This year there was no song of the summer

[iHype.]

Nov 12, 2018 13:28:35 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Nov 12, 2018 9:53:59 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Also, Call Me Maybe never even reached #1 on overall radio, thus discrediting your own argument and the article’s. Guess it wasn’t a “real” Song of the Summer?

Next you’re going to argue over how peaking #2 versus #4 on radio is some huge difference in order to pretend IMF wasn’t undeniably the biggest song of Summer 2018 and for the sake of an entirely arbitrary argument. Lmao.

"Call Me Maybe" hit #1 on Mediabase (Pulse Music's usual frame of reference for radio) and #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart. Where else was it supposed to hit #1 to satisfy your criteria?

It’s not my criteria, as I definitely think CMM and IMF are both strong Songs of their respective Summer’s. As said already, a song doesn’t need to go #1 on every single possible chart the entire Summer to be seen as a “worthy” Song of the Summer. I was pointing out even CMM missed #1 on the radio, despite people discrediting IMF’s power but then applauding a song like CMM.

Both songs went #1 on their specific radio formats, were still large radio hits overall, destroyed Sales/Streams, were insanely viral, and basically everyone knows them and will have specific Summer memories tied to them.

What exactly more do people expect for a Song of the Summer lol

[Choco]

Nov 11, 2018 20:12:32 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Nov 11, 2018 19:58:51 GMT -5 Choco said:

It's probably technically IMF, but it's one of the smaller ones in recent years. It's longevity was pretty poor and the meme made it get old faster than the usual hit, which probably doesn't help it's case... but I guess the numbers still back it up.

Not "guess" or "probably" when the numbers back it up and it was the hottest song this Summer. You can say you didn't like it or you preferred another song, but Songs of the Summer aren't required to last through the Summer into the Fall. One Dance also did 10 weeks at #1 even though it's run started much earlier. By the time the Summer of 2016 was rounding up, it wasn't the #1 song anymore, but even beyond numbers, you knew it was the song that defined the Summer that year. IMF was the song most people played the most during THE SUMMER, which is what matters here. That song was everywhere you went in the US during the Summer. Clubs, radio, BBQ's, blasting out of randoms cars, etc. It did 10 weeks at #1 and came just in time for the Summer. It was enough to reach #1 on Billboard's Song of the Summer chart by the end of the Summer, too and that just further validated it.

Chill. Using numbers, yeah, it is, like I said on my original post. I still feel it didn't have the impact of past "Songs of the Summer", which has always been a very subjective term. 

One of the points made in the article clearly states that the charts are mostly a game of hype and tactics. The Songs of the Summer chart is basically an extension of the Hot 100, and anyone with enough Spotify followers can do well there. It's been a while since a song dominated on all fronts: airplay, streams and (the clearly on it's last legs component of) sales.

[nothingwasthesame]

half this discussion is based on a false premise: IMF peaked at #3 in overall AI

[rimetm]

Regardless of the final outcome, recall how the song of the summer race was progressing as time went on

June: Psycho and Nice for What sparred for the top spot, neither of them getting exceptionally big or consistent points
July: I Like It seems to emerge as the main summer hit and gets some ample time at #1
August: In My Feelings emerges as not just a meme hit and ends up dethroning I Like It at the eleventh hour and by a tight margin

The Songs of the Summer list runs for 14 weeks. In My Feelings was only even around for 7 of those weeks. It didn't feel like the season definer because it wasn't even around for half of it!

[aussie1]

To me I like it seemed like the song of the summer. Even though it didn't have that long run at #1. IMF was huge for a few weeks but it didn't feel as big as I like it in the long run.

[thegreatdivine]

Nov 12, 2018 13:21:00 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Nov 12, 2018 12:01:21 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

I think the biggest reason is that radio is so slow. Lucid Dreams and GLY peaked on sales and streaming during the summer but airplay kicked in later. IMF on the other hand was more polarizing and mediocre callout scores destroyed it. It's not the song's fault really, it's the system and radio's need to control everything.

Maybe the callout was affected by the memes and viral dance challenge that gave it so much buzz? A lot of people probably came to see it as a novelty hit, or got tired of hearing it or about it well before its airplay peaked.

Same thing happened to God's Plan and Nice for What, so, no.