Billboard Hot 100: 12/31/2016

[rimetm]

Dec 21, 2016 9:05:31 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

Dec 20, 2016 5:08:53 GMT -5 jtd Thee Stallion said:

And You Was Right and Come and See Me survive another week.

Yep. The enforcement of the 20 week Hot 100 recurrent seems arbitrarily ignored by the BB chart editors. This is the second time both songs have survived in spite of placing outside the Top 50. At least last time, Come and See Me actually had a backwards bullet. Why not place them in the Hot 100 Recurrents chart until return if they place within the Top 50? BTW, another time they did that recently was with Head Over Boots.

They did gain points, but if they fall too many positions Billboard doesn't label song with bullets. This was explained back during Head Over Boots' run:

[85la]

Dec 22, 2016 10:31:59 GMT -5 jebsib said:

Do we now foresee a scenario when the top 5 - or even top 12 is strictly one act - based on mega streaming numbers?

Possibly. They should maybe make a rule preventing this, placing a limit on the number, if any, album tracks during the first week of an album's release charting almost solely due to streaming/sales. Or at least let other songs that would go recurrent because of this remain on the chart if they would remain high enough to stay on after 1 week.

[Au$tin]

Dec 22, 2016 21:06:52 GMT -5 85la said:

Dec 22, 2016 10:31:59 GMT -5 jebsib said:

Do we now foresee a scenario when the top 5 - or even top 12 is strictly one act - based on mega streaming numbers?

Possibly. They should maybe make a rule preventing this, placing a limit on the number, if any, album tracks during the first week of an album's release charting almost solely due to streaming/sales. Or at least let other songs that would go recurrent because of this remain on the chart if they would remain high enough to stay on after 1 week.

That would be a massive step backwards, though, from what the Hot 100 is supposed to do, and that's showcase what songs are performing the best in the industry at that week.

Anyway, it's not likely an artist is to occupy all top 12 (or really even all top 5) when an album is released. That would require extremely massive numbers for the entire album, or it would require extremely low numbers of all fronts for the top 10/5, which also isn't likely.

It could be likely if all tracks were somehow being promoted as singles, though, because then their airplay would be higher (and likely sales) to compensate and compete with the other songs being hits on all three formats. I'm not sure how that would be plausible, but I guess it could happen if the artist performed all the songs everywhere like Adele did with 25 and then the album was also like Lemonade and was a visual, but had all videos available to stream at once. Not sure how that would work with airplay, though, since having more than 2 hit singles at once as lead on one format (which is essentially what you'd need for this scenario) has never happened.

Now we could definitely see a massive, massive artist enter the full album in the top 20, but that's probably still a few years out and even then, it wouldn't be back to back given it would have to kick 20 other big hits down to below the top 20.