Billboard Hot 100: 6/2/2018

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May 27, 2018 9:55:19 GMT -5 Golden Bluebird said:

Hang on to #99 and #100 positions Backstreet Boys and Christina Aguilera

[Deleted]

Drake is literally Elvis.

Also happy to see Boo'd Up predicted to make the top 10 this week.

[renaboss]

I'm curious about something, and wonder if anyone who kept up with the music scene in the 90's can provide me with any interesting info.

I've been watching the music videos for the #1 hits of the 90's with an online friend of mine who's from the UK. We've covered 1990 and 1991 so far and I've been looking up the chart positions in the UK for those songs, and a lot of those - curiously enough, mostly the ones I personally didn't know before I got into the #1 hits) didn't chart high there, and some didn't chart at all. Is there an explanation as to why in the early 90's (at least) the US and UK hits were so divided, why so many American successes didn't make the transition overseas?

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

May 27, 2018 18:09:17 GMT -5 MoD said:

May 27, 2018 18:01:14 GMT -5 𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿 said:

I feel like Drake's gonna block Whatever It Takes in the Top 10

Well, unfortunately Whatever It Takes is falling in Pop Radio so if it doesn't recover I don't see it entering to the top 10. Actually I think it'll probably be falling on these weeks

It's not a one-word song so it's likely not getting Top 10 lol but seriously I was wishing Whatever It Takes somehow sneak in.

[ur local neighborhood dbender]

May 27, 2018 18:09:17 GMT -5 MoD said:

May 27, 2018 18:01:14 GMT -5 𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿 said:

I feel like Drake's gonna block Whatever It Takes in the Top 10

Well, unfortunately Whatever It Takes is falling in Pop Radio so if it doesn't recover I don't see it entering to the top 10. Actually I think it'll probably be falling on these weeks :(

Got #1 on HAC today-oh wait no one cares about HAC anymore -_-

[garrettlen]

May 27, 2018 10:23:13 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

June 1, 1963

01 09 It's My Party - Lesley Gore (1st of 2 weeks at #1)

Lesley Gore was only 17 years old when her song "It's My Party" topped the Hot 100 in early June 1963.  She would go on to have a number of other pop hits in the next few years including, "Judy's Turn to Cry," a "sequel" to her #1 hit; "She's A Fool," and of course her proto-feminist hit, "You Don't Own Me," which seemed pretty radical for early 1964.

Lesley Gore's producer on all her early 60's hits was a young man named Quincy Jones; and after producing hit after hit for Lesley Gore, 20 years later, he would go on to produce hit after hit for superstar Michael Jackson on his mega successful "Thriller" album.

[Sherane Lamar]

May 27, 2018 17:12:41 GMT -5 J. Rob said:

May 27, 2018 9:28:08 GMT -5 kanfad said:

She wasnt speaking strictly in terms of critical reception. More like popularity and chart performance

His highest selling album to date is still Hard Knock Life. Is she talking strictly about singles? That's not a very accurate way to measure the peak of an artist like Jay-Z. He and a lot of other Hip Hop superstars were overshadowed during the Boy/Girl band era of the late 90s and early 00s.

Highest selling album isn't an accurate way to measure anything. Especially if we're talking about comparing 1999 to 2009. 

And on top of that, legacy sales have nothing to do with what was popular at the time. See Illmatic for example. 

Like you said, Jay-Z was a bit overshadowed by other artists back in 1996-2001. Still major and consistent artist. But not able to come up with an album that generated as much attention as Blueprint 3. Almost twice as popular at the time as anything else he's done. 

[85la]

May 27, 2018 9:58:33 GMT -5 filthy said:

I'm glad Dame Tu Cosita didn't chart any higher

I'm just super surprised that it hasn't. To think just two weeks ago it jumped from the 80s into the 40s, that type of jump is usually a surefire sign of a future smash, I even thought it had a shot at #1, but it seems to have halted unusually abruptly now. I guess the appeal of a dancing alien repeating the same 3 words over and over can only go so far.

[Leo ✔]

Great to see "Boo'd Up" snatching a top 10 place, hoping this turns big and hit top 3!
Also, I'm impressed how "Meant To Be" is holding on top 10 on Billboard when is free falling on radio.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^One interesting thing I realized about Boo'd Up, is that it has been #1 on U.S. YouTube views since Wednesday, so while the current streaming rules apply, it should continue to rise in the Hot 100.

