Billboard Hot 100: 07/10/2021

[Groovy]

Jun 29, 2021 18:47:52 GMT -5 Abbaschand said:

Jun 29, 2021 18:19:29 GMT -5 Groovy said:

I thought Army was looking to dethrone Butter with Permission to Dance.

Don't get too happy. They might try to aim for a BTS 1-2.

Personally, I don’t care, it didn’t bother me that they were at 1.

[whales10268]

There needs to be a formula change or BTS is going to be more popular than the Beatles according to Billboard, this is getting ridiculous.

[rihannabiggestfan]

With pov hitting the 20s on Hot 100, it seems like Ritt Momney's Put Your Records On is once again the lowest-peaking Hot 100 hit to reach the top 3 on pop radio (at least Billboard Pop Radio). Ariana's may still be the lowest-peaking by a woman

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Jun 29, 2021 19:48:29 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

There needs to be a formula change or BTS is going to be more popular than the Beatles according to Billboard, this is getting ridiculous.

well, of course? "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) (BTS Remix)" and "Butter (Cooler Remix)" will be classics in 40 years, just like "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude" are now.

[Au$tin]

Jun 29, 2021 20:00:27 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Jun 29, 2021 19:48:29 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

There needs to be a formula change or BTS is going to be more popular than the Beatles according to Billboard, this is getting ridiculous.

well, of course? "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) (BTS Remix)" and "Butter (Cooler Remix)" will be classics in 40 years, just like "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude" are now.

Can't wait for when in 9 years some rock band also destined to be forever remembered cover "Butter (Cooler Remix)" and also score a forever remembered hit from it like Aerosmith did with "Come Together."

[rainygirl]

Jun 29, 2021 20:00:27 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Jun 29, 2021 19:48:29 GMT -5 whales10268 said:

There needs to be a formula change or BTS is going to be more popular than the Beatles according to Billboard, this is getting ridiculous.

well, of course? "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) (BTS Remix)" and "Butter (Cooler Remix)" will be classics in 40 years, just like "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude" are now.

😂😂😂😂 that is some high brow shade . Respect !

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

his 5th highest-charting song, which isn't bad, but still...

[wavey.]

Lol it does not have to debut at the top, it's okay for a rise to the top if it can.

[jthentic]

Jun 29, 2021 19:00:23 GMT -5 atg said:

Jun 29, 2021 15:59:17 GMT -5 Gary said:

Week 82 and on preview

Chart run of Radioactive week 82-87

33-37-39-42-48-49

Blinding Lights would probably go like this:

14-17-19-18-16-14-12-19-22-23-24

you wish... I'm pretty sure only drake's album can put it out of its misery 😂😂

[ontopofthis]

The fact that Blinding Lights is going to break the record with recurrent rules is impressive

[ontopofthis]

They really are going to have that song at number one all summer, aren’t they?

[lazer]

Never thought I'd say this but DRAKE PLEASE COME BACK!!

[dremolus - solarpunk]

[s9983]

props to Olivia, BTS and Blackpink for giving smart and quality concerts/performances in quarantine that will actually boost their song performances. This is definitely going to make big boosts for sour!

[atg]

Jun 29, 2021 21:56:11 GMT -5 wavey. said:

Lol it does not have to debut at the top, it's okay for a rise to the top if it can.

Bad Habits gives me a Leave The Door Open vibe where it wouldn’t debut at the top but head to #1 in a couple weeks from now (even though it would’ve if it weren’t for the top 3 being occupied by a certain Pulse regular favorite that week). I’d say let Butter (please) and G4U die down a little, and that would make songs like Bad Habits and Kiss Me More get more of a chance to hit #1.

[Gary]

From the Five Burning Questions article
A few things to point out from this - First the obvious and confirms one of this threads complaints

- Butter's run at #1 is at this point largely sales driven by the "Army"

However

- As radio is growing, they say this has a chance to be the song of the summer even if sales slip a but

It does not confirm the theory
- The same few people are buying 50 copies a week

Five Burning Questions: What Will Be the Song of the Summer?

By Billboard Staff
6/29/2021

Halfway through the calendar year and with Fourth of July just around the corner, the always much-anticipated Song of the Summer race is now officially underway.

Two weeks into Billboard's annual Songs of the Summer chart, and the leader remains BTS' "Butter" -- which has led the Billboard Hot 100 for each of the last five weeks -- followed by Olivia Rodrigo's "Good 4 U" and Dua Lipa's "Levitating" (featuring DaBaby), both of which have also finished just behind BTS for the past two Hot 100 listings.

