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Now up to 19 on Hot AC and still climbing!
Thunder by Imagine Dragons is #9 but heading downwards
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For the number person in you from the Adult Contemporary National Airplay Chart (issue date: 08-04-2018) . Tell me if the link works:
BDSRadio Charts.
It's quite a long way from #12 in plays at the moment though.
May it continue downwards and sink into the pits of hell never to be experienced by another living soul ever again.
I don’t care for the song either but what’s funny is last October I had some ridiculous faith that Best Thing could crack the top 100 singles. A lot of people hear felt if it had not done so in its first few weeks than it wouldn’t but that isn’t always the case. I used Thunder, a song I had never heard before, as an example because it was released to radio months earlier and it took 6 or so weeks to chart within the top 100 and at the time was at like number 60.
Then I heard he song and was like....it’s bad. Then I heard it again and again and again...this random song I used as an example turned out to be a massive hit. Yes, it sucks but it’s STILL on the charts after nearly 10 months!!
Yeah . . . hits come in all flavors. Some shoot up the chart and hit #1 then vanish overnight. Others are slow burners.
Say . . . speaking of burning . . . did I mention I'd like every copy of Thunder to burn in the pits of hell?
Well, Billboard week of 4 August 2018:
#18 Adult Top 40 (Up 1)
#13 Adult Contemporary (No change).
They are in the earn it phase of the charts now.
In smaller countries you can climb fast and go down fast. The American market is a lot bigger so chart success really means that people like your song. A slow climb is often pretty common for a successful song.
commercial (god forbid).
I used to think(and to a large extent still do) that a commercial would be the bottom for them. However, they are now nearing their 60s, so they are out of that “they are cool until they” faze(hint: they are not nearly as cool as they used to be), so why not a commercial?
What is Adult Top 40? Is that the same as Hot AC?
Oh they can still be cool as an older act (a different kind of cool - if that makes sense).
But commercials?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I'm assuming that was an exaggerated statement as U2 have done commercials already. And why not - adds a lot of publicity.
May it continue downwards and sink into the pits of hell never to be experienced by another living soul ever again.
ADT security - Lights of Home
Generac Generators - Black Out
Match.com - Love is Bigger Than
PSA for Beach Safety - Red Flag Day
Weight Watchers- Get Out of Your Own Way
Manhattan Psychiatric Center- Crazy Tonight
Great.
I'll look forward to hearing Sunday Bloody Sunday on the next Band-Aid commercial.
Or maybe the Black Flag insecticide can be renamed Red Flag . . and then, you know.
At least you didn't mention tampons for the first song.
And let's not forget "Vertigo" advertising all sorts of things on TV (iPods in general, new U2 iPod, new U2, new U2 package of songs that could be downloaded, etc.)...or maybe we all already have.
Downsliding now although not that surprising. They needed a universal music video for the song rather than targeting just a niche of the population. Youtube is important and that video just doesn't have universal appeal. U2's Youtube numbers are pretty appalling across the board though.
Also, while I'm ignorant as to the number of plays Ordinary Love received, I do remember the song being somewhat popular, i.e. it captured a "moment," where the tune seemed to hit whatever minor chord with the public (the Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as well as closing Fallon's Tonight Show premiere, certainly helped). I'd say that song is by the biggest from the band since, I dunno... maybe their Green Day collab?