I have the receipts! :o

 

He says "Flux is #1 And Shallow is #2" :unsure:

 

He must be speaking about his personal chart, the only chart where 'Flux' will actually chart on :o

Whoa. :o I didn't dare to believe she'd actually do that. What an achievement.

I've been thinking about this all day. I can't get over it. So many proud emotions <3

So happy!!! What a result :cheer:

It'd be extremely dumb on their part not to release ARUTW next, right? I mean, they gotta keep the momentum going for Grammys next year and all the other upcoming award shows (Billboard Music Awards, AMAs etc.).

Wow! I knew it was looking likely but even so I'm struggling to believe she's managed it - I always love it when something different from the crowd makes it to #1 anywhere but even more so when that comes from someone who had sort of fallen out of favour with the general public... first time I've got a bit tearful at a #1 result since Robyn!

The success Gaga has achieved with this project has been such a joy to witness.

 

 

So pleased for Gaga (and Bradley!), such an incredible song & the success is richly deserved. :wub: Already feels like a classic.

It'd be extremely dumb on their part not to release ARUTW next, right? I mean, they gotta keep the momentum going for Grammys next year and all the other upcoming award shows (Billboard Music Awards, AMAs etc.).

 

Hasn't it already been released (sort of?)

It's been sent to radio in the UK, not sure about other markets... It has great streaming numbers on Spotify though already.

Hasn't it already been released (sort of?)

 

I was talking about the US. It's been already sent to radio in the following countries : Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, France, Austria, Italy & Germany.

 

Never sent to radios in the UK. BBC 2 randomly playlisted it, they did the same thing with I'll Never Love Again a month ago.

Shallow is #12 in the UK this week.

 

Who’d have thought 5 months ago she’d still be top 20?! That longevity.

 

So close to top ten the past two weeks though :(

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "Shallow" makes for an anomaly at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019 for a number of reasons. It's an unusual No. 1 as a pop-rock ballad with country DNA, as a duet between singer-songwriters, as a live-recorded performance, as a song lacking in conventional verse-chorus structure. Hell, it's even somewhat unusual as a Lady Gaga No. 1, since despite remaining one of the pop world's most successful stars, she hadn't previously topped the Hot 100 since "Born This Way" in 2011.

 

But the most interesting thing about the "Shallow" triumph might be that it marks the return of a kind of chart-topper we don't see so often these days: The pop culture moment No. 1. In other words, a song that doesn't necessarily make sense as a contemprary No. 1 strictly in musical terms, but which can be explained through cultural context and the extra-musical factors that have supported it.

 

Such No. 1s have popped up all throughout the history of the Hot 100, perhaps experiencing their greatest renaissance in the '80s, when explosive instrumental themes to Chariots of Fire and Miami Vice made it to No. 1, along with long-simmering slow jams that experienced chart bumps thanks to their uses on hit shows like General Hospital (James Ingram and Patti Austin's "Baby Come to Me") and Family Ties (Billy Vera and the Beaters' "At This Moment"). The '90s film soundtrack boom also resulted in a number of unconventional chart-toppers in the next decade, like unsigned alt-rock act Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories' debut single "Stay (I Missed You)" (Reality Bites) and U.K. singer-songwriter Seal's power ballad "Kiss From a Rose" (Batman Forever). Meanwhile, the two longest-running No. 1s of 1997 -- Puff Daddy's "I'll Be Missing You" (featuring Faith Evans and 112) and Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" -- were both powered by public grieving, over the then-recent deaths of The Notorious B.I.G. and Princess Diana, respectively.

 

In the '00s, following Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya and P!nk's Moulin Rouge-inspired "Lady Marmalade" reboot, the soundtrack-slingshot hits largely dried up, but a new form of pop culture moment No. 1 was introduced as a Hot 100 perennial: The American Idol single. Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Hicks were all able to top the chart with their post-Idol debut singles, following their rise to stardom on the reality TV competition. But as the show started to wane in cultural impact, Idol alums stopped reaching pole position, and by the '10s, the most relevant form of the pop culture moment No. 1 came via the viral video -- which took advantage of then-new Hot 100 calculations that accounted for streaming services like YouTube, and propelled a song as unusual as Baauer's riotous EDM instrumental "Harlem Shake" to the summit.

 

But even compared to these other recent examples, "Shallow" is somewhat refreshingly pure, as an example of a song that simply wouldn't even exist without its parent movie. Specifically written for A Star Is Born as a kind of love theme between the main characters of Ally and Jackson Maine (played by Gaga and Cooper, respectively), "Shallow" is absolutely inextricable from Star, and it's unsurprising that its chart success has correllated almost directly with public excitement over the film. It debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 28 on the chart dated Oct. 13, the week after both Star's Friday release and the single's first full week of tracking, then jumped to No. 5 the next week following both the movie's first full week in theaters and the Billboard 200-topping soundtrack's first full week of availability.

 

Why is it important to have these kinds of pop culture moment No. 1s? Well for one thing, it offers much-appreciated variety at the top of the charts -- after a succession of up-tempo, streaming-friendly hip-hop songs and mid-tempo, radio-friendly pop&B hybrids, it's fun to have an old-fashioned pop-rock power ballad at No. 1 for the first time in ages. It also adds to a chart's feeling of really defining its moment in time: The memories of A Star Is Born at the Oscars will remain such a vivid part of the cultural memory of early 2019 that it feels only right that the No. 1 song in the country should reflect that. And perhaps most importantly, a No. 1 like "Shallow" gets the different core institutions of our popular culture -- movie theaters, radio, TV, social media -- in conversation with one another, enriching all of them in the process and allowing the culture to grow communally.

 

Time will tell if "Shallow" will endure as a pop standard or a soundtrack novelty -- it's possible the song will still be a karaoke perennial decades from now, or that 2030s audiences will look back on the history of No. 1 hits from the late '10s and go, "Wait, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper...??" But whether it goes down as a fluke or a classic, "Shallow" feels like the perfect single to be on top of the Hot 100: a throwback not just in sound but in cultural context, but one that's still right at home in this modern world.

 

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/...ture-number-one

That's a great article and it's those songs that being classics in years to come! Not that I'm hating on Ariana, but let's be honest... Thank U Next isn't exactly a classic.

Thank U Next will be a classic for a couple of years to come though? It was HUGE.

Thank U Next will be a classic for a couple of years to come though? It was HUGE.

 

I agree. It really captured the zeitgeist. The memes, the lyrics, the video - it was a huge and memorable hit.

I agree. It really captured the zeitgeist. The memes, the lyrics, the video - it was a huge and memorable hit.

Agreed. The songs are in no way comparable anyway though, they're huge pop culture moments for completely different reasons

 

Shallow is only down to #6 on the Hot 100 which is a lot better than what I was expecting! Serve that longevity Gaga

Another week top 10! :wub:

^ also another week top 10 on the Hot 100! #9 this week :D

Still higher than I thought it would go in the first place! Queen!

This has now reached 500M streams on Spotify. (503 105 642)

 

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