Billboard Hot 100: 12/1/12

[Stefan85]

Mariah Carey: 18
Madonna and Rihanna: 12
Whitney Houston: 11
Janet Jackson: 10.

The Black Madonna :'(

[Taylor.]

I don't really care for Diamonds all that much but it's nice to see a new song at #1.

[Deleted]

I know men don't count as much on Pulse, but:

The Beatles: 20, and still the record after 42 years.
Elvis Presley: 17
Michael Jackson: 13

[p0isonparadise.]

Nov 21, 2012 9:42:55 GMT -5 Stefan85 said:

Mariah Carey: 18
Madonna and Rihanna: 12
Whitney Houston: 11
Janet Jackson: 10.

The Black Madonna :'(

She wishes.

[areyoureadytojump]

Nov 21, 2012 9:05:23 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Nov 21, 2012 8:42:58 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Well, those other version of "All I Want..." will get airplay, so she's still "competing"- though it's not really a competition, as her version will get a lot more airplay.

manuaway- I look at the days as compared to when Thanksgiving hit, not the exact date.But it's very possible that with the larger gap between T-giving and Christmas, it will make up the difference.

how about those new Billboard rules where old songs can chart?

I doubt Billboard would allow all these old Christmas songs to re-enter each Christmas. Boring.

[Deleted]

Anything generating enough interest to go top 50 would do it.

[pnobelysk]

Nov 21, 2012 8:22:34 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Yes!! Her 12th #1!!!!!! Without listening to the album is depth what other song on the album could go #1?

right now

[Au$tin]

I don't think Billboard will let Christmas songs re-enter. (Besides, it'll pretty much be the same two-three songs every year.) They've always had a strict and separate policy for Christmas songs, and I can't imagine them changing that now.

Having first led the Hot 100 the week of May 13, 2006, with "SOS," Rihanna passes Carey as the female artist to reach 12 No. 1s the fastest.

...because there have been so many female artists to do so?

[areyoureadytojump]

Most #1s On The Billboard Hot 100

20 The Beatles
18 Mariah Carey
17 Elvis Presley
13 Michael Jackson
12 The Supremes
12 Madonna
12 Rihanna *new*
11 Whitney Houston
10 Stevie Wonder
10 Janet Jackson

[Lockheart]

Diamonds is her best #1 single. So glad to see it at #1.

[Peaches. [Ch, r. is]]

Nov 21, 2012 10:16:44 GMT -5 @2m said:

Anything generating enough interest to go top 50 would do it.

I could've sworn Billboard made it clear that holiday songs are an exception to this rule?

[HolidayGuy]

^We'll soon find out, I suspect (as early as later this week).

[HolidayGuy]

Billboard.com:
Over on the Digital Songs chart, Rihanna's "Diamonds" rises 3-1 for its first week at the top, selling 171,000 (up 19%). PSY's "Gangnam Style" slips 1-2 with 161,000 (down 14%) and Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" dips 2-3 with 148,000 (down 5%).

Ke$ha's "Die Young" is steady at No. 4 (133,000; down 4%), the Lumineers' "Ho Hey" rises 8-5 (121,000; up 20%) and Adele's "Skyfall" sizzles 10-6 (120,000; up 32%).

Maroon 5's "One More Night" falls 5-7 (119,000; down 5%), Flo Rida's "I Cry" descends 7-8 (105,000; down 2%) and Phillip Phillips' "Home" holds at No. 9 (103,000; up 6%).

Rounding out the top 10 is a new entry at No. 10 from One Direction, who sees its "Little Things" start with 91,000. It's the second single from the group's No. 1 album "Take Me Home."

Digital track sales this past week totaled 22.03 million downloads, up 3% compared with last week (21.32 million) and up 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2011 (21.73 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 1.162 billion, up 6% compared with the same total at this point last year (1.100 billion).

[Au$tin]

Adele sizzled.

[HolidayGuy]

Only Ms. Adkins could score those kinds of sales with a traditional-sounding Bond theme these days.

[cesarams]

Predictions:
1- Diamonds
2- One More Night
3- Die Young
4- Locked Out of Heaven
5- Some Nights
6- Gangnam Style
7- Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)
8- Ho Hey
9- We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
10- I Cry

[cesarams]

As previously reported, Rihanna's "Diamonds" rises 2-1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song replaces Maroon 5's "One More Night" (1-2) atop the list after a nine-week reign.

With her 12th Hot 100 topper, Rihanna ascends higher into rarefied historical chart air, as she ties Madonna and the Supremes for the fourth-most leaders in the ranking's 54-year history. Only the Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (18) and Michael Jackson (13) have sent more titles to the top.


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"Diamonds" darts to the penthouse courtesy of gains on all three of the Hot 100's component charts. It becomes Rihanna's record-extending 12th No. 1 on Digital Songs, where it climbs 3-1 with a 19% increase to 171,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan (and passes 1 million downloads sold to date). The song logs a second week atop On-Demand Songs (1.05 million on-demand streams, according to Nielsen BDS), good for top Streaming Gainer honors on the Hot 100, and pushes 4-2 on Radio Songs with 115 million all-format audience impressions (up 17%), according to BDS.

"Diamonds" (atop R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a seventh week) wins a fairly close race to No. 1 on the Hot 100, toppling "Night" by approximately 2,000 chart points. "Diamonds" gains by a robust 17% in overall points, while "Night" deflates by less than 1%.

