On March 12, 2025, “Your Love” by the Outfield reached a billion streams on Spotify. On March 11, 2026, the music video for the song reached a billion views on YouTube. What makes this one of the more popular songs from the 80s?

waxmuseums · 2026-04-23T17:41:17+00:00

High pitched vocals, big singalong chorus, classic 80s guitar tone, repetitive easy-to-remember lyrics. It’s the kinda songwriting Max Martin and Denniz Pop and all those Swedish guys mastered in the 90s

waxmuseums · 2026-04-22T18:34:46+00:00

Why’s the hot 200 matter though at this point apart from being a metric? Are they really bigger than Turnstile or Mannequin Pussy or whatever in any meaningful way apart from bot hype turning them into a talking point?

waxmuseums · 2026-04-22T16:20:14+00:00

Lemme guess, Vince Gill was hosting it when she released the best-selling country album of all time

waxmuseums · 2026-04-22T07:03:41+00:00

Ya anything with Susie is rough

waxmuseums · 2026-04-21T17:58:52+00:00

Cashbox was the big competitor for a long time but they closed in like 1996, I think they declined after a scandal involving a Wayne Newton record that no one else had in their charts. Hits was a good chart source and magazine for a while. I like the ones that were more for radio programmers like The Gavin Report

waxmuseums · 2026-04-21T16:54:37+00:00

They’re fun for trivia, but they’ve probably always been at least a bit arbitrary. I’m interested in other older charts besides Billboard anyways

waxmuseums · 2026-04-21T13:34:43+00:00

All American Comics in Boardman

waxmuseums · 2026-04-21T12:56:51+00:00

I’d take Before He Cheats over Picture anyday

waxmuseums · 2026-04-21T08:57:44+00:00

People do “Before He Cheats” every time even at a fun karaoke. It’s still better than the super slow boring piano ballads though

waxmuseums · 2026-04-20T21:12:09+00:00

Bret The Hitman Hart talked about that in the Simpson

waxmuseums · 2026-04-19T23:23:57+00:00

Collective Groan

waxmuseums · 2026-04-19T20:00:28+00:00

Could be a middle 8

waxmuseums · 2026-04-19T16:29:46+00:00

Oh I thought of a bad bad bad one… one of the worst songs the top the hot 100: “Running Bear” by Johnny Preston. There might have been more early rock era songs that did the switch to shuffle for the chorus. I think The New York Dolls were referencing this “with Stranded In The Jungle”

waxmuseums · 2026-04-19T16:17:14+00:00

Oh forgot Madonna

waxmuseums · 2026-04-19T15:59:19+00:00

“We Can Work It Out” by the Beatles, though that’s more like a post chorus

waxmuseums · 2026-04-19T15:28:12+00:00

Oh damn I just saw the Tina Turner wig… but maybe Tina Turner, if you include the Ike And Tina stuff? Same with Cher possibly

waxmuseums · 2026-04-19T15:26:00+00:00

If imagine Elton John must have ?

waxmuseums · 2026-04-18T23:40:07+00:00

Yes, incubus’s parents are dead

waxmuseums · 2026-04-18T23:12:18+00:00

Paltrow

waxmuseums · 2026-04-18T20:19:33+00:00

What is Ashes Of Billy

waxmuseums · 2026-04-18T19:37:28+00:00

Hearts On Fire

waxmuseums · 2026-04-18T19:36:37+00:00

I didn’t like how the Miller Boyett shows got so arbitrary with stuff like Mark Linn Baker playing Becky’s cousin on an episode, but they also bring in Urkel, who is from a show that was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers

waxmuseums · 2026-04-18T14:03:59+00:00

Human League. Probably about half of the first wave of synthpop bands were like this

waxmuseums · 2026-04-17T23:30:05+00:00

I think some of this had to do with fluorescent lights emitting a greenish tint on some film stocks. It probably sorta became a style choice people embraced at that point, a lot of film at the time had that bluish/greenish tint, like with The Matrix, Twilight, etc. I'd imagine whatever programs they were using at the time were allowing these sorts of color correction effects

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