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Originally posted by Dingdong123
I thought they started revising their rule and allowed recurrent songs to chart in the top 50 after IWALY's reentering the chart. Not sure tho.
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Yeah, that's correct. They used to not be able to re-enter no matter what, but after Whitney passed away they let them back. This is why Mariah can now chart every Christmas too.
However, there have been exceptions, like songs which went recurrent and a few weeks/months later they get a boost but Billboard won't let them re-chart. I think they don't want songs that just went recurrent re-entering the top 50 all the time due to small boosts, that's why Pour It Up didn't re-enter when its music video got released (instead it went to #1 on the recurrent chart). Another current example is Often by The Weeknd, when the album is released it might have enough points to enter the top 50, but I think Billboard will leave it recurrent because it's a recent hit.
There was also the peculiar case recently of Marry You by Bruno Mars, which was in the recurrent chart recently even though it hasn't spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100. I think they said they didn't want it on the chart because it's so old, but Cheerleader is really old too and that's #1. So were other songs like Latch by Disclosure, so I don't know...
There was also the case of Sail by AWOLNATION which actually re-entered OUTSIDE the top 50 after going recurrent (I think, I might be wrong). In this case Billboard said they let it back in since it was gaining on radio and was looking like it would be permanently high for a while (i.e. it wasn't a 1 week boost). Billboard turned out to be correct on that!
I'm glad they let songs re-enter now, but I would prefer them to have more consistent rules, since at the moment it looks like they do it on a case-by-case basis, which isn't ideal for a chart imo.
And I love her for that. But it's going to be interesting if she does it. I loved the sucess "Summertime Sadness" had 
