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Post by pja on Aug 12, 2017 13:51:29 GMT -5
Panda: Future never in his life, got his own #1 hit, but some mumble rapper wannabe Future did. It boggles my mind how bad 2016 was for music. Black Beatles/Bad & Boujee: Normally I hate when songs get to the top or chart high because of a meme/challenge or viral trend, with some exceptions. BB is one of those rare exceptions, but a Rae Sremmurd and Gucci Mane song. But B&B is worse, because it's Miogs' triplet flow, and Lil Uzi Vert is generic as all get out. Tunnel Vision: Have I mentioned I hate when songs get popular because of any sort of controversy, because I really f**king hate this! This only got popular because of the rape controversy, and possibly the music video which is just f**king horrendous. This became a top 10 hit by the way, WHY AMERICA, WHY?!?! Stressed Out: I've heard Tear In My Heart on satellite pop radio, but never thought that anything else from 21P could actually cross into the mainstream, but oh boy was I wrong. Fetty Wap in general: At the time I hated Fetty, now I just don't care anymore. I was shocked Trap Queen hit #2, but now I feel like I'm immune when rap crosses the Hot 100 nowadays, and this started the trend. Also I consider him to be 2015's one year wonder. WTF are you talking about? Rape controversy? You think millions of people tune into a song because of a rape controversy? Like people said to themselves "Hey, some random up and coming C-list rapper from Florida got hit with a rape charge." "What? A rape charge? I need to check out what his music sounds like, we need to make a star out of this dude." Some of you people really reach for every excuse you can to explain away why people like rap music. Nah dude. It's just a hit song. A catchy song. A song that was able to appeal to a big chunk of the general listening public by sounding good (crazy, right?). Same with Bad and Boujee. People reach sooo hard because they can't handle the idea that general audiences are loving the music simply for the sake of the music. People's excuses for B&B were... some cartoon meme with 500,000 views on YT... and people writing "raindrop drop top" memes on Twitter. People kill me when they attribute a songs success just to a meme.
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Post by pja on Aug 12, 2017 13:54:42 GMT -5
Actually, that is a very valid explanation. The identifiable victim effect powered by the ambiguity effect and apathy effect. ???? So Kodak Black's "Tunnel Vision" got popular because he might be a rapist??? That makes so much sense. "Bad & Boujee was already popular, and would hit the top 10 without the meme, although I doubt that it would enter the top 5. The meme made more people know about the song." What meme are you even talking about? This s**t? knowyourmeme.com/memes/rain-drop-drop-topSo the song is the most streamed song in the world for X many weeks, was the #1 song in February and spread to Top 40 radio, because of some random tweet from December? That just doesn't make sense. It's nonsense. Popular songs (especially popular Hip-Hop songs) are gonna have memes made after them. Exactly
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 13:58:03 GMT -5
Bodak Yellow is predicted to hit the top 10 on Monday. So, anyone else think streaming has caused the quality of music to increase in recent years? Yep
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Post by Future Captain on Aug 22, 2017 20:53:19 GMT -5
Viva la Vida. I just realized how much it stood out like a sore thumb among other 2008 hits, and not to mention it's wordy chorus. Yet it's a #1 hit and is the best rock/alt digital seller ever until Radioactive came along
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Post by leonagwen on Aug 23, 2017 1:21:05 GMT -5
Slowhands from Niall Horan, didn't expect it to be such a big hit.Its now #6 on mediabase.I originally thought when it first came out that it would peak in the high teens but never expected top 10 or even #6.
