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Post by filthy on May 14, 2018 13:39:20 GMT -5
Getting 25 weeks in the top 10 isn't such a big deal anymore
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Post by NeRD on May 14, 2018 13:47:19 GMT -5
From chartdata The top 5 Hot 100 artists of the decade 1. Rihanna 2. Bruno Mars 3. Drake 4. Katy Perry 5. Taylor Swift Not sure where he got this but it is posted on his Twitter feed Wig. We need Rih to deliver with R9 to solidify the position.
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Post by jenglisbe on May 14, 2018 13:51:56 GMT -5
From chartdata The top 5 Hot 100 artists of the decade 1. Rihanna 2. Bruno Mars 3. Drake 4. Katy Perry 5. Taylor Swift Not sure where he got this but it is posted on his Twitter feed The top 3 have benefited from a lot of feature credits. I wonder what the ranking would be if only lead credits were used.
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Post by deepston on May 14, 2018 14:05:57 GMT -5
From chartdata The top 5 Hot 100 artists of the decade 1. Rihanna 2. Bruno Mars 3. Drake 4. Katy Perry 5. Taylor Swift Not sure where he got this but it is posted on his Twitter feed The top 3 have benefited from a lot of feature credits. I wonder what the ranking would be if only lead credits were used. Probably: 1. Rihanna 2. Katy Perry 3. Taylor Swift 4. Drake 5. Bruno Mars
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Post by Gary on May 14, 2018 14:07:55 GMT -5
1. This Is America 2. Nice For What 3. God's Plan 4. Psycho 5. Meant To Be 6. The Middle 7. Look Alive 8. Never be The Same 9. Perfect 10. No Tears Left To Cry 12. Whatever It Takes 16. Watch (debut) 17. Boo'd Up 19. Chun-Li 20. Heaven 13. Rockstar 23 Better Now 27 In My Blood 44. One Number Away 50. Stir Fry 74. Done For Me 100 When We
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Post by NeRD on May 14, 2018 14:20:44 GMT -5
From chartdata The top 5 Hot 100 artists of the decade 1. Rihanna 2. Bruno Mars 3. Drake 4. Katy Perry 5. Taylor Swift Not sure where he got this but it is posted on his Twitter feed The top 3 have benefited from a lot of feature credits. I wonder what the ranking would be if only lead credits were used. Rihana would still be #1
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Post by Gary on May 14, 2018 14:23:15 GMT -5
1. This Is America 2. Nice For What 3. God's Plan 4. Psycho 5. Meant To Be 6. The Middle 7. Look Alive 8. Never be The Same 9. Perfect 10. No Tears Left To Cry 12. Whatever It Takes 16. Watch (debut) 17. Boo'd Up 19. Chun-Li 20. Heaven 13. Rockstar 23 Better Now 27 In My Blood 44. One Number Away 50. Stir Fry 74. Done For Me 100 When We 42. X 46 Delicate 49 One Kiss
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Post by kanfad on May 14, 2018 14:58:47 GMT -5
From chartdata The top 5 Hot 100 artists of the decade 1. Rihanna 2. Bruno Mars 3. Drake 4. Katy Perry 5. Taylor Swift Not sure where he got this but it is posted on his Twitter feed Looks like he got this from Daniel. Kind of amazing that chartdata has gotten so much clout that no one on twitter even asked how he got the info
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Post by tekkenguy on May 14, 2018 15:04:36 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken The Middle is the 4th song with an EDM DJ to top the radio charts, after "We Found Love", "Wake Me Up", and "Closer". The former was Rihanna, so duh. The latter two, like The Middle, all songs that thrived on HAC which usually sees the biggest EDM hits stall in the bottom half of the top 10 a month or two after peaking at CHR. I think they all topped HAC before they fell from the peak on CHR.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on May 14, 2018 15:39:43 GMT -5
^I think so as well. Anyway, not to toot my horn, but I foresaw The Middle being able to get to #1 in Radio Songs. The question now is whether Never Be the Same has actually or just had a blip in today's radio update from kworb. In the even the latter is true, The Middle would need to peak and it would probably take NBTS at least a couple of weeks for it to have a chance at #1 if it doesn't reach a peak during that time. Otherwise, the situation would probably be similar to the current of one of Meant to Be and The Middle, with both dropping in radio audience, but the latter reaching #1 just because it dropped slower.
