Hot 100 Re-entries - comprehensive list

[dawhite76]

Here's another update - the 1998 version of "I Honestly Love You" is a new version recorded for Olivia's "Back With A Heart" album produced by David Foster with background vocals by Babyface. The 1977 version is the same as the 1974 hit, although they were different records. Each had a different B-side on the vinyl single as they promoted different albums - 1974's "If You Love Me Let Me Know" and 1977's "Greatest Hits."

[jebsib]

A few more:

Don’t Stand So Close to Me, The Police
1981 - 18 weeks peaked at #10
1986 - 9 weeks peaked at #46
Re-recorded and modernized to promote greatest hits LP

You Can Call Me Al, Paul Simon
1986 - 14 weeks peaked at #44
1987 - 15 weeks peaked at #23
Re-released to radio after Grammy Award sweep

Valerie, Steve Winwood
1982 - 4 weeks peaked at #79
1987 - 20 weeks peaked at #9
Remixed and re-released to promote Greatest Hits LP

Send Me an Angel, Real Life
1984 - 18 weeks peaked at #29
1989 - 16 weeks peaked at #26
Another in a year long campaign of re-releasing previous semi-hits

In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel
1986 - 14 weeks peaked at #26
1989 - 14 weeks peaked at #41
Appeared in hot movie (Say Anything)

Tarzan Boy, Baltimora
1986 - 26 weeks peaked at #13
1993 - 12 weeks peaked at #51
Appeared in popular Listerine commercial & hot movie (TMNT 2)

My Sharona, The Knack
1979 - 22 weeks peaked at #1
1994 - 4 weeks peaked at #91
Appeared in hot movie (Reality Bites)

I'm certain there are a few more.

[Gary]

Lose Yourself, Eminem
Original release 2002
from the 8 Mile Soundtrack
#1 - 12 weeks





Hot 100


weeks pos date
1 43 10/05/2002
2 18 10/12/2002
3 9 10/19/2002
4 6 10/26/2002
5 2 11/02/2002
6 1 11/09/2002
7 1 11/16/2002
8 1 11/23/2002
9 1 11/30/2002
10 1 12/07/2002
11 1 12/14/2002
12 1 12/21/2002
13 1 12/28/2002
14 1 01/04/2003
15 1 01/11/2003
16 1 01/18/2003
17 1 01/25/2003
18 9 02/01/2003
19 15 02/08/2003
20 23 02/15/2003
21 29 02/22/2003
22 34 03/01/2003
23 43 03/08/2003


Recurrent chart


weeks pos date
1 3 03/15/2003
2 7 03/22/2003
3 10 03/29/2003
4 9 04/05/2003
5 8 04/12/2003
6 15 04/19/2003
7 16 04/26/2003
8 21 05/03/2003
9 18 05/10/2003
10 20 05/17/2003
11 20 05/24/2003
12 24 05/31/2003
13 18 06/07/2003
14 20 06/14/2003
15 22 06/21/2003
16 30 06/28/2003
17 29 07/26/2003
18 11 11/05/2005
19 2 11/12/2005
20 3 11/19/2005
21 6 11/26/2005
22 16 12/03/2005
23 30 12/10/2005
24 16 12/24/2005
25 16 12/31/2005
26 20 01/07/2006
27 12 01/14/2006
28 15 01/21/2006
29 19 01/28/2006
30 17 02/04/2006
31 30 01/08/2011
32 18 02/26/2011
33 15 03/05/2011
34 15 03/12/2011
35 17 03/19/2011
36 22 03/26/2011
37 28 01/14/2012
38 18 06/13/2015
39 20 02/22/2020

[Gary]

The Next Episode, Dr. Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg
Original release 2000
peak #23

Hot 100

weeks pos date
1 78 05/27/2000
2 67 06/03/2000
3 58 06/10/2000
4 53 06/17/2000
5 46 06/24/2000
6 41 07/01/2000
7 32 07/08/2000
8 27 07/15/2000
9 26 07/22/2000
10 23 07/29/2000
11 26 08/05/2000
12 27 08/12/2000
13 32 08/19/2000
14 32 08/26/2000
15 44 09/02/2000
16 46 09/09/2000
17 47 09/16/2000
18 50 09/23/2000
19 52 09/30/2000
20 58 10/07/2000
21 37 02/26/2022


Recurrents


weeks pos date
1 4 10/14/2000
2 7 10/21/2000
3 11 10/28/2000
4 10 11/04/2000
5 15 11/11/2000
6 18 11/18/2000
7 16 11/25/2000
8 21 12/02/2000
9 18 12/09/2000
10 25 12/16/2000
11 30 01/06/2001
12 20 12/01/2018

[Gary]

Still Dre, Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg
Original release 1999


Hot 100


weeks pos date
1 93 11/27/1999
2 93 12/04/1999
3 98 12/18/1999
4 98 12/25/1999
5 99 02/05/2000
6 23 02/26/2022 -- new peak

[Gary]

Reurrent re-entries


10 - - 1 California Love, 2Pac Featuring Dr. Dre And Roger Troutman
12 - - 93 In Da Club, 50 Cent
14 - - 7 Forgot About Dre, Dr. Dre Featuring Eminem
21 - - 25 Family Affair, Mary J. Blige

[Gary]

The 4th chart entry from the 1991 album 'Nevermind' makes its debut

46 - - 1 Something In The Way, Nirvana 46


Previously also charted in 2020 on Hot Digital Songs


Other singles from Nevermind


Smells Like Teen Spirit #6
Come As You Are #32
Lithium #64



Side note --- Smells Like Nirvana from Weird Al hit #35

[Psych]

Here's a comprehensive list of all re-entries using your criteria (no Xmas songs, minimum 10 weeks total on the chart, peaked in the Top 40)

