Idolator Charts The Artists Of Today That You’ll Be Sick Of Hearing About By Tomorrow
(Ed. note: Once again, we present “Indecent Exposure,” a ranking of the artists who are receiving the most dangerously high levels of popular-culture exposure. It’s an anecdotal chart that takes into account such factors as media appearances, blog hype, playing-in-the-background bar music, and overheard subway conversations, and it is 100 percent statistically sound.)
| INDECENT EXPOSURE CHART: 6/1/07 | |||
| ARTIST | WEEKS ON CHART | LAST WEEK | DAYS UNTIL BACKLASH |
| 1. AMY WINEHOUSE 1 | 19 | 1 | -27 |
| 2. THE WHITE STRIPES | 478 | 8 | YESTERDAY |
| 3. NANCY REAGAN | 31 | 2 | -2,318 |
| 4. LAVENDER DIAMOND 2 | N/A | N/A | 15 |
| 5. R. KELLY | 95 | 11 | NOW |
| 6. FEIST | 14 | 5 | 4 |
| 7. KANYE WEST | 12 | 2 | |
| 8. BETH DITTO | 20 | 14 | ?? |
| 9. 50 CENT | 426 | 19 | NOT UNTIL YAYO HAS BEEN FREED! |
| 10. BT 3 | RE-ENTRY | N/A | MID-1999 |
1 = Can’t stop, won’t stop. 2 = Least compelling blog headline of all time. 3 = We heard something about some guy flying with him when he wasn’t supposed to? Did we get that right?
It’s a ‘Housequake! Thanks to dueling Spin and Rolling Stone–not to mention that cred-boosting implied drug use–AMY WINEHOUSE remains at the top spot; at this point, she’s so played-out now that her own overexposure is overexposed. A leak from TEGAN AND SARA and a fake leak from THE WHITE STRIPES move both artists up a bit, though when it comes to power couples, you can’t beat NANCY REAGAN and her late husband, RAPPIN’ RONNIE, who made the talk-show rounds this week. As for the rest of the list: BETH DITTO got nude, 50 CENT got moved and LAVENDER DIAMOND got mewed over by dozens of wistful indie-rock boys, all of whom are looking for the next Jenny Lewis. As for R. KELLY, not all the public-image problems in the world can stop him; after all, they tried to make him to go pee-hab, and he said “No, no, no”! And then he recorded a song about having sex with a pterodactyl.
