Billboard Hot 100: 06/19/2021

[Gary]

Essentially the biggest album of the early part of the year and even now still in the top 5. People like the music

[Choco]

Let's be real a big percentage of country singers probably use or used the n-word. Wallen is just stupid enough to get it on video.

Some people like Chris Brown have done far worse (not just the Rihanna case, this is legitimately a terrible human being still getting consistent support from the industry); I also think that 2020/2021 is a horrible time and I ain't gonna judge people that find joy on Wallen's music because we all need some joy in our lives right now.

Do I support the guy? No. But he was clearly reasonating in a big way even prior to that video and radio programmers probably get requests for his material constantly.

[phieaglesfan712]

Fortunately, Polo G is going to release a 20-track album next week, so Wasted On You is going to be pushed off the Hot 100, and could be left off the chart until it enters the Top 50. Precedence was set by Polo G's "Martin & Gina":

Lost In Musical Reverie said:

Speaking of flaws in Billboard's recurrent rules, it still baffles me that Polo G's "Martin & Gina" left the charts at 19 weeks but never returned despite a consistent streaming presence.



Worse, it actually debuted at #25 on the Recurrent Charts recently for some reason.

Gary said:

It fell off from #94 in December and returned to recurrent charts in May (5 month gap)



It only reappeared at streaming at #49 the week it debited on recurrent, no chart weeks on streaming for 6 months prior to May

[Mayman]

I think that tweet is a little overblown. No major radio companies are re-adding any of Morgan Wallen's music. It's the smaller stations, which have a negligible impact on anything chart-wise, that might be putting on some of his songs. I'm not sure why people are saying that this could lead to his songs, like Wasted On You, to move up/return to the Hot 100. This won't do anything at all. If any of his songs are on the Hot 100, it's due to streaming, not a handful of audience impressions.

[oliviafan101]

Jun 5, 2021 12:42:30 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Ah shit, here we go again

Fuck all racists and fuck racism

[whales10268]

People need to get over Morgan Wallen. His life and career don’t need to be destroyed over a mistake. There’s clearly no forgiveness from the woke outrage cancel culture mob.

[whales10268]

His music is great and I’ve listened to Dangerous many times.

[violentdreams]

I'm surprised it took this long for them to go back to playing him tbh. They clearly only pulled his music out of fear that a mass consumer revolt was gonna happen if they didn't, but barely any of his fans cared and most of them continued streaming him like nothing happened. It was a misguided attempt to mitigate controversy that never really materialized outside of Twitter and specific spheres of the internet like this one.

[Groovy]

When you do something over and over again it’s hardly a mistake.

[whales10268]

Jun 5, 2021 16:11:10 GMT -5 Groovy said:

When you do something over and over again it’s hardly a mistake.

He hasn’t done it over and over again as far as we know. You can assume he’s said it before this instance but you can’t hold someone accountable for life to something that hasn’t been proven. He didn’t even use the word in a racial context for Pete’s sake.

[Groovy]

Jun 5, 2021 16:15:13 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

Jun 5, 2021 16:11:10 GMT -5 Groovy said:

When you do something over and over again it’s hardly a mistake.

He hasn’t done it over and over again as far as we know. You can assume he’s said it before this instance but you can’t hold someone accountable for life to something that hasn’t been proven. He didn’t even use the word in a racial context for Pete’s sake.

I’m talking about the alcohol and the partying which has gotten in him in trouble multiple times.

[whales10268]

Jun 5, 2021 16:18:18 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Jun 5, 2021 16:15:13 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

He hasn’t done it over and over again as far as we know. You can assume he’s said it before this instance but you can’t hold someone accountable for life to something that hasn’t been proven. He didn’t even use the word in a racial context for Pete’s sake.

I’m talking about the alcohol and the partying which has gotten in him in trouble multiple times.

Well we’ll see if he messes up again and proves you right.

The people upset about Wallen were never in the country music listening demo anyway. Once radio stations are done virtue signaling he’ll be number 1 on country radio again.

[phieaglesfan712]

Jun 5, 2021 16:20:00 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

Jun 5, 2021 16:18:18 GMT -5 Groovy said:

I’m talking about the alcohol and the partying which has gotten in him in trouble multiple times.

Well we’ll see if he messes up again and proves you right.

The people upset about Wallen were never in the country music listening demo anyway. Once radio stations are done virtue signaling he’ll be number 1 on country radio again.

I agree. I'm not a fan of Morgan Wallen, but if scumbags like Chris Brown and Justin Bieber can continue to get chance after chance, then Morgan deserves at least one chance to redeem himself.

[ZERO]

Jun 5, 2021 15:45:12 GMT -5 Mayman said:

I think that tweet is a little overblown. No major radio companies are re-adding any of Morgan Wallen's music. It's the smaller stations, which have a negligible impact on anything chart-wise, that might be putting on some of his songs. I'm not sure why people are saying that this could lead to his songs, like Wasted On You, to move up/return to the Hot 100. This won't do anything at all. If any of his songs are on the Hot 100, it's due to streaming, not a handful of audience impressions.

