They base lists off of a point system every week. #1 - 100 points, #2 - 99 points, so on, every week. They do it for Year-Ends I believe (or atleast did in the past).
They base lists off of a point system every week. #1 - 100 points, #2 - 99 points, so on, every week. They do it for Year-Ends I believe (or atleast did in the past).
Yeah, they use the system when comparing different time periods when methodologies for determining chart points weren't the same.
Okay someone last Saturday night wanted to know the name of the real record holder when I felt like crap, so I've gone back to copy and paste it with a little commentary. In 1947, "Near You" by Francis Craig & His Orchestra spent 17 weeks at Number One on the Billboard Top 100 Singles/Songs Chart, which dates back to 1940, 18 years before the Hot 100 started. OSD missed this tying this record by 1 week and breaking it by 2. So OSD is actually #2, with UF in a 7-way tie at #3.
The way longevity keeps trending higher, some song will probably spend 18 weeks at #1 between now and 2020 to 2025. It took a really strange event to keep UF from doing it, and SYAs won't always be there to stop #1 songs at 14 weeks. Despite what a lamb tried to accuse me of, I had said I WANTED UF to break the record on several threads many times, and even though I like Mariah Carey. I never said it was a certainty, especially when SYA's sales hit 400,000 and UFs dropped to 150,000. The math didn't work in UF's favor at that point, and the label did nothing to help boost the song to keep it on top. The comparison I was making was to Sugar and its promo, and Sugar's promo backfired anyway.
They base lists off of a point system every week. #1 - 100 points, #2 - 99 points, so on, every week. They do it for Year-Ends I believe (or atleast did in the past).
BB did year ends this way through 1991, though there were 10 extra points added for each week at #1. I actually wish they still added in a chart performance portion into the year-end charts, since that is what's used in the all-time charts. That would cut down on the lack of consistency and arguments over why all-time and decade #1s don't match year-end #1s.
Since "Uptown Funk" finished in a seven way tie for third place in Billboard Pop longevity history at 14 weeks, I ranked my favorite seven 14 week #1s from favorite to least favorite. The Top Three are all classics, so the distance between #3 and #4 is greater than the distance between #1 and #3. The only song I would definitely turn the station on is #7. Does anyone else want to join me?
#1 I Will Always Love You -- Whitney Houston (1992)
#2 Candle In The Wind 1997 -- Elton John (1997, that's obvious though)
#3 We Belong Together -- Mariah Carey (2005)
#4 Uptown Funk -- Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars (2015)
#5 Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix) -- Los Del Rio (1996)
#6 I Got A Feeling -- The Black Eyed Peas (2009)
#7 I'll Make Love To You -- Boys To Men (1994)
1. I'll Make Love To You (the cheesefest )
2. Uptown Funk!
3. We Belong Together
4. I Will Always Love You
5. Macarena (The Bayside Boys Remix)
6. I Gotta Feeling
7. Candle In The Wind 1997
What is making Shut Up & Dance climb up? It's pretty old, glad to see it reached top 10.
As much as I am glad that Uptown Funk did not beat Mariah's record, I'm still scared for the future though. It seems that reaching 14 weeks can easily be done nowadays
What is making Shut Up & Dance climb up? It's pretty old, glad to see it reached top 10.
As much as I am glad that Uptown Funk did not beat Mariah's record, I'm still scared for the future though. It seems that reaching 14 weeks can easily be done nowadays
Lol, it was not "easy" for UF; it just crushed sales for 13 weeks and looks set to crush airplay for 13 weeks. First song in SoundScan era to do that.
1. I'll Make Love To You (the cheesefest )
2. Uptown Funk!
3. We Belong Together
4. I Will Always Love You
5. Macarena (The Bayside Boys Remix)
6. I Gotta Feeling
7. Candle In The Wind 1997
I loved and still love "End Of The Road" (and "One Sweet Day" for that matter), but not "I'll Make Love To You."
With the current Hot 100 formula it does seem like longer #1's are the new thing. Just look at how few #1's we had in 2014 and how many UF, Blurred Lines, Happy type songs we've had lately. Still with SYA suddenly jumping out of NOWHERE to stomp on UF it seems like songs aren't meant to be #1 any longer than 14 weeks
