I know it's popular but I didn't know it was THAT popular. I thought it was just some TikTok song that would come and go after like a month.

crazy how Young Thug - High (ft. Elton John) is Elton’s second biggest song on AM.

OP I feel you, hit songs used to feel inescapable now they come n go soo quick

Might just bc of how I stopped paying attention to radio more and more

Thank U Next is a contender imo

Fraudulent #1 hits this year: Trollz, Stuck With You, The Scotts, Dynamite, Franchise, Life Goes On (??? never heard about this track before) Wiillow, Cardigan

2x Travis
2x Taylor Swift
2x BTS

Last song that felt like a "hit" to me was The Box

the actual cultural aspects behind pop culture (i.e. the superstar, the hit, the mainstream trend) shrink more everyday as its character as the most profitable end of culture takes precedence over the ability for it to create memories and feelings for the massive amounts of people who consume it

the streaming era has only exasperated this, as fragmented listening habits as a result of new freedoms has led to everyone being able to be appeased by a little niche and not need to turn to what is being pushed by the industry. This leaves pop culture with no reason to exist except as a money machine for those who still exist in a point on the cultural timeline where pop culture truly had meaning, and thus the meat is stripped off the bone, so to say

true that was huge and imo is representative of neofeminist sentiment and became an anthem to a lot of women.

i guess what’s unarguable is that #1 feels less and less with each passing week. like no one is gonna look back and talk about how much they loved 24kGoldn

i wish i could avoid songs like y'all lmao

get off tiktok

i don't even use tiktok

Apparently
Thats your fault lmfao

where are you hearing the songs

curious where ur hearing these songs nowadays

Yeah theres just more levels to it now i guess

by going outside and being an existing human being idk i don't really think about it

ohh just don't do that then you will avoid the songs

Blinding Lights

There are a lot of fraudulent #1s this year tho for sure.
Too many to name lmfao,songs dropping out left and right

ur going outside in a panoramic !?

yes while following guidelines and wearing a mask of course!

it works trust me

Im black bro none of my friends playin this s***

Old town road?

Was a country trap song but still pop in definition