One of those rare times where more formal math notation is more understandable than plain English. Assuming that you’re not in a field where you use formal math notation all the time.
I guess it depends on your definition of plain English. I wouldn’t consider the English in that to be plain, particularly as they had a typo that seemed Deliberate.
Relevant xkcd
All Olivia’s singles that made it into the Top 10 also debuted within the Top 10, a first for a female artist in the top Hot 100 chart.
Does the Hot 100 have any relevance here? If she’s in the Top 10, that would already imply Hot 100?
I guess Hot 100 is the brand name of the charts here.
Right, I guess “Top 10” isn’t a thing just the top of the Hot 100.
Yeah, the headline is talking about the Billboard Hot 100, a chart of the 100 most popular songs of the week.
The news about her songs being in the “top 10” just means that all her charting singles appeared for the first time in one of the first 10 positions.
I just checked the chart on the Billboard website and it’s now at number 12, but it debuted last week at the first position.
It’s important because the achievement requires that none of her other singles made the top 100 prior to climbing to the top 10.
It also feels like it’s not exactly an honor. It’s saying she’s popular, so the songs are instantly top 10 regardless of their quality, whereas songs that climbing to the top are more likely to be songs that catch on and become more popular because people listen to, enjoy, and share them.
Olivia Rodrigo becomes the first woman in history to debut her first ten top 10 Hot 100 hits in the top 10.
Ok. So if I’m reading this right, the word “debut” is the important word here.
“Hot 100” is the industry-standard chart of song popularity, published by Billboard. The “100” there is confusing the headline, so let’s call that “THE LIST.”
Olivia Rodrigo becomes the first woman in history to debut her first ten top 10 “THE LIST” hits in the top 10.
So it’s impressive to get a song on THE LIST. Having it anywhere on the list is genuinely impressive. But it’s more impressive to hit the Top Ten of THE LIST. We’ll call those songs “SUPERHITS.”
Olivia Rodrigo becomes the first woman in history to debut her first ten “SUPERHITS” on “THE LIST” as “SUPERHITS.”
As impressive as having a song that becomes a SUPERHIT is, it’s even more impressive for your song to start there, right as soon as it’s come out, without needing to work its way up from the bottom. Let’s call those “LIGHTNING BOLTS.” Also, everything we’re taking about is on THE LIST, we can collapse that repetitive term now.
Olivia Rodrigo becomes the first woman in history to have exclusively “LIGHTNING BOLTS” as her first ten “SUPERHITS.”
So, no SUPERHITS that weren’t LIGHTNING BOLTS. But a quick look at Wikipedia shows that she’s had 13 singles (which…wow, I thought she’d been around longer than that), which means she’s released three songs that were never SUPERHITS. Either they got on THE LIST but peaked at 11 or lower, or they never made THE LIST at all.
You make the world a better place. Thank you.
You’re very kind, thank you.
Olivia Rodrigo Becomes the First Woman in History to Have Her First 10 Songs to Reach the Hot 100 Chart to Debut in the Top 10
How hard was that?
The hardest obstacle wasn’t logic, but the max. char limit /s
If I would’ve had more time I would written a shorter
letterheadline
Who?
Olivia Rodrigo. She’s pretty popular these days.
Well I didn’t vote for her
You don’t vote for Olivians!
Well, how do they become (10, 10)-Olivian?
Did some watery tart throw a scimitar at her?
That’s no basis for a system of government!
I voted for Kodos
10/10. Would Olivian again.
How many of them were also
k-pop
…I’ll see myself out.
None of this makes any sense to me
The person who wrote the translation has had to break down concepts for undergrads before.
Good marketing, or is it actually good music?
I feel like it literally has to be all marketing. I mean good music would certainly have a role in keeping it in the top 10 or moving it to a higher place in the top 10 but for it to DEBUT there, before anyone has even heard it yet, must be marketing
I suppose with succes like hers it has to be both.
I don’t understand how this woman is popular. All she does in her music is whine and cry about greasy ex boyfriend with the Gen Z broccoli hair. And yet it’s an extremely successful formula for her.
It’s like, why you gotta have such low standards, girl? You’re rich, famous, and pretty; you can do way better than him.
I find a lot of celebrities also have terrible qualities
So what you are saying is she needs to find an attractive guy with a great personality with low enough standards or poor enough self esteem to date her for very vapid qualities despite her personality (I’m guessing)
Why the fancy n?
That is the standard LaTex maths notation n I think.
What does it do though
Being a n?
So it’s just a fancy n and not some kind of symbol like pi?
Yeah, just how “n” looks in that typeface.
Seems odd that you could debut in the top 10, don’t you need to sell copies of the song to get in the chart? If you’ve just debuted it the wouldn’t it have sold zero copies and so it would be ranked at the bottom with every other newly debuted song? Is there some kind of Spotify futures market for songs where you can pre purchase a song?
