Billboard Hot 100 : 04/11/2015 - Uptown Funk! (13th wk #1)

[BlueSwan]

Here in Denmark, "Don't Stop Believin'" is still an obscure song that virtually no one remembers. Glee was never huge here either.

But actually, being a highschool teacher, I would love to test my students on knowledge of pop classics. Could be interesting. I would bet that not one of my students would know either Don't Stop Believin' or One Sweet Day. I'm 100% certain that they virtually ALL know Lose Yourself, Thriller/Billie Jean, I Will Always Love You, etc.

Infact, I will do this. I'll make a list of songs and have my students tick which songs they absolutely know.

[Enigma.]

Journey are very American as a band.. DSB is pratically their only big hit in Europe and even that is mainly because of the use in pop culture in the noughties

[Dylan :)]

My predictions:

#1 Uptown Funk
#2 Sugar
#3 Love Me Like You Do
#4 Thinking Out Loud
#5 Earned It
#6 FourFiveSeconds
#7 Trap Queen
#8 Style
#9 GDFR
#10 Time Of Our Lives
#11 Somebody
#12 Shut Up & Dance
#13 Want To Want Me
#14/15 Chains/One Last Time

Take Your Time will go top 20, Worth It will go top 50 and Trouble should enter around 50-60.

[renfield75]

Mar 30, 2015 20:18:07 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

Mar 30, 2015 19:59:46 GMT -5 crystalphnx said:

no one's actually said it, but doesn't Glee deserve at lot of credit for making DSB "the" 80's classic of today?

Yes, it does, and I'm surprised no one brought it up sooner.

I'd like to see an All-Time Hot 100 that factors in the chart points it amassed over the decades

Billboard made an attempt at this last year when they recalculated Year End Top 100 lists based on cumulative sales and airplay. There were some major changes; "Macarena" was bumped from the top of the '96 list by Sublime's "What I Got", "Don't Stop Believin'" replaced "Physical," "Sweet Home Alabama" replaced "The Way We Were," and "All I Want For Christmas Is You" knocked "Gangsta's Paradise" from #1 on the '95 tally.

[Daniel Collins]

2015/03/31

*** = dropped or added a format

1. MARK RONSON - Uptown Funk f/Bruno Mars: 226.858 (-0.111)
2. MAROON 5 - Sugar: 178.806 (+0.941)
3. TAYLOR SWIFT - Style: 177.037 (+0.814)
4. ED SHEERAN - Thinking Out Loud: 174.246 (-1.775)
5. ELLIE GOULDING - Love Me Like You Do: 156.311 (+2.289)
6. PITBULL - Time Of Our Lives f/Ne-Yo: 120.464 (-3.842)
7. THE WEEKND - Earned It: 117.274 (+4.450)
8. NATALIE LA ROSE - Somebody f/Jeremih: 105.106 (+1.464)
9. RIHANNA/KANYE WEST/P MCCARTNEY - FourFiveSeconds: 100.732 (-1.739)
10. TAYLOR SWIFT - Blank Space: 99.449 (-1.119)
11. NICKI MINAJ - Truffle Butter f/Drake...: 81.564 (-0.975)
12. ZAC BROWN BAND - Homegrown: 75.977 (+0.491)
13. CHRIS BROWN & TYGA - Ayo: 75.729 (+0.301)
14. ARIANA GRANDE - One Last Time: 75.503 (+1.232)
15. SAM HUNT - Take Your Time: 73.679 (+1.108) ▲
16. DARIUS RUCKER - Homegrown Honey: 73.605 (-0.455) ▼
17. CHRIS YOUNG - Lonely Eyes: 72.896 (+0.289) ▼
18. CALVIN HARRIS - Outside f/Ellie Goulding: 65.900 (-0.235)
19. JASON DERULO - Want To Want Me: 65.095 (+1.758) ▲
20. LEE BRICE - Drinking Class: 64.453 (+0.619) ▲

