Billboard Hot 100: 03/20/2021

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 9, 2021 10:31:52 GMT -5 Xander said:

Drake should have never pushed what’s next as a single. The chart run is gonna be really embarrassing for him.

Can you wait for the song to actually debut and begin a chart run before coming to this conclusion? Jeez.

[Enigma.]

It's a clever strategy if Wants & Needs climbs to #1 later. I assume it will have longer legs.

[Mayman]

Mar 9, 2021 10:49:27 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

It's a clever strategy if Wants & Needs climbs to #1 later. I assume it will have longer legs.

This was what I was thinking too. I think they could totally push it next if the album is still not ready by the time What's Next peaks.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 03/08/21

1(=) Drake - What's Next 1,667,324 (-138,505)
2(=) Drake - Wants and Needs 1,476,975 (-145,843)
3(=) Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic - Leave the Door Open 1,131,768 (-53,065)
4(+1) Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license 1,079,006 (+32,692)
5(+2) Kali Uchis - telepatía 1,001,028 (+56,133)
6(-2) Drake - Lemon Pepper Freestyle 993,989 (-154,996)
7(-1) Lil Tjay, 6LACK - Calling My Phone 983,497 (-40,172)
8(=) Cardi B - Up 932,835 (+12,504)
9(=) SZA - Good Days 877,398 (+28,173)
10(=) Doja Cat - Streets 832,707 (+30,697)

Others:
11(=) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 766,305 (+2,195)
12(=) Justin Bieber - Hold On 715,425 (+1,295)
13(+2) Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean 617,962 (+19,714)
14(-1) Pooh Shiesty - Back in Blood 611,592 (-9,895)
15(-1) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 599,348 (-19,417)
16(+6) Giveon - Heartbreak Anniversary 595,676 (+50,448)
17(+1) Saweetie - Best Friend 574,903 (+13,475)
18(-1) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 574,608 (-4,819)
19(+2) Dua Lipa - Levitating 563,080 (+15,878)
20(-1) The Kid LAROI - WITHOUT YOU 558,739 (+8,681)
21(-5) 24kGoldn - Mood 558,289 (-28,693)
22(-2) Bad Bunny, Jhay Cortez - DÁKITI 515,921 (-32,534)
23(=) CJ - Whoopty 507,998 (-31,435)
25(+1) Ariana Grande - 34+35 456,998 (-9,862)
26(-2) Pop Smoke - What You Know Bout Love 448,251 (-21,750)
29(+2) Lil Baby - Real As It Gets 426,727 (-6,431)
31(+5) Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am 423,435 (+16,109)
32(+2) Lil Baby - On Me 422,331 (+10,100)
35(+8) Tate McRae - you broke me first 405,212 (+33,128)
36(+3) Machine Gun Kelly - my ex's best friend 405,175 (+22,925)
37(+1) SpotemGottem - Beat Box 3 398,699 (-3,756)
41(+3) Morgan Wallen - Wasted On You 388,765 (+22,365)
43(+3) ElyOtto - SugarCrash! 372,658 (+15,584)
45(+8) Justin Bieber - Anyone 363,901 (+14,823)
47(+3) Pop Smoke - Hello 359,972 (+7,078)
48(+4) Dua Lipa - We're Good 358,104 (+7,197)
49(=) YBN Nahmir - Opp Stoppa 357,461 (+902)
52(+2) Juice WRLD - Life's A Mess II 348,494 (+2,576)
55(-10) Travis Scott, HVME - Goosebumps 338,642 (-26,484)
59(+3) Morgan Wallen - Sand In My Boots 333,827 (+12,253)
60(+1) DUSTY LOCANE - ROLLIN N CONTROLLIN FREESTYLE 333,343 (+10,654)
61(-6) Megan Thee Stallion - Cry Baby 330,168 (-15,057)
63(=) Luke Combs - Better Together 329,243 (+13,914)
64(+1) DJ Snake - Selfish Love 327,735 (+16,692)
68(+6) Duncan Laurence - Arcade 312,752 (+20,553)
71(-7) Bad Bunny, ROSALÍA - LA NOCHE DE ANOCHE 303,240 (-11,438)
86(=) Tiësto - The Business 282,415 (+8,378)
90(+12) Kevin Gates - Big Gangsta 275,066 (+23,040)
91(+5) Ritt Momney - Put Your Records On 273,973 (+9,991)
93(-6) LPB Poody - Batman 271,616 (-1,810)
94(-10) Pop Smoke - AP 271,463 (-5,132)
97(+2) Brent Faiyaz - Dead Man Walking 268,802 (+8,893)
99(+7) DDG - Moonwalking in Calabasas Remix 266,080 (+16,807)

