MADONNA HAS HAD 50 NO.1S?! MAN ALIVE!! BRITNEY HAS O LY HAD LIKE FOUR

MADONNA HAS HAD 50 NO.1S?! MAN ALIVE!! BRITNEY HAS O LY HAD LIKE FOUR

 

That will be 5 number 1 singles within the next few weeks.

Madonna's had 50 #1s in the U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, not exactly sure on what that is based on

MADONNA HAS HAD 50 NO.1S?! MAN ALIVE!! BRITNEY HAS O LY HAD LIKE FOUR

 

Madonna's had 50 #1 singles on the Billboard dance chart. Sales and radio support play no part in the success of a song on the chart. Her last number one on the all-important Hot 100 was 22 years ago and 14 years ago on the UK top 40.

Edited August 25, 20223 yr by Azure

Madonna's had 50 #1s in the U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, not exactly sure on what that is based on

 

Billboard have a list of like 50 club DJs who list their most-played songs in the past week and they combine all the lists to make the chart.

 

That's how it's supposed to work, but one of the DJs who contributes to the chart revealed that most of the DJs don't list what they truly play. The list songs that they like and also record labels pay the DJs to rank certain songs high on certain weeks. And they try and organise it so they have as many different #1s as possible. A similar thing happens with the US country airplay charts. Although that chart is based on actual spins/audience estimates so the radio stations actually have to boost their plays of the chosen song each week, whilst in the Dance/Club charts the DJs just havr to report that they played them. And the Country Airplay chart thing isn't a conspiracy theory, it's well known this happens.

 

The Dance/Club chart is a bit of fun but I wouldn't read too much into it. I don't think it should be included in Wikipedia articles really, considering what we know. And if you look at the charts and the nimber-ones historically it is obvious it's not real. A real chart based on club play would be the slowest chart that exists. A song like Yeah! by Usher would probably have been in the chart permanently since it came out, for example.

Madonna's had 50 #1s in the U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, not exactly sure on what that is based on

It's based on payola. It's one of the most infamous Billboard charts.

The times where 'There You'll Be' re-enters the Top 10 due to an X Factor performance or thanks to an advert it's back in the chart e.g. 'In The Air Tonight', 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' those were indeed the days.

What you mean like Running Up that Hill gets played in some episodes of a streaming TV show and then recharts or Master of Puppets gets featured prominently in a TV episode and then recharts..... see it does still happen; though maybe not to such an extent as it used to (and of course really only if the song is reset to SCR if older than 3 years or if been on the charts before for 9 weeks or more.....)

 

Of course there was certainly some marketing going in in the latter two examples but perhaps not so much with the first few....

Edited August 25, 20223 yr by braindeadpj

Getting 10,000 people to buy a song on the back of a TV appearance in the pre-streaming days was one thing, but getting 2 million streams of the song for the equivalent sales now (given an ACR ratio of at least 200:1) is quite another - that requires traction from something else, usually TikTok or popular playlists.

10,000 real sales would just about get you in the top 40 nowadays (or at least last week anyway). Of course Kate Bush has never got as high as that this year; I think 7,500 was the highest weekly real sales she achieved. It was the 44,000 odd chart equivalent streams that got her to no. 2 (officially 8) that first week. Anyone know what happened first? Increased streams/sales or adding to playlists?

It was definitely taking off on streaming before most of its major playlisting but that's primarily because it spread very quickly from Stranger Things to being a TikTok trend.

Some of the songs on Madonna's album weren't even singles so i think it's a slight overexageration.

 

I'm genuinley surprised Aitch isn't opening with higher. I thought he had #1 in the bag.