Billboard Hot 100: 03/27/2021

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 16, 2021 9:14:18 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

Hoping for Up because LTDO will SURELY get to number one the week after

Yeah, it's way too stable on sales and it's gaining way too fast on radio not to reach #1 in the next 2 weeks.

[jayhawk1117]

Mar 16, 2021 9:21:33 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Mar 16, 2021 9:14:18 GMT -5 jayhawk1117 said:

Hoping for Up because LTDO will SURELY get to number one the week after

Yeah, it's way too stable on sales and it's gaining way too fast on radio not to reach #1 in the next 2 weeks.

also it's just following the Bruno Mars pattern lmao. Get a massive number one hit or 2 or 3, vanish in thin air for 2 years and do it again lol

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Several songs today seem to have awoken from their winter slumber ...

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates 2021/03/16

1(=) Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license 127.64(+0.08)
2(=) Chris Brown & Young Thug - Go Crazy 110.61(+0.36) -
3(=) Ariana Grande - 34+35 104.23(-0.44)
4(+1) 24kGoldn - Mood (feat. iann dior) 99.12(+0.80) -
5(-1) Ariana Grande - positions 97.82(-0.84)

6(=) Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am 96.88(-0.04)
7(=) Pop Smoke - What You Know Bout Love 94.17(+2.08)
8(=) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 86.20(+1.42)
9(=) Ritt Momney - Put Your Records On 80.34(+1.08)
10(=) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 74.27(+1.38)

14(=) Machine Gun Kelly & blackbear - my ex's best friend 59.57(+0.94)

15(+2) Thomas Rhett - What's Your Country Song 57.50(+1.09)

20(+1) Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez - DÁKITI 51.66(+0.90)

23(=) Brett Young - Lady 50.23(+1.20)

29(+3) Yung Bleu & Drake - You're Mines Still 45.10(+1.22)

39(+5) Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Leave The Door Open 40.19(+4.17)

43(+2) The Kid LAROI - WITHOUT YOU 36.98(+1.18)

52(+1) Maroon 5 & Megan Thee Stallion - Beautiful Mistakes 31.30(+1.65)

55(+2) Jake Owen - Made for You 29.40(+0.75)

73(+6) Drake - What's Next 22.91(+1.72)

74(+1) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 22.75(+0.82)

-(-) Luke Combs - Forever After All 10.70(+0.77)

-(-) Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean 9.66(+0.74)

-(-) Mooski - Track Star 8.03(+0.91)

-(-) Rauw Alejandro - Reloj f/Anuel AA 4.15(+1.24) +

[jenglisbe]

Mar 16, 2021 10:05:13 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

8(=) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 86.20(+1.42)

I know a lot of songs gained, but FFS!!

[kindofbiased]

Surprised Up is apparently leading streaming this week so far considering it’s down (ha) to #7 on Spotify while LTDO is up to #2. I would like for Up to sneak a week in at #1 this week though since it’d be really anticlimactic for Drivers License to get back there this week and Leave The Door Open is gearing up to absolutely dominate the spring.

[kingvavis]

Is it still true that a Bruno song has never peaked at number 2?

[wavey.]

Mar 16, 2021 10:38:15 GMT -5 kingvavis said:

Is it still true that a Bruno song has never peaked at number 2?

Hot 100 wise, yes.

[staycool]

Do Grammy video views count towards the Hot 100?

[pilotjones]

Hope silk sonic can get to #1 this week

[jenglisbe]

Mar 16, 2021 10:38:15 GMT -5 kingvavis said:

Is it still true that a Bruno song has never peaked at number 2?

Here are his top 10s by peak:

1 - Nothin on You, Just the Way You Are, Grenade, Locked Out of Heaven, When I Was Your Man, Uptown Funk, That's What I Like
3 - It Will Rain, Finesse, Please Me
4 - Billionaire, The Lazy Song, Lighters, 24K Magic, Leave the Door Open
5 - Treasure
7 - Young Wild & Free

It's funny how he has so many that peaked at #1, #3, or #4. "LTDO" will obviously get a new peak, but still.

[thegreatdivine]

Looks like Up is the next #1.

