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Post by Gary on Apr 16, 2018 20:37:03 GMT -5
Here the 71 Songs That Have Debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 Updated 9/5/23 by Me 1. Michael Jackson "You Are Not Alone" Chart Debut Date: September 2, 1995 2. Mariah Carey "Fantasy" Chart Debut Date: September 30, 1995 3. Whitney Houston "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" Chart Debut Date: November 25, 1995 4. Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men "One Sweet Day" Chart Debut Date: December 2, 1995 5. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans Featuring 112 "I'll Be Missing You" Chart Debut Date: June 14, 1997 6. Mariah Carey "Honey" Chart Debut Date: September 13, 1997 7. Elton John "Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight" Chart Debut Date: October 11, 1997 8. Celine Dion "My Heart Will Go On" Chart Debut Date: February 28, 1998 9. Aerosmith "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Chart Debut Date: September 5, 1998 10. Lauryn Hill "Doo Wop (That Thing)" Chart Debut Date: November 14, 1998 11. Clay Aiken "This Is the Night" Chart Debut Date: June 28, 2003 12. Fantasia "I Believe" Chart Debut Date: July 10, 2004 13. Carrie Underwood "Inside Your Heaven" Chart Debut Date: July 2, 2005 14. Taylor Hicks "Do I Make You Proud" Chart Debut Date: July 1, 2006 15. Britney Spears "3" Chart Debut Date: October 24, 2009 16. Eminem "Not Afraid" Chart Debut Date: May 22, 2010 17. Ke$ha "We R Who We R" Chart Debut Date: November 13, 2010 18. Britney Spears "Hold It Against Me" Chart Debut Date: January 29, 2011 19. Lady Gaga "Born This Way" Chart Debut Date: February 26, 2011 20. Katy Perry "Part Of Me" Chart Debut Date: March 3, 2012 21. Baauer "Harlem Shake" Chart Debut Date: March 2, 2013 22. Taylor Swift "Shake It Off" Chart Debut Date: September 6, 2014 23. Justin Bieber ''What Do You Mean?'' Chart Debut Date: Sept. 19, 2015 24. Adele "Hello" Chart Debut Date: November 14, 2015 25. Zayn "Pillowtalk" Chart Debut Date: February 20, 2016 26. Justin Timberlake "Can't Stop the Feeling!" Chart Debut Date: May 28, 2016 27. Ed Sheeran "Shape Of You" Chart Debut Date: January 28, 2017 28. DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne "I'm The One" Chart Debut Date: May 20, 2017 29. Drake "God's Plan" Chart Debut Date: February 3, 2018 30. Drake "Nice for What" Chart Debut Date: April 21, 2018 31. Childish Gambino "This Is America" Chart Debut Date: May 19, 2018 32. Ariana Grande "Thank U, Next" Chart Debut Date: November 17, 2018 33. Ariana Grande "7 Rings" Chart Debut Date: February 2, 2019 34. Jonas Brothers
"Sucker"
Chart Debut Date: March 16, 2019
35. Travis Scott
"Highest In The Room"
Chart Debut Date: October 19, 2019
36. Drake
"Toosie Slide"
Chart Debut Date: April 18, 2020
37. Travis Scott & Kid Cudi
"The Scotts"
Chart Debut Date: May 9, 2020
38. Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber
"Stuck With U"
Chart Debut Date: May 23, 2020
39. Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande
"Rain On Me"
Chart Debut Date: June 6, 2020
40 6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj
"Trollz"
Chart Debut Date: June 27, 2020
41. Taylor Swift
"Cardigan"
Chart Debut Date: August 8, 2020
42. Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion
"WAP"
Chart Debut Date: August 22, 2020
43. BTS
"Dynamite"
