Billboard Hot 100: 09/18/2021

[jenglisbe]

Sept 13, 2021 14:47:28 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Sept 13, 2021 14:30:51 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

I've made this point several times in regards to several artists.

No.

Then stay mad then. He'll keep breaking records and you'll just have to keep dealing with it.

To further prove that the narrative you are trying to give me is false, here are receipts for posts where I have praised Drake as an artist and on the charts:
- noting Drake has had a long run on the charts
- noting Drake has been a consistent hitmaker
- noting I'd listened to "Doing it Wrong" and it made me think
- saying Drake should have won Best New Artist
- defending the longevity of Scorpion

[dovahduck]

Sept 13, 2021 18:42:40 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Sept 13, 2021 16:30:07 GMT -5 kierz7 said:

Well, if there’s one record that won’t be easily broken due to streaming, it’s •Janet Jackson’s - RN:1814”• having the most top five hits from one album: 7.

This was an achievement scored through the sheer power of one artist having ‘genuine’ smash-hits, from a single album, that spanned several calendar years.

The only way I see this record being surpassed is if an artist debuts five songs in the top five of the Hot 100 at once from one album, and then re-releases this same album that debuts two/three new songs in the top five as well.

🙌🏿

Also...

I’m not sure why people are losing their minds to this new achievement from Drake. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Overall, “CLB” isn’t coming CLOSE to touching the legacy or impact of ‘Thriller; Born In The U.S.A, BAD, Janet’ etc. Most of the songs in the top ten will be gone next week, more than half of which won’t make the YEC, and then we’ll patiently await the next album super-bomb.

Well, if two/three tracks get a new peak in the top 5 then he would tie or break the record, though chances are slim that would happen.

Really all he had to do was include "LN,CL" and the "Scary Hours 2" tracks on the album and he would have gotten the record. He could've literally broken the record if he wanted to. 

[Gary]

Not sure I am following the argument here.

Five Burning questions article:

Does that mean that Drake in 2021 is now officially as big as Michael Jackson or The Beatles at their peaks? Well, maybe not, but let's look at some of the factors behind Drake's incredible chart bow this week.

So basically even the Billboard writers are not saying Drake>Beatles or anything like that. Most here probably agree with that too.

Most probably also agree that statistical records across eras are not comparable 1-1 (at least I hope)

Drake put up numbers even the Beatles couldn't do - so what?

Different time, different era - we all know that

For those who want to compare Drake to the Beatles or MJ anyway --- go for it

[iHype.]

Sept 13, 2021 18:44:49 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Sept 13, 2021 14:47:28 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Then stay mad then. He'll keep breaking records and you'll just have to keep dealing with it.

- noting I'd listened to "Doing it Wrong" and it made me think

lmao

[85la]

Yeah, like we are mentioning Drake because he is the most visible and he is the one who is breaking these records by wide margins, so people are going to have things to say about him, and I've seen both good and bad statements (and it's definitely not just Drake, we definitely say both good and bad things about other high-profile artists too). And the bad comments are always not even necessarily "bad" or malicious, just criticisms and differing opinions, and we are absolutely allowed to do that.

Thus, my opinion is, while the streams for Drake's album are definitely monumental, I mean only one other person this year, Kanye just last week, was barely even able to do half his numbers, I'm not denying that part, but I do think Drake has a clear and sure-fire advantage in this era to more easily score hits (especially if not almost entirely from these first-week debuts) simply because of the process of double-counting. Billboard's rules now allow the double-counting of consumption numbers from the album chart (which is predominantly streaming now) to the singles chart, which was not part of Billboard's rules during any previous era. For instance, and this has been mentioned before, if Billboard were to have allowed album sales points from the pre-streaming era also count for the singles chart, Drake's record this week surely would have been broken before, and other artists' totals would certainly be much higher. The fact that his totals now are far ahead of any other artist just proves my point. He has large opening album weeks with high streaming numbers, that is a fact, and I'm not trying to doubt that, but the fact that they just automatically transfer over to the singles chart and there is such a focus on him breaking these Hot 100 records, when his rankings there are almost certainly just due to people listening to and consuming his album upon debut week, when only one of them is an official radio-promoted single, and most of the other top 10s will most likely fall out the very next week, it just isn't the same. You can say what you want about past eras' shortcomings, or ways that it was "easier" or "rigged" to score top 10 hits as well, such as higher turnover, heavily discounted singles, or radio payola or corporate playlisting, but the one thing these eras didn't have was the process of double-counting - it took extra effort and consumption over many weeks and months in promoting these songs and people buying the singles in stores or online in order for them to get to the top 10, so the notion that Drake breaking the most-top-tens-from-one-album record in just one week should be equivalent to Michael or Janet or Bruce's efforts and that he somehow "beat them" is of course a highly shaky statement. I understand that times and rules have changed, and Drake will have these records, but they have to be mentioned with caveats.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

