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Originally posted by Downtown
"Extremely local" the urban song released only in US?  |
This. I don't know about other countries, but Needed Me hasn't been released as a single in the UK. But it managed to go top 40 and chart higher than some of Rihanna's actual singles (like Hard, Pour It Up and Kiss It Better which were actually singles in the UK). Yeah, it does have a video on Youtube which helps, and Radio 1 give it the occasional spin, but it doesn't get high rotation on Capital FM and Radio 1 like her actual singles do, so it's quite impressive imo. Only the urban stations in the UK (which don't get many listeners, regularly play album tracks anyway, and have practically no effect on the charts) have it in high rotation.
As for "EDM" songs going to #1, you could classify songs like Cheerleader, What Do You Mean and the new Chainsmokers songs as that, but they're not really the same as the old dance-pop songs which used to always go #1 like Party Rock Anthem, Only Girl, Break Your Heart, etc. They're not as synth-heavy and BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM if that makes sense. I have no idea when another song like those will get to #1, probably a few more years still, that style of music was so overplayed for years it will be a while before people love them again imo, and also those kinds of songs don't tend to do as well on streaming as they do on iTunes (well, with the exception of Gangnam Style and The Fox, but the fact that at the end of the dance-pop era the biggest hits of that style were novelty songs like them and Sexy And I Know It signalled the end) so it won't be as easy for them to keep going to #1 in the streaming era.
I heard the new Chainsmokers song, and I like it, but it's hardly any much more "EDM"-y than Cheap Thrills, Work, One Dance or Sorry imo, it's because the artists are dance producers that it gets labelled as that.
the first time I'll totally love the #1 song in a while.
They swear pointing out NM is local is some sort of drag.
