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They're at least 10 years late on this but ok Hopefully one day the more traditional R&B sound has a resurgence. As of now unfortunately mellow hookah-lounge music is IN.

Well in 2020 the biggest issue on the Hot 100 was the digital sales fraud being rampant for songs to reach #1. But hey — if we remove all Amazon Music streams & all digital sales juicing the week "Willow" debuted (giving it nearly 100 extra points alone) then the #1 song in points that week would've been "Mood".

Yes, and her fans are now ironically clinging to Amazon Music streams to validate its streaming which is carried almost entirely by autoplay after constantly complaining about other artist's Spotify autoplay on a daily basis for years

It's crazy to me how a black woman is the biggest female artist there but it kinda never gets any global coverage / acknowledgement Obviously her music being in French is the main reason but its a pretty insane achievement. You'd also think the label woulda tried to make her do English music to crossover.

What exactly was made up? When it comes to this situation & her purposely blocking Billie/Olivia/etc on the charts her stans even gloatingly defend it with "its a business/competition! She doesn't have to do the nice thing!". Yet bring up her masters and the discussion was suddenly focused on doing the "right" thing and a bunch of emotional argments on how wrong it was.

Some of yall still thinking this is actually fan-voted after the debacle where Katy Perry won Most Iconic Performance over Taylor/Beyonce/Gaga in 2024 because she was a performer that night. This is a show up/perform and win basis. Holds as much importance as a Teen Choice Award at this point

A song still charting on Hot 100 regardless of how low because it is still gaining on major radio formats is completely normal, and this would've been applied to any other song. There are literally multiple songs currently on this week's Hot 100 charting because of this. They did not make a special exception for Widflower, the song was following the exact guidelines needed to continue charting. And again, the exact week "Wildflower" exited was not because of her finally breaking a record or a Grammy voting period ending so her team "stopped sending money" — it was the exact week after Halloween and HAC/AC began to play Holiday music causing it to decline. This is an annual tradition that has happened for decades prior to Wildflower existing. Using your brain fried conspiracy logic, why didn't her team just pay to have HAC/AC keep increasing during November or after Christmas so she could also pass "Levitating"? If it was as simple as them buying 1 spin every week.

Yes, the song was still charting because it was gaining at AC/HAC (which are the slowest formats and Pop songs consistently peak months later). The AC/HAC stations switched to playing Holiday music heavily after Halloween, thus Wildflower (like any other non-Holiday song) declined on the format and thus it had no reason to still be charting on Hot 100. All of this is literally completely normal and not a conspiracy of her label pushing something inorganically. Yes a non-Holiday song finally decreased on a format because said format put Holiday music into rotation during November. DUH.

Because "the most weeks for a female song on Hot 100 with no features" is some highly coveted record that is worth doing months of payola for "Levitating" still holds the female record, and the only reason Wildflower left Hot 100 is because AC/HAC formats switch to Holiday music immediately in November right after Halloween which was exactly when "Wildflower" began decreasing and went recurrent.

1. You and other Swifties just aren't fully aware of Hot 100 works despite following it every week weirdly. A song does not go recurrent if it's gaining at major radio formats still, this applies to ALL songs outside of Billie too. It never broke the record. "Levitating" still has is the longest charting female song, so unfortunately your Swiftie-Discord peddled conspiracy theory is bull.

Swiftie logic: A non-Taylor song gaining 1 spin is shameless radio payola. A Taylor song gaining thousands of spins even while completely bombing on almost every streaming service is organic multi format support Got it. Definitely not psychosis.

1 spin being "the most shameless radio payola ever". Not the brightest huh. What would you call gaining thousands of Pop radio spins over a few weeks while being consistently outside top 50 on Spotify?

Damn.

Why did the Swifties go from spending years caring about other artist's autoplay to suddenly not caring that 50%+ of streams for her current single are carried by autoplay? They were the main ones trying to always tell us how much of an issue that autoplay was.

Swifties doing a beautiful job showcasing how broken the Hot 100 seems in 2026 by consistently pointing out a song that's #61 on Spotify & #95 on Apple Music would be the #1 song in USA without Choosin Texas