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Post by moonlite on Jul 27, 2019 9:18:54 GMT -5
None of the Chance's album tracks reached 1M on Spotify according to the play count so no bomb there I think, depending on what happens on AM of course. Rick Ross' new is under 2M too even though it's the #3 song on Rap Caviar (Hot Showers is #1 there btw since yesterday evening so that might do better in coming days). Chance released his album around 1 PM EST yesterday so he loss over half a day of tracking. His songs should have a big jump on Spotify tomorrow |
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jul 27, 2019 9:57:56 GMT -5
Only 2 versions of OTR in the Spotify top 200 today.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Jul 27, 2019 11:03:33 GMT -5
None of the Chance's album tracks reached 1M on Spotify according to the play count so no bomb there I think, depending on what happens on AM of course. Rick Ross' new is under 2M too even though it's the #3 song on Rap Caviar (Hot Showers is #1 there btw since yesterday evening so that might do better in coming days). Chance will do much better on his second day. He lost half a day because of his album's late release. For a song that's 5:45 long, features two extensively long, drawn out verses from both Drake and Rick Ross, basically has no chorus and isn't the least bit catchy, debuting with even a million streams on Spotify is a huge deal, not to talk of how well it's doing on Apple Music (for now at least). Gold Roses is an album cut track, not single material. If it debuts even in the top 50 of the Hot 100, it should be seen as a massive success. |
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Post by jodakyellow on Jul 27, 2019 11:47:11 GMT -5
So I heard this OTR dude is making weekly remixes. Who is up for grabs for the 19th week? I read that he said the BTS one would be the last one but who knows! |
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Post by Gary on Jul 27, 2019 12:00:50 GMT -5
Old Town Road’ is a record-breaking, gay-pride-celebrating, America-unifying pop-culture miracle
Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X knew just the way to goose his numbers.
Faced with the task of keeping his country-trap smash “Old Town Road” atop the Hot 100 for a 17th week — at which point the song would set a new record for the longest run at No. 1 in Billboard history — this 20-year-old rapper and singer released a remix on Wednesday night featuring RM of the ultra-popular K-pop group BTS.
Within hours, the track had racked up more than 2 million plays on YouTube, while its cutesy title, “Seoul Town Road,” became an instant trending topic on Twitter.
“I got the homis on my back / Have you heard of that?” RM raps, punning on the name of a traditional Korean farming tool (!), “Homis made of steel / From Korea, they the best.”
As surprising as it was inevitable, the remix was the latest instance of the thoroughly modern — and winningly goofy — gamesmanship that Lil Nas X has used to drive the spread of “Old Town Road,” which first caught on among users of the video-sharing app TikTok before migrating to streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.
Since then he’s made countless memes about the song, released other remixes (with the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus and Young Thug) and convinced Chris Rock to star in a lavish music video that’s been viewed online nearly a quarter of a billion times.
On Monday, Billboard will reveal whether the BTS gambit did enough to push “Old Town Road” past the only two other songs to spend 16 weeks atop the record industry’s most closely watched singles chart: Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day,” from 1995, and “Despacito,” the 2017 Latin-pop juggernaut by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber. (Provided a remix doesn’t stray too far from an original, Billboard combines their streams and downloads in its chart tabulations.)
As much as it’s an artifact of the internet era, though, “Old Town Road” also embodies aspects of a form that long predates YouTube.
It’s a novelty song — and that’s nothing to be ashamed of.
For decades novelty songs have been written off by many as empty confections or cheap provocations; the term — applied to tunes as varied as “Mama Will Bark,” “Gangnam Style,” “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” and any of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s meticulous parodies — suggests that a song is doing only one thing, which is telling a joke, often at the expense of a performer’s artistic dignity.
Self-appointed defenders of serious rock point to novelty songs’ limited shelf life as proof that they don’t (or shouldn’t) matter, as though passing the vaunted test of time is somehow more miraculous than providing somebody with two minutes of joy. There are all sorts of reasons the music business values the career artist over the one-hit wonder, from concert promoters’ economic need for long-touring acts to the inescapable cultural example set by the Beatles.
Yet “Old Town Road” — whose essential 2019-ness is a feature, not a bug — demands that we reconsider these prejudices, beginning with the very meaning of “novelty.”
“Novelty isn’t just about being funny — it’s also about being new,” said Dr. Demento, the veteran radio host known for playing weird and wacky records. “And ‘Old Town Road’ is a very inventive piece of music.”
Built on a track that Lil Nas X bought online for 30 bucks from an unknown producer in the Netherlands, “Old Town Road” combines the rapper’s drawled delivery with a booming beat and an eerie banjo lick sampled from Nine Inch Nails; it’s hardly the first song to blend hip-hop and country, though there’s something about its proportions — the way it carefully balances swagger and whimsy — that feels fresh.
