A number one is a number one dddd
Rita Ora - "Praising You (feat. Fatboy Slim)" + You & I (Jul 14)
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But Reet is chart poison, what if it evens out? dd.
Seriously I fear if this is another #53 she might stop bothering with music altogether. She doesn't need it. It feels like there's a lot riding on her snatching a hit.
*Looks at Million Dollar Baby and You Used To Know Me*
Been suspecting this for a minute.
Fury at Radio One as female singers 'too old for listeners' fight for airplay
Fury at Radio One as female singers 'too old for listeners' fight for airplay
Does Radio 1 really have much influence any more? They don’t seem to be trend setters any more, often jumping on songs a month or two after they’re relevant. Honestly, more fool them.
I’ve never understood the thinking that younger people don’t want to listen to music performed by people older than they are. I would have thought that it would be the ‘sound’ of the music that would matter more than the age of the performer. If a 40+ female artist and a 20 year old releases the same song why should the version by the younger singer be favoured over the other?
I’m a child of the 80s and the age range of artists in the Top 40 was so much wider than now- I loved tracks by Phylis Nelson, Diana Ross, Genesis, etc, all artists as old or older than my parents.
I’m a child of the 80s and the age range of artists in the Top 40 was so much wider than now- I loved tracks by Phylis Nelson, Diana Ross, Genesis, etc, all artists as old or older than my parents.
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This is all very fair, except the line: "It’s forcing women in their 30s to feature on records they wouldn’t ordinarily do to ensure Radio 1 coverage", which is kinda ageism in of itself nn.
This has been said before many times, for many different artists male and female. I really don't think the exec's are looking up their age on Wiki before deciding to play them or not. Pink hasn't been R1's demo for a long time.
Rita still appeals to that market and I don't think her issue is the same, there is a hesitancy to playlist her and I do think a lot of that still comes from the fall out of party-gate and public perception. Exec's will be thinking 'do people like her?' she hasn't done enough PR repair in the UK since and she really should have worked on that before releasing new music, but I've said it before a bop is a bop and maybe the next single will do it.
Rita still appeals to that market and I don't think her issue is the same, there is a hesitancy to playlist her and I do think a lot of that still comes from the fall out of party-gate and public perception. Exec's will be thinking 'do people like her?' she hasn't done enough PR repair in the UK since and she really should have worked on that before releasing new music, but I've said it before a bop is a bop and maybe the next single will do it.
I get thinking younger listeners don't want to listen to legacy acts/acts whose commercial peak was a long time ago, but the idea that people in their teens/twenties wouldn't want to listen to still current artists just because they happen to be in their thirties is actually ridiculous.
Of course they pay attention to age when they're deciding who someone's "demographic" would be. Not that I necessarily think it's specifically a line of when a woman turns "30", but more so "this woman's career is 'older', and there are women who are younger/newer", and 30 seems to be the average of when that starts happening, as well as women in the music industry generally being seen as "older" at that age, ridiculously. There will always be excuses because society can't just listen to women when they say there's an issue affecting them. I'm not sure what reasonable excuse there would be for Ellie. (Why would that not be her demo, except on a Calvin record?) I would not be surprised, given the response the BBC had at the time of the Madonna conversation, and what this article suggests, if their teams were literally told they don't appeal to R1's listener base at this point (which is ridiculous). The Jonas Brothers, for instance, have 1 UK Top 10 hit in their decades long career (3 if you count Nick solo and DNCE), yet their new song is now on 5 weeks on the R1 playlist, now *A* List, without charting at all.
As far as party-gate, the BBC booked her on The One show when the single came out and had her on the drive-time R1 show last week (pre-recorded), not to forget that the Louis Theroux interview aired on BBC Three, so unless there was some outstanding number of complaints, which we'd probably have heard about, I don't think there's real reason to believe that would be an issue. I'm not sure how they could cite that as a valid reason when they've booked her elsewhere and did opt to add the song to the playlist for local stations.
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Supposedly the album is about to be announced.
Rita Ora - You & I - 30/6
1. Don't Think Twice - 3:06
2. You Only Love Me - 2:29
3. Praising You (feat. Fatboy Slim) - 2:44
4. Unfeel It - 2:41
5. Waiting for You - 2:43
6. You & I - 3:00
7. That Girl - 3:01
8. Shape of Me - 2:29
9. Look At Me Now - 2:45
10. Girl in the Mirror - 3:11
11. Notting Hill - 2:30
12. I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend - 3:14
People who have heard are not positive about it.
Rita Ora - You & I - 30/6
1. Don't Think Twice - 3:06
2. You Only Love Me - 2:29
3. Praising You (feat. Fatboy Slim) - 2:44
4. Unfeel It - 2:41
5. Waiting for You - 2:43
6. You & I - 3:00
7. That Girl - 3:01
8. Shape of Me - 2:29
9. Look At Me Now - 2:45
10. Girl in the Mirror - 3:11
11. Notting Hill - 2:30
12. I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend - 3:14
People who have heard are not positive about it.