Billboard Hot 100: 07/17/2021

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Jul 12, 2021 8:20:38 GMT -5 wavey. said:

Jul 10, 2021 16:40:52 GMT -5 Gary said:

The whole Butter vs Good 4 U thing

Hopefully the new music will shake the Top 10 up now.

Y'know if you're so annoyed by us, you could either:

1. Punish us/lock the thread for talking about the charts in a chart thread
2. Start convos about the 98 other songs on the charts you desperately want us to talk about
3. Just not go here

[Groovy]

[mms82]

Jul 12, 2021 12:03:22 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

My guess is Taylor Swift, but we did have Old Town Road as the longest running #1 hit a couple years ago. OTR is more country than any of TS's #1 hits.

Meant Taylor Swift and I'd agree that OTR is more country than We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, but Nashville and Billboard would disagree

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/news/9599515/bts-butter-number-one-seventh-week-hot-100/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

BTS' 'Butter' Leads Hot 100 for Seventh Week, Lil Nas X's 'Montero' Returns to Top Five
By Gary Trust
7/12/2021

"Montero" also becomes Lil Nas X's first Pop Airplay chart No. 1.

BTS' "Butter" rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a seventh week, encompassing its entire run on the ranking so far, dating to its debut at No. 1.

Plus, Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" returns to the Hot 100's top five, rising 8-5, after it led the list in its debut week in April. It also becomes his first No. 1 on the Pop Airplay radio chart.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated July 17) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (July 13) For all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

"Butter," released on HYBE/BigHit Music/Columbia Records, drew 29.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 6%) and 10.8 million U.S. streams (down 1%) and sold 108,800 (down 29%) in the week ending July 8, according to MRC Data. (See below for details regarding a change, effective this week, to the Hot 100's airplay tracking week.)

The track adds a seventh week atop the Digital Song Sales chart and climbs 23-21 on Radio Songs and 31-26 on Streaming Songs.

"Butter" concurrently enters the Pop Airplay top 10 (11-10), becoming BTS' second top 10 on the mainstream top 40 radio-based chart, after "Dynamite" hit No. 5 last December. BTS is the first all-South Korean act with multiple Pop Airplay top 10s. One other artist from South Korea has reached the Pop Airplay top 10: soloist PSY, whose "Gangnam Style" hit No. 10 in October 2012.

BTS is set to debut on next week's, July 24-dated Hot 100 with its newest single, "Permission to Dance," released Friday (July 9).

Olivia Rodrigo's "Good 4 U" holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, seven weeks after it opened at No. 1. It posts a seventh week atop Streaming Songs (27.6 million, down 9%); holds at No. 6 on Radio Songs, with 61.3 million impressions, up 15%, as it wins the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a sixth week; and falls 5-9 on Digital Song Sales (8,200, down 14%).

Dua Lipa's "Levitating," featuring DaBaby, rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2, as it tallies a third week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (79.7 million, down 2%), while

Doja Cat's "Kiss Me More," featuring SZA, dips to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 high.


Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" jumps 8-5 on the Hot 100, returning to the top five for the first time since the chart dated May 1, after it launched at No. 1 on the list dated April 10.

As it rises 5-4 on Radio Songs (65.5 million, up 7%), "Montero" hits No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart, becoming Lil Nas X's first leader on the ranking. He previously peaked as high as No. 3 on Pop Airplay with his breakthrough smash "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019; the song ruled the Hot 100 for a record 19 weeks.


Lil Nas X leads his fifth airplay chart. He previously topped (all in 2019): Rhythmic Airplay, with "Road" (three weeks) and "Panini" (one week); Dance/Mix Show Airplay and Rap Airplay, with "Road" (four weeks each); and Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, with "Road" (three weeks).

("Montero" makes its three-spot jump in a tightly contested part of the Hot 100, with the songs at Nos. 5 through 9 all close in chart points, and each down week-over-week; The track sports the smallest overall decrease, and greatest airplay gain, among them.)

Ed Sheeran's "Bad Habits" descends 5-6 in its second week on the Hot 100. It pushes 11-10 on Radio Songs (43.4 million), where it becomes his 10th top 10; at three weeks, it ties "I Don't Care," with Justin Bieber, in 2019, for Sheeran's fastest flight to the region.

"Leave the Door Open" by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, slips 6-7 on the Hot 100, after two nonconsecutive weeks on top. It adds a 13th week at No. 1 on Hot R&B Songs and an eighth frame atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, with both multi-metric charts employing the same methodology as the Hot 100.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Justin Bieber's former one-week leader "Peaches," featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, backtracks 7-8;

The Weeknd and Ariana Grande's "Save Your Tears" holds at No. 9, after two weeks at No. 1; and

Olivia Rodrigo's "Deja Vu" keeps at No. 10, after reaching No. 3.

