Billboard Hot 100 : 04/26/2014

[jebsib]

I wonder what the true story on "Landslide" was. Yes, it would have lost Country recurrent airplay. But by that point, it was marginal.

For Landslide to crash, it would have had to be pulled instantly from hundreds of NON-Country stations, right?

And the retail single, of which there was one, would, too have had to plummet.

This is odd, considering the prevailing wisdom is that controversy frequently spurs interest.

Maybe the label just freaked?

[Deleted]

Apr 15, 2014 17:19:07 GMT -5 @icantthinkofaname said:

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

It will be either Loyal or NABT reaching the top 10 this week. They're really close in points so it's kinda hard to tell which one it will be.

[rudeboy]

I think it's gonna be "Loyal" . There's multiple versions charting and airplay+streaming.

[Lozzy]

I hope Loyal goes top 10! :)

[Kris]

Is it just me or has Team collapsed on iTunes? Like wasn't it near the top 10 a couple days ago?

edit: since when is Christina Grimmie on the voice?? 

[surfy]

Apr 15, 2014 19:20:38 GMT -5 Kris said:

Is it just me or has Team collapsed on iTunes? Like wasn't it near the top 10 a couple days ago?

edit: since when is Christina Grimmie on the voice?? 

Since the first episode.... #whereyoubeen? #ItWasEvenMyUsername #TeamGrimmie

[Daniel Collins]

1. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 287.736 (- 3.401)
2. JOHN LEGEND – All Of Me: 257.895 (+ 2.959)
3. KATY PERRY – Dark Horse: 206.012 (- 0.555)
4. JASON DERULO – Talk Dirty f/2 Chainz: 169.392 (+ 0.680)
5. LORDE – Team: 157.760 (- 2.016)
6. BASTILLE – Pompeii: 134.222 (- 2.476)
7. ONEREPUBLIC – Counting Stars: 111.074 (- 0.170)
8. AMERICAN AUTHORS – Best Day Of My Life: 106.320 (+ 0.173)
9. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Not A Bad Thing: 97.048 (+ 1.605)
10. ONE DIRECTION – Story Of My Life: 79.990 (- 0.846)
11. ELLIE GOULDING – Burn: 76.485 (- 0.807)
12. ALOE BLACC – The Man: 75.907 (- 0.930)
13. JERROD NIEMANN – Drink To That All Night: 72.736 (+ 0.673)
14. DEMI LOVATO – Neon Lights: 70.241 (+ 0.826) ▲
15. RANDY HOUSER – Goodnight Kiss: 69.868 (- 1.279) ▼
16.KID INK – Show Me f/Chris Brown: 69.859 (- 0.526) ▼
17. AVICII – Wake Me Up: 68.152 (+ 0.182)
18. IMAGINE DRAGONS – Demons: 67.266 (+ 0.101)
19. BRANTLEY GILBERT – Bottoms Up: 67.254 (+ 0.410)
20. CHRIS BROWN – Loyal f/Lil’ Wayne: 64.013 (+ 1.043) ▲

