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Post by Gary on Mar 8, 2017 15:16:02 GMT -5
Leading Ladies: A Look at Women's No. 1 Success in the Hot 100's History
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By Trevor Anderson | March 08, 2017 2:25 PM EST Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey & Katy Perry
Since Connie Francis first broke the No. 1 gender barrier in 1960 with "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," women have returned to the Hot 100's summit at an increasingly regular rate.
How did we analyze nearly 60 years of Hot 100 data? Women's shares of No. 1 hits on the Hot 100 by decade, as presented below, was calculated by adding the total number of No. 1s by female soloists, all-female collaborations (such as Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine") and all-female groups (such as Destiny's Child) in lead roles. Among mixed-gender groups, only those with designated and well-known female leads (such as Gladys Knight & The Pips) were included, with editorial discretion.
1960s Leaderboard: The Supremes (12 No. 1s during the decade), Connie Francis (3)
Key Stat: The Supremes leap to 12 career No. 1s (in 1964-69), still the best mark all-time for a female group - or any American group, for that matter.
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 22 percent
After Francis' triumph, women lodged more than 40 further claims to the Hot 100's throne in the '60s, earning 22 percent of all Hot 100 No. 1s for the decade. The Supremes led the class among female acts, having achieved a staggering dozen chart-toppers, a mark tied for the fifth-best total in the chart's history. Along with the Motown headliners, girl groups continued to supplement the ranks, with The Marvelettes, The Shangri-Las and The Shirelles just some of the collectives who climbed to the top.
1970s Leaderboard: Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer (4 No. 1s each during the decade)
Key Stats: Summer and Streisand earn the first-ever collaborative No. 1 by solo females, 1979's "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)."
Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" becomes the first No. 1 to spend 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, in 1977.
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 22 percent
The '70s brought a decline of girl groups in popular music and a rising crop of rockers, instrumentalists and singer-songwriters such as Elton John and Stevie Wonder, as well as the emergence of solo Beatles' recordings following the band's 1970 breakup.
One key development, though, was the rise of superstar divas that paralleled the growth of male pop/rock icons. Diana Ross maintained her Supremes momentum in her solo career, spinning off four No. 1 hits on her own. Barbra Streisand and disco pioneer Donna Summer likewise scored a quartet of leaders, including the Hot 100's first solo female collaborative No. 1, "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)."
All that combined, women held steady from the '60's to the '70s, repeating with a 22 percent share of Hot 100 No. 1s in the latter decade.
1980s Leaderboard: Whitney Houston, Madonna (7 No. 1s each during the decade), Paula Abdul, Blondie (3 each)
Key Stats: Whitney Houston links seven consecutive Hot 100 No. 1 hits, still the chart record.
1988's "Foolish Beat" made Debbie Gibson the first woman to write, produce and record a No. 1 hit.
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 29 percent
The stature of female icons increased in the '80s, and while the years began with a parade of familiar faces atop the Hot 100 – Streisand, Ross, Olivia Newton-John – the decade's midpoint changed the female pop world order. Madonna welcomed in New Years' Day 1985 with "Like a Virgin" steady at No. 1 and by Halloween, Whitney Houston had claimed her first of seven straight leaders, still a record Hot 100 streak, with "Saving All My Love for You." Their seven No. 1s each in the decade, second only to Michael Jackson among all acts, helped boost women to 29 percent of the decade's share of leaders.
1990s Leaderboard: Mariah Carey (14 No. 1s during the decade), Janet Jackson (6)
Key Stat: Mariah Carey's 12th No. 1, "Honey" sets the record for leaders among solo women (since extended to 18), passing Houston and Madonna, then with 11 apiece.
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 49 percent
A new decade birthed a new pop sensation in Mariah Carey, who stormed to the most Hot 100 No. 1s among women all-time in just seven years and, armed with 14 chart-toppers by the century's end, helped women capture just shy of 49 percent of the decade's total No. 1s.
Madonna, Houston and Janet Jackson, who all began their No. 1 collections in the '80s, seamlessly crossed decades to continue padding their totals. Jackson, in particular, gained further prominence on the strength of six '90s No. 1s, which helped her rank as the decade's second-biggest pop artist, trailing only Carey. Led by these superstars, women wrapped the decade with unprecedented success, with female soloists or groups (Carey, Jackson, Celine Dion, Madonna, Houston, TLC and Toni Braxton) capturing seven spots among Billboard's top 10 pop artists of the decade.
