Billboard Hot 100 : 03/08/2014

[Glove Slap]

IDC this is a jam. Broke-ass pretentious haters can stay on welfare.

[raprulestheworld]

Feb 26, 2014 1:28:43 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

Feb 26, 2014 1:07:30 GMT -5 raprulestheworld said:

Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??????? Really? Care to elaborate?

The performers posing as Milli Vanilli did not perform even the littlest bit of their music. It was a fraud. They had to return their Best New Artist Grammy.

OK I guess this kind of explains it. Who did they give the Grammy to then?

[Lozzy]

Feb 26, 2014 1:49:19 GMT -5 raprulestheworld said:

Feb 26, 2014 1:28:43 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

The performers posing as Milli Vanilli did not perform even the littlest bit of their music. It was a fraud. They had to return their Best New Artist Grammy.

OK I guess this kind of explains it. Who did they give the Grammy to then?

Nobody en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_New_Artist#endnote_3

[raprulestheworld]

Feb 26, 2014 1:52:01 GMT -5 Lozzy said:

Feb 26, 2014 1:49:19 GMT -5 raprulestheworld said:

OK I guess this kind of explains it. Who did they give the Grammy to then?

Nobody en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_New_Artist#endnote_3

I kind of suspected that. Alrighty then, thanks bud and thanks for Wiki link too lol

[Daniel Collins]

1. KATY PERRY – Dark Horse: 202.662 (+ 0.800)
2. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 177.950 (+ 4.310)
3. LORDE – Team: 171.936 (+ 1.024)
4. ONEREPUBLIC – Counting Stars: 159.053 (- 2.034)
5. ONE DIRECTION – Story Of My Life: 138.007 (- 0.310)
6. BASTILLE – Pompeii: 134.510 (+ 1.687)
7. ELLIE GOULDING – Burn: 127.666 (- 1.565)
8. A GREAT BIG WORLD – Say Something w/C. Aguilera: 125.007 (- 1.179)
9. BEYONCÉ – Drunk In Love f/Jay Z: 122.502 (+ 0.333)
10. PITBULL – Timber f/Ke$ha: 115.312 (- 2.701)
11. EMINEM – The Monster f/Rihanna: 104.047 (- 1.559)
12. JASON DERULO – Talk Dirty f/2 Chainz: 102.848 (+ 2.184) ▲
13. PASSENGER – Let Her Go: 100.269 (- 2.293) ▼
14. AVICII – Wake Me Up: 92.812 (- 1.504)
15. JOHN LEGEND – All Of Me: 92.047 (+ 2.679)
16. KID INK – Show Me f/Chris Brown: 89.012 (+ 0.257)
17. LORDE – Royals: 83.882 (- 1.166)
18. IMAGINE DRAGONS – Demons: 77.752 (- 0.805)
19. AMERICAN AUTHORS – Best Day Of My Life: 72.897 (+ 0.575)
20. JASON ALDEAN – When She Says Baby: 72.597 (+ 0.321)


BRUNO MARS – Young Girls: 72.305 (+ 0.376)
LADY ANTEBELLUM – Compass: 65.457 (- 0.058)
ALOE BLACC – The Man: 64.210 (+ 1.889)
BLAKE SHELTON – Doin’ What She Likes: 55.292 (+ 0.079)
FRANKIE BALLARD – Helluva Life: 55.119 (+ 0.212)
TY DOLLA $IGN – Paranoid f/B.o.B: 47.856 (+ 0.185)
RASCAL FLATTS – Rewind: 41.202 (+ 0.434)
DAN + SHAY – 19 You + Me: 39.628 (+ 0.055)
DEMI LOVATO – Neon Lights: 35.641 (+ 0.597)
CHRIS BROWN – Loyal f/Lil’ Wayne: 35.345 (+ 0.027)
AVICII – Hey Brother: 34.860 (+ 0.456)
TREY SONGZ – Na Na: 34.190 (+ 0.069)
MARTIN GARRIX – Animals: 33.835 (- 0.017)
SHAKIRA F/RIHANNA – Can’t Remember To Forget You: 25.551 (+ 0.328)
JHENE AIKO – The Worst: 22.750 (+ 0.465)
NEON TREES – Sleeping With A Friend: 22.479 (+ 0.452)
MIRANDA LAMBERT – Automatic: 19.366 (+ 0.347)
BEYONCE – Partition: 17.450 (+ 1.264)
HUNTER HAYES – Invisible: 17.002 (- 0.025)
NAUGHTY BOY – La La La f/Sam Smith: 15.555 (+ 0.532)
PARAMORE – Ain’t It Fun: 12.386 (+ 1.222)
FOSTER THE PEOPLE – Coming Of Age: 9.634 (- 0.039)
MARIAH CAREY – You’re Mine (Eternal): 7.748 (+ 0.960)
IMAGINE DRAGONS – On Top Of The World: 7.539 (+ 0.019)
DISCLOSURE – Latch f/Sam Smith: 7.401 (+ 0.080)
AUSTIN MAHONE – Mmm Yeah f/Pitbull: 5.904 (+ 0.381)
EMINEM – Headlights: 5.602 (+ 0.058)
BASTILLE – Bad Blood: 4.966 (+ 0.149)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Not A Bad Thing: 4.867 (+ 0.340)
ZEDD – Find You f/M. Koma & M. Bryant: 4.095 (+ 0.379)
PITBULL – Wild Wild Love f/GRL: 2.665 (+ 0.589)
COLDPLAY – Midnight: 0.002