21. HOZIER - Take Me To Church: 64.143 (-1.001) ▼
22. KELLY CLARKSON - Heartbeat Song: 63.946 (-0.604) ▼
23. DIERKS BENTLEY - Say You Do: 62.124 (+1.544) ▲
24. FLO RIDA - GDFR f/Sage The Gemini: 62.102 (+1.569) ▲
25. COLE SWINDELL - Ain't Worth The Whiskey: 62.000 (-3.173) ▼
26. WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance: 60.364 (+1.576) ▲
27. SAM SMITH - I'm Not The Only One: 59.721 (-0.882) ▼
28. KEITH URBAN - Raise 'Em Up f/Eric Church: 54.032 (+0.707) ▲
29. ZEDD - I Want You To Know f/S. Gomez: 53.736 (+0.635) ▲
30. MEGHAN TRAINOR - Lips Are Movin: 53.630 (-1.018) ▼
31. VANCE JOY - Riptide: 51.737 (+0.199)
32. ONE DIRECTION - Night Changes: 50.139 (-0.147) ▲
33. NICK JONAS - Chains: 50.081 (+0.670) ▲
34. USHER - I Don't Mind f/Juicy J: 49.496 (-1.841) ▼
35. TYLER FARR - A Guy Walks Into A Bar: 49.453 (+0.459) ▲
36. SAM SMITH - Stay With Me: 49.144 (-0.194) ▼
37. FETTY WAP - Trap Queen: 47.988 (+1.327) ▲
38. NICK JONAS - Jealous: 47.450 (-0.658) ▼
39. RAE SREMMURD - Tho Sum Mo f/Nicki Minaj: 45.924 (+0.691) ▲
40. BRETT ELDREDGE - Mean To Me: 44.813 (-2.423) ▼

41. LILLYWOOD & ROBIN SCHULZ - Prayer In C: 42.323 (-1.485)
42. BILLY CURRINGTON - Don't It: 42.319 (+0.598) ▲
43. NICO & VINZ - Am I Wrong: 41.923 (-0.559) ▼
44. A THOUSAND HORSES - Smoke: 41.293 (+0.492) ▲
45. NE-YO - She Knows f/Juicy J: 40.536 (-0.759) ▼
46. IMAGINE DRAGONS - I Bet My Life: 40.011 (+0.008)
47. MAROON 5 - Animals: 39.500 (-0.378)
48. KENNY CHESNEY - Wild Child w/Grace Potter: 38.776 (-0.160)
49. TIM MCGRAW - Diamond Rings And Old...: 37.434 (+0.473) ▲
50. TAYLOR SWIFT - Shake It Off: 37.025 (+0.094) ▲
51. JASON ALDEAN - Just Gettin' Started: 36.192 (-2.708) ▼
52. JAKE OWEN - What We Ain't Got: 34.999 (+0.231)
53. SAM SMITH - Lay Me Down: 34.062 (+0.874) ▲
54. FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE - Sippin' On Fire: 33.897 (+1.276) ▲
55. FALL OUT BOY - Centuries: 33.457 (-0.557) ▼
56. LUKE BRYAN - I See You: 32.997 (-0.064)
57. MAGIC! - Rude: 32.518 (+0.242) ▲
58. MIRANDA LAMBERT - Little Red Wagon: 32.446 (+0.275) ▲
59. CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Little Toy Guns: 32.230 (+0.705) ▲
60. ELLA HENDERSON - Ghost: 32.080 (-1.144) ▼

