Billboard Hot 100: 11/10/18

[renaboss]

"Bohemian Rhapsody" finally becoming a #1 hit in 2018 would be the best Christmas present ever. Not gonna happen but boy imagine that.

[tanooki]

Oct 30, 2018 20:10:59 GMT -5 renaboss said:

"Bohemian Rhapsody" finally becoming a #1 hit in 2018 would be the best Christmas present ever. Not gonna happen but boy imagine that.

With how wild this year is, that possibility is only one meme away from reality

[owenlovesmusic]

Oct 30, 2018 20:05:21 GMT -5 wavey. said:

Oct 30, 2018 20:02:36 GMT -5 owenlovesmusic said:

agreed. I've enjoyed both of their music this year.

Do you like "Dip"?

I did! Interesting beat as well.

[Xander]

How’s many streams of you guys think a #1 song on Apple Music gets? More than Spotify?

[amore]

Oct 30, 2018 20:46:23 GMT -5 Xander said:

How’s many streams of you guys think a #1 song on Apple Music gets? Um idk

[Kris]

Oct 30, 2018 21:00:27 GMT -5 amore said:

Oct 30, 2018 20:46:23 GMT -5 Xander said:

How’s many streams of you guys think a #1 song on Apple Music gets? More than Spotify?

It doesnt matter . Next question.

????????? of course it matters.

I'd say Spotify, only because it's been around longer, I'm not sure if there's more androids or iPhones out there though. 

[Zeebz]

Oct 30, 2018 17:52:09 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

Oct 30, 2018 15:33:33 GMT -5 wavey. said:

He looks like French Montana if he had down syndrome 

Wow, this was in poor taste. I know that this was intended to be a joke, but that does not make it funny or appropriate.

Members of the community with intellectual and developmental disabilities already face too many stigmas/struggles to be degraded by some juvenile joke that wasn’t even entertaining in the first place (although that’s far beside the point; this is never okay.) This statement is just as repulsive as any other discriminatory remark would be. Just because you might be “able” (which people with these conditions are no less able than anyone else) and do not have Down Syndrome does not mean that this isn’t offensive. Statements like this get a pass far too often.

No. Not here. Ableism does not get a pass. These people are some of the most genuine, beautiful, and intelligent people I’ve ever met and to see them be diminished to the level of a petty quip is just disheartening. I’m not sure what I’m more disappointed about, this post or the amount of likes that it has. Do better, Pulse. I’m disappointed in you.

Don’t care if I seem like a prude; I don’t find comments that degrade an entire person’s existence to a weak attempt at shade funny.

[Xander]

Oct 30, 2018 21:05:18 GMT -5 Kris said:

Oct 30, 2018 21:00:27 GMT -5 amore said:

It doesnt matter . Next question.

????????? of course it matters.

I'd say Spotify, only because it's been around longer, I'm not sure if there's more androids or iPhones out there though. 

Apple Music has more American subscribers than Spotify.

[Gary]

Oct 30, 2018 20:19:01 GMT -5 tanooki said:

Oct 30, 2018 20:10:59 GMT -5 renaboss said:

"Bohemian Rhapsody" finally becoming a #1 hit in 2018 would be the best Christmas present ever. Not gonna happen but boy imagine that.

With how wild this year is, that possibility is only one meme away from reality

The movie would have to be a major hit for that to happen - we'll see

[kcdawg13]

Oct 30, 2018 21:14:52 GMT -5 Zeebz said:

Oct 30, 2018 17:52:09 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

He looks like French Montana if he had down syndrome 

Wow, this was in poor taste. I know that this was intended to be a joke, but that does not make it funny or appropriate.

Members of the community with intellectual and developmental disabilities already face too many stigmas/struggles to be degraded by some juvenile joke that wasn’t even entertaining in the first place (although that’s far beside the point; this is never okay.) This statement is just as repulsive as any other discriminatory remark would be. Just because you might be “able” (which people with these conditions are no less able than anyone else) and do not have Down Syndrome does not mean that this isn’t offensive. Statements like this get a pass far too often.

No. Not here. Ableism does not get a pass. These people are some of the most genuine, beautiful, and intelligent people I’ve ever met and to see them be diminished to the level of a petty quip is just disheartening. I’m not sure what I’m more disappointed about, this post or the amount of likes that it has. Do better, Pulse. I’m disappointed in you.

