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Originally posted by BoyLikeYouSuxx
its literally the most smash-worthy song of this year. but it needs a banner or an award show performance or something.
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No, it needs more radio. When a song climbs from hype, it will eventually fall because people who knew of the song
without the help of radio will have all purchased it. Radio is the support beams for a song. Songs that have huge starts (often thanks to radio deals) usually stay within the top region of iTunes because their support beams are erected quite early, so they have radio buyers straight away. Songs like "Timber" fall a little bit after their release peak because radio takes to it modestly at first, thus a need to build up radio, which translates into higher sales.
It's doing fine right now and with its increasing radio updates it won't be long until we see it increase once more.
(Countries like Australia and New Zealand have a rapid rate of increase on radio when compared to the United States, which is why they're currently so far ahead in terms of smashing. "Timber" increased to the 19th most played song in Australia last week, shown here:
http://www.aircheck.net.au/top10Songs/MediabaseChart)
EDIT: Increasing nicely in Australia!
2 Pitbull - Timber (feat. Ke$ha) 0.8738 0.8633 0.8635 0.8527
Hopefully "Timber" can reach #1 and produce a nice lead before Katy performs on the X-Factor finale. Although I'm sure the winner's song will knock it down regardless...
Australia
U.S.
At least it still hold up 