61. DISCLOSURE - Latch f/Sam Smith: 31.235 (-0.265)
62. EASTON CORBIN - Baby Be My Love Song: 30.810 (+0.399) ▲
63. THOMAS RHETT - Make Me Wanna: 30.689 (-0.209)
64. BRAD PAISLEY - Crushin' It: 30.608 (+0.424) ▲
65. BLAKE SHELTON - Lonely Tonight f/Ashley Monroe: 30.090 (-0.938) ▼
66. MR PROBZ - Waves: 29.757 (-0.602) ▼
67. JEREMIH - Don't Tell 'Em f/YG: 29.719 (-0.020) ▲
68. GEORGE EZRA - Budapest: 29.534 (+0.265) ▲
69. JOHN LEGEND - All Of Me: 29.269 (-0.579) ▼
70. ERIC PASLAY - She Don't Love You: 29.232 (+0.669) ▲
71. MEGHAN TRAINOR - All About That Bass: 28.784 (+0.124) ▲
72. NICKI MINAJ - Only f/Drake, Lil Wayne: 28.234 (-0.602) ▼
73. BIG SEAN - I Don't F**k With You f/E-40: 28.185 (-0.683) ▼
74. BIG SEAN - Blessings f/Drake: 28.164 (+0.100) ▲
75. TOVE LO - Habits (Stay High): 28.062 (-0.318) ▼

83. RIHANNA - Bitch Better Have My Money: 24.821 (+2.353)
123. LITTLE BIG TOWN - Girl Crush: 15.690 (+1.167)
160. MEGHAN TRAINOR - Dear Future Husband: 11.720 (+1.050)

[johonmilla]

What happened to Hey mama by David Guetta and Bills by Lunch money Lewis? What position are they in?

[Dylan :)]

Mar 31, 2015 9:53:35 GMT -5 johonmilla said:

What happened to Hey mama by David Guetta and Bills by Lunch money Lewis? What position are they in?

Hey Mama is 167, Bills 193.

[Soulsista]

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

April 12, 1980

01 01 Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd (4th and final week at #1)
02 03 Call Me - Blondie
03 02 Working My Way Back To You - The Spinners
04 07 Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross
05 05 Too Hot - Kool & The Gang
06 08 Special Lady - Ray, Goodman & Brown
07 15 With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syreeta
08 04 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
09 11 I Can't Tell You Why - The Eagles
10 12 Off The Wall - Michael Jackson


April 13, 1985

01 02 We Are The World - USA For Africa (1st of 4 weeks at #1)
02 01 One More Night - Phil Collins
03 04 Crazy For You - Madonna
04 07 Nightshift - The Commodores
05 03 Material Girl - Madonna
06 08 I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
07 09 Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge
08 05 Lovergirl - Teena Marie
09 14 Obsession - Animotion
10 13 Missing You - Diana Ross


April 14, 1990

01 02 I'll Be Your Everything - Tommy Page (1st and only week at #1)
02 06 Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child
03 03 All Around The World - Lisa Stansfield
04 09 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
05 01 Love Will Lead You Back - Taylor Dayne
06 11 I Wanna Be Rich - Calloway
07 08 Here & Now - Luther Vandross
08 07 Get Up - Technotronic
09 10 Forever - KISS
10 05 Black Velvet - Alannah Myles


April 8, 1995

01 01 Take a Bow - Madonna (7th and final week at #1)
02 02 Candy Rain - Soul For Real
03 06 Run Away - The Real McCoy
04 04 Red Light Special - TLC
05 05 Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow
06 07 This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
07 03 Creep - TLC
08 08 Baby - Brandy
09 11 I Know - Dionne Farris
10 09 Big Poppa / Warning - The Notorious B.I.G.

[Deleted]

Bills is a nice song ;)

[ss8]

What happened to the second version of UF on iTunes? All I currently see is one charting.

[ILLUSION]

Where is 'Feeling Myself'?

[crystalphnx]

Mar 31, 2015 11:45:19 GMT -5 ss8 said:

What happened to the second version of UF on iTunes? All I currently see is one charting.

on the iTunes Store on my phone, I see it at No. 109. are you looking somewhere that only tracks the Top 100?

[ss8]

Mar 31, 2015 12:23:21 GMT -5 crystalphnx said:

Mar 31, 2015 11:45:19 GMT -5 ss8 said:

What happened to the second version of UF on iTunes? All I currently see is one charting.

on the iTunes Store on my phone, I see it at No. 109. are you looking somewhere that only tracks the Top 100?

kworb.net. It's possible (like the other day) they're super slow today w/ updates cause there's been like no changes in several hours. 

