But apparently, on their test charts with their new formula, “Lately” would have not been a #1 hit at all, staying at #2 behind “Doo Wop (That Thing)” for another week! So if they just changed their timing a little bit, this whole article would have never existed!
“Lately” will drop 2 spots next week, which is honestly not as big a fall as I expected. Tellingly, there’s a blurb below there in the magazine noting how there will be airplay-only tracks added to the Hot 100 next week. “the song is beginning to cross from its rhythmic top 40 and R&B base to mainstream top 40 stations.” … “The track jumps 37-32 on the Hot 100 Airplay list due to a 10% increase in audience.” “Lately,” which is sale-priced at select accounts, scanned 82,000 units, a 1% decline from last issue.Īlso its radio play was growing but unimpressive: Singles sales account for 74% of Divine’s chart points. Posted in: The Number Ones: Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week”Īccording to the archived Billboard magazine for this virtual week – – a discount on the single was responsible for at least a good amount of this week’s activity. The album is better known for the title track, though, a #5 country/#94 pop hit…) (BTW, the Tulsa quote, for the uninitiated, is from a Waylon Jennings song from 1971, a #16 country hit called “(Don’t Let the Sun Set on You) Tulsa”. It looks like someone severed an artery down here… Something to think about, while Toronto experiences a run on Aspirin (as Bayer is called up there). Have to ask, though: what would be the different between your song today, and my song Monday, which is, shall we say, all new and radical and stuff? It’s only a couple degrees of separation between the two songs. Tom, your antidote is coming up on Monday in Quick Hits. “One Week” is a 5, and on a good day a bit higher. So how many Canadians signed up for accounts today? I’m gonna sift through the wreckage, help a few people up (I get the feeling one of TNOCS’s founding characters is wounded to the core today, reading all this), and start mopping up. I own their albums, so in my head they made be doing something right. I wouldn’t want to go to Petersborough with Tom anytime soon, but to be mad at BNL is counterproductive to me.
And I don’t mind the guys in the bowling shirts with an unusual perspective on pop-rock, of mixing the thoughtful with the absurd and the goofy. Someone turned me on to BNL sometime after the millennium, long after the hits landed. It’s just that like everyone else, I’ve heard it a lot, and so the wear kinda interferes with the initial rush of fun you got in 1998. I wish the song were as tight as the raps are.Īnd yet, I’m not mad at the goofiness. None of that makes any sense to me why they’d be in a song with his desire for new golf clubs. I mean, I know in general what a Sailor Moon is, and that the characters aren’t bad, they’re just drawn that way. Other parts don’t make sense, even when you read them off a Google search as I did. I’m sorry, Tom Breihan, but any reference to Bert Kaempfert is actually kinda cool. There are other parts that are, I think, clever. And who among us doesn’t have a “tantric Sting” joke? So, that’s eh. I hate the “chickety-China” bit, though I’m not sure if it’s offensive of just stupid. The rap is…well, (sorry, Mom) it is what it is. I admire the speed of the singing here, because there’s a lot to keep pace with. The riffs on the chorus almost sound to me, strangely, like Free’s “All Right Now”, stuck on the first three riffs. Even if I disagree with him.įirst, the intellectual exercise. OK, now that I’m done, this is the kind of writing that will get Tom a contract for a novel if he wants it. I mean, I’m still reading the article, and haven’t even touched the commentariat part, and I’m wondering what the hell is going on. *bear pokes his head in, sees blood on the walls, ponders*ĭid something happen here today? Because we’ve reached 744 comments AND I HAVEN’T EVEN POSTED ANYTHING YET.
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