PrudenceHCharmed Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 • Crazy In Love (8 Weeks) • Baby Boy (9 Weeks) • Check On It (5 Weeks) • Irreplaceable (10 Weeks) • Single Ladies (4 Weeks) • Perfect (5 Weeks) Despite being a laughing stock on the Hot 100, the former Female of The Decade tally a total of 41 Weeks at #1, why? Particularly in 2008/9, the Hot 100 was packed with many releases and competition but the Queen B strived and lasted for 4 weeks at the top with Single Ladies. Nowadays, we have many singles spending a week at the top. So ATRL, why is Beyoncé doing something that is difficult to get, that not everybody can have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bussea Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 okay. so what now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotunda Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Hive to Hive, please stop with these threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainmaniac Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Perfect was sketchy though. The first week Beyonce deserved credit, but I remember people calculated some of her other credited weeks, and the remix didn’t actually have the most points, but she was credited anyway. Billboard hasn’t always been consistent when it’s come to how they credit remixes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naval23 Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 The fact that she had 2 massive #1s from her debut era that took 17 weeks at the top alone is insane I'm still shook Baby Boy had a longer #1 run than Crazy In Love's run at #1 - DIL was sooo massive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanes Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Start The Music Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Because she just does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustavothehuman Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Beyoncé is a great seller, the narrative she doesn't have hits after the IASF era comes from people who are too obsessed with raw numbers, they would be shocked some classics didn't even made into the Top 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jynx Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Fun fact: Irreplaceable is her best #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrettyHurts Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 TABS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Jacobs Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Oh baby boy.. Now that's a nasty bop I'm stepping in hotter this year I'm stepping in hotter this year So don't you fight it So don't you fight it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoAddams Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 32 minutes ago, gustavothehuman said: Beyoncé is a great seller, the narrative she doesn't have hits after the IASF era comes from people who are too obsessed with raw numbers, they would be shocked some classics didn't even made into the Top 40. this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternium Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 47 minutes ago, naval23 said: The fact that she had 2 massive #1s from her debut era that took 17 weeks at the top alone is insane I'm still shook Baby Boy had a longer #1 run than Crazy In Love's run at #1 - DIL was sooo massive Her record label paid for their airplay and the Hot 100 was entirely airplay fueled at the time. It’s not that insane. Still, Baby Boy deserved a million weeks at #1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheers Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 All of them from 2 decades ago (w/ the exception of Perfect thanks to Ed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrudenceHCharmed Posted July 7, 2022 Author Share Posted July 7, 2022 22 minutes ago, Eternium said: Her record label paid for their airplay and the Hot 100 was entirely airplay fueled at the time. It’s not that insane. Still, Baby Boy deserved a million weeks at #1 This might be true but Crazy In Love went on to become one of the most well known classics with over 1M sold in the UK and over 2M in the US. Currently, CIL had over a billion streams combined on YT and Spotify! Baby Boy was doing moderate but it has almost 200M streams on Spotify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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frenchyisback Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) If you actually care about an answer, there it is: Most of her hit were in the era when radio were 100% of the points toward the hot 100. If you’ve ever looked at the radio chart, you’d know it works like peer pressure. Once a song hit #1, every other radio start playing it to overkill. Most radio #1s are multi week #1s. Vs the 1980s or 2010s where sales and big release week allowed for more rotation on the charts and much shorter runs at #1. SL was a mega hit as big as CIL & bigger than Irreplaceable in the US with with the change in chart method the run at #1 was still much shorter. Edited July 7, 2022 by frenchyisback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator feelslikeadream Posted July 7, 2022 ATRL Moderator Share Posted July 7, 2022 2 hours ago, PrudenceHCharmed said: Nowadays, we have many singles spending a week at the top. So ATRL, why is Beyoncé doing something that is difficult to get This seems a little disingenuous. Since last fall: Easy On Me - 10 weeks As It Was - 8 weeks Stay - 7 weeks We Don't Talk About Bruno - 5 weeks First Class - 3 weeks And of course Heat Waves broke the record for longest climb to #1, so it wasn't some cute little hit with no longevity. Sure, we occasionally get one of those one-week #1s, but it's not like it's every week when there are a lot of songs claiming #1 for over a month (or two). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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