Billboard Hot 100: 10/13/18

[amore]

Oct 5, 2018 21:28:30 GMT -5 woods said:

How embarrassing.

Post better fix this sh*t on his next era. We can't be having 2 month late videos. :( Get it together Post. It pisses me off seeing an artist missing out on a #1 because he was lazy.

[owenlovesmusic]

Oct 5, 2018 22:15:25 GMT -5 amore said:

Oct 5, 2018 21:28:30 GMT -5 woods said:

How embarrassing.

Post better fix this sh*t on his next era. We can't be having 2 month late videos. :( Get it together Post. It pisses me off seeing an artist missing out on a #1 because he was busy.

fixed

[brady47]

Oct 4, 2018 20:30:48 GMT -5 amore said:

Oct 4, 2018 20:00:07 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

I'm impressed by the success of Shape Of You...90 WEEKS LATER it's still in the top 40 of Global Chart and WW iTunes Chart, 32 million SPS WW, 6,6M streams WW (Spotify+YouTube). The biggest song of the decade.

Is it really the biggest song of the decade?

Yup. It was virtually #1 on EVERY year end chart in 2017 for any country (#2 in some Spanish-speaking countries behind Despacito)

The last song I can think of that came close to that domination was "Happy" and "Poker Face"

[iHype.]

Drake, Lil Baby, and Gunna's new song 'Never Recover' debuts #1 on Spotify & Apple Music.

Another Hot 100 top 10.

So much for people beginning to get tired of Drake huh.

[Deleted]

Oct 6, 2018 1:58:59 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Drake, Lil Baby, and Gunna's new song 'Never Recover' debuts #1 on Spotify & Apple Music.

Another Hot 100 top 10.

So much for people beginning to get tired of Drake huh.

I'm never going to recover from these news...

shitty pun intended please kill me

[kanfad]

Oct 6, 2018 1:58:59 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Drake, Lil Baby, and Gunna's new song 'Never Recover' debuts #1 on Spotify & Apple Music.

Another Hot 100 top 10.

So much for people beginning to get tired of Drake huh.

Has there been a Spotify/Apple Music #1 song that didn't debut in the top 10 this year? Excluding album intros like Survival and Paranoid

[thegreatdivine]

Oct 6, 2018 1:58:59 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Drake, Lil Baby, and Gunna's new song 'Never Recover' debuts #1 on Spotify & Apple Music.

Another Hot 100 top 10.

So much for people beginning to get tired of Drake huh.

Why do I enjoy watching you terrorise those pop enthusiasts on ATRL? Lmao.

[Keelzit]

Oct 5, 2018 22:15:25 GMT -5 amore said:

Oct 5, 2018 21:28:30 GMT -5 woods said:

How embarrassing.

Post better fix this sh*t on his next era. We can't be having 2 month late videos. :( Get it together Post. It pisses me off seeing an artist missing out on a #1 because he was lazy.

What is even more non-sensical is that his big promo spots are mishandled too. He performed Rockstar @ the VMAs and he's about to do Psycho @ the AMAs.. both like 8 months after they peaked while he had a current single doing well but was paid dust. What's next? Better Now @ the Grammy's in January? I mean, yes, I'm not a fan because of his success and I enjoy watching random live performances from artists that I like but if you're gonna play the game at least play it well.

[thegreatdivine]

Oct 5, 2018 21:19:49 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

^I also do enjoy the song and find it to be the best from the album along with Psycho. Just over 400k views might not even result in a new peak for it.

Better Now is one of the more generic songs off Post Malone's album. Rockstar, Psycho, Stay, even Ball for Me are way stronger cuts, if you ask me. I doubt the video will take off on YouTube seeing as how new songs will only keep dropping from this point on.

[kanfad]

As soon as Stay gets a country remix, it's over for everyone on radio

[thegreatdivine]

Oct 6, 2018 4:24:53 GMT -5 kanfad said:

As soon as Stay gets a country remix, it's over for everyone on radio

I'm hoping he pushes it next year. I don't know if a radio push + music video would be enough to really boost it's streams, but I know pop radio would eat it the hell up. Another potential top 10 record EASILY.

[thegreatdivine]

Never Recover debuts at #1 on Spotify US with 1,813,499 streams and at #15 on Spotify Worldwide with 2,457,436 streams.

[lazer]

It's not that big of a debut. If it's over 3 million streams, then I'll be impressed.

[Enigma.]

Yea I think all the songs on Scorpion did better on first day lol

[hot100predictions]

What even is Never Recover about?

