Billboard Hot 100: 10/13/18

[Gary]

3rd stint at #1 for Girls Like You

[Gary]

Artist 100

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Re-Entry 20 #1 1 wks Lil Wayne , Young Money | Republic 1
2 0 New 1 Cher , Warner Bros. 2
3 0 Re-Entry 51 Logic , Visionary | Def Jam 1
4 7 4 104 BTS , BigHit Entertainment 1
5 4 3 223 Drake , Young Money/Cash Money | Republic 1
6 1 2 223 Eminem , Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA 1
7 5 6 191 Imagine Dragons , KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA 1
8 6 5 119 Post Malone , Republic 1
9 10 12 60 XXXTENTACION , Bad Vibes Forever 1
10 9 8 191 Ariana Grande , Republic 1
11 11 10 64 Cardi B , The KSR Group/Atlantic | AG 1
12 8 7 126 Travis Scott , Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle | Epic 1
13 12 9 217 Ed Sheeran , Atlantic | AG 1
14 15 13 223 Maroon 5 , 222/Interscope | IGA 1
15 17 15 20 Juice WRLD , Grade A/Interscope | IGA 12
16 18 16 83 Luke Combs , River House/Columbia Nashville | SMN 5
17 0 Re-Entry 52 Kevin Gates , Bread Winners' Association/Atlantic | AG 5
18 0 Re-Entry 14 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers , Reprise | Warner Bros. 1
19 20 11 83 Khalid , Right Hand | RCA 11
20 19 21 80 5 Seconds Of Summer , One Mode | Capitol 1
21 22 19 24 Ella Mai , 10 Summers/Interscope | IGA 17
22 25 32 191 Shawn Mendes , Island 1
23 14 18 31 Lauren Daigle , Centricity | Capitol CMG 3
24 21 24 68 Kane Brown , Zone 4/RCA Nashville | SMN 5
25 23 20 219 Taylor Swift , Big Machine | BMLG 1
26 24 23 211 Bruno Mars , Atlantic | AG 1
27 44 43 194 Kendrick Lamar , Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA 1
28 36 41 51 Marshmello , Joytime Collective 25
29 38 35 192 Selena Gomez , Interscope | IGA 2
30 0 Re-Entry 83 Lady Gaga , Interscope | IGA 1
31 27 33 107 Panic! At The Disco , DCD2/Fueled By Ramen | AG 1
32 26 29 223 Florida Georgia Line , BMLG 1
33 34 34 45 Dan + Shay , Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN 11
34 37 30 95 Camila Cabello , SYCO | Epic 1
35 30 27 85 Bebe Rexha , Warner Bros. 23
36 32 26 212 Nicki Minaj , Young Money/Cash Money | Republic 2
37 16 1 160 Carrie Underwood , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 1
38 33 36 154 Chris Stapleton , Mercury Nashville | UMGN 1
39 31 28 38 6ix9ine , ScumGang | TenThousand Projects 13
40 46 46 175 Charlie Puth , OTTO/Atlantic | AG 6
41 63 59 147 Halsey , Astralwerks 1
42 42 37 21 Lil Baby , Quality Control/Motown | Capitol 25
43 45 25 201 Jason Aldean , Macon/Broken Bow | BBMG 1
44 43 38 192 Thomas Rhett , Valory | BMLG 1
45 66 62 23 Lauv , Lauv | AWAL-Kobalt 43
46 0 Re-Entry 99 DJ Snake , DJ Snake/Geffen | IGA 16
47 0 New 1 Bradley Cooper , Interscope | IGA 47