[surfy]

YESS @ that Partition update!!!

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Hopefully DIL can pick up again. It could probably scrape the bottom of the Top 5.

[Daniel Collins]

I changed my mind after seeing the digital figures:

This is now my final prediction:
1. Happy
2. Dark Horse
3. Talk Dirty
4. All Of Me
5. Drunk In Love
6. Say Something
7. Pompeii
8. Team
9. Counting Stars
10. Timber

[jj99$ - - LeLe]

I think happy will sneak it this week.

I imagine it'll be in the 400k range soon

[#Joseph.T]

PITBULL – Wild Wild Love f/GRL: 2.665 (+ 0.589)
It's starting ;)

[HolidayGuy]

Yah- regardless of who was in the videos and miming to the track live, those tracks under the name Milli Vanilli were enjoyable pop at the time.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/news/5915773/frozen-earns-most-weeks-at-no-1-for-a-soundtrack-since-titanic

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Pharrell's "Happy" continues to rule at No. 1 for a second week, selling 402,000 downloads (up 22%). It's the biggest sales week for a song outside of the Christmas season since last September, when Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" flew to No. 1 with 477,000 (week ending Sept. 15). That was the week Cyrus' controversial video for "Wrecking Ball" debuted, hitting YouTube and Vevo on Sept. 9.

Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, holds at No. 2 this week with 251,000 (down 9%). In fact, all of the top five songs this week are stationary. Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," featuring 2 Chainz, is No. 3 (247,000; down 7%); John Legend's "All of Me" holds at No. 4 (203,000; though up by 23%); and Bastille's "Pompeii" is steady at No. 5 (142,000; down 3%).

Aloe Blacc's "The Man" rises 8-6 with 133,000 (up 3%), Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" climbs 9-7 with 125,000 (though it’s down 2%), and a Great Big World & Christina Aguilera's "Say Something" falls 6-8 with 119,000 (down 18%).

Pitbull's "Timber," featuring Ke$ha, rises 10-9 with 112,000 (down 9%), and Lorde's "Team" returns to the top 10, ascending 11-10 with 111,000 (down 6%).


Digital track sales this past week totaled 24.4 million downloads, down 4% compared with last week (25.4 million) and down 9% stacked next to the comparable week of 2013 (26.9 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 201.1 million, down 12% compared with the same total at this point last year (227.3 million).

[josh]

Damn, wasn't expecting the sales gap to be 151k. :O 25 mediabase AI gap so 15-20 BDS... Streaming will be a big gap for Katy but this could actually be really close.

[Deleted]

Top 10 prediction (based on calculations from probably inaccurate data):

1. Dark Horse
2. Happy
3. Talk Dirty
4. Drunk in Love
5. All of Me
6. Pompeii
7. Say Something
8. Team
9. Timber
10. Counting stars

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Feb 26, 2014 11:34:04 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Top 10 prediction (based on calculations from probably inaccurate data):

1. Dark Horse
2. Happy
3. Talk Dirty
4. Drunk in Love
5. All of Me
6. Pompeii
7. Say Something
8. Team
9. Timber
10. Counting stars

Looks about right to me...

[Deleted]

I hope Happy can nab that airplay #1 and get enough of a sales boost vs DH so it can hopefully get #1 on the Hot 100 next week!

