Billboard Hot 100: 04/06/2013

[trumandare]

MUSE – Madness: 39.888 (+ 0.231)

remarkable !

madness should apply for a pension, so old but still gaining

other songs from the album like panic station have no chance to become hits

[Deleted]

nice to see thrift shop is gaining in airplay

[badrobot]

I wonder how much rage we would've seen on here when Macarena was #1 for 14 weeks. There would've probably been even more viral YouTube videos than Harlem Shake if the internet culture had been the same back then.

[Quixotic Music Lover]

Mar 27, 2013 11:02:05 GMT -5 trumandare said:

MUSE – Madness: 39.888 (+ 0.231)

remarkable !

madness should apply for a pension, so old but still gaining

other songs from the album like panic station have no chance to become hits

I understand from BB that "Madness" is being played during the NCAA basketball tournamant that wraps up April 6th. That is undoubtedly helping digital sales.

[Deleted]

I completely agree. Harlem Shake deserved its first 2 weeks at number one, but after that Thrift Shop should have taken it back.

[irice22]

Under no circumstances should 30 seconds of a song be counted on the Hot 100.

Should we start counting Muse's audience impressions for the clips "Madness" being played during March Madness? Nope. Didn't think so.

[Spidey]

Mar 27, 2013 14:09:50 GMT -5 Codex said:

I completely agree. Harlem Shake deserved its first 2 weeks at number one, but after that Thrift Shop should have taken it back.

I agree. "Harlem Shake" was huge the first two weeks of its number-one reign. Now, no one really talks about it anymore or simply finds it annoying. "Thrift Shop" is the biggest song in the country right now.

[Deleted]

Mar 27, 2013 14:16:33 GMT -5 irice22 said:

Under no circumstances should 30 seconds of a song be counted on the Hot 100.

Should we start counting Muse's audience impressions for the clips "Madness" being played during March Madness? Nope. Didn't think so.

If the 30 second clips only counted for 1/6th of a view, it still would have been #1. If I'm not mistaken

Mar 27, 2013 14:16:33 GMT -5 irice22 said:

Should we start counting Muse's audience impressions for the clips "Madness" being played during March Madness? Nope. Didn't think so.

Wouldn't that count as a commercial? Not the same since it's 100% forced on people, but honestly I'd have no problem with it counting a bit.

[Quixotic Music Lover]

Mar 27, 2013 13:14:08 GMT -5 badrobot said:

I wonder how much rage we would've seen on here when Macarena was #1 for 14 weeks. There would've probably been even more viral YouTube videos than Harlem Shake if the internet culture had been the same back then.

Very little rage, but maybe frustration. "The Macarena" was #1 for 14 weeks due to massive sales, unlike the current pretender at #1. If Youtube was around in 1996 it might have spent 20+ weeks at #1, but the 14 weeks would still have been a lock even without Youtube streaming.

[jebsib]

At least Macarena was a top 10 airplay hit. It felt ubiquitous at the time. This disappeared after three intense weeks.

[brucelover]

"Gone, Gone, Gone" should be a hit, radio better start spinning it more.

[RadioBeatz]

This week was supposed to be "Thrift Shop" 10th week at #1, tying "We Found Love" as the longest running number one single this decade so far, such a shame.

"Thrift Shop" had massive sales and huge airplay but it was blocked miserably, while TS is heading toward 6 or 7 million in sales (and tops the 5 million mark this week!) I doubt "Harlem Shake" will even top the 3 milli mark. :(

[Quixotic Music Lover]

Mar 27, 2013 14:47:38 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

This week was supposed to be "Thrift Shop" 10th week at #1, tying "We Found Love" as the longest running number one single this decade so far, such a shame.

"Thrift Shop" had massive sales and huge airplay but it was blocked miserably, while TS is heading toward 6 or 7 million in sales (and tops the 5 million mark this week!) I doubt "Harlem Shake" will even top the 3 milli mark. :(

After this week HS is at about 1.261M in downloads, so it will likely struggle to get to 2M by the end of the year at the rate it is dropping (over 20% again this week).

