boyz II men and mariah were both notorious for having long reigns at #1. boyz II men had a 13 week, 14 week, and 16 week number one single, and mariah was at #1 a ridiculous amount of time throughout the decade. a combination of the two spending the longest time at the top really doesn't surprise me.
Mariah Caray and Boyz to men wrote it for people they knew that had died.
Mariah began writing it for when her friend and past collaborator died from Aids. Boyz 2 men were also working on a song with the same idea and combined their songs.
It was also performed at the Grammy Awards and a tribute to Princess Diana in 1997.
Mariah and Boyz II Men were both at their absolute PEAKS
Boyz II Men had a 12x Platinum album just the year before, and spent 18 weeks atop the chart in 94, with a #2 hit earlier in 1995.
Mariah had a Diamond album (32M WW hihi) in 93, a successful Christmas album and multiple hits in 94, and had just spent 10 weeks at #1 with the first female song to ever debut in the top spot and debuted at #1 with the Daydream album a month before the single was released.
Both B2M and Mariah were radio and sales darlings, nobody was messing with them at the time. This was if Rihanna in the Loud era (with better album sales) and Drake in the Views era were releasing a new song at the peak of digital sales, except streaming is totally out of the equation and then multiply it by like 5 times.
This song was going #1 no matter what, and the reason it was up there so long was a combination of outstanding sales for a physical single and the fact that radio didn't drop it for so long. There's a reason it hasn't been duplicated and it's because radio has less power, people get burnt out on songs quicker (thus streaming goes down) and sales are the pits and have been for a while.
The fact that most you are off-topic. The OP asked HOW it managed to stay 16 weeks at the top of the HOT 100 not its relevancy today. No one cares if you think the song's bad or if it's not big in your country (it stayed 16 weeks #1 in the US, not in France....).
The fact that most you are off-topic. The OP asked HOW it managed to stay 16 weeks at the top of the HOT 100 not its relevancy today. No one cares if you think the song's bad or if it's not big in your country (it stayed 16 weeks #1 in the US, not in France....).
Clock her, again.
I fell on his bitter game, that won't ever happen again.
Payola, discounts, Mariah and Boys II Men being at their peak, and because it's an amazing song.
MTE. Some users are acting like their favorites hasn't ever used payola before. How do they call it now? Radio deals? Discounts are also very common now and not to mention strategies like releasing a remix to help a song get to the top.
Mariah and Boyz II Men were both at their absolute PEAKS
Boyz II Men had a 12x Platinum album just the year before, and spent 18 weeks atop the chart in 94, with a #2 hit earlier in 1995.
Mariah had a Diamond album (32M WW hihi) in 93, a successful Christmas album and multiple hits in 94, and had just spent 10 weeks at #1 with the first female song to ever debut in the top spot and debuted at #1 with the Daydream album a month before the single was released.
Both B2M and Mariah were radio and sales darlings, nobody was messing with them at the time. This was if Rihanna in the Loud era (with better album sales) and Drake in the Views era were releasing a new song at the peak of digital sales, except streaming is totally out of the equation and then multiply it by like 5 times.
This song was going #1 no matter what, and the reason it was up there so long was a combination of outstanding sales for a physical single and the fact that radio didn't drop it for so long. There's a reason it hasn't been duplicated and it's because radio has less power, people get burnt out on songs quicker (thus streaming goes down) and sales are the pits and have been for a while.
