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Originally posted by Auris
"noone is buying them and they are not in radio"
Uptown Funk is #40 on radio (which T40 is a hit) this week and still T75 on sales even above far newer songs. It's being purchased and listened to quite a bit, and its streams are what give it the extra push as it's a song with insane longevity to the GP. After you've bought the song the only way to continue to prove that it is popular is by streaming it.
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When Silvio tweeted me last week, I thought he liked my suggestion of increasing the time on the charts below #50 from 20 to 26 weeks on the Hot 100. Obviously he and Billboard had other ideas for balancing the difference in longevity between the Top and bottom halves of the main singles chart, going the opposite direction. More readers are going to be angry than happy with this solution, and this ruins any chance Uptown Funk had for rightfully taking back #1 for the 2010s (unless BB factors this policy change into their formula). Uptown Funk could be the last song to get a year in the Top 40. We definitely need a Comprehensive Singles Chart now, or an unofficial Hot 100 without the recurrency rules.
