| Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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well to help clear things up for people i was researching about number one with a bullet and this is what i found. : : Just a guess. : : At one time ( and maybe still to this day ) there would be a listing in Billboard Magazine of the top 500 singles of music. : : If a particular song was quickly becoming a hit and was selling a good quantity of product the editors of Billboard would put a bullet icon in front of the listing to indicate a soon-to-be hit. : : Once a song hit #1 then it lost it's bullet having achieved the top position. : : A number one with a bullet really did not exist but it seems to mean the super best of the best. : The bullet . mark before the listing indicated that the record had moved up significantly from the previous week. From #47 to #3, for example. (I don't recall how many places you had to rise to earn the bullet.) So it was (is?) possible to be both the best selling record (#1) and have risen dramatically (with a bullet) since the last publication. Below is a link to the current Top 50 hits of today with bullets. * http://www.billboard.com |
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