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Chart Listings: Billboard Charts (December 17-24, 2014)
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Originally posted by Mattyboy
With sales weighing more now I think Funk has next week's #1 in the bag and on-lock for the Christmas #1.
Glad we've got a ton of new top 10's this year, I wish we had more #1's, but I think next year's chart will reflect more of 2010-2011's.
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Haha, the funny thing is Blank Space starts to increase back on iTunes
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Originally posted by Coklek92
Haha, the funny thing is Blank Space starts to increase back on iTunes
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UF will still take over soon
lets not overdo it
taylors had a nice long reign and we shouldn't get too cocky
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Blank Space is still slaying
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Originally posted by Mattyboy
With sales weighing more now I think Funk has next week's #1 in the bag and on-lock for the Christmas #1.
Glad we've got a ton of new top 10's this year, I wish we had more #1's, but I think next year's chart will reflect more of 2010-2011's.
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I hope it's like 2006-2008, they had even more #1s in those years!
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I like having fewer, longer running Number Ones. I think that comes from being one of the very few people on this website who remembers the chart turnover rate prior to Soundscan and electronically monitored airplay. The pre-1991 Billboard Hot 100 had 23-30 Number Ones a year, and songs fell way too fast. A song staying on the Hot 100 26 weeks was rare, 30 weeks was amazing.
Young MC's "Bust A Move", which peaked at #7 in November 1989, was a huge deal due to its longevity in 1989-1990. This was the first song to hold 20 weeks in the Top 40 in over six years, and its 39 week stay on the Hot 100 was the third longest ever before the chart change.
There were no recurrency rules because radio stations and music stores stopped reporting a songs activity after a point, even though the song was still playing and the songs were still selling. Six to nine Number Ones per Chart Year is good for me. Since streaming slows the chart down, if sales stay strong, the chart will move faster.
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Originally posted by Mattyboy
With sales weighing more now I think Funk has next week's #1 in the bag and on-lock for the Christmas #1.
Glad we've got a ton of new top 10's this year, I wish we had more #1's, but I think next year's chart will reflect more of 2010-2011's.
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Damn it, no! I want the immaculate "Take Me to Church" to have at least one damn week at #1. I am NOT here for another "Bad Romance" tea. Hozier deserves this ****ing flawless anthem to go #1 and I will be ****ing pissed if it's blocked by "Uptown Funk!" or "Thinking Out Loud" just as "Blank Space" weakens.
Mother****ers. **** this ****ing chart.
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Originally posted by brianc33616
I like having fewer, longer running Number Ones. I think that comes from being one of the very few people on this website who remembers the chart turnover rate prior to Soundscan and electronically monitored airplay. The pre-1991 Billboard Hot 100 had 23-30 Number Ones a year, and songs fell way too fast. A song staying on the Hot 100 26 weeks was rare, 30 weeks was amazing.
Young MC's "Bust A Move", which peaked at #7 in November 1989, was a huge deal due to its longevity in 1989-1990. This was the first song to hold 20 weeks in the Top 40 in over six years, and its 39 week stay on the Hot 100 was the third longest ever before the chart change.
There were no recurrency rules because radio stations and music stores stopped reporting a songs activity after a point, even though the song was still playing and the songs were still selling. Six to nine Number Ones per Chart Year is good for me. Since streaming slows the chart down, if sales stay strong, the chart will move faster.
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So basically the charts werent very acurate then?
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"Uptown Funk" has 65.982 million impressions on A1. "Blank Space" has 177.595 million impressions. With "Blank Space" closing in on 80% of "Uptown Funk's" downloads for the week (0.7800) and slowing trending upward. Swift's huge lead in streaming will keep this song on Top. "Take Me To Church" will be Number Two. "Uptown Funk" will rank Number Three. Hozier's best shot is when airplay kicks back to new songs shortly after New Years,
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Originally posted by Planet Mars
So basically the charts werent very acurate then?
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Exactly!
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Originally posted by brianc33616
Exactly!
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I always suspected that, its ridiculous to think that a song reigned at most for 2-3 weeks, in 1974 they had like 35 #1 hits WTF???
