Billboard Hot 100: 02/28/2015 - "Uptown Funk!" (7 wks #1)

[RainMan94]

Video's up on Youtube. TOL didn't make it :(

[HolidayGuy]

Article not up yet, but Chart news is running down the top 10 on Twitter:

10. Style
9. Lips Are Movin'
8. I'm Not the Only One
7. Blank Space
6. Love Me Like You Do
5. Sugar
4. FourFiveSeconds
3. Take Me to Church
2. Thinking Out Loud
1. Uptown Funk

[w6]

Ed is getting that number 1 calm down people and will By The Grace Of God enter the Hot 100 this week?

[Deleted]

Feb 18, 2015 14:49:37 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Mark G.- as I posted, live performances should count, if uploaded by the act and is categorized as "music." I'm definitely in agreement that those short videos with a song in the background counting is silly- and it would be ridiculous for those to count and valid live performances not.

Thank you for seeing it from my point of view!

Side note: sad that Ed didn't get that #1 :'( well at least Uptown Funk passed Locked Out Of Heaven to become Bruno's longest-running #1! Hopefully it can get one more week and pass Blank Space

[Mikel Echarri]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deleted]

:'( >:( that will be everyone's reactions in 3, 2, 1...

[DJ General]

:(

[Deleted]

Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

[wjr15]

Sad day :(

[icefire9]

:)

[jayhawk1117]

Ok so I am now saddened.

[Deleted]

Feb 18, 2015 15:01:54 GMT -5 icefire9 said:

:)

:|

[Deleted]

Feb 18, 2015 15:01:54 GMT -5 icefire9 said:

:)

>:( Seriously?! Deserved at least a week at #1.

[Dylan :)]

Meh, never liked TOL anyway. I'm still pressed Problem had to get blocked so..

How are Take Me To Church, Lips Are Movin' and I'm Not The Only One still hanging on?! Glad to see Style hit the top 10, and Stay With Me not return (that song needs to die, already)

[KeepDeanWeird]

Considering Sing got off to huge start and didn't make Top 10, then Don't making it, TOL getting all the way to #2 is still quite an achievement. At least UF is a great song. Honestly, with all the TV tie-ins, it is everywhere.

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

So 10 will probably be Style's peak, it's sales aren't holding up and the video was a dud

[funkpunkandroll]

Dammit! Oh well, can't wait to see how close it got. I kinda got the feeling looking at ATRL that UF would have another week. But I tried not to give up hope. Oh well. :)

[Deleted]

Well at least I'm relieved SWM didn't make it back to the top ten lol. I'm not too disappointed even though I really wanted Ed to get a #1. At least Blank Space didn't get more weeks at #1 than Uptown Funk. That would've infuriated me as would SWM returning to the top ten so many months later.

[Queen of Insomnia.]

YAY! UF! just became Bruno's longest rulling HOT 100 #1 7 wks on top and counting! Biggest Ronson hit he could ever imagined. I'd never guessed.

[Deleted]

I'm glad to see that Uptown Funk is now the longest-running #1 for Bruno even though I'm upset that it happened at the expense of Ed :/

[ry4n]

Yay Uptown Funk! Block that 5 minute saccharine coma inducing thing.

[icefire9]

Feb 18, 2015 15:10:53 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

So 10 will probably be Style's peak, it's sales aren't holding up and the video was a dud

Well its sales are flat-lining right now, but airplay is increasing rapidly. The real problem for it is that with the video fizzling out, streaming will be terrible. If airplay continues to increase and sales remains steady, I could see this returning to the top 10 despite streaming weighing it down.

[funkpunkandroll]

Apparently the streams (and radio) were defining factors:
179m radio (Ed is 142m)
18m streams (over Ed's 15m)
The sales last reported were close (307k for TOL/285 for UF)

But you know, I should've known that UF's radio audience would block TOL...

