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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 22:02:16 GMT -5
The Beatles taught the Hot 100 to play
The Beatles Occupy the Entire Top 5 on Billboard Hot 100: 48 Years Ago Today
April 04, 2012 By Gary Trust, New York
On the Billboard Hot 100 dated 48 years ago today - April 4, 1964 - the Beatles made history as the only act ever to monopolize the chart's top five positions.
With a 27-1 second-week blast to the top for "Can't Buy Me Love," the Fab Four locked up the chart's entire top five:
The Billboard Hot 100, April 4, 1964 Position, Title No. 1, "Can't Buy Me Love" No. 2, "Twist and Shout" No. 3, "She Loves You" No. 4, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" No. 5, "Please Please Me"
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Post by HolidayGuy on Apr 4, 2012 23:13:49 GMT -5
Will such top five dominance ever happen again?
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Apr 4, 2012 23:21:05 GMT -5
Not with the heavily weighted On-Demand streaming component...
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Post by Lozzy on Apr 5, 2012 0:36:15 GMT -5
Not with the heavily weighted On-Demand streaming component... ... on-demand streaming will make it easier for this to happen. There's no way radio is going to be playing five songs from the same act in high enough rotation simultaneously, and with sales, usually if you're going to buy five songs from the same act, you'd just buy the album, but with streaming, it works easily.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Apr 5, 2012 12:04:53 GMT -5
But the songs all have to be big hits, and we haven't had an act dominate the top 5 like The Beatles did since that time. So, I don't really see it happening again (at least anytime soon).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2012 12:17:26 GMT -5
It would need to be the 'perfect storm' of events
All songs are 'singles' nowadays so that makes the market more diverse than 1964.
It is rare enough that the same artist is #1-#2
The closest (including featurings) that anyone has come since was 4 songs in the top 10 (50 Cent did this)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2012 17:43:40 GMT -5
It would need to be the 'perfect storm' of events All songs are 'singles' nowadays so that makes the market more diverse than 1964. But the reason The Beatles were able to accomplish this feat in the first place is because they had several singles out at the same time, due to multiple labels releasing their songs simultaneously. So if anything, with the advent of the digital sales market and the inclusion of streaming data in the Hot 100, this is probably the easiest it's ever been for an artist to dominate like that. It's still going to take someone with absolutely massive impact, but it's definitely more likely now than it has generally been in the past.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2012 17:47:03 GMT -5
the Beatles had more singles out with less competition
In 1964, only 45s released to stores counted
Now, in the digital era, anything is a single.
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Post by johnnywest on Jan 29, 2015 23:16:48 GMT -5
This is a good stat. Casey used to tell this one a lot of his various countdown shows.
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Post by richie on Jun 24, 2015 10:23:53 GMT -5
It really was an amazing feat, and I also don't think it will ever happen again. Sort of like Don Larsen's perfect game in The World Series in 1956. I don't mean post-season play, I mean The World Series. And it was even the only no-hitter in WS history, to weaken the requirement.
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Post by Focus on Feb 11, 2016 11:31:22 GMT -5
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