[fhas]

May 27, 2018 20:23:56 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

Great to see "Boo'd Up" snatching a top 10 place, hoping this turns big and hit top 3!
Also, I'm impressed how "Meant To Be" is holding on top 10 on Billboard when is free falling on radio.

Meant To Be is stable on on-demand streaming (11M+) and YouTube (6M+).

[ur local neighborhood dbender]

May 27, 2018 20:56:18 GMT -5 fhas said:

May 27, 2018 20:23:56 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

Great to see "Boo'd Up" snatching a top 10 place, hoping this turns big and hit top 3!
Also, I'm impressed how "Meant To Be" is holding on top 10 on Billboard when is free falling on radio.

Meant To Be is stable on on-demand streaming (11M+) and YouTube (6M+).

You would think a song like Meant To Be wouldn't get as much success on streaming as it has been.

[Enigma.]

Would be amazing if BSB actually reached the Hot 100 on their own over 20 years after their breakthrough

[J. Rob]

May 27, 2018 20:11:39 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

May 27, 2018 17:12:41 GMT -5 J. Rob said:

His highest selling album to date is still Hard Knock Life. Is she talking strictly about singles? That's not a very accurate way to measure the peak of an artist like Jay-Z. He and a lot of other Hip Hop superstars were overshadowed during the Boy/Girl band era of the late 90s and early 00s.

Highest selling album isn't an accurate way to measure anything. Especially if we're talking about comparing 1999 to 2009. 

And on top of that, legacy sales have nothing to do with what was popular at the time. See Illmatic for example. 

Like you said, Jay-Z was a bit overshadowed by other artists back in 1996-2001. Still major and consistent artist. But not able to come up with an album that generated as much attention as Blueprint 3. Almost twice as popular at the time as anything else he's done. 

I've watched his career since the beginning and I'm judging based on his presence in the Hip Hop community....I forget that he wasn't really a household name outside of Hip Hop until....maybe 02 or 03?

But if you ask most Hip Hop fans old enough to remember his early years, they'll tell you his peak was undoubtedly the late 90s and early 00s.

I mean, I get what you're saying, but I think looking at it that way is a bit misleading. BP3 was popular because of two huge hit singles, both having features that overshawdowed him. The album wasn't really well recieved and at the time was he seen by a lot of younger fans as a legend past his prime staying relevant by following trends. During his true "prime" he was not only overshawdowed by Backstreet Boys, NSync, Britney, Christina, etc...he was also always overshawdowed in Hip Hop by one or two artists who were bigger at the time (DMX in 98 and 99, Eminem in 2000, Ja Rule in 2001, Nelly in 2002 and 5. Cent in 2003). He was always one of the Top 3 or 4 artists in Hip Hop during these years though and I'd say a more popular artist back then than he was in 2009

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

May 27, 2018 19:00:56 GMT -5 renaboss said:

I'm curious about something, and wonder if anyone who kept up with the music scene in the 90's can provide me with any interesting info.

I've been watching the music videos for the #1 hits of the 90's with an online friend of mine who's from the UK. We've covered 1990 and 1991 so far and I've been looking up the chart positions in the UK for those songs, and a lot of those - curiously enough, mostly the ones I personally didn't know before I got into the #1 hits) didn't chart high there, and some didn't chart at all. Is there an explanation as to why in the early 90's (at least) the US and UK hits were so divided, why so many American successes didn't make the transition overseas?

I'm guessing the internet and the ease of streaming and checking out songs from other countries has played a major role in that. Even Canada, which is just next door, had its own hits regularly and had a distinct chart but if you compare both now, there's few differences. I'm sure someone can extrapolate on that.