Chart Debut Date: September 5, 2020
44. Travis Scott & Young Thug Featuring M.I.A.
"Franchise"
Chart Debut Date: October 10, 2020
45. Ariana Grande
"Positions"
Chart Debut Date: November 7, 2020
46. BTS
"Life Goes On"
Chart Debut Date: December 5, 2020
47. Taylor Swift
"Willow"
Chart Debut Date: December 26, 2020
48. Olivia Rodrigo
"Drivers License"
Chart Debut Date: January 23, 2021
49. Drake
"What's Next"
Chart Debut Date: March 20, 2021
50. Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caeser & Giveon
"Peaches"
Chart Debut Date: April 3, 2021
51. Lil Nas X
"Montenero(Call me By Your Name)"
Chart Debut Date: April 10, 2021
52. Polo G
"Rapstar"
Chart Debut Date: April 24, 2021
53. Olivia Rodrigo
"Good 4 U"
Chart Debut Date: May 29, 2021
54. BTS
"Butter"
Chart Debut Date: June 5, 2021
55. BTS
"Permission To Dance"
Chart Debut Date: July 24, 2021
56. Drake
"Way 2 Sexy"
Chart Debut Date: September 18, 2021
57. Coldplay x BTS
"My Universe"
Chart Debut Date: October 9, 2021
58. Taylor Swift
“All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)”
Chart Debut Date: Nov. 27, 2021
59. Harry Styles
“As It Was”
Chart Debut Date: April 16, 2022
60. Jack Harlow
“First Class”
Chart Debut Date: April 23, 2022
61. Future featuring Drake & Tems
"Wait For U"
Chart Debut Date: May 14, 2022
62. Drake Featuring 21 Savage
"Jimmy Cooks"
Chart Debut Date: July 2, 2022
63. Nicki Minaj
"Super Freaky Girl"
Chart Debut Date: August 27, 2022
64. Taylor Swift
"Anti-Hero"
Chart Debut Date: November 5, 2022
65. Miley Cyrus
"Flowers"
Chart Debut Date: January 28,2023
66. JiMin
"Like Crazy"
Chart Debut Date: April 8,2023
67. Olivia Rodrigo
"Vampire"
Chart Debut Date: July 15,2023
68. Jung Kook featuring Latto
"Seven"
Chart Debut Date: July 29,2023
69. Oliver Anthoy
"Rich Men North Of Richmond"
Chart Debut Date: August 26,2023
70. Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves
“I Remember Everything”
Chart Debut Date: Sept. 9, 2023
71. Drake Featuring SZA
“Slime You Out”
Chart Debut Date: Sept. 30, 2023
72. Drake Featuring J. Cole
“First Person Shooter”
Chart Debut Date: October 21, 2023
73. Taylor Swift
“Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
Chart Debut Date: November 11, 2023
74. Ariana Grande
“Yes, And?”
Chart Debut Date: January 27, 2024
75. Megan Thee Stallion
“Hiss”
Chart Debut Date: February 10, 2024
76. Ariana Grande
“We Can't be Friends(Wait For Your Love)”
Chart Debut Date: March 23, 2024
77. Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar
“Like That”
Chart Debut Date: April 6, 2024
78.Taylor Swift Featurig Post Malone
“Fortnight”
Chart Debut Date: May 4, 2024
79. Kendrick Lamar
“Not Like Us”
Chart Debut Date: May 18, 2024
80. Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen
“I Had Some Help”
Chart Debut Date: May 25, 2024
81. Morgan Wallen
“Love Somebody”
Chart Debut Date: November 2, 2024
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Post by Gary on Apr 16, 2018 20:42:06 GMT -5
A popular asterisk * is this chart here from 12-5-1998 (the first chart to allow songs to chart without a physical single) Although technically the first week on a published Hot 100 chart, I'm Your Angel was ruled as "jumping to #1" rather than debuting there because it was on the previous weeks test charts This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Title, Artist Peak 1 0 0 I m Your Angel, R. Kelly & Celine Dion 1 2 3 5 Nobody s Supposed To Be Here, Deborah Cox 2 3 1 2 Lately, Divine 1 4 2 1 Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn Hill 1 5 0 0 From This Moment On, Shania Twain 4 6 4 3 Because Of You, 98 Degrees 3 7 5 4 The First Night, Monica 1 8 8 7 How Deep Is Your Love, Dru Hill Featuring Redman 3 9 0 0 Iris, Goo Goo Dolls 9 10 15 20 Love Like This, Faith Evans 7
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Post by forg on Apr 16, 2018 21:17:09 GMT -5
So we can divide them as 90s group, the Idol group and the Digital group.
