Billboard Hot 100: 04/07/12

[cesarams]

TODAY'S UPDATE:
TOP 20:

1. ADELE - Set Fire To The Rain: 173.385 (- 1.370)
2. KELLY CLARKSON - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill ...: 161.441 (+ 0.404)
3. DAVID GUETTA - Turn Me On f/Nicki Minaj: 136.005 (+ 0.146)
4. DRAKE - Take Care f/Rihanna: 118.908 (- 0.531)
5. RIHANNA - We Found Love f/Calvin Harris: 105.312 (- 1.558)
6. KATY PERRY - Part Of Me: 102.342 (+ 1.516)
7. THE WANTED - Glad You Came: 99.220 (+ 1.840) ▲
8. GYM CLASS HEROES - Ass Back Home f/Neon Hitch: 97.330 (+ 0.695) ▲
9. WIZ KHALIFA/SNOOP DOGG - Young, Wild & Free f/B. Mars: 96.672 (- 0.840) ▼
10. JESSIE J - Domino: 94.199 (- 1.043)
11. DRAKE - The Motto f/Lil Wayne: 89.729 (+ 0.032) ▲
12. FLO RIDA - Good Feeling: 88.915 (- 0.256) ▲
13. PITBULL F/CHRIS BROWN - International Love: 88.690 (- 1.497) ▼
14. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 88.662 (+ 4.280)
15. BRUNO MARS - It Will Rain: 79.258 (- 1.116)
16. MAROON 5 F/CHRISTINA AGUILERA - Moves Like Jagger: 64.419 (- 0.440)
17. KATY PERRY - The One That Got Away: 62.259 (- 0.375)
18. CALVIN HARRIS - Feel So Close: 59.390 (+ 1.071) ▲
19. NICKI MINAJ - Starships: 58.623 (+ 1.115) ▲
20. TYGA - Rack City: 58.411 (- 1.283) ▼

OTHERS:

JAKE OWEN - Alone With You: 57.546 (+ 0.292)
TAYLOR SWIFT - Ours: 56.682 (+ 0.404)
GAVIN DEGRAW - Not Over You: 56.484 (- 0.367)
GEORGE STRAIT - Love's Gonna Make It Alright: 56.024 (- 0.827)
CHRIS BROWN - Turn Up The Music: 55.687 (+ 0.343)
FLO RIDA - Wild Ones f/Sia: 55.562 (+ 1.385)
ADELE - Someone Like You: 52.957 (- 0.748)
BLAKE SHELTON - Drink On It: 52.583 (+ 0.395)
RIHANNA - Talk That Talk f/Jay-Z: 51.766 (+ 0.531)
TRAIN - Drive By: 51.255 (+ 0.595)
BEYONCE - Love On Top: 50.879 (- 0.072)
GOTYE - Somebody That I Used To Know: 46.264 (+ 0.548)
OUTASIGHT - Tonight Is The Night: 42.006 (- 0.098)
RIHANNA - Birthday Cake: 41.717 (+ 1.005)
USHER - Climax: 38.937 (+ 0.750)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Good Girl: 37.275 (+ 0.520)
B.O.B - So Good: 33.616 (+ 1.352)
ADELE - Rumour Has It: 29.663 (+ 0.332)
ONE DIRECTION - What Makes You Beautiful: 27.769 (+ 1.354)
KARMIN - Broken Hearted: 24.973 (+ 0.380)
JASON MRAZ - I Won't Give Up: 17.637 (+ 0.064)
DEV & ENRIQUE IGLESIAS - Naked: 14.725 (- 0.160)
HAVANA BROWN - We Run The Night f/Pitbull: 10.927 (- 0.010)
JOHN MAYER - Shadow Days: 9.557 (+ 0.209)
FAR EAST MOVEMENT - Live My Life f/Justin Bieber: 2.533 (- 0.022)
MICHEL TELO - Ai Se Eu Te Pego/If I Catch...: 0.491 (+ 0.082)

Holiday Guy, please put the last 5 threads down.

[gracelessheart]

Holy update for We Are Young.

And somebody please stop Katy Perry. Thank you.

[josh]

Last five threads:

3/31/12, 3/24/12, 3/17/12, 3/10/12, 3/3/12.

[HolidayGuy]

^Thanks, josh. :)

[Deleted]

Great to see Calvin back to 1 mil updates

[NeRD]

14. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 88.662 (+ 4.280)


YES.

[josh]

fun. could have 110 million audience by Wednesday! Damn. It's crazy.

