Billboard Hot 100 7/14/18 - "Scorpion" storms the chart

[Gary]

11 Boo'd Up
15 No Tears Left To Cry
16 Lucid Dream
50 This Is America
100 I Lived It

[hunterquigley]

Jul 9, 2018 14:45:09 GMT -5 Fancy said:

“boo’d up” only dropped to 11. pleasantly surprised the youtube loss wasn’t as huge as expected.

It had the remix though which boosted its chart position for the week

[Deleted]

All these records are pretty pointless - its like comparing 100 meters sprint with marathon - when there was one song a for three months official single only charting - Janet, Madonna, Michael, Prince would have had plenty album tracks debuting in top 10 at their peaks. I guess all these records are ruined now because of technology. And what a mediocre artist this Drake really is.

[tanooki]

It's not long before 1 artist holds the entire top 10

[Fancy]

Jul 9, 2018 14:45:59 GMT -5 hunterquigley said:

Jul 9, 2018 14:45:09 GMT -5 Fancy said:

“boo’d up” only dropped to 11. pleasantly surprised the youtube loss wasn’t as huge as expected.

It had the remix though which boosted its chart position for the week

i thought it only had a day of tracking?

[Gary]

Again --- The records are not "ruined" they just need to be observed in proper context

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jul 9, 2018 14:55:09 GMT -5 Gary said:

Again --- The records are not "ruined" they just need to be observed in proper context

Speaking of broken records. Am I right tho?

[TakeMe]

Is streaming the cancer of the music industry in regards to the charts?

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Not you. The complainers lol

[Gary]

Exactly - Streaming actually was the savior of the music industry, not the cancer

[Agent Yoncé]

Well damn. Lol.

[Deleted]

ILMB better still be on the charts.

[renfield75]

Jul 9, 2018 15:04:47 GMT -5 @walker9 said:

ILMB better still be on the charts.

Since it will likely be in the top 40 within the next two weeks I don't think Billboard will drop it. They let IDGAF keep charting during album bombs and it wasn't gaining as much as ILMB

[renfield75]

Jul 9, 2018 14:29:00 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Jul 9, 2018 14:19:37 GMT -5 Gary said:

To get 6 #1's from an album you will need to no longer make all singles available from day 1 as they are now with the streaming platform.  You would have to go back to the old-school way of making consumers pay money for the album, or pay an album fee to stream.  and release singles to streaming one at a time.

And be relevant enough to be able to do that and get away with it while having people care. It’s doable though. Drake, or any big name act, can release an album the traditional way (cd and maybe digital) but limit streaming to only the singles as they come out and go back to focusing on one song every 3 months.

Or just release the singles one-by-one over the course of a year and drop the album once you had amassed 5 or 6 number ones. So that albums essentially become greatest hits packages collecting all the singles that were previously released from that "era".

[Gary]

Either way, release one at a time rather than all at once

[leonagwen]

I'm not even gonna comment on how I feel about Drake debuting 7 songs in the top 10.

[Zach]

Jul 9, 2018 15:22:41 GMT -5 leonagwen said:

I'm not even gonna comment on how I feel about Drake debuting 7 songs in the top 10.

You were the first person who came to my mind when the top 10 was revealed  .

[lugus15]

I kinda wanted Nonstop at #1, the more the merrier IMO. But I'll take the #2. At least it wont leave MTB the only #2 this year. Last year there were only 2 #2s.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Jul 9, 2018 15:15:38 GMT -5 renfield75 said:

Jul 9, 2018 14:29:00 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

And be relevant enough to be able to do that and get away with it while having people care. It’s doable though. Drake, or any big name act, can release an album the traditional way (cd and maybe digital) but limit streaming to only the singles as they come out and go back to focusing on one song every 3 months.

Or just release the singles one-by-one over the course of a year and drop the album once you had amassed 5 or 6 number ones. So that albums essentially become greatest hits packages collecting all the singles that were previously released from that "era".

Isn't that what many artists did in 60s? The Surpremes for example. Release several hit singles then issue an album at tail end of cycle.

[renfield75]

Jul 9, 2018 15:38:33 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Jul 9, 2018 15:15:38 GMT -5 renfield75 said:

Or just release the singles one-by-one over the course of a year and drop the album once you had amassed 5 or 6 number ones. So that albums essentially become greatest hits packages collecting all the singles that were previously released from that "era".

Isn't that what many artists did in 60s? The Surpremes for example. Release several hit singles then issue an album at tail end of cycle.

Essentially. That's why Sgt. Pepper, Pet Sounds, Revolver, and Rubber Soul were so transformative; they created the idea of the album as a whole work and not just a collection of singles thrown together with filler. After decades of albums being seen that way it's funny to be back to that early 60s mentality. Everything is cyclical...

