When "Blinding Lights" reaches #1 all-time

[jodakyellow]

What do you think will happen?

(Follow the developments here: pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/189425/billboard-2020s-decade-list-lists?page=21)

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Make that for the 65th Hot 100 anniversary chart. I guess this is probably one of the few times I have posted outside of Chart Discussion.

[rockgolf]

If it gets reported widely I don't see how Billboard can't help but acknowledge it. So if and when it happens, spread the news!

I'm the Toronto area, The Weeknd's hometown,  so I'm passing word to local papers and radio stations. 

[Private Dancer]

Hopefully they change the formula, cause its different eras...

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

^ Why?

Weeks in the top 5:
The Twist 23
Blinding Lights 42

and The Twist is still much bigger

[plankton5165]

If you multiply the numbers:
The Twist - 39
Blinding Lights - 36

[jodakyellow]

Mar 3, 2021 0:06:31 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

Hopefully they change the formula, cause its different eras...

They already account for that.

[kimberly]

I don't expect them to update or acknowledge this until they do another GOAT reveal. If other outlets decide to report based on predictions from fans, I could see that changing, but I am doubtful anyone would report "Oh by the way according to chart geeks that do predictions in their free time, BL is now #1 on Billboard Magazine's all-time chart" like? It'll only be newsworthy when Billboard announces it.

Edit: also that's not a dig at chart-geeks lol we're all on Pulse for a reason

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

I think they'll save it for the next update of the GOAT Chart, or at least wait until "Blinding Lights" finishes its chart run.

[Choco]

They don't talk much about the GOAT chart outside of the few times they update it, so they will not make a huge deal about it for now.

[rockgolf]

I’m thinking that in Toronto it can be a “local boy makes good” story. After all this is the first time this will happen in
almost 60 years.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

You just know if it becomes a news story, people will scoff at the idea that anything from the 80s onward could ever be considered the biggest hit of all time.

[tanooki]

Considering me and rockgolf are independent predictors, our reporting of it will only be shared among certain circles. The GP won't catch on until Billboard reports it in the next GOAT update in 2023

[jodakyellow]

Mar 5, 2021 11:30:47 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

You just know if it becomes a news story, people will scoff at the idea that anything from the 80s onward could ever be considered the biggest hit of all time.

This is why I want them to do a separate version that accounts for a song's radio/sales/streaming while it wasn't on the Hot 100. It would be so interesting to see where songs like "Don't Stop Believing," which were moderate hits in their original chart lives but have had incredible afterlives, end up.

[SPRΞΞ]

Mar 10, 2021 16:48:23 GMT -5 jodakyellow said:

Mar 5, 2021 11:30:47 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

You just know if it becomes a news story, people will scoff at the idea that anything from the 80s onward could ever be considered the biggest hit of all time.

This is why I want them to do a separate version that accounts for a song's radio/sales/streaming while it wasn't on the Hot 100. It would be so interesting to see where songs like "Don't Stop Believing," which were moderate hits in their original chart lives but have had incredible afterlives, end up.

yep, that would be up there. So would Stairway to Heaven and Bitch, I'm Madonna.

[inverse]

Bitch I'm Madonna would definitely not be in that conversation. Lol