Don’t care if I seem like a prude; I don’t find comments that degrade an entire person’s existence to a weak attempt at shade funny.

I didn't think it was that serious, BUT I get where you are coming from, and with that I am sorry.

You won't be seeing anymore shade or jokes out of me, that's for sure. 

[85la]

Well put Zeebz, and kcdawg13 it was also nice to see your turnaround. I too didn't think it was that serious at first, but I guess it's not for those of us who aren't part of a certain community to say what's offensive/inoffensive to them. If the subjects of the comment feel violated and hurt, then it's definitely not ok.

[tanooki]

I just found out theres a video for Uproar

Any hope for it to do well going forward? Or should we just forget Lil Wayne?

[Naos]

Oct 30, 2018 21:14:52 GMT -5 Zeebz said:

Oct 30, 2018 17:52:09 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

He looks like French Montana if he had down syndrome 

Wow, this was in poor taste. I know that this was intended to be a joke, but that does not make it funny or appropriate.

Members of the community with intellectual and developmental disabilities already face too many stigmas/struggles to be degraded by some juvenile joke that wasn’t even entertaining in the first place (although that’s far beside the point; this is never okay.) This statement is just as repulsive as any other discriminatory remark would be. Just because you might be “able” (which people with these conditions are no less able than anyone else) and do not have Down Syndrome does not mean that this isn’t offensive. Statements like this get a pass far too often.

No. Not here. Ableism does not get a pass. These people are some of the most genuine, beautiful, and intelligent people I’ve ever met and to see them be diminished to the level of a petty quip is just disheartening. I’m not sure what I’m more disappointed about, this post or the amount of likes that it has. Do better, Pulse. I’m disappointed in you.

Don’t care if I seem like a prude; I don’t find comments that degrade an entire person’s existence to a weak attempt at shade funny.

I get your point, but don't most jokes offend someone? A lot of the best comedy is at someone's expense.

[tanooki]

Oct 31, 2018 1:42:42 GMT -5 Naos said:

Oct 30, 2018 21:14:52 GMT -5 Zeebz said:

Wow, this was in poor taste. I know that this was intended to be a joke, but that does not make it funny or appropriate.

Members of the community with intellectual and developmental disabilities already face too many stigmas/struggles to be degraded by some juvenile joke that wasn’t even entertaining in the first place (although that’s far beside the point; this is never okay.) This statement is just as repulsive as any other discriminatory remark would be. Just because you might be “able” (which people with these conditions are no less able than anyone else) and do not have Down Syndrome does not mean that this isn’t offensive. Statements like this get a pass far too often.

No. Not here. Ableism does not get a pass. These people are some of the most genuine, beautiful, and intelligent people I’ve ever met and to see them be diminished to the level of a petty quip is just disheartening. I’m not sure what I’m more disappointed about, this post or the amount of likes that it has. Do better, Pulse. I’m disappointed in you.

Don’t care if I seem like a prude; I don’t find comments that degrade an entire person’s existence to a weak attempt at shade funny.

I get your point, but don't most jokes offend someone? A lot of the best comedy is at someone's expense.

"X looks like Y with down syndrome" isn't a funny line though, unless you're 10 and just found out what down syndrome is

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

Oct 31, 2018 1:27:58 GMT -5 tanooki said:

I just found out theres a video for Uproar

Any hope for it to do well going forward? Or should we just forget Lil Wayne?

I think Uproar was released as a single, that's why it got a music video. I expect Uproar to be rising back up the charts.

[thegreatdivine]

So, the Washington Post wrote a pretty scathing review of Post Malone's inaugural Posty Fest and an opinion piece on his career and him as an artist. It's a pretty long read.

By Jeff Weiss October 30 at 2:30 PM
DALLAS — Him?

The most popular young artist in the most unpopular young nation is a rhinestone cowboy who looks like he crawled out of a primordial swamp of nacho cheese. Post Malone is a Halloween rental, a removable platinum grill, a Cubic Zirconium proposal on the jumbo screen of a last place team.

His music — one of the shallowest bastardizations of rap to date, and I don’t say that lightly — has the creative tension of associates at a downtown law firm complaining that $150,000 a year just doesn’t cut it. He looks like he got clubbed over the head by a cartoon peacock. He just turned 23.

