Hot 100 Finally Welcomes Gangnam Style

[koganbot]

I'm late with this news, but last week "Gangnam Style" finally entered the Billboard Hot 100, coming in at 64, signaling that it's garnering a bit of airplay and maybe picking up more download action, along with its massive YouTube streams and blog attention, not to mention Psy's TV appearances, online followers, etc.

Next chart due overnight.

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[koganbot]

I surmise from a "release date" given by a Los Angeles station (September 6) that it's only recently gotten an official U.S. release, though I doubt that that affects the numbers on iTunes. It may be one reason for the sudden attention by U.S. radio.

Airplay is still lagging, but, according to Mediabase, forty-one Top 40 stations added it to their playlist in the last week, as did fifteen "rhythmic" stations ("rhythmic" mostly being hip-hop & r&b, but includes the few dance stations as well). It's #24 in Top 40 airplay with 2,496 spins (putting that in perspective, Pink's "Blow Me" is number 1 with almost five times as many, 12,231). Top plays are in New York, Houston, Phoenix, Norfolk (Virginia), San Francisco, Milwaukee. To my surprise, no Los Angeles area station is in the Top 20, though by rooting around in various playlists I see two stations playing it (and presumably it's getting on some of the Korean-language stations, of which there are a few). Got 46 spins on WXXX-FM in Burlington, Vermont. I suppose if there's a concentration of Asians in Vermont, Burlington would be the place — but I suspect college students are driving the radio play.

It's #50 in rhythmic airplay (unexpectedly low) with 499 plays, a third of those on two stations in Honolulu. (Kanye's "Mercy" number 1 with 4,676 spins.)