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Post by Joe1240 on Aug 23, 2017 5:03:19 GMT -5
The Lumineers-Ho Hey A Great Big World/Christina Aguilera-Say Something Future-Mask Off
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Post by willapted33 on Aug 25, 2017 3:34:39 GMT -5
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Post by rainie on Aug 25, 2017 7:48:06 GMT -5
Slowhands from Niall Horan, didn't expect it to be such a big hit.Its now #6 on mediabase.I originally thought when it first came out that it would peak in the high teens but never expected top 10 or even #6. Especially after the lead single underperformed. Certainly didn't think that the FOLLOW UP by any ex-1D members would be bigger then the first single.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Aug 31, 2017 13:11:33 GMT -5
Viva la Vida. I just realized how much it stood out like a sore thumb among other 2008 hits, and not to mention it's wordy chorus. Yet it's a #1 hit and is the best rock/alt digital seller ever until Radioactive came along It was also definitely plaigarized from multiple sources. Im still baffled by The Hanging Tree being not just a commercial hit but also a radio hit
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Post by rainie on Aug 31, 2017 21:37:46 GMT -5
Viva la Vida. I just realized how much it stood out like a sore thumb among other 2008 hits, and not to mention it's wordy chorus. Yet it's a #1 hit and is the best rock/alt digital seller ever until Radioactive came along It was also definitely plaigarized from multiple sources. Im still baffled by The Hanging Tree being not just a commercial hit but also a radio hit I wouldn't say it was a radio HIT (I think it peaked somewhere in the 20s on CHR), but the fact that it even charted surprises me.
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Post by Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast on Aug 31, 2017 22:57:52 GMT -5
Cups. It's just a NOTHING song. What's worse is that it's STILL being played on the radio.
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Post by Leaf on Sept 1, 2017 1:39:48 GMT -5
It was also definitely plaigarized from multiple sources. Im still baffled by The Hanging Tree being not just a commercial hit but also a radio hit I wouldn't say it was a radio HIT (I think it peaked somewhere in the 20s on CHR), but the fact that it even charted surprises me. #10, actually. Even more shocking.
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Post by rainie on Sept 1, 2017 1:54:29 GMT -5
Cups. It's just a NOTHING song. What's worse is that it's STILL being played on the radio. Fun fact about that one -- me and my mom were listening to an Alt/HAC hybrid station when that song came out, and the first time we heard it we both made some syde comment about how much it and my mom changed the station...only to find it playing on the pop station at the exact same time
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Sept 1, 2017 6:12:08 GMT -5
I wouldn't say it was a radio HIT (I think it peaked somewhere in the 20s on CHR), but the fact that it even charted surprises me. #10, actually. Even more shocking. Right. It was a legit pop radio hit
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Post by superdroid73 on Sept 1, 2017 6:22:31 GMT -5
Cups. It's just a NOTHING song. What's worse is that it's STILL being played on the radio. I've actually never heard it on the radio since it was popular. I personally don't like it, it's very basic. But I'm guessing part of the reason it was popular was because the Pitch Perfect movie was huge at the time. Which is weird considering it charted a year after the movie. I guess people just really thought it was catchy.
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Post by Golden Bluebird on Oct 8, 2017 8:01:08 GMT -5
This isn't necessarily related to the Hot 100, but I am pretty baffled by just how successful "Rockstar" by Post Malone is around the world. I mean, its success in the United States makes sense given how popular trap rap is there, but the fact that a hip hop song like this manages to become successful around the world is pretty weird. Usually, when a hip hop song becomes a global hit, it's usually of the poppier kind like "See You Again" and "Unforgettable", but "Rockstar" doesn't sound very poppy. To add to the weirdness of its international success, it's already #1 in several countries, all before it's even #1 in the US.
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Post by Harx on Oct 8, 2017 8:27:46 GMT -5
I feel like the fact that right now Post Malone is blowing up around the world has unfortunately a lot to do with race. He is the first white person making trap music to break through (not counting people like G-Eazy and Machine Gun Kelly who put out mostly pop friendly hip hop, and not actual trap) and whenever a white artist emerges in a popular genre dominated by black artists, he usually becomes insanely popular because he is accepted by the wider audience, many members of which are racist.
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Post by Az Paynter on Oct 8, 2017 8:46:37 GMT -5
#10, actually. Even more shocking. Right. It was a legit pop radio hit To be clear, 'The Hanging Tree' barely scraped #10 on pop radio, it had already run out of steam by then and if I recall correctly it got vacuumed into the position? Once it logged that top 10 peak it utterly imploded. The pop radio mix was not well received, and this could be a major contributing factor. The radio mix for alternative was much better and should've been the version pushed to all formats.