[GW]

I was reading comments about radio vs. streaming, and about how radio carries some songs when it appears streaming doesn't merit the airplay.

There are people like myself who listen to radio in the car for an hour or so everyday and stream while at home. So, when a song like "Positions" is played heavily on radio, I get my fix, and haven't streamed it since the first week. There's no need to. I still enjoy that song when it comes on the radio, however-many spins later. Same goes for Blinding Lights, and many of the other big radio hits with heavy spin counts.

Point being, streams shouldn't dictate radio airplay - they are two different things which often converge and work in tandem for a large portion of people.

Radio could have been taken out by streaming entirely by now, but it hasn't been, because radio has its place in many peoples' lives, whether they also stream or not. If songs are tuning people out en masse, radio will stop playing them, and clearly that's not the case for some of these big hits. People still enjoy hearing them, even if the heavy streamers have long been burned on it.

As for sales, they shouldn't really dictate radio either. Sales may indicate interest, especially within certain genres, but they're at such small volumes these days, and for people like myself who use both radio and streaming, sales don't play into the equation at all.

[Groovy]

I love Blinding Lights but it's criminally overexposed.

[Enigma.]

I'm not saying radio stations should completely STOP playing Blinding Lights, but couldn't it be played like twice a week or sth? I know radio stations have their A, B, C, D etc playlists and I would put BL to my W list (still in rotation, but not played every fucking hour)

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 03/15/21

1(=) Drake - What's Next 1,023,761 (-17,145)
2(+6) Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic - Leave the Door Open 958,515 (+143,008)
3(=) Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license 943,888 (+15,609)
4(=) Kali Uchis - telepatía 941,219 (+22,270)
5(-3) Drake - Wants and Needs 904,993 (-33,294)
6(-1) Lil Tjay, 6LACK - Calling My Phone 899,599 (-14,038)
7(-1) Cardi B - Up 898,183 (-7,682)
8(-1) Doja Cat - Streets 830,525 (+4,178)
9(=) SZA - Good Days 765,976 (-7,682)
10(=) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 731,623 (-1,236)

Others:
11(=) Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean 698,079 (+26,323)
12(=) Giveon - Heartbreak Anniversary 690,598 (+27,688)
13(+2) Dua Lipa - Levitating 678,780 (+103,726)
14(-1) Pooh Shiesty - Back in Blood 605,066 (-27,593)
15(-1) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 584,201 (-17,265)
16(=) Saweetie - Best Friend 553,758 (-21,218)
17(+1) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 543,572 (-2,773)
18(-1) 24kGoldn - Mood 535,386 (-29,886)
19(+1) Bad Bunny, Jhay Cortez - DÁKITI 531,787 (+2,242)
20(+3) Justin Bieber - Hold On 520,186 (+25,341)
21(-2) Drake - Lemon Pepper Freestyle 518,926 (-25,430)
22(-1) The Kid LAROI - WITHOUT YOU 518,577 (+7,450)
25(+2) Cardi B - WAP 445,402 (-889)
26(-1) Pop Smoke - What You Know Bout Love 433,150 (-19,463)
29(=) Ariana Grande - 34+35 415,735 (-11,482)
31(+34) Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar 410,440 (+98,372)
32(=) Lil Baby - On Me 403,903 (+781)
33(+4) Machine Gun Kelly - my ex's best friend 398,817 (+9,663)
35(+1) SpotemGottem - Beat Box 3 396,654 (+3,071)
36(+5) Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am 394,665 (+23,887)
37(+10) Dua Lipa - We're Good 392,127 (+38,089)
42(+2) Tate McRae - you broke me first 381,161 (+17,831)
43(-4) Rod Wave - Street Runner 378,796 (+5,366)
46(+17) BTS - Dynamite 372,308 (+59,062)
47(-2) ElyOtto - SugarCrash! 361,717 (+5,553)
51(+2) Justin Bieber - Anyone 353,903 (+15,826)
52(+48) Taylor Swift - willow 351,879 (+94,227)
53(-10) Travis Scott, HVME - Goosebumps 349,677 (-13,657)
54(-4) Morgan Wallen - Wasted On You 348,113 (-84)
55(+32) Harry Styles - Adore You 340,139 (+64,406)
59(+57) Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now 329,101 (+86,753)
64(-12) Pop Smoke - Hello 321,602 (-18,044)
65(+1) NF, Hopsin - LOST 321,107 (+10,056)
66(-4) Kevin Gates - Big Gangsta 320,376 (+6,299)
67(+1) Lil Baby - Real As It Gets 318,223 (+8,629)
68(re-entry) Taylor Swift - cardigan 317,537
69(-8) YBN Nahmir - Opp Stoppa 315,154 (+149)
70(-10) Megan Thee Stallion - Cry Baby 314,904 (-2,946)
71(-12) Machine Gun Kelly - DAYWALKER! 314,642 (-6,420)
73(+3) Duncan Laurence - Arcade 309,607 (+15,309)
75(+31) Harry Styles - Golden 307,546 (+54,014)
77(re-entry) Billie Eilish - everything i wanted 304,767
78(+32) ROSÉ - On the Ground 302,713 (+55,302)
80(-16) Bad Bunny, ROSALÍA - LA NOCHE DE ANOCHE 294,885 (-17,899)
81(-6) Morgan Wallen - Sand In My Boots 294,123 (-977)
83(-10) DUSTY LOCANE - ROLLIN N CONTROLLIN FREESTYLE 284,756 (-16,582)
87(-15) Tiësto - The Business 278,154 (-26,663)
94(+24) Beach Bunny - Cloud 9 269,697 (+27,504)
97(+78) Harry Styles - Falling 264,892 (+57,891)
98(-9) Yung Bleu - You’re Mines Still 264,600 (-6,118)