107(+33) Clinton Kane - CHICKEN TENDIES 254,954 (+27,076)
110(-5) Yung Bleu - You’re Mines Still 252,108 (+2,333)
113(+12) Harry Styles - Golden 251,270 (+13,740)
117(+5) DaBaby - Masterpiece 243,524 (+4,711)
125(+5) MoneyBagg Yo - Time Today 237,571 (+4,245)
129(-11) BRS Kash - Throat Baby (Go Baby) Remix 234,279 (-6,210)
138(+13) Erica Banks - Buss It 230,235 (+8,386)
141(-18) Chris Brown, Young Thug - Go Crazy 229,042 (-9,248)
144(+28) Gabby Barrett - The Good Ones 227,259 (+16,917)
145(-28) Myke Towers, Juhn - Bandido 227,024 (-14,016)
158(-1) Brent Faiyaz, DJ Dahi - Gravity 221,638 (+4,516)
160(+6) carolesdaughter - Violent 220,542 (+8,580)
166(-27) Ty Dolla $ign - Spicy 217,623 (-10,307)
167(-5) Black Eyed Peas, Shakira - GIRL LIKE ME 216,875 (+2,042)
186(re-entry) Ava Max - My Head & My Heart 207,811

Biggest Gains (50K+): Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast in America, Heartbreak Anniversary, telepatía

[atg]

Mar 9, 2021 10:49:27 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

It's a clever strategy if Wants & Needs climbs to #1 later. I assume it will have longer legs.

Maybe he’s playing the Heartless-BL run. What’s Next seems like its going to burn out faster while Wants and Needs seems like it will last longer and probably also go to #1 as well

[Choco]

It's not the first time the label-backed choice backfire. Remember when One Dance dropped yet the label backed something called Pop Style?

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 9, 2021 11:52:57 GMT -5 Choco said:

It's not the first time the label-backed choice backfire. Remember when One Dance dropped yet the label backed something called Pop Style?

Pop Style was never backed. It was never even serviced to radio. Both songs dropped at the same time but One Dance was always the single that got pushed. Drake just wanted to drop a rap song and a more melodic offering at the same time.

The two times I know he's tried pushing a single that both fans and radio flat-out rejected was around when he released More Life. He wanted to push Free Smoke as a single because he said he felt he hadn't had a rap single in a while and fans rejected it. Radio programmers went out of their way to start playing Passionfruit and that's the song the label eventually pushed instead. He also tried pushing Don't Matter to Me as a single but before it could take off, In My Feelings caught fire and put an end to that.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 9, 2021 11:50:10 GMT -5 atg said:

Mar 9, 2021 10:49:27 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

It's a clever strategy if Wants & Needs climbs to #1 later. I assume it will have longer legs.

Maybe he’s playing the Heartless-BL run. What’s Next seems like its going to burn out faster while Wants and Needs seems like it will last longer and probably also go to #1 as well

Funny you say this because when I heard the preview of Blinding Lights in that Mercedes Benz ad, I knew it would be the smash hit of the Weeknd's album but I also feel like he should have given Heartless a few weeks/months to climb on radio. It was also a good single but it never got to reach it's full potential.

As soon as Blinding Lights was released, that marked the end for any more singles off his album until thankfully, Save Your Tears eventually took off.

[chartfreak]

Any chance Bebe can make the Hot 100 with Sacrifice?

Also, surprised Ava is doing well on iTunes, I know it doesn't take much to get up there, but nice to see.

[iHype.]

In the year 2021, people still think Spotify is the indicator as to how Drake will debut. Cute lol.

[lurker2]

Spotify can be a sign, but he's a god on AM and especially on Pandora. Seriously, he's the king of Pandora.

[iHype.]

Mar 9, 2021 13:04:00 GMT -5 lurker2 said:

Spotify can be a sign, but he's a god on AM and especially on Pandora. Seriously, he's the king of Pandora.

Spotify at one point was the fourth streaming service during Laugh Now Cry Later's first week. Apple Music, Pandora, and YouTube were pulling higher daily numbers at some point during the first week.

This isn't Bieber, Gaga, Selena, etc who are dependent on doing well on Spotify. If Drake only does 1 million in a day on Spotify, but does 4 million on Apple Music and 2 million on Pandora well... you are looking at literally less than 15% of his total numbers and basing his projectd chart performance on that.

[Enigma.]

Youtube isn't definitely pulling numbers for WN though, the video has only 11.5 million views. Hold On has 14 million and that is not doing very well either (on his standards).

[iHype.]

Mar 9, 2021 13:15:47 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Youtube isn't definitely pulling numbers for WN though, the video has only 11.5 million views. Hold On has 14 million and that is not doing very well either (on his standards).

