How is The Fixer still in the Top 5 (Billboard)??

OceansJenny
OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,410
edited August 2009 in The Porch
Is anyone else boggled by this? This is the third week and The Fixer is #3 billboard's rock charts. Not only, IMO, the song isn't that good (but we won't go into that), I've heard it on the radio maybe 4 times TOPS in the past 3 weeks (and I have an hour commute to and from work every day!), and I don't know anyone whos liked it OR let alone heard it. I think I've heard the other 9 songs in the top 10 a million more times than The Fixer.

Is anyone else confused? Is KROQ in LA playing it a million times more than radio stations in DC? Do people like this song more than Use Somebody and Panic Switch!?
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  • 4Powers20
    4Powers20 Posts: 1,231
    so you are confused how one of the most popular bands in the world released a new single and after 3 weeks it is still in the top five?? I would be more surprised if it wasnt.


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  • Yellow Bedwetter
    Yellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    i hate silversun pickups and Use Somebody is my least favorite track off "Only By The Night" so yes, ive heard The Fixer about 3 times (since I dont like to listen to PJ songs til the album in officially dropped) and it should be ahead of those 2 songs.
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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    I really like the song. It has a great hook and very radio friendly. What is there to be surprised about?
  • evanser
    evanser Posts: 152
    because the rest of rock music sucks, thats why
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    OceansJenny wrote:
    Is anyone else boggled by this?

    ummmm no im not boggled by it

    its a great song

    don't know why you dont get that

    oh well!
  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,410
    edited August 2009
    4Powers20 wrote:
    so you are confused how one of the most popular bands in the world released a new single and after 3 weeks it is still in the top five?? I would be more surprised if it wasnt.

    Please, all of PJ's singles from Binaural on usually plummet quickly or don't even make it that high. And those songs are actually GOOD.On the Alternative chart, Life Wasted and I Am Mine didn't break the top 10, Gone peaked at #40 (abysmal), WWS faired pretty well but thats a GOOD SONG. I think PJ's last 3 songs that actually faired well on the charts (which equates to a good number of people actually liking the song) were Brother (which is Ten era so I don't really count it as new PJ), WWS, and Last Kiss. ONE of those three is new Pearl Jam. So yes, it's shocking that #1 a lot of people like The Fixer (which is garbage IMO) and #2 a lot of people like a new Pearl Jam song.

    Edit: I think most of my confusion stems from the fact that I never hear it played? And no one I know likes it/has heard it?
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    4Powers20 wrote:
    so you are confused how one of the most popular bands in the world released a new single and after 3 weeks it is still in the top five?? I would be more surprised if it wasnt.

    Why would you be surprised if it wasnt? How long did wws stay on the charts? 2 weeks tops? What about I Am Mine? NAIS? They haven't had a song stay on the charts for any noticeable period since Last Kiss...
  • Ahr Mann
    Ahr Mann Posts: 141
    OceansJenny wrote:
    Is anyone else boggled by this? This is the third week and The Fixer is #3 billboard's rock charts. Not only, IMO, the song isn't that good (but we won't go into that), I've heard it on the radio maybe 4 times TOPS in the past 3 weeks (and I have an hour commute to and from work every day!), and I don't know anyone whos liked it OR let alone heard it. I think I've heard the other 9 songs in the top 10 a million more times than The Fixer.

    Is anyone else confused? Is KROQ in LA playing it a million times more than radio stations in DC? Do people like this song more than Use Somebody and Panic Switch!?

    Sorry, as you seem like a nice person, but that may be the silliest question ever posted to this forum, which automatically qualifies it as maybe the silliest question posted to any forum, ever. Are you genuinely expecting serious answers to this response, or are you just, y'know, bored?
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    i like the Fixer. although, i still haven't heard it on the radio down here. i think it's good that it's getting a lot of play & that people like it.
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  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,410
    Ahr Mann wrote:
    Sorry, as you seem like a nice person, but that may be the silliest question ever posted to this forum, which automatically qualifies it as maybe the silliest question posted to any forum, ever. Are you genuinely expecting serious answers to this response, or are you just, y'know, bored?

