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Paul C ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 23 October 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9 |
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During the Grammy telecast in February 2010, Pink
performed the song "Glitter In The Air", a track from her Funhouse album released in the fall of 2008 that had not yet been promoted to radio. (She 'performed' the song while twirling around on a wire and freely acknowledged afterwards that she had been lip-synching). This 'live' performance was released as a digital single and, almost entirely from digital sales of the 'live' single, the song debuted at #18 on the February 20, 2010, Hot 100. The following week, it fell to #84 and the week after that fell completely off the chart. It was not until literally months later that the studio version started generating enough airplay for the song to re-enter the chart. After fifteen weeks off the chart, it re-entered the Hot 100 dated June 19, 2010 at #92. This second chart run, this time almost entirely from airplay and digital sales of the studio version, lasted sixteen weeks, but the song during this second run never charted higher than #72. If I ever become dictator (currently a work in progress), I would declare the live Grammy version the hit version, since the only week it spent in the Top 40 (in fact, the only week it ever spent higher than #72), it charted almost entirely from digital sales of this version. The song's chart run was very similar to Daughtry's "What About Now". |
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PopArchivist ![]() Music Fan ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 June 2018 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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Paul C,
First off you taught me something I did not know. That makes the live version an extremely rare version which I can share is on Itunes (but I doubt anywhere else in lossless). I would be interested to know if anyone on this board has it in lossless from that time period. I was not even aware that is what propelled the song, I always thought it was the studio version... Edited by PopArchivist |
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Brian W. ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3 |
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The live Grammy version used to be available on Tidal as a streaming title, with the audio and video as separate tracks. You could theoretically capture the audio, since Tidal has lossless streaming. However, it seems to have been deleted, as when I try to play it, it says "not found" and "content is no longer available."
https://tidal.com/browse/album/97380348 |
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PopArchivist ![]() Music Fan ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 June 2018 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17 |
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I take it there was no radio edit of the 5:12 live performance off of Itunes for this track? Whitburn's annual has this as 3:46, which probably indicates the second run of the single Paul C refers to.
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