Billboard Hot 100 - 3/16/2019 - Chart summaries

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Ariana Grande Sets Pop Songs Chart Record as '7 Rings' Becomes Her Fourth No. 1 Since July

3/11/2019 by Gary Trust


Grande passes Lady Gaga for the fastest accumulation of four leaders.

Ariana Grande adds her sixth No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Songs radio airplay chart, as "7 Rings" ascends 2-1 on the survey dated March 16.

The coronation is record-setting, as Grande scores her fourth leader on the list in less than eight months, marking the quickest collection of four No. 1s by any artist in the chart's history.

Here's a rundown of Grande's six Pop Songs No. 1s, including her latest four since July:

"Problem" (feat. Iggy Azalea), July 12, 2014, two weeks
"Side to Side" (feat. Nicki Minaj), Dec. 24, 2016, five weeks
"No Tears Left to Cry," July 21, 2018, one week
"God Is a Woman," Nov. 10, 2018, one week
"Thank U, Next," Jan. 26, 2019, one week
"7 Rings," March 16, 2019, one week to date

"Tears" and "God" are from Grande's album Sweetener and "Next" and "Rings" are from follow-up Thank U, Next, released in August and February, respectively. "I never want to get lazy," Grande said ahead of being honored as Billboard's 2018 woman of the year in December. "I want to be able to do what is authentic and honest and natural. I feel like I've only scratched the surface of the artist I can be."

Grande narrowly bests Lady Gaga for the fastest accumulation of four Pop Songs No. 1s. Grande's span from charts dated July 21, 2018 through March 16, 2019 eeks out the win by a week over Gaga's stretch from July 25, 2009 through March 27, 2010, a run that encompassed the latter's leaders "LoveGame," "Paparazzi," "Bad Romance" and "Telephone," featuring Beyoncé.

Grande came within a notch of earning five Pop Songs No. 1s in her span of four toppers that started with "Tears": "Breathin," also from Sweetener, reached No. 2 in December.

The Pop Songs chart, which began in October 1992, measures total weekly plays, as tabulated by Nielsen Music, among its reporting panel of 167 mainstream top 40 stations.

"7 Rings," released on Republic Records, previously became Grande's second No. 1 on the all-genre, streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, beginning with its Feb. 2 start at the summit. "Next" debuted at No. 1 in November and ruled for seven weeks.

Meanwhile, "Next" logs a 13th week in the Pop Songs top five (holding at No. 4), marking Grande's longest stay in the region. "Side to Side" tallied 12 frames in the top five in 2016-17.

Plus, latest Thank U, Next single "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" bounds 17-13 on Pop Songs.

All charts will update tomorrow (March 12) on Billboard.com.

[Gary]

CHART BEAT
Jonas Brothers Notch First Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 as 'Sucker' Blasts In On Top

3/11/2019 by Gary Trust


The trio had previously reached a No. 5 high with Burnin' Up" in 2008.

Jonas Brothers' comeback single "Sucker" rockets onto the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (dated March 16) at No. 1, marking their first leader on the list.

The group, consisting of Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas, initially appeared on the chart over 12 years go and reached a prior No. 5 high with "Burnin' Up" in 2008.

Jonas Brothers, who formed in 2005, ascended to boy band royalty soon after thanks to their numerous Disney TV and film projects, in addition to their music, which included a pair of No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart in 2008 and 2009. After their split in 2013, they announced their reunion Feb. 28 and released "Sucker," and its official video, the following day (at midnight ET on March 1).

Also on the latest Hot 100, Cardi B and Bruno Mars' "Please Me" blasts to a new No. 3 peak following the March 1 premiere of its official video.

Let's run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 12).

No. 1 in sales & streams: "Sucker," released on Republic Records, starts as the 1,085th No. 1 in the Hot 100's 60-year history.

The track launches atop the Streaming Songs chart with 43.7 million U.S. streams in the week ending March 7, according to Nielsen Music. The trio reigns in its first appearance on the tally (which began in 2013).

"Sucker" also debuts at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales with 88,000 first-week downloads sold in the week ending March 7. The trio's 22nd entry on the chart is its first No. 1 (following three No. 2-peaking hits, all in 2008: "Burnin' Up," "Pushing Me Away" and "Tonight").

On the Radio Songs chart, "Sucker" arrives at No. 46, a career-best rank for the act, with 22.6 million audience impressions in the week ending March 10.

Helping power the strong start for "Sucker," Jonas Brothers promoted their return with a week-long residency last week on CBS' The Late Late Show With James Corden, including their buzzy Carpool Karaoke.

First No. 1, after 12 years on the Hot 100: Jonas Brothers achieve their first Hot 100 No. 1 after initially appearing on the chart 12 years and one month ago: first entry "Year 3000" debuted, at No. 40, on the chart dated Feb. 17, 2007 (and rose to No. 31 that March).

The group charted 16 titles in 2007-09 and one more (the No. 60-peaking "Pom Poms") in 2013. Two top 10s preceded "Sucker": "Burnin' Up" (No. 5) and "Tonight" (No. 8), both in 2008.

Jonas Brothers' 12-year-plus trek for a first Hot 100 No. 1 marks the longest since Daft Punk waited close to 20 years between its first entry, "Around the World" (August 1997), and first leader, as featured on The Weeknd's "Starboy" (January 2017). The record? Santana spanned almost exactly 30 years between its first Hot 100 visit, with "Jingo" (Oct. 25, 1969), and its first No. 1, "Smooth," featuring Rob Thomas (Oct. 23, 1999).

