Billboard Hot 100 : 02/08/2014

[Lozzy]

Love the +1m for "All of Me"

[Linnethia Monique]

PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 33.553 (+ 4.057)
What kinda jubilant slayage!

[kingofpain]

Wow look at Ellie Goulding go... another top 5 airplay smash! I was so worried she was going to be a one hit wonder here... now if only Burn could enter the Hot 100 top 10...

[Deleted]

Top 10 flashbacks for this week:

Cuz we beloooong togeeeeether noooooooow yeah

1 year ago (2/9/2013)

1 1 Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz (2nd week of 6 @ #1)
2 2 Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars
3 3 Ho Hey - Lumineers
4 5 I Knew You Were Trouble. - Taylor Swift
5 6 Scream & Shout - will.i.am feat. Britney Spears
6 7 Don't You Worry Child - Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin
7 9 Beauty And A Beat - Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj
8 8 Diamonds - Rihanna
9 10 Home - Phillip Phillips
10 15 F**kin' Problems - A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar


5 years ago (2/7/2009)

1 97 My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson (1st week of 2 @ #1)
2 1 Just Dance - Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis
3 2 Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce
4 3 Heartless - Kanye West
5 5 Love Story - Taylor Swift
6 6 Gives You Hell - All American Rejects
7 4 Live Your Life - T.I. feat. Rihanna
8 16 You Found Me - Fray
9 10 Circus - Britney Spears
10 7 I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

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11 11 I Hate This Part - Pussycat Dolls


10 years ago (2/7/2004)

1 1 Hey Ya! - Outkast (9th and final week @ #1)
2 2 The Way You Move - Outkast feat. Sleepy Brown
3 4 Slow Jamz - Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx
4 3 You Don't Know My Name - Alicia Keys
5 6 Me, Myself And I - Beyonce
6 7 Yeah - Usher feat. Ludacris & Lil Jon
7 5 Milkshake - Kelis
8 8 Someday - Nickelback
9 11 Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
10 10 It's My Life - No Doubt


15 years ago (2/6/1999)

1 1 ... Baby One More Time - Britney Spears (2nd and final week @ #1)
2 6 Angel Of Mine - Monica
3 2 Have You Ever? - Brandy
4 3 Nobody's Supposed To Be Here - Deborah Cox
5 57 All I Have To Give - Backstreet Boys
6 4 I'm Your Angel - R Kelly & Celine Dion
7 5 Jumper - Third Eye Blind
8 11 Angel - Sarah McLachlan <3
9 7 Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
10 8 Hands - Jewel

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



The week of Feb 2 - Feb 8, 1959 is a memorable one in music history but not because of anything to do with the current #1 song, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes". It is memorable because that is the week that what is widely considered rock & roll's first tragedy occurred. Shortly after midnight on Feb 3rd, 1959, a chartered plane carrying singer/songwriter Buddy Holly, DJ J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, and the up and coming teenage singer, Ritchie Valens, crashed in a corn field shortly after taking off from an airport near Clear Lake, Iowa. All three of them, and the pilot, were instantly killed on impact. As it happens, Ritchie Valens had the #3 song on the Hot 100 at the time, "Donna", but all three of them; and especially Buddy Holly, would be long remembered and immortalized in songs like "American Pie," by Don McLean in 1971.


February 2, 1959 (for week ending February 8, 1959)

TW LW WK
01 01 12 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters (3 weeks at #1)
02 12 07 The All American Boy - Bill Parsons
03 03 11 Donna - Ritchie Valens
04 04 11 16 Candles - The Crests
05 05 09 Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
06 02 09 My Happiness - Connie Francis
07 06 11 Gotta Travel On - Billy Grammer
08 08 11 Lonely Teardrops - Jackie Wilson
09 07 17 A Lover's Question - Clyde McPhatter
10 09 08 Goodbye Baby - Jack Scott



Beatlemania really began to take hold of the Billboard chart the week of Feb 8th, 1964 when the Beatles, already at #1 with "I Want To Hold Your Hand," scored a second top 10 hit when "She Loves You," jumped into the top 10 as well. US teens were starting to try to find any music by the Beatles that they could find, and the old Swan and VeeJay singles were beginning to chart as well. And the amazing thing is, this was only the beginning of the Beatles' chart domination.


