Billboard Hot 100: 1/19/2019

[pnobelysk]

Jan 14, 2019 17:24:50 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

Jan 14, 2019 17:02:46 GMT -5 Naos said:

Chris Brown's "Undecided" debuts at #35. It is Chris Brown's 25th Top 40 single as a lead artist (44th including features), and 91st Hot 100 entry, which ties James Brown for 8th most Hot 100 entries.

With R. Kelly getting torn to shreds right now, you'd think Chris Brown would be able to catch some flack as well. I mean, February does mark the 10th anniversary since he beat the everloving s**t out of Rihanna and he continued to do heinous things for years after and he's still getting Top 40 hits. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

I don't know why we kept him around honestly, we have Bruno Mars, we have Khalid, we have Drake, and we have plenty of other R&B crooners. We don't really need Chris Brown.

Pretty frustrating. Usher and neyo struggle to chart yet we as a society keep Chris brown successful

[Naos]

Jan 14, 2019 18:16:30 GMT -5 pnobelysk said:

Jan 14, 2019 17:24:50 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

With R. Kelly getting torn to shreds right now, you'd think Chris Brown would be able to catch some flack as well. I mean, February does mark the 10th anniversary since he beat the everloving s**t out of Rihanna and he continued to do heinous things for years after and he's still getting Top 40 hits. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

I don't know why we kept him around honestly, we have Bruno Mars, we have Khalid, we have Drake, and we have plenty of other R&B crooners. We don't really need Chris Brown.

Pretty frustrating. Usher and neyo struggle to chart yet we as a society keep Chris brown successful

R. Kelly also debuted an album on the Billboard 200 this week...

[Naos]

"Baby Shark" by Pinkfong drops 32-38 (-6).

[livelightning]

Jan 14, 2019 17:24:50 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

Jan 14, 2019 17:02:46 GMT -5 Naos said:

Chris Brown's "Undecided" debuts at #35. It is Chris Brown's 25th Top 40 single as a lead artist (44th including features), and 91st Hot 100 entry, which ties James Brown for 8th most Hot 100 entries.

With R. Kelly getting torn to shreds right now, you'd think Chris Brown would be able to catch some flack as well. I mean, February does mark the 10th anniversary since he beat the everloving s**t out of Rihanna and he continued to do heinous things for years after and he's still getting Top 40 hits. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

I don't know why we kept him around honestly, we have Bruno Mars, we have Khalid, we have Drake, and we have plenty of other R&B crooners. We don't really need Chris Brown.

Chris Brown has some great songs too though.

[ddlz]

Jan 14, 2019 17:24:50 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

Jan 14, 2019 17:02:46 GMT -5 Naos said:

Chris Brown's "Undecided" debuts at #35. It is Chris Brown's 25th Top 40 single as a lead artist (44th including features), and 91st Hot 100 entry, which ties James Brown for 8th most Hot 100 entries.

With R. Kelly getting torn to shreds right now, you'd think Chris Brown would be able to catch some flack as well. I mean, February does mark the 10th anniversary since he beat the everloving s**t out of Rihanna and he continued to do heinous things for years after and he's still getting Top 40 hits. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

I don't know why we kept him around honestly, we have Bruno Mars, we have Khalid, we have Drake, and we have plenty of other R&B crooners. We don't really need Chris Brown.

Lol, I was just thinking about this. Rhythmic and Urban are spinning his new song like its a new Drake single.

[renaboss]

I love Chris Brown's songs as much as the next person, and we've already had the discussion about separating musicians from their music, which is something I agree with - I'm sorry, but "I Believe I Can Fly" will always and forever be one of my favorite songs of all time. Doesn't mean I support R. Kelly as a person or condone what he does, but you can't really help liking a song or not.

That being said - and although Chris is in my personal top 10 RIGHT NOW - I agree that it's unfortunate how there's so many male R&B acts struggling to have hits right now, some who came AFTER Chris, and yet he gets to still be relevant and successful. It's like the horrible thing he's done helped to keep him popular as opposed to the contrary. Not to mention that literally every guy that's been brought up (Usher, Ne-Yo, Khalid, etc.) is WAY more talented than Chris, at least in the vocal department - dude abuses autotune like crazy.

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Jan 14, 2019 14:27:24 GMT -5 fhas said:

Jan 14, 2019 14:21:07 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Lol what? "Sunflower" is a clearly a pop song. We really need to stop referring to Post Malone as a hip-hop artist, Lady Gaga has rapped more in her songs than he has in his.

Yay for pop still on top! Ari, Halsey and Posty, pop princesses extraordinaire, keeping 2019 rap-free. 

Wtf... I thought the "block member" button would not allow you to quote me... ugh.

