Billboard Hot 100: 10/12/2013

[imbondz]

Ritd is one of the best pop songs in a long time IMO. STIUTK is an insanely good song totally out of left field. We Are Young is catchy and good.

Royals doesn't fit with any of those. Buuuut could grow on me but I don't relate to it. Royals like the Royal Family? Huh?

[HolidayGuy]

^She said of the track:

thediplomat.com/asia-life/2013/05/nz-music-sensation-lorde-releases-first-music-video-for-royals/

Of the “Royals” in particular, Lorde said, “When I wrote Royals, I was listening to a lot of rap, but also a lot of Lana Del Rey, because she’s obviously really hip-hop influenced, but all those references to expensive alcohol, beautiful clothes and beautiful cars – I was thinking, ‘This is so opulent, but it’s also bulls**t.’”

And:

www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-09-03/vh1-you-oughta-know-lorde/

[KeepDeanWeird]

RITD - "mellow"? Surely that's a joke. Now SLY, which I found incredibly tedious, yes, but not RITD.

[jayhawk1117]

Sept 27, 2013 13:47:24 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Ritd is one of the best pop songs in a long time IMO. STIUTK is an insanely good song totally out of left field. We Are Young is catchy and good.

Royals doesn't fit with any of those. Buuuut could grow on me but I don't relate to it. Royals like the Royal Family? Huh?

Royals is about how alot of popular songs talk about things their fans can't relate to it so she wrote a really successful song

[Rocky]

1. KATY PERRY – Roar: 208.034 (+ 1.703)
2. ROBIN THICKE – Blurred Lines f/Pharrell & T.I: 180.127 (- 2.772)
3. JAY Z – Holy Grail f/Justin Timberlake: 162.495 (+ 2.120)
4. CAPITAL CITIES – Safe And Sound: 143.920 (- 1.565)
5. DRAKE – Hold On We’re Going Home: 142.340 (+ 2.797)
6. LORDE – Royals: 138.735 (+ 4.638)
7. AVICII – Wake Me Up: 130.017 (+ 2.750)
8. LANA DEL REY – Summertime Sadness: 122.964 (+ 0.977)
9. LADY GAGA – Applause: 96.398 (+ 1.677)
10. MAROON 5 – Love Somebody: 88.405 (- 1.278)
11. ZEDD – Clarity f/Foxes: 85.099 (- 1.052)
12. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Mirrors: 81.581 (+ 0.175) ▲
13. IMAGINE DRAGONS – Radioactive: 80.394 (- 1.090) ▼
14. J. COLE – Crooked Smile f/TLC: 74.690 (- 0.137)
15. DAFT PUNK – Get Lucky: 69.692 (- 0.777) ▲
16. MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – Same Love f/Mary Lambert: 69.049 (- 1.732) ▼
17. JASON ALDEAN – Night Train: 67.303 (+ 0.347) ▲
18. PHILLIP PHILLIPS – Gone, Gone, Gone: 66.668 (- 0.372)
19. ANNA KENDRICK – Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When…: 66.205 (- 0.839) ▼
20. BRUNO MARS – Treasure: 65.759 (- 0.726)

