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Originally posted by LoKoPaNdA
I didn't see that much controversy for Dope. ATRL is predictable. Again I am biased lol
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The difference between Dope/Harlem Shake/Gangnam Style is they actually had digital sales to back up their positions on the BB Hot 100. Soko was in the 600-700 range on iTunes, while all of the previous three had top 10 exposure on the Digital Songs charts. It doesn't really make any sense that a song with no airplay and only 10k in digital sales would be the 9th most popular song in the country this week
However, the only reason this is truly controversial is because songs like this can have their streaming counted towards their chart points, while songs, like Let Her Go, who have also had major viral promotion via YouTube are unincluded in the total chart points for a song due to categorization on YouTube. Neither of these songs were listed under the music category (which Billboard used to justify Let Her Go streaming's un-inclusion for Superbowl week), yet only one of them had their streaming counted because
apparentently YouTube reported views from one and not the other. It just doesn't make any sense to me and seems a bit shady
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Rise, Jhene!
