Billboard Hot 100 : 03/22/2014

[#Joseph.T]

Mar 11, 2014 8:17:53 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

1. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 238.882 (+4.310)

12-16 days to break BL's record if 'Happy' keeps going with +3m update everyday

[Deleted]

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



March 16, 1959 (for week ending March 22, 1959)

TW LW WK
01 01 06 Venus - Frankie Avalon (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 07 Charlie Brown - The Coasters
03 05 05 Alvin's Harmonica - David Seville And The Chipmunks
04 07 08 It's Just A Matter Of Time - Brook Benton
05 03 15 Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
06 06 08 I've Had It - The Bell Notes
07 04 17 Donna - Ritchie Valens
08 15 08 Tragedy - Thomas Wayne
09 19 04 Never Be Anyone Else But You - Ricky Nelson
10 12 11 Peter Gunn - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra



The Beatles made Hot 100 history again the week ending March 21st, 1964 when "She Loves You" finally displaced "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in the #1 position after holding at #2 for 4 consecutive weeks. This not only gave the Beatles their second consecutive #1 hit, it also made them the first artists since Elvis to replace themselves at #1 on the Billboard singles chart. Today, since a number of other artists have accomplished this feat, it is easy to forget just how rare an occurrence it really was back then. After the Beatles, no other artist would manage to replace themselves at #1 on the Hot 100 for many, many years.

And if that wasn't enough, yet another Beatles song, their cover of "Twist And Shout," jumped from #55 to #7 this same week giving them 4 songs in the top 10 at the same time. It would be safe to say, that at this point, Beatlemania was in full swing, and teenagers couldn't get enough of them.


March 21, 1964

TW LW WK
01 02 09 She Loves You - The Beatles (1 week at #1) 2nd Beatles song to go to #1
02 01 10 I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
03 03 08 Please Please Me - The Beatles
04 04 08 Dawn (Go Away) - The Four Seasons
05 07 06 Fun, Fun, Fun - The Beach Boys
06 06 09 Navy Blue - Diane Renay
07 55 02 Twist And Shout - The Beatles
08 05 12 Java - Al Hirt
09 10 08 I Love You More And More Every Day - Al Martino
10 13 06 Hello Dolly! - Louis Armstrong



March 22, 1969

TW LW WK
01 01 08 Dizzy - Tommy Roe (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 09 Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
03 05 07 Traces - Classics IV Featuring Dennis Yost
04 04 12 Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
05 08 09 Indian Giver - 1910 Fruitgum Co
06 09 07 Time Of The Season - The Zombies
07 07 08 This Girl's In Love With You - Dionne Warwick
08 03 17 Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone
09 06 15 Crimson And Clover - Tommy James And The Shondells
10 11 06 Run Away Child, Running Wild - The Temptations



March 23, 1974

TW LW WK
01 03 10 Dark Lady - Cher (1 week at #1)
02 01 11 Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
03 04 09 Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver
04 02 12 Boogie Down - Eddie Kendricks
05 06 08 Mockingbird - Carly Simon & James Taylor
06 12 06 Bennie And The Jets - Elton John
07 14 06 Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede
08 10 07 Jet - Paul McCartney & Wings
09 11 11 Eres Tu (Touch The Wind) - Mocedades
10 07 16 Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang

[Envoirment]

PARAMORE – Ain’t It Fun: 21.944 (+1.779)

Omg! :'(

[Linnethia Monique]

Mar 11, 2014 10:53:43 GMT -5 Envoirment said:

PARAMORE – Ain’t It Fun: 21.944 (+1.779)

Omg! :'(

It's coming :'( The lord has answered my prayers.

[HolidayGuy]

The March 23 chart- almost a year prior to my birth. Cherilyn scoring the third No. 1 in her "story-songs" trilogy.

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Mar 11, 2014 11:04:54 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

The March 23 chart- almost a year prior to my birth. Cherilyn scoring the third No. 1 in her "story-songs" trilogy.

Speaking of Cher and story-songs, did you know that Cher was the one that they originally wanted to sing "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia?" It's true, but Sonny didn't want Cher to be known for only doing "dark" story-songs so he turned it down on her behalf and it went on to be the only #1 hit for The Carol Burnett Show's Vicki Lawrence.

True story.

[HolidayGuy]

^Yes, I believe I read that not too long ago. I can hear Cher singing that one. (Of course, Reba McEntire covered it later on).

