I didn't follow charts at the time, but I read up on it all through SIR's single thread on Pulse. The label killed off Maneater in the US (which had gathered momentum all on its own without an adds date) to release SIR during holidays.
It's kind of a miracle that SIR hit #1 tbh, even for that one week. Squashed in between Irreplaceable (a double-digit #1) and What Goes Around. And anything JT released back then RACED up the pop radio chart in record time. The AMAs performance was perfectly timed and helped it log a single week at #1 I think. Justice.
Yes very true but say it Right snatch those songs in radio airplay