48 2 – 18 Josh Groban , Reprise | Warner Bros. 2
49 0 Re-Entry 67 Kodak Black , Dollaz N Dealz/Atlantic | AG 6
50 51 54 36 Bazzi , ZZZ/iamcosmic/Atlantic | AG 34
51 92 64 9 Aretha Franklin , RCA 2
52 47 44 28 Tyga , Last Kings | EMPIRE Recordings 27
53 60 63 52 NF , NF Real Music/Capitol | Caroline 8
54 56 47 105 Kanye West , G.O.O.D. | Def Jam 1
55 0 Re-Entry 3 Elevation Worship , Elevation Worship | PLG 22
56 48 49 58 Dua Lipa , Warner Bros. 10
57 41 – 2 Avril Lavigne , Avril Lavigne | BMG 41
58 49 – 82 Young Thug , 300/Atlantic | AG 11
59 52 57 101 DJ Khaled , We The Best | Epic 2
60 65 70 9 lovelytheband , RED 60
61 69 71 29 Bad Bunny , Rimas | Hear This Music 30
62 70 73 181 twenty one pilots , Fueled By Ramen | AG 1
63 53 52 56 J Balvin , Capitol Latin | UMLE 16
64 85 – 29 Bastille , Virgin | Capitol 15
65 35 55 149 The Chainsmokers , Disruptor | Columbia 1
66 62 60 104 Migos , Quality Control/300 | AG 1
67 59 56 222 Luke Bryan , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 1
68 57 67 146 Cole Swindell , Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN 8
69 40 48 102 Lil Uzi Vert , Generation Now/Atlantic | AG 2
70 71 86 188 Michael Jackson , MJJ | Epic 20
71 64 42 96 Brett Young , BMLG 26
72 76 80 13 Russell Dickerson , Triple Tigers | RED 69
73 0 Re-Entry 6 alt-J , Infectious/Canvasback/Atlantic | AG 14
74 72 66 159 Kenny Chesney , Blue Chair/Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN 1
75 55 53 40 Lil Pump , Warner Bros. 12
76 83 81 15 Weezer , Weezer/Crush Music/Atlantic | AG 15
77 13 – 50 Prince , NPG | Legacy 1
78 67 69 106 Old Dominion , RCA Nashville | SMN 10
79 86 82 47 Ozuna , VP Entertainment/DimeloVi | Sony Music Latin 17
80 77 76 208 The Weeknd , XO | Republic 1
81 50 61 40 YoungBoy Never Broke Again , Never Broke Again/Atlantic | AG 26
82 97 65 109 Dierks Bentley , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 3
83 79 74 11 Normani , SYCO | Epic 65
84 95 91 13 Louis Tomlinson , 78/SYCO | Epic 33
85 0 Re-Entry 2 Rod Stewart , Republic 47
86 94 92 91 Maren Morris , Columbia Nashville | SMN 15
87 90 79 126 P!nk , RCA 1
88 81 78 23 Queen , Hollywood 44
89 88 – 2 Sheck Wes , Cactus Jack/G.O.O.D./Interscope | IGA 88
90 0 Re-Entry 209 Blake Shelton , Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN 1
91 98 94 6 Bryce Vine , Sire | Warner Bros. 80
92 0 Re-Entry 2 Beartooth , Red Bull 76
93 99 83 33 Lynyrd Skynyrd , Blackbird Production Partners | Loud & Proud 40
94 89 89 172 Justin Timberlake , RCA 1
95 0 Re-Entry 33 YG , 4Hunnid/CTE | Def Jam 16
96 87 95 191 Adele , XL | Columbia 1
97 91 88 41 Quavo , Quality Control/Motown | Capitol 47
98 0 New 1 Gateway , Gateway Music 98
99 82 77 173 Metallica , Blackened 2
100 0 Re-Entry 138 Sam Smith , Capitol 1

