Billboard Hot 100: 06/25/2016

[ry4n]

Boy you got my heartbeat runnin' away


1 year ago (6/27/2015)

1 1 See You Again - Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth (9th week of 12)
2 2 Bad Blood - Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar
3 3 Trap Queen - Fetty Wap
4 4 Shut Up And Dance - Walk The Moon
5 5 Want To Want Me - Jason Derulo
6 6 Uptown Funk! - Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
7 11 Cheerleader - Omi
8 7 Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) - The Weeknd
9 8 Hey Mama - David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & Afrojack
10 9 Honey, I'm Good. - Andy Grammer

13 14 You Know You Like It - DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge


5 years ago (6/25/2011)

1 1 Rolling In The Deep - Adele (6th week of 7)
2 2 Give Me Everything - Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer
3 6 Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock
4 3 E.T. - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West
5 4 The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars
6 7 The Edge Of Glory - Lady Gaga
7 5 On The Floor - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull
8 8 Just Can't Get Enough - Black Eyed Peas
9 23 Dirt Road Anthem - Jason Aldean
10 11 Super Bass - Nicki Minaj

14 29 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay


10 years ago (6/24/2006)

1 1 Hips Don't Lie - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean (2nd and final week)
2 3 Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland
3 4 It's Goin' Down - Yung Joc
4 2 Ridin' - Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone
5 5 Bad Day - Daniel Powter
6 6 Where'd You Go - Fort Minor feat. Holly Brook & Jonah Matranga
7 9 Unfaithful - Rihanna
8 8 Me & U - Cassie
9 11 Snap Yo Fingers - Lil Jon feat. E-40 & Sean Paul Of The YoungBloodZ
10 12 Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers


15 years ago (6/23/2001)

1 1 Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya & P!nk (4th week of 5)
2 2 Hanging By A Moment - Lifehouse
3 4 Ride Wit Me - Nelly feat. City Spud
4 6 My Baby - Lil Romeo
5 9 Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) - Train
6 7 Fiesta - R Kelly feat. Jay-Z
7 5 Follow Me - Uncle Kracker
8 10 Peaches & Cream - 112
9 8 Get Ur Freak On - Missy Elliott
10 3 All For You - Janet Jackson

[forg]

One Dance music video will probably be an Apple exclusive again

Considering the movie didn't do well in the box office, Just Like Fire is doing so well, Pink's chart run is so impressive

[jenglisbe]

Jun 12, 2016 8:12:12 GMT -5 forg said:

Considering the movie didn't do well in the box office, Just Like Fire is doing so well, Pink's chart run is so impressive

Most songs don't have a movie tied to them, so not sure why the song would only be expected to do well if the movie was a hit.

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 from 35, 30, 25, and 20 years ago:

June 27, 1981

01 02 Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes (6th of 9 weeks at #1)
02 01 Stars On 45 (Medley) - Stars On 45
03 03 Sukiyaki - A Taste Of Honey
04 04 A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) - Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
05 05 All Those Years Ago - George Harrison
06 07 The One That You Love - Air Supply
07 09 You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall & John Oates
08 08 America - Neil Diamond
09 10 Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
10 23 Elvira - The Oak Ridge Boys


June 28, 1986

01 01 On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald (3rd and final week at #1)
02 02 There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
03 03 Crush On You - The Jets
04 08 Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
05 06 No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones
06 09 Who's Johnny - El DeBarge
07 07 A Different Corner - George Michael
08 17 Invisible Touch - Genesis
09 14 Nasty - Janet Jackson
10 15 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel


June 29, 1991

01 01 Rush Rush - Paula Abdul (3rd of 5 weeks at #1)
02 02 I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
03 06 Unbelievable - EMF
04 07 Power Of Love / Love Power - Luther Vandross
05 04 Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
06 03 More Than Words - Extreme
07 10 Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones
08 05 Love Is a Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton
09 08 Strike It Up - Black Box
10 12 Playground - Another Bad Creation


June 22, 1996

01 01 Tha Crossroads - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (6th of 8 weeks at #1)
02 04 You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow - Toni Braxton
03 03 Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman
04 02 Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey
05 05 Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
06 64 How Do U Want It / California Love - 2Pac feat. K-Ci & JoJo
07 10 Theme From Mission: Impossible - Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen
08 07 Nobody Knows - The Tony Rich Project
09 06 You're The One - SWV
10 08 Ironic - Alanis Morissette

