Billboard Hot 100: 04/10/2021

[Choco]

"Montero" already dropping a bit on streaming and lagging on radio. "Peaches" is way too early on it's run to predict.

But I think Queen "drivers license" will remain unbothered by those two.

[Groovy]

Apr 6, 2021 10:30:41 GMT -5 Choco said:

"Montero" already dropping a bit on streaming and lagging on radio. "Peaches" is way too early on it's run to predict.

But I think Queen "drivers license" will remain unbothered by those two.

I'm just asking will it, I'm really hoping you're right about drivers license even though it's looking out of sight too. 

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

Apr 6, 2021 10:28:18 GMT -5 Groovy said:

If Peaches or Montero wind being the top song of 2021, will Bieber or LNX be the only ones other than The Beatles and George Michael with multiple year end chart toppers?

Yes.

Paul McCartney also got a Year-End #1 with Wings in 1976 ("Silly Love Songs"), so you could say he currently holds the record with three Year-End chart toppers (albeit under different groups). 

[phieaglesfan712]

Apr 6, 2021 11:13:34 GMT -5 Lost In Musical Reverie said:

Apr 6, 2021 10:28:18 GMT -5 Groovy said:

If Peaches or Montero wind being the top song of 2021, will Bieber or LNX be the only ones other than The Beatles and George Michael with multiple year end chart toppers?

Yes.

Paul McCartney also got a Year-End #1 with Wings in 1976 ("Silly Love Songs"), so you could say he currently holds the record with three Year-End chart toppers (albeit under different groups). 

I love Paul McCartney and think he is the greatest musician of all time, but Silly Love Songs was not the biggest song of 1976. That should have went to December 1963, which in my opinion, was the Uptown Funk/Blinding Lights of its time. To me, December 1963 was the biggest song of the 1970s.

[renfield75]

Apr 6, 2021 11:43:14 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Apr 6, 2021 11:13:34 GMT -5 Lost In Musical Reverie said:

Yes.

Paul McCartney also got a Year-End #1 with Wings in 1976 ("Silly Love Songs"), so you could say he currently holds the record with three Year-End chart toppers (albeit under different groups). 

I love Paul McCartney and think he is the greatest musician of all time, but Silly Love Songs was not the biggest song of 1976. That should have went to December 1963, which in my opinion, was the Uptown Funk/Blinding Lights of its time. To me, December 1963 was the biggest song of the 1970s.

Only if you include "December 1963"'s second chart run in 1994. Originally it spent 3 weeks at number one, 6 weeks in the top ten, 15 weeks in the top 40, and 27 weeks on the Hot 100 (very impressive for the time). In '94 the remix peaked at 14 and had another 27 week run, for a total of 54 weeks. But in 1976 there were several other songs that performed similarly or better (Rod Stewart's "Tonight's The Night" spent 8 weeks on top, the longest reign of the decade at that point, 11 weeks top ten, 17 weeks top 40, and 23 weeks on the Hot 100. Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" also had 3 weeks at number one, 10 weeks top ten, 18 weeks top 40, and 25 weeks Hot 100. "Silly Love Songs" had 5 weeks on top, 11 weeks top ten, 15 weeks top 40, and 19 Hot 100. You also had one week number ones "A Fifth Of Beethoven" and "Love Machine" outlasting "December 1963" with 28 weeks on the Hot 100). Also, because this was back before recurrency rules, "December 1963" spent its last 4 weeks on the Hot 100 in the 90s, so it wasn't racking up a ton of points by the end.

[jaffery]

Biebers album over 24m on its 18th day. Talk about stability. Whats the last album to be that stable in its first 18 days

[spiritboy]

Apr 6, 2021 16:16:55 GMT -5 jaffery said:

Biebers album over 24m on its 18th day. Talk about stability. Whats the last album to be that stable in its first 18 days

And some claim it's flopping :kii:

[spiritboy]

Btw, is this Billie Eilish's second #1 on Billboard Mainstream top 40?

[Choco]

Apr 6, 2021 17:32:50 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Btw, is this Billie Eilish's second #1 on Billboard Mainstream top 40?

Yup, second after "bad guy". Only her third top 10 on that format ("everything i wanted" also reached top 10).

[𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤]

Apr 6, 2021 17:32:50 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Btw, is this Billie Eilish's second #1 on Billboard Mainstream top 40?

#1 bad guy
#1 Therefore I Am
#5 everything i wanted
#17 when the party’s over
#20 all the good girls go to hell
#25 my future

[tuna]

Insane that a fucking Friday Night Funkin song is charting

[85la]

Apr 6, 2021 8:14:32 GMT -5 Fears in the Fire said:

Can we please start putting the chart lists in spoilers? It’s not hard and makes it much more pleasant to scroll through

It's been brought up many times, and although I agree with you, surprisingly it seems that the majority of users prefer scrolling through the long lists, and the posters of the lists have held hard in not putting spoilers, so unless that changes, it's just something we have to live with.