AVICII – Hey Brother: 63.627 (+ 0.349)
ERIC CHURCH – Give Me Back My Hometown: 62.977 (+ 0.294)
PARAMORE – Ain’t It Fun: 60.156 (+ 1.446)
RASCAL FLATTS – Rewind: 57.783 (+ 0.202)
FLORIDA – GEORGIA LINE – This Is How We Roll f/L. Bryan: 57.576 (+ 0.621)
BEYONCE – Partition: 54.533 (+ 0.079)
MARTIN GARRIX – Animals: 53.980 (+ 0.201)
TREY SONGZ – Na Na: 53.976 (+ 0.305)
JHENE AIKO – The Worst: 52.986 (+ 1.086)
MIRANDA LAMBERT – Automatic: 50.896 (+ 0.274)
DJ SNAKE & LIL JON – Turn Down For What: 48.826 (+ 1.463)
LUKE BRYAN – Play It Again: 48.788 (+ 0.442)
NAUGHTY BOY – La La La f/Sam Smith: 47.264 (- 0.001)
NEON TREES – Sleeping With A Friend: 43.195 (+ 0.725)
ED SHEERAN – Sing: 37.455 (+ 1.656)
PITBULL – Wild Wild Love f/GRL: 36.526 (- 0.076)
IGGY AZALEA – Fancy: 32.822 (+ 1.377)
TIESTO – Red Lights: 32.416 (+ 0.097)
CALVIN HARRIS – Summer: 28.221 (+ 1.198)
PHILLIP PHILLIPS – Raging Fire: 24.397 (+ 0.297)
CHRISTINA PERRI – Human: 23.500 (+ 0.088)
AUSTIN MAHONE – Mmm Yeah f/Pitbull: 22.271 (+ 0.424)
EMINEM – Headlights: 17.590 (- 0.265)
IDINA MENZEL – Let It Go: 16.630 (+ 0.183)
BLACK KEYS – Fever: 15.906 (+ 0.226)
5 SECONDS OF SUMMER – She Looks So Perfect: 14.565 (+ 0.742)
DISCLOSURE – Latch f/Sam Smith: 13.174 (+ 0.398)
TINASHE – 2 On f/Schoolboy Q: 12.896
BASTILLE – Bad Blood: 12.258 (+ 0.020)
COLDPLAY – Magic: 12.228 (+ 0.210)
SARA BAREILLES – I Choose You: 12.019
KATY PERRY – Birthday: 9.157 (+ 0.558)
LADY GAGA – G.U.Y.: 8.186 (- 0.190)
SHAKIRA – Empire: 8.169 (+ 0.032)
SAM SMITH – Stay With Me: 5.336 (+ 0.282)
LORDE – Glory And Gore: 3.048 (+ 0.062)
CLEAN BANDIT – Rather Be f/Jess Glynne: 0.905
ELLIE GOULDING – Beating Heart: 0.063
LANA DEL REY – West Coast: 0.016 (+ 0.015)

[Xedretinz Lododnz]

Apr 16, 2014 6:11:31 GMT -5 Daniel Collins said:

1. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 287.736 (- 3.401)
2. JOHN LEGEND – All Of Me: 257.895 (+ 2.959)
3. KATY PERRY – Dark Horse: 206.012 (- 0.555)



KATY PERRY – Birthday: 9.157 (+ 0.558)
LADY GAGA – G.U.Y.: 8.186 (- 0.190)

What a huge negative update for Happy.... it's going to free fall now.... Time for ALL OF ME :)

and wow @ Dark Horse, so much longevity, still 200 million

Slay A Bit Katy, and Gaga, you can still catch up just don't give up -_-

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Apr 15, 2014 11:09:53 GMT -5 icefire9 said:

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

Didn't she already have 3 at one point? I think before Dark Horse was released, the lyric video, Uncle and Roar were top 10?

[mluv]

It looks like Ed Sheeran's Sing will be the next big thing. Also Justin's "Not a Bad Thing" is pretty strong. But All of Me still has a chance to dethrone "Happy" on the hot 100 maybe in a couple weeks.

[Deleted]

That's a depressing update for Happy...but maybe All of Me has a chance to beat the BL record?

[Kris]

Happy attempting to pull a drunk in love

I don't think all of me will continue to gain 2M updates for another 3 weeks, I feel it's about to peak. 


also

17. AVICII – Wake Me Up: 68.152 (+ 0.182)


??? Top 20 for 40 weeks please

also2: I guess Birthday will start receiving 4m+ updates starting next week

more edits: whats the longest stay at top 20 in radio?  I know Blurred Lines holds the record but it fell pretty fast

[Deleted]

Apr 16, 2014 9:54:17 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

That's a depressing update for Happy...but maybe All of Me has a chance to beat the BL record?

Highly doubt it.

[Deleted]

Yeah I didn't think so either...but it's gonna be third behind BL and Happy which is still good and it's crazy how two of the top three radio audience peak songs peaked within the last month and a half while all of the top 3 had peaked in the last 9 months!

[Daniel Collins]

'Frozen' Spends 10th Week at No. 1 On Billboard 200; Sales Climb Past 2 Million

Over on the Digital Songs chart, the top four titles are all non-movers, as Pharrell's "Happy" leads for a ninth straight week (257,000; down 9 percent). John Legend's "All of Me" is No. 2 (197,000; down 14 percent); Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," featuring 2 Chainz, is No. 3 (162,000; up 4 percent); and Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" is No. 4 (152,000; down 2 percent).

The chart's highest debut comes in at No. 5: Ed Sheeran's "Sing" with 123,000. It's his second-biggest sales week yet, following the post-Christmas haul of "The A Team" (181,000) in the week ending Dec. 30, 2012.

Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, falls 5-6 with 111,000 (down 9 percent), and Bryan's "Play It Again" rises 8-7 with 108,000 (up 24 percent). DJ Snake & Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What" is pushed down one slot to No. 8 with 95,000 (down 1 percent), and Aloe Blacc's "The Man" dips 6-9 with 89,000 (down 17 percent).

Florida Georgia Line's "This Is How We Roll" (featuring Bryan) ascends 11-10 with 86,000 (up 10 percent).

With Bryan at Nos. 7 and 10, he becomes the first male country artist to have two concurrent titles in the top 10 since the chart launched Oct. 30, 2004. The only country act to manage the feat previously was Taylor Swift (she has done it 10 times).


Digital track sales this past week totaled 21.7 million downloads, up 1 percent compared with last week (21.4 million) and down 15 percent stacked next to the comparable week of 2013 (25.5 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 355.1 million, down 13 percent compared with the same total at this point last year (410.3 million).

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

LMAO! All Of Me lost a higher percentage of its points than Happy did when it comes to sales. I guess It will come down to how close they are in streaming. It looks like Happy will be #1 again this week.

[imbondz]

Happy will definitely be #1 this week. I want it to stay 10 weeks then I'll be happy

[icefire9]

Happy is still leading All of Me in both Airplay and Sales, its not even in question that Happy will be #1.

[Kris]

I kind of feel like if todays updates reflect how happy future updates will be then happy isn't going to have that much longer at #1, it isnt that strong on streaming is it?

[Duca]

Not so sure about All of Me going #1 anymore.

John is performing at the Billboard Music Awards in a month but it will probably be too late.

[Spidey]

Apr 16, 2014 11:48:39 GMT -5 Duca said:

Not so sure about All of Me going #1 anymore.

John is performing at the Billboard Music Awards in a month but it will probably be too late.

He'd be better off performing his next single at that point.

[Deleted]

Since it's falling harder in sales than Happy, I guess AOM might not reach #1 after all :/

[lugus15]

All Of Me's only chance is if it gets a discount a la WIWYM.

[Deleted]

I doubt that will happen. Not everybody's that desperate to get a #1.

[Duca]

Pharrell Williams Tops Hot 100; Ed Sheeran Blasts In at No. 15
Williams' 'Happy' rules for an eighth week, while Ed Sheeran soars in with 'Sing' (which Williams co-wrote and co-produced), instantly marking his best-ever Hot 100 rank

Pharrell Williams' "Happy" leads the Billboard Hot 100 for an eighth week. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran storms onto the chart at No. 15 with "Sing," which Williams co-wrote and co-produced. Upon its bow, Sheeran scores his highest Hot 100 rank yet.

It's Wednesday, so time for our weekly look into the numbers behind the top 10 and more.

"Happy" continues its Hot 100 reign powered by its stronghold atop the Radio Songs and Digital Songs charts. It tops Radio Songs for a seventh week, although it logs a 3 percent drop to 217.5 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS. The song appears to have peaked with 225.9 million two weeks ago, just short of the record for the biggest weekly audience in the Radio Songs chart's 23-year history: Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," featuring Williams and T.I., drew 228.9 million (Aug. 31, 2013). "Happy" leads the Digital Songs chart for a ninth week, down by 9 percent to 257,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

On Streaming Songs, "Happy" holds at No. 4 (7.2 million U.S. streams, down 2 percent, according to BDS), having peaked at No. 2. It keeps at No. 2 on the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs list (2.4 million U.S. streams, down 3 percent), which it led for two weeks.

"Happy" spends a 10th week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, marking Williams' second reign of double-digit weeks; "Blurred Lines" led for 16 weeks last year, the longest command since the chart adopted Nielsen data in 1992.

"Happy" again finishes ahead of John Legend's "All of Me" on the Hot 100, as the latter logs a fourth week at its No. 2 peak. Still, the race was a bit closer than last week, with "Happy" down by 7 percent in overall chart points and "Me" down by 3 percent. "Happy" controls the Hot 100 with 12 percent more points than "Me" after it won by 17 percent last week.

"Me" leads On-Demand Songs for a second week with a 4 percent rise to 2.7 million and rebounds to its No. 2 highpoint (3-2) on Streaming Songs (7.9 million, down 1 percent). The piano ballad posts a third week at No. 2 on Radio Songs (190 million, up 7 percent), claiming the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a fourth week in a row. It tallies a sixth week at its No. 2 peak on Digital Songs (197,000, down 14 percent).

