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Originally posted by havefaithrestart
This.
How is that people still don't understand it... If they want the chart to be "real" making the #1 song in sales the #1 of the country, then UF is still #1.
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Even if we went back to the pre-electronic monitoring days, and divided "Uptown Funk's" sales by two to convert to physical singles, I still think the song would get eight or nine weeks at #1. Here are some songs with long runs before the chart change in 1991, and since "Uptown Funk" should get at least 12 weeks on top and reach 6 million downloads before Memorial Day, the song would rank up there with them. "Uptown Funk" could, and I am not saying it will, reach 13 to 14 weeks. I do think the song will reach 7 million downloads between Thanksgiving and New Years, and 7.5 million downloads around mid 2016.
10 weeks: "You Light Up My Life" -- Debbie Boone (1977); "Physical" -- Olivia Newton John (1981-2)
9 weeks: "Bette Davis Eyes" -- Kim Carnes (1981); "Endless Love" -- Lionel Richie/Diana Ross (1981); "Hey Jude" -- The Beatles (1968)
8 weeks: "Tonight's The Night" -- Rod Stewart -- (1977); "Night Fever" -- Bee Gees (1977); "Every Breath You Take" -- The Police (1983)
7 weeks: "Shadow Dancing" -- Andy Gibb (1978); "Ebony & Ivory" -- Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder (1982); "I Love Rock And Roll" -- Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (1982);
And the song that got screwed over, because the electronic sales and airplay data were working, but Billboard insisted on waiting until the end of the 1991 chart year:
7 weeks: "Everything I Do. I Do It For You" -- Bryan Adams (1991). I am not going below seven weeks, because "Uptown Funk" would have claimed no less than seven weeks prior to electronic monitoring.
***By the way, there was a extremely frustrating gap of over six years between "Like A Virgin" -- Madonna (6 weeks, December 1984-January 1985) and "Rush Rush" -- Paula Abdul (5 weeks, May-June 1991) where no song managed to stay at #1 for more than four weeks, and four week Number Ones only happened once or twice a year. Bryan Adams hit Number One just a week or two after Paula Abdul. I know that is hard to believe now, but that was the way of the old Hot 100, which shows you how much more accurate the charts are now.***