Billboard Hot 100: 03/30/2019

[pnobelysk]

Mar 19, 2019 11:26:01 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Mar 19, 2019 11:12:58 GMT -5 fhas said:

Last week, Shallow had 5,667 points from sales and I'm not even sure if that's enough to chart on the Hot 100. Imagine the HDS #1 not charting lol.

Digital Sales is heading for the same fate as physical single sales. For example, Madonna's "Nothing Fails" was a #1 sales "hit" and didn't even make the Hot 100.

Yeah I think there’s a good chance 2019 will be the last year a single is released in that sells a million. I expect Adele’s lead to do it, a frozen song if it really takes off, and an outside chance of Taylor’s lead if it checks all the right boxes and gets promoed heavily.

[Enigma.]

Shallow is going to sell a million, if hasn't already.

[spicymapping]

Charts are so weak that I feel like wow’s mv With 2 days in the week might push it to #1. Yet another battle for #1 is ensuing.

[Gary]

Mar 19, 2019 22:39:43 GMT -5 @avont said:

Mar 19, 2019 18:10:03 GMT -5 Gary said:

30+ weeks in the streaming top 10

Gangnam Style, PSY 52
Watch Me, Silento 37
Trap Queen, Fetty Wap 35
Uptown Funk!, Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars 33
Sicko Mode, Travis Scott 32
The Hills, The Weeknd 32
Closer, The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey 32
All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor 31

Lol it’s not fair comparison between these songs.
2013-2015 YouTube accounted for more than 2/3 of streaming points, and you know how crazy stable YouTube charts are (just to give you an idea, Despacito and GS spent about 35 weeks at #1 at worldwide views chart). So of course, top 4 songs in this list are ALL from 2013-2015. Only S Mode and Closer on this entire list came out afterwards. Because...
Since 2016-2017, on-demand started to take over and YouTube accounts for less than half of streaming points now. Especially after summer 2018 when Billboard further reduced YouTube’s weight. On-demand’s faster-paced, just like radio.

Despacito could have a year in top 10 too if on-demand streaming’s not a thing.

Wasn't the reason I posted that. It is just straight up stats. No observations just numbers.


However, I am glad you agree that 38 weeks in the top 10 and radio or 38 weeks in the top 10 on digital or 38 weeks in the top 10 on streaming can have varying meanings

[rfucom]

Wow is no.1 on Spotify with both versions combined. There's a MV with almost 1M views in 8hrs and ofcourse the lyric remix video of Wow.This might sneak in to the no.1 if the music video will explode in 2days.

[ry4n]

Mar 20, 2019 3:59:38 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Shallow is going to sell a million, if hasn't already.

It's around 900k

[gabe]

Post being lazy again...

[areyoureadytojump]

Mar 20, 2019 3:59:38 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Shallow is going to sell a million, if hasn't already.

Thanks to oldbloke:

DIGITAL SONG SALES WEEK 9

Rank - Estimated 2019 Sales - TITLE - Artist ( Estimated Total Sales )

01 - 398,000 - SHALLOW - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper ( 882,000 )
02 - 263,000 - SUNFLOWER - Post Malone & Swae Lee ( 477,000 )
03 - 262,000 - 7 RINGS - Ariana Grande ( 262,000 )
04 - 243,000 - WITHOUT ME - Halsey ( 711,000 )
05 - 147,000 - HIGH HOPES - Panic At The Disco ( 616,000 )
06 - 142,000 - HAPPIER - Marshmello & Bastille ( 536,000 )
07 - 142,000 - WOW. - Post Malone ( 191,000 )
08 - 138,000 - YOU SAY - Lauren Daigle ( 516,000 )
09 - 120,000 - SWEET BUT PSYCHO - Ava Max ( 147,000 )
10 - 112,000 - SICKO MODE - Travis Scott ( 432,000 )
11 - 102,000 - ALWAYS REMEMBER US THIS WAY - Lady Gaga ( 314,000 )
12 - 96,000 - DANCING WITH A STRANGER - Sam Smith & Normani ( 96,000 )
13 - 95,000 - BEAUTIFUL CRAZY - Luke Combs ( 363,000 )
14 - 95,000 - PLEASE ME - Cardi B & Bruno Mars ( 95,000 )
15 - 93,000 - EASTSIDE - Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid ( 347,000 )
16 - 92,000 - BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - Queen ( 4,786,000 )
17 - 88,000 - MIDDLE CHILD - J Cole ( 88,000 )
18 - 88,000 - SUCKER - Jonas Brothers ( 88,000 )
19 - 87,000 - GIRLS LIKE YOU - Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B ( 987,000 )
20 - 86,000 - SPEECHLESS - Dan + Shay ( 364,000 )
21 - 83,000 - MONEY - Cardi B ( 217,000 )
22 - 80,000 - BETTER - Khalid ( 158,000 )
23 - 79,000 - BE ALRIGHT - Dean Lewis ( 175,000 )
24 - 78,000 - NATURAL - Imagine Dragons ( 555,000 )
25 - 75,000 - THANK U NEXT - Ariana Grande ( 403,000 )

