Billboard Hot 100: 01/16/2016

[Daniel Collins]

Kworb 2015/12/29

*** = dropped or added a format

1. ADELE - Hello: 210.682 (+3.315)
2. JUSTIN BIEBER - Sorry: 180.489 (+0.384)
3. ALESSIA CARA - Here: 152.971 (+0.947)
4. SELENA GOMEZ - Same Old Love: 137.223 (+1.027)
5. MEGHAN TRAINOR - Like I'm Gonna Lose You: 137.069 (+2.029)
6. DRAKE - Hotline Bling: 121.714 (-1.168)
7. SHAWN MENDES - Stitches: 115.481 (+0.459)
8. ELLIE GOULDING - On My Mind: 112.841 (+0.243)
9. TAYLOR SWIFT - Wildest Dreams: 99.639 (+3.235)
10. THE WEEKND - In The Night: 91.247 (+0.815)

11. ELLE KING - Ex's and Oh's: 89.663 (-0.429)
12. THE WEEKND - The Hills: 79.345 (+0.298)
13. JUSTIN BIEBER - What Do You Mean?: 75.528 (-0.036)
14. TWENTY ONE PILOTS - Stressed Out: 69.437 (+1.194)
15. TRAVI$ SCOTT - Antidote: 68.742 (+0.649)
16. THOMAS RHETT - Die A Happy Man: 61.433 (+0.343)
17. DRAKE & FUTURE - Jumpman: 59.995 (+0.921)
18. DEMI LOVATO - Confident: 58.365 (+0.365)
19. JASON ALDEAN - Gonna Know We Were Here: 56.968 (+0.473)
20. JUSTIN BIEBER - Love Yourself: 56.882 (+1.471)

21. THE WEEKND - Can't Feel My Face: 54.182 (+1.139)
22. BROTHERS OSBORNE - Stay A Little Longer: 53.076 (+0.098)
23. LOCASH - I Love This Life: 52.426 (+0.889)
24. WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance: 52.352 (+3.101) ▲
25. R. CITY - Locked Away f/Adam Levine: 51.762 (+0.941)
26. FETTY WAP - 679 f/Remy Boyz...: 51.267 (-0.005) ▼
27. POST MALONE - White Iverson: 50.864 (+0.141) ▼
28. THE CHAINSMOKERS - Roses f/Rozes: 49.505 (+0.747)
29. TORY LANEZ - Say It: 47.877 (+0.338)
30. MAJOR LAZER - Lean On f/MØ & DJ Snake: 47.124 (+0.439) ▲

31. X AMBASSADORS - Renegades: 47.117 (+0.527) ▲
32. JASON DERULO - Want To Want Me: 46.448 (+1.762) ▲
33. CAM - Burning House: 46.188 (-0.846) ▼
34. TIM MCGRAW - Top Of The World: 45.936 (+0.436) ▼
35. SAM HUNT - Break Up In A Small Town: 45.490 (+0.525) ▼
36. ONE DIRECTION - Perfect: 44.124 (+0.269)
37. DAYA - Hide Away: 43.827 (+0.913) ▲
38. J. COLE - No Role Modelz: 43.660 (+0.235) ▼
39. BLAKE SHELTON - Gonna: 41.977 (-0.217)
40. LUKE BRYAN - Home Alone Tonight: 41.804 (+0.701)

41. JANA KRAMER - I Got The Boy: 40.178 (-0.063)
42. MARK RONSON - Uptown Funk f/Bruno Mars: 39.672 (+2.074) ▲
43. BRYSON TILLER - Don't: 38.697 (-0.023) ▼
44. ADELE - When We Were Young: 38.458 (+1.831) ▲
45. ED SHEERAN - Photograph: 37.780 (+2.362) ▲
46. SELENA GOMEZ - Good For You f/A$AP Rocky: 37.255 (+0.173) ▼
47. KELSEA BALLERINI - Dibs: 37.022 (+0.456)
48. CHRIS YOUNG - I'm Comin' Over: 36.803 (+0.177) ▼
49. GWEN STEFANI - Used To Love You: 35.911 (+0.410) ▼
50. GRANGER SMITH - Backroad Song: 35.602 (+0.482)

