Billboard Hot 100: 03/20/2021

[kimberly]

Mar 9, 2021 11:30:00 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

4(+1) Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license 1,079,006 (+32,692)
5(+2) Kali Uchis - telepatía 1,001,028 (+56,133)

not that this means anything but holy shit "telepatía" is #2 without this week's releases! could finish the week at a new Spotify daily peak if she holds up.

[gikem]

Mar 9, 2021 17:15:06 GMT -5 nak said:

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

It's already begun happening with recent hits like "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)" and "Throat Baby (Go Baby)."

[degen]

Mar 9, 2021 15:18:57 GMT -5 𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤 said:

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.

f**k u for not publishing ur numbers AM

I agree with this. And we all know the only reason why Apple Music doesn’t release its streaming numbers is because they don’t want the public to see that it gets less streams than Spotify. Which is a shame because it would make everything more transparent.

As for Drake, I feel like these 3 new songs are headed in the direction off “Toosie Slide.” A number one debut (for at least “What’s next”), but then they all fall off gradually. One of them could certainly become a “Laugh Now, Cry Later” which was in the top 10 for a long while.

[85la]

Mar 9, 2021 17:11:33 GMT -5 atg said:

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.

Wait you can watch music videos on Apple Music, as part of the monthly subscription plan?

[tommy1860]

Mar 9, 2021 20:22:57 GMT -5 85la said:

Mar 9, 2021 17:11:33 GMT -5 atg said:

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.

Wait you can watch music videos on Apple Music, as part of the monthly subscription plan?

Yeah, you can. There have even been some videos that were Apple exclusives at first. I remember the Hotline Blind video being only on Apple Music it’s first week.

[jthentic]

A screamo track into top 20 🧘‍♂️🎋

[rimetm]

Mar 9, 2021 17:19:27 GMT -5 gikem said:

Mar 9, 2021 17:15:06 GMT -5 nak said:

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

It's already begun happening with recent hits like "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)" and "Throat Baby (Go Baby)."

Neither is a true example though. “Laxed - Siren Beat” was the name the instrumental was shopped around as when they were seeking an act to take it, and when Jason Derulo stole it for Savage Love, it originally was only under that title. Adding the subtitle was a legal stipulation. As to Throat Baby, “Go Baby” is the name of its radio edit. That’d be like saying “F—k You (Forget You)” is an example of the subtitle trend.

[gikem]

Mar 9, 2021 21:56:04 GMT -5 rimetm said:

Mar 9, 2021 17:19:27 GMT -5 gikem said:

It's already begun happening with recent hits like "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)" and "Throat Baby (Go Baby)."

Neither is a true example though. “Laxed - Siren Beat” was the name the instrumental was shopped around as when they were seeking an act to take it, and when Jason Derulo stole it for Savage Love, it originally was only under that title. Adding the subtitle was a legal stipulation. As to Throat Baby, “Go Baby” is the name of its radio edit. That’d be like saying “F—k You (Forget You)” is an example of the subtitle trend.

My bad on those two.

In my defense, I had forgotten that there's also that Elle King song that debuted this week that uses your definition of a parenthetical.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

[atg]

I’m surprised at Lil Durk’s AM domination. 54 current songs on the charts on Kworb, but not even comparable to Drake’s 72. Lil Baby is at 50 so that’s not surprising as well. Besides those 3, there really isn’t anyone that comes close to charting that many songs. Makes me think about the future of these artists to be a very long one.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 10, 2021 2:00:07 GMT -5 atg said:

I’m surprised at Lil Durk’s AM domination. 54 current songs on the charts on Kworb, but not even comparable to Drake’s 72. Lil Baby is at 50 so that’s not surprising as well. Besides those 3, there really isn’t anyone that comes close to charting that many songs. Makes me think about the future of these artists to be a very long one.

Songs released since 2020 (features included):

Lil Durk - 81
Lil Baby - 53
Drake - 30

[phieaglesfan712]

Mar 9, 2021 22:59:48 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

The battle is on between Bruno and Cardi for #1 on the 3/27 chart. That would be the 26th different #1 in Blinding Lights charting run, provided What's Next is #1 on the 3/20 chart. (It would be awesome if Bruno and Cardi surprised us and performed Finesse at the Grammys.)

[Enigma.]

Streets is still #10 on Spotify. Seems that the video didn't help much there.