I don't care about what you think: "R&B/hip-hop & rap ruler: "Sunflower" concurrently spends a second week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts."

Billboard >>>>>>>>>>> you

Am I blocked?

[KeepDeanWeird]

Jan 14, 2019 17:24:50 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

Jan 14, 2019 17:02:46 GMT -5 Naos said:

Chris Brown's "Undecided" debuts at #35. It is Chris Brown's 25th Top 40 single as a lead artist (44th including features), and 91st Hot 100 entry, which ties James Brown for 8th most Hot 100 entries.

With R. Kelly getting torn to shreds right now, you'd think Chris Brown would be able to catch some flack as well. I mean, February does mark the 10th anniversary since he beat the everloving s**t out of Rihanna and he continued to do heinous things for years after and he's still getting Top 40 hits. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

I don't know why we kept him around honestly, we have Bruno Mars, we have Khalid, we have Drake, and we have plenty of other R&B crooners. We don't really need Chris Brown.

How quickly we forget ‘Brithday Cake.’ That’s was 2012 - mere 3 years after the incident. If RiRi did that 7 years ago...

Anyway, ‘we have Drake,’ that’s hilarious considering the video from the Denver concert. None of these musicians are perfect and more than a few have committed crimes that would land everyday people in jail, but the people keep streaming and radio keeps playing etc.

[velaxti]

Jan 14, 2019 13:50:10 GMT -5 renaboss said:

I like "Sunflower", it's growing on me. I'm also glad for the turnover (reminiscent of early 2017, when every week had a different #1, until "Shape of You" and then "Despacito" took over), and for the fact that movie soundtracks continue to do well - they were so big in the late 70's to early 90's and then moo.

Sad that "High Hopes" didn't get to chart higher. Maybe next week.

When would people pin-point the "comeback" of soundtrack songs to? There was a time when it was rare, but now it's become pretty common. Let It Go, Happy, Boom Clap, Earned It, Cups, See You Again, Elastic Heart, and others were big around the same time, and I feel like since then it's been common for soundtrack songs to be hits.

[renaboss]

^^2014 then?

[velaxti]

Jan 14, 2019 18:23:56 GMT -5 Naos said:

"Baby Shark" by Pinkfong drops 32-38 (-6).

I have a theory about why Baby Shark only debuted last week (and so high):

Billboard don't let "old" songs chart on the Hot 100 unless they get in the top 50 (which is why the Christmas don't appear in the lower half of the Hot 100, or the same with My Boo a few years ago). Since Baby Shark is over 3 years old, they didn't let it chart until last week when it finally had enough points for top 50. Some people last week were saying it was weird that it wasn't charting for all this time and suddenly it gets a really high debut, but in reality I think it probably did have enough points for the lower part of the top 50 for a while now and it was only last week when they could allow it to enter the actual chart.

[pancakes]

Hoping that Baby Shark can rebound next week.

[velaxti]

Jan 14, 2019 19:10:56 GMT -5 renaboss said:

^^2014 then?

Maybe, but I'm thinking there might have been some important ones before which I can't think of.

It's like when people say Lady Gaga started the dance-pop trend even though songs like Womanizer, Disturbia, Hot N Cold, Everytime We Touch, Forever, SOS, Maneater, Don't Stop The Music, Gimme More, The Way I Are, Piece Of Me, etc. were already becoming hits before she turned up on the scene and are likely the true beginnings of the trend.

So I don't really want to say the soundtrack songs comeback is due to Happy by Pharrell and miss out important breakthroughs from before, if that makes sense.

[Gary]

Jan 14, 2019 19:12:39 GMT -5 velaxti said:

Jan 14, 2019 18:23:56 GMT -5 Naos said:

"Baby Shark" by Pinkfong drops 32-38 (-6).

I have a theory about why Baby Shark only debuted last week (and so high):

Billboard don't let "old" songs chart on the Hot 100 unless they get in the top 50 (which is why the Christmas don't appear in the lower half of the Hot 100, or the same with My Boo a few years ago). Since Baby Shark is over 3 years old, they didn't let it chart until last week when it finally had enough points for top 50. Some people last week were saying it was weird that it wasn't charting for all this time and suddenly it gets a really high debut, but in reality I think it probably did have enough points for the lower part of the top 50 for a while now and it was only last week when they could allow it to enter the actual chart.

Per recurrent rules it could not chart until it reached #50 (given its age of 2+ years- recurrent, not new - the 2016 version of this song is charting)
It debuted on the streaming chart in November (even peaking at #24) - Then came Christmas - so it got pushed back.  Still growing steadily until it debuted a week ago thanks to 20+ Christmas titles departing

[renaboss]

Jan 14, 2019 19:18:28 GMT -5 velaxti said:

Jan 14, 2019 19:10:56 GMT -5 renaboss said:

^^2014 then?