Change to Hot 100's airplay tracking week: As of this week's, July 17-dated Hot 100, the airplay tracking week for the chart, as well as for other genre-based Billboard airplay-, sales- and streaming-based hybrid "Hot"-named surveys, shifts to a Friday through Thursday cycle (from Monday-Sunday) -- aligning the radio measurement week for the charts, and Radio Songs, with the Friday-Thursday period utilized for sales and streaming, this week reflecting July 2-8.

The Hot 100 and genre "Hot" charts will continue to be finalized each Monday, with the Hot 100's top 10 and other chart highlights still to be revealed each Monday afternoon (except for weeks affected by holidays) via the weekly top 10 recap story on billboard.com and social posts, while charts in full will continue to update on billboard.com each Tuesday morning.

The other "Hot" charts that use the Radio Songs data switching to a Friday-Thursday airplay tracking week are: Hot Country Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot R&B Songs, Hot Rap Songs, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Alternative Songs, Hot Hard Rock Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs.

(This change does not affect format-specific radio format charts, such as Pop Airplay, Country Airplay, Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Rock & Alternative Airplay and Latin Airplay, among others.)

Again, for all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated July 17), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (July 13).

[mms82]

Jul 12, 2021 12:17:44 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Honestly so impressed at Montero – I don't like the song and I thought it was going to be a one week #1 and collapse after his marketing tricks (super impressive marketing schemes) finished, but it has had super impressive legs. I think LNX is going to wind up sticking around as a hitmaker for a while, something not many people would've said in March 2019 lol

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

The real success story on the charts this week is the continuation of Montero and Levitating’s consistent dominance!

[Gary]

Notable rule change --- airplay tracking and sales/streaming tracking all shift to a Friday-Thursday for the Hot 100 --- but specific radio charts will still end on Sunday

So no more split tracking weeks 

[kalmanta]

Whew, 7 consecutive weeks at number one, what a smash.

[kindofbiased]

The Butter #1 conversation isn’t remotely interesting anymore, I’m MUCH more curious about its prospects going forward (specifically next week) now that the sales backing is primarily behind a different song

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Hmm, interesting to see how the new airplay rules will affect future releases

[thegreatdivine]

Weeks in the top 10.
27 Levitating
23 Save Your Tears
18 Leave the Door Open
16 Peaches
13 Kiss Me More
12 Montero (Call Me By Your Name)
8 good 4 u
8 deja vu
7 Butter
2 Bad Habits

[fridayteenage]

lowest streaming position while #1:

truth hurts #14 *lizzo (post album bomb, w/o it #8)
savage love #14 *bts (savage-metro album bomb, w/o it #8)
life goes on #14 *bts

girls like you #16 *m5

watermelon sugar #18 *1d
butter #18 *bts


girls like you #19 *m5 (wayne album bomb; w/o it #10)
butter #19 *bts (lil album bomb; w/o it #16)

butter #24 *bts (migos album bomb; w/o it #21)
butter #26 *bts
butter #31 *bts (tyler/doja album bombs; w/o them #22)

[Caviar]

Jul 12, 2021 12:32:16 GMT -5 Gary said:

Notable rule change --- airplay tracking and sales/streaming tracking all shift to a Friday-Thursday for the Hot 100 --- but specific radio charts will still end on Sunday

So no more split tracking weeks 

So basically the Radio Songs chart still ends on Sunday and genre airplay ends on Thursday?

[wavey.]

Jul 12, 2021 12:14:30 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Jul 12, 2021 8:20:38 GMT -5 wavey. said:

Hopefully the new music will shake the Top 10 up now.

Y'know if you're so annoyed by us, you could either:

1. Punish us/lock the thread for talking about the charts in a chart thread
2. Start convos about the 98 other songs on the charts you desperately want us to talk about
3. Just not go here

...I didn't say I was annoyed? I'm over all of that. No issue. All I said was that maybe the chart will be shaken up in the upcoming week.

[thegreatdivine]

Jul 12, 2021 12:32:16 GMT -5 Gary said:

Notable rule change --- airplay tracking and sales/streaming tracking all shift to a Friday-Thursday for the Hot 100 --- but specific radio charts will still end on Sunday

So no more split tracking weeks 

I guess the only significance of this change is that it stops songs that use radio deals from charting early (on either the Hot 100 or the bubbling under Hot 100).

[Clode]

Radio should have always been tracked from Friday - Thursday to align with Sales and Streaming. What was the whole point of making the tracking schedule for Airplay different compared to the other two Components? It really just never made any sense to me as to why they didn't always make the tracking schedule for Radio the same as the other 2 Components.

