Why "The Hills", exactly? I didn't say they would be forgotten, but I just don't think they'll be able to displace "Earned It" as his overall signature.
I said "The Hills" because it seemed to fall faster. I didn't look at any charts when I said that, so I could be wrong. I'll leave the example alone for now, but for what it's worth, both songs have more YouTube views than "Earned It".
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I don't think "Lollipop (Candyman)" is a well-known Aqua song in the UK. People DO know "Doctor Jones", but you'd be doing well to find one person in a hundred who knows "Lollipop (Candyman)".
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Is there any need for a clean up thread? The only examples I think should be deleted are, as mentioned, the ones where "two songs both hit #1, but one remained longer". I think everything is alright.
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Big Bertha just started one today.
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I really don't think we should count it when two songs shared the same peaked (always #1) but one remained there longer. They made it to the same spot, there's no displacement. If two songs by the same artist reached #7, but one remained on that spot longer, would that be an example? Or #41? Or any random number? Chart Displacement is when one songs places lower than another song, but is better known overall. Not when they reached the same peak, but one remains there longer.
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Laptop Guy removed Mudvayne's entry, stating that "Happy?" was their Signature Song. However "Now Falling" has a lot more views on Youtube than "Happy?" does, which indicates which one is the better known. Please explain.
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It's not a fair comparison. The reason "Not Falling" has more views on Youtube than "Happy?" is because the music video to "Happy?" is not on Mudvayne's VEVO Channel. In fact "Not Falling" isn't their most viewed video. "Dig" is, at 11 million to "Not Falling"'s 6 million.
Also, "Happy?" has 13 million plays on Spotify to "Not Falling"'s 4 million. Their second highest is "Dig", only at 5 million.
The Wikipedia page says it is "one of the most (possibly the most) well known Mudvayne songs to date".
There's little argument that can be made about Mudvayne's signature song.
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Fine. But explain this:
Why did you add Seether on here when their only Top 40 hit "Broken" is easily their best known song to non-rock audiences? As indicated by Youtube, it's the most viewed Seether song by Youtube with 70+ million views, dwarfing the rest of their songs. While it's true that "Fake It" has slightly more plays on Spotify, it's probably because of the rock audience than anyone else. This is probably more Pop-Culture Isolation than anything else, and Seether is one of those bands with different signature songs for different audiences. The only real way I think this can be argued is that it may be more associated with Shaun's girlfriend at the time than them.
I guess you're right. I'll remove it.
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At the rate "Roses" is blowing up, it's becoming more and more likely that it will be better remembered than "Selfie" in the long run.
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Laptop Guy said that if "Poker Face" can't be called her most enduring hit, neither could "Bad Romance". This carries the implication that "Just Dance" and "Born This Way" aren't enduring, when they are just as much so. "Just Dance" more-or-less launched the dance-pop craze of the late '00s that would lead to Electronic Music taking over the mainstream, and it did it before "Poker Face" did. "Born This Way" is seen as one of the biggest pop anthems ever, and had a massive record debut.
For this reason, I don't see why Laptop Guy believes that those two songs aren't iconic enough to be considered enduring. It's just that "Bad Romance", which holds all records, is the most enduring of all.
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I'm not saying they aren't enduring. JD and BTW very enduring, even though not as iconic as PF and BR. What I'm trying to say is that between Poker Face and Bad Romance I don't think it's possible to call one more enduring than the other.
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- Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men were two of the biggest artists of the 1990s, spawning #1 hit after #1 hit throughout the decade. You may know the former for songs like "Hero," "Always Be My Baby," and "We Belong Together," while you may know the latter for songs like "End of the Road" and "I'll Make Love to You." Now, those songs were huge, but chart record-wise they barely compared to a certain other song. In late 1995 through early 1996, both acts shared the longest running #1 song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100: "One Sweet Day," an R&B ballad that spent 16 weeks at the top of the chart. Nowadays? It's largely forgotten even among Boyz II Men's biggest hit singles.
I really don't know about this. "One Sweet Say" is very well remembered from what I've seen. It often shows up with mourning someone lost, and its legacy as the longest running #1 on Billboard ensures that it will be remembered. Saying that it's "largely forgotten" is an extreme exaggeration.
I really don't know about this. Maybe you could make a case for "The Hills", but I doubt "Can't Feel My Face" will be forgotten anytime soon.
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