Billboard Hot 100 : 03/14/2015 - "Uptown Funk!" (9 wks #1)

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Mar 4, 2015 15:41:53 GMT -5 TylerG11 said:

My predictions

1. Uptown Funk (30% lead)
2. Thinking Out Loud
3. Sugar
4. Love Me Like You Do
5. Take Me To Church
6. FourFiveSeconds
7. Style
8. Earned It
9. Time Of Our Lives
10. Blank Space

Sounds about right except FFS is far ahead of TMTC in sales and probably not too far behind in streaming anymore now that it's on Spotify while about even in airplay. Also Blank Space is too far ahead of Time Of Our Lives in streaming so I don't think TOOL's sales lead will be enough to make up for that. Poor TOOL, if only it had decent streaming like most of Pitbull's songs it could've been 7 or 8 by now :(

Side note: OMG I swear if few-second "fall" videos count for streaming... -___-

[Clauss]

I'm pretty sure this is how billboard is been working since last year

[Dylan :)]

Well, where I am it's 9pm rn.. I remember getting these at like 5:30/6pm

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Mar 4, 2015 15:49:49 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Billboard is taking so long because it's waiting for all of the streaming info on "Living For Love," and all of the "fall" videos that had the audio, so it can debut inside the top 40.

No they're just messing with their formulas until Uptown Funk isn't #1

[Dylan :)]

Mar 4, 2015 16:10:32 GMT -5 awesomecharts said:

Mar 4, 2015 15:49:49 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Billboard is taking so long because it's waiting for all of the streaming info on "Living For Love," and all of the "fall" videos that had the audio, so it can debut inside the top 40.

No they're just messing with their formulas until Uptown Funk isn't #1

Hopefully!

[cause_for_celebration]

Mar 4, 2015 15:49:49 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Billboard is taking so long because it's waiting for all of the streaming info on "Living For Love," and all of the "fall" videos that had the audio, so it can debut inside the top 40.

That would be the biggest joke, but I wouldn't have an issue with it ^_^

[Deleted]

Oh fuck no.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Mar 4, 2015 15:19:23 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

A couple of hours- you poor things. Forget 9 p.m.- things will go back to when you had to wait until Billboard hit newsstands or an entertainment program counted down the top 10 Thursdays. :)

It hasn't been like that for years. So we've been spoiled. We have expectations that haven't been met. Nothing "poor things" about it.

[renfield75]

I think HolidayGuy was joking but you're kinda proving his point; "We're spoiled and our expectations haven't been met!" isn't a great argument against a snide "you poor things"...

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

You could argue having a Hot 100 available to us at all as a whole is us being spoiled. Comparing how things are in today's fast world to how they were 10 years ago is ridiculous and diminishing it to us being "spoiled" is all relative. It could be much better and it could be so much worse. There's nothing wrong with commenting on how they've consistently been delayed lately.

Oops. Forgot to add a winkie smilie. I'm joking too btw ;) :)

[Gary]

There was a time when to get the chart you needed a notebook, a pencil a radio and 4 hours on a Sunday.
  In many ways, that was probably better than it is today.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Mar 4, 2015 16:47:05 GMT -5 Gary said:

There was a time when to get the chart you needed a notebook, a pencil a radio and 4 hours on a Sunday.
  In many ways, that was probably better than it is today.

I miss those days tbh

[renfield75]

All that being said, it is kinda ridiculous they haven't posted yet! Usually when it comes this late on a Wednesday it's because there's a super-close battle for the top spot or a change in the methodology. We know "Uptown Funk" is still miles ahead of everyone else, so hopefully we aren't going to see some insane recalibration.

[crystalphnx]

VIDEO IS UP

01 (01) "Uptown Funk", Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars [No. 1]
02 (02) "Thinking Out Loud", Ed Sheeran [No. 2]
03 (04) "Sugar", Maroon 5 [No. 3]
04 (03) "Love Me Like You Do", Ellie Goulding [No. 3]
05 (06) "FourFiveSeconds", Rihanna ft. Kanye West & Paul McCartney [No. 4]
06 (05) "Take Me To Church", Hozier [No. 2]
07 (08) "Style", Taylor Swift [No. 7]
08 (07) "Blank Space", Taylor Swift [No. 1]
09 (09) "Earned It", The Weeknd [No. 9]
10 (11) "Time Of Our Lives", Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo [No. 10]

[rimetm]

Mostly just one position moves

Sugar swaps Love Me Like You Do
FourFiveSeconds swaps Take Me to Church
Style swaps Blank Space
and Time of Our Lives swaps Lips Are Movin' out in a position move

[crystalphnx]

Pitbull & Ne-Yo Enter Hot 100 Top 10; Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars No. 1 Again

'Uptown Funk!' rules for a ninth week, helping parent label RCA to a record-tying multi-format domination, while Pitbull & Ne-Yo's 'Time of Our Lives' (also on RCA) lifts 11-10.

Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth week, while Pitbull and Ne-Yo's "Time of Our Lives" reaches the top 10, jumping 11-10.

As we do each Wednesday, let's run down the key numbers in the top 10 on the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100.

"Funk!," released on RCA Records, logs a ninth week atop the Digital Songs chart with 240,000 downloads sold (down 7 percent) in the week ending March 1, according to Nielsen Music. It leads Streaming Songs (18.8 million U.S. streams, down 5 percent) and the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs (5.2 million, down 3 percent) for a seventh week each. On Radio Songs, "Funk" reigns for a fifth week with a 2 percent lift to 189.8 million in all-format audience.

Ronson and Mars' collab, thus, crowns the Hot 100 and its three main component charts (Digital Songs, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs) simultaneously for a record-extending fifth week (nonconsecutively).

Also, as reported in Tuesday's "Ask Billboard" reader mailbag, the song has joined an elite club globally: "Funk" is one of just four songs ever to lead the Hot 100 and the Official UK Singles chart for at least seven weeks each. (The others: Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," 1991; Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," 1992-93; and Rihanna's "Umbrella," featuring Jay Z, 2007.)

The continued command of "Funk!" on multiple Billboard airplay charts additionally contributes to a coup for RCA, as the label ties for the most concurrent No. 1 rankings, six, in a week, in the nearly 20 years that Billboard's nine currently-produced primary singular-format pop, rock and R&B/hip-hop airplay charts have coexisted. "Funk" crowns Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs and Rhythmic Songs, while RCA boasts three other leaders this week: Walk the Moon's "Shut Up and Dance" tops Alternative Songs; Three Days Grace's "I Am Machine" rules Mainstream Rock Songs; and Usher's "I Don't Mind," featuring Juicy J, takes over atop Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop.

RCA itself (2011), Interscope Records (2013), Columbia Records (2014) and (formerly one entity) Island Def Jam Music Group (2006) had each previously posted six simultaneous airplay No. 1s.

Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" ranks at its No. 2 peak on the Hot 100 for a seventh week. ("Funk" is down by 4 percent in overall activity, while "Loud" decreases by 2 percent.) Sheeran's ballad holds at No. 2 on Radio Songs (159 million, up 5 percent) and Streaming Songs (12 million, down 4 percent) and rebounds 3-2 on Digital Songs (189,000, down 6 percent).

Giddy-up: The seven-week stay at No. 2 for "Loud" on the Hot 100 is the longest for a No. 2-peaking hit since PSY's "Gangnam Style" also peaked at the runner-up spot for seven weeks in 2012. The record? Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (1981-82) and Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott's "Work It" (2002-03) each peaked at No. 2 for 10 weeks.

Maroon 5's "Sugar" hits a new Hot 100 high, rising 5-3 (error, they mean 4-3). It also ties for the highest-charting hit from the band's album V: Prior single "Animals" reached No. 3 in November. (The set's lead cut "Maps" peaked at No. 6 in August.) "Sugar" climbs 5-3 on Digital Songs (178,000, up 8 percent); keeps at No. 5 on Streaming Songs (9 million, up 9 percent); and lifts 6-5 on Radio Songs (104 million, up 12 percent).

Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do" retreats from its No. 3 peak to No. 4 on the Hot 100. The Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack single stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (10.5 million, up 9 percent) and roars 17-12 on Radio Songs (63 million, up 23 percent), while dipping 2-4 on Digital Songs (169,000, down 18 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney's "FourFiveSeconds" rebounds 6-5 (after rising as high as No. 4 two weeks ago), adding top Streaming Gainer honors. The fab three's single blasts 36-10 on Streaming Songs with a 53 percent surge to 5.8 million after it was added to Spotify and other streamers. (Vevo on YouTube clicks continue to account for the majority, 61 percent, of its streaming activity.) The track bumps 10-8 on Radio Songs (77 million, up 10 percent) and slips 4-5 on Digital Songs (156,000, down 10 percent).

"FourFiveSeconds" additionally spends a third week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, matching McCartney's longest reign on the tally. His sole prior No. 1 on the list, "The Girl Is Mine," with Michael Jackson, reigned the weeks of Jan. 15-22-29, 1983.

Hozier's No. 2-peaking "Take Me to Church" drops 5-6 on the Hot 100. It also leads Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart for a 20th week.

Taylor Swift's "Style" advances 8-7 on the Hot 100 with top Airplay Gainer honors for a fourth consecutive week. The third single from 1989 surges 4-3 on Radio Songs (115 million, up 14 percent) and holds at No. 8 on Digital Songs (91,000, down 9 percent). Meanwhile, Swift's former seven-week No. 1 "Blank Space" is stationary at No. 7 (error, they mean it falls 7-8) on the Hot 100.

The Weeknd's "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)," like Goulding's hit, also from Fifty Shades of Grey, holds at its No. 9 peak.

