#1 Tik Tok - Ke$ha 6.910.000
#5 California Gurls - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg 4.981.000
#7 Rude Boy - Rihanna 4.679.000
#15 Baby - Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris 3.581.000
#18 Not Afraid - Eminem 2.928.000
#20 Your Love Is My Drug - Ke$ha 2.735.000
#25 Love The Way You Lie - Eminem feat. Rihanna 2.369.000
#26 Blah Blah Blah - Ke$ha feat. 3OH!3 2.307.000
But all of those countries where it went #1 except Germany are TINY markets. All of those markets together make only about 15% of the world market. Even France has a tiny singles market these days. It would've charted MUCH higher with the help of the UK. Plus, since the digital market in all of Europe is still much smaller than that of the US being a moderate hit in the US will slay any day.
But you see - that's exactly what I'm saying - that methodology just shows what has shown has (very roughly) sold most and gotten most airplay, but nothing further than that. That in no way represents what songs have been most successful "worldwide". It's fair to say that there are more people that know the song Aod than there are people who know Carry Out.
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Exactly. And mylicious, "OMG" was also huge in Australia, Ireland & Canada.
Obviously, bigger markets will overshadow smaller ones. This "Alors on danse" situation is pointless. The song wasn't a major hit anywhere large. And all the complaining about it compared to "Carry Out", I expected "CO" to be like Top 10 and look and see it's barely on the list.
Songs like "Waka Waka", "We Speak No Americano" being Top 10 currently prove the complaining otherwise, since both of those songs aren't recognizably relevant in the US.
The continent definitely counts as large. They have a greater share of the industry than the USA.
"Baby" is like #3 we all know that but according to charts that's why it's soo slow.
his biggest audience are kids and teens and those don't buy songs on iTunes or vote on mediabase they don't even know.
Congratulation to Ke$ha, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. I'm so proud of those girls.
Also congratulation to Beyonce, Rihanna, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Taio Cruz, Jason Derulo, Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas,Lady Antebellum , Train, Haley Williams, Snoop Dogg, Jay Z, Alicia Keys , 3Oh3!, Justin Timberlake David Gutta, Akon and Adam Lambert.
It's a really good list overall, albeit slightly predictable. I like the top two, I really hope that Train will not be number one by the end of the year.
Agreed. I love the top two, both of those songs are excellent. Train is still selling a lot though, that song does not deserve to be above BR or TiK ToK on any list
No one said she was over...that's something you crazy Rihanna stans put in your head so when Rih does well, which is always, you can say that people counted her out when truthfully, no one did
Okay, since when is this chart not "fair" or "accurate" because the US sales and airplay are counted? The US is part of the World last time I checked, and the biggest market. Proportionally increasing the influence of smaller worldwide markets would not only be inaccurate...it would be stupid.
Im so happy
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