If it seems like there's little movement in the Hot 100's upper ranks, you're right. And, if you thought it might be a record standstill, congratulate yourself on being an extra-observant chart-watcher: Not only are the Hot 100's top two songs in place from last week, but the entire top seven has now been stationary for three consecutive weeks, a first in the chart's 55-year archives. Previously, the top seven repeated for as many as two weeks just once, when the charts dated Aug. 21 and 28, 1982, brought no changes to the top seven. (Can you name any of those seven 1982 hits? Keep your eye on the end of this story for the oh-so-good list.)

Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, spends a fourth week at No. 3 on the Hot 100, having led for four weeks before "Happy" began its rule. "Horse" leads Streaming Songs for a ninth week (8.2 million, down 3 percent). Meanwhile, Perry's follow-up, "Birthday," debuts on the Hot 100 at No. 91. After the new single's official lyric video premiered on April 10, the track nears the Streaming Songs chart with a whopping 971 percent surge to 1.5 million total streams.

Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," featuring 2 Chainz, ranks at No. 4 on the Hot 100 for a sixth week. As previously reported, the No. 3 Hot 100 hit takes over atop the Pop Songs radio airplay chart.

As the soundtrack to Disney's "Frozen" racks a 10th week atop the Billboard 200 (tying fellow Disney fave "The Lion King" for the longest reign ever for a soundtrack to an animated film), the album's "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel holds at its No. 5 Hot 100 peak.

Rounding out the Hot 100's again-static top seven, Bastille's "Pompeii" repeats at No. 6 (and tops Hot Rock Songs for a ninth week) and Lorde's "Team" stays at No. 7. The songs have risen to Nos. 5 and 6 on the Hot 100, respectively.

DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What" rises to a new Hot 100 peak (10-8). It holds at No. 7 on Streaming Songs (4.2 million, up less than 1 percent); slips 7-8 on Digital Songs (95,000, down less than 1 percent); and climbs 44-38 on Radio Songs (34 million, up 15 percent). "Turn" tops the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a third week.

Aloe Blacc's No. 8-peaking "The Man" remains at No. 9 on the Hot 100, while OneRepublic's No. 2 hit "Counting Stars" drops 8-10.

Just outside the top 10, Ed Sheeran rockets in with "Sing," which debuts at No. 15. The song, co-written and -produced with Williams, and which Sheeran performed on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on April 12, starts on Digital Songs at No. 5 with 123,000. It's his second-best sales week, following the post-Christmas sum of his breakout hit "The A Team" (181,000 in the week ending Dec. 30, 2012). "Sing" opens on Radio Songs at No. 48 (28 million) and adds 536,000 first-week streams.

Upon the No. 15 arrival of "Sing," Sheeran immediately scores his best Hot 100 rank: "The A Team" peaked at No. 16 the week of Jan. 12, 2013, during a 33-week run.

(Quiz answer! The weeks of Aug. 21 and 28, 1982, saw no movement in the Hot 100's top seven, a record logjam until the past three weeks. Those retro hits? From No. 1 through 7: Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger"; John Cougar Mellencamp's "Hurts So Good"; Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra"; Fleetwood Mac's "Hold Me"; Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry"; Air Supply's "Even the Nights Are Better"; and REO Speedwagon's "Keep the Fire Burnin'.")

Visit Billboard.com tomorrow (April 17), 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, April 18).

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

I wonder who producer of the year is going to be.

[Spidey]

THE CHART IS SO BORING RIGHT NOW.

[Deleted]

So CS gets 25 weeks in the top 10 just like the band's "Apologize"...

[Kris]

11 songs have entered the top 10 this year since January

11. As opposed to 21 the same time last year.

The chart is more frozen than Adelea dmaizna

[jenglisbe]

Apr 15, 2014 18:30:56 GMT -5 jebsib said:

I wonder what the true story on "Landslide" was. Yes, it would have lost Country recurrent airplay. But by that point, it was marginal.

For Landslide to crash, it would have had to be pulled instantly from hundreds of NON-Country stations, right?

And the retail single, of which there was one, would, too have had to plummet.

This is odd, considering the prevailing wisdom is that controversy frequently spurs interest.

Maybe the label just freaked?

Well, the controversy got worse there for a bit, so it might have been that it caught on outside of country and/or in certain parts of the country.

I think that stat was for Hot 100 Airplay, so it doesn't necessarily mean sales plummeted (though I am sure they did).