[Au$tin]

Mar 27, 2013 13:14:08 GMT -5 badrobot said:

I wonder how much rage we would've seen on here when Macarena was #1 for 14 weeks. There would've probably been even more viral YouTube videos than Harlem Shake if the internet culture had been the same back then.

Honestly, it would probably be less. Why? Because the "Macarena" was a HUGE hit. Not just a novelty song. I mean, really, we still know all the... mumblings(?) to "Macarena" and the dance is definitely fused into my mind even though I was one-year old when the song came out. It's a dance staple for my genration along with the likes of YMCA, Cotton Eye Joe, Achy Breaky Heart, Cupid Shuffle, Cha Cha Slide, and newly additioned Call Me Maybe* and Gangnam Style. Harlem Shake, on the other hand, just doesn't feel the same. I feel like, in the same 18 year span, "Harlem Shake" won't be remembered like the other dance hits that were huge.

*The Harvard Baseball Team's arm dances.

[RadioBeatz]

Mar 27, 2013 14:59:35 GMT -5 Quixotic Music Lover said:

Mar 27, 2013 14:47:38 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

This week was supposed to be "Thrift Shop" 10th week at #1, tying "We Found Love" as the longest running number one single this decade so far, such a shame.

"Thrift Shop" had massive sales and huge airplay but it was blocked miserably, while TS is heading toward 6 or 7 million in sales (and tops the 5 million mark this week!) I doubt "Harlem Shake" will even top the 3 milli mark. :(

After this week HS is at about 1.261M in downloads, so it will likely struggle to get to 2M by the end of the year at the rate it is dropping (over 20% again this week).

Yeah, it will be a long running #1 (5 weeks so far) with the lowest digital sales.

Born This Way (6 weeks) burnt out fast on the radio but it ended up selling almost 4 million and Rude Boy (5 weeks) I think it's at 2.9 million?

"Harlem Shake" was a viral hit no doubt but it's so unfair it spent so many weeks at #1 while "Thrift Shop" a MEGA hit a la "Call Me Maybe", "Somebody That I Used To Know", "only" 4 weeks, that's what bothers me but whatever I guess.

[crystalphnx]

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Return To Top Of Hot 100[/u]

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop," featuring Wanz, returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth cumulative week, narrowly edging out Baauer's "Harlem Shake" after the latter song led the past five weeks. While both songs register declines in overall weekly chart points, another week of decreasing viral momentum for "Shake" helps enable "Shop" to lead again.

"Shop" revisits the Hot 100's top rank despite dipping 1-2 on both the Nielsen BDS-based Radio Songs and Nielsen SoundScan-based Digital Songs charts. It decreases by 1% to 118 million audience impressions, departing the Radio Songs summit after two weeks on top, and by 13% to 234,000 downloads sold, falling from the top of Digital Songs after 10 weeks in charge. Still, "Shop" passes five million in digital sales since its release.

"Shop" holds at No. 2 on Streaming Songs for a sixth week (after dominating for four) with 9.4 million streams (down 1%), according to BDS. It logs another No. 2 placement on On-Demand Songs, dropping to No. 2 after a record 11 weeks at No. 1 (1.8 million, down 8%). (On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, it leads for an 11th week.)

"Shop" shoots back to the Hot 100's pinnacle despite its across-the-board weakening due largely to continued losses in streaming for Baauer's "Shake," which entered the Hot 100 at No. 1 concurrent with the addition of U.S. YouTube video streaming data five weeks ago. The viral smash registers a fifth consecutive week of declines in YouTube streaming, posting a 30% decrease to 20 million streams. That's down from 28 million last week and 48 million the week before. At its peak, it registered 103 million upon its Hot 100 debut. "Shake" also slides precipitously in on-demand audio streaming, plummeting 19-30 on the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart with a 20% loss to 590,000 streams.

"Shake" slides by 22% to 114,000 downloads sold, holding at No. 6 on the Digital Songs chart. Its total radio audience softens by a hefty 28% to 5.2 million; it's yet to have reached the 75-position-deep all-format Radio Songs chart. ("Shake" does rule Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a sixth week.)