[jebsib]

Last year Memorial Day holiday delayed the charts till Tuesday

[Golden Bluebird]

kworb.net/airadio/

*** = Dropped or added a format

Overall AI (Top 20) - 2018/05/28
1. (=) ZEDD/MAREN MORRIS/GREY - The Middle (160.501) (-0.989)
2. (=) CAMILA CABELLO - Never Be The Same (151.058) (-1.179)
3. (=) DRAKE - God's Plan (137.404) (-2.661)
4. (=) BEBE REXHA - Meant To Be f/F.G.L. (127.235) (-2.280)
5. (=) IMAGINE DRAGONS - Whatever It Takes (124.123) (-1.317)
6. (=) POST MALONE - Psycho f/Ty Dolla $ign (118.091) (+0.877)
7. (=) DRAKE - Nice For What (110.214) (+0.613)
8. (=) MAROON 5 - Wait (101.943) (+0.216)
9. (=) THE WEEKND & KENDRICK LAMAR - Pray For Me (96.581) (-1.942)
10. (=) ED SHEERAN - Perfect (92.194) (-1.697)
11. (=) SHAWN MENDES - In My Blood (85.428) (+0.006)
12. (=) BAZZI - Mine (84.215) (+0.407)
13. (=) ARIANA GRANDE - No Tears Left To Cry (82.570) (+0.459)
14. (=) MAX - Lights Down Low (77.453) (-0.738)
15. (=) DUA LIPA - New Rules (77.270) (-0.872)
16. (=) TAYLOR SWIFT - Delicate (76.381) (+0.868)
17. (+1) LUKE COMBS - One Number Away (71.806) (+0.167)
18. (-1) DARIUS RUCKER - For The First Time (71.242) (-0.885)
19. (+1) BLOCBOY JB - Look Alive f/Drake (68.071) (+0.963) ***
20. (-1) BRUNO MARS & CARDI B - Finesse (67.329) (-0.303)

Outside the Top 20:
40. (+2) CALVIN HARRIS & DUA LIPA - One Kiss (45.082) (+1.701) ***
62. (+3) HALSEY - Alone f/Big Sean, Stefflon Don (29.646) (+1.324) ***
73. (+4) CHILDISH GAMBINO - This Is America (25.863) (+1.336) ***

[garrettlen]

May 28, 2018 8:11:50 GMT -5 jebsib said:

Last week Memorial Day holiday delayed the charts till Tuesday

Did you mean to type last year?

I read somewhere that Memorial Day will delay the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 until Wednesday this week.

[kanfad]

May 28, 2018 8:12:27 GMT -5 Golden Bluebird said:

kworb.net/airadio/

*** = Dropped or added a format

Overall AI (Top 20) - 2018/05/28
1. (=) ZEDD/MAREN MORRIS/GREY - The Middle (160.501) (-0.989)
2. (=) CAMILA CABELLO - Never Be The Same (151.058) (-1.179)
3. (=) DRAKE - God's Plan (137.404) (-2.661)
4. (=) BEBE REXHA - Meant To Be f/F.G.L. (127.235) (-2.280)
5. (=) IMAGINE DRAGONS - Whatever It Takes (124.123) (-1.317)
6. (=) POST MALONE - Psycho f/Ty Dolla $ign (118.091) (+0.877)
7. (=) DRAKE - Nice For What (110.214) (+0.613)
8. (=) MAROON 5 - Wait (101.943) (+0.216)
9. (=) THE WEEKND & KENDRICK LAMAR - Pray For Me (96.581) (-1.942)
10. (=) ED SHEERAN - Perfect (92.194) (-1.697)
11. (=) SHAWN MENDES - In My Blood (85.428) (+0.006)
12. (=) BAZZI - Mine (84.215) (+0.407)
13. (=) ARIANA GRANDE - No Tears Left To Cry (82.570) (+0.459)
14. (=) MAX - Lights Down Low (77.453) (-0.738)
15. (=) DUA LIPA - New Rules (77.270) (-0.872)
16. (=) TAYLOR SWIFT - Delicate (76.381) (+0.868)
17. (+1) LUKE COMBS - One Number Away (71.806) (+0.167)
18. (-1) DARIUS RUCKER - For The First Time (71.242) (-0.885)
19. (+1) BLOCBOY JB - Look Alive f/Drake (68.071) (+0.963) ***
20. (-1) BRUNO MARS & CARDI B - Finesse (67.329) (-0.303)

Outside the Top 20:
40. (+2) CALVIN HARRIS & DUA LIPA - One Kiss (45.082) (+1.701) ***
62. (+3) HALSEY - Alone f/Big Sean, Stefflon Don (29.646) (+1.324) ***
73. (+4) CHILDISH GAMBINO - This Is America (25.863) (+1.336) ***

Holy shit, is Look Alive actually getting played on Pop? 
Also Yes Indeed has gone for adds on Urban at least

[badrobot]

May 28, 2018 5:52:07 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

May 27, 2018 19:00:56 GMT -5 renaboss said:

I'm curious about something, and wonder if anyone who kept up with the music scene in the 90's can provide me with any interesting info.

