Billboard Hot 100: 09/26/2020

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Fingers crossed Mood is the next radio #1

[iHype.]

Is it me or is it kinda surprising Break My Heart is still top 20, and only a few positions off from its peak?

Like it feels non-existent outside radio even for their own standards in recent years. Even the gays online who went crazy over Dua's album have moved on from this song so long ago, and it just feels like it hasn't even been discussed period in forever.

Radio can be so weird and disconnected from everything else sometimes.

[iamsorare]

Sept 21, 2020 0:55:46 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Is it me or is it kinda surprising Break My Heart is still top 20, and only a few positions off from its peak?

Like it feels non-existent outside radio even for their own standards in recent years. Even the gays online who went crazy over Dua's album have moved on from this song so long ago, and it just feels like it hasn't even been discussed period in forever.

Radio can be so weird and disconnected from everything else sometimes.

it's falling on radio so you will see it fall on hot 100 soon

[kingvavis]

I have a question for the hard working predictors, do you guys know what this week's top 10 would look like in points if radio was never recalibrated back in May if that's possible?

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

I guess there's another song sampling Can't Take My Eyes Off You on radio.

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates 2020/09/21

1(=) Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go 134.00(+0.53)
2(=) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 130.25(-1.05)
3(=) Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar 123.57(+1.50) +
4(=) DaBaby - ROCKSTAR (feat. Roddy Ricch) 119.90(-0.37)
5(=) Gabby Barrett - I Hope (feat. Charlie Puth) 103.75(+0.58)

6(+1) Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) 100.23(+0.73)
7(-1) Dua Lipa - Break My Heart 98.82(-1.38) -
8(=) Harry Styles - Adore You 96.83(-0.27)
9(=) Post Malone - Circles 91.32(+0.02)
10(=) Chris Brown & Young Thug - Go Crazy 77.00(+0.28)

11(=) Drake - Laugh Now Cry Later (feat. Lil Durk) 70.12(+1.94)

17(=) Lee Brice - One of Them Girls 61.13(+0.72)

19(=) Saweetie - Tap In 56.13(+0.70)

21(=) Cardi B - WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) 54.02(+0.93)

23(=) 24kGoldn - Mood (feat. iann dior) 51.01(+1.12)

25(+1) Surf Mesa - ily (i love you baby) [feat. Emilee] 48.16(+0.78)

54(+1) Ava Max - Kings & Queens 30.47(+1.12) -

71(+4) Calvin Harris, The Weeknd - Over Now 24.57(+0.91)

97(+7) DaBaby - BLIND (feat. Young Thug) 17.65(+0.98)

98(+17) Justin Bieber - Holy (feat. Chance the Rapper) 17.52(+3.11)

-(-) Jhené Aiko - B.S. (feat. H.E.R.) 13.25(+0.70)

-(-) Sam Smith - Diamonds 13.01(+2.31) +

-(-) Skip Marley - Make Me Feel f/R Ross/A Lennox 5.71(+1.97) +

-(-) Ty Dolla $ign - Expensive f/Nicki Minaj 4.98(+2.97) +

-(-) Chesca/pitbull/frankie Valli - Te Quiero Baby 2.04(+1.61) +

[fhas]

Sept 21, 2020 8:45:36 GMT -5 kingvavis said:

I have a question for the hard working predictors, do you guys know what this week's top 10 would look like in points if radio was never recalibrated back in May if that's possible?

The numbers were recalibrated on May 30 (Savage's 1st and only week at #1). The week before, the "Mediabase-to-Kworb" multiplier was ~24% higher than it's now, so I just multiplied this week's estimated audience by 1.24...

1. WAP 38,200 (=)
2. Rockstar 28,900 (+1)
3. Laugh Now Cry Later 28,000 (-1)
4. Blinding Lights 26,600 (+1)
5. Dynamite 26,000 (-1)
6. Mood 24,300 (=)
7. Watermelon Sugar 23,800 (=)
8. Before You Go 22,700 (+2)
9. Savage Love 22,400 (-1)
10. I Hope 21,600 (+1)

11. Whats Poppin 21,400 (-2)

Radio #1: Before You Go with ~95.2M audience impressions.

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#1(=) WAP
#2(=) Dynamite
#3(=) Laugh Now Cry Later
#4(=) ROCKSTAR
#5(=) Blinding Lights
#6(=) Mood
#7(=) Watermelon Sugar
#8(+1) Savage Love
#9(+2) Before You Go
#10(-2) WHAT’S POPPIN

boring

[Deleted]

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Weeks in the top 10

Blinding Lights 31
Rockstar 21
Whats Poppin 13
Watermelon Sugar 11
Savage Love 8
WAP 6
Laugh Now Cry Later 5
Before You Go 4
Dynamite 4
Mood 3

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

Congratulations to "Blinding Lights"!

