June 13, 20196 yr ‘Work From Home’ being in the top 5 of all time feels so odd :lol: Its since 1994, rather than 'all time', but yeah you're overiding point definitely still stands given the high sales climate of the first 7-ish years of the period, and how well remembered hits from those years are compared to pretty much anything in the list from the streaming era (an era in which even a track that missed the Top 40 apparently performed well enough to make this Top 100!).
June 13, 20196 yr I get that it's impossible to objectively compare songs from different sales climates but I feel like they should down-weight some of these big streaming hits. There's no way 'That's My Girl' and 'Oops' were more popular than all the top ten hits below it.
June 13, 20196 yr Well there was a fair way to measure these things before 2014 so ‘never has been’ isn’t really true. I’m happy for you that Little Mix have done so well in this list but the fact is their songs aren’t as popular as this list makes them seem. Nah, you just have to accept that the streaming era is here. Streaming has been replacing sales for years now. Not using streaming to put this list together would be unfair to Little Mix and all new girlbands. It's time to accept that people have different preferences for consuming music now.
June 13, 20196 yr what about Bangles? are they not considered a girl band? or they didn't sell enough?
June 13, 20196 yr Fifth Harmony having four entries is just vile. I’m not sure I’ve even heard that many of their songs so the mind boggles.
June 13, 20196 yr Author what about Bangles? are they not considered a girl band? or they didn't sell enough? Given the duos featuring in the list, they would be eligible, but presumably no Bangles hits have accumulated enough downloads/streams to finish Top 100, same goes for Bananarama. I'm assuming the cut off for this list exceeds 250,000 sales.
June 13, 20196 yr no Bananarama, easily the best band ever :/ Apart from a couple of minor hits when they reformed in 2005, everything else would have been released before the 1994 start point of the period this chart covers, and it's unlikely there were many copies of those older hits still knocking around on shop shelves by 1994. Downloads maybe added a few sales when they became available, but I doubt streams have added anything much to them. Also most of their hits were SAW produced, and Pete Waterman tended in the past not to make much of his past work available on downloading and streaming, so that may have also restricted their tracks' potential to gain these. So all in all it wouldn't be likely that any of there singles would be anywhere close to the level needed for this top 100
June 13, 20196 yr I’m not sure I’ve even heard that many of their songs so the mind boggles. It says a lot that I know who Camilla Cabello is and can hum at least a handful of her songs but Fifth Harmony were lost on me.
June 13, 20196 yr Nah, you just have to accept that the streaming era is here. Streaming has been replacing sales for years now. Not using streaming to put this list together would be unfair to Little Mix and all new girlbands. It's time to accept that people have different preferences for consuming music now. Erm, excuse you? I can accept that streaming is here but who actually cares if a sales only list is ‘unfair’ on Little Mix? The fact is it has never worked comparing sales and streams as the same thing because they’re just not. It’s why the chart is now full of crappy rules. By allowing streaming in a list like this, it’s actually unfair to the other girl groups. Tough shit if Little Mix can’t compete in sales. It’s not their fault but what can you do?
June 13, 20196 yr what about Bangles? are they not considered a girl band? or they didn't sell enough? It's from the past 25 years only, which also explains the lack of Bananarama. Obviously their downloads + streams aren't strong enough. I think the problem with streams included alongside sales in this list is that the days of physical releases saw limited time periods of availability. The shops stocked them until they got deleted and sold very very little afterwards (until downloads arrived). Streaming for songs like the Little Mix and Fifth Harmony tracks was allowed to continue for months because they stay up on Spotify etc. There's no real way to level the playing field - a sales only list would be equally unfair on the recent hits because obviously the likes of SOTME and Black Magic are huge hits, just a bit inflated on the scale of this list. Similarly though, Girls Aloud, Sugababes and Atomic Kitten are severely under-represented in my opinion - because of the low sales period of the mid 2000s! It works both ways and it's why a list over time will never ever be perfect.
June 13, 20196 yr Nah, you just have to accept that the streaming era is here. Streaming has been replacing sales for years now. Not using streaming to put this list together would be unfair to Little Mix and all new girlbands. It's time to accept that people have different preferences for consuming music now. With respect you might be missing the point a little bit. No one is saying completely ignore streaming hits, but it is clear from this chart that the exchange rate used to convert streams into sales is disproportionate, and makes the streaming hits seem bigger than they actually were. One of the streaming 'hits' in this chart didn't even reach the Top 40 for flips sake, how can it possibly be a bigger hit than the various popular charttoppers and other top 3 hits below it on this list?
