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How The Mighty Have Fallen, Part XXVII
Former Soundgarden frontman/renegade "Billie Jean" reworker Chris Cornell has been reduced to making cameos in videos by OneFreakin'Republic. [MTV]
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Tonight, Maura and I will be at Madison Square Garden for New York pop station Z100's annual Jingle Ball, taking in the cream of Billboard's crop: Fall Out Boy! Alicia Keys! Avril Lavigne! The Jonas Brothers! Jordin Sparks! Colbie Caillat! Backstreet Boys! Boys Like Girls! Timbaland! With OneRepublic! And Keri Hilson! Is pop music really dead? Probably, but we'll find out for sure tonight. As a friend put it, it's going to be awfsome! But which iTunes bestseller is going to put on the most awfsome performance tonight? For the answer to that, we turn to the crystal ball of our handy poll software.
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Which Z100 Star Will Put On The Most Painful Performance At Tonight's Jingle Ball?
Tonight, Maura and I will be at Madison Square Garden for New York pop station Z100's annual Jingle Ball, taking in the cream of Billboard's crop: Fall Out Boy! Alicia Keys! Avril Lavigne! The Jonas Brothers! Jordin Sparks! Colbie Caillat! Backstreet Boys! Boys Like Girls! Timbaland! With OneRepublic! And Keri Hilson! Is pop music really dead? Probably, but we'll find out for sure tonight. As a friend put it, it's going to be awfsome! But which iTunes bestseller is going to put on the most awfsome performance tonight? For the answer to that, we turn to the crystal ball of our handy poll software.
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The True Genesis Of That OneRepublic Song Revealed Through The Power Of Math
"Apologize" by OneRepublic and Timbaland: It's still inescapable. But last night, while being subjected to it for the 8,439th time this month, I hit on the formula that no doubt led to it blanketing radio stations in this drained-of-true-adult-contemporary-hits era! Let's think of it in mathematical terms. To wit:
"Apologize" X (oomph factor) + an honest-to-God big hook =
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the new model
If you have never heard OneRepublic, the bland rock band that enjoys the minor distinction of being shepherded by Timbaland, that's probably because you no longer listen to the radio. And if you no longer listen to the radio it's probably because of formatting decisions like playing OneRepublic's hit "Apologize" 10,240 times last week, over 100 times on certain stations in a seven-day stretch, setting a record for "for the most plays of a song on the nation's Top 40 stations." At this point, we're all very familiar with stations overplaying a handful of songs, making this bleak New York Times report the horse's mouth confirmation of something disgruntled former listeners already know: that radio has dealt with a world where the "audience fragments and rival entertainment choices abound" by adopting a bunker mentality built around the Billboard Top 10. And the process has sped up dramatically over the past five years.
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Radio Programmers Love OneRepublic (And Very Little Else)
If you have never heard OneRepublic, the bland rock band that enjoys the minor distinction of being shepherded by Timbaland, that's probably because you no longer listen to the radio. And if you no longer listen to the radio it's probably because of formatting decisions like playing OneRepublic's hit "Apologize" 10,240 times last week, over 100 times on certain stations in a seven-day stretch, setting a record for "for the most plays of a song on the nation's Top 40 stations." At this point, we're all very familiar with stations overplaying a handful of songs, making this bleak New York Times report the horse's mouth confirmation of something disgruntled former listeners already know: that radio has dealt with a world where the "audience fragments and rival entertainment choices abound" by adopting a bunker mentality built around the Billboard Top 10. And the process has sped up dramatically over the past five years.
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Lady Business: It's Been A Good Year For Females On The Hot 100
Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of "100 And Single":
For the first time in its three-month chart life, Alicia Keys' "No One" sells fewer digital singles than it did the week before. But that's no problem, as her continued radio dominance means she's still tops on Billboard's Hot 100—even as one song given up for dead starts to make a comeback.
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