Billboard Hot 100: 12/21/2013

[popstop]

Pentatonix hitting the top 10 with a holiday single would be unusual. I tried as best I could to find other seasonal songs to hit the top 10 and this is all I could find. Maybe I'm missing some.

The Chipmunk Song - #1 (1958)
Our Winter Love - Bill Pursell - #9 (1963)- An instrumental, never heard it before
Amen - The Impressions - #7 (1964) - never heard it before
Sweet Little Baby Boy - James Brown - #8 (1966) - never heard it before
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Foeglberg _ #9 (1980)- I guess this counts?
This One's For the Children - New Kids on the Block - #7 (1989)
Auld Lang Syne - Kenny G - #7 (1999)

The Biebs' Mistletoe just missed - #11 in 2011

[imbondz]

Amen by the Impressions isn't really a Christmas song. It's a great song, great group tho. Curtis Mayfield was the lead singer.

[renfield75]

"Our Winter Love" isn't a holiday single, it's just an instrumental with a winter title. It's a pretty song though.

[Deleted]

Because of the stupid rules that were only recently corrected, From 1962-2012, it wasn't necessarily true that the top 50 songs of the week matched the top 50 of the Hot 100.

Otherwise, lots of good Christmas songs would be on this list too.

[jenglisbe]

And really, "Auld Lang Syne" is a 'holiday' title in the sense that "Monster Mash" is one; it isn't a Christmas title. In other words, people either need to expand the list to include songs from all holidays, or shorten the list to just mean Christmas.

[HolidayGuy]

Just Blaze, that is true- to me, though, it just blends in with the other stuff. It would be nice if some not-so-mainstram EDM tracks break.

2m, at least, prior to the recurrent-rule change, *new* holiday tracks could chart on the Hot 100, I think, starting in the 1990s? Though "Grandma Got Run Over..."- from the 80s- hit the Hot 100 years after its release, though that may have been a new CD single release or somethin'.

[Rocky]

1. AVICII – Wake Me Up: 173.045 (- 0.482)
2. EMINEM – The Monster f/Rihanna: 169.631 (+ 3.791)
3. IMAGINE DRAGONS – Demons: 161.803 (+ 0.211) ▲
4. LORDE – Royals: 161.038 (- 1.448) ▼
5. ONEREPUBLIC – Counting Stars: 146.431 (+ 1.984) ▲
6. DRAKE – Hold On We’re, Going Home: 145.552 (- 2.272) ▼
7. MILEY CYRUS – Wrecking Ball: 121.593 (- 3.086)
8. PITBULL – Timber f/Ke$ha: 92.410 (+ 1.752) ▲
9. KATY PERRY – Roar: 89.465 (- 1.535) ▼
10. KATY PERRY – Unconditionally: 85.001 (+ 0.028)
11. LADY GAGA – Applause: 80.248 (- 1.278)
12. PASSENGER – Let Her Go: 77.290 (+ 0.898)
13. ZEDD – Stay The Night f/H. Williams: 75.737 (+ 0.241)
14. JAY Z – Holy Grail f/Justin Timberlake: 72.582 (- 2.262)
15. MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – White Walls f/ScHoolboy Q: 68.424 (+ 1.986)
16. NEIGHBOURHOOD – Sweater Weather: 63.641 (+ 0.894) ▲
17. PARMALEE – Carolina: 63.568 (+ 0.502) ▼
18. LADY GAGA – Do What U Want f/R. Kelly: 62.868 (+ 0.963) ▲
19. CHRIS BROWN – Love More f/Nicki Minaj: 61.959 (- 0.010) ▼
20. KEITH URBAN & MIRANDA LAMBERT – We Were Us: 61.584 (- 0.233)