And America just can’t get enough. Nielsen recently named the suburban Dallas-raised rapper 2018’s most popular musician. So it was only a matter of time before Malone had his own festival, a contemporary rite of passage for nearly every major pop-rap star who has his face plastered across Spotify’s Get Turnt Playlist.

The inaugural Posty Fest was held Sunday night in Dallas’s Dos Equis Pavilion, and it was less a festival than a behemoth SAE rush mixer held on a few acres of corporate-branded concrete. Many festivals pride themselves on offering non-music diversions like art installations or novel culinary options. There was none of that here, but there were $5 Jell-O shots. There was little to separate it from a regular Post Malone concert other than the big-name opening acts (Travis Scott; Tyler, the Creator; Lil Skies) and True Religion-sponsored Post Malone bandannas featuring an extreme close-up of Austin Post himself, glazed and squinting, as ever.

This should have ostensibly been a coronation, his unequivocal ascension to the A-list pop superstardom of mono-named visionaries. There are artists who dictate the zeitgeist and those who reflect it. Post Malone is decidedly the latter, an avatar of algorithm culture that rewards pleasant banality over the creatively vexing. At his own festival in his hometown, he had the opportunity to lucidly state his mission and values. Instead, he revealed himself to be Jack Johnson with 808s and nakedly grafted hip-hop slang.

By 9:30 p.m., chants of “Posty! Posty!” filled the amphitheater. Fifteen-year-old blond girls in Daisy Dukes and “Champagnes and Blunts” shirts shrieked as if Post were the next in the lineage of the Backstreet Boys, Jonas Brothers or One Direction. The main difference this time is that they honored their hero with matching temporary face tattoos: barbed wire on their foreheads, a knifelike crucifix on their cheeks, and his trademark phrases inked in cursive — “Stay Away” and “Rest Easy.”

Bros in Troy Aikman jerseys and “Beerbongs and Bentleys” merch grunted with simian glee. Twenty thousand people rocketed up, stood on their seats, and for a brief moment there was the palpable fear of being stampeding to death at a Post Malone concert (which, of course, requires the deceased to be buried in a racecar-shaped coffin wrapped in the Rockstar Energy drink logo).

Three different Eminem songs served as his intro music — presumably a tacit nod to his fandom but also a heavy-handed reminder that Malone is the most popular white guy in hip-hop since Marshall Mathers. At the moment when the hysteria seemed in danger of waning, Post Malone took the stage to deafening cheers, scorching jet flames and billowing clouds of smoke like a Groupon version of a Kiss concert from 1975.

Sipping from a red Solo cup, he soon began slurring “Too Young” with a voice like a bong water bubbling and the casual misogyny of a member of a Red Pill subreddit: “My whip fast/my b---- bad/I skrrr skrrr, that coupe fast/My coupe fast, your b---- know/My b---- slow/she do what I say so and she always keep me on my toes.” Those lines are as good as any at representing what Malone is working with on a lyrical level.

On recordings, his falsetto is afforded a modest four-cylinder strength. But onstage it comes off slurred and sloppy, twitching like road kill, limp off-key notes underscored by a booming backing track that operated like a life preserver.

“I’m going to get f----- up tonight. Who is f----- up tonight? If I forget the words because I’m too drunk, help me sing along,” he told the crowd.

It’s the same applause line that he used at Coachella. His entire set list was essentially identical to what he played at every festival all summer long, right down to the monosyllabic, curse-laden, between-song babbling about haters and the importance of rawking out and turning up.

Even if his voice barely slithered past the 10th row, it didn’t matter to fans who knew every word. They were there to commune to songs like “Better Now,” his latest anthem to interchangeable heartache, presumably made for streaming at the Wahoo’s Fish Taco kiosk at LAX. The problem isn’t necessarily that it’s crass, but that it’s meaningless. It’s not that it’s stupid, but that it’s vacant. It’s the losing difference between appropriation and outright theft.



