Billboard Hot 100 : 08/16/2014

[Duca]

Bang Bang opened with 250k. Other early info:

THE BANDWIDTH BANDITS
One side effect of the "guest star" phenomenon at radio is that a small group of artists dominates the Top 25 (in the case of Pop), as we demonstrate in the graphic below.

These artists include Capitol’s Sam Smith (on his own and singing for Disclosure and Naughty Boy), Republic’s Ariana Grande (three smashes, including her trio record with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj) Def Jam’s Iggy Azalea (with two hits of her own and guest spots with Ariana and T.I.), Warner Bros.’ Jason Derulo (two solo hits and a Florida Georgia Line remix), Columbia’s Rita Ora (one hit, one Iggy guest spot) and, at Rhythm, YMCMB/Republic’s Minaj (two solo hits and collabos with Ariana/Jessie, Beyoncé, Usher and Rae Sremmurd).

Despite the logjam, programmers will continue to play all these songs as long as they research. But could the onslaught of tracks by a few artists cause burn on those artists with listeners?

In any case, it’s clear that the big winners here are Sam, Ariana and Iggy, who—along with Capitol’s 5 Seconds of Summer—are the artists that have had the greatest impact on the biz this year.

Between Solo Songs and Featured Spots, Artists on Multiple Tracks Dominate the Charts

ARTIST TRACKS

SAM SMITH "Stay With Me" (#3, 2m sold), "Latch" (#4, 1.5m sold), "La La La"
ARIANA GRANDE "Problem" (#5, 2.75m sold), "Break Free" (#12, 450k sold), "Bang Bang" (#19, 250k sold)
IGGY AZALEA Problem (#5, 2.75m sold), "Fancy" (#9, 3.3m sold), "Black Widow"(#16, 340k sold), "No Mediocre" (#12 Rhythm, 215k sold)
JASON DERULO "This Is How We Roll (Remix)" (#26, 1.9m sold), "Wiggle" (#33, 1.5m sold), "Talk Dirty" (3.9m sold)
RITA ORA "Black Widow" (#16, 350k), "I Will Never Let You Down" (#22, 120k sold)
NICKI MINAJ "Bang Bang" (#19, 250k sold), "Pills n Potions" (#11 Rhythm, 485k), "No Flex Zone" (#29 Rhythm, 50k), "She Came to Give It to You," "Anaconda," "Flawless"

[Kris]

I wonder if Problem will even pass 4M this year?

[Deleted]

Prediction:
1. Rude (~10% lead)
2. Stay With Me
3. Fancy
4. Am I Wrong (looks like this one is gonna pull a wake me up and not reach the top 3, maybe with even more weeks...so sad)
5. Problem (if I'm right, first 14 weeks on chart in top five, damn! Go get that "Starships" record, dammit! 2/3 of the way to tying it!)
6. Bang bang
7. Maps
8. All about that bass
9. Latch
10. Chandelier

Boom Clap will climb to #11 and hopefully make the top ten the following week.

[Kris]

1. MAGIC! - Rude: 213.003 (+0.665)
2. NICO & VINZ - Am I Wrong: 210.073 (+0.214)
3. SAM SMITH - Stay With Me: 208.080 (+1.430)
4. ARIANA GRANDE - Problem f/Iggy Azalea: 137.672 (-2.169)
5. DISCLOSURE - Latch f/Sam Smith: 137.033 (+1.180)
6. IGGY AZALEA - Fancy: 121.892 (-2.374)
7. MAROON 5 - Maps: 101.732 (+1.518) ▲
8. JOHN LEGEND - All Of Me: 99.611 (-0.809) ▼
9. CALVIN HARRIS - Summer: 90.002 (-2.364***)
10. CHARLI XCX - Boom Clap: 85.024 (+2.649) ▲
11. ONEREPUBLIC - Love Runs Out: 83.906 (+0.447) ▼
12. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS - Bailando f/Gente De Zona: 79.835 (+0.991)
13. KATY PERRY - Dark Horse: 74.603 (-0.161)
14. TINASHE - 2 On f/Schoolboy Q: 72.403 (-0.193)
15. LEE BRICE - I Don't Dance: 66.026 (+0.377)
16. DIERKS BENTLEY - Drunk On A Plane: 62.751 (+0.277) ▲
17. BILLY CURRINGTON - We Are Tonight: 62.588 (-0.974) ▼
18. JEREMIH - Don't Tell 'Em f/YG: 61.191 (+1.252)
19. ARIANA GRANDE - Break Free f/Zedd: 59.797 (+1.809) ▲
20. BRAD PAISLEY - River Bank: 58.982 (+0.457) ▼
21. PHARRELL WILLIAMS - Happy: 57.992 (-0.091) ▼
22. LADY ANTEBELLUM - Bartender: 57.038 (+0.983) ▲
23. CLEAN BANDIT - Rather Be f/Jess Glynne: 57.026 (+2.533) ▲
24. LIL WAYNE - Believe Me f/Drake: 56.655 (-0.068) ▼
25. TIM MCGRAW F/FAITH HILL - Meanwhile Back At Mama's: 56.451 (+0.341)
26. BASTILLE - Pompeii: 55.993 (-0.201) ▼
27. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - Not A Bad Thing: 55.868 (-0.236) ▼
28. ONEREPUBLIC - Counting Stars: 55.827 (-0.255) ▼
29. PARAMORE - Ain't It Fun: 55.538 (-0.480***)
30. JOE NICHOLS - Yeah: 54.962 (-1.718) ▼
31. DEMI LOVATO - Really Don't Care f/Cher Lloyd: 54.825 (+0.578)
32. SIA - Chandelier: 50.187 (+3.370***) ▲
33. SCHOOLBOY Q - Studio: 50.177 (+0.365) ▼
34. IGGY AZALEA - Black Widow f/Rita Ora: 49.777 (+1.680) ▲
35. KENNY CHESNEY - American Kids: 49.555 (+0.640) ▼
36. AMERICAN AUTHORS - Best Day Of My Life: 48.984 (+0.044) ▼
37. MKTO - Classic: 47.558 (-0.594) ▼
38. AVICII - Wake Me Up: 46.801 (+0.195***) ▲
39. DUSTIN LYNCH - Where It's At: 46.628 (+0.881) ▲
40. CHRIS BROWN - Loyal f/Lil' Wayne: 46.501 (-0.397) ▼

47. FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE - Dirt: 39.852 (+0.741) ▲
55. JESSIE J/A. GRANDE/N. MINAJ - Bang Bang: 34.036 (-10.277***) ▼
71. T.I. - No Mediocre f/Iggy Azalea: 28.122 (+0.791) ▲
74. JASON ALDEAN - Burnin' It Down: 27.104 (+0.779) ▲

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6207083/tom-petty-1-album-first-billboard-200-hypnotic-eye-heartbreakers

Over on the Digital Songs chart, there's a new No. 1, as Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's "Bang Bang" arrives atop the list with 230,000 downloads sold. That's the second-largest debut for a song in 2014, following another Grande track, "Problem," featuring Iggy Azalea (438,000 in the week ending May 4).

The fast-rising hit from Meghan Trainor, "All About That Bass," charges 6-2 with 169,000 sold (up 63 percent). Maroon 5's "Maps" rises 7-3 with 139,000 (up 35 percent), and Smith's "Stay With Me" falls 3-4 with 138,000 (down 5 percent).

Magic's "Rude" slides 2-5 with 134,000 (down 13 percent), Jason Aldean's "Burnin' It Down" dives 1-6 with 115,000 (down 38 percent), and Azalea's "Fancy," featuring Charli XCX, drops 4-7 with 107,000 (down 13 percent).

Azalea's newest single, "Black Widow," featuring Rita Ora, crawls 15-8 with 100,000 (up 31 percent), and Sia's "Chandelier" ascends 14-9 with 97,000 (up 24 percent). Maroon 5's "It Was Always You" rounds out the top 10, debuting at No. 10 with 95,000.

Digital track sales this past week totaled 20.4 million downloads, up 5 percent compared with last week (19.4 million) and down 10 percent stacked next to the comparable week of 2013 (22.8 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 695.3 million, down 13 percent compared with the same total at this point last year (798.1 million).

[cause_for_celebration]

Yay @ Chandelier!! :)

[KeepDeanWeird]

I believe tracks like "IWAY" should be separated - if people pre-order the album and get it, those shouldn't count - it's an advance of different product. If people purchased it separately - as a single - that should count. Same for other tracks associated with album - like Maps - if some of those "sales" are pre-order for V, then they are NOT single sales.

[Gary]

Aug 6, 2014 11:33:40 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

I believe tracks like "IWAY" should be separated - if people pre-order the album and get it, those shouldn't count - it's an advance of different product. If people purchased it separately - as a single - that should count. Same for other tracks associated with album - like Maps - if some of those "sales" are pre-order for V, then they are NOT single sales.

It is not an advance of a different product.  You are charged for the single when you preorder an album and you get the single.  They only give you what you pay for.

Not counting it would mean trying to predict future consumer behavior.  A pre-order of an album does not obligate you to actually buy it and can be reversed at any time. 

[HolidayGuy]

Yes- there are people who pre-order the album and get the single, and are charged $1.29, and people who just buy the single, without pre-ordering the album.

What I do find a bit bizarre is how Billboard treats the "returns" once an album is released. The sales count toward the Hot 100, but for purposes of the Digital Songs chart, they're subtracted from any sales in that past week, not linked to the pre-order. If I'm understanding that whole thing right- it's messy.

[Gary]

What I was referring to was what happens when you actually preorder the album.

You are charged for only the singles that are available and not the whole album. Depending on when you preorder, this could be all but 2 tracks (such as an Ed Sheeran thing) or it could be just one song.

Until you get the album, you are not obligated to actually buy it, even with a pre-order. Pre-orders can be reversed.  You may be "pre-ordering" an abum but what you are actually buying are the available singles, not the album.

If Billboard were to say pre-order singles do not count as single purchases because it is really an album purchase then this gets a little messy if you "preorder" the album then decide later that you don't want to go through with it.

[#LisaRinna]

Are the airplay updates from Mediabase or kworb?

[Daniel Collins]

#LisaRinna Kworb.

[#LisaRinna]

Aug 6, 2014 12:41:36 GMT -5 Daniel Collins said:

#LisaRinna Kworb.

How come we don't get Mediabase anymore? :(

[Daniel Collins]

Prediction:
1. Rude
2. Stay With Me
3. Fancy
4. Am I Wrong
5. Problem
6. Bang Bang
7. Maps
8. Latch
9. Chandelier
10. All About That Bass

Aug 6, 2014 13:41:30 GMT -5 #LisaRinna said:

How come we don't get Mediabase anymore? :(

We're still getting it 2 or 3 times a week. They are not doing it daily as of now. The last Mediabase info we had is the Monday update.

