Updated GOAT chart: Smooth and Stay flipped (Was 2022 multiplier lowered?)

[pride4jc1222]

Last fall, Stay appeared to have overtaken Smooth for the #3 spot. This update has Smooth back above Stay. In addition, Heat Waves is below Levitating. Was the multiplier for 2022 dropped even further to make this happen?

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

As it should be, 2022 songs were kept afloat by radio refusing to put them out of rotation for months after they peaked. It would hardly be fair if they were ranked higher than actual hits that sustained popularity organically 

[Moonlight Nation]

2 hours ago, ithinkheknowsoutsold said:

As it should be, 2022 songs were kept afloat by radio refusing to put them out of rotation for months after they peaked. It would hardly be fair if they were ranked higher than actual hits that sustained popularity organically 

 

I would honestly lower it even further. 2022 suffered from a massive drought during the first half of the year, which led to many established hits overstaying their welcome out of sheer stagnation, while the second half had the industry focusing solely on propping up corporate fodder like "As It Was" over Bad Bunny's culturally dominant singles (none of which got even moderate radioplay), "Running Up That Hill", and any current streaming hits from 'outsiders' ("Glimpse Of Us", "Something In The Orange", "Bad Habit"), which highly inflated its success.

 

Not to mention the streaming era has made it much easier to achieve lengthy chart runs. Whenever they officially update this list again, I hope they consider these developments for a more fair distribution.

 

In the meantime, while I don't really mind "STAY", I'll be celebrating that the top 3's excellence remains untouched. "Smooth" is such an amazing song 

 

 

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

51 minutes ago, Moonlight Nation said:

 

I would honestly lower it even further. 2022 suffered from a massive drought during the first half of the year, which led to many established hits overstaying their welcome out of sheer stagnation, while the second half had the industry focusing solely on propping up corporate fodder like "As It Was" over Bad Bunny's culturally dominant singles (none of which got even moderate radioplay), "Running Up That Hill", and any current streaming hits from 'outsiders' ("Glimpse Of Us", "Something In The Orange", "Bad Habit"), which highly inflated its success.

 

Not to mention the streaming era has made it much easier to achieve lengthy chart runs. Whenever they officially update this list again, I hope they consider these developments for a more fair distribution.

 

In the meantime, while I don't really mind "STAY", I'll be celebrating that the top 3's excellence remains untouched. "Smooth" is such an amazing song 

 

 

This 100%.

 

The same logic should also be applied to Billboard 200 all time rankings. Albums get dozens of weeks in the top ten and top twenty these days, not because of how well they're selling, but because of how little the competition sells due to the increasing popularity of catalogue music. Case in point: the number ten album these days earns around 25,000 units, whereas 20 years ago it would've sold around 80,000 copies.

 

It is quite ironic then that newer albums get much better chart runs than older albums of similar stature mainly because of the older albums continued popularity lowering the consumption of the competition of newer albums.