[funkpunkandroll]

Feb 18, 2015 15:14:33 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

I'm glad to see that Uptown Funk is now the longest-running #1 for Bruno even though I'm upset that it happened at the expense of Ed :/

I'm not too upset... in fact, I don't think these two songs are budging (yes Ellie is rising digitally but I don't think she'll block him; Rihanna either). So anything can still happen. :)

Maybe UF would be #1 for ten weeks then.

[Deleted]

Feb 18, 2015 15:22:36 GMT -5 funkpunkandroll said:

I should've known that UF's radio audience would block TOL...

Yes but who knew that UF would get more streaming than TOL? TOL seemed a sure thing for #1 in streaming...never would have guessed TOL would get 3M less streams...THAT was the deciding factor. My prediction was that sales and streaming would make up for airplay lag...

[funkpunkandroll]

Least Ed got #1 on Digital Songs. :) Funk dropped 1%. LMAO

Bruno Mars Scores Longest Hot 100 Reign, Taylor Swift Hits Top 10

By Gary Trust | February 18, 2015 3:12 PM EST

As 'Uptown Funk!' rules for a seventh week, Mars rewrites his longest stay at No. 1. Plus, Swift moves into the top 10 with 'Style.'

Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a seventh week, granting Mars his longest command (among his six No. 1s). Plus, Taylor Swift tallies a third top 10 from her smash album 1989, "Style."

Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran takes over at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart with "Thinking Out Loud," which holds at its No. 2 peak on the Hot 100.

It's another busy Hot 100. Don't believe me? Just watch! … as we run down the key numbers in the top 10 on the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100, as we do each Wednesday.

As "Funk!," released on RCA Records, tops the Hot 100 for a seventh week, it passes Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" for his longest reign. Here's an updated look at his six No. 1s, ranked by lengthiest stays at the summit:

7 weeks, "Uptown Funk!," Mark Ronson featuring Mars, 2015
6 weeks, "Locked Out of Heaven," 2012-13
4 weeks, "Grenade," 2011
4 weeks, "Just the Way You Are," 2010
2 weeks, "Nothin' On You," B.o.B featuring Mars, 2010
1 week, "When I Was Your Man," 2013

"Funk" leads Streaming Songs (18.2 million U.S. streams, up 2 percent, according to Nielsen Music) and the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs (5.5 million, up 1 percent) for a fifth week each. It tops Radio Songs for a fourth week with a 3 percent lift to 181 million in all-format audience.

On Digital Songs, "Funk" falls 1-2 after seven weeks on top with 301,000 downloads sold (down 6 percent) in the week ending Feb. 15. The track has sold at least 300,000 for seven consecutive weeks, marking the best such run since Pharrell Williams' "Happy" (the Hot 100's No. 1 song of last year) also racked seven straight weeks of sales of 300,000 or more (March 1-April 12, 2014). Those are the longest such streaks since Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," featuring Pharrell and T.I., linked a record 10 weeks in a row of selling at least 300,000 in 2013.

Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" keeps at its No. 2 peak on the Hot 100 for a fifth week and becomes his first No. 1 on Digital Songs. The ballad bumps 2-1 on the latter chart with a 17 percent gain to 314,000 sold after he performed it on the 57th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8. It likewise holds at No. 2, bulleted, on Radio Songs (146 million, up 5 percent) and Streaming Songs (14.2 million, up 18 percent).

"Loud" closes the gap further between it and "Funk" at No. 1; "Funk" drops by 1 percent in overall activity and "Loud" surges by 15 percent. As for next week's Hot 100? Too early to call, since the benefits of Sheeran's Grammys performance are reflected on this week's charts; the song could fall from its new sales heights, stunting its momentum … or it could continue to gain, including at radio. Either way, we're likely in for another close race to the top of the Hot 100 next week.

Hozier's No. 2-peaking "Take Me to Church" keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100. It leads Hot Rock Songs for an 18th week.

Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney's "FourFiveSeconds" ticks 6-4 on the Hot 100, fueled in part (like Sheeran's "Loud") by the trio's performance of the collab at the Grammy Awards. "FourFiveSeconds" stays at No. 3 on Digital Songs with a 44 percent vault to 261,000 sold, good for the Hot 100's top Digital Gainer award. It bounds 22-13 on Radio Songs (58 million, up 25 percent) and 34-26 on Streaming Songs (4.6 million, up 20 percent).

With the song's Hot 100 lift, McCartney ranks in the top five for the first time in 31 years, one month and one week. His last top five hit? "Say Say Say," with Michael Jackson, which reigned for seven weeks in December 1983/January 1984 (and became McCartney's ninth solo No. 1, in addition to his record 20 with the Beatles). That's a new record gap closed between top five hits: McCartney bests Santana, who waited 28 years, eight months and one week between the No. 4-peaking "Black Magic Woman" in 1971 and the 12-week No. 1 "Smooth" (featuring Rob Thomas) in 1999.

"FourFiveSeconds" additionally spends a second week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100's top 10, Maroon 5's "Sugar" slips from its No. 4 high to No. 5; Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do" jumps 9-6, as its parent album, the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, debuts on the Billboard 200 at No. 2 (behind Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, new at No. 1); Swift's former seven-week Hot 100 No. 1 "Blank Space" drops 5-7; Sam Smith's "I'm Not the Only One" is stationary at No. 8, after reaching No. 5; and Meghan Trainor's No. 4 hit "Lips Are Movin" slips 7-9.

Closing out the Hot 100's top 10, Swift soars 18-10 with "Style," which wins the chart's top Airplay and Streaming Gainer honors. The third single from 1989 pushes 9-6 on Radio Songs (85 million, up 24 percent) and enters Streaming Songs at No. 37 with 3.7 million streams following the Feb. 13 premiere of its official video. (Nearly all the song's streaming points are for the clip's Vevo on YouTube clicks.) On Digital Songs, "Style" backtracks 7-8 but with a hefty 25 percent gain to 115,000.

"Style" becomes Swift's 17th Hot 100 top 10, tying her with Aretha Franklin for sixth-place among women with the most top 10s in the chart's 56-year history. Madonna is the leader among women (and among all acts) with 38 top 10s, followed by Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson (27 each), Rihanna (26) and Whitney Houston (23).

"Style" is the third top 10 from 1989, following second single "Space" and Swift's former four-week No. 1 "Shake It Off," the set's lead cut which drops out of the top 10 (10-15).

Visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb.19), 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. The Hot 100 will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale on Friday, Feb. 20.

[Dylan :)]

I wonder if Earned It has a chance at the top 10. Top 10 on iTunes and top 10 on Spotify (5 if you exclude the Drake stuff). I say the only thing dragging it down would be radio..

Also, Love Me Like You Do is also currently #2 on Spotify (#1 if you exclude Drake, again). Currently top 30 in airplay. I say if it makes top 20/top 15 by Wednesday, it has a chance at #1 next week (that is assuming its sales and streaming keep up). I actually don't think this song is only doing well because of the movie. Of course it is helping it, but all the other songs are failing (only three currently in the top 100 of iTunes; Earned It, Where You Belong and this), and even when it first came out it did well, and stayed doing well (I don't remember it dropping out of the top 20, and if it did not for long).

[funkpunkandroll]

Feb 18, 2015 15:27:40 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Feb 18, 2015 15:22:36 GMT -5 funkpunkandroll said:

I should've known that UF's radio audience would block TOL...

Yes but who knew that UF would get more streaming than TOL? TOL seemed a sure thing for #1 in streaming...never would have guessed TOL would get 3M less streams...THAT was the deciding factor. My prediction was that sales and streaming would make up for airplay lag...

It may have had more YouTube streams here since they were in dead heat on Spotify.

[Kris]

edit: damnit got beat to it

[funkpunkandroll]

Can't say I don't like this activity though. Very busy Hot 100!