Is A Bar Songs run at #1 more impressive because it's solo?

[ericcartman]

At 18 weeks at #1, it's on the verge of breaking the record for most weeks at #1.

 

Other songs that are up there are Despacito, Old Town Road, and One Sweet Day. Despacito combined the pop fanbase of Justin Bieber with the huge American Latino fanbase of Luis Fonsi. Old Town Road combined lil Nas X hip hop fans with Billie Ray Cyrus country fans. One Sweet Day saw Mariah AC fans and Boy II Men R&B fanbases join forces.

 

A Bar Song does not have fanbases if two artist propelling it as it's a solo song. Does that make it more impressive?

[PoisonPill]

The fact that it's a solo song from a previously-unknown artist does make it more impressive, because the success is entirely based off the strength of the song itself. 

[Burn]

Yes, and what's also impressive is that he's literally only released 1 version of the song.

[glitch]

The chorus has a heavy interpolation of a well known club staple, it's a collab with nostalgia

[Hector]

4 minutes ago, Burn said:

Yes, and what's also impressive is that he's literally only released 1 version of the song.

There were these 2 official remixes (which accounted for very little of the success):

 

 

[Burn]

8 minutes ago, Hector said:

There were these 2 official remixes (which accounted for very little of the success):

 

 

Thanks for correcting me, you've jogged my memory as I do vaguely remember seeing these remixes before  but yeah like you say it's the main song that's done 99.9% of the heavy lifting.

[OrgVisual]

Time to release that Beyonce remix for a few more weeks at #1 

[l3disko]

Not really

 

Charts seems really weird nowadays.

 

 

its like the same songs are at the top of the charts longer than they normally would ever be

[AshleyLovescats887]

I don't stream men so this just slightly annoys me that they win

[Erreur2 La Nature]

Obviously. The song is by far the biggest song of 2024 in the United States, its performance is completely crazy. It's a great song tbh

[byzantium]

It's still number 1?  It's like 15 on Spotify and Apple Music?  Is radio really that influential? 

[dumbsparce]

It has all the makings of a one hit wonder. Have any of his other songs or his album been popping?

[professor2000]

2 hours ago, glitch said:

The chorus has a heavy interpolation of a well known club staple, it's a collab with nostalgia

This.  Which kinda knocks it down a peg or two on how impressive it is… to me.

 

Like, it's impressive still…but it's a collab with nostalgia, like you said. 
 

This also came off the heels of the Beyonce features too…so that general buzz def helped. 

[OrgVisual]

55 minutes ago, byzantium said:

It's still number 1?  It's like 15 on Spotify and Apple Music?  Is radio really that influential? 

There are more streaming platforms than Spotify and AM. It's still #5 on Billboard Top Streaming charts

[unclefloprry]

It's impressive because I don't  know the song 

Edited 3 hours ago by unclefloprry

[byzantium]

1 hour ago, OrgVisual said:

There are more streaming platforms than Spotify and AM. It's still #5 on Billboard Top Streaming charts

It must be huge on Tidal. 

Edited 1 hour ago by byzantium

[cat1867]

33 minutes ago, byzantium said:

I must be huge on Tidal. 

When  in doubt, it basically always amazon music.  especially since business use amazon music alot.

the audience that uses amazon music isn't very online