Billboard Hot 100: 10/03/2020

[jodakyellow]

Sept 29, 2020 14:12:03 GMT -5 M5 said:

Sept 29, 2020 14:09:28 GMT -5 Choco said:

who

The long haired guy who plays the guitar in the very beginning of the girls like you mv

Be honest... Are you James Valentine?

[nathanalbright]

Who else would care so much about him?

[m450n]

I think a Doja x Maroon 5 would sound really good tbh.

[nathanalbright]

Sept 29, 2020 17:23:31 GMT -5 m450n said:

I think a Doja x Maroon 5 would sound really good tbh.

Doja's looking for that second hit and Maroon 5 is looking to stay relevant; I could see this happening very easily.

[lazer]

Who even remembers the other guys from Maroon 5?

[Choco]

Sept 29, 2020 17:25:07 GMT -5 nathanalbright said:

Sept 29, 2020 17:23:31 GMT -5 m450n said:

I think a Doja x Maroon 5 would sound really good tbh.

Doja's looking for that second hit and Maroon 5 is looking to stay relevant; I could see this happening very easily.

In b4 someone comes for you because some Doja song that peaked at #41 was a "hit" or something.

(Maroon 5 likes to feature the hot rap acts on their singles so it makes all the sense in the world).

[nathanalbright]

Sept 29, 2020 18:12:28 GMT -5 Choco said:

Sept 29, 2020 17:25:07 GMT -5 nathanalbright said:

Doja's looking for that second hit and Maroon 5 is looking to stay relevant; I could see this happening very easily.

In b4 someone comes for you because some Doja song that peaked at #41 was a "hit" or something.

(Maroon 5 likes to feature the hot rap acts on their singles so it makes all the sense in the world).

That's exactly what I was going for.  I mean, someone has to remember "Like That" before they can come for me, after all.  It's a shame that Moo wasn't a hit, though, as that would be worth remembering.

[fhas]

Streaming Songs this week (~9 million streams)

[𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤]

I can’t quote myself because the thread is locked, but look what I said last week:

I was hoping “Head & Heart”, “Daisy” & “Put Your Records On” would reach Bubbling Under. Instead, I got “Mad at Disney”.

I got my wish omg 😭

[iHype.]

Sept 29, 2020 18:17:01 GMT -5 fhas said:

Streaming Songs this week (~9 million streams)

The song is still very massive on Pandora, top 10 every week with over 3.5 million streams which certainly helps.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Pandora's another streaming service that fans of Country seem to be using a lot.

[Normi]

Does somebody know how Dynamite would have charted these last weeks with less sales? It feels like a hit but not a Top 2 stable

I hope Q4 will bring crazy new releases to spice up the charts a bit

[Gary]

Earth, Wind & Fire's 'September' Hits New Digital Song Sales Peak, Triples in Sept. 21st Streams
9/30/2020 by Andrew Unterberger



For the third straight year, Earth, Wind & Fire's 1978 pop-funk classic "September" had a massive spike in on-demand audio streams and digital download sales on the date of Sept. 21, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

With communal celebration of the Sept. 21st date mentioned in the song's opening lyrics ("Do you remember/ The 21st night of September") seemingly growing every year -- including an different new viral video posted annually by writer/comedian Demi Adejuyigbe on Twitter, always finding bigger and more ambitious ways to commemorate the date -- on-demand audio streams of the song rose from 340,000 on Sept. 20th to 1,187,000 on the 21st, a gain of 249%.


That builds on the rise the song experienced on Sept. 21st in 2019 (383,000 to 1,017,000, a gain of 265%) -- though it's less than the spike the song saw on Sept. 21st in 2018 (292,000 to 1,107,000, a gain of 279%), albeit with the highest on-demand stream total of any of the three years. (Nielsen Music/MRC Data does not have day-to-day stream totals available for the September dates prior to 2018.)

Meanwhile, the song also jumped a whopping 622% in day-to-day sales, from a negligible figure on Sept. 20 to 2,000 on Sept. 21st. That's a bigger leap than the hikes in sales "September" saw on the 21st in 2019 (up to 3,000, a 473% gain) or 2018 (up to 4,000, a 563% gain) -- although the total sales are down, likely due to digital download sales continuing to slide across the board every year.

The full-week sales spike for "September" also results in the song re-entering Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart at No. 19 for the chart dated Oct. 3 -- a new high for the song, which originally peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1979. It's the third week on the Digital Song Sales chart for "September," after it first debuted at No. 26 two years ago on the chart dated Oct. 6, 2018, and then re-entered the following year at No. 25 on the chart dated Oct. 5, 2019. (The song also rises 18-4 on R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales this week, another new peak.)