Maybe, but I'm thinking there might have been some important ones before which I can't think of.

It's like when people say Lady Gaga started the dance-pop trend even though songs like Womanizer, Disturbia, Hot N Cold, Everytime We Touch, Forever, SOS, Maneater, Don't Stop The Music, Gimme More, The Way I Are, Piece Of Me, etc. were already becoming hits before she turned up on the scene and are likely the true beginnings of the trend.

So I don't really want to say the soundtrack songs comeback is due to Happy by Pharrell and miss out important breakthroughs from before, if that makes sense.

It's probably not that wrong to credit Gaga with the resurgence of pop music because she likely symbolized its apex, independently of the few loose examples that came before it. Latin songs were already causing a mild splash at least as far back as Enrique Iglesias' "Bailando" (which sadly couldn't crack the top 10 despite being a huge worldwide hit), and it wasn't until "Despacito" three years later that Latin music became a big deal, and now almost everyone is doing it, from Drake to Little Mix. 

[Gary]

Post Malone & Swae Lee's 'Sunflower' Crowns Streaming Songs Chart
News
By Kevin Rutherford | January 14, 2019 6:06 PM EST


It’s Malone’s second No. 1 on the list & Lee’s first as a solo artist.
Concurrent with its ascension to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, “Sunflower,” Post Malone and Swae Lee’s collaborative track from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, tops Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart dated Jan. 19.

“Sunflower” moves 2-1 on the latest list, with 47.6 million total streams, according to Nielsen Music. In the Jan. 4-10 tracking week, the song rose 17 percent in streams, assisted by the track’s continued rise at radio formats, plus the release of its music video on Jan. 9.
The song is Malone’s second to rule Streaming Songs, following 14-week leader “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, beginning in October 2017.

It’s Lee’s first Streaming Songs leader as a solo artist, meanwhile, topping the No. 3 peak of French Montana’s “Unforgettable,” on which he was featured, in August 2017 (though "Sunflower" replaces a song that included Lee's vocals, though did not assign him artist credit: Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode."). Lee did, however, previously get to No. 1 on Streaming Songs as part of Rae Sremmurd via “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane, which reigned for seven weeks beginning in November 2016.

Lee is the sixth straight act to score their first leader on Streaming Songs, following Scott with “Sicko Mode,” Mariah Carey with “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (Jan. 5, 2019), Ariana Grande with “thank u, next” (Nov. 17, 2018, seven weeks), Kodak Black with “Zeze” (Oct. 27, 2018, three weeks) and Gunna with his and Lil Baby’s “Drip Too Hard” (Oct. 20, 2018).

“Sunflower” is a collaboration for the soundtrack of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which was released in theaters on Dec. 14, 2018. The movie won the award for best animated feature film at the 2019 Golden Globe Awards and Critics’ Choice Awards.

[lazer]

Jan 14, 2019 19:26:10 GMT -5 renaboss said:

Jan 14, 2019 19:18:28 GMT -5 velaxti said:

Maybe, but I'm thinking there might have been some important ones before which I can't think of.

It's like when people say Lady Gaga started the dance-pop trend even though songs like Womanizer, Disturbia, Hot N Cold, Everytime We Touch, Forever, SOS, Maneater, Don't Stop The Music, Gimme More, The Way I Are, Piece Of Me, etc. were already becoming hits before she turned up on the scene and are likely the true beginnings of the trend.

So I don't really want to say the soundtrack songs comeback is due to Happy by Pharrell and miss out important breakthroughs from before, if that makes sense.

It's probably not that wrong to credit Gaga with the resurgence of pop music because she likely symbolized its apex, independently of the few loose examples that came before it. Latin songs were already causing a mild splash at least as far back as Enrique Iglesias' "Bailando" (which sadly couldn't crack the top 10 despite being a huge worldwide hit), and it wasn't until "Despacito" three years later that Latin music became a big deal, and now almost everyone is doing it, from Drake to Little Mix. 

I wonder who made Trap a juggernaut in the music industry. Lady Gaga started the electropop trend and Luis Fonsi started the Latin trend. I wonder what Trap song made non-rap artists incorporating the elements in their songs. Maybe Bad and Boujee?

[wjr15]

Jan 14, 2019 19:50:27 GMT -5 lazer said:

Jan 14, 2019 19:26:10 GMT -5 renaboss said:

It's probably not that wrong to credit Gaga with the resurgence of pop music because she likely symbolized its apex, independently of the few loose examples that came before it. Latin songs were already causing a mild splash at least as far back as Enrique Iglesias' "Bailando" (which sadly couldn't crack the top 10 despite being a huge worldwide hit), and it wasn't until "Despacito" three years later that Latin music became a big deal, and now almost everyone is doing it, from Drake to Little Mix. 