Is there comedy in the song? For sure: “My life is a movie / Bull riding and boobies / Cowboy hat from Gucci / Wrangler on my booty.” Those are funny lines! But they’re also sufficiently well-crafted — as vivid as they are pithy — to make us question our reflexive dismissal of music that makes us laugh.
In books and film and television, comedy these days is regarded as a high art; nobody thinks “Veep” is any less of a creative achievement than “Succession” (which, by the way, is pretty damn hilarious). Yet funny songs are still perceived differently, as though the presence of a joke somehow precludes any further emotional or intellectual impact.
“Old Town Road” clearly shows us that’s not the case. For one thing, the rabid response to the song among young children isn’t really about the song’s deceptively sophisticated humor. All you have to do is watch the viral video of Lil Nas X setting off an elementary school to see that he’s touching other nerves; to these kids, he’s Kurt Cobain tapping into an eternal wellspring of rebellion.
Even older listeners can recognize that “Old Town Road” has taken on a kind of moral weight in the three or four months since it took over pop music. Though the track didn’t arrive as part of the reality show of its creator’s life — a rarity in the modern record industry, in which celebrity narrative rules, and another reason this song qualifies as a novelty — its ascent has drawn welcome attention to Lil Nas X’s identity as both a black man in country music and a gay man in hip-hop.
He may not have consciously inserted those themes into “Old Town Road” — then again, he may have done precisely that — but when we look back at the song years from now it will undoubtedly speak to us of this complicated moment.
Dr. Demento said that’s more typical of novelty songs than folks might assume; he cited “Monster Mash” and what it tells us about Americans’ changing attitudes regarding Halloween in the early 1960s. He also compared Lil Nas X’s views to the subtly progressive politics in stuff by Yankovic and Frank Zappa. (A Lil Nas/Billy Ray ticket wouldn’t be the worst youth-vote grab in 2020.)
“Old Town Road” does boast one formal innovation, the DJ said, which is the Avengers-like frisson Lil Nas X got from inviting Cyrus, himself a one-hit wonder, to team up for the song’s most popular remix — a piece of world-beating art, don’t forget, made for less than 1/10,000,000 of what the suits at Marvel spent on “Avengers: Endgame.” That the two later did another version with Mason Ramsey, known on the internet as the Walmart yodeling kid, shows how deeply Lil Nas X understands his place in pop.
Indeed, what’s been most fun about watching his gloriously improbable ride — as pure a demonstration of music’s democratic system as any in memory — has been how untroubled he’s seemed by “Old Town Road’s” novelty status (even as his excellent “7” EP showcased the real skill underpinning his beginner’s luck).
On Twitter lately he’s been musing cheerfully about the song’s imminent fade, as though he knows it’s unlikely to stick around for long after it claims that 17th week at No. 1.
Dr. Demento, who said “Old Town Road” has led his own countdown for two months, echoed the sentiment.
“My chart isn’t as scientific as the Hot 100,” he said with a chuckle, “but I think it’s going to fall off this month. I’m just kind of computing that now.
“But I hope it breaks the record in Billboard,” he added.
Same.
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Post by Mauricio on Jul 27, 2019 12:03:52 GMT -5
Halsey's "Ghost" has been getting 1.5+ million views worldwide for 3 days :O. Maybe it suddenly starts exploding?
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Post by kacpi on Jul 27, 2019 15:07:53 GMT -5
Halsey's "Ghost" has been getting 1.5+ million views worldwide for 3 days  . Maybe it suddenly starts exploding? Just when I thought this year couldn't get any weirder... It'd be great! |
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jul 27, 2019 15:09:09 GMT -5
Billboard needs to just spare us the think pieces on "Old Town Road" now. Just report the numbers and move along.
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Post by kimberly on Jul 27, 2019 15:13:05 GMT -5
Halsey's "Ghost" has been getting 1.5+ million views worldwide for 3 days . Maybe it suddenly starts exploding? Bon Appetit part 2? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2019 15:18:22 GMT -5
The OTR original and main remix singles are no longer available. They switched those with the album versions. Maybe that's why it wasnt included on Spotify chart.
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Post by kimberly on Jul 27, 2019 15:20:29 GMT -5
New Ariana Grande coming during/end of this tracking week. (I'm assuming Thursday midnight)
Regardless, OTR probably has 18th week in the bag. Depending on the song, Ariana might be a contender for 8/17 dated chart.
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Post by Gary on Jul 27, 2019 15:20:54 GMT -5
The Lil Wayne remix to OTR has leaked online
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2019 15:23:37 GMT -5
I doubt it. Let's not forget about MONOPOLY.
