Comments on: A Strapped America Goes To The 99-Cent Store, And New Singles Storm The Top 40 http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40 Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:57:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MrStarhead http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733122 MrStarhead Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:17:38 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733122 <p>Chris, how did the new All-American Rejects single do? They had three big hits off the last album (two Top 10s and a #15), but I found the new song pretty underwhelming.</p> Chris, how did the new All-American Rejects single do? They had three big hits off the last album (two Top 10s and a #15), but I found the new song pretty underwhelming.

]]> By: Al Shipley http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733132 Al Shipley Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:49:27 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733132 <p>Another thing I meant to note on this post earlier - "Live Your Life" marks the first Just Blaze production to top the Hot 100, and he's pretty much the last of the decade's big rap super-producers to get a #1 (he's only had a couple top tens, Cam'ron's "Oh Boy" and Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got" in the past).</p> Another thing I meant to note on this post earlier – “Live Your Life” marks the first Just Blaze production to top the Hot 100, and he’s pretty much the last of the decade’s big rap super-producers to get a #1 (he’s only had a couple top tens, Cam’ron’s “Oh Boy” and Jay-Z’s “Show Me What You Got” in the past).

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733142 Chris Molanphy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:29:15 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733142 <p>Wow. "Strapped" was totally unconscious on my part (writing a headline, you need short adjectives; I suppose "broke" or "near-broke" would've worked), but you're right that it works on multiple levels. Um...go, me?</p> Wow. “Strapped” was totally unconscious on my part (writing a headline, you need short adjectives; I suppose “broke” or “near-broke” would’ve worked), but you’re right that it works on multiple levels. Um…go, me?

]]> By: Rob Murphy http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733152 Rob Murphy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:00:59 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733152 <p>@<a href="#c8262545">Chris Molanphy</a>: @<a href="#c8263175">Rob Murphy</a>: Heh, now I'm just noticing "triggers" as well. Okay, this is lame, but: did "Live Your Life" "shoot" to No. 1 "with a bullet"? Ha! I kill myself! Ha! I can't stop -- help me!!!</p> <p>P.S. I really like these columns, Chris. They're always well-written and informative.</p> @Chris Molanphy: @Rob Murphy: Heh, now I’m just noticing “triggers” as well. Okay, this is lame, but: did “Live Your Life” “shoot” to No. 1 “with a bullet”? Ha! I kill myself! Ha! I can’t stop — help me!!!

P.S. I really like these columns, Chris. They’re always well-written and informative.

]]> By: Rock You Like An Iracane http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733162 Rock You Like An Iracane Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:48:07 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733162 <p>@<a href="#c8262545">Chris Molanphy</a>: Yeah, "strapped," T.I., it fits.</p> @Chris Molanphy: Yeah, “strapped,” T.I., it fits.

]]> By: Rob Murphy http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733172 Rob Murphy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:07 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733172 <p>@<a href="#c8262545">Chris Molanphy</a>: Yeah, "strapped", T.I., and that whole upcoming year-in-jail thing. That was maybe unintentional, but I'm giggling about it anyway.</p> @Chris Molanphy: Yeah, “strapped”, T.I., and that whole upcoming year-in-jail thing. That was maybe unintentional, but I’m giggling about it anyway.

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733182 Chris Molanphy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:19:29 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733182 <p>@<a href="#c8261060">Al Shipley</a>: Wow, good one! No idea...that's a question for Fred Bronson, who won't find it himself--no data search would turn that up--but could post it on his letters page. Surely some chart geek would be willing to examine the last 20 years of charts to see if any others fit the bill. I can't imagine any, but you never know.</p> <p>(Actually, if I had the kinds of databases Billboard has access to, you probably <i>could</i> do a complicated query for this: search the last 20-some years of Hot 100s for any week in which a songwriter has two or more songs in the Top Five, and then, you examine those chart weeks to determine if any of the songs involve samples. Still requires manual review, but that first cut would leave you with probably only a few dozen weeks' worth of charts.</p> <p>@<a href="#c8261741">Rob Murphy</a>: Um...I dunno--"strapped"?</p> @Al Shipley: Wow, good one! No idea…that’s a question for Fred Bronson, who won’t find it himself–no data search would turn that up–but could post it on his letters page. Surely some chart geek would be willing to examine the last 20 years of charts to see if any others fit the bill. I can’t imagine any, but you never know.

