Well said Rawat.. u hit the nail on its head !! This is what I meant when i said chiggy wiggy is not a hit...
Jai Ho was played, discussed, listened, reviewed etc etc.... not in Indian fora but internationally... Now, given the acclaim that Rahman has got (deservedly), chiggy wiggy was expected to be an international hit... similar to Jai Ho (Well, its another story that I feel O'Saya deserved the oscar than jai ho). And it was also expected that the song be received on the similar lines of jai ho... But look at what we are pointing to... a few commercial institution's ratings to prove that chiggy wiggy is a hit ?? frankly a true Rahman fan knows from heart if the song has clicked the right notes or not, isnt it ?.... (eg.. when I played Sakhi (Saathiya) songs to my friends, everyone had written off the songs as bland... but I knew it deep in my heart how grt those songs were... and it turned out to be so)... I have seen the videos of jai ho being played in almost all the dance competitions worldwide, sung by small kids in the west, used as themes, made videos of, used by the prisoners.. etc etc... just check youtube and u'll know I have worked in London and from that experience I know that Kylie has got a huge fan base in the west (her popularity went even higher when she was diagnosied with cancer, I was in london at that time and know the coverage that the media had given to her and the response/support she received from the public). With this popularity of kylie, I naturally expected chiggy wiggy to be a hit among not only Indians but also the western audience (we are anyways used to hit after hit from the legend, rahman). I don't expect Blue to be a hit in the west (movie, not the songs, the other songs are awesome !!), after watching "Into the Deep" which was a hit of 2005 . So, its not fair to just point to some radio channels ratings and say chiggy wiggy is a hit !! Lets accept it. But, as it was said earlier in the discussion, maybe after the movie is released chiggy wiggy may turn out to be a hit on the screen... P.S.: Even I haven't heard of Indian Airplay earlier. Radio Mirchi is a mere commercial radio station whose ratings are really questionable. In the past I have seen Radio Mirchi give top ratings to the songs to which it is the Official Partner (even if the songs were pathetic) Bye Vinod --- On Wed, 9/30/09, V S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: From: V S Rawat <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [arr] Why Chiggy Wiggy is not a hit ?? - Read on my opinion To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 11:08 PM On 9/30/2009 8:54 PM India Time, _ichord_ wrote: > Chiggy Wiggy a failure? It has reached number 1 on radio mirchi and > number 4 on Indian airplay. Well, if that's a failure, I wouldn't > mind such "failures" from ARR now and then....LOL! Let's remember that popularity of a song is not really related with the brilliance of the song. Or at best, popularity is inversely proportional with brilliance. - I had never heard of Indian Airplay list before its mention in this list yesterday. - Radio Mirchi is a private professional channel. There is no logic how they select songs to be played, whether they are charging money or favor or ads from the movie/ music right holders. There is no farmaishi program on Mirchi that might have suggested that listeners are really asking them to play a particular song. And they as well as all private channels do play all the latest songs, without exception, round the clock. Does anyone have any data of how many Water or D6 song reached in Radio Mirchi top 10 to prove the greatness of these songs and how many of Pritam and Himesh songs reached Radio Mirchi top 10 to make them great songs? Let's don't rely on unauthenticated meaningless data to prove ARR's greatness. ARR is great on his own accord even if a rare song of him is not up to his mark. -- Rawat > --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, "Jahanzeb" <jahanzebtippu@ ...> > wrote: >>> The song has harmed the reputation of ARR also, me think. It is >>> less than mediocre by ARR's standards. It lacks creativity that >>> was so visible in each of 800+ songs of ARR. If this is what our >>> man is going to give after Oscars, and with an international >>> popular, he was far better before Oscars and with Indian singers. >>> >> >> this is 100% EXACTLY what i also think. couldn't agree more. as i >> have already said i would say again that it is ARR's failure (one >> of very rares). >> >> >> - Jahanzeb >> >> >> --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, V S Rawat <vsrawat@> wrote: >>> On 9/29/2009 8:52 PM India Time, _ravi_ wrote: >>> >>>> And does it really matters about an article written by any >>>> person who just wants to fill space in a daily and agree to the >>>> senses? That was quiet absurd when the writer in the daily >>>> claimed that Blue was a flop bcs of songs (or one song in >>>> particular) as if every movie was an instant hit or flop with >>>> its music. Had it been a case movies like Mann, Khamoshi should >>>> have been listed among all time hits. I personally felt a >>>> person who writes should do at least some amount of homework >>>> and analysis when he writes in media than just writing opinions >>>> and then generalizing it. And the one who doesn't is no less >>>> than an those ppl who preach evil and force ppl to believe in >>>> their views. Coming back to Chiggy Wiggy I personally never >>>> felt Kylie is one wonderful artist anytime >>> I was worse off than you. I had never ever heard of Kylie before >>> her getting roped in for Buloo. >>> >>>> and I never borrowed the hypes surrounded; >>> but I got curious about an international popular artist getting >>> roped in first time for an Indian song, that too by my fav man. I >>> was expectant and eager to hear it. >>> >>>> So taking into account of ppl like me or to those who never >>>> knew who Kylie is music sales volume is unaffected. >>> I differ. I think several people must have got curious about this >>> song that cost multi-million bucks and they would have bought it. >>> >>> >>>> It only matters who is the Composer and AR name is an influence >>>> for sales. >>> The song has harmed the reputation of ARR also, me think. It is >>> less than mediocre by ARR's standards. It lacks creativity that >>> was so visible in each of 800+ songs of ARR. If this is what our >>> man is going to give after Oscars, and with an international >>> popular, he was far better before Oscars and with Indian singers. >>> If the movie flops at box office (I fear so) then ARR bashers are >>> going to have a field day. >>> >>> I am sure RAVANA is going to be a never-before highest point in >>> ARR's life that will leave everybody spellbound. >>> >>> -- Rawat >>>
