7 weeks? What a weak competition. Now it made me realized how unfortunate DH and Roar when they were released. Both songs have a strong competition to songs like Blurred Lines, Royals and Happy.
Last 1-week number-one sigle was "When I Was Your Man" in April 2013 but that was because of the discount. Before this, "Part Of Me"
1-Week Number One Singles Evolution this century:
2000: 6 (Thank God I Found, Lonestar, Try Again, Bent, Everything You Want, With Arms Wide Open)
2001: 2 (Ms. Jackson, Angel)
2002: 0
2003: 2 (Bump, Bump, Bump; Stand Up)
2004: 3 (The Way You Move, Slow Jamz, I Believe)
2005: 1 (Inside Your Heaven)
2006: 5 (Laffy Taffy, You're Beautiful, So Sick, Temperature, Do I Make You Proud)
2007: 5 (Say It Right, What Goes Around... Comes Around, Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin'), Big Girls Don't Cry, Stronger)
2008: 4 (Take A Bow, Viva La Vida, So What, Womanizer)
2009: 4 (Crack A Bottle, Poker Face, 3, Whatcha Say)
2010: 6 (Break Your Heart, Not Afraid, We R Who We R, What's My Name?, Only Girl (In The World), Raise Your Glass)
2011: 3 (Hold It Against Me, Black And Yellow, S&M (Remix))
2012: 1 (Part Of Me)
2013: 1 (When I Was Your Man)
2014: 0 so far
Am I the only one who likes long running #1s and disdains 1 week ones?
It looks so messy with 30 different singles going #1 in a year (like the UK chart is hideous) and it makes it as if getting a number one hit has a lower value. Like in UK anyone can get a #1 putting a song on iTunes the right week.
7 weeks? What a weak competition. Now it made me realized how unfortunate DH and Roar when they were released. Both songs have a strong competition to songs like Blurred Lines, Royals and Happy.
Think of how John Legend feels. "All Of Me" only spent three weeks at Number One, stuck behind Pharrell's "Happy". "Happy" cut what would have been otherwise much longer runs at Number One for both "Dark Horse" and "All Of Me". Pharrell's song also hurt Legend's hit because "All Of Me" actually peaked in points during "Happy"'s ninth week at Number One, or two weeks before "All of Me" finally took over the top position. So, when "Fancy" came roaring in, even though "All Of Me" was (and still is) falling slowly, it was no match or either "Fancy" or "Problem".
This is Legend's 20th week in the Top Ten, and look how much of the time he spent so close to Number One in his 20 week run:
4-4-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-1-1-1-3-3-3-4-4-7-7-8
Of course, here is Dark Horse's 22 week run,
6-4-2-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-4-3-5-5-6-6-7
Then she spent the next two weeks at number 11. I am not the biggest fan of Katy Perry, but I wanted her song to rebound enough to climb back into the Top Ten and knock Pharrell off so bad.
Yay for Iggy's seventh week, Maps, and Happy's descent, FINALLY.
Not Latch getting the Best Day Of My Life treatment though. I'm so pressed.
And alololol at Iggy's haters. You'd think after seven weeks they'd have better **** to spew than "weak competition," "one hit wonder" and "it's only because of streaming!" but nope. Same old story.
7 weeks? What a weak competition. Now it made me realized how unfortunate DH and Roar when they were released. Both songs have a strong competition to songs like Blurred Lines, Royals and Happy.
I think Happy and BL radio AI were above 300 at one point. Among the songs in the Top 10, I think only ALL of Me went over the 200 AI.
Am I the only one who likes long running #1s and disdains 1 week ones?
It looks so messy with 30 different singles going #1 in a year (like the UK chart is hideous) and it makes it as if getting a number one hit has a lower value. Like in UK anyone can get a #1 putting a song on iTunes the right week.
I agree with you. I like an average of eight Number Ones a year, no fewer than six, and no more than ten. I feel reaching Number One should mean something, and a rapid turnover at the top of the chart lessens the accomplishment of getting to Number One. If a song hit Number One, and only seven other songs did that year, then that was a song that was huge. But, if a song hit Number One for one week, and was one of 35 other songs to top the chart that year, was the song really that big of a hit?
Fancy will obviously sell 5M+ when it's all said and done. She'll be at 3M in two weeks. We're not even in the Xmas season yet and typically the song of the summer usually get a huge surge during the holidays.