[KeepDeanWeird]

Feb 26, 2014 11:48:57 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

I hope Happy can nab that airplay #1 and get enough of a sales boost vs DH so it can hopefully get #1 on the Hot 100 next week!

With the Oscar performance on Sunday, the hype leading up to it and the consistent airplay gains, it's a sure-thing Happy will be number 1 starting next week and for the next few weeks.

[Deleted]

Feb 26, 2014 11:55:27 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Feb 26, 2014 11:48:57 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

I hope Happy can nab that airplay #1 and get enough of a sales boost vs DH so it can hopefully get #1 on the Hot 100 next week!

With the Oscar performance on Sunday, the hype leading up to it and the consistent airplay gains, it's a sure-thing Happy will be number 1 starting next week and for the next few weeks.

yes but what about the album swap thing that will cause it to lose all those single sales as TM did in November and WB a few weeks earlier (therefore making Happy's Oscar performance have no positive impact on sales)?

[Deleted]

Couldn't he release his new album later?!!!

[Linnethia Monique]

I doubt over 150K people are pre-ordering the album on iTunes. And this is coming from somebody who pre-ordered the album on iTunes and physical form.

[RainMan94]

Plus, sales tracking for the week ends at midnight on Sunday after he would have performed. So, the CMA effect shouldn't be reflected until the March 22 chart.

[Rocky]

Digital Songs
01. Pharrell Williams - Happy - 402,000 (1,721,000)
02. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse - 251,000 (3,507,000)
03. Jason Derülo feat. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty - 247,000
04. John Legend - All Of Me - 203,000
05. Bastille - Pompeii 142,000 - (1,883,000)
06. Aloe Blacc - The Man - 133,000
07. Idina Menzel - Let It Go - 125,000
08. A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - Say Something - 119,000 (3,027,000) *3M
09. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber - 112,000 (3,385,000)
10. Lorde - Team - 111,000


"Happy" is #1 on Hot 100, chart coming soon.

[Deleted]

Feb 26, 2014 9:52:10 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Yah- regardless of who was in the videos and miming to the track live, those tracks under the name Milli Vanilli were enjoyable pop at the time.

Can you even buy that music today? Or did they completely take it off the market?

[Duca]

Pharrell Williams' 'Happy' Hits No. 1 On Hot 100
After two weeks at No. 2, the song rises to the top, dethroning Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse,' featuring Juicy J, after four weeks at the summit. Plus, John Legend lands his first top 10

Clap for Pharrell Williams, whose bouncy single "Happy" reaches the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with a 2-1 rise. The song unseats Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, which reigned the past four weeks (and despite the release of the latter's song's video last week). Meanwhile, John Legend earns his first Hot 100 top 10 with "All of Me."

As we do each Wednesday, let's run down the numbers behind the Hot 100's top 10.

Williams claims his fourth Hot 100 No. 1, but first as a lead artist. He'd previously ruled as a featured act on Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" (three weeks, 2004); Ludacris' "Money Maker" (two weeks, 2006); and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (also featuring T.I.; 12 weeks, 2013). (Technically, Williams boasts one other "Number One" on the Hot 100: his song "Number One," featuring Kanye West, reached No. 57 in 2006 …)

As half the duo the Neptunes, Williams has also produced and co-written two other Hot 100 No. 1s on which he doesn't claim an artist billing: Nelly's "Hot in Herre" (seven weeks, 2002) and Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" (four weeks, 2005).

With Williams having first graced the Hot 100 the week of March 2, 2002 (as a guest, with Diddy, on Busta Rhymes' No. 11-peaking "Pass the Courvoisier Part II"), he waited 12 years and a week (as this week's chart is dated March 8) for his first Hot 100 topper as a lead act. He closes the longest interval between an act's first chart entry and first No. 1 as a lead since Dr. Dre needed 15 years and three weeks from 1993's No. 2 hit "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" to 2009's "Crack a Bottle," on which he shares lead billing with Eminem and 50 Cent. (In between, Dre spent four weeks at No. 1 in 1996 as a featured act on Blackstreet's "No Diggity.")

The longest such wait among all acts? Santana spanned almost exactly 30 years between the group's first Hot 100 hit, "Jingo" (Oct. 25, 1969), and its first No. 1, "Smooth," featuring Rob Thomas, which began its 12-week command on the Oct. 23, 1999, chart.

