American Top 40 (Hot AC) - May 1, 2021

[upland1425]

AMERICAN TOP 40 with RYAN SEACREST (Hot AC) - May 1, 2021

LW TW (WKS) Artist - Title (Peak so far / Year for extra)
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39 40 (81) Post Malone - Circles (1-3 wks)
-> 39 (01) Nelly & Florida-Georgia Line - Lit Bit (39)
Extra: Dua Lipa - Break My Heart (2020) *
37 38 (29) Surf Mesa feat. Emilee - ily (i love you baby) (7)

35 37 (36) Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo - Savage Love (1-2 wks)
36 36 (09) Forest Blakk - If You Love Her (29)
Extra: Sia - Cheap Thrills (2016)
33 35 (66) Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go (1-4 wks)
38 34 (02) Elle King & Miranda Lambert - Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)(34)

34 33 (07) Sam Fischer & Demi Lovato - What Other People Say (33)
30 32 (45) Gabby Barrett feat. Charlie Puth - I Hope (1-2 wks)
31 31 (10) JP Saxe feat. Maren Morris - Line By Line (31)
On The Verge: Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caeser & Giveon - Peaches
Optional Extra: Maroon 5 - Girls Like You (2018)

32 30 (03) Glass Animals - Heat Waves (30)
28 29 (09) Brynn Elliott - Tell Me I'm Pretty (26)
Extra: Taylor Swift - Blank Space (2015)
27 28 (24) Ariana Grande - positions (9)
On The Verge: Bebe Rexha - Sacrifice

29 27 (03) Imagine Dragons - Follow You (27)
21 26 (26) Justin Bieber & benny blanco - Lonely (8)
Extra: Portugal.The Man - Feel It Still (2017) *
26 25 (04) The Kid LAROI - Without You (25)

23 24 (09) Passenger - Sword From The Stone (21)
24 23 (08) Machine Gun Kelly feat. Blackbear - my ex's best friend (23)
Extra: lovelytheband - broken (2018)
25 22 (05) Duncan Laurence - Arcade (22)
22 21 (06) AJR - Way Less Sad (21)
Optional Extra: Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita (2019)

18 20 (12) All Time Low feat. Blackbear - Monsters (17)
14 19 (32) BANNERS - Someone To You (13)
17 18 (30) Justin Bieber - Holy (1-1 wk)
20 17 (08) Dua Lipa - We're Good (17)

15 16 (24) Harry Styles - Golden (10)
Extra: Demi Lovato feat. Ariana Grande - Met Him Last Night (2021)
19 15 (13) Justin Bieber - Anyone (15)
16 14 (10) Ava Max - My Head & My Heart (14)

11 13 (48) AJR - Bang! (1-1 wk)
12 12 (06) Bruno Mars & Anderson.Paak presents Silk Sonic - Leave The Door Open (12)
Breakout: Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu
Extra: Adele - Hello (2015)
13 11 (13) Tate McRae - you broke me first (11)
Optional Extra: Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2018)

10 10 (06) Maroon 5 - Beautiful Mistakes (10)
Extra: Ellie Goulding - Burn (2014) *
09 09 (13) Ritt Momney - Put Your Records On (9)
08 08 (33) Ava Max - Kings & Queens (1-9 wks)
Breakout: Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean

06 07 (25) Dua Lipa - Levitating (3)
04 06 (63) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (1-20 wks)

07 05 (21) Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am (5)
05 04 (14) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears (4)
03 03 (26) 24kGoldn feat. iann dior - Mood (1-4 wks)
Optional Extra: Justin Timberlake - Mirrors (2013)

02 02 (17) Taylor Swift - willow (2)
01 01 (12) Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license ** 5 weeks at #1 **



DROPPER:
Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (from #40, after 46 weeks, Peak: #1-1 week)

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[upland1425]

This week's extras are:

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors (2013)
Ellie Goulding - Burn (2014) *
Taylor Swift - Blank Space (2015)
Adele - Hello (2015)
Sia - Cheap Thrills (2016)
Portugal.The Man - Feel It Still (2017) *
Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2018)
Maroon 5 - Girls Like You (2018)
lovelytheband - broken (2018)
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita (2019)
Dua Lipa - Break My Heart (2020) *
Demi Lovato feat. Ariana Grande - Met Him Last Night (2021)

* includes Covid-19 quarantine message.

My favorite extras are: "Girls Like You", "Perfect", "Cheap Thrills", and "Blank Space".

[upland1425]

4 duets in a row!

