Recurrent Hot 100 Breakouts - List & Compendium

[Gary]

Sept 26, 2019 6:41:23 GMT -5 jodakyellow said:

Jan 22, 2019 19:28:54 GMT -5 Gary said:

The exact same thread

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/180923/hot-100-re-entries-2?page=1

Which is the followup to my original thread

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/114193/hot-100-re-entries?page=1

Hmm you say “exact same” and yet this one is so much better

As you wish.

Why did I post that? He copied the work I did in my thread which I started back in 2012 when rentries first started happening. and he started a new thread and added his own flavor which in a sense makes it different, I suppose.

At this point. It is what it is.

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If Good as Hell receives a "featuring Ariana Grande" addition to its artist credit on the November 9 chart, that's when I cease listing it, as that would graduate it from active recurrent to regular active status.

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Well, that didn't happen, but we got a consolation prize: Thriller finally returns! Yep, after no-showing 2016 and 2017, it has firmly regained its grip on Halloween consumption and now has a 2 year streak on its hands. No new peak this year, but at least it weathered an album bomb to make it!

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I'm interested to see how far Thriller climbs on the all-time list with this re-release. It's not very high. It was last at #2,829 on my all-time list but of course, several recent tracks would have passed it. So probably just moved into the top 2800. (woo-hoo!)

[HolidayGuy]

The re-entry, positions may not be high enough to result in much, if any, movement. Especially with any current big hits working their way up.

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Christmas has come early, as All I Want for Christmas is You begins its annual run at the earliest week it ever has, joining our Lizzo duo in the hit zone right away!

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The Christmas sluicegates have already begun to open, as the Lizzo tracks and Mariah get joined by the motley crew of last year's holiday top 10 set (Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Jingle Bell Rock, A Holly Jolly Christmas, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year) and one that's being additionally fueled by a movie tie-in of the same name (Last Christmas).

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A swath of the Christmas staples has returned, along with the first new-not-new song for this season: Andy Williams' Happy Holiday / The Holiday Season, which if I'm not mistaken is the first medley/twin song entry since 2014, when Drake had 0 to 100 / The Catch Up.

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Here Comes Santa Claus departs (though with its #2 placement on Recurrents, not for long), but 2 songs come in its place, from the recently departed Juice WRLD: Lucid Dreams and Legends, his own tribute to the then recently deceased Lil' Peep. Robbery also re-enters in the top 50, but songs from Death Race for Love are considered active (see: Empty re-entered at #87), while the songs from Goodbye & Good Riddance and loosies of that year are considered recurrent (see: All Girls Are the Same re-enters Recurrents at #11).

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Here Comes Santa Claus returns and It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas begins its run for the season, meaning we have a total of 14 legacy Christmas tracks before the big week kicks in. How exciting!

Less exciting is that I forgot my own research and didn't realize that because Robbery "completed" its run last year despite having fewer than 20 weeks, it would be considered an event recurrent. Its entry on Recurrent Songs this week confirms it, so I've amended it to the listing.

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There's now a video for this decade's (just 80-ish minutes left in it over here) collection! Hopefully you guys enjoy it.

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The first new recurrent breakouts of 2020 have arrived, with the popular game Fortnite once again fueling the action with a virtual concert that also nabbed a number one debut for a new song. Worth noting is that the exception that allowed Wake Me Up to enter is seemingly connected to death, as Sicko Mode was in the point range of the top 40 but was barred from entry due to its superrecurrent status.

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Finally we have another recurrent breakout, and this one's a doozy. Fueled by a viral video on TikTok of a man skating to work while drinking a soft-drink and lipsyncing the track, Fleetwood Mac's only #1 hit Dreams has been surging in consumptive metrics, re-entering at #21 last week and surging to #12 this week!

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Dreams yo-yoes back to where it re-entered, down 12-21. I thought the meme would have more legs, but it at least looks like it'll stick around as long or longer than My Boo still.

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After dipping 21-32, Dreams departs the list with continued losses. However, we've still got an oldie this week as Thriller clawed its way on at #48 despite dampered Halloween festivities on account of the pandemic and ensuing lockdown. The "Grand List of Causes" has been updated to match the extended run of years.

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Confirmed today, the holiday wave for the year begins as All I Want for Christmas is You and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, undisputed leaders of the pack last season, resume their runs at #29 and #43 respectively!

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3 more weeks to go for the 2020 Christmas wave, and the charts already have 19 recurrents returning! This is shaping up to be the biggest wave by far, and this week we have our first new member of it: Michael Buble's cover of It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.

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The Christmas wave amps up this week: Mariah topped the list once more, new peaks were had in the top 10 for It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year and Feliz Navidad (the latter's first time), Last Christmas seems poised to finally make the zone next week, Sleigh Ride reaches the top 20, Santa Tell Me both makes its first appearance in the wave and finally becomes a hit on the books, Run Rudolph returns once more, and Wonderful Christmastime finally returns after getting snuffed out in the 2018 wave and missing the 2019 one entirely!

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The wave's on a bit of a hold because of Taylor Swift's album bomb, but it didn't lose any presence in the top 50...technically. Nat King Cole's rendition of Deck the Halls makes its first wave appearance, while Gene Autry's Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) crashes 36-69. I'm not sure if it was retained on album bomb exceptions, where it's expected to recover to the top 50 next week and thus wouldn't be worth removing, a new standing policy to prevent holiday re-entries from leaving until the season concludes (to avoid what happened to Wonderful Christmastime 2 waves back), or just flat-out a mistake.

