Comments on: An Amy Winehouse Hit (No, Not That One) Gets A Second Chart Life

By: Oldboy

Oldboy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:08:25 +0000

At least Amy stuck it through. God bless her….

By: Rob Murphy

Rob Murphy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:18:40 +0000

dennisobell, we can triangulate here and cause a stew-gasm in the Idolator flophouse. I'm sure you caught Arctic Monkeys' cover of "You Know I'm No Good" last May. For my money, one of the top 10 covers of '07.

(Of course, Amy's cover of "Valerie" is also on that list.)

By: Al Shipley

Al Shipley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:56:43 +0000

Man, “No One” really needs to go away now. Has there been a single week in the past few months that it hasn’t remained higher on Billboard than “Like You’ll Never See Me Again”? Furthermore, is there some kind of chart nerd terminology for when a song is so big that it keeps going while its followup peaks at a lower point than it ever sunk (another recent example: “Umbrella” vs. “Shut Up And Drive”)? If not, there really should be.

By: Tauwan

Tauwan — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:55:05 +0000

I finally got around to watching Ms. Winehouse’s performance of Valerie with Mark Ronson at the Brit Awards last night. She seemed more “nervous” and/or “let’s get this over with as soon as possible” than she did for we yanks at the Grammy’s. And is it just me, or do Amy Winehouse performances walk a fine line between charming, controlled mess and, well, just a hot mess? I love both Frank and Back to Black to death, but last night I had to stop and ask myself, man, sober or not, could I take a whole concert of this? Maybe my thoughts would have been different had the Dap Kings been on stage funking it up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:44:05 +0000

While its Hot 100 performance isn’t strong, I wonder how effective ‘No Good’ has been in the radio spins vs. drive to purchase chart?

Many songs perform well (ie ‘Low’, ‘Apologize’ etc) but don’t influence the public to purchase the whole album. ‘No Good’ seems like an album driver to me…