Billboard Hot 100 : 01/10/2015

[ry4n]

Top 10 flasbacks for this week

"Do You Remember" is one fitting title for that song


1 year ago (1/11/2014)

1 1 The Monster - Eminem feat. Rihanna (4th and final week @ #1)
2 2 Timber - Pitbull feat. Ke$ha
3 3 Counting Stars - OneRepublic
4 5 Royals - Lorde
5 4 Say Something - A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera
6 6 Demons - Imagine Dragons
7 7 Let Her Go - Passenger
8 11 Roar - Katy Perry
9 10 Story Of My Life - One Direction
10 8 Wake Me Up! - Avicii


5 years ago (1/9/2010)

1 1 TiK ToK - Ke$ha (2nd week of 9 @ #1)
2 4 Replay - Iyaz
3 3 Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
4 5 Fireflies - Owl City
5 2 Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
6 7 Whatcha Say - Jason Derulo
7 8 Down - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne
8 19 Party In The U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus
9 6 Sexy Bitch - David Guetta feat. Akon
10 14 Do You Remember - Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul & Lil Jon


10 years ago (1/8/2005)

1 1 Let Me Love You - Mario (2nd week of 9 @ #1)
2 3 1, 2 Step - Ciara feat. Miss Elliott
3 2 Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell
4 5 Lovers And Friends - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
5 4 Soldier - Destiny's Child feat. T.I. & Lil Wayne
6 6 My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
7 7 Over & Over - Nelly feat. Tim McGraw
8 8 Wonderful - Ja Rule feat. R Kelly & Ashanti
9 11 Disco Inferno - 50 Cent
10 9 Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child


15 years ago (1/8/2000)

1 1 Smooth - Santana feat. Rob Thomas (12th and FINAL week @ #1)
2 2 Back At One - Brian McKnight
3 3 I Wanna Love You Forever - Jessica Simpson
4 4 My Love Is Your Love - Whitney Houston
5 7 Hot Boyz - Missy Elliott feat. Lil Mo, Nas, Eve & Q-Tip
6 5 I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden
7 54 Auld Lang Syne - Kenny G
8 6 I Need To Know - Marc Anthony
9 9 Bring It All To Me - Blaque
10 8 U Know What's Up - Donell Jones

[Verisimilitude]

Wow at every single song in the top 10 in 2005 being urban. Downloads should have been included into the charts sooner than they were.

[Kris]

The boy band's cover of the Romantics' 1980 classic debuts. Plus, new No. 1s for Nick Jonas, Big Sean and E-40.

Chart Highlights offers a sneak peek at a select group of Billboard charts every Monday. (All charts below are based on radio airplay except for Dance Club Songs, which is based on reports submitted by a panel of DJs.) Find out the top songs, Greatest Gainers and debuts on the surveys listed below.

All our charts are refreshed on billboard.com and Billboardbiz every Thursday.

Pop Songs
*** No. 1 (3 weeks)*** "Blank Space" Taylor Swift
Greatest Gainer No. 20 "Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran



Debut No. 38 "What I Like About You" 5 Seconds Of Summer
While Taylor Swift (at No. 1 with "Blank Space") mines the end of the '80s for inspiration, via her album 1989, 5 Seconds of Summer go back to the early part of the decade with their remake of the Romantics' "What I Like About You," which debuts on Pop Songs at No. 38. Prior to the chart's 1992 launch, the Romantics' original reached No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980, while Michael Morales' remake in 1989 (of course) rose to No. 28. (The last '80s remake until this week to hit Pop Songs [i.e., a full interpretation; not merely a sample]? Seether's rock makeover of Wham!'s 1985 Hot 100 No. 1 ballad "Careless Whisper." Seether's cover reached No. 36 on Pop Songs in 2009.)

