Billboard Hot 100: 05/05/12

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Apr 26, 2012 11:10:30 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

96 NEW 1 Eyes Wide Open, Gotye 96
Looks like he'll be avoiding one-hit wonder status after all.

True at least he won't suffer the same fate of Daniel Powter

[singingsparrow]

Apr 26, 2012 15:43:04 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

Hey, 2m, I think Train went and drove off of your post. ;)

(sweeps scandal under the rug)

"What?!!! This was not a drive by!" (shifts eyes) ;)

Namaste,
lisping HIBISCUS

[HolidayGuy]

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/chart-moves-adele-s-rumour-rises-linkin-1006897152.story

The Billboard Hot 100
As previously reported, with digital sales of 493,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan, Maroon 5's "Payphone," featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa, roars onto the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 3 (marking the band's best bow on the tally). Thanks to its opening sales week, "Payphone," which enters Hot Digital Songs at No. 1, arrives with the highest digital sales frame by a group, topping the 465,000 sold by the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" (April 18, 2009).

Maroon 5's 'Payphone' Charges Onto Hot 100

Here's more of what else is moving up (and down) the Hot 100.

-- Adele: "Rumour Has It" rises 20-16 on the Hot 100 and reaches the top 10 on Hot 100 Airplay after the first three singles from "21" scaled the latter list's summit. Climbing 13-9 in its sixth week (70 million audience impressions, up 19%, according to Nielsen BDS), it ties "Someone Like You" for Adele's fastest flight to the chart's top 10.

-- Linkin Park: The group's "Burn It Down" storms Rock Songs at No. 2 (12 million first-week audience impressions on 119 stations), Rock Digital Songs at No. 4 (115,000 downloads sold) and the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 30. The song previews the band's fifth studio album, "Living Things," due June 26.

-- Mac Miller: From his mixtape "Macadelic," "Loud" bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 53. It starts on Hot Digital Songs at No. 17 (86,000, up 200%) following its first full week of digital availability.

-- Pitbull: "Back in Time," from the forthcoming film "Men in Black 3," soars 83-65 courtesy of a No. 54 re-entry on Hot Digital Songs (35,000, up 68%) and a No. 65 debut on Hot 100 Airplay (17 million, up 35%).

-- "Glee" Cast: After its Hot 100 launch last week at No. 26, the Fox TV group's cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" plummets to No. 77 (while the original remains at No. 1) with 67% drop to 51,000 downloads sold. No new "Glee" remakes enter the Hot 100 this week (leaving the troupe's total at an even 200 career entries); its top-seller from the April 17 disco-infused "Saturday Night Glee-ver" episode was its version of KC and the Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes" (18,000).

[ListenToItTwice]

Was this the first Glee episode ever to fail to send a song onto the chart since the widely-hated "Acafellas" in season 1?

Edit: I guess not. "Mattress" in season 1 didn't either. That makes 3 out of 60 that have failed to chart a song.

[HolidayGuy]

Glee Cast's rendition of "How Will I Know" was this week's best performer, so it should hit the chart next week. There are no others currently in the iTunes top 20, so, with streaming involved, others may be left in the cold. The next in line to debut would be "It's Not Right But It's Okay" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."

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If streaming cuts down on all those superfluous Glee debuts, is that necessarily a bad thing? ;)

[imbondz]

I didn't think i'd like the streaming influence, but I definitely do. Payphone is not a bigger song than Somebody That I Used To Know or We Are Young. So far it seems to be right on.

[bigb0882]

Apr 26, 2012 17:12:43 GMT -5 DJ General said:

Apr 26, 2012 15:37:03 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

Doubtful. "Eyes Wide Open" could be another big hit, but I don't think he has anything after that. It's not a very strong album, in my opinion.

Adele's first album didn't have it either. I'm talking about his next era.

I could say that about ANY artist. Their next album could be the biggest album in the history of music, their next album could sell 25 million copies in the US alone, their next album could...

[badrobot]

^I'd just like to note that I thoroughly LOVE the Gotye album but I would agree that it doesn't have obvious "singles" on it that are ultra-catchy. But then again, who would have said that Somebody That I Used to Know would be a smash #1 worldwide when it first came out? It's hard to tell.