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Originally posted by jason_z89
Seriously, the US radio now has become so irrelevant! Half of the songs in the top10 have no airplay!
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Yesh!
A song that sells 100K in its first week that'll fall right off the iTunes chart the next week is able to go top 10 on Billboard, but a song that steadily rises on airplay and even hits top 3 on Pop radio has trouble going top 10 on Billboard.
We should definitely go a back to a Top 40 Tracks-style airplay chart (the originally Hot 100 Airplay formula) which consisted of Mainstream Top 40 + Rhythmic Top 40 + Adult Top 40 audience impressions. Much fairer for pop songs and it's the airplay chart which got Madonna, Michael, Mariah, and Janet all their #1 hits.
Has anybody else noticed they all started flopping when the airplay got changed in 1998?