(Actually, if I had the kinds of databases Billboard has access to, you probably could do a complicated query for this: search the last 20-some years of Hot 100s for any week in which a songwriter has two or more songs in the Top Five, and then, you examine those chart weeks to determine if any of the songs involve samples. Still requires manual review, but that first cut would leave you with probably only a few dozen weeks’ worth of charts.

@Rob Murphy: Um…I dunno–”strapped”?

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733192 Anonymous Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:18:56 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733192 <p>"but it's impressive at a time that doesn't seem to have any specific holiday or special-event-related trigger"</p> <p>There's two triggers really - they're all singles off forthcoming Q4 holiday season albums AND they all quite conveniently got released to radio just in time for Grammy qualification which runs October 1st to September 30th each year. The qualification date is the radio release date not the digital release date, so there's been a rush to get new singles out to radio allowing them to build up some momentum before releasing the downloads.</p> <p>"Better In Time might still make it, but Lewis' team is really sweating it"</p> <p>Again the overwhelming and neverending success of Bleeding Love is still hampering Better In Time's chances by withholding/blocking airplay. It's a ballad whose natural home is Pop/Hot AC/AC radio - on Pop it's upto #4 and still climbing, on Hot AC upto #14 but still behind BL which is slowly falling at #12 (after ten weeks at #1), and on AC it's at #33 with BL still at #2 (think it's been in the top #2 for the bets part of 4 months now).</p> <p>Urban-leaning hits gain airplay in unison across all formats, AC-leaning hits struggle to coordinate airplay.</p> “but it’s impressive at a time that doesn’t seem to have any specific holiday or special-event-related trigger”

There’s two triggers really – they’re all singles off forthcoming Q4 holiday season albums AND they all quite conveniently got released to radio just in time for Grammy qualification which runs October 1st to September 30th each year. The qualification date is the radio release date not the digital release date, so there’s been a rush to get new singles out to radio allowing them to build up some momentum before releasing the downloads.

“Better In Time might still make it, but Lewis’ team is really sweating it”

Again the overwhelming and neverending success of Bleeding Love is still hampering Better In Time’s chances by withholding/blocking airplay. It’s a ballad whose natural home is Pop/Hot AC/AC radio – on Pop it’s upto #4 and still climbing, on Hot AC upto #14 but still behind BL which is slowly falling at #12 (after ten weeks at #1), and on AC it’s at #33 with BL still at #2 (think it’s been in the top #2 for the bets part of 4 months now).

Urban-leaning hits gain airplay in unison across all formats, AC-leaning hits struggle to coordinate airplay.

]]> By: Rob Murphy http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733202 Rob Murphy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:50:46 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733202 <p>I see what you did there in the title, I think? Was that intentional?</p> I see what you did there in the title, I think? Was that intentional?

]]> By: Al Shipley http://idolator.com/5061823/a-strapped-america-goes-to-the-99-cent-store-and-new-singles-storm-the-top-40/comment-page-1#comment-733212 Al Shipley Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:27:48 +0000 3eeb2b4c6816856d1a51ee5040624d66#comment-733212 <P>This is kind of a late question since both songs have dropped out a couple weeks later, but when "Swagga Like Us" and "Paper Planes" were in the top 5, would that have been the first time a song charted that high at the same time as the song it sampled from?</P> This is kind of a late question since both songs have dropped out a couple weeks later, but when “Swagga Like Us” and “Paper Planes” were in the top 5, would that have been the first time a song charted that high at the same time as the song it sampled from?

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