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Originally posted by highwind44029
Usher's slayyage in 2004 was unreal.
06/05/2014:
1. Burn
4. Yeah!
9. Confessions Part II
06/12/2014:
1. Burn
4. Yeah!
8. Confessions Part II
06/19/2014:
1. Burn
5. Confessions Part II
6. Yeah!
06/26/2014:
1. Burn
2. Confessions Part II
10. Yeah!
07/03/2014:
1. Burn
2. Confessions Part II
8. Yeah!
07/10/2014:
2. Burn
3. Confessions Part II
7. Yeah!
6 weeks of having 3 songs in the Top 10. People couldn't get enough of him. 
I can see Iggy achieving 3 songs in the Top 10 if she re-releases Work later this year.  |
2004 is such a terrible year to compare chart feats to though; 90+% of the points, probably closer to 95% on the Hot 100 that year came solely from airplay; the physical singles and died out, and the digital downloads had not yet really kicked in yet, so the whole Hot 100 was basically determined by radio programmers across the US.
True, Usher's Confessions CD was the biggest seller that year with around 7.8 million copies (although Adele actually past Usher's CD in sales some time in 2012). So, right now the Hot 100 is using three major components for measuring how hot songs are; you could say four if you split airplay and visual streaming, and you could say five by counting the very few physical songs sold.
Imagine 95% of the Hot 100 being determined my airplay alone though. We complain when airplay counts more than 50% of a songs total points now. I am not taking away from Usher, but achieving that feat entirely on airplay (except for the few sales points "Yeah" received from being a 12" single with online maybe 1,000 download sales added to that each week) is much easier than trying to keep three songs selling, streaming, and rolling at radio by one artist at the same time (not counting featured artists).
Even when Adele had her huge week after taking home so many awards from one of the most watched Grammy's ever, it was just for one week, AND I do not think Billboard had begun to add in streaming to the formula. I think it was a month after that, March 2012, when Billboard began adding audio-only streaming to the chart, and it was early 2013 before video streaming also counted towards Billboard's Hot 100 formula.
I am just saying if one artist kept three song in the Top Ten on just one component of the Hot 100 now, but never got traction anywhere else, would we consider that as remarkable, or as radio playing a lot of favoritism to one artist that no one wants to buy or steam?