Capping the Hot 100's top 10, Pitbull and Ne-Yo nab the chart's sole new top 10 this week, jumping 11-10 with "Time of Our Lives." (The song is an RCA release, marking yet another notable feat for the label this week.) Pitbull scores his 10th top 10 and first since "Timber," featuring Kesha, led for three weeks early last year. Ne-Yo notches his 12th top 10 and ends an even longer break: he'd last ranked in the top tier with the No. 6 hit "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" in late 2012.

"Time" flies 7-6 on Radio Songs (98 million, up 8 percent); returns to its highpoint on Digital Songs (11-9; 87,000, up 17 percent) and pushes 35-32 on Streaming Songs (4 million, up 4 percent).

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6487794/pitbull-ne-yo-hot-100-top-10

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Mar 4, 2015 12:48:09 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Final prediction:

1. Uptown Funk (30% lead)
2. Thinking Out Loud
3. Sugar
4. Love Me Like You Do
5. FourFiveSeconds
6. Take Me To Church
7. Style
8. Earned It
9. Blank Space
10. Time Of Our Lives (finally it makes the top ten! Although I don't want to speak too soon -___-)

So close! Don't get why Blank Space is falling so damn slowly. 

[TylerG11]

Mar 4, 2015 15:54:34 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Mar 4, 2015 15:41:53 GMT -5 TylerG11 said:

My predictions

1. Uptown Funk (30% lead)
2. Thinking Out Loud
3. Sugar
4. Love Me Like You Do
5. Take Me To Church
6. FourFiveSeconds
7. Style
8. Earned It
9. Time Of Our Lives
10. Blank Space

Sounds about right except FFS is far ahead of TMTC in sales and probably not too far behind in streaming anymore now that it's on Spotify while about even in airplay. Also Blank Space is too far ahead of Time Of Our Lives in streaming so I don't think TOOL's sales lead will be enough to make up for that. Poor TOOL, if only it had decent streaming like most of Pitbull's songs it could've been 7 or 8 by now :(

Side note: OMG I swear if few-second "fall" videos count for streaming... -___-

Oops, didn't realize FFS was on Spotify now

[Gary]

So there we go, we can rest easy now. Unless we want to get mad at them for taking an extra hour to post a static chart.

[surfy]

Ew @ Pitbull getting into the top 10 with that awful song.

[Glove Slap]

Mar 4, 2015 16:47:05 GMT -5 Gary said:

There was a time when to get the chart you needed a notebook, a pencil a radio and 4 hours on a Sunday.
  In many ways, that was probably better than it is today.

No it was not. Efficiency is a real thing.

[HolidayGuy]

tick / tock, no more a joke than some other streaming-fueled entries. While I was joshing with the comment, such a thing wouldn't be much of a shocker.

Armando keeps pumping out essentially the same fare again and again, and radio continues to eat it up. What ya gonna do.

[ss8]

Another top 10 for Pitbull :#. Him and his sound/ 'mr worldwide' shtick is sooo 2010/11 and more tired now than Timbaland lol who basically fell off the face of the earth. Has he NOT had a song ranting and babbling about being 'Mr Worldwide from the 305', 'living it up' or using his spare change from a crap job change to party, having issues paying his rent etc etc.. lol Someone plz. squeeze the puss out of Zzzitbull already lol.

[ss8]

Anyways, looking like there is nothing coming up any time soon to dethrone Uptown Funk! Just don't think Style or Sugar are strong enough to topple this. Looking like this will easily dethrone Blurred Lines (only needs 3 weeks to tie/ 4 to beat). Has the multi format appeal (kind of song played at every kind of party for all different ages), less controversial than BL which will only help etc.. It's all gonna come down to competition and new, big releases. If nothing major comes out (or anything goes viral) hope this finally ties or beats the 19 year old record of One Sweet Day.

[skizzo]

Rihanna would've probably been #1 by now had she released a good song...

[Verisimilitude]

Mar 4, 2015 20:19:47 GMT -5 skizzo said:

Rihanna would've probably been #1 by now had she released a good song...

Looking at its' rising performance on Spotify, quality doesn't seem to matter. Rihanna could release a song gargling mouthwash and it would still be a hit.

[surfy]

Believe it or not, there are other people besides you who have different opinions than you...

[skizzo]

Mar 4, 2015 20:23:49 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

Mar 4, 2015 20:19:47 GMT -5 skizzo said:

Rihanna would've probably been #1 by now had she released a good song...

Looking at its' rising performance on Spotify, quality doesn't seem to matter. Rihanna could release a song gargling mouthwash and it would still be a hit.

Probably. But with Rihanna we got separate the hits with the mega hits.

[HolidayGuy]

Yep, Gary- that was me back in the day, too. :)

[imbondz]

Mar 4, 2015 16:47:05 GMT -5 Gary said:

There was a time when to get the chart you needed a notebook, a pencil a radio and 4 hours on a Sunday.
  In many ways, that was probably better than it is today.

That was every Sunday for me as a kid. I'd have to go to church so I'd get the longest blank cassette tape I could find, record Casey Kasem and listen to it when I got back and I'd write it down. Ha.