Adult Contemporary
*** No. 1 (5 weeks)***/Greatest Gainer "Shake It Off" Taylor Swift

Adult Pop Songs
*** No. 1 (2 weeks)*** "Blank Space" Taylor Swift
Greatest Gainer No. 22 "The Hanging Tree" James Newton Howard Featuring Jennifer Lawrence
Debut No. 39 "Santa Tell Me" Ariana Grande
Debut No. 40 "Night Changes" One Direction

Rock Airplay
*** No. 1 (10 weeks)*** "Something From Nothing" Foo Fighters
Greatest Gainer No. 10 "R U Mine?" Arctic Monkeys
Debut No. 50 "I Want Out" Young Guns

Alternative Songs
*** No. 1 (6 weeks)*** "Something From Nothing" Foo Fighters
Greatest Gainer No. 14 "Lampshades On Fire" Modest Mouse
Debut No. 39 "Same Damn Life" Seether

Adult Alternative Songs
*** No. 1 (6 weeks)*** "Budapest" George Ezra
Greatest Gainer No. 17 "Lampshades On Fire" Modest Mouse

Mainstream Rock Songs
*** No. 1 (10 weeks)*** "Something From Nothing" Foo Fighters
Greatest Gainer No. 10 "Moving On" Asking Alexandria

Dance Club Songs
*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "Jealous" Nick Jonas
Greatest Gainer No. 18 "Uptown Funk!" Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
Debut No. 42 "Unholy" Wolfgang Gartner
Debut No. 47 "Be Mine" Meiko
Debut No. 49 "People Are Lonely" Gravitonas Featuring Army Of Lovers

Rhythmic Songs
*** No. 1 (2 weeks)*** "Love Me Harder" Ariana Grande & The Weeknd
Greatest Gainer No. 4 "I Don't Mind" Usher Featuring Juicy J
Debut No. 37 "Heroes (We Could Be)" Alesso Featuring Tove Lo
Debut No. 39 "No Love" August Alsina



R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
*** No. 1 (1 week)*** "I Don't F**k With You" Big Sean Featuring E-40
Big Sean scores his third R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay No. 1, as "I Don't F**k With You," featuring E-40, bounds 5-1. He first led with "Marvin & Chardonnay" (featuring Kanye West and Roscoe Dash) for a week in 2011 and "Mercy" (with West, Pusha T and 2 Chainz) for five weeks in 2012. Meanwhile, rap vet E-40 lands his second No. 1 and first in nearly nine years: Lil Jon's "Snap Yo Fingers," on which he and Sean Paul (of the Youngbloodz) guest, led the July 29, 2006 list.

Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 38 "Truffle Butter" Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake & Lil Wayne
Debut No. 45 "Really Love" D'Angelo And The Vanguard
Debut No. 46 "Ayo" Chris Brown & Tyga
Debut No. 47 "G' S**t" T.I. Featuring Jeezy & WatchTheDuck
Debut No. 50 "DnF" P Reign Featuring Drake & Future

Adult R&B Songs
*** No. 1 (13 weeks)*** "Stay With Me" Sam Smith
Greatest Gainer No. 19 "Really Love" D'Angelo And The Vanguard
Debut No. 30 "Hold Up Wait A Minute!! (Woo Woo)" Antonique Smith

Rap Airplay
*** No. 1 (6 weeks)*** "I Don't F**k With You" Big Sean Featuring E-40
Debut/Greatest Gainer No. 22 "Truffle Butter" Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake & Lil Wayne
Debut No. 25 "G.D.F.R." Flo Rida Featuring Sage The Gemini & Lookas

Country Airplay
*** No. 1 (3 weeks)*** "Shotgun Rider" Tim McGraw
Greatest Gainer No. 46 "What God Wants For Christmas" Darius Rucker
Debut No. 56 "Blue Christmas" Tyler Farr
Debut No. 59 "I'll Be Home For Christmas" Darius Rucker
Debut No. 60 "Little Red Wagon" Miranda Lambert

Latin Airplay
*** No. 1 (2 weeks)*** "Que Suenen Los Tambores" Victor Manuelle
Debut No. 33/Greatest Gainer "Ruleta Rusa" Tony Dize
Debut No. 38 "Uptown Funk!" Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
Debut No. 40 "Te Quiero A Morir" Gerardo Coronel
Debut No. 46 "Love Me Harder" Ariana Grande & The Weeknd
Debut No. 47 "Perdoname Mi Amor" Los Tucanes de Tijuana

Regional Mexican Songs
*** No. 1 (2 weeks)*** "Levantando Polvadera" Voz de Mando
Greatest Gainer No. 21 "Te Quiero A Morir" Gerardo Coronel