oh, c'mon...where's tl;dr?

[WolfSpear]

Not that many acts can move 600k in any era, but it’s exceptional that Drake and Taylor can still do this well into their careers. I have high regards for Bieber, Ariana etc., but these two are floating Cloud 9…

[Naos]

Drake just has such a strong fanbase... this is just another mediocre Drake album along with 'More Life' and 'Views', with nothing all that new or interesting.

[garrettlen]

Sept 13, 2021 18:14:40 GMT -5 WolfSpear said:

That’s insane… Drake occupies 9 out of the top 10.

And Lennon/McCartney are in the top 10 as songwriters, probably Lennon’s first writing entry since the Beatles’ “Free As A Bird”; McCartney’s most recent visit since “FourFiveSeconds” with Kanye and Rihanna in 2015…

I see Jay-Z adds to his total in that region as well. Not bad for someone who’s been off the map here.

For someone who hasn’t heard much of Drake’s new album, why are Lennon and McCartney in the top 10?

[Naos]

Sept 13, 2021 20:41:10 GMT -5 garrettlen said:

Sept 13, 2021 18:14:40 GMT -5 WolfSpear said:

That’s insane… Drake occupies 9 out of the top 10.

And Lennon/McCartney are in the top 10 as songwriters, probably Lennon’s first writing entry since the Beatles’ “Free As A Bird”; McCartney’s most recent visit since “FourFiveSeconds” with Kanye and Rihanna in 2015…

I see Jay-Z adds to his total in that region as well. Not bad for someone who’s been off the map here.

For someone who hasn’t heard much of Drake’s new album, why are Lennon and McCartney in the top 10?

"Champagne Poetry" samples "Navajo" by Masego, which samples "Michelle" by The Beatles.

[rockgolf]

Has anyone mentioned so far that the entire top 10 has non-Americans as the lead artist? That's the first time Americans have been shut out off the top 10 on the Hot 100 in history.

[garrettlen]

Sept 13, 2021 20:43:11 GMT -5 Naos said:

Sept 13, 2021 20:41:10 GMT -5 garrettlen said:

For someone who hasn’t heard much of Drake’s new album, why are Lennon and McCartney in the top 10?

"Champagne Poetry" samples "Navajo" by Masego, which samples "Michelle" by The Beatles.

Thank you

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Sept 13, 2021 20:47:28 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

Has anyone mentioned so far that the entire top 10 has non-Americans as the lead artist? That's the first time Americans have been shut out off the top 10 on the Hot 100 in history.

maybe even top 15, since Ed Sheeran is at #13. Not sure where Olivia's G4U is (somewhere between #14-18), but she's the highest-charting American artist.

[garrettlen]

Sept 13, 2021 20:47:28 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

Has anyone mentioned so far that the entire top 10 has non-Americans as the lead artist? That's the first time Americans have been shut out off the top 10 on the Hot 100
Thank for in history.

One of the Billboard articles mentioned that the entire top 10 for this week is by Canadians for the first time ever (Bieber and Drake), no Americans in sight.

Pretty cool, eh?

[phieaglesfan712]

Sept 13, 2021 20:52:16 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Sept 13, 2021 20:47:28 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

Has anyone mentioned so far that the entire top 10 has non-Americans as the lead artist? That's the first time Americans have been shut out off the top 10 on the Hot 100 in history.

maybe even top 15, since Ed Sheeran is at #13. Not sure where Olivia's G4U is (somewhere between #14-18), but she's the highest-charting American artist.

We know Drake has #14, 16, and 18, and Butter was #17. G4u is either #15 or it fell to at least #19.

