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Was La La La deleted?

Thank you! This is great :)

Yes I think so... The weekly updates on this forum are awesome and much appreciated, but must not include the level of detail to track, for instance, Rather Be or the Afrojack song mentioned above... unless I'm a moron and missing it somehow, quite likely :huh:

Well I am happy to be wrong then :) Would love to know how I can track these songs... I assume it's all behind a paywall?

It doesn't take much to drop out from #100 :lol:

??? it's a house song. I don't disagree but I doubt American radio would treat it any differently than anything Calvin Harris or Tiesto put out frankly.

It was up to #115 at one point last week and has gradually declined since. Probably because so far there is no substantial airplay. My worry is that radio usually picks up no more than a couple EDM singles at a time and once they're finished with Animals and Hey Brother they'll move on to Summer and Red Lights. Since radio plays the #1 most played song roughly three times as often as the #7 most played song, there's just not enough time in the day I guess. I seriously would not be surprised if Rather Be finally peaks at the end of 2014 or early 2015.

Clean Bandit 'Rather Be' up 200+ places to #115!!!!!!!!

Just heard Me and My Broken Heart on the radio and was not in love with it frankly but a quick check of the playlists reveals it was played in the last hour in DC (Hot 99.5), LA (KISS FM), Chicago (Kiss Chicago), and New York (Z100). Definitely making waves... and it's not even in the iTunes top 100 yet... :wacko:

Fully agreed. Wikipedia claims it sold 4 million copies but I can't find it in the RIAA site and I consider this claim dubious. Even if it did, compare it to 2012's other long-running #1s and it's not even close (Call Me Maybe and Somebody That I Used to Know sold well over 7 million and We Are Young sold nearly that much).

Perhaps you know more than me but I would be astonished if Billboard could have come up with the plan and implemented it (which means tracking youtube video counts, which must be complicated if not labor intensive) within the handful of days between those videos taking off the the issue release. What we heard was that the change was in response to Gangnam Style's failure to reach #1 back in 2012. I pretty much agree. But as I said earlier this week in another thread, I'm much less offended by the inclusion of youtube streaming than many on this forum because at least it's a step closer to representing actual popularity than radio airplay. So Soko got to #9 this week, who cares? I am so much more offended by Maroon 5 clocking 9 DREADFUL weeks with "One More Night" in 2012 because radio would not stop f***ing playing that f***ing song even weeks after sales dropped off a cliff.

Something else that some here have had to remind others many times over (but it bears repeating once more), is that Harlem Shake reached #1 on the back of thousands of videos uploaded by people featuring the same clip from the song. In one sitting one might have watched five or six (or more) different videos featuring the song which cranked up the view counts and chart points. Also I think I remember hearing that 30 seconds is the minimum length a song must be played to count and the Harlem Shake videos clocked in at something like 0:31 (or did I make this up?). Either way it was an incredibly unusual occurrence and I think we could see YEARS pass before another song reaches #1 on the strength of streaming/Youtube alone. The fact that Harlem Shake's debut coincided to the WEEK with the rollout of the new chart rules only added to the strangeness of it all.

I hate to be this person, but Clean Bandit has been hovering around in the 300s and it makes me hopeful that Rather Be could explode with radio support. Frustrating that radio takes FOREVER tho... it will probably peak in October or November.

Or more likely an idiotic mistake.

It all goes back to the perennial defense of the Hot 100 -- that it's not a sales chart but a popularity chart. I think Billboard is trying to figure out how to deal with rapidly changing trends in how songs are heard and shared and enjoyed. I agree that this current calculation is resulting in some silly things. I don't have nearly as much of a problem with Soko's top 10 debut than Gaga's Dope last year since that was the result of a single streamed event that happened to feature the song vs an intentionally repeated/shared/replayed viral video. I've always defended the Youtube rule because it's still a better gauge of popularity than radio airplay, in my opinion, which places 100% of the control in the hands of corporations who control all the pop radio stations in the country. And I maintain there was something kind of wonderful about Harlem Shake reaching #1 because it was at the peak of a huge popular phenomenon centered around that song. It really was the most popular song in the country. But to be fair it also had good sales and decent airplay at its peak (neither of which does the Soko song have).

Well true but she had to threaten a lawsuit to get anything! I think you're right that both Zombie and Salvation didn't get CD single releases so they were not eligible for the Hot 100. And even those aside, Dreams is by far their most enduring single. Don't forget B*witched had two Hot 100 entries (C'est la Vie went top 10) and as for the Corrs... Can't believe their only Hot 100 entry was Runaway but I guess The Right Time and much later Summer Sunshine only made the Adult Contemporary chart...

So happy Enya insisted on full credit as a featured artist on I Don't Wanna Know after the Fugees screwed her over back in the 90s.

^^ it's an attention-grabbing video, that's for sure.

Everything is AWESOME!!! is one of the most bizarre collaborations -- and, to be sure, one of the most bizarre songs -- I have heard in a long time. It's up to #20.

Apparently there's a super hyped TV ad appearing this weekend during the Super Bowl that prominently features Let Her Go. I could see that getting them to #1 by March.

Harlem Shake? :) But seriously I think Dark Horse has a chorus ("if you want to play with magic..."), it's just the chorus doesn't have the hook.

Off to a great start!

I'd love that... currently though La La La isn't even available on iTunes in the US. I think past UK summer smashes (Hot Right Now, Fell the Love) had a lot of potential since many Americans visit Europe in the summer (I swear that's how We No Speak Americano became an autumn hit in the US) but they aren't released or promoted for many months and lose the momentum.

Well I don't think you're deluded but I think it's much too early to write Work Bitch! off. The song is a genuine and pretty decent Swedish house song with Britney's vocals and a nod to RuPaul's Supermodel added, with production that is FAR better than will.i.am. Whether or not it's a risk... eh, I think for general American audiences it is, but not exactly for much of her fan base (the gayz).

Her last new album's first single (2011) went to #1!