2000s Leaderboard: Beyonce, Rihanna (5 No. 1s each during the decade), Mariah Carey (4)
Key Stat: Kelly Clarkson makes the biggest leap to No. 1 in Hot 100 history, vaulting 97-1 with "My Life Would Suck Without You" in 2009.
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 40 percent
With a new millennium came a fresh wave of female pop and R&B superstars, who combined to lead the Hot 100 with 40 percent of all No. 1s in the century's opening frame (down from 49 percent for the '90s, but still nearly double women's showings in the '60s and '70s).
Beyonce – like Diana Ross decades before – stepped out from her group for a blockbuster solo career, as the former Destiny Child's frontwoman turned in five No. 1s throughout the decade, with each logging at least one month atop the Hot 100.
As three of Beyonce's No. 1s ("Crazy in Love," featuring Jay Z; "Baby Boy," featuring Sean Paul; and "Check On It," featuring Slim Thug) proved, the popularity of rap/sung collaborations also aided women in reaching the top of the Hot 100. Besides Beyonce, the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys and Nelly Furtado topped the Hot 100 with accompanied rappers.
In addition, certified legends defied previous expectations of career longevity, with Janet Jackson, Madonna and Mariah Carey plugging additional No. 1 hits more than 15 years into their careers. Just weeks after one another in 2000, Jackson and Madonna became the first artists to score No. 1 hits in the '80s, '90s and '00s.
Plus, the 2002 arrival of American Idol proved a new showcase for female talent, especially. Led by original queen Kelly Clarkson and 2005 winner Carrie Underwood, six songs by Idol champs or finalists topped the Hot 100 in the '00s, four of them by women.
2010s Leaderboard: Rihanna (9 No. 1s during the decade), Katy Perry (8), Adele, Taylor Swift (4 each)
Key Stats: Katy Perry's Teenage Dream ties Michael Jackson's Bad as the only albums to generate five Hot 100 No. 1 hits each.
Taylor Swift becomes the first woman to replace herself at No. 1, when "Blank Space" dethrones "Shake It Off."
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 47 percent
Female pop artists have been front and center in music in the current decade, particularly by penning and performing songs about empowerment, inner strength and living life to the fullest, helping women to own 47 percent of all Hot 100 No. 1s in the '10s thus far (through Sia's "Cheap Thrills" in September, the most recent No. 1 by a lead female artist.
Rihanna has bolted to nine No. 1s in the '10s (joining her five earned in the prior decade) and, in 2016, eclipsed Michael Jackson's total of 13 to claim the third-most No. 1s in the Hot 100's history.
Katy Perry, meanwhile, is directly behind (among women and overall) with eight No. 1s in the current decade, including such inspirational anthems as "Firework" and "Roar." Like Rihanna, Perry also staked out a Jackson record in her quest, joining the late King of Pop as the only artists with five No. 1s each from a single album; her Teenage Dream LP in 2010-11 equated the No. 1 output of his Bad in 1987-88.
Plus, the album-centric power of Adele and Taylor Swift has fueled each superstar to four Hot 100 No. 1s to date (including a No. 1 debut) apiece. Fittingly, in an era known for declining album sales, the two stalwarts have rallied to lengthy Hot 100 stays by bucking trends: Adele for reawakening the public's appreciation for big ballads, and Swift for finding her niche in bringing country appeal to an unrealized mainstream youth-centered audience and seamlessly transforming it into a full pop makeover (and takeover).
With three years left in the '10s, could this become the first decade in which women boast 50 percent of all Hot 100 No. 1 hits? Rebounding to 47 percent through 2016, they look to have a good shot, with a diverse cast of superstars whose appeal crosses far and wide into pop, country, R&B and hip-hop.
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Post by imbondz on Mar 8, 2017 15:35:37 GMT -5
Wait, the first woman to have a #1 hit wasn't until 1960?
