Billboard Hot 100: 12/21/2019

[Choco]

lmao at the Weeknd. It never felt like a #1 hit to me honestly. Very lucky to have little competition last week.

Good for Mariah. CRAZY that she's getting her 19th chart topper before Rihanna gets her 15th.

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

As Mariah takes records this week (Props to her, she deserves it), Weeknd now holds the highest drop from #1.

[candypaint]

I like Abel but LMFAO at that drop. Mariah’s gonna break that soon with #1-OUT in a few weeks and will hold it forever. Queen.

[nathanalbright]

At least for now.

[Lukas]

Dec 16, 2019 16:03:43 GMT -5 candypaint said:

I like Abel but LMFAO at that drop. Mariah’s gonna break that soon with #1-OUT in a few weeks and will hold it forever. Queen.

That's not counted as a biggest drop from #1. That's counted as the biggest drop from the chart. The biggest jump to #1 is 97-1 with Kelly's My Life Would Suck Without You, not any of the #1 debuts. There's a subtle difference there.

[thabb]

at least mariah's 1-X drop will be with a † since it's a holiday song… weeknd's streaming dropped 31% and his sales dropped 90% (mostly because of the bundling, but still).

[davidjl123]

Dec 16, 2019 15:59:42 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

I wasn't aware that Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree had a new animated video

Universal Music has been uploading animated videos for various Christmas songs including "Jingle Bell Rock" and "A Holly Jolly Christmas"

[Choco]

Dec 16, 2019 16:03:43 GMT -5 candypaint said:

I like Abel but LMFAO at that drop. Mariah’s gonna break that soon with #1-OUT in a few weeks and will hold it forever. Queen.

True but much like if Juice had done it this week with LD going #1-OUT, it's because of special circumstances.

"Heartless" is a regular single on it's first run. I know it's accurate but if this is gonna be the new normal, I'm not a fan. Stuff like "If I Can't Have You" and "You Need to Calm Down" would have gotten similar drops had it not been for OTR blocking them.

[HolidayGuy]

hot100fan- yes, I had posted it in the RATCT thread. The company made animated clips for a number of old holiday songs; that's one of the better ones. It doesn't have all that many views, though, as of yet.

jeng- I wouldn't be surprised if a rule change came with next year's Hot 100, RE holiday songs. Many of the big classics have hit/will hit new heights this season, so Billboard may feel, mission accomplished.

[rockgolf]

Dec 16, 2019 15:20:03 GMT -5 Lukas said:

Dec 16, 2019 15:15:50 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

They're probably doing some big write up. Mariah at 1, Brenda at 2, and like 3 other Christmas songs in there

Are you sure about that?

Just got an e-mail indicating Brenda Lee is #3.

Golden Earring was right! Brenda Lee's coming on strong!

www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8546458/brenda-lee-juice-wrld-tones-and-i-burl-ives-hot-100-top-10

As previously reported, Mariah Carey's 1994 carol "All I Want for Christmas Is You" dashes to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 at last, rising from No. 3 to No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 21.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100's top 10, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" surges 8-3, becoming just the third holiday song ever to reach the Hot 100's top three, while completing the longest ascent to the region.

Plus, the late Juice WRLD's No. 2-peaking "Lucid Dreams" re-enters the survey at No. 8 following his death on Dec. 9; Tones and I's "Dance Monkey" reaches the region for the first time, jumping 13-9; and Burl Ives' holiday classic "A Holly Jolly Christmas" returns to its No. 10 high.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 17).

Below Carey's "Christmas," Post Malone's "Circles" holds at No. 2, after it led the list for two weeks.

Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" jumps 8-3 on the Hot 100, marking another new high; it entered the top 10 for the first time last holiday season, over 58 years after it first appeared on the chart.