26 - 73,000 - BREAK UP WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND I'M BORED - Ariana Grande ( 73,000 )
27 - 71,000 - HAVANA - Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug ( 1,660,000 )
28 - 70,000 - NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART - Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus ( 127,000 )
29 - 69,000 - I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN - Lady Gaga ( 262,000 )
30 - 69,000 - TEQUILA - Dan + Shay ( 578,000 )
31 - 61,000 - BETTER NOW - Post Malone ( 613,000 )
32 - 61,000 - PERFECT - Ed Sheeran ( 2,701,000 )
33 - 59,000 - I LIKE IT - Cardi B feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin ( 903,000 )
34 - 58,000 - GOING BAD - Meek Mill feat. Drake ( 98,000 )
35 - 57,000 - BURY A FRIEND - Billie Eilish ( 57,000 )
36 - 55,000 - MISS ME MORE - Kelsea Ballerini ( 132,000 )
37 - 55,000 - DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK - Jake Owen ( 165,000 )
38 - 52,000 - WE WILL ROCK YOU - Queen ( 2,832,000 )
39 - 51,000 - THOTIANA - Blueface ( 51,000 )
40 - 50,000 - YOUNGBLOOD - 5 Seconds Of Summer ( 514,000 )
41 - 49,000 - WALK ME HOME - P!nk ( 49,000 )
42 - 49,000 - THUNDER - Imagine Dragons ( 2,010,000 )
43 - 48,000 - RUMOR - Lee Brice ( 107,000 )
44 - 47,000 - TAKI TAKI - DJ Snake feat. Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B ( 181,000 )
45 - 45,000 - SOMEBODY TO LOVE - Queen ( 1,472,000 )
46 - 45,000 - WAKE UP IN THE SKY - Gucci Mane X Bruno Mars X Kodak Black ( 149,000 )
47 - 44,000 - BELIEVER - Imagine Dragons ( 2,067,000 )
48 - 42,000 - ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST - Queen ( 1,538,000 )
49 - 42,000 - MO BAMBA - Sheck Wes ( 196,000 )
50 - 42,000 - THIS FEELING - Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini ( 143,000 )

[Enigma.]

Impressive sales for Havana!

[king_billboard_100]

Lil Nas X, "Old Town Road" is at No. 11 on spotify. I really like that song and hope it will rises into the top 10!

[Gary]

So then download 1 copy today is like downloading 9 copies in 2012 -


(just kidding)

[mzumii]

Mar 20, 2019 7:08:48 GMT -5 gabe said:

Post being lazy again...

He's on tour, so he probably didn't have time to shoot a big budget MV. Also, the MV is pretty decent anyways and will do its' job to push Wow. up the charts.

[fhas]

Mar 20, 2019 8:53:47 GMT -5 king_billboard_100 said:

Lil Nas X, "Old Town Road" is at No. 11 on spotify. I really like that song and hope it will rises into the top 10!

#5 on Apple Music, #16 on YouTube and #20 on iTunes. Unfortunately, it's not even top 100 on radio.

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Billboard Radio Songs Estimates | 2019/03/20

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* = Dropped a format
** = Added a format

1 (=) Halsey - Without Me 140.74(-0.54)
2 (=) Ariana Grande - 7 rings 130.18(+3.20)**
3 (=) Panic! At the Disco - High Hopes 124.81(-0.15)
4 (=) benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid - Eastside 119.44(-0.68)
5 (=) Marshmello & Bastille - Happier 97.13(+0.14)
6 (=) Ellie Goulding, Diplo & Swae Lee - Close to Me 94.89(+0.58)
7 (=) Post Malone - Wow.87.48(+0.22)
8 (=) Ariana Grande - thank u, next 84.00(-1.32)
9 (=) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower 82.30(-0.17)
10 (+1) Cardi B & Bruno Mars - Please Me 81.22(+1.49)
11 (-1) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing with a Stranger 81.03(+0.30)
12 (=) Dean Lewis - Be Alright 79.01(-0.07)
15 (=) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow 70.88(+1.32)
16 (=) Ava Max - Sweet but Psycho 68.75(+0.58)
19 (+1) Ariana Grande - break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored 60.49(+1.58)
25 (+2) Jonas Brothers - Sucker 54.33(+2.32)
27 (-1) Travis Scott - SICKO MODE 50.94(-1.10)*
47 (+1) J. Cole - MIDDLE CHILD 36.45(+0.76)

[ry4n]

Mar 20, 2019 9:39:29 GMT -5 Codex said:

