Billboard Hot 100 : 05/16/2015

[jayhawk1117]

May 4, 2015 10:34:53 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Jason possibly getting another Talk Dirty sized hit!

and Andy grammar with the normal sized guess

[Enigma.]

Pretty Girls is pretty mediocre, I don't think it can challenge top 5 on Hot 100 at all

[Kris]

TOP 10

1. THE WEEKND - Earned It: 204.236 (+ 1.755)
2. ELLIE GOULDING - Love Me Like You Do: 175.307 (- 0.618)
3. MARK RONSON - Uptown Funk f/Bruno Mars: 163.948 (- 3.028)
4. MAROON 5 - Sugar: 159.301 (- 2.973)
5. TAYLOR SWIFT - Style: 137.079 (- 1.083)
6. WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance: 136.272 (+ 1.666)
7. NATALIE LA ROSE - Somebody f/Jeremih: 129.209 (- 0.672)
8. WIZ KHALIFA - See You Again f/Charlie Puth: 119.718 (+ 5.012)
9. JASON DERULO - Want To Want Me: 114.471 (+ 1.341)
10. ED SHEERAN - Thinking Out Loud: 109.773 (- 1.258)
11. ARIANA GRANDE – One Last Time: 108.029 (+ 1.499)
12. FLO RIDA – GDFR f/ Sage The Gemini: 92.221 (- 1.014)
13. FETTY WAP - Trap Queen: 85.399 (+ 2.589)
14. DIERKS BENTLEY - Say You Do: 74.949 (- 0.083)
15. TAYLOR SWIFT - Blank Space: 73.252 (+ 0.067)
16. KEITH URBAN - Raise 'Em Up f/Eric Church: 72.351 (+ 0.684)
17. NICK JONAS - Chains: 69.872 (+ 0.980) ▲
18. TYLER FARR - A Guy Walks Into A Bar: 69.722 (+ 0.520) ▼
19. BILLY CURRINGTON - Don't It: 65.815 (+ 0.928)
20. A THOUSAND HORSES - Smoke: 62.947 (+ 0.766)

CURIOSIDADES

TOVE LO - Talking Body: 60.145 (+ 1.279)
FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE - Sippin' On Fire: 59.903 (+ 0.526)
OMARION - Post To Be f/Chris Brown&Jhene: 58.691 (+ 0.777)
DAVID GUETTA - Hey Mama f/N. Minaj & Afrojack: 51.828 (+ 1.509)
DJ SNAKE & ALUNAGEORGE - You Know You Like It: 47.747 (+ 1.748)
GEORGE EZRA - Budapest: 45.374 (+ 0.806)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD – Little Toy Guns: 43.952 (- 0.058)
ANDY GRAMMER - Honey, I'm Good: 41.060 (+ 1.304)
MEGHAN TRAINOR - Dear Future Husband: 39.927 (+ 0.278)
ECHOSMITH - Bright: 37.501 (+ 0.622)
RIHANNA - Bitch Better Have My Money: 37.135 (+ 0.455)
BLAKE SHELTON - Sangria: 36.606 (+ 1.319)
LITTLE BIG TOWN - Girl Crush: 35.202 (+ 0.228)
FIFTH HARMONY - Worth It f/Kid Ink: 28.807 (+ 0.376)
CIARA - I Bet: 23.011 (+ 0.207)
SKRILLEX & DIPLO - Where Are U Now w/J. Bieber: 17.052 (+ 0.513)
SIA - Elastic Heart: 15.108
PITBULL - Fun f/Chris Brown: 12.656 (+ 0.576)
TINASHE - All Hands On Deck: 12.377 (+ 0.261)
CALVIN HARRIS - Pray To God f/HAIM: 11.142 (+ 1.194)
NICKI MINAJ - The Night Is Still Young: 11.063 (+ 1.215)
THOMAS RHETT - Crash And Burn: 11.019 (+ 0.603)
ADAM LAMBERT - Ghost Town: 7.897 (+ 1.340)
CARLY RAE JEPSEN - I Really Like You: 6.896 (+ 0.219)
JEREMIH F/FLO RIDA - Tonight Belongs To U!: 5.750 (+ 0.162)
MAJOR LAZER - Lean On f/MØ & DJ Snake: 5.630 (+ 0.304)
RIHANNA - American Oxygen: 5.503 (+ 0.229)
YEARS & YEARS - King: 4.437 (+ 0.213)
MARIAH CAREY - Infinity: 2.771 (+ 0.357)
BRITNEY SPEARS & IGGY AZALEA - Pretty Girls: 0.122

[jjose712]

May 4, 2015 8:59:23 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

May 3, 2015 14:11:43 GMT -5 imbondz said:

lol. it would be oh so awkward but hilarious

I think you just described Eurovision.

