Pick of the charts (14/11/10) - Stephen King

Here it is folks, the selection from this weeks charts!

Take That - The Flood

McFly Featuring Taio Cruz - Shine a Light

Ellie Goulding - Your Song

The biggest surprise of the week seems to be that Take That's newest outing didn't go straight to number one. This will surely be a shock for them having just re introduced Robbie Williams.

Enjoy!

Pick of the charts (07/11/10) - Stephen King

A little bit of an apology to make as it seems I forget to enter a track from last week that I particularly enjoyed. That was the new James Blunt track. He is continuing to make songs that live inside your head and never leave! Other than that here we have a good selection of music for this week. Looking at it, to be honest it ain't that great, but I was dumb struck by Nadine's new song. It actually sounds like it should have been written as a stadium anthem for a 90's rock band. I digress, here are your pick of the chart tracks for this week:

Roll Deep featuring Alesha Dixon - Take Control

Jamiroquai - White Knuckle Ride

James Blunt - Stay The Night

Nadine - Insatiable

A reasonable week, and a new entry for Roll Deep, so I guess it isn't all bad. However, there is still some really awful stuff kicking about in that top 40. Anyhoo, listen and enjoy!

Pick of the charts (31/10/10) - Stephen King

Well at least I can say that this week is far better than last weeks entries. Bear in mind that these are my selections, so I have excluded this weeks number one; the new Cheryl Cole track. No a very good song, she is at the number one slot for popularity of herself not her music. I have also neglected to put in the new Peter Andre song, mostly because it is terrible...so here
are this weeks choices!

Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)

Tim Berg - Seek Bromance

Devlin featuring Yasmin - Runaway

Eminem featuring Lil Wayne - No Love

The Eminem track is particularly brilliant; it samples a very popular song from the 90's!

Hope you enjoy what there is this week.

Pick of the charts (24/10/10) - Stephen King

Wow...what can be said about this weeks charts? I can tell you this; things are getting a lot of worse, really, really fast. Out of the eight new entries in the charts I can only deem one of them worthwhile listening to. So here is my "list" for this week.

Skepta featuring Preeya Kalidas - Cross My Heart

Seriously...we need to get something new and fresh. I have even excluded Nelly's new track, which I kind of wished was good. Sadly it isn't and he will continue on a steady decline.

Hope you enjoy what there is this week.

Spread the music - Kidnap Kings

In 2006 I discovered a band called "Dropping Daylight". Part "Hoobastank", part "The Fray" and part "Anberlin". An incredible mix of styles, and a sound that knocked me off my feet. I listened to their debut album "Brace Yourself" more times than I can remember, and this was at the same time as my favorite bands new album was released! I made time to listen to them, and as the months went by, I started to wonder where their new material was.

The year is now 2010, and only barely. There was still no new music from them, so I started to worry that they had broken up. I looked on the wiki page for the band and couldn't find anything about a split, but there was a short sentence at the bottom explaining everything.

"This band has changed their name to Kidnap Kings"

A great sense of relief washed over me, as I would have been quite upset if they had only ever produced a single album. It is exactly the same band line up, but they felt that their newer sound should have a new name. I thought that the name meant that they were the kings of kidnapping, but I was corrected rather quickly.

The kidnap in Kidnap Kings is a verb...as in "we kidnap kings"...not an adjective..as in "we are the kings of kidnapping...the Kidnap Kings"

At present the band only have one song on their page, and even more annoyingly than this they are still unsigned! I can't believe a band with such potential has not been picked up by someone yet. As far as I can see they have plans to release their debut album "Flashing Lights and Sounds" within this year. However, I can't see this happening, unless they go for pure digital distribution.

Regardless, this is a band worth listening to, and I would highly recommend getting a hold of their previous incarnation's material as well. That will tide you over until the release of their album.

I hope you enjoy their music like I do!

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Pick of the charts (17/10/10) - Stephen King

I'm a little late at putting this up this week, but I hope you will get the chance to listen to them all the same. An interesting week in the charts and Cee Lo Green is still in at number one with the song "Forget You". I very, very catchy track that will be extremely difficult to knock off the top spot. Anyway, here is my selection of great music for this week. Enjoy!

Michael Bublé - Hollywood

Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules - Mad World

The Ting Tings - Hands

B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo - Magic

This week being made even stranger by the presence of "Mad World" - the 2003 Christmas number 1, and my personal favorite - in the top 40 once again. Hope you enjoy the new tracks and remember to leave a comment!

Pick of the charts (10/10/10) - Stephen King

I know the content isn't exactly flowing on the Audionaughts page at the moment, but I am doing a very lengthy feature for another site at the moment and it is taking time. However, I am determined to keep the chart music coming once a week. So here it is, my selection of the best this week!

Cee Lo Green - Forget You

Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow - Shame

Swedish House Mafia Vs Tinie Tempah - Miami 2 Ibiza

Kings of Leon - Radioactive

Magnetic Man featuring Katy B - Perfect Stranger

Plan B - The Recluse

A much better week for the charts this time! This is a good record keeping exercise for me, because I always forget what chart music I actually liked. Anyway, enjoy this weeks tunes, and remember to comment.