Week 9 YTD digital sales looking like what weekly digital sales looked like back in 2012

Every position is lower than Grammy week 2012 lol

Feb 29, 2012 21:53:23 GMT -5 @gagalicious said:

1. 411.000 PART OF ME - Katy Perry
2. 367.000 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - Whitney Houston
3. 271.000 ROLLING IN THE DEEP - Adele
4. 254.000 SET FIRE TO THE RAIN - Adele
5. 252.000 STRONGER (WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU) - Kelly Clarkson
6. 244.000 WE ARE YOUNG - fun. ft. Janelle Monae
7. 204.000 STARSHIPS - Nicki Minaj
8. 183.000 SOMEONE LIKE YOU - Adele
9. 180.000 TURN UP THE MUSIC - Chris Brown
10. 136.000 SEXY AND I KNOW IT - LMFAO

Mar 20, 2019 8:19:37 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

01 - 398,000 - SHALLOW - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper ( 882,000 )
02 - 263,000 - SUNFLOWER - Post Malone & Swae Lee ( 477,000 )
03 - 262,000 - 7 RINGS - Ariana Grande ( 262,000 )
04 - 243,000 - WITHOUT ME - Halsey ( 711,000 )
05 - 147,000 - HIGH HOPES - Panic At The Disco ( 616,000 )
06 - 142,000 - HAPPIER - Marshmello & Bastille ( 536,000 )
07 - 142,000 - WOW. - Post Malone ( 191,000 )
08 - 138,000 - YOU SAY - Lauren Daigle ( 516,000 )
09 - 120,000 - SWEET BUT PSYCHO - Ava Max ( 147,000 )
10 - 112,000 - SICKO MODE - Travis Scott ( 432,000 )

[Gary]

Writer/Producer Louis Bell Is Having a Historic Run in the Hot 100's Top 10

3/20/2019 by Andrew Unterberger



It might not be a name immediately familiar to pop fans, but it should be -- and in all likelihood, by the end of 2019, it will be. Writer/producer Louis Bell is having a historic impact on the top of the Billboard charts this year, the level of which we only see from a non-recording artist a handful of times in a generation.

Scroll down the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 this week (dated March 23), and you'll see Bell's name on four credits before you even get to No. 7. He's a writer and producer on Post Malone and Swae Lee's "Sunflower" (No. 2), Halsey's "Without Me" (No. 3) and Post's "Wow." (No. 5), and a writer on the Jonas Brothers' "Sucker" (No. 6). Three of those four entries ("Sunflower," "Without Me" and "Sucker") have also gone to No. 1 on the chart this calendar year, which means that of the five songs to top the Hot 100 for the first time so far in 2019, more than half of them have bore Bell's fingerprints.

And though this is his highest concentration of smash hits to date, this is also not really anything new for Bell on the Hot 100. Since breaking out as a writer on DJ Snake's Justin Bieber-led "Let Me Love You" (as well as half the 14 tracks that comprised Post Malone's starmaking Stoney album) in 2016, Bell has been a consistent presence on the chart. He'd already tallied credits on three No. 1 hits before this year -- Post's 21 Savage-featuring "Rockstar" and Ty Dolla $ign-featuring "Psycho," as well as Camila Cabello's Young Thug-assisted "Havana" -- while also contributing to memorable hits for Selena Gomez ("Wolves" and Kygo collab "It Ain't Me"), Shawn Mendes ("Lost in Japan") and 5 Seconds of Summer ("Youngblood"), among many others.

If that seems like a pretty stunning resumé for what's essentially two years of work in the mainstream, well, it is -- even moreso when you consider the variety it encompasses. There's plenty of rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop and dance to be found on his CV, though if his success suggests anything, it might be that there's not really a ton separating those genres these days. While "Sucker," "Without Me" and "Havana" might all be generally classified as "pop," they don't really sound any more or less like one another than they do a rock-based song like "Youngblood," a dance-rooted banger like "It Ain't Me" or an ostensible rap tag-team like "Sunflower." In fact, you could very plausibly hear all six of them back to back on a top 40 radio station without thinking anything of it -- and certainly without even noticing they had an architect in common.

And that's really what makes Louis Bell's succes so noteworthy: He's managed it without attracting much celebrity of his own. He's not a visible figure in music videos or at award shows. He has fewer than 7,000 followers (and no blue check) on Twitter, where he mostly just retweets chart stats. He doesn't have a producer ID booming out at the beginning of his productions, and none of the "Louis Bell" artist pages on Spotify are his. For an undeniable pop superproducer, he's currently still fairly anonymous -- without an obvious sonic signature or inextricable artist tie (despite his longstanding collaboration with Post Malone), he mostly feels like pop's most prolific, accomplished and untethered freelancer of 2019.