Post Malone’s music is dead-eyed and ignorant, astonishingly dull in its materialism, an abandoned lot of creativity with absolutely no evidence of traffic in his cerebral cortex — and there’s also a negative side. Even if his intention is sincere homage, the bludgeoning witless imitation can’t help but feel like minstrelsy. White people will inevitably appropriate the most culturally relevant music genre, one that’s become almost intrinsically bound to the modern conception of pop, but it’s not asking too much to attempt modest synthesis or the incorporation of a single new idea, or at least to not be so grotesquely desolate. We went from Eminem to Cheddar Bob. If Post Malone were black, he wouldn’t have sold half; he simply wouldn’t exist.

He introduced “Candy Paint,” his song from the “Fate of the Furious” soundtrack, by telling the crowd that, “it’s a little something that we know about in Texas,” before flounder-crooning: “Candy paint with the white on top/Lambo doors of the oo-op drop/If you busy plotting on what I got/Kick in your door, that’s SWAT you thot.”

From the artists in the Screwed Up Click to UGK to Swishahouse, anthems consecrated to candy-painted cars are a fundamental component of Texas hip-hop. It’s a tradition that’s cut across racial lines to include Houston rappers like Paul Wall and Riff Raff, who carved out singularly flamboyant lanes. They were originals. Post Malone is not.

There was no backing band and not even any set design for this victory-lap performance. Just smoke and fire and yellow sodium stage lights that seemed to expose his limitations. On “Over Now,” he compared sex to body bags in a way that makes you wonder whether his entire sum of carnal knowledge comes from PornHub.

A brief cameo from Swae Lee for their collaboration “Spoil My Night” felt like an S.O.S. flare. When the member of Rae Sremmurd followed it up with “No Type,” it offered a stark reminder of everything Post Malone aspires to and brazenly imitates. He makes Vanilla Ice look like Luther Vandross. He makes Macklemore look like Mac Dre.

As if things couldn’t get any worse, Post Malone posed a question to the crowd: “Do you guys mind if I play my guitar for you?” he asked rhetorically, smoking a cigarette, sitting down for the part of the show where you are supposed to believe that he’s an artiste because he can competently strum an instrument.

“This is usually when people start walking away at festivals, but I hope you stay. . . . This song is about feeling really sad.”

What followed sounded like Bon Iver cosplaying as Bon Scott right before he tried to drink himself to death. What Post Malone is selling is the chill-bro relatability of the third-most sensitive member of a frat house, softly crooning acoustic guitar rap covers to seduce Gammas after a pledge paddling. He is the dynamite hack — the platonic playlist substitute at the Duke University coffee shop so the vice president doesn’t fire you for playing Young Dolph.

What’s most damning is Post Malone’s bloodless abyss of soul and funk. His attempts at being emotional feel like hollow gestures. When he tries to be turned up, it feels inert and airless. His songs completely lack volatility and swing, leaving him as a little boy trying on oversized sequin suits and Versace loafers alternately trying to be a fake musty Elvis, a swaggering baller, a redneck backcountry rebel, but flailing somewhere in the doughy middle. It can’t help but bring me back to his quote given late last year to a Polish interviewer, where Malone said if you’re looking for lyrics that make you want to cry or think about life, you shouldn’t listen to hip-hop.

One would almost expect him to say something that ignorant and off the mark. In fact, the best rap is nothing but emotion. Whether it’s Boosie articulating the struggles of oppression and systematic racism in Baton Rouge or Young Thug conveying the Easter pink euphoria of celebrating all the things you did just to live this lifestyle, this is the bible material that burrows into your mitochondria. It’s Open Mike Eagle articulating the inequities of capitalism and the staggering difficulty of surviving as an artist. It’s Future drowning in codeine as a nepenthe for post-traumatic stress and romantic decay. By contrast, Post Malone offers every bad mash-up of toxic Americana, the perversion of proud outlaw genius warped into a sentient barbed-wire stick and poke tattoo.



Post Malone’s problem isn’t that he’s a bad person or even completely untalented. It’s that he stands for nothing at all. He can afford to feign the swagger and cool of hip-hop when it’s convenient, and opt out when it’s time to see who’s riding for the cause. It’s always been a fairly straightforward compact when it comes to hip-hop: if you’re a white person eating off what has historically been black culture, you have a certain obligation to repay that creative debt. Eminem continues to attack the hypocrisies and contradictions that allowed him to leapfrog equally gifted artists. Macklemore may have lacked subtlety or a rudimentary understanding of when to share text messages, but there was no questioning his dedication to confront his white privilege. Even G-Eazy — repeat, even G-Eazy — dropped out of that racist H&M advertising campaign.

