When did anyone say Bad Romance deserved #1 ahead of Tik Tok *exclusively*?
People just said it deserved #1, not just ahead of Tik Tok but just #1 in general.
12/26/09
Empire 136.720+125.051= 261.771
Tik Tok 181.834+
77.236 = 259.070
Bad Romance 182.527+
76.020= 258.547
Now, those calculations use mediabase airplay numbers instead of BDS which Billboard uses and on BDS GaGa was ahead of Ke$ha. Meaning she was ahead of Ke$ha that week on both sales and airplay.
Clearly it would have been
very close on just sales & airplay and now let's have a look at the streaming chart for that week.
No. 8 Empire State Of Mind
No. 10 Tik Tok
No. 66 Bad Romance
Y'all on some wack **** if you think that didn't swing it.
The Hot 100 ended up as:
1 1 JAY-Z EMPIRE STATE OF MIND (FEAT.
3 2 KE$HA TIK TOK
2 3 LADY GAGA BAD ROMANCE
As we saw earlier, GaGa was ahead of Ke$ha on purely sales & airplay but the streaming put Ke$ha ahead. That jsut shows how close the top 3 were and that the mediabase numbers, although different to BDS, were clearly quite similar for the gap to still be that small.
The point I'm trying to make is more the problems with Billboard's charts rather than that GaGa should have been #1. I know she never had the msot points in a week because of the the fact her airplay and sales didn't align and also due to streaming.
Billboard's charts attempt to measure popularity but it's laughable that a song that peaked at about #50 on the streaming chart of ~popularity~ is the most viewed music video of all time on youtube and has CLEARLY been streamed A LOT and been VERY popular