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DEBUT			PEAK			SONG	ARTIST	PEAK	Runs	Weeks
1958	8	18	1958	9	22	Summertime, Summertime	The Jamies	#26	2	19
1958	10	6	1959	1	19	A Lover's Question	Clyde McPhatter	#6	2	24
1958	10	13	1958	12	1	I'll Wait For You	Frankie Avalon	#15	2	17
1958	11	3	1962	1	20	Dreamy Eyes	Johnny Tillotson	#35	3	23
1958	12	15	1959	3	2	Pretty Girls Everywhere	Eugene Church and The Fellows	#36	2	15
1959	1	12	1959	2	16	Nola	Billy Williams	#39	2	12
1959	2	16	1959	3	16	Alvin's Harmonica	David Seville And The Chipmunks	#3	3	15
1959	4	13	1959	8	3	My Heart Is An Open Book	Carl Dobkins, Jr.	#3	2	24
1959	5	11	1959	7	6	Little Dipper	The Mickey Mozart Quintet	#30	2	10
1959	5	18	1959	6	22	Tall Cool One	The Wailers	#36	2	23
1959	5	18	1959	6	29	The Wonder Of You	Ray Peterson	#25	2	19
1959	7	13	1961	3	27	Dedicated To The One I Love	The Shirelles	#3	2	20
1959	8	10	1959	10	19	Just As Much As Ever	Bob Beckham	#32	2	21
1959	10	12	1960	1	18	Running Bear	Johnny Preston	#1	2	27
1959	12	28	1966	1	1	Harlem Nocturne	The Viscounts	#39	2	29
1960	5	9	1960	9	5	Hot Rod Lincoln	Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders	#33	3	19
1960	5	30	1960	7	25	Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me)	Little Willie John	#38	2	12
1960	8	1	1960	9	19	The Twist	Chubby Checker	#1	2	39
1960	8	8	1960	10	24	Never On Sunday	Don Costa And His Orchestra And Chorus	#19	2	26
1960	8	8	1960	10	17	Run Samson Run	Neil Sedaka	#28	2	11
1960	10	24	1960	12	12	Last Date	Lawrence Welk And His Orchestra	#21	2	11
1961	1	23	1961	4	10	Ginnie Bell	Paul Dino	#38	2	12
1961	4	24	1961	7	3	Jura (I Swear I Love You)	Les Paul And Mary Ford	#37	2	10
1961	5	8	1961	6	12	Stand By Me	Ben E. King	#4	2	35
1961	6	5	1961	8	21	Right Or Wrong	Wanda Jackson	#29	2	11
1961	6	19	1961	8	7	Let's Twist Again	Chubby Checker	#8	2	23
1961	7	10	1961	10	2	The Astronaut (Parts 1 & 2)	Jose Jimenez	#19	2	11
1961	7	31	1961	9	18	A Little Bit Of Soap	The Jarmels	#12	2	10
1961	8	7	1961	11	6	Candy Man	Roy Orbison	#25	2	14
1961	10	9	1961	12	25	Moon River	Henry Mancini And His Orchestra	#11	2	26
1961	10	16	1962	1	6	'Til	The Angels	#14	2	14
1961	11	13	1961	12	18	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	The Tokens	#1	2	28
1962	2	17	1962	4	28	Soul Twist	King Curtis And The Noble Knights	#17	2	13
1962	6	23	1962	8	25	Bring It On Home To Me	Sam Cooke	#13	2	11
1962	8	4	1962	10	6	Let's Dance	Chris Montez	#4	2	14
1962	8	11	1962	10	20	Do You Love Me	The Contours	#3	2	34
1962	9	8	1962	10	20	Monster Mash	Bobby "Boris" Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers	#1	4	38
1962	10	6	1963	1	12	Wiggle Wobble	Les Cooper and the Soul Rockers	#22	2	16
1962	10	27	1962	12	22	Release Me	Esther Phillips "Little Esther"	#8	2	16
1963	3	23	1963	5	25	Surfin' U.S.A.	The Beach Boys	#3	2	25
1963	6	22	1963	8	10	Wipe Out	The Surfaris	#2	2	30
1963	10	19	1964	2	29	What's Easy For Two Is So Hard For One	Mary Wells	#29	2	17
1963	11	9	1963	12	14	Louie Louie	The Kingsmen	#2	2	18
1963	11	30	1964	3	7	The Shelter Of Your Arms	Sammy Davis Jr.	#17	2	17
1964	3	14	1964	4	4	Twist And Shout	The Beatles	#2	2	26
1964	9	5	1964	11	7	Last Kiss	J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers	#2	2	20
1964	9	26	1964	11	7	Cousin Of Mine	Sam Cooke	#31	2	12
1965	3	27	1965	5	8	I Do Love You	Billy Stewart	#26	2	13
1965	7	17	1965	8	28	Unchained Melody	The Righteous Brothers	#4	2	32
1966	5	21	1970	9	12	Solitary Man	Neil Diamond	#21	2	24
1966	7	23	1966	8	13	They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!	Napoleon XIV	#3	2	10
1966	10	1	1966	12	10	But It's Alright	J.J. Jackson	#22	2	23
1966	10	15	1966	12	10	Whispers (Gettin' Louder)	Jackie Wilson	#11	2	12
1966	12	31	1967	3	18	Let's Fall In Love	Peaches & Herb	#21	2	12
1967	4	22	1967	9	23	Blue's Theme	Davie Allan And The Arrows	#37	2	17
1967	5	13	1967	7	22	Make Me Yours	Bettye Swann	#21	2	14
1967	6	3	1967	7	29	Light My Fire	The Doors	#1	2	23
1967	7	8	1968	8	31	You Keep Me Hangin' On	The Vanilla Fudge	#6	2	17
1967	7	8	1968	11	2	Gentle On My Mind	Glen Campbell	#39	2	16
1967	7	22	1967	11	4	The Look Of Love	Dusty Springfield	#22	2	15
1967	8	5	1967	8	26	Ode To Billie Joe	Bobbie Gentry	#1	2	20
1967	9	2	1969	9	6	Get Together	The Youngbloods	#5	2	25
1967	9	9	1969	9	13	I'll Never Fall In Love Again	Tom Jones	#6	2	23
1967	11	18	1967	12	2	Daydream Believer	The Monkees	#1	2	16
1968	1	13	1968	8	31	Sunshine Of Your Love	Cream	#5	2	26
1968	1	27	1981	3	21	Guitar Man	Elvis Presley	#28	2	20
1968	8	24	1968	10	26	In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida	Iron Butterfly	#30	2	17
1969	1	18	1969	5	3	Will You Be Staying After Sunday	The Peppermint Rainbow	#32	2	14
1969	5	24	1970	6	27	I Want To Take You Higher	Sly & The Family Stone	#38	2	16
1969	6	21	1972	2	12	Feeling Alright	Joe Cocker	#33	2	15
1969	8	23	1969	10	25	Walk On By	Isaac Hayes	#30	2	12
1969	10	11	1970	1	24	She Belongs To Me	Rick Nelson	#33	2	18
1969	11	1	1970	1	24	Cupid	Johnny Nash	#39	2	14
1969	12	20	1970	6	13	Come Saturday Morning	The Sandpipers	#17	2	20
1970	1	31	1971	5	29	Superstar	Murray Head With The Trinidad Singers	#14	3	31
1970	4	4	1970	7	11	Mississippi Queen	Mountain	#21	2	17
1970	5	2	1970	7	18	O-o-h Child/Dear Prudence	The 5 Stairsteps	#8	2	16
1970	7	25	1975	2	15	Big Yellow Taxi	Joni Mitchell	#24	2	16
1970	7	25	1970	9	12	25 Or 6 To 4	Chicago	#4	2	20
1970	8	29	1970	10	24	Lola	The Kinks	#9	2	20
1970	11	7	1971	2	27	Burning Bridges	The Mike Curb Congregation	#34	2	17
1971	1	2	1971	5	1	Timothy	The Buoys	#17	3	17
1971	3	27	1972	8	5	Layla	Derek & The Dominos	#10	2	25
1971	4	10	1971	8	28	Take Me Home, Country Roads	John Denver	#2	2	23
1971	5	22	1971	11	13	I've Found Someone Of My Own	The Free Movement	#5	2	26
1971	6	5	1971	7	17	Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)	The Stylistics	#39	2	16
1971	7	3	1971	9	11	K-Jee	The Nite-Liters	#39	2	16
1971	9	18	1971	11	27	One Tin Soldier, The Legend of Billy Jack	Coven	#26	2	18
1971	12	4	1972	1	15	Once You Understand	Think	#23	2	18
1972	6	24	1972	12	9	I Am Woman	Helen Reddy	#1	2	22
1972	10	7	1977	10	22	I Just Want To Make Love To You	Foghat	#33	3	17
1973	1	27	1973	4	7	Space Oddity	David Bowie	#15	2	15
1973	10	20	1976	4	10	Dream On	Aerosmith	#6	2	29
1974	2	9	1976	10	30	She's Gone	Daryl Hall John Oates	#7	2	28
1974	8	17	1974	10	5	I Honestly Love You	Olivia Newton-John	#1	2	24
1974	11	23	1975	1	25	Free Bird	Lynyrd Skynyrd	#19	2	20
1975	2	8	1975	5	31	Hijack	Herbie Mann	#14	2	15
1975	3	8	1975	9	13	Black Superman - "Muhammad Ali"	Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band	#21	2	27
1975	6	21	1977	11	26	Send In The Clowns	Judy Collins	#19	2	27
1975	8	9	1975	11	8	S.O.S.	ABBA	#15	2	17
1975	9	27	1976	1	10	Let's Live Together	The Road Apples	#35	2	14
1976	1	3	1992	5	9	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen	#2	3	44
1976	3	20	1976	5	1	Shout It Out Loud	KISS	#31	2	15
1976	4	3	1977	6	4	Spirit In The Night	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	#40	2	11
1976	4	17	1976	6	5	Crazy On You	Heart	#35	2	19
1976	7	3	1977	1	8	I Never Cry	Alice Cooper	#12	2	27
1977	3	5	1978	5	27	Disco Inferno	The Trammps	#11	2	29
1977	4	16	1977	6	18	Dreams	Fleetwood Mac	#1	2	23
1977	5	7	1977	10	8	On And On	Stephen Bishop	#11	2	28
1977	9	24	1982	5	22	I've Never Been To Me	Charlene	#3	2	23
1977	10	22	1978	2	4	We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions	Queen	#4	2	41
1977	11	19	1978	5	6	More Than A Woman	Tavares	#32	2	21
1979	4	7	1979	5	26	Old Time Rock & Roll	Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	#28	2	22
1979	6	23	1979	8	25	My Sharona (From "Reality Bites")	The Knack	#1	2	26
1980	6	14	1980	9	6	Into The Night	Benny Mardones	#11	2	37
1980	8	2	1989	12	23	Fool For Your Loving	Whitesnake	#37	2	22
1981	11	7	1982	1	9	Under Pressure	Queen & David Bowie	#29	2	16
1982	4	24	1983	2	19	Baby, Come To Me	Patti Austin With James Ingram	#1	2	32
1982	7	3	1982	9	11	Hot In The City	Billy Idol	#23	2	27
1982	9	18	1983	2	12	What About Me	Moving Pictures	#29	2	43
1982	9	18	1984	10	27	I'm So Excited	The Pointer Sisters	#9	2	40
1982	10	30	1983	7	23	1999	Prince	#12	4	30
1982	11	13	1987	12	19	Valerie	Steve Winwood	#9	2	24
1983	1	22	1983	3	5	Billie Jean	Michael Jackson	#1	2	25
1983	2	26	1983	5	21	Little Red Corvette	Prince	#6	2	24
1983	5	14	1989	2	4	When I'm With You	Sheriff	#1	2	28
1983	10	8	1984	10	27	On The Dark Side	John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band	#7	2	27
1984	1	28	1984	3	24	Somebody's Watching Me	Rockwell	#2	2	20
1984	1	28	1988	10	15	Red Red Wine	UB40	#1	2	40
1984	1	28	1985	1	12	Tender Years	John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band	#31	2	19
1984	2	11	1984	3	3	Thriller	Michael Jackson	#4	8	21
1984	4	7	1985	3	16	Relax	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	#10	2	23
1984	6	2	1984	7	7	When Doves Cry	Prince	#1	2	23
1984	6	16	1984	8	11	Ghostbusters	Ray Parker Jr.	#1	2	22
1984	8	4	1984	9	29	Let's Go Crazy	Prince And The Revolution	#1	2	21
1984	10	6	1984	11	17	Purple Rain	Prince And The Revolution	#2	2	18
1984	12	15	1985	2	2	I Would Die 4 U	Prince And The Revolution	#8	2	16
1984	12	22	1985	2	16	Careless Whisper	Wham! Featuring George Michael	#1	2	22
1985	5	18	1985	7	20	Raspberry Beret	Prince And The Revolution	#2	2	18
1985	10	19	1986	3	1	Tarzan Boy (From "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III")	Baltimora	#13	2	38
1985	10	26	1992	1	18	Home Sweet Home	Motley Crue	#37	2	23
1985	12	7	1986	2	15	How Will I Know	Whitney Houston	#1	2	24
1986	2	22	1986	4	19	Kiss	Prince And The Revolution	#1	2	20
1986	3	1	1989	6	10	Where Are You Now?	Jimmy Harnen With Synch	#10	2	36
1986	3	29	1986	5	17	Greatest Love Of All	Whitney Houston	#1	2	20
1986	7	26	1987	7	11	Every Little Kiss	Bruce Hornsby & The Range	#14	2	24
1986	8	9	1987	5	23	You Can Call Me Al	Paul Simon	#23	2	29
1986	8	30	1986	10	25	In Your Eyes (Theme From "Say Anything")	Peter Gabriel	#26	2	28
1986	12	13	1987	2	14	Livin' On A Prayer	Bon Jovi	#1	2	22
1987	1	17	1989	8	12	Hooked On You	Sweet Sensation	#23	2	28
1987	5	16	1987	6	27	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)	Whitney Houston	#1	2	20
1987	10	24	1987	12	12	Faith	George Michael	#1	2	21
1988	11	12	1989	12	2	(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me	Paula Abdul	#3	2	25
1989	10	21	1991	2	16	Heat Of The Moment	After 7	#19	2	30
1990	10	27	1991	8	17	Hard To Handle	The Black Crowes	#26	2	29
1991	3	9	2001	10	27	The Star Spangled Banner	Whitney Houston	#6	2	27
1992	8	1	1992	10	10	Constant Craving	k.d. lang	#38	2	19
1992	9	19	1995	4	8	Get Ready For This	2 Unlimited	#38	2	34
1992	11	7	1993	1	23	No Ordinary Love	Sade	#28	2	27
1992	11	14	1992	11	28	I Will Always Love You	Whitney Houston	#1	2	29
1995	4	29	1997	5	24	Secret Garden	Bruce Springsteen	#19	2	23
1995	9	2	1996	8	3	Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)	Los Del Rio	#1	2	60
1995	11	11	1999	7	31	I Will Remember You (Live)	Sarah McLachlan	#14	2	40
1996	7	6	2016	5	28	My Boo	Ghost Town DJ's	#27	2	36
1997	7	26	1998	8	29	To The Moon And Back	Savage Garden	#24	2	33
1997	9	6	1997	9	6	Barbie Girl	Aqua	#7	2	16
1997	11	15	1998	3	28	Deja Vu [Uptown Baby]	Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz	#9	2	28
1998	8	15	1998	9	26	I Can Do That	Montell Jordan	#14	2	18
1998	10	10	1998	10	10	Just The Two Of Us	Will Smith	#20	2	11
1998	11	7	1999	3	27	Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)	JAY-Z	#15	2	22
1998	11	28	1999	5	1	Kiss Me	Sixpence None The Richer	#2	2	33
1998	12	5	1999	1	23	These Are The Times	Dru Hill	#21	2	21
1998	12	5	1999	1	30	You Get What You Give	New Radicals	#36	2	20
1999	1	23	1999	6	12	That Don't Impress Me Much	Shania Twain	#7	2	28
1999	4	17	1999	11	13	Man! I Feel Like A Woman!	Shania Twain	#23	2	28
1999	6	5	2000	3	4	Amazed	Lonestar	#1	2	55
1999	9	4	1999	10	16	Music Of My Heart	'N Sync & Gloria Estefan	#2	2	20
1999	9	11	2000	7	22	Higher	Creed	#7	2	57
2000	1	15	2000	2	26	Back At One	Mark Wills	#36	2	20
2000	2	26	2000	4	22	Party Up (Up In Here)	DMX	#27	2	22
2000	3	11	2001	1	13	The Way You Love Me	Faith Hill	#6	2	56
2000	5	13	2001	2	17	I Hope You Dance	Lee Ann Womack	#14	2	48
2000	5	27	2000	7	29	The Next Episode	Dr. Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg	#23	2	21
2000	8	19	2000	9	16	Bounce With Me	Lil Bow Wow Featuring Xscape	#20	2	20
2000	8	26	2000	10	28	Go On	George Strait	#40	2	20
2000	9	9	2002	3	2	Can't Fight The Moonlight	LeAnn Rimes	#11	2	42
2000	11	25	2001	3	10	Bow Wow (That's My Name)	Lil Bow Wow	#21	2	20
2001	3	24	2001	6	30	Get Ur Freak On	Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott	#7	2	25
2001	7	14	2001	11	10	Only Time	Enya	#10	2	32
2001	7	21	2001	8	4	Take You Out	Luther Vandross	#26	3	17
2001	11	3	2002	3	30	In The End	Linkin Park	#2	2	39
2002	5	4	2002	7	6	Full Moon	Brandy	#18	2	20
2002	9	14	2002	11	16	Work It	Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott	#2	2	26
2002	10	5	2002	11	9	Lose Yourself	Eminem	#1	2	24
2003	4	5	2003	11	15	Headstrong	Trapt	#16	2	43
2003	11	8	2004	3	6	Numb	Linkin Park	#11	2	33
2004	6	12	2005	6	25	Live Like You Were Dying	Tim McGraw	#29	2	23
2005	2	12	2005	8	27	You And Me	Lifehouse	#5	2	62
2005	4	2	2005	5	28	Girl	Destiny's Child	#23	2	19
2005	5	28	2005	9	24	Must Be Nice	Lyfe Jennings	#40	2	20
2005	6	25	2006	3	11	Pump It	The Black Eyed Peas	#18	2	22
2005	8	6	2006	1	21	Dirty Little Secret	The All-American Rejects	#9	2	39
2005	8	20	2005	12	17	Seasons Of Love	Cast Of Rent	#33	2	12
2005	11	5	2006	2	4	L.O.V.E.	Ashlee Simpson	#22	2	18
2005	12	24	2006	3	11	Your Man	Josh Turner	#38	2	20
2006	3	11	2006	4	29	Control Myself	LL Cool J Featuring Jennifer Lopez	#4	2	11
2006	4	15	2006	10	7	How To Save A Life	The Fray	#3	2	58
2006	5	6	2007	3	3	Not Ready To Make Nice	Dixie Chicks	#4	3	24
2006	5	13	2006	6	24	Miss Murder	AFI	#24	2	20
2006	6	3	2007	3	3	Snow ((Hey Oh))	Red Hot Chili Peppers	#22	2	20
2006	7	29	2007	2	10	Suddenly I See	KT Tunstall	#21	2	30