Latin Pop Songs
*** No. 1 (26 weeks)*** "Bailando" Enrique Iglesias Featuring Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona
Greatest Gainer No. 26 "Quedate" Camila
Debut No. 35 "Uptown Funk!" Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
Debut No. 38 "Blank Space" Taylor Swift
Debut No. 40 "Quiereme" Johnny Sky

Tropical Songs
*** No. 1 (6 weeks)*** "Que Suenen Los Tambores" Victor Manuelle
Greatest Gainer No. 5 "Pasarla Bien" Ilegales Featuring El Potro Alvarez

Christian Airplay
*** No. 1 (16 weeks)***/Greatest Gainer "Greater" MercyMe
Debut No. 37 "Beyond Me" tobyMac

Gospel Airplay
*** No. 1 (28 weeks)*** "Amazing" Ricky Dillard & New G
Debut No. 28 "O Come All Ye Faithful" Tasha Cobbs
Greatest Gainer "What Can I Do" Tye Tribbett

[Soulsista]

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

January 12, 1980

01 02 Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (3rd and final week at #1)
02 03 Rock With You - Michael Jackson
03 05 Do That To Me One More Time - The Captain & Tennille
04 04 Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder
05 01 Please Don't Go - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
06 07 Still - The Commodores
07 08 Coward Of The County - Kenny Rogers
08 09 Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang
09 10 We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
10 06 Babe - Styx


January 12, 1985

01 01 Like a Virgin - Madonna (4th of 6 weeks at #1)
02 06 All I Need - Jack Wagner
03 02 Wild Boys - Duran Duran
04 03 Sea Of Love - The Honeydrippers
05 05 We Belong - Pat Benatar
06 09 You're The Inspiration - Chicago
07 08 Run To You - Bryan Adams
08 04 Cool It Now - New Edition
09 10 Valotte - Julian Lennon
10 11 Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen


January 13, 1990

01 01 Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins (4th and final week at #1)
02 02 Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
03 04 Pump Up The Jam - Techntronic
04 06 How Am I Supposed To Live Without You - Michael Bolton
05 03 Don't Know Much - Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
06 10 Everything - Jody Watley
07 07 This One's For The Children - New Kids On The Block
08 08 Just Like Jesse James - Cher
09 05 With Every Beat Of My Heart - Taylor Dayne
10 13 Just Between You And Me - Lou Gramm


January 7, 1995

01 01 On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men (4th of 6 weeks at #1)
02 04 Creep - TLC
03 02 Here Comes The Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
04 03 Another Night - The Real McCoy
05 05 Always - Bon Jovi
06 06 I Wanna Be Down - Brandy
07 08 Before I Let You Go - Blackstreet
08 09 Tootsee Roll - 69 Boyz
09 07 I'll Make Love To You - Boyz II Men
10 11 You Want This / 70's Love Groove - Janet Jackson

[Linnethia Monique]

Dec 30, 2014 10:48:35 GMT -5 ry4n said:

10 years ago (1/8/2005)

1 1 Let Me Love You - Mario (2nd week of 9 @ #1)
2 3 1, 2 Step - Ciara feat. Miss Elliott
3 2 Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell
4 5 Lovers And Friends - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
5 4 Soldier - Destiny's Child feat. T.I. & Lil Wayne
6 6 My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
7 7 Over & Over - Nelly feat. Tim McGraw
8 8 Wonderful - Ja Rule feat. R Kelly & Ashanti
9 11 Disco Inferno - 50 Cent
10 9 Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child

Look at Tim McGraw hanging with all the brothers and sisters :'(

[Au$tin]

Dec 30, 2014 11:02:13 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

Wow at every single song in the top 10 in 2005 being urban. Downloads should have been included into the charts sooner than they were.

Tim McGraw just chilling in there as the only white person...

[Deleted]

Early prediction:

1. Blank Space...again... (20% lead)
2. Uptown Funk
3. Take Me To Church
4. Lips Are Movin'
5. Thinking Out Loud
6. I'm Not The Only One
7. Jealous
8. Animals
9. Love Me Harder
10. All About That Bass

zzzzzzzzzz.....

[Enigma.]

Jay Sean and Iyaz...hits kept on coming after that too didn't they

[Chato]

Dec 30, 2014 11:02:13 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

Wow at every single song in the top 10 in 2005 being urban. Downloads should have been included into the charts sooner than they were.

