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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 15:18:52 GMT -5
To my knowledge, neither version of "Cruise" is getting any substantial airplay on Pop radio. It's all because of the sales. The new Nelly remix version propelled total track sales to almost 250k last week alone. Well, depends on your definition of substantial. The remix is #30 on Pop with 8.3 million AI. The remix's sales are definitely what got it back to #1 on HCS though, yes. Yeah, I guess I was thinking it had a few million impressions. That's a little more audience than I thought it had. Add that to its recurrent country airplay and it's at ~24 million. That combined total clearly isn't enough to get it into the top 5 on the airplay chart, even if that number was solely from one genre. It's definitely the new Nelly version, the old version, the streaming, the ACM's...it all came together for "Cruise". These "genre" charts are a joke when they incorporate other genres.
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Post by dajross6 on Apr 10, 2013 16:22:17 GMT -5
To my knowledge, neither version of "Cruise" is getting any substantial airplay on Pop radio. It's all because of the sales. The new Nelly remix version propelled total track sales to almost 250k last week alone. Well, depends on your definition of substantial. The remix is #30 on Pop with 8.3 million AI. The remix's sales are definitely what got it back to #1 on HCS though, yes. Yeah it's sales right now that's doing it. But the potential of pop airplay dwarfs country airplay leaders on a daily basis. If it keeps gaining 2-3 million AI a week it could be another 20+ weeks for it to peak. There's honestly a very good chance this is one of the big 'summer' songs pop has annually. That 100m AI huge pop songs have is what will keep this at or near the top until July/August I'm guessing. The fact that the #1 pop song has about double an audience of a #1 country song hardly seems fair anyhow. I'm not an expert on the Pop chart by any means, but I know that the reception is generally positive to the song by fans and stations. I'd expect this to be the albatross in the room for quite sometime, and hopefully the device that crumbles this new country chart.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Apr 10, 2013 20:59:36 GMT -5
It just hit me: These guys are the EXACT same thing as Fast Ryde, only they're successful.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 21:34:12 GMT -5
I think the LoCash Cowboys are mad. They were here first! ;)
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Post by countrybamafan on Apr 12, 2013 17:16:51 GMT -5
Well, I'm hoping the song spends many weeks, or months, on top of this mongrel chart. If Taylor's We Are Never Ever Ever can spend, what, 9 weeks on top (and would have been longer had the new country chart came out weeks earlier), then I think Cruise can at least match or maybe even beat it, especially since it has country airplay, pop airplay, and tons of downloads (and has a remix). I'm all for showing Billboard just how ridiculous their rules are.
In any case, I know many people hate the song, but I can't help but really enjoy it (despite its dumb lyrics). That being said, it's hardly country. I like it because it reminds me of old-school Nickelback. However, in an ideal world, this kind of music would play on the pop/rock stations, and country would go back to playing country. Now, we have this hybrid genre, country/pop/rock, and pop music has went to the gutter with all the weird mess going on in the genre.
I think this is why people are so frustrated about the current state of country, especially when they do not enjoy pop/rock music. Growing up, I used to enjoy both pop/rock and country, but they were on different radio dials. Now, they are together, which in my opinion, is making for lower-quality music from both sides. Maybe a splitting of the genre would be a good thing? I don't know.
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Post by Marv on Apr 14, 2013 3:24:05 GMT -5
^^^Absolutely true; country stations outnumber top 40 stations by over 4 1/2 to 1, and it's been the most-listened to format for all but 9 months of the past 21 years.
Nashville traded the integrity of the format and the quality of the music product for more listeners, and the results have been disastrous, although country music CD sales didn't fall off the cliff the past two years compared to most other formats.
The last time that top 40 radio was the most-listened to format out there, Carrie Underwood was in the first grade!
Underwhelming tunes such as 'Cruise' are certainly one reason why, but there are too many others to list.
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Post by mylifeback on Apr 14, 2013 11:05:40 GMT -5
I actually prefer the Nelly Pop remix to the original mainly because the auto-tune drowns out/tones down the voice of the lead singer (which grates on my last nerve). I always changed the channel when this song came on either of the country stations I listen to, but I listen to the remix on my pop stations. I think the beat helps the song, too. /unpopular opinion
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Apr 14, 2013 12:41:02 GMT -5
I think the LoCash Cowboys are mad. They were here first! ;) No, Fast Ryde was.
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Post by Dustin J. on Apr 14, 2013 16:46:50 GMT -5
I think the LoCash Cowboys are mad. They were here first! ;) No, Fast Ryde was. LoCash has been around a lot longer than Fast Ryde.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2013 16:50:11 GMT -5
I think the LoCash Cowboys are mad. They were here first! ;) No, Fast Ryde was. I think LoCash got their start almost 10 years ago though, they just never got with any label until 2010. So yeah, technically Fast Ryde did have music out to mainstream country radio before LoCash did, but LoCash has existed longer. I actually found Fast Ryde's "Top Down" to be kinda catchy. It never charted though, and that was back in the days when Republic Nashville was rather new (hey, that's another odd thing...Fast Ryde was on Republic, and now FGL is!) If FGL released "Top Down", it'd be a #1 smash, even on the mongrel chart. Fast Ryde was around in 2009...oh how things have changed in such a short amount of time.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Apr 14, 2013 18:04:00 GMT -5
^ And I actually liked both "That Thang" and "Make It Rain".
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 15, 2013 14:32:54 GMT -5
Debuts at #40 on Adult Pop Songs.