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Post by Mayman on May 14, 2018 16:01:04 GMT -5
^I think so as well. Anyway, not to toot my horn, but I foresaw The Middle being able to get to #1 in Radio Songs. The question now is whether Never Be the Same has actually or just had a blip in today's radio update from kworb. In the even the latter is true, The Middle would need to peak and it would probably take NBTS at least a couple of weeks for it to have a chance at #1 if it doesn't reach a peak during that time. Otherwise, the situation would probably be similar to the current of one of Meant to Be and The Middle, with both dropping in radio audience, but the latter reaching #1 just because it dropped slower. NBTS is done on pop although still getting big gains on Rhythmic and Hot AC.
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Post by Agent Yoncรฉ on May 14, 2018 16:28:15 GMT -5
1 more song to debut at #1 for this year will tie the record for the most #1 debuts in a calendar year, 2 more to beat the record.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on May 14, 2018 16:45:14 GMT -5
^I think there's a good chance that there will be at least one more #1 debut. I mean, we still have a good six and a half months to go this year.
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Post by Mayman on May 14, 2018 16:47:48 GMT -5
I hope Whatever It Takes can hit the top 10 next week.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on May 14, 2018 16:54:40 GMT -5
BTW, according to the top 10 article's numbers, TIA's video was streamed 44.4 MM times last week ending Thursday.
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Post by Gary on May 14, 2018 16:58:38 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 Sherane Lamar on May 14, 2018 17:51:57 GMT -5
Most consecutive weeks at #1 (multiple songs) 1. Black Eyed Peas - 26 2. Usher - 19 3. Justin Bieber 17 4. Drake 15 Bieber needs a big asterisk though*. For being a featured artist on both. And not originally being a featured artist on Despacito. And it feels like there's no use counting beyond BEP and Usher, because Mariah Carey and Luis Fonsi have both spent 16 weeks at #1 with one song. Question: What artists have had the most weeks at #1 in a single calendar year? I figure Black Eyed Peas also holds record. Maybe Drake can come close to beating them in that feat. Looks like Beatles had 18 in 1964. I don't know who else might come close.
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Post by fhas on May 14, 2018 17:59:35 GMT -5
Most consecutive weeks at #1 (multiple songs) 1. Black Eyed Peas - 26 2. Usher - 19 3. Justin Bieber 17 4. Drake 15 Bieber needs a big asterisk though*. For being a featured artist on both. And not originally being a featured artist on Despacito. And it feels like there's no use counting beyond BEP and Usher, because Mariah Carey and Luis Fonsi have both spent 16 weeks at #1 with one song. Question: What artists have had the most weeks at #1 in a single calendar year? I figure Black Eyed Peas also holds record. Maybe Drake can come close to beating them in that feat. Looks like Beatles had 18 in 1964. I don't know who else might come close. Usher: 28 weeks (2004)
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Post by Sherane Lamar on May 14, 2018 18:05:37 GMT -5
From chartdata The top 5 Hot 100 artists of the decade 1. Rihanna 2. Bruno Mars 3. Drake 4. Katy Perry 5. Taylor Swift Not sure where he got this but it is posted on his Twitter feed The top 3 have benefited from a lot of feature credits. I wonder what the ranking would be if only lead credits were used. I think Drake may have suffered from the way certain people treat feature spots. Because people like Wizkid and Kyla siphon his points away. Taking away all Featured spots from both, Drake has 1.37x as many points as Rihanna on the bare bones inv point system. (52,852 vs 39,944). During this decade only of course. OR, maybe Drake is so low on the above list due to having a "bottom heavy" discography. Where he's spent more combined weeks on the Hot 100 than anybody. But the average position is lower. Oh, and there's also the fact that 2015-2018 is treated as less important than 2010-2014, I believe. Do you know how far Drake is from being #1 on the weighted, adjusted, and feature shifted list?
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Post by Sherane Lamar on May 14, 2018 18:15:56 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. Radio isn't essential to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 anymore.
This has been known since Harlem Shake. Or maybe since the beginning of iTunes. Or maybe American Idol. Pop music is finally getting topical in 2018.
This is about as far from Pop music as you can get. And if we're talking popular music in general, Kendrick was one of the biggest artists of 2017.