That's actually one of the last charts before the new method including paid digital downloads was implemented. But I guess the chart wouldn't even have looked that different had downloads been included already. Urban/Rhythmic music WAS pop music at that time, so much that you couldn't even call these songs crossover hits. Of course, things started to look a bit different starting in mid-2005 with huge (crossover) hit singles from Weezer, Lifehouse, Fall Out Boy, Cascada, DHT, Evanescence... but back in 2003/04 the all-airplay chart did a pretty good job in reflecting what was truly popular.

In hindsight I miss those days, actually I think the airplay chart (sans AC airplay) gives a pretty good impression of what's currently(!) popular (i.e. HOT)

[rimetm]

My prediction:

1. Blank Space
2. Uptown Funk
3. Take Me to Church
4. Lips are Movin'
5. I'm Not the Only One
6. Thinking Out Loud
7. Jealous
8. Love Me Harder
9. All About That Bass
10. Shake it Off or I Don't F*** With You
Off Top Ten: Animals

Main factors in prediction:
-Uptown Funk's #2 in sales and Spotify should give it an edge over Take Me to Church
-Thinking Out Loud majorly stumbled in sales
-Lips Are Movin' benefits from Christmas sales
-Shake it Off and All About That Bass are back strong in sales

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Is it weird to anybody else that Blank Space has had such a lead for for long but still doesn't feel like its anywhere close to what those numbers reflect? I dont feel like the song has really had any cultural impact even while having huge chart successes. It's like it's just there.

[HolidayGuy]

^That does often happen with some No. 1s.

[Enigma.]

Dec 31, 2014 8:25:08 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

Is it weird to anybody else that Blank Space has had such a lead for for long but still doesn't feel like its anywhere close to what those numbers reflect? I dont feel like the song has really had any cultural impact even while having huge chart successes. It's like it's just there.

It has had a huge cultural impact I'd say

www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/01/taylor_swift_blank_space_is_back_to_back_number_1_hit_with_shake_it_off.html

"In short, everything about “Blank Space” is beautifully executed. Concept, lyric, melody, production, video"

[👑 Eloquent ™]

"Blank Space" seems pretty monstrous to me. The sales are massive, the streaming massive, and the airplay massive. It isn't sparking a cultural trend ala "Single Ladies" or similar other huge hits, but it certainly still feels big IMO.

[Enigma.]

And everybody seems to like it too. It's not "just another One More Night" (never really understood how that spent several weeks at #1)

[Gary]

Someone's perception of the cultural impact of 'Blank Space' depends on how exposed to the culture you are. If you listen to Radio Disney where this song is played what seems like several times an hour, you may think it has a much bigger impact on culture than if you listened to say, a country station.

[kingofpain]

I felt the same way about Like A G6. It's odd to me to think that song was number one when it didn't leave much of a
cultural impact.

[Rocky]

Dec 31, 2014 6:57:22 GMT -5 rimetm said:

-Uptown Funk's #2 in sales and Spotify should give it an edge over Take Me to Church

What are you talking about? "Take Me To Church" is still ahead of "Uptown Funk" on Spotify. UF is at 90% and decreasing for 2-3 days now.

[rimetm]

This Week
TMTC 3.6M
UF 3.1M

Last Week
TMTC 4.3M
UF 3.2M

2 Weeks Ago
TMTC 4.4M
UF 2.9M

While Uptown Funk! is starting to drop, it seems pretty clear that Take Me to Church reached its peak and is now going into free fall, with the half-million loss this week. My point was that now that the gap between the 2 was closer and Uptown Funk! was a safe #2 (the only comparable hit that's lower is Thinking Out Loud at 2.85M, and there's a 1M gap between #2 and #4), Uptown Funk! is the clear candidate to supplant Take Me to Church as the Hot 100 #2.

[Rocky]

Oh, right. Thank you for explaining it, I get what you mean now.

