Billboard Hot 100 : 04/26/2014

[Verisimilitude]

I recall Dixie Chicks' "Landslide" tumbling majorly after Natalie Maines made the anti-Bush comments.

[Deleted]

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



April 20, 1959 (for week ending April 25, 1959)

TW LW WK
01 01 07 Come Softly To Me - The Fleetwoods (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 11 Venus - Frankie Avalon
03 03 10 Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens
04 10 04 I Need Your Love Tonight - Elvis Presley
05 08 05 (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such As I - Elvis Presley
06 06 09 Never Be Anyone Else But You - Ricky Nelson
07 09 07 Guitar Boogie Shuffle - The Virtues
08 04 13 It's Just A Matter Of Time - Brook Benton
09 05 13 Tragedy - Thomas Wayne
10 11 08 It's Late - Ricky Nelson



April 25, 1964

TW LW WK
01 01 05 Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles (4 weeks at #1)
02 02 07 Twist And Shout - The Beatles
03 05 05 Do You Want To Know A Secret - The Beatles
04 04 11 Hello, Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
05 03 10 Suspicion - Terry Stafford
06 07 11 Glad All Over - The Dave Clark Five
07 11 04 Bits And Pieces - The Dave Clark Five
08 09 09 Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) - The Serendipity Singers
09 14 04 My Guy - Mary Wells
10 10 08 Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean



April 26, 1969

TW LW WK
01 01 08 Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) - The 5th Dimension (3 weeks at #1)
02 02 09 You've Made Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears
03 03 07 It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers
04 07 07 Hair - The Cowsills
05 04 09 Only The Strong Survive - Jerry Butler
06 08 11 Twenty-Five Miles - Edwin Starr
07 06 09 Galveston - Glen Campbell
08 24 07 Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The M.G.'s
09 05 13 Dizzy - Tommy Roe
10 12 06 Sweet Cherry Wine - Tommy James And The Shondells



April 27, 1974

TW LW WK
01 01 09 TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - MFSB featuring The Three Degrees (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 11 Bennie And The Jets - Elton John
03 04 11 Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips
04 08 08 The Loco-Motion - Grand Funk
05 06 08 Oh My My - Ringo Starr
06 03 11 Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede
07 05 16 Come And Get Your Love - Redbone
08 13 07 Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
09 10 09 I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song - Jim Croce
10 11 13 Lookin' For A Love - Bobby Womack

[KeepDeanWeird]

Apr 15, 2014 7:29:39 GMT -5 Kris said:

does drunk in love hold the record for fastest falling song in airplay?

Unless, it's something national irrational event ("Landslide" and "Die Young"), as I posted last week, I can't think of a song that has dropped so far so fast consistently day-to-day for three weeks. I don't understand the label's strategy. It's clear Partition is NOT going to pop at CHR, XO has been dead for months, so why wasn't something like "Blow" being serviced? (I'm sure there are a few puns in there.) This era started off with such unbelievable excitement and now four months later....

[Deleted]

Lol at Demons, Counting stars, and Neon Lights rising.

[Verisimilitude]

VEVO Streams:

[icefire9]

I swear, when the Birthday music video gets released, Katy will have 3 songs in the top 10 of Vevo.

[josh]

The world needs to start watching some new videos.

[Deleted]

Top 10 prediction:

1. Happy
2. All of Me (if Happy didn't get that sudden spike in streaming this would probably hit #1 already this week)
3. Dark Horse
4. Talk Dirty (this is gonna set a record for the most consecutive weeks spent at #3 and 4...just like Payphone spent 13 straight weeks at #2 and #3 in 2012
5. Let It Go
6. Turn Down for What
7. Pompeii
8. Counting Stars
9. Team
10. Loyal

(NABT rise #11, BDOML #12, The Man fall to #13, Sing debut at #14)

[Enigma.]

Apr 15, 2014 7:42:38 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

Apr 15, 2014 7:29:39 GMT -5 Kris said:

does drunk in love hold the record for fastest falling song in airplay?

Ironically, Die Young holds that honor. It was purged very harshly.

We must exclude holiday songs here I guess.

....

And hands up, who are STILL watching Roar? Seriously...