38 34 (02) Elle King & Miranda Lambert - Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) (34)
34 33 (07) Sam Fischer & Demi Lovato - What Other People Say (33)
30 32 (45) Gabby Barrett feat. Charlie Puth - I Hope (1-2 wks)
31 31 (10) JP Saxe feat. Maren Morris - Line By Line (31)

[Fire]

May 1, 2021 8:59:51 GMT -5 upland1425 said:

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors (2013)
Ellie Goulding - Burn (2014) *
Taylor Swift - Blank Space (2015)
Adele - Hello (2015)
Portugal.The Man - Feel It Still (2017) *
Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2018)
Maroon 5 - Girls Like You (2018)
lovelytheband - broken (2018)
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita (2019)
Dua Lipa - Break My Heart (2020) *

solid set of extras tbh, these are the ones i like. my favorite this week is really easy tbh, it goes to burn, one of my top 10 favorite songs ever, i love it so much

[Fire]

this may be the fastest i've put the summary together in recent memory lmao

This week we say goodbye to "Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles. It spent 1 week at #1 and 46 weeks on the chart.

Nelly and Florida-Georgia Line have this week's only debut with "Lil Bit" at #39.

Two songs tie for our fastest rise, both up 4 spots. Justin Bieber's "Anyone" climbs up to #15 and Elle King and Miranda Lambert's "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" continues up to #34.

Similarly, we have a tie for our biggest fall this week, both songs down 5 spots. "Lonely" by Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco at #26 and "Someone To You" by BANNERS at #19.

Our top 3 remains the same as last week with "drivers license" by Olivia Rodrigo holding #1 for a 5th week!!

[Fire]

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{AT40 HAC 2020 Records}

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{Biggest Fall from the countdown}Biggest fall from countdown: #17
Ed Sheeran - "Afterglow" on Mar 27
Previous: #20
Fitz - "Head Up High" on Mar 27
All-time: #12 - "Someone New" by Hozier in 2016

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{Biggest Fall inside 40}Biggest fall inside 40: 20 notches
16 to 36 Shawn Mendes - "Wonder" on Jan 9
Previous: 19 notches
19 to 38 Sam Smith - "Diamonds" on Mar 6
All-time: 26 notches - "The Man" by Taylor Swift fell from 13 to 39 in 2020

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{Highest Debut}Highest Debut: #15
Ed Sheeran - "Afterglow" on Jan 16
Previous: #19
Maroon 5/Megan Thee Stallion - "Beautiful Mistakes" on Mar 27
All-time: #10 - "Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift on September 16, 2017

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{Most Debuts}Most Debuts: 5
Week of Jan 9
Previous: 3
Week of Feb 6 / Feb 13 / Feb 20 / Mar 13 / Mar 27

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{Fastest Riser}Fastest Riser: 12 notches
39 to 27 Fitz - "Head Up High" on Jan 9
Previous: 10 notches
39 to 29 Machine Gun Kelly/blackbear - "my ex's best friend" on Apr 10 and 34 to 24 AJR - "Way Less Sad" on Apr 10
All-time: 27 notches - "How Far We've Come" by Matchbox Twenty jumped 35 to 8 on August 18, 2007

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{Biggest Leap to #1}Biggest Leap to #1: 2 notches
3 to 1 24kGoldn/iann dior - "Mood" on Feb 27
Previous: 1 notch
2 to 1 Justin Bieber/Chance The Rapper - "Holy" on Feb 13, Ava Max - "Kings & Queens" on Feb 20, AJR - "BANG!" on Mar 13, 24kGoldn/iann dior - "Mood" on Mar 20, and Olivia Rodrigo - "drivers license" on Apr 3
All-time: 6 notches - "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift leaped from #7 to #1 in 2015

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{Most weeks on the chart}Most weeks on the chart: 81 weeks
Post Malone - "Circles"
Previous: 79 weeks
Maren Morris - "The Bones"
All-time: 117 weeks - "Use Somebody" by Kings Of Leon in 2011

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{Most weeks at #1}Most weeks at #1: 9 weeks
Ava Max - "Kings & Queens"
Previous: 5 weeks
Olivia Rodrigo - "drivers license"
All-time: 20 weeks - The Weeknd - "Blinding Lights" in 2020

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{Longest climb to #1}Longest climb to #1: 41 weeks
AJR - "BANG!"
Previous: 19 weeks
Justin Bieber/Chance The Rapper - "Holy"
All-time: 41 weeks - "The Bones" by Maren Morris in 2020 and "BANG!" by AJR in 2021

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

The charts of the last few weeks have been, uh, slow. Four weeks in a row with just one debut, or something like that....

EDIT: Ok, so the 4/17 chart had two debuts. But all the other April charts had just one. That makes six in five weeks.