51. RACHEL PLATTEN - Stand By You: 34.840 (+0.666) ▲
52. FETTY WAP - Again: 34.694 (+0.041) ▼
53. BRAD PAISLEY - Country Nation: 32.787 (+0.469)
54. YO GOTTI - Down In The DM: 32.371 (+0.523)
55. SHAWN MENDES & CAMILA CABELLO - I Know What You Did Last...: 31.467 (+0.388) ▲
56. RANDY HOUSER - We Went: 31.452 (+0.386) ▲
57. COLDPLAY - Adventure Of A Lifetime: 31.387 (+0.224) ▼
58. KEITH URBAN - Break On Me: 30.348 (+0.398)
59. MAROON 5 - Sugar: 29.965 (+1.927)
60. ZAC BROWN BAND - Beautiful Drug: 28.417 (+0.449)

61. DAN + SHAY - Nothin' Like You: 26.889 (+0.382)
62. OMI - Cheerleader: 26.704 (+0.826) ▲
63. WIZ KHALIFA - See You Again f/Charlie Puth: 26.415 (+0.098) ▼
64. DEJ LOAF - Back Up f/Big Sean: 26.126 (+0.067) ▼
65. BIG SEAN - Play No Games: 26.034 (+0.384)
66. ED SHEERAN - Thinking Out Loud: 25.733 (+2.422) ▲
67. ERIC CHURCH - Mr. Misunderstood: 25.326 (+0.400) ▲
68. CHRIS BROWN - Back To Sleep: 25.313 (+0.340) ▼
69. RACHEL PLATTEN - Fight Song: 25.189 (+2.699) ▲
70. OLD DOMINION - Break Up With Him: 25.184 (+0.433) ▼

71. THE WEEKND - Earned It: 25.096 (-0.412) ▼
72. COLONEL LOUD - California f/Young Dolph: 24.795 (+0.225) ▼
73. FALL OUT BOY - Irresistible f/Demi Lovato: 24.428 (+0.168)
74. CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Smoke Break: 24.368 (+0.085) ▼
75. FUTURE - Where Ya At f/Drake: 24.175 (-0.283) ▼

[Deleted]

Sorry or Hello? Who you got for next week's #1?

[Zach]

I think Hello will stay at #1 next week. Is it seeming likely that Stressed Out will edge into the top 10?

[jayhawk1117]

Dec 29, 2015 9:36:16 GMT -5 @jakelmmrs44 said:

Sorry or Hello? Who you got for next week's #1?

Hello has 10 weeks locked up. And possibly 11 considering Love Yourself is starting to outsell Sorry. And her Airplay lead is still humongous on ly and pretty solid on Sorry.

[Envoirment]

Dec 29, 2015 9:36:16 GMT -5 @jakelmmrs44 said:

Sorry or Hello? Who you got for next week's #1?

Hello. Its sales lead will increase, as will its airplay lead thanks to AC radio.

Glad Adele will get her first double digit #1.

Hope "When We Were Young" can get to #1 and become Adele's 5th. Grammy performance and video release the week of that performance should almost gaurentee it (she'll most likely be peaking in airplay then too).

[wjr15]

Hello definitely has the next two weeks on lock. It's still too strong and Sorry is starting to slip a little.

[wavey.]

Damn, I'd love to see Sorry hit #1. Ok, Adele, you can move over now, hah.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Dec 29, 2015 12:36:41 GMT -5 Envoirment said:

Dec 29, 2015 9:36:16 GMT -5 @jakelmmrs44 said:

Sorry or Hello? Who you got for next week's #1?

Hello. Its sales lead will increase, as will its airplay lead thanks to AC radio.

Glad Adele will get her first double digit #1.

Hope "When We Were Young" can get to #1 and become Adele's 5th. Grammy performance and video release the week of that performance should almost gaurentee it (she'll most likely be peaking in airplay then too).

And releasing the single for streaming.... I'm still not convinced they will do a concept video for WWWY because the 'live' video is holding up well. I see a concept for Single #3.

[Ravi]

Predictions

Rank - Song - Sales - Airplay - Streams = Points

1 - Hello - 360 - 170 - 20.0 = 69,200
2 - Sorry - 270 - 140 - 23.0 = 62,000
3 - Love Yourself - 270 - 50 - 16.0 = 45,300
4 - Hotline Bling - 160 - 90 - 13.0 = 36,800
5 - What Do You Mean - 120 - 60 - 13.0 = 30,400
6 - Same Old Love - 130 - 110 - 7.0 = 29,600
7 - Stitches - 130 - 90 - 8.0 = 28,700
8 - The Hills - 100 - 60 - 12.0 = 27,700
9 - Here - 100 - 120 - 6.0 = 27,000
10- Stressed Out - 170 - 60 - 6.0 = 26,800

Top-5 could repeat again. Stressed out looks to enter Top-10.