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Oct 5, 2018 11:59:48 GMT -5 kanfad said:

Not exactly chart related but sometimes I wonder about the pure sales purists we have today in the streaming era. Right now I simply cant imagine us going further beyond streaming but in 15 years when streaming becomes old news, I do hope to have the open mindedness to not belittle the next form of music consumption or feel like because it makes access to music easier(like technology is supposed to), it's automatically inferior and/or devalues the music.

Also hoping that streaming payouts improve to respectable levels and what comes after streaming is a vast improvement on that

I think it devalues music which in turn leads to inferior music.

[ddlz]

It's funny how weak the chart is right now, even on streaming platforms.

[Golden Bluebird]

kworb.net/airadio/

*** = Dropped or added a format

Overall AI (Top 20) - 2018/10/06
1. (=) MAROON 5 - Girls Like You f/Cardi B (166.549) (-1.051)
2. (=) POST MALONE - Better Now (127.649) (-0.116)
3. (=) 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER - Youngblood (117.976) (-0.260)
4. (=) KHALID X NORMANI - Love Lies (112.171) (-0.506)
5. (=) SELENA GOMEZ - Back To You (111.924) (-0.125)
6. (=) JUICE WRLD - Lucid Dreams (89.702) (+1.251)
7. (=) CARDI B/BAD BUNNY/J BALVIN - I Like It (87.862) (-0.306)
8. (+1) ARIANA GRANDE - God Is A Woman (83.912) (+1.189)
9. (-1) TAYLOR SWIFT - Delicate (83.509) (-1.376)
10. (=) DJ KHALED/BIEBER/CHANCE/QUAVO - No Brainer (76.716) (-2.390)
11. (=) IMAGINE DRAGONS - Natural (75.134) (-0.378)
12. (+1) LOVELYTHEBAND - Broken (70.002) (+0.102)
13. (-1) LAUV - I Like Me Better (69.756) (-0.595)
14. (=) RUSSELL DICKERSON - Blue Tacoma (65.330) (+1.386)
15. (=) ZEDD/MAREN MORRIS/GREY - The Middle (61.145) (-0.067)
16. (=) OLD DOMINION - Hotel Key (58.696) (-1.087)
17. (=) BEBE REXHA - Meant To Be f/F.G.L. (57.219) (-0.821)
18. (=) DRAKE - In My Feelings (55.825) (-2.101)
19. (+1) TYGA - Taste f/Offset (55.296) (-0.106)
20. (-1) ARIANA GRANDE - No Tears Left to Cry (54.965) (-0.985)

Others:
23. (+4) MARSHMELLO - Happier f/Bastille (52.679) (+1.544)
24. (+1) TRAVIS SCOTT - Sicko Mode (52.518) (+0.728)
25. (-2) WEEZER - Africa (52.352) (-0.624)
28. (=) LUKE COMBS - She Got The Best Of Me (49.954) (+0.617)
29. (+3) YG F/2 CHAINZ, BIG SEAN, NICKI - Big Bank (49.636) (+0.725)
31. (+2) DAN + SHAY - Tequila (49.221) (+0.620)
33. (+1) DRAKE - Nonstop (48.903) (+0.701)
36. (+1) CHARLIE PUTH - The Way I Am (42.699) (-0.511)
40. (+2) ELLA MAI - Trip (40.982) (+0.966)
45. (=) BENNY BLANCO, HALSEY & KHALID - Eastside (37.525) (+0.554)
46. (+1) MAREN MORRIS - Rich (37.317) (+0.695)
47. (+1) CARDI B - Ring (37.170) (+0.982)
49. (+4) PANIC! AT THE DISCO - High Hopes (35.848) (+1.164)
62. (+3) JIMMIE ALLEN - Best Shot (31.183) (+0.517)
66. (+2) MEEK MILL - Dangerous f/Jeremih, PnB Rock (30.184) (+0.737)

[thegreatdivine]

To all of you saying Never Recover's Spotify debut is low, it really doesn't matter. Also, how is it "low" in comparison to the rest of the songs on the chart when the rest of the entire chart is pulling in even lower streams? It's not like there are any other songs pulling in even above 2m daily US streams and today's update was for Friday - the day of the week when streams are usually their highest, so that tells you all you need to know about the state of the charts right now - it's weak. All the song needs to do is maintain this figure or have them increase during the course of the tracking week and a top 10 debut is sure, which is an incredible achievement. You're not going to get 4.5m range first-day US streams from anymore songs for the remainder of this year. That's over.

[owenlovesmusic]

Either Drip Too Hard or Never Recover will definitely go top 10 next week.

[lazer]

Will Happier go to top 3?

[Gary]

Ask Billboard: Juice WRLD's 'Lucid Dreams' Brings Sting Back to No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
10/6/2018 by Gary Trust


Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Citi
Sting performs onstage to kick off Citi Sound Vault, a new live music platform curated exclusively for Citi cardmembers, at Hollywood Palladium on Feb. 8, 2017 in Los Angeles.