EXACTLY!
It's not even newer/current songs that are being played (they got 0 adds), only More Than My Hometown and Chasin' You are back on Mediabase (recurrents)... so I frankly have no clue what this tweet is sourcing, even moreso when you add the fact that Big Loud hasn't announced his return to label's activity - so why would they work a radio single???

Plus, it's VERY obvious that the industry still doesn't like him - and I'm not talking about the artists themselves. He didn't appear on the ACMs or the BBMAs for a REASON...

He still has ways to go before reinstating a clean profile to many, many people - and that is on him and him only to do

[atg]

Jun 5, 2021 12:50:07 GMT -5 Lost In Musical Reverie said:

Jun 5, 2021 12:42:30 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Why...

I mean, it was bound to happen eventually, but I was hoping the GP would have forgotten about him by then, effectively ruining his momentum.

But if the album's performance on the Billboard 200 has been any indication, his demographic simply doesn't care. 😔

Should we really treat him like he’s another CB or 69 though? He’s only done his crime verbally and while that is no excuse to start treating him like nothing ever happened, I don’t think his punishment should be as big and he was bound to come back anyways when enough of the GP has moved on from it. It’s not like he has a public case or any charges to his name so bouncing back is completely doable. I’m not defending his actions, just stating my opinion.

[fridayteenage]

Jun 5, 2021 16:25:30 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Jun 5, 2021 16:20:00 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

Well we’ll see if he messes up again and proves you right.

The people upset about Wallen were never in the country music listening demo anyway. Once radio stations are done virtue signaling he’ll be number 1 on country radio again.

I agree. I'm not a fan of Morgan Wallen, but if scumbags like Chris Brown and Justin Bieber can continue to get chance after chance, then Morgan deserves at least one chance to redeem himself.

amp.tmz.com/2021/05/22/morgan-wallen-performing-again-no-meeting-naacp-nashville/

Hmm.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Jun 5, 2021 16:06:22 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

People need to get over Morgan Wallen. His life and career don’t need to be destroyed over a mistake. There’s clearly no forgiveness from the woke outrage cancel culture mob.

This isn't a "little mistake". If someone less famous and with less power than Morgan did the same thing, they'd be fired on the spot because there should be no tolerance for explicit racism.

That said, forgiveness needs to be earned. I'm all in favor of someone truly changing and reforming but 6 months of being blackballed are just the consequences of his actions. If he's really changed, then he has earnestly and sincerely show it.

[nathanalbright]

Jun 5, 2021 12:52:34 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Jun 5, 2021 12:50:07 GMT -5 Lost In Musical Reverie said:

Why...

I mean, it was bound to happen eventually, but I was hoping the GP would have forgotten about him by then, effectively ruining his momentum.

But if the album's performance on the Billboard 200 has been any indication, his demographic simply doesn't care. 😔

Nashville that is why, not surprised at all.

I remember mentioning this a couple of weeks ago that I figured this was going to happen when WOY appeared back on the Hot 100, but sometimes it's not enjoyable to be right about this sort of thing.

[tanooki]

Jun 5, 2021 16:06:22 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

There’s clearly no forgiveness from the woke outrage cancel culture mob.

shut the fuck up

[phieaglesfan712]

Jun 5, 2021 22:08:44 GMT -5 nathanalbright said:

Jun 5, 2021 12:52:34 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Nashville that is why, not surprised at all.

I remember mentioning this a couple of weeks ago that I figured this was going to happen when WOY appeared back on the Hot 100, but sometimes it's not enjoyable to be right about this sort of thing.

Don't worry, you can stream Polo G's 20-track album next week to make sure WOY drops off the Hot 100 for good (if Lil Baby & Lil Durk's tracks don't do the trick already).

[jthentic]

Big Tommy's new garbage is projected to do 27k sales, he's regurgitating da same song with same bs for da 1000000th time (with title change tho💀), wtf is wrong with ppl?

[Darkest Hour]

Jun 5, 2021 15:45:12 GMT -5 Mayman said:

No major radio companies are re-adding any of Morgan Wallen's music. It's the smaller stations, which have a negligible impact on anything chart-wise, that might be putting on some of his songs.

If you are using stricter sense of "adds" (as in adds the songs in rotation rather than isolated plays), then it is true. However, the stations that are playing Morgan Wallen's music right now are owned by major radio companies. I quote the following information from latest Country Aircheck issue.

As reported last week, airplay for Big Loud’s Morgan Wallen resumed on several iHeartMedia stations during the prior week. Over the past week, Mediabase data indicates airplay for Wallen has similarly resumed on many Cumulus stations. KATC/Colorado Springs, KRST/Albuquerque, KSCS/Dallas, WDRQ/Detroit, WGKX/Memphis and WKHX/Atlanta all went from zero to double-digit spins over the past week. Additionally, airplay has resumed on Alpha’s KUPL/Portland, Hall’s WCTK/Providence and Stephen’s KDRK/Spokane. There are also now spins on several iHeart stations that hadn’t already re-added titles during the previous week. This leaves Audacy as the only major group where Wallen spins remain absent.