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Post by Gary on Mar 8, 2017 15:39:30 GMT -5
Connie Francis - June 1960 ---- 2 years into the chart
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Post by renfield75 on Mar 8, 2017 16:37:47 GMT -5
Yes, if you go pre-Hot 100 (August 1958) there were several women reaching number one in the mid-50s, such as Kay Starr ("The Rock And Roll Waltz"), Joan Weber ("Let Me Go, Lover!"), Gogi Grant ("The Wayward Wind"), Debbie Reynolds ("Tammy"), and the McGuire Sisters ("Sincerely", "Sugartime"). If there had been the internet and Pulse in 1955-58 these ladies would likely have been favorites!
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Post by Gary on Mar 8, 2017 18:36:49 GMT -5
Rewinding The Charts: In 1960, Connie Francis Became the First Woman to Top the Billboard Hot 100
3/8/2017 by Gary Trust
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Connie Francis
On July 2, 1960, the then-21-year-old Jersey girl scored the first-ever Hot 100 No. 1 by a female artist, just one of her 53 career hits.
Nearly two years into the Billboard Hot 100's existence, the top of the chart was essentially a boys' club.
Starting with Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool," which led the inaugural list on Aug. 4, 1958, only one of the first 29 No. 1s featured prominent female vocals: "To Know Him, Is to Love Him" by The Teddy Bears, a vocal trio featuring one female member (as well as a young Phil Spector).
But on July 2, 1960, Connie Francis, then 21, made history when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," recorded with the Joe Sherman Orchestra, rose 2-1. By year's end, three more No. 1s by solo women would rule: Francis' follow-up "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" and Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry" and "I Want to Be Wanted."
During her career, Francis notched 53 Hot 100 hits. In recent years, she's focused on fighting for mental healthcare reform for veterans, having co-founded the Haven From the Storm charity.
But, back in 1960, she was hungering for another goal, at least according to a Billboard cover story in the May 16 issue, where "Fool" rose 52-39 in its second chart week, on its way to No. 1. Its title? "Connie Dreams of a Wiener Schnitzel."
On a promotional tour in Vienna, Francis told Billboard, "I should stay in this wonderful city to see all these fine buildings, to visit these magnificent churches … and to order one Wiener Schnitzel a day!"
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Post by badrobot on Mar 8, 2017 21:13:28 GMT -5
This is quite vague: "Among mixed-gender groups, only those with designated and well-known female leads (such as Gladys Knight & The Pips) were included, with editorial discretion."
It'd be nice if they broke down women/mixed/men percentages and gave examples of what counted for mixed gender.
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Post by renfield75 on Mar 8, 2017 21:30:55 GMT -5
This is quite vague: "Among mixed-gender groups, only those with designated and well-known female leads (such as Gladys Knight & The Pips) were included, with editorial discretion." It'd be nice if they broke down women/mixed/men percentages and gave examples of what counted for mixed gender. Right, like what about Ace Of Base? ABBA? Roxette? The multi-artist "That's What Friends Are For"?
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Post by Gary on Mar 8, 2017 21:35:04 GMT -5
This is quite vague: "Among mixed-gender groups, only those with designated and well-known female leads (such as Gladys Knight & The Pips) were included, with editorial discretion." It'd be nice if they broke down women/mixed/men percentages and gave examples of what counted for mixed gender. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts is a mixed gender band has a well known female lead Fleetwood Mac is a mixed gender band whose lead singer is not necessarily female
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Post by kcdawg13 on Mar 8, 2017 21:59:43 GMT -5
If they do a Male list. Who would the male artists of the 2010's be? I can only think of Ed, Bieber, and Bruno.
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Post by Raccoon on Mar 8, 2017 22:05:48 GMT -5
If they do a Male list. Who would the male artists of the 2010's be? I can only think of Ed, Bieber, and Bruno. Weeknd, JT
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Post by Gary on Mar 8, 2017 22:17:28 GMT -5
Bruno Mars has 6 Eminem, The Weeknd and Bieber all have 3
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Post by prenatt1166 on Mar 13, 2017 0:19:52 GMT -5
With the recent passing of Joni Sledge, I think it may be appropriate to note that she was part of a Hot 100 first for women.
On June 30, 1979 women (or female groups) held the top five positions on the Hot 100 for the very first time.