BILLY CURRINGTON – Hey Girl: 61.540 (- 0.242)
THOMAS RHETT – It Goes Like This: 59.779 (+ 0.611)
LUKE BRYAN – That’s My Kind Of Night: 59.451 (+ 0.494)
MILEY CYRUS – Wrecking Ball: 53.333 (+ 2.212)
PARAMORE – Still Into You: 52.624 (+ 0.841)
TAYLOR SWIFT – Everything Has …f/Ed Sheeran: 50.842 (+ 0.351)
ROBIN THICKE – Give It 2 U f/Kendrick Lamar: 49.233 (+ 0.770)
PINK – True Love f/Lily Allen: 45.247 (+ 0.773)
BRUNO MARS – Gorilla: 45.221 (+ 1.526)
CHRIS BROWN – Love More f/Nicki Minaj: 44.606 (+ 0.627)
BLAKE SHELTON – Mine Would Be You: 40.665 (+ 0.817)
EMINEM – Berzerk: 38.561 (+ 0.335)
IMAGINE DRAGONS – Demons: 35.121 (+ 1.451)
SELENA GOMEZ – Slow Down: 32.559 (+ 0.562)
KEITH URBAN & MIRANDA LAMBERT – We Were Us: 28.792 (+ 1.157)
BRITNEY SPEARS – Work Bitch: 28.598 (+ 1.094)
ONEREPUBLIC – Counting Stars: 25.991 (+ 0.461)
PASSENGER – Let Her Go: 21.876 (+ 0.502)
TEGAN & SARA – Closer: 20.309 (- 0.139)
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – White Walls f/ScHoolboy Q: 17.603 (+ 0.510)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – TKO: 15.518 (+ 0.715)
ARIANA GRANDE – Right There f/Big Sean: 13.001 (+ 0.642)
BASTILLE – Pompeii: 10.395 (+ 0.140)
RIHANNA – What Now: 5.988 (+ 0.754)
KILLERS – Shot At The Night: 2.288 (+ 0.139)
CALVIN HARRIS – Thinking About You: 1.34

Miley going top 20 in a few days, Gags passing 100M slowly. Ms. Perry, stahp. :'(

[Duca]

Mirrors will go back to the top 10 by Wednesday, coming for its 30th week in the top 25 on the Hot 100 next week: 24-76-97-77-25-13-11-12-7-7-5-3-3-3-3-2-4-5-7-7-7-9-10-11-14-13-20-21-19-21-20-22

It will be a classic. :'(

A shame he didn't really bother to promote it because one big performance would have sent it to the top.

[Enigma.]

It'll probably be the only big hit from this 20/20 era

(I know S&T was a hit but pretty much shaded by Mirrors)

[SPRΞΞ]

Miley needs to be green. This isn't ATRL.

[Rocky]

Sept 28, 2013 10:43:11 GMT -5 SPRΞΞ said:

Miley needs to be green. This isn't ATRL.

Ty, fixed. I think I didn't look a the updates first number lol. Btw it's funny that I didn't even take this from ATRL, but I understand what you mean.

[Old-school 72]

I hope Royals takes the crown this week. So over Roar.

[imbondz]

I'm liking Roar more and more. And GMA is doing this thing asking students/high schools to do a video to the song, so it could go even more viral maybe.

[Glove Slap]

If someone watches one of the school videos, does that count towards streaming the same way that the Harlem Shake videos did?

Either way, Roar is showing stability on kworb and has a healthy lead over Miley, so it's looking like it will pass Wrecking Ball this week easily. Royals could sneak into #1 this week, but I think Roar will take it for one more week beforehand.

[SPRΞΞ]

Sept 28, 2013 20:22:05 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

If someone watches one of the school videos, does that count towards streaming the same way that the Harlem Shake videos did?

yes, of course. It's all planned out that way. One of them went viral, and there are a few good ones that are worth watching.

[Xedretinz Lododnz]

does the colo highschool video for roar will be counted for Roar streaming points? if it is, then roar will be lock @ no.1 already

[SPRΞΞ]

Sept 28, 2013 22:08:56 GMT -5 Xedretinz Lododnz said:

does the colo highschool video for roar will be counted for Roar streaming points? if it is, then roar will be lock @ no.1 already

yes, it will count. It has over 2 minutes of original audio.

[TylerG11]

Sept 28, 2013 22:18:47 GMT -5 SPRΞΞ said:

Sept 28, 2013 22:08:56 GMT -5 Xedretinz Lododnz said:

does the colo highschool video for roar will be counted for Roar streaming points? if it is, then roar will be lock @ no.1 already

yes, it will count. It has over 2 minutes of original audio.

Do either of you have the link?

