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Originally posted by atrlster
The chart is feeling very 2004 to me. Certain songs don't feel as big as their chart positions indicate (All Of Me being that high, Counting Stars hanging on that long - it doesn't feel anywhere near as big as Apologize to be coming so close to it's number of weeks in the Top 10) and the Top 10 being pretty stagnant and barely moving  |
I agree about 2004 being one of if not the worst year to judge how big songs really were on the Hot 100. Over 90% of the chart that year was purely airplay points. The biggest selling song of the year was Fantasia who sold 410,000 copies. However, even though Billboard didn't fully add digital sales data into the Hot 100 until early 2005, Usher's "Yeah" and both the Outkast's "Hey Ya" and "The Way You Move did benefit from digital sales activity that year due to the unusual policy of allowing singles with a physical single component (Yeah had a 12" single and Hey Ya/The Way You Move had a double sided video single) to earn points from digital sales.
The fact that some songs between 2000 and 2004 charted so highly without the labels ever releasing the singles commercially was very frustrating. I remember at that time the music stores sold imported singles, since the labels still sold physical singles everywhere else in the world outside of the US. Whatever you want to say about Napster, its creation led to the labels willingness to sell singles digitally again.
sales is dropping 