1. Anita Ward "Ring My Bell" 2. Donna Summer "Hot Stuff" 3. Donna Summer "Bad Girls" 4. Sister Sledge "We Are Family" 5. Rickie Lee Jones "Chuck E.'s In Love"
I believe this first occurrence is correct, but please post if you can find one earlier.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 3:12:29 GMT -5
Ugh with one more #1 hit Mariah Carey would have had most number 1's in two consecutive decades. That would have been a amazing addition to an amazing career. The most impressive record to me is her having a number one every single year from 1990 to 2000. Now that is consistent and impressive hit making.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 13, 2017 10:18:31 GMT -5
A couple of other notable recent female streaks that I just remembered: - From the Hot 100 weekly charts dated September 20, 2014 to November 1, 2014, a span of 7 weeks, the Top 5 songs of the Hot 100 had only female artists as lead or featured artists. Meghan Trainor Rules Hot 100, Ed Sheeran Hits Top 10, Glen Campbell Returns- Women have 2 streaks of 19 consecutive weeks, in which the #1 of Hot 100 was by a female singer. In 2005, from May 7 through Sept. 10, 2005, it started Gwen Stefani led for four weeks with "Hollaback Girl", Mariah Carey added four weeks with "We Belong Together", Carrie Underwood nabbed a week on top with her American Idol coronation ballad "Inside Your Heaven", and Carey returned for 10 more weeks at No. 1 with "Together". It was repeated from Sept. 6, 2014 to Jan. 10, 2015 when "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift was #1 for its first two weeks, followed by 8 weeks at #1 by "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor and two more weeks by "Shake", and finally, 7 weeks at #1 for "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift". Taylor Swift Helps Tie Record Streak for Women Atop Hot 100link
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Post by Gary on Apr 22, 2017 19:35:52 GMT -5
The top of the chart is exclusively a boys club for the first time since Feb. 11, 1984. Submit questions about Billboard charts, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com. Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and country, if outside the U.S. Or, tweet @gthot20 Hello Gary, ADVERTISING
I was wondering if you noticed that the top 10 of this week's Billboard Hot 100 (dated April 29) is comprised of all men. Do you know the last time this happened? Only a few years ago, it seemed like men had all but disappeared from the chart's upper echelon, with music then dominated by Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Adele and Beyoncé, etc. I recall that the week of March 28, 1964 also saw an all-male top 10, with The Beatles occupying the top four (a week before they held the entire top five). Thanks, Dwight Fischer Wichita, Kansas
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Post by Gary on Apr 22, 2017 19:37:52 GMT -5
Hi Dwight, Boys have hung a "no girls allowed" sign on this week's Hot 100 top 10. To recap:
1, "Shape of You," Ed Sheeran 2, "That's What I Like," Bruno Mars 3, "Humble.," Kendrick Lamar 4, "Sign of the Times," Harry Styles 5, "Something Just Like This," The Chainsmokers & Coldplay 6, "iSpy," KYLE feat. Lil Yachty 7, "Mask Off," Future 8, "XO TOUR Llif3," Lil Uzi Vert 9, "Body Like a Back Road," Sam Hunt 10, "Paris," The Chainsmokers
That's eight lead solo males (with one featured solo male) and two groups, with one of them, The Chainsmokers, on two songs. It is mixed company given Emily Warren's vocal on "Paris," but she is uncredited officially. Making way for an all-men top 10 is the departure of "Rockabye," by Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie. And, the week before, Zayn and Taylor Swift's "I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)" vacated the region, after reaching No. 3. You're right, Dwight, that women fairly recently dominated the Hot 100; in 2014 and 2015, women led the chart for a record-tying 19 weeks in a row, starting when Swift's "Shake It Off" debuted at No. 1 (on Sept. 6, 2014). Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" and Swift's "Blank Space" continued the run. But, with no women in this week's Hot 100's top 10, a week-by-week look back reveals that women have ranked in the region with at least one song for … well, quite a while, until this week. In the 2010s, superstars including Swift, Adele, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, Perry, Rihanna and others have regularly visited the bracket. Not a week had gone by until now that no women were in the top 10 in the '10s. In the 2000s, many of those same artists hit the top 10, along with such other such chart-ruling women including Mariah Carey, Fergie, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys and P!nk. Traveling back to the 