[Gary]

Hot 100

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 1 1 19 #1 3 wks Girls Like You , Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B 1
2 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 Mona Lisa , Lil Wayne Featuring Kendrick Lamar 2
3 2 4 21 Lucid Dreams , Juice WRLD 2
4 3 5 23 Better Now , Post Malone 3
5 0 New 1 Don't Cry , Lil Wayne Featuring XXXTENTACION 5
6 6 9 9 Sicko Mode , Travis Scott 4
7 0 New 1 Uproar , Lil Wayne 7
8 10 10 18 Youngblood , 5 Seconds Of Summer 8
9 4 2 14 In My Feelings , Drake 1
10 0 New 1 Let It Fly , Lil Wayne Featuring Travis Scott 10
11 7 6 26 I Like It , Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin 1
12 8 8 11 FEFE , 6ix9ine Featuring Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz 3
13 15 31 7 Happier , Marshmello & Bastille 13
14 0 New 1 Dedicate , Lil Wayne 14
15 11 12 19 Taste , Tyga Featuring Offset 8
16 12 11 33 Love Lies , Khalid & Normani 9
17 0 New 1 Can't Be Broken , Lil Wayne 17
18 9 7 4 I Love It , Kanye West & Lil Pump 6
19 14 14 11 Natural , Imagine Dragons 14
20 18 21 9 Trip , Ella Mai 18
21 20 17 12 God Is A Woman , Ariana Grande 8
22 19 18 21 Back To You , Selena Gomez 18
23 16 15 14 Nonstop , Drake 2
24 0 New 1 What About Me , Lil Wayne Featuring Sosamann 24
25 25 28 3 Drip Too Hard , Lil Baby & Gunna 25
26 0 New 1 Dark Side Of The Moon , Lil Wayne Featuring Nicki Minaj 26
27 0 New 1 Taki Taki , DJ Snake Featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B 27
28 0 New 1 Shallow , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 28
29 27 29 12 Eastside , Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid 27
30 17 16 10 No Brainer , DJ Khaled Featuring Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper & Quavo 5
31 22 19 21 Yes Indeed , Lil Baby & Drake 6
32 26 24 18 Big Bank , YG Featuring 2 Chainz, Big Sean & Nicki Minaj 16
33 23 20 27 Boo'd Up , Ella Mai 5
34 5 3 3 Killshot , Eminem 3
35 30 26 50 Meant To Be , Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line 2
36 0 New 1 Famous , Lil Wayne Featuring Reginae Carter 36
37 29 27 30 Delicate , Taylor Swift 12
38 31 42 6 Mo Bamba , Sheck Wes 31
39 0 New 1 Dope N****z , Lil Wayne Featuring Snoop Dogg 39
40 13 47 3 Falling Down , Lil Peep & XXXTENTACION 13
41 33 33 31 Sad! , XXXTENTACION 1
42 34 34 34 I Like Me Better , Lauv 27
43 32 25 24 No Tears Left To Cry , Ariana Grande 3
44 35 32 32 Psycho , Post Malone Featuring Ty Dolla $ign 1
45 36 36 12 I'm A Mess , Bebe Rexha 36
46 37 35 36 The Middle , Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey 5
47 0 New 1 Open Letter , Lil Wayne 47
48 41 43 12 Broken , lovelytheband 41
49 46 56 9 High Hopes , Panic! At The Disco 46
50 44 39 30 Tequila , Dan + Shay 21
51 38 30 3 Wake Up In The Sky , Gucci Mane X Bruno Mars X Kodak Black 30
52 43 44 9 Beautiful , Bazzi Featuring Camila Cabello 42
53 42 41 18 Simple , Florida Georgia Line 32
54 24 38 3 New Patek , Lil Uzi Vert 24
55 28 13 5 Lucky You , Eminem Featuring Joyner Lucas 6
56 0 New 1 If I'm Lyin, I'm Flyin , Kodak Black 56
57 0 New 1 Problems , Lil Wayne 57
58 48 50 8 She Got The Best Of Me , Luke Combs 48
59 0 New 1 Hittas , Lil Wayne 59
60 52 54 7 Blue Tacoma , Russell Dickerson 52
61 49 53 11 Ring , Cardi B Featuring Kehlani 28
62 0 New 1 Open Safe , Lil Wayne 62
63 51 49 8 Drew Barrymore , Bryce Vine 46
64 56 63 6 Smile (Living My Best Life) , Lil' Duval Featuring Snoop Dogg & Ball Greezy 56
65 0 New 1 Took His Time , Lil Wayne 65
66 54 52 13 Jackie Chan , Tiesto & Dzeko Featuring Preme & Post Malone 52
67 55 55 12 Africa , Weezer 51
68 58 62 7 Breathin , Ariana Grande 22
69 50 48 14 Hotel Key , Old Dominion 48
70 53 64 12 You Say , Lauren Daigle 44
71 62 73 10 Lie , NF 62
72 63 61 12 Lose It , Kane Brown 61
73 60 65 13 Break Up In The End , Cole Swindell 49
74 0 New 1 Mess , Lil Wayne 74
75 0 New 1 Let It All Work Out , Lil Wayne 75
76 0 New 1 Start This S**t Off Right , Lil Wayne Featuring Ashanti & Mack Maine 76
77 61 68 6 The Way I Am , Charlie Puth 61
78 0 New 1 Used 2 , Lil Wayne 78
79 40 22 4 Rap Devil , Machine Gun Kelly 13
80 67 74 8 Drunk Me , Mitchell Tenpenny 67
81 0 New 1 Demon , Lil Wayne 81
82 77 87 4 Speechless , Dan + Shay 77
83 59 51 14 Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset , Luke Bryan 35
84 76 82 7 Dangerous , Meek Mill Featuring Jeremih & PnB Rock 76
85 68 77 7 Promises , Calvin Harris & Sam Smith 65
86 0 New 1 Perfect Strangers , Lil Wayne 86
87 57 45 3 Better , Khalid 45
88 69 69 10 That's On Me , Yella Beezy 69
89 66 60 18 Medicine , Queen Naija 45
90 0 New 1 Dope New Gospel , Lil Wayne Featuring Nivea 90
91 65 70 8 W O R K I N M E , Quavo 52
92 75 81 11 Best Part , Daniel Caesar Featuring H.E.R. 75
93 64 – 2 Head Above Water , Avril Lavigne 64
94 47 – 2 No Stylist , French Montana Featuring Drake 47
95 86 97 3 Best Shot , Jimmie Allen 86
96 85 92 5 Hangin' On , Chris Young 85
97 82 84 6 Drunk Girl , Chris Janson 82
98 81 96 3 Leave Me Alone , Flipp Dinero 81
99 0 Re-Entry 2 Lost In Japan , Shawn Mendes X Zedd 64
100 80 72 16 Drowns The Whiskey , Jason Aldean Featuring Miranda Lambert 32

[marc980]

Curious fact: Believer is out of the Hot Rock Songs. It spent 87 weeks there, the same amount of time Radioactive spent at Hot 100.