The Yuletide classic is now the third-highest-charting holiday hit in the Hot 100's 61-year history:

Highest-Charting Holiday Songs in the Hot 100's History
No. 1, one week to-date, Dec. 21, 2019, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey
No. 1, four weeks, beginning Dec. 22, 1958, "The Chipmunk Song," by David Seville & The Chipmunks
No. 3, Dec. 21, 2019, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Brenda Lee
No. 7, Jan. 8, 2000, "Auld Lang Syne," Kenny G
No. 7, Jan. 6, 1990, "This One's for the Children," New Kids on the Block
No. 8, Jan. 5, 2019, "Jingle Bell Rock," Bobby Helms
No. 9, Feb. 21, 1981, "Same Old Lang Syne," Dan Fogelberg
No. 10, Jan. 5, 2019, "A Holly Jolly Christmas," Burl Ives
No. 10, Dec. 29, 2018, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams

"Rockin' " rolls 4-3 on the Streaming Songs chart, up 13% to 37.1 million U.S. streams in the week ending Dec. 12, according to Nielsen Music, helped by a new animated video. It climbs 43-34 on Radio Songs, gaining by 8% to 26.4 million in all-format airplay audience in the week ending Dec. 15, and dips 33-38 on Digital Song Sales, although up 19% to 5,000 sold in the week ending Dec. 12.

Originally released in 1958, "Rockin' " first appeared on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 12, 1960. As it now reaches the top three, and top five, at last, it completes the longest climb ever to each region from a song's chart debut: 59 years and nine days.

Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after the ballad logged three weeks at No. 1, and Lizzo's "Good as Hell" rises 6-5, after reaching No. 3. It rules Radio Songs for a fourth week, with 98.1 million audience impressions (down 2%), while leading Hot R&B Songs for a sixth week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a fourth frame; the latter two tallies employ the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

Arizona Zervas' "Roxanne" rebounds 7-6 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 5, while leading the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart for a third week, and Maroon 5's No. 4-peaking "Memories" slips 5-7 on the Hot 100.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Burl Ives' "A Holly Jolly Christmas" surges 18-10, returning to its peak first established last holiday season. It lifts 9-8 on Streaming Songs (31.9 million, up 29%) and 45-39 on Radio Songs (24.7 million, up 3%), while gaining by 18% to 2,000 sold.

Just outside the Hot 100's top 10, DaBaby's "BOP" bumps 12-11, up 5% to 33.4 million streams in the week ending Dec. 12 after he performed it on NBC's Saturday Night Live on Dec. 7.

Plus, Juice WRLD and YoungBoy Never Broke Again's "Bandit," which hit No. 10 in October, rebounds 40-12, up 65% to 35.5 million streams (winning the Hot 100's top Streaming Gainer nod), and Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" roars 23-15.

[chartfreak]

Dec 16, 2019 15:50:21 GMT -5 MoD said:

Dec 16, 2019 15:00:25 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

This! Christmas music > mumble rap!

ok boomer

Perez???

[jeiboy]

Legend Brenda Lee at #3 WOW

[Az Paynter]

Is that an Aussie I see in the top 10?!

[Leo ✔]

I'm only happy to see AIWFCIY at #1 just because Circles isn't at #1 anymore.
Hopefully RATCT gets the #1.

Lmao at Heartless.

[Deleted]

Dec 16, 2019 15:51:47 GMT -5 Lukas said:

I'd also like to point out that someone here a few weeks ago mentioned that the record for the biggest drop would come very soon in the streaming era. And it now happened, with Heartless falling 1-17 on the chart.

There's a strong possibility that Mariah could fall from #1 much farther in the coming weeks, possibly even off the Hot 100 entirely.

[Deleted]

the amount of history that was made on the charts today... wow.

[jeiboy]

Brenda is coming for #2 peak last week

Andy Williams for top 10 return?

[violentdreams]

Pretty terrible look for Abel going into his next era. I knew Heartless wasn't going to stick around, but debuting at #1 and only spending a singular week in the top 10 while breaking the record for biggest drop is just embarrassing. He needs to rethink how he's approaching this.

[Myth X]

So even without Christmas songs The Weeknd would have been out of the top 10. Tragic longevity

[KeepDeanWeird]

I'd rather see holiday songs, which are usually strong on all 3 metrics, than album bombs that driven almost exclusively by streaming. And as sales dwindle to almost nothing, you'd be excluding the top revenue songs from 2-3 chart weeks.

