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Originally posted by Flashing Lights
Anybody know why bullets are higher than usual?
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It's a hangover from Memorial Day weekend. Many stations change their programming over these 2-3 days dropping their normal shows in favour of retro-shows and start of summer programming.
As a result the songs in the top 40 last week either experienced smaller bullets than you might expect or larger negatives. The best comparison to check on how a song is performing is to compare it to the mediabase figures from two weeks ago, not last week.
When the influence of those 2-3 days works its way fully out of the system the top 40 songs bounce back to their true position, with much larger bullets, smaller negatives or with the case of some songs which were near "neutral" on spin counts, negatives turning temporarily into positives (e.g Bleeding Love).
You should see the mediabase charts back to some form of normality from tomorrow onwards.