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 from 55, 50, 45, and 40 years ago:

June 19, 1961 (For the week ending June 24)

01 02 Moody River - Pat Boone (1st and only week at #1)
02 01 Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson
03 09 Quarter To Three - Gary U.S. Bonds
04 04 Stand By Me - Ben E. King
05 05 Raindrops - Dee Clark
06 06 The Writing On The Wall - Adam Wade
07 17 Tossin' & Turnin' - Bobby Lewis
08 08 Every Beat Of My Heart - The Pips
09 10 The Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton
10 11 Those Oldies But Goodies - Little Caesar


June 25, 1966

01 15 Paperback Writer - The Beatles (1st of 2 weeks at #1)
02 05 Strangers In The Night - Frank Sinatra
03 01 Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
04 02 Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind - The Lovin' Spoonful
05 03 I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
06 10 Red Rubber Ball - Cyrkle
07 07 Barefootin' - Robert Parker
08 09 Cool Jerk - The Capitols
09 12 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield
10 11 Sweet Talking Guy - The Chiffons


June 26, 1971

01 01 It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move - Carole King (2nd of 5 weeks at #1)
02 02 Rainy Days And Mondays - The Carpenters
03 03 Want Ads - Honey Cone
04 07 Indian Reservation - The Raiders
05 06 Treat Her Like a Lady - The Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
06 04 Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
07 05 It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
08 19 Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
09 12 When You're Hot, You're Hot - Jerry Reed
10 10 Sweet And Innocent - Donny Osmond


June 26, 1976

01 01 Silly Love Songs - Wings (4th of 5 weeks at #1)
02 02 Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention
03 03 Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore
04 05 Sara Smile - Daryl Hall & John Oates
05 07 Shop Around - The Captain & Tennille
06 08 More, More, More - The Andrea True Connection
07 09 Afternoon Delight - The Starland Vocal Band
08 04 Love Hangover - Diana Ross
09 10 I'll Be Good To You - The Brothers Johnson
10 12 Kiss And Say Goodbye - The Manhattans

[leredlum]

Jun 12, 2016 10:40:51 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

June 28, 1986
10 15 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

Classic

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Jun 12, 2016 11:19:31 GMT -5 leredlum said:

Jun 12, 2016 10:40:51 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

June 28, 1986
10 15 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

Classic

That entire top 10 is full of classics.  Excluding maybe Who Is Johnny lol.  It was fun at the time, but not exactly a classic for me.  And the George Michael song is great, but it's definitely not one of his classics in a popular test-of-time sense, imo.

[Old-school 72]

Holding back the years by Simply Red is a classic. OK now I wanna mention something about the charts again of yesterday. Do you see how there was a variety of genres. Now adays a country song might hit top 10 based on sales,but top 40 radio gonna jump on it. If they do is 6 months down the line and only if a pop remix is released. This is what I was referring to in earlier posts how radio and sales didn't keep a country song, r&b,pop and rock all from charting together. Also you didn't see one artist hogging two or 3 spots in the top 10. People liked variety. I have been an avid chart collector for almost 30 yrs now and have kept up with all trends of music. I just can't say the last few years have had significantly great songs and feel for the younger generation. Not more than 20 songs in the last 5 years I would consider classics twenty yrs down the road.

[Deleted]

^ I think you're going to run into the same feedback with your posts - at least from me. Variety still exists on the charts, and if you look back there are charts where certain artists had more than one song in the top 10 in the 80s. Looking at one top 10 at a time isn't representative of anything, really.  Things moved faster on the charts then, so that makes it seem like the 80s wasn't as "bad".  But it really wasn't much different in terms of dominant artists, just faster paced on the charts.

I also don't think songs of today have the same feel as songs from 30 years ago for the simple reason that they don't have 30 years of aging and nostalgia on their side. It takes time and sometimes feelings change about songs as time passes.  Songs I didn't particularly care for in the 80s are now pretty good simply for their nostalgia.

My dad said the same thing about "feeling for the younger generation" in the 80s, so that comment isn't anything surprising. It's typical. But I can assure you, most of today's generation are totally fine with today's songs. It's all about point of reference, and of course our own seems better. 80s music is still available and all over the radio so i'm sure today's generation have songs they enjoy, just like we had songs from the 60s and 70s that we enjoyed in the 80s. 