When was the last five week period with so few debuts? I realize this is Hot AC, and so I shouldn't expect much movement in general. But good gosh, this year has been glacier-like.

Mediabase data backs this up - we're averaging 2.18 debuts per week so far in 2021. The last full year to be below that was 2008, with 2.12. By the way, the most was 2017, with 2.69 per week.

By comparison, CHR is averaging 2.53 (which would be a record low for that format, just behind the 2.54 for 1998), Alternative 3.00 (the most since 1991, when I only measured 20 spots!), and AAA 3.12 (the most since I started tracking this format in 2009).

Conclusion: AAA and Alt have suddenly become more robust, while the opposite has happened with CHR and HAC.

[musiciscool]

My favorite extras this week are: Burn, Blank Space, Feel It Still, Broken, and Break My Heart.

[johnnywest]

I like Hello

[upland1425]

May 1, 2021 12:40:52 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

The charts of the last few weeks have been, uh, slow. Four weeks in a row with just one debut, or something like that....

EDIT: Ok, so the 4/17 chart had two debuts. But all the other April charts had just one. That makes six in five weeks.

When was the last five week period with so few debuts? I realize this is Hot AC, and so I shouldn't expect much movement in general. But good gosh, this year has been glacier-like.

Mediabase data backs this up - we're averaging 2.18 debuts per week so far in 2021. The last full year to be below that was 2008, with 2.12. By the way, the most was 2017, with 2.69 per week.

By comparison, CHR is averaging 2.53 (which would be a record low for that format, just behind the 2.54 for 1998), Alternative 3.00 (the most since 1991, when I only measured 20 spots!), and AAA 3.12 (the most since I started tracking this format in 2009).

Conclusion: AAA and Alt have suddenly become more robust, while the opposite has happened with CHR and HAC.

As AT40 does not apply Mediabase's Recurrent rule (Songs below No. 10 are removed from the chart after 20 weeks provided they have peaked in the Top 10. If a song has not peaked in the Top 10, it must be down in spins for two consecutive weeks and have been on the chart over 20 weeks), number of debuts will eventually be less than Mediabase Published Chart.

Due to Covid outbreak, many artists cancelled or postponed the live tour, and eventually did not release new album, which also reduced release of singles.
As more and more artists now plan to release of new albums, we may have more singles to be offered to the radio stations. Tight chart or traffic jam of many moving-up songs may also slow down the chart movement, though. Let's see what will happen.

As many artists have been concentrating on writing songs, we will expect to have many good songs debuting the chart.

[Fire]

looking at how someone to you got 32 weeks on this week with only a #13 peak i'm now wondering what the most weeks on the chart for a song that peaked below #10 is

i know khalid and normani's love lies got 32 weeks in 2019 with only a #17 peak but nothing really rings a bell beyond that.

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

May 2, 2021 0:07:25 GMT -5 upland1425 said:

May 1, 2021 12:40:52 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

The charts of the last few weeks have been, uh, slow. Four weeks in a row with just one debut, or something like that....

EDIT: Ok, so the 4/17 chart had two debuts. But all the other April charts had just one. That makes six in five weeks.

When was the last five week period with so few debuts? I realize this is Hot AC, and so I shouldn't expect much movement in general. But good gosh, this year has been glacier-like.

Mediabase data backs this up - we're averaging 2.18 debuts per week so far in 2021. The last full year to be below that was 2008, with 2.12. By the way, the most was 2017, with 2.69 per week.

By comparison, CHR is averaging 2.53 (which would be a record low for that format, just behind the 2.54 for 1998), Alternative 3.00 (the most since 1991, when I only measured 20 spots!), and AAA 3.12 (the most since I started tracking this format in 2009).

Conclusion: AAA and Alt have suddenly become more robust, while the opposite has happened with CHR and HAC.

As AT40 does not apply Mediabase's Recurrent rule (Songs below No. 10 are removed from the chart after 20 weeks provided they have peaked in the Top 10. If a song has not peaked in the Top 10, it must be down in spins for two consecutive weeks and have been on the chart over 20 weeks), number of debuts will eventually be less than Mediabase Published Chart.

Due to Covid outbreak, many artists cancelled or postponed the live tour, and eventually did not release new album, which also reduced release of singles.
As more and more artists now plan to release of new albums, we may have more singles to be offered to the radio stations. Tight chart or traffic jam of many moving-up songs may also slow down the chart movement, though. Let's see what will happen.

As many artists have been concentrating on writing songs, we will expect to have many good songs debuting the chart.

Fair enough, although I am curious as to why the AAA and Alt charts are actually moving faster.