During the chart week that covers the end of Dec/New Year's, several 'old' songs surge due to YE countdowns. I'm not sure that's different.

Holiday songs have actually made chart watching fun and unpredictable. Because of streaming, think of all the relatively stagnant Top 10/20 charts we've had during the past 2 years.

I do wonder if, say "Hello," "OTR" or another monster #1 were ruling the chart during this period, if we'd be having a lot of this discussion. Of course, it doesn't matter, Billboard will do whatever it and labels want.

[degen]

Dec 16, 2019 15:04:55 GMT -5 kierz7 said:

Please...

Billboard created a whole ass “Pop 100” chart in early 2005 for the simple fact that they got tired of seeing R&B/Hip-Hop songs completely cannibalise the Hot 100, and wanted “fairer” and “greater” mainstream representation of non-Urban songs especially following 2004 when not a single non-Urban song peaked in the Hot 100 top three. 💀

They finally abolished it in 2009 when they saw that non-R&B/Hip-Hop songs had finally regained its dominance mostly due to the heavy growth of Digital sales.

When Billboard wants something done, they’ll make it happen. They can be just as political and relatively manipulative as any other chart base out there

By the early/mid 2020’s, I do believe they’ll implement a rule (perhaps recurrent, or not) that doesn’t allow Xmas songs to takeover the charts every December.

To be fair to Billboard, the early 2000s was a weird transitional period for the music industry where they could only measure hits based on airplay. There was no sales or other methods to tally the big hits. Urban benefited from this greatly, especially the ones that had pop crossover appeal. Pop songs only got played on Top 40, but Urban songs were getting played on 3-4 formats. 2005 and onward kind of leveled everything out once digital sales became a thing.

[leoapp]

Mariah may break the record for the biggest drop from no. 1 as well the biggest drop off Hot 100 overall (1-out).
But Heartless is still the biggest drop inside Hot 100 from no. 1.

[leoapp]

Mariah Carey was already feeling as festive as can be on Monday (Dec. 16), but the news that one of her most beloved hits went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart 25 years after its initial release turned that mood from happy to euphoric in an instant.

Though her modern Christmas classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has topped Billboard's holiday chart and its streaming chart as well, this marks the first year that the single off her 1994 Merry Christmas album reached the summit of the Hot 100. The song serves as the grand finale of her Christmas show, which began as a residency at New York's Beacon Theatre and has since grown into an international spectacular featuring dancers, elaborate sets, gospel choirs and a cameo from Santa Claus himself. In 2018, Carey brought her yuletide cheer to arenas around the world, but this year, she opted for a tour closer to home -- and she wrapped it with a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night (Dec. 15), hours before "All I Want For Christmas Is You" officially became the No. 1 song in the country.

"It’s a little bit of a whirlwind!" she told Billboard shortly following the Hot 100 announcement. "Last night was [my show at Madison Square Garden]. I loved the show and the fans were incredible. I was just like, 'Okay, even if ["All I Want For Christmas Is You"] is No. 2, that’s a huge accomplishment.' Wow. I don’t even know what to say. We definitely wanted to kick it into high gear this year with the song to celebrate the 25th anniversary, but I definitely didn’t expect it to hit No. 1 two weeks before Christmas! I just want to thank everybody. I want the world to have the best holiday ever."

Carey is the top female solo artist in Billboard's history thanks to her lengthy list of No. 1 hits: "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is the 19th song to top the tally, and had risen as high as No. 3 in 2018 largely thanks to the spike in streaming it receives in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

"This just feels so great because it’s been such a long time coming, and I never really expected it," says Carey. "Even when it went to No. 9 two years ago, and then No. 3, I was like, 'This is incredible!' But I was always just so thankful with the holiday chart, so thankful. This is just, like, mind-boggling."

Her tour may have wrapped yesterday, but Carey has a few more things on her to-do list before it's time to head off to Aspen to officially begin her holiday festivities. On Thursday (Dec. 19), she'll flip the switch at the Empire State Building, where a music-to-light show designed by Marc Brickman will sync the illuminated NYC landmark with "All I Want For Christmas Is You" at 8 p.m. E.T. In the meantime, she'll be "relishing the moment" of this latest milestone with her loved ones in New York -- and thinking of her Lambs, too, given their support of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (and their prior devotion to previous albums, such as the soundtrack to her 2001 film, Glitter, which reentered the soundtracks chart last year thanks to a Lambs-driven social media campaign).