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Hi Gary,

Happy October! That's great that Juice WRLD's "Lucid Dreams" has hit No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (and Hot Rap Songs), giving co-authors Sting and Dominic Miller a new No. 1, as writers. The pair penned Sting's "Shape of My Heart," originally released on his 1993 album, Ten Summoner's Tales, and now sampled on "Dreams."

If "Dreams" can make it to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it's up to No. 2 this week, it would spell a No. 1 career span of 35 years-plus for Mr. Sumner, as a writer, dating to The Police's "Every Breath You Take," an eight-week No. 1 in 1983 (which he wrote solo).

Sting already topped Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs as a writer of Puff Daddy and Faith Evans' "I'll Be Missing You," featuring 112, in 1997; that song, of course, reworks "Breath."
So, over two decades after "Missing," and four decades into his career, Sting again contributes to the week's top R&B/hip-hop tune.
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Oakland, California
Hi deleted,

Happy October! In fact, I'm writing this while watching my Red Sox vs. … not-your-A's. Sorry, I share any disappointment you might be feeling; you know which team I rooted for (or, really, against) in the AL Wild Card Game.

As for Sting, his R&B chart history is extensive beyond "Breath" and "Dreams." He's also charted as an artist on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, while his latest album, 44/876, teams him with Shaggy, a veteran of the chart dating to 1995's No. 1 "Boombastic"/"In the Summertime."
Let's retrace every step Sting has taken on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (we've been watching him), recapping all his entries as a writer, including three as a credited artist.
Meanwhile, "Shape of My Heart" is in its second go-round in the chart's top 10; it first reached the region nearly 18 years ago via a different sample, thanks to Carl Thomas:
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free," Sting (No. 17 peak, 1985)
"We'll Be Together," Sting (No. 39, 1987)
"Steelo," 702 (No. 12, 1996); samples The Police's "Voices Inside My Head"
"I'll Be Missing You," Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112 (No. 1, eight weeks, 1997); interpolates The Police's "Every Breath You Take"
"Roxanne '97 – Puff Daddy Remix," Sting & The Police (No. 20, 1997)
"Emotional," Carl Thomas (No. 8, 2001); samples Sting's "Shape of My Heart"
"What Means the World to You," Cam'ron (No. 30, 2000); samples The Police's "Roxanne"
"Lucid Dreams," Juice WRLD (No. 1, one week to-date, 2018); samples "Shape of My Heart"
Not that R&B music represents Sting's only foray outside his core pop-rock sound. He also boasts three No. 1s on the Classical Albums chart, between 2006 and 2010, while Toby Keith's remake of Sting's "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" hit No. 2 on Hot Country Songs in 1998.

Plus, in late 1983, after the original had topped the Hot 100, a shuffling remake of "Breath" by Texas trio Mason Dixon reached No. 69 on Hot Country Songs.
"Wow!! I don't even have this … and I sang it!," reads the first comment about the song on YouTube … by grateful former Mason Dixon singer Frank Gilligan.

[rainie]

Oct 6, 2018 16:08:17 GMT -5 lazer said:

Will Happier go to top 3?

It’s obv too early to tell, but I could potentially see that happening down the road considering the way it’s exploding across the board. Surprised it’s streaming so well, but maybe Marshmello is helping with that.

[amore]

I really hope Lucid dreams falls. I really hate that song. One of the worst top 10 hits of the year. Of course it is second to Fefe.

[thelegends]

Oct 6, 2018 1:58:59 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Drake, Lil Baby, and Gunna's new song 'Never Recover' debuts #1 on Spotify & Apple Music.

Another Hot 100 top 10.

So much for people beginning to get tired of Drake huh.

Lil Baby and Gunna are goimg to have 2 songs in the top 10.

[thelegends]

Oct 6, 2018 9:59:41 GMT -5 owenlovesmusic said:

Either Drip Too Hard or Never Recover will definitely go top 10 next week.

Both

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

[renaboss]

Has there been an article regarding the next #1 this week? Since according to folks here there are three contenders, "Girls Like You", "Lucid Dreams" and "Mona Lisa". I kinda hope we do get a new one, and I'd probably favor "Lucid Dreams" over "Mona Lisa". I also want "Better Now" to sneak in a week, of course.

[Deleted]

Oct 7, 2018 6:41:32 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Oct 5, 2018 1:22:59 GMT -5 willapted33 said:

all the 7 people still using iTunes must be over all the rap songs. what a shame!

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

^ 56% of 2018 number-ones on Digital songs chart are rap songs.