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Chart Listings: Highest Radio Audience Peaks. (Nielsen BDS)
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Amazing work, an excellent thread highwind, thanks for doing this
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Originally posted by Pop pop123
Found it:
1. 254,000,000 - We Belong Together (record holder)
2. 201,000,000 - Shake It Off
3. 185,000,000 - Don't Forget About Us
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SOURCE? Although we know this is for Mediabase, but I'd love this info for my thread
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Updated. Robin at #5.
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Get Lucky very big
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I was under the impression that E.T was bigger than CG (maybe because it went #1 on Rhythmic/Pop while being #2 on HAC just behind RITD)
Great thread
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E.T. also got some urban airplay albeit minimal, but CG had a much bigger audience from Pop, and was still the record-holder for highest weekly AI on that format at the time, and I think it was Top 5 on Rhythmic, and #1 on HAC with a huge weekly audience too, so I'm not surprised.
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Wasn't WMN #1 for multiple weeks on N/BDS tho?
Plus no way there was a difference of 25m AI between mediabase and N/BDS back then.
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Originally posted by MusicTalker
BL will peak in the 180-190 millions.
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I see Alicia with 2!
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Stop comparing BDS to Mediabase and creating your own "facts" based on Mediabase. Mediabase is a mess and there has ALWAYS been a huge difference between BDS and Mediabase numbers.
The numbers from 2003 to 2007 are TOTALLY out of touch and did not represent reality any way and everyone in the industry knows it. Rhythmic and Urban were VERY inflated back then both on Mediabase and BDS. Thankfully, they totally changed the way they measure radio ratings at the end of 2008 and the numbers started to reflect reality. Rhythmic and Urban lost a lot of influence. They never deserved to be that big in the first place.
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Originally posted by Kim
Stop comparing BDS to Mediabase and creating your own "facts" based on Mediabase. Mediabase is a mess and there has ALWAYS been a huge difference between BDS and Mediabase numbers.
The numbers from 2003 to 2007 are TOTALLY out of touch and did not represent reality any way and everyone in the industry knows it. Rhythmic and Urban were VERY inflated back then both on Mediabase and BDS. Thankfully, they totally changed the way they measure radio ratings at the end of 2008 and the numbers started to reflect reality. Rhythmic and Urban lost a lot of influence. They never deserved to be that big in the first place.
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My friend, let's make a real example, the anthemic "Firework" by Katy Perry was #1 on Nielsen with 141M, while it was #1 on Mediabase with 143M, is that A HUGE difference?
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Originally posted by Ger-55
My friend, let's make a real example, the anthemic "Firework" by Katy Perry was #1 on Nielsen with 141M, while it was #1 on Mediabase with 143M, is that A HUGE difference?
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Broken clock is right twice a day, etc.
For serious though. It being correct in one particular instance doesn't prove much. I am not saying that Mediabase or Nelson are wrong/right, but it is folly to try to draw conclusions from one, and apply them to the other.
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Yes, trying to applu them to the other would be the best solution. BDS is more respected in the industry though. It has more resources and is owned by the biggest ratings company in the world, Nielsen.
I am going to write something I wrote on the airplay thread too because it fits more here.
"Urban and Rhythmic were EXTREMELY inflated back in 2004-7. That is why you see all those hip-hop and RnB songs from back then dominating the all time airplay lists. Very unfair (for some of our favs at least LOL). It was very common and easy for songs to get high audiences. Look at the all-time lists. They are just dominated by 2004-2007 hits.
What Robin is doing is VERY impressing because it is not 2004-7 and he has penetrated HOT AC too, a huge format. All other songs on the all time lists were not big on Hot AC. The inflated Rhythmic and Urban numbers helped them get those high audience numbers. Only some of the RnB ballads like No One, Irreplaceable and We Belong Together had some HOT AC airplay but not anything impressing. Robin is going to hit no1 or no2 for sure on that format. On the other hand, We Belong Together for example peaked "only" at no16.
His achievement is much more difficult today and that is what makes it VERY impressing and even shocking. I never thought WBT's and Irreplaceable's records were going to be broken nowadays because it is just almost mathematically impossible because the industry has changed dramatically since 2004-7. The fact that he is possibly going to be at no1 on Hot AC, Top40, Rhythmic, Urban and Urban AC at the same time is shocking.
The massive HOT AC success is what differentiates the song from the rest on the list and makes the achievement VERY impressing."
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Blurred Lines is gonna claim the #2 spot this week. I think it's currently at 192 million impressions already, with 3 more days for the tracking week.
I just realized I haven't updated the first post other than by adding GL and updating BL. I'll update it when I get home from work today.
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Slay a little, Blurred Lines!
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Update:
"Lines" leads Radio Songs for a third week, gaining by 10% to 197.7 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS. Dating to the chart's December 1990 launch, the song has now drawn the second-highest weekly audience (setting up a race to watch next week):
212.2 million, "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey (July 9, 2005)
197.7 million, "Blurred Lines," Robin Thicke (featuring T.I. + Pharrell) (Aug. 3, 2013)
196.3 million, "Irreplaceable," Beyonce (Jan. 20, 2007)
192.4 million, "No One," Alicia Keys (Dec. 22, 2007)
189.6 million, "Let Me Love You," Mario (Feb. 5, 2005)
So glad to see a song in the all time top5 not released in the massively inflated and out of touch 2004-2007 era. That's huge.
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Blurred Lines, huge monster
I know you want it EPIC!
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I can't believe it took 8 years for a song to come so close to the record.
We all thought RITD and STIUTK were huge crossover smashes, but BL is putting those two to shame right now
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Originally posted by umichgrad07
I can't believe it took 8 years for a song to come so close to the record.
We all thought RITD and STIUTK were huge crossover smashes, but BL is putting those two to shame right now
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STIUTK failed to be a HUGE crossover radio smash. Even MLj and WFL did better
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