[Deleted]

Only 2 songs moved upward this week on the entire Hot 100, Youngblood and Happier.

[Leo ✔]

UGH. Without this albumbomb, "Happier" would've been at #9.

[Gary]

Country Airplay Chart Swings 'Blue' as Russell Dickerson Scores Second No. 1

10/9/2018 by Jim Asker


Michael Loccisano/WireImage
Russell Dickerson performs onstage at the 2018 CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena on June 6, 2018 in Nashville, Tenn.
Plus, Loretta Lynn has a 'great' debut.

Singer-songwriter Russell Dickerson rides to his second straight Country Airplay No. 1 with sophomore single "Blue Tacoma" (Triple Tigers). In its 32nd week on the tally (dated Oct. 13), "Tacoma" ascends 2-1, up 9 percent to 44 million audience impressions in the tracking week ending Oct. 7, according to Nielsen Music.

On the airplay, streaming and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart, "Tacoma" pulls into the top five (7-5).

"Man, it feels surreal, honestly, like, is that really my song at No. 1?" Dickerson marvels to Billboard upon hearing that "Tacoma" had reached the Country Airplay summit. "Plus, having my second No. 1 in one year is just absolute insanity. I'm definitely still trying to take in the gravity of it all."

Dickerson co-penned "Blue" with his frequent writing collaborators Casey Brown and Parker Welling. The trio also authored Dickerson's debut single and first Country Airplay No. 1, "Yours," which led for two weeks starting on the Jan. 27 dated chart; the same week, it peaked at No. 3 on Hot Country Songs.

"Yeah, 'Tacoma' was a no-brainer for me," Dickerson says when asked about whether it was the natural choice as his second single. "I always gauge the audience by what songs are clicking because they're the ones who'll be listening to the radio," he explains. "'Tacoma' is super-special to me because when we originally wrote the song, it was good, but there was just some magic missing. My wife and I got to go out to California for a wedding and drive the Pacific Coast Highway. When I got back, I realized we didn't capture the awe and wonder of this scenery. So, we re-wrote a lot of the verses and that's when it clicked for everyone. It sounds exactly how driving the Pacific coast feels."

Dickerson is the first artist to land Country Airplay leaders with his first two entries since Luke Combs rattled off No. 1s with "Hurricane" and "When It Rains It Pours," for two weeks each in May and November 2017, respectively. Combs made it three in a row when third single "One Number Away" topped the June 9 survey.

STILL "GREAT" Country icon Loretta Lynn moves into a tie for the second-most top 10s on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, as her new studio set Wouldn't It Be Great (Legacy) arrives at No. 8, earning 9,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 4.

The 86-year-old Lynn notches her 41st Top Country Albums top 10, matching Dolly Parton for the second-best sum. Willie Nelson leads all acts with 49. Lynn passes George Strait, with 40 top 10s.

The 13-track Great was co-produced by Lynn's daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.

Great is Lynn's first album since her 2016 holiday set Christmas Time Blue, which peaked at No. 26 on Top Country Albums. Earlier that year, she released Full Circle, which debuted and peaked at No. 4.

Lynn logged her first Top Country Albums appearance and first top 10 with Loretta Lynn Sings, which peaked at No. 2 in 1964, the year that the chart launched.

"LOSE" WINS Kane Brown banks his third total and consecutive Country Airplay top 10, as "Lose It" (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) rises 11-10, increasing by 8 percent to 23 million in audience.

"Lose" follows Kane's first two Country Airplay No. 1s: "Heaven," which led for two weeks starting on May 19, and "What Ifs," featuring Lauren Alaina (one week, Oct. 28, 2017).

Plus, Mitchell Tenpenny achieves his first top 10 on Hot Country Songs as his debut single "Drunk Me" (Riser House/Columbia Nashville) lifts 11-10. It gains by 8 percent to 19.8 million impressions and holds at its No. 13 high on Country Airplay.

[divasummer]

Oct 8, 2018 15:54:02 GMT -5 Choco said:

Oct 8, 2018 15:48:56 GMT -5 @crapkuki23 said:

Girls Like You blocked Mona Lisa. Wayne with one of his best performances in years, loses his #1 debut to Levine putting absolutely no effort with his voice. I hate the charts so much.

Maybe you care too much about charts? I mean, Wayne will be fine. This is a massive rebound from where he was chart wise in the last few years.

