American Top 40 - May 18, 2019

[jdelachjr2002]

Before I post the chart, all I have to say is whoever at Mediabase is responsible for picking Breakouts probably knows nothing about what songs move the needle as far as hits are concerned. Case in point, two of last week's six Breakouts ("Con Calma" and "ME!") debuted but despite the fact that AT40 has shown they can (and will) go five or (as was the case last week) six Breakouts, somehow "If I Can't Have You" wasn't given Breakout status despite the fact that it hit radio exactly one week after "ME!" did (and IIRC both had the iHeart hourly deals at launch). And we have no new Breakouts for the second time in three weeks (third time this year!)

Premiere Radio Networks - always like to mess with the AT40 product (both the current Seacrest and the classic Casey shows)

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MAY 18, 2019
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
40 40 (47) Maroon 5 featuring CARDI B - Girls Like You (1)
37 39 (04) Benny Blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez & J. Balvin - I Can't Get Enough (37)
38 38 (47) Post Malone - Better Now (1)

39 37 (02) Bryce Vine featuring YG - La La Land (37)
36 36 (03) Drax Project featuring Hailee Steinfeld - Woke Up Late (36)
34 35 (31) Ariana Grande - Breathin' (2)
DE 34 (01) Daddy Yankee & Katy Perry featuring Snow - Con Calma (34)

32 33 (54) Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (1)
Extra: Lauren Daigle - You Say
33 32 (06) Alessia Cara - Out Of Love (32)
30 31 (46) 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (1)
On The Verge: AJ Mitchell - All My Friends
Optional Extra: Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss
35 30 (02) BTS featuring Halsey - Boy With Luv (30)
23 29 (08) Bebe Rexha - Last Hurrah (23)
Extra: The Chainsmokers featuring Daya - Don't Let Me Down
27 28 (29) Travis Scott featuring Drake - Sicko Mode (10)
28 27 (05) Lauv & Troye Sivan - I'm So Tired... (27)

24 26 (35) Marshmello & BASTILLE - Happier (1)
26 25 (06) Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It (25)
22 24 (25) Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (1)
25 23 (06) Billie Eilish - When The Party's Over (23)

31 22 (05) Khalid - Talk (22)
On The Verge: Pink - Walk Me Home
21 21 (19) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow (21)
Extra: Zedd featuring Foxes - Clarity
Optional Extra: Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill
18 20 (32) Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (1)
20 19 (04) The Jonas Brothers - Cool (19)
15 18 (27) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (4)
On The Verge: NOTD & Felix Jaehn featuring Captain Cuts & Georgia KU - So Close

17 17 (07) Mabel - Don't Call Me Up (17)
14 16 (10) Lil Peep & iLoveMakkonen featuring Fall Out Boy - I've Been Waiting (14)
16 15 (07) Marshmello featuring CHVRCHES - Here With Me (15)
Extra: Justin Bieber - Sorry
10 14 (27) Khalid - Better (4)

11 13 (26) Dean Lewis - Be Alright (11)
08 12 (24) Ellie Goulding & Diplo featuring Swae Lee - Close To Me (2)
Extra: Drake featuring Rihanna - Too Good
12 11 (11) The Chainsmokers featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love (11)
Optional Extra: Macklemore featuring Kesha - Good Old Days
DE 10 (01) Taylor Swift featuring Brendon Urie - ME! (10)
09 09 (38) Benny Blanco featuring Halsey & Khalid - Eastside (1)
13 08 (04) Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (8)

07 07 (29) Halsey - Without Me (1)
Extra: Lukas Graham - Love Someone
On The Verge: Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
04 06 (15) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings (1)

06 05 (16) Post Malone - Wow. (5)
05 04 (19) Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (4)
Extra: Imagine Dragons - Demons
03 03 (12) Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored (3)
Optional Extra: The Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling
02 02 (14) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (2)
01 01 (09) The Jonas Brothers - Sucker **3 weeks at #1**

DROPPERS
Ally Brooke featuring Tyga - Low Key (from #29, 6 weeks on)
Fletcher - Undrunk (from #19, 11 weeks on)

[Top 40 Tracker]

This week we say goodbye to Fletcher's "Undrunk" and Ally Brooke's "Low Key" featuring Tyga.

New to the chart this week is Daddy Yankee and Katy Perry with "Con Calma" featuring Snow. This track brings Snow back to the Top 40 for the first time in 26 years. In 1993, he hit #2 with "Informer" and #11 with "Girl I’ve Been Hurt."

Also, Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie debut inside the Top 10 with "ME!" and that makes it the first Top 10 debut since another one of Taylor’s hits, "Look What You Made Me Do," back in September of 2017.