Will "Butter" reign atop the chart for the whole season? And what songs could threaten its supremacy? Billboard staffers discuss these questions and more below.

BTS' 'Butter' No. 1 on Songs of the Summer Chart, Doja Cat's 'Kiss Me More' Hits Top 5

1. The Song of the Summer for the first two weeks of Billboard's official chart has been BTS' "Butter." How likely do you think it is to end the season on top as well?

Rania Aniftos: Very likely. BTS released the ultimate summer song right at the start of summer, so why fix a No. 1 spot that’s not broken? We saw a similar pattern last year with DaBaby’s “Rockstar,” which was also released just before the summer and dominated the chart the whole season. I see “Butter” having the same success.

Katie Atkinson: It's best not to bet against BTS, but I think "Butter" might have needed the full juice of its first five weeks to be on top by Labor Day. It may be BTS' biggest hit ever, but it feels like there's still room for another song to sneak into the top spot. Would I be surprised if it pulled it off though? Not really, so I'll give it a 75% chance.

Jason Lipshutz: I’d give it a 70 percent chance. As “Butter” spends its fifth week atop the Hot 100, the song also bumps up two spots to No. 12 on the Pop Airplay chart -- which means that, even if the latest BTS hit slips out of the top of the Hot 100 in the coming weeks, its growth at U.S. radio could help sustain its momentum and remain in the driver’s seat for Song of the Summer. There’s still a lot of time left on the clock, but “Butter” is entering this phase of the game with a sizable lead.

Heran Mamo: It has potential, especially given last year's leader: DaBaby and Roddy Ricch’s “Rockstar.” That smash led the Songs of the Summer tally for 13 out of its 15 tracking weeks while holding at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for seven weeks. “Butter” just churned out its fifth consecutive week on top of the all-genre tally, so it just might stick to No. 1 on the summery summary, as Billboard’s Gary Trust likes to say this time of year.

Andrew Unterberger: I'll say around a 65 percent chance, but it largely depends on how long the ARMY is willing to fight this battle. Though the streaming and radio presence of "Butter" is considerable, it's certainly the song's staggering weekly sales totals -- over 100k for each of its five weeks, at a time when songs regularly lead Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart with tallies in the 10k-20k range -- that have kept BTS at No. 1 the Hot 100. That's a testament to their fans' commitment to going out of pocket to ensure that their favs remain on top. Will they be able and willing to keep it up all summer? Underestimate them at your own peril.

[iamsorare]

[iamsorare]

[Groovy]

I guess the radio is just done with Peaches, it loses even bigger today and I wonder how long it'll stay in the top 10 with the bleeding like it is.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates 2021/06/30

1(=) Dua Lipa - Levitating (feat. DaBaby) 98.34(+0.24)
2(+1) Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Leave The Door Open 90.89(-0.16)
3(-1) Justin Bieber - Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & GIVĒON) 90.55(-2.61) -
4(=) Doja Cat - Kiss Me More (feat. SZA) 81.68(+0.99)
5(=) Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) 73.82(+0.95)
6(=) The Weeknd & Ariana Grande - Save Your Tears (Remix) 64.74(-0.10)
7(=) Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u 58.73(+1.53)
8(+2) Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu 54.15(+1.33)
9(-1) The Kid LAROI - WITHOUT YOU 54.06(-0.48)
10(-1) Ariana Grande - pov 53.55(-0.53)

23(+9) Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 35.98(+6.22)

25(+1) Jordan Davis - Almost Maybes 34.45(+0.96)

36(+4) Marshmello & Jonas Brothers - Leave Before You Love Me 27.64(+0.53)

51(+6) Young Stoner Life, Young Thug & Gunna - Ski 23.46(+0.96)

83(+1) Scotty McCreery - You Time 17.08(+0.59)

-(-) Doja Cat & The Weeknd - You Right 12.17(+2.09)

-(-) Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Sh*t 7.48(+0.63)

-(-) J Balvin & Khalid - Otra Noche Sin Ti 6.54(+0.53)

-(-) Wale - Angles (feat. Chris Brown) 6.11(+0.50)

-(-) Micro Tdh & Myke Towers - El Tren 2.11(+1.52) +

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Less than a week since its release and Bad Habits is almost Top 20 on overall. Abhorrent

[Clode]

Yeah "pov" has now officially hit it's peak, Not bad for a 3rd single from an A-List Pop Star. The fact that she still managed to go Top 3 in Pop Radio even with the song itself not performing that well in the other metrics is really just a testament to her star power. It really is just hard to believe that only 3 years ago before the release of the single "Thank U Next" that she had not yet gotten a number one on the Hot 100. I mean the week that she released that song really just took her mainstream career to a whole other level and I just couldn't be more proud of seeing just how far she has come since then.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Jun 30, 2021 9:24:57 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Less than a week since its release and Bad Habits is almost Top 20 on overall. Abhorrent

Major payola if you ask me! Then again, we'll should start seeing its "normal" behavior by Friday.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jun 30, 2021 9:24:57 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Less than a week since its release and Bad Habits is almost Top 20 on overall. Abhorrent

Why?