…and after six years away from the Hot 100: "Pom Poms," Jonas Brothers' last Hot 100 entry before "Sucker," spent a week on the chart, dated April 20, 2013. Their nearly six-year absence marks the longest break between a prior entry and a chart-topping comeback since Luis Fonsi took eight years and six months between his No. 92-peaking "No Me Doy Por Vencido" in 2008 and his record-tying 16-week No. 1 "Despacito," with Daddy Yankee and featuring Justin Bieber, in 2017.

Oh, brothers: Jonas Brothers are the fifth act with the word "brothers" in its name to top the Hot 100, following The Everly Brothers, The Righteous Brothers, The Doobie Brothers and Bellamy Brothers. Of those, the Jonases join the Everly and Bellamy duos as real-life sibling acts to lead the list.

Of course, other (partial or full) sibling and/or family acts have the led the Hot 100, including The Beach Boys, Jackson 5, Carpenters, The Osmonds, Bee Gees, Heart, Bangles, New Kids on the Block, Wilson Phillips, Nelson, Hanson, K-Ci & JoJo, 98 Degrees, Rae Sremmurd and Migos.

First boy band at No. 1 in over 16 years: Jonas Brothers are the first act regarded as a boy band (even if Nick is 26, Joe is 29 and Kevin is 31) to crown the Hot 100 since B2K, whose "Bump, Bump, Bump," with P. Diddy, led the chart dated Feb. 1, 2003. (In December, Billboard exclusively broke the news of B2K's reunion for the Millennium Tour, which began Friday, March 8.)

Before B2K, in Y2K, *NSYNC hit No. 1, in July 2000, with "It's Gonna Be Me," after 98 Degrees had led that February as featured, with Joe, on Mariah Carey's "Thank God I Found You." (As for the other boy band kings to break through in that era, Backstreet Boys reached a No. 2 best with "Quit Playing Games [With My Heart]" in 1997.)

Among other boy bands this decade on the Hot 100, One Direction hit No. 2 with "Best Song Ever" in 2013; The Wanted reached No. 3 with "Glad You Came" in 2012; 5 Seconds of Summer scored their first top 10, reaching No. 7 last October, with "Youngblood"; and BTS became the first K-pop boy band to notch a top 10, with "Fake Love" (No. 10, last June).

Meanwhile, between B2K and Jonas Brothers' coronations, *NSYNC's Justin Timberlake (most recently in 2016) and 1D's Zayn (the same year, with "Pillowtalk") topped the Hot 100 as soloists.

Speaking of boy band members on their own, while "Sucker" is the first single by Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas as the Jonas Brothers since 2013, Nick logged the No. 7-peaking solo Hot 100 hit "Jealous" in 2015, while, as a member of DNCE, Joe reached No. 9 in 2016 via the act's "Cake by the Ocean."

Sweet success: A decade before "Sucker," Kelly Clarkson topped the Hot 100 for two weeks in February 2009 with "My Life Would Suck Without You." (Unwrapping a No. 1 related in name to Jonas Brothers' new leader, Lil Wayne licked the competition in 2008 with "Lollipop," featuring Static Major.)

Tedder, Dukes & Bell ring up a new No. 1: Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas co-wrote "Sucker" with Ryan Tedder. The brothers all lead the Hot 100 for the first time as writers, while Tedder makes his second trip to the top in that role; Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," which he co-penned with Jesse McCartney, ruled for four weeks in 2008.

Frank Dukes and Louis Bell co-produced "Sucker." The former adds his second No. 1 as a producer (after Camila Cabello's "Havana," featuring Young Thug, last year) and the latter logs his fifth leader, and third of 2019, following Post Malone's "Rockstar," featuring 21 Savage, in 2017 and "Psycho," featuring Ty Dolla $ign, in 2018, and this year's "Without Me" by Halsey and "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)" by Post Malone and Swae Lee.

Five No. 1s in 2019: Just over three months into 2019, five songs have ascended to No. 1 on the Hot 100 this year, as "Sucker" follows Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "Shallow," Ariana Grande's "7 Rings," "Sunflower" and "Without Me." That's the quickest accumulation of five new No. 1s in a year since 1998, when that total was technically reached two days faster, on the chart dated March 14.

Since the Hot 100 adopted Nielsen data in late 1991, making for slower turnover atop the chart than before, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2012 and now 2019 have all seen the fifth new No. 1 of each year reach pole position on charts dated in mid-March.

Pop on top: Four pop songs have led the Hot 100 so far in 2019: "Sucker," "Shallow," "7 Rings" and "Without Me." Already, the total tops that of all of 2018, a year in which rap songs led for a record 34 consecutive weeks and when three pop songs reigned: Cabello's "Havana," Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B, and Grande's "Thank U, Next" (the only pop No. 1 of 2018 without a guest rapper).

Started from the top: "Sucker" is the 34th single to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It's the second of 2019, after Grande's "Rings" (Feb. 2). Grande also logged the prior such bow, with "Thank U, Next" on Nov. 17, and Republic Records has released five of the last six songs to start at the summit; prior to Jonas Brothers and Grande's two No. 1 openers, Drake entered at No. 1 last year with "Nice for What" (in April) and "God's Plan" (February). (Childish Gambino's Grammy Award-winning "This Is America," released on RCA Records, debuted at No. 1 last May.)