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 16, 2018 22:11:49 GMT -5
So we can divide them as 90s group, the Idol group and the Digital group. Well, I'd add a streaming group as a new one, but yes. |
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Post by 85la on Apr 16, 2018 23:19:10 GMT -5
A popular asterisk * is this chart here from 12-5-1998 (the first chart to allow songs to chart without a physical single) Although technically the first week on a published Hot 100 chart, I'm Your Angel was ruled as "jumping to #1" rather than debuting there because it was on the previous weeks test chartsWhich is interesting, because the same logic applies to Harlem Shake, but Billboard is inconsistent in including that song in the list of #1 debuts. HS also hit #1 the first week of a major rule change (when they added YouTube), however if that new rule had been in place the previous week, it almost surely would have charted as well (unless it had zero sales and zero streams, which is highly unlikely given that it had 103 million YouTube views its first week at #1), so wouldn't that be classified as a "jump up to #1" rather than a debut? Maybe it's because it wasn't on an officially compiled "test chart," but the test chart in I'm Your Angel's case was not published and not the actual chart that was released to the public either, so would that matter? |
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Post by rimetm on Apr 17, 2018 0:34:16 GMT -5
They did reveal ~90% of two of the test charts by way of the rule changed chart’s LW and 2LW stats. I made a thread about it a while back, gimme a minute to dig for it. As to Harlem Shake, by my understanding, even if it didn’t debut at #1 on the official listed week, the week that it went viral took it from nothing to #1 no question. Edit: found the thread! pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/162739/1998-hot-100-test-charts |
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Post by TakeMe on Apr 17, 2018 1:19:22 GMT -5
Some of the number one debuts are said to have debuted on top with the help of discounts based on some articles I’ve read.
Is this true?
The songs in particular that I’m talking about are numbers 1-4 and 6 on the list.
Also in regards to #4 is the following information true as well?
One Sweet Day: Hot 100 'Physical Sales Chart': 16 weeks at #1. Hot 100 'Airplay Chart': 11 weeks at #1. When the songs retail price was drastically lowered to 99c from $2.50 at its 10th week atop, it had maximised sales of 150K+ and vaulted to 255K+ units sold during its 11th week. By it's 14th week of release and it's 14th week at #1 in 1996, the GRAMMY awards took place and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men opened the show amidst high anticipation and performed the song. The next day, the price was lowered to 49c and it's sales vaulted once more. This time ascending from 165K units sold the previous week to 450K units sold that week - the #2 song (Brandy's "Sitting Up In My Room" had only sold 225K units). By its 16th week atop, it had sold 300K units that week but Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" took over the next week when it happened to sell 420K units. P.S: "One Sweet Day" actually stayed at #2 behind "Because You Loved Me" for three more weeks after that (it could have been a 19 week #1) until Mariah Carey's "Always be My Baby" debuted at #2 and pushed it down to #3
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Post by iHype. on Apr 17, 2018 2:42:37 GMT -5
Some of the number one debuts are said to have debuted on top with the help of discounts based on some articles I’ve read. Is this true? The songs in particular that I’m talking about are numbers 1-4 and 6 on the list. Also in regards to #4 is the following information true as well? One Sweet Day: Hot 100 'Physical Sales Chart': 16 weeks at #1. Hot 100 'Airplay Chart': 11 weeks at #1. When the songs retail price was drastically lowered to 99c from $2.50 at its 10th week atop, it had maximised sales of 150K+ and vaulted to 255K+ units sold during its 11th week. By it's 14th week of release and it's 14th week at #1 in 1996, the GRAMMY awards took place and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men opened the show amidst high