[imbondz]

Top 10 songs...zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[KeepDeanWeird]

Aug 6, 2014 12:07:33 GMT -5 Gary said:

What I was referring to was what happens when you actually preorder the album.

You are charged for only the singles that are available and not the whole album. Depending on when you preorder, this could be all but 2 tracks (such as an Ed Sheeran thing) or it could be just one song.

Until you get the album, you are not obligated to actually buy it, even with a pre-order. Pre-orders can be reversed.  You may be "pre-ordering" an abum but what you are actually buying are the available singles, not the album.

If Billboard were to say pre-order singles do not count as single purchases because it is really an album purchase then this gets a little messy if you "preorder" the album then decide later that you don't want to go through with it.

Yes, but as HoidayGuy mentioned, the "CMA" "returns" or "cancelations" are not factored in H100 and that is illogical. The point of H100 is to measure a track's popularity - if people "returned" it by CMA than sales are actually double counted because of the album purchase.

While they are only charged for the singles available - they still opted to "pre-order" a different product, the album, it's not a single purchase.

[crystalphnx]

MAGIC! Maintains No. 1 Perch on Hot 100; 'Bang Bang,' Meghan Trainor Soar Into Top 10

While "Rude" rules for a fourth week and Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" jumps to No. 2, the top 10 is shaken up by the arrival of a super-trio and a chart newcomer.

"Rude's" ride atop the Billboard Hot 100 continues for a fourth week as MAGIC!'s reggae-pop nugget drops 6 percent in overall chart points, but climbs to the top of Radio Songs for the first time (2-1) with 169.2 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS. After spending seven weeks at either No. 1 (3 weeks) or No. 2 on Digital Songs, "Rude" retreats to No. 5 with 134,000 (down 13 percent), according to Nielsen SoundScan. On Streaming Songs, the track holds at No. 2 with 8 million U.S. streams (down 10 percent), according to BDS, while abdicating the top spot on the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart after a three-week run (3.1 million on-demand audio streams, down 4 percent).

In its ninth week in the Hot 100 top 10 — the last three at No. 3 — Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" storms into the runner-up slot powered by a 6 percent gain in airplay (No. 3 on Radio Songs with 163 million) "Stay," which trailed "Rude" in overall points by 16.4 percent a week ago, narrows that gap to 9 percent, raising the possibility of a chart takeover next week. "Stay" slips a notch to No. 4 on Digital Songs (138,000, down five percent) and moves up 5-4 on Streaming Songs (6.1 million plays, down 2 percent). "Stay" does move to the top of On-Demand Songs, where it climbs 2-1 (3.2 million plays, up four percent) in only its third week on the list. Its delayed arrival on that ranking is tied to the recent addition of Smith's album In the Lonely Hour on audio streaming services such as Spotify just a few weeks ago.

Exploding directly into the Hot 100 top 10 with the second-highest debut of the year is the super trio of Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj with "Bang Bang." The double-entendre laden track starts at No. 6, matching Jessie J's prior peak with "Domino" in February 2012 and grants Grande two songs in the top 10 and three in the top 20. Her former No. 2-peaking "Problem," featuring Iggy Azalea, holds at No. 5 while "Break Free," featuring Zedd, zips 21-18. Minaj, meanwhile earns her 10th Hot 100 top 10, padding her mark for most top 10s by a female rapper in the chart's 56-year history. Grande now has the two highest Hot 100 debuts of the year as "Problem" started at No. 3 on the May 17 chart.

"Bang Bang" is the lead single from Jessie J's yet-to-be-titled upcoming album and will also be included on Grande's forthcoming sophomore set My Everything (due Aug 25). The song's debut is powered in part by its sales start: it shifted 230,000 downloads in the week ending Aug. 3 — the second biggest bow of the year (following Grande's "Problem," with 438,000 in the week ending May 4).

"Bang," which falls shy of debuting on Radio Songs (it does debut on Pop Songs at No. 19), enters Streaming Songs at No. 21 with 3 million plays. On the latter chart, almost an equal amount of activity arrives from Vevo on YouTube plays of the lyric video (44.3 percent) and Spotify plays (40.3 percent). With an official video premiere set for Thursday, Aug. 7, expect "Bang" to stem a loss in Hot 100 points- due to normally expected second-week sales decline- with an increase in streaming points.

The other new arrival to the Hot 100 top 10 is Meghan Trainor who darts 28-8 with her debut single "All About That Bass." Improved radio airplay and general buzz about the track's self-worth message and its video help the song garner both the Digital Gainer and Streaming Gainer awards. "Bass" soars 6-2 on Digital Songs with 169,000 (up 63 percent) and debuts at a lofty No. 13 on Streaming Songs with 8.2 million plays (up 141 percent). Vevo on YouTube views for the bright and bouncy video, which premiered on June 11, are up an impressive 186 percent with Spotify plays improve by 76 percent. "Bass" also posts the largest leap of the week on the radio-based Pop Songs chart (37-23, up 77% in plays). Socially, Trainor sees a 68 percent rise in new Twitter followers in the week ending Aug. 4 and a 433% gain in Twitter mentions, according to Next Big Sound.

Switching back to songs maintaining their top 10 Hot 100 standing, former seven-week No. 1 "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, featuring Charlie XCX, retreats 2-3, though it holds atop Streaming Songs for a 12th week. That run moves "Fancy" into second place among all-time chart-toppers on that list, blowing past Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" (11 weeks) and trailing Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" (13 weeks).

