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How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan (gizmodo.com)
Last week, an alt-rock mystery puzzled the music press. Almost 25 years after its release, the Dinosaur Jr. song "Over Your Shoulder" appeared at number 18 on Japan's Hot 100 chart, beating out major new releases like Ariana Grande's "7 Rings." Here's what drove the popularity of the old song: More than 15 years ago, it was used on a Japanese reality show about boxing bad boys. Six years ago, Billboard started counting YouTube plays. And just days ago, YouTube apparently began recommending pirated episodes of that reality show to Japanese users, who seemingly binged it in the thousands, playing "Over Your Shoulder" over and over again in the process.
The Japanese are just weirdos.
So this Japanese Top-100 chart decided to include YouTube a few years ago. But the way they implemented it, it does not count any "official" channels, just it looks for what is called "International Standard Recording Code" on any video, which means if you embed a song somewhere in your video and your video goes viral, the song appears on the Top-100, regardless of how you used it / what percentage of your video the song accounts for.
Quite silly process really, but it is mostly harmless, I mean some weird things appear on the Top-100, big deal.
Anyway, in this case youtube was promoting a sort of reality boxing series that featured this song often.
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why wouldnt something be more popular than something that sounds like a west coast pretentious overpriced coffee sold by some wannabe boutique coffee retailer?
Which ones do you mean?
In both cases their only purpose of life is to leech on society by stealing your valuables, abusing emotional people (women/artists), and avoiding honest work. But at least they work a *bit* for it, ... those seafaring thugs!
NBT.
I like their cover of that Frampton song.... ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )
One of the more famous exmaple's is Electric Light Orchestra's Twilight, which was featured in an anime short film in the 1980s.
They're counting plays when the song happens to be in a random YouTube video?
But they only count a subset of all the songs? Otherwise there would be TV theme songs in the charts too. and random songs played in some kids youtube channel.
Garbage In Garbage Out
The system in working entirely as designed.
will be deleted from youtube and twitter
Agreed. I now have a job dealing with Linux directly. For some reason they picked Ubuntu because it's what everybody runs. So far my job has been try running all the old software on Ubuntu 18.04 and seeing what broke. What is the deal with that systemd network wait service? If one interface doesn't have an ethernet link it causes a two minute delay in booting. Also found out that was causing sshd to be delayed for several minutes. No warnings or errors. Just systemd saying sshd died and trying to restart the service gives me a blinking prompt. I told them for embedded shit I'd use Slackware because you only add what you need. Nobody had heard of it. Oh the joys of working with people in the early 20s. Also turned off AppArmor becuase it was causing problems with other daemons running.
You have enough fucking features already. Now make them work and write some documentation.
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How much did M$ pay for that plug?
Reminds me of Plastic Love: http://www.openculture.com/201...
Dinosaur Jr is fucking awesome!
There must be a lot of hard of hearing Japanese. Wow chalk that up to worst song ever or should I say chart that down to worst song ever.
... they used to be the number of CDs(/cassettes/vinyls) that were sold to the *shops*!
Not those actually bought by clients.
Some intentionally bought a lot, so the song would end up in the charts, and people would buy them to feel like they are in with the cool people*. Same scam as stock market "experts".
Which is especially bad, if it was just the record company's subsidiary buying them. They did not even have to ship them. Just show some sales numbers. Everybody knew it, and nobody said anything because everybody was in it. Just like doping at the Tour de France.
I used to work in the industry. (Europe, 1980s-2000s.)
(*It's really quite easy to make people think they like something. Otherwise far fewer people would drink beer with its horrible bitter taste.)
I doubt anyone actually pirated the TV show.
It's far more likely they merely copied it without authorization, i.e. they committed copyright infringement.
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Interesting. Sure we can surmise they are just looking to boost Billboards own conglomerate usage stats, but it seems like in this case a rising tide raises all boats.
I'm happy to see artists getting credit for things like this. Somewhere, sometime, someone in Japan thought their song was good and used it in their art. That deserves recognition if technically possible.
Thank you Dave Raggett