Billboard Hot 100: 03/03/12

[forg]

Chart will go back to "normal levels" next week as the top sales are going back to the ones that were ruling pre-Grammy / Whitney Houston (We are Young / Stronger / Set Fire to the Rain) but nevertheless the last two weeks was so exciting to watch because the turn of events ;)

[HolidayGuy]

So some rough numbers using Mediabase numbers and sales info:

1. Part of Me: 44,877 points
2. Set Fire to the Rain:40,930 points
3. I Will Always Love You: 37,200* points
4. Stronger: 35,351 points
5. Rolling in the Deep: 30,100 points*
6. We Are Young: 25,517 points
7. Someone Like You: 23,822 points
8. Starships: 22,160 points
9/10/11. Turn Up the Music: 20,233 points
We Found Love:
Good Feeling:

"Good Feeling" had sales of 110k or so last week (if there are other versions, more); "We Found Love' had more than 84K (counting all versions). It's possible that "Turn Up the Music" may miss out on top 10 this week, but may get it next week.

[popstop]

I think WFL will be in there before GF or SAIKI

[HolidayGuy]

^Oops- you be correct. Let me adjust.

[badrobot]

I think this was asked elsewhere (maybe even in this thread) but I don't remember seeing the answer -- when's the last time an aritst had 3 top ten songs? And more specifically, when is the last time a *LEAD* artist had 3 top ten songs?

[popstop]

Badrobot, I found this from the week Usher did it. I don't think anyone's done it since.

TRIPLE USHER: As predicted, "Confessions Part II" (LaFace) by Usher joins the top 10 of The Billboard Hot 100. The 11-9 move gives Usher three songs in the top 10 as lead artist. "Burn" remains No. 1 for the third week and his former No. 1 hit "Yeah!" featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris dips 3-4.

Having three simultaneous top 10 hits is so rare, only five artists have accomplished this in the history of the Hot 100. Ashanti and 50 Cent did it, but at least one song for each artist had them in a featured position. The only acts to have three top 10 hits at the same time as lead artist are the Beatles, the Bee Gees and Usher.

[gracelessheart]

Feb 22, 2012 12:13:45 GMT -5 popstop said:

Badrobot, I found this from the week Usher did it. I don't think anyone's done it since.

TRIPLE USHER: As predicted, "Confessions Part II" (LaFace) by Usher joins the top 10 of The Billboard Hot 100. The 11-9 move gives Usher three songs in the top 10 as lead artist. "Burn" remains No. 1 for the third week and his former No. 1 hit "Yeah!" featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris dips 3-4.

Having three simultaneous top 10 hits is so rare, only five artists have accomplished this in the history of the Hot 100. Ashanti and 50 Cent did it, but at least one song for each artist had them in a featured position. The only acts to have three top 10 hits at the same time as lead artist are the Beatles, the Bee Gees and Usher.

Wow. This would be most impressive should Adele pull this off.

[badrobot]

Wow -- I thought it had happened much more often. And Usher had features on his songs whereas all of Adele's are completely solo.

I feel like there's a good chance Lil Wayne or Kanye West has done it since when including features. (Possibly even T-Pain?)

[badrobot]

Lil Wayne did it the week of September 27, 2008 with 1 lead and 2 features.

5 jay-z featuring t.i., kanye west and lil wayne
swagga like us

8 t-pain and lil wayne
can't believe it

10 lil wayne and t-pain
got money

[Enigma.]

Has a song been in top ten after spending a year on chart before?

[HolidayGuy]

GMAYL manages to squeak a third week in the top 40- and does not break a record for biggest drop from the top 10.

www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat#/news/katy-perry-s-part-of-me-debuts-atop-hot-1006251352.story

Katy Perry's 'Part of Me' Debuts Atop Hot 100
by Gary Trust, N.Y. | February 22, 2012

Following her appearance at the 54th Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, Perry, who performed "Part" in a medley with her former No. 1 "E.T.," engineers just the 20th No. 1 entrance in the Hot 100's 53-year history. Lady Gaga had last stormed in at the chart's top spot almost a year ago (Feb. 26, 2011) with "Born This Way," which also benefitted from Grammys exposure last year; "Born" reached retail and radio the Friday before last year's event, at which Gaga sang it.

"Part" marks the first start at the pinnacle for a single on the storied Capitol Records label. The song is Perry's seventh career Hot 100 No. 1.

After Capitol released it to radio and retail on Feb. 13, "Part," the lead single from Perry's "Teenage Dream" deluxe edition, "The Complete Confection" (due March 27), blasts in atop the Hot 100 and Digital Songs with 411,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, marking Perry's best career sales week. On Radio Songs, "Part" launches at No. 36 with 35 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS.

