Billboard Hot 100: 11/23/2013

[Duca]

Nov 13, 2013 10:06:53 GMT -5 C.Ro said:

Why are so little the increases for Perfume? :(

Because it's doing poorly. Makes no sense since it's very radio friendly.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/news/5785918/eminem-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-celine-dion-and-avril-lavigne-in-top



Over on the Digital Songs chart, the impact of NBC's "The Voice" is felt strongly at No. 1: A Great Big World's "Say Something," featuring Christina Aguilera, debuts at No. 1 with 189,000 sold (up 1,761%). The song benefits from a performance of the song last week on the show, along with a newly-released version with "Voice" coach Aguilera.


Previously, the song had been available (without Aguilera), and had sold 52,000 through Nov. 3. The sales of both the old and new versions of the song are combined for tracking and charting purposes.

Lorde's "Royals" rises 3-2 with 186,000 (though it's down by 5%) and OneRepublic's "Counting Stars" rebounds 9-3 with 152,000 (up 16%). Last week's leader, Eminem's "The Monster," featuring Rihanna, falls to No. 4 with 150,000 (down 60%).

Katy Perry's "Roar" descends 4-5 with 136,000 (down 3%), Avicii's "Wake Me Up" drops 5-6 with 126,000 (down 10%) and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" rises 10-7 with 121,000 (but down 1%).

Pitbull collects his lucky 13th top 10 on the Digital Songs chart as "Timber," featuring Ke$ha, rises 17-8 with 119,000 (up 43%). For Ke$ha, it is her 10th top 10 hit.

To close out the top 10: Passenger's "Let Her Go" falls 7-9 with 118,000 (down 15%) and Imagine Dragons' "Demons" rises 14-10 with 110,000 (up 12%). It's the second top 10 hit on this chart for the act, which previously went as high as No. 2 with "Radioactive."


Digital track sales this past week totaled 20.62 million downloads, up 1% compared with last week (20.41 million) and down 3% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (21.32 million). Year to date track sales are at 1.09 billion, down 4% compared to the same total at this point last year (1.14 billion).

[Deleted]

I think CS will reach top 5 this week!

[Caviar]

AMAZING! "Say Something" did awesome!

[Au$tin]

Nov 13, 2013 10:06:53 GMT -5 C.Ro said:

Why are so little the increases for Perfume? :(

It's not a lead single and it's coming off of a major underperformer. Plus, today's its eighth day, I believe.

[The Upper Hand]

"Eminem's "The Monster," featuring Rihanna, falls to No. 4 with 150,000 (down 60%)."

Complete My Album effect?

[TylerG11]

The #1 song didn't even sell 200,000? Geeze...

[tekkenguy]

Final predictions:

1. Royals
2. The Monster
3. Wrecking Ball
4. Wake Me Up
5. Counting Stars
6. Roar
7. Hold On, We're Going Home
8. Demons
9. Say Something
10. Applause

[chartfreak]

Nov 13, 2013 11:41:00 GMT -5 The Upper Hand said:

"Eminem's "The Monster," featuring Rihanna, falls to No. 4 with 150,000 (down 60%)."

Complete My Album effect?

Not surprising considering what, 400k in digital, or is that way to much digital, not sure what the norm ratio is.

[chartfreak]

Nov 13, 2013 11:54:08 GMT -5 tekkenguy said:

Final predictions:

1. Royals
2. The Monster
3. Wrecking Ball
4. Wake Me Up
5. Counting Stars
6. Roar
7. Hold On, We're Going Home
8. Demons
9. Say Something
10. Applause

Curious if Applause can maintain top 10.

[chartfreak]

Nov 13, 2013 12:06:19 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Nov 13, 2013 11:41:00 GMT -5 The Upper Hand said:

"Eminem's "The Monster," featuring Rihanna, falls to No. 4 with 150,000 (down 60%)."

Complete My Album effect?

Not surprising considering what, 400k in digital, or is that way to much digital, not sure what the norm ratio is.