And I'm glad stuff like that song or Nonstop haven't gone #1 yet. These album bomb songs die so fast... although it will happen eventually. Peaks are starting to become meaningless without context (i.e. Don't Matter to Me going top 10 versus a song like FRIENDS or Back to You missing top 10)

Do you really think "Mona Lisa" should have been number 1 this week???
There are many, MANY people who haven't even heard of the song yet...

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Oct 9, 2018 14:12:13 GMT -5 divasummer said:

Oct 8, 2018 15:54:02 GMT -5 Choco said:

Maybe you care too much about charts? I mean, Wayne will be fine. This is a massive rebound from where he was chart wise in the last few years.

And I'm glad stuff like that song or Nonstop haven't gone #1 yet. These album bomb songs die so fast... although it will happen eventually. Peaks are starting to become meaningless without context (i.e. Don't Matter to Me going top 10 versus a song like FRIENDS or Back to You missing top 10)

Do you really think "Mona Lisa" should have been number 1 this week???
There are many, MANY people who haven't even heard of the song yet...

This is the thing in my mind that I keep repeating... it's not a singles chart anymore, so we're getting a lot of album tracks with high peaks.  To Choco's point, without proper context, peaks are comparative mess.  It's not to say these songs aren't deserving of their placement in any given week given where we're at, it's just to say that it's a whole different ball game than when the Hot 100 was a singles chart, especially in the streaming era.

[Gary]

Depends on your definition of "single"

A single can be just one song ready to be "consumed" by the public. The "radio single" doesn't quite work anymore either as radio has become less and less of a factor.

Whatever the definition - peaks and positions are for THAT week only - tie that into a longer run does not always make sense for a weekly chart. A song getting to #2 for a week is like saying it was the second biggest song for that week.

Basically looking at the weekly chart for longer than a week, ALWAYS requires proper context regardless of whether you are talking about singles, radio singles, album cut singles, video singles or anything else for that matter.

[divasummer]

Oct 9, 2018 14:27:51 GMT -5 @mello said:

Oct 9, 2018 14:12:13 GMT -5 divasummer said:

Do you really think "Mona Lisa" should have been number 1 this week???
There are many, MANY people who haven't even heard of the song yet...

This is the thing in my mind that I keep repeating... it's not a singles chart anymore, so we're getting a lot of album tracks with high peaks.  To Choco's point, without proper context, peaks are comparative mess.  It's not to say these songs aren't deserving of their placement in any given week given where we're at, it's just to say that it's a whole different ball game than when the Hot 100 was a singles chart, especially in the streaming era.

I still don't think "Mona Lisa" deserved to be num.1 this week....
I have streamed myself without any chance of listening to it again.
I guess many can say that about radio too. lol

I may be out of the loop with what's popular now with the 14-23 crowd though.
I haven't even heard "Mona Lisa" yet and I'm usually up with the new songs....
The charts are a mess now but I'm sure that's always been a complaint through out the years. lol

[Deleted]

Oct 9, 2018 14:44:34 GMT -5 divasummer said:

I still don't think "Mona Lisa" deserved to be num.1 this week....
I have streamed myself without any chance of listening to it again.
I guess many can say that about radio too. lol

I may be out of the loop with what's popular now with the 14-23 crowd though.
I haven't even heard "Mona Lisa" yet and I'm usually up with the new songs....
The charts are a mess now but I'm sure that's always been a complaint through out the years. lol

Yeah, I haven't heard it either.  But Wayne has had a lot of chart entries that I'm not familiar with, so it's nothing new.

As for deserving - I hesitate to use that word because it's just based on numbers and math.  It is what it is.  Its just weird for me to not have ever heard so many top 10 songs!

[Gary]

Well in an era where many of the the top 10 songs could be from the same album and you have not heard them yet. Time to either stream it or buy it. In this case, Tha Carter V- Happy listening

[livelightning]

Oct 9, 2018 1:02:55 GMT -5 85la said:

Oct 8, 2018 21:58:23 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

85la I'm guessing you deleted your original post because you realised how close-minded and silly you sounded. You just hate rap music and wish pop music would dominate more and that's where all your anger is coming from. Drake, Cardi and Post Malone are the three people who have mostly dominated the charts this year. Then there have been several other rappers who have had album bombs, none of which fit into the categories you mentioned. You sound silly lumping every rapper into those categories and then bringing up morality as a reason why they shouldn't be charting. The pure pop songs from white singers are pristine and harmless, but the rap music from the big bad black people causes all the damage in the world. I hope you're not white because then your post would be that much more messy. Rap music is the most popular genre in music now and that isn't changing anytime soon and people like you are just gonna have to deal with that. Rap fans didn't complain during the years only pop stars scored real hits on the charts. The most popular and successful rappers don't rap about any of the mess you mentioned.

