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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 9, 2014 16:09:09 GMT -5
Luke Bryan becomes the 60 million audience impressions man. Today's update gives him 60.2. Unbelievable! Nice, but when the "highest audience" record keeps getting broken every few months, it starts to lose meaning. Agreed. But it is still a milestone. Look at Thomas Rhett's 50 million audience impressions in Billboard last year.
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Post by Marv on Feb 10, 2014 1:04:02 GMT -5
As the most listened to music format for all except nine months (interrupted by the 2008 Presidential race which powered the News-Talk format to #1 back then) of the past twenty-two years the format is indeed booming, and will once again cross the 150-station Mediabase panel size milestone within a few weeks when new stations in Sacramento and Detroit are added to the panel the format has also adopted the top 40 programming practice of shrinking the time period between hearing two songs by the same artist from 75-90 minutes to 40-60 minutes for the format's superstars, and has certainly cranked up the number of spins of its 'power records' dramatically, with 60 or even 70 spins per week taking place at some stations.
So while the achievement of this tune hitting 60,000,000 AIs on Mediabase merits acknowledging that accomplishment, the overwhelming choice for myself as it relates to the most-noteworthy airplay accomplishment of the past decade remains the staggering 43.64 SPSPW (Spins Per Station Per Week) for 'Jesus, Take The Wheel' eight years ago last month, at that time making it the 4th most heavily played country tune ever, trailing only three megasmashes entitled 'Live Like You Were Dying', 'As Good As I Once Was' and 'I Go Back', at a time when almost nobody was playing their power tunes 60-70+ times a week, and very few exceeded 50 SPSPW for that matter.
Carrie's accomplishment for a debut single remains an astonishing accomplishment eight years later, since she broke all but a couple of airplay records for a debut single still held by 'Redneck Woman', including a mere 5 weeks to clear 100% of the Mediabase panel, three less than Carrie needed, an exceptional accomplishment in & of itself considering the record over the past 18 years remains two weeks, and is still held by 'What Hurts The Most'.
I'll take those accomplishments by the format's most played female artist and Ms. Wilson over Luke's very respectable chart achievements so far, and in the words of Forrest Gump, 'That's all I Have to sat about that!!!'
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 10, 2014 14:00:55 GMT -5
Finishes at 60.3 million in audience.
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Post by justme60 on Feb 10, 2014 14:24:51 GMT -5
My radio station has turned me against this song and Luke Bryan. So tired of hearing it. Same goes for FGL. Why does radio have to do this??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 19:47:27 GMT -5
This one just finished up a 5th week at #1 on the Billboard Indicator chart (which, for those who don't know, is a secondary chart reflecting airplay at smaller market stations). The Indicator chart is usually pretty good at showing a song's natural peak...massive pushes to #1 don't get reflected on this chart, and in this current situation I believe it shows that Luke would've probably gotten at least 3-4 weeks at #1 on the main Billboard chart as well, if all the 'label manipulation' was taken out of the equation.
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Post by Marv on Feb 10, 2014 19:53:12 GMT -5
^^^^^Absolutely spot-on analysis---nicely done.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 22:01:09 GMT -5
Warning: Cynical post ahead: I like Luke, and he had some enjoyable early material. He had a great charm and endearment about him that kept me rooting for him up until the past year or so.
I can appreciate the backstory, but it adds absolutely nothing to the song for me. It's just another song about one of Luke's favorite topics (beer), that tries to disguise itself as a deep, heartfelt ballad, when underneath all that it's just a basic song that appears to have no real depth or poignancy, despite the fact that we are supposed to believe it is more than it appears to be, due to the subject matter.
I'm so incredibly sick and tired of artists and songwriters phoning it in, and then trying to make us believe the materi is heartfelt and honest and "relatable" just because of a backstory. That doesn't 't disguise the paper-thin lyrics and basic concept that probably took little, if any, effort on part of the songwriters. It's literally almost as if the songwriters got in a room together, threw a few topics in a hat, and came up with a song two hours later.
Country music has the best songwriters in town, and this is what they come up with? Pretty much describes the sad state of country music at the moment.
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 10, 2014 22:13:56 GMT -5
Warning: Cynical post ahead: I like Luke, and he had some enjoyable early material. He had a great charm and endearment about him that kept me rooting for him up until the past year or so. I can appreciate the backstory, but it adds absolutely nothing to the song for me. It's just another song about one of Luke's favorite topics (beer), that tries to disguise itself as a deep, heartfelt ballad, when underneath all that it's just a basic song that appears to have no real depth or poignancy, despite the fact that we are supposed to believe it is more than it appears to be, due to the subject matter. I'm so incredibly sick and tired of artists and songwriters phoning it in, and then trying to make us believe the materi is heartfelt and honest and "relatable" just because of a backstory. That doesn't 't disguise the paper-thin lyrics and basic concept that probably took little, if any, effort on part of the songwriters. It's literally almost as if the songwriters got in a room together, threw a few topics in a hat, and came up with a song two hours later. Country music has the best songwriters in town, and this is what they come up with? Pretty much describes the sad state of country music at the moment. Having experienced the exact situation this song is talking about (and doing a similar thing) I can tell you it hits home. For many people. Just cause it doesn't hit you the same way doesn't make it a bad song or the sentiment of the song any less meaningful. Songwriters are working on a job so sometimes they do 'come up with a song in two hours' other times they come up with them more quickly. How long someone takes to write a song doesn't make it more or less of a 'masterpiece' and/or crap. Also, since when do songs have to have fully developed stories to be 'impactful' with the subjects. To me, the song could've said 'shed a tear' and been just as impactful instead of "drink a beer." Guess that's the beauty of music, it's always subjective.
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Post by tonyei31 on Feb 11, 2014 19:35:07 GMT -5
Warning: Cynical post ahead: I like Luke, and he had some enjoyable early material. He had a great charm and endearment about him that kept me rooting for him up until the past year or so. I can appreciate the backstory, but it adds absolutely nothing to the song for me. It's just another song about one of Luke's favorite topics (beer), that tries to disguise itself as a deep, heartfelt ballad, when underneath all that it's just a basic song that appears to have no real depth or poignancy, despite the fact that we are supposed to believe it is more than it appears to be, due to the subject matter. I'm so incredibly sick and tired of artists and songwriters phoning it in, and then trying to make us believe the materi is heartfelt and honest and "relatable" just because of a backstory. That doesn't 't disguise the paper-thin lyrics and basic concept that probably took little, if any, effort on part of the songwriters. It's literally almost as if the songwriters got in a room together, threw a few topics in a hat, and came up with a song two hours later. Country music has the best songwriters in town, and this is what they come up with? Pretty much describes the sad state of country music at the moment. Where this thought process goes wrong is the songwriter himself, Chris Stapleton. The guys catalog speaks for itself. I do think this is a write he "threw together" but his material, more often than not, isn't a half hearted effort.
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