Trivia: Did "Single Ladies" get a 'Record'?

[Juanca]

With the last update of Sunday March 01, 2009, Beyonce left the Top 10 in the Pop Chart:

7 11 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A Ring... (Music World/Columbia) 6210 7613 -1403 35.407 14

This means, she could only spend TWO more weeks inside the Top 10 after she left the Top position:


02/08/09: 1 1 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A... 10190 10517 -327 63.882
02/15/09: 1 3 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A... 9036 10191 -1155 55.662
02/22/09: 3 7 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A... 7613 9033 -1420 46.966

I wonder if this is some sort of Record...
Does anyone know of any other example of songs plummetting this way after reaching #1???

[Minor Scratch]

I'm sure..

[David]

Lady Marmalade did it back in 2001.

www2.uta.edu/hunt/charts/Songruns/ChristinaAguilera/lady_marmalade.htm

[Juanca]

Aha!
Thanks SK... so this is a shared 'record' with LM.
Maybe Bee can keep up falling that way so that she can be out of the Top20 in a couple of weeks!
Go Bee!!!

[Eloqueen™]

Wow. I couldn't find another song from 2000 on (besides Lady Marmalade) that went #1 on Chr/Pop and then was out of the top 10 three weeks later. I always knew it was going to fall fast but I didn't think it would be the fastest fall of the 2000s. lol Oh well, this song already did a lot more than most expected on Chr/Pop (including myself).

[David]

One must also note that rarely do you have a song at #7 less than 1500 spins away. When Single Ladies was #7, last week it still wasn't very far from the top. A lot of times there is 1700 spins just between #1 & #2 alone. There's also less than 3000 spins between 1 & 10, which is unusual too. Typically theres atleast 4000-5000 spins in between.

[Juanca]

Well, the chart has been readjusting itself in the past couple of months in general, so we have had many anomallies... such as having Single Ladies close to beat Bleeding Love spin record ;)

[David]

^So What was closer to passing that than Single Ladies was though.

[Juanca]

Yep, sure, So What is still the second biggest song, but Single Ladies was close to SW too :)

[David]

Yeah, but its almost like breaking 10k spins is easy now. I remember when Irreplaceable broke 10k spins it was a huge deal. I'm pretty sure there are more stations now though than there was back then.

I'm not trying to downgrade its success. haha I love Single Ladies and it was definitely a huge hit, but I don't think breaking 10k spins is anything big anymore. Hell, even Leavin broke 10k spins.

[Juanca]

Exactly!!
That's my point Radio Airplay is re-stabilizing, re-adjusting so we have this more frequent songs with 10K spins, we had a Top8 with 8k spins for a day, we have had now the highest number of spins for a #11 song (or a 6200+ barrier for a Top 10 song! :o )

Still, all of this doesn't take the fact that SL lost almost 4000 spins in the lapse of only 3 weeks

[Mega248]

I can't think of any other times where it's happened in the 2000s, but in the 1980s and early 1990s it used to happen quite a bit. Chart turnover was much more rapid in general back then; #1 songs would regularly spend 15 (or fewer) total weeks on the chart.

[David]

^Thats probably why a lot of songs back then people aren't sick of now. They never had the chance to get sick of them cause radio didn't let them.

[jamrock16]

This had such a fast rise to the top and then as soon as it got to like 10500 spins it started plummeting. I find that weird though cuz you'd assume a song with 0 longevity/a high burn rate (which this is proving to have) wouldn't even break 10k in spins but this did easily. Alot of it does have to with Diva and Halo though, but even so they're not soaking up all that many spins from SL, yet.

[lumel]

Mar 2, 2009 2:37:31 GMT -5 Mega248 said:

I can't think of any other times where it's happened in the 2000s, but in the 1980s and early 1990s it used to happen quite a bit. Chart turnover was much more rapid in general back then; #1 songs would regularly spend 15 (or fewer) total weeks on the chart.

Totally right. The last time I remember seeing a song drastically plummet from number one was Mariah Carey's "Vision Of Love," which dipped 1-8 giving way to Sweet Sensation's "If Wishes Came True" back in 1990.

[ClevelandRox]

LOL I can't think of a more deserving song for the honor.

[colton]

The negative bullet for this seems pretty consistent :)

[Rurry]

I hate this new "overplay a few songs to the max and let the other songs have the remains" approach CHR is taking. I'm sorry...10k is spins is too much for any song. 8-9k spins is quite enough if you ask me.

[Minor Scratch]

Mar 2, 2009 17:37:47 GMT -5 Rurry said:

I hate this new "overplay a few songs to the max and let the other songs have the remains" approach CHR is taking. I'm sorry...10k is spins is too much for any song. 8-9k spins is quite enough if you ask me.

Its gonna happen a lot with Rhythmic hits. They usually have that "hot sounding" appeal from the start, unlike more Alternative based hits which tend to grow on listeners. You barely see those songs drop like a rock compared to these type of novelty Rhythmic tracks which go up in a hurry and free fall down. Its basically PDs striking when the iron is hot, and then moving on to something new when the novelty wears out.

[johnm1120]

Hanson did it with MMMBop. The song went 1-6-10-16