anticipation and performed the song. The next day, the price was lowered to 49c and it's sales vaulted once more. This time ascending from 165K units sold the previous week to 450K units sold that week - the #2 song (Brandy's "Sitting Up In My Room" had only sold 225K units). By its 16th week atop, it had sold 300K units that week but Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" took over the next week when it happened to sell 420K units. P.S: "One Sweet Day" actually stayed at #2 behind "Because You Loved Me" for three more weeks after that (it could have been a 19 week #1) until Mariah Carey's "Always be My Baby" debuted at #2 and pushed it down to #3 One Sweet Day never spent 3 weeks #2. It went from 1-5-7 after its final week #1. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 17, 2018 8:31:55 GMT -5
A popular asterisk * is this chart here from 12-5-1998 (the first chart to allow songs to chart without a physical single) Although technically the first week on a published Hot 100 chart, I'm Your Angel was ruled as "jumping to #1" rather than debuting there because it was on the previous weeks test chartsWhich is interesting, because the same logic applies to Harlem Shake, but Billboard is inconsistent in including that song in the list of #1 debuts. HS also hit #1 the first week of a major rule change (when they added YouTube), however if that new rule had been in place the previous week, it almost surely would have charted as well (unless it had zero sales and zero streams, which is highly unlikely given that it had 103 million YouTube views its first week at #1), so wouldn't that be classified as a "jump up to #1" rather than a debut? Maybe it's because it wasn't on an officially compiled "test chart," but the test chart in I'm Your Angel's case was not published and not the actual chart that was released to the public either, so would that matter? For "I'm Your Angel" and other songs, didn't their "weeks on" for the new chart methodology include the test charts, but those positions weren't official because it wasn't the actual Hit 100? So "IYA" has a first official position of #1, but its "weeks on" were more than 1. "Harlem Shake" is different in that the 'weeks on' didn't include previous charts. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 17, 2018 8:38:50 GMT -5
Some of the number one debuts are said to have debuted on top with the help of discounts based on some articles I’ve read. Is this true? The songs in particular that I’m talking about are numbers 1-4 and 6 on the list. Also in regards to #4 is the following information true as well? One Sweet Day: Hot 100 'Physical Sales Chart': 16 weeks at #1. Hot 100 'Airplay Chart': 11 weeks at #1. When the songs retail price was drastically lowered to 99c from $2.50 at its 10th week atop, it had maximised sales of 150K+ and vaulted to 255K+ units sold during its 11th week. By it's 14th week of release and it's 14th week at #1 in 1996, the GRAMMY awards took place and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men opened the show amidst high anticipation and performed the song. The next day, the price was lowered to 49c and it's sales vaulted once more. This time ascending from 165K units sold the previous week to 450K units sold that week - the #2 song (Brandy's "Sitting Up In My Room" had only sold 225K units). By its 16th week atop, it had sold 300K units that week but Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" took over the next week when it happened to sell 420K units. P.S: "One Sweet Day" actually stayed at #2 behind "Because You Loved Me" for three more weeks after that (it could have been a 19 week #1) until Mariah Carey's "Always be My Baby" debuted at #2 and pushed it down to #3 That is all kinds of wrong. 1. "One Sweet Day" didn't spend 16 weeks at #1 on the sales chart. After 11 weeks at #1, it fell to #2 behind "Not Gon' Cry." 2. The week "Because You Loved Me" moved to #1 it sold 110,000 copies (not 420,000). I am looking at the 3/23/96 issue of Billboard right now. 3. As has been said, "OSD" fell 1-5 in its 17th week on the Hot 100. |
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Post by TakeMe on Apr 17, 2018 15:17:42 GMT -5