[Deleted]

Dec 31, 2014 6:57:22 GMT -5 rimetm said:

My prediction:

1. Blank Space
2. Uptown Funk
3. Take Me to Church
4. Lips are Movin'
5. I'm Not the Only One
6. Thinking Out Loud
7. Jealous
8. Love Me Harder
9. All About That Bass
10. Shake it Off or I Don't F*** With You
Off Top Ten: Animals

Main factors in prediction:
-Uptown Funk's #2 in sales and Spotify should give it an edge over Take Me to Church
-Thinking Out Loud majorly stumbled in sales
-Lips Are Movin' benefits from Christmas sales
-Shake it Off and All About That Bass are back strong in sales

I highly doubt Animals will be out. It's back in top 10 in sales this week (which was a huge rebound for it) and still much higher than AATB and SIO in airplay. If Animals was still top ten last week, then surely it must be this week as well with that big positional rebound in sales. 

[wjr15]

Dec 31, 2014 2:14:06 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Jay Sean and Iyaz...hits kept on coming after that too didn't they

I was a big Jay Sean fan back in 2009/10 but sadly he just fell off the radar after a few minor follow-up hits

[kanimal]

Dec 31, 2014 9:50:24 GMT -5 Gary said:

Someone's perception of the cultural impact of 'Blank Space' depends on how exposed to the culture you are. If you listen to Radio Disney where this song is played what seems like several times an hour, you may think it has a much bigger impact on culture than if you listened to say, a country station.

When discussing "cultural impact" in this sort of context, you're usually talking about resonance away from radio or even sales environments.

Someone who primarily listens to pop radio is obviously going to be bombarded with the most-played pop song, so he would naturally be positioned to overstate the "cultural impact" of that song.  When assessing a song's cultural impact, I'm thus actually more interested in which songs transcend genre borders--and thus more interested in which mainstream songs the country fan, in your example, would instantly recognize and view as gigantic.

Not saying Blank Space isn't there - or that it isn't gigantic - just that a broad approach is required for determining which songs are making a broad cultural impact.  You don't want to simply be looking at its resonance within pop/mainstream environments - you also want to know if particular lyrics and melodies are familiar to fans in country, rock, hip-hop, etc.

This year, when people of many demographics and many genre loyalties heard "Bass" or "Haters gonna hate" or "This Sick Beat" or "Why ya gotta be so rude" or "I'm so fancy" or "Trash the Hotel," they knew what song you were referencing.  That, to me, is a good sign of cultural impact.

Performance-wise, I don't think there's any denying that Blank Space is as big or bigger than all of those songs.  The question I believe being posed in this thread is whether it is "impacting" in that manner.  (Granted - Swift's situation is also a bit different in that *SHE* is bigger than her songs, unlike the aforementioned artists were when their songs got huge, so some of the song's "impact" might be overshadowed by "Swift impact")

[Enigma.]

Dec 31, 2014 12:07:54 GMT -5 kanimal said:

Dec 31, 2014 9:50:24 GMT -5 Gary said:

Someone's perception of the cultural impact of 'Blank Space' depends on how exposed to the culture you are. If you listen to Radio Disney where this song is played what seems like several times an hour, you may think it has a much bigger impact on culture than if you listened to say, a country station.

Performance-wise, I don't think there's any denying that Blank Space is as big or bigger than all of those songs.  The question I believe being posed in this thread is whether it is "impacting" in that manner.  (Granted - Swift's situation is also a bit different in that *SHE* is bigger than her songs, unlike the aforementioned artists were when their songs got huge, so some of the song's "impact" might be overshadowed by "Swift impact")

This is good point, the cultural impact is probably related to the artist herself I'd say. But then I guess it's also wrong to say that the song doesn't have an impact.

[badrobot]

I don't listen to the radio ever -- and I (unfortunately) ended up hearing Shake It Off a lot due to friends playing it, viral videos, etc. I have yet to hear Blank Space once. Dunno if that matters. I heard Out of the Woods a lot though. It seemed to be the song that had a lot of people saying "this is better than I thought Taylor could be" (which I'll agree with).

[Gary]

It seems to me though that when we say this song or that song "doesn't feel like a number one song" or "doesn't feel like the song is as big as it is charting", that "feeling" is an opinion that could vary depending on how much exposure you actually have to pop culture.

[Daniel Collins]

[Daniel Collins]

Taylor Swift Helps Tie Record Streak for Women Atop Hot 100

As 'Blank Space' leads for a seventh week, women have locked up the top spot for a record-tying 19th week in-a-row.

Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" leads the Billboard Hot 100 for a seventh week, helping rewrite history: Women have now blocked men from the chart's top spot for 19 straight weeks, tying a record first set in 2005.