[Groovy]

I don’t get why people on Facebook are trying to downplay Drake by comparing him to the Beatles, in my opinion, this is a way more accurate than it was back then.

[KeepDeanWeird]

I wonder how many tracks Adele would've placed on the H100 if the track equivalent applied to album sales.

Music has changed significantly since '25' - The big difference is that albums are primarily consumed through a form of streaming and each individual track streams counts for every chart, including the H100. However, that same concept doesn't apply for album sales - they are counted once as a full package, regardless of the number of tracks, for the B200 and then the sub-album genre charts.

For each album sold, Billboard should credit each track with one sale that counts to the H100. It's illogical that purchasing 8 songs from an album means those tracks are included in both H100 and B200, but if someone buys the full album those tracks aren't counted for H100.

And then there's ABBA with its album sales...

[wavey.]

Not this big ass Hot 100 Sheet

[hughster1]

Sept 13, 2021 19:34:34 GMT -5 85la said:

Yeah, like we are mentioning Drake because he is the most visible and he is the one who is breaking these records by wide margins, so people are going to have things to say about him, and I've seen both good and bad statements (and it's definitely not just Drake, we definitely say both good and bad things about other high-profile artists too). And the bad comments are always not even necessarily "bad" or malicious, just criticisms and differing opinions, and we are absolutely allowed to do that.

Thus, my opinion is, while the streams for Drake's album are definitely monumental, I mean only one other person this year, Kanye just last week, was barely even able to do half his numbers, I'm not denying that part, but I do think Drake has a clear and sure-fire advantage in this era to more easily score hits (especially if not almost entirely from these first-week debuts) simply because of the process of double-counting. Billboard's rules now allow the double-counting of consumption numbers from the album chart (which is predominantly streaming now) to the singles chart, which was not part of Billboard's rules during any previous era. For instance, and this has been mentioned before, if Billboard were to have allowed album sales points from the pre-streaming era also count for the singles chart, Drake's record this week surely would have been broken before, and other artists' totals would certainly be much higher. The fact that his totals now are far ahead of any other artist just proves my point. He has large opening album weeks with high streaming numbers, that is a fact, and I'm not trying to doubt that, but the fact that they just automatically transfer over to the singles chart and there is such a focus on him breaking these Hot 100 records, when his rankings there are almost certainly just due to people listening to and consuming his album upon debut week, when only one of them is an official radio-promoted single, and most of the other top 10s will most likely fall out the very next week, it just isn't the same. You can say what you want about past eras' shortcomings, or ways that it was "easier" or "rigged" to score top 10 hits as well, such as higher turnover, heavily discounted singles, or radio payola or corporate playlisting, but the one thing these eras didn't have was the process of double-counting - it took extra effort and consumption over many weeks and months in promoting these songs and people buying the singles in stores or online in order for them to get to the top 10, so the notion that Drake breaking the most-top-tens-from-one-album record in just one week should be equivalent to Michael or Janet or Bruce's efforts and that he somehow "beat them" is of course a highly shaky statement. I understand that times and rules have changed, and Drake will have these records, but they have to be mentioned with caveats.

Thank you for saying this. The double counting is my biggest gripe with comparing current Hot 100 stats to prior ones. Streaming an entire album is the equivalent of in the pre-streaming days buying an album and listening to the whole thing when you get home and subsequently that week. (Proof of that is how often the first tracks on the playlist end up ranking higher than those that come later.) If there had been a way to measure that, a lot of artists would have had much higher totals. And they could have easily allocated a portion of the albums sold that week to each track - for "Thriller," say, each of the nine tracks on the album could have been allocated 1/9 of the album sales that week towards sales points on the Hot 100 (in other words, every nine albums sold for "Thriller" would equal one single sold for each of the tracks), but they didn't do that either. But now, album consumption does count towards the Hot 100. That doesn't mean that the streams shouldn't count on the Hot 100, or that the records shouldn't count, or that Drake's achievement shouldn't be noted especially when compared to present-day artists, but it does mean that the achievements are qualitatively different.

[gikem]

So on another note, were there really no non-Drake tracks that made the Hot 100 this week? I scanned @/billboardcharts to see if there were any and I couldn't find anything.

BTW, Meet Me At Our Spot has debuted at #1 on the Bubbling Under - expect that one to show up next week, it's got a fair bit of streaming traction.

