Irish iTunes Rap/Hip Hop Chart - oh dear

speedboatchase

Well this is embarrassing. I've always thought that whenever I meet strangers who "love rap", when you probe a little deeper and find that actually they've only ever heard what's on our nation's pitiful mainstream radio playlists - Black Eyed Peas, Kanye and whenever Rihanna features on a song it will be announced as her song (T.I - Live Your Life). But dear god, it's embarrassing that some songs (even if they're genuinely great songs) are still placed so high - is it a case that people genuinely are waiting around for 2FM/Spin to play new songs and just downloading this stuff while they wait? I'm going to ignore the fact N-Dubz, Chipmunk and Pitbull are in the top five (another rant for another day) and include a few chart placings below:

15. Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas
17. Low - Flo Rida
32. The Way I Are - Timbaland
52. I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy

:eek:

Boom_Bap

i never pay attention to the charts and rarely listen to the radio....but yet i still know these songs so well.

floggg

(a) its a chart, so Pop(ular) stuff will always come up top.
(b) iTunes is not representative of musical tastes of the nation.

Will say though that iTunes is great (at times) for getting hard to find stuff. I remember trying to get Ras Kass' "Soul on Ice" was nigh on possible, whether legally or otherwise until i started using iTunes!

mufcboy1999

i dont bother with radio anymore its just comemercialized junk you will never hear a decent hip hop track unless it has a R'N'B hook or singing on some kind...

irish radio in terms of hip hop is a joke infact in terms of music its a joke same old pop garbage everytime i listen to it.

the whole uk scene is going so commercialized its crazy, dizzie, Ndubz, kano etc are acting more like tiesto than rather than hip hop/grime mc's.