ELI YOUNG BAND – Drunk Last Night: 60.248 (+ 0.537)
JOE NICHOLS – Sunny And 75: 60.026 (- 1.050)
FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE – Stay: 54.384 (- 0.020)
THE BAND PERRY – Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: 51.542 (+ 0.052)
ELLIE GOULDING – Burn: 45.273 (+ 2.372)
CASSADEE POPE – Wasting All These Tears: 42.109 (+ 0.085)
ONE DIRECTION – Story Of My Life: 41.255 (+ 1.067)
BASTILLE – Pompeii: 38.762 (+ 1.022)
LUKE BRYAN – Drink A Beer: 38.517 (+ 0.687)
A GREAT BIG WORLD – Say Something w/C. Aguilera: 38.301 (+ 2.141)
MARIAH CAREY – All I Want For Christmas Is…: 37.689 (+ 0.484)
BRENDA LEE – Rockin’ Around The Christmas..: 36.765 (- 0.915)
BOBBY HELMS – Jingle Bell Rock: 35.272 (- 0.409)
BURL IVES – Have A Holly Jolly Christmas: 35.238 (- 1.155)
LORDE – Team: 34.165 (+ 1.481)
NAT KING COLE – The Christmas Song: 33.336 (+ 0.269)
LADY ANTEBELLUM – Compass: 31.551 (+ 0.507)
BRITNEY SPEARS – Perfume: 19.177 (+ 0.723)
KELLY CLARKSON – Underneath The Tree: 13.425 (+ 0.573)
DEMI LOVATO – Neon Lights: 7.508 (+ 0.941)

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Whoohoo sweater weather is finally taking off!

[Linnethia Monique]

A GREAT BIG WORLD – Say Something w/C. Aguilera: 38.301 (+ 2.141)
Becoming that inevitable Nu Cry Anthem.

[Caviar]

Coming for that 200+ million.

[imbondz]

Dec 9, 2013 14:45:42 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

And really, "Auld Lang Syne" is a 'holiday' title in the sense that "Monster Mash" is one; it isn't a Christmas title. In other words, people either need to expand the list to include songs from all holidays, or shorten the list to just mean Christmas.

Auld Lang Syne is soooo freakin' depressing. Ugh. can't stand that song.

[mluv]

On Tuesday A Great Big World will be one of the acts for the Victoria Secrets fashion show. There was no mention of Christina being there though.

[slicknickshady]

2. EMINEM – The Monster f/Rihanna: 169.631 (+ 3.791)


YES!!!!

[allow that]

Dec 9, 2013 9:36:03 GMT -5 velaxti said:

1 Bruno Mars Locked Out Of Heaven ATLANTIC
2 Swedish House Mafia Don’t You Worry Child ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL
3 Taylor Swift I Knew You Were Trouble BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC
4 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f/Ray Dalton Can’t Hold Us MACKLEMORE/ADA/WBR
5 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f/Wanz Thrift Shop MACKLEMORE/ADA/WBR
6 Robin Thicke f/Pharrell & T.I. Blurred Lines STAR TRAK/INTERSCOPE
7 Justin Timberlake Mirrors RCA
8 Rihanna f/Mikky Ekko Stay DEF JAM/IDJMG
9 Maroon 5 Daylight A&M/OCTONE/INTERSCOPE
10 Lumineers Ho Hey DUALTONE

Wow, #'s 4-7. Such an abundance of white males making "urban music" yet actual urban artists continue to get ignored. I guess it's not the sound; it's the package. Way to go Pop radio!



ON AN UNRELATED RELATED NOTE: It's nice seeing Swedish House Mafia all the way at year-end #2. Easily my favorite radio-dance song of recent years.

[Verisimilitude]

#WhereWillRebeccaBlackBe?

[allow that]

LOL @ Vevo shading Germany by including Poland instead.

[Enyasurvivor]

Dec 9, 2013 18:15:18 GMT -5 allow that said:

LOL @ Vevo shading Germany by including Poland instead.

Yeah, I'm surprised they opened a Vevo Poland over Vevo Germany, Japan, or even South Korea. It's interesting to see what the Poles are watching though!

[Enyasurvivor]

Dec 9, 2013 18:03:06 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

#WhereWillRebeccaBlackBe?

Nowhere. Her video isn't on vevo.

[Deleted]

And now it's time once again for our weekly look back at the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 charts of exactly 55, 50, 45, and 40 years ago this week.