[KeepDeanWeird]

Mar 11, 2014 11:13:25 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

Mar 11, 2014 11:04:54 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

The March 23 chart- almost a year prior to my birth. Cherilyn scoring the third No. 1 in her "story-songs" trilogy.

Speaking of Cher and story-songs, did you know that Cher was the one that they originally wanted to sing "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia?" It's true, but Sonny didn't want Cher to be known for only doing "dark" story-songs so he turned it down on her behalf and it went on to be the only #1 hit for The Carol Burnett Show's Vicki Lawrence.

True story.

That is funny. Certain #1 for Cher and DL would be her last major hit until 1979's TMH. Sonny got it all wrong there.

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 from 35, 30, 25, and 20 years ago:

March 24, 1979

01 02 Tragedy - The Bee Gees (1st of 2 weeks at #1)
02 01 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
03 06 What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
04 04 Heaven Knows - Donna Summer w/Brooklyn Dreams
05 05 Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
06 03 Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
07 08 Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
08 07 Fire - The Pointer Sisters
09 10 What You Won't Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
10 09 A Little More Love - Olivia Newton-John


March 24, 1984

01 01 Jump - Van Halen (5th and final week at #1)
02 03 Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
03 02 Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
04 05 Footloose - Kenny Loggins
05 08 Here Comes The Rain Again - The Eurythmics
06 07 I Want a New Drug - Huey Lewis & The News
07 04 99 Luftballons - Nena
08 12 Automatic - The Pointer Sisters
09 13 Adult Education - Daryl Hall & John Oates
10 11 Got a Hold On Me - Christine McVie


March 25, 1989

01 02 The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics (1st and only week at #1)
02 06 Eternal Flame - The Bangles
03 04 Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli
04 08 The Look - Roxette
05 07 My Heart Can't Tell You No - Rod Stewart
06 01 Lost In Your Eyes - Debbie Gibson
07 14 She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
08 12 Walk The Dinosaur - Was (Not Was)
09 03 Roni - Bobby Brown
10 11 You're Not Alone - Chicago


March 19, 1994

01 01 The Sign - Ace Of Base (2nd of 6 weeks at #1)
02 02 The Power Of Love - Celine Dion
03 04 Without You / Never Forget You - Mariah Carey
04 03 Whatta Man - Salt-n-Pepa feat. En Vogue
05 06 Bump N' Grind - R. Kelly
06 05 So Much In Love - All-4-One
07 08 Now And Forever - Richard Marx
08 07 Breathe Again - Toni Braxton
09 12 Gin And Juice - Snoop Doggy Dogg
10 11 Because Of Love - Janet Jackson

[jenglisbe]

Mar 11, 2014 12:16:05 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

March 25, 1989

01 02 The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics (1st and only week at #1)
02 06 Eternal Flame - The Bangles
03 04 Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli
04 08 The Look - Roxette
05 07 My Heart Can't Tell You No - Rod Stewart
06 01 Lost In Your Eyes - Debbie Gibson
07 14 She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
08 12 Walk The Dinosaur - Was (Not Was)
09 03 Roni - Bobby Brown
10 11 You're Not Alone - Chicago


March 19, 1994

01 01 The Sign - Ace Of Base (2nd of 6 weeks at #1)
02 02 The Power Of Love - Celine Dion
03 04 Without You / Never Forget You - Mariah Carey
04 03 Whatta Man - Salt-n-Pepa feat. En Vogue
05 06 Bump N' Grind - R. Kelly
06 05 So Much In Love - All-4-One
07 08 Now And Forever - Richard Marx
08 07 Breathe Again - Toni Braxton
09 12 Gin And Juice - Snoop Doggy Dogg
10 11 Because Of Love - Janet Jackson

I have all 20 of those songs on my iPod except for the one by Chicago. I need to look that one up as I don't remember it.

I only have 4 of the current top 10 on my iPod.

[Verisimilitude]

VEVO Streams:

[josh]

Partition doing really well outside the US.

[Verisimilitude]

Weird how Demi's version of "Let It Go" is more popular on VEVO, while Idina's version is bigger on Spotify.

[Au$tin]

The original version is still more popular on YouTube. The problem is that a user uploaded version of the movie clip went viral before Disney uploaded the clip to VEVO. That user uploaded video that goes through YouTube is still the more popular video. Thankfully both count towards YouTube's streaming for Billboard, but only the less popular version counts towards VEVO's chart.

[HolidayGuy]

To contribute to the discussion: The "Let it Go" uploaded by WD Animation Studios, has 134 million+ views (non-Vevo), while the DisneyMsuicVevo one has "just" 9.3m or so.

