Let's see if the remix tactic will work for SZA for next week's chart.

On 4/17/2023 at 6:02 PM, Toups said:

Let's see if the remix tactic will work for SZA for next week's chart.

It did.

 

Poor Doja. She helped the song get to #1 but didn’t get the #1 credit because the remix had less points than the original (I think that’s how crediting works for the charts).  

 

Sixth week at No. 1 for Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night”:

 

When did this start where songs just hang on for dear life, months and months? 

That racist being at the top every week tells you a lot about just how little it takes for a certain type of "artist" to thrive. 

Most of the songs in the top 10 on Billboard are not actually traditional songs.. they seem more like songs that would thrive on TikTok.   However, most people still want songs that have structure, lyrics and a bit of depth.  Miley's song was #1 for awhile and it was the only song for awhile in the top 10 that actually sounded like a song.

10 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

When did this start where songs just hang on for dear life, months and months? 

That racist being at the top every week tells you a lot about just how little it takes for a certain type of "artist" to thrive. 

An article about this very phenomenon.

2 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

An article about this very phenomenon.

Thanks. I can see why they may just not want to make the effort now on marketing new people, although that will hurt them in the long run.

The charts have felt off for a long time. Sometimes I wonder if they are even still relevant in the streaming, Spotify, TikTok era.

 

Two of Tina's CDs are #1 and #5 on Amazon. All The Best and Private Dancer.