On Billboard's multi-metric charts, "September" also makes its first bow on the Billboard Global 200 (based off global streams and downloads), debuting at No. 113. That's the highest a 20th-century song has ranked thus far on the still extremely new chart; Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," released in 1975, had previously notched a high of No. 131 on the first-ever Billboard Global 200 listing, dated Sept. 19.

This year's version of Adejuyigbe's "September"-celebrating video has thusfar racked up a whopping 2.2 million views on Twitter, as well as 665,000 views on Instagram. The video includes a message from its creator at the end that claims he will cease to do the annual Sept. 21 videos after this year (his fifth) unless viewers help raise $50,000 for a combination of causes he championed. Turnout for the charity page was so massive that it crashed the entire Action Network website, and eventually raised over $300,000 for Adejuyigbe's causes.


Sept. 21 isn't the only annual date that "September" sees a large rise in consumption: The song also sees regular bumps on the 1st of the titular month each year, including a jump in on-demand audio streams from 307,610 to 484,046 this Sept. 1st (up 57.4%) and in sales from 160 to 595 (up 271.9%).

[Gary]

Ask Billboard: Justin Bieber, We Saw Your Tweet About the Charts … & You've Set a Record on the Hot 100
By Gary Trust
9/30/2020


As he astutely notes, he's charted hits this year that have peaked at Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Justin Bieber



Hi Justin (Bieber, from Ontario, Canada),

Thanks for writing in to "Ask Billboard" (even if you didn't realize you did, or if you didn't technically ask a question).

Your 2020 on the Billboard Hot 100 includes an impressive five songs that have peaked at each of the chart's top five spots. Here's a recap:

Peak, Title
No. 1 (one week), "Stuck With U," with Ariana Grande
No. 2, "Yummy"
No. 3 (to date), "Holy," featuring Chance the Rapper
No. 4, "10,000 Hours," with Dan + Shay
No. 5, "Intentions," featuring Quavo

A high-five for your high five!

Five Burning Questions: Justin Bieber's Chance the Rapper-Featuring 'Holy' Debuts at No. 3 on Hot 100
Technicality: "10,000 Hours" debuted and peaked at No. 4 last October, but did return to the top 10 for seven weeks, including another week in the top five, at No. 5, in 2020. The other four songs above all debuted and peaked between January and, with the arrival of "Holy," this week.


Per your keen chart-watching, how rare is it to have charted songs in a single year that have peaked at each position in the Hot 100's top five? It turns out that you're the first to achieve the honor in the chart's 62-year history.

Previously, some iconic acts came close, starting with Janet Jackson, who peaked at Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 with five songs from one album: her breakthrough classic Control. The set's first five singles claimed a peak at each top five position: "What Have You Done for Me Lately" (No. 4, May 1986); "Nasty" (No. 3, July 1986); "When I Think of You" (No. 1, two weeks, October 1986); "Control" (No. 5, January 1987); and "Let's Wait Awhile" (No. 2, March 1987).


Jackson, meanwhile, retains the record for the quickest span of charting hits at Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, as those five songs peaked over a stretch of only 10 months. Comparatively, "10,000 Hours" debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the Oct. 19, 2019-dated Hot 100 and "Holy" debuts at No. 3 on the Oct. 3, 2020, list, making for a slightly longer span of 11 months and two weeks.

Similarly, Herman's Hermits first ran up a hefty six top five Hot 100 hits over a year, from March 1965 through March 1966: "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" (No. 2); "Silhouettes" (No. 5); "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" (No. 1, three weeks); "Wonderful World" (No. 4); "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" (No. 1, one week); and "Listen People" (No. 3).

Looking at all these acts, the feat speaks to the uncommon ability to send several songs into the Hot 100's top five in a concentrated time, reflecting a robust appetite among fans for music from star artists, as well as, stemming from that popularity, a bit of chart luck in hitting on every number.


Of course, repeatedly reaching the chart's ceiling in such a quick span is more laudable, and Michael Jackson earned five Hot 100 No. 1s from his album Bad in 1987-88 even more quickly than Janet earned her five top five hits from Control, dominating with his five leaders over just nine months and two weeks.

Even more impressive, The Beatles earned their first five No. 1s in a flash of just six months, exactly, in 1964 from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (Feb. 1) through "A Hard Day's Night" (Aug. 1), still the record for the fastest accumulation of five No. 1s in the Hot 100's history.

