I see songs move up and down charts on Spotify and iTunes. But then every once in awhile a song will just appear in the number one spot seemingly on the same day it came out. How are they measuring this? Are people really streaming it enough to get it there right away or is there another metric that I’m missing?
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the first week is actually often where songs peak, because bands and artists usually drum up hype for the release ahead of time, and even if they don’t, as long as they’re big enough, people will immediately want to hear the new release as soon as it’s out. as time wears on, between getting a little sick of it, people who listened to it once or twice because it was new but didn’t grow attached, and new songs coming out to listen to, these songs will fall on the charts a bit. but lots of people listen to a song they end up loving especially often when they first hear it, and the first week is a time when *everyone* who hears it is hearing it for the first time
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