Before "Sucker," only one song by a group in a lead role had ever roared in atop the Hot 100: Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," on Sept. 5, 1998. Like Jonas Brothers, Aerosmith waited a long time before finally having what it takes to elevate and walk all the way to No. 1: "Miss" became the band's first leading hit nearly 25 years after its first visit to the chart.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100's top 10...

Grande's "7 Rings" holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after spending its first five weeks at No. 1. It concurrently makes a record-setting rise to No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay chart.

Cardi B and Bruno Mars surge from No. 14 to a new No. 3 Hot 100 high with "Please Me" (which debuted at No. 5 two weeks ago). Following the March 1 arrival of its official video, the collab surges 14-2 on Streaming Songs with an 86 percent gain to 45.3 million streams. (Note that while its sum is higher than Jonas Brothers' "Sucker," at 43.7 million, the latter ranks at No. 1 on Streaming Songs due to the application of weighting of paid subscription, ad-supported and programmed streams.)

"Please Me" rebounds 11-3 on Digital Song Sales (28,000 sold, up 71 percent) and charges 14-11 on Radio Songs (52.9 million impressions, up 11 percent). It also hits No. 1 for the first time on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Post Malone and Swae Lee's "Sunflower" is stationary at No. 4 on the Hot 100 and Halsey's "Without Me" descends 3-5. The latter track tops Radio Songs for a second week (103 million, down 4 percent) and becomes Halsey's second No. 1 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart, after her featured turn on The Chainsmokers' "Closer" in 2016.

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After translating its Academy Award win for best original song, and Gaga and Cooper's performance of the ballad at the Oscars (Feb. 24), to a No. 1 flight on last week's Hot 100, "Shallow" falls to No. 6. (The drop is the steepest from the summit since Zayn's "Pillowtalk" plummeted 1-7 in February 2016.) "Shallow" dips from No. 1 to No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (56,000, down 51 percent) and 9-14 on Streaming Songs (24.6 million, down 10 percent), while continuing to scale Radio Songs, where it rises from No. 27 to a new No. 22 high (43.4 million, up 24 percent, good for the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award).

Post Malone's "Wow." reaches a new Hot 100 peak, pushing 8-7; Marshmello and Bastille's No. 2-reaching "Happier" slips 6-8, while leading Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 25th week; and J. Cole's No. 4-peaking Hot 100 hit "Middle Child" descends 5-9.

Capping the Hot 100's top 10, Travis Scott's former No. 1 "Sicko Mode" holds at No. 10 as it spends its 31st week (encompassing its entire run on the chart) in the top 10, the most ever for a hip-hop hit. Only four songs overall have tallied more time in the top 10:

Most weeks in Hot 100's top 10
33, "Girls Like You," Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, 2018-19
33, "Shape of You," Ed Sheeran, 2017
32, "Closer," The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, 2016-17
32, "How Do I Live," LeAnn Rimes, 1997-98
31, "Sicko Mode," Travis Scott, 2018-19
31, "Uptown Funk!," Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, 2014-15
30, "Smooth," Santana feat, Rob Thomas, 1999-2000

Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard's Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow billboard and billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (March 12), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

[Gary]

1. Sucker
2. 7 Rings
3. Please Me
4. Sunflower
5. Without Me
6. Shallow
7. Wow
8. Happier
9. Middle Child

10. Sicko Mode

Streaming #1 Sucker 43.7 (Please Me 45.3 not #1 due to weighting)
Radio#1: Without Me 103
Sales#1: Sucker 88,000

[Gary]