[Deleted]

Top 10 Prediction:

1. Happy (more than 50% lead over #2 song, one must be high to think there is any chance it won't be #1)
2. Dark Horse (also still strong in the top 2, 20-25% lead over the #3 song)
3. All of Me
4. Talk Dirty (it'll be close between 3 and 4 though, could be either way for these two)
5. Team (I may be wrong about it being higher than Pompeii, in which case it will probably never hit the top 5, but I calculated a bit more points for Team than for Pompeii, but it could be a lot of ambiguity for the streaming totals for the two songs)
6. Pompeii
7. Drunk in Love
8. Let it Go (thanks to a 60% sales boost)
9. Counting Stars
10. Timber

Say Something looks like it will fall out this week, probably to #12 and The Man will rise to #11...I could be wrong though as I have been many of the previous weeks...

[HolidayGuy]

The "Let it Go" shade... I can't take it.

[Duca]

Idina's version of Let It Go will end being a bigger hit than any Demi single. Kind of hilarious since they got Demi to record the song expecting her to turn it into a bigger hit.

[HolidayGuy]

^End up being? It's been for some time now.

[Verisimilitude]

Mar 11, 2014 14:53:57 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

^End up being? It's been for some time now.

"Let It Go" is not bigger than "Heart Attack" or "Give Your Heart A Break" in the US yet.

[Deleted]

Mar 11, 2014 14:59:16 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

Mar 11, 2014 14:53:57 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

^End up being? It's been for some time now.

"Let It Go" is not bigger than "Heart Attack" or "Give Your Heart A Break" in the US yet.

"YET"...but it will be soon lol

[icefire9]

The Dark Horse music video is still going strong...

[HolidayGuy]

Ohhh. I misread- I thought it said it would be bigger than Lovato's version.

[Daniel Collins]

1. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 243.325 (+ 4.443)
2. KATY PERRY – Dark Horse: 208.936 (+ 0.156)
3. LORDE – Team: 195.492 (+ 1.035)
4. BASTILLE – Pompeii: 161.659 (+ 1.548)
5. ONEREPUBLIC – Counting Stars: 145.640 (- 0.882)
6. JOHN LEGEND – All Of Me: 140.976 (+ 4.703)
7. BEYONCÉ – Drunk In Love f/Jay Z: 134.067 (- 0.321)
8. JASON DERULO – Talk Dirty f/2 Chainz: 124.863 (+ 1.342)
9. ONE DIRECTION – Story Of My Life: 120.276 (- 1.642)
10. ELLIE GOULDING – Burn: 99.635 (- 1.176)
11. A GREAT BIG WORLD – Say Something w/C. Aguilera: 93.811 (- 3.008)
12. PITBULL – Timber f/Ke$ha: 91.056 (- 2.024)
13. AMERICAN AUTHORS – Best Day Of My Life: 89.110 (+ 0.942) ▲
14. EMINEM – The Monster f/Rihanna: 87.942 (- 1.402) ▼
15. KID INK – Show Me f/Chris Brown: 84.695 (- 1.085)
16. AVICII – Wake Me Up: 80.755 (- 0.267)
17. PASSENGER – Let Her Go: 76.255 (- 1.452)
18. BRUNO MARS – Young Girls: 74.780 (- 0.209)
19. ALOE BLACC – The Man: 73.631 (+ 0.951) ▲
20. IMAGINE DRAGONS – Demons: 72.554 (- 0.340) ▼