In reclaiming the Hot 100's top spot, "Shop" decreases by 6% in overall chart points, while "Shake" drops by 28%. Just two weeks ago, "Shake" held a two-to-one points lead (103%) over "Shop," while the margin had shrunk to 29% last week.

Notably, the five-week gap between "Shop" topping the Hot 100 marks the longest in the Hot 100's 54-year history for a song in one chart run (and is understandable, given the fast-rising/fast-burning viral nature of "Shake"). Only Chubby Checker's "The Twist" had a longer break between reigns (between September 1960 and January 1962), but that was over two separate chart lives. Among single chart runs, four weeks represented the prior longest break; Nickelback interrupted Usher's total six-week command for four frames with "How You Remind Me" in 2001-02, while R. Kelly's "Bump N' Grind" similarly broke up Ace of Base's six-week rule with "The Sign" in 1994.

As he debuts atop the Billboard 200 with "The 20/20 Experience," Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie," featuring Jay-Z, reaches a new Hot 100 peak, lifting 4-3. Following the buzz surrounding the set's release, the song roars 6-1 on On-Demand Songs (1.9 million, up 79%). Follow-up single "Mirrors" concurrently rockets to a new peak (25-13) as the Hot 100's top Streaming Gainer; it enters Streaming Songs at No. 15 (2.4 million, up 162%).

Bruno Mars' "When I Was Your Man" (3-4) claims the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a record-tying seventh consecutive week. It ties Rihanna's "Rude Boy" (2010), T-Pain's "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')," featuring Yung Joc (2007), and Beyonce's "Baby Boy," featuring Sean Paul (2003), for the longest streak dating to the award's 1985 launch. "Man" concurrently becomes Mars' fifth No. 1 on Radio Songs (2-1; 132 million, up 15%). Among men, Mars ties 50 Cent and trails only Usher (seven No. 1s), Ludacris and Kanye West (six) since the chart's 1990 start. (Among all acts, Mariah Carey leads with 11 Radio Songs No. 1s.)

Rihanna's "Stay," featuring Mikky Ekko, remains at No. 5 on the Hot 100 and flies 11-6 on Radio Songs (81 million, up 14%). Now with 22 Radio Songs top 10s, she trails only Carey (23) for the most in the tally's archives.

P!nk's "Just Give Me a Reason," featuring fun.'s Nate Ruess, jumps 9-6 on the Hot 100 and, as the top Digital Gainer, becomes her third Digital Songs No. 1 (5-1; 241,000, up 42%). She previously led with 2008's "So What" and 2011's "F**kin' Perfect." (Ruess reigned on Digital Songs for seven weeks last year with fun.'s "We Are Young," featuring Janelle Monae). "Reason" blasts 19-12 on Streaming Songs (2.8 million, up 34%) and 31-18 on Radio Songs (49 million, up 43%).

Drake's "Started From the Bottom" retreats 6-7 on the Hot 100, while Pitbull's "Feel This Moment," featuring Christina Aguilera, enters the top 10 with an 11-8 climb. The move grants Pitbull his eighth Hot 100 top 10 and Aguilera her 10th. (As "Moment" samples a-ha's 1985 No. 1 "Take on Me," it also returns the now-defunct Norwegian trio's members to the top tier as writers for the first time since Nov. 9, 1985, the original's last week in the top 10.) "Moment" rises 7-5 on Digital Songs (138,000, up 1%), 13-12 on Radio Songs (67 million, up 10%) and 40-21 on Streaming Songs (2.1 million, up 43%) following the first full week of availability for its official video.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Lil Wayne's "Love Me," featuring Drake and Future, returns to its peak (10-9) and Taylor Swift's former No. 2 hit "I Knew You Were Trouble." drops 7-10. Swift's follow-up pop single "22," meanwhile, vaults 64-26 on the Hot 100, fueled heavily by the premiere of its official video on March 13; it enters Streaming Songs at No. 13 (her lucky number) with 2.7 million streams.

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/1554540/macklemore-ryan-lewis-return-to-top-of-hot-100

[areyoureadytojump]

^YES!

[josh]

Bye bye Scream & Shit.

