me</a>" stalled down at #69 on the pop Hot 100 and #32 on the R&B Songs chart, the set was initially released just in Japan. And in the age of Napster and the like, the record was shared through the interwebs all over (kind of like Usher's from a little bit before), causing the whole thing to be scuttled (a second attempted single, "<a href="https://youtu.be/RMFdHZ-b7Bg?si=tYlM836B7RLz-YAd" target="_blank">Too Hood</a>" with Jermaine Dupri, failed to even make the chart). The former was actually a shock, since with Clive's promo chops, production from Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins at his prime moment, and an interpolation of Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.", it seems like a sure bet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not giving up on Monica since she's had a history of success, Davis had her assemble a new album under the auspice of Missy Elliott. The result, <i>After The Storm</i>, came out in the summer of 2003. The lead single from the record was "So Gone", written and produced by Elliott. Using a sample of the Whispers' 1977 album cut "<a href="https://youtu.be/qKeSpHiCTQM?si=M2AgEZXZb8HC63Rc" target="_blank">You Are Number One</a>", giving writer Zyah Ahmonuei credit on this, the song finds Monica confronting a cheating lover. She declares she's not above stalking the house of the side chick, and letting it known she's quite ready to fight. Which is quite the juxtaposition from the sappy love song sampled in this. The production leans heavily on that Whispers track, with Monica cooing between the horn breaks. It's well done, but not as memorable as her older tracks, per se. The music video <i>was</i> interesting, however, with a weird twist on the cheating theme...<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UE6zfOuYfVI" width="320" youtube-src-id="UE6zfOuYfVI"></iframe></div><br /> "So Gone" returned Monica to the top ten on <i>Billboard</i>'s Hot 100 in July of 2003, while spending five weeks at #1 on their R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song didn't even make the pop lists (something even "All Eyez On Me" did), but again took five weeks on top of the Mainstream R&B chart, peaked at #19 on the older-skewing Adult R&B station panel, and went to #15 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. The track was remixed into a club banger by Scumfrog, and topped <i>Billboard</i>'s Dance Club Play chart for a week. Internationally, the single reached #17 on the Canadian singles sales chart, and was a minor hit in the United Kingdom at #82. The <i>After The Storm</i> album, released as the single was peaking in July, became her first (and so far only) #1 on the <i>Billboard 200</i> sales tally, while reaching #2 on the R&B Albums list, going on to sell over a half million copies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both Monica and the <i>After The Storm</i> album will return to the series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(6/10)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the remix from Scumfrog, dubbed "So Gone Part II", which spent a week at #1 on the dance chart...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AA37jcv16wg" width="320" youtube-src-id="AA37jcv16wg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next up, Monica performing live on TV promoting the single...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ixcMNWm3iN4" width="320" youtube-src-id="ixcMNWm3iN4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and lastly, for her <i>AOL Sessions</i> webisode...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aomHHdiL4gM" width="320" youtube-src-id="aomHHdiL4gM"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up tomorrow: Mexican-American singer has no motivation. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29207716.post-10035598134665506042024-02-24T00:00:00.065-05:002024-02-24T00:00:00.151-05:00Twostepcub's music chart for February 24, 2024...<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu7soKAFZa-vvoJmXUMYt0iqX1Cle9-zTshj7Gpp0PLcMYbZm_7F2hC8O5sKsWXkUuauPBIIYMZlMKEMrT01hyphenhyphenNzM7Ds8XHMB1-WP6PAn2MzoJPBHBQ5hs0ipXq6tpGL_nfdM1SzknGVYK7zWUPXnjDk94QUEYBOOu3RilQKiu1EZfHuNjfWhuZA/s480/kahann%20ss.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu7soKAFZa-vvoJmXUMYt0iqX1Cle9-zTshj7Gpp0PLcMYbZm_7F2hC8O5sKsWXkUuauPBIIYMZlMKEMrT01hyphenhyphenNzM7Ds8XHMB1-WP6PAn2MzoJPBHBQ5hs0ipXq6tpGL_nfdM1SzknGVYK7zWUPXnjDk94QUEYBOOu3RilQKiu1EZfHuNjfWhuZA/w640-h360/kahann%20ss.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Saturday's here, and it's time to run down my top hits of the week. Teddy Swims holds on to #1 for a fourth week, while Noah Kahan (pictured above) leaps into the top five. Songs from Cage The Elephant, the Black Keys, and Foo Fighters make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in <span style="color: red;"><b>red</b></span>), while a former big hit from Dan + Shay drops off my chart. And under the list everything is Spotify playlisted for 5 1/2 hours of the biggest in pop, rock, R&B, country, and dance music. <i>My </i>gold shoes at least light up!