[bringhimdowndown]

Yas Elly!

[iHype.]

Originally posted by slobro

How did I Want It That Way only peak at #6 in the US tho
Is my theory about it not having a CD Single release right? It has to be

You're right. It went #6 solely off airplay.

[MrPeanut]

Originally posted by RobynYoBank

What evidence is there to support this claim? It seems like most of us fell into their target demographic.

http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-...of-the-90s/99/

Can you envision any 1D single making even the Top 20 on a similar list for this decade? The VH1 lists were heavily tilted toward songs w/ widespread cultural recognition.

Also, the scene in X2 where they turn on the car stereo and "Bye Bye Bye" comes on to the dismay of the characters as a throwaway gag to which everybody in the audience is expected to relate.

Can you imagine any 1D song being used in a blockbuster film as a common point of reference meant to prompt the audience to laugh at how "pop music sucks haw-haw" years after its release?

[Gui Blackout]

Originally posted by slobro

The Story Of My Life also wasn't that big now that I think about. Another frontloadéd mess that only turned into an actual hit with airplay in Anglophone countries

It was the oposite frontloaded. It stayed in the top 20 for months until airplay got huge.

[Kworb]

Originally posted by RobynYoBank

Well I don't really care about the chart positions outside of the US. In the US, they both have just a small handful of top 10 hits. Obviously, a few of 1D's are purely a result of massive debuts, but that still doesn't really convince me that the BSB or NSYNC top 10s were a different class of hit. At least through experience, I'm pretty sure my parents and friends' parents only knew about them because they bought their kids the CDs.

I mainly just question whether or not 1D will be the equivalent of BSB and NSYNC to the youth of today in another decade.

BSB had many AC songs that older people liked, and songs like Everybody were "cool", it wasn't embarrassing to be a guy and enjoy them.

And Kevin was already 25 or something when they debuted (and Nick was 15), their fans reflected those age differences.

One Direction is more of a niche act, the craze takes place outside of the general mainstream. If you're an adult without a young daughter then chances are you don't know anything about them.

[slobro]

So Backstreet Boys > 1D > *NSYNC (they were huge in the US but they were more local than Janet) ?

[Starburst]

This sounds like a St. Vincent song.

[bringhimdowndown]

Yas Chloe!

[Sinister]

not everyone can go #1 based solely off of airplay like Aaliyah did

[bringhimdowndown]

Originally posted by iHypeMusic

Oh yeah, I know that song too since it got airplay.

JB's "Believe" era having more actual hits to the public then 1D's career has had.

The stunning thing is that both fads got a movie. But then again so did Katy.

[Gui Blackout]

Originally posted by Kworb

and songs like Everybody were "cool", it wasn't embarrassing to be a guy and enjoy them.

Please.

[Ozzy8923]

Originally posted by Kworb

the craze takes place outside of the general mainstream.

Basically.

[Lipton]

ENDSYNC their hits are more iconic and remembered than Brinty hers (in the US)

[Cap10Planet]

One Direction don't seem that big, at least here. *NSync and BSB were definitely more ubiquitous in ways One Direction will never be.

[slobro]

Originally posted by Gui Blackout

It was the oposite frontloaded. It stayed in the top 20 for months until airplay got huge.

Okay fine, they have two hits that had some longevity. Still no match for the BSB

[Nialler]

C'mon, 1D will be forgotten the day their record deal expires. NSYNC is at least somehow remembered.

[bringhimdowndown]

Originally posted by Starburst

This sounds like a St. Vincent song.

Saint Vincent has incisive lyrics tho. I can't even hear words Lana enunciates.

[RobynYoBank]

Originally posted by MrPeanut

http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-...of-the-90s/99/

Can you envision any 1D single making even the Top 20 on a similar list for this decade? The VH1 lists were heavily tilted toward songs w/ widespread cultural recognition.

Also, the scene in X2 where they turn on the car stereo and "Bye Bye Bye" comes on to the dismay of the characters as a throwaway gag to which everybody in the audience is expected to relate.

Can you imagine any 1D song being used in a blockbuster film as a common point of reference meant to prompt the audience to laugh at how "pop music sucks haw-haw" years after its release?

Well, that's why I'm asking. I know all of those things are true for NSYNC + BSB. In my experience, their songs are still played at social gatherings of 90s kids to great results. But 90s kids were the core demographic of those bands, and I'm not the core demographic of 1D.

As Duca pointed out, they at least were huge pop staples, but pop radio seemed to have less power than it does today.

[Duca]

Originally posted by Lipton

ENDSYNC their hits are more iconic and remembered than Brinty hers (in the US)

fdnoknfk who reported this?

[iHype.]

Originally posted by Sinister

not everyone can go #1 based solely off of airplay like Aaliyah did

Aaliyah, and Lady Marmalade being the only female songs to go #1 off Airplay only, when physical CD sales were still intact.