hmm. they should've just waited until January.

why are drake stans so dumbbb 😩

Radio stimulus will kick in fully in January when all the Christmas songs fall off.

Yeah, that it isn't flash in the pan for 3 weeks and sticks around.

Radio/payola

You sound like those gay barbz on twitter. Not every single song that does well is payola. If its streaming well, clearly not the case.

Most of them are. Like whenever I see a pop song on the billboard 100 lions share of the numbers are from radio. Especially if it’s competing with a rap song.

Mainstream pop/radio pop has to be the most manufactured spoonfed genre of them all.

Levitating by Dua Lipa has over 2 billion streams. Did it get played a lot on the radio? Yeah. Was it warranted because it's more accesible than Lil Uzi Vert? Also yes. You can't be in the top 10 for 6 months just because of radio. Radio will also drop you if the streams aren't up to the same par

lol just look at the ratio of streams to airplay these pop artists have

S*** is a joke.

because pop music is more appealing to multiple demographics, it has broad appeal

that’s literally what pop music is

some of the biggest hits of this decade are Blinding Lights, As It Was, Save Your Tears, Heat Waves, Flowers, Stay… all actual real hits, nothing to do with “payola”

Bruh wut. Taylor Swift, Doja Cat and SZA songs are old and already huge established hits so of course their radio play is going to be way more than Jack Harlow

Zach Bryan s*** had 8 million more streams than Taylor yet she has 60 million more streams. Kanye been told yall about radio lol. Keep believing this s***

Explain Zach Bryan having more streams and more buys than Taylor yet having 60 million less from radio play?

You can cope all you want with the broad appeal s*** but one look at the chart shows there’s games being played to pump up certain s*** artificially lol

Nigga said heatwaves and flowers are real hits

Because the Taylor Swift song has been a huge hit for 6 months and the Zach Bryan song is just now getting popular. Radio catches up with demand. It has been this way since streaming became a thing almost a decade ago. Wut

???

That Zach Bryan song did not just become popular lol what

crazy how some people here are disconnected from reality

It’s funny watching y’all scramble to justify this s***

2.6 and 1.6 billion streams. Ah yes the radio was the reason for that. Wut

It literally dropped 2 months ago. Cruel Summer is from 2019 and went viral on Tik Tok in May. It takes 10 seconds to look this up

And yes, Pop radio formats have much larger audiences than rhythmic/urban so naturally they will chart higher (because there is more demand from listeners tuning into radio). Yal just want to cry about anything

Bro I just showed you the chart. Zach Bryan had more streams and more buys. Over 40 million total units more lol. There’s no way you can explain the 60 million difference. It’s as simple as the label wanted that song to have the AirPlay.

If the chart is about showing us the hottest songs for a specific week why is radio being weighted so heavily when by you’re own admission their going off s*** like viral tik toks in may

You radio pop fans amuse me. And y’all be on this b**** arguing about this fake chart

you were the one saying pop songs are not actual hits, they just have radio. and then claimed Flowers, the biggest song of the year in the world, and Heat Waves, a song that charted for like 3 years, were not real hits 💀

We never heard that s*** lil bro