"Creative Topic" #4: Billboard Meets Youtube
Recently the American Billboard charts recently changed something. Now Youtube views are apart of the view count of the music. Until now only radio, iTunes, and some other things were apart of this. And now Youtube views are in on this. Oddly enough another new fad that has already died went straight to the number one spot on Billboard, and that is the Harlem Shake. As far as the Harlem Shake went, it was just a dumb thing people did for fun. I viewed two of them, and got a small chuckle, and that was it. Then I learned the Harlem Shake made it to the top of Billboard, where it is still king only because of Youtube videos. Now some people are pissed by the fact a terrible song like the Harlem Shake is on Billboard only because of some idiots who made videos about it constantly as they jumped on the bandwagon. Before I continue, who actually spends their time just looking up a bunch of Harlem Shake videos? Seriously, how many views are these things getting? Anyway, as far as Harlem Shake being on Billboard goes, who really cares? Oh no, a terrible song being on Billboard, what are the odds? Sorry, but usually at least half of those song if I reviewed them they’d score under a five, and there have been hundreds of terrible songs on Billboard. Now songs like Rebecca Black’s Friday will now have a shot at hitting Billboard, but is the bar really that far on quality? Idiots share around a video going like, "Look how bad this thing is!” But if that person has hundreds of friends on Facebook, then they could have just got that person hundreds of views. Those people become rich because you did that. It just adds to the amount of artists who get money for being terrible, but now they’re getting money because everyone thinks they’re terrible. Rebecca Black’s Friday has over forty-nine million views, and her and some other people who helped make the video get a dollar for every thousand views. She has the money because it’s terrible. That song is just as bad as some others on Billboard, but it sounded bad enough for people to pay attention to the lyrics. But now that will be on Billboard, and everyone can see terrible songs ranking on top of charts. But seriously, isn’t already like that? Artists like Kesha, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Nicki Minaj and dozens of others I’d say aren’t that good are on Billboard, and nobody cares about that, so why should they care whoever the fuck made the Harlem Shake thing does? Sure Billboard should do the logical thing of maybe only using the views of maybe the top viewed video on Youtube, but in the end we are seeing what people listen to the most, no matter how bad it is. The Harlem Shake is simple the most heard thing out right now, so is it really wrong it’s on top? Billboard hasn’t ever stopped anything before from quality, why should it now? Sorry America, but the top songs are usually really shitty, now it’s just a little bit more obvious.
