Fun. :: The "Some Nights" Era

http://www.last.fm/user/thalissonmarcos · by **thalisson** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:03 pm

6. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 106.569 (+ 4.089)

by **GUS** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:35 pm

thalisson wrote:6. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 106.569 (+ 4.089)

Non-stop trip to #1

by **xjant77** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:29 pm

I like Janelle Monae, but Fun is going to be one hit wonder for sure.

by **Timmy94** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:00 pm

xjant77 wrote:I like Janelle Monae, but Fun is going to be one hit wonder for sure.

We'll see... Of course I can't say that you are totally wrong as I can't predict the future but in the early 80s, people said that Madonna will disappear soon and in the mid-2000s, people doubted a 2nd album to come from Rihanna...

So let's see, what the future holds 8-)

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by **Play** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:24 pm

Timmy94 wrote:
xjant77 wrote:I like Janelle Monae, but Fun is going to be one hit wonder for sure.
We'll see... Of course I can't say that you are totally wrong as I can't predict the future but in the early 80s, people said that Madonna will disappear soon and in the mid-2000s, people doubted a 2nd album to come from Rihanna...

So let's see, what the future holds .

omg timmy, who hacked your account?!

by **Timmy94** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:49 pm

by **Play** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:02 pm

Timmy94 wrote:Why?

Because you sounded very optimistic :wink:

by **Cless** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:10 am

Can fun. hold on to #1 this week? Biebs' lead in iTunes is huge.

Justin Bieber - Boyfriend 1.0000
Fun. - We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) 0.3765
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) 0.2398

by **Timmy94** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:21 am

Play wrote:
Timmy94 wrote:Why?
Because you sounded very optimistic

Did I? For me it was rather realistic...

@BlackStar: We shouldn't forget how huge Fun.'s sales have been for the last few weeks.
If Fun. didn't sell huge numbers in the last few weeks (180-200k e.g.), this difference could be balanced with airplay but this way, as a huge selling single is outsold by another one by far, Fun. can't balance this out as long as Justin Bieber's sales don't fall rapidely up to the end of the week...

http://www.last.fm/user/thalissonmarcos · by **thalisson** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:21 pm

5. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 111.159 (+ 4.590)

by **Cless** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:32 pm

Some Nights (US chart run)

Week 1 - #03 - 69,195 --
Week 2 - #08 - 25,874 -63%
Week 3 - #13 - 21,476 -17%
Week 4 - #10 - 21,873 +2%
Week 5 - #12 - 21,570 -1%

TOTAL - 159,988

http://www.last.fm/user/thalissonmarcos · by **thalisson** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:00 pm

5. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 116.118 (+ 4.959)

by **danbarj** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:24 pm

I think they can hold No. 1 next week as Beiber's lead is decreasing, fun never stopped increasing and the airplay gains are bonkers!

I love this song!

Last FM · by **arab** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:07 pm

Over on the Digital Songs chart, fun.'s "We Are Young" (featuring Janelle Monae) claims a sixth week at No. 1, selling 387,000 downloads (up 11%). That is the best sales week for a non-debuting song since LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" sold 417,000 downloads in the week after Christmas.

Most songs see a huge sales week either in their debut week, during Christmas time or right after the Grammy Awards. However, "We Are Young" saw its massive 387,000 sales frame without any of those aids. Since SoundScan began tracking download sales in 2003, only one song has had a larger week that wasn't caused by a debut, Christmas or the Grammys. That was when Flo Rida's "Right Round" sold 460,000 in its second week on the chart -- March 7, 2009.

Finally, "We Are Young" is now the year's top selling song with 2.39 million sold. It has surpassed 2011's No. 2-seller, Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" (2.25 million).

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry ... 2152.story

Holy shit!

http://www.last.fm/user/thalissonmarcos · by **thalisson** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:09 pm

arab wrote:Over on the Digital Songs chart, fun.'s "We Are Young" (featuring Janelle Monae) claims a sixth week at No. 1, selling 387,000 downloads (up 11%). That is the best sales week for a non-debuting song since LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" sold 417,000 downloads in the week after Christmas.

Most songs see a huge sales week either in their debut week, during Christmas time or right after the Grammy Awards. However, "We Are Young" saw its massive 387,000 sales frame without any of those aids. Since SoundScan began tracking download sales in 2003, only one song has had a larger week that wasn't caused by a debut, Christmas or the Grammys. That was when Flo Rida's "Right Round" sold 460,000 in its second week on the chart -- March 7, 2009.