Lol, just read that it sold 457k in digital. :)

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Nov 13, 2013 12:07:58 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Nov 13, 2013 11:54:08 GMT -5 tekkenguy said:

Final predictions:

1. Royals
2. The Monster
3. Wrecking Ball
4. Wake Me Up
5. Counting Stars
6. Roar
7. Hold On, We're Going Home
8. Demons
9. Say Something
10. Applause

Curious if Applause can maintain top 10.

yeah!I think there will be a place for passenger in top 10!

[tekkenguy]

Nov 13, 2013 12:15:36 GMT -5 @smirjal said:

Nov 13, 2013 12:07:58 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Curious if Applause can maintain top 10.

yeah!I think there will be a place for passenger in top 10!

Passenger's sales are too low for Top 10, IMO.

[when the pawn...]

Looking at the digital 200, Applause, DWUW and Venus are removed. Dope sold 30k at #55. Does this mean the CMA effect happened to her this week even though all album sales will appear on next week's chart?

[Duca]

Lorde's 'Royals' Leads Hot 100, Lady Gaga's 'Dope' Debuts At No. 8
Meanwhile, Eminem's 'The Monster,' featuring Rihanna, which lifts 3-2.

Lorde's "Royals" rules the Billboard Hot 100 for a seventh week, while new Billboard 200 leader Eminem rises 3-2 with "The Monster," featuring Rihanna. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga scores a second top 10 from her just-released album "ARTPOP," as the set's "Dope" debuts at No. 8.

Let's run down the numbers, as we do each Wednesday.

"Royals" tops the Radio Songs chart for a fourth week with 168 million audience impressions, down 2%, according to Nielsen BDS. The track leads the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart for a sixth week with 2.5 million on-demand U.S. streams, according to BDS (up 3%), while dropping from its No. 2 peak to No. 3 on the overall Streaming Songs chart (7.2 million U.S. streams, up less than 1%). "Royals" rebounds 3-2 on Digital Songs (186,000 downloads sold, down 5%, according to Nielsen SoundScan), which it led for five weeks.

"Royals" crowns Hot Rock Songs for an 11th week.

Eminem's "The Monster" lifts 3-2 in its second week on the Hot 100 with the chart's top Airplay Gainer award. The track blasts 31-12 on Radio Songs with a 53% increase to 56 million. It's Eminem's highest rank on the chart since his prior Rihanna collaboration "Love the Way You Lie" spent eight weeks at No. 1 in 2010. As parent album "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" debuts atop the Billboard 200, "Monster" drops 1-4 on Digital Songs (150,000, down 60%); its sales slide is owed to iTunes' customers who opted to "complete" the "Marshall" album by upgrading their earlier purchases of "Monster" to a full album. Effectively, consumers who completed the album were returning a song, thus augmenting the song's sales drop this week. (For the purposes of Hot 100 rankings, aggregate sales and returns contribute to the song's overall point total.)

"Monster" soars 18-7 on Streaming Songs (4.9 million, up 115%) and 41-3 on On-Demand Songs (1.9 million, up 235%). The track spends a second week in charge of both Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Rap Songs.

Could "Monster" be close to scaring "Royals" out of the Hot 100's top spot soon? An 18% difference in overall Hot 100 chart points separate the songs, with the latter down by 3% and the former up 3%.

Miley Cyrus' former two-week Hot 100 No. 1 "Wrecking Ball" drops 2-3. It falls 1-2 on Streaming Songs, which it led for six weeks (7.9 million, down 9%) and holds at No. 5 on Radio Songs (111 million, down 3%). On Digital Songs, it rebounds 10-7 (121,000, down 1%).

Perry's fellow former two-week leader "Roar" stays at No. 4 on the Hot 100, while remaining in the top five of the three main Hot 100 component charts, holding at No. 3 on Radio Songs (129 million, down 8%) and dipping 3-5 on Streaming Songs (5.4 million, down 3%) and 4-5 on Digital Songs (136,000, down 3%). Meanwhile, "Unconditionally," the second single from Perry's album "PRISM" (down 2-4 in its third week on the Billboard 200), jumps 25-21 on the Hot 100 and 18-14 on Radio Songs (52 million, up 10%).

