Billboard Hot 100 : 07/26/2014

[irice22]

Jul 16, 2014 11:26:40 GMT -5 kingofpain said:

Ugh finally Latch enters the top 10!! It's rare for a UK artist to peak higher in the US than they did in their own country. I can only think of "Lights" by Ellie Goulding as a recent example...

"Rolling in the Deep"

[Enigma.]

Yea the big releases might very well come out of the blue uninvited

[Enigma.]

Jul 16, 2014 12:08:10 GMT -5 irice22 said:

Jul 16, 2014 11:26:40 GMT -5 kingofpain said:

Ugh finally Latch enters the top 10!! It's rare for a UK artist to peak higher in the US than they did in their own country. I can only think of "Lights" by Ellie Goulding as a recent example...

"Rolling in the Deep"

And more notably Set Fire to the Rain

[lyhom]

From the article:

Meanwhile, Disclosure's "Latch," featuring Sam Smith, enters the top 10, climbing 11-10.

[badrobot]

Thank gawd Disclosure made the top ten!

I didn't realize Latch was in 6/8 time. I haven't really heard any remixes, I wonder how DJs have handled that.

Regarding the lack of big hits from big artists... it is weird. You had a pretty heavy roster of Q4 releases in 2013 that could've had big summer hits but they're either fizzling (Katy Perry's "Birthday") or the project died surprisingly early ("Artpop" and "Beyonce"). I'm most bummed about Beyonce's "XO" -- it really got lost in the shuffle when "Drunk In Love" got so much attention. Seems like the biggest drawback to her release plan is that her "era" really ended up being just a few months. A normal schedule might have had it coming out for the summer after DIL.

Meanwhile seems like that rumored "big artist pulling a Beyonce" thing (Madonna?) has either been severely delayed or isn't happening.

[pnobelysk]

Jul 16, 2014 11:26:40 GMT -5 kingofpain said:

Ugh finally Latch enters the top 10!! It's rare for a UK artist to peak higher in the US than they did in their own country. I can only think of "Lights" by Ellie Goulding as a recent example...

Rollin in the deep, rumor has it. , set fire to the rain

Want you back

[Verisimilitude]

VIRAL VIDEO ALERT for next week:

Weird Al Yankovic's “Word Crimes” is already casting a spell online, having earned more than (not “over”) 2.4 million views. #nerds (7/16a)

Presuming this success is local of course.

[Au$tin]

Parody of "Blurred Lines," I take it? I haven't seen the video myself.

Edit:
Just watched it. Hilarious. Loved the "Weird Al Has a Huge Dictionary" at the end.

[RainMan94]

I wonder where Dirt ended up this week? I thought it would've been at least top 15.

[kanimal]

Jul 16, 2014 13:11:30 GMT -5 RainMan94 said:

I wonder where Dirt ended up this week? I thought it would've been at least top 15.

As I wrote in the Dirt thread (I believe), I'd be stunned (and suspicious) if it's not.  It had more sales and a larger radio audience (and, due to the release of the actual video, I'm presuming at least comparable streams) than Break Free and Amnesia had last week.  And it's not like this week's chart, which has comparable sales and airplay to last week, would have been more difficult to crack.

Also - is Paul Grein no longer doing the "Chart Watch" updates for the non-Top 10 songs?  I guess we'll find out tonight, but it looks like he took the last two weeks off, and the posts on his blog now are all referencing old data.

[lyhom]

Jul 16, 2014 13:20:35 GMT -5 kanimal said:

Jul 16, 2014 13:11:30 GMT -5 RainMan94 said:

I wonder where Dirt ended up this week? I thought it would've been at least top 15.

As I wrote in the Dirt thread (I believe), I'd be stunned (and suspicious) if it's not.  It had more sales and a larger radio audience (and, due to the release of the actual video, I'm presuming at least comparable streams) than Break Free and Amnesia had last week.  And it's not like this week's chart, which has comparable sales and airplay to last week, would have been more difficult to crack.

Also - is Paul Grein no longer doing the "Chart Watch" updates for the non-Top 10 songs?  I guess we'll find out tonight, but it looks like he took the last two weeks off, and the posts on his blog now are all referencing old data.

No, he's just uploading them at a much later time.

Here's last week.

[kanimal]

Jul 16, 2014 13:29:23 GMT -5 lyhom said:

Jul 16, 2014 13:20:35 GMT -5 kanimal said:

As I wrote in the Dirt thread (I believe), I'd be stunned (and suspicious) if it's not.  It had more sales and a larger radio audience (and, due to the release of the actual video, I'm presuming at least comparable streams) than Break Free and Amnesia had last week.  And it's not like this week's chart, which has comparable sales and airplay to last week, would have been more difficult to crack.

