Billboard Hot 100 : 03/28/2015 - "Uptown Funk!" (11 wks #1)

[trustypepper]

Sam is just not letting go of that Top 10.

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Mar 18, 2015 13:09:42 GMT -5 allow that said:

It's great to see "Blank Space" and "Take Me To Church" finally dropping from the mix.

Hallelujah indeed.

At the expense of the godawful Trap Queen being in the top ten? No thank you. Much as I am sick of seeing Blank Space in the top ten for some time now, I would rather it be in the top ten until June than for that other thing to make the top ten

[lyhom]

even if I actually hated trap queen that bland steak song falling out this week is worth it

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Someone remind me how Trap Queen got in the top 10. 'Cuz it's not a top 10 worthy song and I've been trying to avoid it go any higher than 30 on my personal chart ('cuz of the Hot 100 rule).

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Mar 18, 2015 13:15:46 GMT -5 lyhom said:

even if I actually hated trap queen that bland steak song falling out this week is worth it

Not worth it for me lol. And I'm not a big fan of Lay Me Down either but I guess it had high sales this week and assuming that's the one to replace Blank Space then I'm not upset. However if that's the case then I'm extremely frustrated at TMTC for not saving us from Crap Queen making the top ten.

[jayhawk1117]

Mar 18, 2015 13:17:57 GMT -5 @jakelmmrs44 said:

Someone remind me how Trap Queen got in the top 10. 'Cuz it's not a top 10 worthy song and I've been trying to avoid it go any higher than 30 on my personal chart ('cuz of the Hot 100 rule).

I REALLY wish I could tell you the answer to your question, maybe it's streaming and sales but yeah, the song is pretty shit

[jjose712]

Oh come on, Hot boy was way worse and it was in the top 10 for a good while

[lyhom]

I can't speak for streaming but its sales have actually been pretty good for what it is, I think it's actually currently top ten on the iTunes chart as well.

[jayhawk1117]

Well a plus to this week is Uptown Funk is one week closer to 16 weeks. That doesn't make up for the actual worst song to enter in a VERY long time

[jayhawk1117]

Mar 18, 2015 13:21:40 GMT -5 jjose712 said:

Oh come on, Hot boy was way worse and it was in the top 10 for a good while

at least it had a funny dance and lyrics that you can understand

[jayhawk1117]

Mar 18, 2015 13:21:42 GMT -5 lyhom said:

I can't speak for streaming but its sales have actually been pretty good for what it is, I think it's actually currently top ten on the iTunes chart as well.

its streams are probably really strong because it's only popular in America.

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Mar 18, 2015 13:20:08 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

Mar 18, 2015 13:17:57 GMT -5 @jakelmmrs44 said:

Someone remind me how Trap Queen got in the top 10. 'Cuz it's not a top 10 worthy song and I've been trying to avoid it go any higher than 30 on my personal chart ('cuz of the Hot 100 rule).

I REALLY wish I could tell you the answer to your question, maybe it's streaming and sales but yeah, the song is pretty s**t

Mostly streaming (top five I assume), although I think it was top ten in sales too. It had a pretty decent amount of airplay too from rhythmic and urban so according to Kworb it was top 75 in overall airplay this week

Mar 18, 2015 13:21:40 GMT -5 jjose712 said:

Oh come on, Hot boy was way worse and it was in the top 10 for a good while

Two wrongs don't make a right

[Linnethia Monique]

The smell of white supremacy is strong.

[allow that]

Mar 18, 2015 13:13:52 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Mar 18, 2015 13:09:42 GMT -5 allow that said:

It's great to see "Blank Space" and "Take Me To Church" finally dropping from the mix.

Hallelujah indeed.

At the expense of the godawful Trap Queen being in the top ten? No thank you.

Luckily it's a chart meant to reflect the whole country's listening habits and not just yours.

[wavey.]

crystalphnx Was just talking about this lol.
@markg94...do you have something against URBAN artists or...

[allow that]

Mar 18, 2015 13:30:52 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

The smell of white supremacy is strong.