[Duca]

1. KATY PERRY – Roar: 210.256 (+2.222)
2. ROBIN THICKE – Blurred Lines f/Pharrell & T.I: 177.664 (-2.463)
3. JAY Z – Holy Grail f/Justin Timberlake: 163.902 (+1.407)
4. DRAKE – Hold On We’re Going Home: 145.385 (+3.045) ▲
5. LORDE – Royals: 144.103 (+5.368) ▲
6. CAPITAL CITIES – Safe And Sound: 143.007 (-0.913) ▼
7. AVICII – Wake Me Up: 133.072 (+3.055)
8. LANA DEL REY – Summertime Sadness: 124.718 (+1.754)
9. LADY GAGA – Applause: 98.321 (+1.923)
10. MAROON 5 – Love Somebody: 87.381 (-1.024)
11. ZEDD – Clarity f/Foxes: 83.908 (-1.191)
12. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Mirrors: 81.192 (-0.389)
13. IMAGINE DRAGONS – Radioactive: 79.987 (-0.407)
14. J. COLE – Crooked Smile f/TLC: 74.892 (+0.202)
15. DAFT PUNK – Get Lucky: 69.058 (-0.634)
16. MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – Same Love f/Mary Lambert: 67.744 (-1.305)
17. JASON ALDEAN – Night Train: 67.420 (+0.117)
18. PHILLIP PHILLIPS – Gone, Gone, Gone: 65.674 (-0.994)
19. BRUNO MARS – Treasure: 65.474 (-0.285) ▲
20. ANNA KENDRICK – Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When…: 65.196 (-1.009) ▼

BILLY CURRINGTON – Hey Girl: 61.637 (+0.097)
THOMAS RHETT – It Goes Like This: 60.150 (+0.371)
LUKE BRYAN – That’s My Kind Of Night: 59.814 (+0.363)
MILEY CYRUS – Wrecking Ball: 55.191 (+1.858)
PARAMORE – Still Into You: 54.207 (+1.583)
TAYLOR SWIFT – Everything Has …f/Ed Sheeran: 51.287 (+0.445)
ROBIN THICKE – Give It 2 U f/Kendrick Lamar: 50.210 (+0.977)
BRUNO MARS – Gorilla: 46.637 (+1.416)
BLAKE SHELTON – Mine Would Be You: 46.017 (+0.428)
CHRIS BROWN – Love More f/Nicki Minaj: 45.709 (+1.103)
PINK – True Love f/Lily Allen: 45.616 (+0.369)
EMINEM – Berzerk: 38.873 (+0.312)
IMAGINE DRAGONS – Demons: 36.672 (+1.551)
SELENA GOMEZ – Slow Down: 33.535 (+0.976)
BRITNEY SPEARS – Work Bitch: 30.356 (+1.758)
KEITH URBAN & MIRANDA LAMBERT – We Were Us: 29.598 (+0.806)
ONEREPUBLIC – Counting Stars: 26.645 (+0.654)
PASSENGER – Let Her Go: 22.742 (+0.866)
TEGAN & SARA – Closer: 20.252 (-0.057)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – TKO: 18.360 (+2.842)
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – White Walls f/ScHoolboy Q: 18.116 (+0.513)
ARIANA GRANDE – Right There f/Big Sean: 14.034 (+1.033)
BASTILLE – Pompeii: 10.481 (+0.086)
RIHANNA – What Now: 6.818 (+0.830)
ARCADE FIRE – Reflektor: 3.548
KILLERS – Shot At The Night: 2.477 (+0.189)
LORDE – Team: 0.677

[HolidayGuy]

"Royals" :o

[chartfreak]

Come on Lana, need you to jump back into the top 7 of Hot 100.

[popstop]

Meh, I don't think they really answered the question...

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Jack Adams @jackzakalump

@gthot20 How does the Hot 100's point system work?

Hi Jack,

With Miley Cyrus at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Wrecking Ball," a song with some of the greatest buzz for a video in quite a while, it seems like a good time for a refresher on how the Hot 100 is tabulated, doesn't it?

As we wrote in January when YouTube data was added to the Hot 100's equation: "Generally speaking, our Hot 100 formula targets a ratio of sales (35-45%), airplay (30-40%) and streaming (20-30%)."

Of course, that's an overall target for 100 songs each week. That mark can change week-to-week. This week, though, the Hot 100 breaks down in line with the formula's intent: sales, 39%; airplay, 34%; and, streaming, 27%.

