That’s not a typo, just 31,000 measly units. #10 was Shawn Mendes’ most recent album, notching 31,000 units. This week, we returned to the year 1996 with Dave Matthews Band (YES, Dave Matthews Band) taking the #1 album with just under 300,000 “equivalent albums” moved (this includes streams, they have an algorithm for how many streams equal an album “sale”). We don’t have all the data for the entire chart, but we do have what Billboard’s willing to share, which is the top 10. Consider how well (or really how poorly) something has to perform to make the top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 in this day and age, when album sales are in the toilet and streaming is supreme. ? Look forward to having a look at your blog too.For something considered “popular”, these are pretty weak numbers. ?įeel free to drop by whenever you like I always enjoy meeting new people and MQ has great taste in acquaintances. Not sure I could go as far as karaoke, though! Must have made for a memorable 16th. I guess now there are websites like Kiss This Guy dedicated to mondegreens, though, there’s not as much point doing them.īohemian Rhapsody is actually one of my favourite songs it just sounds so weird when you hear it for the first time. I’m sorry I missed those in SMH it would have been fun, keeping track of all the different ones. Nice blog, I will visit occasionally (because it’s horrible to have your parents’ acquaintances impose themselves upon you). Sadly she’s flat as a tack and at that age didn’t even have alcohol as an excuse. At my daughter’s 16th (she’s nearly 20 now) she did Bohemian Rhapsody karaoke, not a word wrong and including air guitar. Some of us even inflict our 1970-80’s sensitivities on our offspring. Oh yes, some of us (if we’re old enough) understand Bohemian Rhapsody. SIT in SMH used to regularly run articles on Mondegreens. Good thing you didn’t sing it more loudly, eh? I don’t think I could have brought myself to say it either. That’s funny what you heard it as, though. I always took it as being about the banning of rock music in Iran, so I guess they didn’t hear the same thing I did. I think some schools banned it here for being “culturally insensitive”. I think I ended up muttering it and then abruptly stopping because I did not like the way I felt doing something I should not have been doing(cursing):).ĬJ: It’s so annoying when that happens, isn’t it? I remember hearing Snow Patrol for the first time and liking them, but then finding out that everyone was talking about them… it just didn’t feel the same after that. I remember thinking, should I sing it with them so they like me. The older kids were singing it at the top of their lungs and I really thought they were singing F**** the Casba. The song Rock the Casbah was on at a rolling skating party I was at. One I rember was when I was in second grade. I could so relate to the discovering something and then liking it less when everyone else catches on. “This guy” hasn’t appeared yet, luckily! Maybe I can swap him for “this girl” instead, eh? I wouldn’t be complaining then. I don’t know which I was more embarrassed about, the singing or the lyrics. The Elton one is so funny makes you wonder just how many people had a crush on Tony Danza! And that’s cruel about the Neil Young song… sounds like a simple mistake to make, but what else are friends for? I remember once I thought I was by myself and was singing Bohemian Rhapsody I turned around and one of my friends was by the door and told me I had it all wrong.
I love that they named it after a misheard word it’s the ultimate synchronicity.
? Has “this guy” got up from you yet? ?ĬJ: Isn’t mondegreen such a great name? I always thought there had to be some kind of name for them but didn’t know it myself until a few months ago. This one word does change the meaning slightly. I sang “drink up” instead of “dream up”, which sounded reasonable at the time, as we were talking about a cup, and all. The original Neil Young lyrics were” “Dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup with the promise of a man”. There was a multi-era radio station playing, I was singing along with the song, when my friends stopped talking, actually pointed at me, and began to scream with laughter. I *may* forgive you for reminding me of one of the colossal embarrassments of my teenage years. Oh, there’s a name for these things! Thanks! I particularly enjoyed Elton, Creedence, and Beatles.