The fuck is "STAR BANDZ"? Sounds like something you'd get from an arcade crane game in the late 80's
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Star Bandz is a 16-year-old rapper. She was born in 2008 on the south side of Chicago and has been rapping since she was 12. Her first name is Estrella, Spanish for "star." I haven't been able to find out her last name. She said she picked Star Bandz as her stage name because she loves money. Bandz, also spelled "bands," is a slang term for a large amount of money. It refers to a roll of money with a rubber band around it. Here is Estrella This, Estrella That from 2022:
Gross. Fast forward to age 25 , when she's broke as fuck.
Also - I made it thru about 30 seconds of that "song". I understand as a 58 year old white dude it's not made for me, but that was fucking terrible. Sounds like the garbage that comes out of every car in my neighborhood that drowns out the thing I'm trying to listen to 5 stories up.
I made it through about 40 seconds and then fast forwarded another 40 or so.
There just isn't anything original, interesting, or well done for the style.
There just isn't anything original, interesting, or well done for the style.
I didn't need another reason to not give a rat's ass about what's on the charts now, but you sure as shit just handed me one.
One Direction had 15 songs earn over 1 million streams on Spotify on October 17
A member of a defunct boy band leaps to his death and now we'll probably have to see One Direction on Hot 100 again? Makes no sense to base the Hot 100 on people streaming old music just because they're in the news. People are lemmings.
A member of a defunct boy band leaps to his death and now we'll probably have to see One Direction on Hot 100 again? Makes no sense to base the Hot 100 on people streaming old music just because they're in the news. People are lemmings.
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Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
When we hear the term "boy band," we probably think of Menudo, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, BTS, One Direction, 5 Seconds Of Summer, maybe the Osmonds and the Jackson 5. This is from Saint Wikpedia:
"A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation, singing love songs marketed towards young women. The earliest forerunner of boy band music began in the late 19th century as a cappella barbershop quartets. They were usually a group of males and sang in four-part harmonies. Barbershop quartets were popular into the early part of the 20th century. A revival of the male vocal group took place in the late 1940s and 1950s with the use of doo-wop music. Doo-wop bands sang about topics such as love and other themes used in pop music. The earliest traces of boy bands were in the mid-1950s although the term 'boy band' was not used. African-American vocal group The Ink Spots was one of the first of what would now be called boy bands."
The Ink Spots???
"A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation, singing love songs marketed towards young women. The earliest forerunner of boy band music began in the late 19th century as a cappella barbershop quartets. They were usually a group of males and sang in four-part harmonies. Barbershop quartets were popular into the early part of the 20th century. A revival of the male vocal group took place in the late 1940s and 1950s with the use of doo-wop music. Doo-wop bands sang about topics such as love and other themes used in pop music. The earliest traces of boy bands were in the mid-1950s although the term 'boy band' was not used. African-American vocal group The Ink Spots was one of the first of what would now be called boy bands."
The Ink Spots???
Oh the videos that showed up online when One Direction split up. You'd have thought these people were being forced to watch their entire family raped burned and murdered in front of them the way they screamed and cried.
IMO, I think, subjectively, the term narrowed down in the 80s to a group of singing & dancing kids (or at least boyish looking men) like New Edition & Musical Youth. In other words, when someone said it in 1995, no one got a picture in their head of four 25 year old guys singing, you thought of OMG!!111-cute teenagers like NKOTB.
I see that the UK's 'hot 100' chart is just as broken as ours.
These are the peaks for Michael Jackson's 1982 song "Thriller".
Note which week it shows up each year (day/month/year):
These are the peaks for Michael Jackson's 1982 song "Thriller".
Note which week it shows up each year (day/month/year):
Drake and Kendrick Lamar had some kind of beef with each other. And like rappers do, they attacked each other in song. Drake is now suing his and Kendrick's label (they're on the same one) because....
In 2024, UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices, to “break through the noise” on Spotify, and likely other music platforms. It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves with a song, “Not Like Us.” in order to make that song go viral, including by using “bots” and pay-to-play agreements.
UMG charged Spotify licensing rates 30 percent lower than its usual licensing rates for “Not Like Us” in exchange for Spotify affirmatively recommending the Song to users who are searching for other unrelated songs and artists. Neither UMG nor Spotify disclosed that Spotify had received compensation of any kind in exchange for recommending the song.
So when you see that Hot 100, and wonder why there's so much shit music on it from talentless record-label-puppets, know it's totally manipulated.
And......when all year long you've only listened to The Beach Boys, The Beatles and The Kinks, but your Spotify "recommendations" include Kendrick Lamar, you'll know why.
In 2024, UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices, to “break through the noise” on Spotify, and likely other music platforms. It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves with a song, “Not Like Us.” in order to make that song go viral, including by using “bots” and pay-to-play agreements.
UMG charged Spotify licensing rates 30 percent lower than its usual licensing rates for “Not Like Us” in exchange for Spotify affirmatively recommending the Song to users who are searching for other unrelated songs and artists. Neither UMG nor Spotify disclosed that Spotify had received compensation of any kind in exchange for recommending the song.