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The strongest Christmas wave yet crests, as the megahits return to their peaks, 3 songs newly go top 10, plenty of other songs get new peaks or matching ones to last wave, and 7 songs newly join the wave, with 2 starting right in the top 40: Mele Kalikimaka and This Christmas! Overall, this wave introduced 10 songs to the wave at the expense of just 2 from the last wave: the Frank Sinatra cover of Jingle Bells and Dean Martin's Baby, It's Cold Outside, totalling up a whopping 32 for the wave!

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10 songs from the Christmas wave survive with Christmas day as their lone powerful asset in the tracking week. All are in the same sequence as last week with two exceptions: Last Christmas loses pace and doesn't survive into this week (making Underneath the Tree the 10th song), and Run Rudolph Run continues increasing its pace relative to the holiday pack and slots itself inbetween It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year and Feliz Navidad.

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After the passing of rapper DMX, a wide swath of his catalog was bought and streamed for several days, leading to the re-entry of 3 of his classics: one that was a hit (Party Up (Up in Here)) and is one once again, a genre hit with a sleeper legacy that hits the top half for the first time (X Gon' Give It to Ya), and a song that blipped at #94 in its day and becomes a top 20 smash now (Ruff Ryders' Anthem).

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The largest Halloween effect ever has transpired, as in more than 1 song returned! Thriller reaches the top 20 for the first time since its original run, Monster Mash and Ghostbusters have their first weeks as a top 40 since the induction of SoundScan, and Somebody's Watching Me makes its first return!

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Christmas has been having its usual effect on the charts, slightly stronger than last year thus far, and with it come 2 songs new to the recurrent breakout list: Justin Bieber's Mistletoe, which originally had a 10-week run with a #11 peak, and Eartha Kitt & Henri René's Orchestra Santa Baby, making its first ever appearance on the Hot 100!

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In the peak Christmas week of the year (estimates place the lead song of the pack dropping ~30% next week), a bevy of re-entries, a handful of new peaks, and two songs new to the fold, hailing from the Charlie Brown Christmas special, arrive, totalling up to 32 oldies, the same as last year's batch (which included Christmas Eve unlike this time around).

In This Year's Batch and Not in 2020's
Christmastime is Here
Jingle Bells (Returning from 2019)
Linus & Lucy
Mistletoe
Santa Baby

In 2020's Batch and Not This Year's
Blue Christmas (Breaks a 3 year streak starting in 2018)
Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) (Breaks a 3 year streak starting in 2018)
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas)
This Christmas

Absent from Previous Waves
Baby It's Cold Outside
Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Mary, Did You Know? [Pentatonix]

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With just 2 particularly relevant days in the tracking week (Christmas Eve and Day, Kwanzaa if you want to get semantic about "better than the rest of the year"), holiday songs are still quite present! 23 of last week's 32 survive, with several shuffles in the order, some aligning with past years (Last Christmas not having a great hold, Run Rudolph Run picking up steam), but also some new trends, like Perry Como's recording of It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas surging just one spot shy of its peak at #13 (last year, it was one of the few holiday songs to fail to bullet on peak week and crashed out on the Christmas day week) thanks to a jump to #5 in Streaming Songs, and Christmastime is Here rising off its debut to a new peak of #41!

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The first batch of re-entries since the holiday season has happened: this year's Super Bowl halftime show, which highlighted west coast hiphop icons, spurred 3 songs! Of special note is Dr. Dre's "Still D.R.E." which originally peaked in the bottom tenth of the chart and spends its first week as a hit this week!

Additionally, it's worth noting that, for some reason, Canada had a stronger effect for the songs, with a whopping 7 appearing, one of which wasn't even in the show proper (all songs are debuts as the chart didn't exist when even the newest of the batch were contemporary):

49. California Love, 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman
48. Family Affair, Mary J. Blige
46. Without Me, Eminem
41. In da Club, 50 Cent
21. The Next Episode, Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
18. Lose Yourself, Eminem
11. Still D.R.E., Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg

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"Still D.R.E." charted for an additional 2 weeks, including one at #63. I'd say this was an error like with Straight Outta Compton's batch, except that it keeps perpetuating over on the Canadian chart run by the same staff... and I'd be right, because they finally addressed the issue this week, though the appearances below the top 50 in past charts are left alone.

Anyway, the big news now is that Nirvana's "Something in the Way", boosted by a prominent synch in The Batman, makes its long delayed debut on the Hot 100! Amusingly, every Nirvana entry has been in a year ending in 2: their initial hits from Nevermind in 1992, the posthumous release "You Know You're Right" in 2002, and now this in 2022.

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Following its prominent usage in Stranger Things, "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" by Kate Bush begins a prolific run that has given it multiple new peaks, first in the top 10 then top 5 as of this writing, thus far and could end up going further by the time of the season finale!

(Also, I am not treating "One Right Now" by Post Malone and The Weeknd as eligible for this list. Though it re-entered through an album bomb, its continued presence on the Radio Songs top 50 combined with its removal in the wave of album bombs the month prior point to it being an active corrective akin to the post-Christmas period)

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In addition to "Running Up That Hill" repeaking thanks to the boost from the finale episodes, another song used in said batch, Metallica's "Master of Puppets", debuts in the top 40!