I do have principles, just that mine are furthered by voting blue: making things safer for the LGBTQ+ and people of color both in my immediate circle and the US pockets of my online circles. Voting any other way almost always is making things worse in that lens.
Once it‘s general election time, voting red is 99% of the time the more evil choice, voting 3rd party is 99% of the time useless and just helping the more evil choice, and not voting is 100% of the time helping the more evil choice. Acting on principles only helps if they come to fruition.
It got a surge in streams after its performance at the Grammys, seemingly from both people excited for the nom/presence and those clowning on the technical issues of the performance. The modest ebb of that boost along with stable radio mean it’s falling in points but not by much.
This has been coming up a lot in, of all places, Fortnite. They have a feature where you can mash up songs, and the default settings for the song include the key, which tends to lead to debates about whether x key in y mode is the best interpretation to modify from or not.
As meme parlance, it’s become far higher scope than the performer themself, it’s become shorthand for “an artist with mainstream ambitions that nobody really knows”.
As one of your fan base deep into the chart side of the community, I am sadly familiar with the term.
"Isn't that Birdemic?"
"Child, allow me to introduce you to the concept of a 'ripoff'..."
Anyway, back to the Bruce song, this all means that it has few streams counting towards its chart prospects, looking to fail to chart off its initial midweek launch (as you showed on the TotC projection) despite 15k sales, and not looking much better for its first full week.
Google is trying to strongarm with this pullout and a public statement, but I think we’re just looking at our new status quo, as Billboard can easily spin it as shifting the focus of the chart to audio-based activity, with YouTube Music streams as an unfortunate casualty but not a massive quantity.
That one is some unfortunate timing, there’s been a spat going where Billboard made active streams stronger, with the ad-supported ones getting more of a boost but still of course under subscription ones, but Google (who primarily get ad-supported streams) want them to count the same.
Unfortunately, its audience is mostly confined to the buyers (and it’s doing better than most leaders on the metric, but that’s still only upwards of 10,000, which doesn’t add many points) and watchers on YouTube, who don’t count ever since Google pulled out of reporting.
In the past 2 weeks or so, these bald jabs have happened at least 5 times. While obviously not all online leftists are like this, there's definitely a pattern that's emerged amongst some in the very-online enclave where they're all too eager to stoop to grade school bullying.
In such a world, the most craven would still try to corner resources and control its supply to others, or try to hinder or eliminate competition. With no communal trust, greed and fear would lead to what I'd imagine is quite the bad structure.
I guess the implication is that if society is even more individualistic, where there is no pooling of resources and everyone fends for themselves, nobody can have power over others. If that's what they're going for, I naturally disagree with the idea.
It’s easiest to notice when the character hops into Bad with Us on the line “With all his smarmy talk, I thought Vox was just gassed up”.
TV does it too?! Gosh, I feel like that would be even more obvious to even a casual watcher just from unnatural the movements would be. Guess I’m not missing much by almost never going to channels (pretty much only do so for event live broadcasts)
Oh man, a station that went full nightcore with it would be a nightmare for my ears. Even the ones that do 1.05 in my area already annoy me with how tinny the sound gets.
I mean, the festival itself seems rather dogwhistley, celebrating the US‘ 250th and calling itself ”for the people”. Considering how few major artists are there that aren’t known MAGAs, I doubt they hid their intentions when trying to book acts.
This joke is what spurred me to look up and confirm that the legit original Rainbow Connection did hit the top 40 back then, I really thought that was an exaggeration. The fact that it was in the zone for more than a month I feel further speaks to the point the joke was making.
I had to check to see if it was my favorite of those, the SEO video with the parody “Juicy Slots”, and thankfully not, though I’m thinking maybe I should back that one up before it‘s blammed away too…
Talk of the Charts supplies Todd and a few other chart YouTubers with an extended list, and I believe Todd uses the top 200 as the pool minus holiday songs and other such repeats.
Skating, Christmas is Coming, and the arrangement of O Tannenbaun are my highlights for the album. Christmastime is Here is fine, but O Tannenbaum scratches the low tempo piano jazz itch for me.
When you go to Chat, in the upper corner of the box there should be a settings button, and from there you should have this toggle. If I had to guess, at some point relatively recently you changed the setting from Everyone to Users You Follow. Can't guarantee that's the issue here, but it's likely.
Specifically in regards to the holidays, a song can chart in the bottom half if it‘s a brand new radio single. This led to Santa Can’t You Hear Me debuting from streaming in one year, then re-entering for a peak in the 71-80 range the next year, eligible thanks to its radio run.
Considering the only arcade-native songs Drew ever got were in X, and prior work was only in the Xbox titles, that likely means it was Stillwind who pushed for Drew’s inclusion. After Stillwind’s passing, the console team kept up with a few artists like Drew but eventually fizzled out.
It's important to point out that Losin' Streak doesn't chart this week because it slipped below the Hot 100 and had no genre classings. Based on Blake's artist points, the song's likely in the same point range of Gravity at minimum.
For more information on the charts, check out the notes section of last week's thread: bsky.app/profile/rime...
Clean It Up!, Kimiko Glenn, Erika Henningsen, Sam Haft, & Andrew Underberg
#42 Hot Rock/Alternative Songs
Piss (A Love Song), Alex Brightman, Krystina Alabado, Blake Roman, Sam Haft, & Andrew Underberg
#45 Hot Rock/Alternative Songs
Vox Populi, Jeremy Jordan, Christian Borle, Sam Haft, & Andrew Underberg
#17 (+1) Hot Rock/Alternative Songs
#16 (=) Hot Rock Songs
#3 (-1) Hot Hard Rock Songs
#23 (-2) Hard Rock Streaming Songs
Brighter, Christian Borle, Sam Haft, & Andrew Underberg
#11 Bubbling Under Hot 100
#12 Hot Rock/Alternative Songs
#11 Hot Rock Songs
#1 (+14) Hot Hard Rock Songs
#5 Hard Rock Streaming Songs