As much as I love "The Box" and "Circles", I hope it gets to be the #1 song of 2020. The Weeknd deserves it so much!

[annoymous1]

Yup The Weeknd breaking records as he should.

[Golden Bluebird]

Sept 21, 2020 0:55:46 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Is it me or is it kinda surprising Break My Heart is still top 20, and only a few positions off from its peak?

Like it feels non-existent outside radio even for their own standards in recent years. Even the gays online who went crazy over Dua's album have moved on from this song so long ago, and it just feels like it hasn't even been discussed period in forever.

Radio can be so weird and disconnected from everything else sometimes.

I personally haven't moved on from this song, but yeah, "Break My Heart" (or really a lot of the radio-dependent songs charting right now) shouldn't be as high on the Hot 100 as they are.

[Choco]

Curious to see the Dynamite sales numbers. Another 100k+ week?

[Mathgeek]

Sept 21, 2020 12:39:12 GMT -5 Choco said:

Curious to see the Dynamite sales numbers. Another 100k+ week?

78k

[Choco]

Sept 21, 2020 0:55:46 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Is it me or is it kinda surprising Break My Heart is still top 20, and only a few positions off from its peak?

Like it feels non-existent outside radio even for their own standards in recent years. Even the gays online who went crazy over Dua's album have moved on from this song so long ago, and it just feels like it hasn't even been discussed period in forever.

Radio can be so weird and disconnected from everything else sometimes.

True but to be fair, I haven't seen anyone outside of Pulse talk about "Circles" since way before "Break My Heart" existed... charts are slow.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Blinding Lights run at #1 in Radio Songs is officially over:

Lewis Capaldi's 'Before You Go' Wraps Record Run to No. 1 on Pop & Radio Songs Charts

9/21/2020 by Gary Trust 

The track tops Pop Songs in its 37th week.

Lewis Capaldi's "Before You Go" takes over atop a pair of Billboard radio airplay charts, the mainstream top 40-based Pop Songs survey and the all-format Radio Songs ranking (dated Sept. 26; all charts will update tomorrow, Sept. 22, on Billboard.com).

The track, released on Vertigo/Capitol Records, completes the longest journey to No. 1 on Pop Songs since the chart began in 1992, reaching the top in its 37th week. Having debuted on the chart dated Jan. 18, it surpasses the 31-week climb of Benny Blanco, Halsey and Khalid's "Eastside" in 2018-19.

On Radio Songs, "Go" dethrones the longest-reigning No. 1 in the chart's history, which dates to 1990, as The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" dips to No. 2 after a record 23 weeks on top.

Capaldi joins an elite club of acts to have led in their first two appearances on each chart, as "Go" follows his breakthrough hit "Someone You Loved," which topped Pop Songs and Radio Songs for three weeks each last October-November. Previously, Mariah Carey (beginning in 1990), Beyoncé (2003) and Bruno Mars (2010) ruled both lists with their first two entries each as lead artists.

Capitol Music Group executive vice president of promotion Greg Marella credits multiple departments among the label, from bookers to those working with DSPs and more, for the rise of "Go" and states that any airplay success story begins the same: "The artist created a great song."

From there, the 23-year-old Glasgow, Scotland-born Capaldi has conducted around 150 interviews with radio. "Everybody he comes in contact with, they wrap up that interaction going, 'I love this guy,' " Marella says. "He is so humble, warm and self-deprecating. He's having fun. He's enjoying the process."

Marella believes that an artist's personality and connection with programmers can help a worthy song go further. "When you have a hit song and everybody buys into the artist as a human being, the fight is different at that point," he says. "You are now fighting the traffic of all the other songs that come and go. You get to a point where you are no longer fighting with people about whether they're going to support you. Then it's about getting through a very crowded playlist and chart."

Marella -- who notes that while most top 40 stations are playing the original, shuffling version of "Go," a more uptempo Edessa remix has also gotten traction -- adds that the success of "Someone" paradoxically played a part in its follow-up needing time to establish at radio. (When "Go" debuted on Pop Songs at No. 40, "Someone" was still in the top five.)

"That was an obstacle," Marella says. "Stations that were early on 'Someone You Loved' were the same ones that were early on 'Before You Go.' We are first met with a bit of pessimism about ballads, in particular. Then programmers said, 'It's difficult for me to have two songs from [Capaldi] on the air at the same time, so we're just going to play 'Someone You Loved' for now.' "

Marella estimates that it wasn't until around June that the focus among radio decision-makers shifted more fully to "Go," a steady growth with which he finds no fault. "Some stations shouldn't be early on ballads," he admits, citing those that are rhythmic-leaning. "That's just not how those stations are built."

