The charts
Why your song slipped, and what it takes to stay up there.
There is a Top 100 and a chart for each of the five genres. They all recalculate every six hours, and every artist above you is a real person.
Pop
Rock
Rap
Country
EDMA genre shares one audience
Your song does not have a score that quietly drains away. Every song competing in a genre is sharing the attention available, and your position is your slice of it.
So nothing pushes your song down except better songs. A track from six Paydays ago holds its place until somebody beats it, and the same track can drop hard in one Payday when three people all release something stronger.
Release day is loud
A new song gets a burst of attention when it lands, and that fades over the next few days back to what the song is really worth. It is a splash, not a plan. What it is good for is timing: a quiet Payday gives a song you are proud of a much better start.
Watch your genre chart
You compete for attention inside your genre, not against the whole game, so being a name in your genre is reachable in a first season. The Top 100 is a longer project.
Staying up there
Holding the top takes a catalog, not a single. One enormous song puts you at number one until somebody beats it. A run of good songs keeps you there, because now they have to beat all of them at once.
And one ladder that is not a chart
There is a second ladder that has nothing to do with how well a song was written. It ranks artists on real people hearing them, out in the world, and it pays like the charts do.