    Ugh, yes, I'm sorry, The Fixer is an amazing song with range, depth, and meaningful lyrics and Pearl Jam have been so insanely popular the past 10 years.
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  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    evanser wrote:
    because the rest of rock music sucks, thats why

    BINGO ladies and gents, we have a winner. ;)
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    wow a mod deleted my post..... wtf

    I said that sometimes I just think this whole top 40 crap is just a marketing thing and bands pay loads of money to have their name up there for awhile.

    I honestly think thats the case...and if a mod deleted my post then that just makes it even more suspicious.
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  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,410
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    wow a mod deleted my post..... wtf

    I said that sometimes I just think this whole top 40 crap is just a marketing thing and bands pay loads of money to have their name up there for awhile.

    I honestly think thats the case...and if a mod deleted my post then that just makes it even more suspicious.

    Honestly I wouldn't be surprised... how do you measure radio popularity anyway? By the number of times a DJ plays the song? Well, DJs wouldn't want to play songs people don't like because then the radio station would lose viewers, so theoretically if a DJ is playing a song a lot its becasue people want to hear it... but I like your thinking. But, even if bands pay their way to the tops of the charts, it doesn't mean people will like it more.
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  • 4Powers20
    4Powers20 Posts: 1,231
    soulsinging wrote:
    4Powers20 wrote:
    so you are confused how one of the most popular bands in the world released a new single and after 3 weeks it is still in the top five?? I would be more surprised if it wasnt.

    Why would you be surprised if it wasnt? How long did wws stay on the charts? 2 weeks tops? What about I Am Mine? NAIS? They haven't had a song stay on the charts for any noticeable period since Last Kiss...


    I woulldnt be surprised because, like many have said, it is their most "pop" song, and by defintion pop means popular.

    So are you surprised their pop song has lasted longer in the top 5 than any of their previous non-pop songs?


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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    edited August 2009
    Actually its on its second week on that chart, and dropped one spot..

    And who'd of thunk a pop song would be pop-ular. There's a reason for that. If they wrote something complex and deep it would have already plummeted.. most people aren't music fanatics and don't like dealing with sappy complex music. They just want a good time. Can you really blame them?

    And its starting to get more radio play here in Chicago. Q101 who wasn't playing it very much at first played it 7 times yesterday.

    And it makes me want to rock out. Nothing groundbreaking, but I love the beats and spurts of energy!
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  • Ahr Mann
    Ahr Mann Posts: 141
    OceansJenny wrote:
    Ahr Mann wrote:
    Sorry, as you seem like a nice person, but that may be the silliest question ever posted to this forum, which automatically qualifies it as maybe the silliest question posted to any forum, ever. Are you genuinely expecting serious answers to this response, or are you just, y'know, bored?

    Ugh, yes, I'm sorry, The Fixer is an amazing song with range, depth, and meaningful lyrics and Pearl Jam have been so insanely popular the past 10 years.

    Got it. "Boredom" it is.
  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    I think the OP is more confused with why people like the song. I mean, IT ISN'T GOOD is not an argument.

    I've heard it several times on the radio just today.
  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,973
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    wow a mod deleted my post..... wtf

    I said that sometimes I just think this whole top 40 crap is just a marketing thing and bands pay loads of money to have their name up there for awhile.

    I honestly think thats the case...and if a mod deleted my post then that just makes it even more suspicious.


    Did you hit SUBMIT or SAVE when you posted?

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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Im pretty sure I hit submit, but I dont even know how to look at saved posts.
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Kat wrote:
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    wow a mod deleted my post..... wtf

    I said that sometimes I just think this whole top 40 crap is just a marketing thing and bands pay loads of money to have their name up there for awhile.

    I honestly think thats the case...and if a mod deleted my post then that just makes it even more suspicious.


    Did you hit SUBMIT or SAVE when you posted?

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