1990s, Carey, Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Shania Twain and others continually hit the Hot 100's upper reaches, again, keeping women in the top 10 every week from now back to … Oct. 6, 1990. That's when we have to flash back to in order to find the last time that no female soloists charted in the Hot 100's top 10 until this week. The top 10 on that date more than 26 years ago (when Swift, by the way, was not yet a year old): 1, "Close to You," Maxi Priest 2, "Praying for Time," George Michael 3, "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection," Nelson 4, "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven," Phil Collins 5, "I Don't Have the Heart," James Ingram 6, "Blaze of Glory," Jon Bon Jovi 7, "Ice Ice Baby," Vanilla Ice 8, "Oh Girl," Paul Young 9, "Do Me!," Bell Biv DeVoe 10, "Release Me," Wilson Phillips
That week, only female trio Wilson Phillips represented women in the top 10 (along with the girl in the title of Young's song). And, before that, '80 ladies including Houston, Jackson, Madonna, Pat Benatar, Gloria Estefan and Cyndi Lauper routinely mixed with males in the top 10. But, like this week, the last time no women at all ranked in the Hot 100's top 10? Until the latest Hot 100, dated April 29, 2017, the top 10 had not been absent of women entirely since … Feb. 11, 1984, more than 33 years ago. The top 10 that week (more than eight months before Perry was born): 1, "Karma Chameleon," Boy George 2, "Joanna," Kool & the Gang 3, "Talking in Your Sleep," The Romantics 4, "Owner of a Lonely Heart," Yes 5, "Jump," Van Halen 6, "That's All," Genesis 7, "Running With the Night," Lionel Richie 8, "Pink Houses," John Mellencamp 9, "Think of Laura," Christopher Cross 10, "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," Elton John
No, Joanna and Laura don't count for that week. Then again, they do reflect that even when female artists aren't in the top 10, men are singing about women. Same for this week, when both Sheeran and Hunt are driven to curves; The Chainsmokers are remembering their French fling (with Warren's character); and KYLE wants a curly-headed cutie he can turn into his wife. (Wait, that means forever, ever; hold up, never mind.)
(For the record, on Feb. 18, 1984, Nena's "99 Luftballoons," Lauper's fittingly titled, per the stat at hand, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and Shannon's "Let the Music Play" all entered the top 10, starting a streak that would continue through "Rockabye." And, by October 1984, Madonna would hit the top 10 with "Lucky Star," the first of her record 38 top 10s.)
While this week is, amazingly, the first time in more than 33 years that solo women don't infuse the Hot 100's top 10, it doesn't mean that they've ceded all the chart's big hits to men: Selena Gomez (with Kygo), Julia Michaels, Anne-Marie (with Clean Bandit and Paul) and Alessia Cara (with Zedd) rank at Nos. 11-14, respectively. So, if, say, Nos. 10 and 11 were reversed, we likely wouldn't even be discussing this topic right now.
And, as Billboard editorial liaison (and Chart Beat Podcast co-host) Trevor Anderson recently analyzed, women's share of Hot 100 No. 1s in the 2010s is at a nearly all-time high (46 percent, up from 22 percent in both the '60s and '70s, and not far off the 49 percent pinnacle of the '90s).
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Apr 22, 2017 19:46:57 GMT -5
Wow, that's crazy. The first time in my lifetime the Top 10 has no women.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Apr 22, 2017 21:51:46 GMT -5
^Same here!
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Post by forg on Apr 23, 2017 0:00:47 GMT -5
Female artists are not doing that well on Spotify lately, very male dominated, I guess that's a factor of this no women in the top 10 happening
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Post by Future Captain on Apr 23, 2017 7:22:32 GMT -5
Female artists are not doing that well on Spotify lately, very male dominated, I guess that's a factor of this no women in the top 10 happening This year, the only women to have hit the top 5 of Spotify daily chart is... Taylor Swift (with Zayn), Selena (with Kygo), and Rihanna (with Kendrick). As you notice, all of them did it with a men. As for solo women without any featuring, well.... Julia Michaels and Lorde has the best peak and they only peaked at #11 in Spotify daily charts. Yup, pretty dreary showing if I must say.
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Post by Sambalada on Apr 23, 2017 7:35:13 GMT -5
gravey must be jiggling his tits at this news
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Post by Harx on Apr 23, 2017 7:47:52 GMT -5
So when was the last time we had the reverse situation? Top 10 consisting only of women?
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Post by Enigma. on Apr 23, 2017 7:59:18 GMT -5
I think never.