[THINKIN BOUT YOU]

Dec 29, 2015 22:58:07 GMT -5 Ravi said:

Predictions

Rank - Song - Sales - Airplay - Streams = Points

1 - Hello - 360 - 170 - 20.0 = 69,200
2 - Sorry - 270 - 140 - 23.0 = 62,000
3 - Love Yourself - 270 - 50 - 16.0 = 45,300
4 - Hotline Bling - 160 - 90 - 13.0 = 36,800
5 - What Do You Mean - 120 - 60 - 13.0 = 30,400
6 - Same Old Love - 130 - 110 - 7.0 = 29,600
7 - Stitches - 130 - 90 - 8.0 = 28,700
8 - The Hills - 100 - 60 - 12.0 = 27,700
9 - Here - 100 - 120 - 6.0 = 27,000
10- Stressed Out - 170 - 60 - 6.0 = 26,800

Top-5 could repeat again. Stressed out looks to enter Top-10.

Wwwwwwwwhat??! Thrilled to see The Hills might have a shot at staying in top 10 for one mo week!

[THINKIN BOUT YOU]

How high can One Call Away go this week? Top 25? Top 20? I wish it could outdo Marvin Gaye

[badrobot]

It occurs to me maybe Adele's label wants to wait for a couple weeks of "normalcy" on the charts before putting WWWY up for streaming so they can more clearly see what the impact on sales is. It's potentially an interesting experiment.

[carreramd]

I wish that Same Old Love could peak next week.

[popbox]

Love Yourself is going to be what dethrones Hello, barring some massive new song out of nowhere. Meaning, Hello probably has another 4-5 weeks at the top. Which sadly will put it right around that dreaded 14 week mark nothing can seem to overcome besides OSD.

[Daniel Collins]

Kworb 2015/12/30

*** = dropped or added a format

1. ADELE - Hello: 213.751 (+3.069)
2. JUSTIN BIEBER - Sorry: 180.749 (+0.260)
3. ALESSIA CARA - Here: 153.354 (+0.383)
4. MEGHAN TRAINOR - Like I'm Gonna Lose You: 141.069 (+4.000***) ▲
5. SELENA GOMEZ - Same Old Love: 137.966 (+0.743) ▼
6. DRAKE - Hotline Bling: 121.276 (-0.438)
7. SHAWN MENDES - Stitches: 116.154 (+0.673)
8. ELLIE GOULDING - On My Mind: 112.658 (-0.183)
9. TAYLOR SWIFT - Wildest Dreams: 102.618 (+2.979)
10. THE WEEKND - In The Night: 92.159 (+0.912)

11. ELLE KING - Ex's and Oh's: 89.827 (+0.164)
12. THE WEEKND - The Hills: 79.312 (-0.033)
13. JUSTIN BIEBER - What Do You Mean?: 75.699 (+0.171)
14. TWENTY ONE PILOTS - Stressed Out: 70.297 (+0.860)
15. TRAVI$ SCOTT - Antidote: 68.824 (+0.082)
16. THOMAS RHETT - Die A Happy Man: 61.925 (+0.492)
17. DRAKE & FUTURE - Jumpman: 60.143 (+0.148)
18. DEMI LOVATO - Confident: 59.015 (+0.650)
19. JUSTIN BIEBER - Love Yourself: 58.562 (+1.680) ▲
20. JASON ALDEAN - Gonna Know We Were Here: 57.425 (+0.457) ▼

21. WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance: 55.552 (+3.200) ▲
22. THE WEEKND - Can't Feel My Face: 54.730 (+0.548) ▼
23. BROTHERS OSBORNE - Stay A Little Longer: 53.196 (+0.120) ▼
24. LOCASH - I Love This Life: 53.126 (+0.700) ▼
25. R. CITY - Locked Away f/Adam Levine: 52.801 (+1.039)
26. FETTY WAP - 679 f/Remy Boyz...: 50.600 (-0.667)
27. POST MALONE - White Iverson: 50.526 (-0.338)
28. THE CHAINSMOKERS - Roses f/Rozes: 50.306 (+0.801)
29. JASON DERULO - Want To Want Me: 48.728 (+2.280) ▲
30. TORY LANEZ - Say It: 48.350 (+0.473) ▼