February 8, 1964

TW LW WK
01 01 04 I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 07 You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore
03 03 10 Out Of Limits - The Marketts
04 05 09 Hey Little Cobra - The Rip Chords
05 08 06 Um Um Um Um Um Um - Major Lance
06 04 10 Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
07 21 03 She Loves You - The Beatles
08 10 07 For You - Ricky Nelson
09 09 10 Anyone Who Had A Heart - Dionne Warwick
10 07 11 There! I've Said It Again - Bobby Vinton



February 8, 1969

TW LW WK
01 01 09 Crimson And Clover - Tommy James And The Shondells (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 11 Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone
03 03 08 Worst That Could Happen - Brooklyn Bridge
04 04 07 Touch Me - The Doors
05 10 06 Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
06 07 08 I Started A Joke - The Bee Gees
07 05 12 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
08 06 10 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Diana Ross And The Supremes & The Temptations
09 13 14 Hang 'Em High - Booker T. & The MG's
10 11 08 Can I Change My Mind - Tyrone Davis



February 9, 1974

TW LW WK
01 03 11 Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra (1 week at #1)
02 01 12 The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand
03 02 09 You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr
04 05 06 Americans - Byron MacGregor
05 08 12 Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) - Aretha Franklin
06 07 13 Let Me Be There - Olivia Newton-John
07 10 14 Spiders & Snakes - Jim Stafford
08 04 17 Show And Tell - Al Wilson
09 06 12 I've Got To Use My Imagination - Gladys Knight & The Pips
10 14 10 Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Jan 28, 2014 1:47:04 GMT -5 josh said:

Jan 28, 2014 1:33:50 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Thank you. She's waaaay tooo old for the song.

And you're way too old to talk about dick all the time yet you do anyways.

I'm not 2M. I will be here regardless of your childish personal attacks on me. The fact is Jennifer Lopez is too old for the f**king song. Stick to intellectual arguments that center around why you think it's cool women pushing 50 are always singing about getting high on drugs and partying. I talk about a diverse array of topics from sex to education to politics to music to technology all the time. The last 5 years of my career output doesn't revolve around singing shallow vapant records and trying to sell them to the public.

[Linnethia Monique]

15 years ago (2/6/1999)

1 1 ... Baby One More Time - Britney Spears (2nd and final week @ #1)
2 6 Angel Of Mine - Monica
3 2 Have You Ever? - Brandy
4 3 Nobody's Supposed To Be Here - Deborah Cox
5 57 All I Have To Give - Backstreet Boys
6 4 I'm Your Angel - R Kelly & Celine Dion
7 5 Jumper - Third Eye Blind
8 11 Angel - Sarah McLachlan <3
9 7 Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
10 8 Hands - Jewel

Yes for all the bolded songs! Some of my favorites of all-time.

[Tortuga]

Jan 27, 2014 18:12:08 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

VEVO streams:



"Drunk In Love" will obviously rise loads THIS tracking week after THAT Grammy performance.

I wonder why Poland is mentioned there.

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Jan 28, 2014 9:20:01 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Jan 28, 2014 1:47:04 GMT -5 josh said:

And you're way too old to talk about dick all the time yet you do anyways.

I'm not 2M. I will be here regardless of your childish personal attacks on me. The fact is Jennifer Lopez is too old for the f**king song. Stick to intellectual arguments that center around why you think it's cool women pushing 50 are always singing about getting high and partying all the time.

I agree with you.this type of songs should be written for Miley Cyrus!
She really deserves them

[badrobot]

Let's not get too ageist here. Madonna has had five top tens over 40 (including one of her biggest hits, "Music"), one of which was in her 50s.

Being over 40 doesn't mean you should slink away and disappear.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Jan 28, 2014 10:03:10 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Let's not get too ageist here. Madonna has had five top tens over 40 (including one of her biggest hits, "Music"), one of which was in her 50s.

Being over 40 doesn't mean you should slink away and disappear.

Compare Madonna, Cher and Jennifer Lopez's output when they were 40+ and you'll see a noticeable difference in the maturity of the material. Music doesn't come across as too young for Madonna in her 40s....

[Deleted]

Jan 28, 2014 10:03:10 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Let's not get too ageist here. Madonna has had five top tens over 40 (including one of her biggest hits, "Music"), one of which was in her 50s.

Being over 40 doesn't mean you should slink away and disappear.

As far as radio goes, if you're over 40 and female, it pretty much does.

[HolidayGuy]

Nowadays, that's looking to be more true than it was in the past. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Jan 28, 2014 10:08:47 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

Jan 28, 2014 10:03:10 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Let's not get too ageist here. Madonna has had five top tens over 40 (including one of her biggest hits, "Music"), one of which was in her 50s.

Being over 40 doesn't mean you should slink away and disappear.

As far as radio goes, if you're over 40 and female, it pretty much does.

It does appear that way but I think radio would be open to older artists releasing great songs. The material of the over 40 female these days is severely lacking in quality when compared with their younger counter parts. In most cases it comes off as a blatant attempt to try and sell to young people....and the other records they release sound like Urban AC and HOT AC records. Why can't people just get a quality record from the over 40 female artists? People will buy them now moreso than ever before. Any of those Adele records I could see an over 40 vocalist singing.

[Deleted]

Jan 28, 2014 10:03:10 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Let's not get too ageist here. Madonna has had five top tens over 40 (including one of her biggest hits, "Music"), one of which was in her 50s.