Also - is Paul Grein no longer doing the "Chart Watch" updates for the non-Top 10 songs?  I guess we'll find out tonight, but it looks like he took the last two weeks off, and the posts on his blog now are all referencing old data.

No, he's just uploading them at a much later time.

Here's last week.

Wow, didn't realize the NEWEST post was from July 10.  But that's still way too late for this - if it doesn't pre-empt the Thursday AM update on Billboard.com, what's the point?

[Glove Slap]

YES @ Samclosure!!!!!

[areyoureadytojump]

This is the new link for Paul Grein's Chart Watch:

music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/

Paul seemed to be on vacation last week. His posts were posted later than usual.

[imbondz]

Jul 16, 2014 11:34:01 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

The only way "Dark Horse" would deserve the year-end No. 1 is if it accumulated the most chart points for its Hot 100 run during the period covered.

the way Billboard calculates year end I guess I agree. But, no way Dark Horse is a bigger hit than Happy in the overall music landscape. Happy has doubled Dark Horse sales in 2014, and almost broke the radio record. Radio keeps playing Dark Horse, but you or I don't have much hand in that.

[Gary]

And for those who live and die by the prediction threads that are in this forum that show Dark Horse whatever points ahead of Happy. It might be worth a reminder that those numbers came from people here and not Billboard. We won't know for sure what the actual #1 is until mid December.

[brady47]

Jul 15, 2014 20:42:20 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Jul 15, 2014 14:33:14 GMT -5 Kris said:

I think Happy will drop below Dark Horse this week.

Goodbye to any chance of year-end #1...fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! :'(
I don't even get how Dark Horse is still in the top 15 after being there since January! Like how has it not fallen out of the top 25 by now? The video has long ago lost its steam and the song is barely in the top 75 on iTunes...I hope it drops faster than Happy now so that Happy would be the one to top the year-end chart...

Agreed, I don't see how it is so high when it's downloads are so low (even if it's still doing well in airplay and streaming).

[brady47]

Jul 16, 2014 0:48:50 GMT -5 bornfearless2000 said:

Dark Horse deserves the BB100 Year End #1 more IMO

Agreed. It's longevity is AMAZING. I thought Katy was huge with Roar, but then Dark Horse came...

[brady47]

Jul 16, 2014 12:08:10 GMT -5 irice22 said:

Jul 16, 2014 11:26:40 GMT -5 kingofpain said:

Ugh finally Latch enters the top 10!! It's rare for a UK artist to peak higher in the US than they did in their own country. I can only think of "Lights" by Ellie Goulding as a recent example...

"Rolling in the Deep"

Yeah, Lights was a huge difference in the UK peak (#49) vs. the US peak (#2).

[Fancy]

:'( 1% behind. oh well, fancy had an amazing run and black widow is climbing to retake that #1. also yay for latch!

[Bhad Bill]

Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield failed to chart completely in the UK but reached #5 here!

[Deleted]

Jul 16, 2014 15:58:15 GMT -5 Bhad Bill said:

Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield failed to chart completely in the UK but reached #5 here!

I don't think it was even released in the UK

[Deleted]

Jay Sean's "Do You Remember" hit the top 10 in the US but not the UK.

[Glove Slap]

The craziest thing about Latch is that the US is the first country where it's actually hit the top 10. After almost 2 years since it initially came out somewhere.

[areyoureadytojump]

music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-rude-brings-reggae-to-1-195908051.html

Chart Watch: 'Rude' Brings Reggae To #1
By Paul Grein , Yahoo! Chart Watch

MAGIC!'s charming, reggae-accented “Rude” jumps to #1 on the Hot 100, dislodging “Fancy” by Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX. It’s the first reggae-shaded hit to reach #1 since Sean Kingston's “Beautiful Girls” spent four weeks on top in the summer of 2007.

MAGIC!, a four-man “reggae fusion” group, hails from Toronto, far away from reggae’s origins in Jamaica. Surprisingly, they’re not the first act from Toronto to take a reggae song to #1. Snow led for seven weeks in 1993 with “Informer.”

Johnny Nash's “I Can See Clearly Now” was the first reggae song to top the Hot 100. Nash wrote and produced the song, which spent four weeks on top in November 1972. Less than two years later, Eric Clapton's cover version of Bob Marley's “I Shot The Sheriff” became the second reggae song to reach #1. It spent one week on top in September 1974.

UB40 was the first act to send two reggae songs to #1 on the Hot 100. The English band first topped the chart with a cover of Neil Diamond's “Red Red Wine” (one week in October 1988) and returned to the top spot five years later with a cover of the Elvis Presley classic “Can’t Help Falling In Love” (seven weeks in the summer of 1993).

Other reggae songs to reach #1 include Sean Paul's “Get Busy” (2003) and “Temperature” (2006), Shaggy's “It Wasn't Me” and “Angel” (both 2001), Ini Kamoze's “Here Comes The Hotstepper” (1994) and Maxi Priest's “Close To You” (1990).