Avicii rounds out the Hot 100's top five, as "Wake Me Up!" keeps at No. 5. It stays at its No. 2 highpoint on Radio Songs (150 million, down less than 1%) and rules Dance/Electronic Songs for a 10th week. Since the latter tally's launch earlier this year, only one other title has racked a reign of double-digit weeks: Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," featuring Pharrell Williams (13 weeks).

Drake's No. 4-peaking "Hold On, We're Going Home," featuring Majid Jordan, reverses course, rising 7-6 on the Hot 100. (As noted in this weekend's "Ask Billboard" reader mailbag, by peaking at No. 4 with the song, Drake is just the fifth artist ever to boast a string of hits that have peaked at each position in the top 10, joining Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Madonna and Ludacris.)

"Hold" tops R&B Songs for a seventh week.

OneRepublic's "Counting Stars" reaches a new Hot 100 peak (9-7). It charges 9-3 on Digital Songs 152,000, up 16%) and 17-11 on Radio Songs (62 million, up 33%).

Lady Gaga's "Dope" storms onto the Hot 100 at No. 8, fueled most heavily by its No. 1 arrival on Streaming Songs (marking her first leader on the list) with 8.2 million first-week streams; 95% of that sum stems from YouTube (non-VEVO) views of the live video of Gaga performing "Dope" at the YouTube Music Awards on Nov. 3. The ballad also begins on Digital Songs at No. 60 with 31,000 downloads sold.

"Dope" marks Mother Monster's lucky 13th Hot 100 top 10. She first reached the bracket with "Just Dance" five years ago next month. Dating to her first week in the top 10 (Dec. 6, 2008), only Rihanna (16) claims more top 10s, while Gaga ties Drake for the second-most. Taylor Swift is next with 12, followed by Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars and Katy Perry (11 apiece).

Gaga remains in the Hot 100's top 10 with the No. 4-peaking "Applause" (10-10). Both songs appear on "ARTPOP," released on Monday and due on next week's Billboard 200. ("Applause" has spent each of its 13 weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10.) Meanwhile, the set's next radio single, "Do What U Want," featuring R. Kelly, rebounds 58-48 on the Hot 100 after debuting at No. 13 two weeks ago. It pushes 64-51 in its second week on Radio Songs (23 million, up 22%).

In between Gaga's current top 10s, Imagine Dragons' "Demons" slides to No. 9 from its No. 8 Hot 100 peak, but with gains in all of the chart's metrics. It reaches the Digital Songs top 10 (14-10; 110,000, up 12%) in its 27th week on the chart, completing the fourth-longest trip to the tier. (Florida Georgia Line set the longevity mark earlier this year when "Cruise" arrived in the top 10 in its 35th frame. In 2007, Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" required 32 weeks to reach the top 10 and KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" needed 29.) "Demons" climbs 8-6 on Radio Songs (95 million, up 17%) and drops 19-21 on Streaming Songs but with a 16% lift to 2.6 million.

Just outside the Hot 100's top 10, duo A Great Big World bows at No. 16 with "Say Something," featuring Christina Aguilera. The impact of NBC's "The Voice," on which Aguilera serves as a coach, is evident, as the ballad starts at No. 1 on Digital Songs with 189,000 sold (up 1,761%). The song benefits from the pair's performance of it last week on the show, along with a newly-released version with Aguilera; the remix featuring her accounts for 86% of the song's overall download sales in the chart's tracking week.

Excluding the one-off superstar assemblage Artists for Haiti ("We Are the World 25: For Haiti," 2010), no act had debuted atop Digital Songs with a first chart entry since 2008 "American Idol" champ David Cook" opened at No. 1 with his coronation song "The Time of My Life" (June 7, 2008). A Great Big World is the first duo or group to begin at No. 1 on Digital Songs on its first try, excluding Artists for Haiti and Linkin Park, whose "Numb"/Encore," co-credited to Jay Z, marked the band's first appearance on the chart when it started at the summit the week of Nov. 27, 2004; however, Linkin Park's career predated the chart's inception.

Other Hot 100 debuts this week include Justin Bieber's "Bad Day" (No. 53), the fifth offering in his "Music Mondays" series; "The Voice" contestant James Wolpert's cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" (No. 72); and Britney Spears' "Perfume" (No. 76). It's the second single from her eighth studio album, "Britney Jean" (due Dec. 3), following "Work B**ch!," which peaked at No. 12.

Visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 14), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety and Digital Songs, Radio Songs, Streaming Songs and On-Demand Songs will be refreshed, as they are each Thursday. The latest charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine (on sale on Friday, Nov. 15).

[josh]

How does dope make top 10 but DWUW doesn't? lol

ETA: it got that much streaming? damn. :O

Wait, YT awards counted as streaming? LMAO

[KeepDeanWeird]

I'm confused, the YouTube awards were on Sunday, Nov. 3, wouldn't that have been during the last chart week or is streaming calculated differently? The tracking week is Nov. 4 - 10 for sales and Nov. 6-12 for radio? I suppose the views came on Monday as she was trashed all over the media for the bizarre performance. Further evidence that streaming is overweighted. Those views clearly didn't turn into sales. Weird that DWYW sold so much and hit 13, and Dope gets higher chart placement (for now).

[velaxti]

The live performance of Dope was getting advertised on Youtube (in those adverts you have to watch before you get to the video). If you clicked on the advert I think it takes you to the real video.

However, I thought live performances didn't count for the Hot 100? If it did, then the performance of We Can't Stop/Blurred Lines/Give It 2 U would've propelled the three songs to the top of the chart, since that performance had an incredible amount of views the week after.

[Deleted]

LMAOO ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

[HolidayGuy]

Any video classification for a track counts for streaming, doesn't it?

[when the pawn...]

But does it matter that streaming didn't turn into sales? That's why sales is a separate component to streaming on the Hot 100. (According to the logic of the Billboard Hot 100, which I agree with to some extent) The fact that that many people watched "Dope" during the tracking week makes it one of the week's most popular 10 songs. Doesn't matter that its long-term prospects are bleak or that only 30,000 people bought it. Billboard values what people are watching online/on YouTube/on Vevo so with that in mind, "Dope" is in the top 10.

[josh]

They need to incorporate TV performances into the Hot 100, tbh.

[velaxti]

Nov 13, 2013 15:00:59 GMT -5 when the pawn... said:

But does it matter that streaming didn't turn into sales? That's why sales is a separate component to streaming on the Hot 100. (According to the logic of the Billboard Hot 100, which I agree with to some extent) The fact that that many people watched "Dope" during the tracking week makes it one of the week's most popular 10 songs. Doesn't matter that its long-term prospects are bleak or that only 30,000 people bought it. Billboard values what people are watching online/on YouTube/on Vevo so with that in mind, "Dope" is in the top 10.

I agree, although I feel like maybe the Youtube adverts for the song might have counted, as well as the actual video (since the advert was simply the live performance itself).

[HolidayGuy]

LOL I don't see Billboard adding TV ratings to the mix.

[Deleted]

Ok, but why didn't Give It 2 U jump into the top 5 after the VMAs? It was also a live performance streamed like 20 million times due to the Blurred Lines/We Cant Stop medley in the beginning of the video.

[charismatic]

Pitbull did it again!!!
I think that is phenomenal that in 3 years he has collected 13 digital top 10s hits.
He is a very powerful superstar!

To me the digital chart is more important than the billboard hot 100 because digital means sales and support from the general public.

Dale!!!

[SuperTrouper]

Artpop numbers will get a lot of talk but I feel like more people should discuss what happened with "Dope". It seems like Interscope went out and bought her another suspicious "hit".

[Deleted]

Nov 13, 2013 17:30:11 GMT -5 SuperTrouper said:

Artpop numbers will get a lot of talk but I feel like more people should discuss what happened with "Dope". It seems like Interscope went out and bought her another suspicious "hit".

Basically. They bought her all those youtube commercials that directed to the video, giving inflated views. Watch Katy's team replicate this with Unconditionally.

[HolidayGuy]

If people clicked on an ad and watched the performance, then it's a valid view/stream. They knew what they were clicking on, didn't they?

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Nov 13, 2013 19:08:16 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

If people clicked on an ad and watched the performance, then it's a valid view/stream. They knew what they were clicking on, didn't they?

People were forced to watch against their own will.