I wonder who made Trap a juggernaut in the music industry. Lady Gaga started the electropop trend and Luis Fonsi started the Latin trend. I wonder what Trap song made non-rap artists incorporating the elements in their songs. Maybe Bad and Boujee?

Dark Horse was a trap-pop song released in 2013 but I don’t think it was inspired by any other artists since trap wasn’t mainstream at the time. But I remember more artists incorporating trap into their music in 2014 and 2015.

You can probably say that Omi started the tropical house trend with Cheerleader and right after that Bieber dropped What Do You Mean.

[pnobelysk]

Jan 14, 2019 18:49:45 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Jan 14, 2019 17:24:50 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

With R. Kelly getting torn to shreds right now, you'd think Chris Brown would be able to catch some flack as well. I mean, February does mark the 10th anniversary since he beat the everloving s**t out of Rihanna and he continued to do heinous things for years after and he's still getting Top 40 hits. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

I don't know why we kept him around honestly, we have Bruno Mars, we have Khalid, we have Drake, and we have plenty of other R&B crooners. We don't really need Chris Brown.

How quickly we forget ‘Brithday Cake.’ That’s was 2012 - mere 3 years after the incident. If RiRi did that 7 years ago...

Anyway, ‘we have Drake,’ that’s hilarious considering the video from the Denver concert. None of these musicians are perfect and more than a few have committed crimes that would land everyday people in jail, but the people keep streaming and radio keeps playing etc.

Um I’d much prefer to listen to drake than Chris brown. Drakes video while debatably creepy at the most is nothing on beating the crap out of a woman and having documented outbursts since and other issues

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

OMG, Eastside finally in the top 10. (Benny has 27 top 10s as a producer)

Girls Like You, I love you...but GTFO

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jan 14, 2019 15:55:55 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

Jan 14, 2019 14:47:42 GMT -5 brady47 said:

Haha, it's funny because Canada and US usually have similar charts, but by the time "Just Dance" finally hit #1 in the US, "Poker Face" was having multiple weeks at #1 for Canada.

'Strewth! A small station in Burlington, Ontario was the first in the world to play Just Dance.

Similar situation happened back in the 80s when Men At Work were onto their second Canadian #1 (Down Under) while the US had yet to pick up on their first hit (Who Can It Be Now). Canada also picked up early on Styx & Supertramp if you wanna go further back.

Canada picked up the Backstreet Boys before the US did (and 90s boy bands in general) and the Spice Girls were major in Canada (after England of course) before they were big in the US.

[Naos]

New arrivals this week:
#35 - "Undecided" by Chris Brown
#46 - "Crushed Up" by Future
#81 - "Butterfly Doors" by Lil Pump
#87 - "Valuable Pain" by YoungBoy Never Broke Again

[sam8432]

Is this the week with the fewest debuts since the week Love Lies along with one other song debuted?

[forg]

Eastside is yet another song with Khalid that had slow rise to the top 10. So glad it finally hit the top 10 and not end up peaking at #11 lol

[owenlovesmusic]

it’s been an entire month since the last top 10 debut... i miss those.

[kingvavis]

Jan 14, 2019 21:31:53 GMT -5 forg said:

Eastside is yet another song with Khalid that had slow rise to the top 10. So glad it finally hit the top 10 and not end up peaking at #11 lol

I am wondering if Khalid will have his big break and get a chart topper. He's had hits but he hasn't gotten the success someone in his genre like the Weekend has had.

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

Post and Swae with that #1 yessss

[korbel16]

Jan 14, 2019 21:31:53 GMT -5 forg said:

Eastside is yet another song with Khalid that had slow rise to the top 10. So glad it finally hit the top 10 and not end up peaking at #11 lol

if the drake rumor is true and he releases Friday.. we’ll see a top 10 debut again very soon

[brady47]

Jan 14, 2019 15:55:55 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

Jan 14, 2019 14:47:42 GMT -5 brady47 said:

Haha, it's funny because Canada and US usually have similar charts, but by the time "Just Dance" finally hit #1 in the US, "Poker Face" was having multiple weeks at #1 for Canada.

'Strewth! A small station in Burlington, Ontario was the first in the world to play Just Dance.

Similar situation happened back in the 80s when Men At Work were onto their second Canadian #1 (Down Under) while the US had yet to pick up on their first hit (Who Can It Be Now). Canada also picked up early on Styx & Supertramp if you wanna go further back.

That is so cool! It's crazy how big Canada was about Gaga