[HolidayGuy]

Mediabase 7-Day-Rolling Quick-Cut-Airplay Info, 3/16/12-3/22/12

1. ADELE - Set Fire To The Rain: 171.804 (- 1.581)
2. KELLY CLARKSON - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill ...: 161.522 (+ 0.081)
3. DAVID GUETTA - Turn Me On f/Nicki Minaj: 135.500 (- 0.505)
4. DRAKE - Take Care f/Rihanna: 118.615 (- 0.293)
5. RIHANNA - We Found Love f/Calvin Harris: 104.515 (- 0.797)
6. KATY PERRY - Part Of Me: 102.679 (+ 0.337)
7. THE WANTED - Glad You Came: 100.986 (+ 1.766)
8. GYM CLASS HEROES - Ass Back Home f/Neon Hitch: 97.319 (- 0.011)
9. WIZ KHALIFA/SNOOP DOGG - Young, Wild & Free f/B. Mars: 95.960 (- 0.712)
10. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 93.183 (+ 4.521) ▲
11. JESSIE J - Domino: 92.915 (- 1.284) ▼
12. DRAKE - The Motto f/Lil Wayne: 89.570 (- 0.159) ▼
13. FLO RIDA - Good Feeling: 88.423 (- 0.492) ▼
14. PITBULL F/CHRIS BROWN - International Love: 87.486 (- 1.204) ▼
15. BRUNO MARS - It Will Rain: 78.228 (- 1.030)
16. MAROON 5 F/CHRISTINA AGUILERA - Moves Like Jagger: 64.244 (- 0.175)
17. KATY PERRY - The One That Got Away: 61.827 (- 0.432)
18. NICKI MINAJ - Starships: 59.750 (+ 1.127) ▲
19. CALVIN HARRIS - Feel So Close: 59.560 (+ 0.170) ▼
20. JAKE OWEN - Alone With You: 58.065 (+ 0.519) ▲

OTHERS
TAYLOR SWIFT - Ours: 57.208 (+ 0.526)
FLO RIDA - Wild Ones f/Sia: 56.554 (+ 0.992)
TYGA - Rack City: 56.009 (- 2.402)
GAVIN DEGRAW - Not Over You: 55.883 (- 0.601)
CHRIS BROWN - Turn Up The Music: 55.764 (+ 0.077)
BLAKE SHELTON - Drink On It: 53.100 (+ 0.517)
ADELE - Someone Like You: 52.455 (- 0.502)
TRAIN - Drive By: 51.993 (+ 0.738)
RIHANNA - Talk That Talk f/Jay-Z: 51.932 (+ 0.166)
BEYONCE - Love On Top: 50.719 (- 0.160)
GOTYE - Somebody That I Used To Know: 47.669 (+ 1.405)
RIHANNA - Birthday Cake: 43.291 (+ 1.574)
OUTASIGHT - Tonight Is The Night: 42.781 (+ 0.775)
USHER - Climax: 39.224 (+ 0.287)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Good Girl: 37.668 (+ 0.393)
B.O.B - So Good: 34.471 (+ 0.855)
ADELE - Rumour Has It: 30.270 (+ 0.607)
ONE DIRECTION - What Makes You Beautiful: 29.314 (+ 1.545)
KARMIN - Broken Hearted: 25.070 (+ 0.097)
JASON MRAZ - I Won't Give Up: 17.656 (+ 0.019)
DEV & ENRIQUE IGLESIAS - Naked: 14.824 (+ 0.099)
HAVANA BROWN - We Run The Night f/Pitbull: 10.989 (+ 0.072)
JOHN MAYER - Shadow Days: 9.831 (+ 0.274)
FAR EAST MOVEMENT - Live My Life f/Justin Bieber: 2.617 (+ 0.084)
MICHEL TELO - Ai Se Eu Te Pego/If I Catch...: 0.573 (+ 0.082)

[freezinggame]

I think STIUTK has a chance at #1 if they cover it on Glee, which of course would be awesome.

[Deleted]

Mar 23, 2012 9:00:48 GMT -5 freezinggame said:

I think STIUTK has a chance at #1 if they cover it on Glee, which of course would be awesome.

I think they are in April.

And they are also the musical guest on the April 14th episode of SNL.

[Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815...]

^I think that can potentially do it.

[bigb0882]

If Kelly can somehow hang on to the tiniest of gains she might sneak in a week at #1 on Radio Songs. Fun is coming up fast, though.

[brucelover]

Where is Carly Rae??? "Call Me Maybe" is already huge on iTunes, radio needs to stop being so hesitant to add these surefire smashes everyone loves.

[Rodze]

It's funny they weren't the least bit hesitant to play the new boy bands.

[singingsparrow]

Mar 23, 2012 22:36:18 GMT -5 Rodze said:

It's funny they weren't the least bit hesitant to play the new boy bands.

