Billboard Hot 100: 02/11/2017

[g8erboi]

YES SCARS

[jayhawk1117]

Jan 30, 2017 15:03:57 GMT -5 @mirza said:

Jan 30, 2017 15:01:18 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

Wow 26 weeks and still top 3 for Closer. Literally a Legendary single. Half a year in the top 10. Also Paris is definitely gonna keep the streak for The Chainsmokers.

Here's to hoping that Paris doesn't end up doing just that
Mainly since I find it soooo much weaker then there Roses, DLMD, Closer, hell even #SELFIE(mild guilty pleasure)
Same with All We Know, Setting Fires is better but didn't get pushed smh

Oh yeah it's definitely not as Strong but with closer having something like 5 weeks left in the top 10 and Paris possibly entering in the next 2 weeks and an actual album coming out soon, it'seems probably gonna go on for a while

[Deleted]

Jan 30, 2017 15:08:13 GMT -5 Harx said:

Jan 30, 2017 14:49:36 GMT -5 MTSChart21 said:

26. Water Under The Bridge (+8)

Maybe there is still some hope??? I mean recent airplay updates are tragic but maybe this will at least survive long enough to make the year end list?

^ Isn't Adele performing at the Grammys, if she performs this it should shoot up, there is that and we have yet to get an MV for WUBT yet
There is still hope for it to be smash #4 on 25

[Leo ✔]

Migos Hold Atop Hot 100, Alessia Cara Hits Top 10

Migos' "Bad and Boujee" leads for a third week, while "Scars to Your Beautiful" becomes Cara's second top 10.

Migos' viral hit "Bad and Boujee," featuring Lil Uzi Vert, tops the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Feb. 11) for a third total week. Meanwhile, Alessia Cara collects her second top 10, as "Scars to Your Beautiful" ascends from No. 13 to No. 10.

As we do every Monday, let's run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 31.

"Bad," the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both hip-hop trio Migos (Quavo, Takeoff and Offset) and rapper Lil Uzi Vert (as well as the first for the 300 Entertainment label), has inspired abundant memes and tweets playing off the song's "raindrop, drop top" lyrics. The track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week with 47 million U.S. streams in the week ending Jan. 26, according to Nielsen Music. It also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week (19.7 million on-demand clicks).

"Bad" rebounds 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (51,000 downloads sold, down 25 percent) and jumps 27-23 on Radio Songs, gaining by 20 percent to 49 million in airplay audience. It additionally rules Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fourth week each. Migos' second full-length, Culture, featuring "Bad," was released Friday (Jan. 27) and is set to debut on Billboard album charts dated Feb. 18; another song from the set, "T-Shirt," enters the Hot 100's top 40 (43-37) on its second week on the chart.

Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100 following its No. 1 debut two weeks ago, while remaining the best-selling song in the U.S. and gaining in streams and airplay. The cut holds atop Digital Song Sales, down 14 percent to 104,000 sold. It becomes the first song to sell more than 100,000 in its first three weeks of release since Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling!" did so in its first eight frames (beginning May 28, 2016).

"Shape," which previews Sheeran's third studio album ÷, due March 3, stays at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (26.5 million) and surges to the Radio Songs top five (12-5; 93 million, up 25 percent), earning the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a second week. Sheeran scores his fourth top five Radio Songs hit and, at four weeks, completes his speediest flight to the region; it's the fastest blast to the top five since (guess who) Timberlake also needed only four weeks with "Feeling" (June 4).

As previously reported, the proper official video (following its earlier lyric clip) for "Shape" arrived today, which should further enhance the song's fortunes on next week's charts.

The Chainsmokers' "Closer," featuring Halsey, lifts 4-3 on the Hot 100, after spending 12 weeks at No. 1. It extends its record for the most weeks logged in the top 10 from a song's debut, having totaled all 26 of its weeks on the chart – a full six months – in the top 10 since its bow at No. 9 on Aug. 20. "Closer" also tops Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 24th week. (Plus, after debuting at No. 7 on the Hot 100 a week ago, The Chainsmokers' radio follow-up "Paris" drops to No. 13, down by 57 percent to 40,000 sold, as it dips 2-5 on Digital Song Sales. It backtracks 9-10 on Streaming Songs, with 16.8 million, and roars 32-22 on Radio Songs, up 36 percent to 50 million.)

Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello's "Bad Things" reaches the Hot 100's top five, rising 6-4. It pushes 5-3 on Radio Songs (109 million, up 10 percent); 5-4 on Digital Song Sales (42,000, down 10 percent); and 12-11 on Streaming Songs (16.7 million). Kelly earns his first top five Hot 100 hit, while Cabello does the same as a soloist. She matches her previous high achieved before she went solo; as a member of Fifth Harmony, she reached No. 4 with "Work From Home" (featuring Ty Dolla $ign) last June.


Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Zayn and Taylor Swift's "I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)" reaches the region and its best rank, climbing 8-5; it debuted at its prior No. 6 high on the Dec. 31-dated chart. The collab, from the film Fifty Shades Darker (due Feb. 10, along with its soundtrack), rises 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (61,000, down 16 percent, although aided by a 69-cent iTunes Store sale price); 14-11 on Radio Songs (78 million, up 12 percent); and 15-12 on Streaming Songs (16.3 million). The song could gain further on next week's Hot 100, following the Jan. 27 arrival of its official video.

Zayn adds his second top five solo Hot 100 hit, following last year's No. 1 "Pillowtalk" (while he also made three trips to the tier as a member of One Direction), and Swift scores her 11th top five and first since the No. 5-peaking "Wildest Dreams" in November 2015.

Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles," featuring Gucci Mane, slides 3-6 on the Hot 100, following its seven-week command; Maroon 5's "Don't Wanna Know," featuring Kendrick Lamar, rebounds to its Hot 100 highpoint (9-7), while ruling Radio Songs for a seventh week (136 million, down 4 percent); The Weeknd's "Starboy" descends 5-8 on the Hot 100 after its one week at No. 1, while leading Hot R&B Songs for an 18th week; and Drake's "Fake Love" returns to the Hot 100's top 10 (11-9) and its peak to date (previously set on the Jan. 14 and 21 charts, becoming his 18th top 10). "Fake" also becomes Drake's 18th Radio Songs top 10 (11-10; 78 million, up 2 percent), a sum second among solo males only to Lil Wayne's 19 (in the chart's 26-year history); Rihanna leads all acts with 28.

Capping the Hot 100's top 10, Alessia Cara collects her second top 10, as "Scars to Your Beautiful" lifts 13-10. "Scars" keeps at No. 2 on Radio Songs (128 million, down 1 percent) and No. 25 on Digital Song Sales (22,000, down 11 percent) and bounds 37-25 on Streaming Songs (12.6 million). Likely helping the song's profile, NBC's Saturday Night Live announced Jan. 23 that Cara will be the musical guest on the show's Feb. 4 episode (to be hosted by Kristen Stewart. Meanwhile, Sheeran will perform on the Feb. 11 episode, to be hosted by Alec Baldwin). "Scars" also leads the Pop Songs airplay chart for a second week.

In its 22nd week on the Hot 100, the track completes the steadiest climb to the top 10 since gnash's "I Hate U I Love U," featuring Olivia O'Brien, made the bracket in its 25th week (Oct. 22, 2016). Until "Scars," no song by a lead female had taken a more scenic journey to the top 10 since Anna Kendrick's "Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)": 28 weeks, 2013.

Cara, the winner of the Rule Breaker award at Billboard's 2016 Women in Music celebration in December, first hit the Hot 100's top 10 with her breakthrough single "Here," which peaked at No. 5 on the Feb. 6, 2016, chart. With both songs from her debut full-length, Know-It-All, Cara is the first artist to notch at least two top 10s from a first LP since Fetty Wap banked three from his self-titled debut in 2015. She's the first woman to earn the honor since Meghan Trainor, who also landed three from Title in 2014-15.

Just beyond the Hot 100's top tier, two songs climb to new heights in the top 20: Rihanna's "Love on the Brain" (17-14) and The Weeknd's "I Feel It Coming" (19-18), like "Starboy" also featuring Daft Punk.

Also note two key changes, effective this week (for the chart dated Feb. 11), to the Hot 100's methodology (as well to that of Billboard's multi-metric genre charts: Hot Country Songs, Hot Rock Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs). First, Billboard has applied a formula adjustment, as is regularly administered, to the Hot 100 (and those charts cited) to rebalance the ratio among sales, airplay and streaming, accounting for changes in music consumption patterns, i.e., increases in streaming and decreases in sales.

Plus, as noted in more detail in a separate announcement, influential Pandora streaming data is added to the Hot 100's data pool, as well as to those of the other aforementioned charts.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly "Hot 100 Chart Moves" column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 31), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The Hot 100 and other charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale Friday (Feb. 3).

