Monday, 27 April 2009

The best number two of the year?


So whilst i was away in Australia for two weeks, i came back to a rather suprising single sitting at number two in the UK Charts.

The song in question is 'In for the Kill' by La Roux, a song that, whilst delicious to my ears, doesn't seem to have mass market appeal written all over it. However the singles chart has always been unpredictable, and now downloads are included even more so than ever, meaning just about anything can happen. Usually this means some awful tosh will become more popular than it deserves, but this time the opposite has happened. A song that usually would be adored by the critics and pop fans alike, but lacking that exposure that would secure a top ten placing and with a chart history that looks something like this: 11-11-4-2-2 it seemed destined to remain a minor hit, then all of a sudden the song took hold and ascended to the upper reaches of the top ten and stayed there.
The fate of the song reminded me of 'Black and Gold' by Sam Sparro from 2008, a song that, too, could have remained underground if it wasn't for the fact it was so damn catchy.

So whats next for 'In for the Kill'? Number 1? possible, but i don't think it will happen.

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