2006	7	29	2006	11	11	Gallery	Mario Vazquez	#35	2	20
2006	7	29	2006	8	19	The Riddle	Five For Fighting	#40	2	18
2006	8	5	2007	4	28	Face Down	The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	#24	3	43
2006	8	19	2006	8	26	About Us	Brooke Hogan Featuring Paul Wall	#33	2	17
2006	9	23	2006	9	30	Ring The Alarm	Beyonce	#11	2	14
2006	10	14	2007	9	22	Rockstar	Nickelback	#6	2	49
2006	11	25	2007	1	13	Wait A Minute	The Pussycat Dolls Featuring Timbaland	#28	2	17
2006	12	9	2007	3	17	Break It Off	Rihanna & Sean Paul	#9	2	20
2006	12	23	2007	3	31	Lost Without U	Robin Thicke	#14	2	23
2007	1	6	2007	2	10	On The Hotline	Pretty Ricky	#12	2	19
2007	1	20	2007	3	31	Candyman	Christina Aguilera	#25	2	17
2007	3	24	2008	3	1	Teardrops On My Guitar	Taylor Swift	#13	2	48
2007	3	31	2007	6	30	Rehab	Amy Winehouse	#9	2	20
2007	3	31	2007	7	21	Like This	Kelly Rowland Featuring Eve	#30	2	20
2007	4	7	2007	8	18	Wait For You	Elliott Yamin	#13	2	30
2007	4	7	2007	9	29	Who Knew	P!nk	#9	2	36
2007	4	21	2007	11	10	Apologize	Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic	#2	2	47
2007	5	5	2007	9	8	When You're Gone	Avril Lavigne	#24	2	20
2007	5	12	2007	7	14	Wipe Me Down	Lil Boosie Featuring Foxx & Webbie	#38	2	18
2007	6	2	2007	10	27	Bubbly	Colbie Caillat	#5	3	47
2007	6	9	2007	6	30	Lip Gloss	Lil Mama	#10	2	11
2007	7	14	2007	12	15	Until The End Of Time	Justin Timberlake Duet With Beyonce	#17	2	25
2007	7	14	2007	8	4	Potential Breakup Song	Aly & AJ	#17	2	17
2007	7	21	2008	1	12	Misery Business	Paramore	#26	3	30
2007	8	4	2008	2	16	Ready, Set, Don't Go	Billy Ray Cyrus With Miley Cyrus	#37	2	23
2007	8	18	2007	9	1	Me Love	Sean Kingston	#14	2	18
2007	9	29	2007	10	13	1234	Feist	#8	2	15
2007	10	13	2007	10	20	The Way I Am	Ingrid Michaelson	#37	3	20
2007	12	15	2008	5	3	Say	John Mayer	#12	2	28
2008	1	5	2008	3	29	The Anthem	Pitbull Featuring Lil Jon	#36	2	18
2008	1	12	2008	6	28	All Around Me	Flyleaf	#40	2	20
2008	2	9	2008	7	5	Pocketful Of Sunshine	Natasha Bedingfield	#5	2	35
2008	2	16	2008	2	23	New Soul	Yael Naim	#7	2	19
2008	3	1	2008	5	24	In Love With A Girl	Gavin DeGraw	#24	2	23
2008	4	26	2008	10	25	Better In Time	Leona Lewis	#11	2	31
2008	4	26	2008	4	26	What About Now	Daughtry	#18	2	20
2008	7	5	2008	11	22	Hot N Cold	Katy Perry	#3	2	39
2008	8	16	2009	1	17	Just Dance	Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O'Donis	#1	2	49
2008	9	6	2008	9	6	The Day That Never Comes	Metallica	#31	2	10
2008	9	20	2008	11	8	T-Shirt	Shontelle	#36	2	17
2008	10	4	2008	10	11	All Summer Long	The Rock Heroes	#29	2	15
2008	10	11	2009	9	12	Use Somebody	Kings Of Leon	#4	2	57
2008	10	18	2008	10	18	Light On	David Cook	#17	2	20
2008	10	18	2009	2	28	Dead And Gone	T.I. Featuring Justin Timberlake	#2	2	29
2008	10	25	2008	12	27	I'm So Paid	Akon Featuring Lil Wayne & Young Jeezy	#31	2	20
2008	11	1	2008	11	1	Fearless	Taylor Swift	#9	4	15
2008	11	1	2008	11	1	Freeze	T-Pain Featuring Chris Brown	#38	2	10
2008	11	15	2009	5	30	Don't Trust Me	3OH!3	#7	2	37
2008	11	22	2009	8	22	You Belong With Me	Taylor Swift	#2	2	50
2008	11	29	2009	12	19	Fifteen	Taylor Swift	#23	3	21
2008	11	29	2009	7	11	If Today Was Your Last Day	Nickelback	#19	3	22
2008	11	29	2009	5	16	She's Country	Jason Aldean	#29	2	20
2008	12	20	2009	8	8	That's Not My Name	The Ting Tings	#39	4	26
2008	12	20	2009	5	9	If U Seek Amy	Britney Spears	#19	2	20
2009	1	3	2009	3	28	Rockin' That Thang	The-Dream	#22	2	20
2009	1	3	2009	3	28	It Won't Be Like This For Long	Darius Rucker	#36	2	20
2009	3	21	2009	6	27	LoveGame	Lady Gaga	#5	2	22
2009	3	28	2009	12	19	Already Gone	Kelly Clarkson	#13	2	31
2009	4	11	2009	10	31	Only You Can Love Me This Way	Keith Urban	#34	2	19
2009	4	18	2009	9	26	Be On You	Flo Rida Featuring Ne-Yo	#19	2	16
2009	5	30	2009	8	22	Good Girls Go Bad	Cobra Starship Featuring Leighton Meester	#7	2	25
2009	5	30	2009	8	29	Wanted	Jessie James	#40	2	12
2009	6	6	2010	3	6	Imma Be	The Black Eyed Peas	#1	3	27
2009	7	25	2010	1	9	One Time	Justin Bieber	#17	2	25
2009	8	15	2010	8	14	Smile	Uncle Kracker	#31	3	33
2009	8	15	2010	2	13	Sexy Chick	David Guetta Featuring Akon	#5	2	40
2009	8	22	2009	10	3	Uprising	Muse	#37	2	20
2009	8	29	2009	10	31	Gettin' You Home	Chris Young	#33	2	20
2009	9	19	2010	6	5	Haven't Met You Yet	Michael Buble	#24	2	44
2009	9	19	2009	11	21	Body Language	Jesse McCartney Featuring T-Pain	#35	2	15
2009	9	26	2010	5	15	Young Forever	Jay-Z + Mr. Hudson	#10	2	25
2009	9	26	2010	1	30	Two Is Better Than One	Boys Like Girls Featuring Taylor Swift	#18	2	21
2009	10	17	2010	3	13	Live Like We're Dying	Kris Allen	#18	2	29
2009	10	24	2009	10	24	One Less Lonely Girl	Justin Bieber	#16	2	16
2009	11	14	2009	12	5	Bad Romance	Lady Gaga	#2	2	35
2009	11	14	2010	6	26	Undo It	Carrie Underwood	#23	2	20
2009	11	28	2011	7	23	Good Life	OneRepublic	#8	2	35
2009	12	5	2010	3	27	Heartbreak Warfare	John Mayer	#34	2	20
2009	12	5	2009	12	5	Half Of My Heart	John Mayer	#25	2	20
2009	12	19	2010	5	15	If We Ever Meet Again	Timbaland Featuring Katy Perry	#37	2	18
2010	1	2	2010	5	15	Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)	Usher Featuring Plies	#24	3	21
2010	1	9	2010	5	8	American Honey	Lady Antebellum	#25	3	20
2010	1	23	2010	6	12	Your Love Is My Drug	Ke$ha	#4	3	28
2010	1	23	2010	9	18	Take It Off	Ke$ha	#8	2	20
2010	1	30	2010	4	17	When I Look At You	Miley Cyrus	#16	2	13
2010	2	20	2010	2	20	Glitter In The Air	P!nk	#18	2	18
2010	2	27	2010	5	8	Solo	Iyaz	#32	2	18
2010	3	6	2010	8	14	There Goes My Baby	Usher	#25	2	25
2010	3	20	2010	7	17	Ridin' Solo	Jason Derulo	#9	2	28
2010	4	3	2011	3	5	More	Usher	#15	2	22
2010	5	15	2010	9	4	Magic	B.o.B Featuring Rivers Cuomo	#10	2	20
2010	5	29	2010	7	17	Somebody To Love	Justin Bieber Featuring Usher	#15	2	18
2010	6	19	2010	6	19	Got Your Back	T.I. Featuring Keri Hilson	#38	2	20
2010	6	26	2010	10	23	Secrets	OneRepublic	#21	2	33
2010	6	26	2010	7	3	Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)	Shakira Featuring Freshlyground	#38	2	18
2010	6	26	2011	3	5	Never Say Never	Justin Bieber Featuring Jaden Smith	#8	2	19
2010	7	3	2010	10	2	Fancy	Drake Featuring T.I. & Swizz Beatz	#25	2	20
2010	7	10	2010	7	10	No Love	Eminem Featuring Lil Wayne	#23	2	20
2010	7	17	2011	3	19	Jar Of Hearts	Christina Perri	#17	2	31
2010	7	24	2011	8	13	If I Die Young	The Band Perry	#14	2	53
2010	8	7	2011	1	1	Aston Martin Music	Rick Ross Featuring Drake & Chrisette Michele	#30	2	20
2010	8	21	2010	10	2	The Catalyst	Linkin Park	#27	2	10
2010	8	28	2011	2	19	Rhythm of Love	Plain White T's	#38	3	21
2010	9	4	2011	4	9	E.T.	Katy Perry Featuring Kanye West	#1	2	30
2010	9	11	2011	8	27	Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)	Katy Perry	#1	2	24
2010	9	25	2010	10	2	Dog Days Are Over	Florence + The Machine	#21	2	20
2010	9	25	2010	11	13	Check It Out	will.i.am & Nicki Minaj	#24	2	15
2010	10	2	2011	2	19	Black And Yellow	Wiz Khalifa	#1	2	25
2010	10	23	2011	6	18	The Lazy Song	Bruno Mars	#4	2	27
2010	10	30	2010	10	30	Back To December	Taylor Swift	#6	2	20
2010	11	6	2010	11	6	Mean	Taylor Swift	#11	2	20
2010	11	6	2010	11	13	Whip My Hair	Willow	#11	3	18
2010	11	6	2010	11	13	Monster	Kanye West Featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver & Nicki Minaj	#18	3	10
2010	11	13	2011	6	11	I Won't Let Go	Rascal Flatts	#31	2	20
2010	11	13	2010	11	13	Sparks Fly	Taylor Swift	#17	2	20
2010	11	20	2011	4	30	Don't You Wanna Stay	Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson	#31	3	31
2010	11	27	2011	6	4	The Show Goes On	Lupe Fiasco	#9	2	33
2010	12	4	2011	3	19	Blow	Ke$ha	#7	2	26
2010	12	4	2011	4	30	S&M	Rihanna Featuring Britney Spears	#1	2	26
2010	12	11	2011	5	14	All Of The Lights	Kanye West	#18	2	25
2010	12	11	2011	12	10	Fly	Nicki Minaj Featuring Rihanna	#19	2	20
2010	12	25	2011	5	21	Rolling In The Deep	Adele	#1	2	65
2011	1	1	2011	5	21	For The First Time	The Script	#23	2	29
2011	1	1	2011	2	12	F**kin' Perfect	P!nk	#2	2	30
2011	2	12	2011	7	16	Party Rock Anthem	LMFAO Featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock	#1	2	68
2011	3	5	2011	7	30	Tomorrow	Chris Young	#36	2	21
2011	3	12	2011	9	17	Someone Like You	Adele	#1	2	39
2011	3	12	2012	2	4	Set Fire To The Rain	Adele	#1	5	43
2011	3	19	2011	7	23	My Last	Big Sean Featuring Chris Brown	#30	2	21
2011	3	26	2011	11	19	Crazy Girl	Eli Young Band	#30	2	36
2011	4	9	2011	4	9	No Sleep	Wiz Khalifa	#6	2	15
2011	4	16	2011	8	20	I Wanna Go	Britney Spears	#7	2	20
2011	4	30	2011	9	17	Barefoot Blue Jean Night	Jake Owen	#21	2	24
2011	5	21	2011	10	22	Better With The Lights Off	New Boyz Featuring Chris Brown	#38	2	19
2011	6	11	2011	9	17	You And I	Lady Gaga	#6	2	20
2011	6	11	2011	12	24	Marry The Night	Lady Gaga	#29	2	12
2011	6	18	2012	2	11	International Love	Pitbull Featuring Chris Brown	#13	2	26
2011	6	25	2012	2	11	Not Over You	Gavin DeGraw	#18	2	35
2011	7	2	2011	8	27	Rain Over Me	Pitbull Featuring Marc Anthony	#30	3	19
2011	7	23	2012	1	28	Work Out	J. Cole	#13	2	28
2011	8	6	2011	8	13	Marvins Room	Drake	#21	2	18
2011	8	13	2012	5	5	Rumour Has It	Adele	#16	4	27
2011	8	20	2012	8	18	Lights	Ellie Goulding	#2	2	57
2011	8	27	2012	7	21	Titanium	David Guetta Featuring Sia	#7	2	33
2011	8	27	2012	6	16	Drunk On You	Luke Bryan	#16	2	24
2011	9	3	2013	10	12	Sail	AWOLNATION	#17	2	79
2011	9	17	2012	1	28	Good Feeling	Flo Rida	#3	2	37
2011	9	17	2012	2	4	Turn Me On	David Guetta Featuring Nicki Minaj	#4	2	27
2011	9	17	2011	9	17	Love On Top	Beyonce	#20	2	20
2011	9	17	2011	9	17	Mirror	Lil Wayne Featuring Bruno Mars	#16	3	17
2011	10	1	2011	11	5	Paradise	Coldplay	#15	2	32
2011	11	5	2011	11	5	Mistletoe	Justin Bieber	#11	3	12
2011	11	12	2012	2	18	Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)	Kelly Clarkson	#1	3	37
2011	11	12	2011	11	12	Princess Of China	Coldplay Featuring Rihanna	#20	3	12
2011	11	19	2012	4	21	Over You	Miranda Lambert	#35	2	20
2011	12	10	2012	7	7	Where Have You Been	Rihanna	#5	2	26
2011	12	10	2012	3	31	Strip	Chris Brown Featuring Kevin K-MAC McCall	#37	2	20
2011	12	10	2011	12	10	Talk That Talk	Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z	#31	2	20
2011	12	24	2012	3	17	We Are Young	fun. Featuring Janelle Monae	#1	2	42
2011	12	31	2012	4	7	A Woman Like You	Lee Brice	#33	2	20
2012	1	7	2012	5	19	Wild Ones	Flo Rida Featuring Sia	#5	2	36
2012	1	7	2012	1	7	Safe & Sound	Taylor Swift Featuring The Civil Wars	#30	2	17
2012	3	31	2012	7	7	One Thing	One Direction	#39	2	20
2012	4	7	2012	8	11	We Run The Night	Havana Brown Featuring Pitbull	#26	2	22
2012	4	7	2012	10	27	Too Close	Alex Clare	#7	2	44
2012	4	14	2012	9	15	Heart Attack	Trey Songz	#35	2	26
2012	4	14	2012	6	16	Back In Time	Pitbull	#11	2	20
2012	4	21	2013	2	16	Little Talks	Of Monsters And Men	#20	2	48
2012	4	21	2012	12	8	Va Va Voom	Nicki Minaj	#22	2	20
2012	5	12	2012	8	25	Whistle	Flo Rida	#1	2	29
2012	5	12	2012	8	11	Let's Go	Calvin Harris Featuring Ne-Yo	#17	2	20
2012	5	19	2012	10	27	Blown Away	Carrie Underwood	#20	2	22
2012	6	9	2012	11	10	Don't Wake Me Up	Chris Brown	#10	2	28
2012	6	9	2013	1	19	Home	Phillip Phillips	#6	3	40
2012	6	30	2012	9	29	As Long As You Love Me	Justin Bieber Featuring Big Sean	#6	2	29
2012	6	30	2012	9	15	She's So Mean	matchbox twenty	#40	2	17
2012	7	7	2013	1	5	Beauty And A Beat	Justin Bieber Featuring Nicki Minaj	#5	2	24
2012	8	18	2012	12	15	Swimming Pools (Drank)	Kendrick Lamar	#17	2	29
2012	8	18	2013	7	6	Radioactive	Imagine Dragons	#3	2	87
2012	9	1	2013	7	6	Cruise	Florida Georgia Line Featuring Nelly	#4	2	54
2012	9	8	2013	2	23	Hall Of Fame	The Script Featuring will.i.am	#25	2	25
2012	9	15	2013	2	2	Thrift Shop	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz	#1	2	49
2012	10	6	2013	2	16	Try	P!nk	#9	2	24
2012	10	13	2012	10	13	Begin Again	Taylor Swift	#7	2	20
2012	10	13	2013	1	19	Don't Stop The Party	Pitbull Featuring TJR	#17	2	20
2012	10	20	2012	10	20	Skyfall	Adele	#8	2	20
2012	10	20	2012	10	20	Red	Taylor Swift	#6	4	22
2012	10	27	2013	1	12	I Knew You Were Trouble.	Taylor Swift	#2	2	36
2012	11	3	2013	2	16	Catch My Breath	Kelly Clarkson	#19	2	24
2012	11	3	2013	2	16	Sweet Nothing	Calvin Harris Featuring Florence Welch	#10	2	27
2012	11	3	2013	10	12	Night Train	Jason Aldean	#26	2	20
2012	11	10	2013	10	26	Everything Has Changed	Taylor Swift Featuring Ed Sheeran	#32	3	20
2012	11	10	2013	5	11	22	Taylor Swift	#20	3	20
2012	12	22	2013	4	20	When I Was Your Man	Bruno Mars	#1	3	35
2013	1	26	2013	12	7	Demons	Imagine Dragons	#6	3	61
2013	1	26	2013	6	1	Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe	Kendrick Lamar	#32	3	21
2013	2	2	2013	6	8	Wagon Wheel	Darius Rucker	#15	2	26
2013	2	16	2013	7	27	Same Love	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert	#11	2	30
2013	2	16	2013	5	18	Can't Hold Us	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Ray Dalton	#1	2	39
2013	2	23	2013	6	22	Bad	Wale Featuring Tiara Thomas Or Rihanna	#21	2	26
2013	2	23	2013	6	8	Highway Don't Care	Tim McGraw With Taylor Swift	#22	2	20
2013	3	16	2021	12	4	Levitating	Dua Lipa	#24	2	16
2013	4	27	2013	11	9	Still Into You	Paramore	#24	2	20
2013	5	11	2014	2	15	Brave	Sara Bareilles	#23	2	42
2013	5	11	2013	6	1	Young And Beautiful	Lana Del Rey	#22	2	21
2013	5	18	2013	10	5	Hey Girl	Billy Currington	#39	2	21
2013	6	1	2013	8	31	Little Bit Of Everything	Keith Urban	#33	2	20
2013	6	1	2014	8	30	Really Don't Care	Demi Lovato Featuring Cher Lloyd	#26	2	18
2013	6	8	2013	8	10	Beneath Your Beautiful	Labrinth Featuring Emeli Sande	#34	3	14
2013	6	22	2013	12	28	Sweater Weather	The Neighbourhood	#14	2	37
2013	6	22	2013	6	22	Wasting All These Tears	Cassadee Pope	#37	2	20
2013	6	22	2013	12	14	Slow Down	Selena Gomez	#27	3	20
2013	7	13	2013	10	5	Wake Me Up!	Avicii	#4	2	54
2013	7	13	2013	9	14	Beware	Big Sean Featuring Lil Wayne & Jhene Aiko	#38	2	20
2013	8	10	2013	12	28	Burn	Ellie Goulding	#13	3	36
2013	8	10	2013	8	10	Best Song Ever	One Direction	#2	3	21
2013	9	14	2013	11	2	Gorilla	Bruno Mars	#22	2	16
2013	9	21	2014	5	17	All Of Me	John Legend	#1	3	59
2013	9	28	2014	1	25	Stay The Night	Zedd Featuring Hayley Williams	#18	2	22