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Post by thebops on Apr 18, 2013 23:09:24 GMT -5
One thing that I am kind of surprised that has not been mentioned is that if you look on the Hot 100 the artist is "Florida Georgia Line Featuring Nelly" however on the Country Songs chart it is just "Florida Georgia Line" (at least this is true on Billboard.com; I don't get the print version). So now you have a remix of a song with Nelly that accounts for 75% of the sales, pop radio (and even some Country stations) playing the Nelly version, all those points contributing to the fact that Cruise is back at #1 on the Country Songs chart, yet Nelly doesn't get a mention on the official Country chart? This is beyond stupid. Billboard needs to grow a pair and if they are going to count all versions of a song together then the version that contributes the most points should be how it is represented on all charts. If Billboard is going to stay with these stupid rules, then have the guts to state that Nelly is on a #1 Country song which may be the #1 song now for the year.
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Post by Old Fart In NC on Apr 19, 2013 14:22:21 GMT -5
Nelly is also being credited on the recurrent chart in Country Aircheck.
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Post by peterca on May 1, 2013 20:34:13 GMT -5
From ChartWatch:
Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” rebounds from #14 to #13 in its 30th week. The song peaked at #8. Digital sales rank: #5 (137K). The song logs its ninth week at #1 on Hot Country Songs. This is the longest run at #1 by an ongoing duo since “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” by the husband-and-wife duo Carl Butler and Pearl topped the chart for 11 weeks in 1962-1963.
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Post by joey2002 on May 1, 2013 20:53:32 GMT -5
"Cruise" #1 on Hot Country Songs, and "Get Your Shine On" likely #1 next week on Country Airplay...
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Post by carriekins on May 1, 2013 21:00:17 GMT -5
"Cruise" #1 on Hot Country Songs, and "Get Your Shine On" likely #1 next week on Country Airplay... Where's the dislike button when you need it?
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Post by dajross6 on May 2, 2013 8:26:53 GMT -5
10 weeks away from Nelly having the #1 country song of all-time!
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Post by onebuffalo on May 8, 2013 14:27:53 GMT -5
From Billboard:
Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" is the Hot 100's lone new top 10 entry, navigating 13-9 in its 36th week, tying Creed's "Higher" (1999-2000) for the second-longest ascent to the top tier. Only Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" (38 weeks, 2006-07) took longer. "Cruise" reaches the top 10 by following a patter similar to that of "Cheats": drawing pop crossover success after first becoming a country hit. ("Higher," meanwhile, won pop and adult radio support after starting at rock.) "Cruise" topped Country Airplay for three weeks in December. Since remixed with vocals by Nelly, its rises 21-18 on Pop Songs and 32-26 on Adult Pop Songs this week. The track tallies a 10th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the airplay/sales/streaming-based Hot Country Songs chart (including the last five; its first five were in December/January at the zenith of its country airplay popularity).
Florida Georgia Line's follow-up, "Get Your Shine On," meanwhile, concurrently climbs 2-1 on Country Airplay. The act is the first to top Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay simultaneously with different titles since the former chart adopted its hybrid methodology in October.
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Post by dajross6 on May 8, 2013 15:27:13 GMT -5
10 weeks on top!! OMG!! <sarcasm>
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Post by bluedog6 on May 8, 2013 20:17:02 GMT -5
I don't know why I keep opening this thread back up. It's kind of like looking at a car wreck. You drive past and you really don't want to look and you know you shouldn't gawk, but something makes you have to just take a look. Just keep telling myself, "nothing to see here. keep moving. keep moving. ". *grin*
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Post by onebuffalo on May 9, 2013 16:59:37 GMT -5
^That's because Cruise refuses to die. I am waiting for Florida Georgia Line to remix the song with someone else. It will be perpetual 'Cruise' control!
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Post by Old Fart In NC on May 9, 2013 17:35:25 GMT -5
^The next remix should be with deleted Cruise. :)
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Post by onebuffalo on May 9, 2013 17:43:39 GMT -5
^Or Tom Cruise. Nice post by the way!
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Post by goodsoul81 on May 14, 2013 6:19:28 GMT -5
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Post by onebuffalo on May 22, 2013 13:49:49 GMT -5
From Billboard:
Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" charts a new peak (10-6) in its 33rd week on the Hot 100. The song surges by 25% in sales to 189,000, bulleting at No. 4 on Digital Songs, and sails 15-11 on Radio Songs (52 million, up 8%) and 25-18 on Streaming Songs (3 million, up 41%). The track tops Hot Country Songs for a 12th week. It crowned Country Airplay for three weeks in December; remixed with vocals by Nelly, it's since crossed to pop radio, pushing 15-12 on Pop Songs and 21-20 on Adult Pop Songs this week.
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Post by dajross6 on May 22, 2013 14:01:02 GMT -5
Estimating how pop songs react in this range, I'm guessing this will still top the country chart for another month at least, maybe even two months. The song has a ton of room to grow as far as pop audience is concerned (about half of the top songs on the chart) and that is what will propel this towards breaking the all-time country #1 record I'm guessing. Maybe there's a chance another song is released to pop and is classified as country, but this is going to definitely take a run at the 21 week record.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2013 14:05:44 GMT -5
The music video with Nelly might be the most disrespectful music video towards women that I've seen. The models in that video are nothing but objects to these guys and I can't understand why those women are ok with being portrayed the way they are in the video. I guess that must be the money talking.
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Post by Cody Wants Out... on May 22, 2013 15:50:05 GMT -5
Thanks for warning me, jhomes87! I'm not even a fan of that so-called remix, and I wasn't a fan of the original music video in the first place so I'm not even gonna try with that remix. It's a shame since it smashing on pop right now, though.
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Post by churchchoir on May 22, 2013 16:55:05 GMT -5
I really love "Cruise," which is why I hate to see such a disrespectful video. It kind of makes me lose respect for FGL and now I won't be able to listen to what used to be one of my favorite songs of 2012 without being reminded of what these guys are really like...
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