It was EXTREMELY close to Kelly, who was at #3, and Katy at #2 was falling hard, so when BoB edged above Kelly, it happend at the same time of Katy falling. BoB lucked out in a matter of circumstance.
I forgot about Domino. It's not very memorable, so I'm not surprised it fell sharply without the exposure. TMO & RC stayed in the Top 20 while Domino fell even harder despite having more AI than both I alive, right?
TMO is an example of a song peaking digitally too early. And it's the type of the song that will stand out competition is lower but fade easily as competition increases. In other words, a hot song but certainly not amazing, IMO. Starships is also taking away from it.
About alternative #1s, I agree, it's strange of Billboard to say Makes Me Wonder is a rock song. It's definitely very much a pop song to me. I guess just because they're a band and play guitar people just look at that and think "rock", but it's really not a rock song lol. It was so catchy though.
I would say How You Remind Me was the last rock #1 too. I think the main reason rock fans don't call it rock is because they don't want Nickelback to represent their genre. They don't want the general public to think since it's the biggest rock song in the world, that it's also the best. They did the same with Kings of Leon aswell when they blew up in 2008. I don't think they should worry though, it's the same with all the other genres, it's rarely the best songs to represent the genre that get massive. There's other factors with the Hot 100, like crossover appeal to other genres, etc.
About Usher, probably the ONLY good thing about him doing europop was at least that he did it relatively early on. Dance was already blowing up in 2007/2008, but at least he started doing it then, and it wasn't like those RnB singers that suddenly started doing electropop in 2011.
Not only Hot Tottie, but it also pissed me off so much how Lil Freak didn't get big like it could've/should've done. It's so frustrating these artists that have lots of great urban songs, but they only ever promote the eurodance ones. And then they get everyone's hope up that they're going to release an RnB song as a single, and then they either don't promote it, or it turns out to be a dual release, or they don't even bother sending it to Pop/Top 40 radio, or they change their minds and cancel it, or they don't bother making a music video. Something ALWAYS goes wrong. I swear. It's so depressing. It's like a lot of "RnB" singers don't actually want to release urban songs. And when they release a dance song their record label are suddenly willing to spend millions promoting it.
I thought Coldplay's VIVA LA VIDA was the last rock song (or alternative rock at least) to go number one in the BB HOT 100????
I remember how everyone thought it was a contender for the top spot after the Grammys.
Well, I'm sure people thought it would get promotion at the Grammys. After all, that was before we even knew about "Roman Holiday."
It was a contender, but it ended up being unlucky. And when Whitney and Adele bum-rushed the top ten, it was pretty much over for a lot of those songs... (TMO, RC, Domino, etc.)
It was EXTREMELY close to Kelly, who was at #3, and Katy at #2 was falling hard, so when BoB edged above Kelly, it happend at the same time of Katy falling. BoB lucked out in a matter of circumstance.
Ah well. Glad Kelly's still at #3.
I don't care as long as she is ahead of Adele and Katy...since they are the ones who are threats for #1 next week.
2.9% for Kelly, 4% for Katy and 2.6% for Adele.