Fans Now Decide the Hits.

On this mini-episode of Hit Parade, host Chris Molanphy is joined by Andrew Unterberger, Billboard’s digital deputy editor, for a discussion of second-probability hits and the most realistic seemingly map standard-day fans divulge the artists and labels what the hits are. In most cases, the music industry’s finest-laid plans—disclose, the promotional marketing and marketing campaign for a brand modern album by The Weeknd—are upended by TikTok customers gravitating to a song from an outdated Weeknd album in its build. It makes promotion more troublesome, but makes the charts more fun.

Subsequent, Chris quizzes a Slate Plus listener with some music minutiae, offers him a gamble to flip the tables with a quiz of his hold, and previews next month’s corpulent-dimension episode. Slate Plus participants would be half of a gamble to be our minutiae contestant on a future episode here.

Podcast production by Kevin Bendis.