I say all this as someone who I think is around your age and was very much a part of the entire 80s decade of music.  There's a whiff of superiority mixed with negativity in your posts and it doesn't smell very good, as honest as you're trying to be.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jun 12, 2016 16:47:16 GMT -5 Old-school 72 said:

Holding back the years by Simply Red is a classic. OK now I wanna mention something about the charts again of yesterday. Do you see how there was a variety of genres. Now adays a country song might hit top 10 based on sales,but top 40 radio gonna jump on it. If they do is 6 months down the line and only if a pop remix is released. This is what I was referring to in earlier posts how radio and sales didn't keep a country song, r&b,pop and rock all from charting together. Also you didn't see one artist hogging two or 3 spots in the top 10. People liked variety. I have been an avid chart collector for almost 30 yrs now and have kept up with all trends of music. I just can't say the last few years have had significantly great songs and feel for the younger generation. Not more than 20 songs in the last 5 years I would consider classics twenty yrs down the road.

I'm sure back in the 80s, people were saying the exact same thing about the music of the day in regards to the 60s, when people were saying the same thing.

It seems your issue is with the segmentation of radio. Beyond radio and beyond the charts, music is more varied than ever because not only do you have tons of outlets to hear music and discover it from across many many genres, you ALSO have access to music from years back, INCLUDING the superior 80s! So it's like, today, music is more diverse than it ever has been in history. Next year will be even MORE diverse and ten years from now? Yep, more diverse still.

[Old-school 72]

okay I get what you're saying what I'm trying to get across and 1 poster did mention the charts more fast-paced in the eighties. that's why I have such a problem with today's chartssong stick around way too long I don't get how anyone can not want to move on to the next song by an artist.songs lasting 50 60 70 weeks on the chart is a little annoying to say the least.I have older siblings who would disagree with what you were saying about sixties music.if you look at the charts today with people like Drake and Rihanna taking up two or three spots on the top 10 many weeks at a time shows that is not very diverse.very few artists in the eighties ever managed to have 2 songs moving up at the same time and sticking around for more weeks then 10 or 15. most artists had a new song moving up the top 40 as the previous single was falling and most likely only had one or two weeks left.in 1989 is the only charts that I can find an artist had more than 1 song movin up or in the top 10 at the same time that was new kids on the block. throughout the nineties growing up in my twenties I can look back and very few of those songs do I ever hear on radio that were number ones.right now the nineties music is the hipsters music because that is the stuff that when they were bornand I don't see any of them any of those songs on their phones or streaming at the houses I work with a lot of 90s kidsand all they care about is what's out there right now and what's going to be out 10 minutes from now. this also goes with the early 2000 . music radio stations in my town that play what people would consider classics still only play people such as Michael Jackson Prince Madonna top 40 radio stations here concentrate on basically 10 artistswhen there are 100 songs week-to-week on a chartand then the rest of you will go and say streaming as what showing what's popular well streaming is showing me that people only tend to listen to the same 10 songs maybe radio isn't playing but it's the 10 songs for the next 8 months to a yearthat I don't understand when there's so much new music released all the time for people to continually listen to the same exact song or artist over and over and over when there are millions new artist to discover as another person had mentioned but it proves that people aren't discovering these new artists and if they are they don't like them because the songs are not being streamed and they're not charting the way it was when we had soundscan tracking sales.I'm always going to have an opinion on the music charts understand nobody or some will not have the same opinion as myself.

[godjanny]

Jun 12, 2016 16:55:01 GMT -5 @broccoli said:

^ I think you're going to run into the same feedback with your posts - at least from me. Variety still exists on the charts, and if you look back there are charts where certain artists had more than one song in the top 10 in the 80s. Looking at one top 10 at a time isn't representative of anything, really.  Things moved faster on the charts then, so that makes it seem like the 80s wasn't as "bad".  But it really wasn't much different in terms of dominant artists, just faster paced on the charts.

I also don't think songs of today have the same feel as songs from 30 years ago for the simple reason that they don't have 30 years of aging and nostalgia on their side. It takes time and sometimes feelings change about songs as time passes.  Songs I didn't particularly care for in the 80s are now pretty good simply for their nostalgia.