"I don’t want it to sound trite, because people think, 'Oh, the Lambily, what does that mean--' no," she says. "They are the best fans in the entire world. Not only did we have #JusticeForGlitter this year, we have the greatest gift ever, which is the recurring moment of 'All I Want For Christmas Is You.' And now, seeing it go to No. 1, it’s just making me feel ecstatic."

[Lukas]

Lol. Biggest drops and jumps are only for songs that stay on the chart. That’s like saying #1 debuts have the biggest jump to #1.

[thabb]

Dec 16, 2019 16:20:19 GMT -5 violentdreams said:

Pretty terrible look for Abel going into his next era. I knew Heartless wasn't going to stick around, but debuting at #1 and only spending a singular week in the top 10 while breaking the record for biggest drop is just embarrassing. He needs to rethink how he's approaching this.

even I would typically consider myself a weeknd fan but i'm starting to feel like he's becoming a one-trick pony. or rather two-trick pony.

when i first listened to Heartless, after only like 30 seconds, i already knew what the entire song would sound like. same goes for Blinding Lights. i like both of the songs, but neither of them are songs that i'd regularly play myself because i've heard it all before from him. he's losing his touch.

[WolfSpear]

Yeah, this week has been the strangest I’ve ever seen.

Mariah doing some weird Christmas voodoo, The Weeknd bombing hard in the second week with “Heartless”, and Juice WRLD returning to top 10 posthumously with “Lucid Dreams”.

The Who also tie their first Billboard 200 ranking, debuting at #2 with their “Who” album. Also completing a 52 year trip to #1 on Top Album Sales!

[jenglisbe]

For those wondering if "RATCT" could overtake "AIWFCIY" on the Hot 100:

AIWFCIY - 45.6 million streams (+30%)
RATCT - 37.1 million streams (+13%)

AIWFCIY - 34.4 million impressions (+11%)
RATCT - 26.4 million impressions (+8%)

AIWFCIY - 27,000 sold (+185%)
RATCT - 5,000 sold (+19%)

The sales for "AIWFCIY" had the benefit of the signed copies this week, but it still would have had more than double the sales of "RATCT."

[jenglisbe]

Dec 16, 2019 16:00:54 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

Dec 16, 2019 15:59:37 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Eh, most would mean 21 or more of the top 40. That’s probably too many, but a lot will chart. That’s why I think a rule change is coming.

Last year it was 15 or 16, and this year's effect is bigger so...

15 or 16 in the top 40 last year? I didn't realize it was that many. Wow.

[violentdreams]

Dec 16, 2019 16:38:07 GMT -5 thabb said:

Dec 16, 2019 16:20:19 GMT -5 violentdreams said:

Pretty terrible look for Abel going into his next era. I knew Heartless wasn't going to stick around, but debuting at #1 and only spending a singular week in the top 10 while breaking the record for biggest drop is just embarrassing. He needs to rethink how he's approaching this.

even I would typically consider myself a weeknd fan but i'm starting to feel like he's becoming a one-trick pony. or rather two-trick pony.

when i first listened to Heartless, after only like 30 seconds, i already knew what the entire song would sound like. same goes for Blinding Lights. i like both of the songs, but neither of them are songs that i'd regularly play myself because i've heard it all before from him. he's losing his touch.

Heartless is just the same thing he did on King of the Fall, Party Monster, and Reminder except less catchy and less interesting. There was no reason to assume it was going to be a big hit outside of its debut week. Once it plummets from radio, it's going to be out of the top 40 and it will probably be too late to start giving Blinding Lights a formal push. Ngl, this is pretty worrying and makes me think the album is not going to perform that well (like sub-300k).

[renaboss]

So happy for Brenda and Tones and I, in addition to Mariah. Lol @ The Weeknd. The song might bounce back though - although it sure as hell isn't radio-friendly, he must say the word 'p***y' like 50 times.