[Dylan :)]

Mar 31, 2015 12:45:27 GMT -5 ss8 said:

Mar 31, 2015 12:23:21 GMT -5 crystalphnx said:

on the iTunes Store on my phone, I see it at No. 109. are you looking somewhere that only tracks the Top 100?

kworb.net. It's possible (like the other day) they're super slow today w/ updates cause there's been like no changes in several hours. 

Go in to artists and then Bruno/Mark

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 from 55, 50, 45, and 40 years ago:

April 4, 1960 (for the week ending April 9)

01 01 Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith & His Orchestra (7th of 9 weeks at #1)
02 04 Puppy Love - Paul Anka
03 02 Wild One - Bobby Rydell
04 03 He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves
05 05 Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee
06 14 Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton
07 25 Footsteps - Steve Lawrence
08 08 Harbour Lights - The Platters
09 11 Mama - Connie Francis
10 06 Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton


April 10, 1965

01 03 I'm Telling You Now - Freddie & The Dreamers (1st of 2 weeks at #1)
02 01 Stop! In The Name Of Love - The Supremes
03 02 Can't You Hear My Heartbeat - Herman's Hermits
04 04 Shotgun - Junior Walker & The All Stars
05 05 The Birds And The Bees - Jewel Akens
06 06 King Of The Road - Roger Miller
07 17 Game Of Love - Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
08 09 Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandella
09 28 I Know a Place - Petula Clark
10 10 Red Roses For a Blue Lady - Vic Dana


April 11, 1970

01 02 Let It Be - The Beatles (1st of 2 weeks at #1)
02 04 ABC - The Jackson Five
03 03 Instant Karma - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
04 06 Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
05 01 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
06 05 Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Grows) - Edison Lighthouse
07 07 House Of The Rising Sun - Frijid Pink
08 09 Come & Get It - Badfinger
09 10 Easy Come Easy Go - Bobby Sherman
10 08 The Rapper - Jaggerz


April 12, 1975

01 02 Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John (1st of 2 weeks at #1)
02 01 Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
03 03 No No Song / Snookeroo - Ringo Starr
04 04 Express - B.T. Express
05 06 Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow
06 08 (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - B.J. Thomas
07 07 Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
08 12 Chevy Man - Sammy Johns
09 14 What Am I Gonna Do With You - Barry White
10 11 Once You Get Started - Rufus & Chaka Khan

[Push The Button]

Mar 30, 2015 20:39:24 GMT -5 Gary said:

That was 2008, Monster was 2003.

Journey's Greatest Hits has been a consistent catalog seller since well before that.

The Laguna Beach episode aired in 2005, the first time that DSB hit the top 10 on iTunes.

[bat1990]

Those top 10s from '10, '95, & '00 are GIVING ME LIFE!!!! '05 can go back to the trash heap in which it belongs.

[felipe]

Mar 31, 2015 6:04:21 GMT -5 BlueSwan said:

Here in Denmark, "Don't Stop Believin'" is still an obscure song that virtually no one remembers. Glee was never huge here either.

But actually, being a highschool teacher, I would love to test my students on knowledge of pop classics. Could be interesting. I would bet that not one of my students would know either Don't Stop Believin' or One Sweet Day. I'm 100% certain that they virtually ALL know Lose Yourself, Thriller/Billie Jean, I Will Always Love You, etc.

Infact, I will do this. I'll make a list of songs and have my students tick which songs they absolutely know.

I teach 5th graders in Brazil and we had a project about music last year. All of them knew Billie Jean and Thriller. Most of them knew Lose yourself and I Will Always Love You. None of them knew Don't Stop Believing or One Sweet Day.

[crystalphnx]

Ah, cool stuff about being able to survey groups of students! It does make me wonder, if ever a true "study" on this was created - what does it mean to really "know"/"remember" a song?