Finally, "We Are Young" is now the year's top selling song with 2.39 million sold. It has surpassed 2011's No. 2-seller, Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" (2.25 million).

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry ... 2152.story

Holy shit!

by **Timmy94** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:11 pm

What the hell

!

by **Play** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:06 pm

I'm soooo glad a song like this is selling sh*tloads!

Last FM · by **arab** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:51 pm

Canada

Hot 100
01(05) We Are Young -> the first song from a first time charted artist to reach No. 1 since
Taio's Break Your Heart in April 2010

HDS
01(02) We Are Young 29k(+39%) -> the second biggest one week sales in 2012

Hot 100 Airplay
18(33) We Are Young(+54%)

http://www.last.fm/user/thalissonmarcos · by **thalisson** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:41 am

4. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 119.990 (+ 3.872)

by **danbarj** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:50 pm

I love how the song is a proper hit! It has the following:

1. Massive airplay
2. Massive sales
3. Impact on the album's sales

by **Timmy94** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:44 pm

danbarj wrote:I love how the song is a proper hit! It has the following:

1. Massive airplay
2. Massive sales
3. Impact on the album's sales

Agreeing with you though I'm not too sure about No. 3.
It reached No. 1 before the album was out and while both sales and airplay of We Are Young are still increasing, Some Night's sales already fell... Considering they haven't had a huge fanbase before We Are Young, the album could still sell around the same amount it did in the debuting week (interest in the single is bigger than ever before, so interest in the album could be relatively big, too, as Fun is an album-selling type of band and while most albums are being bought by fans at first and so post bigger declines in the next few weeks after the release, Fun is starting from almost zero as their first album didn't receive much attention).

A single that really sells an album is if an album is rather low and a single can make it climb high all up mainly due to this... Like Rihanna's Loud in France after the success of Man Down.
Or Gotye's Making Mirrors: It debuted at No. 120 in the US and Somebody made it climb steadily and eventually made it reach the top 10, which seems to be the perfect example of such a phenomenon.

by **danbarj** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:40 pm

Timmy94 wrote:
danbarj wrote:I love how the song is a proper hit! It has the following:

1. Massive airplay
2. Massive sales
3. Impact on the album's sales
Agreeing with you though I'm not too sure about No. 3.
It reached No. 1 before the album was out and while both sales and airplay of We Are Young are still increasing, Some Night's sales already fell... Considering they haven't had a huge fanbase before We Are Young, the album could still sell around the same amount it did in the debuting week (interest in the single is bigger than ever before, so interest in the album could be relatively big, too, as Fun is an album-selling type of band and while most albums are being bought by fans at first and so post bigger declines in the next few weeks after the release, Fun is starting from almost zero as their first album didn't receive much attention).

A single that really sells an album is if an album is rather low and a single can make it climb high all up mainly due to this... Like Rihanna's Loud in France after the success of Man Down.
Or Gotye's Making Mirrors: It debuted at No. 120 in the US and Somebody made it climb steadily and eventually made it reach the top 10, which seems to be the perfect example of such a phenomenon.

While I actually understand everything you just said (strangely), I must say that everything is not compared to the extreme. Some things are simply relative... not too far to the right or left. They're album increased to what is now stable sales in the top 20... that's a hit! They didn't have to start outside of the top 100 for it to be a "phenomenom."

And the single is really a full, multi-format genre-blasting hit that is just really good!

I love it!

by **Play** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:44 pm

^ I did not want to quote it all so here is what I think;

We Are Young made a nice impact on albums sales too. You don't need to go so far away, just look at what Pumped Up Kicks did for their (also) debut album. The effect is quite similar though PUK had a great longevity and carried the album to Gold+ levels.

I'm curious to see what these guys can do.

http://www.last.fm/user/thalissonmarcos · by **thalisson** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:54 am

4. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 123.624 (+ 3.634)

by **Timmy94** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:59 am

Already No. 4

... Still feels like yesterday when it was somewhere around the top 20...
And still a plus of 3.6n mio. per day

: It has the potential to end at ~ 150 mio...

As much as I apprechiate Fun's success, I hope we'll have some moderately successful No.-1-singles again and not a total smash following another - because otherwise they lose this specialness...