Hot 100

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks Sucker , Jonas Brothers 1
2 2 1 7 7 Rings , Ariana Grande 1
3 14 5 3 Please Me , Cardi B & Bruno Mars 3
4 4 3 20 Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse) , Post Malone & Swae Lee 1
5 3 2 22 Without Me , Halsey 1
6 1 21 23 AG Shallow , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 1
7 8 10 11 Wow. , Post Malone 7
8 6 6 29 Happier , Marshmello & Bastille 2
9 5 11 7 Middle Child , J. Cole 4
10 10 7 31 Sicko Mode , Travis Scott 1
11 7 4 18 Thank U, Next , Ariana Grande 1
12 11 9 31 High Hopes , Panic! At The Disco 4
13 9 13 8 Thotiana , Blueface 9
14 12 12 34 Eastside , benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid 9
15 13 8 4 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored , Ariana Grande 2
16 16 15 14 Going Bad , Meek Mill Featuring Drake 6
17 15 14 7 Murder On My Mind , YNW Melly 14
18 18 17 11 A Lot , 21 Savage 12
19 17 19 41 Girls Like You , Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B 1
20 22 25 8 Dancing With A Stranger , Sam Smith & Normani 20
21 21 20 25 Better , Khalid 18
22 19 18 25 Drip Too Hard , Lil Baby & Gunna 4
23 20 16 20 Money , Cardi B 13
24 24 29 12 Sweet But Psycho , Ava Max 24
25 23 23 17 Beautiful Crazy , Luke Combs 23
26 29 30 19 Be Alright , Dean Lewis 26
27 26 24 21 MIA , Bad Bunny Featuring Drake 5
28 25 22 21 ZEZE , Kodak Black Featuring Travis Scott & Offset 2
29 27 28 45 Better Now , Post Malone 3
30 31 26 40 Youngblood , 5 Seconds Of Summer 7
31 33 37 16 Close To Me , Ellie Goulding X Diplo Featuring Swae Lee 28
32 30 34 34 You Say , Lauren Daigle 30
33 32 31 44 Tequila , Dan + Shay 21
34 28 27 3 Robbery , Juice WRLD 27
35 35 39 13 Look Back At It , A Boogie Wit da Hoodie 32
36 40 41 43 Lucid Dreams , Juice WRLD 2
37 87 – 2 Girls Need Love , Summer Walker X Drake 37
38 34 38 10 Baby Shark , Pinkfong 32
39 0 New 1 I , Lil Skies 39
40 42 42 12 Envy Me , Calboy 40
41 39 33 48 I Like It , Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin 1
42 41 32 6 Bury A Friend , Billie Eilish 14
43 38 44 23 Taki Taki , DJ Snake Featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B 11
44 36 36 25 Wake Up In The Sky , Gucci Mane X Bruno Mars X Kodak Black 11
45 37 35 25 Leave Me Alone , Flipp Dinero 20
46 45 52 9 Twerk , City Girls Featuring Cardi B 29
47 43 40 28 Mo Bamba , Sheck Wes 6
48 44 43 11 Swervin , A Boogie Wit da Hoodie Featuring 6ix9ine 38
49 55 50 4 Talk , Khalid 44
50 56 60 7 Mixed Personalities , YNW Melly Featuring Kanye West 50
51 52 56 6 Pure Water , Mustard & Migos 51
52 0 New 1 Look What God Gave Her , Thomas Rhett 52
53 51 45 13 This Is It , Scotty McCreery 42
54 46 59 10 Take It From Me , Jordan Davis 46
55 57 66 13 Millionaire , Chris Stapleton 55
56 0 New 1 Hear Me Calling , Juice WRLD 56
57 59 92 5 Con Calma , Daddy Yankee Featuring Snow 57
58 63 65 9 Undecided , Chris Brown 35
59 53 73 19 Close Friends , Lil Baby 28
60 66 85 4 Who Do You Love , The Chainsmokers Featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer 56
61 58 51 15 Girl Like You , Jason Aldean 46
62 71 67 9 Here Tonight , Brett Young 62
63 69 83 9 Burn Out , Midland 63
64 47 – 8 Always Remember Us This Way , Lady Gaga 41
65 73 87 3 Worth It , YK Osiris 65
66 61 54 10 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 54
67 76 78 18 Ella Quiere Beber , Anuel AA & Romeo Santos 61
68 81 90 6 Shot Clock , Ella Mai 68
69 80 77 10 Down To The Honkytonk , Jake Owen 69
70 88 84 3 Eyes On You , Chase Rice 70
71 0 Re-Entry 2 There Was This Girl , Riley Green 71
72 0 Re-Entry 2 Bad Liar , Imagine Dragons 72
73 50 49 3 Red Room , Offset 49
74 0 New 1 Wish You Were Gay , Billie Eilish 74
75 0 New 1 Whip , 2 Chainz Featuring Travis Scott 75
76 99 96 10 Make It Sweet , Old Dominion 76
77 0 New 1 Act Up , City Girls 77
78 95 – 2 Good As You , Kane Brown 78
79 67 72 8 Nights Like This , Kehlani Featuring Ty Dolla $ign 67
80 83 68 14 Calling My Spirit , Kodak Black 46
81 82 81 5 Miss Me More , Kelsea Ballerini 81
82 79 71 17 Armed And Dangerous , Juice WRLD 44
83 0 New 1 Old Town Road , Lil Nas X 83
84 92 – 5 Secreto , Anuel AA & Karol G 68
85 0 New 1 Whiskey Glasses , Morgan Wallen 85
86 0 Re-Entry 3 Night Shift , Jon Pardi 86
87 100 – 2 Faucet Failure , Ski Mask The Slump God 87
88 54 – 2 Walk Me Home , P!nk 54
89 0 Re-Entry 2 One That Got Away , Michael Ray 89
90 96 75 6 Put A Date On It , Yo Gotti Featuring Lil Baby 59
91 0 Re-Entry 18 Lovely , Billie Eilish & Khalid 64
92 60 48 4 Needy , Ariana Grande 14
93 0 New 1 I Can't Get Enough , benny blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez & J Balvin 93
94 0 New 1 Rule The World , 2 Chainz Featuring Ariana Grande 94
95 0 Re-Entry 19 When The Party's Over , Billie Eilish 52
96 89 70 10 Love Someone , Lukas Graham 70
97 98 80 3 Talk You Out Of It , Florida Georgia Line 80
98 0 Re-Entry 8 Love Wins , Carrie Underwood 83
99 0 Re-Entry 5 On My Way To You , Cody Johnson 91
100 0 New 1 Momma I Hit A Lick , 2 Chainz Featuring Kendrick Lamar 100

[Gary]

