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Post by jebsib on Aug 2, 2022 6:49:37 GMT -5
LOL - Why is "Sunroof" #4 on Hot Rock / Alternative Songs?!
Has it made a dent on any Rock airplay chart?
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Post by ephelia on Aug 2, 2022 11:01:24 GMT -5
LOL - Why is "Sunroof" #4 on Hot Rock / Alternative Songs?! Has it made a dent on any Rock airplay chart? It isn't top 50 on any (Active, Alt, or AAA) |
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Post by nathanalbright on Aug 2, 2022 11:42:51 GMT -5
I was going to ask about that as well, not even AAA rip.
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Post by big2000 on Aug 2, 2022 11:55:18 GMT -5
LOL - Why is "Sunroof" #4 on Hot Rock / Alternative Songs?! Has it made a dent on any Rock airplay chart? Apparently it’s been on that chart since February, well before the song took off. |
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Post by 85la on Aug 2, 2022 12:18:46 GMT -5
Can anyone else not see the Hot 100? It doesn't seem to be loading on the website.
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Post by Gary on Aug 2, 2022 12:22:54 GMT -5
It is there
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Post by nathanalbright on Aug 2, 2022 12:37:44 GMT -5
Can anyone else not see the Hot 100? It doesn't seem to be loading on the website. I was looking at it a couple of hours ago when compiling my longevity lists. |
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Post by dragonslair on Aug 2, 2022 12:43:08 GMT -5
Notable Dropouts:
Bad Habits (56 weeks) Flower Shops (26 weeks) We won! At least we don't have to see these songs linger around on the charts any longer. Beyonce will only freshen up the charts further next week. Just head North to feed your nightmares. Bad Habits #24. As It Was continues to block ADT. Sunroof, Bam Bam and Cold Heart all Top 10. Ow yes and Heat Waves as well, with two more charting weeks (82j than the US. |
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Post by phieaglesfan712 on Aug 2, 2022 14:56:46 GMT -5
Look at how consistent Cold Heart is on all 3 metrics. It definitely deserves its place on the Hot 100.
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Post by Gary on Aug 2, 2022 15:03:05 GMT -5
But it is at 47 weeks charting so not exactly fresh --- doesn't the mere presence of a song that old at #29 make the chart less fresh than it could be and therefore should go because it has already had its time?
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Post by M5AGTS on Aug 2, 2022 15:26:31 GMT -5
Honestly, Cold Heart should leave because it's absolute pain to the ears.
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Post by big2000 on Aug 2, 2022 15:30:01 GMT -5
Cold Heart will likely survive Beyoncé album bomb week, but it should go recurrent after September 10th, as it will hit 52 weeks. I’m honestly surprised that it’s still here, considering it hasn’t really been talked about for several months.
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Post by Gary on Aug 2, 2022 15:50:30 GMT -5
‘Running Up That Hill’ Isn’t Just a Viral Revival – It’s Also Becoming One of Radio’s Biggest Hits of the Summer
The 'Stranger Things' viral bump is finally starting to recede for Kate Bush's resurrected hit, but radio is picking up the slack.
BY STEVE KNOPPER
IIn late May – just before influential radio programmer-turned-Spotify exec Kevin Weatherly returned to Los Angeles alt-rock station KROQ after a two-year stretch with Spotify – an old friend, Warner Records’ Mike Chester, called. At that point, thanks to the fourth season of Netflix’ Stranger Things, Kate Bush‘s 1985 single “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” was improbably turning into a contemporary streaming hit. “I know you haven’t started yet,” Chester, the label’s executive vp of commerce and promotion, told Weatherly. “But this is wild. And you’re someone who would get this.”
Weatherly added “Running Up That Hill” to KROQ rotation even before he started his job as the Audacy station’s senior vp of programming. Quickly, other top programmers, including KIIS-FM’s Beata Murphy in Los Angeles, KYLD’s Mark Adams in San Francisco and iHeartMedia’s Mike McCoy in Columbus, Ohio, did the same. Within days, thanks to robust streaming and sales, Bush’s track – which had peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 during its mid-’80s run, reached No. 4 on the chart. The only barrier left for it to become a massive, Harry Styles-level smash, was to cross it over to radio. Chester reported to his boss, Tom Corson, the label’s chairman and COO, and said: “We got one.” He adds, “It was becoming clear that this was bigger than all of us.”
Although the track’s streaming numbers have recently declined – down 12.5% in official U.S. streams since last week, according to Luminate – copious radio airplay has more than compensated for the dip, making “Running Up That Hill” an even bigger hit than it was during the peak of Stranger Things hype in May and June. For the Aug. 6 charts, the track held at No. 3 for a second week on the Hot 100, and climbed from No. 10 to No. 7 on Billboard‘s Radio Songs listing, an increase of 17%, to 48.4 million impressions. The crossover to massive radio success is a rarity for recent viral catalog hits – from Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” on TikTok in 2020 to Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” from The Batman earlier this year to Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” in the same Stranger Things season last month, none of which have made it to Radio Songs this decade – making “Running Up That Hill” a sort of unicorn.