Nico & Vinz spend a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 4 with "Am I Wrong," still its highest rank to date. The song abdicates its lead atop Radio Songs (1-2) to "Stay with Me" by Sam Smith, and tumbles out of the Digital Songs top 10 (5-17) with 78,000, down 31%. On Streaming Songs, "Wrong" holds at No. 11 (4.3 million, down 4 percent).

Maroon 5's "Maps" is pushed downward 6-7 on the Hot 100, but gains 15 percent in overall points. The title reaches a new peak on Digital Songs (7-3) and posts a weekly sales high of 139,000 (up 35 percent). On Radio Songs, "Maps" moves 9-7 (83.6 million, up 9 percent) while dropping 16-19 on Streaming Songs with 3.4 million (down 6 percent).

Sia stays stationary at No. 9 on the Hot 100 with "Chandelier" while returning to the top 10 on Digital Songs (10-14-9 with 97,000, up 24 percent). The track is also top 10 on Streaming Songs (7-6, 3 percent), while lagging behind — but showing solid growth — on Radio Songs (35-27 with 43.5 million, up 16 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100 top 10 is "Latch" by Disclosure, featuring Sam Smith, which dips 7-10. It's only top 10 standing on the Hot 100 breakout charts is its No. 5 ranking on Radio Songs (107.6 million, up 6 percent). "Latch" loses two spots on Digital Songs (18-20 with 63,000, down 6 percent) and holds at No. 28 on Streaming Songs (2.7 million, up 0.2 percent). The song is certainly more popular in its audio form, as video plays account for only 9 percent of its overall streaming total.

www.billboard.com/articles/news/6207100/hot-100-magic-rude-bang-bang-meghan-trainor

01 (01) "Rude" | MAGIC!
02 (03) "Stay With Me" | Sam Smith
03 (02) "Fancy" | Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
04 (04) "Am I Wrong" | Nico & Vinz
05 (05) "Problem" | Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea
06 (00) "Bang Bang" | Jessie J, Ariana Grande, & Nicki Minaj
07 (06) "Maps" | Maroon 5
08 (28) "All About That Bass" | Meghan Trainor
09 (09) "Chandelier" | Sia
10 (07) "Latch" | Disclosure ft. Sam Smith

[Gary]

Aug 6, 2014 14:18:17 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Aug 6, 2014 12:07:33 GMT -5 Gary said:

What I was referring to was what happens when you actually preorder the album.

You are charged for only the singles that are available and not the whole album. Depending on when you preorder, this could be all but 2 tracks (such as an Ed Sheeran thing) or it could be just one song.

Until you get the album, you are not obligated to actually buy it, even with a pre-order. Pre-orders can be reversed.  You may be "pre-ordering" an abum but what you are actually buying are the available singles, not the album.

If Billboard were to say pre-order singles do not count as single purchases because it is really an album purchase then this gets a little messy if you "preorder" the album then decide later that you don't want to go through with it.

Yes, but as HoidayGuy mentioned, the "CMA" "returns" or "cancelations" are not factored in H100 and that is illogical. The point of H100 is to measure a track's popularity - if people "returned" it by CMA than sales are actually double counted because of the album purchase.

While they are only charged for the singles available - they still opted to "pre-order" a different product, the album, it's not a single purchase.

The cancelations are -1 on sales for the week the album is completed. Prior charts are not adjusted.

I will have to disagree with what a "pre order" or even what a "purchase" is. I tend to think of a "purchase" as you are delivered a product based on the money paid. I tend to think of pre-order as non-committed interest in purchasing the album at a future date, in other words, you bought the singles, you have an interest in getting the album but you can always change your mind until you pay the money.

I get that you see it differently. This is just how I interpret it and it might also be why purchases of advance singles are not currently counted as an album purchase. Now if you were charged the full $11.99 at the point of pre-order (instead of $1.29) then you are committed and Billboard might see it differently then, I would think.

[Deleted]

Aug 5, 2014 18:25:19 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Prediction:
1. Rude (~10% lead)
2. Stay With Me
3. Fancy
4. Am I Wrong (looks like this one is gonna pull a wake me up and not reach the top 3, maybe with even more weeks...so sad)
5. Problem (if I'm right, first 14 weeks on chart in top five, damn! Go get that "Starships" record, dammit! 2/3 of the way to tying it!)
6. Bang bang
7. Maps
8. All about that bass
9. Latch
10. Chandelier

Boom Clap will climb to #11 and hopefully make the top ten the following week.

Sooooooooooo close! :(

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Aug 6, 2014 14:24:19 GMT -5 crystalphnx said:

MAGIC! Maintains No. 1 Perch on Hot 100; 'Bang Bang,' Meghan Trainor Soar Into Top 10

While "Rude" rules for a fourth week and Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" jumps to No. 2, the top 10 is shaken up by the arrival of a super-trio and a chart newcomer.

"Rude's" ride atop the Billboard Hot 100 continues for a fourth week as MAGIC!'s reggae-pop nugget drops 6 percent in overall chart points, but climbs to the top of Radio Songs for the first time (2-1) with 169.2 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS. After spending seven weeks at either No. 1 (3 weeks) or No. 2 on Digital Songs, "Rude" retreats to No. 5 with 134,000 (down 13 percent), according to Nielsen SoundScan. On Streaming Songs, the track holds at No. 2 with 8 million U.S. streams (down 10 percent), according to BDS, while abdicating the top spot on the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart after a three-week run (3.1 million on-demand audio streams, down 4 percent).

