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YOUR Top 10 Singles Of 1999
- Thread starter Wacky D
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im talking about the videos. not the charts. the videos barely over-lapped each other. if at all. I clearly pointed out the differences between that and juvenile, and you keep side-stepping. im not arguing about it anymore. you clearly get the point.
having a bigger single, doesn't mean that youre getting more promo. it just means that your chit is hotter.
you don't have to be pop-friendly for the pop world to gravitate towards you.
missy is a pop rapper to everybody but you bro.
and please use your common sense. people weren't buying missy's album for the original hot boyz. they wanted the version that was on TV/radio.
lol @ quoting Q-Tip claiming hip-hop is not pop, but proceeded to put out those goofy ass singles in '99 that became hits, but his fanbase aint f*ck with it and he flopped.
I only brought the MTV chit into the discussion because I know YOU care about that type chit.
the TRL thing was a different discussion. this is why you don't comprehend things a lot of the time. you jumble everything up and end up taking everything out of context because of it. you can thank me later for that observation, btw.
I used to hear that often actually. altho, I never knew if it was true or not.
in fact, I remember way back further than this, they used to brand the stations by city.
when was the video out tho??
I remember first seeing the video in the fall of 1999.
Sidenote: If it doesn't fit the thread criteria due to a technicality, then I'll replace it with T.W.D.Y. - Player's Holiday.
You could argue, but you'd lose that argument. "Hot Boyz" was bigger than "Love Is Blind". They all benefited it from simply because that particular song set a record for most weeks at #1 on the Rap charts and wasn't broken until this year. The remix to "Flava In Ya Ear" is definitely a bigger deal than the original. And it doesn't matter who was spittin' on "One More Chance". Mary is uncredited as a feature. She's on the song and in the video.
Juvenile didn't sell 5 million records and NO it doesn't mean the label is giving you more promo than a newbie. They sold 4 million records with three singles and videos and promo on the strength of that success. Why would you break the budget when you just sold 4 million records for cheap and you have artists on deck that you're trying to break.
Breh, Puff put Mase on his debut single while Biggie was still alive. "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" dropped in late 1996.
And again, you don't know what you're talking about.
1) The remix was out a full three months before the album went Gold/Platinum
2) Gold and Platinum aren't a measure of sales. She could've sold a full 500-700K in 1999 and not been certified until 2000. The album was certified Gold and platinum on February 4, 2000. In order for her to move 600K in 2000 from January 1-February 4, she would've had to move 150K per week, which would've bested her first week sales for four consecutive weeks. That obviously did not happen. For her to have gotten a platinum and gold certification that early in the year, she would've had to have been hovering around 700-800K in 1999.
3) False. Missy's album didn't fall off the charts until the end of that year. It re-appeared at the top of 2000 in between 170-175 of the Billboard 200 and climbed to like 140 by like February.
Breh, nobody's sidestepping. You just keep moving goal posts. DMX had multi-platinum albums out at the same time and the singles were overlapping. Considering "Back That" had been out for months already, I don't think this video was getting as much play.
I never said having a bigger single means more promo.
Breh, nobody categorizes rappers as Pop this or Pop that. That's message board fodder.
Breh, how do you buy an album for a song that doesn't even appear on the album especially when the single was sold separately.
Club bangers =/= Pop no matter how goofy you thought they were.
Breh, don't come at me about caring about MTV, when you're the one archiving their shows on VHS. You're bringing up what you saw on TRL (a MTV show) and are criticizing me for "caring" about a media outlet that you put more stock in than I ever have.
I still can’t believe how Juvy just came and went on that album after how big 400 Degrees was.
The chart positions for first week were about the same, but G Code should have been much higher.
The singles obviously didn’t do as well as 400 Degrees.
The album didn’t sell as much. It did go platinum quicker, but It felt like a flop in real time. The expectations were much higher and 400 was a slow burn (no pun intended).
Your point is that chart position doesn’t matter for This Missy album because three albums on the chart sold a lot, and absent those high selling albums, she would have debuted in the top 5.
But even without those albums, she only gets bumped up to 7. So it doesn’t prove your point.
Clearly you don’t understand my point.
Which is frustrating.
How many other #1 albums in 99 did 121k or less?
Which argument was killed? And how?