This may surprise you: MAGIC! is the first group to top the Hot 100 since Maroon 5 scored for nine weeks in the fall of 2012 with “One More Night.” In the intervening 19 months, the top spot has been locked up by solo artists, collaborations and one red-hot duo (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis).

MAGIC! is the first Canadian group to reach #1 since Nickelback topped the chart for four weeks in December 2001 and January 2002 with “How You Remind Me.” Other Canadian groups to head the Hot 100: Barenaked Ladies (1998’s “One Week”), Sheriff (1989’s “When I’m With You”), Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1974’s “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” and the Guess Who (1970’s “American Woman”).

MAGIC! has now served as both the name of a group with a #1 hit and also the title of a #1 hit. Olivia Newton-John topped the chart in August 1980 with a song titled “Magic” (minus the capitalization and the exclamation point.)

This is the second “Rude” song to reach #1, following Rihanna's “Rude Boy” (five weeks in 2010).

"Magic" returns to #1 on Hot Digital Songs (185K), after being bumped down to #2 on that chart the past two weeks by Sam Smith's “Stay With Me.” It's the first song to regain #1 after a two-week shutout since “Timber” by Pitbull featuring Ke$ha, which had its run at #1 rudely interrupted by “Say Something” by A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera.

Here are quick summaries of this week’s other top chart stories.

"Fancy" by Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX dips to #2 following seven weeks on top. It continues at #1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for the eighth straight week. This enables it to tie “The Boy Is Mine” by Brandy & Monica for the longest run by an all-female collabo in the chart’s 72-year history. That Grammy-winning smash spent eight weeks on top in the summer of 1998. Just two other all-female collabos have reached #1 on the R&B chart: “Heartbreak Hotel” by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans & Kelly Price (seven weeks on top in 1999) and “Let It Go” by Keyshia Cole featuring Missy Elliott & Lil’ Kim (three weeks on top in 2007).

Sam Smith has two songs in this week’s top 10. “Stay With Me” holds at #5 for the fourth week. Disclosure's “Latch,” on which he is featured, jumps from #11 to #10. “Latch” has climbed higher in the U.S. than it did in the U.K. The song reached #11 on the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart in November 2012. The song's transatlantic success has come as surprise to the duo's Guy Lawrence. “We thought ‘Latch’ was too weird for the radio and not clubby enough for the clubs,” Lawrence told Billboard.

Ed Sheeran's “Sing” tops the 1 million mark in digital sales this week. Pharrell Williams produced and co-wrote the song, which is Sheeran’s highest-charting hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It reached #13 on the Hot 100; #1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart. This is the second song titled “Sing” to become a million-seller. Carpenters had a million-seller on seven-inch vinyl with a song with that title the spring of 1973. Incidentally, Sheeran is 23, the same age that Karen Carpenter was when Carpenters’ “Sing” was a hit.

Florida Georgia Line's “Dirt” enters Hot Digital Songs at #2 (182K). If it had sold just 3K more copies, it would have bowed at #1. It's the duo's second song to reach the runner-up spot on Hot Digital Songs. “Cruise” (featuring Nelly) spent three non-consecutive weeks at #2 in May and June 2013.

To My Readers: I’ll have a second Chart Watch blog drawn from the Hot 100 later today.

[badrobot]

Anyone else think it's weird that these articles ignore Ace of Base when discussing reggae at the top? Admittedly they were like reggae-pop fusion or something but there was definitely a reggae element there.

[Verisimilitude]

Jul 16, 2014 16:39:01 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Anyone else think it's weird that these articles ignore Ace of Base when discussing reggae at the top? Admittedly they were like reggae-pop fusion or something but there was definitely a reggae element there.

They also ignored Blondie's version of "The Tide Is High".

[Deleted]

And The Police.

[Deleted]

Jul 16, 2014 11:48:41 GMT -5 Kris said:

Jul 16, 2014 11:29:58 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

To be fair, most of the biggest summer hits the past three years have came from newbies*: Call Me Maybe, Party Rock Anthem, Rolling in the Deep, Somebody That I Used to Know, Blurred Lines

*Or, at least, someone who never really had a big hit prior.

I think you are forgetting this iconic and obviously meaningful melody:

I don't think that even reached the top 50 (thankfully). Party Rock Anthem was their first big hit (and as far as we are concerned, it and Sexy and I Know It were their only two significant hits.)

[Kris]

Jul 16, 2014 17:40:16 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Jul 16, 2014 11:48:41 GMT -5 Kris said:

I think you are forgetting this iconic and obviously meaningful melody:

I don't think that even reached the top 50 (thankfully). Party Rock Anthem was their first big hit (and as far as we are concerned, it and Sexy and I Know It were their only two significant hits.)

It reached #68, but it's sold almost 3 million I believe.