[Deleted]

LOL @ Rap God returning to top 10 on Vevo...what caused the video to jump back up? Or was it just bubbling right under the top ten before and the songs above it fell this week?

[Deleted]

Apr 15, 2014 11:27:12 GMT -5 josh said:

The world needs to start watching some new videos.

*insert Elissa bitter gif that I'm too lazy to find*

Shocked that G.U.Y is already no where's to be found on the video streaming charts. Remember when GaGa videos were a thing?

[Deleted]

Apr 15, 2014 8:47:28 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Apr 15, 2014 7:29:39 GMT -5 Kris said:

does drunk in love hold the record for fastest falling song in airplay?

Unless, it's something national irrational event ("Landslide" and "Die Young"), as I posted last week, I can't think of a song that has dropped so far so fast consistently day-to-day for three weeks. I don't understand the label's strategy. It's clear Partition is NOT going to pop at CHR, XO has been dead for months, so why wasn't something like "Blow" being serviced? (I'm sure there are a few puns in there.) This era started off with such unbelievable excitement and now four months later....

1. I think I recall "Heart Attack" plummeting so suddenly that Az dubbed his last few airplay updates the "daily Demi damage report" or something like that.
2. Since DIL never officially got serviced to pop - pop just picked it up and spun it fairly regularly before moving on - it doesn't seem like there ever was much of a strategy for CHR....it was CHR that actually convinced the label to switch out "Blow" for "XO" in the first place, so even seeing that they were wrong on "XO," if CHR PDs are still showing any kind of sense of resistance to "Blow" then it's kind of a moot point. And if the PDs are scared of "Blow" we know they aren't ready for "Partition." There really isn't anything left on the album that 'fits' pop except "Pretty Hurts" and maybe "Mine", but it's a little dubious as to whether those two songs would do any better than DIL did.

I'll be honest, I was actually pretty pessimistic about how DIL would do on pop, considering the obvious lack of push there on Bey and the label's part. It ultimately did quite a bit better than I thought it would. The big deal about the era was that she could sell albums even without a formal lead single/pop radio's support, I don't see why the label would feel the need to then run after radio to prove anything more. *shrug* I do understand what you mean about how the era started off with so much excitement though. I think she could have kept that going by doing more tv media, but alas, other than the Grammys and touring she hasn't seemed to care much about that either.

[josh]

Apr 15, 2014 11:55:45 GMT -5 @yonkab said:

Apr 15, 2014 11:27:12 GMT -5 josh said:

The world needs to start watching some new videos.

*insert Elissa bitter gif that I'm too lazy to find*

Shocked that G.U.Y is already no where's to be found on the video streaming charts. Remember when GaGa videos were a thing?

hope you enjoy your vacation

[Soulsista]

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

April 28, 1979

01 03 Heart Of Glass - Blondie (1st and only week at #1)
02 06 Reunited - Peaches & Herb
03 01 Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
04 04 Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills
05 02 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
06 07 Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman
07 05 What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
08 09 I Want Your Love - Chic
09 11 Goodnight Tonight - Wings
10 12 In The Navy - The Village People


April 28, 1984

01 01 Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now) - Phil Collins (2nd of 3 weeks at #1)
02 03 Hello - Lionel Richie
03 02 Footloose - Kenny Loggins
04 04 Hold Me Now - The Thompson Twins
05 05 Miss Me Blind - Culture Club
06 08 Love Somebody - Rick Springfield
07 11 You Might Think - The Cars
08 10 They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
09 06 Automatic - The Pointer Sisters
10 13 To All The Girls I've Loved Before - Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson


April 29, 1989

01 01 Like a Prayer - Madonna (2nd of 3 weeks at #1)
02 05 I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi
03 04 Funky Cold Medina - Tone-Loc
04 02 She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
05 07 Heaven Help Me - Deon Estus
06 03 The Look - Roxette
07 10 Second Chance - 38 Special
08 14 Real Love - Jody Watley
09 15 After All - Peter Cetera & Cher
10 17 Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul


April 23, 1994

01 01 Bump N' Grind - R. Kelly (3rd of 4 weeks at #1)
02 02 The Sign - Ace Of Base
03 03 Without You / Never Forget You - Mariah Carey
04 04 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
05 06 So Much In Love - All-4-One
06 08 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - Prince
07 05 The Power Of Love - Celine Dion
08 07 Whatta Man - Salt-n-Pepa feat. En Vogue
09 10 Streets Of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
10 09 Now And Forever - Richard Marx

[areyoureadytojump]

Apr 15, 2014 8:09:29 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

I recall Dixie Chicks' "Landslide" tumbling majorly after Natalie Maines made the anti-Bush comments.