2013	9	28	2013	10	12	23	Mike WiLL Made-It Featuring Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J	#11	2	23
2013	10	5	2014	4	5	Show Me	Kid Ink Featuring Chris Brown	#13	2	31
2013	10	5	2013	10	5	Work B**ch!	Britney Spears	#12	2	13
2013	10	26	2014	3	1	Adore You	Miley Cyrus	#21	2	18
2013	12	14	2014	6	21	This Is How We Roll	Florida Georgia Line Featuring Luke Bryan	#15	2	28
2013	12	28	2014	4	12	The Man	Aloe Blacc	#8	2	20
2014	3	1	2014	6	21	Automatic	Miranda Lambert	#35	2	19
2014	3	29	2014	8	9	Latch	Disclosure Featuring Sam Smith	#7	2	33
2014	4	19	2014	8	16	Stay With Me	Sam Smith	#2	2	54
2014	5	3	2014	8	2	Love Runs Out	OneRepublic	#15	2	20
2014	5	24	2014	8	9	Come Get It Bae	Pharrell Williams	#23	2	15
2014	6	21	2014	12	27	I'm Not The Only One	Sam Smith	#5	2	37
2014	6	21	2014	11	22	Day Drinking	Little Big Town	#40	2	20
2014	7	19	2014	10	4	New Flame	Chris Brown Featuring Usher & Rick Ross	#27	2	22
2014	9	27	2015	6	6	Dear Future Husband	Meghan Trainor	#14	5	24
2014	10	25	2015	5	23	Sippin' On Fire	Florida Georgia Line	#40	2	20
2014	11	1	2014	11	1	Out Of The Woods	Taylor Swift	#18	2	10
2014	11	8	2015	4	18	G.D.F.R.	Flo Rida Featuring Sage The Gemini & Lookas	#8	3	35
2014	11	8	2015	4	11	Outside	Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding	#29	3	20
2014	11	15	2015	11	7	Wildest Dreams	Taylor Swift	#5	2	27
2014	11	15	2015	3	21	Style	Taylor Swift	#6	3	32
2014	11	15	2015	6	6	Bad Blood	Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar	#1	3	25
2014	11	15	2015	3	7	I Bet My Life	Imagine Dragons	#28	2	22
2014	11	22	2015	5	30	Shut Up And Dance	WALK THE MOON	#4	2	53
2014	11	29	2015	1	17	Uptown Funk!	Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars	#1	2	56
2014	11	29	2015	3	14	She Knows	Ne-Yo Featuring Juicy J	#19	2	20
2014	12	13	2021	1	2	Santa Tell Me	Ariana Grande	#17	3	13
2014	12	13	2015	3	21	Time Of Our Lives	Pitbull & Ne-Yo	#9	2	27
2014	12	27	2016	1	2	No Role Modelz	J. Cole	#36	2	25
2015	1	3	2015	6	6	Feeling Myself	Nicki Minaj Featuring Beyonce	#39	3	20
2015	1	31	2015	9	12	Uma Thurman	Fall Out Boy	#22	3	27
2015	2	7	2015	5	30	Slow Motion	Trey Songz	#26	2	26
2015	2	7	2015	8	8	Worth It	Fifth Harmony Featuring Kid Ink	#12	3	36
2015	2	21	2015	5	9	Girl Crush	Little Big Town	#18	2	24
2015	2	28	2015	6	20	Honey, I'm Good.	Andy Grammer	#9	2	31
2015	3	28	2015	6	20	Bright	Echosmith	#40	2	20
2015	4	25	2015	9	5	Crash And Burn	Thomas Rhett	#36	2	20
2015	5	16	2016	2	27	Stressed Out	twenty one pilots	#2	3	52
2015	5	23	2015	7	4	The Night Is Still Young	Nicki Minaj	#31	2	17
2015	5	30	2015	12	5	I'm Comin' Over	Chris Young	#33	2	23
2015	7	18	2015	8	8	My Way	Fetty Wap Featuring Monty	#7	2	22
2015	8	8	2015	10	31	Strip It Down	Luke Bryan	#30	2	20
2015	9	19	2016	1	2	In The Night	The Weeknd	#12	2	20
2015	10	3	2016	3	12	Hide Away	Daya	#23	2	27
2015	10	10	2015	12	19	Confident	Demi Lovato	#21	2	20
2015	11	28	2016	2	13	Stand By You	Rachel Platten	#37	2	20
2015	12	12	2016	9	24	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	Adele	#8	2	27
2015	12	12	2017	2	11	Water Under The Bridge	Adele	#26	2	22
2016	2	13	2016	4	23	Humble And Kind	Tim McGraw	#30	2	20
2016	2	13	2016	4	30	Somewhere On A Beach	Dierks Bentley	#35	2	20
2016	2	20	2016	10	8	Hymn For The Weekend	Coldplay	#25	2	23
2016	2	20	2016	10	8	We Don't Talk Anymore	Charlie Puth Featuring Selena Gomez	#9	2	24
2016	2	20	2016	4	2	Youth	Troye Sivan	#23	2	18
2016	2	27	2016	7	16	Don't Let Me Down	The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya	#3	2	52
2016	4	23	2016	4	23	Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1	Kanye West	#37	4	23
2016	4	23	2016	4	23	Famous	Kanye West	#34	3	14
2016	5	14	2016	5	14	Hold Up	Beyonce	#13	3	14
2016	5	28	2016	8	27	Into You	Ariana Grande	#13	2	24
2016	6	4	2017	4	22	The Fighter	Keith Urban Featuring Carrie Underwood	#38	3	23
2016	6	4	2016	8	13	THat Part	ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West	#40	2	20
2016	6	11	2017	3	25	Love On The Brain	Rihanna	#5	2	31
2016	9	10	2017	3	25	Mercy	Shawn Mendes	#15	2	32
2016	9	24	2017	5	20	Goosebumps	Travis Scott	#32	7	35
2016	10	8	2016	12	10	Juju On That Beat (TZ Anthem)	Zay Hilfigerrr & Zayion McCall	#5	2	21
2016	10	29	2017	2	25	Million Reasons	Lady Gaga	#4	5	20
2016	10	29	2016	12	24	Love Me Now	John Legend	#23	2	19
2016	11	5	2019	2	16	Alone	Marshmello	#28	3	11
2016	11	5	2017	2	11	Bad Things	Machine Gun Kelly x Camila Cabello	#4	2	23
2016	12	10	2017	5	13	That's What I Like	Bruno Mars	#1	2	52
2016	12	10	2017	8	19	Redbone	Childish Gambino	#12	3	44
2016	12	10	2017	9	2	Versace On The Floor	Bruno Mars	#33	3	14
2016	12	17	2016	12	17	Reminder	The Weeknd	#31	4	17
2016	12	31	2017	7	8	Congratulations	Post Malone Featuring Quavo	#8	2	50
2017	1	14	2017	2	25	Moves	Big Sean	#38	2	19
2017	2	18	2017	7	22	Slippery	Migos Featuring Gucci Mane	#29	3	21
2017	3	25	2017	12	23	Perfect	Ed Sheeran	#1	2	57
2017	4	8	2017	4	8	Gyalchester	Drake	#29	3	11
2017	5	6	2018	1	6	Love.	Kendrick Lamar Featuring Zacari	#11	2	40
2017	5	6	2017	5	6	Element.	Kendrick Lamar	#16	2	11
2017	5	13	2017	11	4	Do Re Mi	blackbear	#40	2	25
2017	6	3	2018	5	19	Whatever It Takes	Imagine Dragons	#12	2	27
2017	8	26	2018	1	27	Havana	Camila Cabello Featuring Young Thug	#1	2	46
2017	9	16	2018	6	30	F**k Love	XXXTENTACION Featuring Trippie Redd	#28	2	21
2017	9	16	2018	6	30	Jocelyn Flores	XXXTENTACION	#19	2	20
2017	9	23	2018	2	3	Sky Walker	Miguel Featuring Travis Scott	#29	2	26
2017	9	30	2018	1	13	Let Me Go	Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso Featuring Florida Georgia Line & Watt	#40	2	22
2017	10	28	2018	5	26	Heaven	Kane Brown	#15	2	27
2017	11	11	2018	5	12	Candy Paint	Post Malone	#34	2	21
2017	11	25	2018	6	9	Wait	Maroon 5	#24	2	24
2017	12	30	2018	5	12	Never Be The Same	Camila Cabello	#6	2	37
2018	1	27	2018	7	7	Tequila	Dan + Shay	#21	3	50
2018	2	10	2018	2	10	Narcos	Migos	#36	3	15
2018	3	17	2018	6	30	Changes	XXXTENTACION	#18	2	20
2018	3	31	2018	7	7	Moonlight	XXXTENTACION	#13	3	20
2018	4	21	2018	4	21	Ring	Cardi B Featuring Kehlani	#28	2	20
2018	4	21	2018	4	28	Chun-Li	Nicki Minaj	#10	2	16
2018	5	19	2019	4	20	Beautiful Crazy	Luke Combs	#21	3	31
2018	5	26	2018	10	6	Lucid Dreams	Juice WRLD	#2	2	48
2018	6	9	2019	1	26	High Hopes	Panic! At The Disco	#4	3	52
2018	6	9	2018	8	18	Big Bank	YG Featuring 2 Chainz, Big Sean & Nicki Minaj	#16	2	24
2018	6	23	2018	11	24	Lose It	Kane Brown	#28	2	20
2018	6	30	2018	9	1	Drowns The Whiskey	Jason Aldean Featuring Miranda Lambert	#32	2	19
2018	7	21	2018	12	15	Dangerous	Meek Mill Featuring Jeremih & PnB Rock	#31	2	20
2018	8	11	2019	1	12	Drunk Me	Mitchell Tenpenny	#39	2	21
2018	8	18	2018	8	18	Yosemite	Travis Scott	#25	3	18
2018	9	15	2018	9	15	Lucky You	Eminem Featuring Joyner Lucas	#6	2	14
2018	9	22	2019	1	12	Speechless	Dan + Shay	#24	2	40
2018	10	6	2019	2	2	Backin' It Up	Pardison Fontaine Featuring Cardi B	#40	2	20
2018	10	20	2018	10	20	Close Friends	Lil Baby	#28	3	33
2018	11	3	2019	4	13	When The Party's Over	Billie Eilish	#29	3	32
2018	11	24	2018	11	24	BAD!	XXXTENTACION	#16	2	11
2018	12	1	2019	2	2	Twerk	City Girls Featuring Cardi B	#29	2	13
2019	2	2	2019	5	4	Pure Water	Mustard & Migos	#23	2	25
2019	2	9	2019	6	8	Con Calma	Daddy Yankee & Katy Perry Featuring Snow	#22	2	25
2019	2	23	2019	6	8	Talk	Khalid	#3	2	46
2019	3	2	2019	3	2	Robbery	Juice WRLD	#27	2	19
2019	3	9	2019	5	4	Clout	Offset Featuring Cardi B	#39	2	20
2019	3	16	2019	3	16	Sucker	Jonas Brothers	#1	2	47
2019	4	13	2019	7	6	Suge	DaBaby	#7	2	37
2019	4	13	2019	4	20	Racks In The Middle	Nipsey Hussle Featuring Roddy Ricch & Hit-Boy	#26	2	11
2019	4	27	2019	4	27	Sanguine Paradise	Lil Uzi Vert	#28	2	16
2019	5	25	2019	5	25	I Don't Care	Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber	#2	2	39
2019	6	1	2020	1	18	What If I Never Get Over You	Lady Antebellum	#40	5	21
2019	6	1	2019	6	1	Wish Wish	DJ Khaled Featuring Cardi B & 21 Savage	#19	4	15
2019	6	22	2019	11	23	Even Though I'm Leaving	Luke Combs	#11	2	24
2019	6	22	2019	11	23	Only Human	Jonas Brothers	#18	3	36
2019	7	13	2019	11	2	Beautiful People	Ed Sheeran Featuring Khalid	#13	2	26
2019	8	3	2019	10	5	Baby	Lil Baby & DaBaby	#21	2	21
2019	8	31	2020	6	13	Heartless	Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Featuring Morgan Wallen	#39	6	21
2019	9	7	2019	10	19	Playing Games	Summer Walker	#16	2	20
2019	9	14	2020	4	18	The Bones	Maren Morris	#12	3	52
2019	9	28	2019	10	5	Camelot	NLE Choppa	#37	2	20
2019	10	12	2019	10	12	TOES	DaBaby Featuring Lil Baby & Moneybagg Yo	#28	2	13
2019	10	19	2019	10	19	HIGHEST IN THE ROOM	Travis Scott	#1	2	22
2019	11	23	2021	1	30	Better Together	Luke Combs	#15	2	25
2019	11	30	2020	8	15	Watermelon Sugar	Harry Styles	#1	4	39
2019	12	7	2020	3	28	Suicidal	YNW Melly & Juice WRLD	#20	2	20
2019	12	7	2019	12	7	Vete	Bad Bunny	#33	2	18
2019	12	14	2020	4	4	Blinding Lights	The Weeknd	#1	2	90
2019	12	28	2020	4	25	Nobody But You	Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani	#18	2	25
2019	12	28	2019	12	28	Futsal Shuffle 2020	Lil Uzi Vert	#5	2	11
2020	1	11	2020	1	11	Out West	JACKBOYS Featuring Young Thug	#38	2	22
2020	1	11	2020	4	11	Slow Dance In A Parking Lot	Jordan Davis	#37	2	19
2020	2	8	2020	9	26	Before You Go	Lewis Capaldi	#9	3	52
2020	2	8	2021	1	16	Anyone	Demi Lovato	#6	2	19
2020	2	8	2020	4	18	Catch	Brett Young	#29	2	17
2020	2	8	2020	2	8	B.I.T.C.H.	Megan Thee Stallion	#31	2	10
2020	2	22	2020	7	11	Whats Poppin	Jack Harlow Featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez & Lil Wayne	#2	2	51
2020	3	14	2020	3	14	Stupid Love	Lady Gaga	#5	2	10
2020	3	14	2020	3	21	That Way	Lil Uzi Vert	#20	3	12
2020	3	21	2020	3	21	B.S.	Jhene Aiko Featuring H.E.R.	#24	6	23
2020	4	4	2021	5	8	Save Your Tears	The Weeknd & Ariana Grande	#1	3	64
2020	4	11	2020	9	5	I Love My Country	Florida Georgia Line	#40	2	20
2020	5	2	2020	11	28	More Than My Hometown	Morgan Wallen	#15	3	32
2020	5	2	2020	6	13	Rockstar	DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch	#1	2	42
2020	5	9	2020	10	3	Cool Again	Kane Brown	#29	2	20
2020	5	9	2020	5	9	Righteous	Juice WRLD	#11	2	16
2020	6	6	2020	6	6	Dollaz On My Head	Gunna Featuring Young Thug	#38	3	19
2020	6	13	2020	11	21	One Beer	HARDY Featuring Lauren Alaina & Devin Dawson	#33	2	25
2020	6	27	2020	10	17	Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)	Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo	#1	2	31
2020	7	4	2021	1	23	Bang!	AJR	#8	2	35
2020	7	4	2020	11	28	Pretty Heart	Parker McCollum	#36	4	22
2020	7	11	2020	7	11	Girls In The Hood	Megan Thee Stallion	#28	2	18
2020	7	18	2021	3	13	What You Know Bout Love	Pop Smoke	#9	2	42
2020	7	18	2020	7	18	Got It On Me	Pop Smoke	#31	2	10
2020	8	8	2021	1	16	Happy Anywhere	Blake Shelton Featuring Gwen Stefani	#32	2	22
2020	8	15	2021	1	16	I Should Probably Go To Bed	Dan + Shay	#28	2	24
2020	8	22	2021	5	22	My Ex's Best Friend	Machine Gun Kelly X blackbear	#20	2	52
2020	8	22	2020	10	31	Some Girls	Jameson Rodgers	#29	2	17
2020	8	22	2020	8	22	Smile	Juice WRLD & The Weeknd	#8	2	10
2020	8	29	2020	8	29	7 Summers	Morgan Wallen	#6	2	24
2020	8	29	2020	8	29	Midnight Sky	Miley Cyrus	#14	2	20
2020	9	19	2020	9	19	Hit Different	SZA Featuring Ty Dolla $ign	#29	2	20
2020	10	10	2021	3	13	Put Your Records On	Ritt Momney	#30	4	25
2020	10	10	2021	3	13	Good Time	Niko Moon	#20	2	25
2020	10	17	2021	5	22	Levitating	Dua Lipa	#2	2	71
2020	10	17	2020	10	17	Wonder	Shawn Mendes	#18	2	11
2020	10	24	2021	2	20	Hole In The Bottle	Kelsea Ballerini	#39	2	20
2020	10	31	2021	3	27	You're Mines Still	Yung Bleu Featuring Drake	#18	2	23
2020	10	31	2021	1	16	Champagne Night	Lady A	#33	2	14
2020	11	7	2021	11	27	Cold As You	Luke Combs	#32	2	20
2020	11	14	2021	7	3	pov	Ariana Grande	#27	2	20
2020	11	28	2021	3	27	What's Your Country Song	Thomas Rhett	#29	2	21
2020	11	28	2020	11	28	Drankin N Smokin	Future & Lil Uzi Vert	#31	5	18
2020	12	5	2021	2	20	Cry Baby	Megan Thee Stallion Featuring DaBaby	#28	2	20
2020	12	5	2020	12	5	Somebody's Problem	Morgan Wallen	#25	2	13
2021	1	16	2022	3	12	Heat Waves	Glass Animals	#1	2	62
2021	1	16	2021	5	8	Hell Of A View	Eric Church	#28	2	21
2021	1	23	2022	3	5	Sand In My Boots	Morgan Wallen	#30	2	36
2021	1	23	2021	1	23	Wasted On You	Morgan Wallen	#9	2	19
2021	2	27	2021	5	22	We're Good	Dua Lipa	#31	2	18
2021	3	13	2021	7	3	Gone	Dierks Bentley	#26	2	20
2021	3	20	2021	7	10	Lil Bit	Nelly & Florida Georgia Line	#23	2	23
2021	3	20	2021	4	17	Leave The Door Open	Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson Paak)	#1	2	39
2021	3	20	2021	3	20	What's Next	Drake	#1	2	15
2021	4	3	2022	4	2	Ghost	Justin Bieber	#5	2	26
2021	4	3	2021	7	3	Famous Friends	Chris Young + Kane Brown	#21	2	22
2021	4	3	2021	4	10	Tombstone	Rod Wave	#11	2	22
2021	4	10	2021	4	10	Montero (Call Me By My Name)	Lil Nas X	#1	2	35
2021	4	17	2021	9	4	Arcade	Duncan Laurence	#30	2	24
2021	4	24	2021	7	10	Kiss Me More	Doja Cat Featuring SZA	#3	2	43
2021	5	1	2021	10	23	Chasing After You	Ryan Hurd with Maren Morris	#23	4	30
2021	6	5	2021	6	5	Brutal	Olivia Rodrigo	#12	2	12
2021	7	3	2021	10	23	My Boy	Elvie Shane	#28	2	19
2021	7	10	2022	4	2	Woman	Doja Cat	#9	2	34
2021	7	10	2021	7	10	You Right	Doja Cat & The Weeknd	#11	2	38
2021	7	10	2021	11	13	Beggin'	Maneskin	#13	2	25
2021	7	10	2021	7	10	Ain't s**t	Doja Cat	#24	3	14
2021	7	17	2021	10	23	Essence	Wizkid Featuring Justin Bieber & Tems	#9	2	35
2021	8	7	2021	8	7	If I Didn't Love You	Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood	#15	2	25
2021	8	7	2021	10	16	Pepas	Farruko	#25	2	21
2021	8	7	2021	10	16	Memory I Don't Mess With	Lee Brice	#33	2	19
2021	8	14	2021	8	21	Volvi	Aventura x Bad Bunny	#22	3	18
2021	8	21	2021	8	21	Take My Breath	The Weeknd	#6	2	20
2021	8	28	2022	1	15	Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)	Elton John & Dua Lipa	#7	2	29
2021	9	4	2022	3	5	One Mississippi	Kane Brown	#36	2	24
2021	9	18	2021	9	18	Fair Trade	Drake Featuring Travis Scott	#3	3	17
2021	10	9	2022	1	22	Too Easy	Gunna & Future	#16	4	16
2021	11	20	2021	11	20	No Love	Summer Walker & SZA	#13	2	12
2021	11	27	2022	4	2	Doin' This	Luke Combs	#30	2	15

