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Post by Gary on May 18, 2020 14:46:59 GMT -5
Why does a song need to be on the radio to chart this high? - Lyrics - below - not radio friendly anyway - LOL The Pulse censors have done some editing too  GOOBA 6ix9ine Produced by Payday & Jahnei Clarke Album 692* [Chorus] I tell a ***I'M RACIST*** don't dick ride, don't blick ride Leave it to the double thick thighs, twin sisters Drop it down and wobble, wobble up, mami booted up She get down and gobble, gobble up 'cause my money up Slide, slide in the Bentley truck-a, the Wraith truck-a Your bestie is a dick sucker, I big dub her As-salama-lama alaykum, you big hater You nothin' but a hater, hater, clout chaser [Verse 1] Now we catch him at the chicken spot, up a couple chops Pop that ***I'M RACIST*** with a hundred shots, ra-ta-ta-ta-ta DayDay made that ***I'M RACIST*** Diddy Bop, cha-cha-cha-cha-cha He thought we was gon' knuckle up, bitch, I don't box And these ***I'M RACIST***s always talkin' s**t, yadda-yadda-ya When you see me, what you talkin' 'bout, f**k you talkin' 'bout? ***I'M RACIST***s always wanna chase clout, bitch, I am clout Tell 'em get up out my face now 'fore I grrt Are you dumb, stupid, or dumb, huh? Play me like a dummy, like bitch, are you dumb? Are you dumb, stupid, or dumb, huh? Yeah, you got some money, but you still f**kin' ugly Stupid, listen When I talk, you better listen We can make him dance, bachata Slide over, do the cha-cha Grrt, bah-bah Make a ***I'M RACIST*** go adios Dímelo, mami Fresca, you nasty Flame up, light it They see me and get excited Two step, spin around, so fly, pilot They sick, been hot way before Coronavirus ***I'M RACIST***, who did that? ***I'M RACIST***, who did what? ***I'M RACIST***, that's my s**t, don't bite it [Chorus] I tell a ***I'M RACIST*** don't dick ride, don't blick ride Leave it to the double thick thighs, twin sisters Drop it down and wobble, wobble up, mami booted up She get down and gobble, gobble up 'cause my money up Slide, slide in the Bentley truck-a, the Wraith truck-a Your bestie is a dick sucker, I big dub her As-salama-lama alaykum, you big hater You nothin' but a hater, hater, clout chaser [Verse 2] You're mad I'm back, big mad He's mad, she's mad, big sad Haha, don't care, stay mad Ah-hah, ah-hah, ah-hah Haha, bitch, I'm laughin' 'cause you big mad See it in your face, cry baby, bitch, you big sad ***I'M RACIST***s tweetin' bout me, got me trendin', bitch, you big sad Tell me how I ratted, came home to a big bag [Outro] (Jah, ayy, you know that boy) |
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Post by fridayteenage on May 18, 2020 14:47:25 GMT -5
In transition years, it appears it was once a year when the top seller outsold #2 and #3 combined yet charted below T2:
2014: Problem 438k vs. 396 for #2/3 sellers
2015: Drag Me Down 350k vs. 263 2/3
2016: I Don’t Wanna Live Forever 188k vs. 133 2/3
2017: Sign of the Times 142k vs. 139 2/3
Problem and I Don't Wanna Live Forever later peaked at #2 though.
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Post by iggyamo on May 18, 2020 14:49:30 GMT -5
The SWU 'tactics' that upset some chart watchers are completely irrelevant this week because no one was 'robbed' since Say So already hit #1... It’s just annoying that you can do that to the chart, also I’m pretty confident they spent more money on campaigning than money raised for charity. |
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Post by iggyamo on May 18, 2020 14:52:47 GMT -5
When the #3 song outstreamed the #2 & #1 song combined....
Sure, 6ix9ine missing #1 is funny/a kii but the song not even being top 2 does say more about Billboard's formula at the moment. I don't even think there was remotely a situation in the digital era where a song could outsell the #1+#2 combined and not top 2.
