"Call My Name" finally enters the Billboard Hot 100 chart at no.75 this week!

http://billboardradio.com...o/6180.jsp

renfield said:

thanks Renfield thats suprising and good news!

75? this will not make me open a bottle of chamapgne yet

BombSquad said:

with no retail single available..very little video exposure and top 40 radio pretty much ignoring Prince..this is an achievment..i dont know how much higher it will go with no retail single and no top 40 airplay but its cool nonetheless

Was there a giveaway?

How's the video doing anyway? Do they track that stuff?

CalhounSq said:

the video was dropped from VH-1 2 weeks ago and never was added on MTV Or MTV2

Mazerati said:

CalhounSq said:

they played Musicology like crazy yet Call My Name has turned out to be a much bigger hit and they drop the video.....go figure

If u still want to push this single look at the link below!!!

A radio station in san jose play this song like crazy!!
Every time i tune to it i hear the song no wonder its moving up!!

i called in a few times when it came out and now i see the benefit!!

lets get it in top20 by time of VMAs
[This message was edited Thu Aug 12 10:08:47 2004 by asg]

why isnt sony pussing this song.

Novabreaker said:

[b]There is guitars players and there is Prince.nothing compares to him...

there's 2 ways this song can still make the top 40

1.if they finally release Call My Name as a retail single...which i doubt

2.if they finally go for adds on Adult Contemp stations...you can add a couple thousand extra spins by going this route....i means its a big hit on Urban/ac so i cant see why it wouldnt be a hit on the mainsteam ac

I've heard this song on the radio exactly 3 times.

He should'a released Cinnamon Girl instead.

PurpleJedi said:

one of the stations here plays it about 12 times a day

Its a catchy song compared to his other ballads he has done in the past
[This message was edited Fri Aug 13 7:54:42 2004 by asg]

I just saw the video playing on televisions throughout a mall in Gurnee, IL tonight.

The song comes on our urban and urban AC....here in houston..i hear it quite often...and when he performed it saturday nite , right before he closed with Purple Rain, The crowed went nuts...


(they say he did the "beautiful ones" the nite before, damn)

Somebodyplease Tell me When Will I see this Video? I Haven't yet...Jeez.....

renfield said:

Pretty good news. 2 bad Cinnamon Girl wasn't the single. MTV prolly woulda played it and I'd guess it'd be in the top 50, by now.

Luv & Peace,
Alex
Clubbin' in Mpls/A Night w. Prince

the song is on the verge of hitting #1 on the urban AC chart

http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...format=u2R

andykeen said:

Oh wow, I totally disagree. It's a good song, but it sounds like the basic outline of a Prince ballad. Nothing in this song sounds all that brilliant to me like so many of his other love songs.

It's when you put Call My Name up against truly beautiful, heart stopping P ballads like Adore and Soul Sanctuary that it sounds kinda weak though.

Well I only listen to radio in the evening at home and on the adult R&B station there is a late night show hosted by Al B Sure and he often opens the show with a Prince song, he even play a lot of the Rainbow Children album but he plays the hell out of this song and musicology when it first came out and the station itself plays Call my name a hell of a lot....it's even on the hip hop station at times which says a lot....at least in my mind anyway

This is great news considering I rarely see the video anymore or hear the song on the radio. Then again, I don't watch video channels all that much or listen to mainstream radio all that much, so maybe I'm just missing it.
Prince just keeps on succeeding even with the corporate music world's continuing stranglehold on creativity.