[thegreatdivine]

4th straight day of the tracks off Scary Hours 2 and Leave the Door Open losing streams on Spotify US. Hold On also lost streams but it's down to 707K so yeah. It'll be lucky to debut in the Hot 100 top 40 at this rate.

I wonder if/when, they'll finally gain some streams.

Audio streaming is so down bad currently that if Drake hadn't released new music on Friday, the #1 song on Spotify US right now would be Leave the Door Open with 1,095,834 streams and it's been out for less than a week. Just terrible.

[Enigma.]

But, on the other hand, the streams are pretty well spread out. #200 isn't having worse numbers than it usually does these days.

[thegreatdivine]

Enigma. there are really no positives to how low audio streaming in the US is right now. Half the songs in the top 10 of Spotify US have less than 1M streams and the #1 song has less than 1.6M streams (and it's numbers are only that high because it's a new song). The new songs are still yet to gain any streams from the previous day and the older, more stable songs are barely gaining any streams on the days they manage to gain anything at all. That's bad any way you look at it.

[Enigma.]

If you say so, I don't mind, hits that everyone is interested in do well still, like Olivia Rodrigo demonstrated.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 10, 2021 8:14:09 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

If you say so, I don't mind, hits that everyone is interested in do well still, like Olivia Rodrigo demonstrated.

Are you talking about when drivers license peaked with over 6M streams on Spotify US less than a week after it's release only to spend the next 4 weeks losing streams drastically till it stabilized at 1.3-1.5M daily streams?

drivers license was released less than 9 weeks ago and it's already down to 1M daily streams. Up was released less than 5 weeks ago and I doubt it's ever surpassed 1.2M streams. It's down to 900K daily streams right now.

The "biggest" songs in the US right now pulling very low streams. I don't know how you don't see that.

[Enigma.]

But Telepatía for instance has been rising for a few weeks now. I see the evolution of streaming is going to more and more to the way digital sales evolved - songs start high and gradually decline from there unless there is an extra promo boost or sth from somewhere (TikTok). I don't see why artists should stop releasing albums because of that. Also, albums are always a bit frontloaded in streaming and whatever takes off will do so.

The only thing that is missing is that people don't travel to work and back home as much as they used to which I think is currently showing in the numbers. At home, people might rather play games and watch movies and tv series than listen to music.

[kingvavis]

Is streaming this bad cause streaming is becoming more spread out? Maybe this is the new norm going forward where streaming will continue to grow, but it will be less concentrated around big songs.

[Enigma.]

I obviously follow Lady Gaga closely, and her older songs have had a great boost recently (The Fame is #135 on album chart without any effort from Gaga or her label), so I think that is a factor too.

[strongerq]

Self explanatory image.

Another update on this. Audio streams of whole discographies (week 9). *based on Rolling Stone Artist chart

Only artists that haven't released albums after 2019. 116 artists meet the criteria. That have charted in the first 9 weeks of 2020 and 2021 respectively.

Nielsen will report that streaming has grown in 2021 by 15%+ is all i am going to say.