Perhaps they came to an "Anything Goes!" mentality in having playlists represented by more than just a select handful of artists featuring on each other's tracks, so decided "Forget it, add the first few boy bands you can find!" ;)

Namaste,
lisping HIBISCUS

[jebsib]

Don't kid yourself about not being hesitant with boy-bands. Radio programmers are ENORMOUSLY weary of that image. They really felt burned (by advertisers pulling back) after the last two boy-band bubbles. Traditionally what happens is that boy-bands get back into favor with radio via UN-boyband sounding tracks (Quit Playing Games with my Heart - a very acoustic sound that worked in the late 90s post grunge landscape); OneDirection's song sounds like Pink could have released it; The Wanted's song is undefined but slightly offbeat. What happens then is that the boy-bands take a hold on playlists, start to multiply (see O-Town and Five) and their material starts to skew a little younger, killing the trend. Top 40 likes to be hip, but not Tweeny.

Carly Rae is catchy, but is probably perceived by PDs as another teen girl act. We'll see if the scene changes.

Also, don't be fooled by the old "If its a huge iTunes hit, why isn't radio listening?" bit. Radio hasn't cared about sales for decades. They look at it as apples to oranges with what they do. Their format-specific research is much more precise.

[bornfearless2000]

Kelly will get that #1 radio airplay in the next few days.

Carrie, get that smash too !!

[HolidayGuy]

Mediabase 7-Day-Rolling Quick-Cut-Airplay Info, 3/17/12-3/23/12

1. ADELE - Set Fire To The Rain: 169.112 (- 2.692)
2. KELLY CLARKSON - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill ...: 162.122 (+ 0.600)
3. DAVID GUETTA - Turn Me On f/Nicki Minaj: 134.942 (- 0.558)
4. DRAKE - Take Care f/Rihanna: 118.479 (- 0.136)
5. KATY PERRY - Part Of Me: 103.673 (+ 0.994) ▲
6. RIHANNA - We Found Love f/Calvin Harris: 103.358 (- 1.157) ▼
7. THE WANTED - Glad You Came: 103.281 (+ 2.295)
8. FUN. - We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 97.983 (+ 4.800) ▲
9. GYM CLASS HEROES - Ass Back Home f/Neon Hitch: 97.186 (- 0.133) ▼
10. WIZ KHALIFA/SNOOP DOGG - Young, Wild & Free f/B. Mars: 95.322 (- 0.638) ▼
11. JESSIE J - Domino: 91.748 (- 1.167)
12. DRAKE - The Motto f/Lil Wayne: 89.569 (- 0.001)
13. FLO RIDA - Good Feeling: 87.452 (- 0.971)
14. PITBULL F/CHRIS BROWN - International Love: 86.003 (- 1.483)
15. BRUNO MARS - It Will Rain: 77.073 (- 1.155)
16. MAROON 5 F/CHRISTINA AGUILERA - Moves Like Jagger: 63.957 (- 0.287)
17. KATY PERRY - The One That Got Away: 61.197 (- 0.630)
18. NICKI MINAJ - Starships: 60.998 (+ 1.428)
19. CALVIN HARRIS - Feel So Close: 60.173 (+ 0.613)
20. JAKE OWEN - Alone With You: 58.574 (+ 0.509)

OTHERS
FLO RIDA - Wild Ones f/Sia: 57.630 (+ 1.076)
TAYLOR SWIFT - Ours: 57.479 (+ 0.271)
GAVIN DEGRAW - Not Over You: 55.700 (- 0.183)
TYGA - Rack City: 55.693 (- 0.316)
CHRIS BROWN - Turn Up The Music: 55.686 (- 0.078)
BLAKE SHELTON - Drink On It: 53.679 (+ 0.579)
ADELE - Someone Like You: 52.777 (+ 0.322)
TRAIN - Drive By: 52.327 (+ 0.334)
RIHANNA - Talk That Talk f/Jay-Z: 51.723 (- 0.209)
BEYONCE - Love On Top: 51.425 (+ 0.706)
GOTYE - Somebody That I Used To Know: 49.216 (+ 1.547)
RIHANNA - Birthday Cake: 44.673 (+ 1.382)
OUTASIGHT - Tonight Is The Night: 43.012 (+ 0.231)
USHER - Climax: 39.900 (+ 0.676)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Good Girl: 37.823 (+ 0.155)
B.O.B - So Good: 35.282 (+ 0.811)
CHRISTINA PERRI - A Thousand Years: 34.145
ADELE - Rumour Has It: 30.951 (+ 0.681)
ONE DIRECTION - What Makes You Beautiful: 30.323 (+ 1.009)
KARMIN - Broken Hearted: 25.202 (+ 0.132)
JASON MRAZ - I Won't Give Up: 17.795 (+ 0.139)
DEV & ENRIQUE IGLESIAS - Naked: 14.895 (+ 0.071)
HAVANA BROWN - We Run The Night f/Pitbull: 11.062 (+ 0.073)
COLDPLAY - Princess Of China: 10.772
JOHN MAYER - Shadow Days: 9.704 (- 0.127)
K'NAAN F/NELLY FURTADO - Is Anybody Out There?: 8.870
ELLIE GOULDING - Lights: 8.863
DEMI LOVATO - Give Your Heart A Break: 6.989
NEON TREES - Everybody Talks: 4.886
MICHEL TELO - Ai Se Eu Te Pego/If I Catch...: 0.537 (- 0.036)

[lugus15]

This is definitely ¨different times¨. If this had been pre 2008-9, then Drake's TK would be at the top and would have reached #1 in the Hot 100.