That's literally like a song selling 500k and debuting #3 behind two songs that sold 225k. Well, I'm the opposite, I think a song that is in the top 3, literally the 3rd most popular song in the country, isn't even on the radio, makes no sense. Also who the **** is listening to radio rn, almost no one is driving and that’s pretty much the only time people do. The radio is basically a promotional tool anyways, and if we’re allowing promotional tools, why not allow YouTube commercials or just normal commercials. |
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Post by tanooki on May 18, 2020 14:55:37 GMT -5
you're insane if you really think any song was heard 114,500,000 times on the radio in the United States during a national pandemic where radio numbers are down at a tremendous rate, I mean take a look at this, look at the drops in audience between March and April:  |
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Post by wayneashleymusic on May 18, 2020 14:56:17 GMT -5
http://instagr.am/p/CAV170sFE_P All hail the D-I-V-A!!!!! But for real... God bless Ariana after everything she's been through. When she says that you gotta be thankful to even be here, it's the Dammn truth. Ask her fans in Manchester. |
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Post by kalmanta on May 18, 2020 15:00:27 GMT -5
SWU is gonna go 100k sales -> 10k this week. That‘s f**ked up and is killing a lot of enthusiasm for chart tracking. Would you rather the chart be less accurate tho Less accurate of what? Certainly not what‘s popular. They way the sales metric has been abused lately to picture false realities, there has to be done something against it. |
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Post by iHype. on May 18, 2020 15:10:47 GMT -5
She get down and gobble, gobble up 'cause my money up Your bestie is a dick sucker, I big dub her As-salama-lama alaykum, you big hater See it in your face, cry baby, bitch, you big sad Never thought I'd quote a Gary post with this content ma'am. |
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Post by kimberly on May 18, 2020 15:11:04 GMT -5
I think we should also remember that the vast majority of GAARBAGE streams come from YouTube. The song itself did worse than "Say So" and "Stuck With U" on Spotify & barely better than them on Apple. Those paid audio streams are weighed more than kids and pre-teens watching it on YouTube It's funny how you're using 300k (SWU) and 100k (SS) streaming gap on Spotify (25-35% streams are coming from the free/ad-supported tier) and saying that Gooba barely beat both songs on AM when it was either #1 or #2 the entire week and SWU never got close to the top 3. SWU was #5-11 throughout the week. I don’t exactly know how far apart they were but it’s not far, considering Gooba was #2 all week (I don’t think it ever got to #1, did it? maybe for 1 day). And did I say SWU beat Gooba by a large margin? can you read? it got about 300k more streams iirc on spotify. not much, but tells us something. |
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Post by Gary on May 18, 2020 15:13:27 GMT -5
She get down and gobble, gobble up 'cause my money up Your bestie is a dick sucker, I big dub her As-salama-lama alaykum, you big hater See it in your face, cry baby, bitch, you big sad Never thought I'd quote a Gary post with this content ma'am. Lol congrats. |
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Post by fhas on May 18, 2020 15:18:40 GMT -5
It's funny how you're using 300k (SWU) and 100k (SS) streaming gap on Spotify (25-35% streams are coming from the free/ad-supported tier) and saying that Gooba barely beat both songs on AM when it was either #1 or #2 the entire week and SWU never got close to the top 3. SWU was #5-11 throughout the week. I don’t exactly know how far apart they were but it’s not far, considering Gooba was #2 all week (I don’t think it ever got to #1, did it? maybe for 1 day). And did I say SWU beat Gooba by a large margin? can you read? it got about 700k more streams iirc on spotify. not much, but tells us something. can you count? 9,873,515 - 9,557,313 = 316k (this is barely beating...) and Gooba was #1 for 1-2 days on AM (#2 on AM is ~10M for the week --- ~#5-11 on AM is not really close to that) so... be fair when using excuses for the songs you like... Bye. |
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Post by gregtwinner on May 18, 2020 15:18:54 GMT -5
Streaming Songs > Hot 100
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Post by GW on May 18, 2020 15:20:52 GMT -5
Would you rather the chart be less accurate tho Less accurate of what? Certainly not what‘s popular. They way the sales metric has been abused lately to picture false realities, there has to be done something against it. The sales metric has been "abused" for decades, if you want to call it abuse. And a song selling 100k is not a "false reality", it actually happened, so it counts. Sales spikes and nosedives are not a new thing. |
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Post by fhas on May 18, 2020 15:24:32 GMT -5
you're insane if you really think any song was heard 114,500,000 times on the radio in the United States during a national pandemic where radio numbers are down at a tremendous rate, I mean take a look at this, look at the drops in audience between March and April: I did the math using these numbers... Blinding Lights audience should've been 70-75M this week. They've it at 114.6M. ~40M airplay = 6.7k Hot 100 points. LMAO. |
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Post by iHype. on May 18, 2020 15:27:29 GMT -5
you're insane if you really think any song was heard 114,500,000 times on the radio in the United States during a national pandemic where radio numbers are down at a tremendous rate, I mean take a look at this, look at the drops in audience between March and April: I did the math using these numbers... Blinding Lights audience should've been 70-75M this week. They've it at 114.6M. ~40M airplay = 6.7k Hot 100 points. LMAO. Compared to January (before any lockdowns and when audience was likely closest to current inflated numbers), all those stations lost 50%~ of their audience actually. That means the biggest songs on radio are only doing 50-60m right now, wow. |
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Post by tanooki on May 18, 2020 15:28:19 GMT -5
you're insane if you really think any song was heard 114,500,000 times on the radio in the United States during a national pandemic where radio numbers are down at a tremendous rate, I mean take a look at this, look at the drops in audience between March and April: I did the math using these numbers... Blinding Lights audience should've been 70-75M this week. They've it at 114.6M. ~40M airplay = 6.7k Hot 100 points. LMAO.  |
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Post by Xander on May 18, 2020 15:29:00 GMT -5
Scooter Braun said that there was investigation on 69’s music video due to the unusual high number of views
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Post by lazer on May 18, 2020 15:29:10 GMT -5
Billboard needs to take a good look at these radio numbers.
