sevansfan
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Post by sevansfan on Mar 21, 2005 21:18:37 GMT -5
I agree - I don't see this as a matter of payola. But I have a comment about Sugarland that's a little off-topic, and I didn't feel like starting a new thread for just this one thought. If I'm not mistaken, Matchbox Twenty took "If You're Gone" to #1 on Billboard's AC chart in its 40th chart week. I'm pretty sure that's an all-format record for longest climb to #1. If Sugarland takes "Baby Girl" to #1 on the Country chart next week (April 9, its 38th chart week), it'll come just short of MB20's record. The current Country record is 32 weeks, set by Tim McGraw's "My Next Thirty Years," which is looking to be upset if Sugarland can indeed go the distance. If I'm not mistaken I think it took "Suds in The Bucket" 32 weeks. Doesn't matter though because "Baby Girl" is going to break that!
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Topay
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Post by Topay on Mar 21, 2005 21:30:48 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken I think it took "Suds in The Bucket" 32 weeks. Doesn't matter though because "Baby Girl" is going to break that! That would be a better example, as Sara's song didn't have a bunch of weeks on the chart before its official release. I wouldn't mind seeing this one take #1. I think the large moves are more of an instance of radio stations finally catching onto the song as if it were big the whole time. As long as there are no -1500 spin trends in the coming weeks, this may be a safe assumption.
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Zazie
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Post by Zazie on Mar 22, 2005 12:28:14 GMT -5
Suds in the Bucket took 24 weeks to reach #1 on Billboard. I suppose it could have had a much longer run to the top on R&R, but that seems unlikely to me.
Other recent long, but not Sugarland-long, runs (all Billboard chart data, not R&R) include Dierks Bentley's What Was I Thinkin', 24 weeks; Gary Allan's Nothin' On But the Radio, 24 weeks; Phil Vassar's In a Real Love, 28 weeks; and Darryl Worley's Awful, Beautiful Life, 29 weeks. I agree that the Tim example is not parallel because many of those weeks were album-track airplay weeks. But there aren't a whole lot of songs that take 30+ weeks to get to the top.
Beautiful Mess and Good Morning Beautiful both took 27 weeks to get to #1. The best parallel chart run to Sugarland's I found in my quick search was Steve Azar's 34-week run to #2 in 2002, but of course he didn't ever get to #1. Sugarland hasn't done it yet either....
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ericNY2002
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Post by ericNY2002 on Mar 24, 2005 5:17:35 GMT -5
Billboard changing its chart from Spin detections to Audience based kept Craig Morgan #1 on the 4-2 country chart. On Billboard, Sugarland had about 130 spins more than Craig Morgan according to billboard's numbers this week.
Sugarland's chart run resembles that of Steve Azar's " I don't Have to be Be" from a couple years ago. The song started slow, moved up and down slowly through the 20s and 30s, and once it finally broke the top 20, it exploded up the chart finally peaking at #2 in its 35th week I believe on the chart.
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Post by Perp on Mar 24, 2005 22:03:25 GMT -5
Graph of the current Top 40.... home.earthlink.net/~oceanblue831/shedaisy/graphs/all_spins2.gifWhen Sugarland got to about 3100 spins, it took off like crazy and never let up until it got to about 3900 spins. It seemed to hesitate there for a short while, then took off at 4000 spins. I'm staying out of the payola argument, but I thought some of you might be interested in seeing the progress it's had in the paste two months. If you can't read the chart (it takes a bit of screen real estate) then your IE settings are probably reducing it to fit, which will probably make it look like crap. (Note, if you're reading this days from now (March 24th) the chart will be different and Sugarland may not even be on it anymore)
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