Such a shame, as that song is suave and beautiful.

[youngstunna07]

Mar 24, 2012 9:12:58 GMT -5 lugus15 said:

This is definitely ¨different times¨. If this had been pre 2008-9, then Drake's TK would be at the top and would have reached #1 in the Hot 100.

Such a shame, as that song is suave and beautiful.

Yeah it sucks that there's not much variety on the Hot 100's top songs anymore, now its completely dominated by Electro/ Dance Pop music, apart from Adele and Fun. 2009 is when Dance Music started to take over, before then there was a nice variety of songs hitting #1, R&B, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, Reggae. Hopefully music can get back there soon.

[kingofpain]

Pre-2009 and for the most part of the 2000's, you'd be lucky if ONE dance song made the Hot 100 in any capacity. Everything was mostly urban-based and most pop stars changed their sound to fit that. I'm so glad we are past that... That was a long 9 year stretch of BAD music.

[Deleted]

Pop radio plays mostly bad music regardless of the trends soo..

[Rodze]

There's a lot of variety.

Just because an urban song hasn't hit number one since "Black and Yellow" it doesn't mean many haven't crowded the top 10.

[bigb0882]

Get that #1 overall airplay, Kelly!!!

[crystalphnx]

as someone who started regularly following the Hot 100 in 2004 and who doesn't particularly care for most hip-hop/rap, I shudder to think what the Hot 100 (especially the top spot) would look like today if the trends of 2002-2005 were still going strong.

- Tyga - "Rack City" - 5 weeks at No. 1
- Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg ft. Bruno Mars - "Young, Wild, & Free" - 4 weeks at No. 1
- Drake ft. Rihanna - "Take Care" - 6 weeks at No. 1
- Usher - "Climax" - 8 weeks at No. 1
- 2012 American Idol Winner - "Coronation Song" - 1 week at No. 1
- Usher - "Climax" - 6 more weeks at No. 1

I'll take the likes of "We Are Young" and "What Doesn't Kill You" over gems like "Slow Motion" or "Lean Back" anyday.

[jgizzle89]

Mar 24, 2012 11:55:02 GMT -5 crystalphnx said:

as someone who started regularly following the Hot 100 in 2004 and who doesn't particularly care for most hip-hop/rap, I shudder to think what the Hot 100 (especially the top spot) would look like today if the trends of 2002-2005 were still going strong.

- Tyga - "Rack City" - 5 weeks at No. 1
- Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg ft. Bruno Mars - "Young, Wild, & Free" - 4 weeks at No. 1
- Drake ft. Rihanna - "Take Care" - 6 weeks at No. 1
- Usher - "Climax" - 8 weeks at No. 1
- 2012 American Idol Winner - "Coronation Song" - 1 week at No. 1
- Usher - "Climax" - 6 more weeks at No. 1

I'll take the likes of "We Are Young" and "What Doesn't Kill You" over gems like "Slow Motion" or "Lean Back" anyday.

let's not pretend like "We Are Young" is indicative IN ANY WAY of the current state of pop music. It's clearly an exceptional song, but a complete anomaly in today's pop market. Same goes for EVERYTHING Adele.

[Deleted]

BEYONCE - Love On Top: 51.425 (+ 0.706)

Yessssss! :) So happy to see this still gaining! Wish they would have at least tried this at pop though :(

[icefire9]

let's not pretend like "We Are Young" is indicative IN ANY WAY of the current state of pop music. It's clearly an exceptional song, but a complete anomaly in today's pop market. Same goes for EVERYTHING Adele.

That's a lot of anomalies. Adele, Pumped Up Kicks, Somebody I Used To Know, We Are Young...

Once is anomaly, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.

[Deleted]

There is a very clear trend, I agree. Refusing to acknowledge it just to complain about everything else in the pop market is silly.

[jebsib]

2002 - 2005 was the GREATEST period of NO VARIETY the Hot 100 has ever had in 54 years. The tsunami of Hip-Hop and r&b flavored songs in the top 40 was unrelenting. Even if you LOVE that format, you must see that too much of anything just gets stale.

I would have been interested to see if the Hip Hop stranglehold would have still happened if CD singles had been available the whole time for every song. Seems to me it was an airplay-audience kinda phenomenon.