[GW]

Jul 12, 2021 12:45:30 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Jul 12, 2021 12:32:16 GMT -5 Gary said:

Notable rule change --- airplay tracking and sales/streaming tracking all shift to a Friday-Thursday for the Hot 100 --- but specific radio charts will still end on Sunday

So no more split tracking weeks 

So basically the Radio Songs chart still ends on Sunday and genre airplay ends on Thursday?

The opposite.  Genre charts remain unaffected, while Radio Songs is changing to Friday-Thursday for the Hot 100.

[phieaglesfan712]

Jul 12, 2021 12:32:16 GMT -5 Gary said:

Notable rule change --- airplay tracking and sales/streaming tracking all shift to a Friday-Thursday for the Hot 100 --- but specific radio charts will still end on Sunday

So no more split tracking weeks 

Yeah, there’s no more reason to wait until Monday to do the reveals anymore. We can do Friday reveals like the ARIA and UK charts.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Jul 12, 2021 12:41:17 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Hmm, interesting to see how the new airplay rules will affect future releases

I would think radio for the song's debut week will now reflect the full "payola" week effect. Also, we won't be getting Hot 100 debuts based on three days' of airplay.

[GW]

Jul 12, 2021 12:53:39 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Jul 12, 2021 12:32:16 GMT -5 Gary said:

Notable rule change --- airplay tracking and sales/streaming tracking all shift to a Friday-Thursday for the Hot 100 --- but specific radio charts will still end on Sunday

So no more split tracking weeks 

Yeah, there’s no more reason to wait until Monday to do the reveals anymore. We can do Friday reveals like the ARIA and UK charts.

Read the article. it specifically states there is no change to reveal/chart posting days.  Let it go.

[phieaglesfan712]

Jul 12, 2021 12:55:38 GMT -5 GW said:

Jul 12, 2021 12:53:39 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Yeah, there’s no more reason to wait until Monday to do the reveals anymore. We can do Friday reveals like the ARIA and UK charts.

Read the article. it specifically states there is no change to reveal/chart posting days.  Let it go.

I won’t let it go. It makes no sense to wait until Monday (or Tuesday) when you have all the data for a Friday-Thursday tracking week on Friday morning. Waiting 3-4 days to reveal that data is shady at best, and could breed corruption (see LTDO/Levitating fiasco).

[GW]

Jul 12, 2021 13:00:25 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Jul 12, 2021 12:55:38 GMT -5 GW said:

Read the article. it specifically states there is no change to reveal/chart posting days.  Let it go.

I won’t let it go. It makes no sense to wait until Monday (or Tuesday) when you have all the data for a Friday-Thursday tracking week on Friday morning. Waiting 3-4 days to reveal that data is shady at best, and could breed corruption (see LTDO/Levitating fiasco).

They obviously have their reasons, most likely business reasons, and you carrying on about it (as if it affects your life personally) isn't going to change that.  Act 33, not 13, and you'll be ok.

[jebsib]

On the other hand, it allows a day or two to audit everything during a complex week, as opposed to releasing hurried, possibly inaccurate data.
Perhaps the LTDO / Levitating issue would never have happened had they had a weekend to figure it all out.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Then again, Billboard wouldn't have time to do their "famous" audits. Given that their charts will continue to be dated two Saturdays after the aligned tracking week, as long as they release them before the actual publish date, I don't see anything wrong with that.

[GW]

Jul 12, 2021 13:06:13 GMT -5 jebsib said:

On the other hand, it allows a day or two to audit everything during a complex week, as opposed to releasing hurried, possibly inaccurate data.
Perhaps the LTDO / Levitating issue would never have happened had they had a weekend to figure it all out.

Exactly.  And also how Fridays in America are not ideal for business news/reveals, they're known for shady political dumps.  

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Another thing that doesn't quite line up, although it has become less and less relevant in the last few weeks is YouTube. Their charts get refreshed on Saturday afternoon/evening and probably do undergo a fair amount of auditing.

[nathanalbright]

Shady political dumps and shady music dumps do sort of belong together though, no?

[phieaglesfan712]

I can live with having one day to audit, and a Saturday reveal. But 3-4 days is completely unnecessary. ARIA and UK release charts on Fridays, and they never have the problems we do with the Hot 100.

[Gary]

I read the rule change as all Hot 100 data is locked in as of Thursday and they are giving themselves 3 days to compile the Hot 100 and other Hot ___ charts and still reveal on Monday

So the Hot 100 chart dated 7/17 is for the week ending July 8

[lazer]

Decent change but wake me up when they get rid of website sales entirely.