Billboard Hot 100: 12/1/2018

[Golden Bluebird]

[iHype.]

Hot 100:

1. Thank U, Next (=)

2. Sicko Mode (=)

3. Happier (=)

4. Without Me (=)

5. Lucid Dreams (+1)

6. High Hopes (+2)

7. Mo Bamba (=)

8. Girls Like You (-3)

9. Drip too Hard (+1)

10. ZEZE (-1)

[fhas]

Lucid Dreams in the top five again? Wow. It's truly one of the biggest rap hits of the decade.

[iHype.]

Article: www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8486514/ariana-grande-thank-u-next-third-week-hot-100-panic-at-the-disco

"Next," which plummets 29 percent in overall activity week-over-week, wins a fairly tight race over Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" (up 4 percent), which spends a fourth total frame at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. The track keeps at No. 4 on Streaming Songs (37 million, up 5 percent) and rises 7-6 on Digital Song Sales (18,000, up 3 percent) and 9-8 on Radio Songs (62 million, up 3 percent). "Sicko" posts a fifth week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

With the sharp decline of "Next" and the advance of "Sicko," the latter seems in play for No. 1 on the Hot 100 next week, although if Grande releases a proper video for the former during the current tracking week (ending Nov. 29), "Next" would likely surge in streaming. Grande has released two videos for "Next" so far -- an audio clip upon its release Nov. 3 and a lyric video Nov. 6 -- and has since teased the song's forthcoming official proper video, believed to be in the vein of such early 2000s movies as Mean Girls, Bring It On, Legally Blonde and 13 Going on 30.

Why does Billboard have them so close???

[Gary]

Ariana Grande's 'Thank U, Next' Leads Hot 100 for Third Week, Panic! at the Disco Hits New High With 'High Hopes'

11/26/2018 by Gary Trust



"Hopes" becomes Panic's highest-charting Hot 100 hit & its first Radio Songs No. 1. Plus, Halsey's "Without Me" is the new leader in sales.

Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" rules the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Dec. 1) for a third week.

While the track also tops the Streaming Songs chart for a third week, two titles take over the leads in the Hot 100's other measured metrics: Halsey's "Without Me" reaches No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, while holding at No. 4 on the Hot 100, and Panic! at the Disco's "High Hopes" ascends to the top of Radio Songs, while marking a new personal best for the Brendon Urie-led act on the Hot 100, where it lifts 8-6.

Let's run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 27).

"Next," released on Republic Records and which debuted as Grande's first Hot 100 No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 17, spends a third week atop Streaming Songs, with 43.8 million U.S. streams (down 31 percent) in the week ending Nov. 22, according to Nielsen Music.

The track drops to No. 4 after two weeks atop Digital Song Sales, with 23,000 downloads sold (down 47 percent) in the week ending Nov. 22, and debuts at No. 36 on Radio Songs, with 31.8 million in all-format airplay audience (up 45 percent), in the week ending Nov. 25.

"Next," which plummets 29 percent in overall activity week-over-week, wins a fairly tight race over Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" (up 4 percent), which spends a fourth total frame at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. The track keeps at No. 4 on Streaming Songs (37 million, up 5 percent) and rises 7-6 on Digital Song Sales (18,000, up 3 percent) and 9-8 on Radio Songs (62 million, up 3 percent). "Sicko" posts a fifth week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

With the sharp decline of "Next" and the advance of "Sicko," the latter seems in play for No. 1 on the Hot 100 next week, although if Grande releases a proper video for the former during the current tracking week (ending Nov. 29), "Next" would likely surge in streaming. Grande has released two videos for "Next" so far -- an audio clip upon its release Nov. 3 and a lyric video Nov. 6 -- and has since teased the song's forthcoming official proper video, believed to be in the vein of such early 2000s movies as Mean Girls, Bring It On, Legally Blonde and 13 Going on 30.

Marshmello and Bastille's "Happier" repeats at its No. 3 Hot 100 high. It falls to No. 2 after a week atop Radio Songs (though up 6 percent to 106 million), while holding at No. 5 on Digital Song Sales (22,000, up 2 percent) and No. 10 on Streaming Songs (21.2 million, essentially even week-over-week). The track tops Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 10th week.

Halsey's "Without Me" is steady at its No. 4 Hot 100 peak, while climbing 2-1 on Digital Song Sales (37,000, up 5 percent). Halsey earns her second Digital Song Sales No. 1 and first as a lead artist, following her 13-week reign in 2016 as featured on The Chainsmokers' "Closer."

