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Ariana Grande ties The Beatles Hot 100 record
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Because the implication was that sales were somehow more important back then than today which is false. Sales were equally unimportant if radio/streaming were high
But then we'd have to argue about how young team is really their only truly great album.
Wtf am I reading is this a popera thing? Like just falsehoods and apples oranges comparisons ?
At least this is clean and obvious.
It's just the truth. Songs rarely went platinum on sales until the 2000s
You'd have huge #1 hits everyone knows that just scanned gold. People weren't buying individual songs that much.
I thought singles did well up to about the mid 70s, at which point albums became more popular. Then it flipped again around the early 2000s, thanks to services like iTunes.
Either way, I feel like this would be easier today and I'm honestly surprised it hadn't happened already. I feel like everytime a big album comes out, half of it ends up on the charts because of how they count streams.
Either way, I feel like this would be easier today and I'm honestly surprised it hadn't happened already. I feel like everytime a big album comes out, half of it ends up on the charts because of how they count streams.
Is there a reason people are doubting what woman is saying? Charts in the sixties were based off of radio and sales but radio was the major source of consumption and was weighted heavier. Billboard routinely adjusts the weighting of various metrics as consumption changes over time. Attempting to marginalize the success of Ariana by acting as if sales are more important than streams is disingenuous. On-Demand streaming is the primary source of consumption of music by large and the charts reflect that.
Impressive feat by Ariana. More impressive is she's the first solo act to do it and all of her songs are solo songs. That's impact.
Impressive feat by Ariana. More impressive is she's the first solo act to do it and all of her songs are solo songs. That's impact.
The same Camila who lost the Grammy to Ari's previous album, Swallower?
I thought the Beatles held the top 5 spots at one point?
Yes, they did.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...-beatles-control-entire-top-five-on-billboard
So, she is kind of nowhere near their record.
EDIT: Can a Mod go change the OP or Thread Title?
Yes, they did.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...-beatles-control-entire-top-five-on-billboard
So, she is kind of nowhere near their record.
EDIT: Can a Mod go change the OP or Thread Title?
yeah, it's nice seeing an artist be open in their writing instead of just singing "I wanna hold your hand" like sixty times in a row or about walruses speaking gibberish or whatever
The fuck.
Come On Die Young ?
Mr. Beast ?
Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will ?
Lol, so the whole topic is flawed. Technically, the tweet is correct, she is the first since the Beatles, but the Beatles themselves did better than that.
Do you realize 45s were the biggest sellers until the shift to LPs became more commonplace?
Yeah, my point is it's not tying the Beatles record, which is the 5 top songs at the same time.
That list only goes down to 5x platinum selling singles too(remember platinum is 1 million sales), doesn't even show songs that sold between 1 million and 4.99 million copies.