31. X AMBASSADORS - Renegades: 47.594 (+0.477)
32. MAJOR LAZER - Lean On f/MØ & DJ Snake: 47.376 (+0.252) ▼
33. SAM HUNT - Break Up In A Small Town: 46.411 (+0.921) ▲
34. CAM - Burning House: 45.803 (-0.385) ▼
35. TIM MCGRAW - Top Of The World: 45.577 (-0.359) ▼
36. ONE DIRECTION - Perfect: 44.444 (+0.320)
37. DAYA - Hide Away: 44.379 (+0.552)
38. J. COLE - No Role Modelz: 43.590 (-0.070)
39. LUKE BRYAN - Home Alone Tonight: 42.072 (+0.268) ▲
40. BLAKE SHELTON - Gonna: 41.953 (-0.024) ▼

41. MARK RONSON - Uptown Funk f/Bruno Mars: 40.745 (+1.073) ▲
42. ADELE - When We Were Young: 40.719 (+2.261) ▲
43. JANA KRAMER - I Got The Boy: 40.594 (+0.416) ▼
44. ED SHEERAN - Photograph: 40.136 (+2.356) ▲
45. BRYSON TILLER - Don't: 38.581 (-0.116) ▼
46. KELSEA BALLERINI - Dibs: 37.524 (+0.502) ▲
47. SELENA GOMEZ - Good For You f/A$AP Rocky: 37.474 (+0.219) ▼
48. CHRIS YOUNG - I'm Comin' Over: 36.992 (+0.189)
49. GWEN STEFANI - Used To Love You: 36.198 (+0.287)
50. GRANGER SMITH - Backroad Song: 35.973 (+0.371)

51. RACHEL PLATTEN - Stand By You: 35.186 (+0.346)
52. FETTY WAP - Again: 34.945 (+0.251)
53. BRAD PAISLEY - Country Nation: 32.875 (+0.088)
54. YO GOTTI - Down In The DM: 32.562 (+0.191)
55. RANDY HOUSER - We Went: 31.980 (+0.528) ▲
56. MAROON 5 - Sugar: 31.863 (+1.898) ▲
57. COLDPLAY - Adventure Of A Lifetime: 31.744 (+0.357)
58. SHAWN MENDES & CAMILA CABELLO - I Know What You Did Last...: 31.341 (-0.126) ▼
59. KEITH URBAN - Break On Me: 30.495 (+0.147) ▼
60. ZAC BROWN BAND - Beautiful Drug: 28.784 (+0.367)

61. RACHEL PLATTEN - Fight Song: 28.146 (+2.957) ▲
62. ED SHEERAN - Thinking Out Loud: 27.934 (+2.201) ▲
63. OMI - Cheerleader: 27.286 (+0.582) ▼
64. DAN + SHAY - Nothin' Like You: 27.227 (+0.338) ▼
65. WIZ KHALIFA - See You Again f/Charlie Puth: 26.754 (+0.339) ▼
66. CHRIS BROWN - Back To Sleep: 26.179 (+0.866) ▲
67. TAYLOR SWIFT - Style: 26.170 (+2.080) ▲
68. BIG SEAN - Play No Games: 26.169 (+0.135) ▼
69. DEJ LOAF - Back Up f/Big Sean: 26.052 (-0.074) ▼
70. THE WEEKND - Earned It: 25.860 (+0.764) ▲

71. ERIC CHURCH - Mr. Misunderstood: 25.755 (+0.429) ▼
72. OLD DOMINION - Break Up With Him: 25.657 (+0.473) ▼
73. COLONEL LOUD - California f/Young Dolph: 24.769 (-0.026) ▼
74. FUTURE - Where Ya At f/Drake: 24.658 (+0.483) ▲
75. FALL OUT BOY - Irresistible f/Demi Lovato: 24.615 (+0.187) ▼

[Deleted]

I guess it's probably likely that Locked Away won't go recurrent on the Hot 100 this week due to increased YE airplay, huh?