In its ninth week in the Hot 100 top 10 — the last three at No. 3 — Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" storms into the runner-up slot powered by a 6 percent gain in airplay (No. 3 on Radio Songs with 163 million) "Stay," which trailed "Rude" in overall points by 16.4 percent a week ago, narrows that gap to 9 percent, raising the possibility of a chart takeover next week. "Stay" slips a notch to No. 4 on Digital Songs (138,000, down five percent) and moves up 5-4 on Streaming Songs (6.1 million plays, down 2 percent). "Stay" does move to the top of On-Demand Songs, where it climbs 2-1 (3.2 million plays, up four percent) in only its third week on the list. Its delayed arrival on that ranking is tied to the recent addition of Smith's album In the Lonely Hour on audio streaming services such as Spotify just a few weeks ago.

Exploding directly into the Hot 100 top 10 with the second-highest debut of the year is the super trio of Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj with "Bang Bang." The double-entendre laden track starts at No. 6, matching Jessie J's prior peak with "Domino" in February 2012 and grants Grande two songs in the top 10 and three in the top 20. Her former No. 2-peaking "Problem," featuring Iggy Azalea, holds at No. 5 while "Break Free," featuring Zedd, zips 21-18. Minaj, meanwhile earns her 10th Hot 100 top 10, padding her mark for most top 10s by a female rapper in the chart's 56-year history. Grande now has the two highest Hot 100 debuts of the year as "Problem" started at No. 3 on the May 17 chart.

"Bang Bang" is the lead single from Jessie J's yet-to-be-titled upcoming album and will also be included on Grande's forthcoming sophomore set My Everything (due Aug 25). The song's debut is powered in part by its sales start: it shifted 230,000 downloads in the week ending Aug. 3 — the second biggest bow of the year (following Grande's "Problem," with 438,000 in the week ending May 4).

"Bang," which falls shy of debuting on Radio Songs (it does debut on Pop Songs at No. 19), enters Streaming Songs at No. 21 with 3 million plays. On the latter chart, almost an equal amount of activity arrives from Vevo on YouTube plays of the lyric video (44.3 percent) and Spotify plays (40.3 percent). With an official video premiere set for Thursday, Aug. 7, expect "Bang" to stem a loss in Hot 100 points- due to normally expected second-week sales decline- with an increase in streaming points.

The other new arrival to the Hot 100 top 10 is Meghan Trainor who darts 28-8 with her debut single "All About That Bass." Improved radio airplay and general buzz about the track's self-worth message and its video help the song garner both the Digital Gainer and Streaming Gainer awards. "Bass" soars 6-2 on Digital Songs with 169,000 (up 63 percent) and debuts at a lofty No. 13 on Streaming Songs with 8.2 million plays (up 141 percent). Vevo on YouTube views for the bright and bouncy video, which premiered on June 11, are up an impressive 186 percent with Spotify plays improve by 76 percent. "Bass" also posts the largest leap of the week on the radio-based Pop Songs chart (37-23, up 77% in plays). Socially, Trainor sees a 68 percent rise in new Twitter followers in the week ending Aug. 4 and a 433% gain in Twitter mentions, according to Next Big Sound.

Switching back to songs maintaining their top 10 Hot 100 standing, former seven-week No. 1 "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, featuring Charlie XCX, retreats 2-3, though it holds atop Streaming Songs for a 12th week. That run moves "Fancy" into second place among all-time chart-toppers on that list, blowing past Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" (11 weeks) and trailing Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" (13 weeks).

Nico & Vinz spend a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 4 with "Am I Wrong," still its highest rank to date. The song abdicates its lead atop Radio Songs (1-2) to "Stay with Me" by Sam Smith, and tumbles out of the Digital Songs top 10 (5-17) with 78,000, down 31%. On Streaming Songs, "Wrong" holds at No. 11 (4.3 million, down 4 percent).

Maroon 5's "Maps" is pushed downward 6-7 on the Hot 100, but gains 15 percent in overall points. The title reaches a new peak on Digital Songs (7-3) and posts a weekly sales high of 139,000 (up 35 percent). On Radio Songs, "Maps" moves 9-7 (83.6 million, up 9 percent) while dropping 16-19 on Streaming Songs with 3.4 million (down 6 percent).

Sia stays stationary at No. 9 on the Hot 100 with "Chandelier" while returning to the top 10 on Digital Songs (10-14-9 with 97,000, up 24 percent). The track is also top 10 on Streaming Songs (7-6, 3 percent), while lagging behind — but showing solid growth — on Radio Songs (35-27 with 43.5 million, up 16 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100 top 10 is "Latch" by Disclosure, featuring Sam Smith, which dips 7-10. It's only top 10 standing on the Hot 100 breakout charts is its No. 5 ranking on Radio Songs (107.6 million, up 6 percent). "Latch" loses two spots on Digital Songs (18-20 with 63,000, down 6 percent) and holds at No. 28 on Streaming Songs (2.7 million, up 0.2 percent). The song is certainly more popular in its audio form, as video plays account for only 9 percent of its overall streaming total.

www.billboard.com/articles/news/6207100/hot-100-magic-rude-bang-bang-meghan-trainor