It's the sign that his music will be played to more and more people in the coming weeks that some are worried.

[notgoodenglish]

Jun 5, 2021 12:09:56 GMT -5 iggyamo said:

I’m hoping Todo De Ti can push into the top ten of Spotify at the very least, I mean we haven’t had a throwback Spanish song be a hit yet.

Im so happily surprised that Todo De Ti its doing so well, not just here in latinoamerica that is huge, but in United States :O  Its not a typical reggaeton song, no no no, its not a reggaeton song at all.  but Rauw Alejandro is a reggaeton artist, he made a retro back song a la blinding lights/save your tears with this. its soooo gooood.

He doing that numbers and now with Bad Bunny smashing as usual in US Spotify /worldwide with his new song. So Happy with my latam artists killing it !! 

[Enigma.]

The old Morgan Wallen songs are not an issue. They won't do anything on Hot 100. However, when his next new track is released, it'll cross over to pop effortlessly and no one will remember the scandal.

[iamsorare]

Jun 6, 2021 3:41:14 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

The old Morgan Wallen songs are not an issue. They won't do anything on Hot 100. However, when his next new track is released, it'll cross over to pop effortlessly and no one will remember the scandal.

no one remembers camila's scandal too so yeah that's how it works for some people

[iamsorare]

I wonder if peaches can return back in top 3 of hot 100 with the upcoming remix

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

Jun 6, 2021 4:03:43 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

Jun 6, 2021 3:41:14 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

The old Morgan Wallen songs are not an issue. They won't do anything on Hot 100. However, when his next new track is released, it'll cross over to pop effortlessly and no one will remember the scandal.

no one remembers camila's scandal too so yeah that's how it works for some people

Camila is a different story since her demographic is different to that from Wallen, and if this community is any indication (+ popheads and ATRL), her racist posts have been strongly associated with her name since "Romance" 's release. It's also worth mentioning that she didn't just sing the n-word during a song like Dua Lipa did, but shared several posts featuring vile mockery and racist jokes, made worse by the fact she went on to join a girl group alongside Normani - who had to deal with racist attacks from Camila fans.

Of course, we'll only get a proper verdict once she releases a new song, but I just wanted to share my opinion on why the two cases cannot quite be compared.

(Disclaimer: it is not my place to comment on the situation or whether or not she can be forgiven, but I do want to highlight she probably grew up surrounded by friends and family who might have used such language and normalized racist jokes, and despite never considering myself much of a fan, I do hope she's working on unlearning past bigotry and improving herself as a person. Unlike 27-year-old Wallen, Camila was allegedly only 15-16 when she shared these posts, when one's brain is still being molded and developed by the world around them. But forgiveness, if any, needs to be earned, and I totally understand why some people might have their perception of her eternally tainted.)

Jun 6, 2021 4:04:28 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

I wonder if peaches can return back in top 3 of hot 100 with the upcoming remix

The remix has really piqued my interest, and I'd give anything to see Usher smashing on the charts again. Him and Katy really had to be stuck at 9 #1 hits. 

[Enigma.]

Roddy Ricch outlasting Lil Baby and Lil Durk on Spotify it seems, surprising! Roddy is #23, Hats Off #27 as the highest Baby/Durk track. Bad Bunny still #3!

Good 4 U is up to #4 on AM.

[jenglisbe]

Jun 5, 2021 21:56:36 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Jun 5, 2021 16:06:22 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

People need to get over Morgan Wallen. His life and career don’t need to be destroyed over a mistake. There’s clearly no forgiveness from the woke outrage cancel culture mob.

This isn't a "little mistake". If someone less famous and with less power than Morgan did the same thing, they'd be fired on the spot because there should be no tolerance for explicit racism.

That said, forgiveness needs to be earned. I'm all in favor of someone truly changing and reforming but 6 months of being blackballed are just the consequences of his actions. If he's really changed, then he has earnestly and sincerely show it.

I agree, but the issue is he hasn't actually shown he's made a real effort to grow/learn. fridayteenage points out he never even met with the NAACP as promised. whales10268 what has Wallen done to show he understands what he did was wrong and that he is going to be anti-racist moving forward?

[iamsorare]

Jun 6, 2021 6:38:13 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Roddy Ricch outlasting Lil Baby and Lil Durk on Spotify it seems, surprising! Roddy is #23, Hats Off #27 as the highest Baby/Durk track. Bad Bunny still #3!

Good 4 U is up to #4 on AM.

thank god lil baby and lil durk won't have a huge album bomb on hot 100..Polo G is coming next week ..he didn't have huge success on the charts before RAPSTAR so I don't know what he will do now...