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

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  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,973
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Im pretty sure I hit submit, but I dont even know how to look at saved posts.


    If you hit Submit, the post is posted somewhere.

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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    its never played around here...
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    I love these ever-more elaborate ways of trashing The Fixer.....Catchy pop-rock song doing well in the charts, well I never :roll:
  • i shit and i stink
    i shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    OceansJenny 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.

    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.

    I worked at HMV in the UK and a rep came in once and bought all of the copies of A1's single we had on release day. He said they had people doing it in every region of the UK just to get it to number one. Of course they do this.

    Also, there were awful albums that we barely sold but universal and others paid us to put in the top three in our chart.

    However, I'm sure that isn't the case with the Fixer. Pearl Jam are famous, vital and have now done a nice summer pop tune. Is it unbelievable that it is doing well? I think not.
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  • gndcd402
    gndcd402 Posts: 2,576
    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.
    lol i think i love u :P i personally dont like the song, and all my friends who are casual fans absolutely hate it. i have heard the song once on the radio here in pittsburgh, and there is a rather large contingent of pj fans in this area so you would think it would be played more... hmmm...
  • PittsburghPJ
    PittsburghPJ Posts: 227
    I think the OP is confused as to the chart position since they haven't heard it on the radio that much. I know I personally have not heard The Fixer once on Pittsburgh radio, though #1) I try to avoid the radio whenever possible, and #2) Pittsburgh isn't a huge radio market, I suspect. Does anyone know what the criteria used to determine chart position are?
    YNWA
  • PittsburghPJ
    PittsburghPJ Posts: 227
    gndcd402 wrote:
    i have heard the song once on the radio here in pittsburgh, and there is a rather large contingent of pj fans in this area so you would think it would be played more... hmmm...

    I'm curious as to where you heard it?
    YNWA
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    Silversun Pickups are awesome.
  • gndcd402
    gndcd402 Posts: 2,576
    PittsburghPJ wrote:
    gndcd402 wrote:
    i have heard the song once on the radio here in pittsburgh, and there is a rather large contingent of pj fans in this area so you would think it would be played more... hmmm...

    I'm curious as to where you heard it?
    the x played it once the day it was released
  • megatron
    megatron Posts: 3,420
    such snobs. all i can say. can't you just like a fun song.

    it WILL rock live..

    i hope that this is getting all of the people that listen to shit radio to actually go to a pearl jam concert and have their lives and musical taste change.
  • Gonzo1977
    Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    "The Fixer" is getting a ton of airplay here in Toronto.

    102.1 The Edge plays it like 4-5 times a day.

    In some of the larger radio markets, "The Fixer" is getting major airplay.

    So obviously, there are more than a few people out there who like the song.

    I guess you are in the minority.

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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    MEGATRON wrote:
    such snobs. all i can say. can't you just like a fun song.

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    yeah but this ain't fun, its annoying :D

    that said, i havent listened to the radio in 5 or 6 years. I'm not sure how they rank these songs, but im pretty sure its not getting heavy play on the same shitty radio stations that pump out Seether or Puddle of Mudd or whatever shit is on radio nowadays. I dont like the Fixer but at least its not that!

    im sure it will fade quickly lke every other pJ single in the past 10 years!
  • nooram
    nooram Posts: 392
    Well, DJs wouldn't want to play songs people don't like because then the radio station would lose viewers

    Who are these radio viewers? j/k

    BTW, I was awoken at 520 am this morning by The Fixer on my alarm clock radio (93X - Minneapolis). It was a treat!
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  • bigbadbill
    bigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    evanser wrote:
    because the rest of rock music sucks, thats why

    You're right. It pains me to hear how every lead singer to every new band has that whiny voice (EMO sucks). All the new music is commercial and designed for the ears of girls. It's almost like when a lot of singers in the 90s were imitating Ed's baritone voice (ala Creed/Nickleback). I've heard The Fixer a few times on KROQ, but that's when I hear it when I'm pressing all of my presets on my car radio. Otherwise, I'm either listening to Sports Talk, News, or my iPod.
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  • bigbadbill
    bigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    Once a new Pearl Jam album is released, you'll never hear that album's single again. Radios will revert to the old standard: Alive, Black, RVM, Daughter, Corduroy, maybe even Jeremy and Even Flow.
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  • bigbadbill
    bigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    MrSmith wrote:
    Silversun Pickups are awesome.

    Although I was never friends with him, I went to the same high school for 10th grade as the drummer to Silversun Pickups. I thought I would throw that fun fact out there.
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  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,410
    Gonzo1977 wrote:
    "The Fixer" is getting a ton of airplay here in Toronto.

    102.1 The Edge plays it like 4-5 times a day.

    Sorry, but 4-5 times a day isn't a TON of airplay. I hear Use Somebody or the Silversun Pickups song AT LEAST every other time I get into my car. 4-5 times over 24 hours is a very small percentage.

    (Should I do it?)
    Thanks for Playing.
    Good Night.
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  • corduroykelly
    corduroykelly Posts: 668
    You don't know anyone who likes the fixer? Yea right I know more people that like than don't. Pearl Jam the best band in the world how are you surprised it is #3 on the charts? I'm surprised it's not #1.
  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,410
    corduroykelly wrote:
    You don't know anyone who likes the fixer? Yea right I know more people that like than don't. Pearl Jam the best band in the world how are you surprised it is #3 on the charts? I'm surprised it's not #1.

    I guess I hang out with people who aren't up PJ's a-holes? Seriously? The Fixer #1? The Linkin Park song is FAR more popular.

    Most people don't like Pearl Jam anymore. Realize that.
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  • megatron
    megatron Posts: 3,420
    OceansJenny wrote:
    corduroykelly wrote:
    You don't know anyone who likes the fixer? Yea right I know more people that like than don't. Pearl Jam the best band in the world how are you surprised it is #3 on the charts? I'm surprised it's not #1.

    I guess I hang out with people who aren't up PJ's a-holes? Seriously? The Fixer #1? The Linkin Park song is FAR more popular.

    Most people don't like Pearl Jam anymore. Realize that.
    pearl jam now wants people to like them...i know it sucks im sorry

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