[Gary]

Re-entry rules explained

www.billboard.com/music/music-news/billboard-explains-older-songs-become-new-hits-1235060791/


Billboard Explains: When Older Songs Become New Hits
The latest episode of Billboard Explains explores how a song is able to re-enter the Billboard Hot 100 years after its release.


By Starr Bowenbank

04/19/2022

From dances and movies to TikToks, songs now more than ever have the unique ability to find new lives on the Billboard charts. But what are the rules for a song’s re-entry?

Any song is allowed to re-enter the Billboard charts, but with a few conditions: The track in question must crack the top 50 of a respective chart and needs to have a meaningful reason for doing so. Songs that qualify for a re-entry generally see a resurgence due to dance trends, appearances in a film or trending sounds on TikTok.




Examples of this include Lizzo‘s hit single “Truth Hurts,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2019 — despite its release two years prior — after being featured in Netflix’s Someone Great. Ghost Town DJ’s also saw a bump when their 1995 song “My Boo” was used for a viral dance challenge in 2016; the track peaked at No. 29 on the Hot 100 that year, besting its previous No. 31 chart position in 1995. And Fleetwood Mac‘s “Dreams” received the TikTok treatment in 2020 thanks to a viral video of a man skateboarding while drinking cranberry juice, with the 1977 song used for the sound. The clip brought Fleetwood Mac back to the top 40 for the first time in 30 years.

Chart re-entries cannot be discussed without mentioning the seasons, where artists such as Mariah Carey (“All I Want for Christmas Is You”), Michael Jackson (“Thriller”) and The Neighborhood (“Sweater Weather”) see respective boosts as the year passes. If a song is great, it can enjoy success for years beyond its initial release.

After the video, catch up on more Billboard Explains videos and learn about SXSW, the magic of boy bands, American Music Awards, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, the Hot 100 chart, how R&B/hip-hop became the biggest genre in the U.S., how festivals book their lineups, Billie Eilish’s formula for success, the history of rap battles, nonbinary awareness in music, the Billboard Music Awards, the Free Britney movement, rise of K-pop in the U.S., why Taylor Swift is re-recording her first six albums, the boom of hit all-female collaborations, how Grammy nominees and winners are chosen, why songwriters are selling their publishing catalogs, how the Super Bowl halftime show is booked and why Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” was able to shoot to No. 1 on the Hot 100.

[Gary]

Kate Bush chart history



The Man With The Child In His Eyes

weeks pos date
1 88 02/17/1979
2 86 02/24/1979
3 85 03/03/1979
4 96 03/10/1979



Running Up That Hill

weeks pos date
1 95 09/07/1985
2 90 09/14/1985
3 82 09/21/1985
4 72 09/28/1985
5 70 10/05/1985
6 63 10/12/1985
7 57 10/19/1985
8 47 10/26/1985
9 42 11/02/1985
10 39 11/09/1985
11 35 11/16/1985
12 31 11/23/1985
13 30 11/30/1985
14 43 12/07/1985
15 58 12/14/1985
16 68 12/21/1985
17 75 12/28/1985
18 79 01/04/1986
19 91 01/11/1986
20 99 01/18/1986
21 8 06/11/2022
22 4 06/18/2022
23 5 06/25/2022
24 9 07/02/2022
25 6 07/09/2022
26 4 07/16/2022
27 4 07/23/2022
28 3 07/30/2022
29 3 08/06/2022
30 4 08/13/2022
31 4 08/20/2022
32 5 08/27/2022
33 4 09/03/2022
34 4 09/10/2022
35 9 09/17/2022
36 12 09/24/2022
37 19 10/01/2022
38 26 10/08/2022
39 31 10/15/2022
40 45 10/22/2022

Recurrent
1 13 10/29/2022
2 21 11/5/2022
3 23 11/12/2022



Don't Give Up (W/ Peter Gabriel)

weeks pos date
1 91 04/04/1987
2 81 04/11/1987
3 75 04/18/1987
4 72 04/25/1987
5 74 05/02/1987
6 95 05/09/1987



Rubberband Girl

weeks pos date

1 88 12/25/1993
2 99 01/01/1994
3 97 01/08/1994
4 95 01/15/1994
5 93 01/22/1994
6 99 01/29/1994

[roadrunner]

Thanks for posting…I especially like 👍 ⬆️ seeing a song’s chart position week by week.

[Gary]

updated for current week

[Gary]

Five Burning Questions: Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ Hits New Peak After ‘Stranger Things’ Bump
"Hill" re-enters the Billboard Hot 100 at a new peak of No. 8 this week, following extensive use in the fourth season of 'Stranger Things.'


By Billboard Staff

06/7/2022

After consecutive weeks of multiple Billboard Hot 100 top 10 debuts from 2020s superstars Future, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar and Harry Styles, this year the lone crasher of the chart’s highest region belongs to… 63-year-old U.K. alt-pop icon Kate Bush, via her resuscitated 1985 hit, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).”


The song, which originally peaked at No. 30 on the Hot 100, re-enters the chart at No. 8 this week (dated June 11). The massive spike in consumption for the classic left-field hit was prompted by the debut of the fourth season of Netflix’s ’80s-set sci-fi series Stranger Things, which prominently uses the song multiple times throughout the season.

What about “Running Up That Hill” made it so rife for this kind of revitalization? And what other beloved pop songs could follow it back onto the Hot 100? Billboard staffers discuss this questions and more below.

1. Not a lot of people would’ve expected Kate Bush to be rubbing elbows with Bad Bunny and Harry Styles in the top 10 this week. What is it about “Running Up That Hill” that made it and Stranger Things such an explosive combination?

Katie Bain: With nearly three years between the last and this new season of Stranger Things, we fans of the show were basically foaming at the mouth for new episodes. So, my sense is that the crazy success of this sync is a function of the massive popularity of and pent-up interest in Strangers Things, paired with the fact that “Hill” was used so effectively. The song’s appearance in the first episode was surprising, fresh and perfect, with Kate’s distress capturing the angst and isolation Max is experiencing after the succession of traumas she’s endured in Hawkins. Bringing the track back in the climactic moment of Max’s exorcism, and imbuing it with mystic power as the only thing that will save her from the monster Vecna, was a huge moment for fans of the show, and a moment that’s now synonymous with the song. (For better or worse, whenever I hear it going forward, I’ll likely see Sadie Sink levitating with her eyes rolled back in her head.)

Lyndsey Havens: Sure, we’ve been heavily gifted in the form of new music lately from Harry, Benito, Lizzo and others who have helped shake up the top 10, but it wasn’t that long ago that it was filled with years-old hits. While “Running Up That Hill” is a touch more than a year or two old, it truly does possess the makings of a timeless hit. And at a time when pop stars like Olivia Rodrigo are bringing icons of a generation earlier like Alanis Morissette out on stage, a veteran like Kate Bush can just as easily fit in with what’s resonating today — or perhaps even more easily, considering how high she’s climbed. All it took was a little reintroduction, and Stranger Things was happy to facilitate.

Gil Kaufman: As always with the Duffers, they employed it not just as a clever sync, but by making it part of the their intricate world — which is kind of like hiding the slimy, eyeball-popping dog treat in delicious brie. It’s a great, already kind of spooky, alluring and mysterious song wrapped in a very clever plot device on a show that, not for nothing, all of us were anxiously waiting for. Great song, great timing, great show. Triple threat!

Jason Lipshutz: “Running Up That Hill” is not just featured in Stranger Things, the biggest streaming show of the year, but the song is basically a character within it – tied inextricably to the action of season 4, soundtracking one of its most dramatic moments, and even name-checked (and shown onscreen in cassette form!) multiple times. There are successful TV syncs, and then there’s being exalted in an enormous series, and introduced to a new generation of listeners that weren’t born when “Running Up That Hill” peaked at No. 30 upon its 1985 release. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that it’s one of the greatest pop songs ever written, too.

Andrew Unterberger: The thing that makes “Hill” such a perfect song for this kind of moment is that it’s a highly enduring, widely beloved pop song… that a whole lot of folks have never heard before. It wasn’t a major stateside hit upon its original release, and because it’s such an emotional and challenging song, it’s not one you ever really hear on the radio or at weddings or parties or really just out in the world in the decades since — it’s the kind of song you either have to discover yourself or be actively introduced to do. (But it was just popular enough for it to be plausible as the kind of song an alt-leaning kid like the show’s Max might catch on radio or MTV late one night and instantly become obsessed with.) It was an ideal choice for the Duffers to press the button on, and they were smart enough to press it — multiple times, even.



2. Do you expect that this extreme first-week showing for “Hill” will essentially mark the full extent of its time at the center of 2020s popular culture, or do you see it hanging around for a couple weeks still — or possibly growing even bigger from here?

Katie Bain: As much as I love this song and want Kate Bush to have all the chart success forever, I can’t see this getting bigger than it’s been during this initial frenzy of the Stranger Things season four launch. That said, while the song may once again fall off the charts, its unlikely to fall off the playlists of all the millions of people who’ve learned about it via Stranger Things, and that’s definitely a win for Kate Bush, for the musical education of the youth and for culture, generally.

Lyndsey Havens: If someone like an Olivia were to cover it, I do think it could sustain, but I think this is probably its splashiest moment of the year. The song hasn’t even been tagged to a million videos on TikTok yet, and if I’ve learned anything lately, it’s that TikTok is a pretty good indicator of what is or will stick around.

Gil Kaufman: If feels like a big, momentary blip that will likely fade pretty quickly. Once people have binged on the series it’s hard to see this song hanging around out of context of the show. It doesn’t really have any qualities that would allow it to continue competing with the Harrys and Lizzos of the world unless Bush decided to really lean in and drop a surprise album or go on, gulp, a world tour. (Spoiler: never gonna happen.)

Jason Lipshutz: It’s hard to imagine the song climbing above its No. 8 peak on the Hot 100 – a glimpse at the streaming charts indicates that it’s cooling off a bit – but “Running Up That Hill” should certainly hang around for a few weeks, as more people binge the new Stranger Things season and those who already have keep the song in their rotations. Toss in some more radio spins, and “Running Up That Hill” isn’t tumbling down the chart anytime soon.

Andrew Unterberger: It may or may not ascend higher than its current No. 8 peak — though don’t forget that it took a couple days for the song to gain the momentum it currently has, so starting the tracking week from the place of already getting millions of streams a day will give it some degree of advantage on next week’s chart. But even if it doesn’t, I don’t see it just disappearing anytime soon; once a song like this has really gotten its hooks in the culture, folks don’t forget about it so quickly. Just look at Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”; it’s been nearly two years since that song first enjoyed its viral rebound and it’s still hanging around the bottom half of the Spotify US Daily 200.

