Nickelback - "Burn It To The Ground"

[(Artie Ziff)]

That is quite the understatement.

[lockebox]

Hardly. "ITWYLD" flopped hard. "Gotta Be Somebody" barely scraped into the top 10 on both formats. OK, "SIYM" reached top spot on Active, but failed to get into the top 20 in Alternative. This will probably stay top 5 on Active for awhile, but I doubt it's gonna do that well on Alt.

[pen]

"If Today Was Your Last Day" was mostly a pop single and did well there, and Alternative is not Nickelback's core format. They've done extremely well this era so far as far as singles go. All three of their Active singles have done well and as you said, "Gotta Be Somebody" did reach Top 10 on Alternative, as well as Pop, making it another hit on that format.

[Cody]

GBS didnt hit the pop top 10, but it was a HAC #1, not really a flop at all

[pen]

I said pop but meant Hot AC, when really I probably should have just said crap.

[Ron57]

Jul 14, 2009 17:29:21 GMT -5 Cody said:

GBS didnt hit the pop top 10, but it was a HAC #1, not really a flop at all

pop top flop.
Hahahaha.

[(Artie Ziff)]

All of their singles have charted well somewhere.

[singingsparrow]

This era, Nickelback will quite likely have a better singles era overall on Active Rock compared to "All The Right Reasons", because "Dark Horse" essentially has more muscle and grit to its sound overall and, because all the heavier songs minus "Just To Get High" are centered around the hot topics pervading the format presently..............sex and drinking.............they will clearly deliver.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

[metalfan87]

I don't know if u guys noticed, but S.E.X. is getting spins right now

[Jorge_Str [Som3on3]]

now that there is a new billboard...i can't find any mainstream rock chart...instead, there is a rock songs chart, burn it to the ground is at #12

[lockebox]

Ah, I was having the same problem until I upon chance found the Mainstream Rock chart. Only the top 10 was available for viewing though. Is pretty annoying, the new website seems to have a few faults n' bugs.

[PHOBES]

Well...let the combining of formats begin.

[metalfan87]

Jul 24, 2009 12:19:50 GMT -5 lockebox said:

Ah, I was having the same problem until I upon chance found the Mainstream Rock chart. Only the top 10 was available for viewing though. Is pretty annoying, the new website seems to have a few faults n' bugs.

where did u find it?

[lockebox]

Was a pretty unorthodox way if I recall. I went to an artists page, can't remember who it was. May of been Linkin Park or Halestorm. Really can't remember. Anyway I clicked on their chart history and then strolled down to their Alternative Rock chart history, where it should say also charted on *Rock Chart*. I clicked on that and there was the top 10. I'm sure there's a more practical way of finding the chart, but there we go.

[metalfan87]

thanks, locke

[Jorge_Str [Som3on3]]

the only chart i can find is not "rock chart", but "rock songs"...and it's not the mainstream rock chart

[metalfan87]

that's what I saw. Everything's ruined since the newly-designed Billboard site came.

[lockebox]

The Veer Union is the artist I put in. Upon checking again, this is actually the Mainstream Rock chart published a good few weeks ago. And if you then click on to next weeks chart, it goes back to the newly merged rock chart.

Apparently, the Mainstream Rock was to be renamed Active Rock on Billboard, whilst also introducing a new "Heritage Rock" chart. These however appear to be missing. The site is in disarray at the moment.

[metalfan87]

maybe these new charts will be introduced next week.

[Jorge_Str [Som3on3]]

Jul 24, 2009 18:04:32 GMT -5 @metalfan87 said:

maybe these new charts will be introduced next week.

i hope so

[lockebox]

Well, here's the chart I found...

www.billboard.com/#/charts/rock-songs?chartDate=2009-07-18

Is definitley the Mainstream Rock Chart, but is a couple of weeks old I believe.
As far as i'm aware there has been no plans to merge the charts, only rename. If you remember Billboard took a few weeks to apply the name "Alternative Tracks" despite the new name being introduced prior to them changing the name.
This is probably the same situation. The chart should come into play next week or the week after, along with the other new rock chart.

[Cody]

yes and if you advance the weeks it turns into the new rock songs chart. Im starting to think the mainstream rock tracks chart is now just a combined rock format chart, something Im actually a huge fan of

[lockebox]

Well, the new rock charts should apparently debut in the upcoming weeks. If they were to merge the charts then I don't know why the Alternative chart would stay, whilst the Active chart would fall by the wayside. Wouldn't make sense, both have to go if they wanna go down that route.

[metalfan87]

someone told me they will run every other week

[lockebox]

And here is this weeks Mainstream Rock Chart. "Burn It to the Ground" is at #5.

www.billboardmagazine.com/bbcom/charts/genre_index.jsp

[metalfan87]

Jul 31, 2009 9:44:56 GMT -5 lockebox said:

And here is this weeks Mainstream Rock Chart. "Burn It to the Ground" is at #5.

www.billboardmagazine.com/bbcom/charts/genre_index.jsp

I looked it up and I was happy. Now we're gonna see if the new Active Rock chart come out next week

[lockebox]

Thats already out apparently, but it's only viewable through billboard.biz.

[Jorge_Str [Som3on3]]

do you mean that actually, there are 2 websites now?
www.billboard.com and www.billboardmagazine.com
well, if u can see all charts from billboardmagazine.com then billboard.com is useless

[Ragin]

Well I think #5 on Active is pretty good following up a #1. Do they have any more in them for this format? That is the question, because if they don't, their album sales will start sinking, fast.

[mcbrearty]

I think they do. I'd go with "Just To Get High" or "Shakin' Hands".