Billboard Hot 100: 12/18/2021

[jenglisbe]

"Sand in My Boots" is also gaining at radio so it would be in the same situation. I'd expect them to either still chart, or to return the chart post-holidays.

[Envoirment]

Glad to see "Easy On Me" predicted to be #1. Although it looks like it'll be Christmas songs reigning for the next couple weeks after. Hopefully "Easy On Me" will re-gain the #1 spot post-Christmas. It should get a nice airplay/sales/streaming boost and I can't see any songs challenging it really thanks to its large airplay lead. Gayle's "abcdefu" could be in contention late January I would think (unless Adele performs "Easy On Me" on the Grammys or something).

"Easy On Me" needs to get 10 weeks at #1 for Adele to enter the top 10 artists with most weeks at #1. #10 is 34 weeks with Elton John/Bruno Mars tied.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Dec 12, 2021 7:53:20 GMT -5 gikem said:

Dec 12, 2021 7:45:58 GMT -5 joshtheking said:

it's still gaining on radio though isn't it?

Yes, but Billboard’s recurrent rules are so inconsistent around this time of year that I can’t count on YSPL to continue to chart this week, especially as it’s already spent 2 straight weeks below the top 50.

It's rising a lot on country radio, accordign to Mediabase. It's not going recurrent yet

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^YSPL and SomB should both continue to chart this week given they still haven't reached their peak radio audience. By that same logic, Wild Side might manage to avoid recurrency as well since it appears to eeked out a 1% weekly radio gain according to kworb.

[otaviohmg]

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 from 60, 55, 50, 45, and 40 years ago:

December 11, 1961 (For the week ending December 16)

01 02 Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes (1st and only week at #1)
02 01 Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
03 03 Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren
04 06 The Twist - Chubby Checker
05 07 Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke
06 17 The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
07 11 Run To Him - Bobby Vee
08 12 Tonight - Ferrante & Teicher
09 16 Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson
10 21 Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka


December 17, 1966

01 03 Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band (2nd of 3 weeks at #1)
02 02 Mellow Yellow - Donovan
03 01 Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
04 04 Devil With a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly (Medley) - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
05 05 You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes
06 10 That's Life - Frank Sinatra
07 08 Born Free - Roger Williams
08 44 I'm a Believer - The Monkees
09 16 Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra
10 14 A Place In The Sun - Stevie Wonder


December 18, 1971

01 01 Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone (3rd and final week at #1)
02 09 Brand New Key - Melanie
03 03 Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites
04 05 An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night
05 04 Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
06 02 Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
07 06 Baby I'm-a Want You - Bread
08 08 All I Ever Need Is You - Sonny & Cher
09 25 American Pie (Parts 1 & 2) - Don McLean
10 11 Cherish - David Cassidy


December 18, 1976

01 01 Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart (6th of 8 weeks at #1)
02 02 The Rubberband Man - The Spinners
03 05 You Don't Have To Be a Star (To Be In My Show) - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
04 04 Muskrat Love - The Captain & Tennille
05 06 You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
06 07 More Than a Feeling - Boston
07 11 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Elton John
08 08 Nadia's Theme (The Young And The Restless) - Barry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin Jr.
09 09 You Are The Woman - Firefall
10 10 Nights Are Forever Without You - England Dan & John Ford Coley


December 19, 1981

01 01 Physical - Olivia Newton-John (5th of 10 weeks at #1)
02 02 Waiting For a Girl Like You - Foreigner
03 05 Let's Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire
04 04 Oh, No - The Commodores
05 06 Young Turks - Rod Stewart
06 13 I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates
07 08 Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross
08 09 Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
09 10 Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
10 11 Leather And Lace - Stevie Nicks w/Don Henley

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 from 35, 30, 25, and 20 years ago:

December 20, 1986

01 02 Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles (1st of 4 weeks at #1)
02 01 The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
03 05 Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
04 08 Notorious - Duran Duran
05 09 Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott
06 07 To Be a Lover - Billy Idol
07 03 Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News
08 14 C'est La Vie - Robbie Nevil
09 10 Stand By Me - Ben E. King
10 04 The Next Time I Fall - Peter Cetera & Amy Grant


December 21, 1991

01 01 Black Or White - Michael Jackson (3rd of 7 weeks at #1)
02 02 It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - Boyz II Men
03 05 All 4 Love - Color Me Badd
04 03 Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn
05 04 When a Man Loves a Woman - Michael Bolton
06 07 Can't Let Go - Mariah Carey
07 06 Blowing Kisses In The Wind - Paula Abdul
08 08 Finally - CeCe Peniston
09 11 2 Legit 2 Quit - MC Hammer
10 10 Wildside - Marky Mark


December 21, 1996

01 01 Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton (3rd of 11 weeks at #1)
02 26 I Believe I Can Fly - R. Kelly
03 02 No Diggity - Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre
04 04 Don't Let Go (Love) - En Vogue
05 03 Nobody - Keith Sweat feat. Athena Cage
06 05 Mouth - Merril Bainbridge
07 06 It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion
08 08 I Finally Found Someone - Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams
09 07 Pony - Ginuwine
10 09 I'm Still In Love With You - New Edition