Also worth noting, Khalid and Normani are spending a 54th week on the chart with their collab "Love Lies," which is no small feat. It is the longest run since "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAOaccumulated 67 weeks back in 2012.
This week the Top 3 remain the same with Ariana Grande's "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored" holding at #3. Sam Smith and Normani coming in at #2 with "Dancing with a Stranger" and the Jonas Brothers scoring the top spot for a third week in a row with "Sucker." How long can they keep it going? Find out in the weeks to come!

[Arnold]

What bothers me is that they are holding on to some extremely old records, such as "Girls like you", "Better now", "Love lies", and Youngblood", which are preventing the breakouts from entering the top 40.

[mkarns]

May 16, 2019 23:29:53 GMT -5 Arnold said:

What bothers me is that they are holding on to some extremely old records, such as "Girls like you", "Better now", "Love lies", and Youngblood", which are preventing the breakouts from entering the top 40.

Those four songs held the #1 spot for 13 weeks in succession from last August to November. Now in May, six to nine months later, they're still here. And with one exception ("God Is a Woman") every chart-topper since is still on, mostly in the top 20.

[Cerebro]

"ME!" becomes the second song to debut in the top 10 during the Seacrest era. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was the first, debuting at #9 in 2011.

The all time record, still, belongs to Madonna's "Erotica", which debuted at #2 in 1992 (the year that AT40 used Billboard's Top 40 Airplay Monitor/Hot 100 Airplay chart). That feat "doesn't count" in the current version of AT40 history, which draws on Mediabase/R&R data going back to 1973.

[gemini79]

Didn't Justin Timberlake debut at #10 with Can't Stop the Feeling

[jdelachjr2002]

May 17, 2019 7:09:59 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

"ME!" becomes the second song to debut in the top 10 during the Seacrest era. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was the first, debuting at #9 in 2011.

The all time record, still, belongs to Madonna's "Erotica", which debuted at #2 in 1992 (the year that AT40 used Billboard's Top 40 Airplay Monitor/Hot 100 Airplay chart). That feat "doesn't count" in the current version of AT40 history, which draws on Mediabase/R&R data going back to 1973.

Actually "Look What You Made Me Do" debuted at #10 back in 2017

"Can't Stop The Feeling!" debuted at #12 BTW.

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

Still wondering what other data besides Mediabase does it uses???..Mediabase doesn't have too many former #1 still around in their regular chart

[goodguy]

May 17, 2019 8:31:45 GMT -5 MitchWolf - ChartStan said:

Still wondering what other data besides Mediabase does it uses???..Mediabase doesn't have too many former #1 still around in their regular chart

When Ryan Seacrest took over the show, he explained that the chart was based on airplay at stations that carried the show. That may still be true but I also suspect they adapt the chart to what they think will make the best show and keep affiliates happy.

[gemini79]

I had a feeling that Girls Like You wouldn't fall off this week, I wouldn't be surprised if it's #40 again next week

[shoocoochoocoo]

Justine Timberland :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[Deleted]

The whole breakout management is stupid. Walk Me Home and Si Close I wish good luck. Why Shawn didn’t breakout who knows. It needs help.

[Deleted]

Also Snow hasn’t chatted for 26 years since Informer did in 1993 right? Is this a record for the longest break.

[mkarns]

May 17, 2019 15:12:08 GMT -5 @tweety said:

Also Snow hasn’t chatted for 26 years since Informer did in 1993 right? Is this a record for the longest break.

Snow charted in 1993 with "Informer" (#2 Radio & Records, which is what would be cited on AT40) and "Girl I've Been Hurt" (#11). Nothing after until now.

[nymets86]

May 17, 2019 7:58:35 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

May 17, 2019 7:09:59 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

"ME!" becomes the second song to debut in the top 10 during the Seacrest era. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was the first, debuting at #9 in 2011.

The all time record, still, belongs to Madonna's "Erotica", which debuted at #2 in 1992 (the year that AT40 used Billboard's Top 40 Airplay Monitor/Hot 100 Airplay chart). That feat "doesn't count" in the current version of AT40 history, which draws on Mediabase/R&R data going back to 1973.

Actually "Look What You Made Me Do" debuted at #10 back in 2017

"Can't Stop The Feeling!" debuted at #12 BTW.

2017- Look What You made me Do by Taylor Swift was actually number 10 debut. So ME is the 3rd in the Ryan Peter Seacrest Era

[nymets86]

May 16, 2019 23:29:53 GMT -5 Arnold said:

What bothers me is that they are holding on to some extremely old records, such as "Girls like you", "Better now", "Love lies", and Youngblood", which are preventing the breakouts from entering the top 40.

Love Lies is the only one that is legit to still be on if you look at AirPlay spins. Remarkable 54 week and counting feat. The others have to go I agree with you

[jdelachjr2002]

Here's my special comparison chart. And look, Shawn Mendes is in there!

