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Post by mc98 on Jul 14, 2022 9:51:24 GMT 10
This was a Tumblr staple and played a lot in alt radio. I'm surprised it didn't chart higher than it's actual peak
The video was on heavy rotation in MTV and her performance in the VMA's were very iconic. It's a shame that radio treated her very unfairly despite how big it was then. It would've gone #1.
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Post by astropoug on Jul 14, 2022 10:18:30 GMT 10
This was a Tumblr staple and played a lot in alt radio. I'm surprised it didn't chart higher than it's actual peak I think it's because it's a rock song, like, an ACTUAL rock song (and not fake Imagine Dragons/OneRepublic/Twenty One Pilots "rock"), and as we all know, rock and 2010s pop radio don't exactly mix.
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Post by mc98 on Jul 14, 2022 10:53:43 GMT 10
This was a Tumblr staple and played a lot in alt radio. I'm surprised it didn't chart higher than it's actual peak I think it's because it's a rock song, like, an ACTUAL rock song (and not fake Imagine Dragons/OneRepublic/Twenty One Pilots "rock"), and as we all know, rock and 2010s pop radio don't exactly mix. I'm mean still, I heard this song played a lot in late 2013/early 2014 and it sounds kinda slow and less heavy compared to their earlier stuff, radio would eat this stuff. Probably the promotion was weak.
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Post by astropoug on Jul 14, 2022 11:19:09 GMT 10
I think it's because it's a rock song, like, an ACTUAL rock song (and not fake Imagine Dragons/OneRepublic/Twenty One Pilots "rock"), and as we all know, rock and 2010s pop radio don't exactly mix. I'm mean still, I heard this song played a lot in late 2013/early 2014 and it sounds kinda slow and less heavy compared to their earlier stuff, radio would eat this stuff. Probably the promotion was weak. That's true. Rock songs in the 2010s are usually slow and soft. A sharp contrast to the 2000s with pop punk, nu metal, and garage rock. And an EVEN STRONGER contrast to the punk rock and heavy metal of the late 1970s and 1980s.
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Post by 10slover on Jul 14, 2022 12:00:31 GMT 10
Lot's of songs from the 70s/80s that people think were hits, but completely missed the billboard charts
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Post by 10slover on Jul 14, 2022 12:00:52 GMT 10
Lot's of songs from the 70s/80s that people think were hits, but completely missed the billboard charts
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Post by pumpkin14 on Jul 14, 2022 12:18:59 GMT 10
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Post by astropoug on Jul 14, 2022 12:28:58 GMT 10
It's funny because 1. I heard that song EVERYWHERE and 2. It's a song that defeners, at the time, liked to use as a prime example of why modern music was so bad. Despite that fact, and despite the fact that, indeed, Selfie is a TERRIBLE song, it wasn't as representative of 2014 as people think.
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Post by astropoug on Jul 14, 2022 12:31:22 GMT 10
Lot's of songs from the 70s/80s that people think were hits, but completely missed the billboard charts It's largely a product of nostalgia and bias. Lots of defeners look at those songs, and assume their treasured period was perfect and far superior to what we have today. When in reality, people remember those songs precisely BECAUSE they're good. People forget how much crap actually defined music back then, and was more popular than the supposedly popular music of the time.
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Post by 10slover on Jul 14, 2022 16:31:10 GMT 10
Lot's of songs from the 70s/80s that people think were hits, but completely missed the billboard charts It's largely a product of nostalgia and bias. Lots of defeners look at those songs, and assume their treasured period was perfect and far superior to what we have today. When in reality, people remember those songs precisely BECAUSE they're good. People forget how much crap actually defined music back then, and was more popular than the supposedly popular music of the time. I believe the kids call it "retcon" now
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Post by astropoug on Jul 14, 2022 20:49:04 GMT 10
Lot's of songs from the 70s/80s that people think were hits, but completely missed the billboard charts Prime example: Stairway to Heaven The reason? IT WAS NEVER RELEASED AS A SINGLE
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Post by John Titor on Jul 15, 2022 14:52:17 GMT 10
This was a Tumblr staple and played a lot in alt radio. I'm surprised it didn't chart higher than it's actual peak The video was on heavy rotation in MTV and her performance in the VMA's were very iconic. It's a shame that radio treated her very unfairly despite how big it was then. It would've gone #1. That first month Slave came out it was literally on MTV every 5 min in the morning LMAO and then BAM gone from rotation
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Post by Cassie on Jul 15, 2022 15:14:27 GMT 10
You would be surprised to find out that U Can't Touch This only hit #8 on the Hot 100.
In fact, he had multiple songs that outpeaked it: Pray, Have You Seen Her, 2 Legit 2 Quit, and Addams Groove.
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Post by Telso on Aug 4, 2022 20:26:34 GMT 10
You would be surprised to find out that U Can't Touch This only hit #8 on the Hot 100. In fact, he had multiple songs that outpeaked it: Pray, Have You Seen Her, 2 Legit 2 Quit, and Addams Groove. This was when Billboard still used data of phoned-in info taken from select record stores across the US. In late 1991 they switched to the far more accurate SoundScan method of computer-based counting and suddenly hip hop, alternative and country shot up in the charts. So a lot of charts from the late 80s until then were pretty inaccurate and underrated how popular certain hip hop singles actually were.
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Post by Telso on Aug 4, 2022 20:39:46 GMT 10
I'm mean still, I heard this song played a lot in late 2013/early 2014 and it sounds kinda slow and less heavy compared to their earlier stuff, radio would eat this stuff. Probably the promotion was weak. That's true. Rock songs in the 2010s are usually slow and soft. A sharp contrast to the 2000s with pop punk, nu metal, and garage rock. And an EVEN STRONGER contrast to the punk rock and heavy metal of the late 1970s and 1980s. I mean, soft rock is exactly what dominated the charts in the late 70s and early 80s though, not punk rock and heavy metal. Those shined away from the mainstream of all things. You really had to immerse in those circles to even able to listen to most of it. In fact some artists and groups, like Rupert Holmes and Steely Dan, were so soft, diluted and cruise music-y, they were dubbed "yacht rock".
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