3. The most obvious point of comparison for a 2020s cultural rebound of this magnitude for a long-beloved pop song is a couple years ago, when a viral Doggface208 video on TikTok catapulted Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” back to the top 10. Which of the two rebounds do you find more interesting — or more telling about the kind of revitalized success catalog songs are able to enjoy in the early 2020s?

Katie Bain: All love and respect to Queen Kate, but I think the Doggface phenomenon is more interesting simply because it happened on TikTok, with that kind of virality — along with the juxtaposition of an extremely modern platform with a song released in 1977 — more unique and indicative of the era than a traditional TV sync.

Lyndsey Havens: I have to give it to Doggface, it’s a story that is so singularly of the times it’s hard to top it — especially with something as routine as a sync in a popular show. While both stories are amazing and hopeful for veteran songs and artists, the way in which TikTok felt like a more all-encompassing moment for anyone who used social media, compared to a moment for anyone who watches a show, made it more intriguing to me in terms of new frontiers for revitalization.

Gil Kaufman: No offense to Bush, but Doggface is the real out-of-left-field phenomenon. The “Hill” climb is really just lucky commerce: a great sync on a super popular show that strikes a cord with the curious, young audience who may never have heard the song and who might be home watching with parents who loved it the first time. But the Mac thing is a pure TikTok music phenomenon that came out of nowhere and, until later, didn’t have that corporate set-up feeling to it.

Jason Lipshutz: Both have their merits! As a longtime fan of Kate Bush’s singular artistry, seeing one of her songs in the top 10 of the Hot 100 chart — and introduced to a huge new population of listeners – feels wildly unexpected and extremely gratifying, although the path that it took to get there (a synch in a popular TV show) feels more well-trodden. On the other hand, Fleetwood Mac has the more well-known catalog, especially in the United States, but the fact that “Dreams” re-entered to the top 10 thanks to a clip of a dude skateboarding and chugging cranberry juice feels like some sort of mad-libs phenomenon that no one could have seen coming. Both are fascinating in different ways, and I’d bet we’d see more of each type of revitalization – synch-based and viral clip-based – in the future.

Andrew Unterberger: It’s “Dreams,” for sure, just because there were so many different component parts to that moment (which included the band itself getting highly involved, something we’re very unlikely to see from Bush in the coming weeks). But “Running” is probably the model that’s more easily replicated: “Dreams” was a fluke that nobody could’ve predicted or planned for, but though I doubt they’d admit it, I bet on some level the Duffers at least partly expected a moment like this for “Hill.” When you have a song that powerful in a moment that big from a show this popular, there’s almost a scientific formula at work — one that isn’t always repeatable, but is far from totally unpredictable.

4. Stranger Things isn’t the first major pop culture institution to launch an unlikely old song back to the Hot 100 this year — The Batman did it with Nirvana’s non-single “Something in the Way” a couple months ago. What’s another movie, TV show or other major entertainment property you could see having a similarly galvanizing effect on a catalog song’s assumption in the near future?

Katie Bain: Succession has played around with syncs — I’m looking at Kendall sonically bombing the Waystar Royco town hall meeting with Nirvana’s “Rape Me” and his “Bangers Only” birthday playlist — and I think if the show leaned into a full sync, the shows many ravenous fans could push it up the chart.

Lyndsey Havens: We saw it with Euphoria plenty, and I’m sure we will again. It almost seems like the tides of supervision are shifting, and it’s less about discovering what’s new and more what dusting off what’s older to be discovered again.

Gil Kaufman: As a huge Peacemaker fan who has delved into creator James Gunn’s insane detailed musical mind, I think that show’s second season — tentatively slated for early 2023 — could definitely mine some forgotten/underappreciated hair metal gem from today or yesterday and turn it into chart gold.

Jason Lipshutz: Instead of selecting some mass-media IP like a Marvel franchise, let’s go with I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic. A little over 10 years after her passing, the time is right for a revival of the impossibly rich Whitney Houston catalog – maybe the film features one song in particular, or sends the world returning to her many hits, a la Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody. Either way, sign me up.

Andrew Unterberger: Euphoria is probably the best answer here, but let me dream here about two upcoming sequels/reboots: I’d love to see a major Kid n’ Play bump from the upcoming House Party redo, or a big look in Creed III leading to a revival of Rocky III’s classic pump-up theme, Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.”



5. OK, you’re an advisor to the music supervisor for the upcoming second half of Stranger Things’ final season, and you’re getting a lot of pressure from the suits upstairs to create “another Kate Bush moment.” Which ’80s song (or artist) are you betting big on?

Katie Bain: I know it was already used (somewhat inexplicably!) in the end credits of a The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel episode, but Siouxsie & The Banshees’ haunting indie anthem “Cities In Dust” — released in 1986, the same year this current episode of Stranger Things takes place in — would be a killer, sort of Kate-adjacent and perhaps thematically appropriate soundtrack for whatever ends up happening in Hawkins, Indiana.

Lyndsey Havens: If I were an advisor to the music supervisor, I’d declare we should think outside the ’80s… and pitch a song from the mid-’70s: “Crazy on You.” A personal favorite by sister act Heart, the song only hit No. 36 in 1976. But with the right scene, or perhaps singular mood that comes up throughout various scenes, I can see a new generation of vengeful teens grasping onto this one.

Gil Kaufman: GK: I’m torn here, so I’m going to cheat. The very first thing that came to mind was Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” because it’s so silly and hyped and such a perfect 1980s one-off smash that would match the Ocean Pacific/International male fashion vibe of this season. That said, given what the show runners have said about Will’s journey to possibly coming out on the show, I would absolutely love to see Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” (or “Why”) blow up on the charts.

Jason Lipshutz: The new season of Stranger Things is set during spring break, 1986… a few weeks before Pet Shop Boys’ synth-pop classic “West End Girls” reached the top of the Hot 100 chart. If Neil Tennant’s warble can’t get Vecna grooving, nothing can.

Andrew Unterberger: Following my “widely beloved songs that relatively few casual pop listeners in the U.S. actually know” model — how about The Smiths’ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”? It’s got it all: doomed romance, death wishes, feelings of alienation, and an absolutely unforgettable chorus. Just imagine the song’s sweeping strings playing out over a closing montage of the Stranger Things kids (well, young adults) saying their final goodbyes — even if you’ve never seen the show, you’re probably getting a little misty-eyed right now. Just gotta hope that Morrissey keeps his mouth shut in real life and doesn’t ruin the moment.

[Gary]

10 Times Movies & TV Shows Sent Decades-Old Songs Back Onto the Hot 100: Kate Bush, Queen & More
"Running Up That Hill" is the latest in a long line of songs to revisit the Hot 100 long after their original release because of a big media sync.


By Andrew Unterberger

06/7/2022

The biggest story in the music world this week is about a song from 1985: Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).” The fever-pop classic re-enters the Billboard Hot 100 this week (chart dated June 11) at No. 8 — 22 spots higher than it originally peaked at back in ’85 — thanks to its extensive use in the fourth season of Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things, a usage that has introduced the song to a new generation (while re-igniting older audiences’ love for the singular left-field hit).

It’s the kind of chart spike that makes all kinds of pop watchers stand up and take notice, showing how unpredictable the charts have become in 2022, and how high the commercial ceiling is for catalog favorites right now. But it’s not the first time that a big media sync has brought an older song — one whose movie or TV usage is separated from its original release by over a decade — onto the Hot 100, or even back as high as No. 8. Here are 10 such examples:

The Beatles, “Twist and Shout” (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off / Back to School)



The Beatles’ cover of the early soul standard “Twist and Shout” (originally popularized by the Isley Brothers) was a No. 2 Hot 100 hit upon its stateside single release in 1964. In 1986, it was revived by two separate hit film comedy syncs: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which Matthew Broderick’s title character lip-syncs to the Beatles’ version from a parade float, and Back to School, in which the song is performed by Rodney Dangerfield’s Thornton Melon character during a bar scene. The dual usage helped return the song to the Hot 100, where it hit No. 23 that September.

Ben E. King, “Stand by Me” (Stand by Me)



Ben E. King’s 1961 R&B standard “Stand by Me” was not only prominently used in the Rob Reiner-directed adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Body, it carried a good deal of the movie’s emotional core — and also lent it its title. In addition to a single re-release, “Stand By Me” also got a brand new music video in 1986, featuring teen film stars River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton lip-syncing along to a live King performance, then joining him onstage to dance with him. The song, which peaked at No. 4 on the Hot 100 in ’61, returned to the top 10 in late 1986, reaching No. 9.

Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World” (Good Morning, Vietnam)



Despite enduring today as one of his most famous and recognizable songs, Louis Armstrong’s classic ballad “What a Wonderful World” was not a stateside hit upon its original release in 1967. (It was bigger in the U.K., where it topped the Official UK Singles chart and was the best-selling single of 1968.) It didn’t reach the Hot 100 for the first time until after its appearance in the 1987 Robin Williams war comedy Good Morning, Vietnam, in which the song is played over a montage of powerful wartime images. The use was striking enough to cause the single to be reissued in the U.S., and it reached No. 32 on the Hot 100 the next February.

The Contours, “Do You Love Me” (Dirty Dancing)



The Contours’ signature soul-pop hit went to No. 3 on the Hot 100 back in 1962, a year before the 1987 coming-of-age romance Dirty Dancing is set. The movie’s soundtrack, a mix of period favorites and new pop songs, was popular enough to eventually be certified diamond by the RIAA, and “Do You Love Me” — which plays over the memorable dance scene in which Jennifer Grey’s Baby character meats Patrick Swayze’s Johnny for the first time — was re-issued as a single. It got to No. 11 during its new chart run the following August.

The Righteous Brothers, “Unchained Melody” (Ghost)



Patrick Swayze once again played a pivotal role in getting a golden oldie back onto the Hot 100 in 1990, when the Righteous Brothers’ ballad “Unchained Melody” (a No. 4 hit in 1965) was used as a love theme between Swayze’s character Sam and his girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore) in the hit 1990 sci-fi romance Ghost. The song re-charted that year, in two separate versions — the original, which was not widely available for sale at the time, and a re-recorded version that was released as a new single. Both versions charted on the Hot 100 simultaneously, with the older version reaching No. 13 (largely on airplay) and the better-selling new version hitting No. 19.

Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Wayne’s World / Bohemian Rhapsody)



While “Bohemian Rhapsody” stands today as Queen’s signature hit and one of the most beloved songs of the 20th century, it peaked at a relatively modest No. 9 on the Hot 100 during its original chart run in 1975-76. The group would better that in 1992, a half-year after frontman Freddie Mercury’s death, when the song was used in a soon-to-be-iconic car singalong scene in the hit film comedy Wayne’s World (and also received an updated music video, one of the year’s most-played clips on MTV) and got all the way to No. 2 on the chart. The song returned to the Hot 100 one more time in 2018, when it re-charted at No. 33 following its use in the hit Freddie Mercury biopic of the same name.

The Knack, “My Sharona” (Reality Bites)



L.A. power-poppers The Knack scored the year-end Hot 100 No. 1 single of 1979 with one of the year’s few non-disco chart-toppers, the strutting (and graphic) love song “My Sharona.” A decade and a half later, the song experienced a small revival thanks to the hit Gen X comedy Reality Bites, in which a number of characters excitedly dance to it when it comes on the radio in a gas station convenience store. A lightly remixed version of the song briefly charted on the Hot 100 in 1994, hitting No. 91.

N.W.A, “Straight Outta Compton”



N.W.A’s gangsta rap standard-setter “Straight Outta Compton” was far too inflammatory for most radio stations to touch upon its original 1988 release, resulting in it never gracing the Hot 100 in its original run. But 27 years later, the enduring song crashed the chart thanks to the success of the N.W.A biopic of the same name, reaching No. 38 in September 2015. Not only was it the song’s first Hot 100 visit, it was the group’s first (and to date, only) appearance of any kind on the listing.

Nirvana, “Something in the Way” (The Batman)



You wouldn’t call Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” an obscurity, exactly — no song that’s been featured on an album that’s sold enough to be certified diamond really could be — but it’s the rare non-single to be included on this list, having subsided as the deep-cut closer to the grunge band’s epochal 1991 LP Nevermind. The song got a rare solo spotlight earlier this year, however, when it was prominently featured in the blockbuster The Batman, as a sort of theme song for the film’s brooding protagonist. The ensuing bump was enough to send it onto the Hot 100 this March, peaking at No. 46.

Kate Bush, “Running Up That Hill” (Stranger Things)



The reason for the season: Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” returns to the Hot 100 at No. 8 this week as one of the most-streamed and most-sold songs in the country, thanks largely to its multiple uses in the most recent season of Stranger Things. It’s the rare older song to return to the Hot 100 due to a TV placement rather than a movie sync, with even examples as famous as The Sopranos‘ finale usage of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” failing to inspire similar bumps (granted, with different chart rules in place at the time, and in an era before streaming took hold) — though reality competitions like American Idol and musical TV programs like Glee have sent plenty of cover versions of older hits onto the chart.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Every Song to Re-Enter the Billboard Hot 100 in the Top 10

6/7/2022

By Xander Zellner

Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" makes the latest such resurgence.

Kate Bush returns to the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated June 11), as her classic 1985 single “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” re-enters the ranking at No. 8, far outpacing its original No. 30 peak.

The track’s revival can be attributed to a swirl of new interest thanks to its prominent placement in the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, which premiered May 27.

How rare is it for a song to re-enter the Hot 100 all the way up in the top 10? Pretty rare. In the 63-year history of the chart, “Running Up That Hill” is just the eighth song to return directly in the top 10.

Generally, songs make steady runs up and down the Hot 100, though in more recent years, it’s become more common for titles to debut at high ranks thanks to splashy streaming starts and then decline, with many also regaining their footing on the chart as their radio airplay solidifies.

(Notably, Hot 100 rules prevent most catalog titles from returning or debuting if below No. 50. Descending titles are removed from the Hot 100 after 20 weeks on the chart if below No. 50 or after 52 weeks if below No. 25. In order to re-enter after a song has gone recurrent, it must garner enough chart points, with a notable reason for its re-entry, as opposed to a not uncommon one-week uptick that could rank it back in the top 25 or 50.)

This is all to say that, for older titles, it’s difficult to re-enter the Hot 100 and compete with current songs generating hefty radio airplay. It’s even tougher to re-enter in the top 10 – an alignment reflected by the timing of Stranger Things‘ new season, which prominently features “Running Up That Hill” in multiple episodes, at the start of the May 27-June 2 chart tracking week, as opposed to, say, a more steady campaign or confluence of factors that could’ve resulted in the song re-entering at a lower rank and making its way toward the top 10 more gradually. We see the latter type of movement each holiday season, as Christmas tunes often re-enter just above No. 50, with the biggest carols rising to the top 10 by the end of the holiday season.

The select songs that have achieved the feat of re-entering the Hot 100 in the top 10 have, for the most part, generated newfound interest after artists were prominently in the news, performed on massive stages or released a new version of a song or, like Bush this week, scored a notable sync.

Here’s a look at all eight hits that have re-entered the Hot 100 in the top 10, listed chronologically.

Artist Billing, Title, Chart Date (Hot 100 Re-entry Rank):

LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez, "Control Myself," April 29, 2006 (No. 4)

“Control Myself” first spent three weeks on the Hot 100, never reaching higher than No. 89, before falling off the chart. After the release of parent album Todd Smith, and “Control Myself” as a digital download a month later, the track re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 4, becoming the first top 10 re-entry in the chart’s history.