101(-8) Brent Faiyaz - Dead Man Walking 262,027 (-3,608)
102(-20) Selena Gomez - Baila Conmigo 261,872 (-19,006)
111(-2) Ritt Momney - Put Your Records On 247,514 (+2,621)
112(re-entry) Taylor Swift - exile 249,411
113(-8) MoneyBagg Yo - Time Today 249,003 (-4,728)
135(-15) DDG - Moonwalking in Calabasas Remix 229,071 (-11,933)
139(-8) DaBaby - Masterpiece 226,463 (-2,580)
143(+16) Giveon - Like I Want You 223,696 (+8,382)
151(re-entry) Maroon 5 - Beautiful Mistakes 221,362
154(-2) LPB Poody - Batman 220,467 (+2,310)
162(-15) Pop Smoke - AP 216,881 (-34,685)
179(-11) Brent Faiyaz, DJ Dahi - Gravity 209,407 (-684)
172(re-entry) Doja Cat - Say So 211,416
188(re-entry) Taylor Swift - august 206,215
191(-46) Erica Banks - Buss It 204,165 (-16,188)
194(-1) Ava Max - My Head & My Heart 202,894 (+4,660)

Biggest Gains (50K+): Falling, On the Ground, Golden, Don't Start Now, Adore You, willow, Dynamite, Watermelon Sugar, Levitating, Leave the Door Open

[atg]

If it’s what people wanna listen to, then go right ahead and keep playing it. If it doesn’t affect the current single with its chart run, then it shall still continue to dominate as it should be. If it’s still high on streaming, then why question why its still high on radio as well?

I didn’t realize Pulse hated on so many things until these chart achievements started to come into place. Do you want the hot 100 to succeed or not? There is never going to be another song that can challenge the #1 spot of all time in a while, and the last song to ever truly do it was Smooth which was 2 decades ago, and if you wanna talk recently, Uptown Funk and Circles are the closest contenders yet they barely even cracked the top 5. Enjoy this moment of BL’s run because this is historic and something that wouldn’t be done in a long while from now.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Mar 16, 2021 8:09:27 GMT -5 gikem said:

Mar 16, 2021 7:51:09 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

At the rate US Spotify's going, it could have a day soon with no songs with more than 1 million daily streams.

Not that it hasn't happened before - 34+35 managed to spend its entire time at #1 on US Spotify with less than 1M daily streams.

