I don't see how your points are supposed to convince me that airplay's weight is good.
I don't think it should be neck and neck. I don't see how the fact that Team/CS clinging onto the T10 means that it's good for airplay to be so important.
Happy, All of Me, and Dark Horse's successes can already be easily accounted for through domination in sales - and streaming for some of them.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the US switched to a main chart that was like most other countries' - based on direct consumer demand only. Zero weight for radio.
My point is what do you expect when you have a hit like "Team" with Airplay numbers being almost the double (around 144M) of sales' numbers (around 74k). Audience on radio listening to the song is still a factor imo. Some songs are just meant to be more radio hits and decent sales. The weight of radio right now is big because we have too many big multformat hits, and sales are the pits
1. Happy = (8-4% of lead)
2. All Of Me =
3. Dark Horse =
4. Talk Dirty =
5. Let It Go =
6. Pompeii =
7. Team =
8. The Man =
9. Counting Stars =
10. Turn Down For What =
11. Best Day Of My Life +1
12. Timber +1
13. Not A Bad Thing +7
1. Happy = (8-4% of lead)
2. All Of Me =
3. Dark Horse =
4. Talk Dirty =
5. Let It Go =
6. Pompeii =
7. Team =
8. The Man =
9. Counting Stars =
10. Turn Down For What =
11. Best Day Of My Life +1
12. Timber +1
13. Not A Bad Thing +7
Why that small of a lead? He is still almost 100m more than aom on aairplay and #1 on itunes
Why that small of a lead? He is still almost 100m more than aom on aairplay and #1 on itunes
That's on Mediabase. On Nielsen the difference should be around 46M. John has more than the double of Pharrell's streams (Last week, Happy 3.3M / AOM 7.2M)
If All Of Me can't dethrone Happy, it's safe to say that Pharrell could even pass Blurred Lines in weeks at number one. There's nothing on the horizon that could dethrone him other than John.
Maybe Birthday will do it, but it will take a while for it to gain enough traction to do so. Happy is the kinda song that would carry well into summer too.