Billboard Hot 100: 5/5/2018

[deepston]

Apr 30, 2018 15:41:02 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Still think it's ridiculous that 5 spots held by the same two artists.

Just goes to show urban domination on streaming. Where are the pop crowds? 

[Gary]

J. Cole Is First Act to Debut 3 Songs in Hot 100's Top 10, As All 12 'KOD' Tracks Chart

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By Xander Zellner | April 30, 2018 4:47 PM EDT


Plus, he’s the first artist to have landed 8 songs in the top 40 twice.

As J. Cole scores his fifth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 5), as KOD arrives with 397,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music, the rapper makes history by becoming the first act ever to debut three songs simultaneously in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

All 12 tracks from KOD debut on the Hot 100, led by "ATM" at No. 6, with "Kevin’s Heart" new at No. 8 and "KOD" an arrival at No. 10. Cole adds his second, third and fourth Hot 100 top 10s, all of which have debuted in the top tier; he first reached the region when "Deja Vu," from his previous LP, 4 Your Eyez Only, debuted at its No. 7 peak in December 2016.

In the Hot 100's 59-year history, no act had previously debuted three songs in the top 10 in the same week. Ed Sheeran and Drake are the only other artists to have debuted two songs in the top 10 simultaneously. Sheeran first achieved the feat with"Shape of You" (No. 1) and "Castle on the Hill" (No. 6) on Jan. 28, 2017, while Drake has doubled up twice, with "Passionfruit" (No. 8) and "Portland" (featuring Quavo and Travis Scott, No. 9) on April 8, 2017, and "God's Plan" (No. 1) and "Diplomatic Immunity" (No. 7) this Feb. 3.

Here’s a look at all of J. Cole’s songs (all debuts) on the new, May 5-dated Hot 100:

Hot 100 Rank, Title
No. 6, "ATM"
No. 8, "Kevin’s Heart"
No. 10, "KOD"
No. 14, "Photograph"
No. 15, "Motiv8"
No. 20, "1985 (Intro to The Fall Off)"
No. 28, "The Cut Off," featuring kiLL edward
No. 30, "Brackets"
No. 41, "Window Pain (Outro)"
No. 46, "Friends," featuring kiLL edward
No. 47, "Once an Addict (Interlude)"
No. 53, "Intro"

Impressively, this isn’t the first time that J. Cole has charted 12 songs on the Hot 100 simultaneously, or sent an entire album to the ranking. On Dec. 31, 2016, all 10 tracks from 4 Your Eyez Only landed on the Hot 100, along with two additional non-album tracks ("False Prophets" and "Everybody Dies").

J. Cole also becomes the first artist to have landed eight simultaneous entries in the Hot 100's top 40 twice. Concurrent with the chart bow 4 Your Eyez Only, he charted a record 10 songs in the top 40. (Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar and Drake have each charted nine songs in the top 40 simultaneously once, while Prince and Beyoncé have both tallied eight at a time once.)

Further, this week's Hot 100's marks the second time that two artists each boast three simultaneous top 10s: Drake and J. Cole. Drake claims Nos. 1, 2 and 9 with, respectively, "Nice for What,""God's Plan" and BlocBoy JB's "Look Alive," on which Drake is featured, joining J. Cole at Nos. 6, 8, and 10.

The only other instance of two artists owning three songs each in the top 10 simultaneously? On Aug. 30, 2014, thanks to Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea. That week, Grande held Nos. 4, 7 and 10 with, respectively, "Break Free," featuring Zedd, "Problem," featuring Azalea, and "Bang Bang," with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj. Azalea placed at Nos. 5, 7 and 8 with, respectively, "Fancy," featuring Charli XCX, "Problem" and "Black Widow," featuring Rita Ora. (As Azalea and Grande shared "Problem," however, this week marks the first time that two acts have each charted three simultaneous top 10s via six different songs.)

Grande, meanwhile, makes her own Hot 100 headlines this week as her new single "No Tears Left to Cry" launches at No. 3.

Additional reporting by Gary Trust

[Gary]

The 8 songs in the top 40 thing --- another 'streaming-era' only statistic. Can't compare this at all to anything from before it.

[Sherane Lamar]

J. Cole now has the 5th strongest combined debut power of any artist this decade.

1. Glee Cast
2. Drake
3. Taylor Swift
4. Justin Bieber
5. J. Cole

[Gary]

Most top 40s simultaneously

10 J Cole
9 Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, Drake
8 Prince, Beyonce, J Cole

[Sherane Lamar]

What are the odds that "Ye vs The People" hits the Hot 100?

Almost like no chance, right?