My dad said the same thing about "feeling for the younger generation" in the 80s, so that comment isn't anything surprising. It's typical. But I can assure you, most of today's generation are totally fine with today's songs. It's all about point of reference, and of course our own seems better. 80s music is still available and all over the radio so i'm sure today's generation have songs they enjoy, just like we had songs from the 60s and 70s that we enjoyed in the 80s. 

I say all this as someone who I think is around your age and was very much a part of the entire 80s decade of music.  There's a whiff of superiority mixed with negativity in your posts and it doesn't smell very good, as honest as you're trying to be.

That's already happening to me with 2014 music!

[carreramd]

Wasn't Into You sent to radio?

[Dylan :)]

Jun 13, 2016 4:33:25 GMT -5 carreramd said:

Wasn't Into You sent to radio?

Not yet

[carreramd]

Jun 13, 2016 4:48:44 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Jun 13, 2016 4:33:25 GMT -5 carreramd said:

Wasn't Into You sent to radio?

Not yet

Thanks. But why? Is there a reason?

[Dylan :)]

Jun 13, 2016 4:49:57 GMT -5 carreramd said:

Jun 13, 2016 4:48:44 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Not yet

Thanks. But why? Is there a reason?

Probably because of Dangerous Woman getting a second wind on CHR. It'll be pushed when that's done, more than likely.

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I hope it gets done soon. I don't think it's a bad song, but I've been hearing it wayyyyyyyyyy too much to the point of it burning out on me. Time to move on plz :(

[carreramd]

Jun 13, 2016 4:51:57 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Jun 13, 2016 4:49:57 GMT -5 carreramd said:

Thanks. But why? Is there a reason?

Probably because of Dangerous Woman getting a second wind on CHR. It'll be pushed when that's done, more than likely.

Makes sense. But if it takes too long, it can hurt the performance of Into You, right?

[Old-school 72]

To the topic of Dangerous woman. Because it got a second wind the label and radio may ruin the chance of Into you underperforming. It goes with what I was saying earlier how people hold onto a song for so long these days that the majority of the public misses out on the follow up. Artists tend to have a newer song the label decides to release that isn't on the current album and end up re-releasing with one or two new tracks. For the physical buying public , this is most irritating. Stop focusing on one song that peaked and promote the next.

[jebsib]

The music industry is a money generating business: Radio hangs onto songs because the audience demands it. If ratings slide, they will introduce newer songs with more gusto. Most radio listeners are not as ravenous as we are.

westlife4eva, I feel your pain, but were you listening to radio in the mid 1990s when Celine would release only two singles from an album a year? Or when there were only 7 #1s in 12 months? Or when a radio #1 could last 18 weeks? This is nothing new, and if anything, the mold for today's radio climate was created decades ago.

It was GREAT for me in the 80s to have an explosion of new songs released (and played!) every week, and when superstar releases were followed up every 11 weeks, but clearly it wasn't working with U.S. Radio. Which led to the Top 40 / CHR implosion of 1991.

[Dylan :)]

Jun 13, 2016 7:16:19 GMT -5 carreramd said:

Jun 13, 2016 4:51:57 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Probably because of Dangerous Woman getting a second wind on CHR. It'll be pushed when that's done, more than likely.

Makes sense. But if it takes too long, it can hurt the performance of Into You, right?

Doubt it. IY is nearly top 50 on CHR w/out an adds date, is holding well on iTunes and increasing on Spotify. Should take off when DW is done.

How is Dangerous Woman hanging on forever? It's been out what, 3 months? 4?

[carreramd]

Jun 13, 2016 8:39:17 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Jun 13, 2016 7:16:19 GMT -5 carreramd said:

Makes sense. But if it takes too long, it can hurt the performance of Into You, right?

Doubt it. IY is nearly top 50 on CHR w/out an adds date, is holding well on iTunes and increasing on Spotify. Should take off when DW is done.

How is Dangerous Woman hanging on forever? It's been out what, 3 months? 4?

Yes... I think the release of the album helped the single.

[felipe]

Jun 10, 2016 8:40:12 GMT -5 @broccoli said:

Side note:  Once pop music became sexified - most prominently in the 80s I'd say - the game changed forever. So Madonna's influence and/or the movement she helped push forward also may have helped create this expectation of youth and sex appeal.... which is now working against her no matter how hard she tries to stay youthful.  It's kinda interesting.  However, she's also a champion for doing what you want and not letting people tell you that you can't, regardless of age, gender, etc, and THAT along with her abilities and talent is what I think has gotten her this far, much more than sex appeal.  She's defied the odds and the naysayers in so many ways.  Repeatedly.