[85la]

Apr 6, 2021 19:10:04 GMT -5 Choco said:

Apr 6, 2021 17:32:50 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Btw, is this Billie Eilish's second #1 on Billboard Mainstream top 40?

Yup, second after "bad guy". Only her third top 10 on that format ("everything i wanted" also reached top 10).

It's all the more surprising given its low callout scores. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy about it because I actually love the song, but it probably shouldn't be there, and somewhat surprising that on the other end, drivers license, which has the highest callouts, is declining, despite being a newer song. I guess callouts don't always dictate radio performance, and Billie's label must have really pushed TIA hard!

[Choco]

It's been going on for a few years now, but labels are heavily influencing #1 runs on CHR. Hardly anything is actually allowed to naturally peak at #2. And then the minute it goes #1 it starts posting monumental drops.

[areyoureadytojump]

This thread is about the Hot 100. You know, the charts!

People should put their opinions in spoilers. The drivel we have to read here...

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I thought this thread was about predictions and the weekly predictions thread was about...you know, those Other predictions.

[Gary]

Chris Brown's 'Go Crazy' Breaks 'No Guidance' No. 1 Record on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart
By Trevor Anderson
4/7/2021
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www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9552802/chris-brown-record-number-1-rb-hip-hop-airplay-chart/


Just a year after Brown's own 'Guidance' set a record for most weeks atop the chart, 'Crazy' rewrites the mark.
Barely a year after Chris Brown broke the record for the longest running No. 1 song on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, the proven radio hitmaker surpasses his own mark as “Go Crazy,” his collaboration with Young Thug, posts a 28th week at No. 1 to surpass the 27-week reign of the chart’s previous record holder “No Guidance,” featuring Drake.

The record-breaking moment for “Go Crazy” comes on the chart dated April 10, where the song retains its status as the most-heard track on R&B/hip-hop radio. The collaborative single registered 19.9 million in audience impressions in the week ending April 4, according to MRC Data, effectively even with its count from the prior week.

Brown had already been assured of claiming first and second place on the all-time leaderboard since “Go Crazy” outlasted the 23-week domination of Miguel’s “Adorn” in 2013-14 last month. Now, with the new order established, here’s a look at the songs with the most weeks at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart since its debut in 1992:

28, “Go Crazy,” Chris Brown and Young Thug, 2020-21
27, “No Guidance,” Chris Brown featuring Drake, 2019-20
23, “Adorn,” Miguel, 2012-13
16, “Boo’d Up,” Ella Mai, 2018
15, “Be Without You,” Mary J. Blige, 2006
15, “Hotline Bling,” Drake, 2015-16
14, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
14, “Blame It,” Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain, 2009
14, “Pretty Wings,” Maxwell, 2009
14, “Hold On We’re Going Home,” Drake featuring Majid Jordan, 2013-14

“Go Crazy,” the first single from Brown and Young Thug’s joint mixtape, Slime & B, began its unprecedented command of the chart on the list dated Aug. 22, 2019. Since the closing weeks of summer, it only stepped aside for Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, for six weeks last September – October. (“No Guidance,” meanwhile, logged all 27 weeks consecutively, ensuring Brown claims that record, too.)

That stretch lies in a time where many major hits have extended shelf lives at radio, amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced shifts in radio and artist habits to some benefit for songs such as “Go Crazy.” Budgets for radio stations' audience research have shrunk, according to industry sources, arming programmers with less measurable data and perhaps encouraging them to remain with proven hits instead of taking chances on newer unproven titles. Plus, a lack of many major releases by other A-list artists in the past year has reduced competition on airwaves for the highest tier of superstar acts.

Still, thanks to “No Guidance” and “Go Crazy,” Brown has embarked one of the radio format’s most successful campaigns in its nearly three-decade existence. In the 86 weeks since “Guidance” reached No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay in August 2019, Brown has led the list for 55 frames. On its own, that sum alone would make him the artist with the fourth-most career weeks in the top slot, behind Drake (161), Usher (68) and Alicia Keys (58), though Brown indeed has seven other champs to combine for a grand total of 96 weeks at No. 1.

Beyond its R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay triumphs, “Go Crazy” has also reinvigorated or established Brown in the highest rungs of other formats, too. The single became his second No. 1 on the Adult R&B Airplay chart in December 2020, after “No Guidance,” as he makes inroads to win over the adult-leaning sector of programmers and listeners in the R&B space. On Rhythmic Airplay, meanwhile, “Go Crazy,” perhaps surprisingly, clocked just one week at No. 1, but has maintained dizzying longevity: 41 weeks (and counting) in the top 10 – yet another record for the Brown – Young Thug collaboration.

Pop radio, though, has been the scene of a prominent reversal, as “Go Crazy” broke a pattern of moderate reception to 16 straight Brown singles in the past nine years. When the track rallied to No. 3 on Pop Airplay in February, it marked Brown’s first top 10 since “Don’t Wake Me Up” in 2012 and his best showing since “Forever” spent five weeks on top in 2008.

