Ontd Original: Famous Artist and Songs that never got to number one on the Billboard top 100 chart

[jemgirl90]

-Bruce Springsteen collected a dozen top 10 hits, but the closest to number one he got was for " Dancing in he Dark" which spent 4 weeks at number 2."When Doves Cry" kept him out of the spot.

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[ellaellaeheheh]

I WANT IT THAT WAY? Really? One of the greatest pop songs of all time? I can't believe it. honestly, this is the billboard charts loss.

seems like it used to be harder to get #1s?

[ghettoluvpr]

It used to be an ACTUAL accomplishment. Now anyone can get one. Which makes it even sadder that some people, who truly deserve it, don’t have one.

[colossusx]

i tried to tell people on here that getting a number one on billboard is SO much easier now and they tried to argue me down. you had to WORK to be #1 before, it wasn't all this streaming and youtube and bundle shit.

[dynamite_guy]

I do think it’s easier now. But there were always ways to game the system to hit number one. But it typically didn’t result in songs that were not truly hits reaching #1 and falling directly into obscurity.

[sonorous_spirit]

i think so too.

though then again, while bsb would have their armies of fans from trl buying their records from hmv/virgin/tower in the 90s, it probably pales in comparison to the huge amount of people streaming stuff and fan armies. i heard of somebody like, making sock puppet accounts on spotify to play taylor swift records over and over on mute so that it would count towards her sales or w/e lol.

[ellaellaeheheh]

yeah, I see all the fans doing streaming parties like it is their job and think: couldn't be me. the artists I like are gonna need some other fans if they want that.

[colossusx]

the problem is that now the ONLY fans (heh) some artists have are the stans. they don't get casual fans anymore so while they might be more vocal they're a smaller group.

[cbluechicken]

Getting a #1 was much harder. Getting a top ten hit was seen as an accomplishment too. Nowadays if your lead single doesn't get #1, you've flopped. Hence why all these artists do bundles, the song tops the charts and then free falls. WAP seems like the first legit #1 in a long ass time.

[blankstare]

It was definitely harder. There was no streaming services like now. It was seen as a huge deal to get even top 20 back then. If you got a #1, you were considered huge. Unlike now, with payola, bundles, and fans banning together to stream the songs over and over to get it to the top. Then the second week, it has a dramatic drop lol

[anna_drenxavier]

This is a very informative thread! I didn't realize that YouTube views and shit counted towards the Billboard status now.

[anna_drenxavier]

This is a very informative thread! I didn't realize that YouTube views and shit counted towards the Billboard status now.

[dedebee]

It actually used to be easy, if the label was willing to put in the effort. Physical single sales were a huge factor though...labels would put them out and discount them to about $1 (they usually cost $3-4) to generate huge sales and get a #1. In the late 90s, they mostly stopped caring and focused on album sales rather than releasing singles. In 1998, Billboard actually changed the Hot 100 rules to allow songs that didn’t have physical singles to chart because of that, but sales still were a huge part of the formula.

Sorry for the long post, but I’m a chart nerd lol.

[rebel_memory]

didn’t know about that 1998 change. ironic that physical singles are being used to help album sales again, w/ Taylor 7 different versions of Cardigan and BTS releasing single cassettes.