To date, "Go" has drawn 1.2 billion in cumulative radio audience and 330.4 million U.S. streams and has sold 186,000 downloads, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

"The beauty of songs that take this long is that they don't go away quickly," Marella muses. "I'm confident that this song is going to carry through the remainder of 2020."

[fridayteenage]

Realized you can tell how many merch website vs. regular digital store sales dynamite has:
On the worldwide chart, it has 29k, internationally it has 18k.


Thus 11k was sold in the US with regular stores out of 78k (14%).
Last week it was 21k/136k (15%).

[notgoodenglish]

Sept 21, 2020 12:52:53 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

Lewis Capaldi's 'Before You Go' Wraps Record Run to No. 1 on Pop & Radio Songs Charts

From there, the 23-year-old Glasgow, Scotland-born Capaldi has conducted around 150 interviews with radio. "Everybody he comes in contact with, they wrap up that interaction going, 'I love this guy,' " Marella says. "He is so humble, warm and self-deprecating. He's having fun. He's enjoying the process."

Marella believes that an artist's personality and connection with programmers can help a worthy song go further. "When you have a hit song and everybody buys into the artist as a human being, the fight is different at that point," he says. "You are now fighting the traffic of all the other songs that come and go. You get to a point where you are no longer fighting with people about whether they're going to support you. Then it's about getting through a very crowded playlist and chart."

King Capaldi gets his second number one on Pop (No more one hit wonder!), and number one on overall radio !! Also a new peak on Billboard hot 100 !!.

Im so happy to know that his personality helps to achieved that ! He's really a lovely guy, humble and charming, and radios programmers loves him. Thats the success you get when you're a good human being and not another snotty-nosed celebrity.

[kalmanta]

Sept 21, 2020 12:52:53 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

"The beauty of songs that take this long is that they don't go away quickly," Marella muses. "I'm confident that this song is going to carry through the remainder of 2020."

This sounds almost like a threat. 
God, I hoped we would leave those kinda songs in the past decade, guess I was wrong.

[fhas]

September 26... Before You Go is the 4th song to reach #1 on Radio Songs this year.

Blinding Lights 23x
Don't Start Now 4x
Memories 1x
Before You Go 1x

"Worst" years since 2000:

2002: 6
2016, 2017 and 2018: 8

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^It seems like that this year could set the record as being the worst one this century. In the best case scenario, I think it could tie the current record-holding year.

[GP]

Sept 21, 2020 0:55:46 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Is it me or is it kinda surprising Break My Heart is still top 20, and only a few positions off from its peak?

Like it feels non-existent outside radio even for their own standards in recent years. Even the gays online who went crazy over Dua's album have moved on from this song so long ago, and it just feels like it hasn't even been discussed period in forever.

Radio can be so weird and disconnected from everything else sometimes.

Yeah and besides the #1 push on pop months ago, Warner has given 0 ***** about it afterward... it's weird

[bigolefreak]

Can anybody be as kind to me as to let me know Circles entire chart run so far? Thanx

[GPMB]

Sept 21, 2020 0:55:46 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Is it me or is it kinda surprising Break My Heart is still top 20, and only a few positions off from its peak?

Like it feels non-existent outside radio even for their own standards in recent years. Even the gays online who went crazy over Dua's album have moved on from this song so long ago, and it just feels like it hasn't even been discussed period in forever.

Radio can be so weird and disconnected from everything else sometimes.

i was just thinking about this the other day lol it feels like it peaked in June or something but radio is late to everything so it's still here

[GPMB]

Sept 21, 2020 15:31:40 GMT -5 bigolefreak said:

Can anybody be as kind to me as to let me know Circles entire chart run so far? Thanx

7-4-9-8-7-6-4-4-3-2-2-1-1-2-2-3-5-1-3-3-4-3-3-3-3-3-4-5-5-5-4-6-7-6-8-8-10-10-11-11-11-13-10-13-13-20-18-20-16-15-16-16-15-16-16

[HolidayGuy]

The Sept. 19 thread is closed, and I'm just catching up on those charts. Ten featured acts on the Big Sean track "Friday Night Cypher"- good lawdy. Is that a record?

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9452973/cardi-b-wap-number-one-fourth-week-hot-100

Cardi B's 'WAP' Tops Billboard Hot 100 for Fourth Week, The Weeknd's 'Blinding Lights' Makes History in Top Five
9/21/2020 by Gary Trust FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME

The latter breaks the record for the most weeks ever logged in the top five.

Cardi B's "WAP," featuring Megan Thee Stallion, spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Plus, The Weeknd's former Hot 100 leader "Blinding Lights" breaks the record for the most weeks spent in the top five in the chart's history and Lewis Capaldi's "Before You Go" returns to the Hot 100's top 10, at a new high, and takes over as the most-heard song on U.S. radio (dethroning "Blinding Lights").