December 15, 1958 (for week ending December 21)

TW LW WK
01 01 13 To Know Him, Is To Love Him - The Teddy Bears (3 weeks at #1)
02 06 06 Problems - The Everly Brothers
03 02 12 Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
04 05 06 One Night - Elvis Presley
05 04 07 Beep Beep - The Playmates
06 11 05 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters
07 07 09 Lonesome Town - Ricky Nelson
08 03 14 It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
09 09 07 I Got Stung - Elvis Presley
10 37 03 The Chipmunk Song - The Chipmunks with David Seville



December 21, 1963

TW LW WK
01 01 07 Dominique - The Singing Nun (3 weeks at #1)
02 02 07 Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
03 05 08 You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - The Caravelles
04 09 04 There! I've Said It Again - Bobby Vinton
05 06 09 Since I Fell For You - Larry Welch
06 07 08 Be True To Your School - The Beach Boys
07 08 06 Drip Drop - Dion DiMuci
08 04 12 I'm Leaving It Up To You - Dale & Grace
09 03 11 Everybody - Tommy Roe
10 16 05 Popsicles And Icicles - The Murmaids



December 21, 1968

TW LW WK
01 01 05 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 10 Love Child - Diana Ross And The Supremes
03 03 08 For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
04 04 09 Abraham, Martin And John - Dion
05 07 08 Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
06 08 09 Stormy - Classics IV Featuring Dennis Yost
07 05 09 Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor
08 11 07 Both Sides Now - Judy Collins
09 09 08 I Love How You Love Me - Bobby Vinton
10 10 12 Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf



December 22, 1973

TW LW WK
01 01 13 The Most Beautiful Girl - Charlie Rich (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 09 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
03 05 06 Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce
04 07 08 Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) - Helen Reddy
05 06 12 Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
06 09 10 The Joker - Steve Miller Band
07 03 12 Top Of The World - The Carpenters
08 04 13 Just You 'N' Me - Chicago
09 10 09 If You're Ready (Come Go With Me) - The Staple Singers
10 14 09 Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up - Barry White

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Top 10 flashbacks for this week

1 year ago (12/22/12)

1 2 Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars (1st week of 6 @ #1)
2 1 Diamonds - Rihanna
3 3 Die Young - Ke$ha
4 5 Ho Hey - Lumineers
5 4 One More Night - Maroon 5
6 8 I Cry - Flo Rida
7 7 Home - Phillip Phillips
8 6 Some Nights - fun.
9 14 Beauty And A Beat - Justin Bieber ft. Nicki Minaj
10 9 Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) - Ne-Yo


5 years ago (12/20/08)

1 2 Live Your Life - T.I. ft. Rihanna (6th and final week @ #1)
2 1 Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce
3 - Circus - Britney Spears
4 5 Just Dance - Lady Gaga ft. Colby O'Donis
5 4 Whatever You Like - T.I.
6 3 If I Were A Boy - Beyonce
7 6 Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
8 13 Love Lockdown - Kanye West
9 7 Miss Independent - Ne-Yo
10 9 Womanizer - Britney Spears

Double T.I., Double Britney, Double Beyonce. lol.


10 years ago (12/20/03)

1 1 Hey Ya! - Outkast (2nd week of 9 @ #1)
2 3 The Way You Move - Outkast ft. Sleepy Brown
3 2 Stand Up - Ludacris ft. Shawna
4 4 Milkshake - Kelis
5 7 Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
6 10 Walked Outta Heaven - Jagged Edge
7 8 Suga Suga - Baby Bash ft. Frankie J
8 6 Holidae In - Chingy ft. Ludacris & Snoop Dogg
9 14 You Don't Know My Name - Alicia Keys
10 9 Step In The Name Of Love - R Kelly


15 years ago (12/19/98)

1 1 I'm Your Angel - R Kelly & Celine Dion (3rd week of 6 @ #1)
2 2 Nobody's Supposed To Be Here - Deborah Cox
3 3 Lately - Divine
4 5 From This Moment On - Shania Twain
5 4 Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill
6 6 Because Of You - 98 Degrees
7 7 Love Like This - Faith Evans
8 9 ... Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
9 8 Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
10 10 Have You Ever? - Brandy

[Rocky]