[Deleted]

How is Psycho going to be #1 next week? It's behind Nice For What on sales and streams.

[Gary]

Apr 30, 2018 16:18:09 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

J. Cole now has the 5th strongest combined debut power of any artist this decade.

1. Glee Cast
2. Drake
3. Taylor Swift
4. Justin Bieber
5. J. Cole

Not sure what that means

[Gary]

Ariana Grande Scores 9th Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 With 'No Tears Left to Cry'


She also ties Lady Gaga & Rihanna with a sixth top 10 debut.

Ariana Grande lands her ninth top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated May 5), as "No Tears Left to Cry" launches at No. 3.

Following its first full week of tracking after its April 20 release, "Cry" debuts with 36.9 million U.S. streams and 100,000 downloads sold in the week ending April 26, according to Nielsen Music. It concurrently debuts at No. 5 on Streaming Songs and No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, arriving as her third leader on the latter list. Notably, it's the first title to crack six digits in weekly sales in three months, since Drake's "God's Plan" bowed with 127,000 on Feb. 3.


"Tears" also drew 27 million in airplay audience in the week ending April 29, prompting a No. 35 entry on the Radio Songs chart.

The song is Grande's sixth top 10 debut on the Hot 100, which ties Lady Gaga and Rihanna for sixth place among all acts for the most such starts in the Hot 100's 59-year history. Taylor Swift holds the record for most top 10 debuts, with 14.

Most Top 10 Debuts on the Billboard Hot 100
14, Taylor Swift
12, Drake
8, Eminem
7, Justin Bieber
7, Lil Wayne
6, Ariana Grande
6, Lady Gaga
6, Rihanna

[renaboss]

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

[Gary]

Apr 30, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

That will be a good thing to look up.  How many outro's, intro's and interludes have charted before

[jenglisbe]

Apr 30, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

No because those can be among my favorites depending how they are done. I love the "Daydream Interlude," for example.

[Gary]

I see his point though the 1:47 "Intro" that is now charting seems kind of random

[Sherane Lamar]

Apr 30, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

The "interlude" in question is like a 3 minute long story based song. Not even the shortest song on the album. Really confused why he called it an interlude. 

We've had actual interlude's for a while. "Skepta Interlude" by Drake probably being the most interesting. Not only is "Skepta Interlude" an interlude. It's also a Drake song with no Drake vocals. It's actually one of three songs credited to Drake that feature no vocals from him. The other two being "4422" (Drake Featuring Sampha) and "I'm Single" (Lil Wayne Featuring Drake). 

As for "Intro", we had a very similar spoken-word intro with "Blood." on the Hot 100 already last year. Of course, we've had spoken word non-"intro" singles since the 1950's. 

But J. Cole's "Intro" is actually the first song on the Hot 100 to ever be called that. The closest thing to it, title wise, is "Introducing Me" by Nick Jonas

"Window Pain" is also not any different from any other song on the Hot 100. It just happens to have the word "Outro" included in the parenthesis. Actually, it isn't even the final song on the album. Which is confusing. "1985" is the final song on the official tracklist. "Window Pain" is the song that Cole wanted to end his story with. "1985" is like a bonus track, except it isn't officially called a bonus track. 

What we'll probably see in the future is artists being more creative with the titles to their intros, outros, and skits. Not just leaving them to be called "Intro" or "Skit #1" like in the past. 

[Au$tin]

Apr 30, 2018 16:57:37 GMT -5 @pete said:

How is Psycho going to be #1 next week? It's behind Nice For What on sales and streams.

Psycho isn't far behind NFW in sales, their streaming is nearly equal (NFW has Apple and YouTube on its side, Psycho has Spotify, in total they're not far apart), and Psycho has the lead in airplay, which will make up for the sales.

It will all come down to how well Psycho holds in streaming over the week.

[jenglisbe]

Apr 30, 2018 17:27:33 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

Apr 30, 2018 16:57:37 GMT -5 @pete said:

How is Psycho going to be #1 next week? It's behind Nice For What on sales and streams.

Psycho isn't far behind NFW in sales, their streaming is nearly equal (NFW has Apple and YouTube on its side, Psycho has Spotify, in total they're not far apart), and Psycho has the lead in airplay, which will make up for the sales.

It will all come down to how well Psycho holds in streaming over the week.

Airplay could be fairly even by the time that chart week ends, no? "NFW" seems to be gaining at a much higher rate.

