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Post by plankton5165 on Mar 24, 2021 10:54:45 GMT -5
Am I the only person who thinks the multiplier should be higher in 2021?
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Post by jenglisbe on Mar 24, 2021 11:10:51 GMT -5
What is the difference in higher and lower? I don't know the correct terminology, but I think the formula needs to be adjusted to account for these longer runs in 2021. Does that mean a higher multiplier?
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Post by plankton5165 on Mar 24, 2021 11:18:31 GMT -5
No, that would mean a shorter multiplier.
Most of the highest peaking songs don't stay in the top 10 for long at all and there aren't many songs past the cutoff for previous decade-ends.
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Post by phieaglesfan712 on Mar 24, 2021 11:52:29 GMT -5
You’ll be rethinking this when Mood ends up #3 on the all-time list. If anything, the multiplier should be lowered. If any multiplier is low, it’s that 2014-18 period. Why the multiplier was lowered for the period that brought us Uptown Funk, Shape of You, Despacito, Perfect, and God’s Plan, I will never understand. If anything deserves to be bumped up to a 0.9 multiplier, it’s that era, not this weak era of 2021.
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Post by plankton5165 on Mar 24, 2021 16:00:43 GMT -5
You’ll be rethinking this when Mood ends up #3 on the all-time list. Not likely. 2020 is the year tied for the fourth lowest top 10 weeks spent by top 3 hits, only ahead of 1965, 1966, and 1992. It's tied with 1963. This is guaranteed to remain the case even if Mood is the #3 hit of all-time. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Mar 25, 2021 14:09:40 GMT -5
You’ll be rethinking this when Mood ends up #3 on the all-time list. Not likely. 2020 is the year tied for the fourth lowest top 10 weeks spent by top 3 hits, only ahead of 1965, 1966, and 1992. It's tied with 1963. This is guaranteed to remain the case even if Mood is the #3 hit of all-time. What about for top 10 hits? |
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Post by plankton5165 on Mar 25, 2021 21:21:13 GMT -5
Not likely. 2020 is the year tied for the fourth lowest top 10 weeks spent by top 3 hits, only ahead of 1965, 1966, and 1992. It's tied with 1963. This is guaranteed to remain the case even if Mood is the #3 hit of all-time. What about for top 10 hits? Currently 2020 actually has the lowest in history, followed by 2018. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Mar 27, 2021 14:59:15 GMT -5
What about for top 10 hits? Currently 2020 actually has the lowest in history, followed by 2018. 2020 has the lowest average weeks in the top 10 ever? That doesn't make any sense when songs used to only spend a few weeks in the top 10. 2020 had "Blinding Lights," "Circles," "The Box," etc spending months in the top 10. What was the average? |
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Post by plankton5165 on Mar 27, 2021 15:48:17 GMT -5
Right now, it's 7.96. I meant it has the lowest average weeks in the top 10 times its most used multiplier, which is 6.766.
Many songs were only in the top 10 for one or two weeks, some of them peaking at either #1 or #2.
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Post by jenglisbe on Mar 30, 2021 7:44:31 GMT -5
Right now, it's 7.96. I meant it has the lowest average weeks in the top 10 times its most used multiplier, which is 6.766. Many songs were only in the top 10 for one or two weeks, some of them peaking at either #1 or #2. Well 2020 is odd because there was the occasional #1 debut that then fell fast, but it also has songs like "Circles," "The Box," "Blinding Lights," "Mood," "Rockstar," "Positions," etc that have hung around the top 10 for months. In a general sense songs now have more longevity than they did in, say, the 1980s. That's why I look at more than just songs from the top 2 or whatever. It's about the collective. What is the average number of charted weeks for songs in the top 10 now versus previous times? It's very clear that all of the songs with the most weeks in the top 10 are from the past few years. |
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Post by plankton5165 on Mar 30, 2021 14:48:36 GMT -5
Right now, it's 7.96. I meant it has the lowest average weeks in the top 10 times its most used multiplier, which is 6.766. Many songs were only in the top 10 for one or two weeks, some of them peaking at either #1 or #2. What is the average number of charted weeks for songs in the top 10 now versus previous times? What exactly do you mean by that? |
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Post by Choco on Apr 5, 2021 18:29:41 GMT -5
You’ll be rethinking this when Mood ends up #3 on the all-time list. Oh no. Drop that multiplier thing ASAP pls. ("Mood" is a fun song but come on lol) |
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 5, 2021 19:59:39 GMT -5
What is the average number of charted weeks for songs in the top 10 now versus previous times? What exactly do you mean by that? I'm not sure how else to ask. I am asking what the average length of time songs spend in the top 10 now is compared to other years/decades. |
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Post by plankton5165 on Apr 6, 2021 17:14:55 GMT -5
1958-1969 - 5.05
1970s - 5.62
1980s - 5.57
1990s - 8.31
2000s - 9.89
2010s - 10.29
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Post by irice22 on Apr 7, 2021 20:57:03 GMT -5
What is a multiplier? I'm lost
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 7, 2021 22:09:35 GMT -5
1958-1969 - 5.05 1970s - 5.62 1980s - 5.57 1990s - 8.31 2000s - 9.89 2010s - 10.29 Thanks. So, yeah, we can easily see that when Soundscan was introduced songs stayed in the top 10 a lot longer. And now in the streaming era they are staying around even longer. This is more of my point about the multiplier. Songs are literally sticking around the top 10 twice as long as they were in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. |
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