[RadioBeatz]

YASSSSSSSSSS! :'( This is f**king awesome!

So 5 (neverending) weeks for "Harlem Shake" and 5 weeks for "Thrift Shop", still unfair, but this is good. "When I Was Your Man" may take over next week.

[velaxti]

Is Thrift Shop the first song since streaming was added that got #1 without being #1 on any of the three main components in that week (Thrift Shop is #2 on all three this week)? I can't think of any others, unless something like Whistle managed it?

[Rocky]

Mar 27, 2013 15:09:31 GMT -5 crystalphnx said:

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Return To Top Of Hot 100

[/u]

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop," featuring Wanz, returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth cumulative week, narrowly edging out Baauer's "Harlem Shake" after the latter song led the past five weeks. [/quote]

Why not earlier?

[Duca]

Justin scores his eighth top 3 hit as well as his nineteenth top 20. :)

[Deleted]

Sweet new peak's for Suit & Tie and Mirrors.

[RadioBeatz]

This was a very interesting "shake-up" week:

1. "Thrift Shop" returns to #1 on the Hot 100 after a 5 week break.
2. "When I Was Your Man" tops Radio Songs
3. "Suit & Tie" tops On-Demand Songs
4. "Daylight" tops Pop Songs
5. "Just Give Me A Reason" tops digital songs
6. Britney, Xtina and JT won't be together in the top 10 at the same time. while horrendous "Love Me" is there.
7. "Harlem Shake" is FINALLY out of the top spot after 5 frustrating weeks.

[Deleted]

Notably, the five-week gap between "Shop" topping the Hot 100 marks the longest in the Hot 100's 54-year history for a song in one chart run (and is understandable, given the fast-rising/fast-burning viral nature of "Shake"). Only Chubby Checker's "The Twist" had a longer break between reigns (between September 1960 and January 1962), but that was over two separate chart lives. Among single chart runs, four weeks represented the prior longest break; Nickelback interrupted Usher's total six-week command for four frames with "How You Remind Me" in 2001-02, while R. Kelly's "Bump N' Grind" similarly broke up Ace of Base's six-week rule with "The Sign" in 1994.

[Quixotic Music Lover]

Billboard was not very generous with its' information this week, so I can only do an estimate on the top 2.

"Thrift Shop" ~ 63,233
"Harlem Shake" ~ 61,568 (79% of points from passive streaming).

"Suit & Tie" managed to squeeze into the #3 spot despite a plummet in sales. On-demand streaming increased by 79% (about 840,000) which equates to about 4,200 chart points by my guesstimates.

The next few weeks will be lots of fun for chart watchers as four pop superstars try to dislodge one of the biggest hits of the decade (I suspect it will not go down without a fight based on the ITunes pop bars and the streaming #s).

[Deleted]

The 5 week gap over a single chart run is a record

[RadioBeatz]

"Just Give Me A Reason" blasts 19-12 on Streaming Songs (2.8 million, up 34%) and 31-18 on Radio Songs (49 million, up 43%).

A P!nk song doing well on streaming????? WUT?? :o this is great news, with big digital and radio support and streaming I think JGMAR has a shot at #1.

[velaxti]

Mar 27, 2013 15:41:56 GMT -5 @2m said:

The 5 week gap over a single chart run is a record

I Knew You Were Trouble could've broken that record hugely if it was still just sales + airplay. It would've debuted at #1 the week it was released as a promo single, and returned to #1 months later, around Christmas!!

What's My Name? was close to having a massive gap between #1 runs too. It re-climbed all the way to #2, but got blocked by Firework I think.

Mar 27, 2013 15:51:52 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

"Just Give Me A Reason" blasts 19-12 on Streaming Songs (2.8 million, up 34%) and 31-18 on Radio Songs (49 million, up 43%).

A P!nk song doing well on streaming????? WUT?? :o this is great news, with big digital and radio support and streaming I think JGMAR has a shot at #1.

fun. are huge On-Demand streaming forces, so that's probably helping a bit. I'm glad though, it's my favourite Pink song in absolutely ages.

[hitseeker.]

Yesss, finally!!!