I deleted my original post because it was made out of an impulsive burst of anger. I had hoped it would have deleted it where people quoted it too, but i guess it doesn't work that way. I regret my original post and some of the way I said the things I said. If the mods can help me to delete it where people quoted it too, that would help, but if not, then so well then, I guess everything we post on the net remains forever for everyone to see right?... My original thinking still stands though, and many of the things you're implying of what I was thinking and saying aren't true. For the record I am actually multi-racial, so I don't quite know how to define myself "racially," and to be honest, though they often are, things aren't always about race, and it is very possible for ANY racial group (which is an arbitrary social construct anyway) to inflict hatred and oppression against any other racial group (and this is coming from a pretty solidly progressive liberal, who by the way actually votes unlike many of you other young people who wish to see change but for some unknown reason are careless to do the one, simple thing once or twice a year that would actually enact this type of change). I was exaggerating when I said all the other songs are by immoral rappers who make music about violence, mysogyny, homophobia, etc., but just by a very objective analysis of the lyrics of at least some of these songs, these themes are quite common and you cannot refute are at least somewhat problematic and can have a profound affect on how people perceive any group of people that performs this type of music, as well as at least to some degree affect peoples' thoughts and behavior themselves. It's also important to note that this is just gangsta rap, there are other types of rap by many other artists, such as the socially conscious variety by Common and Talib Kweli, that do not get promoted by labels because they don't sell as much and there's not the demand for them by the public (of whatever race they may be, young white men consume quite a bit of rap), so this does say a lot about the public itself. I'm not saying that other genres sung by traditionally white artists also have these same themes, they definitely do, especially rock I would say, but as much or more than gangsta rap? I'm not sure.

But your conclusion that I only like and am trying to defend these "pure pop white pristine" singers and trying to take down the "big bad black" rappers is also false and is in itself prejudiced and narrow-minded (Personally, one of the rappers I actually have a problem with the most is Eminem because of his well-known homophobic lyrics). I've been on this board much longer than you, and if you dig way back to some of my earlier posts when I first joined in 2007 (though this might have been on UKMix when I used to post there more, so I will say it now), I was actually one of the few who defended a formula change Billboard made then that decreased the weight of digital sales by half, effectively giving much more weight to airplay, which was heavily dominated by Hip-Hop and R&B at the time, even though I didn't like those genres as much as pop, I thought it was fair because it was an accurate representation of what the public was listening to, and I still think radio should be, when maybe you have 50k downloads of a song but 100 million listening to another, clearly the latter is far, far more listened to, and very possibly, in general, liked more.

I definitely do not hate all rap music. It's more complicated than that. As I said I was exaggerating about the lyrics and much of them are more innocent, and even when they are not, I actually like a lot of rap songs when they are more melodic or have an interesting beat, and though the lyrics might be problematic sometimes, they do actually show a lot more creativity and depth than most pop songs. It's a source of cognitive dissonance for me, as sometimes the lyrics bother me but I do like and can jam out to a lot of the songs, and quite very often, root for them on the charts as well. I have problems with pop too, such as being ageist, in certain ways misogynistic, and featuring singers with questionable voices. I actually like all kinds of music. In terms of Ed's song, I was just a little annoyed and found it puzzling why one song, let's forget about genre now, with some of the most wholesome feel good themes about love and female empowerment, that stuck around in the low 20's for a little longer than expected, was pissing so many people off and was met with such celebration and triumph at its demise, when many of these same people have no problem with so many other songs with problematic lyrics dominating and sticking around for a while.

It's just song lyrics. It doesn't matter if no one has a problem with them sticking around. They like the song. I agree that Perfect is way too hated, but your criticisms on rap music are not right and are unnecessary. Same with pop music. Pop music is also fine and good. It just has to do with what people like. 

[livelightning]

Oct 9, 2018 1:03:37 GMT -5 Codex said:

Oct 8, 2018 21:58:23 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Post Malone: “I’ve been f**king hoes and popping pills”
Kanye West: “You’re such a f**king ho, I love it, I love it”
Eminem: Called Tyler the Creator a f** on his diss song
Cardi B: Has physically attacked multiple people in the past month
XXXTentacion, 6ix9ine: I don’t think I need to elaborate.
Lil Pump: “I f**k a bitch, I forgot her name”

Misogyny, drugs, homophobia, violence, pedophilia check. These are all some of the most popular rappers of the past few months. Drake is probably the “cleanest”, which is also the reason why he’s twice as successful as everyone else. But a large percentage of the rap artists getting big now are still violent, homophobic, misogynistic, etc, including the white ones. It has nothing to do with race, although it’s easier to believe that the only reason pop fans don’t like 6ix9ine and Lil Peep is “racism”.