</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Lose Control - Teddy Swims (1)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Is It Over Now? - Taylor Swift (2)</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Get Him Back! - Olivia Rodrigo (3)</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Stick Season - Noah Kahan (8)</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Loving You - Cannons (5)</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. Water - Tyla (6)</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Where The Wild Things Are - Luke Combs (11) </div><div style="text-align: left;">8. White Horse - Chris Stapleton (4)</div><div style="text-align: left;">9. Houdini - Dua Lipa (9)</div><div style="text-align: left;">10. On My Mama - Victoria Monet (14)</div><div style="text-align: left;">11. World On Fire - Nate Smith (7)</div><div style="text-align: left;">12. One More Time - blink-182 (10)</div><div style="text-align: left;">13. Greedy - Tate McRae (13)</div><div style="text-align: left;">14. Still Believe In Love - Mary J. Blige f/Vado (16)</div><div style="text-align: left;">15. Lovin' On Me - Jack Harlow (19)</div><div style="text-align: left;">16. Lil' Boo Thang - Paul Russell (12)</div><div style="text-align: left;">17. I Remember Everything - Zach Bryan f/Kacey Musgraves (17)</div><div style="text-align: left;">18. What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish (18)</div><div style="text-align: left;">19. The Painter - Cody Johnson (24)</div><div style="text-align: left;">20. Run Away With Me - Cold War Kids (22)</div><div style="text-align: left;">21. A Symptom Of Being Human - Shinedown (25)</div><div style="text-align: left;">22. Northern Attitude - Noah Kahan f/Hozier (26)</div><div style="text-align: left;">23. My Love Mine All Mine - Mitski (15)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>24. Mother Nature - MGMT (34)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">25. Pretty Little Poison - Warren Zeiders (29)</div><div style="text-align: left;">26. I Can Feel It - Kane Brown (31)</div><div style="text-align: left;">27. Strangers - Kenya Grace (23)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>28. Yes, And? - Ariana Grande (44)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">29. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift (27)</div><div style="text-align: left;">30. Save Me - Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson (30)</div><div style="text-align: left;">31. The American Dream Is Killing Me - Green Day (21)</div><div style="text-align: left;">32. Dreaming - Marshmello f/Pink & Sting (28)</div><div style="text-align: left;">33. Good Good - Usher f/Summer Walker & 21 Savage (33)</div><div style="text-align: left;">34. Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor (38)</div><div style="text-align: left;">35. Made For Me - Muni Long (20)</div><div style="text-align: left;">36. Snooze - SZA (36)</div><div style="text-align: left;">37. Gimme Love - Sia (37)</div><div style="text-align: left;">38. The Tower - Future Islands (42)</div><div style="text-align: left;">39. Body Moving - Eliza Rose & Calvin Harris (39)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">40. Neon Pill - Cage The Elephant (68)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">41. Beautiful People (Stay High) - The Black Keys (63)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">42. What Now - Brittany Howard (32)</div><div style="text-align: left;">43. 23 - Chayce Beckham (47)</div><div style="text-align: left;">44. All I Need Is You - Chris Janson (48)</div><div style="text-align: left;">45. Used To Be Young - Miley Cyrus (35)</div><div style="text-align: left;">46. Fast Car - Luke Combs (46)</div><div style="text-align: left;">47. Devil You Know - Tim Montana (49)</div><div style="text-align: left;">48. Mind On You - George Birge (41)</div><div style="text-align: left;">49. Landmines - Sum-41 (53)</div><div style="text-align: left;">50. I'm Alright - Mammoth WVH (54)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>51. Feather - Sabrina Carpenter (61)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">52. Artificial - Daughtry (56)</div><div style="text-align: left;">53. Leave A Light On - Papa Roach (58)</div><div style="text-align: left;">54. Paint The Town Red - Doja Cat (50)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">55. The Glass - Foo Fighters (77)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">56. Burn It Down - Parker McCollum (66)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">57. Different 'Round Here - Riley Green f/Luke Combs (57)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>58. Exes - Tate McRae (70)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">59. Need A Favor - Jelly Roll (55)</div><div style="text-align: left;">60. Under You - Foo Fighters (60)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>61. Good People - Mumford & Sons f/Pharrell Williams (76)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">62. Trust Me Mate - Dean Lewis (52)</div><div style="text-align: left;">63. Already Over - Mike Shinoda (67)</div><div style="text-align: left;">64. Creek Will Rise - Conner Smith (74)</div><div style="text-align: left;">65. Agora Hills - Doja Cat (65)</div><div style="text-align: left;">66. Dance The Night - Dua Lipa (62)</div><div style="text-align: left;">67. Lifeline - Alicia Keys (71)</div><div style="text-align: left;">68. Thinkin' Bout Me - Morgan Wallen (64)</div><div style="text-align: left;">69. Get Back Your Fight - Sarah Reeves (69)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">70. Past Life - Felix Jaehn & Jonas Blue (82)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;">71. Take My Chance - MK (81)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">72. Something Better - Blanca & Tauren Wells (72)</div><div style="text-align: left;">73. Truck Bed - HARDY (73)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>74. Yes, I'm A Mess - AJR (84)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">75. Strangers - Lewis Capaldi (75)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>76. Selfish - Justin Timberlake (86)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">77. Modern Girl - Jack Antonoff & Bleachers (45)</div><div style="text-align: left;">78. Flowers - Miley Cyrus (78)</div><div style="text-align: left;">79. Homesick - Noah Kahan f/Sam Fender (79)</div><div style="text-align: left;">80. Lost - Linkin Park (80)</div><div style="text-align: left;">81. Saving Up - Dom Dolla (59)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>82. Drums - James Hype f/Kim Petras (96)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">83. Atomic City - U2 (43)</div><div style="text-align: left;">84. Nothing Matters - The Last Dinner Party (88)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>85. Legends Never Die - Bad Wolves (95)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b>86. Seasons - Thirty Seconds To Mars (98)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">87. Everybody - Nicki Minaj f/Lil Uzi Vert (87)</div><div style="text-align: left;">88. Impressively Average - Brigitte Calls Me Baby (92)</div><div style="text-align: left;">89. Back To Your Place - October London (85)</div><div style="text-align: left;">90. Prada - casso f/RAYE & D-Europe (90)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://greenday.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">91. Dilemma - Green Day (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">92. Krazy - VASSY (RE-ENTRY)</div><div style="text-align: left;">93. Calm Down - Rema & Selena Gomez (93)</div><div style="text-align: left;">94. Here And Now - Staind (94)</div><div style="text-align: left;">95. Mamaw's House - Thomas Rhett f/Morgan Wallen (99)<br /><a href="http://bensonboone.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">96. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">97. The Death Of Peace Of Mind - Bad Omens (97)<br /><a href="http://jenniferlopez.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">98. Can't Get Enough - Jennifer Lopez (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://megantheestallion.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">99. Hiss - Megan Thee Stallion (DEBUT)</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">100. I Know? - Travis Scott (100)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="352" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/70rwOGI1muYMYhxqJme1ac?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Along with a re-entry from VASSY, there are four songs making their debut on my chart this week (highlighted in <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">blue</span></b></span>), and if you click on any of them, you'll connect to that act's official website for more info on them. And here they are on video, after the break...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Click below to see the rest of the post)</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>As pop-punk veterans Green Day slide down my list with their former #3 hit "The American Dream Is Killing Me", the second single from their <i>Saviors</i> album, "Dilemma", claims the top debut spot at #91...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qAmulKjcHoo" width="320" youtube-src-id="qAmulKjcHoo"></iframe></div><br /> Benson Boone, who got his boost as many young singers do on the TikTok, returns at #96 with "Beautiful Things", his third single to make my chart...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oa_RSwwpPaA" width="320" youtube-src-id="Oa_RSwwpPaA"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">As Jennifer Lopez's vanity film project, <i>This Is Me...Now</i>, hits streaming services now, a song from the movie, "Can't Get Enough", moves in at #98....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8UMnAIaBofo" width="320" youtube-src-id="8UMnAIaBofo"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The final newbie of the week comes from rapper Megan Thee Stallion, whose "diss" record that went to #1 on the Hot 100, "Hiss", slips in at #99...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XVgCLQ_JQfU" width="320" youtube-src-id="XVgCLQ_JQfU"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>twostepcubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13310141655786592437noreply@blogger.com0