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After its nine-week reign, tying it with Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" for the year's longest Hot 100 command, "Night" drops to No. 2 despite logging a seventh week atop Radio Songs. The cut passes three titles that each spent six weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs this year (Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain," fun.'s "We Are Young," featuring Janelle Monae, and Maroon 5's own "Payphone," featuring Wiz Khalifa) to nab the list's longest rule since (guess who ...) Rihanna led for 12 weeks (Dec. 5, 2011-Feb. 18, 2012) with "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris. "Night" maintains its No. 1 perch on Radio Songs with 139 million in audience (down 2%). It holds at No. 4 on On-Demand Songs (822,000, down 9%) and slides 5-7 on Digital Songs (119,000, down 5%).

Ke$ha's "Die Young" follows closely behind "Diamonds" and "Night" on the Hot 100, notching a second straight week at No. 3. It earns the chart's top Airplay Gainer ribbon for a second consecutive week, pushing 7-5 on Radio Songs (105 million, up 23%), while remaining at No. 2 on On-Demand Songs (906,000, up 1%) and No. 4 on Digital Songs (133,000, down 4%).

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Bruno Mars collects his eighth top five Hot 100 hit, as "Locked Out of Heaven" lifts 6-4. It climbs 11-7 (88 million, up 18%) on Radio Songs, marking his ninth consecutive career-opening top 10, extending his record among men. Mariah Carey boasts the longest career-starting streak of top 10s in the radio ranking's 22-year history, having banked 12 in a row in 1990-94.

fun.'s "Some Nights" falls 4-5 on the Hot 100, followed by Ne-Yo's "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" (8-6) and PSY's former seven-week No. 2 hit "Gangnam Style" (5-7).

Folk-rock trio the Lumineers post the Hot 100's lone new top 10 entry, as "Ho Hey" bounds 13-8 in its 24th week. After topping the adult alternative Triple A airplay tally for eight weeks beginning in June and crowning Rock Songs and Alternative Songs starting in September, the song reaches the Hot 100's top tier at last, fueled by across-the-board gains on Digital Songs (8-5; 121,000, up 20%), On-Demand Songs (7-5; 799,000, up 9%) and Radio Songs (25-15; 55 million, up 23%).



Taylor Swift's former three-week No. 1 "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (7-9) and Flo Rida's "I Cry" (10-10) round out the Hot 100's top 10.

Check Billboard.com tomorrow (Happy Thanksgiving!), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 and On-Demand Songs in their entirety and Digital Songs and Radio Songs, will be refreshed, as they are each Thursday.

[moore746]

Diamonds is charting three different times in the iTunes top 100 (single, Unapologetic Deluxe Edition, remix f/ Kanye West). That doesn't even include sales from the standard edition of Unapologetic. This makes it the #2 seller on iTunes by a comfortable margin (a The Voice performance is #1).

This song is basically guaranteed at least one more week at the top.

[moore746]

Nov 21, 2012 8:22:34 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Yes!! Her 12th #1!!!!!! Without listening to the album is depth what other song on the album could go #1?

Unapologetic is an improvement from Talk That Talk (although nothing will ever touch We Found Love), and might even be on-par with Loud (I need more time to listen to it). I heard three potential #1s on the album, all incredibly strong albeit very different songs in their own rights:

Jump (feat. Kanye West (uncredited))
Nobody's Business (feat. Chris Brown) - this is a song that would do Michael Jackson proud
Stay (feat. Mikky Ekko)

[Deleted]

What's with all these 20 week old songs exploding this year? Does this happen every year?

[Au$tin]

Nov 21, 2012 11:48:21 GMT -5 Codex said:

What's with all these 20 week old songs exploding this year? Does this happen every year?

No. It's just that this year a lot of the big named artists went on hiatus, leaving radio to wonder what in the world they were going to fill their playlists up with. It peaked mainly in the summer with almost no big named artists releasing music, songs like "Lights," "Everybody Talks," and others were picked up to fill the holes, and they just slowly gained until they caught on. "Ho Hey" is in the same predicament right now.

It's great, though, as it's bringing a lot of diversity to the charts, and it has helped these artists get a stronger fanbase and could possibly help them become regulars on radio.

[#LisaRinna]

The fact that this song is #1 on the R&B chart for a 7th week bothers me way more than the fact it's her 12th Hot 100 #1.

[irice22]

I hope "Die Young" doesn't get Bad Romance'd, or Payphone'd, or Gangman Style'd.

[Au$tin]

Nov 21, 2012 13:19:43 GMT -5 irice22 said:

I hope "Die Young" doesn't get Bad Romance'd, or Payphone'd, or Gangman Style'd.

It will. "Diamonds" is just going to be too strong for "Die Young" to surpass it.

[fridayteenage]

So far that makes...one #1 for Rihanna that had any creative input from her.

[Au$tin]

Nov 21, 2012 15:07:06 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

So far that makes...one #1 for Rihanna that had any creative input from her.

...okay...

[fridayteenage]

Rude Boy Writer(s) Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Ester Dean, Makeba Riddick, Rob Swire, Robyn Fenty

[Au$tin]

Cool?

[Lozzy]

So how many #1's does Taylor have on the Songs With Creative Input Hot 100?

[Au$tin]

Nov 21, 2012 15:13:13 GMT -5 Lozzy said:

So how many #1's does Taylor have on the Songs With Creative Input Hot 100?

One. Hey, looky there, she's tied with Rihanna!

Though, one can have creative input on a song without being a writer/producer/mixer/instrument player/etc on it.