Why do you still act like you aren't familiar with charts lol

Bulk of Drake's views are way more US than Bieber.

US YouTube (first 3 days):
What's Next - 5.79 million
Hold On - 282k

[s9983]

I think it's safe to say top 2 will be secured for Drake this week. Lemon pepper freestyle will debut somewhere between 4-7 depending on how it fares the rest of the week and just how massive those AM streams are. Based on current streaming data I honestly doubt what's next will be #1 next week with the drops in performance & with the grammy boosts songs will get next week.

[gikem]

Based on today's Hot 100 update for 3/13, I think we can expect I Hope, Lonely, Laugh Now Cry Later, and Hole In The Bottle to all go recurrent this week.

EDIT: Forgot to mention Starting Over, although I can see Billboard keeping it on since it has yet to reach its country radio peak. We'll see what happens to it.

[lurker2]

Mar 9, 2021 13:12:30 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Mar 9, 2021 13:04:00 GMT -5 lurker2 said:

Spotify can be a sign, but he's a god on AM and especially on Pandora. Seriously, he's the king of Pandora.

Spotify at one point was the fourth streaming service during Laugh Now Cry Later's first week. Apple Music, Pandora, and YouTube were pulling higher daily numbers at some point during the first week.

This isn't Bieber, Gaga, Selena, etc who are dependent on doing well on Spotify. If Drake only does 1 million in a day on Spotify, but does 4 million on Apple Music and 2 million on Pandora well... you are looking at literally less than 15% of his total numbers and basing his projectd chart performance on that.

 I knew he was comparatively weak on Spotify, but I thought it was more like he was equal on AM and he did better than everyone else on Pandora. That's just insane given Spotify's relative size. I guess that Hotline Bling exclusive worked lol.

[atg]

Mar 9, 2021 13:58:30 GMT -5 s9983 said:

I think it's safe to say top 2 will be secured for Drake this week. Lemon pepper freestyle will debut somewhere between 4-7 depending on how it fares the rest of the week and just how massive those AM streams are. Based on current streaming data I honestly doubt what's next will be #1 next week with the drops in performance & with the grammy boosts songs will get next week.

I still gotta give credit to drake for bringing both a 6 minute track and rick ross into the top 5. It’s 2 things we don’t see often.

Like i said before, i feel like the real 2021 starts here this week. Bruno, Drake, Cardi, Abel and Sza are all here to make this year a real good one so far.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 9, 2021 14:51:01 GMT -5 atg said:

Mar 9, 2021 13:58:30 GMT -5 s9983 said:

I think it's safe to say top 2 will be secured for Drake this week. Lemon pepper freestyle will debut somewhere between 4-7 depending on how it fares the rest of the week and just how massive those AM streams are. Based on current streaming data I honestly doubt what's next will be #1 next week with the drops in performance & with the grammy boosts songs will get next week.

I still gotta give credit to drake for bringing both a 6 minute track and rick ross into the top 5. It’s 2 things we don’t see often.

Like i said before, i feel like the real 2021 starts here this week. Bruno, Drake, Cardi, Abel and Sza are all here to make this year a real good one so far.

This will be Rick Ross' third top 10 hit and all of them have been with Drake (I'm on One, Money in the Grave & Lemon Pepper Freestyle) 💀

I have a list of artists who got their first top 10 hit on a song with Drake and it's crazy how he's been giving assists to other artists since the beginning of his career.

[Groovy]

Mar 9, 2021 14:54:30 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Mar 9, 2021 14:51:01 GMT -5 atg said:

I still gotta give credit to drake for bringing both a 6 minute track and rick ross into the top 5. It’s 2 things we don’t see often.

Like i said before, i feel like the real 2021 starts here this week. Bruno, Drake, Cardi, Abel and Sza are all here to make this year a real good one so far.

This will be Rick Ross' third top 10 hit and all of them have been with Drake (I'm on One, Money in the Grave & Lemon Pepper Freestyle) 💀

I have a list of artists who got their first top 10 hit on a song with Drake and it's crazy how he's been giving assists to other artists since the beginning of his career.

Let's see so far, Lil Durk, Blocboy JB, Majid Jordan, Kyla, Wizkid, Lil Baby, ASAP Rocky, Travis Scott, didn't he even give Quavo his first time (as a solo artist)?

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 9, 2021 15:05:40 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Mar 9, 2021 14:54:30 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

This will be Rick Ross' third top 10 hit and all of them have been with Drake (I'm on One, Money in the Grave & Lemon Pepper Freestyle) 💀

I have a list of artists who got their first top 10 hit on a song with Drake and it's crazy how he's been giving assists to other artists since the beginning of his career.