Lmaooo, I feel you but with Taylor Swift and possible boyfriend Hozier dropping this week, it's the most ethnically diverse top 10 we've had in a while (which is kinda sad but still).

[crystalphnx]

Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars Lead Hot 100; Sam Smith, Fetty Wap Hit Top 10

Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, rules the Billboard Hot 100 for an 11th week, while Sam Smith's "Lay Me Down" and Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" each jump into the top 10.

As we do each Wednesday, let's cover all the "up" and "down" action in the top 10 on the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100.

"Funk!," released on RCA Records, becomes just the 19th No. 1 in Hot 100 history to lead for at least 11 weeks. It's just the second to reach that level this decade: Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. and Pharrell, began a 12-week command in June 2013.

"Funk" logs an 11th week atop the Digital Songs chart with 189,000 downloads sold (down 10 percent) in the week ending March 15, according to Nielsen Music. It's now one of just three songs to lead Digital Songs for at least 11 weeks: Flo Rida's "Low," featuring T-Pain, racked a record 13 weeks on top in 2007-08, while Pharrell Williams' "Happy" dominated for 11 weeks last year.

"Funk" leads the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart (4.9 million U.S. streams, down 4 percent) for a 10th week and Streaming Songs (16.9 million, down 3 percent) for a ninth. On Radio Songs, "Funk" reigns for an eighth week with 178 million in all-format audience (down 2 percent).

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

Maroon 5's "Sugar" hits a new high on the Hot 100, rising 3-2. It holds at No. 2 on Digital Songs (178,000, up 4 percent) and No. 4 on both Radio Songs (123 million, up 7 percent) and Streaming Songs (9.9 million, up 4 percent). With its advance, "Sugar" becomes the highest-peaking Hot 100 hit from Maroon 5's album V. Lead single "Maps" reached No. 6 and follow-up "Animals" rose to No. 3.

With Maroon 5's climb to No. 2 on the Hot 100, Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" falls to No. 3 after peaking at No. 2 for eight weeks. "Loud" keeps at No. 2 on Radio Songs (146 million, down 5 percent) and Streaming Songs (10.9 million, down 7 percent) and slips 3-5 on Digital Songs (137,000, down 13 percent).

Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do" holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 3 three weeks ago. The Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack single stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (14.2 million, up 3 percent) and No. 4 on Digital Songs (152,000, down 2 percent). "Love" adds the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a second week, lifting 7-6 on Radio Songs (97 million, up 25 percent).

Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney's "FourFiveSeconds" is stationary at No. 5 on the Hot 100 after rising as high as No. 4 three weeks ago. The superstars' single also spends a sixth week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart; The Weeknd's "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)" rises to a new Hot 100 high (7-6); and Taylor Swift's "Style" dips from its No. 6 Hot 100 peak to No. 7. As previously reported, "Style" becomes Swift's fifth No. 1, and the third from her album 1989, on the Pop Songs airplay chart.

Sam Smith blasts 58-8 on the Hot 100 with "Lay Me Down." The ballad claims top Digital and Streaming Gainer honors as it soars onto Digital Songs at No. 3 with a 472 percent increase to 157,000 downloads sold, thanks in large part to John Legend's inclusion on a newly-released remix. The track also re-enters Streaming Songs at No. 9 (6.2 million, up 157 percent), while approaching Radio Songs with 19 million in audience (up 5 percent).

Smith and Legend teamed up on the song, and in a new video for it, in support of Red Nose Day, a biennial event in which British residents and celebrities wear clown noses to raise funds and awareness for those in need in the UK and throughout the world.

"Down" is the third Hot 100 top 10 from Smith's album In the Lonely Hour. Lead single "Stay With Me" reached No. 2 and "I'm Not the Only One" followed with a No. 5 peak. The set is the first by a solo male to generate three Hot 100 top 10s since Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 yielded "Berzerk" (No. 3), "Rap God" (No. 7) and "The Monster," featuring Rihanna (No. 1, four weeks), in 2013-14.

"Down" is Smith's fourth Hot 100 top 10 overall: Disclosure's "Latch," on which he's featured, became his first, reaching No. 7 last August. Smith and Ariana Grande are the only acts with as many as four top 10s since then.

