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Some brief chart history: Prior to the late ’70s, the Hot 100 wasn’t built for long chart runs, as 45-RPM hits turned over quickly at record stores and radio stations. In a way, Imagine Dragons trying to follow up this hit song makes me feel sorry for them. Unfortunately, to those of us who follow the charts closely, it’s also something of a curse-arguably an even bigger jinx than Best New Artist at the Grammys. A chart run as historic as “Radioactive’s” does reflect some kind of popularity. Some stat, right? “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Billie Jean,” “Smells Like Teen Spirit”-“Radioactive” rode the Hot 100 longer than these four songs combined. So I mean, they have this great track record-I think, though … they’re still a fairly anonymous band, in many ways, to the general public.” It generated three top 20 hits on the Hot 100 chart. It has never left the chart-it has been in the top for every single one of its 129 weeks, except for just two. You know, ’cause their first album did two and a half million. “I guess I was expecting Imagine Dragons to be bigger. “Well, I mean, is this really that strong?” he mused aloud. (By the album chart’s new math, which also bakes in streaming and track sales, the cumulative total was 195,000 units.) Lipshutz declared it a “really strong album debut,” but Caulfield demurred. 1 on that week’s album chart with 172,000 in pure sales. Imagine Dragons’ Smoke + Mirrors opened at No. On Billboard’s Pop Shop podcast a couple weeks ago, the magazine’s associate editor Jason Lipshutz and associate director of charts Keith Caulfield were politely debating whether the new album at No.