Let's see so far, Lil Durk, Blocboy JB, Majid Jordan, Kyla, Wizkid, Lil Baby, ASAP Rocky, Travis Scott, didn't he even give Quavo his first time (as a solo artist)?

DJ Khaled
Rick Ross
A$AP Rocky
2 Chainz
Kendrick Lamar
Future
Majid Jordan
Wizkid
Kyla

Quavo
Travis Scott
BlocBoy JB
Lil Baby
Meek Mill
Playboi Carti
Lil Durk

[Groovy]

Mar 9, 2021 15:10:10 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Mar 9, 2021 15:05:40 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Let's see so far, Lil Durk, Blocboy JB, Majid Jordan, Kyla, Wizkid, Lil Baby, ASAP Rocky, Travis Scott, didn't he even give Quavo his first time (as a solo artist)?

DJ Khaled
Rick Ross
A$AP Rocky
2 Chainz
Kendrick Lamar
Future
Majid Jordan
Wizkid
Kyla
Travis Scott
BlocBoy JB
Lil Baby
Meek Mill
Playboi Carti
Lil Durk

What was the Future song

[degen]

Mar 9, 2021 1:12:29 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Nice video for Doja Cat. But this does feel a day too late and a dollar too short. I hope it can help increase streams and airplay.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 9, 2021 15:12:28 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Mar 9, 2021 15:10:10 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

DJ Khaled
Rick Ross
A$AP Rocky
2 Chainz
Kendrick Lamar
Future
Majid Jordan
Wizkid
Kyla
Travis Scott
BlocBoy JB
Lil Baby
Meek Mill
Playboi Carti
Lil Durk

What was the Future song

Lil Wayne - Love Me (feat. Drake & Future)

[gikem]

Lil Nas X will be releasing his next single, titled "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)", on March 26.

[𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤]

People just use Spotify as a main indicator because their numbers are the most easily accessible. That’s all. Yeah, he’s destabilizing there (which doesn’t mean much because he’s still well ahead of everyone), but that’s never been his stronghold.

Fuck u for not publishing ur numbers AM

[thegreatdivine]

Groovy also, you were right. I confirmed that Quavo indeed scored his first top 10 hit as a solo artist on a song with Drake. I'm the One came after, followed by Congratulations.

[strongerq]

Mar 9, 2021 14:41:24 GMT -5 lurker2 said:

Mar 9, 2021 13:12:30 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Spotify at one point was the fourth streaming service during Laugh Now Cry Later's first week. Apple Music, Pandora, and YouTube were pulling higher daily numbers at some point during the first week.

This isn't Bieber, Gaga, Selena, etc who are dependent on doing well on Spotify. If Drake only does 1 million in a day on Spotify, but does 4 million on Apple Music and 2 million on Pandora well... you are looking at literally less than 15% of his total numbers and basing his projectd chart performance on that.

 I knew he was comparatively weak on Spotify, but I thought it was more like he was equal on AM and he did better than everyone else on Pandora. That's just insane given Spotify's relative size. I guess that Hotline Bling exclusive worked lol.

38.4% of Audio streams from Toosie Slide came from Spotify US (other are from AM/Pandora ... YouTube not included ofc) 29.7% with video added.

30.3% of Audio streams  from LNCL came from Spotify US. 22.8% when we add video.

Not only was Hotline Bling an exclusive on AM. The entire 'Views' album was AM exlusive the first 2 weeks.

When you add up:

- 'Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight' from Travis being an AM exlusive

- 'Evol' by Future being an AM exclusive

- 'Blonde' by Frank Ocean being an AM exclusive

- 'Major Key' by DJ Khaled being an AM exclusive

- 'Coloring Book' by Chance the Rapper being an AM exclusive

Pharrell Williams had exclusive singles plus smaller rappers signed similar deals with AM in 2016.

So this is why Apple Music is so hip-hop centered.

You either started using AM instead of Spotify if you were a hip-hop fan or you pirated the albums (because they were unavailable on other platforms for 1-3 weeks - dependng on the deal).

[atg]

I remember using spotify and deezer until 2016, when apple music had just starting to blow up, and i’ve been with it ever sense. I do still got spotify but use it way less because apple has the ‘all inclusive’. You could add your own music at ease via itunes and also watch music videos. And not to mention the exclusives, the biggest one of course being Drake’s Views which probably pulled in 80% of the hip hop audience on apple music right now.


I noticed that exclusives are completely gone, and since like 2018 artists just release their music on all platforms from day one. I guess exclusives aren’t as effective anymore, but one can just remember the apple music vs tidal war of exclusives.

[nak]

Hope Lil Nas X brings back the pop trend of putting parenthesis into pop songs