Malone predictably ended Posty Fest with the trio of his biggest hits: “Rockstar,” “White Iverson” and “Congratulations.” He introduced “Rock Star” as about being really wasted and trashing your hotel room, the cliched fantasies of half a century of guitar god rot coming home to roost in rap. During “White Iverson,” I surveyed the humanity surrounding me and spotted an elementary-school-age kid passed out atop a Cowboys blanket, surrounded by crumpled Red Bull cans, water bottles and Bud Lights. Approaching the conclusion of his set, Post thanked the crowd, telling them they are “kick ass.” Then he launched into a rote, well-rehearsed diatribe about how no one believed in him but now he’s a No. 1 artist with his own festival. Suck on that, haters.

It is true, after all. Post Malone has won. He’s received wealth and fame with little accountability. He’s reaped the extreme benefits of a system that allowed him to flourish yet asserts his privilege to remain purposefully ignorant. He knows he won the lottery, but doesn’t understand that it was rigged in his favor. This is what the zeitgeist demanded as the latest whole-milk hip-hop avatar: a proud non-voter, a nonreader of books, the type of person who gets a JFK tattoo without knowing about Kennedy’s role in the Voting Rights Act while bizarrely claiming that he was “the only president to speak out against the crazy corruption stuff that’s going on in our government nowadays.” In other interviews, he’s repeatedly espoused tangled Alex Jones conspiracy theories about chemtrails, the government coming to take our assault rifles and secret guns that can give people heart attacks. He’s also a doomsday prepper, because of course he is.

What Post Malone so perfectly represents is the idiotic currents that have carried us to this present cultural submersion — where an objective notion of the truth has been systematically muddied, facts are negotiable and any hint of criticism — be it for lacking integrity, dignity or talent — can be brazenly dismissed as the pitiful cries of the “haters.” So congratulations, I guess. Who allowed this happen? What hole in the system allowed this greasy discarded barbecue wrapper to prosper? A fake pale king sitting on a tin foil throne. Return to sender.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/post-malone-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-this-american-moment-thats-not-a-compliment/2018/10/30/ad6112b8-dbc4-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?

[livelightning]

Oct 30, 2018 21:14:52 GMT -5 Zeebz said:

Oct 30, 2018 17:52:09 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

He looks like French Montana if he had down syndrome 

Wow, this was in poor taste. I know that this was intended to be a joke, but that does not make it funny or appropriate.

Members of the community with intellectual and developmental disabilities already face too many stigmas/struggles to be degraded by some juvenile joke that wasn’t even entertaining in the first place (although that’s far beside the point; this is never okay.) This statement is just as repulsive as any other discriminatory remark would be. Just because you might be “able” (which people with these conditions are no less able than anyone else) and do not have Down Syndrome does not mean that this isn’t offensive. Statements like this get a pass far too often.

No. Not here. Ableism does not get a pass. These people are some of the most genuine, beautiful, and intelligent people I’ve ever met and to see them be diminished to the level of a petty quip is just disheartening. I’m not sure what I’m more disappointed about, this post or the amount of likes that it has. Do better, Pulse. I’m disappointed in you.

Don’t care if I seem like a prude; I don’t find comments that degrade an entire person’s existence to a weak attempt at shade funny.

Lmao calm down. There is nothing wrong with making a joke about something.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Oct 30, 2018 19:32:52 GMT -5 korbel16 said:

Oct 30, 2018 18:56:52 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

it grew on me.. thought the same sis, till i grew taste 😘

You sure it’s not mould?

[livelightning]

Oct 31, 2018 7:31:39 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

So, the Washington Post wrote a pretty scathing review of Post Malone's inaugural Posty Fest and an opinion piece on his career and him as an artist. It's a pretty long read.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/post-malone-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-this-american-moment-thats-not-a-compliment/2018/10/30/ad6112b8-dbc4-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?

Holy crap this might be the stupidest thing I've ever read. How is this guy allowed to write anything?

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Oct 31, 2018 1:42:42 GMT -5 Naos said:

Oct 30, 2018 21:14:52 GMT -5 Zeebz said:

Wow, this was in poor taste. I know that this was intended to be a joke, but that does not make it funny or appropriate.