- to say "yes/no, I have/haven't heard of that" when someone mentions a song title
- to be able to name a song's title when you hear a clip of it played
- to be able to sing the song (well, the chorus at least) when someone mentions the title

I think the third (or possibly second) option would be the best test of someone really knowing a song. It's one thing to have heard OF a song ("Oh, the title 'Billie Jean' is familiar to me"), but another thing to actually be able to sing it (and I'm not talking about one's vocal abilities, just showing that you actually know how a song goes.) There's plenty of songs whose titles I would recognize from seeing them on the charts, but if I've never actually heard those songs, do I really know them?

[trustypepper]

Well this has certainly been an interesting week of discussion.

[bat1990]

I swear, "One Sweet Day" wasn't that big of a hit outside the US. I didn't become really into music until 2000/2001, and I remembered "Fantasy," "Honey", "Hero," and "My All" from childhood memories of the radio but not OSD.

In contrast, I remember I Will Always Love You, I Have Nothing, I Believe In You & Me, and My Love is Your Love

[Gary]

Memories are created by personal tastes and personal experiences as well. One song could mean everything to one person and nothing to the next.

[Deleted]

Wow at "Uptown Funk!" barely decreasing in airplay today...I'm extremely anxious to see how many weeks UF ends up getting at #1...

[renfield75]

I started watching the Hot 100 in 1990, and vividly remember "One Sweet Day" making it to 16 weeks. It was certainly a big deal, but honestly the song didn't feel *that* big even then. No doubt it was a huge hit, but it never really seemed bigger to me than "Fantasy". After those first few weeks on top there just wasn't much competition; Whitney's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" had entered at #1 the week before OSD and held on to number two for 11 long weeks after that. LL Cool J's "Hey Lover" held behind those two songs for 8 weeks. Nothing was really breaking through until Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" took off in March of '96. Had I not been a chart watcher, "One Sweet Day" (outside of the novelty of huge acts Mariah and Boyz II Men teaming up) wouldn't have seemed like nearly as big of a deal as other songs that year like "Waterfalls," "This Is How We Do It," "Fantasy," or "Gangsta's Paradise". Follow-up single "Always Be My Baby" seemed like it made more of a pop culture impact to me than OSD.

[Deleted]

So I'm not the only one experiencing this double l glitch right?

[cause_for_celebration]

Mar 31, 2015 23:26:23 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

So I'm not the onlly one experiencing this doublle ll gllitch right?

Aprillllll foolllllsssss

[ss8]

Did The Wkd. perform somewhere big/te*evised etc..2nte? Out of 'nowhere' it's sudden*y on UFs tai* . A*so, for whatever the reason I can't see the tota* sa*es of UF! (just 1 version on Kworb). Even if EI comes super near or even surpasses UF w/ sa*es, due to UF airp*ay and streams wi** it be enough to ho*d up/break the record in 3-4 weeks?

[ss8]

OH F It I get it now.. wi** (for now) avoid using a certain *tters for the day haha. God I hate 4/1 day. Si**y 'h*day for ch*dren zzzz

[Deleted]

Apr 1, 2015 0:08:58 GMT -5 ss8 said:

OH F It I get it now wi** (for now) avoid using a certain *tter for the day haha. God I hate 4/1 day zzzz

What?

[ss8]

Apr 1, 2015 0:07:34 GMT -5 ss8 said:

Did The Wkd. perform somewhere big/te*evised etc..2nte? Out of 'nowhere' it's sudden*y on UFs tai* . A*so, for whatever the reason I can't see the tota* sa*es of UF! (just 1 version on Kworb). Even if EI comes super near or even surpasses UF w/ sa*es, due to UF airp*ay and streams wi** it be enough to ho*d up/break the record in 3-4 weeks?

Did some of u *ike my thread due to confirming the Wkd performing somewhere etc...or just being in fu** Apri* foo*s mode? hehe