First Unsigned Band to Hit Top 40
More proof artists don’t need to sell their souls to corporations anymore: an unsigned band is about to hit the top 40.
Essex rock band Koopa could become the first unsigned group to land a UK top 40 hit thanks to new chart rules.
Their download-only single Blag, Steal & Borrow is on course to enter Sunday’s top 40, early sales figures suggest.
Chart rules were changed at the start of January to count all digital single sales, even if there is no CD version.
Record labels have already contacted them on the strength of this week’s chart showing.
“If someone comes along and gives us an offer, we’ll talk to them,” [singer Joe Murphy said.]
“But it depends whether we need it. If we can get enough exposure and get in the top 40 by the end of the week, do we necessarily need a large label?
“Probably nowadays, no you don’t. We’ll get the exposure ourselves just from being in the charts.”
How fitting that the song itself is anti-label.
You think you have all the power
The public listens to what you allow… yeah…
You use people as your puppets
Churning out your cheesy rubbish!
I’ve heard people bash Filipina gamer-blogger-cosplayer babe Alodia Gosiengfiao for not selling out to desperate TV network ABS-CBN. Clearly, those people are obsolete.
Why Filipinos Want to Take Over the Blogosphere
People are asking Abe Olandres why the Filipino takeover of the blogosphere is such a big frickin’ deal here in the Philippines.
I explained that our generation (i.e. Filipinos) have become known around the globe as any of of these types of people — domestic helper, nurses, sea men, care-giver, or call center agents. In short, we’re looked down by most as cheap 3rd-world laborers. I have aunts that are working as nurses in the US for decades, uncles & cousins on a cargo ship at sea, relatives who are domestic helpers (OFW is the proper term) in Singapore & HK, older cousins who graduated as nurses but ended up as care-givers in UK and even more younger cousins who are now waiting for their Nursing Boars exam results. So, a fellow Filipino taking over a top position in a pre-dominantly western niche is real news.
Having worked with the Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Council during the Estrada administration, I can see where Abe’s coming from here. Too much of the IT trade promotion work done at the dawn of the 21st century focused on turning Filipinos into anonymous low-level BPO drones powered by Starbucks and shallowness. The big hoopla over Filipinos’ success in the blogosphere is fueled in part by our own rebellion against that Faustian bargain.