[Sherane Lamar]

Apr 30, 2018 17:01:52 GMT -5 Gary said:

Apr 30, 2018 16:18:09 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

J. Cole now has the 5th strongest combined debut power of any artist this decade.

1. Glee Cast
2. Drake
3. Taylor Swift
4. Justin Bieber
5. J. Cole

Not sure what that means

The combined point totals from the first charting week of all of their songs. Not including features, just their own songs.

Apr 30, 2018 17:20:09 GMT -5 Gary said:

Apr 30, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

That will be a good thing to look up.  How many outro's, intro's and interludes have charted before

Skepta Interlude

Jorja Interlude

Stargirl Interlude (best song on Starboy, imo)

I think those are the only songs with the word "Interlude" in their title. 



As for "intros", countless charting songs are #1 on their album's track list.

But the only one I know that has the word "Intro" in parenthesis, is "Higher We Go (Intro)" by Migos this year.

As for "Outro", again, countless number of songs that happen to be the end of the tracklist. But I don't know of any that have the word "Outro" anywhere in the title.

[jenglisbe]

Apr 30, 2018 17:31:14 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

As for "intros", countless charting songs are #1 on their album's track list.

But the only one I know that has the word "Intro" in parenthesis, is "Higher We Go (Intro)" by Migos this year.

As for "Outro", again, countless number of songs that happen to be the end of the tracklist. But I don't know of any that have the word "Outro" anywhere in the title.

Sure, but I think we all know there is a difference in something that is the first or last track on an album, and something that is an actual intro or outro (meaning, not a fleshed out song/track).

[pnobelysk]

Apr 30, 2018 14:39:40 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Apr 30, 2018 13:46:24 GMT -5 Gary said:

Females on the hot 100
Nicki Minaj - 87 entries
Taylor Swift 77
Aretha Franklin 73
Rihanna 61
Beyonce 59
Madonna 57

Ugh stats like this drive me nuts since there is no real comparison to charting in the 00s and when Aretha and others charted.

Aretha might be able to hold on a little longer than that. Madonna obviously isn’t a threat and it depends if Beyonce releases 14 tracks that all chart in the next 2 years. She might only give us one project in that span.

[Sherane Lamar]

Apr 30, 2018 17:34:54 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Apr 30, 2018 17:31:14 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

As for "intros", countless charting songs are #1 on their album's track list.

But the only one I know that has the word "Intro" in parenthesis, is "Higher We Go (Intro)" by Migos this year.

As for "Outro", again, countless number of songs that happen to be the end of the tracklist. But I don't know of any that have the word "Outro" anywhere in the title.

Sure, but I think we all know there is a difference in something that is the first or last track on an album, and something that is an actual intro or outro (meaning, not a fleshed out song/track).

I agree. 

I have a Spotify playlist that contains every charting song since about the beginning of the streaming era (December 2015 to be exact). And I typically listen to it on shuffle. So I'm pretty familiar with how all the streaming era songs sound. 

The only songs that stand out to me as being "too intro-ish" would be "Blood." by Kendrick Lamar and "Intro" by J. Cole. These songs are completely spoken word with very minimal musical aspects to them. 

Songs like "Keep The Family Close" and "Free Smoke" by Drake or "Higher We Go" and "Culture" by Migos do have a distinctive "intro" vibe to them. Even before then "Dark Fantasy" by Kanye West as well. These songs begin with a minimalistic instrumental and then build throughout the track, like a good album intro should. But they are regular full complete songs. 

"Billy" by 6ix9ine is an interesting one. It begins with a skit, and is very short. But it was actually promoted as a regular single by the video for the song. 

Same with outros. "Views", "30 For 30 Freestyle", "Do Not Disturb" by Drake as well as "Duckworth" by Kendrick Lamar all "sound like outros". As in, they are introspective and conclusive to the album. But they also sound like regular songs. 

[pnobelysk]

Apr 30, 2018 15:02:34 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

If Post Malone has 17 songs in the Hot 100 next week (all except Candy Paint), then he will need an average position of about #30 between those 17 songs in order to beat "More Life" as the biggest album opening ever on the Hot 100.


If he is able to do that, it would be interesting because it would mean that the biggest album opening ever and the biggest movie opening ever dropped on the same exact day.

Are we sure about album opener?

With 25 opening with 3.3 million albums along with hello being massive at the time and several other songs charting ?

[Sherane Lamar]

Apr 30, 2018 17:48:42 GMT -5 pnobelysk said:

Apr 30, 2018 15:02:34 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

If Post Malone has 17 songs in the Hot 100 next week (all except Candy Paint), then he will need an average position of about #30 between those 17 songs in order to beat "More Life" as the biggest album opening ever on the Hot 100.


