I want to bring Young Divas back please? Yes!!!
It’s not a great song. I doubt it will sell.
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They botched it. Should have been performed the night before and he only sang half the song when he won.
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Probably because this show makes no sense in terms of current industry movements and music discovery. Especially if you are trying to fashion a ‘pop star’
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Well 5 of the top 6 contestants were all from regional towns - so not surprising. I guess it’s one of the few shows where regional Australia has felt really well represented.
Never going to happen.
Yeah back in the day when both contestants sang the winners song before the finale, you kind of already knew it by the time they won. Hearing a short version after Dylan won just didn’t sound very good or memorable to me.
Anyone out there in radio land ever hear this song played? According to Online Radio Box K-Rock Geelong played it yesterday at 10.54am local time.
Well it didn’t make the top 50 on the ARIA charts and not even in the top 20 Australian songs.
According to Spotify it’s had 35,000 streams.
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Was Marcia scheduled to perform? I missed it… or was that because she fell ill ?
Yes she was but clearly not well enough to perform.
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On the Good Friday Appeal, Ivana did another rendition of Rihanna’s Diamonds in the afternoon, and also caught up with a couple of top 30 contestants (it is on her Instagram), while Dylan was on the panel earlier tonight.
Ivana with Mike Amor and Rebecca Maddern
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So it was meant to be that night? I didn’t just miss it?
She was brilliant
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Utter failure for the Australian Idol winner’s single again.
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Although this season seemed more well perceived compared to last year (better judges, and some better singers in the top 12), it’s a shame that the Singles Sales aren’t that good.
Before the votes went to 10 person per person in the last two or so episodes, and the voting was unlimited, the judges said that “millions had voted” and “records keep on breakings”. If so… why didn’t these people buy the song?
People don’t buy songs anymore they would stream the song on Spotify or Apple Music. The winner’s song Paper Heart is not that great but it does have over 10k plays on YouTube Music, I prefer Spotify but it does not seem to provide me with that information easily. Angels Brought Me Here was far better and also something probably not helping things is there was no video clip either that I could find on YouTube only Dylan’s performance on the finale.
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Oh, i see. Im with you now. Streaming is the place to go now for music. Had a brain freeze before. Lol.
“Angels Brought Me Here” was a great song. It made Guy the star he is now.
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That’s because it’s a terrible song.
Most of the main streaming platforms like Spotify do count towards the charts. All you need to do is go to Dylan’s profile and see his top played songs, it says the number of streams.
They need to choose better songs clearly.
I’ve said this a few times around how Idol is not conducive with music discovery in the 2020s but the Idol winner’s songs also sound nothing like what’s on the charts currently, which for better or worse are heavily influenced by TikTok sounds and trends.
I’ve not watched Idol but this winner’s song sounds like the folky/Of Monster and Men type stuff that was big around 2010-12. Way outdated versus the stuff that charts now.
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