Can someone on Bonaire put tissues next to André Hazes Jr.’s beach bed? His new album flew out of the Album Top 100 after just two (!) weeks. So at a great pace…
We have found the Max Verstappen of the Dutch music industry: André Hazes Jr. The (folk) singer from the Album Top 100. After only two weeks, that record, entitled Op Mijn Lijf Gewritten, is nowhere to be seen in the charts. And then his label insists with dry eyes that everything is going great…
André in hit ravine
It is really absurd how quickly André moves through the charts. And not only absurd, but also a bit suspicious. André came in at 4 two weeks ago, collapsed to 55 last week and is now nowhere to be seen. And that will create even more doubts about that initial fourth place: was it real or was it bought?
The people at André’s record label were very hysterical after that fourth place. They immediately placed an advertisement in the AD and stood in front of the camera of Shownieuws. Their message: things are not as bad as people think! Could this possibly have been a two-stage rocket? First buy place four, then that AD advertisement?
Looks like it
You can never find out, you can never prove it and they will never admit it. But insiders know for sure: going from nowhere so high to nowhere to be seen is impossible, according to them. “His label and management can show the stats of how streaming is going as proof,” says an insider.
According to this source, they have insight into this. “But I suspect they would rather not do that, because it could be painful when we see the real figures of the album, which can now rightly be called a flop.”
The most painful thing? Thanks to that strange stunt by André’s label, everyone now realizes how hard he is falling out of that chart.
Celebrity, not an artist
Experts see this chart fiasco as proof that André is not an artist at all, but primarily a celebrity. André is only in the spotlight when there juice about him, not when he has made a picture. Yet he continues on: he is currently on Bonaire, because he is in a writers’ camp there for another album.
André has spent a week on holiday with Monique Westenberg and their son. The boy actually has to go back to school, but they were able to make arrangements with his new school about a trip outside the regular holidays. The previous school didn’t want that and that’s why they took him away.
What does VI think?
What do the guys from VI actually think of André’s whole chart fiasco? According to René van der Gijp, he is simply not a good singer and people just want to book a Hazes descendant who sings some of his father’s songs. “Do you know what bothers me so much about that boy? I think it’s such a shame. Life can be so easy.”
He continues in VI: “You know, he’s not a wonder of the world. Go into the country and sing six of your father’s songs, six of your own songs and two songs that no one knows and they will have a great evening. Without his surname he would have been standing somewhere in a café in Sint Juttemis, of course.”