Eurovision is hilarious if you comment on internet or your tv channel has a good host like Graham Norton (not like spanish ones who are boring as hell).
Of course the votes are a lot less funny (specially if you don't have a lot of neighbours voting for you no matter how crappy your song was), but the rest it's pretty funny, from the awkward interviews, the poor russian contestants who have a hard time in the last years, the who is sleeping with who rumours, the incredibly awful songs with incredibly bad choreographies, and of course the four of five good songs that are always there even in bad years

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

May 4, 2015 13:13:41 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Pretty Girls is pretty mediocre, I don't think it can challenge top 5 on Hot 100 at all

It will depend on the video.

[Deleted]

If Pretty Girls sells 250k+ and has some streaming and airplay, it will surely have enough points to be top 5 this week.

[Verisimilitude]

VEVO Streams:

[Kris]

Roar still at #15 in the US lol

[Caviar]

Roar slaying the lessors two years later. Taylor could never.

[ry4n]

Top 10 flashbacks for this week


1 year ago (5/17/2014)

1 2 All Of Me - John Legend (1st week of 3 @ #1)
2 1 Happy - Pharrell Williams
3 NE Problem - Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea
4 7 Fancy - Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX
5 3 Dark Horse - Katy Perry feat. Juicy J
6 4 Talk Dirty - Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz
7 5 Turn Down For What - DJ Snake & Lil Jon
8 9 Not A Bad Thing - Justin Timberlake
9 6 Let It Go - Idina Menzel
10 8 Pompeii - Bastille

+
14 29 Me And My Broken Heart - Rixton


5 years ago (5/15/2010)

1 6 OMG - Usher feat. will.i.am (1st week of 4 @ #1)
2 1 Nothin' On You - B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars
3 2 Rude Boy - Rihanna
4 3 Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris
5 4 Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
6 5 Hey, Soul Sister - Train
7 9 Airplanes - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams
8 8 Your Love Is My Drug - Ke$ha
9 7 In My Head - Jason Derulo
10 12 Young Forever - Jay-Z & Mr Hudson

+
12 14 Breakeven - The Script


10 years ago (5/14/2005)

1 1 Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani (2nd week of 4 @ #1)
2 2 Hate It Or Love It - The Game feat. 50 Cent
3 5 Oh - Ciara feat. Ludacris
4 4 Lonely - Akon
5 14 Just A Lil Bit - 50 Cent
6 3 Candy Shop - 50 Cent feat. Olivia
7 12 We Belong Together - Mariah Carey
8 6 Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
9 7 Lonely No More - Rob Thomas
10 16 Slow Down - Bobby Valentino


15 years ago (5/13/2000)

1 1 Maria Maria - Santana feat. The Product G&B (6th week of 10 @ #1)
2 2 He Wasn't Man Enough - Toni Braxton
3 3 Breathe - Faith Hill
4 4 Thong Song - Sisqo
5 5 Say My Name - Destiny's Child
6 7 I Try - Macy Gray
7 6 Bye Bye Bye - *NSYNC
8 8 Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
9 12 Be With You - Enrique Iglesias
10 9 Amazed - Lonestar


5 years since Usher's last #1. When "OMG" got there, I remember thinking he'd be on lock to join to the 10 #1's club eventually.

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

The dominance of Latin America on the worldwide Vevo chart is staggering. Also Propuesta Indecente is over 2 years old, they need to let it go.

[JamaicaFunk²]

May 4, 2015 21:22:35 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Roar slaying the lessors two years later. Taylor could never.

Yeah, but Swift will likely pass both (Katy) videos in total views by the end of the summer. Don't say I didn't warn ya.

[Caviar]

Even if she passes Roar it's still an incredible feat to have a top 20 video two years later and when Katy launches her next era it'll get an even bigger boost.