Some of the number one debuts are said to have debuted on top with the help of discounts based on some articles I’ve read. Is this true? The songs in particular that I’m talking about are numbers 1-4 and 6 on the list. Also in regards to #4 is the following information true as well? One Sweet Day: Hot 100 'Physical Sales Chart': 16 weeks at #1. Hot 100 'Airplay Chart': 11 weeks at #1. When the songs retail price was drastically lowered to 99c from $2.50 at its 10th week atop, it had maximised sales of 150K+ and vaulted to 255K+ units sold during its 11th week. By it's 14th week of release and it's 14th week at #1 in 1996, the GRAMMY awards took place and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men opened the show amidst high anticipation and performed the song. The next day, the price was lowered to 49c and it's sales vaulted once more. This time ascending from 165K units sold the previous week to 450K units sold that week - the #2 song (Brandy's "Sitting Up In My Room" had only sold 225K units). By its 16th week atop, it had sold 300K units that week but Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" took over the next week when it happened to sell 420K units. P.S: "One Sweet Day" actually stayed at #2 behind "Because You Loved Me" for three more weeks after that (it could have been a 19 week #1) until Mariah Carey's "Always be My Baby" debuted at #2 and pushed it down to #3 That is all kinds of wrong. 1. "One Sweet Day" didn't spend 16 weeks at #1 on the sales chart. After 11 weeks at #1, it fell to #2 behind "Not Gon' Cry." 2. The week "Because You Loved Me" moved to #1 it sold 110,000 copies (not 420,000). I am looking at the 3/23/96 issue of Billboard right now. 3. As has been said, "OSD" fell 1-5 in its 17th week on the Hot 100. But is the discounting thing involving OSD correct? |
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 17, 2018 15:22:18 GMT -5
That is all kinds of wrong. 1. "One Sweet Day" didn't spend 16 weeks at #1 on the sales chart. After 11 weeks at #1, it fell to #2 behind "Not Gon' Cry." 2. The week "Because You Loved Me" moved to #1 it sold 110,000 copies (not 420,000). I am looking at the 3/23/96 issue of Billboard right now. 3. As has been said, "OSD" fell 1-5 in its 17th week on the Hot 100. But is the discounting thing involving OSD correct? Nope. I am not saying it wasn't discounted in some places at some point (I honestly have no idea), but considering everything else in that was wrong, why would you think the discounting info is correct? It certainly did not have the widespread discounting that trash piece mentioned. Also, the commercial single for "OSD" was deleted at some point, which is a big reason it fell so fast. Sony deleted the singles for "Fantasy" and Celine's "Because You Loved Me," too, in order to help album sales. The main Mariah single known for being discounted was "Loverboy," which was #1 in sales but not on the Hot 100. |
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Post by kcdawg13 on Apr 17, 2018 15:26:08 GMT -5
So Drake is the first person to debut 2 songs at #1 back to back, Mariah would of done it as well if Whitney didn't get a week in between Fantasy and One Sweet Day.
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Post by TakeMe on Apr 17, 2018 17:17:52 GMT -5
But is the discounting thing involving OSD correct? Nope. I am not saying it wasn't discounted in some places at some point (I honestly have no idea), but considering everything else in that was wrong, why would you think the discounting info is correct? It certainly did not have the widespread discounting that trash piece mentioned. Also, the commercial single for "OSD" was deleted at some point, which is a big reason it fell so fast. Sony deleted the singles for "Fantasy" and Celine's "Because You Loved Me," too, in order to help album sales. The main Mariah single known for being discounted was "Loverboy," which was #1 in sales but not on the Hot 100. Thanks, someone posted that info about OSD last year in the disqus comment section of a billboard article last year during the whole Despacito craze, repeatedly asked where he got the info from but could never follow up on me about it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 17:24:25 GMT -5
Nice For What makes Drake the 3rd Diva queen of the industry to have multiple #1 debuts now right?