Swift helps squeeze in more major piece of chart news before 2014 ends, so let's get right to our Wednesday tradition: running down the top 10 and more on the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100.



"Space," released on Big Machine Records and promoted to radio by Republic Records, logs its seventh week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, following two weeks on top (of four total) for her prior single, "Shake It Off' (which made Swift the first woman ever to replace herself at No. 1 on the Hot 100). "Shake" followed eight weeks at the summit for Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass." Before that, Swift began the run with the first two weeks at No. 1 for "Shake." Women, thus, have exclusively dominated the Hot 100 for 19 weeks dating to the chart dated Sept. 6. (This week's Billboard charts are dated Jan. 10.)


The streak matches the one first set from May 7 through Sept. 10, 2005, when Gwen Stefani led for four weeks with "Hollaback Girl"; Mariah Carey added four weeks with "We Belong Together"; Carrie Underwood nabbed a week on top with her American Idol coronation ballad "Inside Your Heaven"; and Carey returned for 10 more weeks at No. 1 with "Together," making for a record-establishing 19 weeks of only women ruling the Hot 100.

Overall, women have occupied the Hot 100's top rank longer, but that's including featured roles on singles by male artists. In 2011, women held the top spot for a record 45 straight weeks. The songs that contributed to the streak: Lady Gaga's "Born This Way' (six weeks); Katy Perry's "E.T.," featuring Kanye West (five); Rihanna's "S&M" (one); Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" (seven); Pitbull's "Give Me Everything," featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer (one); LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock (six); Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"; Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera (four); Adele's "Someone Like You" (five); and Rihanna's "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris (eight of its 10 total weeks at No. 1). (That run wrapped exactly three years ago today, on the Dec. 31, 2011 Hot 100.)


The current run is also not the longest for women in lead roles atop the Hot 100. Lead women reigned for 33 weeks in-a-row in 1995-96, but that streak was not exclusive to women. Carey's "Fantasy" led for eight weeks, followed by Whitney Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (one), Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day" (a Hot 100-record 16 weeks at No. 1), Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" (six) and Carey's "Always Be My Baby" (two).

"Space" stays atop the Hot 100 powered by its return (3-1) for a seventh week atop Digital Songs (503,000 downloads sold, up 121 percent, in the week ending Dec. 28, according to Nielsen Music), good for top Digital Gainer honors on the Hot 100. In a now annual tradition, online Christmas-week shopping, aided by gift cards given as presents, spurs sales gains for 98 of the chart's 100 titles this week.

The 503,000 downloads sold for "Space" mark just the 12th instance of a song selling at least half-a-million. And, it's the most since Swift's "Shake" debuted with 544,000 (Sept. 6). In fact, of those 12 titles, Swift boasts four of them, the most of any act. (Perry is the only other artist with multiple such weeks, having notched two.) Swift's best sales week: "We Are Never Getting Back Together" arrived with 623,000 on Sept. 1, 2012. That's the second-best sum overall, trailing only Flo Rida's "Right Round" (636,000, Feb. 28, 2009). (Perhaps surprisingly, of the 12 songs to move at least 500,000 downloads in a week, only five have done so thanks to Christmas-week sales activity.)


Also keeping "Space" atop the Hot 100, it logs a third consecutive week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (144 million in all-format audience, essentially even from last week). On Streaming Songs, it slips 1-3 after six weeks at the summit with a 22 percent slide to 8.9 million U.S. streams.



Below "Space," Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, rises 3-2 on the Hot 100. It drops 1-2 after a week atop Digital Songs, but with a 50 percent increase to 432,000 sold; jumps 7-4 on Streaming Songs (8.8 million, up 11 percent); and reaches the Radio Songs top 10 (11-10; 68 million, up 8 percent). Mars scores his 12th Radio Songs top 10, passing Perry and Rihanna for the highest total dating to his first week in the bracket (March 20, 2010).