Members of the community with intellectual and developmental disabilities already face too many stigmas/struggles to be degraded by some juvenile joke that wasn’t even entertaining in the first place (although that’s far beside the point; this is never okay.) This statement is just as repulsive as any other discriminatory remark would be. Just because you might be “able” (which people with these conditions are no less able than anyone else) and do not have Down Syndrome does not mean that this isn’t offensive. Statements like this get a pass far too often.

No. Not here. Ableism does not get a pass. These people are some of the most genuine, beautiful, and intelligent people I’ve ever met and to see them be diminished to the level of a petty quip is just disheartening. I’m not sure what I’m more disappointed about, this post or the amount of likes that it has. Do better, Pulse. I’m disappointed in you.

Don’t care if I seem like a prude; I don’t find comments that degrade an entire person’s existence to a weak attempt at shade funny.

I get your point, but don't most jokes offend someone? A lot of the best comedy is at someone's expense.

Jokes can still be at the expense of a group of people without being insulting.

[Au$tin]

Comedy is meant to be offensive, yes, but not harmful. There is a difference, and reducing an entire set of people with an affliction out of their control to a joke like that is detrimental to them as a whole, rendering the joke harmful. It normalizes the rude idea that people with down syndrome look "weird" or "funny," which leads to them being treated as such even if it's only in the subconscious, when in reality they just look different. Different is not weird or funny, so that's why it's hurtful. It's a fine line, but it is indeed a line that shouldn't be crossed.

Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion:

Oct 30, 2018 21:18:55 GMT -5 Xander said:

Oct 30, 2018 21:05:18 GMT -5 Kris said:

????????? of course it matters.

I'd say Spotify, only because it's been around longer, I'm not sure if there's more androids or iPhones out there though. 

Apple Music has more American subscribers than Spotify.

Yes, but Spotify has more American users overall. Remember Spotify has a free version while Apple does not. That being said, I'm fairly certain that generally they're pretty close in total streams for their top songs nowadays. In the US, at least. Maybe a slight edge to Spotify. Like 2 million to 1.75 million.

[Ling-Ling]

Oct 31, 2018 7:31:39 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

So, the Washington Post wrote a pretty scathing review of Post Malone's inaugural Posty Fest and an opinion piece on his career and him as an artist. It's a pretty long read.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/post-malone-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-this-american-moment-thats-not-a-compliment/2018/10/30/ad6112b8-dbc4-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?

I almost stood up and cheered. He is mediocrity personified and essentially the Kid Rock of rap music. His success and large following truly speaks to these depressing times, the rap star we deserve.

[Golden Bluebird]

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Overall AI (Top 20) - 2018/10/31
1. (=) MAROON 5 - Girls Like You f/Cardi B (151.734) (-1.189)
2. (=) 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER - Youngblood (125.661) (+1.272)
3. (=) POST MALONE - Better Now (116.137) (+0.132)
4. (=) KHALID X NORMANI - Love Lies (113.425) (+0.117)
5. (=) MARSHMELLO - Happier f/Bastille (101.281) (+1.663)
6. (=) ARIANA GRANDE - God Is A Woman (95.848) (+0.573)
7. (=) JUICE WRLD - Lucid Dreams (86.875) (-0.255)
8. (=) SELENA GOMEZ - Back To You (85.279) (-1.159)
9. (=) LOVELYTHEBAND - Broken (84.104) (+0.412)
10. (=) IMAGINE DRAGONS - Natural (83.853) (+0.203)
11. (=) PANIC! AT THE DISCO - High Hopes (79.368) (+2.608)
12. (=) TRAVIS SCOTT - Sicko Mode (74.872) (+0.279)
13. (=) TAYLOR SWIFT - Delicate (73.689) (-0.861)
14. (=) LAUV - I Like Me Better (70.910) (+0.327)
15. (=) LUKE COMBS - She Got The Best Of Me (67.893) (+0.170)
16. (=) ARIANA GRANDE - Breathin (65.650) (+1.099)
17. (=) CARDI B/BAD BUNNY/J BALVIN - I Like It (61.265) (-1.239)
18. (=) CHRIS YOUNG - Hangin' On (58.938) (+0.719)
19. (+1) BENNY BLANCO, HALSEY & KHALID - Eastside (55.882) (+0.692)
20. (-1) ZEDD/MAREN MORRIS/GREY - The Middle (55.559) (-0.476)