[tanooki]

This is more of a reason to get rid of recurrency tbh

Songs like Rockstar and New Rules still get significant streaming and radio respectively, but both are likely out because their POSITION is lower than 50.

[hunterquigley]

Since a bunch of old songs went recurrent, once the album bomb dies down, a bunch of new songs will have more room to chart and hopefully there will be a bunch of graduates from the Bubbling under

[jtd Thee Stallion]

Walk It Talk It went recurrent (which is good cause it’s TRASH)

[renfield75]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8464542/drake-27-songs-hot-100?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
Here Are All of Drake's Record-Breaking 27 Songs on the Hot 100 This Week
7/9/2018 by Xander Zellner

He bests his own mark of 24 in 2017.

As Drake's new album Scorpion launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated July 14), shattering the streaming record for an album in the process, he also charts an unprecedented 27 songs on the Billboard Hot 100.

With all 25 tracks from Scorpion on the latest Hot 100, plus two others not from the set, Drake breaks his own record for the most concurrent entries in the Hot 100's 59-year history. He previously logged 24 on the April 8, 2017-dated tally, when More Life, his LP prior to Scorpion, debuted atop the Billboard 200.

Further, Drake lands 12 songs in the Hot 100's top 20 and 21 songs in the top 40, breaking both records previously held by Post Malone upon the debut atop the Billboard 200 of the latter's beerbongs & bentleys in May.

Here's a look at all 27 of Drake's songs on the new, July 14-dated Hot 100 (all are debuts, except where noted):

Hot 100 Rank, Title
No. 1, "Nice for What" (up from No. 6; eighth total week at No. 1)
No. 2, "Nonstop"
No. 4, "God's Plan" (up from No. 9)
No. 6, "In My Feelings"
No. 7, "I'm Upset" (up from No. 26)
No. 8, "Emotionless"
No. 9, "Don't Matter to Me," feat. Michael Jackson
No. 13, "Mob Ties"
No. 14, "Elevate"
No. 17, "Survival"
No. 18, "Can't Take a Joke"
No. 20, "Talk Up," feat. JAY-Z
No. 21, "8 Out of 10"
No. 26, "Yes Indeed," with Lil Baby (down from No. 11)
No. 27, "Sandra's Rose"
No. 28, "Summer Games"
No. 30, "Blue Tint"
No. 32, "Jaded"
No. 36, "Is There More"
No. 37, "That's How You Feel
No. 38, "Peak"
No. 41, "After Dark," feat. Static Major & Ty Dolla $ign
No. 42, "Finesse"
No. 44, "Look Alive," BlocBoy JB feat. Drake (down from No. 27)
No. 51, "Rachet Happy Birthday"
No. 56, "Final Fantasy"
No. 57, "March 14"

Drake additionally extends his record for the most total Hot 100 entries among soloists to 186. Among all acts, only the Glee Cast boasts more: 207. Lil Wayne ranks third overall with 138 appearances.

[dovahduck]

The single release for 'Don't Matter to Me" has apparently been canceled. They are now solely pushing "In My Feelings" to Rhythmic and Hit radio. Here are two archived All Access links if you want to see for yourself: web.archive.org/web/20180709204611/https://www.allaccess.com/top40-rhythmic/future-releases web.archive.org/web/20180709204601/https://www.allaccess.com/top40-mainstream/future-releases

[Zach]

I don't have a problem with the recurrent rules per se as I think they've served and continue to serve their purpose given the natural of the chart. My problem is when album bombs prematurely force older songs into the recurrent heap and these songs aren't allowed to re-enter when the album bomb subsides even if they would have enough points to chart inside the top 50 (except in special circumstances).

[badrobot]

The album bombs now kinda function like forest fires, burning down a bunch of oldies at once, and then new ones grow back in to take their place.

[TakeMe]

Jul 9, 2018 15:02:26 GMT -5 Gary said:

Exactly - Streaming actually was the savior of the music industry, not the cancer

Can it be a blessing and a curse?

[filthy]

What is so special about Drake anyways? Hopefully Billboard will change their streaming rules with Drake's takeover. When he's beating such a mighty record held by The Beatles, The Frickin Beatles, something's got to be done.

[Mayman]

Jul 9, 2018 16:36:23 GMT -5 filthy said:

What is so special about Drake anyways? Hopefully Billboard will change their streaming rules with Drake's takeover. When he's beating such a mighty record held by The Beatles, The Frickin Beatles, something's got to be done.

I doubt they will change anything.