Radio Songs

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 1 2 20 #1 2 wks Without Me , Halsey 1
2 2 1 23 High Hopes , Panic! At The Disco 1
3 3 3 24 Eastside , benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid 3
4 4 6 7 7 Rings , Ariana Grande 4
5 5 4 26 Happier , Marshmello & Bastille 1
6 6 5 16 Thank U, Next , Ariana Grande 3
7 7 7 39 Girls Like You , Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B 1
8 9 11 8 Wow. , Post Malone 8
9 10 10 13 Close To Me , Ellie Goulding X Diplo Featuring Swae Lee 9
10 8 8 18 Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse) , Post Malone & Swae Lee 7
11 14 22 4 Please Me , Cardi B & Bruno Mars 11
12 15 21 6 Dancing With A Stranger , Sam Smith & Normani 12
13 16 19 11 Be Alright , Dean Lewis 13
14 13 13 13 Better , Khalid 13
15 12 15 12 Money , Cardi B 12
16 11 9 27 Sicko Mode , Travis Scott 8
17 17 12 19 MIA , Bad Bunny Featuring Drake 11
18 19 17 8 Beautiful Crazy , Luke Combs 17
19 24 30 6 Going Bad , Meek Mill Featuring Drake 19
20 18 14 34 Youngblood , 5 Seconds Of Summer 2
21 20 16 37 Tequila , Dan + Shay 14
22 27 37 19 GG Shallow , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 22
23 23 24 11 You Say , Lauren Daigle 23
24 28 32 5 Sweet But Psycho , Ava Max 24
25 22 18 14 Drip Too Hard , Lil Baby & Gunna 18
26 31 29 11 Millionaire , Chris Stapleton 26
27 37 – 2 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored , Ariana Grande 27
28 25 26 38 Better Now , Post Malone 2
29 29 27 17 ZEZE , Kodak Black Featuring Travis Scott & Offset 13
30 34 34 10 Burn Out , Midland 30
31 32 25 14 Girl Like You , Jason Aldean 16
32 26 23 14 This Is It , Scotty McCreery 16
33 33 31 7 Undecided , Chris Brown 31
34 21 28 11 Take It From Me , Jordan Davis 21
35 35 45 3 A Lot , 21 Savage 35
36 39 40 7 There Was This Girl , Riley Green 36
37 30 20 12 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 20
38 36 44 5 One That Got Away , Michael Ray 36
39 38 41 4 Twerk , City Girls Featuring Cardi B 38
40 44 48 4 Here Tonight , Brett Young 40
41 43 46 4 Make It Sweet , Old Dominion 41
42 42 36 17 Taki Taki , DJ Snake Featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B 14
43 48 – 2 Middle Child , J. Cole 43
44 45 50 4 Down To The Honkytonk , Jake Owen 44
45 41 33 21 Wake Up In The Sky , Gucci Mane X Bruno Mars X Kodak Black 14
46 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 Sucker , Jonas Brothers 46
47 0 New 1 Eyes On You , Chase Rice 47
48 47 – 2 Love Wins , Carrie Underwood 47
49 0 New 1 Night Shift , Jon Pardi 49
50 0 New 1 Thotiana , Blueface 50

[Gary]

Digital Song Sales

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks Sucker , Jonas Brothers 1
2 1 2 24 Shallow , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 1
3 11 1 3 GG Please Me , Cardi B & Bruno Mars 1
4 4 5 20 Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse) , Post Malone & Swae Lee 1
5 5 3 7 7 Rings , Ariana Grande 1
6 3 22 20 Always Remember Us This Way , Lady Gaga 2
7 0 New 1 Look What God Gave Her , Thomas Rhett 7
8 12 8 11 Wow. , Post Malone 7
9 9 6 34 You Say , Lauren Daigle 5
10 7 4 23 Without Me , Halsey 1
11 14 12 10 Sweet But Psycho , Ava Max 9
12 6 47 13 I'll Never Love Again , Lady Gaga 2
13 10 9 33 Bohemian Rhapsody , Queen 5
14 16 16 8 Dancing With A Stranger , Sam Smith & Normani 4
15 15 13 30 High Hopes , Panic! At The Disco 3
16 17 10 21 Beautiful Crazy , Luke Combs 2
17 18 11 28 Happier , Marshmello & Bastille 2
18 19 15 7 Middle Child , J. Cole 5
19 21 7 4 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored , Ariana Grande 2
20 2 23 3 Walk Me Home , P!nk 2
21 13 14 4 Thotiana , Blueface 13
22 31 28 15 Be Alright , Dean Lewis 18
23 30 30 16 Better , Khalid 8
24 25 18 29 Eastside , benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid 12
25 29 17 31 Sicko Mode , Travis Scott 2
26 20 26 10 We Will Rock You , Queen 11
27 24 35 4 Don't Stop Me Now , Queen 24
28 0 Re-Entry 2 Bad Liar , Imagine Dragons 27
29 35 24 62 Havana , Camila Cabello Featuring Young Thug 1
30 36 21 20 Money , Cardi B 5
31 0 New 1 I Can't Get Enough , benny blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez & J Balvin 31
32 41 37 28 Speechless , Dan + Shay 9
33 28 33 7 Another One Bites The Dust , Queen 15
34 27 40 8 We Are The Champions , Queen 18
35 26 31 8 Somebody To Love , Queen 13
36 43 45 13 Going Bad , Meek Mill Featuring Drake 6
37 40 – 13 Miss Me More , Kelsea Ballerini 22
38 38 34 41 Girls Like You , Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B 1
39 33 38 7 Radio Ga Ga , Queen 27
40 50 36 6 Bury A Friend , Billie Eilish 7
41 49 – 2 Murder On My Mind , YNW Melly 41
42 44 32 41 Tequila , Dan + Shay 9
43 0 New 1 Two Of Us , Louis Tomlinson 43
44 0 New 1 Nobody , Dylan Scott 44
45 48 – 33 Natural , Imagine Dragons 2
46 0 Re-Entry 12 Down To The Honkytonk , Jake Owen 32
47 42 44 79 Perfect , Ed Sheeran 1
48 0 Re-Entry 44 I Like It , Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin 1
49 0 New 1 Whiskey Glasses , Morgan Wallen 49
50 47 41 17 Thank U, Next , Ariana Grande 1

