Billboard Hot 100: 08/24/2013

[HolidayGuy]

Again, not much competition for "Cruel Summer" at the time. "Beautiful Life" had more competition when it charted.

"Beautiful Life" peaked at Nos. 11 sales and 21 airplay, so it did have a stronger overall performance on the two components than "Cruel Summer," despite peaking five spots lower on the Hot 100. Both logged 20 weeks on the chart- CS spent 14 weeks in the top 40 and BL 13 weeks.

[popstop]

1 3 Whistle - Flo Rida (1st week of 2 @ #1)
2 2 Lights - Ellie Goulding

I am still bitter about this.

[Az Paynter]

Flop Rida.

Oh yes, Robin had another million-plus audience gain today. At this rate he may well clear 300 mill. on Mediabase...

[jayhawk1117]

Top Ten Prediction
1.Blurred Lines(finally 10 weeks)
2.We Can't Stop
3.Radioactive
4.Holy Grail
5/6.Cups/Get Lucky
7.Safe and Sound
8.Clarity
9.Treasure
10.Same Love(I can hope)
16.Summertime Sadness
83.Roar

[Deleted]

Yes, "Blurred Lines" seems assured a 10th consecutive week on top.

The quiet before the storm...

[chartfreak]

From the Billboard article; "If any other major artists want to drop new hit singles, bring it on!"

Yeah right...will you play a hit song from a 54 year old?

[josh]

1. ROBIN THICKE – Blurred Lines f/Pharrell & T.I: 280.618 (+ 1.877)
2. IMAGINE DRAGONS – Radioactive: 152.959 (- 0.333)
3. MAROON 5 – Love Somebody: 151.371 (+ 0.088)
4. DAFT PUNK – Get Lucky: 146.737 (- 3.491)
5. BRUNO MARS – Treasure: 136.457 (+ 0.218)
6. ZEDD – Clarity f/Foxes: 124.455 (+ 0.844)
7. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Mirrors: 111.552 (- 1.778)
8. ANNA KENDRICK – Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When…: 111.397 (+ 0.580)
9. MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – Same Love f/Mary Lambert: 105.998 (+ 0.008)
10. CAPITAL CITIES – Safe And Sound: 101.666 (+ 1.085)
11. CALVIN HARRIS F/ELLIE GOULDING – I Need Your Love: 92.740 (+ 0.529)
12. JASON DERULO – The Other Side: 89.743 (- 1.101)
13. MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – Can’t Hold Us f/Ray Dalton: 83.031 (- 1.500)
14. PINK – Just Give Me A Reason: 76.054 (- 0.490)
15. JAY Z – Holy Grail f/Justin Timberlake: 73.473 (+ 2.630)
16. PHILLIP PHILLIPS – Gone, Gone, Gone: 71.710 (+ 0.715)
17. BRETT ELDREDGE – Don’t Ya: 66.104 (+ 0.437)
18. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Take Back The Night: 64.702 (+ 0.689) ▲
19. RANDY HOUSER – Runnin’ Outta Moonlight: 64.067 (- 0.961) ▼
20. HUNTER HAYES – I Want Crazy: 62.794 (- 1.067)