01 (01) "Rude" | MAGIC!
02 (03) "Stay With Me" | Sam Smith
03 (02) "Fancy" | Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
04 (04) "Am I Wrong" | Nico & Vinz
05 (05) "Problem" | Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea
06 (00) "Bang Bang" | Jessie J, Ariana Grande, & Nicki Minaj
07 (06) "Maps" | Maroon 5
08 (28) "All About That Bass" | Meghan Trainor
09 (09) "Chandelier" | Sia
10 (07) "Latch" | Disclosure ft. Sam Smith

Well played girls. Well played. The fact that the video comes out in the second week will give people another time to pay attention and purchase the record is brilliant marketing. I hope they have something similar lined up for Anaconda.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Aug 6, 2014 14:34:17 GMT -5 Gary said:

Aug 6, 2014 14:18:17 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Yes, but as HoidayGuy mentioned, the "CMA" "returns" or "cancelations" are not factored in H100 and that is illogical. The point of H100 is to measure a track's popularity - if people "returned" it by CMA than sales are actually double counted because of the album purchase.

While they are only charged for the singles available - they still opted to "pre-order" a different product, the album, it's not a single purchase.

The cancelations are -1 on sales for the week the album is completed. Prior charts are not adjusted.

I will have to disagree with what a "pre order" or even what a "purchase" is. I tend to think of a "purchase" as you are delivered a product based on the money paid. I tend to think of pre-order as non-committed interest in purchasing the album at a future date, in other words, you bought the singles, you have an interest in getting the album but you can always change your mind until you pay the money.

I get that you see it differently. This is just how I interpret it and it might also be why purchases of advance singles are not currently counted as an album purchase. Now if you were charged the full $11.99 at the point of pre-order (instead of $1.29) then you are committed and Billboard might see it differently then, I would think.

Excellent explanation.

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2-day update

1. SAM SMITH – Stay With Me: 208.981 (+ 3.968) ▲
2. MAGIC! – Rude: 208.622 (+ 0.919) ▼
3. NICO & VINZ – Am I Wrong: 207.028 (+ 0.204) ▼
4. ARIANA GRANDE – Problem f/Iggy Azalea: 136.514 (- 5.345)
5. DISCLOSURE – Latch f/Sam Smith: 135.935 (+ 1.722)
6. IGGY AZALEA – Fancy: 119.529 (- 5.724)
7. MAROON 5 – Maps: 103.471 (+ 2.699)
8. JOHN LEGEND – All Of Me: 98.512 (- 1.678)
9. CALVIN HARRIS – Summer: 86.689 (- 3.942)
10. CHARLI XCX – Boom Clap: 84.949 (+ 5.178) ▲
11. ONEREPUBLIC – Love Runs Out: 84.644 (+ 1.096) ▼
12. KATY PERRY – Dark Horse: 74.768 (- 0.458)
13. TINASHE – 2 On f/Schoolboy Q: 72.651 (- 0.300)
14. LEE BRICE – I Don’t Dance: 66.036 (+ 2.719) ▲
15. DIERKS BENTLEY – Drunk On A Plane: 62.760 (+ 0.605) ▲
16. BILLY CURRINGTON – We Are Tonight: 62.600 (- 1.907) ▼
17. JEREMIH – Don’t Tell ‘Em f/YG: 61.268 (+ 2.763)
18. ARIANA GRANDE – Break Free f/Zedd: 59.823 (+ 2.854) ▲
19. BRAD PAISLEY – River Bank: 58.994 (+ 1.207) ▲
20. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 57.809 (- 0.475) ▼

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS – Bailando f/D.Bueno/S.Paul/GDZ: 57.060 (+ 1.621)
CLEAN BANDIT – Rather Be f/Jess Glynne: 57.058 (+ 4.149)
LADY ANTEBELLUM – Bartender: 57.050 (+ 1.913)
LIL WAYNE – Believe Me f/Drake: 57.025 (+ 0.514)
ONEREPUBLIC – Counting Stars: 57.023 (- 0.485)
BASTILLE – Pompeii: 56.628 (- 0.355)
TIM MCGRAW F/FAITH HILL – Meanwhile Back At Mama’s: 56.457 (+ 0.521)
DEMI LOVATO – Really Don’t Care f/Cher Lloyd: 55.829 (+ 0.925)
SCHOOLBOY Q – Studio f/BJ The Chicago Kid: 50.269 (+ 2.754)
SIA – Chandelier: 50.165 (+ 2.651)
IGGY AZALEA – Black Widow f/Rita Ora: 49.845 (+ 2.990)
KENNY CHESNEY – American Kids: 49.565 (+ 1.191)
COLDPLAY – A Sky Full Of Stars: 45.197 (+ 0.895)
PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Come Get It Bae: 42.693 (- 0.082)
FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE – Dirt: 39.870 (+ 1.257)
NICKI MINAJ – Pills N Potions: 34.495
JESSIE J/A. GRANDE/N. MINAJ – Bang Bang: 34.071 (- 6.606)
M. LAMBERT & C. UNDERWOOD – Somethin’ Bad: 32.147 (+ 0.410)
BECKY G – Shower: 31.326 (+ 0.129)
T.I. – No Mediocre f/Iggy Azalea: 29.177 (+ 0.862)
JASON ALDEAN – Burnin’ It Down: 27.118 (+ 2.096)
KIESZA – Hideaway: 26.877 (+ 0.467)
ECHOSMITH – Cool Kids: 24.497 (+ 1.652)
MEGHAN TRAINOR – All About That Bass: 22.291 (+ 3.378)
CHRIS BROWN – New Flame f/Rick Ross: 22.088 (+ 0.641)
LITTLE BIG TOWN – Day Drinking: 21.901 (+ 0.073)
TRAIN – Angel In Blue Jeans: 20.673 (+ 0.125)
ED SHEERAN – Don’t: 18.404 (+ 1.169)
RITA ORA – I Will Never Let You Down: 15.441 (+ 0.218)
VANCE JOY – Riptide: 13.112
DRAKE – 0 To 100/The Catch Up: 12.976 (+ 1.038)
NICKI MINAJ – Anaconda : 11.796 (+ 11.691)
USHER – She Came To Give It To You: 10.699 (- 0.242)
WEEZER – Back To The Shack : 9.469 (+ 0.314)
PITBULL – Fireball f/John Ryan: 7.949 (+ 0.511)
HOZIER – Take Me To Church: 6.322
THE SCRIPT – Superheroes: 5.643 (+ 1.125)
KATY PERRY – This Is How We Do: 3.311 (+ 0.977)
LECRAE – All I Need Is You: 0.014
BASTILLE – Oblivion: 0.004

