How can songs stay No. 1 for 15-16 weeks?

Question

I remember songs such as the Bryan Adams song 'Everything I do, I do it for you', Whitney Houston's 'I will always love you', Celine Dion's Titanic song and Wet Wet Wet's film song staying at No. 1 for several MONTHS!!

Surely everyone who is going to buy it would've done so within the first few weeks? How can anyone still be thinking after 3 months 'I think I'll buy this now', and equally how can they have still been selling more than new records - surely the new stuff wasn't that cr@p!?

Answer 1

I think its because not everyone listens to radio. Then a movie comes out or just a lot of talk about it, those people hear it for the first time and tell there friends and so on, generating a boost of sales long after the release. Just a guess.

Answer 2

because those were based on true sales per week, rather than the current charts that are heavily weighted in favour of one record by deals the company record shops, which is why you rarely get a record remaining at no one for more than a week. Remember when the Bryan Adams song was released, you had to sell many thousands of record to get to no 1, now it's often less than 10,000, and rarely do any songs sell more then 200,000 records whereas in the past a single would often sell one million copies

Answer 3

Its to do with RADIO air-play as well as sales.

Oh and Plus the Music Industries CORRUPT!!!