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Originally posted by brianc33616
"Uptown Funk" has 65.982 million impressions on A1. "Blank Space" has 177.595 million impressions. With "Blank Space" closing in on 80% of "Uptown Funk's" downloads for the week (0.7800) and slowing trending upward. Swift's huge lead in streaming will keep this song on Top. "Take Me To Church" will be Number Two. "Uptown Funk" will rank Number Three. Hozier's best shot is when airplay kicks back to new songs shortly after New Years,
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Hozier better snatch. Ugh. I'm emotionally invested in this song. I want it to do as best as it possibly can.
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Not completely inaccurate, as Billboard did the best they could do. The Country Airplay Chart was the first to switch to electronic monitoring. In 1989, one or two songs spent two weeks at Number One, the rest only one week, and most fell out of the Top 10 the following week.
In 1990, after the switch, George Strait's "Love Without End, Amen" spent FIVE weeks at Number One (first time since 1977) and 11 weeks in the Top 10, including three descending weeks in the Top 10.
At least song held four weeks, Randy Travis' "Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart", and Strait had another song later in the year hold five weeks "I've Come To Expect It From You," Several songs made it three weeks, which the longest any song had held at Number One on the chart in the 1980s.
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I honestly think TMTC will be blocked, UF is probs the next #1, if it gets more promo it might get a week or two before UF.
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Originally posted by brianc33616
Not completely inaccurate, as Billboard did the best they could do. The Country Airplay Chart was the first to switch to electronic monitoring. In 1989, one or two songs spent two weeks at Number One, the rest only one week, and most fell out of the Top 10 the following week.
In 1990, after the switch, George Strait's "Love Without End, Amen" spent FIVE weeks at Number One (first time since 1977) and 11 weeks in the Top 10, including three descending weeks in the Top 10.
At least song held four weeks, Randy Travis' "Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart", and Strait had another song later in the year hold five weeks "I've Come To Expect It From You," Several songs made it three weeks, which the longest any song had held at Number One on the chart in the 1980s.
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Wait did you actually follow BB pre-1991 or did you just research this?
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quwen taylor blank space gets better with every listen
premiere style first award show at grammy or wildest dream!
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Originally posted by Planet Mars
I honestly think TMTC will be blocked, UF is probs the next #1, if it gets more promo it might get a week or two before UF.
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I know he's your fave, but if "Take Me to Church" is blocked, I will forever hold a grudge against Bruno. I will drag him to hell and back if he prevents Hozier from getting his well-deserved #1. I will be so pissed.
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Originally posted by TheGreatestThing
I know he's your fave, but if "Take Me to Church" is blocked, I will forever hold a grudge against Bruno. I will drag him to hell and back if he prevents Hozier from getting his well-deserved #1. I will be so pissed.
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If anything it's Taylor who'll block him, she already has for 2 weeks :/
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Originally posted by TheGreatestThing
Hozier better snatch. Ugh. I'm emotionally invested in this song. I want it to do as best as it possibly can.
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Hozier is at 102.800 million impressions. After this weekend, airplay won't change much, but Hozier is better off in Airplay and Streaming, the latter at least for now, and has the better chance of reaching Number One. If Hozier gains in downloads proportionally with Swift and Ronson, he will be closest. Swift could hold on a long time though.
However, remember many people thought "All About The Bass" would spend 10 to 12 weeks at Number One because no song was on the Hot 100 that could beat it. Then Swift's album's release and video streams took "Shake It Off" back to Number One, followed two weeks later by "Blank Space.
Meghan Trainor's longevity in the Top Three (17 weeks) and Top 10 with "All About That Bass, 20 weeks,is impressive, especially since two to three more weeks seems to be a given what will happen the next two to three chart weeks. That would put it up to 23 weeks in the Top 10, and a chance to hit 5 million downloads before her CD is released in Mid-January.
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Originally posted by Planet Mars
Wait did you actually follow BB pre-1991 or did you just research this?
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I am 40, and this year marks 30 years since I started following Billboard's Hot 100. Summer 1984, Prince and the Revolution's "When Doves Cry" was Number One, followed by Ray Parker Jr.s"Ghostbusters" were the first two Number Ones I remember.
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I hope both UF and TMTC hit the top spot. Theyre both great songs, TOL hopefully too.
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