"Without Me" pushes 8-7 on Streaming Songs (26.8 million, up 3 percent) and becomes Halsey's fifth Radio Songs top 10 (12-10; 58.6 million, up 16 percent). She previously hit the Radio Songs top 10 with "Closer" (No. 1, 11 weeks, 2016); "Now or Never" (No. 10, July 2017); "Bad at Love" (No. 3, January 2018); and "Him & I," with G-Eazy (No. 6; March 2018).

Juice WRLD's "Lucid Dreams" rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2.

Panic! at the Disco's second Hot 100 top 10, "High Hopes," becomes its highest-charting, as it rises 8-6. It passes the No. 7 peak of the act's debut entry, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies," in 2006.

"Hopes" also becomes Panic!'s first leader on Radio Songs (3-1; 106.7 million, up 12 percent). The act previously reached the ranking only with "Sins," which hit No. 13.

Notably, "Hopes" dethrones Marshmello and Bastille's "Happier" atop Radio Songs, with both hits having topped the Alternative Songs airplay chart ("Happier" on Nov. 10 and "Hopes" for a third week this week). The tracks mark the second pair of back-to-back Radio Songs leaders in the past year that also each topped Alternative Songs, after Portugal. The Man's "Feel It Still" and Imagine Dragons' "Thunder" in late 2017. The prior such pair? Fun.'s "We Are Young," featuring Janelle Monae, and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," featuring Kimbra, in 2012. (The only other such set of consecutive Radio Songs No. 1s? Sugar Ray's "Fly" and Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping," in 1997.)

"Hopes" rises 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (23,000, up 2 percent) and debuts at No. 47 on Streaming Songs (12.8 million, up 5 percent), while leading Hot Rock Songs for a fourth week.


Sheck Wes' debut hit "Mo Bamba" keeps at its No. 7 Hot 100 high and Maroon 5's former seven-week No. 1 "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B, dips 5-8. The latter tallies a 25th week in the Hot 100's top 10, becoming just the 20th single in the chart's 60-year history to reach the milestone (and Maroon 5 and Cardi B's first each); Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" holds the record with 33 weeks in the top 10 in 2017.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Lil Baby and Gunna's "Drip Too Hard" rises 10-9, after hitting No. 4; and, Kodak Black's "ZEZE," featuring Travis Scott and Offset, falls 9-10, after peaking at No. 2 upon its debut.

Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard's Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow billboard and billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 27), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

[Kris]

This is High Hopes first week on the streaming chart? A #6 is rather impressive then.

[Gary]

Component #1's

#1 Digital Without Me - Halsey --- 37,000
#1 Streaming Thank U, next 43.8
#1 radio -- High Hopes 106.7

[chartfreak]

Wait the number 1 digital song is only at 37,000? Oye...what has happened.?

[fhas]

Nov 26, 2018 17:20:44 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Article: www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8486514/ariana-grande-thank-u-next-third-week-hot-100-panic-at-the-disco

"Next," which plummets 29 percent in overall activity week-over-week, wins a fairly tight race over Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" (up 4 percent), which spends a fourth total frame at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. The track keeps at No. 4 on Streaming Songs (37 million, up 5 percent) and rises 7-6 on Digital Song Sales (18,000, up 3 percent) and 9-8 on Radio Songs (62 million, up 3 percent). "Sicko" posts a fifth week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

With the sharp decline of "Next" and the advance of "Sicko," the latter seems in play for No. 1 on the Hot 100 next week, although if Grande releases a proper video for the former during the current tracking week (ending Nov. 29), "Next" would likely surge in streaming. Grande has released two videos for "Next" so far -- an audio clip upon its release Nov. 3 and a lyric video Nov. 6 -- and has since teased the song's forthcoming official proper video, believed to be in the vein of such early 2000s movies as Mean Girls, Bring It On, Legally Blonde and 13 Going on 30.

Why does Billboard have them so close???

It's really close. 5-6% lead for TUN.

[tanooki]

Lucid Dreams is higher than High Hopes? Was not expecting that

[Gary]

A long run at #1 for Ariana probably will not happen

[reputainbow]

i’m surprised lucid dreams rose up to #5 considering it spent the entire week losing on radio. high hopes should easily pass it next week tho

[renaboss]

I do love it when they take forever to post the top 10 only for it to be such a bore. That's not their fault, it's just annoying.

[Gary]

Nov 26, 2018 15:22:21 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

I blame the delay on leftover turkey coma. Or maybe they all ate romaine...