[Soulsista]

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

May 17, 1980

01 01 Call Me - Blondie (5th of 6 weeks at #1)
02 02 Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross
03 03 Lost In Love - Air Supply
04 19 Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
05 04 With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syreeta
06 08 Sexy Eyes - Dr. Hook
07 07 You May Be Right - Billy Joel
08 09 Don't Fall In Love With a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes
09 05 Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd
10 11 Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia


May 18, 1985

01 03 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds (1st and only week at #1)
02 01 Crazy For You - Madonna
03 05 One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head
04 08 Everything She Wants - Wham!
05 07 Smooth Operator - Sade
06 06 Some Like It Hot - The Power Station
07 04 Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge
08 02 We Are The World - USA For Africa
09 10 Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
10 12 Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer


May 19, 1990

01 02 Vogue - Madonna (1st of 3 weeks at #1)
02 01 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
03 04 All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You - Heart
04 06 Hold On - Wilson Phillips
05 07 Sending All My Love - Linear
06 08 Alright - Janet Jackson
07 03 I Wanna Be Rich - Calloway
08 10 Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe
09 16 It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
10 09 What It Takes - Aerosmith


May 13, 1995

01 01 This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan (5th of 7 weeks at #1)
02 02 Freak Like Me - Adina Howard
03 03 Red Light Special - TLC
04 04 I Know - Dionne Farris
05 12 Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman - Bryan Adams
06 05 Run Away - The Real McCoy
07 10 Water Runs Dry - Boyz II Men
08 08 I Believe - Blessed Union Of Souls
09 09 Dear Mama / Old School - 2Pac
10 07 Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow

[skizzo]

CHR Top40/Pop Retros

2012

01 01 Fun f/Janelle Monae - We Are Young
02 04 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
03 02 Flo-Rida f/Sia - Wild Ones
04 05 Nicki Minaj - Starships
05 03 The Wanted - Glad You Came
06 07 One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
07 06 Katy Perry - Part Of Me
08 08 Adele - Rumour Has It
09 12 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
10 13 Maroon 5 f/Wiz Khalifa - Payphone

2007

01 01 Pink - U & Ur Hand
02 05 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
03 04 Timbaland f/Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me
04 02 Gym Class Heroes - Cupid's Chokehold
05 03 Fergie f/Ludacris - Glamorous
06 07 Gwen Stefani f/Akon - The Sweet Escape
07 06 Akon - Don't Matter
08 10 Justin Timberlake - Summer Love
09 08 Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
10 09 Diddy f/Keyshia Cole - Last Night

2002

01 01 Pink - Don't Let Me Get Me
02 03 Ashanti - Foolish
03 06 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
04 02 Michelle Branch - All You Wanted
05 04 Fat Joe f/Ashanti - What's Luv
06 05 Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes
07 09 No Doubt - Hella Good
08 07 Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry
09 11 P.Diddy f/Usher - I Need A Girl
10 10 Linkin Park - In The End

1997

01 03 Hanson - Mmmbop
02 01 Savage Garden - I Want You
03 02 Wallflowers - One Headlight
04 07 Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There
05 05 Monica - For You I Will
06 06 Paula Cole - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
07 04 Jewel - You Were Meant For Me
08 10 White Town - Your Woman
09 08 The Cardigans - Lovefool
10 13 Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack

[Soulsista]

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

May 9, 1960 (for the week ending May 14)

01 01 Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (3rd of 4 weeks at #1)
02 02 Greenfields - The Brothers Four
03 15 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers
04 06 Night - Jackie Wilson
05 03 Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens
06 06 Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton
07 05 The Old Lamplighter - The Browns
08 07 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston
09 11 Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka
10 08 Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland


May 15, 1965

01 01 Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits (3rd and final week at #1)
02 02 Count Me In - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
03 03 Ticket To Ride - The Beatles
04 05 I'll Never Find Another You - The Seekers
05 07 Silhouettes - Herman's Hermits
06 21 Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
07 06 I Know a Place - Petula Clark
08 11 I'll Be Doggone - Marvin Gaye
09 12 Just Once In My Life - The Righteous Brothers
10 14 Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs


May 16, 1970

01 01 American Woman - The Guess Who (2nd of 3 weeks at #1)
02 02 ABC - The Jackson Five
03 04 Vehicle - The Ides Of March
04 03 Let It Be - The Beatles
05 14 Cecelia - Simon & Garfunkel
06 05 Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
07 07 Everything Is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
08 09 Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Tyrone Davis
09 13 Up Around The Bend / Run Through The Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
10 10 Reflections Of My Life - Marmalade