1. EMINEM - The Monster f/Rihanna: 173.344 (+ 3.713) ▲
2. AVICII - Wake Me Up: 172.040 (- 1.005) ▼
3. IMAGINE DRAGONS - Demons: 162.619 (+ 0.816)
4. LORDE - Royals: 159.341 (- 1.697)
5. ONEREPUBLIC - Counting Stars: 148.948 (+ 2.517)
6. DRAKE - Hold On We're, Going Home: 143.667 (- 1.885)
7. MILEY CYRUS - Wrecking Ball: 118.137 (- 3.456)
8. PITBULL - Timber f/Ke$ha: 94.771 (+ 2.361)
9. KATY PERRY - Roar: 87.755 (- 1.710)
10. KATY PERRY - Unconditionally: 85.482 (+ 0.481)
11. LADY GAGA - Applause: 78.445 (- 1.803)
12. PASSENGER - Let Her Go: 78.058 (+ 0.768)
13. ZEDD - Stay The Night f/H. Williams: 76.610 (+ 0.873)
14. JAY Z - Holy Grail f/Justin Timberlake: 70.595 (- 1.987)
15. MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - White Walls f/ScHoolboy Q: 70.113 (+ 1.689)
16. NEIGHBOURHOOD - Sweater Weather: 64.278 (+ 0.637) ▲
17. PARMALEE - Carolina: 64.144 (+ 0.576) ▼
18. LADY GAGA - Do What U Want f/R. Kelly: 63.914 (+ 1.046)
19. CHRIS BROWN - Love More f/Nicki Minaj: 62.018 (+ 0.059)
20. KEITH URBAN & MIRANDA LAMBERT - We Were Us: 60.518 (- 1.066)

ELI YOUNG BAND - Drunk Last Night: 60.340 (+ 0.092)
FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE - Stay: 55.153 (+ 0.769)
THE BAND PERRY - Don't Let Me Be Lonely: 51.801 (+ 0.259)
ELLIE GOULDING - Burn: 48.105 (+ 2.832)
ONE DIRECTION - Story Of My Life: 42.603 (+ 1.348)
CASSADEE POPE - Wasting All These Tears: 42.571 (+ 0.462)
A GREAT BIG WORLD - Say Something w/C. Aguilera: 40.340 (+ 2.039)
BASTILLE - Pompeii: 39.672 (+ 0.910)
LUKE BRYAN - Drink A Beer: 39.313 (+ 0.796)
MARIAH CAREY - All I Want For Christmas Is...: 38.614 (+ 0.925)
BRENDA LEE - Rockin' Around The Christmas..: 37.038 (+ 0.273)
LORDE - Team: 35.936 (+ 1.771)
BOBBY HELMS - Jingle Bell Rock: 35.550 (+ 0.278)
BURL IVES - Have A Holly Jolly Christmas: 35.227 (- 0.011)
NAT KING COLE - The Christmas Song: 33.412 (+ 0.076)
LADY ANTEBELLUM - Compass: 32.012 (+ 0.461)
BRITNEY SPEARS - Perfume: 19.353 (+ 0.176)
KELLY CLARKSON - Underneath The Tree: 13.977 (+ 0.552)
DEMI LOVATO - Neon Lights: 8.175 (+ 0.667)

We have a new #1. Finally.

[josh]

You act like Avicii has been #1 for weeks. It's only been like 2-3 weeks lol.

[Rocky]

Dec 10, 2013 6:53:01 GMT -5 josh said:

You act like Avicii has been #1 for weeks. It's only been like 2-3 weeks lol.

I mean a song that wasn't released before August. A NEW song.