And, week-to-week, some songs show largely along those percentages, while others skew noticeably toward any of the chart's three metrics.

Let's look at a few, starting with "Wrecking Ball."

This week, points for the Hot 100's leader stem 50% from streaming, 43% from sales and just 7% from radio airplay. No surprise: the song drew a whopping 14.3 million U.S. streams in the chart's tracking week, according to Nielsen BDS. (The No. 2-streamed song, Katy Perry's "Roar," garnered 7.3 million.) "Ball" ranks at No. 3 on Digital Songs with 301,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Conversely, as airplay for "Ball" is just beginning, its low Hot 100 points percentage reflects its No. 31 spot on Radio Songs (via 38 million all-format audience impressions, according to BDS).

Last week, which reflected the first week of streaming following the song's video premiere, the Hot 100 ratio for "Ball" was even more streaming-driven: 64%, streaming; 34%, sales; 2%, airplay. The cut's monster 36.5 million U.S. streams in the chart's tracking period produced the high percentage.


Perry's new digital single "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, meanwhile, has been released as a teaser track from her album "Prism," due Oct. 22. It's not being promoted to radio and has no official videoclip. Thus, as it debuts on the Hot 100 at No. 17, an almost monopolizing 99% of its points are from sales; it sold 194,000 downloads in its opening week, good for a No. 4 start on the Digital Songs chart.

The more established "Roar" (No. 2 on the Hot 100), which has been promoted to radio for close to two months and has been accepted at mainstream and adult top 40 and adult contemporary, lines up much closer to the Hot 100's average ratio: 43%, sales; 31%, airplay; 26%, streaming. It's No. 1 on Radio Songs (159 million) and No. 2 on Digital Songs (301,000) and Streaming Songs (7.3 million).

Another hit, like Cyrus', due mostly to streaming, and even more so? Ylvis' novelty track "The Fox," which makes tracks running 25-13 as the Hot 100's top Streaming Gainer this week. With it at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (7.1 million), 75% of its Hot 100 points are from streams. Almost the rest of its sum is from sales; it debuts at No. 22 on Digital Songs with 60,000 in its first week. The song sports almost no airplay, although that could change now that Warner Bros. has begun promoting it to pop radio.

And, a song driven largely by airplay? Maroon 5's "Love Somebody," at No. 26 after peaking at No. 10, shows 67% of its points thanks to radio, with 19% from sales and 13% from streaming. As a fourth single from an album that's been available for a year, it's logical that sales and streaming lag behind the song's activity at radio, with the band a consistent presence at pop and adult formats long after the buzz of an album release. It ranks at No. 11 on Radio Songs and No. 59 on Digital Songs (while ranking just inside the 100 most streamed songs of the week).

[Verisimilitude]

TLC have their biggest airplay hit since "Unpretty". :)

[chartfreak]

Sorry, but video sales need to be counted into the formula, just add it into its overall sales. What's the big deal.

[HolidayGuy]

^As noted before, iTunes is the only source for video sales, it looks, and if they were released, then iTunes' exact sales would be known. Apparently, iTunes does not want that. But, back in the day, when there were singles exclusive to iTunes, those numbers were known- at the same time, though, sales were much less back then.

I also suspect that sales for videos on iTunes aren't all that high, at least when compared to albums and tracks.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

They should still count up the numbers. I'm sure iTunes would love to have influence over the Billboard charts. Or they should at least lump them in with the singles sales.

[brucelover]

TEGAN & SARA – Closer: 20.252 (-0.057)

What the HELL is wrong with US radio. This should be a Top 10 hit.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Blame the record company for not getting this in an advertisement or doing more to make this song happen. If they had gotten this song to hit they could be living off them for at least another two albums.

[Deleted]

I thought "Closer" had fairly mediocre callout scores...

[jayhawk1117]

Sales should be 50%-65% because people have to pay for those

[#LisaRinna]

Drake!!

[Verisimilitude]

Sept 29, 2013 13:47:06 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Blame the record company for not getting this in an advertisement or doing more to make this song happen. If they had gotten this song to hit they could be living off them for at least another two albums.

This was on two different TV commercials late last year and early this year.