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Die Young becomes most played song ever on Pop radio (BDS)
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Ke$ha climbs to No. 1 on Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Mainstream Top 40 chart with “Die Young” (RCA), the lead single from her Dec. 4 album Warrior. The song marks her third leader at the format, following her debut single, “TiK ToK,” which reigned for seven weeks beginning the week of Feb. 6, 2010, and “Your Love Is My Drug,” which led for two frames starting June 19, 2010. Both cuts appear on Ke$ha’s debut set, Animal, which bowed atop the Jan. 23, 2010, Billboard 200 and has sold 1.4 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
With the Mainstream Top 40 panel newly expanded to 157 stations, “Young” rewrites the mark for the most weekly plays for a title (13,764) in the chart’s 20-year history. Maroon 5’s “One More Night” (Interscope), which slips to No. 2 after eight weeks at No. 1, established the mark with 13,168 plays last week.
“It was just so interesting to see how a song could connect so quickly,” WHTZ (Z100) New York PD Sharon Dastur says of listeners’ early acceptance of “Young.” “I just know that [Warrior] is going to be a huge, huge album for her and she’s really going to just pick up where she left off.”
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Source: Billboard Top 40 Update.
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