June 13, 20196 yr With respect you might be missing the point a little bit. No one is saying completely ignore streaming hits, but it is clear from this chart that the exchange rate used to convert streams into sales is disproportionate, and makes the streaming hits seem bigger than they actually were. One of the streaming 'hits' in this chart didn't even reach the Top 40 for flips sake, how can it possibly be a bigger hit than the various popular charttoppers and other top 3 hits below it on this list? Chart positions and peaks don't matter that much in the streaming era. Streams trickle in overtime and accumulate.
June 13, 20196 yr I’m not sure I’ve even heard that many of their songs so the mind boggles. I'm not sure if I've heard ANY of there songs. Maybe I have, and I just didn't know it was by them, but nothing stands out from the song titles.
June 13, 20196 yr I'm not sure if I've heard ANY of there songs. Maybe I have, and I just didn't know it was by them, but nothing stands out from the song titles. You've not heard Work From Home? That song was everywhere in 2016 and undoubtedly one of the biggest hits of the year, that's pretty surprising!
June 13, 20196 yr Chart positions and peaks don't matter that much in the streaming era. Streams trickle in overtime and accumulate. You're not wrong with this - Oops was definitely a notable hit and #41 in the streaming era means a hell of a lot more than #41 did during the 90s and 00s. It's undoubtedly inflated (like I said, due to a continued period of availability which the Spice Girls, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, etc songs didn't have at the time of their release)
June 13, 20196 yr Author The songs released within the past 25 years separated by year of release: 1995 44 WATERFALLS TLC 4 1996 1 WANNABE SPICE GIRLS 1 8 2 BECOME 1 SPICE GIRLS 1 12 SAY YOU'LL BE THERE SPICE GIRLS 1 21 MAMA/WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SPICE GIRLS 1 1997 3 NEVER EVER ALL SAINTS 1 14 SPICE UP YOUR LIFE SPICE GIRLS 1 28 I WANNA BE THE ONLY ONE ETERNAL FT BEBE WINANS 1 30 DON'T LET GO (LOVE) EN VOGUE 5 31 TOO MUCH SPICE GIRLS 1 91 ANGEL OF MINE ETERNAL 4 1998 10 C'EST LA VIE B'WITCHED 1 17 GOODBYE SPICE GIRLS 1 26 VIVA FOREVER SPICE GIRLS 1 51 ROLLERCOASTER B'WITCHED 1 52 STOP SPICE GIRLS 2 55 UNDER THE BRIDGE/LADY MARMALADE ALL SAINTS 1 58 TO YOU I BELONG B'WITCHED 1 64 FINALLY FOUND HONEYZ 4 75 END OF THE LINE HONEYZ 5 1999 6 NO SCRUBS TLC 3 78 UNPRETTY TLC 6 90 BILLS BILLS BILLS DESTINY'S CHILD 6 2000 13 PURE SHORES ALL SAINTS 1 22 SAY MY NAME DESTINY'S CHILD 3 32 FLOWERS SWEET FEMALE ATTITUDE 2 35 INDEPENDENT WOMEN DESTINY'S CHILD 1 60 SHACKLES (PRAISE YOU) MARY MARY 5 69 JUMPIN' JUMPIN' DESTINY'S CHILD 5 92 HOLLER/LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY SPICE GIRLS 1 2001 9 WHOLE AGAIN ATOMIC KITTEN 1 38 SURVIVOR DESTINY'S CHILD 1 59 BOOTYLICIOUS DESTINY'S CHILD 2 63 ETERNAL FLAME ATOMIC KITTEN 1 2002 20 SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS ALOUD 1 37 THE KETCHUP SONG (ASEREJE) LAS KETCHUP 1 49 THE TIDE IS HIGH (GET THE FEELING) ATOMIC KITTEN 1 66 CHEEKY SONG (TOUCH MY BUM) CHEEKY GIRLS 2 80 FREAK LIKE ME SUGABABES 1 86 ROUND ROUND SUGABABES 1 2003 47 ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID TATU 1 83 TOO LOST IN YOU SUGABABES 10 85 JUMP GIRLS ALOUD 2 2004 56 LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD 2 79 LOVE MACHINE GIRLS ALOUD 2 2005 18 DON'T CHA PUSSYCAT DOLLS FT BUSTA RHYMES 1 42 PUSH THE BUTTON SUGABABES 1 74 STICKWITU PUSSYCAT DOLLS 