Was Mediabase around back then?

[HolidayGuy]

I forgot that the first-day airplay promo for "Sing" would not factor into this week's charts.

Mediabase monitoring goes back to sometime in 1998. When it became a regular feature to track online, I don't know.

[Gary]

Biggest single week drop from within the Hot 100 Airplay chart (the chart that has existed since 1990) - position-wise

The record holder will have it for a while since a 56 position drop is not possible anymore


This Week Last Week Imprint | Catalog No. | Distributing Label DATE drop
75 19 Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 56
52 10 Cherry Pie, Warrant   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 42
68 29 Fly To the Angels, Slaughter   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 39
52 13 Landslide, Dixie Chicks   Hot 100 Airplay 2003-04-05 39
43 9 Suicide Blonde, INXS   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 34
48 14 God Bless The USA, Lee Greenwood   Hot 100 Airplay 2001-10-06 34
68 34 Judas, Lady Gaga   Hot 100 Airplay 2011-05-28 34
74 42 Bootylicious, Destiny's Child   Hot 100 Airplay 2001-09-08 32
71 40 Always In My Heart, Tevin Campbell   Hot 100 Airplay 1994-10-22 31
75 44 Lucky, Britney Spears   Hot 100 Airplay 2000-10-07 31
59 28 Give Me All Your Luvin', Madonna Feat. Nicki Minaj & M.I.A. Hot 100 Airplay 2012-02-25 31

[KeepDeanWeird]

Apr 15, 2014 11:59:32 GMT -5 @antigonerising said:

Apr 15, 2014 8:47:28 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Unless, it's something national irrational event ("Landslide" and "Die Young"), as I posted last week, I can't think of a song that has dropped so far so fast consistently day-to-day for three weeks. I don't understand the label's strategy. It's clear Partition is NOT going to pop at CHR, XO has been dead for months, so why wasn't something like "Blow" being serviced? (I'm sure there are a few puns in there.) This era started off with such unbelievable excitement and now four months later....

1. I think I recall "Heart Attack" plummeting so suddenly that Az dubbed his last few airplay updates the "daily Demi damage report" or something like that.
2. Since DIL never officially got serviced to pop - pop just picked it up and spun it fairly regularly before moving on - it doesn't seem like there ever was much of a strategy for CHR....it was CHR that actually convinced the label to switch out "Blow" for "XO" in the first place, so even seeing that they were wrong on "XO," if CHR PDs are still showing any kind of sense of resistance to "Blow" then it's kind of a moot point. And if the PDs are scared of "Blow" we know they aren't ready for "Partition." There really isn't anything left on the album that 'fits' pop except "Pretty Hurts" and maybe "Mine", but it's a little dubious as to whether those two songs would do any better than DIL did.

I'll be honest, I was actually pretty pessimistic about how DIL would do on pop, considering the obvious lack of push there on Bey and the label's part. It ultimately did quite a bit better than I thought it would. The big deal about the era was that she could sell albums even without a formal lead single/pop radio's support, I don't see why the label would feel the need to then run after radio to prove anything more. *shrug* I do understand what you mean about how the era started off with so much excitement though. I think she could have kept that going by doing more tv media, but alas, other than the Grammys and touring she hasn't seemed to care much about that either.

All good points. Yeah, after CHR made a big deal about XO over Blow, I was truly surprised that CHR then turned its back on it. They really were stuck then. And, yes, DIL did far better on CHR than I expected. The whole thing was just odd watching XO fizzle. I mean, shoot, less well received JT singles have done better. I guess it's been so long since Bey had a true pop hit, that her cred at the format didn't push it up. Now there is nothing wrong with Bey having to Urban/Rhythmic CDs back-to-back, but after her IASF, it seemed like she had a winning balance between those formats and CHR. I do agree that her visibility definitely dropped after Grammy performance. The only other mainstream media buzz was Partition's video. I still think Blow would be a great late-spring/summer single.