KEITH URBAN – Little Bit Of Everything: 59.915 (+ 0.330)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD – See You Again: 59.378 (+ 0.036)
MILEY CYRUS – We Can’t Stop: 58.923 (+ 0.285)
LANA DEL REY – Summertime Sadness: 53.466 (+ 1.927)
EASTON CORBIN – All Over The Road: 53.393 (+ 0.829)
KATY PERRY – Roar: 49.550 (+ 8.855)
FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE – Round Here: 48.611 (+ 0.765)
J. COLE – Crooked Smile f/TLC: 47.907 (+ 0.509)
KENNY CHESNEY – When I See This Bar: 35.802 (+ 0.158)
TAYLOR SWIFT – Everything Has …f/Ed Sheeran: 30.601 (+ 0.508)
PINK – True Love f/Lily Allen: 30.321 (+ 0.593)
DRAKE – Hold On We’re Going Home: 23.535 (- 9.317)
PARAMORE – Still Into You: 23.139 (+ 0.325)
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS – Turn The Night Up: 22.641 (- 0.041)
LADY GAGA – Applause: 19.918 (+5.175)
SHERYL CROW – Easy: 28.822
SARA BAREILLES – Brave: 26.258
LORDE – Royals: 22.341 (+ 0.824)
ONE DIRECTION – Best Song Ever: 22.079 (+ 0.127)
AVICII – Wake Me Up: 20.721 (+ 1.036)
ROBIN THICKE – Give It 2 U f/Kendrick Lamar: 14.648
MIRANDA LAMBERT – All Kinds of Kinds: 11.748
FLO RIDA – Can’t Believe It f/Pitbull: 9.583 (+ 0.727)
DEMI LOVATO – Made In The USA: 5.291
FIFTH HARMONY – Miss Movin’ On: 5.155
DANIELLE BRADBERY – The Heart Of Dixie: 3.616
SELENA GOMEZ – Slow Down: 2.016
ICONA POP – All Night: 1.265
FALL OUT BOY – Alone Together: 0.746
ELLIE GOULDING – Burn: 0.464

[The Upper Hand]

Thanks, josh <3

Gaga may not appear on the Hot 100 this week.

[Au$tin]

I was expecting a lot more for "Applause." Looks like it could settle for a Bubbling Under debut instead of a low Hot 100 debut. Katy, on the other hand, should be debuting somewhere in the low 70s-upper 80s.

[HolidayGuy]

Billboard.com:

THICKE HOLDS, JAY Z RISES ON DIGITAL SONGS CHART

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (featuring Pharrell and T.I.) holds at No. 1 for a tenth non-consecutive week, selling another 346,000 downloads (down 14%).

Jay Z's "Holy Grail" (featuring Justin Timberlake) rises 3-2 with 166,000 (up 2%), Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" falls 2-3 with 158,000 (down 10%) and Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" is steady at No. 4 with 132,000 (down 15%).

Anna Kendrick's "Cups" is a non-mover at No. 5 (114,000; up 4%), Avicii's "Wake Me Up!" jets 9-6 (113,000; up 13%) and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" (featuring Pharrell Williams) is stationary at No. 7 (just under 113,000; up 10%).

Drake's "Hold On, We're Going Home" is the chart's highest debut, as it starts at No. 8 with 109,000. The track features Canadian duo Majid Jordan and the latest preview single from Drake's upcoming studio album, "Nothing Was the Same."

Lana Del Rey's breakout single "Summertime Sadness" (with Cedric Gervais), zips into the top 10, rising 13-9 with 101,000 (up 24%). 64% of the song's overall sales this week come from the uptempo dance remix produced by Gervais. The song was originally recorded as a dreamy ballad for Del Rey's "Born to Die" album.

The track concurrently rises 22-17 on the Pop Songs airplay chart (known as Mainstream Top 40 on Billboard.biz) with a 47% gain in audience on top 40 radio.

Capital Cities' "Safe and Sound" closes the top 10, as it falls 8-10 with 99,000 (down 3%).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 22.10 million downloads, down 3% compared with last week (22.76 million) and down 8% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (24.03 million). Year to date track sales are at 820.24 million, down 3% compared to the same total at this point last year (845.43 million).

[chartfreak]

Nice to see Lana doing so well with that song!

[Rocky]

Wow. I would have never imagine Lana doing so well. Hope she can rack up at least another hit from BTD.

[The Upper Hand]

Aug 14, 2013 10:43:46 GMT -5 Rocky said:

Wow. I would have never imagine Lana doing so well. Hope she can rack up at least another hit from BTD.

Unfortunately, I doubt she'll manage to do it without another great remix.

[Rocky]

Aug 14, 2013 10:56:57 GMT -5 The Upper Hand said:

Aug 14, 2013 10:43:46 GMT -5 Rocky said:

Wow. I would have never imagine Lana doing so well. Hope she can rack up at least another hit from BTD.

Unfortunately, I doubt she'll manage to do it without another great remix.

I'm hoping for another great remix then. ;) Blue Jeans or National Anthem or even Dark Paradise anyone?

[RadioBeatz]

Where will "Same Love" land this week? :(

"Roar"! that update :o it should debut this week.