[Naos]

New peaks:
#61 - I Was On a Boat That Day (+6)
#70 - Memory I Don't Mess With (+8)
#72 - You Time (+10)
#74 - Buy Dirt (+10)

[Naos]

Sept 13, 2021 22:00:40 GMT -5 gikem said:

So on another note, were there really no non-Drake tracks that made the Hot 100 this week? I scanned @/billboardcharts to see if there were any and I couldn't find anything.

BTW, Meet Me At Our Spot has debuted at #1 on the Bubbling Under - expect that one to show up next week, it's got a fair bit of streaming traction.

"Blue Note$ II" by Meek Mill featuring Lil Uzi Vert debuted at #87.

[Naos]

Notable dropouts:
- "Forever After All" by Luke Combs (#2 peak, 45 weeks)
- "Come Through" by H.E.R. featuring Chris Brown (#64 peak, 13 weeks)
- "Brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo (#12 peak, 12 weeks)
- "AM" by Nio Garcia, J Balvin & Bad Bunny (#41 peak, 10 weeks)

"Arcade" avoids recurrency.

[phieaglesfan712]

Sept 13, 2021 22:13:26 GMT -5 Naos said:

Notable dropouts:
- "Forever After All" by Luke Combs (#2 peak, 45 weeks)
- "Come Through" by H.E.R. featuring Chris Brown (#64 peak, 13 weeks)
- "Brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo (#12 peak, 12 weeks)
- "AM" by Nio Garcia, J Balvin & Bad Bunny (#41 peak, 10 weeks)

"Arcade" avoids recurrency.

Any word on Peaches or HBA?

But with FAA falling off, there are no more songs on the chart that peaked in 2020.

[Naos]

Sept 13, 2021 22:19:54 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Sept 13, 2021 22:13:26 GMT -5 Naos said:

Notable dropouts:
- "Forever After All" by Luke Combs (#2 peak, 45 weeks)
- "Come Through" by H.E.R. featuring Chris Brown (#64 peak, 13 weeks)
- "Brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo (#12 peak, 12 weeks)
- "AM" by Nio Garcia, J Balvin & Bad Bunny (#41 peak, 10 weeks)

"Arcade" avoids recurrency.

Any word on Peaches or HBA?

But with FAA falling off, there are no more songs on the chart that peaked in 2020.

If you mean "Heartbreak Anniversary", it's unclear since Giveon does not have a chart page. Neither does Rodrigo, but given "AM"'s dropout and how low it is, it's safe to assume with her.

As for "Peaches", it's still around.

[iHype.]

R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

1	NE	Drake	Way 2 Sexy
2	NE	Drake	Girls Want Girls
3	NE	Drake	Fair Trade
4	NE	Drake	Champagne Poetry
5	NE	Drake	Knife Talk
6	NE	Drake	In the Bible
7	NE	Drake	Papi's Home
8	NE	Drake	TSU
9	NE	Drake	Love All
10	NE	Drake	No Friends in the Industry
11	NE	Drake	N 2 Deep
12	NE	Drake	Pipe Down
13	NE	Drake	7am On Bridle Path
14	NE	Drake	Race My Mind
16	NE	Drake	IMY2
17	NE	Drake	You Only Live Twice
18	NE	Drake	Fountains
19	NE	Drake	Get Along Better
21	NE	Drake	Fucking Fans
23	NE	Drake	The Remorse

Occupies the entire top 14! "Yebba's Heartbreak" seems to not have charted (not ruled as R&B/Hip-Hop). 


Canadian Hot 100

3	NE	Drake	Champagne Poetry
4	NE	Drake	Way 2 Sexy
5	NE	Drake	Fair Trade
6	NE	Drake	No Friends in the Industry
7	NE	Drake	TSU
8	NE	Drake	Girls Want Girls
9	NE	Drake	Knife Talk
10	NE	Drake	7am On Bridle Path
12	NE	Drake	Race My Mind
17	NE	Drake	Pipe Down
18	NE	Drake	In the Bible
20	NE	Drake	Love All
23	NE	Drake	Papi's Home
24	NE	Drake	N 2 Deep
27	NE	Drake	Fucking Fans
29	NE	Drake	The Remorse
36	NE	Drake	Fountains
37	NE	Drake	IMY2
38	NE	Drake	You Only Live Twice
43	NE	Drake	Yebba's Heartbreak
45	NE	Drake	Get Along Better

