I really have thought about The One That Got Away situation. lbr. She was able to stay in the top 10 of the Billboard hot 100 because after the video released and the song backpedalling a tad following the week of the video release. It was the 69 cent discount that drove the song higher on the BBHot100 alongside strong radio play top the top 5.
I think Katy got lucky to make the top 3 because with songs besides the ones that blocked her (S&IKI and WFL) there was It Will Rain and Good Feeling, both very big singles that each peaked at #3.
Although I feel bad it wasn't her 6th #1 from Teenage Dream, I still think after using the discount during the huge Christmas sales week and then dropping the B.o.B. remix the week of Christmas, if she didn't get #1 that way, I cannot say she was robbed of a 6th #1 at all
Now Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F), which was #1 on Radio and had been a best selling song for a number of weeks in the US (unlike TOTGA, I don't even think TOTGA was #1 on Radio aside from Pop Radio), if it didn't go to #1
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Originally posted by SeanET
she should release the acoustic version earlier and not that disgusting B.O.B. remix
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I thought about this two. i remember there was concern that the acoustic mix of the song wouldn't count towards the overall TOTGA sales, which was probably why the B.o.B remix was released instead because I believe the acoustic mix would have picked up a chunk of sales