Hybrid0NE
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Post by Hybrid0NE on Feb 7, 2005 10:37:48 GMT -5
to keep an album track that have not been serviced as singles from appearing on the Hot 100 and other sales based singles charts? I think it would potentially be a good idea, since album tracks can be purchased individually. Any thoughts?...
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Ky
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Post by Ky on Feb 7, 2005 12:43:03 GMT -5
I think it may not be a bad idea either. I can just picture the first week say an Eminem album comes out seeing several debut on the Hot 100 due to digital sales and radio stations playing the hot songs on the album a few times in that first week.
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Post by bluenote on Feb 7, 2005 12:48:22 GMT -5
to keep an album track that have not been serviced as singles from appearing on the Hot 100 and other sales based singles charts? I think it would potentially be a good idea, since album tracks can be purchased individually. Any thoughts?... the onlyproblem with that is that sone singles are chosen because they took off as album tracks. Some songs take off so well they dont need to be serviced as offical singles when just about ever staiton on the panel is playing it. |
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Post by allow that on Feb 7, 2005 13:11:43 GMT -5
I do like the idea, but there's also a grey line there because if that were the chart policy, then "Lovers and Friends" for instance wouldn't be eligible for the regular Hot 100.
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Post by Matt4319 on Feb 7, 2005 14:30:39 GMT -5
I don't like the idea. If a song with little to no radio airplay is popular enough from just downloads to make the Hot 100, it deserves a spot.
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Post by Pink Champagne Ricochet on Feb 7, 2005 16:48:37 GMT -5
oh yeah...but wouldn't there be other methods to determine whether something is a formal single besides radio, ie. it having a music video or the artist doing the TV show rounds singing it?
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Post by KikiMets on Feb 7, 2005 17:02:34 GMT -5
I don't think that's something that will come up a lot. I would imagine that to chart around #100, a song without airplay would probably need somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 downloads, and I can't see a song that's just an album track garnering that many individual downloads unless it's featured on The OC or another popular TV show.
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WhySoSerious?
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Post by WhySoSerious? on Feb 7, 2005 17:33:50 GMT -5
Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" did sell over 7000 copies a couple of weeks ago thanks to it's inclusion in commercials for 'In Good Company' and its appearance on the soundtrack.
It would have been recurrent though because it already charted in the '70s.
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Post by allow that on Feb 7, 2005 18:30:51 GMT -5
thanks to it's inclusion in commercials for 'In Good Company' Off topic I know, but wow, what a great movie. |
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