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Originally posted by Tsuko
Firstly, here in the UK RnB certainly dominated the mid-00's here, and our charts are based on sales. So here in the UK, RnB was selling a lot too, and it was nothing to do with airplay, people were CHOOSING to buy it.
Secondly, This Love was the 4th biggest song of 2004 in the US!!!!!! Yes, it was a massive hit and missed #1. So were Super Bass and Airplanes. Some songs are just unlucky and miss out. But the chart was dominated by airplay and was the 4th biggest song of 2004, so it WAS getting played on the radio. See here if you don't believe me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboa...ingles_of_2004
Thirdly, Toxic WAS being played on US radio in 2004/2005. You realize the airplay factor of the Hot 100 is based on audience impressions? There were many stations playing songs like Toxic at the time, people simply weren't choosing to listen to them, so they weren't adding much to the Hot 100.
Fourthly, US radio is also largely request driven. People phone into the stations and ask them to play their favourite songs. If more people were requesting Toxic, more stations would've played it. Simple. All that radio stations care about is getting the most listeners. They played all of Usher's songs repeatedly because that's all that people were requesting. That's what got them the most people tuning in.
Fifthly, RnB and hip hop were still dominating the digital downloads aswell in 2005 when they were first included in the Hot 100. People though digital downloads would "prove" that RnB wasn't actually popular, but it didn't. It proved that RnB/hip hop actually was popular. See for yourself, it was Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Mariah Carey, 50 Cent, Rihanna, Gwen Stefani, Kanye West, Will Smith, Snoop Dogg that were getting #1s that year in the DIGITAL chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_of_2005_(U.S.)
And finally, it's not to do with them being white. The biggest RnB hit of 2004 was by Fat Joe, a white rapper. |
You basically wrote a novel and didn't even acknowledge what I said. Pop songs were punished because they didn't appeal to multiple formats even if they were bigger than songs that appealed to multiple formats. It had nothing to do with racism so take your racist ass back to Shitain and stay there.
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