Billboard Hot 100: 09/12/15

[HolidayGuy]

^Yes. I also contacted BB, and basically the "returns" issue is done for records sake- hence why it doesn't impact the Hot 100.

[House Lannister]

Sept 1, 2015 7:29:12 GMT -5 Mikel Echarri said:

Could Often re-enter next week reaching Top 50? I remember when Drinking Class returned at #52 on its 21rd week.

Also I'm expecting a lot of Abel songs on the Hot 100 next week (The whole album is still Top 50 on US iTunes)

It conceivably could.  It only spent 15 weeks on the charts the first time round.  So it has a few weeks of eligibility left.

[House Lannister]

Sept 1, 2015 7:22:10 GMT -5 rimetm said:

Summary of This Week's Action


New to Top 10
Locked Away (16-8)

Off the Top 10
Shut Up + Dance (10-16)

New/Back to Top 20
Drag Me Down (31-14)
Stitches (32-20)

Off the Top 20
Worth It (19-21)
Want to Want Me (20-24)

New/Back to Top 40
Hit the Quan (41-23)
All Eyes on You (47-31)

Off the Top 40
Kick the Dust Up (39-50)
Straight Outta Compton (38-61)

Climb to Top 50
Planes (51-44)
This Could Be Us (53-49)

Off the Top 50
Straight Outta Compton
Boys-N-The-Hood (50-65)
Talking Body (49-Recurrent)

New/Back to Hot 100
Smoke Break / Carrie Underwood (#43)
Levels / Nick Jonas (#87)
No Role Modelz (#91, new peak)
Downtown / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, & Grandmaster Coz (#94)
Liquor / Chris Brown (#96)
About You / Trey Songz (#98)
Cecelia and the Satellite / Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness (#99)
I'm to Blame / Kip Moore (#100)

Off the Hot 100
Talking Body
Like a Wrecking Ball (54-Recurrent)
The Fix (86)
Wet Dreamz (89-Recurrent)
Tonight Looks Good on You (93)
Fun (95)
How Many Times (99)
Fly Away (100)

Thoughts:

• Less of a surprise:  Locked Away's entrance into the top 10 or Shut Up and Dance's fall from it?
• I'm not surprised that Stitches charted.  I'm surprised it's up so high, though.  Good for Shawn Mendes.
• Might One Direction crack the top 10 next week?  Perhaps, there's some spots starting to open up although a certain Bieber should be taking one of those.  And perhaps a certain Swift.
• Finally listed to Hit the Quan.  At least it's clean.  But I see this hitting top 10 easy.  Maybe top 5.
• Should be no surprise that Compton/Hood dropped.  I was more surprised that neither song charted before.  Ever.
• Jeremih just keeps charting with his singles, doesn't he?  I'll add Planes to the songs I need to listen to.
• So Carrie Underwood has a new album coming out next month?  I'll have to give Smoke Break a listen soon.
• If I had done the bubbling under predictions this week, would have gotten half the new songs right.  Woulda gotten Break, About You, Cecelia, and I'm to Blame right.  I know, woulda, shoulda, coulda.  But between school and wanting to take a break after last week's "failure", oh well.

[kanimal]

Confused about something.

Billboard says The Hills sold 62K this week.

Per Republic, Stitches sold 64K this week.

Per Billboard and Roughstock, Smoke Break sold 56K.

Why is Smoke Break higher than both on Digital Songs?

[Dylan :)]

Sept 1, 2015 19:32:28 GMT -5 House Lannister said:

Sept 1, 2015 7:29:12 GMT -5 Mikel Echarri said:

Could Often re-enter next week reaching Top 50? I remember when Drinking Class returned at #52 on its 21rd week.

Also I'm expecting a lot of Abel songs on the Hot 100 next week (The whole album is still Top 50 on US iTunes)

It conceivably could.  It only spent 15 weeks on the charts the first time round.  So it has a few weeks of eligibility left.

Nope, it went recurrent on March 15th

[House Lannister]

Sept 2, 2015 16:21:00 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Sept 1, 2015 19:32:28 GMT -5 House Lannister said:

It conceivably could.  It only spent 15 weeks on the charts the first time round.  So it has a few weeks of eligibility left.

Nope, it went recurrent on March 15th

Ah it did?  I guess it won't be able to now.

[Dylan :)]

Sept 2, 2015 16:30:20 GMT -5 House Lannister said:

Sept 2, 2015 16:21:00 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Nope, it went recurrent on March 15th

Ah it did?  I guess it won't be able to now.

It might, I'm not really sure of the rules around recurrency to be honest. And I think you read 15 weeks on "The Weeknd Chart History" on Billboard, I don't trust those stats, they don't seem to be correct most of the time :/

[aser94]

Going by what happened with "Drinking Class", maybe if a recurrent below #50 gets a new peak, it's allowed to re-enter? Maybe "Often" will re-enter if it gets higher than #59.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6685832/digital-song-sales-seven-year-low-streaming-rises

Digital Song Sales Hit Seven-Year Low as Streaming Continues to Rise
By Keith Caulfield | September 03, 2015 9:24 PM EDT

R. City's "Locked Away," featuring Adam Levine, has the lowest sales for the week's top-selling digital song since 2006.

With 15.66 million digital songs sold in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 27, according to Nielsen Music, the industry saw its lowest weekly song volume in nearly eight years.

It's the smallest weekly sum for song downloads since the week ending Dec. 9, 2007, when 15.64 million were sold.

Conversely -- and unsurprisingly -- as sales plummet, streaming continues its ascent, with the same frame marking the highest week of total U.S. on-demand audio and video streams: 6.6 billion. The streaming surge follows as consumers adapt to free and low-cost streaming services (like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music) and shift away from the pay-to-own model. (More on streaming's big gains in a moment.)

Digital Song Sales Slide: The top-selling song of the Aug. 27 tracking week was R. City’s “Locked Away,” featuring Adam Levine, which sold 92,000. That’s the smallest sum for the week’s top-selling download in almost nine years, since the frame ending Dec. 17, 2006, when Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” shifted 88,000. “Locked Away” also marks the first time that the week’s top seller fell below 100,000 downloads since the week ending Jan. 14, 2007 (when, again, “Irreplaceable” was tops, with 98,000).

Overall song sales for 2015 total 678.3 million -- a decline of 10 percent compared to the same point a year ago (through the frame ending Aug. 24, 2014). If song volume doesn’t pick up before the end of the year, 2015 will become the third straight year that song sales have declined. In 2014, song sales volume dropped by 12 percent.

Streaming On the Rise: The week ending Aug. 27 was the largest week for combined on-demand audio and video streams ever, with 6.6 billion. The most-streamed song of that week was Silento's "Watch Me," with 22.3 million.

And, year-to-date, total on-demand streams stand at 191.4 billion -- up 100 percent compared to the same time frame a year ago (95.8 billion through the week ending Aug. 24, 2014).