Why? Plenty of songs have gone top 40 that are so obviously a flop I don't understand. Wouldn't it make sense if it's top 10 instead.

Do you know how many people spend their entire lives trying to make popular music?

A top 40 on the Hot 100 isn't an easy task

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Exactly. Getting your music on the charts period is obviously hard.

Not everyone is blessed like the main pop girls.

educate him

That makes sense for newer artist. However, they even refer to main pop girls songs that peak at like #38 a hit.

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Anything in the top 40 is considered a hit.

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Oop
First post too

This.

The OP is ignorant

Do you know how much money record labels spend to get a top 40 hit?

You're talking:

Radio Promotion
Producers
Writers
Studio Time
Image branding

Educate them with the first post fellow Beyoncé stan

Tbh

Every song on the Hot 100 is technically a hit. It makes sense too - the chart is the 100 most popular songs in a given week out of hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of songs. To make the list at all is an honor and very difficult when you look at the big picture. We're just so focused on the upper tier of the chart because we like pop music, which fiercely fights for this portion of the chart.

RT

It is for historical reasons. Every week the radio would play the Top 40 best selling songs of that week. I guess they selected that number because that filled up a 3 hr radio show. So making it onto the Top 40 tracks of the week and being played on the radio became a milestone achievement. A marker for musical acts to aim for, to show they had made a hit record.

So the industry markers for achievement became making the Top 40 and then the Top 10. The vast majority of songs don't come close to the Top 40. The Top 40 is just an industry standard marker of commercial success.

I don't think labels from big successful artist's put that much promotional muscle to get like #38 on BB. Albums where the lead singles peak there from major artists and have no no better peaking singles after to pick up, labels pull the plug on their project. It seems like they want more, and they even scrap artist's work that would be like #38 for top ten sounding songs.

Because top 40 IS a hit. You have one of the 40 most popular songs in the country and your song is doing better than millions of other songs. How is that not a hit?