Being over 40 doesn't mean you should slink away and disappear.

Eminem is also over 40 now (if you don't mean only females)

[Deleted]

I don't know the reason;but many songs that smash in the US,have smashed in other parts of the world long time before;like STIUTK,royals,maybe thrift shop,BL,GL,JGMAR,WMU and now talk dirty and happy.
why???

[Push The Button]

Jan 28, 2014 11:52:28 GMT -5 @smirjal said:

I don't know the reason;but many songs that smash in the US,have smashed in other parts of the world long time before;like STIUTK,royals,maybe thrift shop,BL,GL,JGMAR,WMU and now talk dirty and happy.
why???

Most charts in the rest of the world are solely based on digital sales.

[Deleted]

Jan 28, 2014 11:57:55 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Jan 28, 2014 11:52:28 GMT -5 @smirjal said:

I don't know the reason;but many songs that smash in the US,have smashed in other parts of the world long time before;like STIUTK,royals,maybe thrift shop,BL,GL,JGMAR,WMU and now talk dirty and happy.
why???

Most charts in the rest of the world are solely based on digital sales.

but all of this songs were not in top 10 of US digital songs,when they were #1 in other parts of the world.were they?
when WMU was #1 all over the world,it wasn't even top 20 in US digital chart;and etc

[josh]

xenophobia

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

It's not about the age of the artists, it's about the age of the audience the format caters to.

[Deleted]

Jan 28, 2014 12:07:37 GMT -5 josh said:

xenophobia

who asked you to answer my question?!
(if it's none of your business)

[andrea55]

Jan 28, 2014 11:52:28 GMT -5 @smirjal said:

I don't know the reason;but many songs that smash in the US,have smashed in other parts of the world long time before;like STIUTK,royals,maybe thrift shop,BL,GL,JGMAR,WMU and now talk dirty and happy.
why???

Blurred lines, royals and thrift shop smashed in the US first and then went to other parts of the world. But yes there are songs that start off in Europe and others that started in the US

[HolidayGuy]

It's a little of both, as it makes sense that top 40 radio's core audience would be more into younger acts. I wonder if the average listener age for top 40 radio used to be a little higher at one point?

[Deleted]

Jan 28, 2014 12:35:32 GMT -5 andrea55 said:

Jan 28, 2014 11:52:28 GMT -5 @smirjal said:

I don't know the reason;but many songs that smash in the US,have smashed in other parts of the world long time before;like STIUTK,royals,maybe thrift shop,BL,GL,JGMAR,WMU and now talk dirty and happy.
why???

Blurred lines, royals and thrift shop smashed in the US first and then went to other parts of the world. But yes there are songs that start off in Europe and others that started in the US

all of these 3 songs had smashed in Australia and New Zeland(for example)long time before they smashed in US

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Jan 28, 2014 12:36:13 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

It's a little of both, as it makes sense that top 40 radio's core audience would be more into younger acts. I wonder if the average listener age for top 40 radio used to be a little higher at one point?

I think people were more willing to listen to older acts during the 90s and even more during the 80s. It used to not even matter about how good looking your were. It was definitely more about the music during the pre-clear channel take over of radio and making radio an extension of MTV....and this era of micro targeting consumers.

[Deleted]

The average listener age was definitely higher in the 80s. It started changing around the early-to mid-90s as rap and grunge really took hold of mainstream music. That drove away a lot of their older listeners, and it also led to the formation of the Hot AC and Urban AC formats.

[Push The Button]

The 80s had baby boomers who were still major entertainment consumers, so artists from the 60s were still viable for hits.

[HolidayGuy]

Tina Turner had that one huge album in her 40s, had another successful one thereafter (though not as successful) and then only scored one top 10 thereafter (which came in 1993, from her film bio).

Cher scored hits in her early 40s with Heart of Stone, which did well- but her albums thereafter were not nearly as successful, until Believe. And while that album went quadruple platinum, the title track was the only one U.S. radio really gave attention to.

And now we have Madonna, who was a lot more successful than those two, who's been able to score a top 10 on the Hot 100 with the first singles from her album in her late 40s and 50s. And perhaps there will be a certain level of radio interest, combined with initial sales and streaming, to boost her next fresh single into the top 10. But it will be a challenge.

[franklin]

Jan 28, 2014 9:00:22 GMT -5 @gagalicious said:

Top 10 flashbacks for this week:


1 97 My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson (1st week of 2 @ #1)

My Queen breaking records and snatching follicles :'(

[Enigma.]

My theory is if Madonna came up with song like Team NOW, she could still do very well but otherwise she is just too old for pop radio. Period. It's not ageism by radio in my opinion.

Did we listened to songs by 55 year old stars when we were 15? I didn't. Nobody can force teens to listen to old people who have been around when their parents were young.

Exceptions are of course welcome. They always are.