There is a chart for a song to be #1 with sales, it's called the digital chart. If you want a chart that measures only airplay, there's the airplay chart.

The Hot 100, however, measures the most popular song of the week. We Found Love has been that for the past 8 weeks. Let's not pretend like there's some vast difference between the minuscule 1-5k or so sales difference for the weeks where LMFAO bested Rihanna on sales either. 30-50 million more people listen to "We Found Love" on the week than "Sexy & I Know It", therefore it has been inarguably the most popular song, and deserves to be #1 on the the chart that measures the most popular songs of the week.

Discrediting the importance of airplay in determining the popularity of a song is humorous considering there are 100 TIMES more people that hear a song on the radio than purchase it. To reach an airplay hit of 150 million, your song has to have excellent call out scores. If anything, I'd argue that radio represents the most popular song of the week than digital.

Factoring out airplay would discredit so many blockbuster songs of their #1's. The value of the #1 would deteriorate as it would be easier to manipulate than ever and would be in constant rotation. (Side Note: The artist in question, Rihanna, also would've had a #1 in "Pon De Replay" when it was blocked by Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" airplay juggernaut.)

52 - Marry The Night
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56 - You And I

Why do people want the US Charts to operate like UK Charts/International Charts??? The US Airplay market is MILES larger than every other country...to disown it after it made the charts in the past is foolish

but maybe this 30-50 mil different going in album sales?
And yes SAIKI deserve number one, no matter of somebody love or hate this song.
Maybe it times for remix ft. Britney Spears

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US:

2. We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) - Rihanna
234. We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) - Rihanna



WFL back up to #2

53. Teenage Dream (Album)
Usually it isn't in the Top 100.

filling in the gap before the tracking week is done.

what Not understand my english or you agreed with me?

37. Teenage Dream (Deluxe Edition) - Katy Perry

Glad to see Carter IV singles selling well !!!!!

he understood your english but still thought u were annoying and pointless

thats why he/she added the points

Uh...where are ya'll getting these updates from?

It's still indicative of what people are pirating illegally.

all i was saying is that SAIKI gets far more views and radio just doesn't want to play it...radio can make or kill a song

With regards to radio airplay, it's also important to remember that the radio airplay factor in the chart is based on audience impressions, not number of plays.

This means that the stations that nobody listens to won't count very much towards the chart. So if a station started playing really boring songs which nobody liked, people would start listening to other stations, so it would count less toward the chart.

About illegal downloads, I agree that it would be more representative of what's popular. However, it would hurt all the pop girls, and hip hop and RnB songs get illegally downloaded more than pop songs (because teenage "street" or urban guys are statistically less likely to pay for music). I read an article somewhere saying that the most illegally downloaded artists were ones like the Black Eyed Peas, T.I., 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, etc. So if illegal downloads do ever get included in the chart, you'll suddenly see those artists shoot up a bit more, and artists like Adele and Taylor Swift be less successful, since their fans tend to be more wealthy and law-abiding. Not that it's a problem, but you Lady Gaga and Katy Perry fans maybe should be careful what you wish for.

I love WFL but all i'm saying is SAIKI has been #1 on digital for the past four weeks yet radio has played it less and less while playing WFL more and more

that really says something