Artist	2021	2020	%
Arctic Monkeys	139.6M	52M	168.5%
Daft Punk	85.7M	41.6M	106.0%
Fleetwood Mac	216.7M	111.6M	94.2%
Bee Gees	75.7M	39.2M	93.1%
One Direction	209.2M	114.1M	83.3%
Britney Spears	101.8M	59M	72.5%
Bob Seger	69.3M	42.7M	62.3%
Creedence Clearwater Revival	103.6M	64.8M	59.9%
Nickelback	71.9M	45.2M	59.1%
Van Halen	80.6M	51.5M	56.5%
Toby Keith	67.5M	43.3M	55.9%
Nirvana	130.3M	84.1M	54.9%
Paramore	95.7M	62M	54.4%
Hank Williams Jr.	56.7M	37M	53.2%
Alan Jackson	94.1M	61.6M	52.8%
Mötley Crüe	61.7M	40.7M	51.6%
Dr. Dre	79.5M	52.5M	51.4%
Nelly	78.4M	51.8M	51.4%
Eagles	152.2M	100.6M	51.3%
Phil Collins	63.3M	42M	50.7%
Alice In Chains	61.4M	40.9M	50.1%
Earth Wind & Fire	58.5M	39M	50.0%
Mary J. Blige	62.2M	41.9M	48.4%
50 Cent	115M	77.9M	47.6%
3 Doors Down	55M	37.3M	47.5%
Lynyrd Skynyrd	88.8M	60.4M	47.0%
Rihanna	281.2M	191.6M	46.8%
Guns N' Roses	95M	66.4M	43.1%
Kid Rock	57.3M	40.2M	42.5%
Michael Jackson	158.2M	111.5M	41.9%
Journey	97.6M	68.9M	41.7%
OutKast	84.1M	59.8M	40.6%
Def Leppard	60.4M	43M	40.5%
Led Zeppelin	137.9M	98.6M	39.9%
Fall Out Boy	131.9M	94.4M	39.7%
Whitney Houston	67.5M	48.6M	38.9%
Usher	143.6M	103.5M	38.7%
Enya	77.1M	55.7M	38.4%
Ice Cube	53.4M	38.6M	38.3%
Stevie Wonder	74.4M	53.8M	38.3%
Bob Marley & The Wailers	78.1M	56.6M	38.0%
Bruno Mars	207.1M	150.2M	37.9%
A Day To Remember	57.4M	41.7M	37.6%
Flo Rida	69M	50.2M	37.5%
The Rolling Stones	127.7M	93M	37.3%
Billy Joel	122.6M	89.4M	37.1%
Justin Timberlake	103.5M	76.1M	36.0%
R. Kelly	55.3M	40.7M	35.9%
Linkin Park	157.7M	116.3M	35.6%
Notorious B.I.G.	118.9M	87.7M	35.6%
Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizárraga	71.7M	52.9M	35.5%
Lorde	86M	63.6M	35.2%
Three Days Grace	99.9M	74M	35.0%
2Pac	163.3M	121.7M	34.2%
U2	63.8M	47.6M	34.0%
Mariah Carey	96.7M	72.3M	33.7%
Johnny Cash	97M	72.6M	33.6%
The Beach Boys	65.9M	49.5M	33.1%
Aerosmith	82.9M	62.7M	32.2%
Simon & Garfunkel	52.8M	40M	32.0%
Sublime	78.4M	59.8M	31.1%
David Bowie	62.4M	47.7M	30.8%
Michael Bublé	79.2M	60.8M	30.3%
Metallica	143.8M	110.4M	30.3%
Foster the People	57.3M	44M	30.2%
Train	62.9M	48.6M	29.4%
System Of A Down	73.8M	57.1M	29.2%
Beastie Boys	50.1M	38.9M	28.8%
Sleepy John	68.5M	53.2M	28.8%
Godsmack	55.6M	43.2M	28.7%
Akon	53.2M	41.4M	28.5%
Pink Floyd	126.5M	98.5M	28.4%
The Doors	48.4M	37.7M	28.4%
Elvis Presley	91.4M	71.5M	27.8%
Radiohead	64.5M	50.6M	27.5%
Grateful Dead	52.4M	41.5M	26.3%
Frank Ocean	214.3M	170M	26.1%
Adele	146.6M	116.3M	26.1%
Billy Currington	53.2M	42.3M	25.8%
Daddy Yankee	73.2M	58.9M	24.3%
Frank Sinatra	123.6M	99.7M	24.0%
Casting Crowns	61.2M	49.4M	23.9%
Dierks Bentley	83.8M	67.8M	23.6%
Disturbed	87.8M	71.1M	23.5%
Red Hot Chili Peppers	138.6M	113.3M	22.3%
Nicki Minaj	174M	142.6M	22.0%
JAY-Z	126.3M	103.7M	21.8%
Destiny's Child	52M	42.9M	21.2%
Kelly Clarkson	66.9M	55.2M	21.2%
Jack Johnson	101.8M	84M	21.2%
Shinedown	94.5M	78M	21.2%
Kendrick Lamar	279.6M	231.2M	20.9%
Rascal Flatts	78.6M	65M	20.9%
Zac Brown Band	106.9M	91.3M	17.1%
Queen	194.1M	168M	15.5%
Childish Gambino	108.3M	93.8M	15.5%
Ella Mai	96M	83.9M	14.4%
Blake Shelton	167.2M	146.9M	13.8%
The Beatles	301.3M	268.9M	12.0%
Elton John	121.1M	109.2M	10.9%
Avenged Sevenfold	65.5M	60M	9.2%
Imagine Dragons	212.5M	194.8M	9.1%
My Chemical Romance	87.5M	80.9M	8.2%
Aventura	65.5M	60.6M	8.1%
Mumford & Sons	60.2M	55.7M	8.1%
Beyonce	237.4M	220M	7.9%
twenty one pilots	154.5M	147.9M	4.5%
John Mayer	121.8M	116.6M	4.5%
Rae Sremmurd	57.8M	56.2M	2.8%
Demi Lovato	102.6M	102.4M	0.2%
Migos	151.7M	151.6M	0.1%
Hillsong United	68.5M	68.8M	-0.4%
Chris Young	74M	74.4M	-0.5%
Lauren Daigle	93.9M	98.2M	-4.4%
Meek Mill	188.2M	212.1M	-11.3%
Shakira	83M	94.7M	-12.4%

