American Top 40 - March 9, 2019

[jdelachjr2002]

Well, two of last week's five Breakouts debut in this week's chart but we still have four Breakouts (but at least it's not five as was the case the last two weeks). Although the number of Breakout/On The Verge songs has lessened to one, I still dread to think that AT40 going to four (or more) Breakouts will become a regular thing. I don't like it but this is likely going to be the norm.

I still miss "Two-For-One"

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MARCH 9, 2019
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
39 40 (38) CARDI B featuring Bad Bunny & J. Balvin - I Like It (3)
DE 39 (01) The Chainsmokers featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love (39)
37 38 (33) NF - Lie (6)

38 37 (02) Madison Beer featuring Offset - Hurts Like Hell (37)
35 36 (29) Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams (6)
Extra: Walk The Moon - Shut Up + Dance
32 35 (07) Lukas Graham - Love Someone (32)
33 34 (30) Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman (1)

34 33 (03) Lauren Daigle - You Say (33)
40 32 (02) Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored (32)
On The Verge: LIVVIA - Damn
28 31 (27) lovelytheband - Broken (13)
Optional Extra: Sia featuring Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills
30 30 (10) Why Don't We - 8 Letters (30)
29 29 (09) Bad Bunny featuring Drake - MIA (28)
On The Verge: Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar
DE 28 (01) CARDI B & Bruno Mars - Please Me (28)

26 27 (37) Maroon 5 featuring CARDI B - Girls Like You (1)
27 26 (03) Dua Lipa - Swan Song (26)
24 25 (37) Post Malone - Better Now (1)
31 24 (02) Fletcher - Undrunk (24)

22 23 (26) Bazzi featuring Camila Cabello - Beautiful (7)
23 22 (17) Loud Luxury featuring Brando - Body (22)
Extra: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love
20 21 (44) Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (1)
Optional Extra: Major Lazer featuring DJ Snake & MO - Lean On
25 20 (16) Dean Lewis - Be Alright (20)
18 19 (21) Ariana Grande - Breathin' (2)
Extra: Zayn & Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever
21 18 (13) Dan + Shay - Tequila (18)

16 17 (36) 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (1)
17 16 (09) Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (16)
13 15 (10) Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (13)
15 14 (04) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (14)

14 13 (06) Post Malone - Wow. (13)
12 12 (05) Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd - Lost In The Fire (12)
On The Verge: LilPeep & iLoveMakkonen featuring Fall Out Boy - I've Been Waiting
Extra: DNCE - Cake By The Ocean
10 11 (19) Travis Scott featuring Drake - Sicko Mode (10)
Optional Extra: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito
11 10 (16) Khalid - Better (10)
09 09 (18) The Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling (8)
07 08 (25) Marshmello & BASTILLE - Happier (1)

08 07 (14) Ellie Goulding & Diplo featuring Swae Lee - Close To Me (7)
Breakout: Zedd & Katy Perry - 365
05 06 (17) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (5)
Extra: Alessia Cara - Here

06 05 (05) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings (5)
04 04 (22) Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (1)
Extra: Gucci Mane featuring Bruno Mars & Kodak Black - Wake Up In The Sky
03 03 (15) Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (1)
Optional Extra: twenty | one | pilots - Stressed Out
01 02 (19) Halsey - Without Me (1)
02 01 (28) Benny Blanco featuring Halsey & Khalid - Eastside **1st week at #1**

DROPPERS
Rita Ora - Let You Love Me (from #36, 7 weeks on)
Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life (from #19, 9 weeks on)

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I’m going to keep asking about the breakouts thing until someone actually answers lol

[nymets86]

I agree.Ryan Seacrest should bring back 2 for 1 to kill some time in the chart program

[Top 40 Tracker]

[musiciscool]

Well, I can see they outdid themselves with all of those extras in the top 10 this week.

[Top 40 Tracker]

Ryan makes no mention about the new record for slowest climbing song ever to #1 at 28 weeks. However, he talks about the artists who have replaced themselves at #1 instead.

[nymets86]

wasn’t the 28 weeks tied with Here by Alessia Cara? Or is it it’s own record?

[Cerebro]

Mar 8, 2019 13:51:38 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

wasn’t the 28 weeks tied with Here by Alessia Cara? Or is it it’s own record?

"Here" took 22 weeks to get to #1 on AT40. The climb for "Eastside" is, definitely, a new record.

[Arnold]

Mar 8, 2019 14:24:35 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Mar 8, 2019 13:51:38 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

wasn’t the 28 weeks tied with Here by Alessia Cara? Or is it it’s own record?

"Here" took 22 weeks to get to #1 on AT40. The climb for "Eastside" is, definitely, a new record.

It was bound to happen, because these days all music is lingering on the chart much longer than ever before.  The sense of "current music" is becoming lost.  The rises to all positions are now taking longer than ever before too.  Nothing to be proud of.  I hate it.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

There’s plenty of current music. Radio just no longer has a role in leading the way for new music. Unless it’s a big act like Ariana or someone like Bieber, new songs are taking longer to catch on.

[nymets86]

Expect a huge drop if not next week but the following week.... possibly another drop of the century like it’s so common nowadays for Gassafelstein featuring The Weeknd. Could be like a 12 to 38 type if it stays top 15 next week

[nymets86]

That’s 14 weeks in the top 5 for High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco. Considering that many of you automatically assumed that High Hopes would fall off dramatically after the Christmas//New Year’s freeze, this is very impressive. Expect another week or two in the top 5 with mediabase chart have them at number 5.

[mkarns]

Mar 11, 2019 21:13:14 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

That’s 14 weeks in the top 5 for High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco. Considering that many of you automatically assumed that High Hopes would fall off dramatically after the Christmas//New Year’s freeze, this is very impressive. Expect another week or two in the top 5 with mediabase chart have them at number 5.

If not for that freeze then it probably would have had five or six weeks on top of AT40; it had four, but by default two extra weeks went to "Happier" that was #1 on the last new regular countdown of 2018. If "High Hopes" had topped the chart a month or two later with a similar run to what it has so far then it might be on track to be the #1 song of 2019 if it hung around long enough, but as it is there are probably too many late 2018 plays that Mediabase/AT40 won't let count. (The last five AT40 year-end #1's all reached the top in February or March, and stayed there for at least four weeks.)