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Post by Keelzit on Oct 8, 2017 8:57:55 GMT -5
I feel like the fact that right now Post Malone is blowing up around the world has unfortunately a lot to do with race. He is the first white person making trap music to break through (not counting people like G-Eazy and Machine Gun Kelly who put out mostly pop friendly hip hop, and not actual trap) and whenever a white artist emerges in a popular genre dominated by black artists, he usually becomes insanely popular because he is accepted by the wider audience, many members of which are racist. I don't think anyone in 2017 googles someone's race before they hit the play button on spotify. Post Malone is not even a household name and the majority of the 'wider audience' (especially in Europe) hadn't even heard of him before rockstar. It's clear that the reason the song is (surprisingly) successful already is because people find it catchy. Same thing happened with Mask Off but that one's success didn't surprise me cause it's as catchy as it gets and Future has a very distinctive way of rapping that sets his songs apart from any other mainstream rapper. About Post's career blowing up, I think the reason for that is that people (myself included) are caught off-guard by how versatile his music is and that trap is not the only thing he does. I actually find his country-ish songs better than his other stuff.
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Post by Monarca on Oct 8, 2017 9:25:47 GMT -5
"I Hate U I Love U", "Starving", "No Promises", "Gold", "Scars to Your Beautiful", "Feel it Still", "1-800-273-8255", "Stressed Out", "Ride" & "Shut Up and Dance". Also "Here" & "Stitches". In Mediabase, these songs debuted in Summer of 2015 and became #1 hits many weeks later. I'm still amazed because of their slow ascent in charts and the artists being newcomers then.
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Post by irice22 on Oct 8, 2017 22:24:50 GMT -5
Cups. It's just a NOTHING song. What's worse is that it's STILL being played on the radio. I am certainly baffled it became a hit, but I love that became hit.
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Post by House Lannister on Oct 8, 2017 22:30:43 GMT -5
A couple of others I thought of:
Little Talks---Of Monsters and Men (This was in the top 20!) Feel It Still---Portugal.The.Man (I thought it might fade out in the 50s like other rock/alternative songs this year)
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Post by truemusicreviews on Oct 8, 2017 23:13:30 GMT -5
I'm still surprised that "Rake It Up" has been doing as well as it has been thus far.
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 8, 2017 23:27:25 GMT -5
"Slow Hands" by Interpol is where it's at, not this Niall Horan thing
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Post by Harx on Feb 12, 2018 14:25:52 GMT -5
Did anyone expect "Meant to Be" to go top 10? Several flops in a row and the song she finally succeeds with is the one with FGL
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Post by Relaxing Cup on Feb 12, 2018 16:29:17 GMT -5
"Work" by Rihanna. Pretty sad when you think about it.
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Post by mrmike855 on Feb 12, 2018 16:48:07 GMT -5
"Somebody That I Used To Know" It was already a hit overseas, but no indie hit, before or since, has managed to come close to its success. Something that baffles me to this date and utterly surprised me back then. "Little Talks" Not a very big hit (only hit #20) but more just the fact that it took about 18 months from its release to peak. Especially since I remember giving up on it becoming a hit Basically every song that takes around 6 months to peak, just because I never expect them to make it big "Waves" Back when it seemed like every dance song had to be in your face and have a bass drop, it surprised me that a chilled-out tropical house song could make it as big as it did "Havana" sure Camilla was the breakout star from Fifth Harmony and made it to the top 5 with Bad Things. But Crying In the Club was a massive flop, and that was considered more radio friendly than a Latin pop song like this. It was surprising to see this outdo any of 5H's songs. "Pumped Up Kicks" 2010 had almost no rock songs chart at all. The only one that did was Animal by Neon Trees and that felt more like a straight alt-rock song. While hard rock was dominated by garbage like "Porn Star Dancing", I thought a rock song would never chart again. Then Pumped Up Kicks came and would lay the groundwork for most indie crossovers since. And, of course "Rolling in the Deep" a song that I thought was some soul classic the first few times I heard it. The song that, in hindsight, basically destroyed the club boom. The song that turned an obscure piece of Grammy bait into one of the most beloved and successful pop singer of the 2010s (Not only was it amazing that this was as big of hit as it was, but it was more amazing that Adele was not a one-hit wonder). IMO, the most surprising hit of the 2010s.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Feb 13, 2018 15:19:35 GMT -5
“Who Let the Dogs Out”
Absolutely horrific. My least favorite song of all-time.
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