The Chicks, "Not Ready to Make Nice," March 3, 2007 (No. 4)

The Chicks were absent from the Hot 100 for three years before the song debuted. The trio drew pushback following Natalie Maines’ comments about George W. Bush during a concert performance in London in 2003. When the group finally returned with “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which references its exile, the song reached No. 23 in May 2006, largely from download sales, as the group was essentially barred from country radio. After the song fell off the chart, the act performed it at the 49th Grammy Awards and it won for record and song of the year and best country performance by a duo or group with vocal. The buzz around the trophy wins and the group’s performance – and fans’ support for the band – sparked the song’s re-entry at No. 4, The Chicks’ highest rank to-date.

Whitney Houston, "I Will Always Love You," Feb. 25, 2012 (No. 7)

Whitney Houston‘s cover of Dolly Parton’s classic spent a then-record 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1992-93. It returned to the top 10 at No. 7 following her death in 2012 from an accidental drowning. The ballad jumped to No. 3 the following week and fell to No. 30 before dropping off the chart. It earned Houston her highest placement on the list since March 1999, when “Heartbreak Hotel,” featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, reached No. 2.

Florida Georgia Line feat. Nelly, "Cruise," April 20, 2013 (No. 8)}

“Cruise” became a debut smash for Florida Georgia Line before Nelly hopped on its remix. The original recording reached No. 16 on the Hot 100 in December 2012 – and No. 1 on Hot Country Songs – in a run that ran through the following February. Two months later, the Nelly remix dropped. The song re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 8 and subsequently crossed to pop and adult radio, spurring its new No. 4 peak in July 2013.

Lady Gaga, "Million Reasons," Feb. 25, 2017 (No. 4)

“Million Reasons” was a modest chart hit for Lady Gaga before she performed the track at the Super Bowl LI halftime show, originally reaching No. 52 on the Hot 100 in December 2016. After she added the ballad to her Super Bowl setlist, it re-entered at its No. 4 peak, becoming her 10th top 10, of 17 to-date. (The song’s comeback mirrored that of the New England Patriots the same night, as the team overcame a daunting 28-3 deficit to the Atlanta Falcons to win 34-28 in overtime.)

Juice WRLD, "Lucid Dreams," Dec. 21, 2019 (No. 8)

Juice WRLD‘s breakthrough single re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 8 following his death from a drug overdose on Dec. 8, 2019. The song, which samples Sting’s 1993 track “Shape of My Heart,” peaked at No. 2 in October 2018 and, upon its return, added a 26th total week in the top 10.

The Weeknd, "Blinding Lights," Jan. 9, 2021 (No. 3)

The Weeknd‘s four-week Hot 100 No. 1 – and, ultimately, the reigning title on the Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs chart – revisited the weekly list at No. 3, making it the highest re-entry yet, after holiday hits pushed many then-current titles off the chart temporarily. The song was gone only for a week – interrupting its eventual 90-week record run on the chart (as it placed below No. 25 that week after over a year on the chart) – and returned as current hits soared back to the top 10, a week after holiday songs infused the tier exclusively. (Notably, “Blinding Lights,” “Lucid Dreams” and “I Will Always Love You” are the only songs among these eight to not post a new Hot 100 peak in their returns to the top 10.)

Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)," June 11, 2022 (No. 8)

Kate Bush’s 1985 single re-enters the Hot 100 at a new No. 8 best, fueled by its placement in Stranger Things. “‘Running Up That Hill’ is being given a whole new lease of life by the young fans who love the show – I love it too!” Bush said. “It’s all really exciting! Thanks very much to everyone who has supported the song.”

[Gary]

I did a separate thread for that since it is not quite the same thing as this

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/212217/songs-re-enter-top-10

[Gary]

Why Were So Many Oldies Made Hits Again by New Syncs During One Five-Year Period — And Why Is It Finally Happening Again Now?
With old songs made new hits by 'The Batman' and 'Stranger Things,' the big sync chart bump is officially back. But why had it mostly been gone for the last 30 years?
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/movie-syncs-hot-100-kate-bush-running-up-that-hill-1235083912/

By Andrew Unterberger

06/8/2022

With all the attention this week surrounding Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill” re-entering the Billboard Hot 100 at a new No. 8 peak following its use in Netflix’s Stranger Things, we wrote this week about 10 times in the Hot 100’s history when a movie or TV sync brought a decade-plus-old song onto the chart. But if you look at the timeline of those 10 songs and their chart resurrection, a very obvious trend emerges — the majority of them happened over a five-year period from the late ’80s to the early ’90s.


The period starts in 1987, when use in two hit film comedies (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Back to School) the year before brought The Beatles’ “Twist and Shout” back to the Hot 100 for the first time in 23 years. Then, over the next half-decade, five more golden oldies — Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me” (Stand by Me), Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” (Good Morning, Vietnam), The Contours’ “Do You Love Me” (Dirty Dancing), The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” (Ghost) and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Wayne’s World) — all hit the top 40 thanks to a new movie placement. Two years after that, one more scraped the bottom of the Hot 100, when a lightly remixed version of The Knack’s “My Sharona” hit No. 91, thanks to its use in Reality Bites.

Then, for a long time, nothing happened. For two decades, in fact, in between “My Sharona” in Reality Bites and N.W.A’s “Straight Outta Compton” reaching the Hot 100 for the first time in 2015 (thanks to its use in the N.W.A biopic of the same name), older songs brought back by movies and TV were all but invisible on the chart. And it’s only really this year, with the revitalizations of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” and Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” (which charted at No. 46 on the Hot 100 following its use in The Batman), that they’re again becoming any kind of regular presence on the chart.

What happened that could explain why these type of chart resurrections were so common at the turn of the ’90s, and then so rare almost immediately afterwards? For help understanding, we turn to Ross on Radio editor and longtime chart and radio expert Sean Ross, who also wrote about Kate Bush’s history on the stateside airwaves this week.

Ross points to a different TV bump as the moment that kicked off the late-’80s era of oldies being brought back as new hits — albeit with a song that sounded older than it actually was. “At This Moment” was a ’60s soul-style ballad originally released by Billy Vera and the Beaters in 1981, when it became a very minor chart hit, peaking at No. 79 on the Hot 100. But the song was used multiple times by the hit TV show Family Ties in 1985 and 1986, becoming a romantic theme for the characters of Alex (Michael J. Fox) and Ellen (Tracy Pollan). It was ultimately reissued as a single in 1986 and took off from there, topping the Hot 100 in early 1987.

“I think ‘At This Moment’ had a lot to do with starting the trend,” Ross says. “[It] established a route to radio for songs that weren’t of a piece with what else was on the radio.”

And the resurrection of minor hits from the not-too-distant past also became prevalent around this time, even without significant syncs to spur them on, thanks to various stations with enterprising DJs and programming directors — which Ross refers to as “the whole ‘Brat Pack’ of CHR [contemporary hit radio] programmers of that era” — kicking off their revivals.

UB40’s cover of Neil Diamond’s “Red Red Wine” reached No. 34 on the Hot 100 in 1984, but after the Guy Zapoleon-programmed KZZP Phoenix started to pick the song up again, it shot all the way to No. 1 in 1988. The next year, PD Brian Phillips’ stations in Minnesota (KDWB) and Milwaukee (WKTI) brought back Sheriff’s “When I’m With You,” which fizzled at No. 61 back in 1983, and it also spread widely enough for the song to top the chart. Even Benny Mardones’ “Into the Night,” a No. 11 hit in 1980, returned to the top 20 in ’89 when famed radio personality Scott Shannon was inspired by an Arizona station’s “Where Are They Now?” segment on Mardones to put “Night” back in rotation, prompting a national surge in interest in the singer and his signature hit.

All of this dovetailed with the resurrection of those “bringback” hits from movies, many of which were championed by the same kind of programmers. But as the power and prevalence of CHR started to hit a lull in the early ’90s — with many prominent stations folding or switching formats, as pop music in the ’90s splintered with the prevalence of less top 40-friendly genres like G-funk and grunge, and pop-oriented Hot Adult Contemporary (Hot AC) rose to prominence as a dominant format — so did the presence of these movie-resurrected oldies.

“The trend ends in 1992 because that’s when CHR really started to dissolve,” Ross explains. “A lot of the stations that had been key in “bringbacks” (whether from movies or whether “When I’m With You”) switched format to Hot AC. Many of the PDs moved on to other formats. Many markets didn’t have a CHR [station]. There was no vehicle for that kind of revival.”

CHR didn’t stay down for long, but by the time the format regained its strength in the late ’90s — during what would end up being the last great commercial boom period of the pre-digital era in the music business — the room for “bringback” hits had disappeared. “When Top 40 came back in 1997, there was so much excitement about new music,” Ross says. “There wasn’t really the impetus to go back and look for old music.” (Following the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which helped clear the way for for Clear Channel’s radio takeover, there was also less room for individual programmers or DJs or even individual stations to spearhead such revivals.)

This, of course, was all during the era where radio was the unquestioned market leader and primary driving force on the Hot 100 — particularly with single sales dwindling, as the industry fully shifted to prioritizing album sales. But with the rise of iTunes and digital song sales as a major force in the mid-’00s, you might think you would get a “bringback” hit through the use of a classic old song in a popular TV show like The O.C. or Grey’s Anatomy, which helped drive the commercial success of so many new songs and artists in the ’00s.

However, Ross says that once labels recognized the commercial power of the sync, their full force was spent pushing newer artists in the hopes of getting them to the next level, rather than giving their proven artists temporary bumps. “Labels didn’t want to use the power of syncs on catalog, they wanted to use it to break Snow Patrol or The Fray,” Ross says.

What’s more, with the fragmentation of the monoculture over the course of the early 21st century, there were fewer opportunities for movies and shows to experience such a pronounced immediate impact: Even a sync as major as Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” in Almost Famous or Journey’ s”Don’t Stop Believin'” in The Sopranos couldn’t really succeed on the Hot 100 without radio’s help, because Almost Famous was more of a cult success than a commercial one, and only 12 million people watched the Sopranos finale when it originally aired, with HBO subscriptions still being at a relative premium at the time.

And when the the culture did connect widely enough in the ’00s with massively viewed TV programs that pushed older songs, it was usually with covers. American Idol contestants scored on the charts with their commercially released renditions of classic hits, like Blake Lewis’ No. 18-peaking version of Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name” in 2007. And the musical dramedy Glee saw its official Glee Cast became the artist with the most hits in the history of the Hot 100, thanks to regular sales of cast covers of pop standards released on iTunes with every new episode (including, of course, “Don’t Stop Believin’,” which was the show’s highest-charting hit, reaching No. 4 in 2009).

When “Compton” finally broke the streak in 2015, it was at the dawn of the streaming era, when fans no longer had to spend money to reconnect with an older song they were reminded of (or heard for the first time) thanks to a movie or TV sync — and could continue to help its chart numbers by playing it over and over again — a change in consumption that also made it possible for “Bohemian Rhapsody” to chart for a third time (this time at No. 33) in 2018. Then, of course, came TikTok, which blew the doors open for catalog songs to re-emerge as current hits, sometimes spurred by a major media sync, but sometimes emerging from its own ecosystem — as when, most famously, a viral video from user Doggface208 propelled Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 Hot 100-topper “Dreams” back to No. 12 on the chart in October 2020.

With streaming now officially paramount in the marketplace, and the arrival of TikTok making older songs a bigger part of the contemporary pop sphere than any other time in recent memory, it seems like we may be at the dawn of a new golden age of these “bringback” hits — with or without any such major media syncs. “Now, you don’t need a sync — just streams — to find a spot on the ‘eternal jukebox,’” Ross says.

[Gary]

chart run for Kate Bush updated

4th week in re-entry

My Boo, Ghost Town DJs at 5 weeks in 2016 is the only other song under modern rules to last longer than 3 weeks in its second chart run

(excluding of course the seasonal re-entries at Christmas and Halloween)

[renfield75]

Jun 28, 2022 13:47:56 GMT -5 Gary said:

chart run for Kate Bush updated

4th week in re-entry

My Boo, Ghost Town DJs at 5 weeks in 2016 is the only other song under modern rules to last longer than 3 weeks in its second chart run

(excluding of course the seasonal re-entries at Christmas and Halloween)

Given the sustained streaming numbers, the growing airplay, and the second half of Stranger Things about to premiere I wouldn't be surprised to see Kate get a full 20+ week run.

[Gary]

Kate Bush chart history updated

Metallica - never really a singles act but does have 6 #1 albums, debuts with Master of Puppets, the title track from their 1986 album

17th Hot 100 entry and only their 8th to chart as high as #40

The others:

Peak
35 One

16 Enter Sandman

35 The Unforgiven

34 Nothing Else Matters

10 Until It Sleeps

28 The Memory Remains

31 The Day That Never Comes

[Gary]

Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ Hits Hot 100’s Top 40, Rules Rock Charts Thanks to ‘Stranger Things’ Sync
Plus, the band's greater catalog gains thanks to renewed interest sparked by the song's spotlight in the Netflix series.


BY KEVIN RUTHERFORD

MMetallica‘s “Master of Puppets” soars onto Billboard charts dated July 16, as do other tracks and albums from the metal legends’ lengthy discography, thanks to the song’s sync in the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things.

“Master,” originally released on Metallica’s 1986 studio album of the same name, makes its first appearance on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 at No. 40, marking the rockers’ first time on the chart since “The Day That Never Comes” wrapped its run in November 2008, after reaching No. 31 that September.

In the July 1-7 tracking week, “Master” earned 9.6 million official U.S. streams and sold 7,000 downloads, according to Luminate. Those sums reflect vaults of 603% and 3,722%, respectively, over the previous frame. The final two episodes of Stranger Things‘ fourth season premiered July 1, with the song helping shape a pivotal sequence involving the show’s metalhead Eddie Munson (played by Joseph Quinn).

“Master” concurrently becomes Metallica’s first No. 1 on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (which began in 2020), exceeding the No. 4 peak of the group’s “All Within My Hands,” with the San Francisco Symphony, in September 2020. “Master” also arrives at Nos. 4 and 6 on Hot Rock Songs and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, respectively, also new peaks for the band on both surveys.

The stream count for “Master” sends Metallica onto the Streaming Songs chart, at No. 23, for the first time, dating to the tally’s 2013 inception. It also starts at No. 1 on Hard Rock Streaming Songs (which began in 2020), eclipsing Metallica’s previous No. 6 best last September with 1991’s “Enter Sandman,” and opens at No. 3 on Rock Streaming Songs.

The download sum for “Master,” meanwhile, places the track at No. 7 on Digital Song Sales, becoming Metallica’s first top 10 (surpassing its prior No. 18 best in 2008 with “Day”). “Master” enters Hard Rock Digital Song Sales at No. 1, Metallica’s fourth leader, following “Sandman,” “One” and “Hardwired,” and starts at No. 3 on Rock Digital Song Sales, tying the group’s personal best first achieved with “Sandman.”

