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Post by American Idiot on Feb 22, 2011 20:22:59 GMT -5
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
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Post by crash46 on Feb 26, 2011 15:10:45 GMT -5
Yeah, -265 now. It's really starting to look like Reprise was desperately trying to keep their radio career afloat. But their shows are still selling out very quickly at a very high ticket price. At least around here.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 1, 2011 22:42:33 GMT -5
Looks like a pretty fraudulent #1 to me. That's what I was thinking.
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Post by lockebox on Mar 2, 2011 15:45:33 GMT -5
The sudden huge bullet decrease certainly wouldn't help quash claims, either. I'm suprised it hit Active, too.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 2, 2011 15:49:08 GMT -5
The sudden huge bullet decrease certainly wouldn't help quash claims, either. I think that's what everyone is citing as the specific reason why they think it was a fraudulent #1. +250 one week and -250 the next is the entirety of the problem.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Mar 2, 2011 15:51:34 GMT -5
It could be payola. It's also possible that some station programmers thought this sounded like a huge hit and jumped on it, and the others followed their lead, but the song ultimately didn't test well with their audiences. Of course, the new insta-hits by the Foo Fighters and Rise Against aren't helping either.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 2, 2011 15:58:31 GMT -5
True. I think it's payola. In retrospect knowing that this sudden jump and drop occurred, I wish I had taken note of which stations led the way in boosting and lowering spins on this song in those respective weeks. I'd want to keep my eye on those stations for how they handled future singles.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Mar 3, 2011 13:01:58 GMT -5
Don't know about past weeks, but looking at this week vs. last... KITS and WJBX dropped the song this week after giving it 24 and 37 spins last week, respectively. KMYZ, WFNX, and XTRA dropped it after last week's spins were in the teens. (Not surprised about WFNX... considering their strong indie lean, they probably wanted to get rid of this song ASAP.) KRZQ and KFRR reduced the song's spins from the 40's to the teens, and KXNA's spins went down from 26 to 8.
So yeah, this song's dropping like flies
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 3, 2011 14:05:10 GMT -5
The label probably gave it one last alternative push to call it a #1...and then dropped the alternative push to move to CHR while bolstering the song's resumé as an alt #1 to help convince more pop stations to play it.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Mar 3, 2011 14:38:18 GMT -5
It managed to peak at # 58 on the Hot 100 last week so looks like pop stations did play it.
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Post by Devin on Mar 3, 2011 14:39:45 GMT -5
^ It's at #38 (I think) on pop now.
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