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Post by gabe on Jul 27, 2019 15:44:11 GMT -5
I doubt it. Let's not forget about MONOPOLY. forget about a track she made as a gift for the fans released on a monday? sit down. whoever your fav is they're not doing as well as her |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2019 15:54:29 GMT -5
I doubt it. Let's not forget about MONOPOLY. forget about a track she made as a gift for the fans released on a monday? sit down. whoever your fav is they're not doing as well as her K |
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Post by jayhawk1117 on Jul 27, 2019 16:40:42 GMT -5
I doubt it. Let's not forget about MONOPOLY. forget about a track she made as a gift for the fans released on a monday? sit down. whoever your fav is they're not doing as well as her what if their fave is Ed Sheeran 🤔 |
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Post by mackattack on Jul 27, 2019 16:46:44 GMT -5
New Ariana Grande coming during/end of this tracking week. (I'm assuming Thursday midnight) Regardless, OTR probably has 18th week in the bag. Depending on the song, Ariana might be a contender for 8/17 dated chart. Is this the Miley/Lana collab? Or something else? She’s off tour for a bit so hopefully she actually promotes this time lol. |
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Post by kimberly on Jul 27, 2019 17:01:01 GMT -5
New Ariana Grande coming during/end of this tracking week. (I'm assuming Thursday midnight) Regardless, OTR probably has 18th week in the bag. Depending on the song, Ariana might be a contender for 8/17 dated chart. Is this the Miley/Lana collab? Or something else? She’s off tour for a bit so hopefully she actually promotes this time lol. It's uncertain, but looks like it might be solo Ariana and maybe not even from the soundtrack. Fans are referring to it as "summer single." We know Social House is somehow involved, and music video was directed by -you guessed it- Hannah Lux Davis. Ariana confirmed on Twitter the song is coming "soon," which means 10 days or less in her lingo with fans (dating back to pre-Sweetener days). http://instagram.com/p/B0Y9W_-Fgr9 |
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Post by kimberly on Jul 27, 2019 17:09:23 GMT -5
I doubt it. Let's not forget about MONOPOLY. MONOPOLY did not do well, correct. That's why I said "maybe" and "depending on" because the song can make or break her streak of official singles. MONOPOLY received no radio push, a crappy, home-movie style music video, and was a gift to the fans for 7 weeks of 7 rings at #1. (It literally says on the single art of MONOPOLY that it's a "thank u to them fans") New song has a Hannah Lux Davis produced music video so it is certainly going to be pushed. I'm sure whether the gp has Ariana fatigue yet or not, so that's important too. We'll see when next tracking week arrives. For the time being, Ariana is off-topic. |
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Post by spicymapping on Jul 27, 2019 17:23:12 GMT -5
don't let ariana grande distract you from the fact that lil fucking tecca is about to seize the number one on spotify
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Post by aussie1 on Jul 27, 2019 18:11:56 GMT -5
The fact that Billy Ray Cyrus, of all acts, is going to have the LONGEST RUNNING Hot 100 number one single of all-time. LMAO. I can’t wait for Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker or Tim McGraw to get a double digit number one next! He won't hold the record for longest running #1 because he wasn't credited in the first week. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Jul 27, 2019 18:45:30 GMT -5
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Post by narp on Jul 27, 2019 18:52:11 GMT -5
Y’all are all gonna drop him after he breaks the record and it’s gonna be good to watch.
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Post by Gary on Jul 27, 2019 18:52:45 GMT -5
Will get a new name in a day or two
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Post by TakeMe on Jul 27, 2019 19:23:56 GMT -5
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Post by Gary on Jul 27, 2019 19:36:49 GMT -5
Y’all are all gonna drop him after he breaks the record and it’s gonna be good to watch. This site dropped him weeks ago but yet.... |
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Post by Choco on Jul 27, 2019 20:01:33 GMT -5
Well, new Ariana looks more likely to take #1 than "bad guy" (sadly seems to have peaked in terms of points last week), "Señorita" (never gonna catch up to OTR on Youtube at this rate), or "Truth Hurts" (could do it next month if it keeps blowing up).
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Post by imbondz on Jul 27, 2019 22:42:45 GMT -5
Maybe we will get an OTR remix from them “Old Town Road” ft. Faith Hill & Shania Twain (Remix). A CONCEPT! Justice for “You’re Still The One” and “Breathe”. Except Breathe ended 2000 as the #1 song of the year on Billboards year end charts. So it had justice already. |
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Post by 𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤 on Jul 28, 2019 5:27:13 GMT -5
don't let ariana grande distract you from the fact that lil f**king tecca is about to seize the number one on spotify Oh my god, he’s going to He’s only a few thousand away |
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Post by narp on Jul 28, 2019 5:45:00 GMT -5
Boy needs to go back to taking his SATs and shit instead of shitty raps
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