[Gary]

Bubbling Under

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 11 15 3 #1 1 wks Undrunk , FLETCHER 1
2 8 7 8 Calma , Pedro Capo X Farruko 1
3 0 Re-Entry 6 Slow Dancing In The Dark , Joji 1
4 18 – 3 I've Been Waiting , Lil Peep & iLoveMakonnen Featuring Fall Out Boy 4
5 12 1 9 Rumor , Lee Brice 1
6 0 New 1 High Top Versace , 2 Chainz Featuring Young Thug 6
7 0 New 1 Baila Baila Baila , Ozuna 7
8 1 6 3 11 Minutes , Yungblud & Halsey Featuring Travis Barker 1
9 0 New 1 Bad Girls , Lil Skies Featuring Gucci Mane 9
10 13 10 9 Every Season , Roddy Ricch 10
11 0 Re-Entry 2 Last Hurrah , Bebe Rexha 3
12 0 New 1 Love Ain't , Eli Young Band 12
13 24 – 15 bellyache , Billie Eilish 3
14 0 New 1 Shotta Flow , NLE Choppa 14
15 0 Re-Entry 6 A Traves del Vaso , Banda Los Sebastianes 11
16 14 23 7 Bleed It , Blueface 2
17 20 18 11 Slime Belief , YoungBoy Never Broke Again 2
18 0 New 1 Almeda , Solange 18
19 0 New 1 Money In The Way , 2 Chainz 19
20 0 Re-Entry 9 Nunca Es Suficiente , Los Angeles Azules Featuring Natalia LaFourcade 9
21 0 New 1 Suge , DaBaby 21
22 0 Re-Entry 7 8 Letters , Why Don't We 14
23 0 New 1 Forgiven , 2 Chainz Featuring Marsha Ambrosius 23
24 0 Re-Entry 47 Freestyle , Lil Baby 9
25 0 Re-Entry 3 Project Dreams , Marshmello & Roddy Ricch 8

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Streaming Songs

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 New 1 #1 1 wks Sucker , Jonas Brothers 1
2 14 10 3 GG Please Me , Cardi B & Bruno Mars 2
3 1 1 7 7 Rings , Ariana Grande 1
4 3 3 4 Murder On My Mind , YNW Melly 3
5 5 2 20 Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse) , Post Malone & Swae Lee 1
6 2 6 7 Middle Child , J. Cole 2
7 4 9 6 Thotiana , Blueface 4
8 8 5 31 Sicko Mode , Travis Scott 1
9 7 7 22 Without Me , Halsey 2
10 6 4 4 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored , Ariana Grande 2
11 13 12 14 Going Bad , Meek Mill Featuring Drake 3
12 10 14 11 Wow. , Post Malone 5
13 11 11 11 A Lot , 21 Savage 7
14 9 – 9 Shallow , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 9
15 12 8 18 Thank U, Next , Ariana Grande 1
16 15 13 26 Happier , Marshmello & Bastille 2
17 17 16 25 Drip Too Hard , Lil Baby & Gunna 1
18 16 15 3 Robbery , Juice WRLD 15
19 18 19 19 Baby Shark , Pinkfong 14
20 0 New 1 I , Lil Skies 20
21 19 22 10 Envy Me , Calboy 19
22 21 25 37 Moonlight , XXXTENTACION 4
23 0 New 1 Girls Need Love , Summer Walker X Drake 23
24 20 17 19 Money , Cardi B 8
25 25 30 21 Better , Khalid 21
26 22 18 5 Bury A Friend , Billie Eilish 8
27 23 23 10 Swervin , A Boogie Wit da Hoodie Featuring 6ix9ine 18
28 28 29 42 Lucid Dreams , Juice WRLD 1
29 33 45 6 Dancing With A Stranger , Sam Smith & Normani 29
30 24 21 27 Mo Bamba , Sheck Wes 2
31 34 44 3 Mixed Personalities , YNW Melly Featuring Kanye West 31
32 27 20 21 ZEZE , Kodak Black Featuring Travis Scott & Offset 1
33 32 28 10 Look Back At It , A Boogie Wit da Hoodie 19
34 30 – 31 Eastside , benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid 16
35 31 – 39 Girls Like You , Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B 5
36 0 New 1 Hear Me Calling , Juice WRLD 36
37 39 50 9 Sweet But Psycho , Ava Max 34
38 38 40 44 Better Now , Post Malone 4
39 37 38 19 Leave Me Alone , Flipp Dinero 13
40 42 32 4 Talk , Khalid 32
41 36 48 3 Pure Water , Mustard & Migos 36
42 40 43 13 High Hopes , Panic! At The Disco 15
43 44 36 46 I Like It , Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin 2
44 0 New 1 Worth It , YK Osiris 44
45 0 Re-Entry 50 Sad! , XXXTENTACION 1
46 43 46 25 Wake Up In The Sky , Gucci Mane X Bruno Mars X Kodak Black 8
47 47 35 20 MIA , Bad Bunny Featuring Drake 3
48 46 – 22 Taki Taki , DJ Snake Featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B 5
49 50 31 87 Believer , Imagine Dragons 13
50 0 New 1 Beautiful Crazy , Luke Combs 50

[Gary]

Jonas Brothers' 'Sucker' Keeps Pop on Top of Streaming Songs Chart

News

By Kevin Rutherford | March 12, 2019 2:37 PM EDT

The song launches at No. 1, dethroning Ariana Grande's "7 Rings."