"Confection" picks up where the original version of "Dream" left off: producing a Hot 100 No. 1. Dream matched Michael Jackson's Bad (1987-88) by tallying five Hot 100 leaders, the most toppers from a single album over one release in the chart's archives.

A Grammy Awards afterglow likewise shines on Adele, whose three former Hot 100 No. 1s bullet in the top 10: "Set Fire to the Rain" holds at No. 2 (and No. 1 on Radio Songs for a second week; 143 million, up 4%); "Rolling in the Deep," the record and song of the year which Adele performed at the Grammys, charges back 17-5 (in its 59th chart week; 271,000, up 115%); and, "Someone Like You" jumps 11-7.

With the gains, Adele makes history as the first female ever to place three titles in the Hot 100's top 10 concurrently as a lead artist. Only one other woman had ever claimed a 30% share of the top 10: Ashanti, who charted a trio of tracks in the top tier the weeks of March 30 and April 6 in 2002.She sported featured artist billing, however, on two of those entries.

Until this week, Chris Brown last placed three songs in the Hot 100's top 10 as a lead artist the week of May 10, 2008. (More on Brown, who bows in this week's top 10, ahead).

Adele's historic week on the Hot 100 complements her record-breaking frame on the Billboard 200 albums chart. As previously reported, her sophomore set "21" logs a 21st week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, passing Whitney Houston's soundtrack to "The Bodyguard" for the most weeks on top for an album by a woman in the chart's history.

Despite Houston's posthumously ceding her Billboard 200 record to Adele, love for the singer following her death at age 48 on Feb. 11 results in a 7-3 Hot 100 jump for her signature 1992 ballad "I Will Always Love You." The song ascends with the chart's top Digital Gainer honor, improving by 89% to 367,000 in the first full sales tracking week following her passing.

Houston also rises on the Hot 100 with former '80s No. 1s "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (35-25); "Greatest Love of All" (41-36); and, "How Will I Know" (a re-entry at No. 49).

Despite falling from No. 1 to No. 4 on the Hot 100 after two weeks in the driver's seat (fairly literally, considering the song's placement in Toyota's current Camry advertising campaign), "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" nets the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer tag, motoring 7-4 on Radio Songs (91 million, up 19%). The cut decelerates 2-5 on Digital Songs (252,000, down 3%).

In between Adele at Nos. 5 and 7, fun.'s "We Are Young," featuring Janelle Monae, drops 3-6 on the Hot 100. Rihanna's former 10-week No. 1 "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris, falls from No. 6 to No. 8.

Nicki Minaj, whose performance of "Roman Holiday" at the Grammys drew mixed reviews (to be kind), roars onto the Hot 100 at No. 9 with "Starships," the lead radio single from the rapper's second studio set "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" (due April 3). The track arrives at No. 7 on Digital Songs (204,000) and No. 72 on Radio Songs (17 million, up 67%).

The bow marks Minaj's first arrival in the Hot 100's top 10 and tops her previous best, set two weeks ago, when Madonna's "Give Me All Your Luvin'," featuring Minaj and M.I.A., opened at No. 13. (After lifting to No. 10 last week, becoming Madonna's record-extending 38th top 10, "Luvin' " plummets to No. 39 this week).

Chris Brown rounds out the Hot 100's top bracket, as "Turn Up the Music" enters at No. 10. After he performed the song in a medley with "Beautiful People" at the Grammys, the cut vaults onto Digital Songs at No. 9 (180,000) and climbs 71-56 on Radio Songs (21 million, up 27%). "Turn" is also generating buzz for its remix featuring Rihanna, marking the first musical reunion of Brown and his former girlfriend following his domestic assault charges against her three years ago.

[gracelessheart]

Feb 22, 2012 12:33:34 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Wow -- I thought it had happened much more often. And Usher had features on his songs whereas all of Adele's are completely solo.

I feel like there's a good chance Lil Wayne or Kanye West has done it since when including features. (Possibly even T-Pain?)

I agree that it's even more impressive, during a time when artists throw features on their singles for the sole purpose of upping sales, that Adele has managed to produce three consecutive number ones without the aid of another artist's name, as well as achieving this milestone. Big hats off to her. Glad to see true artistry and some honest music being so well-received.

[Deleted]

Yay! Congrats on your 7th number one Katy! And amazing for Adele :) also funny that Katy GaGa and kesha all have number 1 debuts now :)

[badrobot]

So as lead artist we have 5 artists now with three simultaneous top tens?