Flanked by heavy support from the pop, rhythmic and R&B/hip-hop sectors, “Go Crazy” also returned Brown to No. 1 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart for the first time since “Forever.” It also set a new personal best – its eight weeks passed “Run It!” and its seven frames for the most by any song of Brown’s career.

[𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤]

*sigh*

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

And to think before 2019 the top 3 consisted of the absolute classics "Adorn", "Boo'd Up", and "Be Without You"...

Why this man's disposable and utterly generic tunes keep breaking records is beyond me. He really was on his way out to obscurity before Lil Dicky revived his career thanks to that disgusting "Freaky Friday" song, and the continuous industry support didn't help matters at all. Gross.

[𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤]

“I’m Kendall Jenner I have a vagina” end my suffering

[lurker2]

Honestly, No Guidance ans Go Crazy are really good. Def 4/5s for me. Shame he of all people was the one that made them, otherwise I'd listen to them so much more.

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

Apr 8, 2021 0:14:35 GMT -5 lurker2 said:

Honestly, No Guidance ans Go Crazy are really good. Def 4/5s for me. Shame he of all people was the one that made them, otherwise I'd listen to them so much more.

"No Guidance" has a solid production, but the sleazy lyrics and attitude throughout do turn me off significantly (not helped by the artist attached, of course). And it goes on for way too long.

I will agree with you on "Go Crazy", though. There are some wonderful saxophone covers online that show just how great the melodies and production are. And I admit my bias took over here, because I'm sure if Ne-Yo was singing it instead, I wouldn't be calling it derivative at all. My bad.

[Enigma.]

But the thing is, we are ALLOWED to feel what we feel towards Chris Brown, after all he has done and her attitude towards people and women in general (dunno if he had been able to work for his behavior after the bipolar diagnosis though)

[thegreatdivine]

Apr 8, 2021 0:10:41 GMT -5 Lost In Musical Reverie said:

And to think before 2019 the top 3 consisted of the absolute classics "Adorn", "Boo'd Up", and "Be Without You"...

Why this man's disposable and utterly generic tunes keep breaking records is beyond me. He really was on his way out to obscurity before Lil Dicky revived his career thanks to that disgusting "Freaky Friday" song, and the continuous industry support didn't help matters at all. Gross.

He's definitely seen a commercial resurgence since 2018. He has scored at least 1 hit every year since then.

Freaky Friday (2018)
No Guidance (2019)
Go Crazy (2020)

It's still left to be seen if he'll score another hit this year but honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he does.

[ZERO]

Apr 8, 2021 4:42:21 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

It's still left to be seen if he'll score another hit this year but honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he does.

Well, that collab with H.E.R. will inevitably be a radio staple, so...

[thegreatdivine]

Apr 8, 2021 5:09:56 GMT -5 ZERO said:

Apr 8, 2021 4:42:21 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

It's still left to be seen if he'll score another hit this year but honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he does.

Well, that collab with H.E.R. will inevitably be a radio staple, so...

They have another song together after Come Together?

[ZERO]

Apr 8, 2021 5:24:49 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

They have another song together after Come Together?

Yeah, she recently announced it on her Instagram story, likely the follow-up to "Damage".

[phieaglesfan712]

No Guidance was really a big hit in the summer of 2019. Had there not been an Old Town Road, No Guidance would have probably been another Drake #1 debut. However, No Guidance also had the longevity that most other Drake songs didn't, evidenced by the fact that it spent 27 weeks at #1 on that chart, and was a factor long after the summer of 2019.

[gikem]

Apr 8, 2021 5:09:56 GMT -5 ZERO said:

Apr 8, 2021 4:42:21 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

It's still left to be seen if he'll score another hit this year but honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he does.

Well, that collab with H.E.R. will inevitably be a radio staple, so...

WHY???

I don’t want to see anyone as incredibly talented as H.E.R. work with trash like Chris Brown. I don’t care how well she performs on the song itself, she should not be making music with someone like him, who has a lengthy history of abusing women that is very public knowledge at this point.

It’s one thing when other men validate his awful behavior by working with him, but it’s another thing entirely when women do the same. They should really know better.

[ZERO]

Apr 8, 2021 6:57:17 GMT -5 gikem said:

WHY???

I don’t want to see anyone as incredibly talented as H.E.R. work with trash like Chris Brown. I don’t care how well she performs on the song itself, she should not be making music with someone like him, who has a lengthy history of abusing women that is very public knowledge at this point.

It’s one thing when other men validate his awful behavior by working with him, but it’s another thing entirely when women do the same. They should really know better.

Unfortunately, it runs rampant. The biggest women in R&B all have collabed with him (H.E.R., Jhené, Summer Walker, Tinashe...), so nowadays his fanbase has a plethora of strawmen to invalidate very valid crticisms made towards him (since he also has backing from people outside of the hip-hop/r&b scene). That's why he's been so succesful for that long.

They should know better.