May 26, 2012
Dancing with the Stars on ABC has become a consistent Top 5 hit for the network. It’s meteoric rise from summer afterthought to prime time juggernaut has been surprising, at least to some. Dancing with the Stars seems like a highly specific show for a highly specific niche audience. Who has ever thought to themselves, “You know what would be really cool? If they made a reality show that took professional dancers and paired them with C-List celebrities and they performed ballroom dances and I could vote on them.”
The answer is, probably, only a few heavily deranged humans. However, when Dancing with the Stars debuted almost a year and a half ago, the ratings were incredible. Americans, as history shows, never know what they want until it appears. The show was a massive hit, and not a fluke. Flukes don’t those receive the kind of ratings Dancing with the Stars receives over and over. Dancing with the Stars defied all expectations, rose from the summer scrap heaps, led by nothing more than word of mouth. The question that comes to mind, of course, is this:
Why?
Why is Dancing with the Stars a hit? Why does it appeal to so many viewers? Why does it comprise twenty percent of the Nielsen top five rated shows every week it airs.
Dancing with the Stars success has been an enigma for both the outsider and rabid viewer. Until now.
BuddyTV’s article cuts to the core of Dancing with the Star’s popularity. The conclusions as to why Dancing with the Stars is a hit may surprise you. Do people watch Dancing with the Stars to see the beautiful dancers, like Willa Ford, Mario Lopez, Vivica A. Fox, and Joey Lawrence? Not quite.
Dancing with the Stars status as a top 5 hit isn’t random, as it may seem to an outsider. The performance of Dancing with the Stars is actually predictable, once you delve deep into its nature and the different components of the show, as BuddyTV does.
Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Writer
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Groshan Fabiola
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/why-is-dancing-with-the-stars-popular-68483.html
Who says “Dancing with the Stars” is popular culture?
I think that is media hype. I was watching a pageant where the girls were quizzed on current events. I am sorry, but there must be 20,000 things more important than who got bumped off dancing with the stars. Some say it is important to popular culture my question is popular to who? It is B list actors mostly sometimes not, but who will care in 6 months who won on that show?
yep i could care less who pulls a tendon!
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perhaps it’s popular for now -
but you’re right, no one will care in 6 months from now
you wonder why stars are always commiting suicide?
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Popular culture refers to entertainment that is followed by a lot of people. It isn’t culture in the sense that a ballet or symphony is.
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It is mindless programing , like American Idol .
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It’s one of the top TV shows on a major broadcast network, so I’d say that definitely falls into the ‘popular culture’ thing. And, if you look at the ratings, millions and millions (I think over 10 million at least) of people watch it, so it’s popular to them, and therefore more likely to be popular for the average American than almost any other random TV show.
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