{"id":191744,"date":"2025-11-20T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=191744"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:32:08","slug":"the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=191744","title":{"rendered":"The Odd Alchemy That Sends a Brand-New Song to the Top of the Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, No. 1 debuts were unheard of in America. Then the record labels and digital music hacked the Hot 100&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/podcasts\/hit-parade\/2025\/09\/how-songs-debut-at-no-1-on-the-billboard-pop-chart?via=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, No. 1 debuts were unheard of in America. Then the record labels and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts.jpeg",1560,1040,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-1536x1024.jpeg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts.jpeg",1560,1040,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191744-the-odd-alchemy-that-sends-a-brand-new-song-to-the-top-of-the-charts-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}