Yes I believe OA/OS is the way things should be. Call me mad but I'd rather not see no.1s spend only five weeks in the chart.

Yes I believe OA/OS is the way things should be. Call me mad but I'd rather not see no.1s spend only five weeks in the chart.

 

Exactly. A majority of the songs that blocked "Moves Like Jagger" from #1 are now out of the top 40.

Exactly. A majority of the songs that blocked "Moves Like Jagger" from #1 are now out of the top 40.

Precisely. Only three songs in the current top 40 (including We Found Love) peaked at number one. All the other recent number ones dropped out very quickly.

Yes I believe OA/OS is the way things should be. Call me mad but I'd rather not see no.1s spend only five weeks in the chart.

 

I think singles by the likes of Cher Lloyd/JLS/people of that ilk (pre-album singles obviously) would struggle to get anywhere at all by using this method, of course this means good news for people with ears but it makes perfect sense to do it that way for their record labels, just because a few singles have had to be brought forward by pent-up demand or became hits from nowhere doesn't mean the strategy works for ALL singles.

They would struggle to get anywhere because their singles dont appeal to the many only the few so by holding them back they can chart higher albeit with a resulting chart run of 5 weeks in the top 40. Look at the first Rizzle Kicks single - it climbed to no8 after 6 weeks and charted top 40 for 12 weeks overall, their second single was held back - charted ironically at no8 with 35k sales and fell out of the chart within 5 weeks!

7 (from 9) Maroon 5 Feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger [D]

 

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Chart Run: 3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-5-5-9-7 [14 wks]

 

 

last time a song was number 2 for so long?

 

I know this has probably been talked about for weeks but I forgot....

Edited November 26, 201114 yr by tonyttt31

last time a song was number 2 for so long?

 

I know this has probably been talked about for weeks but I forgot....

I think it was All 4 One with 'I Swear' in 1994. It got stuck at number 2 for 7 weeks behind Wet Wet Wet.