Week-7, Fixer remains at #2 on Billboard's Rock Songs Chart

pjfanman

igotid88 wrote:

It's now # 3 in the Rock Songs Chart. And #9 in the Alternative charts. And it's still in the Top 100 in its 4th week at #76. Up from last week's 84th spot.

WWS lasted 6 weeks on there.

The Fixer has lasted in the top 10 for 9 weeks now on the alt. charts. It might not have got as many spins as WWS when it initially came our previous to the s/t release, but it has been a more successful single overall.

I imagine that if Backspacer had the promotion that s/t did, it would have topped 300k in sales. I think the Target distribution might have hurt them a bit in terms of overall sales, but in the long run it will be better for the band.

BF25394

"Pop" just means popular. Anything could end up as a pop hit. The Grateful Dead had a top ten hit. Ryuichi Sakamoto had a #1 song. So did Right Said Fred. So did The Singing Nun. Christmas songs have been hits, as have country-and-western songs.

Anyway, the fact that "The Fixer" is on the Hot 100 is entirely a function of downloads. "The Fixer" is getting virtually no airplay at CHR/Top 40 radio. The rock radio stations that are playing the track do not report to the Hot 100. They report to the Rock Songs chart.

decides2dream

Veddernarian wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Still, to this day, I cannot believe Last Kiss was a pop hit. I heard the song a few times through the Ten Club, thought it was ok, but NEVER though it would be a pop hit. Ed's singing, the style, it just seemed too odd for mainstream radio.

I don't think anyone will play this new record off of Last Kiss's success.. 10 years is a 100 years in the pop music world.

Sometimes things just hit, and other things mysteriously don't. I remember the guy who paid $1m for a cabbage patch doll. How retarded is that? Or that whole pet-rock craze. I would have thought In My Tree would have been the huge hit off No Code and to my amazement, all the Southern California stations played Smile for months. Smile, to me isn't a bad song but doesn't hold water compared to In My Tree. Things amaze me. Just have no idea why the world doesn't see things my way

hahaha, that really made me laugh.

the fixer is one of my least liked tunes on backspacer, lyrics annoy me, so it does not surprise me in the least that it is popular. it is a running joke with my husband that if i really like something, tis the kiss of death usually. can't tell you how many of my fave restaurant meals, furniture, clothes, etc.....have gotten discontinued. so if i don't like it, sure to be a huge hit!

igotid88

On the Hot 100 it went from 76-56
#4 Rock songs
#11 Alternative
#40 Digital songs