Women at #1

[Normi]

Apr 23, 2017 10:25:22 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

^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.

I think that women held the Top 5 spots very often
Example:

March 3, 2012
#1 Part Of Me - Katy Perry
#2 Set Fire To The Rain - Adele
#3 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
#4 Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
#5 Rolling In The Deep - Adele

[Gary]

the posted article said that at the time only 12. 2012 is one

[Normi]

Apr 23, 2017 10:52:23 GMT -5 Gary said:

the posted article said that at the time only 12. 2012 is one

Oh yes you're right
It's now at 13: 1979 (1 week), 1999 (4 weeks), 2012 (1 week), 2014 (6 weeks)
So which is the remaining week?

[Dylan :)]

Late 2014 was very female focused.

October 4th 2014:
#1 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
#2 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
#3 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang
#4 Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
#5 Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora - Black Widow
#7 Ariana Grande feat. Zedd - Break Free
#8 Charli XCX - Boom Clap
#9 Sia - Chandelier

October 11th 2014:
#1 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
#2 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
#3 Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
#4 Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora - Black Widow
#5 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang
#7 Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
#8 Ariana Grande feat. Zedd - Break Free
#10 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Those weeks are probably the closest the Top 10 has been to having only women.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Are women still the primary consumers of music? I know for radio and iTunes - it's historically been women. Not sure about streaming - though the women in the offices I visit seem to have Spotify on their computers - the men do not. Any data out there?

[Gary]

Women Are Running 'Rings' Around Men on the Hot 100 in 2019, Thanks to Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga & Halsey

3/26/2019 by Gary Trust


Women have spent 11 weeks at No. 1 so far, already equaling last year's total.

Just three months into 2019, solo women in lead roles have already matched the time they spent at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in all of 2018.

So far this year, solo women have totaled 11 weeks at No. 1, out of 13 total calendar frames.

Leading the resurgence, Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" rules the Hot 100 (dated March 30) for, aptly, a seventh week, matching the reign of her first No. 1, "Thank U, Next," for her personal best. Both songs contribute to women's chart supremacy in 2019, joined by Halsey's "Without Me" and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "Shallow."

Women's 2018 and 2019 sums outpace that of 2017: eight weeks, this decade's low for women with lead billings atop the Hot 100. Still, those 11-week tallies pale in comparison to women's highpoint in the '10s: 37 weeks at No. 1 in 2011, when Gaga, Adele, Katy Perry, Rihanna and Britney Spears took turns at the top.

Meanwhile, solo men in lead roles have topped the Hot 100 for two weeks in 2019, thanks to a No. 1 frame each for Bradley Cooper on "Shallow" and Post Malone and Swae Lee for "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)." That's after logging 37 weeks in charge in 2018 and a decade-best 43 frames at the summit in 2017; unsurprisingly, those years coincided with an explosion of male-dominated hip-hop.

(One group has led the Hot 100 in the first quarter of 2019: Jonas Brothers' "Sucker," the brother trio's first No. 1, which debuted atop the March 16-dated chart.)

So far this decade, lead solo women have totaled more weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 than lead solo men in four years (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014), while the latter have claimed five titles (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). As for notable swings, tracing from when pop gave way to hip-hop, women outperformed men by 37 weeks to 6 atop the chart in 2011, while men won 2017 by a 43-to-8 landslide in 2017.

With all numbers crunched, the yearly averages of lead solo men vs. women in lead roles atop the Hot 100 from 2010 through 2018 stand at 24.4 vs. 19.8 weeks. (Duos/groups account for 8.2 annual weeks at No. 1 in that span.)

Still, if women maintain their torrid pace that has so far defined 2019 – and with new music being teased by the likes of Rihanna, Swift, Halsey and Gaga – that average disparity could dissipate by year's end.

[Enigma.]

I don't see any big new male stars coming up either, but plenty of females, starting with Billie Eilish and possibly Ava Max although she still has long way to go.

And with Rihanna, Taylor and Adele releasing new music later this year, things look good for female artists.

[Deleted]

Mar 8, 2017 21:59:43 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

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.

Drake 

[Normi]

I love how that article names Halsey and Gaga, I mean sure they went #1 but Ariana held 9/11 of those weeks
Also when Without Me and Shallow were #1, Ariana was at #2 so even without em we would've had 11 weeks of girls (well, just Ariana) at #1
I never thought she'd slay so hard

[Gary]

How many females were #1 prior to that though. Longevity isn’t the key point here.

[chartfreak]

I know this may be off topic, but I think it has been discussed before but not sure what thread it was. If Madonna were to be lucky with her upcoming new single for it to chart on the Hot 100, would she be the oldest female ever at 60?

[Gary]

She would be and female for sure lol but not the oldest to chart

Moms Mabley in 1969 hit the top 40 with Abraham Martin and John age 75