Is she though? Didn't she get amassive backlash for her Erotica album and then came back singing ballads (and fully clothed)? Didn't she change her sounf often to jump on current trends?
A lot of times the line seems blurred between what she wanted to do and what she needed to do to remain relevant. It's hard to know if she's doing what she really wants right now or if her current sound, outfits, attitude are what she believes she must do to get people to talk about her.

[Deleted]

Jun 13, 2016 9:18:39 GMT -5 felipe said:

Jun 10, 2016 8:40:12 GMT -5 @broccoli said:

Side note:  Once pop music became sexified - most prominently in the 80s I'd say - the game changed forever. So Madonna's influence and/or the movement she helped push forward also may have helped create this expectation of youth and sex appeal.... which is now working against her no matter how hard she tries to stay youthful.  It's kinda interesting.  However, she's also a champion for doing what you want and not letting people tell you that you can't, regardless of age, gender, etc, and THAT along with her abilities and talent is what I think has gotten her this far, much more than sex appeal.  She's defied the odds and the naysayers in so many ways.  Repeatedly.

Is she though? Didn't she get amassive backlash for her Erotica album and then came back singing ballads (and fully clothed)? Didn't she change her sounf often to jump on current trends?
A lot of times the line seems blurred between what she wanted to do and what she needed to do to remain relevant. It's hard to know if she's doing what she really wants right now or if her current sound, outfits, attitude are what she believes she must do to get people to talk about her.

This is off topic for this thread, so I'll just say that if you want to discuss this further, head over to the Madonna artist discussion.  I take responsibility for that added off-topic side note to a larger post which triggered a few of us to wanna talk about sexification and/or Madonna in more detail.  It was really just an off-the-cuff tangent after the post I was replying to got me thinking.  

[Deleted]

Jun 13, 2016 7:28:51 GMT -5 Old-school 72 said:

To the topic of Dangerous woman. Because it got a second wind the label and radio may ruin the chance of Into you underperforming. It goes with what I was saying earlier how people hold onto a song for so long these days that the majority of the public misses out on the follow up. Artists tend to have a newer song the label decides to release that isn't on the current album and end up re-releasing with one or two new tracks. For the physical buying public , this is most irritating. Stop focusing on one song that peaked and promote the next.

Dangerous Woman is still fairly young with 12 weeks on the Hot 100.  I think her label was concerned with radio bailing on DW and they wanted to get Into You out there as a quick follow up - mostly because the album was coming out and releasing another song/video is beneficial to opening week.

For comparison's sake, I think Company by Justin got overshadowed by 2 songs that were still huge on the radio... but I also think it just wasn't a strong single to begin with.  Into You is a smash, and I don't think its success will be hindered by its premature (or however we want to refer to it) release.

[Deleted]

Jun 12, 2016 21:41:22 GMT -5 Old-school 72 said:

okay I get what you're saying what I'm trying to get across and 1 poster did mention the charts more fast-paced in the eighties. that's why I have such a problem with today's chartssong stick around way too long I don't get how anyone can not want to move on to the next song by an artist.songs lasting 50 60 70 weeks on the chart is a little annoying to say the least.I have older siblings who would disagree with what you were saying about sixties music.if you look at the charts today with people like Drake and Rihanna taking up two or three spots on the top 10 many weeks at a time shows that is not very diverse.very few artists in the eighties ever managed to have 2 songs moving up at the same time and sticking around for more weeks then 10 or 15. most artists had a new song moving up the top 40 as the previous single was falling and most likely only had one or two weeks left.in 1989 is the only charts that I can find an artist had more than 1 song movin up or in the top 10 at the same time that was new kids on the block. throughout the nineties growing up in my twenties I can look back and very few of those songs do I ever hear on radio that were number ones.right now the nineties music is the hipsters music because that is the stuff that when they were bornand I don't see any of them any of those songs on their phones or streaming at the houses I work with a lot of 90s kidsand all they care about is what's out there right now and what's going to be out 10 minutes from now. this also goes with the early 2000 . music radio stations in my town that play what people would consider classics still only play people such as Michael Jackson Prince Madonna top 40 radio stations here concentrate on basically 10 artistswhen there are 100 songs week-to-week on a chartand then the rest of you will go and say streaming as what showing what's popular well streaming is showing me that people only tend to listen to the same 10 songs maybe radio isn't playing but it's the 10 songs for the next 8 months to a yearthat I don't understand when there's so much new music released all the time for people to continually listen to the same exact song or artist over and over and over when there are millions new artist to discover as another person had mentioned but it proves that people aren't discovering these new artists and if they are they don't like them because the songs are not being streamed and they're not charting the way it was when we had soundscan tracking sales.I'm always going to have an opinion on the music charts understand nobody or some will not have the same opinion as myself.

