This Week's Lost 2000s/2010s/2020s Classic

[jlthorpe]

Here are two R&B releases that I'm spotlighting from this time in 2019:

"Toast" by Jamaican singer/rapper Koffee peaked on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts in September of that year, reaching #47 and #37 respectively.



"Do Not Disturb" by British singer Mahalia comes from her album Love and Compromise, released also in September.

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Released this week in 2012 was the album The Rules of Dada by Sweden's Dada Life, which reached #116 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Here are three tracks from that album: "Kick Out the Epic Motherf u c ker" (WARNING: NSFW lyrics), "Feed the Dada", and "Rolling Stones T-Shirt".

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Spending its second week at its peak position of #2 on the Adult Alternative chart for October 24, 2009, "Maybe" by Ingrid Michaelson also reached #109 on the Bubbling Under chart in early August.

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From September 2011, here's a track from Sander van Doorn's album Eleve11. Featuring Carol Lee, here's "Love Is Darkness".



Also from that month, here's the title track from the EP Goin' In by France's Birdy Nam Nam. Skrillex would produce two remixes of the song for Birdy Nam Nam's Jaded Future EP the following year - the "Skrillex 'Goin' Hard' Mix" and "Skrillex 'Goin' Down' Mix" (the latter of which forming the basis of A$AP Rocky's #80 Hot 100 hit "Wild for the Night" from 2013). WARNING: NSFW!

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Released on October 26, 2018, Lukas Graham's 3 (The Purple Album) did not contain a huge hit like "7 Years" from their previous album Lukas Graham. Instead, the biggest hit was "Love Someone", which only reached #70 on the Hot 100 in February 2019. The album also contained the song "Unhappy", whose chorus personally reminds me of "Die for You" by The Weeknd (particularly the line "Can't we just talk it out before I go?").

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From house music producer Green Velvet from Chicago, here's a song that, according to rateyourmusic.com , was released as a single in early September 2013 - "Bigger than Prince". Posted below are the Original Mix and the Hot Since 82 Remix.

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Released on this date in 2002 was Johnny Cash's final studio album, American IV: The Man Comes Around. While mostly containing covers (including of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt", posted here in 2017), it also contained some original compositions, one of which was the title track - "The Man Comes Around".

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Two house music single releases from the fall of 2014:

"Colourblind" by Germany's Thomas Gold featuring Australia's Kate Elsworth, released in October, ...



... And from California, Jauz with "Feel the Volume", released in November.

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He passed away this past July, but his last appearances on Billboard's pop charts were in October 2011, thanks to Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga. Tony Bennett duetted with the former on "Body and Soul" (#87 on the Hot 100), while featuring the latter on "The Lady Is a Tramp" (#121 on the Bubbling Under chart).

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Daft Punk debuted at #42 on the November 17, 2001 Hot Dance Music - Club Play chart with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", later sampled by Kanye West for his 2007 hit "Stronger"; Daft Punk's original would reach #3 on the dance chart in January 2002.

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From Spain, the sister trio Las Ketchup pretty much had the next "Macarena" on their hands with "The Ketchup Song (Hey Hah)". Although it was a huge #1 hit internationally, in the U.S. it only reached #54 on the Hot 100 and #42 in Radio and Records. This week in 2002, it was down to #65 on the former chart. There are two versions: Spanish, and a mix of Spanish and English.

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Tomorrow is of course Thanksgiving, and from 2012 is a song by the people who helped bring you Rebecca Black's "Friday" - "It's Thanksgiving" by Nicole Westbrook.

You've been warned.

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Here are two single releases from the American house DJ/producer 3LAU from the fall of 2014:

"Somehow", a collaboration between Dash Berlin and 3LAU featuring Bright Lights, released in October, ...



... and "We Came to Bang" by 3LAU featuring Luciana, released in November.

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From his album Doo-Wops and Hooligans comes Bruno Mars with "Count On Me"; it was released as a single in November 2011 and although it didn't hit the pop charts in the U.S., it did chart in Australia and a number of European countries.

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Here's what I call for the Christmas month a lost 2000's/2010's/2020's classic for me: This was done in 2013 by UK X Factor winner Leona Lewis, here's "One More Sleep": www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_1-uJ6Ml4