[timmierz]

Apr 15, 2014 14:52:02 GMT -5 Gary said:

This Week Last Week Imprint | Catalog No. | Distributing Label DATE drop
75 19 Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 56
52 10 Cherry Pie, Warrant   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 42
68 29 Fly To the Angels, Slaughter   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 39
43 9 Suicide Blonde, INXS   Hot 100 Airplay 1990-11-10 34

What happened on November 10, 1990, that caused such huge drops?

[Gary]

Biggest single week drop from within the Hot 100 Airplay chart (the chart that has existed since 1990) - position-wise



This Week Last Week Imprint | Catalog No. | Distributing Label DATE drop


52 13 Landslide, Dixie Chicks Hot 100 Airplay 2003-04-05 39

48 14 God Bless The USA, Lee Greenwood Hot 100 Airplay 2001-10-06 34
68 34 Judas, Lady Gaga Hot 100 Airplay 2011-05-28 34
74 42 Bootylicious, Destiny's Child Hot 100 Airplay 2001-09-08 32
71 40 Always In My Heart, Tevin Campbell Hot 100 Airplay 1994-10-22 31
75 44 Lucky, Britney Spears Hot 100 Airplay 2000-10-07 31
59 28 Give Me All Your Luvin', Madonna Feat. Nicki Minaj & M.I.A. Hot 100 Airplay 2012-02-25 31



Same list as above removing the Nov 10, 1990 data which is likely caused by the newness of the chart and it had not settled yet.

[jebsib]

Gary, I don't think that's right. The first printed 75 position Hot 100 airplay (or Top 40 Monitor as it was then called) debuted later in the Dec 8, 1990 issue;
Prior was the 40 deep Hot 100 airplay that was assembled by playlists.
Is your info from Billboard or Wikipedia? (Or is it data from some unpublished test chart that leaked?)

[Gary]

Wikipedia? no

This comes from the .biz database

In any case, the oldest title on the revised list is 1994

[HolidayGuy]

I wonder if there have been any tracks- non-holiday or ones that went recurrent- that were ranked high in a week and then completely dropped off the following week (which would be a loss of 30+ positions).

[areyoureadytojump]

Apr 15, 2014 14:36:32 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

I forgot that the first-day airplay promo for "Sing" would not factor into this week's charts.

Mediabase monitoring goes back to sometime in 1998. When it became a regular feature to track online, I don't know.

Yes, that's what I meant. To track online?

The first song I remember following was Madona's Die Another Day in 2002.

Pulse began in 2003...

[Kris]

Why did Lucky drop so far off the charts? That's one of the only Britney songs that I liked

[Deleted]

Apr 15, 2014 16:55:19 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Apr 15, 2014 14:36:32 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

I forgot that the first-day airplay promo for "Sing" would not factor into this week's charts.

Mediabase monitoring goes back to sometime in 1998. When it became a regular feature to track online, I don't know.

Yes, that's what I meant. To track online?

The first song I remember following was Madona's Die Another Day in 2002.

Pulse began in 2003...

I believe there are/were people here who registered AllAccess/Mediabase accounts in 2000. I got mine in 2001.

[Deleted]

please Please PLEASE don't let Loyal reach the top 10!!!!!!!! (Even though I think it has a 60%-80% chance of making it).

[ListenToItTwice]

Apr 15, 2014 8:09:29 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

I recall Dixie Chicks' "Landslide" tumbling majorly after Natalie Maines made the anti-Bush comments.

"Travelin' Soldier" was their Country #1 at the time the story broke

[Libra]

Apr 15, 2014 17:25:03 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

Apr 15, 2014 8:09:29 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

I recall Dixie Chicks' "Landslide" tumbling majorly after Natalie Maines made the anti-Bush comments.

"Travelin' Soldier" was their Country #1 at the time the story broke

Correct, but "Landslide" was in crossover mode everywhere else.

[Gary]

Chart date 3/29/2003

Travelin Soldier fell from 23 to 50 on Airplay after 8 weeks of gradual increase

Landslide apparently collapsed a week later