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Originally Posted by inthezone
I disagree. Sales determine what the public likes. No fanbase is big enough alone to make a song go #1. Of course radio can still count but more than sales? Thats the reason why Gangnam Style got blocked from #1 for 7 weeks by a song that wasnt even close to being as popular. Shows how much power radio has. Not to mention labels can just pay them to play your song
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Don't forget you are on AHS, the forum dedicated to the singer that broke the record for consecutive #1 in 2010 without having any real hit since 2006. You don't have to sell a lot to get a weekly #1, you only need to sell more than the other people are selling on that week... If they sell bad, you only need to sell a little "less" bad.
And even If I agree that selling milliosns of copies of a single shows it is a really popular song, you can sell millions with small numbers each week and never actually reach the #1, or even top 5, on the same way a strong fanbase can buy a massive number of copies once the song debut, and after that she song fall hard because very little people out of that fanbase actually cared.