[Caviar]

A lot of features on the charts!

[areyoureadytojump]

Country digital single sales this week:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UxlVbGhDjwHSbWgDsHAx_w9GgiccvTHl3Pl-AmWatGk/edit?pli=1#gid=0

[Kris]

Chart Watch: 'Bang Bang' Hits Target
By Paul Grein


"Bang Bang" by Jessie J + Ariana Grande + Nicki Minaj is the week’s top new entry on the Hot 100 at #6. It’s the second highest new entry so far this year, trailing only another Grande smash, “Problem” (featuring Iggy Azalea), which debuted at #3 in May.

"Bang Bang" enters Top Digital Songs at #1, with a first-week sales tally of 230K. That’s the second-biggest first-week sales tally of 2014, again trailing only "Problem," which debuted with sales of 438K.

"Bang Bang" is the second top 10 hit on the Hot 100 for Jessie J, the third for Grande and the ninth for Minaj. "Bang Bang" has already tied "Domino" (#6 in February 2012) as Jessie J’s highest-charting hit to date.

"Bang Bang" will appear on a deluxe version of Grande’s forthcoming sophomore set, My Everything, which is due Aug. 25. It will also appear on Jessie J’s upcoming second U.S. album.

Cher took a song titled “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” to #2 in April 1966—long before any of these women were born. (Minaj, the oldest of the three, was born in 1982.)

This is the second week in a row that a song has entered Top Digital Songs at #1. Jason Aldean's “Burnin' It Down” debuted at #1 last week. This marks the first time in nearly two years that songs have debuted atop this list in back-to-back weeks. Taylor Swift's “Begin Again,” One Direction's “Live While We're Young” and Swift's “I Knew You Were Trouble.” debuted at #1 in successive weeks in September and October 2012.

MAGIC!'s “Rude” logs its fourth week at #1 on the Hot 100. “Rude” also moves up to #1 on the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart. This marks the first time that a song by a Canadian group or duo has become a transatlantic #1. (Drake and Nelly Furtado were each part of collabos that achieved the feat, but those weren’t ongoing groups or duos.)

"Rude" is the first reggae-shaded song reach #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. since Sean Kingston's “Beautiful Girls,” which spent four weeks at #1 in both countries in 2007. UB40 and Shaggy have each had two transatlantic #1 hits with reggae-shaded songs. UB40 hit #1 in both countries with “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling In Love.” Shaggy topped the chart in both countries with “It Wasn’t Me” (featuring Ricardo “RikRok” Ducent) and “Angel” (featuring Rayvon).

In addition, “Rude” tops the 2 million mark in U.S. digital sales this week.

Oh, and there’s this: By topping the Hot 100 for a fourth week, MAGIC! ties Olivia Newton-John's “Magic,” which had four weeks on top in August 1980.

Sam Smith's”Stay With Me” jumps from #3 to #2 in its 17th week. It jumps to #1 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart, dethroning Nico & Vinz's “Am I Wrong,” which had led that chart for four weeks. “Stay With Me” tops the 2 million mark in digital sales this week. The song reached #1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart in May. It has a shot at reaching #1 on the Hot 100 next week, which would give us back-to-back transatlantic #1 hits.

"Fancy" by Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX dips from #2 to #3 in its 22nd week. The song holds at #1 on Top Streaming Songs for the 12th week and holds at #1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for the 11th week.

Meghan Trainor's “All About That Bass” vaults from #28 to #8 in its fourth week. The song combines a catchy beat with a valuable message about self-respect.

Ariana Grande has three songs in this week’s top 20, all as a lead (or co-lead) artist. You already know about “Bang Bang.” “Problem” (featuring Iggy Azalea) holds at #5 for the second week in its 14th week. “Break Free” (featuring Zedd) jumps from #21 to #18 in its fifth week.

Pharrell Williams's “Happy” tops the 6 million mark in digital sales this week. The Oscar-nominated song topped the Hot 100 for 10 weeks earlier this year.


music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-bang-bang-hits-target-211229666.html

[RadioBeatz]

I don't get something on the article, who's #1 on Radio Songs? "Rude" or "Stay With Me"?