"Happy" tops the Hot 100 fueled largely by a 22% gain to 402,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and leads Digital Songs for a second week. The sum marks the biggest sales week for a song outside the Christmas season since the week ending Sept. 15, 2013, when Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" crashed No. 1 with 477,000 sold (after the song's buzz-worthy video had debuted on Sept. 9). "Happy" additionally pushes 4-2 on Radio Songs with a 28% surge to 139 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS, and hikes 7-4 on Streaming Songs with 6.1 million U.S. streams (up 38%), according to BDS.

The song claims the Hot 100's Airplay Gainer award for a fifth consecutive week and the Digital Gainer nod for a third straight frame.

"Happy" concurrently spends a second week at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

"Happy" takes over atop the Hot 100 despite added streaming points for Perry's "Dark Horse" (1-2), whose official video was released on Feb. 20. "Horse" posts a second week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (150 million, up 5%), while the clip's premiere spurs the track's return to the top of Streaming Songs (3-1; 11.6 million, up 86%), netting it the Hot 100's Streaming Gainer ribbon; the song had first ruled Streaming Songs four weeks ago. "Horse" leads the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart (2.9 million U.S. streams, down 2%, according to BDS) for a seventh week. On Digital Songs, which it led for five weeks, "Horse" holds at No. 2 (251,000, down 9%).

The "Happy" and "Horse" race to the top of the Hot 100 was close again this week. Last week, "Horse" won over "Happy" by a tight 5% overall points margin. This week, with "Happy" up by 26% and "Horse" up by 15%, the former crosses the finish line first with a similarly slim 4% lead. (Likely further aiding Williams' cause next week: he'll perform "Happy" at the Oscars on Sunday (March 2). The track is nominated for best original song.)

Below the top two, Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," featuring 2 Chainz, logs a third week at No. 3 on the Hot 100. The cut backtracks 2-3 on Streaming Songs but with a 5% lift to 6.9 million. It rises 15-13 on Radio Songs (75 million, up 13%), while holding at No. 3 on Digital Songs (247,000, down 7%).

John Legend leaps to his first Hot 100 top 10, as "All of Me" vaults 11-4. The piano ballad notches a second week at No. 4 on Digital Songs (203,000, up 24%) and pushes 11-6 on Streaming Songs (4.5 million, up 26%) and 18-14 on Radio Songs (71 million, up 26%). While the song has become entrenched at R&B radio, leading Adult R&B songs for a fourth week this week, its profile and sales have soared after Legend sang it at the Grammy Awards on Jan. 26.

Prior to his first Hot 100 top 10, Legend had reached a No. 24 highpoint with two songs: "Ordinary People" in 2005 and "Green Light," featuring Andre 3000, in 2008.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Beyonce and featured artist/husband Jay Z hold at No. 5 with their No. 2-peaking "Drunk in Love." With a 12-9 advance on Radio Songs (92 million, up 9%), the track becomes Beyonce's 15th top 10 on the tally (and first since Lady Gaga's "Telephone," featuring Beyonce, in 2010) and Jay Z's 17th. (Beyonce notched another 10 Radio Songs top 10s with Destiny's Child in 1999-2005.)

In the second half of the Hot 100's top 10, Bastille's "Pompeii" rises 8-6 (a new peak) on the Hot 100 and leads Hot Rock Songs for a second week; Lorde's "Team" also reaches a new peak (9-7); A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera's "Say Something" falls to No. 8 from its No. 4 peak; OneRepublic's No. 2 hit "Counting Stars" descends 6-9; and Pitbull's former three-week No. 1 "Timber," featuring Ke$ha, slides 7-10.

Visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 27), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety and Digital Songs, Radio Songs, Streaming Songs and On-Demand Songs, will refresh, as they do each Thursday. The latest charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine (on sale on Friday, Feb. 28).

[Enigma.]

Say Something already 3m, wow

[Daniel Collins]

Good to see that the Top 4 of Digital Songs is the same as the Top 4 Of Hot 100

[Deleted]

Can we stop crying racism now that nearly the entire top 5 is black? 7 black artists vs 1 white.

[areyoureadytojump]

Gary Trust re-tweeted my Tweet that I thought Happy would be #1 this week. He asked whether DH or H would be #1.

[Deleted]

Congratulations to Pharrell!!!!!!!!

[Rocky]

Feb 26, 2014 13:42:12 GMT -5 Codex said:

Can we stop crying racism now that nearly the entire top 5 is black? 7 black artists vs 1 white.

Katy Perry is also on a trap-pop track with a black featured artist. (the song is also derk, but that's another question)