[rimetm]

A few key notes from the Pandora article:

Dancing on My Own debuts
Million Reasons re-enters
Chill Bill is 10 positions higher than it would be on the chart without Pandora streams.
I Got You and Sex With Me have significant gains.

[jebsib]

What happened to those painful chart videos done by Billboard last year? The couple talking about latest chart feats, etc. Did those (hopefully) disappear?

[Leaf]

I wonder if the methodology adjustment will result in Heathens being dethroned on Hot Rock Songs. It has been #1 for 24 weeks, and Ride is still #2 in its 79th week.

[jayhawk1117]

How do they even count Pandora if it's random?

[Glove Slap]

Jan 30, 2017 15:31:12 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

How do they even count Pandora if it's random?

It still collects data on which song ends up being streamed. It just isn't "on-demand" like Spotify. I can see this helping acts similar to PARTYNEXTDOOR; technically on the underside of success as a recording act, but associated with other, extremely popular, acts.

[Gary]

Billboard Adds Pandora Streaming Data to Hot 100 & Other Songs Charts

By Billboard Staff | January 30, 2017 3:08 PM EST
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Billboard and Pandora today (Jan. 30) announced an exclusive agreement that will add influential Pandora streaming data to the Billboard Hot 100, the world's preeminent songs chart. The Hot 100 ranks the week's most popular songs across all genres, determined by a formula blending track sales, radio airplay and streaming, as measured by Nielsen Music, now along with Pandora's exclusive streaming data, as well.

In addition, Pandora will also impact Billboard's streaming-based charts, and Hot 100 formula-based genre rankings: Hot Country Songs, Hot Rock Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs.


Pandora data positively impacts 35 titles on the Hot 100, including nine songs that improve in rank by five or more places if compared to the chart absent of Pandora data. Among the titles showing such marked improvement thanks to Pandora plays are Rob $tone's "Chill Bill," featuring J. Davi$ and Spooks, Bebe Rexha's "I Got You" and Rihanna's "Sex With Me." "Chill Bill" is among Pandora's top 10 most-streamed songs of the week, which helps it place more than 10 spots higher on the Hot 100 than if Pandora data had not been added.

In addition, looking at songs that appear on the Hot 100 that didn't a week ago but now do thanks in part to Pandora's influence, Callum Scott's first Hot 100 hit, "Dancing on My Own," debuts and Lady Gaga's "Million Reasons" re-enters.

"Billboard's unrivaled charts are the definitive source for ranking music popularity. For decades, the charts have acted as a place where both artists measure success and fans discover music," says John Amato, co-president of The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group. "Close to 80 million music lovers listen to Pandora every month and we look forward to bringing our brands together to incorporate Pandora's data into our charts."

"We're thrilled to bring Pandora aboard as a contributor to our songs charts," says Silvio Pietroluongo,‎ VP of charts and data development for Billboard. "The music tastes and listening habits of Pandora's large and influential user base are elements that we've longed to include as a measure of song popularity in the Hot 100 and various other Billboard charts."

Pandora founder and CEO Tim Westergren, who, along with Pandora artist advocate Questlove was featured on the cover of the Billboard issue dated Jan. 28, says, "Over the last few years, Pandora has shared more and more data with the music industry. We started with artists and managers, then direct-deal label partners, and now Billboard for inclusion in the iconic Hot 100 chart. With each step along the way, our partners have been shocked by the sheer size of Pandora's audience. Pandora is now the No. 1 radio station in 87 U.S. markets and represents roughly 10 percent all radio listening. With the inclusion of Pandora data, the Billboard charts that have guided listeners and been so central to the music industry for decades now reflect a truer measure of a song's popularity today. I'm thrilled that the 'Pandora effect' will now be formally recognized in the industry's gold standard for measurement."

"Next Big Sound has been a data partner of Billboard's since 2010, with the introduction of the Social 50 chart," adds Alex White, head of Next Big Sound at Pandora. "Based on our years of data expertise across social and streaming sources, we know the staggering volume of Pandora data that has not been counted. We project that the Pandora data will have hit a material impact on chart positions. I am excited that the Hot 100 will now include the enormous number of spins on Pandora."

Pandora joins other programmed music streaming services as Billboard chart contributors, including Slacker, Google Radio, Napster and AOL Radio, among others, as well as on-demand subscription services including Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon and SoundCloud, and video on-demand platforms YouTube (including Vevo on YouTube) and VidZone. Note that the latter on-demand streaming services are weighted at a higher value on weekly charts than programmed streaming services, reflecting their more active consumer interaction.