With Jonas Brothers' "Sucker" arriving as the trio's first leader on the Billboard Hot 100, the track also debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Streaming Songs chart dated March 16.

"Sucker" bows atop the latter list with 43.7 million U.S. streams in its first week (ending March 7), according to Nielsen Music.

The group had not previously made Streaming Songs, which began in 2013; after all, the band's pre-reunion musical heyday was around 2007-09, when they charted 16 of their now 18 total Hot 100 entries.

The boy band is the first act to debut at No. 1 on Streaming Songs with a first charting title since Zayn (formerly of fellow boy band One Direction); his "Pillowtalk" arrived atop the Feb. 20, 2016-dated ranking.

"Sucker" is also the second track to start at No. 1 on the list in 2019, following Ariana Grande's "7 Rings," whose six-week reign atop Streaming Songs is interrupted by the debut of "Sucker."

With "Sucker" following "7 Rings" atop Streaming Songs, pop songs are staging a resurgence in the chart's penthouse. Songs from the genre reign back-to-back for the second time since the end of 2018 when, on the Jan. 5-dated tally, Mariah Carey's 1994 classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You" replaced Grande's "Thank U, Next" after seven weeks at No. 1. Before then, hip-hop hits had held the top spot for 41 consecutive weeks (24 by Drake), after Camila Cabello's "Havana," featuring Young Thug, had led on Jan. 27, 2018.

The last pop song by a lead male act to top Streaming Songs before "Sucker"? Ed Sheeran's "Perfect," with Beyoncé, on Jan. 3, 2018.

"Sucker" was assisted by a pair of music videos released by Jonas Brothers during the March 1-7 tracking week: the proper clip March 1 and a director's cut March 4. The track also opens as the biggest on on-demand audio services, accruing 26.9 million on-demand audio streams to open at No. 1 on the On-Demand Streaming Songs chart.

[renfield75]

Mar 12, 2019 6:25:25 GMT -5 Gary said:

Hot 100

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks Sucker , Jonas Brothers 1

Thanks for doing these summary threads Gary, it's appreciated.

[gabe]

posting the whole chart is far from a summary

[Gary]

Mar 12, 2019 17:07:24 GMT -5 gabe said:

posting the whole chart is far from a summary

Then what is?


All charts and articles directly related to the thread title are in here(on page 1)

What is missing:

12 pages of discussion of:

my song is better than your song
year end chart discussions
random pop singer discussions(event singles, signature songs, etc)

If you miss those you still have the other thread

[rimetm]

Yeah, I concur that these threads are pretty useful as a snapshot of a particular week's data without having to dig through pages and pages of, admittedly, filler. Just about the only other thing that would make it better would be to also send Hot 100 Recurrents to these.

[Gary]

OK



Hot 100 Recurrents

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 1 1 23 #1 17 wks Perfect , Ed Sheeran 1
2 2 9 20 Meant To Be , Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line 1
3 3 5 21 Moonlight , XXXTENTACION 2
4 4 2 55 Believer , Imagine Dragons 1
5 5 3 14 The Middle , Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey 3
6 7 6 4 Love Lies , Khalid & Normani 6
7 6 13 4 Trip , Ella Mai 5
8 9 7 4 Speechless , Dan + Shay 7
9 0 New 1 Backin' It Up , Pardison Fontaine Featuring Cardi B 9
10 11 10 14 I Like Me Better , Lauv 3
11 8 4 15 Psycho , Post Malone Featuring Ty Dolla $ign 4
12 13 16 41 Thunder , Imagine Dragons 1
13 10 8 31 Havana , Camila Cabello Featuring Young Thug 1
14 12 11 13 Delicate , Taylor Swift 4
15 14 14 12 Taste , Tyga Featuring Offset 5
16 16 17 48 Shape Of You , Ed Sheeran 1
17 21 12 23 God's Plan , Drake 5
18 17 – 13 In My Feelings , Drake 1
19 19 21 7 She Got The Best Of Me , Luke Combs 10
20 20 15 14 Yes Indeed , Lil Baby & Drake 5
21 22 18 15 Sad! , XXXTENTACION 6
22 15 – 19 Bohemian Rhapsody , Queen 1
23 18 19 4 Breathin , Ariana Grande 3
24 23 – 37 Feel It Still , Portugal. The Man 4
25 0 Re-Entry 30 Heaven , Kane Brown 1

[Gary]

CHART BEAT
Why Did It Take 16 Years For Another Boy Band to Hit No. 1 on the Hot 100?

3/14/2019 by Andrew Unterberger


Buried within the news that the Jonas Brothers had managed a triumphant bow at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with their reunion single "Sucker" -- a historic occasion for a number of reasons -- was a revelation that took many pop fans by surprise: The song was the first No. 1 hit from a boy band on the chart since B2K's P. Diddy-assisted "Bump, Bump, Bump" in 2003.