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Post by Gary on Apr 17, 2018 17:38:44 GMT -5
Not sure what you mean but we got Britney, Mariah, Bieber & Drake with multiples in this list
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Post by 85la on Apr 18, 2018 12:23:28 GMT -5
Nope. I am not saying it wasn't discounted in some places at some point (I honestly have no idea), but considering everything else in that was wrong, why would you think the discounting info is correct? It certainly did not have the widespread discounting that trash piece mentioned. Also, the commercial single for "OSD" was deleted at some point, which is a big reason it fell so fast. Sony deleted the singles for "Fantasy" and Celine's "Because You Loved Me," too, in order to help album sales. The main Mariah single known for being discounted was "Loverboy," which was #1 in sales but not on the Hot 100. Thanks, someone posted that info about OSD last year in the disqus comment section of a billboard article last year during the whole Despacito craze, repeatedly asked where he got the info from but could never follow up on me about it. Yeah I was like, those are some very interesting stats, I was dying to know the source! Clearly pulled out of someone's a** |
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Post by Gary on May 11, 2018 18:08:22 GMT -5
This is America - Childish Gambino
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Post by badrobot on May 12, 2018 9:26:29 GMT -5
Nope. I am not saying it wasn't discounted in some places at some point (I honestly have no idea), but considering everything else in that was wrong, why would you think the discounting info is correct? It certainly did not have the widespread discounting that trash piece mentioned. Also, the commercial single for "OSD" was deleted at some point, which is a big reason it fell so fast. Sony deleted the singles for "Fantasy" and Celine's "Because You Loved Me," too, in order to help album sales. The main Mariah single known for being discounted was "Loverboy," which was #1 in sales but not on the Hot 100. Thanks, someone posted that info about OSD last year in the disqus comment section of a billboard article last year during the whole Despacito craze, repeatedly asked where he got the info from but could never follow up on me about it. Much of the discounting is correct. It was a common tactic to boost chart performance in the 90s. Mariah in particular is known for it because they were really trying to rack up #1s, but lots of other artists were doing it as well. I worked in a music store in the 90s so this is firsthand knowledge. |
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Post by survivorqt on May 12, 2018 15:00:01 GMT -5
Now someone should make a post about repressing downloads in the late 2000s and how Rihanna got her #1s. Also This is why I’m hot and Touch my Body  |
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Post by Gary on May 14, 2018 14:09:26 GMT -5
31. Childish Gambino
"This Is America"
Chart Debut Date: May 19, 2018
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Post by Agent Yoncé on May 14, 2018 16:30:04 GMT -5
Hoping this year breaks the record for the most #1 debuts in a calendar year.
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Post by Gary on May 14, 2018 17:00:15 GMT -5
Five Takeaways From Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' Debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
5/14/2018 by Andrew Unterberger
For those wondering if the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 was going to end up being a nearly year-long relay of Drake handing off the baton to himself, Monday (May 14) brought with it resounding news of a new competitor surging ahead in the race: Childish Gambino, whose incendiary "This Is America" single debuts at No. 1 on the chart this week.
The debut is a huge achievement for Gambino -- a.k.a. cross-platform phenom Donald Glover -- and also a particularly telling one for where both the Hot 100 and pop music in general are at in 2018. Here are five lessons we can learn from Gambino's remarkable No. 1 bow.
Both Donald Glover and Childish Gambino are now officially superstars. Glover's stardom bonafides were solidified by last year's awards season -- where he cleaned up at the Emmys and Golden Globes for his acting and directing work on Atlanta's rapturously acclaimed first season -- and will likely only grow with his introduction to the Star Wars universe as young Lando Calrissian in this month's Solo. And he was on the precipice of getting to such status under his musical alter ego, too: His "Redbone" was a slow-burning crossover hit on the Hot 100 in 2017, and 2016's Awaken, My Love! LP made him one of the most nominated artists at last year's Grammys, even though his only win ended up being for best traditional R&B performance.
But this is still new ground for Gambino. As big as "Redbone" was, it tapped out at No. 12 on the Hot 100 -- and that was still by far his biggest hit on the chart prior to "America," with the singer-rapper never before getting higher than No. 64 ("V. 3005," 2014) with his three previous entries. To get to No. 1 in its first week -- an incomplete week, no less, since the song only debuted around midnight ET on Sunday morning (May 6), nearly two whole days into the tracking period -- is a major level-up, the kind of feat only a handful of 2018 artists would be capable of pulling off. And now, Gambino is unquestionably in that class of pop's elite performers.