He 'falls short' in his home country with 'only' 8 top 10s.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Five Reasons Why Drake Was Able to Make Hot 100 History With His 'Certified Lover Boy' Debut Week

By Andrew Unterberger
9/13/2021

For 37 years, a Billboard Hot 100 record first set by Michael Jackson -- for most top 10 hits on the same album, with seven racked up by his 1982 album, Thriller -- had never been bested. And for 57 years, a Hot 100 record set by The Beatles -- as the first and only act to sweep the top five in one week -- had never even been tied.

But now, extra room next to each record must be made in the history books for Drake, whose Certified Lover Boy launches tracks onto each of the Hot 100's top five positions, and nine of its top 10 (on the chart dated Sept. 18), breaking MJ's old mark and tying the Fab Four's. (The album also moves 613,000 equivalent album units, according to MRC Date, easily 2021's best first-week number.)

Does that mean that Drake in 2021 is now officially as big as Michael Jackson or The Beatles at their peaks? Well, maybe not, but let's look at some of the factors behind Drake's incredible chart bow this week.

1. Chart history leading to more chart history. Drake is hardly a stranger to the Billboard record books -- particularly as pertains to the Hot 100, where he already holds the records for most top 10 hits, most top 40 hits, and most hits, period. He's not even a stranger to these particular marks: While this is the Canadian superstar's first time passing Jackson's Thriller record (also shared by Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814), he tied it on his most recent official LP -- 2018's Scorpion, which also matched Thriller's seven top 10 hits during the former's debut week. And though he'd never occupied all top five spots on the chart in the same week before, he did claim the whole top three earlier this year, with the trio of new songs from his Scary Hours 2 pack in March.

It's not incidental, either. Drake has long had both The Beatles and Michael Jackson in his historical sights -- rapping about having "more slaps than the Beatles" and getting a tattoo of him waving to the Fab Four, and repeatedly referencing MJ in his lyrics, most recently boasting "I'm actually Michael Jackson" on Certified Lover Boy's "You Only Live Twice." (One of Scorpion's seven top 10 hits, "Don't Matter to Me," even featured a posthumous guest appearance from the King of Pop.) Few modern pop stars have been as motivated by history, particularly on the Billboard charts, as Drake, and with each new album he seems to pen his name in bigger font next to theirs in the all-time ledgers.

2. No advance tracks. Counter to conventional wisdom for the overwhelming majority of music history -- which assumes albums perform better with at least one or two songs already familiar to listeners -- increasingly, albums by major stars are demonstrated to perform as well if not better without any songs previously available. When Drake released Views in 2016, he included then-recent megahit "Hotline Bling" as a bonus cut; on 2018's Scorpion, advance Hot 100-toppers "God's Plan" and "Nice For What" were both included on the main tracklist. On CLB, neither last year's enduring radio smash "Laugh Now Cry Later" (featuring Lil Durk) nor any of the three tracks from Scary Hours 2 earlier this year make appearances of any kind. (Taylor Swift's Folklore, the most recent album with a first-week performance stronger than CLB's 613,000 units moved, was similarly unpreviewed.)

With superstar album artists like Swift and Drake, who have accrued enough general interest that the level of public investment in their new projects is no longer dependent on conventional hit singles, it seems like having previously released songs almost reduces interest in the new project, as if they're already old news by the time of the album's release. Meanwhile, having a project consisting entirely of brand-new songs almost forces listeners to check out the whole thing to figure out the highlights, without impatiently skipping to the familiar cuts, or just assuming they get the general idea of the album from the songs they already know. Hence: major consumption numbers across the board for Certified Lover Boy, without any previously established hits to dwarf and/or undercut the rest.

3. Less competition from non-debuts in the the top 10. More than at any other point in Hot 100 history, the chart's top tier is the province of tracks that debut there, rather than grow to get there. When Walker Hayes' "Fancy Like" hit No. 9 on the listing last week, it was the first time in nearly four months that a track climbed to the top 10 from another rank in the chart -- since The Kid LAROI and Miley Cyrus' "Without You" jumped 23-8 on the chart dated May 15 -- during which time, a resounding 20 singles entered the top 10 via debut. In a musical economy based around streaming and superstars, the slow-growing, word-of-mouth hit is becoming practically anachronistic, with radio's influence being increasingly marginalized and even most viral TikTok hits hitting a ceiling on how high they're able to cross over.

