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Originally posted by pride4jc1222
I think Purple Rain will finish right around 425k, which should be good enough for #1. Next week will go something like this:
1. Purple Rain
2. Panda
3/4. Little Red Corvette/7 Years
3/4. 7 Years/Little Red Corvette
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That would actually be a new peak for Little Red Corvette, which only hit #6 on it's original release. When Doves Cry will reach the T 10 too. Let's Go Crazy and Kiss will at least be T 15. 1999 (also re-entered at start of 2000, so this is 1999's FOURTH appearance on the Hot 100, 1999 was re-released to reach #12 back in 1982/3) and Raspberry Beret will at least go T 20.
They'll definitely be some effects on this week's charts, but I expect a record number of backward bullets on the H 100 the week after that. I hope songs like Hello won't get pushed below #50 and go recurrent, but BB may take the virtually unprecedented chart week's action into account and alter the recurrency policy for songs BB knows will bounce back up the following week. I think PR will get at least 3, maybe 4 weeks on the Hot 100 though. Whitney got 3 weeks, so we'll see if Prince can beat I Will Always Love You week-wise.
Also, sales and streaming for a lot of songs seem down due to Prince's passing, so there could in fact be a temporary loss in points for the next two charts. And some songs lost airplay too, but that effect should only last the first week.