SNL matters. Even while streaming continues to surge, it's been a while since a Saturday Night Live performance helped launch a hit on anywhere near the same level as "This Is America," and it likely couldn't have done it alone, without the song and accompanying video also premiering on streaming around the same time that night. Still, "America" shows how a platform like SNL can be best utilized: Gambino made an event out of his new songs, not only debuting them with livewire performances, but also staging them artfully with visuals that tied into the official "America" video, and even getting star buds like Zoe Kravitz and Daniel Kaluuya to intro them, why not. With his anticipated SNL performance leading into his unanticipated official drop, Glover was able to own Saturday night, and eventually, the entire week to come.
Music videos matter. It was only last year we felt like we were at something of a low end for the relevance of the music video, with the relatively lackluster nominees at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards almost serving as a tacit admission that the medium had just become a vessel for star artists to keep their faces out there, without adding much to either their own artistry or the format's incredibly rich legacy. But the script has unquestionably flipped in 2018, and the last three Hot 100 No. 1s -- Drake's "God's Plan" and "Nice for What," and now Gambino's "America" -- all show the potential and enduring importance of the video, as all three were paired with much-discussed, much-memed clips whose visuals all became quickly inextricable from the songs they accompanied.
The case of "This Is America" is particularly striking, since the video quickly overwhelmed both Gambino's SNL performance and the song itself as the flashpoint for "America" discussion. Many hailed the video as a necessary statement for the politically and socially muddy times of 2018, others decried the clip as inflammatory and asked if Glover even understood what statement he was really making with it. But all the debate just led to more views: In its first tracking week alone, the "America" video racked up 65.3 million U.S. streams in its first five days, with video accounting for an atypically whopping 68 percent of that sum, according to Nielsen Music. That's incredible for any artist, let alone one not particularly known as an MTV icon -- "Redbone," previously Gambino's biggest hit, never even received an official video -- and it shows how much power the format still has in the star-making process.
Radio isn't essential to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 anymore. Stark when viewing the trends of the last three Hot 100 No. 1s is how relatively little an impact radio has played in their coronations. Forget "This Is America," which debuts atop Billboard's Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts this week but does not yet appear on Radio Songs, and hell, forget "Nice for What," which finally enters the top 10 on Radio Songs in its fifth week. Even "God's Plan" -- which debuted nearly four months ago at this point -- is still stuck at No. 3 on the chart (behind Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey's "The Middle" and Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's "Meant to Be"), having climbed there four weeks earlier, after having already given way to "Nice for What" atop the Hot 100.
This is hardly to say that radio doesn't still have an enormous impact on the Hot 100: "The Middle" and "Meant to Be" were both able to reach the chart's top five largely thanks to the format's embrace, becoming the current and previous Radio Songs No. 1s, respectively. But Drake and Childish Gambino's recent takeover is a pretty clear indicator of how radio's relative slowness in catching up to the songs most popular on streaming services is making it increasingly marginalized as a factor in crowning the chart's weekly champion. (Of course, many top-streaming songs lean hip-hop and are, thus, not in the wheelhouse of pop radio until they've proven mass appeal over multiple weeks.) By the time these songs become unavoidable on the airwaves, the Spotify and Apple consumers of the world have already moved on to the next sensation, or maybe even the one after that.
Pop music is finally getting topical in 2018. In the current politically divisive climate -- to say the least -- many have wondered where all the great protest songs are, the type that supposedly topped the charts non-stop amidst the unrest of the '60s and early '70s. The latter perception has always been an exaggeration -- even Marvin Gaye's definitive Vietnam War-era protest classic "What's Going On" was held at No. 2 on the Hot 100, by two distincly less timely chart-toppers in The Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" and Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" -- but now, finally, this generation has a Hot 100 No. 1 of its own to point to as evidence of its musical wokeness.
"This Is America" isn't explicitly a protest song, but its lyrics -- from the "This is America/ Don't catch you slippin' now" refrain of the verses to the "Get your money, black man" chant of the chorus -- bear the obvious weight of recent news headlines and social debates, on topics like gun violence and racially charged police confrontations. And if not obvious from the song, these themes were drawn out in shocking detail in the song's video, which includes Gambino gunning down a black choir and ends with him seemingly running for his life.