All of this is to say that, more than ever, the Hot 100 is based around the powerful debut week -- and no artist is more powerful in that respect than Drake, who has now debuted a record-tying five songs at No. 1 (matching Ariana Grande), with his Future- and Young Thug-featuring "Way 2 Sexy" becoming the fifth this week. Only "Stay," by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber -- the rare 2021 hit song able to simultaneously boast major streaming numbers and massive radio support -- has the metrics to really compete with the Drake deluge this week, marking the lone non-Drizzy song in the top 10 with its presence at No. 6, in its ninth total week, four of which it have been spent at No. 1.

4. Much-delayed gratification and savvy release-week marketing. Though the Sept. 3 release date for Certified Lover Boy was only announced a week before -- via Drake "hijacking" ESPN's SportsCenter broadcast to silently reveal the date -- it was hardly the first time the project's release had been promised, or at least teased. CLB was initially due to drop in the back half of 2020, the Official Album to follow the same year's loosies compilation Dark Lane Demo Tapes. Then that October, Drake pushed the date back to early 2021, before a knee injury triggered another delay. After that, the album sort of existed in the ether, the subject of myriad rumors and whispers, before the final release date was confirmed.

And then, in the week leading up to the album, Drake seized the internet's attention with a pair of promotional gambits, largely introduced to social media via tweets from TIDAL chief content officer Elliott Wilson. The first was the set's cover art, created by famed artist Damien Hirst, which featured emojis of a dozen women rubbing their pregnant bellies -- an easily parodied, memed and debated image, all almost certainly by design. Then came the real-life billboards, advertising to various cities (again, in an easily recreated and repurposed format) which local guests featured on the album. Both worked as well to advertise the new album as any advance single possibly could have, reminding anybody who'd given up waiting for CLB that the album was in fact still coming -- and ensuring that those who had still been waiting patiently for the set to drop were now positively salivating for it.

5. Kanye, Kanye, Kanye. If several bits from these first four factors sound familiar -- no singles released in advance, countless delays, a slow and then rapid crescendoing of hype and anticipation -- it's because a lot of it already happened just a week earlier with the release of the album that now boasts the second-biggest debut week of 2021, Kanye West's Donda. Of course, the two albums are linked by more than timing, as the makers behind the pair of blockbuster sets had long been sparring over social media and via subliminal lyrical disses in the weeks leading up to their releases. It built up to a beef that millions of pop and hip-hop onlookers became giddily invested in, choosing sides and debating who would emerge victorious.

The answer to the last one, clearly, is both of them. CLB technically well out-performed Donda, which debuted with 309,000 units and two entries in the Hot 100's top 10 in its first week. But that triumph is asterisked both by the latter's incomplete chart week -- having been released on a Sunday morning rather than in the opening Friday hours of the tracking week like the former -- and the fact that CLB undoubtedly was boosted by the rising tide of the Donda attention storm from a weekend earlier, which served as better promo for Drake's album than any of his solo marketing maneuvers. And really, it doesn't matter which set performed better -- since both outpaced every other 2021 release before them, without interfering with one another's initial chart bows and only helping both releases reach their maximum commercial and cultural impact.

[Enigma.]

Funny that Billboard don't mention the quality of the music that's resonating with people.. oh wait!

[iHype.]

Sept 13, 2021 23:21:44 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Funny that Billboard don't mention the quality of the music that's resonating with people.. oh wait!

I didn't think Dawn of Chromatica was that bad... but maybe that's why it didn't resonate.

[atg]

Sept 13, 2021 17:59:51 GMT -5 𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿 said:

At least Future got his first #1 in "Way 2 Sexy", "Life is Good" deserved to get at least a week last year.

Now Lil Baby is the new #2 guy who probably won’t get a number 1 until either Girls Want Girls being pushed as the next single, Hurricane eventually getting to #1, or waiting until his next era. I really hope the latter gets picked up heavily on radio so it becomes one of the best #1s this year.