In more “Master” news, following the song’s reservicing to radio by Blackened/Q Prime (the track did not reach a radio chart upon its original run in 1986), it bows at No. 33 on Mainstream Rock Airplay – especially notable given its eight-and-a-half-minute runtime. It’s Metallica’s 39th entry on the chart, a haul that includes 10 No. 1s and 24 top 10s. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it starts at No. 48 with 631,000 audience impressions. “Master” becomes the first song from its parent album to make a Billboard radio chart, as Metallica first hit Mainstream Rock Airplay in 1989 with “One” from 1988’s Master follow-up …And Justice for All.

Speaking of Master, it returns to multiple Billboard album charts, led by its No. 3 re-entry on Top Hard Rock Albums, with 13,000 equivalent album units earned, a leap of 254%. The LP also lands at No. 14 on both Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums, and its No. 55 re-entry on the all-genre Billboard 200 spurs the set’s first appearance on the chart since February 2021. Master peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 in May 1986 following its release that March.

As one might expect, the Metallica catalog as a whole sports residual gains thanks to the resurgence of “Master,” much like that of Kate Bush‘s music following her own Stranger Things sync for “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” earlier in the season. (“Hill” returns to its No. 4 Hot 100 high on the latest list.) According to Luminate, Metallica’s overall official U.S. on-demand streams tallied 36.6 million listens July 1-7 – a 64% boost from 22.3 million the week before; taking “Master” out of the equation, the total still shows a hefty 30% gain for the band’s catalog, from 20.9 million to 27.3 million.

The most-streamed Metallica song beyond “Master of Puppets” in the July 1-7 tracking week was “Enter Sandman,” which boasted 4 million streams, up 19%. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (2.5 million, up 39%), “One” (2.1 million, up 34%) and “Nothing Else Matters” (2.1 million, up 14%) rounded out the group’s top five for the week. “Sandman” jumps 9-6 on Hard Rock Streaming Songs, while “Bell” debuts at No. 24.

Additionally, “Sandman” reaches Hard Rock Digital Song Sales (No. 4; 1,200 downloads sold), along with “Matters” (No. 7), “Bell” (No. 8), “One” (No. 19) and “The Unforgiven” (No. 25).

Finally, Master isn’t the only Metallica project on Top Hard Rock Albums, with the band’s 1991 self-titled LP rising 7-6 (10,000 units, up 25%, good for Greatest Gainer honors) and 1984’s Ride the Lightning re-entering at No. 12 (6,000, up 53%). The former also flies 173-109 on the Billboard 200.

As for potential further Stranger Things chart achievements, a premiere date for the series’ fifth and final season has not yet been announced.

[Gary]

Die For You -- The Weeknd


weeks pos date
1 43 12/17/2016
2 71 12/24/2016
3 93 12/31/2016
4 71 09/03/2022
5 69 09/10/2022
6 52 09/17/2022
7 49 09/24/2022
8 46 10/01/2022
9 41 10/08/2022
10 37 10/15/2022
11 33 10/22/2022
12 37 10/29/2022
13 43 11/05/2022
14 27 11/12/2022
15 34 11/19/2022
16 22 11/26/2022

[Gary]

Updated - will put Thriller and Christmas hits in another thread

For simplicity - not tracking older album tracks that debut for the first time, as has been the trend this year


To "Re-Enter" a song must have entered before - in a completely separate chart run

Updated - Kate Bush and added The Weeknd

[Gary]

Jun 8, 2022 10:35:44 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

Every Song to Re-Enter the Billboard Hot 100 in the Top 10

6/7/2022

By Xander Zellner

Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" makes the latest such resurgence.

Kate Bush returns to the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated June 11), as her classic 1985 single “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” re-enters the ranking at No. 8, far outpacing its original No. 30 peak.

The track’s revival can be attributed to a swirl of new interest thanks to its prominent placement in the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, which premiered May 27.

How rare is it for a song to re-enter the Hot 100 all the way up in the top 10? Pretty rare. In the 63-year history of the chart, “Running Up That Hill” is just the eighth song to return directly in the top 10.

Generally, songs make steady runs up and down the Hot 100, though in more recent years, it’s become more common for titles to debut at high ranks thanks to splashy streaming starts and then decline, with many also regaining their footing on the chart as their radio airplay solidifies.

(Notably, Hot 100 rules prevent most catalog titles from returning or debuting if below No. 50. Descending titles are removed from the Hot 100 after 20 weeks on the chart if below No. 50 or after 52 weeks if below No. 25. In order to re-enter after a song has gone recurrent, it must garner enough chart points, with a notable reason for its re-entry, as opposed to a not uncommon one-week uptick that could rank it back in the top 25 or 50.)

This is all to say that, for older titles, it’s difficult to re-enter the Hot 100 and compete with current songs generating hefty radio airplay. It’s even tougher to re-enter in the top 10 – an alignment reflected by the timing of Stranger Things‘ new season, which prominently features “Running Up That Hill” in multiple episodes, at the start of the May 27-June 2 chart tracking week, as opposed to, say, a more steady campaign or confluence of factors that could’ve resulted in the song re-entering at a lower rank and making its way toward the top 10 more gradually. We see the latter type of movement each holiday season, as Christmas tunes often re-enter just above No. 50, with the biggest carols rising to the top 10 by the end of the holiday season.

The select songs that have achieved the feat of re-entering the Hot 100 in the top 10 have, for the most part, generated newfound interest after artists were prominently in the news, performed on massive stages or released a new version of a song or, like Bush this week, scored a notable sync.

Here’s a look at all eight hits that have re-entered the Hot 100 in the top 10, listed chronologically.

Artist Billing, Title, Chart Date (Hot 100 Re-entry Rank):

LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez, "Control Myself," April 29, 2006 (No. 4)

“Control Myself” first spent three weeks on the Hot 100, never reaching higher than No. 89, before falling off the chart. After the release of parent album Todd Smith, and “Control Myself” as a digital download a month later, the track re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 4, becoming the first top 10 re-entry in the chart’s history.

The Chicks, "Not Ready to Make Nice," March 3, 2007 (No. 4)

The Chicks were absent from the Hot 100 for three years before the song debuted. The trio drew pushback following Natalie Maines’ comments about George W. Bush during a concert performance in London in 2003. When the group finally returned with “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which references its exile, the song reached No. 23 in May 2006, largely from download sales, as the group was essentially barred from country radio. After the song fell off the chart, the act performed it at the 49th Grammy Awards and it won for record and song of the year and best country performance by a duo or group with vocal. The buzz around the trophy wins and the group’s performance – and fans’ support for the band – sparked the song’s re-entry at No. 4, The Chicks’ highest rank to-date.

Whitney Houston, "I Will Always Love You," Feb. 25, 2012 (No. 7)

Whitney Houston‘s cover of Dolly Parton’s classic spent a then-record 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1992-93. It returned to the top 10 at No. 7 following her death in 2012 from an accidental drowning. The ballad jumped to No. 3 the following week and fell to No. 30 before dropping off the chart. It earned Houston her highest placement on the list since March 1999, when “Heartbreak Hotel,” featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, reached No. 2.

Florida Georgia Line feat. Nelly, "Cruise," April 20, 2013 (No. 8)}

“Cruise” became a debut smash for Florida Georgia Line before Nelly hopped on its remix. The original recording reached No. 16 on the Hot 100 in December 2012 – and No. 1 on Hot Country Songs – in a run that ran through the following February. Two months later, the Nelly remix dropped. The song re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 8 and subsequently crossed to pop and adult radio, spurring its new No. 4 peak in July 2013.

Lady Gaga, "Million Reasons," Feb. 25, 2017 (No. 4)

“Million Reasons” was a modest chart hit for Lady Gaga before she performed the track at the Super Bowl LI halftime show, originally reaching No. 52 on the Hot 100 in December 2016. After she added the ballad to her Super Bowl setlist, it re-entered at its No. 4 peak, becoming her 10th top 10, of 17 to-date. (The song’s comeback mirrored that of the New England Patriots the same night, as the team overcame a daunting 28-3 deficit to the Atlanta Falcons to win 34-28 in overtime.)

Juice WRLD, "Lucid Dreams," Dec. 21, 2019 (No. 8)

Juice WRLD‘s breakthrough single re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 8 following his death from a drug overdose on Dec. 8, 2019. The song, which samples Sting’s 1993 track “Shape of My Heart,” peaked at No. 2 in October 2018 and, upon its return, added a 26th total week in the top 10.

The Weeknd, "Blinding Lights," Jan. 9, 2021 (No. 3)

The Weeknd‘s four-week Hot 100 No. 1 – and, ultimately, the reigning title on the Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs chart – revisited the weekly list at No. 3, making it the highest re-entry yet, after holiday hits pushed many then-current titles off the chart temporarily. The song was gone only for a week – interrupting its eventual 90-week record run on the chart (as it placed below No. 25 that week after over a year on the chart) – and returned as current hits soared back to the top 10, a week after holiday songs infused the tier exclusively. (Notably, “Blinding Lights,” “Lucid Dreams” and “I Will Always Love You” are the only songs among these eight to not post a new Hot 100 peak in their returns to the top 10.)

Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)," June 11, 2022 (No. 8)

Kate Bush’s 1985 single re-enters the Hot 100 at a new No. 8 best, fueled by its placement in Stranger Things. “‘Running Up That Hill’ is being given a whole new lease of life by the young fans who love the show – I love it too!” Bush said. “It’s all really exciting! Thanks very much to everyone who has supported the song.”

Add A Holy Jlly Christmas, Burl Ives

[Gary]

Sure Thing, Miguel
Original release 2011


weeks pos date
1 94 03/26/2011
2 87 04/02/2011
3 76 04/09/2011
4 71 04/16/2011
5 63 04/23/2011
6 58 04/30/2011
7 57 05/07/2011
8 56 05/14/2011
9 42 05/21/2011
10 43 05/28/2011
11 36 06/04/2011
12 44 06/11/2011
13 39 06/18/2011
14 41 06/25/2011
15 44 07/02/2011
16 43 07/09/2011
17 49 07/16/2011
18 40 07/23/2011
19 40 07/30/2011
20 43 08/06/2011
21 45 08/13/2011
22 45 08/20/2011
23 49 08/27/2011
24 49 01/21/2023
25 42 01/28/2023
26 39 02/04/2023
27 36 02/11/2023
28 30 02/18/2023
29 31 02/25/2023

[Gary]

Umbrella, Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z
original release 2007


weeks pos date
1 91 04/28/2007
2 72 05/05/2007
3 63 05/12/2007
4 52 05/19/2007
5 44 05/26/2007
6 41 06/02/2007
7 1 06/09/2007
8 1 06/16/2007
9 1 06/23/2007
10 1 06/30/2007
11 1 07/07/2007
12 1 07/14/2007
13 1 07/21/2007
14 2 07/28/2007
15 3 08/04/2007
16 4 08/11/2007
17 5 08/18/2007
18 5 08/25/2007
19 8 09/01/2007
20 10 09/08/2007
21 13 09/15/2007
22 17 09/22/2007
23 17 09/29/2007
24 21 10/06/2007
25 23 10/13/2007
26 26 10/20/2007
27 30 10/27/2007
28 32 11/03/2007
29 35 11/10/2007
30 41 11/17/2007
31 46 11/24/2007
32 50 12/01/2007
33 44 12/08/2007
34 37 02/25/2023

[Gary]

Diamonds, Rihanna
Original release 2012


weeks pos date
1 16 10/13/2012
2 18 10/20/2012
3 11 10/27/2012
4 8 11/03/2012
5 5 11/10/2012
6 4 11/17/2012
7 2 11/24/2012
8 1 12/01/2012
9 1 12/08/2012
10 1 12/15/2012
11 2 12/22/2012
12 2 12/29/2012
13 2 01/05/2013
14 3 01/12/2013
15 2 01/19/2013
16 5 01/26/2013
17 8 02/02/2013
18 8 02/09/2013
19 11 02/16/2013
20 18 02/23/2013
21 21 03/02/2013
22 25 03/09/2013
23 32 03/16/2013
24 33 03/23/2013
25 43 03/30/2013
26 47 04/06/2013
27 44 02/25/2023

[Gary]

We Found Love, Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris
Original release 2011


weeks pos date
1 16 10/08/2011
2 9 10/15/2011
3 7 10/22/2011
4 6 10/29/2011
5 2 11/05/2011
6 1 11/12/2011
7 1 11/19/2011
8 1 11/26/2011
9 1 12/03/2011
10 1 12/10/2011
11 1 12/17/2011
12 1 12/24/2011
13 1 12/31/2011
14 2 01/07/2012
15 2 01/14/2012
16 1 01/21/2012
17 1 01/28/2012
18 2 02/04/2012
19 3 02/11/2012
20 4 02/18/2012
21 6 02/25/2012
22 8 03/03/2012
23 6 03/10/2012
24 10 03/17/2012
25 11 03/24/2012
26 12 03/31/2012
27 14 04/07/2012
28 18 04/14/2012
29 20 04/21/2012
30 22 04/28/2012
31 22 05/05/2012
32 26 05/12/2012
33 27 05/19/2012
34 33 05/26/2012
35 34 06/02/2012
36 36 06/09/2012
37 39 06/16/2012
38 42 06/23/2012
39 46 06/30/2012
40 44 07/07/2012
41 48 07/14/2012
42 48 02/25/2023

[Gary]

Update to Miguel's chart run and the 3 Super Bowl re-entries

[Gary]

Taylor Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer’ Returns to Hot 100 for First Time Since 2019
The song, from Swift's LP Lover, re-enters at No. 49.


By Xander Zellner

05/30/2023

Taylor Swift performs onstage for the opening night of "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at State Farm Stadium on March 17, 2023 in Swift City, ERAzona (Glendale, Arizona). The city of Glendale, Arizona was ceremonially renamed to Swift City for March 17-18 in honor of The Eras Tour.
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” from her 2019 LP Lover, is back on the Billboard Hot 100, returning to the chart dated June 3 at No. 49.

Fittingly timed to the lead-up to Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kickoff to summer, the song re-enters with 8.9 million official streams (up 2%), 898,000 radio airplay audience impressions (up 128%), and 1,000 downloads sold (up 18%) in the United States in the May 19-25 tracking week, according to Luminate.

“Cruel Summer” spent two weeks on the chart during its initial chart run. It debuted at its No. 29 high on the Sept. 7, 2019, Hot 100 – the week that Lover debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming Swift’s sixth leader – and fell to No. 71 the following week.

All 18 songs from Lover landed on the Hot 100 when the album debuted atop the Billboard 200, with “Cruel Summer” one of six to chart in the Hot 100’s top 40 that week.

“Cruel Summer” has been gaining momentum in recent weeks, as Swift has been performing the song on her Eras Tour. The concert encompasses 10 acts, covering nine of her LPs. The Lover era kicks off the show, with her performing, in order, “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince,” “Cruel Summer,” “The Man,” “You Need To Calm Down,” “Lover” and “The Archer.”


Swift charts two additional songs on the latest Hot 100, both from last year’s Midnights: former eight-week No. 1 “Anti-Hero” – her longest-leading hit – at No. 12 and latest single “Karma,” up 32-27. The latter, which debuted at its No. 9 high in November, is slated to soar on next week’s, June 10-dated chart, thanks to a new remix featuring Ice Spice, released May 26. The pair performed the team-up together live May 26-28 at the tour’s latest stops at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

Since its release (through May 25), “Cruel Summer” has drawn 364.1 million official on-demand streams and 13.7 million in airplay audience (while not being formally promoted to radio) and sold 34,000 downloads in the U.S.