-Nico & Vinz spend a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 4 with "Am I Wrong," still its highest rank to date. The song abdicates its lead atop Radio Songs (1-2) to "Stay with Me" by Sam Smith, and tumbles out of the Digital Songs top 10 (5-17) with 78,000,

-"Rude's" ride atop the Billboard Hot 100 continues for a fourth week as MAGIC!'s reggae-pop nugget drops 6 percent in overall chart points, but climbs to the top of Radio Songs for the first time (2-1) with 169.2 million all-format audience impressions,

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Aug 6, 2014 16:42:37 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

I don't get something on the article, who's #1 on Radio Songs? "Rude" or "Stay With Me"?

-Nico & Vinz spend a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 4 with "Am I Wrong," still its highest rank to date. The song abdicates its lead atop Radio Songs (1-2) to "Stay with Me" by Sam Smith, and tumbles out of the Digital Songs top 10 (5-17) with 78,000,

-"Rude's" ride atop the Billboard Hot 100 continues for a fourth week as MAGIC!'s reggae-pop nugget drops 6 percent in overall chart points, but climbs to the top of Radio Songs for the first time (2-1) with 169.2 million all-format audience impressions,

Stay with Me part was a typo. In the part of the article where they talk about SWM, it says that it is #3 with 163 million impressions. So Rude is #1 (thankfully, it was its only chance before SWM jumping past it).

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Aug 6, 2014 16:41:24 GMT -5 Kris said:

Sam Smith's”Stay With Me” jumps from #3 to #2 in its 17th week. It jumps to #1 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart

Wrong. Rude is #1. It was a typo in the Billboard article. 

[Kris]

On the bright side Happy will be out of the top 20 tomorrow! :)

[crystalphnx]

Paul Grein Chart Watch: Katy Perry's Low Debut

Katy Perry's “This Is How We Do” is the fifth highest new entry on this week's Hot 100 at #88, below new ones by not only such high-flyers as Jessie J/Ariana Grande/Nicki Minaj and Maroon 5, but also such non-A listers as the female country twosome Maddie & Tae and the long-absent Hilary Duff. This relatively low entry, at least for a star of Perry’s magnitude, reflects the fact that two of her last three singles fell short of the top 10. (“Unconditionally” peaked at #14. “Birthday” stalled at #17.)

This is the fifth single from Perry’s Prism album, and follow-up singles generally don’t debut (or peak) as high as the initial singles from an album. But that certainly wasn’t the case with the fifth single from Perry’s previous album, Teenage Dream. That song, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” re-entered the Hot 100 at #63 in June 2011 and climbed to #1. (As you probably remember, each of the album’s first five singles reached #1.)

This is an important single for Perry. Certainly it wouldn’t spell doom for her career if it failed to make the top 10, but I’m sure she and her record company would like to put her back in that elite territory, if only to put an end to pesky items such as this one.

This week’s big Hot 100 news is “Bang Bang” by Jessie J + Ariana Grande + Nicki Minaj debuting at #6. I covered this, and the rest of the top 10 action, in a blog we posted earlier today. If you missed it, here’s a link.

Charli XCX's”Boom Clap” jumps from #13 to #11 in its ninth week. It's vying to become her first top 10 hit as a lead artist … “Bailando” by Enrique Iglesias featuring Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona jumps from #15 to #13 in its 14th week. It’s vying to become Iglesias’ first top 10 hit since “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” went top five in early 2011 … “Rather Be” by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne jumps from #19 to #16 in its eighth week.

"Black Widow" by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora jumps from #29 to #19 in its fifth week. The song’s success has boosted Ora’s own song, “I Will Never Let You Down,” which finally cracks the chart at this week at #99. The song reached #1 on The Official U.K. Singles Chart in May.

Jason Aldean's “Burnin' It Down” drops from #12 to #22 in its second week. It's #1 on Hot Country Songs for the second week.

"Don’t Tell ‘Em" by Jeremih featuring YG jumps from #40 to #30 in its sixth week.

Maroon 5's “It Was Always About You” is the week's second highest new entry at #45. It's the second Hot 100 hit from the group's upcoming fifth album, V, which is due Sept. 2. The first, “Maps,” dips from #6 to #7 this week, but will probably rebound.

Echosmith's “Cool Kids” leaps from #66 to #50 in its fourth week … “Lifestyle” by Rich Gang featuring Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan jumps from #74 to #64 in its third week … 5 Seconds of Summer's “Amnesia” pulls ahead of “She Looks So Perfect” this week. “Amnesia” rebounds from #81 to #67 in its fifth week. “She Looks So Perfect” drops from #58 to #81 in its 18th week. “Amnesia” has climbed as high as #16. “She Looks So Perfect” peaked at #24.

Ed Sheeran's “Don't” jumps from #84 to #69 in its eighth week. The song has climbed as high as #46. The album is #1 for the sixth straight week on The Official U.K. Albums Chart …

Maddie & Tae's “Girl In A Country Song” debuts at #71. The country duo consists of Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye. The song mocks the “bro country” trend in country music, and how it often relegates women to supporting roles as halter-top-clad babes in videos. It's one of two songs and videos on this week's chart to make a thought-provoking feminist point in an entertaining way. The other, of course, is Meghan Trainor's “All About That Bass,” which leaps from #28 to #8 in its fourth week.

Hilary Duff's “Chasing The Sun” debuts at #79. Duff first charted 11 years ago this month with “So Yesterday.” This is her first chart hit since “Stranger” in the summer of 2007.

music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-katy-perrys-low-debut-002045339.html