Billboard Hot 100: 08/28/2021

[Choco]

Lizzo will probably do similarly to "Wild Side" on it's first week I think.

[nathanalbright]

I guess you're saying the question will be whether it has staying power?

[85la]

Will the Dua/Elton song be sent to radio? Literally the stupidest thing they can do now, when she already has two other singles being pushed (Love Again and Demeanor with Pop Smoke), neither of which are taking off very strongly, so a third effort will just sabotage all of them.

[Choco]

Aug 13, 2021 12:36:32 GMT -5 85la said:

Will the Dua/Elton song be sent to radio? Literally the stupidest thing they can do now, when she already has two other singles being pushed (Love Again and Demeanor with Pop Smoke), neither of which are taking off very strongly, so a third effort will just sabotage all of them.

"Demeanor" is a lost cause at this point.

"Love Again" is doing alright on radio considering how the other metrics are faring.

I don't expect the Elton song to gain much traction regardless though. The general public seems content streaming "Levitating" again.

[atg]

I feel like Take My Breath is going to be another Bad Habits, which proves further that just because you’re a big name with a legendary smash era prior to now, that doesn’t mean you’ll automatically hit #1. I still think Abel will try more tricks to get it to the top, but it could just become another Earned It or Call Out My Name and it would be just fine without the #1 peak overall.

[jthentic]

US Apple Music

#18 (NEW) Lizzo & Cardi B - Rumors

#38 (+874) Machine Gun Kelly - papercuts

#78 (NEW) Wizkid - Essence (feat. Justin Bieber & Tems)

[Caviar]

Lizzo is killing it.

[ontopofthis]

I had no idea that Love Again is a top twenty on pop and has a video. How are you that high on airplay and on top playlists but nowhere to be seen on streaming charts?

[kcdawg13]

I think Lizzo will debut Top 5, but I don't think it will be enough to top good 4 u or Stay

[rainygirl]

Aug 13, 2021 17:37:02 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

I think Lizzo will debut Top 5, but I don't think it will be enough to top good 4 u or Stay

I agree . I don’t get the sense it will have a massive debut

[ontopofthis]

I am surprised that Lizzo is already so high on Apple Music

[kindofbiased]

I don't have any confidence in where Lizzo will debut but if this does get in the top 10 first week it'll be great for her, especially since this is really the first new thing she's dropped since getting famous lmao

[nathanalbright]

I didn't expect "Cold Heart" to start out with a bit of "Sacrifice" and then go on to "Rocket Man." I am admittedly baffled as to why we needed another Dua single but this appears more like an Elton John tribute.

[iamsorare]

Everyone mention lizzo and lizzo and only lizzo!! hey guys..cardi b is on the track.that's why it's #1 on iTunes and #12 on apple music

[Choco]

Aug 13, 2021 18:09:48 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

Everyone mention lizzo and lizzo and only lizzo!! hey guys..cardi b is on the track.that's why it's #1 on iTunes and #12 on apple music

Cardi B is on tracks every other week. If this flops it's bad news for Lizzo, but just another day for Cardi.

[mylo]

Aug 13, 2021 17:46:59 GMT -5 rainygirl said:

Aug 13, 2021 17:37:02 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

I think Lizzo will debut Top 5, but I don't think it will be enough to top good 4 u or Stay

I agree . I don’t get the sense it will have a massive debut

Top 5 is still a pretty big debut

[nathanalbright]

Disregard the stan talk, a top 5 debut is strong enough for Lizzo, especially given that she has only had a couple of hits even close to that big before. The real test will be if she can hold an audience's interest for the song long-term enough to make it a good leadoff for her album and a sign that she has some staying power as a popular act hereself.

[Choco]

Yeah I mean a top 20 debut would be a win if it has legs. She needs to prove she's not a flash in the pan kind of act.

She apparently has another single with Megan Thee Stallion ready so if this doesn't hit big she'll certainly try again.

[kcdawg13]

Yeah Top 5 is huge for Lizzo, she only has 2 hits and she's been gone a while

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Tom McDonald at #3 in iTunes? Yuck ...