The charts in the 80s were skewed and relatively inaccurate - due to the way the data was obtained.  If Soundscan and BDS had existed then, this whole thing about things lingering too long wouldn't be as prominent in contrast to now because the charts would've had slower turnover like they have since BDS/SS were introduced. I think people have always clung to certain songs for varying amounts of time - sometimes long amounts of time - that's nothing new.  The charts in the 80s simply didn't reflect this as much as they do now for reasons I just stated.

There's more than one example of artists with multiple songs in the top 10 at the same time in the 80s.  The digital era has just made it infinitely more possible for artists to chart multiple songs at the same time.  It is what it is.  Every era has its own unique features and limitations, etc.   It's one thing to prefer the 80s... but it's another to use untruths and generalizations to try and somehow prove the 80s were better.

As for opinions - yeah we all have them and we don't all agree.  But when we say things that aren't true to justify our opinions - especially so steadfastly and frequently in a music forum - we're gonna spark conversation and get feedback from others.  What we do with said feedback is entirely on us.  Sometimes we can see things a different way, and sometimes we are more focused on standing by our own opinions no matter what anyone else has to say.  

[badrobot]

Jun 13, 2016 9:18:39 GMT -5 felipe said:

Jun 10, 2016 8:40:12 GMT -5 @broccoli said:

Side note:  Once pop music became sexified - most prominently in the 80s I'd say - the game changed forever. So Madonna's influence and/or the movement she helped push forward also may have helped create this expectation of youth and sex appeal.... which is now working against her no matter how hard she tries to stay youthful.  It's kinda interesting.  However, she's also a champion for doing what you want and not letting people tell you that you can't, regardless of age, gender, etc, and THAT along with her abilities and talent is what I think has gotten her this far, much more than sex appeal.  She's defied the odds and the naysayers in so many ways.  Repeatedly.

Is she though? Didn't she get amassive backlash for her Erotica album and then came back singing ballads (and fully clothed)? Didn't she change her sounf often to jump on current trends?
A lot of times the line seems blurred between what she wanted to do and what she needed to do to remain relevant. It's hard to know if she's doing what she really wants right now or if her current sound, outfits, attitude are what she believes she must do to get people to talk about her.

Well, she also followed that up with a trippy Bjork-written song that featured a video where she gave birth to doves and had mouths for eyes. And then followed THAT up with a single where the chorus was "I'm not your bitch don't hang your shit on me."

Regarding the other conversation going on here... what I don't get is the need for some people to feel that the charts must reflect their preference. If there is good music out there, it shouldn't really matter if it's in the top ten or not, as long as you can listen to it.

It certainly is NICE when there is an overlap of something you genuinely love and the world seems to love too, but if not liking what's in the Hot 100 top ten is enough to sour your mood constantly, you're probably putting way too much emphasis on other people's tastes instead of just enjoying what you love.

[forg]

Jun 12, 2016 9:44:37 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Jun 12, 2016 8:12:12 GMT -5 forg said:

Considering the movie didn't do well in the box office, Just Like Fire is doing so well, Pink's chart run is so impressive

Most songs don't have a movie tied to them, so not sure why the song would only be expected to do well if the movie was a hit.

A movie doing well could even boost a soundtrack song even more just like See You Again, Love Me Like You Do and Earned It last year but anyway this just show the strength of the song and Pink herself

[forg]

Ride and Me Too in the iTunes top 10 now,let's see if they can go even strong in the coming weeks. Would love to see Twenty One Pilots get another top 10 and Meghan Trainor needs Me Too to be a hit after the quick drop of No to keep her era afloat

[Old-school 72]

This is for broccoli . Please stop telling me that what I write is false. Please enlighten me with 5 top 10 charts in the 80s that had an artist with two songs in the top 10. And you can't use the Nkotb charts in 1989.