She also sold 3M singles and 3M ringtones in before somebody bring up the payola arguments, why? 

 

Kesha, Adele, Dua would later join the list of only a handful of female manage to achieve. 

It was surprising because it was the 9th most downloaded track of the year but it's airplay was MASSIVE (#11 of the decade, #1 of the year) that it's massive airplay was enough to give it the #1 title of 2007 over Rihanna's "Umbrella" which was the 3rd biggest downloaded track and 3rd biggest radio song of the year iirc 

 

To put it into context, Fergalicious was neck and neck with Irreplaceable's downloads (Fergalicious was #10 for downloads of 2007, but only #53 for airplay which bumped it all the way down to #19 on the year-end chart) 

 

Hot Digital Songs Year-End:
#9 - Irreplaceable (#1 airplay = #1 Hot 100)
#4 - Umbrella (#3 airplay = #2 Hot 100)

#10 - Fergalicious (#53 airplay = #19 Hot 100)

 

 

Edited July 7, 20224 yr by naval23

6 minutes ago, naval23 said:

It was surprising because it was the 9th most downloaded track of the year but it's airplay was MASSIVE (#11 of the decade, #1 of the year) that it's massive airplay was enough to give it the #1 title of 2007 over Rihanna's "Umbrella" which was the 3rd biggest downloaded track and 3rd biggest radio song of the year iirc 

 

To put it into context, Fergalicious was neck and neck with Irreplaceable's downloads (Fergalicious was #10 for downloads of 2007, but only #53 for airplay which bumped it all the way down to #19 on the year-end chart) 

 

Hot Digital Songs Year-End:
#9 - Irreplaceable (#1 airplay = #1 Hot 100)
#4 - Umbrella (#3 airplay = #2 Hot 100)

#10 - Fergalicious (#53 airplay = #19 Hot 100)

 

 

Wasn't B'Day released through the record label that the term payola was invented for? 

The song was obviously big but payola airplay helped a lot honestly. Its recurrent streams (<200k daily) are pretty bad for a song that spent 10 consecutive weeks at #1 too. Umbrella was robbed and Bey had way better songs that deserved its success.

Isn't it the song with most AI in US radio of all time?

Not shocked. Growing up whenever someone would even mention something being to your left I feel like everyone would go "to the left, to the left."

16 minutes ago, Jude said:

Isn't it the song with most AI in US radio of all time?

yes I think so other than Mariah's "We Belong Together", "Happy" and "Blurred Lines" 

22 minutes ago, Jude said:

Isn't it the song with most AI in US radio of all time?

Yeap. I think Check On It was also one of the song that has the highest amount of AI. 

I mean, it was so massive that year. As was Umbrella, but this is about Irreplaceable and it’s mass appeal. 
 

 

an anthem tbh 

 

1 hour ago, State of Grace. said:

The song was obviously big but payola airplay helped a lot honestly. Its recurrent streams (<200k daily) are pretty bad for a song that spent 10 consecutive weeks at #1 too. Umbrella was robbed and Bey had way better songs that deserved its success.

We can riddle off songs all night with low streams but spent multi-weeks at #1. 

It was the rare song that worked on both HAC radio and urban radio so it had enormous record-breaking airplay.