No big rule change
Very little movement

This is probably what happened - LOL

[livelightning]

Nov 26, 2018 10:56:38 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Nov 26, 2018 9:28:29 GMT -5 livelightning said:

I wonder what genre you unfairly hate.

Why unfairly? I love hip-hop. Just not 2018 hip-hop. 

Also I quite like ZEZE and, for whatever reason, Mo Bamba, I just like the others more. Sicko Mode and Drip Too Hard can f*ck off though. 

sicko mode and drip too hard might be the two best. This is clearly unfair hate.

[livelightning]

Nov 26, 2018 17:13:04 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Nov 26, 2018 16:53:53 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

I mean what could they change? The only change I could possibly see is the weakening of airplay and increasing the strength of paid streaming. Which would have some positives and some pretty heavy negatives

I would rather streaming have less weight...but we'll see.

Why should streaming be weighted less? Streaming is by far the most popular metric. They already reduced its weight too much.

[Kris]

Streaming is kind of broken in a sense because you can actually manipulate it consistently. Nobody is going to spend extra $$ to get a sale higher on digital, and radio, while there are radio deals, is pretty fair.

I'd prefer to see Streaming weighted to probably 80% of what it is now for it to be deemed fair. 

[livelightning]

Nov 26, 2018 18:11:38 GMT -5 Kris said:

Streaming is kind of broken in a sense because you can actually manipulate it consistently. Nobody is going to spend extra $$ to get a sale higher on digital, and radio, while there are radio deals, is pretty fair.

I'd prefer to see Streaming weighted to probably 80% of what it is now for it to be deemed fair. 

How can you manipulate it? People actually have to listen to the song to count as a stream.

[Mayman]

Nov 26, 2018 18:11:38 GMT -5 Kris said:

Streaming is kind of broken in a sense because you can actually manipulate it consistently. Nobody is going to spend extra $$ to get a sale higher on digital, and radio, while there are radio deals, is pretty fair.

Didn't Kris Wu have a load of bots purchase his songs on iTunes just 3 weeks ago?

Streaming is actually not very manipulated. Streaming parties rarely make a dent on the charts and a lot of those streams aren't counted by most streaming services, as they scan out the fake streams from the real streams.

[Kris]

Nov 26, 2018 18:15:08 GMT -5 livelightning said:

Nov 26, 2018 18:11:38 GMT -5 Kris said:

Streaming is kind of broken in a sense because you can actually manipulate it consistently. Nobody is going to spend extra $$ to get a sale higher on digital, and radio, while there are radio deals, is pretty fair.

I'd prefer to see Streaming weighted to probably 80% of what it is now for it to be deemed fair. 

How can you manipulate it? People actually have to listen to the song to count as a stream.

Yes. I could put my phone on silent and play the song 200 times in a day, throw it on my laptop and tablet and you have almost 1k daily streams. Sure people don't do that but it can be done. 

[renaboss]

According to Gary Trust, Camila Cabello's "Consequences" has hit a new peak, going up from 83 to 82. Riveting.

[lazer]

Kind of expecting High Hopes to enter the top 5.

[tanooki]

Nov 26, 2018 18:17:41 GMT -5 Kris said:

Nov 26, 2018 18:15:08 GMT -5 livelightning said:

How can you manipulate it? People actually have to listen to the song to count as a stream.

Yes. I could put my phone on silent and play the song 200 times in a day, throw it on my laptop and tablet and you have almost 1k daily streams. Sure people don't do that but it can be done. 

I feel like such streams in this scenario wouldn't be counted. Same plays from the same IP? They'd detect that shit so fast

[braveheart]

Taki Taki dropping 7 spots to #22 this week is pretty shocking.....

[Caviar]

Where did "Trip" move up to?

[Carlitoz]

Nov 26, 2018 16:59:13 GMT -5 Mauricio said:

I just realized that i pretty much have no life outside of charts when i was waiting on school for the charts to come out. Jesus Christ, what am i doing, i'm only sixteen.

Ha! Don't expect much change in the future. I started following the Billboard Hot 100 weekly back in 1986!! I still do it... :)
I couldn't wait back then to know what will happen the next week. Yeah, back when Madonna, Michael, Whitney, George, Prince and Janet were the kings and queens. ;)
Not that crazy anymore about the people on the current charts, but the curiosity is still there even if not the excitement.

[kingvavis]

I am curious as to how they would calculate the charts pre SoundScan era.

[Gary]

Just so happens the 27th anniversary of the first published chart is this week

[ddlz]

[rfucom]

Where did Sunflower land? thanks