Dance-pop very rarely is a Billboard Top 40 trend. Adult contemporary, urban, and midtempos is almost always the standard esp. in the 90s, 00s, and now. 2009-2012 was a very rare time, not the norm.
I wonder who made dance-pop a thing in 2009. Who started a trend that everyone followed?
I couldn't give two ****s about Beyoncé ha numbers. She has the video as hidden, won't even release the song properly or care at ALL about success. Call her a flop when it comes to singles all you want, that's what she is.
The point stands, being able to sing well, dance well, sell out stadiums, sell albums > selling singles
But it is the standard in European charts. That was my point.
In Europe you might be right. But in America, dance-pop is literally not as big as ATRL makes it. Every 10 years, a dance-pop explosion seems to happen here. 1979 had Chic, Michael, Donna, etc and the disco explosion killing it. 1989 had New Kids on the Flop, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson. Then, 99 and 09 but between all those years not many dance songs become #1s compared to urban or ballad.
Waiting three years to put out a single, get scared because it flopped only to put out another 2 singles, both end up flopping so you scrap the whole album, pretend that you want to do timeless meaningful music only to release the most generic trash on the album as a lead, because you'd do anything to succeed. And by anything I mean make a company buy your album so you could cheat your way into getting an award.
