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Originally posted by igor
After how many weeks a song goes recurrent?
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Originally posted by highwind44029
A song goes recurrent if it has been in the chart for 20 weeks and falls below #15.
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This. Also, songs don't stay recurrent forever. When a song has been recurrent for roughly two years, it becomes a gold song, where it remains until the end of time.
The top recurrents right now are:
R R ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I Like It f/Pitbull 4546 5041 -495 27.453
R R ONEREPUBLIC Secrets 3131 3139 -8 20.001
R R EMINEM Love The Way You Lie... 2855 2973 -118 16.546
R R MIKE POSNER Cooler Than Me 2762 3016 -254 14.910
R R B.O.B Airplanes f/Hayley W... 2613 2755 -142 17.595
R R TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart f/L... 1901 1826 75 11.005
R R KATY PERRY California Gurls f/S... 1740 1910 -170 9.404
R R USHER OMG f/will.i.am 1668 1729 -61 10.437
R R JASON DERULO Ridin' Solo 1487 1560 -73 7.394
R R TRAVIE MCCOY Billionaire f/Bruno ... 1452 1447 5 7.977
R R JASON DERULO In My Head 1421 1480 -59 7.724
R R MAROON 5 Misery 1408 1411 -3 7.599
R R TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister 1379 1390 -11 6.315
R R LADY GAGA Bad Romance 1238 1346 -108 6.583
R R KE$HA Your Love Is My Drug 1227 1350 -123 5.558
R R THE SCRIPT Breakeven 1208 1240 -32 5.870
Songs can also be sent to recurrency early. This is called a purge. A song is purged if it has been inside the top 40, but is decreasing too much below the top 40 and doesn't show signs of returning. There are also a handful of songs that have been purged that never reached the top 40. These songs usually spend a long time in the 41-60 range. Some famous examples of this have been Jessie James' "I Look So Good (Without You)" and Linkin Park's "Leave Out All the Rest." There has also been some cases of songs that have reached the top 40, but never get purged even after falling out. This is extremely rare, and the last known occurrence of this was A. R. Rahman's "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) (feat. The Pussycat Dolls)." Purges are also sent to the recurrent and gold chart on their respected times.