[Deleted]

Dec 30, 2015 4:50:19 GMT -5 popbox said:

Love Yourself is going to be what dethrones Hello, barring some massive new song out of nowhere. Meaning, Hello probably has another 4-5 weeks at the top. Which sadly will put it right around that dreaded 14 week mark nothing can seem to overcome besides OSD. 

Yeah that record is a beast.  The combo of Mariah and Boyz II Men doing a pop song (which is also urban by default of their fan bases and soulful voices) is gonna be hard to beat. They were both such massive acts at that time, too, so with this "See You Again" type song... all the stars aligned and nothing else stood a chance.

Mariah was almost always able to get big spins at Pop and Urban airplay (and many times AC, OSD had all big 3, plus more) obviously increasing sales in the process, hence her 18 #1s.  I'm not saying they weren't deserved in most cases, because she still had to have people like her and the songs.... but she had a keen advantage over most pop stars of the 90s by being a "race-fluid" act with an incredibly gifted and soulful voice who sang pop songs with urban stylings.  The epitome of crossover.  Not to mention a record company that did everything in their power to force help her to the top of the charts, especially in the later 90s, early 2000s.  As a guy in radio and in retail from 1991-2005, I witnessed it all first hand.  Masterful Marketing 101 by Tommy Mottola.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Dec 30, 2015 13:59:14 GMT -5 @broccoli said:

Dec 30, 2015 4:50:19 GMT -5 popbox said:

Love Yourself is going to be what dethrones Hello, barring some massive new song out of nowhere. Meaning, Hello probably has another 4-5 weeks at the top. Which sadly will put it right around that dreaded 14 week mark nothing can seem to overcome besides OSD. 

Yeah that record is a beast.  The combo of Mariah and Boyz II Men doing a pop song (which is also urban by default of their fan bases and soulful voices) is gonna be hard to beat. They were both such massive acts at that time, too, so with this "See You Again" type song... all the stars aligned and nothing else stood a chance.

Mariah was almost always able to get big spins at Pop and Urban airplay (and many times AC, OSD had all big 3, plus more) obviously increasing sales in the process, hence her 18 #1s.  I'm not saying they weren't deserved in most cases, because she still had to have people like her and the songs.... but she had a keen advantage over most pop stars of the 90s by being a "race-fluid" act with an incredibly gifted and soulful voice who sang pop songs with urban stylings.  The epitome of crossover.  Not to mention a record company that did everything in their power to force help her to the top of the charts, especially in the later 90s, early 2000s.  As a guy in radio and in retail from 1991-2005, I witnessed it all first hand.  Masterful Marketing 101 by Tommy Mottola.

It also helped that the single was repressed and then they didn't delete it/limit quantities. It was the perfect storm - far fewer competing singles available, a massive pairing of two hot acts, etc. Everything hit perfectly. ADELE does have a slight shot at this record, but I'm betting LY does knock it off.

[purplefebruary]

We have a similar problem in the UK charts. The record for most consecutive weeks at #1 is Everything I Do (I Do It For You) for 16 weeks in 1991 (although it doesn't have the most weeks in total, the non-consecutive record is 18 weeks by Frankie Laine's I Believe in 1953). Since then the only song that got close to matching it was Wet Wet Wet's cover of Love Is All Around in 1994 (thanks to being a tie-in with Four Weddings And A Funeral), but it got deleted after 15 weeks.

I believe that part of the reason is that the turnover habits in the UK charts was basically the opposite of what happened in the Billboard Hot 100: We used to have songs spend at least 4 weeks at a time at the top, but then around 1998 we started getting a new number one song almost every week. It might be due to the massive drop in record sales around that time, and even today the threshold for a song hitting #1 is significantly lower than it was 30 years ago, which will explain how Bieber's massive streaming numbers knocking off Adele from #1 despite her still dominating in download sales.

[Deleted]

^ further reasoning as to why today's charts are never all that comparable to those that came before them. they are for the "now" only. everything changes constantly, so while comparing historical achievements in entertainment is fun, it's never apples-to-apples, accurate nor "fair".

[badrobot]

Frankly what bugs me about OSD having the record is it's not one of the most memorable/classic/well-regarded songs by either artist. Mariah in particular has at least 10+ songs I'd bet would be ranked as bigger classics.

[Gary]

I have always believed, the definition of "memorable" depends on whose memory we are talking about.