So when you see that Hot 100, and wonder why there's so much shit music on it from talentless record-label-puppets, know it's totally manipulated.
And......when all year long you've only listened to The Beach Boys, The Beatles and The Kinks, but your Spotify "recommendations" include Kendrick Lamar, you'll know why.
Right back into the shit. In 10 years, Mariah, Brenda Lee, Wham and Bobby Helms will be the biggest artists in the history of the chart. The BROKEN chart!
"Defying Gravity" from the new Wicked movie is at #45. There are 18 holiday songs above it. It should be a top 40 hit, but will never get there because of this stupidity.
"Defying Gravity" from the new Wicked movie is at #45. There are 18 holiday songs above it. It should be a top 40 hit, but will never get there because of this stupidity.
I don't want a lot for Christmas
But the one thing that I fear
Is Mariah's overplayed Christmas song
Will chart again next year
And for hundreds of years thereafter
So the wish that is on my heart
Is that Billboard will quit listing it
And fix their broken chart!
But the one thing that I fear
Is Mariah's overplayed Christmas song
Will chart again next year
And for hundreds of years thereafter
So the wish that is on my heart
Is that Billboard will quit listing it
And fix their broken chart!
Here's one big way how the Hot 100 (and other charts) are manipulated
A click farm is a network of people or bots that artificially inflate engagement metrics for digital content. Click farms can be used to drain ad budgets, skew analytics, and make it difficult for marketers to understand what's working.
Click farms can operate in a few ways:
Low-paid workers: A large group of people are paid to click on links or buttons, surf websites, and sign up for newsletters.
Physical locations: Real mobile devices are used in physical locations to repeatedly click on mobile ads.
Bots: Sophisticated bots are used to interact with digital content.
Combine that with:
Several months ago, a playlist plugging service offered popular independent musician Ari Herstand $500 for 50,000 to 100,000 plays on Spotify. Another offered him a four-month plugging campaign for $5,000. A third offered him 50,000 streams for just $150. Herstand chose that one.
Herstand’s songs were quickly added to a popular user-generated playlist on Spotify. It had around 50,000 followers.
It didn’t take long for the streaming music platform giant to notice. The company quickly took down Herstand’s 2014 album, Brave Enough. Through his distributor, he found out that the playlist plugging service, Streamify, had likely used click farms to generate plays.
A click farm is a network of people or bots that artificially inflate engagement metrics for digital content. Click farms can be used to drain ad budgets, skew analytics, and make it difficult for marketers to understand what's working.
Click farms can operate in a few ways:
Low-paid workers: A large group of people are paid to click on links or buttons, surf websites, and sign up for newsletters.
Physical locations: Real mobile devices are used in physical locations to repeatedly click on mobile ads.
Bots: Sophisticated bots are used to interact with digital content.
Combine that with:
Several months ago, a playlist plugging service offered popular independent musician Ari Herstand $500 for 50,000 to 100,000 plays on Spotify. Another offered him a four-month plugging campaign for $5,000. A third offered him 50,000 streams for just $150. Herstand chose that one.
Herstand’s songs were quickly added to a popular user-generated playlist on Spotify. It had around 50,000 followers.
It didn’t take long for the streaming music platform giant to notice. The company quickly took down Herstand’s 2014 album, Brave Enough. Through his distributor, he found out that the playlist plugging service, Streamify, had likely used click farms to generate plays.
Twenty-six of this week's top 50 are Christmas songs, including four that were never released as singles: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Darlene Love, Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season by Andy Williams, Sleigh Ride by the Ronettes and Christmas Time Is Here by the Vince Guaraldi Trio & St. Paul's Episcopal Church Choir.
Did we really need a "duet" of Bing Crosby and BTS vocalist Kim Tae-hyung ("V") singing White Christmas? I think not! This is #93 this week.
Did we really need a "duet" of Bing Crosby and BTS vocalist Kim Tae-hyung ("V") singing White Christmas? I think not! This is #93 this week.
Apparently we are "never ever getting over Taylor." This is from the digital IT company Vipology. The story doesn't name the group that had the top two albums of 1967; it was the Monkees.
"Taylor Swift has achieved another unprecedented milestone, claiming both the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the 2024 Billboard 200 Albums year-end recap with The Tortured Poets Department and 1989 (Taylor’s Version). This marks the first time since 1967 that the year’s top two albums belong to the same artist, cementing Swift’s unmatched reign in music history.
Swift is now the only artist to secure the top album of the year four times. Her previous year-end chart-toppers were reputation (2018), 1989 (2015) and Fearless (2009). This latest accolade underscores her ongoing dominance in the music industry."
"Taylor Swift has achieved another unprecedented milestone, claiming both the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the 2024 Billboard 200 Albums year-end recap with The Tortured Poets Department and 1989 (Taylor’s Version). This marks the first time since 1967 that the year’s top two albums belong to the same artist, cementing Swift’s unmatched reign in music history.
Swift is now the only artist to secure the top album of the year four times. Her previous year-end chart-toppers were reputation (2018), 1989 (2015) and Fearless (2009). This latest accolade underscores her ongoing dominance in the music industry."
DIFFERENT RULES, DIFFERENT CHART. VOID! INVALID! RESCINDED!