[SamAdams76]

Having studied the Billboard Charts for over 20 years now (I have most of Joel Whitburn's books on charted records), I can tell you that it is unprecedented for a number one single to drop off the charts completely two weeks later. Usually when a record charts, it takes about 3/4 the time to fall off the charts that it did to climb the charts. So if a song took 12 weeks to reach number one, it will likely take 8 weeks to fall off the charts. And it will gradually fall, that is it will drop maybe to number 2, then 7, 11, 20, 37, 54, 71, 95 and then off.

The closest situation to this that I can remember was when the Milli Vanilli scandal hit. Their songs stopped getting airplay overnight. I'll have to do some research when I get home and see if they had any charted records at the time.

As for the album remaining at number one, unless things have changed, the positions are based solely on sales through point-of-sale "SOUNDSCAN" technology and there is a lagtime of a couple weeks. So we may see different results next week.

[legman]

Having studied the Billboard Charts for over 20 years now (I have most of Joel Whitburn's books on charted records), I can tell you that it is unprecedented for a number one single to drop off the charts completely two weeks later.

This is an important entertainment industry story then. Consider emailing Cavuto at FNC. Country music fans have spoken. The world needs to listen.