I say this as someone who loves a lot of s**t like Panda, Gucci Gang and Fefe. Maybe 6ix9ine has some female empowerment songs on his album, I don’t know, but based on top 10 songs, 85la isn’t exactly wrong.

No. I think it is wrong because music choices has nothing to do with being moral. If you like a song, you like it. You don't have to stop liking a song because of anything. Cleanliness in music doesn't matter, and anything is fair game in a song.  

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

Oct 9, 2018 11:09:27 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

UGH. Without this albumbomb, "Happier" would've been at #9.

And Youngblood could've been #5. But at least they both moved up this week (and the only songs to do so).

[rimetm]

I don't know if they'll correct it, but Moonlight would've been top 40 this week with the MV boost. It's #24 on Hot Hiphop/R&B in between Killshot and Famous, meaning on the Hot 100 it'll be either #35 or #36 depending on if it's ahead of Meant to Be. This wouldn't make too big a ripple because Tequila, on its 30th week, is at #50, ready to be booted to recurrency.

[djkelly1]

Oct 8, 2018 20:51:38 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Oct 8, 2018 20:49:39 GMT -5 85la said:

Seriously what is it with all the hate for Perfect? You have ONE pop song dominating in the top 25, it's not like it's been #1 for this long or anything, depart, which by the way, is about wholesome love, happiness, respect, female empowerment, yet you have these LOADS of other rap songs about crime, murder, mysogyny, homophobia, beating your pregnant girlfriend, pedophilia (that's the shortlist), dominating almost the rest of the ENTIRE chart. Aren't you morally-deficient s**theads happy enough?!!!!!

THIS. It was f**king in the top 25, not at #1 for 40 weeks.

Wow, this is absolutely correct! This damn country is so divided and filled with hate, it's nice that there's a song to escape from all that. But, nooooo, all you dumbasses have to mock it when it falls off the chart, so that more rap songs about crime, murder and misogyny can take its place! You millennials want to have a more peaceful, everybody get along country, but your shitty taste in music sure doesn't show it.

[wjr15]

Oct 9, 2018 23:16:22 GMT -5 djkelly1 said:

Oct 8, 2018 20:51:38 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

THIS. It was f**king in the top 25, not at #1 for 40 weeks.

Wow, this is absolutely correct! This damn country is so divided and filled with hate, it's nice that there's a song to escape from all that. But, nooooo, all you dumbasses have to mock it when it falls off the chart, so that more rap songs about crime, murder and misogyny can take its place! You millennials want to have a more peaceful, everybody get along country, but your s**tty taste in music sure doesn't show it.

[iHype.]

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Oct 9, 2018 23:16:22 GMT -5 djkelly1 said:

Oct 8, 2018 20:51:38 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

THIS. It was f**king in the top 25, not at #1 for 40 weeks.

Wow, this is absolutely correct! This damn country is so divided and filled with hate, it's nice that there's a song to escape from all that. But, nooooo, all you dumbasses have to mock it when it falls off the chart, so that more rap songs about crime, murder and misogyny can take its place! You millennials want to have a more peaceful, everybody get along country, but your s**tty taste in music sure doesn't show it.

😂

[Gary]

That beats the 'soccer mom' conspiracy as my favorite so far regarding this song

[livelightning]

Oct 9, 2018 23:16:22 GMT -5 djkelly1 said:

Oct 8, 2018 20:51:38 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

THIS. It was f**king in the top 25, not at #1 for 40 weeks.

Wow, this is absolutely correct! This damn country is so divided and filled with hate, it's nice that there's a song to escape from all that. But, nooooo, all you dumbasses have to mock it when it falls off the chart, so that more rap songs about crime, murder and misogyny can take its place! You millennials want to have a more peaceful, everybody get along country, but your s**tty taste in music sure doesn't show it.

Facepalm.

[Gary]

Ariana Grande's 'God' Is No. 1 on Dance Club Songs Chart

10/10/2018 by Gordon Murray

Plus, DJ Snake matches a record with a No. 2 debut on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.

Ariana Grande earns her third No. 1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart (dated Oct. 13) with "God Is a Woman," which rises 2-1.

Remixed by Magixx, BK and Drew G. & Brian Cua, among others, "God" is Grande"s second leader this year, following "No Tears Left to Cry" (June 23). She first led as featured on Nathan Sykes" "Over and Over Again" (February 2016).

Grande has garnered 13 Dance Club Songs hits, including six top 10s, since her first, "Baby I," hit No. 18 in November 2013. Beyond her three No. 1s, her top 10s are: "Right There" (featuring Big Sean; No. 8, February 2014), "Break Free" (featuring Zedd; No. 3, October 2014) and "Into You" (No. 8, August 2016).