May 17, 1975

01 01 He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando & Dawn (3rd and final week at #1)
02 02 Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
03 04 Jackie Blue - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
04 05 Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
05 08 Only Yesterday - The Carpenters
06 06 Walking In Rhythm - The Blackbyrds
07 14 Thank God I'm a Country Boy - John Denver
08 11 How Long - Ace
09 10 I Don't Like To Sleep Alone - Paul Anka
10 03 (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - B.J. Thomas

[85la]

May 3, 2015 16:41:37 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

May 3, 2015 16:21:26 GMT -5 ry4n said:

I bet Bad Romance would've toppled Empire State Of Mind with YouTube.

easily. I'm pretty sure Teenage Dream would've had 6 number ones if YouTube was included. And Katy would be at 11 (The One That Got Away and Wide Awake) number ones if YouTube was included pre teenage dream.

Teenage Dream did have 6 number ones. It's just that Billboard started counting re-releases as separate albums for no apparent reason. The re-releases of The Emancipation of Mimi and Confessions were still considered the same album as their originals (as well as all re-releases before 2012 as long as not too many tracks were added), and they got credit for multiple number ones from one album, it doesn't make sense TD shouldn't.

[jenglisbe]

May 5, 2015 12:30:46 GMT -5 85la said:

May 3, 2015 16:41:37 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

easily. I'm pretty sure Teenage Dream would've had 6 number ones if YouTube was included. And Katy would be at 11 (The One That Got Away and Wide Awake) number ones if YouTube was included pre teenage dream.

Teenage Dream did have 6 number ones. It's just that Billboard started counting re-releases as separate albums for no apparent reason. The re-releases of The Emancipation of Mimi and Confessions were still considered the same album as their originals (as well as all re-releases before 2012 as long as not too many tracks were added), and they got credit for multiple number ones from one album, it doesn't make sense TD shouldn't.

It might suck for Katy fans that it changed when it did, but it's still a good rule IMO. Singles on a re-release obviously have an advantage over times when albums like Bad had a lot of singles because new singles for a re-release aren't already owned by people who bought the album. It's easy for their digital sales and other factors to be high because they are essentially new singles. Re-releases didn't exist in the '80s.

Should chart rules never change so that they are always consistent, or should they adapt with the times?

[ry4n]

May 5, 2015 12:30:46 GMT -5 85la said:

May 3, 2015 16:41:37 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

easily. I'm pretty sure Teenage Dream would've had 6 number ones if YouTube was included. And Katy would be at 11 (The One That Got Away and Wide Awake) number ones if YouTube was included pre teenage dream.

Teenage Dream did have 6 number ones. It's just that Billboard started counting re-releases as separate albums for no apparent reason. The re-releases of The Emancipation of Mimi and Confessions were still considered the same album as their originals (as well as all re-releases before 2012 as long as not too many tracks were added), and they got credit for multiple number ones from one album, it doesn't make sense TD shouldn't.

Because TD was in contention of breaking the record and the others weren't.

[Deleted]

May 5, 2015 8:27:50 GMT -5 ry4n said:

Top 10 flashbacks for this week


1 year ago (5/17/2014)

1 2 All Of Me - John Legend (1st week of 3 @ #1)
2 1 Happy - Pharrell Williams
3 NE Problem - Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea

Ah yes, that moment when Ariana was just inches away from debuting at #1 and/or getting a #1 at all :( that may have been the only chance at #1 she'll ever get...
and shouldn't 10 years ago say 2005 not 2000?

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

May 5, 2015 12:44:02 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

May 5, 2015 8:27:50 GMT -5 ry4n said:

Top 10 flashbacks for this week


1 year ago (5/17/2014)

1 2 All Of Me - John Legend (1st week of 3 @ #1)
2 1 Happy - Pharrell Williams
3 NE Problem - Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea

Ah yes, that moment when Ariana was just inches away from debuting at #1 and/or getting a #1 at all :( that may have been the only chance at #1 she'll ever get...
and shouldn't 10 years ago say 2005 not 2000?

Ariana has only built her fanbase since then. This time last year, she was still definitely on the B or C team for pop stars. She's an A-lister now, and the first single for her new album (which will be out this year) will definitely be in contention for a #1 debut if the material is strong.

