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Originally posted by Deemy
And so..?
A number 1 is a number 1. Thousands of songs have never got there..
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I mean, that's great, of course, but can anybody really make the case that longevity isn't preferable?
The song that spends 10 weeks at #2 is usually the bigger hit than the song that spent one week at #1.Not saying that that will necessarily be the case for HIAM, just speaking hypothetically.
I've just never gotten the fascination with chart rankings over sales, at least since the digital explosion (more understandable when it was almost entirely based on airplay). Nobody really cares about album rankings on a week-to-week, and for good reason.