I've been watching the music videos for the #1 hits of the 90's with an online friend of mine who's from the UK. We've covered 1990 and 1991 so far and I've been looking up the chart positions in the UK for those songs, and a lot of those - curiously enough, mostly the ones I personally didn't know before I got into the #1 hits) didn't chart high there, and some didn't chart at all. Is there an explanation as to why in the early 90's (at least) the US and UK hits were so divided, why so many American successes didn't make the transition overseas?

I'm guessing the internet and the ease of streaming and checking out songs from other countries has played a major role in that. Even Canada, which is just next door, had its own hits regularly and had a distinct chart but if you compare both now, there's few differences. I'm sure someone can extrapolate on that.

Yes, the internet had a huge impact. Before then, it was much easier for something to be a huge phenomenon in one country and virtually unknown in another.

Also, remember that even though the web was around starting in the mid-90s, it took several years before internet connections were fast enough and compression technologies strong enough to make downloading song files feasible.

In the 90s, there really was no way to hear a song if it wasn’t physically released in your country, unless you managed to track down an import.

Countries also had their own label divisions which may have prioritized promotional efforts differently.

[jebsib]

May 27, 2018 19:00:56 GMT -5 renaboss said:

I'm curious about something, and wonder if anyone who kept up with the music scene in the 90's can provide me with any interesting info.

I've been watching the music videos for the #1 hits of the 90's with an online friend of mine who's from the UK. We've covered 1990 and 1991 so far and I've been looking up the chart positions in the UK for those songs, and a lot of those - curiously enough, mostly the ones I personally didn't know before I got into the #1 hits) didn't chart high there, and some didn't chart at all. Is there an explanation as to why in the early 90's (at least) the US and UK hits were so divided, why so many American successes didn't make the transition overseas?

Hey renaboss - I lived in both the UK and the US during those 2 years, so I remember them well.
I can recount that ALL the US #1 songs in 1990 and 1991 were released as physical singles in the UK, so they were all eligible to chart.

I can also say that especially before the internet, these two countries had very different music cultures, and very different influences.
Generally divas, hair metal and heartland rock did better in the US, neo-disco, novelty songs and Euro-hits did better in the UK.
So the charts were often not really close with the exception of the HUGE international hits that you couldn't avoid.

Some songs would be released months or even a year apart;
Some Record Company departments had a lot more money to promote certain acts in one country and not the other.
And some eras (like the mid 80s) both the US and UK were more in sync than others (90 and 91):
There was just no audience in the UK for Surface's "The First Time" or Freestyle girl groups "If Wishes Came True",
but as Hip-Hop culture started to take over the world, England followed slowly, and now we are more in sync with the internet.

A fun example as an American is toYoutube "Do They Know It's Christmas" from 1984 and then the UK hit remake from 1989…
Five years difference - in the first one, Americans would recognize almost every singer; In the remake, only Lisa Stansfield and Kylie Minogue would be known:
A stark example of how the countries biggest hit makers ebb and flow.

[kindofbiased]

The more I think about it the more that Drake being the 2010's Elvis comparison makes way too much sense and I don't know how to feel about it

[lazer]

"I'm Upset" debuted low on the Spotify charts. That's understandable, I really don't like that song. Also from the reaction I've seen, it has poor reception.

[annoymous1]

Finesse had a good run on radio surprised Look Alive is getting airplay on Pop Radio .

[filthy]

Thank god I'm Upset debuted so low, it's so boring

[ur local neighborhood dbender]

Pop radio needs to Look Alive.

[Deleted]

Couldn’t find a thread for Lucid Dreams. I hope it becomes a big hit.

[Choco]

Look Alive is not top 50 on Pop. God's Plan peaked at #3 there and NFW is #18 with a healthy bullet. Look Alive has around 62M AI coming from Rhytmic and Urban radio, so I would expect the rest to be Hot AC and Pop giving a few curiosity spins here and there.

[NeRD]

Radio needs some new Rihanna.

[Glove Slap]

Drake will likely improve on his showing tomorrow.