EvanJ
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 9, 2004 13:02:20 GMT -5
The Backstreet Boys plan to come back. How would a Backstreet Boys ballad do on AC? I have heard Backstreet Boys golds on AC recently.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 9, 2004 14:22:07 GMT -5
Well, as of July, 1997, they were on the A/C chart for nearly five consecutive year with one song or other. I think that, if the song was very A/C friendly, it might do well.
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Post by af18c on Apr 10, 2004 11:57:30 GMT -5
AC? Probally pretty good.
Pop? I hope it floooopppps!
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Post by JCMF3 on Apr 11, 2004 8:42:46 GMT -5
I think the hype of a new ballad alone could get it into the top 20 on the AC chart. I just hope they don't go the rout of All-4-One on AC and score just minor hits. I think that BSB is more talented than that though and can (hopefully) score more top 10s on that format.
And as far as pop is concerned, I am hoping that the latest trends in moving pop songs up the chart (e.g., With You, Toxic, Bounce) will help BSB on that format too.
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Post by Arson on Apr 11, 2004 12:29:47 GMT -5
I was wondering... do you think the Backstreet Boys would need CHR/Pop success to propel them on AC?
On CHR/Pop, the Backstreet Boys still have the coolness factor to overcome.
Both Nick Lachey and Jeff Timmons released ballads, but neither made the AC chart.
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 11, 2004 15:20:54 GMT -5
I didn't even know Jeff Timmons released something.
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Post by JCMF3 on Apr 13, 2004 14:11:12 GMT -5
I didn't even know Jeff Timmons released something. Neither did I!  But then again, 98 Degrees was nowhere near as popular as BSB was on AC (or pop for that matter). |
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Post by tico on Apr 14, 2004 9:36:46 GMT -5
I was wondering... do you think the Backstreet Boys would need CHR/Pop success to propel them on AC? On CHR/Pop, the Backstreet Boys still have the coolness factor to overcome. In my opinion, no. Their last couple of hits did better on AC than on CHR. Although CHR can be a springboard for AC success, some artists, like Josh Groban, have done very well on AC without CHR support. |
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 14, 2004 9:56:18 GMT -5
You can't compare an artist like Josh whose most popular format by far has always been Adult Contemporary to an artist with many CHR-Pop Top 10s (the Backstreet Boys) who are known for having screaming girl fans even if they also have fans in the AC demographic of ages 25-54.
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Post by j on Apr 15, 2004 22:41:12 GMT -5
You can't compare an artist like Josh whose most popular format by far has always been Adult Contemporary to an artist with many CHR-Pop Top 10s (the Backstreet Boys) who are known for having screaming girl fans even if they also have fans in the AC demographic of ages 25-54. Some of those screaming girl fans now fall into the AC demographic of ages 25-54. :) |
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Post by Hervard on Apr 16, 2004 9:41:58 GMT -5
Well, not really. The Backstreet Boys were at their peak about this time in 1998. That's six years ago. The screaming girl fans' average age was about twelve back then, so that would make them eighteen now. The ones that are 25 would have been nineteen back then and, hence, would have theoretically outgrown the "ga-ga for boybands" phase.
The boybands that the now 25-54 group had plastered all over their bedroom walls in their preteen years would have been Menudo, the Bay City Rollers, the Partridge Family and, for the older end of the spectrum, the Beach Boys and the Beatles. Not to mention the solo singers like Shaun Cassidy and so forth.
It'll be another ten or so years before we have AC audiences that used to be crazy about the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and Hanson.
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 16, 2004 10:06:56 GMT -5
The Backstreet Boys have been popular for less than 10 years, so anybody who was 24 or younger then would be younger than 34 now and at the oldest in the 25-34 part of 25-54. A simple random sample of people ages 25-54 now would have mostly people who were 25-54 in 1995, the year the Backstreet Boys first made the CHR-Pop chart (I have no way of knowing how popular they were in the United States during the time where they were popular in other countries before "Backstreet Boys" was released in the United States). Therefore, for those people using 25-34 would be more accurate than using 25-54, and from Females 25-54 to Females 25-34, AC goes down from 12.7 to 9.8 and Soft AC goes down from 2.2 to 1.5, so both formats are significantly more popular 25-54 than 25-34. On the other side, CHR-Pop does much better Females 25-34 (9.2) than Females 25-54 (5.9).
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