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Sept. 26) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 22). For all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

"WAP," released on Atlantic Records, notches a fifth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart with 41.5 million U.S. streams (down 14%) in the week ending Sept. 17, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. On Digital Song Sales, which it led for two weeks, "WAP" drops 2-3 with 12,000 downloads sold (down 25%) in the same span. The collab climbs 27-21 on Radio Songs with 32.6 million airplay audience impressions (up 21%) in the week ending Sept. 20.

With its fourth frame at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Cardi B rewrites her longest career domination as a lead artist, as "WAP" surpasses the three-week reign of her debut No. 1 "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)" in October 2017. She has also led with "I Like It," with Bad Bunny and J Balvin (one week, July 2018), and as featured on Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" (seven weeks, September-November 2018).

"WAP" logs a sixth week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

BTS' "Dynamite" ranks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 for a second week after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1. It tops Digital Song Sales for a fourth week (78,000 downloads sold, down 43%), slips 16-17 on Streaming Songs (12.6 million, down 6%) and ascends 49-47 on Radio Songs (19.1 million, up 6%).

Drake's "Laugh Now Cry Later," featuring Lil Durk, keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 high, and

DaBaby's seven-week leader "Rockstar," featuring Roddy Ricch, is likewise stationary at No. 4.

The Weeknd's former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 "Blinding Lights" holds at No. 5, as it tops the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-extending 27th week.

As for its Hot 100 longevity, "Lights" spends a 28th week in the top five, breaking the record for the most time logged in the region over the chart's 62-year history.

Most Weeks in Hot 100's Top Five

28, "Blinding Lights," The Weeknd, No. 1 peak (four weeks), 2020
27, "Shape of You," Ed Sheeran, No. 1 (12), 2017
27, "Closer," The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, No. 1 (12), 2016-17
26, "Circles," Post Malone, No. 1 (three), 2019-20
25, "Uptown Funk!," Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, No. 1 (14), 2014-15
25, "How Do I Live," LeAnn Rimes, No. 2, 1997-98
24, "Girls Like You," Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, No. 1 (seven), 2018
24, "That's What I Like," Bruno Mars, No. 1 (one), 2017
23, "Old Town Road," Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, No. 1 (19), 2019
23, "Without Me," Halsey, No. 1 (two), 2018-19
23, "Despacito," Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, No. 1 (16), 2017
23, "The Twist," Chubby Checker, No. 1 (three), 1960-61-62

"Lights," which first reached the top five of the Hot 100 dated March 21 and has charted in the region for 28 weeks consecutively, remains in the top 15 of each Hot 100 component chart, descending to No. 2 on Radio Songs, as its record 23-week run at No. 1 is halted (75.9 million, down 3%), and receding 4-6 on Digital Song Sales (9,000, up 6%) and 11-14 on Streaming Songs (13.5 million, down 4%).

24kGoldn's "Mood," featuring iann dior, holds at its No. 6 best on the Hot 100, while winning the chart's top Airplay Gainer award for a third consecutive week (30.3 million, up 31%). It's the first song with such a streak of claiming the honor since Megan Thee Stallion's "Savage," featuring Beyoncé, tripled up in May. "Mood" tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a fourth week each and repeats at No. 4 on Hot Rap Songs.

Harry Styles' former one-week Hot 100 leader "Watermelon Sugar" is steady at No. 7 and Jawsh 685 and

Jason Derulo's "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" rises 9-8, after reaching No. 7.

Lewis Capaldi's "Before You Go" rebounds 11-9 on the Hot 100, reaching a new best rank. It concurrently rises 3-1 on Radio Songs (79.1 million, up 5%), stopping the record 23-week domination of The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights." Capaldi crowns Radio Songs with a second No. 1 in as many visits, as his breakthrough ballad "Someone You Loved" led for three weeks last November. He's the first artist to send his first two Radio Songs entries to the top spot since Lizzo, who did so in September-December 2019 with "Truth Hurts" (six weeks at No. 1) and "Good as Hell" (four).

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Jack Harlow's "Whats Poppin," featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne, falls 8-10, after it peaked at No. 2.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Sept. 26), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 22).

[strongerq]

So you are telling me if there was a *certain rule* about a *certain thing* Dynamite would have had 6.1K sales from website + ~12K digital sales. And it would have been like #16.

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

"Dynamite" remaining at #2 definitely caught me off-guard, I thought it's gonna fall some spots

[Mathgeek]

Fans buying Dynamite aren’t breaking any rules. They were presented with an option to buy the remixes and they are. The sales are also declining gradually.

Props though, for not making this a one week thing & then free falling