On 4/7/2023 at 7:04 PM, Price88 said:

I couldn’t agree anymore. I don’t like how radio is weighing so much. Not when the song isn’t being consumed at all. I won’t make titles out of respect. But when you got 20 of the 40 songs on the pop airplay chart not on the chart, it says a lot about how payola comes into play. But at least when something is played over and over it is remembered and you can call it a hit. To let a song be number 1 from pure hype and then fall 30 spots the next week and off two weeks later is ridiculous. These album cuts that chart like Morgan wallen. Only to fall off within a couple weeks. It’s all just stupid because it’s not really popular if it’s based off hype alone. Hype and popularity are two separate terms. I feel the chart was the most accurate between 1958-1994 and between 2002-2017. Around 2018, we really saw a big change in the chart and it wasn’t good. Look at songs like you by regard, this feeling by the chainsmokers, forget me by Lewis capaldi,  2 be loved by lizzo, and Bloody Mary. The streams and sales were all bad. But because of radio, that’s how they got pushed. If it wouldn’t of been due to that, they would’ve picked way lower. So radio really needs to find what’s popular out here by the gp and not by the record labels and billboard needs to fix the formula to where stream has some cut off clause and album cuts as well. That’s just my opinion about it. 

I mean it's a weekly popularity chart for a reason, if they are popular in just these few weeks, they should chart, butbalso chart for these weeks only.

 

However the song at #1 atm wasn't even popular this week so I think sales are definitely the bigger of the two evils. 

On 4/4/2023 at 4:41 PM, Price88 said:

This chart lost all credibility somewhere in 2016 something. And this is exactly the reason. We all know how bts works. They debut on top and fall off in a couple weeks. There needs to be restrictions on these charts. With album cuts making it and songs like this. It’s not really defining popularity. Maybe for a week, but overall. None of those songs will be remembered. 

There has always been fraudulent moments on BB tho

I pity anyone who only judges by BB numbers especially the ones that dont know about the Radio wars in late 90s/early 00s

Like Crazy is predicted to fall out of the top 10. How surprising