That female voices remain a presence on pop radio is a given the women of 2014, however, come from a much more monolithic place, with only Swift and Minaj having strong roots outside the pop world. (The influence of MTV, which served as America's national radio station 25 years ago, is important, but it wasn't, and isn't, measured by Billboard's bean-counters.)ĭigging deeper into the Top 40's makeup, though, reveals a slightly more nuanced picture. On the flip side, the post-Telecommunications Act consolidation of radio stations means that it, too, is a different place radio stations are more likely to be programmed from the top down and with a nationwide audience in mind, meaning that the closest thing this decade will have to a regional hit is an online-first sensation like "Hot Boy", Bobby Shmurda's Vine-assisted current No. In 1989 the chart's positions were determined by a combination of radio plays and singles sales, although exact sales figures weren't precisely measured on the chart until SoundScan was introduced in 1991 digital streaming services like Spotify and YouTube, which are so crucial to viral outliers today, were but a hiccup in a modem's connection screech. The top hit on the NovemHot 100 was Roxette's mournful "Listen to Your Heart", a synth-glazed track that could pass for a 1989 outtake.īefore comparing the charts of now and the charts of then, it's important to note that the Hot 100 is a very different beast today. That year capped a grand decade for pop that was artistically given life by the likes of Michael Jackson and Madonna and market-wise given a brand-new platform by MTV 1989's biggest hits included Madonna's "Like a Prayer", the Bangles' "Eternal Flame", and Paula Abdul's "Straight Up".
Perhaps going back to 1989, the totemic year of Swift's album, might help. Since then, ladies' grip on the top has loosened slightly Maroon 5's semi-stalkery "Animals" inched ahead of the Azalea/Ora duet, and the remaining four slots in the top 10 are taken up by male artists. That week, there were eight artists in the Hot 100's Top Five: Booty-shaking upstart Meghan Trainor ("All About That Bass") Swift ( "Shake It Off") Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora (the dreary "Black Widow") Tove Lo (the dreamy "Habits (Stay High)") and the synergistic triptych of Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj ( "Bang Bang", which recalls a mid-'00s British girlgroup song that lost its way). But does 2014 represent a sea change as far as women taking the reins on the other side? =-=-=- Swift's triumph puts a bow on what Billboard last month called "something going on culturally" when it comes to the pop charts. Pop music has always been seen as the province of women, at least from the perspective of who consumes it the screaming teenage fans of the Beatles and One Direction lie at one demographic end, while the Delilah-listening adult-contemporary listeners who dedicate "Drops of Jupiter" to one another long-distance sit at the other. Judging by the iTunes Store's charts, tracks from 1989 will also have a decent showing on the Hot 100, too-"Shake It Off" and "Blank Space" take up the iTunes Store's top two spots at this moment, and four other tracks are in the top 40 as well.
1 album in America at some point this week reports this weekend said that Swift's hard push out of country-crossover territory was on track to sell 1.3 million copies in its first seven days of availability, the biggest one-week tally of a single album's sales since 2002. Nice case and tape.Taylor Swift's 1989 will most certainly be crowned as the No.
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