Neither one of those songs really had any commercial sucess...

Billboard aint ish until the top 20 maybe top 40. #52, #87 that doesnt move anyone, especially because NO ONE BUYS SINGLES!!!!! Back in the day singles could go platinum and double platinum now a day only a small amount of singles go GOLD. So if your in the 50s you probably only moved like 10K units so you can imagine that the 80s and 90s...

If you really want to know how a single is doing check the radioplay charts and check radio station websites and they post their playlist, also I think yes.com has the top 100 spins per week for someone radio stations, also most big DJs and soundcrews have websites and they keep a list of whats hot.

BTW, maybe you should treat your post like a lawyer trains his/her client for the stand...only answer things that have been specifically asked...by that I mean the man say he felt Soul on fire got more play by him than Nookie...and you assumed he was in NY probably because his location says so but the problem was you go to prove your case by bringing up all the US and UK billboard... WAT FACKIN RELEVANCE DO THEY HOLD ON PROVing WHAT IT DID IN NY? All your chart numbers look nice and all but they don't prove what he said as being wrong (although Nookie was a bigger song than Soul on Fire on NY radio and in clubs). You could of came right out and sited how it was top 5 in spins on WQHT, how it was on nightly countdowns on 105.1 and done