yeah, Superchunk videos get 350k+ hits every 80 minutes...
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
and it's only MONDAY!
just wait until...
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the 'social 50' chart that she's at #13 on is measured purely in YouTube, Facebook, etc.. she's got a LOT of views on YouTube in the last couple weeks but the collective videographies of Bieber and Gaga probably have more.
― Metal Jennifer Saunders (some dude), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna assume that 90% of the downloads are from the ~youtube generation~ of kids (same under 16 sort that makes conscious and well thought out efforts to post youtube comments), so it strikes me as a bit weird that this is actually being sold on such a huge-scale (considering kidz these dayz have likely never bought a CD in their lives)
i mean i bet rebecca's been robbed of at least the entire US deficit w/ the number of times this has been pulled from limewire or whatever the hell the under 16 crowd uses to download music.
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
well, the ultimate chart (which got some minimal media coverage when it came out because it kind of goes a long way beyond billboard when it comes to streaming and social media) has "friday" at #8 this week, down one from #7 when it debuted last week. its "online watching and listening" score is 100, meaning it's the highest among all songs currently. its sales score is 6 and its radio score is 0.4
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
that chart, btw, rarely looks very different from the billboard hot 100, with the exception of huge youtube hits being placed much higher and lasting much longer ("waka waka" by shakira was a top 10 hit on that chart for example)
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have time to take you to task somedude but here's some data for you to chew on:
Bieber's #1 video "Baby" has 500M hits over 14+months (avg: ~35M views per month)RB Rebecca Black has 83M hits in <2 months (avg ~42M views per month)
Granted "Friday" doesn't have the promotion/media billions thrown into Bieber's marketing campaigns, and w/o certainty "Friday" will fall off current trend in 14 months but for now... you're kidding yourself if you think that she's any less popular than Bieber or Gaga right now.
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf is fuck you still doing on any chart anywhere
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno dudes you guys are talking about RB like this whole thing is no different than any other pop hit. it's mostly funny because of the video, so OF COURSE the iTunes sales are not going to correlate to the YouTube hits the way they would for other songs, even if the sales are somewhat surprising for a meme.
― Metal Jennifer Saunders (some dude), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
xp apparently fuck you is #1 in airplay right now: http://www.billboard.com/charts/radio-songs
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's had a kind of weird surge of renewed popularity in the last few weeks, even starting to hear it on R&B stations now
― Metal Jennifer Saunders (some dude), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna assume that 90% of the downloads are from the ~youtube generation~ of kids (same under 16 sort that makes conscious and well thought out efforts to post youtube comments), so it strikes me as a bit weird that this is actually being sold on such a huge-scale (considering kidz these dayz have likely never bought a CD in their lives)i mean i bet rebecca's been robbed of at least the entire US deficit w/ the number of times this has been pulled from limewire or whatever the hell the under 16 crowd uses to download music.― kelpolaris, Monday, April 4, 2011 8:02 PM (1 hour ago)
― kelpolaris, Monday, April 4, 2011 8:02 PM (1 hour ago)
it doesn't seem weird to me. iTunes gift cards are pretty much the default birthday gift for t(w)eens these days, and they have to use them on something, right? plus I'll bet there are loads of 12-year-olds (as opposed to, say, 17-year-olds) who buy mp3s with their own money because they haven't yet been exposed to the evils of that new Napster thingy. squeaky clean folk hero Rebecca Black doesn't really appeal to file-sharers, who are likely to sneer at her (and Justin Bieber, and Disney pop) while they download edgier shit like Paramore.
but those people really matter, because there are plenty of innocent, law-abiding kiddies who are flipping out over "Friday" and throwing their $$$$$ (or their parents' $$$$$) in Ark's direction. I mean if you program a computer to write music for the target demographic of "kids who actually pay for music", it'll take all of 2 milliseconds to spit out something like, "gotta have a bowl, gotta have cereal," bleep bleep bloop you're rich.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
(oops, I mean, "those people don't really matter." good lord I can't type lately)
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It's at 60 in the real (UK) chart, up one place from last week
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bus6a5oHqhM
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
why do they refuse to pay someone to write passable lyrics to go with their passable music?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
if the point of this above track is to say "hey, let me into the Dr Luke earworm business, someone else can write the words," great, but if it's actually meant to sell Pato as a celebrity in his own right, wtf
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi "friday" was the first song i bought on itunes in like 5 years
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
my name is patopeople call me patricei am living my life
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
and so is my niece
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
reminds me of that mr show sketch where the CEO is going on about how his business has been in his family for generations "SO DON'T YOU CALL ME FAT!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man that 30mins version forks posted upthread <3
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously though, if this guy is making these tracks, he should get a job in a genuine bubblegum factory
so i said what seat should i take should i take the front seat or the back seatrealizing that we were supposed to have a school busguess what, we didn't have no money for a school bus!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
My name is PatoThat's Spanish for duckWhy does everybodySay I suck?
I have feelings tooYou should be more considerateI'd write an angry letter if I wasn't illiterate
I like young girls
― i get less play than an 8 track (San Te), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, it sounded like the Cocteau twins... (xposts)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
realizing that we were supposed to have a school busguess what, nothing really rhymes with school bus!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, Cocteau Twins indeed, that's it!! Wau.
xp
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Stool flush xpost
― i get less play than an 8 track (San Te), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
they call me fat fat fat fat fat Usher
I want Passantino/Pato print war now
― clown nabisco (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
why oh why won't someone punch this dude in the neck
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
although kudos for using "pedophile" in the pre-chorus
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
what your saying is good. but flexing dosent make ppl think your not fatBestSportsHighlights 13 hours ago 51
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
He should name his album Patophile
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ts: pato vs. blotto
― butterfield earth (get bent), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
was Dom's piece the first to coin the "fat Usher" nickname???????
― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to weigh in on this before the 2,000th post...It's a bus song; not one of the best, but a bus song nonetheless. Kris Kross, the Guess Who, the Hollies, the Who, the Vengaboys--I like bus songs. I'm going to play this over the school P.A. Friday morning. I'm at a K-8; two-thirds of the kids will love it, one-third will groan mightily.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP clemenza
it is a shame that you are about to be torn apart by annoyed 5- through 14-year-olds
― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
torn apart in the front seattorn apart in the back seat
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Murdering murdering yeah!DeathDeathDeathDeath
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Ironic death: Clemenza tossed under the wheels of a school bus.
RIP dude.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
the front wheels or the back?
― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Wishbone I will taaaake
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
You've got me worried now. I'm picturing something like the end of Freaks, with me locked in my room as dozens of kindergarten kids try to break down the door and exact a horrible revenge.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Exciting!
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Fun fun fun fun
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys, just to clear things up:
http://cherryhillmall.com/about_us/news/read/6086
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
CJ Fam still gonna show up though
― ℯℳℴ ❤\(◕~◕✿ (some dude), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i had to let my friend down on FB about that the other day
― Sittin' Fran (donna rouge), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link