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scaryice
13 Jan 2005, 03:45 PM
Every Thursday, Billboard comes out with their Hot 100 list of the top songs in the country. You can see the top 50 positions by clicking the link below. As I obsessively check it every week, I will post the latest top ten here every time it comes out. These are the top songs in the country people!
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp
10) I Don't Want To Be - Gavin DeGraw
9) How We Do - The Game f/50 Cent
8) Disco Inferno - 50 Cent
7) Over And Over - Nelly f/Tim McGraw
6) My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
5) Soldier - Destiny's Child
4) Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg f/Pharrell
3) Lovers And Friends - Lil' Jon & The East Side Boyz f/Usher & Ludacris
2) 1, 2 Step - Ciara f/Missy Elliot
1) Let Me Love You - Mario (4 weeks at #1)
billreeves
13 Jan 2005, 04:02 PM
When I was a teenager, I used to religiously listen to "America's Top 40" (the one with Casey Kasem) and write down the Top 40. Being a math geek, I would then attempt to predict the top 100 at the end of the year based on my records of the Top 40. I did this from 1983 through 1986. Somewhere at my parents house is a collection of dog-eared pieces of paper with lots of little numbers on them.
I also used to record the "America's Top 10" TV show -- just the part where Casey counted down the top 10, and maybe the featured video if it was any good. That, plus selected videos of other songs from the time. I have two videotapes of this stuff from 1983 and 1984. I watched them a couple of years ago, the videotapes held up surprisingly well for being almost 20 years old at the time, I thought they would have gone bad but they are still watchable (but I can't say the same for all of the videos on the tapes).
That said, who are all these people on the list you posted, and what does "f/" mean?
BlueMeanie
13 Jan 2005, 04:06 PM
and what does "f/" mean?
featuring
scaryice
14 Jan 2005, 01:52 AM
All the guys on the list are rap/r & b stars, except for Gavin DeGraw, and also Tim McGraw.
spejic
14 Jan 2005, 03:55 AM
How in the world can "My Boo" be on the list for 20 weeks, even given the 98% craptastic competition?
speedcake
14 Jan 2005, 12:24 PM
How in the world can "My Boo" be on the list for 20 weeks, even given the 98% craptastic competition?
Because the Masses are A$$es. That's how.
scaryice
20 Jan 2005, 03:16 PM
How in the world can "My Boo" be on the list for 20 weeks, even given the 98% craptastic competition?
It's mostly based on airplay, so songs don't reach the top until you've been hearing them for weeks, and stay for a long time. It's that way because there basically aren't any cd singles released nowadays, so their sales are miniscule and don't impact the chart. There isn't usually a lot of movement on the chart, except for a few really hot songs that shoot up the rankings.
This week's chart is out:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp
10) Over And Over - Nelly f/Tim McGraw
9) My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
8) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
7) Disco Inferno - 50 Cent
6) How We Do - The Game f/50 Cent
5) Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg f/Pharrell
4) Soldier - Destiny's Child
3) Lovers And Friends - Lil' Jon & The East Side Boyz f/Usher & Ludacris
2) 1, 2 Step - Ciara f/Missy Elliot
1) Let Me Love You - Mario (5 weeks at #1)
Claymore
20 Jan 2005, 03:23 PM
...and they said payola was dead...
skipshady
20 Jan 2005, 03:35 PM
...and they said payola was dead...
Hey, it ain't payloa if you pay radio stations via an independent promoter. The middle man makes it legal!
Crimen y Castigo
20 Jan 2005, 03:48 PM
10) Over And Over - Nelly f/Tim McGraw
Did I, like, miss the apocalypse again?
Nelly and Tim McGraw? Are Brooks and Dunn cutting an album with Courtney Love, too?
skipshady
20 Jan 2005, 03:58 PM
Did I, like, miss the apocalypse again?
Nelly and Tim McGraw? Are Brooks and Dunn cutting an album with Courtney Love, too?
It's not so much a duet as it is Nelly rhyming over Tim McGraw's Framptonized voice.
Though I would love to see, oh, I don't know, Toby Keith and Meshell Ndegeocello do a remake of "Ebony & Ivory".
Claymore
20 Jan 2005, 03:58 PM
Did I, like, miss the apocalypse again?
Nelly and Tim McGraw? Are Brooks and Dunn cutting an album with Courtney Love, too?
I'm waiting for the Marilyn Manson/Hillary Duff duet myself...
nicodemus
20 Jan 2005, 04:41 PM
I'm tired of the "featuring" trend. When are people going to get back to performing songs without having to have their best friends making the track "an event?"
Dolemite
20 Jan 2005, 04:57 PM
it's lists like this that make me not pay attention to mainstream pop music. i'm glad i gave up listening to radio in favor of burnt mix cds somewhere around '97. but soon i will get satilite radio, which as least has a handfull of channels i would consider listening to.
talina_baby
20 Jan 2005, 05:27 PM
Every Thursday, Billboard comes out with their Hot 100 list of the top songs in the country. You can see the top 50 positions by clicking the link below. As I obsessively check it every week, I will post the latest top ten here every time it comes out. These are the top songs in the country people!
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp
10) I Don't Want To Be - Gavin DeGraw
9) How We Do - The Game f/50 Cent
8) Disco Inferno - 50 Cent
7) Over And Over - Nelly f/Tim McGraw
6) My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
5) Soldier - Destiny's Child
4) Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg f/Pharrell
3) Lovers And Friends - Lil' Jon & The East Side Boyz f/Usher & Ludacris
2) 1, 2 Step - Ciara f/Missy Elliot
1) Let Me Love You - Mario (4 weeks at #1)
Ew.
sch2383
20 Jan 2005, 06:00 PM
These are the top songs in the country people!
No, they are the most popular. There is a huge difference.
Achtung
20 Jan 2005, 08:28 PM
So then this isn't a parody thread?
scaryice
20 Jan 2005, 10:33 PM
No, they are the most popular. There is a huge difference.
They are the top songs on the chart, the top preforming songs. They are the top songs in the country. Not the best, but it's accurate to say they are the top songs.
Bob Morocco
21 Jan 2005, 12:04 AM
It's mostly based on airplay, so songs don't reach the top until you've been hearing them for weeks, and stay for a long time. It's that way because there basically aren't any cd singles released nowadays, so their sales are miniscule and don't impact the chart. There isn't usually a lot of movement on the chart, except for a few really hot songs that shoot up the rankings.
This week's chart is out:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp
10) Over And Over - Nelly f/Tim McGraw
9) My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
8) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
7) Disco Inferno - 50 Cent
6) How We Do - The Game f/50 Cent
5) Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg f/Pharrell
4) Soldier - Destiny's Child
3) Lovers And Friends - Lil' Jon & The East Side Boyz f/Usher & Ludacris
2) 1, 2 Step - Ciara f/Missy Elliot
1) Let Me Love You - Mario (5 weeks at #1)
But Bright Eyes had the top two singles a month ago with almost no airplay.
scaryice
21 Jan 2005, 04:08 AM
But Bright Eyes had the top two singles a month ago with almost no airplay.
I had no idea who or what you were talking about so I had to look it up. Bright Eyes had the top two singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales chart, which is not the same as the regular Hot 100. Which just goes to show you how few singles are being sold nowadays, and how little they impact the Hot 100. They sold 7,000 copies of each song, and I don't even think they cracked it.