But streaming is interesting because I believe lots of women like to listen to songs by (hot) men and men like male artists more than female as they are role models to them. And also hip hop and dance are mostly dominated by men. So it's a bit biased in a way, but not intentionally of course, it's just how young people act.
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Post by badrobot on Apr 23, 2017 8:34:41 GMT -5
It's a little bit of a fluke of release schedules -- there isn't really a big female artist with a current album.
Come to think of it, who is the last female artist to "break out" as a chart success? We've had a lot of male acts do that (Kendrick, Chainsmokers, Weeknd) but the last women I can think of are Sia (sort of) and Ariana maybe? And that was years ago.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Apr 23, 2017 9:19:41 GMT -5
Plus one thing that probably people forget about is that Taylor Swift didn't release a new album towards the end of last year as most people expected. She'd probably be on her second song release charting in the Hot 100 if she would have done so.
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Post by Dylan :) on Apr 23, 2017 10:03:25 GMT -5
It's a little bit of a fluke of release schedules -- there isn't really a big female artist with a current album. Come to think of it, who is the last female artist to "break out" as a chart success? We've had a lot of male acts do that (Kendrick, Chainsmokers, Weeknd) but the last women I can think of are Sia (sort of) and Ariana maybe? And that was years ago. Meghan Trainor?
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Post by Normi on Apr 23, 2017 10:08:29 GMT -5
So when was the last time we had the reverse situation? Top 10 consisting only of women? The highest number I could find after some minutes of searching was 6 October 18, 2014 #1 All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor #2 Shake it off - Taylor Swift #3 Black Widow - Iggy Azalea ft. Rita Ora #4 Bang Bang - Jessie J & Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj #5 Anaconda - Nicki Minaj #6 Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo I don't think that this is the record but I can't imagine a full Top 10 with only women; I'd say they occupied the Top 7 at most for one week
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Post by Gary on Apr 23, 2017 10:17:09 GMT -5
Meghan Trainor Leads Hot 100's Record-Setting All-Female Top FiveHeaded up by Trainor's 'All About That Bass,' women monopolize the top five for a record-breaking fifth consecutive week. Plus, Maroon 5's 'Animals' roars into the top 10 and One Direction debuts at No. 13. It's all about girl power high atop the Billboard Hot 100, although a couple of mighty all-male groups make notable moves, as well. Meghan Trainor's Epic Records single "All About That Bass" leads an all-female top five for a fifth straight week, breaking the record for the most weeks in a row that women have kept men out of the region in the chart's 56-year history. Meanwhile, Maroon 5 blasts 33-8 with "Animals" following the premiere of the song's controversial video and One Direction debuts at No. 13 with "Steal My Girl," the lead single from the group's forthcoming album, Four, due Nov. 17. As we do each Wednesday, when the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100 is tabulated, let's look at the numbers behind the top 10 and more. Beneath "Bass" on the Hot 100, Taylor Swift's former two-week No. 1 "Shake It Off" holds at No. 2 for a fifth week; Iggy Azalea's "Black Widow" (featuring Rita Ora) reaches its best rank (4-3), while also taking over atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Rap Songs; Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's "Bang Bang" rebounds 5-4; and Minaj's "Anaconda" slithers 3-5. Women, thus, account for the Hot 100's top five exclusively for a fifth straight week, rewriting the chart's longest such streak. The run bests that of four weeks in 1999 (Feb. 13-March 6), when songs by Monica ("Angel of Mine"), Britney Spears ("…Baby One More Time"), Deborah Cox ("Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"), Cher ("Believe"), Brandy ("Have You Ever?"), Whitney Houston ("Heartbreak Hotel," featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price) and Sarah McLachlan ("Angel") combined to lock men out of the bracket. This week also marks just the 11th week in the Hot 100's history in which solo women have excluded men from the top five. It's the 12th such denial of men including the June 30, 1979, chart, when four soloists (Anita Ward, Donna Summer, with two titles, and Rickie Lee Jones) and the all-female group Sister Sledge hung a "no boys allowed" sign on the top five's door. As previously reported, a strong batch of female-sung hits, a dearth of competitive product from their male counterparts and simply