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That's less "people" and more "marketing departments". So much mid-tier music gets blown up and then dropped overnight, as the promotion models change.
When streaming started to become a thing, and it became incorporated into the Billboard hits ranking algorithm, hit songs started to stay at the top a lot longer than they used to. The reason was exactly what you pointed to. Industry marketing campaigns would be push songs on TV and radio to the top spot in order to drive sales, then drop the campaign immediately for the next song to push. When listeners started to have more control over the music they listened to, they didn't hyper-cycle like the marketers wanted. I would assume the marketers have adjusted to the new listening model, but I haven't kept up.
nah there's 100% people who go out of their way to shuffle through a single artists' discography and every song they've been featured in 24/7. Hell, I found one right after reading this