These modern chart runs more accurately reflect just how tenaciously the American public holds onto a big hit and doesn’t “Let It Go” (that song, by the way, was on the Hot 100 for 33 weeks, or three times as long as “Yesterday”). Of course, the methodology behind the Hot 100 has changed radically over the decades, and as better data has been added to the formula in recent years, we’ve seen songs sit stone on the chart for months on end. Even the biggest hits tended to cycle through the chart in under six months-for example, none of the Beatles’ hits rode the chart longer than 19 weeks none by the Rolling Stones longer than 24 weeks. Some brief chart history: Prior to the late ’70s, the Hot 100 wasn’t built for long chart runs, as 45-RPM hits turned over quickly at record stores and radio stations. In a way, Imagine Dragons trying to follow up this hit song makes me feel sorry for them. Unfortunately, to those of us who follow the charts closely, it’s also something of a curse-arguably an even bigger jinx than Best New Artist at the Grammys. A chart run as historic as “Radioactive’s” does reflect some kind of popularity. Some stat, right? “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Billie Jean,” “Smells Like Teen Spirit”-“Radioactive” rode the Hot 100 longer than these four songs combined. So I mean, they have this great track record-I think, though … they’re still a fairly anonymous band, in many ways, to the general public.” It generated three top 20 hits on the Hot 100 chart. It has never left the chart-it has been in the top for every single one of its 129 weeks, except for just two. You know, ’cause their first album did two and a half million. “I guess I was expecting Imagine Dragons to be bigger. “Well, I mean, is this really that strong?” he mused aloud. (By the album chart’s new math, which also bakes in streaming and track sales, the cumulative total was 195,000 units.) Lipshutz declared it a “really strong album debut,” but Caulfield demurred. 1 on that week’s album chart with 172,000 in pure sales. Imagine Dragons’ Smoke + Mirrors opened at No. On Billboard’s Pop Shop podcast a couple weeks ago, the magazine’s associate editor Jason Lipshutz and associate director of charts Keith Caulfield were politely debating whether the new album at No.
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