That's a long time. Now, 2003 came after most of the successful TRL-era boy bands were already past their prime, so perhaps it's not terribly surprising that none of the Backstreet Boys/*NSYNC class of groups have topped the chart since. But that timespan still covers a significant number of major boy bands of the 21st century -- including One Direction, The Wanted, 5 Seconds of Summer, BTS and, of course, the Jonas Brothers during their original run. Considering the number of iconic pop tracks those groups have been responsible for over the lest decade and a half or so, it's pretty jarring to hear that not a single one of them went to No. 1.

The simplest explanation for this is one that might feel similarly counter-intuitive for pop obsessives: Radio hasn't really been all that into boy bands this century. There are exceptions, sure, and a handful of singles from those aforementioned groups have managed to break through -- One Direction scored a pair of No. 5 hits on Billboard's Radio Songs chart with 2012's "What Makes You Beautiful" and 2014's "Story of My Life," while The Wanted and 5 Seconds of Summer have scored a No. 2 hit each on that listing with 2012's "Glad You Came" and 2018's "Youngblood," respectively. But those are the only songs from the five groups combined to make the Radio Songs top 10, and none of the groups besides One Direction have even charted another top 40 hit there. With its No. 46 debut this week, "Sucker" is already the Jonas Brothers' biggest Radio Songs hit. BTS has never made the chart.

Without consistent radio support, it's been hard for these groups to mount a real charge at the top spot of the Hot 100. At the peak of the iTunes era in the mid-to-late '00s, the Jonas Brothers sold about as consistently well as any major pop artist, scoring five top 5 hits on Digital Song Sales -- but streaming wasn't yet part of Hot 100 calculations on a major scale, and radio play wasn't enough to get the group past No. 5 on the Hot 100 ("Burnin' Up," 2008). 5 Seconds of Summer's early chart success broke down similarly; across the group's first two albums, six tracks charted on the top 10 of Digital Song Sales, but radio presence was minimal, resulting in none of those best-sellers making it past No. 16 on the Hot 100 ("Amnesia," 2014).

Why has radio been so reluctant to embrace these groups' singles? It could have something to do with them being out of step with overarching trends in pop music in general. Savan Kotceha, co-writer of One Direction's breakthrough hit "What Makes You Beautiful," once talked to Billboard about devising boy band hits to serve as "counter-programming" to what else is happening on radio at that time. "You do the exact opposite of what's going on," he explained of his unified boy band theory. "Because to me, I feel like teenage girls need to feel it's their own thing. If you're just trying to be Usher, they'll just buy Usher."

That theory could explain why One Direction thrived with throwback power-pop as the early-'10s charts pulsated with big-tent EDM and tonight's-the-night party rap, or why the Jonas Brothers found success with a sprightly, PG-rated form of pop-punk in the mid-to-late '00s, when the Hot 100 was dominated by midtempo balladry and Auto-Tuned hip-hop. But it also could explain why many of the biggest hits by both groups never really found their footing on radio: It was hard to slot an infectious arena-rock singalong like "Best Song Ever" in top 40 playlists alongside Calvin Harris and Pitbull, just like it was tough for a guitar-driven new wave nugget like the Jonas' "S.O.S." to find room in between hits by Chris Brown and Nelly Furtado. Tellingly, the two biggest radio hits for boy bands of this period were much more in step with contemporary radio trends: the dance-floor-geared hedonism of The Wanted's "Glad You Came" in 2012, and the melancholy, '80s-flavored chug of 5 Seconds of Summer's "Youngblood" last year.

The example of 5 Seconds of Summer -- which unlike the JoBros in their first incarnation, does overlap with the era of streaming joining the Hot 100's data mix -- is also illustrative of boy bands not necessarily having streaming success commiserate with their cultural impact, either. While radio finally did embrace 5SOS on "Youngblood," the streaming world never quite caught up: the track stalled at No. 25 on Billboard's Streaming Songs tally, and thus managed a No. 7 peak on the Hot 100. One Direction managed more success on streaming during their run, with three Streaming Songs top five hits, including a No. 2 peak for 'Best Song Ever" (which also ended up the highest-charting boy band Hot 100 hit of this pre-"Sucker" period, reaching No. 2 on that chart) -- but the group's biggest radio hits and biggest streaming hits often failed to match. (Notably, "What Makes You Beautiful" did reach No. 4 on the On-Demand Streaming Songs chart before the overall Streaming Songs chart's debut the next year.)

Ultimately, it took until "Sucker" for all the factors to properly line up for a Hot 100-topper: The song debuted at No. 1 on both Digital Song Sales and Streaming Songs, and is already making an impact on the airwaves. The explanation there might just be a combination of a good song and good timing -- after a six-year absence, the Jonas Brothers appear to have chosen the exact right moment to return, as "Sucker" has not only blasted to the top of the charts, but reignited massive interest in their back catalog: The day of their comeback single dropped, it was one of five JoBros singles to appear in the daily Spotify U.S. Top 200 chart. It seems that for arguably the first time, there's room for boy bands in both the radio and streaming worlds -- and while it may be an unrepeatable fluke, it wouldn't be a huge surprise to see some more boy band reunions pop out of the woodwork in short order to see if the public will be suckers for them, too.

[cassiuscasanova]

Yeah I think people just dint care THAT much about boy band songs