[Glove Slap]

Dec 9, 2013 17:44:36 GMT -5 allow that said:

Dec 9, 2013 9:36:03 GMT -5 velaxti said:

1 Bruno Mars Locked Out Of Heaven ATLANTIC
2 Swedish House Mafia Don’t You Worry Child ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL
3 Taylor Swift I Knew You Were Trouble BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC
4 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f/Ray Dalton Can’t Hold Us MACKLEMORE/ADA/WBR
5 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f/Wanz Thrift Shop MACKLEMORE/ADA/WBR
6 Robin Thicke f/Pharrell & T.I. Blurred Lines STAR TRAK/INTERSCOPE
7 Justin Timberlake Mirrors RCA
8 Rihanna f/Mikky Ekko Stay DEF JAM/IDJMG
9 Maroon 5 Daylight A&M/OCTONE/INTERSCOPE
10 Lumineers Ho Hey DUALTONE

Wow, #'s 4-7. Such an abundance of white males making "urban music" yet actual urban artists continue to get ignored. I guess it's not the sound; it's the package. Way to go Pop radio!



ON AN UNRELATED RELATED NOTE: It's nice seeing Swedish House Mafia all the way at year-end #2. Easily my favorite radio-dance song of recent years.

YAS GURL U tell 'em!

[jebsib]

On the touchy topic of race:

Last week the top 10 of the Hot 100 had no lead artists that were Black, for perhaps the first time in decades.

This is such a turnaround from the 90s and particularly the 2000s. (Look above at the '10 years ago' chart.)

Very odd to see.

[Push The Button]

Dec 10, 2013 8:52:55 GMT -5 jebsib said:

On the touchy topic of race:

Last week the top 10 of the Hot 100 had no lead artists that were Black, for perhaps the first time in decades.

This is such a turnaround from the 90s and particularly the 2000s. (Look above at the '10 years ago' chart.)

Very odd to see.

There were many weeks in 2004 where the entire top 13 or 14 would be black artists. That was during Urban and Rhythmic's peak airplay dominance, of course, but maybe it's just a genre thing.

[ss8]

So..is #1 for The Monster basically a gaurantee this week on the Hot 100? Meaning what have the views/streaming been for Wrecking Ball esp. from that 'viral video' lol.

[Deleted]

Dec 10, 2013 9:51:37 GMT -5 ss8 said:

So..is #1 for The Monster basically a gaurantee this week on the Hot 100? Meaning what have the views/streaming been for Wrecking Ball esp. from that 'viral video' lol.

Don't worry, it's pretty much a guarantee this week. LOL

[allow that]

Dec 10, 2013 9:48:54 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Dec 10, 2013 8:52:55 GMT -5 jebsib said:

Last week the top 10 of the Hot 100 had no lead artists that were Black, for perhaps the first time in decades.

This is such a turnaround from the 90s and particularly the 2000s. (Look above at the '10 years ago' chart.)

There were many weeks in 2004 where the entire top 13 or 14 would be black artists. That was during Urban and Rhythmic's peak airplay dominance, of course, but maybe it's just a genre thing.

The Hot 100 formula is never going to be perfect, so there's going to be periods of time where any genre has a handicap. In the 90's, it was rock music. In the 00's, it was pop music. At this moment, it's R&B and to a lesser extent rap (songs like "Adorn" and "Climax" would have gone top 10 with or without Pop support in the 90's or 00's). Would I like to see R&B in the top 10? Of course. Do I think the chart is "racist"? Not really.

What I DO think is racially biased (I fall short of saying "racist" because I don't think it's intentionally vindictive) is that Pop PD's have decided that their listening audience isn't into rap anymore, yet anytime a white artist puts out a song they support it to the max. How come rap is still popular enough for Mackelmore and Eminem but not J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar? Both were big buzz stories this year and released perfectly accessible tunes. It makes you think...

[ss8]

haha thanks. You must know more than me esp. when it comes to that viral video (which was my only concern). I guess pre congrats on Rihannas 13th #1!! My god, at the age of 25, shes only 6 #1s away from beating Mariah 8^o. 'Should' be cake. Shes also coming for Madonnas record in the UK who has 13 #1s. Rihanna is already at 8. It's almost the same numeric difference (except its Madonna in the UK and Mariah in the US). Anyone know how many Mariah had by the age of 25? I'm pretty sure she was at only 8 or 9 cause I remember during the Butterfly era (when she was 27 or 28) her discussing how she broke the then 'record' for #1s with Honey. Madonna at that point had 11 #1s so Mariah must've achieved her 12th #1 at 27 or 28 while Rihanna will be on her 13th at just 25.