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Good 4 U back to #1 at Apple Music and WUSYANAME down to #3.

[Choco]

Jun 30, 2021 9:35:30 GMT -5 Clode said:

Yeah "pov" has now officially hit it's peak, Not bad for a 3rd single from an A-List Pop Star. The fact that she still managed to go Top 3 in Pop Radio even with the song itself not performing that well in the other metrics is really just a testament to her star power.

I mean aren't some people dragging Maroon 5 and Ed Sheeran for similarly radio fueled hits? "pov" did terrible on all other metrics in a way no recent M5 or Sheeran single has done.

I love Ari but it can't be "star power" for her and payola for the acts we don't like.

[nathanalbright]

This reminds me of a video I once saw....

[suzcruz7]

Well if you dislike Bad Habits you could always hope that a fast rise means a relatively fast fall. That's happened before. But it is Ed Sheeran lol.

Personally, the song elicits no emotional reaction out of me whatsoever so...eh.

[kimberly]

Jun 30, 2021 10:27:51 GMT -5 Choco said:

Jun 30, 2021 9:35:30 GMT -5 Clode said:

Yeah "pov" has now officially hit it's peak, Not bad for a 3rd single from an A-List Pop Star. The fact that she still managed to go Top 3 in Pop Radio even with the song itself not performing that well in the other metrics is really just a testament to her star power.

I mean aren't some people dragging Maroon 5 and Ed Sheeran for similarly radio fueled hits? "pov" did terrible on all other metrics in a way no recent M5 or Sheeran single has done.

I love Ari but it can't be "star power" for her and payola for the acts we don't like.

well, "pov" still made top 15 on streaming songs... unlike "Afterglow," which entirely missed the streaming Top 50, for example.

not to mention Ariana's previous 2 singles were #1 smashes and...

May 19, 2021 16:28:45 GMT -5 kimberly said:

New piece of information in this Billboard article:

Spangler credits John Ivey, president of contemporary hits radio programming strategy at iHeartMedia, for testing “POV” “much earlier than normal” in their internal callout research, before the song started being worked at pop radio. “The results were clear -- listeners were already familiar with the song and loved it,” Spangler says. “That helped drive the momentum for a quick ascent into the top 10.”

Interestingly, Zellner says that the three Positions singles have held on at pop radio more comfortably than the trio of smashes from Grande’s previous album, 2019’s Thank U, Next, even though songs like “Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings” logged more time at the top of the all-format Hot 100 chart (and the third single, “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” reached No. 2 on the Hot 100). “Those sort of came and went a lot faster [at radio],” says Zellner. “We saw a lot of burn much faster on those, but on ‘Positions’ and ’34+35,’ we’re not seeing nearly that burn. I think these songs are going to have a much greater shelf life, and be around a lot longer.”

proving once again that MediaBase Callout Research is just one of many tools available to radio PDs.

as for this...

Jun 30, 2021 10:00:54 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Jun 30, 2021 9:24:57 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Less than a week since its release and Bad Habits is almost Top 20 on overall. Abhorrent

Why?

it's showing "Look What You Made Me Do" & "Born This Way" kind of gains on radio (perhaps even better than those) without the support those two had from streaming/sales and the public discourse.

this is a lot of unjustified radio love, especially for an artist whose last single peaked at #19 on overall radio (and never made the Top 50 on streaming).

[phieaglesfan712]

Jun 30, 2021 9:35:30 GMT -5 Clode said:

Yeah "pov" has now officially hit it's peak, Not bad for a 3rd single from an A-List Pop Star. The fact that she still managed to go Top 3 in Pop Radio even with the song itself not performing that well in the other metrics is really just a testament to her star power. It really is just hard to believe that only 3 years ago before the release of the single "Thank U Next" that she had not yet gotten a number one on the Hot 100. I mean the week that she released that song really just took her mainstream career to a whole other level and I just couldn't be more proud of seeing just how far she has come since then.

I’m probably more amazed at despite how Ariana’s first 3 singles have come and gone, Levitating and Forever After All still continue to go strong.