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2 hours ago, xperience30 said:

beautiful-xtina

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you're still the one - shania 

Beautiful never stood a chance with how much Bump Bump Bump was selling at the time, be for real 

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12 minutes ago, kataraqueen said:

Tik Tok was omnipresent you guys are ******* deluded

And so was Bad Romance. Bad Romance was breaking YouTube records and in a modern day formula it would've snatched the #1 because of how many points streaming attributes. I never said Tik Tok wasn't omnipresent, that's just you and your pressed soul gravitating towards sentences heard in your head instead of ones posted. 

 

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4 minutes ago, SinnerCity said:

Beautiful never stood a chance with how much Bump Bump Bump was selling at the time, be for real 

I'm pretty sure Lose Yourself by Eminem was the one blocking Beautiful. 

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9 minutes ago, Doctor Dick said:

I'm pretty sure Lose Yourself by Eminem was the one blocking Beautiful. 

Even worse :rip:

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I Knew You Were Trouble 

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44 minutes ago, Doctor Dick said:

And so was Bad Romance. Bad Romance was breaking YouTube records and in a modern day formula it would've snatched the #1 because of how many points streaming attributes. I never said Tik Tok wasn't omnipresent, that's just you and your pressed soul gravitating towards sentences heard in your head instead of ones posted. 

 

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If the cultural landscape was the exact same as back then, and both were released in today's technological landscape, Tik Tok would have more streams than bad romance so your entire argument is odd. Tik Tok was meant to appeal to the general public and Bad Romance wasn't.

 

I wish you had any voices in your head so you could have something telling you how stupid you sound before you post something 

 

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31 minutes ago, kataraqueen said:

If the cultural landscape was the exact same as back then, and both were released in today's technological landscape, Tik Tok would have more streams than bad romance so your entire argument is odd. Tik Tok was meant to appeal to the general public and Bad Romance wasn't.

 

I wish you had any voices in your head so you could have something telling you how stupid you sound before you post something 

 

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You don't make sense. Tik Tok had bigger radio than Bad Romance and went to #1 on Billboard's Radio Songs chart. If streaming was counted (and Bad Romance had record-breaking streams on YouTube) it would've challenged for the #1. Streaming wasn't counted and Tik Tok was bigger on radio for weeks so it automatically had an advantage. 

 

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1 hour ago, Doctor Dick said:

You don't make sense. Tik Tok had bigger radio than Bad Romance and went to #1 on Billboard's Radio Songs chart. If streaming was counted (and Bad Romance had record-breaking streams on YouTube) it would've challenged for the #1. Streaming wasn't counted and Tik Tok was bigger on radio for weeks so it automatically had an advantage. 

 

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Bad Romance had better streaming because youtube was a place for fanbases and basement dwellers

 

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7 hours ago, Strawberry Bubble said:

bad romance being blocked by tik tok is a good example of this

I am way too chronically online that I was so confused how an app could block a song :deadbanana4:

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People really don't know how to read. How are you mentioning Espresso, which peaked at #3, in a topic about songs getting narrowly blocked?

Also songs from the 90s and 80s, as if anyone knew the points back then...

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Ellie Goulding's Lights getting blocked by Call Me Maybe and then leapfrogged by Flo Rida's Whistle was kinda painful

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6 hours ago, Distantconstellation said:

Tiktok was huge all over the world and was selling a lot more. Just like how all yall always talk about streaming now and that we should focus on sales well back then it was almost all about sales and Kesha was outselling Bad Romance. I remember even a lot of the other stan bases (Britney, xtina, Beyonce) buying tiktok and even her album just to block and piss of the gaga fans. 

So you're telling me the Monsters had this case study in the rearview mirror as a result of what happens when you antagonize other fanbases... and they decided to do the same thing for the last five years?

 

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Looks like karma did its work today.

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9 hours ago, Doctor Dick said:

You don't make sense. Tik Tok had bigger radio than Bad Romance and went to #1 on Billboard's Radio Songs chart. If streaming was counted (and Bad Romance had record-breaking streams on YouTube) it would've challenged for the #1. Streaming wasn't counted and Tik Tok was bigger on radio for weeks so it automatically had an advantage. 

 

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YouTube numbers were record breaking but we're talking about WW numbers and only in the few million, free YouTube numbers with today's formula don't compare to the 100s of thousands of gap in digital sales TT and Bad Romance had.

 

Also the thread is about "songs that seemed to have #1 in the bag", not mental gymnastics applying chart formulas from a decade later so they could've had a chance to be #1, Bad Romance was NEVER in the race for #1. 

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7 hours ago, tost1 said:

People really don't know how to read. How are you mentioning Espresso, which peaked at #3, in a topic about songs getting narrowly blocked?

Also songs from the 90s and 80s, as if anyone knew the points back then...

Like nobody is even answering the question :ace:
 

Everybody just be saying whatever #2 songs they liked (one even brought up a #3:deadbanana2:)

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12 hours ago, Popboi. said:

We Belong Together fully monopolized the radio chart, it was a monster on Pop, Rhythmic, AC, HAC, Urban... all at the same time :deadbanana2: 

i wonder how many points it had when it charted at #1 (and one sweet day)

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Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits when it was up against Industry Baby that one week. For sure his label pulled some tricks.

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