timing have combined to help women to their record-breaking dominance. Fittingly, it's not only the seven women in the Hot 100's top five who are reaping the benefits of their hit songs: so are women on the other side of the mic, as songs like "Bass" and "Anaconda" (each in their own playful ways) celebrate a strong self-image. "I wrote it for me, as well [as other women], because I've struggled with [body image] since I was very young," Trainor told Billboard in July. "So, if other girls can relate to the song, it makes me feel even better. It's unreal that I'm kind of helping people." The stats: "Bass" rules the Hot 100 thanks to continued No. 1 ranks on the chart's three main component charts. It leads Digital Songs for a sixth week with 202,000 downloads sold (down 20 percent), according to Nielsen SoundScan; Streaming Songs for a fifth week with 13.9 million U.S. streams (down 3 percent), according to Nielsen BDS; and Radio Songs for a third week with 149 million in all-format audience (up 1 percent). Solo women, in fact, corner the market on the Hot 100's top six, as Tove Lo's "Habits (Stay High)" rises 7-6 as the chart's top Airplay Gainer; it reaches the Radio Songs top 10 (15-10) with a 31 percent hike to 77 million. It's just the second week that guys have been absent from the top six: on Feb. 27, 1999, Monica, Cher, Houston (featuring Evans and Price), Spears, McLachlan and Cox barred them. "Habits" is from Tove Lo's debut album, Queen of the Clouds, which debuts on the Billboard 200 at No. 14 with 19,000 first-week copies sold. As Jeremih moves 9-7 with "Don't Tell 'Em" (featuring YG), he, thus claims the Hot 100's top song this week by a male artist. (Then again, even that track reworks a hit originally sung by a woman: Snap's "Rhythm Is a Dancer," which reached No. 5 in 1993.) With no official video yet released for the song, airplay accounts for the majority (52 percent) of its chart points. It bullets for a second week at its No. 4 highpoint on Radio Songs (114 million, up 5 percent). "Don't" also rules Hot R&B Songs for a seventh week. Maroon 5's "Animals" rockets 33-8 on the Hot 100 as the top Streaming and Digital Gainer after the Sept. 29 premiere of its video. Helping draw clicks: controversy over the gory clip, in which frontman Levine stars with his new wife, Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo. The band also performed "Animals" on NBC's Saturday Night Live (Oct. 4). The song soars 21-5 on Digital Songs (115,000; up 121 percent) and 31-9 on Streaming Songs (6 million, up 104 percent). (A J. Cole remix of the track sold 14,000, or about 12 percent, of the song's total sales during the tracking week.) "Animals" additionally bows as the highest debut on Radio Songs, entering at No. 33 with 37 million (up 65 percent). "Animals" marks Maroon 5's 10th Hot 100 top 10. Notably, it's the group's seventh top 10 since 2011, when it experienced a renaissance aided by Levine's arrival as a coach on NBC's The Voice and its "Moves Like Jagger," featuring then-fellow coach Christina Aguilera, spent four weeks at No. 1. (The band collected its first three top 10s in 2004-07.) Maroon 5's fifth album, V, debuted atop the Sept. 20 Billboard 200 and has sold 335,000 copies in the U.S. in its first five weeks. (With Maroon 5's move, the Hot 100's top 10 is becoming the habitat of non-human creatures great and small: "Animals" joins "Black Widow" and "Anaconda" in the suddenly treacherous territory.) Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Sam Smith's No. 2-peaking "Stay With Me" drops 6-9 and Grande's No. 4 hit "Break Free," featuring Zedd, falls 8-10 (and tops Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for an eighth week). Just outside the top 10, One Direction's "Steal My Girl" rockets in at No. 13, with sales accounting for 82 percent of its chart points; it enters Digital Songs at No. 3 with 187,000. After spending its first two weeks at No. 2 on the weekly Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart, it rises to No. 1. It also scores early support at radio, debuting on the Pop Songs airplay chart at No. 27, marking the act's highest launch of its nine chart entries; it bests the No. 28 start of last year's eventual No. 4 Pop Songs hit "Story of My Life." www.billboard.com/articles/news/6274312/hot-100-update-meghan-trainor-taylor-swift-iggy-azalea
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Post by Normi on Apr 23, 2017 10:25:12 GMT -5
So we now have our answer Crazy that women only managed to do the Top 6 two times while men did it very very often
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Apr 23, 2017 10:25:22 GMT -5
^Yeah. I know for sure that was the most positions at the top of the Hot 100 women have held. That was the next to last week out 6 consecutive ones where women held the Top 5.
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