Gambino's handling of these themes has proven understandably controversial, but at the very least, it's undeniable that he's sparking conversation about them -- which, with Kendrick Lamar's "Humble." standing as perhaps the lone arguable exception, is more than can be said for any of the other Hot 100 No. 1s of the Donald Trump era.
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Post by Gary on Nov 10, 2018 8:54:24 GMT -5
Thank U, Next - Ariana Grande 11/17/18
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Post by Gary on Nov 10, 2018 8:57:11 GMT -5
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Post by Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ on Nov 10, 2018 9:04:44 GMT -5
Wow, first song by a female artist since Hello to debut at #1.
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Post by musicbuff26 on Nov 10, 2018 9:16:09 GMT -5
Wow, first song by a female artist since Hello to debut at #1. LWYMMD did, didn’t it? |
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Post by samo🦕 on Nov 10, 2018 9:17:43 GMT -5
Wow, first song by a female artist since Hello to debut at #1. LWYMMD did, didn’t it? No, it debuted at #77, then jumped to #1 the next week. |
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Post by musicbuff26 on Nov 10, 2018 13:55:28 GMT -5
No, it debuted at #77, then jumped to #1 the next week. Oh yeah! Forgot about that. |
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Post by slw84 on Nov 10, 2018 18:04:10 GMT -5
Here the 32 Songs That Have Debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 11/10/2018 by Me 1. Michael Jackson
"You Are Not Alone"
Chart Debut Date: September 2, 1995 2. Mariah Carey
"Fantasy"
Chart Debut Date: September 30, 19953. Whitney Houston
"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"
Chart Debut Date: November 25, 1995
4. Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
"One Sweet Day"
Chart Debut Date: December 2, 1995
5. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans Featuring 112
"I'll Be Missing You"
Chart Debut Date: June 14, 1997
6. Mariah Carey
"Honey"
Chart Debut Date: September 13, 1997
7. Elton John
"Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight"
Chart Debut Date: October 11, 19978. Celine Dion "My Heart Will Go On" Chart Debut Date: February 28, 1998 9. Aerosmith
"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
Chart Debut Date: September 5, 1998
10. Lauryn Hill
"Doo Wop (That Thing)"
Chart Debut Date: November 14, 1998 11. Clay Aiken "This Is the Night" Chart Debut Date: June 28, 2003 12. Fantasia "I Believe" Chart Debut Date: July 10, 2004 13. Carrie Underwood "Inside Your Heaven" Chart Debut Date: July 2, 2005 14. Taylor Hicks "Do I Make You Proud" Chart Debut Date: July 1, 2006 15. Britney Spears
"3"
Chart Debut Date: October 24, 2009 16. Eminem "Not Afraid" Chart Debut Date: May 22, 2010 17. Ke$ha "We R Who We R" Chart Debut Date: November 13, 2010 18. Britney Spears
"Hold It Against Me"
Chart Debut Date: January 29, 2011 19. Lady Gaga "Born This Way" Chart Debut Date: February 26, 2011 20. Katy Perry "Part Of Me" Chart Debut Date: March 3, 2012 21. Baauer "Harlem Shake" Chart Debut Date: March 2, 2013 22. Taylor Swift
"Shake It Off"
Chart Debut Date: September 6, 201423. Justin Bieber ''What Do You Mean?'' Chart Debut Date: Sept. 19, 2015 24. Adele
"Hello"
Chart Debut Date: November 14, 2015 25. Zayn "Pillowtalk" Chart Debut Date: February 20, 2016 26. Justin Timberlake "Can't Stop the Feeling!" Chart Debut Date: May 28, 2016 27. Ed Sheeran
"Shape Of You"
Chart Debut Date: January 28, 2017 28. DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne "I'm The One" Chart Debut Date: May 20, 2017 29. Drake
"God's Plan"
Chart Debut Date: February 3, 2018
30. Drake
"Nice for What"
Chart Debut Date: April 21, 201831. Childish Gambino "This Is America" Chart Debut Date: May 19, 2018 32. Ariana Grande
"Thank U, Next"
Chart Debut Date: November 17, 2018iconic |
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