Hozier's "Take Me to Church" falls to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after three weeks at its No. 2 high, but with gains in sales and airplay. It likewise descends 2-3 on Digital Songs despite a 65 percent surge to 402,000 sold. On Radio Songs, "Church" holds at No. 5 (92 million, up 1 percent). It tops the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart for a seventh week (4.2 million, down 15 percent) and rules the Hot Rock Songs chart for a ninth week.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Trainor ranks at No. 4 with "Lips Are Movin" (5-4, returning to its Hot 100 peak) and "Bass," which blasts 10-5 as the chart's top Streaming Gainer. "Lips" leaps 3-2 on Streaming Songs (9.1 million, up 5 percent); rises 6-4 on Digital Songs (339,000, up 122 percent); and climbs 18-15 on Radio Songs (52 million, up 4 percent).


"Bass," meanwhile, rebounds 5-1 for a 10th week atop Streaming Songs (after seven weeks between Nos. 2 and 5) with a 13 percent gain to 9.5 million. With "Bass" at No. 1 and "Lips" at No. 2, Trainor has the two most-streamed songs in the country this week, a feat previously achieved only by Iggy Azalea (for five weeks), Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (two) and Miley Cyrus (one). "Bass" charges 9-5 on Digital Songs (237,000, up 180 percent) and even makes a notable resurgence on Radio Songs (23-17; 51 million, up 14 percent). As with sales, airplay for many of 2014's biggest hits increases around Christmas and New Year's, as stations count down the year's top smashes.

Closing out the Hot 100's top 10, Sam Smith's No. 5-peaking "I'm Not the Only One" holds at No. 6; Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" drops to No. 7 from its No. 4 peak; Maroon 5's No. 3 hit "Animals" rebounds 9-8; Swift's "Shake" re-enters the region (11-9); and Nick Jonas' "Jealous" retreats to No. 10 from its No. 8 peak.

Just outside the Hot 100's top 10, Ariana Grande and The Weeknd's "Love Me Harder" slides to No. 11 from its best rank (No. 7), ending Grande's impressive streak of 34 straight weeks in the top 10. Still, she receives a nice consolation present: her new holiday track "Santa Tell Me" rises 2-1 to crown the Holiday 100 songs chart.

Visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 1), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety and Digital Songs, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs, will refresh, as they do each Thursday.

[Clauss]

Ariana felt off the top 10. She logged 34 weeks c:

[Daniel Collins]

2014/12/31

*** = dropped or added a format

1. TAYLOR SWIFT - Blank Space: 186.719 (+1.317)
2. SAM SMITH - I'm Not The Only One: 139.730 (+1.980)
3. MAROON 5 - Animals: 138.417 (+0.999)
4. ARIANA GRANDE & THE WEEKND - Love Me Harder: 134.924 (+1.422)
5. NICK JONAS - Jealous: 117.704 (+0.407)
6. HOZIER - Take Me To Church: 114.816 (+0.803)
7. MR PROBZ - Waves: 113.266 (+0.375)
8. TOVE LO - Habits (Stay High): 107.307 (-0.243)
9. CALVIN HARRIS - Blame f/John Newman: 90.572 (-0.610)
10. MARK RONSON - Uptown Funk f/Bruno Mars: 87.430 (+0.704)
11. ED SHEERAN - Don't: 80.556 (-0.216)
12. TAYLOR SWIFT - Shake It Off: 79.420 (+3.338)
13. I LOVE MAKONNEN - Tuesday f/Drake: 71.147 (-0.102)
14. BIG SEAN - I Don't F**k With You f/E-40: 69.707 (-0.253)
15. SELENA GOMEZ - The Heart Wants What It Wants: 69.454 (+1.167)
16. MEGHAN TRAINOR - All About That Bass: 67.076 (+1.928)
17. SAM SMITH - Stay With Me: 66.314 (+2.663) ▲
18. MEGHAN TRAINOR - Lips Are Movin: 65.206 (+0.470) ▼
19. JEREMIH - Don't Tell 'Em f/YG: 60.271 (-0.198)
20. ED SHEERAN - Thinking Out Loud: 58.774 (+0.946)

