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AZJonnie

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7. This is NOT the Billboard Hot 100, important to note here when talking about "the charts"

Reply to tulipsandroses (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:23 PM

17 hrs ago

This song is not even topping "streaming counts" lists. It's topping the iTunes purchase chart. Something I'm reading is somewhat easy to game because not that many people are actually purchasing songs these days. There are days when your song could become #1 on this chart for that day if you just bought like 250 copies in iTunes, not even joking.

https://www.jezebel.com/what-no-1-itunes-song-really-mean-1849030690

Kid Rock and Nicki Minaj like to brag about their songs being #1 on iTunes, as you'll learn from the above article.

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Well I just found out my new favorite song was done by an AI "artist"- Viral AI song tops the charts [View all] tulipsandroses 17 hrs ago OP

"Dallas Austin" sounds made up too Skittles 17 hrs ago #1

Lol, he's actually a Grammy winning songwriter and producer tulipsandroses 17 hrs ago #2

I googled it. Just had to listen. ABC123Easy 17 hrs ago #3

I liked it but I agree with you, there are so many good singers out there. AI is going to infiltrate every damn thing tulipsandroses 17 hrs ago #4

Why do you find this "disturbing and disgusting"? anciano 17 hrs ago #5

Because. It. Is. Fake. nt GenThePerservering 17 hrs ago #8

Yet autotune and endless electronic filtering JCMach1 5 hrs ago #15

Because real musicians were stolen from to create it. Twice. Once when thier Maru Kitteh 16 hrs ago #10

Because R&B is soul music tulipsandroses 15 hrs ago #12

BTS gets attacked as fake and overproduced, yet they did a NPR Tiny Desk concert blm 17 hrs ago #6

nice sgt pepper poster on the wall there nt msongs 16 hrs ago #9

This is NOT the Billboard Hot 100, important to note here when talking about "the charts" AZJonnie 17 hrs ago #7

Never heard of her. sakabatou 16 hrs ago #11

Where did you first hear it? chowder66 13 hrs ago #13

On YouTube tulipsandroses 7 hrs ago #14