[Verisimilitude]

Spotify weekly numbers compiled by an ATRL poster:

1) See You Again 6,524,043
2) Trap Queen 5,302,983
3) Earned It 3,175,946
4) Nasty Freestyle 3,144,667
5) Want To Want Me 3,074,611
6) G D F R 2,987,965
7) Where Are You Now 2,841,024
8) Uptown Funk 2,792,813
9) Love Me Like You Do 2,779,507
10) Shut Up And Dance 2,715,038
11) Sugar 2,668,899
12) Bitch Better Have My Money 2,660,918
13) Thinking Out Loud 2,569,643
14) Lean On 2,490,390
15) Somebody 2,466,713
16) Know Yourself 2,221,573
17) Talking Body 2,199,748
18) Worth It 2,138,354
19) Four Five Seconds 2,093,303
20) Hey Mama 2,071,615
21) Time Of Our Lives 1,933,665
22) Take Me To Church 1,910,245
23) Truffle Butter 1,895,665

[Gary]

Here is what happened with the whole Michael Jackson - Katy Perry thing. Billboard did not alter policies or change a thing.


Katy Perry had 6 number ones from all releases of Teenage Dream. That did not change and they said as such.


What they went out of their way to say was, the record for most number ones from a SINGLE release was and still is - FIVE. No policy change, no all of a sudden we are going to do one thing instead of another to protect Michael Jackson. No Uptown Funk conspiracy or anything else for that matter.

Just a matter of semantics

[Deleted]

Who would've thought two songs would each have over 5 million U.S. Spotify streams in a single week? Spotify's business is really growing a lot by the day! :O

[Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815...]

May 5, 2015 14:00:03 GMT -5 @markg94 said:

Who would've thought two songs would each have over 5 million U.S. Spotify streams in a single week? Spotify's business is really growing a lot by the day! :O

[ss8]

Cant believe how LITTLE music has changed looking at those songs from 2007, 2002 and even 1997 to some degree! We're talking 8-18 years ago yet *many of those songs easily could be released today and don't or barely sound dated at all.

[85la]

May 5, 2015 13:05:56 GMT -5 Gary said:

Here is what happened with the whole Michael Jackson - Katy Perry thing. Billboard did not alter policies or change a thing.


Katy Perry had 6 number ones from all releases of Teenage Dream. That did not change and they said as such.


What they went out of their way to say was, the record for most number ones from a SINGLE release was and still is - FIVE. No policy change, no all of a sudden we are going to do one thing instead of another to protect Michael Jackson. No Uptown Funk conspiracy or anything else for that matter.

Just a matter of semantics

That is not how they continue to frame it. Billboard (and most other media sources, Billboard set the precedent) continue to state quite frequently that Katy Perry only ties Michael Jackson's record of 5 number ones from one album, they do not mention the caveat of "per single release" and that she really holds the record of 6 when including all releases of one album. Especially comparing it to Usher's Confessions album, that I clearly remember was referred to as having four number ones from one album, even though one of the number ones was on the re-release. So they clearly did change the methodology after that.

But your right, it is all about semantics and people can have it their way if they want to say TD only had five number ones. If they say that though, and I'm not just referring to you Gary or other posters here, but all media outlets in general, they have to be consistent and have to separate all chart achievements per each release of an album.

[Gary]

May 5, 2015 16:38:19 GMT -5 85la said:

May 5, 2015 13:05:56 GMT -5 Gary said:

Here is what happened with the whole Michael Jackson - Katy Perry thing. Billboard did not alter policies or change a thing.


Katy Perry had 6 number ones from all releases of Teenage Dream. That did not change and they said as such.


What they went out of their way to say was, the record for most number ones from a SINGLE release was and still is - FIVE. No policy change, no all of a sudden we are going to do one thing instead of another to protect Michael Jackson. No Uptown Funk conspiracy or anything else for that matter.

Just a matter of semantics

That is not how they continue to frame it. Billboard (and most other media sources, Billboard set the precedent) continue to state quite frequently that Katy Perry only ties Michael Jackson's record of 5 number ones from one album, they do not mention the caveat of "per single release" and that she really holds the record of 6 when including all releases of one album. Especially comparing it to Usher's Confessions album, that I clearly remember was referred to as having four number ones from one album, even though one of the number ones was on the re-release. So they clearly did change the methodology after that.

But your right, it is all about semantics and people can have it their way if they want to say TD only had five number ones. If they say that though, and I'm not just referring to you Gary or other posters here, but all media outlets in general, they have to be consistent and have to separate all chart achievements per each release of an album.