Pitbull and Ne-Yo's "Time of Our Lives" stays at its No. 9 Hot 100 peak, while rapper Fetty Wap hits the top 10 on his first try with "Trap Queen" (12-10). The track gains by 17 percent to 9.6 million streams and holds at No. 6 on Streaming Songs. On Digital Songs, it bounds 17-12 (68,000, up 15 percent). "Queen" also nears Radio Songs with an 18 percent gain to 22 million.

The New Jersey-born Fetty Wap (real name: Willie Maxwell) lost the use of his left eye as a child. "When I was little, I got into a little accident and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes," he recently explained. But, "the doctors saved one, so I was blessed to [still] have my vision."

As for female royalty in chart hits, "Trap Queen" is just the fifth top 10 hit in Hot 100 history with the word "queen" in its title. The others: Bobby Darin's "Queen of the Hop" (No. 9, 1958); ABBA's "Dancing Queen" (No. 1, one week, 1977); Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts" (No. 2, 1981); and Billy Ocean's "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" (No. 1, two weeks, 1984).

(Honorable mentions to two regal rock bands: Queen logged four top 10s, including two No. 1s, in 1978-92 and Queensryche tallied one, the No. 9 ethereal classic "Silent Lucidity," in 1991.)

www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6502507/mark-ronson-bruno-mars-lead-hot-100-sam-smith-fetty-wap-hit-top-10

[trustypepper]

I'm all for urban tracks in the Top 10 but between this and Hot Boy, I'm not loving it lately. Now Truffle Butter, that will be a different story :kii:

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Mar 12, 2015 11:52:32 GMT -5 allow that said:

I'm kind of ho hum on Ed, Maroon 5, and Ellie's singles alike but I just want ONE of them to make it to #1 soon. The past few #1's would have worn out their welcomes even if they were good but this is the longest domination of atrocious chart topping singles that I can ever remember.

Mar 13, 2015 12:36:57 GMT -5 allow that said:

Mar 13, 2015 11:38:09 GMT -5 Kris said:

Jason Derulo with those updates though. Havent really liked his music since In My Head era

I'm with you! He should be permabanned from falsetto.

Mar 18, 2015 12:11:58 GMT -5 allow that said:

Mar 18, 2015 1:00:08 GMT -5 irice22 said:

Seriously, the 2010's are far superior to the 2000's in terms of pop music.

Overall yes and by far, but most of the Hot 100 #1's this decade have been putrid. At least since 2013 or so.

Mar 18, 2015 13:09:42 GMT -5 allow that said:

It's great to see "Blank Space" and "Take Me To Church" finally dropping from the mix.

Hallelujah indeed.

Mar 18, 2015 13:36:12 GMT -5 allow that said:

Mar 18, 2015 13:13:52 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

At the expense of the godawful Trap Queen being in the top ten? No thank you.

Luckily it's a chart meant to reflect the whole country's listening habits and not just yours.

Smells like pure hypocrisy. 

Mar 18, 2015 13:36:16 GMT -5 wavey. said:

crystalphnx Was just talking about this lol.
@markg94...do you have something against URBAN artists or...

Not at all. I'm just repulsed by certain songs. In fact, I like five of the top ten songs on urban airplay today. I'm sure there have been periods of time where there were even more than I liked.

[horchata]

It's really not that hard to grasp why "Trap Queen" is having the traction it's having.

[allow that]

Wow that's some effort lol

Mar 18, 2015 13:46:24 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Smells like pure hypocrisy.

But my posts don't consistently troll an entire genre of music.

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Mar 18, 2015 13:44:01 GMT -5 trustypepper said:

I'm all for urban tracks in the Top 10 but between this and Hot Boy, I'm not loving it lately. Now Truffle Butter, that will be a different story :kii:

Thank you! I'd much rather have TB in the top ten than Crap Queen! At least TB has a good beat and decent rapping

[trustypepper]

Worth noting as well that "Thinking Out Loud" drops to No. 3 after EIGHT weeks at No. 2 (tied for 5th-most all-time for songs that did not hit No. 1). It's the longest reign at No. 2 since 2004.

