![]() terrestrial radio five times more than “Sweet” last week (the ODB remix helps), and “Fantasy” also has higher streams at Spotify and stronger sales at iTunes than “One Sweet Day.” But in its day, “One Sweet Day” was the event single, and its run on top reflected that. Is “Sweet” twice as great a song as “Fantasy”? You be the judge, but two decades later, “Fantasy” is the Carey song you’re much likelier to hear on the radio: Broadcast Data Systems reports it got played on U.S. So it stood to reason that “Sweet” would spend literally twice as long on top, 16 weeks, as “Fantasy,” Carey’s immediate predecessor. Boyz were themselves at an imperial high point, just one year past their own 14-week No. 1 song, “ I’ll Make Love to You” and a string of follow-up hits. “Fantasy” spent eight weeks at No. 1 when she dropped the Boyz II Men duet as Daydream’s second single. (She still holds the record among solo artists for most chart toppers, with 18, which ranks second only to the Beatles.) Immediately prior to the arrival of “One Sweet Day,” Carey had just been to No. 1 with “ Fantasy,” an up-tempo jam and the lead single from her Daydream album. Carey, for example, was already at the zenith of her imperial phase in late 1995 and topping the Hot 100 on the regular. You can pretty much measure this numerically. ![]()
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