I think this is the first time Lana hits digital top 10, I don't like her that much but that remix is on fire. :)

[Au$tin]

Aug 14, 2013 11:10:33 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

I think this is the first time Lana hits digital top 10

I think she did it with "Young & Beautiful."

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

She did when the Great Gatsby came out.

[RadioBeatz]

Aug 14, 2013 11:13:25 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

Aug 14, 2013 11:10:33 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

I think this is the first time Lana hits digital top 10

I think she did it with "Young & Beautiful."

She did it? I really can't remember.

I thought Y&B was going to be her first legit hit but I guess The Great Gatsby just ran out of steam pretty fast. Anyway SS (remix) is superior imo. :)

[Enigma.]

Radio is quite slow with Wake Me Up.

DRAKE – Hold On We’re Going Home: 23.535 (- 9.317)
Whoa, did this have a deal too?

[The Upper Hand]

Kworb ‏on Twitter:
Looks like Roar will sell about 500k first week and Applause a little north of 200k (in the US)

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So I assume this week BL is selling around 315k, and Katy still has him down to 0,38 :o I would love a 600k debut for her, that could potentially be #1 if she keeps up the massive gains on airplay and streaming.

[Lozzy]

Aug 14, 2013 11:57:03 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Radio is quite slow with Wake Me Up.

I actually thought they'd be slower.

Aug 14, 2013 11:51:45 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

Aug 14, 2013 11:13:25 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

I think she did it with "Young & Beautiful."

She did it? I really can't remember.

I thought Y&B was going to be her first legit hit but I guess The Great Gatsby just ran out of steam pretty fast. Anyway SS (remix) is superior imo. :)

It made #9 here: www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4389867#p4389867 I don't think it went higher than that. I wish there was a proper archive of the digital chart somewhere

They never pushed it to radio properly. I prefer "Summertime Sadness" but I still think that was an odd decision. (Obviously it worked though.)

[popstop]

Pop Songs
*** No. 1 (6 weeks)*** "Blurred Lines" Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. + Pharrell
Debut No. 33 "Wake Me Up!" Avicii
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 34 "Roar" Katy Perry
Debut No. 40 "Closer" Tegan And Sara

Adult Contemporary
*** No. 1 (7 weeks)*** "Just Give Me A Reason" P!nk Featuring Nate Ruess
Greatest Gainer No. 10 "Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)" Anna Kendrick
Debut No. 25 "Safe And Sound" Capital Cities
Debut No. 28 "Best I Ever Had" Gavin DeGraw
Debut No. 30 "My Promise" Earth, Wind & Fire

Adult Pop Songs
*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Blurred Lines" Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. + Pharrell
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 38 "Roar" Katy Perry

Dance/Club Play Songs
*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Need U (100%)" Duke Dumont Featuring A*M*E
Greatest Gainer No. 6 "Wake Me Up!" Avicii
Debut No. 30 "Turn The Night Up" Enrique Iglesias
Debut No. 48 "Work" Iggy Azalea
Debut No. 49 "Replay" Zendaya
Debut No. 50 "Animals" Martin Garrix

R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
*** No. 1 (4 weeks)*** "Blurred Lines" Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. + Pharrell
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 37 "Hold On, We're Going Home" Drake Featuring Majid Jordan
Debut No. 46 "Get Like Me" Nelly Featuring Nicki Minaj & Pharrell
Debut No. 49 "Boomerang" Lyfe Jennings

Rap Airplay
** No. 1 (12 weeks)*** "Power Trip" J. Cole Featuring Miguel
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 16 "Hold On, We're Going Home" Drake Featuring Majid Jordan
Debut No. 24 "Get Like Me" Nelly Featuring Nicki Minaj & Pharrell

Rock Airplay
*** No. 1 (24 weeks)*** "Radioactive" Imagine Dragons
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 38 "Come A Little Closer" Cage The Elephant
Debut No. 40 "Wake Me Up" Avicii
Debut No. 43 "Pumpin Blood" NONONO
Debut No. 47 "Follow My Feet" The Unlikely Candidates
Debut No. 49 "17 Crimes" AFI