Others:
21. (+1) CARDI B - Ring (53.415) (+1.065)
22. (+1) JIMMIE ALLEN - Best Shot (53.386) (+1.089)
32. (+1) MAREN MORRIS - Rich (46.331) (+0.584)
37. (+2) SHAWN MENDES - Lost In Japan f/Zedd (42.711) (+0.526)
46. (+1) GUCCI MANE/BRUNO/KODAK - Wake Up In The Sky (37.013) (+0.674)
48. (+1) HALSEY - Without Me (36.779) (+0.754)
49. (-1) BAZZI - Beautiful (36.681) (+0.608)
52. (=) TIESTO & DZEKO - Jackie Chan f/Preme/PostMalone (33.821) (-0.685)

[thegreatdivine]

Oct 31, 2018 8:27:10 GMT -5 livelightning said:

Oct 31, 2018 7:31:39 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

So, the Washington Post wrote a pretty scathing review of Post Malone's inaugural Posty Fest and an opinion piece on his career and him as an artist. It's a pretty long read.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/post-malone-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-this-american-moment-thats-not-a-compliment/2018/10/30/ad6112b8-dbc4-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?

Holy crap this might be the stupidest thing I've ever read. How is this guy allowed to write anything?

I wouldn't go as far as calling it "stupid." While, I can passively enjoy Post Malone's music, A LOT of the points brought up in the piece are truthful. Of course, it's an OP-ed so the writer has the liberty to be as harsh and as possible.

[thegreatdivine]

Oct 31, 2018 9:07:59 GMT -5 Ling-Ling said:

Oct 31, 2018 7:31:39 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

So, the Washington Post wrote a pretty scathing review of Post Malone's inaugural Posty Fest and an opinion piece on his career and him as an artist. It's a pretty long read.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/post-malone-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-this-american-moment-thats-not-a-compliment/2018/10/30/ad6112b8-dbc4-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?

I almost stood up and cheered. He is mediocrity personified and essentially the Kid Rock of rap music. His success and large following truly speaks to these depressing times, the rap star we deserve.

I thought it was a bit harsh, but it's an entirely truthful piece. Of course, people who are huge Post Malone fans on here will vehemently disagree.

[lazer]

If Happier will be the next #1, will Without Me replace Happier?

[Au$tin]

Oct 31, 2018 7:31:39 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

So, the Washington Post wrote a pretty scathing review of Post Malone's inaugural Posty Fest and an opinion piece on his career and him as an artist. It's a pretty long read.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/post-malone-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-this-american-moment-thats-not-a-compliment/2018/10/30/ad6112b8-dbc4-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?

What does this have to do with the Hot 100?

[DJ General]

Halloween 2018 - iTunes

#100 - Little Nell, Patricia Quinn & Richard O'Brien - Time Warp
#99 - Michael Jackson - Thriller (2003 Edit)
#98 - Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
#97 - Vic Mizzy - The Addams Family
#91 - Sha Na Na - Witch Doctor
#65 - Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
#56 - Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
#47 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash
#37 - John Carpenter - Halloween Theme
#21 - The Citizens Of Halloween - This Is Halloween
#17 - Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
#9 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
#8 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash

Does anyone have digital sales on these? I imagine the last updates were from Halloween 2017? Maybe we will get new ones this year. Would be cool to see some Halloween songs on the Hot 100 but doubt it

[ddlz]

Oct 31, 2018 8:40:25 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Oct 31, 2018 1:42:42 GMT -5 Naos said:

I get your point, but don't most jokes offend someone? A lot of the best comedy is at someone's expense.

Jokes can still be at the expense of a group of people without being insulting.

Lol, it's as if some of you are new to the hipster culture. It's always been this obnoxious and toxic. They always get personal with the popular new kid on the block.

Btw, many of the things they criticize Post Malone for could also easily apply to Drake, but it's easier to go after Post Malone for all the obvious reasons.

[DJ General]

At least GLY is finally dropping a good amount. It has 2 weeks left at #1 and then it will end at 16 weeks #1 with Iris record in tact!!