OK. But you'd think that Drake just having released songs recently would have prevented that from happening.

[Enigma.]

Dremolus missing Rain on Me from the Spotify update, how dare you!!!

[s9983]

Mar 16, 2021 5:19:11 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Mar 16, 2021 4:24:42 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Apple Music US update
Wants and Needs, What's Next and Lemon Pepper Freestyle remain at #1, #2 & #4 respectively. Up is down 3 positions to #8 and Leave the Door Open is up 5 positions to #10.

Up falling down is a huge surprise, and I think this pretty much assures that Leave the Door Open will be #1 on the Hot 100. It's outselling Up almost 4-to-1, and the gap on radio will continue to shrink with LTDO's rapid rise on that metric.

That 4-1 ratio is only lasting like 2 days and it's closer to 3-1 with the clean version of up included. It's basically between up & DL this week. If up continues gaining on radio all of next week or even to a small amount, it's also got a chance to fight leave the door open next week for that top spot

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Mar 16, 2021 12:02:01 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Dremolus missing Rain on Me from the Spotify update, how dare you!!!

Oh no, I forgot about something from Chromatica. How dare I

:regretface:

[kalmanta]

Savage Remix didn’t re-enter? That’s a surprise.

[kacpi]

Maybe if Beyoncé performed

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

Disappointed that neither "The Bigger Picture" nor "Hollywood's Bleeding" re-entered.

Delighted to see "Leave The Door Open" getting the biggest boost, though, alongside the "folklore" and "evermore" tracks. Very deserved ❤

[degen]

Mar 16, 2021 10:59:51 GMT -5 GW said:

I was reading comments about radio vs. streaming, and about how radio carries some songs when it appears streaming doesn't merit the airplay.

There are people like myself who listen to radio in the car for an hour or so everyday and stream while at home. So, when a song like "Positions" is played heavily on radio, I get my fix, and haven't streamed it since the first week. There's no need to. I still enjoy that song when it comes on the radio, however-many spins later. Same goes for Blinding Lights, and many of the other big radio hits with heavy spin counts.

Point being, streams shouldn't dictate radio airplay - they are two different things which often converge and work in tandem for a large portion of people.

Radio could have been taken out by streaming entirely by now, but it hasn't been, because radio has its place in many peoples' lives, whether they also stream or not. If songs are tuning people out en masse, radio will stop playing them, and clearly that's not the case for some of these big hits. People still enjoy hearing them, even if the heavy streamers have long been burned on it.

As for sales, they shouldn't really dictate radio either. Sales may indicate interest, especially within certain genres, but they're at such small volumes these days, and for people like myself who use both radio and streaming, sales don't play into the equation at all.

I actually agree with this. Because I hear Ariana Grande, The Weeknd and Post Malone a lot on the radio, I find myself streaming their music much less. I will keep their music on in the car if it comes on the radio. I find myself streaming songs that I don’t hear much on the radio or in some cases long before they even get big on radio.

[s9983]

These grammy boosts are very surprising. Seems dua, bruno mars & anderson paak, billie and taylor got the biggest boosts > leave the door open seems to have the biggest.

[s9983]

I'm not so sure up is really declining in performance on streaming, it usually does great from wednesday - saturday and has massive drops from sunday - tuesday. It's pretty likely it'll rebound tomorrow. I wonder if it's radio has truly peaked so early b/c thats surprising. If it has completely stalled it's probably not going #1 unless DL has a huge streaming & airplay fall in the last few days. Bruno will take it next week, ofc unless up's radio keeps gaining slowly

[iamsorare]

Cardi b is fighting for the #1 position m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbSN2DRAn3E

[Choco]

I think "Up" just naturally hit the ceiling on some formats like RHY. Pop did slow down a bit but she's not a darling on that format ("Finesse", "Girls Like You" and "I Like It" being her only huge hits there)

[andrebra]

It really is so unfortunate that Levitating peaked on radio when it did now that it’s staying pretty stable on streaming. Kinda ironic considering it happened almost the exact opposite way with Break My Heart lol

[fridayteenage]

Time to power stream olivia rodrigo.