Alternative Songs
*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Royals" Lorde
Debut No. 32 "Hearts Like Ours" The Naked And Famous
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 35 "Come A Little Closer" Cage The Elephant
Debut No. 39 "Pumpin Blood" NONONO

Country Airplay
*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Don't Ya" Brett Eldredge
Greatest Gainer No. 21 "Mine Would Be You" Blake Shelton
Debut No. 57 "That Girl" Jennifer Nettles
Debut No. 60 "I Can't Change The World" Brad Paisley

Latin Airplay
*** No. 1 (13 weeks)*** "Vivir Mi Vida" Marc Anthony
Debut No. 43 "Mi Ultimo Deseo" Banda Los Recoditos
Debut No. 49 "Muchacho de Campo" Voz de Mando
Greatest Gainer "Cuando Estas De Buenas" Pesado

Regional Mexican Songs
*** No. 1 (6 weeks)*** "El Ruido de Tus Zapatos" La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacho
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 26 "Cuando Estas De Buenas" Pesado
Debut No. 31 "Nos Falto Hablar" Intocable
Debut No. 33 "Mezcla De Licor" Ramon Ayala y Sus Bravos del Norte
Debut No. 39 "Inolvidable" Solido

Latin Pop Songs
*** No. 1 (8 weeks)*** "Vivir Mi Vida" Marc Anthony
Greatest Gainer No. 2 "Darte Un Beso" Prince Royce
Debut No. 36 "Clarity" Zedd Featuring Foxes
Debut No. 40 "Para Celebrar" Sergio George Presents Salsa Giants

Tropical Songs
*** No. 1 (2 weeks)*** "Darte Un Beso" Prince Royce
Greatest Gainer No. 32 "Me Niegas" Baby Rasta & Gringo
Debut No. 40 "Me Vuelvo Loco" Jeyro

Christian Songs
*** No. 1 (13 weeks)*** "Hello, My Name Is" Matthew West
Greatest Gainer No. 13 "Build Your Kingdom Here" Rend Collective Experiment
Debut No. 49 "Speak Life" tobyMac
Debut No. 50 "Ready Or Not" Britt Nicole

Gospel Songs
*** No. 1 (3 weeks)*** "Every Praise" Hezekiah Walker
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 23 "Lovin' Me" Jonathan McReynolds

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Aug 14, 2013 11:51:45 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

Aug 14, 2013 11:13:25 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

I think she did it with "Young & Beautiful."

She did it? I really can't remember.

I thought Y&B was going to be her first legit hit but I guess The Great Gatsby just ran out of steam pretty fast. Anyway SS (remix) is superior imo. :)

Y&B hit #1 on iTunes if my memory serves me correctly.

[moore746]

Aug 14, 2013 12:07:28 GMT -5 The Upper Hand said:

Kworb ‏on Twitter:
Looks like Roar will sell about 500k first week and Applause a little north of 200k (in the US)

OUCH for Gaga if true.

[moore746]

Aug 14, 2013 12:50:35 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Aug 14, 2013 11:51:45 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

She did it? I really can't remember.

I thought Y&B was going to be her first legit hit but I guess The Great Gatsby just ran out of steam pretty fast. Anyway SS (remix) is superior imo. :)

Y&B hit #1 on iTunes if my memory serves me correctly.

Really? I'm pretty sure it didn't.

[Kris]

It should sell less, so much hype for a sub par song.

[jma]

Come on Burn! if it does end ups smashing, I hope it doesn't take a year like Lights haha

[Lozzy]

Aug 14, 2013 12:50:35 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Y&B hit #1 on iTunes if my memory serves me correctly.

No

Aug 6, 2013 13:04:16 GMT -5 Lozzy said:

Aug 6, 2013 12:51:59 GMT -5 Codex said:

#9 on iTunes combined, almost #8. How high did Y&B get? Somewhere around this mark right?

#7

[Enigma.]

Aug 14, 2013 13:03:42 GMT -5 jma said:

Come on Burn! if it does end ups smashing, I hope it doesn't take a year like Lights haha

I think that ship is sailing by, sadly.

Country Airplay
*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Don't Ya" Brett Eldredge
Great start for his career!