And, perhaps marking the most praised achievement regarding the Hot 100's top five, The Beatles monopolized the entire region on the ranking dated April 4, 1964.

What Does Justin Bieber's 'Holy' Mean for His Next Move?
Quick quiz, and getting back to quirky fun facts per the mailbag's original topic: One artist has scored exactly five total top five Hot 100 hits, with those songs peaking at each position in the region, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Can you name him, her or them? Answer below.

As for other acts with hits that peaked at each rank in the Hot 100's top five over short spans, The Beatles did so starting in 1964-66, followed by Donna Summer (1978-80), Madonna (first in 1984-86) and 50 Cent (2005-07).


Most recently before Bieber (oops, I mean, you), Rihanna's five latest top five Hot 100 hits peaked at each rank in the tier, in 2015-17, including one with a Beatle: "FourFiveSeconds," with Kanye West and Paul McCartney (No. 4, 2015). That collab preceded "Work," featuring Drake (No. 1, nine weeks, 2016); "This Is What You Came For," by Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna (No. 3, 2016); "Love on the Brain" (No. 5, 2017); and "Wild Thoughts," by DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller (No. 2, 2017).

West has also peaked at each top five rung on the Hot 100 with his five most recent top five hits, in 2009-15.

Plus, Drake, the leader with 41 top 10 Hot 100 hits, peaked at Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 with his first five top five hits in 2009-13.


Quiz answer: One artist has scored five career top five Hot 100 hits, with those singles having peaked at each position in the region. Taylor Dayne ran up such a history in 1988-90, thanks to songs from her first two albums: "I'll Always Love You" (No. 3); "Don't Rush Me" (No. 2); "With Every Beat of My Heart" (No. 5); "Love Will Lead You Back" (No. 1, one week); and "I'll Be Your Shelter" (No. 4).

(Perhaps her most enduring song, her debut smash "Tell It to My Heart," reached No. 7 in 1988.)

As for one more hallowed act, Elvis Presley reached each position in the Hot 100's top five from 1958, when the chart began, through 1963. Among his hits in that span was 1961's No. 2-peaking "Can't Help Falling in Love." The standard famously begins with the lyric, "Wise men say / Only fools rush in." The line appears (minus "only") in tribute, 59 years later, in "Holy."

[jodakyellow]

^^ Funny Chart Coincidences thread material for sure

[Choco]

It's impressive on paper but I can't help but feel like this year was still a drop-off from previous highs for Biebz. "Stuck with U" is saved by "TROLLZ" in terms of being the weakest #1 of the year, and "Yummy" was not really a hit after initial hype died down. I think "Holy" is not meant to last long either. The biggest things he's done are the Country collab and "Intentions" which had a good run on radio, but still, not quite up to par with previous eras.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^His recent songs have become mostly frontloaded with Intentions and 10,000 Hours as the ones with longevity thanks to the collaborations. We'll see where Holy falls in that spectrum, but it seems likely that frontloaded will apply to it.

[GP]

Oct 1, 2020 11:18:52 GMT -5 Choco said:

It's impressive on paper but I can't help but feel like this year was still a drop-off from previous highs for Biebz. "Stuck with U" is saved by "TROLLZ" in terms of being the weakest #1 of the year, and "Yummy" was not really a hit after initial hype died down. I think "Holy" is not meant to last long either. The biggest things he's done are the Country collab and "Intentions" which had a good run on radio, but still, not quite up to par with previous eras.

it's crazy to think he charted 5 top5s this year because it DEFINITELY hasn't felt like it

[kimberly]

Oct 1, 2020 18:30:31 GMT -5 GP said:

Oct 1, 2020 11:18:52 GMT -5 Choco said:

It's impressive on paper but I can't help but feel like this year was still a drop-off from previous highs for Biebz. "Stuck with U" is saved by "TROLLZ" in terms of being the weakest #1 of the year, and "Yummy" was not really a hit after initial hype died down. I think "Holy" is not meant to last long either. The biggest things he's done are the Country collab and "Intentions" which had a good run on radio, but still, not quite up to par with previous eras.

it's crazy to think he charted 5 top5s this year because it DEFINITELY hasn't felt like it

to be fair, only 1 of them was him solo, and out of his five Top 5 hits, 4 of them spent 5 weeks in the Top 5 total. (don't remember the figure for "10,000 Hours") funnily enough, "Intentions" is the one with 2 weeks despite being the lowest-charting one, lol.