“Somehow we’ve been able to traverse that Stranger Things moment,” Chester says. “It’s transcended and bridged to passive audiences.” Adds Michael Martin, Audacy’s senior vp of programming, as well as program director for pop station Alice@97.3 in San Francisco, which has played the track 1,100 times — more than any other station, according to Luminate — “This is a rarity. This happens few and far between.”
Radio programmers continue to successfully test “Hill” in callout research, in which they play snippets of the song to listeners along with other potential playlist staples. Also, it’s unusually strong on several top radio formats, rising from No. 5 to No. 3 this week on the Alternative Airplay chart, and from No. 10 to No. 8 on the Pop Airplay chart.
“The audience isn’t tired of this thing,” Martin says. “I’ve heard it on pop radio segueing into a Doja Cat record, I’ve heard it on Hot AC segueing into an Ed Sheeran record, and I’ve heard it on alternative segueing into Glass Animals — and it sounds great.”
Like many radio veterans, Tom Poleman, iHeart’s chief programming officer, recalls airing “Running Up That Hill” on rock and alternative stations in the ’80s and ’90s. But the radio activity back then was nothing compared to the last few weeks. “It was a great song to begin with. Sometimes you need a spark to ignite certain songs. You need something to bring it to the surface,” he says. “A lot of things just have to be right for the moment in time. Stranger Things put it in the spotlight and we just jumped on that momentum.” The track, he adds, is in power rotation, or repeat airing, on “a significant portion of our Top 40 stations.”
Although Poleman believes the song is starting to “burn a little bit” after a month and a half, like any contemporary smash that dominates pop culture, Warner’s Chester remains hopeful it’ll still rise to No. 1 on the Hot 100. “It’s got legs,” he says. “It’s not moving anywhere. It moved to power rotation at KIIS-FM. It plays every hour next to Lizzo. Kate Bush is more relevant now than ever.”
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Post by jasper0102 on Aug 2, 2022 17:24:51 GMT -5
^100%. A song this old getting enough of a radio resurgence to make the top 10 definitely feels like the type of achievement Billboard would make a full article on. Called it. |
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Post by jasper0102 on Aug 2, 2022 17:27:28 GMT -5
Also, i think we should all collectively agree to forget Cold Heart’s existence til it hits 52 weeks and it’s haters can rejoice that it’s finally gone, same thing with Shivers.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Aug 2, 2022 23:22:39 GMT -5
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Post by phieaglesfan712 on Aug 3, 2022 7:56:09 GMT -5
Hopefully this will be Heat Waves' last (or nearly last) week in the top 10. Even if it beats Blinding Lights for most weeks on the chart, it's coming nowhere close to its record # of weeks in the top 10 or its overall chart points, so BL's rank as the top hit of all time should be safe for the time being. I really don't see a future where The Twist isn't back at #1. they can't have this many 2019+ songs high on it. They will need to cut the modifier more. It never made any sense for Billboard to raise the multiplier from 0.75 in 2019 to 0.8 in the post-UGC era. OTR’s 1000-point weeks at #1 counting for less points on the all-time chart than Heat Waves and WDTAB’s 200-250 point weeks at #1 is absolutely absurd. Plus, chart runs in 2019 were shorter than the post-UGC era. If anything, the multipliers should be reversed, with 2019 at 0.8 and the post-UGC 0.75, and even then, 2022 should be lower than that. |
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Post by gs on Aug 3, 2022 8:15:37 GMT -5
I really don't see a future where The Twist isn't back at #1. they can't have this many 2019+ songs high on it. They will need to cut the modifier more. It never made any sense for Billboard to raise the multiplier from 0.75 in 2019 to 0.8 in the post-UGC era. OTR’s 1000-point weeks at #1 counting for less points on the all-time chart than Heat Waves and WDTAB’s 200-250 point weeks at #1 is absolutely absurd. Plus, chart runs in 2019 were shorter than the post-UGC era. If anything, the multipliers should be reversed, with 2019 at 0.8 and the post-UGC 0.75, and even then, 2022 should be lower than that. It was obv just done for clout so BL could be the new #1. Consecutive weeks at #1 should be weighed higher as it (usually) indicates a strong #1 (Heat Waves is an exception). Now that average hits are charting forever, the multiplier should be 0.7 or less. |
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Post by nathanalbright on Aug 3, 2022 17:01:26 GMT -5
You would think that BLfan would be in favor of something to help out BL but sometimes the only consistent aspect of reasoning is obstinate inconsistency.
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Post by atg on Aug 3, 2022 17:53:49 GMT -5
I kind of agree that OTR and even Sunflower should’ve been higher on the all time chart while Heat Waves and Stay should obviously be way lower with how weak the overall charts are in 2022. As for BL, while i love it being at #1, i think it truly lands around the 6-20 range at least if the multiplier was a little more accurate in the 2020s.
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Post by Limited Edition on Aug 4, 2022 20:58:10 GMT -5
Blinding Lights deserves to be top 2 on the all-time list. Even after Stay and Heat Waves, they haven't come even close to BL's top 10 record. Also, charts were much stronger and more competitive in the pandemic era in 2020 than in 2022
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