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Post by josh on Apr 10, 2012 22:23:41 GMT -5
I was hoping "What Makes You Beautiful" would be the song to dethrone "We Are Young" but I guess not It looks like "Somebody That I Used to Know" could do it. Up to #2 and very close to #1. Glee's cover is #10, knocking Katy out. B.o.B. has been gaining and was pretty close to Katy already, so I wonder if he will replace her in the top 10 when Glee falls out?
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Post by Kurt on Apr 10, 2012 22:32:27 GMT -5
Hoodie Allen (who?) is the No. 1 album on iTunes. Plus, there's a slew of new entries in the upper region of the iTunes chart- Trap Lee, Monica, Counting Crows and Bonnie Raitt in the top 10; and even more in the top 40. Who said this wasn't an active week for album releases? Alabama Shakes's debut is also widely available today after its iTunes-exclusive release last week. It sold 24k copies on iTunes alone, so I imagine it will increase fairly well this week with physical sales, Amazon, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2012 22:57:30 GMT -5
I was hoping "What Makes You Beautiful" would be the song to dethrone "We Are Young" but I guess not It looks like "Somebody That I Used to Know" could do it. Up to #2 and very close to #1. Glee's cover is #10, knocking Katy out. B.o.B. has been gaining and was pretty close to Katy already, so I wonder if he will replace her in the top 10 when Glee falls out? At least if "Somebody That I Used to Know" manages to do it, WAY will be replaced by a more than worthy successor.
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Post by icefire9 on Apr 11, 2012 0:53:26 GMT -5
Gotye's #1 on itunes!
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Post by kingofpain on Apr 11, 2012 1:14:36 GMT -5
God I hope it lasts....
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Post by fridayteenage on Apr 11, 2012 2:28:45 GMT -5
Worst iTunes #1 of the year.
But it would be pathetic if it wasn't #1 on iTunes this week, what with promotion from pretty much the 4 best primetime TV platforms available for music these days - The Voice, Glee, American Idol (apparently), and SNL.
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Post by forg on Apr 11, 2012 3:16:53 GMT -5
Yay for Gotye!
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Post by neverduplicated on Apr 11, 2012 3:53:21 GMT -5
Worst iTunes #1 of the year. But it would be pathetic if it wasn't #1 on iTunes this week, what with promotion from pretty much the 4 best primetime TV platforms available for music these days - The Voice, Glee, American Idol (apparently), and SNL. I disagree. I think this actually might be the best Itunes number 1 of the year. And let's not forget the reason that Gotye has gotten all these promotional opportunities is because people love the song in the first place. It's not like the American music shows got together and conspired to make Gotye number 1.
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Post by Enigma. on Apr 11, 2012 3:56:51 GMT -5
Wait, I thought Madonna got the best promo one could have?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2012 7:09:46 GMT -5
Worst iTunes #1 of the year. But it would be pathetic if it wasn't #1 on iTunes this week, what with promotion from pretty much the 4 best primetime TV platforms available for music these days - The Voice, Glee, American Idol (apparently), and SNL. They did it on the Voice too? LOL This really IS Gotye's week isn't it?
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Post by gracelessheart on Apr 11, 2012 8:40:05 GMT -5
Lindsey Pavao did it on The Voice. It sounded pretty cool too.
Thrilled for this song. I want to have babies with it. Just picked up the album last night along with Florence Unplugged. Listened to half of it so far. Really liking it.
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Post by when the pawn... on Apr 11, 2012 9:09:50 GMT -5
The Voice was last week. Agree with this being the best #1 iTunes song in a while (well...this and Set Fire To The Rain).
And I'd like to reiterate that this song/Gotye is getting this kind of coverage because of the song's popularity, not vice versa. People picked up on the music video, spread it virally and pushed the song into the iTunes top 5 (top 2) because they liked it - without major radio airplay, TV spots, mega-promotion, etc. SNL, American Idol, Glee, etc are reacting to America loving "Somebody That I Used To Know."
Hopefully Idol and SNL will keep this at the top.
Also, I don't know if it would be pathetic if this didn't reach the summit. "We Are Young" has been selling 350k+, an insane month+ of huge sales. While I don't LOVE the fun. song, I'm very happy to see both Gotye and fun. getting this much mainstream attention. Them, Adele, Foster the People and even the new rush of teen pop is bringing a welcome change to the monotony of the last couple of years.
End rant.
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Post by Enigma. on Apr 11, 2012 9:26:09 GMT -5
It's not patheric if another song is selling more...
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Post by gracelessheart on Apr 11, 2012 11:21:52 GMT -5
Worst iTunes #1 of the year. But it would be pathetic if it wasn't #1 on iTunes this week, what with promotion from pretty much the 4 best primetime TV platforms available for music these days - The Voice, Glee, American Idol (apparently), and SNL. Where is my ability to give a post a thumbs down?
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Post by jgizzle89 on Apr 11, 2012 16:06:28 GMT -5
so Gotye will sell 400k this coming week?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2012 16:11:47 GMT -5
so Gotye will sell 400k this coming week? Nobody has said that.
