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Originally posted by Ravi
Any particular reason for those HUGE increases?
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The tracking week is becoming less populated with older songs that were overplayed between Christmas and New Years (due to radio stations having their "Best of 2011" countdowns). That explained huge increases for Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" about a week or so ago. Therefore, most radio stations were not playing the newer songs (i.e. "It Will Rain," "The One That Got Away," etc.). Over the past few days since the beginning of the New Year, radio stations began to put most of the newer songs back into heavy rotation. Once tomorrow hits, the tracking week will be 1/2/12 through 1/8/12, and that tracking week will be where we will see some even huger updates. For example, last year, Rihanna featuring Drake's "What's My Name?" received an 8M+ update on 1/9/11.
I hope that clears any confusion