Top Nonsingles Through The Third Quarter 2012
With only a couple of furlongs left, DJ Bedbugs is a nose ahead in the quest for his second consecutive title.
TOP NONSINGLES Through Third Quarter 2012:
1. DJ Bedbugs "Hella Hollup"
2. E.via "Night Blooming Roses"
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Oh Susannah"
4. After School "Eyeline"
5. T-ara "T-aratic Magic Music"
6. DJ Bedbugs "Aaron's Party Rocking"
7. Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Wayfarin' Stranger"
8. TaeTiSeo "Baby Steps"
9. DJ Bedbugs "Come Out And K"
10. DJ Bedbugs "Ready To Greenlight"
11. Neon Bunny "First Love"
12. DJ Bedbugs "Your Mann"
13. After School "Broken Heart"
Number 5 and number 13 are in Japanese.
What Is A "Single," And, By Negation, A "Nonsingle"?
Something's a single if it acts like a single or gets treated like a single, no matter what it is (even if it's a 50-minute webrip of a symphony). So "Gimme Shelter" is a single, "Stairway To Heaven" in its long version is a single, "Takeover" is a single, though none of those three was on an actual physical single. And certainly if it's promoted by the label as an album's or EP's "emphasis track" or "focus track" it's a single.
If it doesn't act like a single, it can nonetheless still be a single if, (1) it is a single, e.g., a "commercially available single," such as a physical release or something that's called a "digital single" and is downloadable as such, (2) it's a B-side, which can also include being a second B-side (but once you're up to five or six entirely different songs, it's an EP track even if Pledis Entertainment calls the EP "the fifth Maxi Single") and/or a remix or instrumental that's on a single, or (c) it's by Dev, and she acts like it's a single. This still leaves borderline cases when it comes down to the philosophical subquestion of what constitutes acting like a single. Without going heavily into the philosophy, I'll say that when Neil Young releases some videos along with an album, that doesn't automatically make the tracks singles, especially if the video is merely a bunch of old footage of dead people who were impoverished during their lifetimes, making them Americana. But when Dev releases a video, the song is a single, especially since the video is sure acting like the song's a single. I hope that's clear.
If a song is the other song that's being performed on the comeback stage when you're a popular enough group to get to perform two different songs during your comeback week, but it's not the track that's really being promoted as the single, then I'm not counting it as a single. But when a track becomes popular, and therefore gets a belated video "as a gift to the fans" or some such, then I count it as a single. (I think that's what happened with "Try To Follow Me" and "Bad Girl.")
Back in early 2001, after outlining my criteria for what constitutes a single (physical single, commercially available single, acts like a single, etc.) on my Pazz & Jop ballot for 2000, I mentioned that there were some commercially available singles in my building, one of whom had approached me and asked in a real low voice if I were a "freak." When I looked puzzled, he said, "Would you like me to give you a blow job?" I told him I was straight. So he said, "There's a girl in my apartment who has really big boobs." "Naw, that's O.K.," I said. Then I patted him on the shoulder (to indicate that everything was cool) and went on upstairs to my apartment.
I decided that neither he nor his woman friend were eligible for my ballot. They wouldn't have made my top ten even if they had been, though he was reasonably handsome.
His business couldn't have been thriving or he wouldn't have been living in my building. Maybe it was just that rent was due in a week and a half.
I don't live there anymore. Nor does he. The place was converted into condos.
"T-aratic Magic Music"
TOP NONSINGLES Through Third Quarter 2012:
1. DJ Bedbugs "Hella Hollup"
2. E.via "Night Blooming Roses"
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Oh Susannah"
4. After School "Eyeline"
5. T-ara "T-aratic Magic Music"
6. DJ Bedbugs "Aaron's Party Rocking"
7. Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Wayfarin' Stranger"
8. TaeTiSeo "Baby Steps"
9. DJ Bedbugs "Come Out And K"
10. DJ Bedbugs "Ready To Greenlight"
11. Neon Bunny "First Love"
12. DJ Bedbugs "Your Mann"
13. After School "Broken Heart"
Number 5 and number 13 are in Japanese.
What Is A "Single," And, By Negation, A "Nonsingle"?
Something's a single if it acts like a single or gets treated like a single, no matter what it is (even if it's a 50-minute webrip of a symphony). So "Gimme Shelter" is a single, "Stairway To Heaven" in its long version is a single, "Takeover" is a single, though none of those three was on an actual physical single. And certainly if it's promoted by the label as an album's or EP's "emphasis track" or "focus track" it's a single.
If it doesn't act like a single, it can nonetheless still be a single if, (1) it is a single, e.g., a "commercially available single," such as a physical release or something that's called a "digital single" and is downloadable as such, (2) it's a B-side, which can also include being a second B-side (but once you're up to five or six entirely different songs, it's an EP track even if Pledis Entertainment calls the EP "the fifth Maxi Single") and/or a remix or instrumental that's on a single, or (c) it's by Dev, and she acts like it's a single. This still leaves borderline cases when it comes down to the philosophical subquestion of what constitutes acting like a single. Without going heavily into the philosophy, I'll say that when Neil Young releases some videos along with an album, that doesn't automatically make the tracks singles, especially if the video is merely a bunch of old footage of dead people who were impoverished during their lifetimes, making them Americana. But when Dev releases a video, the song is a single, especially since the video is sure acting like the song's a single. I hope that's clear.
If a song is the other song that's being performed on the comeback stage when you're a popular enough group to get to perform two different songs during your comeback week, but it's not the track that's really being promoted as the single, then I'm not counting it as a single. But when a track becomes popular, and therefore gets a belated video "as a gift to the fans" or some such, then I count it as a single. (I think that's what happened with "Try To Follow Me" and "Bad Girl.")
Back in early 2001, after outlining my criteria for what constitutes a single (physical single, commercially available single, acts like a single, etc.) on my Pazz & Jop ballot for 2000, I mentioned that there were some commercially available singles in my building, one of whom had approached me and asked in a real low voice if I were a "freak." When I looked puzzled, he said, "Would you like me to give you a blow job?" I told him I was straight. So he said, "There's a girl in my apartment who has really big boobs." "Naw, that's O.K.," I said. Then I patted him on the shoulder (to indicate that everything was cool) and went on upstairs to my apartment.
I decided that neither he nor his woman friend were eligible for my ballot. They wouldn't have made my top ten even if they had been, though he was reasonably handsome.
His business couldn't have been thriving or he wouldn't have been living in my building. Maybe it was just that rent was due in a week and a half.
I don't live there anymore. Nor does he. The place was converted into condos.
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