It’s the first day of spring here in Denver, which means it’s a beautiful day outside, as long as you love sunny, cold days with a lot of snow on the ground. The high on Monday will be in the 60s…welcome to the Colorado rollercoaster!
– It’s been interesting to watch the parallel climbs of American Idol Season 8 winner Kris Allen and the Script up the Pop airplay chart over the past two months. For those not familiar, Kris’s “Live Like We’re Dying” is a Script original that was the b-side to their debut single “We Cry”. I really like the Script’s debut, and “Breakeven” has always been my favorite track on their debut, but I am not a fan of their version of “Live”. Seems like a win-win situation for everyone…Kris gets a top 20 hit out of the box, and the Script get a natural boost after their US debut “Man Who Can’t Be Moved” didn’t quite set the charts on fire. Here’s the Script version of “Live”:
– Mr Hudson will score his first US top 40 hit next week, but only as a featured artist on Jay-Z’s “Young Forever”. The single comes in at #41 this week on the Billboard Hot 100, up a strong 18 spots from last week. Island/Def Jam still has Hudson featured on the front page of their website, so maybe he’s still a priority.
– I was watching Chelsea Lately this evening, and a makeup commercial used Paloma Faith’s “Stone Cold Sober”. Is an American invasion in the cards for Paloma? With fellow Brits Jay Sean, La Roux and Taio Cruz making strong runs at the American pop chart, maybe this is the time to have a go at it. By the way, do you think La Roux’s success on Cherrytree here in the US has anything to do with labelmate Lady GaGa? Just wondering…
And while we’re also speaking of Chelsea, I saw her live last weekend. Let’s just say that I would have been better off using that money for one of my upcoming shows in April. With Miike Snow and Sia on the slate, it should be a good music month.
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Miike Snow and Sia? You are one very lucky fella. *jealous*
I will report back on them.
Kris Allen is no cookie monster.
Truer words have never been spoken, Paul. At least not this morning.
I never realised that about The Script, they play a lot of concerts here still but haven’t done that well in the charts,
have a nice weekend,
david
Which part didn’t you know about the Script? And have you seen them live?
Hi John, i didn’t know he had covered a Script song,
i haven’t seen them live,
d
yes to Sia, she peaked at #2 on my chart last week, and Miike Snow is also brilliant!
I’m glad there’s so much love for both of them. I haven’t seen much written about Miike Snow in the blogs I read, but they are pretty brilliant.
Chelsea is hit or miss with her skits. In fact, I usually FF thru them. Most are just not funny. But I love her show and think the panel portion is hi-larious.
No arguments whatsoever.
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