1 2006 73 BUTTONS PUSSYCAT DOLLS FT SNOOP DOGG 3 82 SOMETHING KINDA OOOOH GIRLS ALOUD 3 84 BOOGIE 2NITE BOOTY LUV 2 95 BEEP PUSSYCAT DOLLS FT WILL I AM 2 2007 23 ABOUT YOU NOW SUGABABES 1 71 CALL THE SHOTS GIRLS ALOUD 3 2008 40 THE PROMISE GIRLS ALOUD 1 68 WHEN I GROW UP PUSSYCAT DOLLS 3 70 UP SATURDAYS 5 88 ISSUES SATURDAYS 4 100 I HATE THIS PART PUSSYCAT DOLLS 12 2009 33 JAI HO (YOU ARE MY DESTINY) AR RAHMAN FT PUSSYCAT DOLLS 3 62 EGO SATURDAYS 9 77 UNTOUCHED VERONICAS 8 87 JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH SATURDAYS 2 2010 53 HIGHER SATURDAYS FT FLO RIDA 10 2011 27 WHEREVER YOU ARE MILITARY WIVES/GARETH MALONE 1 :') Can't help but feel it's a huge stretch to consider them a girl band 50 CANNONBALL LITTLE MIX 1 96 ALL FIRED UP SATURDAYS 3 2012 24 WINGS LITTLE MIX 1 45 BLACK HEART STOOSHE 3 65 DNA LITTLE MIX 3 2013 19 I LOVE IT ICONA POP FT CHARLI XCX 1 41 MOVE LITTLE MIX 3 48 WHAT ABOUT US SATURDAYS FT SEAN PAUL 1 99 FALLING HAIM 30 2014 43 UGLY HEART GRL 11 57 SALUTE LITTLE MIX 6 89 BRAVEHEART NEON JUNGLE 4 2015 5 BLACK MAGIC LITTLE MIX 1 25 HAIR LITTLE MIX 11 36 LOVE ME LIKE YOU LITTLE MIX 11 46 WORTH IT FIFTH HARMONY FT KID INK 3 2016 2 SHOUT OUT TO MY EX LITTLE MIX 1 4 WORK FROM HOME FIFTH HARMONY FT TY DOLLA SIGN 2 7 TOUCH LITTLE MIX 4 15 SECRET LOVE SONG LITTLE MIX FT JASON DERULO 6 54 WHO DO YOU THINK OF M O 18 67 ALL IN MY HEAD (FLEX) FIFTH HARMONY FT FETTY WAP 25 72 THAT'S MY GIRL FIFTH HARMONY 26 81 OOPS LITTLE MIX FT CHARLIE PUTH 41 2017 11 POWER LITTLE MIX 6 16 REGGAETON LENTO (REMIX) CNCO & LITTLE MIX 5 29 NO MORE SAD SONGS LITTLE MIX 15 2018 34 BAD VIBE M O/LOTTO BOYZZ/MR EAZI 18 39 WOMAN LIKE ME LITTLE MIX FT NICKI MINAJ 2 61 ONLY YOU CHEAT CODES & LITTLE MIX 13 M.O's #18 hit from last year "outselling" (for want of a better phrase) all bar one of Girls Aloud singles, and all bar one of Sugababes singles... I feel this strongly highlights how incredibly awkward it is to put together songs from different eras of consumption. Same goes with the #25 & #26 peaking singles from Fifth Harmony being quite high up (All In My Head is Gold certified), and the #41 peaking album track Oops by Little Mix on the verge of outselling the #1 Freak Like Me by Sugababes.
June 13, 20196 yr Chart positions and peaks don't matter that much in the streaming era. Streams trickle in overtime and accumulate. But you still can’t claim that the streaming hits these days are bigger than the no.1s from 20 years ago. Back then you have to get up off your arse and pay an extortionate price for something that could only be played if you had the right device. You actually had to make a commitment. What isn’t differentiated with streaming is exactly how many people are streaming each song or whether or not the person streaming it even like it or it just happens to be on the playlist they’re listening to. Those are two very different scenarios and it’s tiring to see people trying to compare them like for like.
June 13, 20196 yr You've not heard Work From Home? That song was everywhere in 2016 and undoubtedly one of the biggest hits of the year, that's pretty surprising! Just played it on youtube and to be fair maybe I heard it once or twice at the time, but I wouldn't say it was that good or that big a hit, and certainly not as big as some of the much more well known stuff on the list.
June 13, 20196 yr It was #15 in the end of year chart for 2016, it's not really a matter of opinion whether or not it was 'that big a hit' :lol:
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