ALL-STAR START: On Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, DJ Snake starts at No. 2, tying for the chart's highest-ever bow, with "Taki Taki," featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B. It's the chart's top debut of 2018 (besting Kygo and Imagine Dragons' "Born to Be Yours"; No. 3, June 30) and is only the second song in the list's five-and-a-half-year history to debut as high as No. 2, matching PSY's "Gentleman" (April 27, 2013).

"Taki" is Snake's seventh top 10 on the tally, Gomez's fourth and the first each for Ozuna and Cardi B. "Taki" tackles both Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales (23,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music) and Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs at No. 2 (17.7 million U.S. streams) and launches at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs.


NEW TOP 10s: Two twosomes earn new top 10s on Dance/Mix Show Airplay. Silk City (Diplo and Mark Ronson) scores its first and Dua Lipa her fourth with "Electricity" (11-9). Plus, Dynoro and Gigi D'Agostino achieve their first top 10 each with "In My Mind" (20-10).

[Gary]

Lil Wayne Holds Entire Top 5 of Streaming Songs Chart Following 'Tha Carter V' Release
10/12/2018 by Kevin Rutherford


In all, he claims 19 of the chart's 50 positions, the second artist to do so.
Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart dated Oct. 13 is chock full of Lil Wayne, who scores 19 of the 50 tracks on the tally, including the entire top five, following the release of new album Tha Carter V.

The Weezy onslaught is led by “Mona Lisa,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, which bows at No. 1, the rapper’s first chart-topping debut on the list as a lead artist (and second total, after being featured on DJ Khaled’s “I’m the One” in 2017), racking up 43.1 million streams, according to Nielsen Music.
“Mona Lisa” becomes the ninth song to debut at No. 1 on Streaming Songs in 2018, which means the 2018 count for No. 1 debuts more than doubles any other year since the chart began in 2013. Previously, 2017 featured four chart-topping debuts.


Lil Wayne is just the second act to monopolize the entirety of the chart’s top five, following Drake, who achieved the distinction on the July 14 list following the release of his latest album, Scorpion.

“Don’t Cry,” featuring XXXTentacion, comes in at No. 2 on Streaming Songs, followed by “Let It Fly,” featuring Travis Scott, “Uproar” and “Dedicate.”
In all, the 23-track album features 19 songs on the chart, making Lil Wayne the first artist not named Drake to score at least 19 of the 50 positions. Drake has achieved the feat four times since 2016, led by his 28-song assault on the list following Scorpion’s premiere on July 14.

Additionally, music from Tha Carter V occupies the entire top eight of On-Demand Streaming Songs, which measures just on-demand audio streams. Again, Lil Wayne is the second to do so, following Drake’s July 14-dated run.

[fhas]

Oct 12, 2018 18:30:07 GMT -5 Gary said:

Lil Wayne Holds Entire Top 5 of Streaming Songs Chart Following 'Tha Carter V' Release
10/12/2018 by Kevin Rutherford


In all, he claims 19 of the chart's 50 positions, the second artist to do so.
Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart dated Oct. 13 is chock full of Lil Wayne, who scores 19 of the 50 tracks on the tally, including the entire top five, following the release of new album Tha Carter V.

The Weezy onslaught is led by “Mona Lisa,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, which bows at No. 1, the rapper’s first chart-topping debut on the list as a lead artist (and second total, after being featured on DJ Khaled’s “I’m the One” in 2017), racking up 43.1 million streams, according to Nielsen Music.
“Mona Lisa” becomes the ninth song to debut at No. 1 on Streaming Songs in 2018, which means the 2018 count for No. 1 debuts more than doubles any other year since the chart began in 2013. Previously, 2017 featured four chart-topping debuts.


Lil Wayne is just the second act to monopolize the entirety of the chart’s top five, following Drake, who achieved the distinction on the July 14 list following the release of his latest album, Scorpion.

“Don’t Cry,” featuring XXXTentacion, comes in at No. 2 on Streaming Songs, followed by “Let It Fly,” featuring Travis Scott, “Uproar” and “Dedicate.”
In all, the 23-track album features 19 songs on the chart, making Lil Wayne the first artist not named Drake to score at least 19 of the 50 positions. Drake has achieved the feat four times since 2016, led by his 28-song assault on the list following Scorpion’s premiere on July 14.

Additionally, music from Tha Carter V occupies the entire top eight of On-Demand Streaming Songs, which measures just on-demand audio streams. Again, Lil Wayne is the second to do so, following Drake’s July 14-dated run.

Oh s***... where are the streaming numbers for Uproar and Let It Fly... Billboard is so lazy with streaming data but if a song reaches top 10 on radio they always have an article for that.