It still puzzles me why we hear all these rumours about trend setting and innovative UK/European producers working with Britney but her first single ends up being the most obvious go to Pop producers in the world, who then end up doing a dated take on what the aforementioned producers have been doing for years...
I just tweeted the download link if you want it. No way in hell I'm posting a direct link on the blog though. Jive will shut us down within minutes.
TIK TOK HITS THE TOP: Ke$ha appeared to be the big winner of all those iTunes gift cards as her single, "TiK ToK," sold 610k downloads this week, the largest seven-day total for a female ever and the second-largest in history, next to Flo Rida's "Right Round," on which she also guested., bringing its cumulative tally to more than 2 million. The RCA Records pop phenom's debut album, Animal, hits stores on Tuesday (1/5).
Now if you're wondering what this has to do with the title of this post, I shall explain:
Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald is the songwriter/producer responsible for the two aforementioned record breaking songs, with assistance from his understudy/co-producer Benny Blanco on"Tik Tok".
I should also mention that prior to "Right Round" and "Tik Tok", Luke produced Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" and "Hold N Cold". Both of which went #1 in almost every country in the world last year.
His royalty cheques would be unfathomable. All from playing guitar on Saturday Night Life. Whoa.
Don't you just love being right? Month's agoI predictedFlo Rida's flip of Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round" would be one of the biggest songs in the US and tomorrow we will see it top the Billboard 100.
The Dr. Luke produced "Right Round" sold 636,000 digital units, smashing the previous record of 468,000 set by Flo Rida's previous single "Low" in January 2008.
Below is an outlook of Dr. Luke's past 12 months:
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl - World Wide #1 - Billboard #1 Katy Perry - Hot N Cold #1 - World Wide #1 - Billboard #3 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You - Billboard #1 Britney Spears - Circus - Billboard #3 Flo Rida - Right Round - Billboard #1
Honorable mention goes out to Claude Kelly, who was a virtually unknown songwriter a year ago, now responsible for 2 of the songs above and an array of other shit including Lloyd's "I Can Change Your Life" and Leona Lewis' "Forgive Me".
In my original post for Flo-Rida's new single "Right Round" with Katy Perry, I predicted that it would be a bigger hit than the original hit (Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round") it was borrowed from.
Sounds ridiculous right? Well if that appeared to be somewhat unfounded then this weeks Mainstream Top 40 Radio report should offer some early hope for my prediction.
"Right Round" has entered the Top 40 chart with 701 more spins than last week. It becomes available for airplay at Rhythmic radio on Jan 27th. Expect another Top 10 notch on Mr. Tramar Dillard's belt.
What else did you expect from the producer who smashed 2008 with "I Kissed A Girl" & "Hot & Cold"? I'm not sure if PoeBoy/Atlantic realize the possible trend they've conceived with this song, as bad as it may be for 'Hip-Hop'.
Flo-Rida's remake of Dead or Alive's 1985 hit "You Spin Me Round". The original song only ever reached #11 on the Billboard 100, but peaked on the UK chart at #1 in 1985 and #5 in 2006 when it was re-released thanks to Celebrity Big Brother. Just a hunch, I think Flo-Rida's version will be bigger.
Sounds to me like Katy Perry on the hook and quite possibly Dr. Luke on production. Don't quote me though, I'm only about 50% sure.
Fun fact:Beat Kamp, the producers of Savage's hit "Swing", released a single mid last year that also borrowed the hook from "You Spin Me Round". You can check that out here.
I'll update this when I found out more information.