[firefox]

Can we get Lizzo's "Juice" chart (again) now in 2021 just like "Truth Hurts" in 2019? Lizzo's song are late bloomers imo.

[kcdawg13]

Aug 13, 2021 19:38:32 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

Tom McDonald at #3 in iTunes? Yuck ...

I mean, it's a great song. I love the part where he disregards 4 million deaths from COVID, that's really great. Such a lyricist.

Old MacDonald puts so much thought into his lyrics, like the line "only mask that's gonna save us is duct tape on they mouth" (Tom thinks we should censor the media) and then later in the song he immediately contradicts himself, he raps "'Cause censoring' the president and kicking him off Twitter is a bigger threat to freedom than foreign ballistic missiles." So it's okay to censor everyone else but kicking a terrorist off Twitter is a no go. There's many more lyrical gems like that in this amazing song, but what else would you expect from Tom?

Hopefully the river will run dry for this clown, enjoy your #89 peak Ronald McDonald.

[andrebra]

Rumors is now #2 on Apple.

[jthentic]

Aug 13, 2021 21:28:54 GMT -5 kcdawg13 said:

Aug 13, 2021 19:38:32 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

Tom McDonald at #3 in iTunes? Yuck ...

I mean, it's a great song. I love the part where he disregards 4 million deaths from COVID, that's really great. Such a lyricist.

Old MacDonald puts so much thought into his lyrics, like the line "only mask that's gonna save us is duct tape on they mouth" (Tom thinks we should censor the media) and then later in the song he immediately contradicts himself, he raps "'Cause censoring' the president and kicking him off Twitter is a bigger threat to freedom than foreign ballistic missiles." So it's okay to censor everyone else but kicking a terrorist off Twitter is a no go. There's many more lyrical gems like that in this amazing song, but what else would you expect from Tom?

Hopefully the river will run dry for this clown, enjoy your #89 peak Ronald McDonald.

why did go through dat lol. Man has been releasing same song with same hook with almost same beat with same bs of a content for da 10000000th time

[gikem]

Ugh, Brainwashed is gonna be yet another charting entry for Tommy Boy thanks to Billboard's wonky sales weighting, isn't it?

Honestly, if they're not gonna change the sales portion of the formula to prevent BTS and other stan armies from mass-buying, they should do it to prevent this regressive, hyper-conservative BS from charting at all.

[jthentic]

Apple music:

#4 Lizzo x cardi

#30 Wizkid x JB (da original is doin much better curr. #10)

#34 MGK (this is surprising considering it's a post-grunge track with 3rd grade playlisting)

Suicideboys curr #1 on album chart over YNW melly (2 YNW tracks in top 50)

[chartfreak]

I finally looked to see what this guy looks like, and oh my, not what I expected.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Aug 13, 2021 10:40:27 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Aug 13, 2021 10:22:42 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Ed Sheeran on drill has always been so funny to me.

It's not even him on drill. It's a weird remake of sorts where he sings the intro to the song but then after he's done, they change the slightly alter the percussion of the song from pop to a drill one and Tion Wayne and Central Cee just freestyle over the beat. Seriously, Ed Sheeran doesn't show up again aside from the backing vocals in the beat.

It’s weird because I feel like it qualifies less as a remix and more as a sample. Like, how would this be different than Drake and the Mariah sample or Kendrick and the Janet sample?

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Aug 13, 2021 23:13:33 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Aug 13, 2021 10:40:27 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

It's not even him on drill. It's a weird remake of sorts where he sings the intro to the song but then after he's done, they change the slightly alter the percussion of the song from pop to a drill one and Tion Wayne and Central Cee just freestyle over the beat. Seriously, Ed Sheeran doesn't show up again aside from the backing vocals in the beat.

It’s weird because I feel like it qualifies less as a remix and more as a sample. Like, how would this be different than Drake and the Mariah sample or Kendrick and the Janet sample?

What it reminds me of actually is when rappers would rap over the beats over other rap songs like what happened with Beat Box, WHATS POPPIN, and Thotiana, except the beat to Bad Habits clearly wasn't made for hip-hop flows and cadences, plus they didn't know how to make it into a drill sound.

[iamsorare]

. ''And my records live in the top ten''