21. NICO & VINZ - Am I Wrong: 56.864 (+2.374) ▲
22. TIM MCGRAW - Shotgun Rider: 56.681 (+0.295)
23. IGGY AZALEA - Beg For It f/MØ: 55.968 (-1.046***) ▼
24. BRAD PAISLEY - Perfect Storm: 55.212 (+0.465) ▼
25. KENNY CHESNEY - Til It's Gone: 53.912 (-0.246)
26. USHER - I Don't Mind f/Juicy J: 53.520 (+0.928)
27. ERIC CHURCH - Talladega: 49.967 (+0.157)
28. CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Something In The Water: 49.825 (+0.436***)
29. PARMALEE - Close Your Eyes: 47.910 (-0.291)
30. ALESSO - Heroes: 47.432 (+0.446) ▲
31. MAGIC! - Rude: 47.185 (+2.484) ▲
32. TREY SONGZ - Touchin, Lovin f/Nicki Minaj: 46.765 (-0.402) ▼
33. JAMES NEWTON HOWARD - The Hanging Tree f/J. Lawrence: 45.897 (+0.707) ▼
34. VANCE JOY - Riptide: 45.209 (+0.563) ▲
35. FALL OUT BOY - Centuries: 45.022 (+0.149) ▼
36. DISCLOSURE - Latch f/Sam Smith: 44.718 (+0.431) ▲
37. CHRIS BROWN - New Flame f/Usher & Rick Ross: 44.066 (-0.433) ▼
38. JESSIE J/A. GRANDE/N. MINAJ - Bang Bang: 43.479 (+0.022)
39. MILKY CHANCE - Stolen Dance: 43.222 (-0.076)
40. FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE - Sun Daze: 43.046 (+0.178)

41. CHARLI XCX - Boom Clap: 42.993 (+0.777)
42. LUKE BRYAN - I See You: 41.811 (+0.590)
43. CLEAN BANDIT - Rather Be f/Jess Glynne: 40.805 (+0.557) ▲
44. NICKI MINAJ - Only f/Drake, Lil Wayne: 40.647 (+0.346) ▼
45. DJ KHALED - Hold You Down f/Chris Brown...: 39.958 (+0.018)
46. JOHN LEGEND - All Of Me: 39.259 (+2.669) ▲
47. MAROON 5 - Maps: 38.565 (+2.757) ▲
48. ELLA HENDERSON - Ghost: 37.563 (+0.718) ▼
49. DEJ LOAF - Try Me: 36.728 (-0.092) ▼
50. RANDY HOUSER - Like A Cowboy: 36.513 (+0.140) ▼
51. IGGY AZALEA - Black Widow f/Rita Ora: 36.496 (+0.158) ▼
52. BEYONCE - 7/11: 34.909 (+0.689) ▲
53. RAE SREMMURD - No Type: 34.548 (+0.128) ▼
54. ONEREPUBLIC - I Lived: 34.299 (+0.270)
55. COLBIE CAILLAT - Try: 34.058 (+1.407) ▲
56. THOMAS RHETT - Make Me Wanna: 33.658 (+0.454)
57. T.I. - About The Money f/Young Thug: 33.396 (+0.141) ▼
58. JASON ALDEAN - Just Gettin' Started: 32.912 (+0.450)
59. ONEREPUBLIC - Counting Stars: 32.744 (+2.275) ▲
60. KATY PERRY - Dark Horse: 32.449 (+1.084) ▲
61. BRETT ELDREDGE - Mean To Me: 32.217 (+0.005) ▼
62. NE-YO - She Knows f/Juicy J: 31.897 (+0.345) ▼
63. DARIUS RUCKER - Homegrown Honey: 30.988 (+0.303) ▼
64. CHASE BRYANT - Take It On Back: 30.911 (+0.362) ▼
65. BLAKE SHELTON - Lonely Tonight f/Ashley Monroe: 30.424 (+0.371)
66. KEITH URBAN - Somewhere In My Car: 30.074 (+0.342)
67. PRINCE ROYCE - Stuck On A Feeling f/Snoop...: 29.261 (+0.910) ▲
68. PHARRELL WILLIAMS - Happy: 29.196 (+2.303) ▲
69. SAM HUNT - Leave The Night On: 29.010 (+0.153) ▼
70. BASTILLE - Pompeii: 29.010 (+0.506) ▼
71. LILLYWOOD & ROBIN SCHULZ - Prayer In C: 28.595 (+0.374) ▲
72. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS - Bailando f/Gente De Zona: 28.557 (+0.111) ▼
73. LEE BRICE - Drinking Class: 28.218 (+0.548) ▲
74. ECHOSMITH - Cool Kids: 28.135 (+0.446) ▼
75. KID INK - Body Language f/Usher/Tinashe: 27.918 (-0.396) ▼