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Post by jasontoralba on Apr 11, 2012 19:44:07 GMT -5
Worst iTunes #1 of the year. (apparently), and SNL. if the song is different from Rihanna's, Katy's, Gaga's, Adele's etc., does it means it's the worst?
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Apr 11, 2012 19:48:43 GMT -5
Worst iTunes #1 of the year. (apparently), and SNL. if the song is different from Rihanna's, Katy's, Gaga's, Adele's etc., does it means it's the worst? ... He never said that. I agree with him. It is the worst. This is a bandwagon hit if I ever heard one
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Post by CammyCan on Apr 11, 2012 19:50:28 GMT -5
...eh? What bandwagon? STIUTK has been building up in popularity for quite some time now.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Apr 11, 2012 19:52:26 GMT -5
I understand maybe not liking the song, but is the song really worst than "Part of Me" or "Boyfriend"? Really?
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Post by Envoirment on Apr 11, 2012 20:00:21 GMT -5
Gotye has a nice lead now, but not big enough to ensure #1 on the hot 100. He'll need to sustain a 30% lead or higher to get to #1. His curret lead looks to be between 15-20%.
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Apr 11, 2012 20:00:52 GMT -5
...eh? What bandwagon? STIUTK has been building up in popularity for quite some time now. I'm aware of that... I never said it's a sudden or new bandwagon, but it certainly feels like a bandwagon. So many of the people I know who are saying they like it seem to just think they're supposed to like it.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Apr 11, 2012 20:09:37 GMT -5
It always feels somewhat condescending to dismiss a song's entire success (it has hit #1 everywhere and has been selling steadily in the US for a long time) as "just people jumping on a bandwagon" To me, it is a simple catchy song with heartfelt vocals so I can understand why it is connecting with so many people and I don't doubt people actually like it.
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Apr 11, 2012 20:13:54 GMT -5
It always feels somewhat condescending to dismiss a song's entire success (it has hit #1 everywhere and has been selling steadily in the US for a long time) as "just people jumping on a bandwagon" To me, it is a simple catchy song with heartfelt vocals so I can understand why it is connecting with so many people and I don't doubt people actually like it. You don't think that people say they like a song more than they do just because everyone else is saying they like it? I'm not saying that there aren't people out there who genuinely like this song. And yes, people will pay a dollar for a song they only kind of like.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Apr 11, 2012 20:30:47 GMT -5
Some people might, but I still think it is condescending to assume that someone who likes a song only likes it because they are "supposed" to. I have a lot of music snob friends who act like that though so that is perhaps why it gets on my nerves. Like, you cannot like ANY song that becomes mildly popular without them sneering at you and telling you that you don't REALLY like it you just think you do. I am not very music snobby so that type of attitude gets on my nerves. Sometimes songs are just popular because they have a universal message with a simple, catchy tune. Not because literally millions around the world are forcing themselves to pretend to enjoy it.
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Apr 11, 2012 20:34:38 GMT -5
Fair enough, and well said. This isn't an attitude I take with many songs, but it's something I really feel happening with this one.
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Post by suth on Apr 11, 2012 21:41:27 GMT -5
Couldn't the argument be made that all #1 hits are essentially bandwagons? There's a point where a song crosses over from something that people like based on its merits as a song into a general phenomenon, where people get pleasure in some sense from liking what everybody else likes. And it becomes very easy to adopt an attitude of "If I like it, it means America as a whole has developed some taste, at least temporarily" and "If I don't like it, it means everybody just likes it because it's a phenomenon." For example, last year's two biggest songs were RITD and PRA. I loved the former and rooted for it the whole way, and went from neutral to active loathing for the latter the more successful it was. So in my mind, all the people buying RITD were doing it because it was a great song, and all the people buying PRA were doing it just because they felt "obligated to buy the song of the year." Obviously, that's BS. Tons of people were buying RITD just because it was "the thing," and tons of people were buying PRA because they (somehow) genuinely thought it was a great song.
So what's the defining characteristic? How enduring the song is over the long term? There are certainly lots of #1 hits in the past that people never hear anymore, but that doesn't mean they didn't get pleasure from it at the time.
Popularity is a double-edged sword. It sucks to have a song you hate on top, but it also kind of sucks to have a song you love on top and becoming that song everybody's sick of already.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2012 21:50:50 GMT -5
Gotye has a nice lead now, but not big enough to ensure #1 on the hot 100. He'll need to sustain a 30% lead or higher to get to #1. His curret lead looks to be between 15-20%. WAY is now down to 0.60 below Gotye. That week at #1 for Gotye is looking more likely now. OTOH, bumps from American Idol are notoriously short lived, so we'll see how long it sustains it. But then Gotye also has SNL this weekend so... This week has become the perfect storm for Gotye to try to get a #1 hit out of this song. If it doesn't happen this week, I doubt that it will.
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Post by icefire9 on Apr 11, 2012 22:10:46 GMT -5
The .6 is an estimation of course... I wonder what its based off of since itunes isn't reporting pop bars anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2012 23:28:58 GMT -5
Yeah, if Gotye doesn't receive the #1 this week, I don't it'll happen at all. Promo is picture-perfect: Glee, American Idol, SNL. That's 3 major platforms in a single week.
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