Saturday, 18 January 2014
Introduction
It's taken me quite a while to come up with an idea for another chart-based blog to compliment those already out there but I've finally come up with something. This one is going to look at debut and farewell hits i.e the first single to make the charts from a particular artist and the one with which they signed off ( willingly or not ).
To keep this sensible the artist in question must have had at least 10 hits to be included. For this purpose, and for identifying the "goodbye " single, re-releases ,re-makes, re-mixes etc of previous hits will not count towards the total. Collaborations will qualify if the artist has had some active involvement (i.e beyond simply allowing a sample to be used ) and their contribution is not primarily based on a previous hit. It may of course count as a "hello" hit for the collaborator. Medleys will only count if they are recorded by someone other than the original artist. I'm sure there are other potential anomalies which haven't occurred to me yet.
It's going to be run chronologically so won't be covering any "Goodbye" hits just yet.
Where either record has already been covered by Popular or Music Sounds Better With Two I'm just going to post a link unless I think something important has gone unsaid.
I'm open to the idea of one or more people collaborating with me on this , particularly genre enthusiasts, so if you want to be involved just drop me a line.
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Certainly up for the idea of sharing some of the load on this one. Having someone else booting me up the arse may actually get my writing mojo working again!
ReplyDeleteGreat ! Are you interested in tackling any of the "crooners" or do you want to wait for the first rock and rollers ? I'll need to work out how to let someone else in on here.
ReplyDeleteI admit my knowledge of music tends to begin with the Beatles - but I'm more than willing to take an, ahem, "pop" at anything.
ReplyDeleteHi DC - looking at the Permissions setting it seems as though I need your email address to invite you to be an author. It seems a bit cumbersome when you're already a fellow Google blogger. If you don't want to put it out publicly mine is mikemcsg@btinternet.com.
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