Anyway, with the amount of times per year we get long running number ones now, this record will no doubt eventually be broken.

Too soon, I think to call it for this song though.

[badrobot]

I knew the first comment would be about that being subjective. But I think I'm being pretty objective here. Poll a bunch of people about Marian's classic songs and I don't think OSD would be near the top.

To be fair, this is true for other artists as well. For example, almost nobody would say Take A Bow is madonna's biggest classic.

[Gary]

Polls and opinions of that type are pretty subjective too. So, that goes back to my comment about whose memory are we talking about?

One Sweet Day is 20 years old.

Teenagers who were not alive during this song's heyday will give a different answer than someone older

Mariah "superfans" will give different answers than music fans who like Mariah but don't live and die by every move she makes.

[Deleted]

+ songs can be super popular in their day and not age well.... the majority of songs die off regardless of how successful they were on the charts. while bigger charting hits probably have the majority of slots on an oldies station, there are still many that weren't even top 10 or sometimes even top 40 hits, amazingly.

along with that, OSD is probably not the song we will be hearing from either artist on the 90s stations, at least not in regular rotation.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

That and the record is nothing more than a reflection of consecutive weeks where OSD was the biggest hit on the Hot 100. Those weeks aren't meant to in any way reflect anything more than the weeks they were dated for.

[Deleted]

Dec 30, 2015 16:25:05 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

That and the record is nothing more than a reflection of consecutive weeks where OSD was the biggest hit on the Hot 100. Those weeks aren't meant to in any way reflect anything more than the weeks they were dated for.

Right.  Many of us like to use words like "biggest" because it has that particular record, which, while it may seem objective... it  really isn't.  

[badrobot]

Of course at a very dry level, the chart only tells you who had the most points based on the chart rules at the time, and nothing more. But if that's all there is, I doubt we'd have Billboard and forums like this and radio countdowns, etc. The charts also function as a (rough) time capsule, and often chart success goes hand in hand with memorability and pop cultural influence. To me, that's what makes them interesting.

In my opinion, it's nice when you can look at past chart performance and see it correlate with something standing the test of time or being considered a "classic." So, that's why One Sweet Day holding such a record bothers me. The un-challenged longest-running #1 song of all time (with a big ol' asterisk on that "all time" really being "since the mid-'50s") is a song that (in my opinion, and probably this would be proven true in polls and survey) just hasn't had nearly the lasting impact that many songs with less-impressive chart runs have had. In my opinion, that's a bummer.

[popbox]

I'm sure 99% of Mariah fans out there would gladly switch OSD and WBT's reigns at #1 if given the chance. Despite an extra 2 weeks at #1, WBT was by far bigger overall and I think already has had a much better first decade in longevity than OSD ever did (OSD was already nearly forgotten by many non-MC fans back in '05).

[ss8]

Dec 30, 2015 16:24:58 GMT -5 @broccoli said:

+ songs can be super popular in their day and not age well.... the majority of songs die off regardless of how successful they were on the charts. while bigger charting hits probably have the majority of slots on an oldies station, there are still many that weren't even top 10 or sometimes even top 40 hits, amazingly.

along with that, OSD is probably not the song we will be hearing from either artist on the 90s stations, at least not in regular rotation.

OSD in my opinion is quite similar to two other biggest hits of their decades/ longest weeks at #1. You Light Up My Life (#1 for 10 weeks in 1977) and Physical (#10 weeks in 1981). Two brutally dated, rarely heard/ remembered by the GP, cheesy songs that were massive in their time but have aged like rotten cheese opposed to fine wine like endless/too many songs that either weren't #1 or even top 10! lol. Whether you're a fan of Mariah or not, no doubt in my mind most people (or at least many, many more people) remember the other #1s on that album today which were way better in quality. Fantasy and ABMB but esp. the former was considered a game changer to many and a much better song. I still believe the record will be broken before we know it esp. w/ the current chart formula there's endless mega #1s after #1s and very little turnover. Should've happened just this year with Uptown Funk. Just in the past few (or 5 years or so) we've come 'this' close w/ UF, I Gotta Feeling, Boom Boom Pow, Blurred Lines, See You Again and even Happy I think had a shot if it had less competition. ALL comes down to timing. If Fast and Furious 7 would've came out either a month before or just 3-4 weeks later, UF would've gotten (I believe) 17 weeks at #1.