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US Pop Radio Listeners Are Loving Lukas Graham’s “7 Years”

Since returning from the break, the typical sample size for Mediabase’s pop radio listener callout panel has fallen by upwards of 50%. Perhaps because of the smaller sample size, the data has been more volatile than usual over the past several weeks.

Unfortunately, the new sample size seems to represent a new normal: there is nothing to suggest it will climb from its current range of ~1100-1300 back to the ~3000 that it was prior to the break.

As a result, those interested in this particular form of audience data are left with a “take it or leave it” approach.

The good news is that the data does has seemed to normalize over the past few weeks. There are still still bigger week-to-week changes than should be the case of rock-solid survey data, but the general hierarchy is becoming more consistent.

That general hierarchy features Lukas Graham’s “7 Years” near the top.

The song garners a positive reaction from 66.3% of surveyed listeners (#2 out of the 20 measured pop songs), a negative reaction from 19.1% (fourth-lowest of the 20 measured pop songs) and thus a “net positive” score of 47.3%.

Said net positive score is the greatest among active pop songs.

“7 Years” is also generating a comparatively high level of passion; its “favorite” score of 23.3% is the third-highest at pop radio, beneath only the scores for Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” (27.1%) and twenty one pilots’ “Stressed Out” (25.2%).

Lukas Graham’s breakthrough single, which officially reached pop radio’s Top 10 last week, is #7 on Mediabase’s building chart for the current tracking week.

Brian Cantor

Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. He has been a leading reporter in the music, movie, television and sporting spaces since 2002. Brian's reporting has been cited by major websites like BuzzFeed, Billboard, the New Yorker and The Fader -- and shared by celebrities like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj. Contact Brian at brian.cantor[at]headlineplanet.com.

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