Beatles
Bee-Gees
Usher
Chris Brown (ugh)
Adele

And then when you add in features we also have:

50 Cent
Ashanti
Lil Wayne
...possibly others?

No surprise at Madonna's fall, btw. An incredibly weak song, honestly.

[Deleted]

So 5 songs drop out of the Top 10 this week. Don't even know the last time that happened.

And 3 songs debut in the Top 10. Don't even know if that's ever happened before.

[HolidayGuy]

br, you're becoming as repetitive about your GMAYL disdain as I am with some stiff that I post. The drop was expected indeed, based on its airplay showing and sales trends from last week. Interscope probably will give "Girls Gone Wild" good promo treatment, as it's expected to be out before the album drops.

[badrobot]

Well, I think a lot of people agree with me about GMAYL based on its performance and just anecdotally what I've heard from others/reviewers. I'm still a Madonna fan but outside of the isolated moment of the Celebration Benassi remix in 2009, she hasn't put out any truly great new music (to my ears) since the Confessions album.

[gracelessheart]

I, too, was not impressed with the new Madonna song. It's very forgettable. And if memory serves, my favorite songs from her last couple of albums have been the first singles...which doesn't bode well for this album. Although I am stoked she worked with Orbit again.

[Mahatma Coat]

Feb 22, 2012 13:07:27 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Well, I think a lot of people agree with me about GMAYL based on its performance and just anecdotally what I've heard from others/reviewers. I'm still a Madonna fan but outside of the isolated moment of the Celebration Benassi remix in 2009, she hasn't put out any truly great new music (to my ears) since the Confessions album.

I thought Hard Candy had some great moments.

[HolidayGuy]

You're too kind in that assessment, br, but I know you have a soft spot for that Benassi mix. There isn't really anything on Hard Candy that I LOVE, so I agree on that one. Looking forward to the GGW push- with the album due in less than five weeks, Interscope should be pushing it within the next few weeks, I'd think. And maybe M actually will take part in promo and perform it during album-release week.

[brucelover]

She needed a SMASH as the first single, in the same way that "4 Minutes" was. You may not have liked that song, but that marching band beat was undeniable and screamed 'hit single'.

[HolidayGuy]

^it's not that I don't like it, but it's not one of my favorites from her. I can see why it went over well, though.

Obviously,"4 Minutes" didn't help in terms of landing a second hit single from that album. So, in that sense, will be interesting to see how GGW fares with such a fleeting-hit first single.

[slamina]

Congrats on the 7th number one, Katy! Adele did amazing this week as well, and I'm glad to see Nicki debut in the top 10! :)

[d.t.m]

Ashanti said she really should've had 4 Top 10s if you include her uncredited feature on JLO's Aint It Funny Remix. Irv Gotti didn't give her credit.

[gracelessheart]

Feb 22, 2012 15:37:13 GMT -5 d.t.m said:

Ashanti said she really should've had 4 Top 10s if you include her uncredited feature on JLO's Aint It Funny Remix. Irv Gotti didn't give her credit.

Did she just do backing vocals? I don't recall hearing her on the track. If she only did backing vocals, I don't think it would merit a credit as a featured artist.

[cesarams]

Someone knows if Rumour Has It will be the next single from 21? It is rising on iTunes.

[josh]

Feb 22, 2012 16:10:27 GMT -5 cesarams said:

Someone knows if Rumour Has It will be the next single from 21? It is rising on iTunes.

Apparently the boost is from someone singing it on The Voice. But yes, it has been confirmed to be the 4th single by Billboard, I believe. It is also under Cool New Music on All Access for pop and HAC. Goes for adds mid-March. Already top 50 on HAC, and peaked almost 40 there, then almost dropped out of top 50, but has since started gaining again.

[cesarams]

Feb 22, 2012 16:17:48 GMT -5 josh said:

Feb 22, 2012 16:10:27 GMT -5 cesarams said:

Someone knows if Rumour Has It will be the next single from 21? It is rising on iTunes.

Apparently the boost is from someone singing it on The Voice. But yes, it has been confirmed to be the 4th single by Billboard, I believe. It is also under Cool New Music on All Access for pop and HAC. Goes for adds mid-March. Already top 50 on HAC, and peaked almost 40 there, then almost dropped out of top 50, but has since started gaining again.

Thanks for all the information

[popstop]

Feb 22, 2012 12:46:14 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Has a song been in top ten after spending a year on chart before?

Yah, I brought this up on another thread. Macarena hit #10 in it's 55th week as a result of boosted airplay in year-end countdowns. It was off the chart completely 6 weeks later.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Yay Katy, Nicki, & Chris all were able to get Top 10 hits with songs that were actually good.