[Dylan :)]

Pandora's current top 10 (updates weekly, not daily like Spotify):

#1 Black Beatles
#2 Fake Love
#3 Bad And Boujee
#4 Scars To Your Beautiful
#5 Starboy
#6 Don't Wanna Know
#7 Love On The Brain
#8 Starving
#9 I Don't Wanna Live Forever
#10 In The Name Of Love

[Au$tin]

About time Pandora was added.

[kcdawg13]

Jan 30, 2017 15:22:52 GMT -5 jebsib said:

What happened to those painful chart videos done by Billboard last year? The couple talking about latest chart feats, etc. Did those (hopefully) disappear?

I'm pretty sure they got rid of them because the regular weekly Top 10 videos were getting WAY more views. Thus the cord was cut.

[kanimal]

Jan 30, 2017 15:40:12 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

Pandora's current top 10 (updates weekly, not daily like Spotify):

#1 Black Beatles
#2 Fake Love
#3 Bad And Boujee
#4 Scars To Your Beautiful
#5 Starboy
#6 Don't Wanna Know
#7 Love On The Brain
#8 Starving
#9 I Don't Wanna Live Forever
#10 In The Name Of Love

Billboard says Chill Bill is in the Top 10 for this past week?

[missgenericnickname]

Ah no wonder why STYB got top 10& that 3/5 of the top 5 became a mess. I feel like Shape Of You has less of a chance of staying at #1 for a longer time now because of the change.

[jtd Thee Stallion]

This news should make gravey happy, since he loves Chill bill...

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Jan 30, 2017 16:52:36 GMT -5 jtd Thee Stallion said:

This news should make gravey happy, since he loves Chill bill...

Check the Year End 2017 Predictions Thread, lmfao.

[atg]

Jan 30, 2017 16:03:15 GMT -5 missgenericnickname said:

Ah no wonder why STYB got top 10& that 3/5 of the top 5 became a mess. I feel like Shape Of You has less of a chance of staying at #1 for a longer time now because of the change.

If shape of you debuted the same week as this Pandora add, Ed would've been robbed again

[forg]

Jan 30, 2017 15:09:54 GMT -5 @mirza said:

Jan 30, 2017 15:08:13 GMT -5 Harx said:

Maybe there is still some hope??? I mean recent airplay updates are tragic but maybe this will at least survive long enough to make the year end list?

^ Isn't Adele performing at the Grammys, if she performs this it should shoot up, there is that and we have yet to get an MV for WUBT yet
There is still hope for it to be smash #4 on 25

Will there really be a music video? She had only 2 videos in 21.

I remember last year a lot of us we're thinking a Grammy Performance is just what will push When We We're Young to top 10 success but she performed All I Ask

[Au$tin]

Jan 30, 2017 15:34:40 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

Jan 30, 2017 15:31:12 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

How do they even count Pandora if it's random?

It still collects data on which song ends up being streamed. It just isn't "on-demand" like Spotify. I can see this helping acts similar to PARTYNEXTDOOR; technically on the underside of success as a recording act, but associated with other, extremely popular, acts.

It's also not really that random. Pandora learns the listener's taste and knows what songs to reject and what songs to play. For example, I can start a radio station based on listening habits of other people who like The Weeknd, but everytime a Bruno Mars song pops up, I can skip it. Slowly, Pandora learns not to play Bruno Mars for me. If a lot of people do that, Bruno Mars won't be played on The Weeknd's station anymore.

It's pretty similar to Spotify's radio stations and automated playlists, though I believe Spotify's algorithm is better and faster than Pandora's.

[rimetm]

All the info this week:

85. Sex With Me (+2)
83. Not Nice (+12)
37. T-Shirt (+6)
32. Rockabye (+6)
29. iSpy (+3)
26. Water Under The Bridge (+8)
18. I Feel It Coming (+1)
14. Love On The Brain (+3)
13. Paris (-6)
10. Scars To Your Beautiful (+3)
9. Fake Love (+2)
8. Starboy (-3)
7. Don't Wanna Know (+2)
6. Black Beatles (-3)
5. I Don't Wanna Live Forever (+3)
4. Bad Things (+2)
3. Closer (+1)
2. Shape Of You (=)
1. Bad And Boujee (=)

Gaining This Week: I Got You, Chill Bill
Debuting/Re-Entering This Week: Any Ol' Barstool, Dancing on My Own, Million Reasons

Sources: Billboard Article, Pandora's Billboard Article, Twitter, Facebook Live

[georgetherunner314]

I found this available for anyone interested in the Pandora top 100 chart. There's actually quite some variety here different from Spotify's, such as Country songs actually being relevant!