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Mar 18, 2015 13:57:36 GMT -5 trustypepper said:

Worth noting as well that "Thinking Out Loud" drops to No. 3 after EIGHT weeks at No. 2 (tied for 3rd most all-time). It's the longest reign at No. 2 since 2004.

Actually it is technically tied for 5th-most 4 songs peaked at #2 longer

[trustypepper]

^^You're right, I worded it wrong I meant the 8 weeks is tied for 3rd-longest all-time.

[Gary]

If we talk about "longest reigns" at #2 without hitting #1, this is true. If you are talking about longest reigns at #2, there was an 11 week stay by Whitney in 1995 as well

[Deleted]

The article says Thinking Out Loud is #2 on Streaming Songs with 10.9 million streams while Love Me Like You Do is #3 with 14.2 million streams...something's not right here

[Deleted]

Ok I have a question. I am listening for Trap Queen for the first time right now and I am curious, not how it made it into the top 10, but how it took off in the first place? Was there a viral vid or something? A remix featuring a more recognizable name?

Hot Boy I understood b/c it had the Shmoney dance and "about a week ago!" but I cannot discern one even mildly memorable hook, melody, or line in this song. It's not even obnoxious; everything is too monotone for me to be annoyed. I have already forgotten what it sounds like and don't feel compelled to play it again. So that is what I don't get. It's not that I think the song is too 'bad' for the top 10 - history has shown that no song is too bad to be successful - but it's too boring to be in the top 10. I am truly confused at how anyone latched on to this. Even Coco would make more sense in the top 10 right now. And goodness knows Coco is the worst song that has ever been made in the history of music.

If we were going to be accepting ratchet novelty hits into the top ten I would have taken I Don't Mind because for better or worse that song's stupid ass melody won't ever leave my side. But no, IDM has to be stuck with an #11 peak. I hate #11 peaks more than Mark G hates Dark Horse!

No comment on Mark G's music tastes though...we all know he's rather, um, consistent about reminding us what he doesn't like. Heh.

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Mar 18, 2015 14:22:43 GMT -5 @antigonerising said:

Ok I have a question. I am listening for Trap Queen for the first time right now and I am curious, not how it made it into the top 10, but how it took off in the first place? Was there a viral vid or something? A remix featuring a more recognizable name?

Hot Boy I understood b/c it had the Shmoney dance and "about a week ago!" but I cannot discern one even mildly memorable hook, melody, or line in this song. It's not even obnoxious; everything is too monotone for me to be annoyed. I have already forgotten what it sounds like and don't feel compelled to play it again. So that is what I don't get. It's not that I think the song is too 'bad' for the top 10 - history has shown that no song is too bad to be successful - but it's too boring to be in the top 10. I am truly confused at how anyone latched on to this. Even Coco would make more sense in the top 10 right now. And goodness knows Coco is the worst song that has ever been made in the history of music.

If we were going to be accepting ratchet novelty hits into the top ten I would have taken I Don't Mind because for better or worse that song's stupid ass melody won't ever leave my side. But no, IDM has to be stuck with an #11 peak. I hate #11 peaks more than Mark G hates Dark Horse!

No comment on Mark G's music tastes though...we all know he's rather, um, consistent about reminding us what he doesn't like. Heh.

Let me clear the air once and for all: I DO NOT HATE DARK HORSE!!! You can see it made #1 on my chart lol (just got tired of it rather quickly and don't understand why it was on the Billboard Hot 100 for so many weeks). I actually really liked it at one point but it burned out for me and now it's just meh to me (I don't dislike it at all - in fact I still kinda like it! I was just very frustrated and confused at it's very lengthy run on the Hot 100). It would've made sense if you said "I hate #11 peaks more than Mark G. hates Anaconda" or #selfie or one of those songs that I actually despise lol. I also don't like #11 peaks but even more so I dislike long #2 peaks (such as with Thinking Out Loud, even though as it goes without saying I'm a huge fan of Uptown Funk)

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

I don't see Trap Queen sticking around long, but I actually like it. There's nothing wonderful about it, but it's a decent enough hip/hop dance track