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Originally posted by Honey
Yes, they did. Loverboy went #1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2001. 
I think they stopped counting physical sales somewhere in 2002, because Through the Rain only reached #69 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs despite reaching #1 on Hot CD Single Sales.  |
Yes, but they were only using urban airplay for that chart. That's not the case now.
Well, sales + specific genre airplay seems OK. But using overall airplay to compile any component chart is disrespectful. And it doesn't make sense. So now a pop song can reach #1 in the R&B/Hip-Hop chart because Billboard thinks the song is R&B? When the same song is outside the Urban Radios' top 50? What a mess. You shouldn't hit #1 in any component chart when those radios don't give a damn about your song.
It's like, I'm Lindsay Lohan and I'm realising a pop-rock song. The general public buy my song massively and then Billboard put me at #1 in the Rock Songs Chart when no ROCK radio station is playing my God damn song. Do you see the picture now? It's a mess! I can't get over it. I am pressed!
. It's repulsive what they are doing to the music charts and music itself. They are allowing forgettable trash to hit #1 in the component charts. Our queen would have score so many more R&B #1s during her peak with the current rules. She was selling like hot cakes, she could have more than 20 R&B #1s by now. But the component charts were airplay-based only back then.
