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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover
There was nothing mysterious about Rude Boy smashing and hitting #1 on the Hot 100 in 4 weeks (64-8-4-1)
The song had HUGE AI and peaked at #2 on the digital songs chart (Like One More Night did late last year). Rude Boy was front-loaded. It only spent 19 weeks total on the chart since it peaked so early in its run. I swear y'all stay doing the most since it blocked Telephone.
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You said yourself, the song hade HUGE AI, radios were playing it but people wasn't buying it, One More Night has sold 4 million in less then a year while Rude Buy can't sell 3 million in 3 years.
There are songs like Telephone, Paparazzi, Blow, Your Love Is My Drug, We R Who W R, etc that have reached 3 million copies but they didn't had that huge airplay that Rude Boy had
It's like, people was asking for the song in the radio, but they weren't buying it, so weird.