KATY PERRY'S SWEET 'DREAM'

Hi Gary,

I just read the billboard.com article regarding "The Complete Confection," Katy Perry's deluxe/special edition re-release of her "Teenage Dream" album. The article mentioned that the new set will contain "three new songs, as well as four re-workings of her 'Dream' hits, along with the original album in its entirety." The article goes on to say, "Perry and [Michael] Jackson will remain tied for the most Billboard Hot 100 toppers from any album regardless of the performance of any singles from 'Confection.' Should any song released from 'Confection' reach No. 1, it would count as a Hot 100 No. 1 from 'Confection' and not 'Dream'."

I'm confused. Has there been a change in Billboard chart policy? This special edition is constructed in a way no different than those that were released in recent years by Rihanna, Beyonce, Usher and many more artists. In all those cases, singles that served as new material were credited as part of their original album's chart statistics when they eventually charted. For instance, Rihanna's tally of Hot 100 top 10s from "Good Girl Gone Bad" stands at five - three from the original version of the album ("Umbrella," "Hate That I Love You," "Don't Stop the Music") and two from the "Reloaded" edition ("Take a Bow," "Disturbia").

I don't see how Perry's special edition is any different from those of these other artists. Since Perry has caused such a brouhaha by tying Michael Jackson's record of most No. 1 songs from a single album - five from "Dream"; six from "Bad" in 1987-88 - and attempting to break the same with the sixth single, "The One That Got Away," I'm sure there will be much attention paid to the chart fortunes of any of the three new tracks on "Confection," including first single "Part of Me."

Thanks, Gary, for shedding light on this interesting new twist in the Perry/Jackson derby.

Cheers!

Christopher Brisson
Los Angeles, California


Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the e-mail. I asked Billboard's director of charts, Silvio Pietroluongo, to address how Billboard will consider the angle going forward.

Essentially, Billboard never analyzed the issue as thoroughly as until Perry matched Jackson and the possibility arose that Capitol Records would re-release of "Dream" in expanded form. At that point, the charts department considered that, as the practice of releasing deluxe editions has become fairly common in recent years, our commentary going forward will always need to be spell out exactly what feats we're highlighting. ("Part of Me" is due to debut on next week's Hot 100).

Here is Pietroluongo's response:

Billboard has attempted to do its best when linking singles to their appropriate parent albums but it has admittedly become a difficult task.

As you know, the past few years have seen an increase in the practice of re-released or re-packaged albums, which have taken on many different forms. Some labels have tacked on one additional track to an album early in its chart life. Some even do so just for a digital release (i.e., Universal Republic's recent strategy for Jessie J's "Domino" on the digital version of "Who You Are").

Then, we see albums with just a few tracks tacked on in a modified version (think: Rihanna's "Reloaded"). Other albums receive a more extensive makeover, like Perry's upcoming "Dream" redux.

So, I'm not going to say that Billboard has changed its policy on how we count such sets, since we really did not have a hard and fast rule to begin. However, when a record such as most No. 1s from an album comes into question, we do need to closely examine how we treat the situation, probably much more than was needed when we were tallying Rihanna's top 10 count from "Girl/Reloaded."

We believe that the proper course of action going forward is to clearly qualify chart counts from either being from an album's initial release or its re-released version; and, keep the chart records separate, accordingly. Unfortunately, it's likely not going to end some of the murkiness, especially when a song or songs are added to an album relatively early in its existence.

So, if we say that, "Perry and Jackson are tied for the most Hot 100 leaders from an album over one release," we're at least qualifying the parameters of the statistic. If Perry's new single, "Part of Me," hits No. 1 on the Hot 100, we could also say that, "Perry has tallied six Hot 100 No. 1s from 'Teenage Dream' and its re-released version. She remains tied with Jackson for the most toppers from an album over one release."

(I also hope that whomever is tasked to do this research, say, 20 years from now will be able to tell all these album versions apart because we can tell you that keeping track of the many variations that have been released in the past few years has proven to be among our more difficult chores).


Capitol and Perry, too, are content to have matched Jackson's esteemed milestone.

"It was an incredible honor to tie the King of Pop's Billboard Hot 100 record, but I'm moving forward and had a few things left to get off my chest," she said in a press release promoting "Confection." "This is the complete special edition of my album for my fans."

[imbondz]

I never thought it made sense for a deluxe version or re-release that had a #1 single to count towards the original release. It makes no sense unless the deluxe was released at the same time as the album.

Definitely can be confusing tho.

[Enigma.]

Yea, one can release 5 version of one album and each new version can contain a new #1 so basically it's possible to get let's say 9 number ones from one album. That's unlikely of course but still possible.