In that sense, though, he's not without precedent; in fact, that precedent is also the most recent non-recording artist to match Bell's current tally of four credits within the same Hot 100 top 10. Writer-producer Max Martin -- who pulled off the feat in 2011 -- is now something of a household name now among pop fans, universally acknowledged as the godfather of contemporary top 40. But as a distinctly behind-the-scenes presence, he didn't get to that level of recognition overnight: It was only after decades of blockbuster hits -- which saw him evolving sonically from the R&B-influenced Euro-pop of Ace of Base and Backstreet Boys to the explosive pop-rock of P!nk and Kelly Clarkson to the maximalist bangers of Kesha and Katy Perry to the retro-futurism of Taylor Swift and The Weeknd -- that Max Martin truly became Max Martin.

Will Louis Bell achieve the same renown? Far too early to tell, of course -- there's still only one Max Martin for a reason. But Bell's combination of pop versatility and acuity (and personal anonymity) is certainly reminiscent of the Swedish GOAT in his early days. And if his name didn't ring out for you before, it probably should by now.

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Mar 20, 2019 8:19:37 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Mar 20, 2019 3:59:38 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Thanks to oldbloke:

DIGITAL SONG SALES WEEK 9

Rank - Estimated 2019 Sales - TITLE - Artist ( Estimated Total Sales )

42 - 49,000 - THUNDER - Imagine Dragons ( 2,010,000 )
47 - 44,000 - BELIEVER - Imagine Dragons ( 2,067,000 )

Always been watching out for these two.
Both over 2 million! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder what's gonna be the next song to sell over 2 million copies? I believe sales is gonna be at a real heyday soon. I buy music more than ever, last year I even bought a few physical singles. Others are always playing ironies against me. 

[gabe]

[owenlovesmusic]

7 rings needs to fucking die

[Gary]

Mar 18, 2019 13:32:44 GMT -5 Gary said:

Sicko Mode for the tie

Based on that prediction -- still possible

[owenlovesmusic]

Louis Bell > Max Martin

[Choco]

Mar 20, 2019 20:08:58 GMT -5 owenlovesmusic said:

7 rings needs to f**king die

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Oh God, I’m so tired of Sicko and GLY.

[hot100predictions]

Old Town Road is now up to #3 on AM, first non-album song with no playlists and zero promo to reach the top 3.

[marc980]

Jesus, Sucker is predicted to fall 8 positions...

EDIT: Now that I saw the difference between #8 and #14 makes more sense. The lower half of Top 10 is getting really hard to predict.

[aussie1]

if anything needs to die its Happier, 22-23? Weeks in the top ten, which seems crazy because the song has never 'felt' huge. It has had great longevity.

[iHype.]

I honestly don't remember the last time the top 10 has ever felt so... weak, for such a prolonged period. 

It has honestly felt weak since like August at this point. Remember when GLY went #1 in its final week while #13 in streams & #13 in sales -- and it was never a strong #1 during any of its 7 weeks #1. Like we've had a few periods (Holiday songs avalanche, Ariana's album release) where the top 10 felt exciting and competitive, but overall the past 6-7 months its just felt so bleak.

Almost the entire time the Radio Songs #1 has been averaging barely 100 million audience, and bar TUN album/TUN single/7 Rings release week there really hasn't been any songs pulling huge streaming numbers. 

7 Rings is #1 on Streaming with 36.9 million this week.... in the past 100 weeks, only 1 week has had a lower amount for Streaming #1. 

Idk what is going to make the charts pick up again. I find it funny/ironic this drought lowkey happened right as the Scorpion era finished in the top 10 back when In My Feelings descended from #1. Maybe the public wants another Drake takeover  :kii:

[pnobelysk]

Mar 20, 2019 15:48:06 GMT -5 @avont said:

Mar 20, 2019 8:19:37 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Thanks to oldbloke:

DIGITAL SONG SALES WEEK 9

Rank - Estimated 2019 Sales - TITLE - Artist ( Estimated Total Sales )

42 - 49,000 - THUNDER - Imagine Dragons ( 2,010,000 )
47 - 44,000 - BELIEVER - Imagine Dragons ( 2,067,000 )

Always been watching out for these two.
Both over 2 million! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder what's gonna be the next song to sell over 2 million copies? I believe sales is gonna be at a real heyday soon. I buy music more than ever, last year I even bought a few physical singles. Others are always playing ironies against me. 

New songs won’t be reaching the 2 million mark aside from maybe Adele’s lead. No 2018 releases are even remotely close to 2 million. Gods plan was the biggest 2018 released digital seller and never broke 1.1 million. Songs that reach 2 million will likely all be from the year 2017 and earlier now

[mako]

We need Lil Nas X/YNW Melly/21 Savage/Blueface or any other rapper except Drake to top the charts just to make it exciting

[Deleted]

I’m hoping that Sweet But Psycho finally enters the Top 20 this week.