[Enigma.]

Thank you! Nickelback revival is NOT what we want to see lol (but the general early 00s revival explain it of course).

[iamsorare]

Mar 10, 2021 8:10:06 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Enigma. there are really no positives to how low audio streaming in the US is right now. Half the songs in the top 10 of Spotify US have less than 1M streams and the #1 song has less than 1.6M streams (and it's numbers are only that high because it's a new song). The new songs are still yet to gain any streams from the previous day and the older, more stable songs are barely gaining any streams on the days they manage to gain anything at all. That's bad any way you look at it.

pop radio is slow nowadays too.I understand the big payola for maroon 5 and bruno mars songs but it's weird all the other songs to have really low updates

[thegreatdivine]

That data, while impressive, is misleading and doesn't paint the whole picture. If newer songs released from 2020-now are pulling record-low streams upon arrival, streaming isn't growing.

Catalog songs being streamed more and newer songs songs being streamed way less will cancel each other out. At best, streaming in the US has peaked/stopped growing but to make a case that streaming is growing when we have proof that it isn't, doesn't make sense.

I know Nielsen/RIAA/Alpha Data are determined to convince themselves that streaming is still growing and they'll use whatever methodology they need to use to put that information out there in their year-end reports but when streaming peaks in 2021 are matching streaming peaks from 5 years ago, that doesn't indicate growth in any regard. I don't need to see any breakdowns to know that.

[thegreatdivine]

iamsorare that's usually how it goes. There's only so many spins to go around so when new songs get released that make use of a radio deal/are getting massively pushed, they'll steal some spins/audience impressions from other songs to enable them to rise as quickly as they do. At least, I believe that's the way it works. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates 2021/03/10

1(=) Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license 127.09(+0.31)
2(=) Chris Brown & Young Thug - Go Crazy 116.13(-2.48)
3(=) Ariana Grande - 34+35 104.68(+0.17)
4(=) Ariana Grande - positions 101.95(-0.53)
5(=) 24kGoldn - Mood (feat. iann dior) 100.77(-0.40)
6(=) Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am 97.14(+0.25)
7(=) Pop Smoke - What You Know Bout Love 88.04(+0.39)
8(=) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 84.60(+0.04)
9(=) Ritt Momney - Put Your Records On 77.65(+0.20)
10(=) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 72.38(+0.01)

24(+2) Cardi B - Up 50.15(+0.81)

37(+1) Florida Georgia Line - Long Live 41.61(+0.83)

42(+1) Gabby Barrett - The Good Ones 37.87(+0.73)

57(+1) Megan Thee Stallion - Cry Baby (feat. DaBaby) 27.62(+0.78) 

71(+11) Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Leave The Door Open 23.69(+4.26)

72(+8) Maroon 5 & Megan Thee Stallion - Beautiful Mistakes 23.39(+3.76)

-(-) Drake - What's Next 14.75(+2.01)

-(-) Luke Combs - Forever After All 6.35(+0.71)

[thegreatdivine]

With how fast Leave the Door Open is zooming up on radio, I hope it doesn't end up being front-loaded and actually serves some longevity because every song that will spend some time in the top 10 will need radio long-term.

[kalmanta]

The Beatles and Eagles numbers are super impressive😯
Also Frank Oceans and Ushers increase makes me super happy, but I hoped for a better gain for Beyoncé.

[Groovy]

Not radio having good taste by dropping Go Crazy and Good Time, you really love to see it.