Any chance of widest Dreams debuting in Top 10?? Someone give me concrete answer? Are 70k digital sales , 9 million streams and 30 million audience enough?
It will have 40 million airplay at least, but no that probably wouldn't be enough. With 10 million streams it might sneak in there.
Not Afraid > Shake It Off > Hold It Against Me > Born This Way > Part of Me > We R Who We R > What Do You Mean? > Harlem Shake
(I used to love WRWWR more, but it sounds kinda dated to me, if it was 2010, I'd definetely put it as the best)
HIAM>SIO>BTW>>>>>Not Afraid>Harlem Shake>WDYM>WRHWR>>>>>>>Part of Me
Harlem Shake the song is a pretty decent trap song actually. I understand why people might not like it but the meme build around the song is way worse than the song itself.
Downtown / What Do You Mean / Wildest Dreams are all increasing on pop radio like crazy
Predictions for them? I have a feeling that they will all hit #1 at some point - What Do You Mean > Can't Feel My Face > The Hills > Wildest Dreams > Downtown.
Does anyone know where I could find a list of albums that took a year+ to get into the T10?
I only know that Taylor's debut didn't make it till its 55th charting week, thanks to re-release.
I did find this cool list on UKMix - most consecutive weeks in the top 100 as of 2012:
246 1 Original Cast - My Fair Lady (1956-1960)
206 1 Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music (1965-1969)
183 1 Soundtrack - West Side Story (1961-1965)
176 5 Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift (2006-2010)
So top artist album. I believe 21 had 144 consecutive.
I dunno if they may have fallen out earlier, but I see on UKMix that Night Visions was at least out of T100 in week 113, and Born to Die in week 135.
Bieber is for sure going to Debut #1. With his streaming and sales it's on lock. Now I wonder who will debut #1 after Justin. I think Katy Perry, Ariana, Taylor, or maybe even Adele. The first 3 ladies debuted at #2, #2, #1 respectively with their last lead singles and they don't seem like they're slowing down anytime soon
Bieber is for sure going to Debut #1. With his streaming and sales it's on lock. Now I wonder who will debut #1 after Justin. I think Katy Perry, Ariana, Taylor, or maybe even Adele. The first 3 ladies debuted at #2, #2, #1 respectively with their last lead singles and they don't seem like they're slowing down anytime soon
Seriously, what's going on with Billboard? I just suspect some of their numbers are not right using my formula (which is completely personal, nothing official) and they fixed their numbers
For example:
First it was
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The track zooms 13-6 on Digital Songs, up by 28 percent to 68,000 downloads sold in the week ending Aug. 27, according to Nielsen Music, and re-enters to No. 12 on Streaming Songs (8.5 million U.S. streams).
I wrote them:
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Is it a typo? 'Cause "Drag Me Down" is actually higher on Streaming Songs (at #11) and I believe overall streams are better than 8.5M
They edited the article:
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The track zooms 13-6 on Digital Songs, up by 28 percent to 68,000 downloads sold in the week ending Aug. 27, according to Nielsen Music, and rockets 41-11 on Streaming Songs (9.3 million U.S. streams, up 126 percent).
Downtown isn't on top 50 of streaming, sales or airplay, how the hell it debuted at #94?
Well the song only had 1 day of the tracking period for Sales and Streaming, it was released on Thursday and the tracking week ends on Thursday at midnight. It debuted mostly because of Airplay.
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The track is the highest debut of the week, arriving at No. 30 (on the chart dated Sept. 12) with only two days of sales and streaming data powering its bow and four days of airplay activity. It likewise enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 97.
“Downtown” logged 886,000 domestic streams in its two days (according to Nielsen Music), with virtually all clicks stemming from the song’s video. The track sold 11,000 downloads in the same timeframe, enough for a No. 22 debut on Rap Digital Songs.
So another thing is not right (again ) Carrie's "Smoke Break" was reported to have sold 56k this week and she's at #9 on Hot Digital Songs. But according to BB's Top 10 article The Weeknd's "The Hills" sold 62k and it's actually at #11 on Digital Songs.
You would think that after the huge mess they made with High By the Beach they'd be more vigilant about not being wrong so often.
I guess instead they just gave up on double-checking numbers.
Remember the days when Billboard gave the full digital t10 #s each week and it was nearly always accurate?
I think this time is Nielsen's fault about the numbers. Not only Billboard, 'cause RoughStock (a completely accurate Country music site) reported Carrie with the same number. But looking at Kworb numbers, they are the same numbers but 65k instead of 56k
I seriously think Carrie sold more than 56k, 56k seems too low for me and even Kworb estimated "Stitches" with 66k sold, and selling actually 10k less doesn't seem right to me
(And I know what you're gonna say, but I prefer believe in Kworb)
You would think that after the huge mess they made with High By the Beach they'd be more vigilant about not being wrong so often.
I guess instead they just gave up on double-checking numbers.
Remember the days when Billboard gave the full digital t10 #s each week and it was nearly always accurate?
Yeah, that was much more fun for chart-watchers because the Hot 100 was more transparent. I'm not sure why they stopped doing that.
Trap Queen & Fight Song need to exist The top 10
And the haters thought LOTP would be his Billboard peak!