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Post by fhas on May 18, 2020 15:29:12 GMT -5
I did the math using these numbers... Blinding Lights audience should've been 70-75M this week. They've it at 114.6M. ~40M airplay = 6.7k Hot 100 points. LMAO. Compared to January (before any lockdowns and when audience was likely closest to current inflated numbers), all those stations lost 50%~ of their audience actually. That means the biggest songs on radio are only doing 50-60m right now, wow. I was using February vs. April and I used multipliers for each format (CHR is the most affected format). |
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Post by Golden Bluebird on May 18, 2020 15:29:47 GMT -5
you're insane if you really think any song was heard 114,500,000 times on the radio in the United States during a national pandemic where radio numbers are down at a tremendous rate, I mean take a look at this, look at the drops in audience between March and April: I did the math using these numbers... Blinding Lights audience should've been 70-75M this week. They've it at 114.6M. ~40M airplay = 6.7k Hot 100 points. LMAO. If Billboard had considered the fact that airplay numbers have dropped since the pandemic hit the US, how do you think the current Top 10 would look like? |
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Post by deepston on May 18, 2020 15:30:08 GMT -5
Ariana really scalped 69 with that post huh. Happy for her to get another #1 and solidify her career. Not so happy it happened with this song and on these terms.
We may never know the true intentions behind releasing the track but the truth is that it might have raised a lot of money and awareness by being catapulted into #1. And that's something that will always deserve praising. I'm happy that she is as passionate as she is and she seems to have her heart in the right place ♥
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Post by fhas on May 18, 2020 15:37:02 GMT -5
I did the math using these numbers... Blinding Lights audience should've been 70-75M this week. They've it at 114.6M. ~40M airplay = 6.7k Hot 100 points. LMAO. If Billboard had considered the fact that airplay numbers have dropped since the pandemic hit the US, how do you think the current Top 10 would look like? 1. SWU, 2. Gooba, 3. Say So, 4. Savage, 5. Blinding Lights, 6. Toosie Slide, 7. Rockstar, 8. The Box, 9. Don't Start Now, 10. The Scotts Also... Circles only at #13. |
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Post by tanooki on May 18, 2020 15:40:15 GMT -5
scooter braun after his plot to buy his own single 30,000 times for that #1 spot actually worked  |
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Post by jenglisbe on May 18, 2020 15:41:38 GMT -5
6ix9ine has no freaking chill. Calm TF DOWN and celebrate everything that your scary ass did achieve. Good move by Ariana and Justin (and that thing that manages them) to donate proceeds of the song SALES to Pandemic Relief. Sorry but I cannot be mad about that. Push your merch, make those sales and help some people. Sure, it's nice that if there were any actual proceeds they will go to charity, but considering they now dropped the push for the charity, it's clear they used the charity angle to help spur momentum for a #1. That's shameless. |
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Post by 𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤 on May 18, 2020 15:42:43 GMT -5
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Post by kierz7 on May 18, 2020 15:43:41 GMT -5
Is 6ix9ine still releasing a new single this Friday?
Watch that debut at number one! ☠️
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Post by chartfreak on May 18, 2020 15:46:15 GMT -5
Well, I'm the opposite, I think a song that is in the top 3, literally the 3rd most popular song in the country, isn't even on the radio, makes no sense. So are you saying that sales are not a measure of popularity? It's a very important factor of popularity. |
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Post by jenglisbe on May 18, 2020 15:47:30 GMT -5
NOT Ariana acting like charts don't matter but then turning around and knowing the exact rule about copies bought! I shouldn't be surprised since they shamelessly used a charity to get the #1. |
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Post by kierz7 on May 18, 2020 15:48:05 GMT -5
Did she just say that sales were more important than streams? I’m confused... I hope she means in the case of this song and context because her first two number ones were products of high streaming. |
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Post by Choco on May 18, 2020 15:49:28 GMT -5
No. She said sales count more than streams which is true (100k sales has way more weight than the same amount on streams).
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