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Post by rimetm on May 14, 2018 18:57:43 GMT -5
Sources: Article, Gary's Twitter, Chart History
100 98 When We
98 NE Preach 97 NE Mercy
90 99 Alone
87 97 Everything's Gonna Be Alright
80 NE Gucci Flip Flops
76 90 For the First Time
74 NE Done for Me
72 81 I Like Me Better 71 83 Up Down 70 84 Get Along
65 NE Youth
58 NE Beautiful Crazy
55 67 Tequila 54 63 Love Lies
50 53 Stir Fry
49 61 One Kiss
47 77 Overdose 46 56 Delicate
44 65 One Number Away 43 54 Dura 42 52 X (Equis) 41 64 Te Bote
36 43 Dame Tu Cosita
28 39 Powerglide 27 36 In My Blood
23 07 Better Now
20 28 Heaven 19 50 Chun-Li
17 37 Boo'd Up 16 NE Watch
13 08 Rockstar 12 21 Whatever It Takes
10 10 No Tears Left to Cry 09 12 Perfect 08 06 Never Be the Same 07 09 Look Alive 06 05 The Middle 05 04 Meant to Be 04 02 Psycho 03 03 God's Plan 02 01 Nice for What 01 NE This is America
Off the Chart (Incomplete) XX 85 Ye V.S. The People XX 80 Photograph XX 79 1985 (Intro to The Fall Off) XX 73 Jonestown (Interlude) XX 71 Motiv8 XX 57 Sugar Wraith RC 34 Candy Paint [21 Weeks]
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Post by jazmyn on May 14, 2018 19:00:43 GMT -5
Most consecutive weeks at #1 (multiple songs) 1. Black Eyed Peas - 26 2. Usher - 19 3. Justin Bieber 17 4. Drake 15 Bieber needs a big asterisk though*. For being a featured artist on both. And not originally being a featured artist on Despacito. And it feels like there's no use counting beyond BEP and Usher, because Mariah Carey and Luis Fonsi have both spent 16 weeks at #1 with one song. Question: What artists have had the most weeks at #1 in a single calendar year? I figure Black Eyed Peas also holds record. Maybe Drake can come close to beating them in that feat. Looks like Beatles had 18 in 1964. I don't know who else might come close. It's also worth noting while this discussion is going on that Boyz II Men spent 16 consecutive weeks in 1994 with "I'll Make Love to You" (14) and the first 2 weeks of "On Bended Knee". Not sure why everyone seems to forget about them. Also worth mentioning that the Peas tied Usher for most weeks at number 1 in a 52 week period when "Imma Be" came outta nowhere in 2010. I know you said calendar year, but I had to mention this seeing as I love the Peas and will do anything to give them extra clout lol It's pretty crazy when you see Usher's 2004 unraveled down to numbers like these. Pure domination. Before "This is America" came along, I was ready to say that Drake could be shaping up to recreate Usher's 2004 with the pace he was on, and it's still even possible, although 28 weeks on top this year might be out of grasp. I really hope his next single is on the way and drops before Scorpion comes out.
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Post by Sherane Lamar on May 14, 2018 19:26:08 GMT -5
PRAISE THE HEAVENS! @ me when we figure out news on "Lift Yourself". Oh, I see. "Lift Yourself" is Bubbling Under this week. That's ok. It was just a troll song anyway. I'm sure we'll get some really out-there Kanye songs on the actual album. Bhad Bhabie is way more important right now. She's what the industry needs.
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Post by rainie on May 14, 2018 19:34:09 GMT -5
Woah Gucci Flip Flops debuts? Isnโt that song like two months old? Did a video drop or something?
Also yay @ Done for Me finally debuting! I was afraid it never would.
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Post by Mayman on May 14, 2018 19:49:33 GMT -5
Very glad Gucci Flip Flops debuted.
You can hate all you want but it's better than trash like Gummo.
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Post by ๐ฒ๐ฝ'๐ผ.๐ฐ๐ฟ on May 14, 2018 20:12:44 GMT -5
YASS AT DONE FOR ME DEBUTING! HOPE IT GETS TOP 10 SOON
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Post by Sherane Lamar on May 14, 2018 20:21:04 GMT -5
Very glad Gucci Flip Flops debuted. You can hate all you want but it's better than trash like Gummo. Billy > Gotti > Gucci Flip Flops > Kooda > Gummo > Hi Bich > These Heaux > Keke > Rondo All of these songs are good.
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Post by thelegends on May 14, 2018 22:34:58 GMT -5
Very glad Gucci Flip Flops debuted. You can hate all you want but it's better than trash like Gummo. Billy > Gotti > Gucci Flip Flops > Kooda > Gummo > Hi Bich > These Heaux > Keke > Rondoย All of these songs are good. Congrats, you have joined the no taste club. The only song i like from these is Gotti and maybe Rondo and Keke only for the featuring credits.
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Post by thelegends on May 14, 2018 22:35:24 GMT -5
I wonder if Playinwitme will debut.
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Post by forg on May 14, 2018 22:43:24 GMT -5
Perfect is still going strong, amazed!
Congrats THIS IS AMERICA, a fitting #1 given the impact it had the past week
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