LW TW
01 01 Sucker
02 02 Dancing With A Stranger
04 03 Sweet But Psycho
03 04 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored
06 05 Wow.
05 06 7 Rings
07 07 Without Me
08 08 Eastside
12 09 Old Town Road
29 10 ME!
09 11 Who Do You Love
15 12 Here With Me
10 13 Be Alright
13 14 High Hopes
11 15 Close To Me
18 16 Cool
21 17 Don't Call Me Up
22 18 When The Party's Over
14 19 Better
19 20 Happier
20 21 Sunflower
17 22 Shallow
23 23 Youngblood
32 24 Talk
28 25 Hey Look Ma, I Made It
33 26 Boy With Luv
26 27 Better Now
16 28 I've Been Waiting
25 29 Thank U, Next
27 30 Love Lies
31 31 Girls Like You
34 32 I'm So Tired...
38 33 Con Calma
DE 34 If I Can't Have You
30 35 Last Hurrah
36 36 Out Of Love
39 37 All My Friends
DE 38 Bad Guy
37 39 Breathin'
40 40 La La Land

OFF: Undrunk (#24), Low Key (#35)

[Cerebro]

May 17, 2019 7:58:35 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

May 17, 2019 7:09:59 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

"ME!" becomes the second song to debut in the top 10 during the Seacrest era. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was the first, debuting at #9 in 2011.

The all time record, still, belongs to Madonna's "Erotica", which debuted at #2 in 1992 (the year that AT40 used Billboard's Top 40 Airplay Monitor/Hot 100 Airplay chart). That feat "doesn't count" in the current version of AT40 history, which draws on Mediabase/R&R data going back to 1973.

Actually "Look What You Made Me Do" debuted at #10 back in 2017

"Can't Stop The Feeling!" debuted at #12 BTW.

I stand corrected. I didn't recall LWYMMD being a top 10 debut.

[Cerebro]

May 17, 2019 15:12:08 GMT -5 @tweety said:

Also Snow hasn’t chatted for 26 years since Informer did in 1993 right? Is this a record for the longest break.

If they ever start playing the version of "Old Town Road" with Billy Ray Cyrus as the featured artist, he'll have charted after a 27 year absence.

Do posthumous appearances count? Nat King Cole last made the top 40 in 1964 with "I Don't Want To See Tomorrow". He returned 27 years later in 1991 (26 years after his death) with a remake of "Unforgettable", crafted as a duet with his daughter, Natalie.

I haven't thought of a longer break by a living artist, yet.

[jdelachjr2002]

BTW I want to add a little from my post last week concerning AT40's Breakout excess vs. the Hot, upcoming songs in weeks to come...

May 12, 2019 12:57:38 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

And my issue with Breakouts (since I've complained about their excessive use time and time again) is that more than three Breakouts is too many. Sometimes there'll be a Breakout that winds up not debuting and that's with three Breskout/Verge songs so anytime AT40 attempts four (or more), I want to be under the assumption that they're banking on a big debut week (more than three debuts) soon. Of course, we have Shawn Mendes and Sheeran/Bieber yet to come which will make it even more difficult for all of this week's Breakouts to debut (I want to think either of "Walk Me Home" or "So Close" will wind up failing to debut).

Of course now we can add Halsey to the mix...

[jdanton2]

Love Lies has been on for 54 weeks and has the longest run since 2012.

[nymets86]

May 19, 2019 18:25:32 GMT -5 jdanton2 said:

Love Lies has been on for 54 weeks and has the longest run since 2012.

Yep. I warned everyone back in week 40 when Love Lies by Khalid featuring Normani was still above number 20 on the chart.

[johnnywest]

May 18, 2019 9:14:05 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

May 17, 2019 15:12:08 GMT -5 @tweety said:

Also Snow hasn’t chatted for 26 years since Informer did in 1993 right? Is this a record for the longest break.

If they ever start playing the version of "Old Town Road" with Billy Ray Cyrus as the featured artist, he'll have charted after a 27 year absence.

Do posthumous appearances count? Nat King Cole last made the top 40 in 1964 with "I Don't Want To See Tomorrow". He returned 27 years later in 1991 (26 years after his death) with a remake of "Unforgettable", crafted as a duet with his daughter, Natalie.

I haven't thought of a longer break by a living artist, yet.

Dobie Gray had about 30 years between "Drift Away" in 1973 and the Uncle Kracker version in 2003. "You Can Do It" (1979) never charted in R&R.

If Etta James had gotten label credit on "Good Feeling," her previous Top 40 hit, "Security," would have been 43 years earlier. She died while "Good Feeling" was charting.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

May 19, 2019 22:03:20 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

May 19, 2019 18:25:32 GMT -5 jdanton2 said:

Love Lies has been on for 54 weeks and has the longest run since 2012.

Yep. I warned everyone back in week 40 when Love Lies by Khalid featuring Normani was still above number 20 on the chart.

So this is your fault!

[nymets86]

16 songs still on top 40 that debuted in 2018 👍. Should be down to 14 at most next week