LORDE – Royals: 71.106 (- 0.924)
FRANKIE BALLARD – Helluva Life: 63.194 (+ 1.652)
BLAKE SHELTON – Doin’ What She Likes: 60.645 (+ 0.509)
TY DOLLA $IGN – Paranoid f/B.o.B: 48.716 (+ 0.007)
AVICII – Hey Brother: 48.194 (+ 1.508)
MARTIN GARRIX – Animals: 45.446 (+ 0.498)
RASCAL FLATTS – Rewind: 45.079 (+ 0.267)
DEMI LOVATO – Neon Lights: 43.089 (+ 0.763)
CHRIS BROWN – Loyal f/Lil’ Wayne: 41.787 (+ 0.436)
DAN + SHAY – 19 You + Me: 41.526 (+ 0.181)
TREY SONGZ – Na Na: 40.867 (- 0.138)
BEYONCE – Partition: 32.685 (+ 0.631)
MIRANDA LAMBERT – Automatic: 31.099 (+ 0.732)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Not A Bad Thing: 30.611 (+ 2.645)
JHENE AIKO – The Worst: 29.417 (+ 0.773)
NEON TREES – Sleeping With A Friend: 27.280 (+ 0.532)
SHAKIRA F/RIHANNA – Can’t Remember To Forget You: 26.484 (- 0.160)
THE CHAINSMOKERS – #SELFIE: 24.682 (+ 1.641)
NAUGHTY BOY – La La La f/Sam Smith: 23.682 (+ 0.675)
PARAMORE – Ain’t It Fun: 22.559 (+ 0.615)
HUNTER HAYES – Invisible: 21.463 (+ 0.233)
AUSTIN MAHONE – Mmm Yeah f/Pitbull: 11.412 (+ 0.324)
MARIAH CAREY – You’re Mine (Eternal): 10.393 (+ 0.255)
EMINEM – Headlights: 9.737 (+ 0.254)
FOSTER THE PEOPLE – Coming Of Age: 9.590 (- 0.030)
IMAGINE DRAGONS – On Top Of The World: 9.176 (- 0.024)
DISCLOSURE – Latch f/Sam Smith: 9.068 (+ 0.094)
BASTILLE – Bad Blood: 6.939 (+ 0.106)
COLDPLAY – Magic: 6.553 (+ 0.028)
ZEDD – Find You f/M. Koma & M. Bryant: 5.765 (- 0.257)
IDINA MENZEL – Let It Go: 5.629
LINKIN PARK – Guilty All The Same: 4.458
JOE – Love & Sex Pt 2 f/K. Rowland: 3.628
PHILLIP PHILLIPS – Raging Fire: 3.614 (+ 0.332)
JENNIFER LOPEZ – I Luh Ya Papi f/French Montana: 1.005

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Mar 12, 2014 6:44:23 GMT -5 Daniel Collins said:

6. JOHN LEGEND – All Of Me: 140.976 (+ 4.703)

next #2 is coming!!!

[Enigma.]

Paramore (and/or their label) are very wise to send Ain't It Fun for adds on spring. It's a perfect summery-but-a-reality-check type of song and catchy too.

[Kris]

Heart Attack was big?

[#Joseph.T]

Mar 12, 2014 9:10:35 GMT -5 Kris said:

Heart Attack was big?

I think it's not because it peaked at #10

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/news/5930454/rick-ross-rules-with-fifth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Pharrell's "Happy" remains at No. 1, selling 490,000 downloads — the biggest week for a digital song since Katy Perry's "Roar" debuted with 557,000 in the week ending Aug. 18, 2013. Overall, "Happy" tallies the 13th-largest sales week ever for a digital song and the eighth-largest for a non-debuting title.

John Legend's "All of Me" reaches a new peak and its largest sales week as it jumps 4-2 with 210,000 (up 6%). It displaces Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" (featuring 2 Chainz), which falls 2-3 with 195,000 (down 10%).

In the week after it won the Academy Award for best original song, "Let It Go," as performed by Idina Menzel, jumps 5-4 with its best sales week yet: 185,000 (up 42%). Itstotal sales rise to 1.7 million.

Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, slips 3-5 with 182,000 (down 14%) while Bastille's "Pompeii" is steady at No. 6 with 117,000 (down 8%).

Coldplay's new song "Magic" debuts at No. 7 with 114,000. The cut was released March 3, and is the first single from the band's forthcoming studio album, "Ghost Stories," which is due May 19. The rock band's last album, 2011's "Mylo Xyloto," was led by the single "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," which debuted at No. 17 on Digital Songs with 85,000 from only three days of sales. A week later, after its first full week of availability, it jumped to No. 7 with 136,000.

Aloe Blacc's "The Man" descends 7-8 with 108,000 (down 10%), and Lorde's "Team" is a non-mover at No. 9 with 90,000 (down 10%).

The Chainsmokers' fast-rising hit "#SELFIE" zooms from No. 20 to No. 10 with 88,000 sold (up 64%). The cut also rises 33-27 on the Pop Songs airplay chart (known as Mainstream Top 40 on Billboard.biz).


Digital track sales this past week totaled 23.04 million downloads, up less than 1% compared with last week (22.99 million) and down 9% stacked next to the comparable week of 2013 (25.4 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 247.1 million, down 11% compared with the same total at this point last year (278.8 million).

[popstop]

#10. Up 64%. I am beginning to become terrified that #SELFIE will be a big hit.