This is why airplay charts give you a reading that's somewhat different from sales. Airplay records negative votes, sales don't. I've noticed in country that the performers who have sales running ahead of airplay - e.g., Miranda Lambert and Big & Rich - are the ones who are in your face with how "different" they're being. Also, they - and Aly & A.J. - tend to do well on satellite radio, which I don't know much about but I'd expect that its selling point is that it gives you something different.
Billboard has added online video plays (where the viewer is choosing what to watch) to its singles-rating formula. (Doesn't count YouTube, of course, but is monitoring Launch Yahoo and AOL Music.) The "Potential Breakup Song" video has been consistently in the Top 10 on Yahoo and AOL. This and TRL are its main indication that it has an audience beyond Disney.
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Date: 2007-10-15 01:02 pm (UTC)Billboard has added online video plays (where the viewer is choosing what to watch) to its singles-rating formula. (Doesn't count YouTube, of course, but is monitoring Launch Yahoo and AOL Music.) The "Potential Breakup Song" video has been consistently in the Top 10 on Yahoo and AOL. This and TRL are its main indication that it has an audience beyond Disney.