Also, there's some confusion going on in the year-end predictions thread on the new formula change, but I'd thought it'd be better talking about it here.

"Also note two key changes, effective this week (for the chart dated Feb. 11), to the Hot 100's methodology (as well to that of Billboard's multi-metric genre charts: Hot Country Songs, Hot Rock Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs). First, Billboard has applied a formula adjustment, as is regularly administered, to the Hot 100 (and those charts cited) to rebalance the ratio among sales, airplay and streaming, accounting for changes in music consumption patterns, i.e., increases in streaming and decreases in sales."

If you read the bolded section, you'll see Billboard actually decreased the impact of streams and increased that of sales, not the other way around. It'd be counterintuitive to increase the significance of streams after having just added Pandora data.

I believe this is also my 500th post 

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Regarding the Hot 100 formula change, they already did this around the same time last year:

"Before we go, a math-related note: As of this week, a slight change is implemented regarding the Hot 100's methodology (as is occasionally done), moderately tempering the influence of streaming, due to its hefty growth over the past year, while also increasing the contribution of digital song sales. With the formula change, which also affects Billboard's genre-specific hybrid charts, the ratios for the three contributing sources to the Hot 100 (sales, streaming and airplay) are more equally balanced."

Justin Bieber Replaces Himself at No. 1 on Hot 100 With 'Love Yourself'

So whoever had figured out roughly last year's formula will have to do so all over again ...

[jtd Thee Stallion]

Lol @ Kevin Hart being #64, he'll surely be bubbling under this week...

[bigbertha]

I'm glad that Pandora is being included but decreasing streaming and increasing sales influence is really dumb. Digital Sales are dead, so why give it more weightage.

[fridayteenage]

As mentioned above, one thing that might be affected is streaming could be more notable for country now. Based on the Pandora chart:
Star of the Show 31
Blue Ain’t Your Color 32
Hometown Girl 39
Dirt on My Boots 40
Better Man 44
Sober Saturday Night 45
The Weekend 46
A Guy with a Girl 51
Think a Little Less 52
Any Ole Barstool 55
Kill a Word 56
There’s a Girl 61
Black 62
Yeah Boy 66
Today 68

Meanwhile the highest country song on Spotify is Blue Ain’t Your Color at #162.

[Au$tin]

Jan 30, 2017 23:02:47 GMT -5 bigbertha said:

I'm glad that Pandora is being included but decreasing streaming and increasing sales influence is really dumb. Digital Sales are dead, so why give it more weightage.

It's not dumb at all. Each component of the chart is supposed to be relatively equal with a slight edge to whichever component is king, which of course is streaming. Streaming is still weighted heavier than sales evidenced by the fact Bad and Boujee is still over Shape of You and the big increases this week come from the strong songs on Pandora, not from the top songs in sales.

Digital sales also aren't dead. They're exceptionally lower than their prime, yes, but far from dead. They're still higher than when they were when they were added to the Hot 100.

[Au$tin]

Jan 30, 2017 23:14:12 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

As mentioned above, one thing that might be affected is streaming could be more notable for country now. Based on the Pandora chart:
Star of the Show 31
Blue Ain’t Your Color 32
Hometown Girl 39
Dirt on My Boots 40
Better Man 44
Sober Saturday Night 45
The Weekend 46
A Guy with a Girl 51
Think a Little Less 52
Any Ole Barstool 55
Kill a Word 56
There’s a Girl 61
Black 62
Yeah Boy 66
Today 68

Meanwhile the highest country song on Spotify is Blue Ain’t Your Color at #162.

Definitely a sign of how long Pandora has been around. Country is always one of the last genres to hop on board of a music trend. Pandora has been around for so long it's gained a massive following across so many demographics. Plus it's like the Internet Explorer of streaming services. It's a default app in many Blu-Ray players, car stereos, and computers. I mean, my parents know what Pandora is, but not Spotify. Its numbers aren't necessarily huge, but it's ingrained into society so hard that even the country fans use it. Very good news for Hot 100 followers that are country fans!

Eventually country will catch up on Spotify.

[Deleted]

About damn time country songs get some streaming support

[Choco]

With Alessia's top 10 peak it avoids joining a very short list of songs that reached #1 on Pop but didn't make top 10 on the Hot 100:

Demi Lovato - Give Your Heart a Break (#16)
Jessica Simpson - With You (#14)
JoJo - Leave (Get Out) (#14)