If he is able to do that, it would be interesting because it would mean that the biggest album opening ever and the biggest movie opening ever dropped on the same exact day.

Are we sure about album opener?

With 25 opening with 3.3 million albums along with hello being massive at the time and several other songs charting ?

I'm talking about on the Hot 100, ofc. 

[Gary]

Apr 30, 2018 17:31:14 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

Apr 30, 2018 17:01:52 GMT -5 Gary said:

Not sure what that means

The combined point totals from the first charting week of all of their songs. Not including features, just their own songs.

Apr 30, 2018 17:20:09 GMT -5 Gary said:

That will be a good thing to look up.  How many outro's, intro's and interludes have charted before

Skepta Interlude

Jorja Interlude

Stargirl Interlude (best song on Starboy, imo)

I think those are the only songs with the word "Interlude" in their title. 



As for "intros", countless charting songs are #1 on their album's track list.

But the only one I know that has the word "Intro" in parenthesis, is "Higher We Go (Intro)" by Migos this year.

As for "Outro", again, countless number of songs that happen to be the end of the tracklist. But I don't know of any that have the word "Outro" anywhere in the title.

In other words, without streaming, these would not have charted

[House Lannister]

Apr 30, 2018 16:52:28 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

What are the odds that "Ye vs The People" hits the Hot 100?

Almost like no chance, right?

Not unless Tidal counts triple.

[Zach]

Apr 30, 2018 19:17:04 GMT -5 House Lannister said:

Apr 30, 2018 16:52:28 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

What are the odds that "Ye vs The People" hits the Hot 100?

Almost like no chance, right?

Not unless Tidal counts triple.

The fact that this is actually a plausible scenario...

[Au$tin]

Apr 30, 2018 17:30:27 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Apr 30, 2018 17:27:33 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

Psycho isn't far behind NFW in sales, their streaming is nearly equal (NFW has Apple and YouTube on its side, Psycho has Spotify, in total they're not far apart), and Psycho has the lead in airplay, which will make up for the sales.

It will all come down to how well Psycho holds in streaming over the week.

Airplay could be fairly even by the time that chart week ends, no? "NFW" seems to be gaining at a much higher rate.

Not enough to overtake Psycho. Not to mention, we don't know exactly how well Psycho is doing right now on YouTube, Pandora, or Tidal which could all inflate its streaming total.

But with them being neck and neck in all three components by the end of the tracking period, it will be a nail biter for sure.

[Caviar]

Apr 30, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

The UK has it right by banning more than 3 album tracks during release week. These album bursts serve no purpose other than arouse chart watchers. The Hot 100 should reflect promotional singles not interludes that will be gone and forgotten in a week.

[Zach]

Apr 30, 2018 19:53:11 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Apr 30, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

The UK has it right by banning more than 3 album tracks during release week. These album bursts serve no purpose other than arouse chart watchers. The Hot 100 should reflect promotional singles not interludes that will be gone and forgotten in a week.

But what does the fact that a song will be gone and forgotten in a week have to do with its popularity THIS week (the week reflected on the chart)?

[tanooki]

Apr 30, 2018 19:53:11 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Apr 30, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Is no one really gonna roll their eyes at the fact that the Hot 100 now has "Outro"s, "Intro"s and "Interlude"s in it?

The UK has it right by banning more than 3 album tracks during release week. These album bursts serve no purpose other than arouse chart watchers. The Hot 100 should reflect promotional singles not interludes that will be gone and forgotten in a week.

The hot 100 should reflect the most popular songs of a given week, if an album drops and all the songs are super popular, all the songs should be given their rankings based on performance. The weekly charts reflect what's happening in that week and it goes beyond just the popular albums. Should we exclude meme songs and songs that return because of an event (death, Superbowl, etc.) because they're gonna be gone the next week? 

[iHype.]

There has already been 10 songs that have spent only 1 week in Top 10 this year

- Filthy
- Say Something
- Diplomatic Immunity
- KOD
- Kevins Heart
-Call Out My Name
- Walk It Talk It
- Chun-Li
- ATM
- No Tears Left


Yes 4 of these are currently in top 10, but J. Cole's 3 probably won't spend more weeks. They're predicted to leave top 10 next week, and he won't get much airplay/sales to curve his streams continually declining.

Never Be the Same is also apparently predicted to go top 10 next week due to the new remix, and that could be its only week. Along with 3~ Post Malone tracks predicted to debut top 10 next week.

Not to mention Drake, Kanye, etc will be releasing album bombs.

2011 was the last time there was 10+ one-week top 10s, but even then, we're not even halfway through the year. 2011's total of 11 was for the entire year.