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Originally posted by Scherzy
Lol what kind of unlogic statement ?
Radio always goes pair with selling and streaming, the problem here is radio not the song.
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Actually, it's quite the opposite. Sales + radio almost never go hand in hand. Radio tends to pick up songs long after they've peaked in sales. For example, "Don't You Worry Child" had good sales for a while, but radio was slow to catch up on it. Then people accused it of being a "Let Me Love You"-type situation when what really happened was that the Grammys pushed it out and it was unable to recover.
Then you have songs like "Sweet Nothing," "Clarity," and "Next To Me" that are only able to scrape the top ten of iTunes for a few seconds before unluckily being snatched out by something else. The first two still managed to be great pop radio hits.
And then there's "Gangnam Style," which dominated sales and streaming, but radio was unwilling to play it, giving an unfair edge to "One More Night" and leading to nine unjustifiable weeks at #1.
"We Can't Stop" is closer to the situation "Gangnam Style" faced, without the handicap of being in a foreign language and without having greater sales. Pop is hesitant to play her because cultural appropriation is a no-no, and she won't crossover to HAC or AC because the song doesn't fit the boundaries of what they normally play.