— Updated: 11:38 am -->Tim McGraw Ropes Decade’s Most Played Single
By BEN SISARIORahav Segev for The New York Times Tim McGraw on tour in 2006.
What’s the most popular song of the decade? There are plenty of ways to measure it — CD sales, paid downloads, unauthorized downloads. But perhaps the most tried and true is radio play.
Based on data from Nielsen BDSradio, which monitors radio stations throughout the United States, the most-played song on any station from Jan. 1, 2000, to Dec. 17, 2009, was Tim McGraw’s “Something Like That,” released in 1999. It received 487,343 spins, beating out the most popular song on Top 40 radio, Usher’s “Yeah!,” from 2004, by a fair margin. “Yeah!,” featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon, has been spun 416,267 times.
Other high-spinning tracks include Train’s “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” (2001), which topped the Hot AC (as in adult contemporary) format, with 338,749; Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” (2000), the most popular on alternative stations with 221,767 spins; “Low,” Flo Rida’s song from 2007 featuring T-Pain, which was the most popular on the rhythmic format with 206,864 spins.
“Low” has also had the most paid downloads of any song this decade, with 5.2 million, as registered by another Nielsen branch, SoundScan.
A complete list of the most frequently played songs in each genre appears below:
Country: “Something Like That” (1999) by Tim McGraw, 487,343 spins
Top 40/contemporary hit radio: “Yeah!” (2004) by Usher, featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon, 416,267 spins
Hot AC: “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” (2001) by Train, 338,749 spins
Alternative: “Last Resort” (2000) by Papa Roach, 221,767 spins
Rhythmic: “Low” (2007) by Flo Rida, 206,864 spins
Album rock: “It’s Been Awhile” (2001) by Staind, 189,195 spins
Urban: “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (2004) by Snoop Dogg, featuring Pharrell, 169,511 spins
Urban AC: “Think About You” (2003) by Luther Vandross, 147,818 spins
Gospel: “Never Would Have Made It” (2007) by Marvin Sapp, 92,603 spins
Smooth jazz: “Pacific Coast Highway” (2005) by Nils, 29,328 spins
Congratulations Tim McGraw!!! Way to go Nashville Country!
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