I Love #1s - 2005

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week we had a three-way tie for the top hit of 1965 between Help, Satisfaction and Day Tripper, with 38 ticks each. However in the favourites box Get Off My Cloud seemed to be the overall victor. Cliff failed to garner a single tick! Poor Cliff. I saw the Wired For Sound video playing on the screen in Sainsbury's this morning. Wonderful. But back to now! Well, to last year in fact. Frog songs, Elvis re-issues, the lead Pussycat emerging from her cocoon ready to rule the planet - it's 2005!

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Comments

Re: We factor in airplay, but hadn't yet gotten to downloads

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Only eight #1s all year?

Re: We factor in airplay, but hadn't yet gotten to downloads

[koganbot]

Yeah, counting radio play gives the charts a lot of stability (and I think it's justified, since there are demographic differences between those who buy singles and those who buy the album, and there are way more of the latter, so you've got to find some way to try to get an accurate estimate of a song's popularity; but now with downloads things are shifting again; Billboard changes its formula at times). Anyway, now that downloads are in the mix, things are somewhat more voluble (more variety at the start of the year than now, for some reason; Sexyback is on its seventh week; We Belong Together got 14 last year, though was interrupted for a week by Inside Your Heaven). This is the list so far:

Don't Forget about Us Mariah Carey; Laffy Taffy D4L; Grillz Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali and Gipp; Check on It Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug; You're Beautiful James Blunt; So Sick Ne-Yo; Temperature Sean Paul; Bad Day Daniel Powter; SOS Rihanna; Ridin' Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone; Hips Don't Lie Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean; Do I Make You Proud Taylor Hicks; Promiscuous Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland; London Bridge Fergie; SexyBack Justin Timberlake

Hmmmm

[koganbot]

I know I'm drifting off-topic, from last year in Britain to this year in the U.S., but something jumps out about this year's U.S. number ones: it's basically black music, but with a significant number of white faces fronting for it (four of the eleven r&b or dancehall tracks, counting Mariah as looking white even though she has some African heritage).