17 NE Fly Like An Eagle - Seal


December 15, 2001

01 02 U Got It Bad - Usher (1st of 6 weeks at #1)
02 01 Family Affair - Mary J. Blige
03 03 How You Remind Me - Nickelback
04 04 Hero - Enrique Iglesias
05 05 Turn Off The Light - Nelly Furtado
06 09 Get The Party Started - P!nk
07 08 Differences - Ginuwine
08 06 Livin' It Up - Ja Rule feat. Case
09 14 Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
10 07 I'm Real - Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 Flashback:

December 16, 2006

01 02 Irreplaceable - Beyonce (1st of 10 weeks at #1)
02 01 I Wanna Love You - Akon feat. Snoop Dogg
03 03 Smack That - Akon feat. Eminem
04 10 Fergalicious - Fergie feat. will.i.am
05 04 My Love - Justin Timberlake feat. T.I.
06 07 Wind It Up - Gwen Stefani
07 05 How To Save a Life - The Fray
08 06 Lips Of An Angel - Hinder
09 11 Shortie Like Mine - Bow Wow feat. Chris Brown & Johnta Austin
10 12 We Fly High - Jim Jones

22 NE Keep Holding On - Avril Lavigne


December 17, 2011

01 01 We Found Love - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris (6th of 10 weeks at #1)
02 02 Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO
03 03 It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
04 04 Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera
05 08 Good Feeling - Flo Rida
06 05 Someone Like You - Adele
07 06 Without You - David Guetta feat. Usher
08 15 N***as In Paris - Jay-Z & Kanye West
09 09 The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
10 07 Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes feat. Adam Levine


December 17, 2016

01 01 Black Beatles - Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane (4th of 7 weeks at #1)
02 03 Starboy - The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk
03 02 Closer - The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey
04 06 Side To Side - Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj
05 04 24k Magic - Bruno Mars
06 05 Juju On That Beat (TZ Anthem) - Zay Hilfigerrr & Zaylon McCall
07 08 Let Me Love You - DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber
08 10 Don't Wanna Know - Maroon 5 feat. Kendrick Lamar
09 07 Heathens - Twenty One Pilots
10 09 Broccoli - D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty

16 39 Party Monster - The Weeknd
23 RE All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey


December 19, 2020

01 02 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey (4th of 5 weeks at #1)
02 01 Mood - 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior
03 04 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
04 03 positions - Ariana Grande
05 09 Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
06 12 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams
07 11 Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
08 06 Laugh Now Cry Later - Drake feat. Lil Durk
09 07 Holy - Justin Bieber feat. Chance The Rapper
10 16 Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano

[phieaglesfan712]

[Groovy]

[fridayteenage]

This week's top-selling songs:
1. @bts_twt
Butter
2. @johnrich & @mikeroweworks
Santa's Gotta Dirty Job
3. @whoisgayle
abcdefu
4. @edsheeran & @eltonofficial
Merry Christmas
5. @eltonofficial & @dualipa
Cold Heart (@pnau Remix)

Well the holiday remix did something. Ties Dynamite for most weeks ever atop digital.


WOW at Sza being #3 sans Xmas.

[wavey.]

Sizzza got two Top 10's for this album. She needs to drop it lol.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Adele’s ‘Easy on Me’ Adds 7th Week Atop Hot 100, SZA’s ‘I Hate U’ Debuts at No. 7

12/13/2021

By Gary Trust

Plus, five holiday hits rank in the top 10, led by Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" at No. 2.

Adele‘s “Easy on Me” rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a seventh total week. Plus, SZA‘s “I Hate U” launches at No. 7 on the Hot 100, arriving as her fifth top 10.

Meanwhile, Andy Williams‘ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, up 11-10, joining four other holiday classics jingle-belling in the region: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” and Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” at Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 6, respectively.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 18) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 14). For all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Easy on Me,” released Oct. 14 on Columbia Records, drew 85.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 1%) and 20.7 million U.S. streams (down 15%) and sold 9,200 downloads (down 12%) in the Dec. 3-9 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The ballad spends a third week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart and drops 4-6 on Digital Song Sales, after two weeks at the summit, and 4-7 on Streaming Songs, after five weeks on top.

The song, Adele’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1, is her third to reign for at least seven weeks, after “Rolling in the Deep” (seven, 2011) and “Hello” (10, 2015-16). Adele is the sixth artist with three or more such No. 1s, joining Drake (five); Mariah Carey, Rihanna (four each); Beyoncé and Boyz II Men (three each).

Adele has entered the elite club as the only act to command the Hot 100 for seven weeks or more with a lead single from three consecutive albums: “Rolling in the Deep” is from 21; “Hello” is from 25; and “Easy on Me” is from 30, which controls the Billboard 200 chart for a third week.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” pushes 3-2 on the Hot 100, with 32.5 million U.S. streams (up 26%), 24.6 million airplay audience impressions (up 4%) and 6,900 sold (up 20%). It tops Streaming Songs for a 12th total week (and is the only holiday song to have led, dating to the survey’s January 2013 inception); ranks at No. 9 on Digital Song Sales; and jumps 31-24 on Radio Songs.

The carol was first released in 1994 and, as holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services’ seasonal playlists, hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017 and ascended to No. 1 in both December 2019 (for three weeks) and December 2020 (two).

The song also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 48th week, of the ranking’s 53 total weeks since the tally began in 2011; it has led for 33 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and dominates as the top title on the recently-revealed Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958, rises 4-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2 in each of the last two holiday seasons, and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” dips 2-4, after seven weeks at No. 1.

The late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (from 1964) lifts 7-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 4 in the 2019 and 2020 holiday seasons, and the late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (from 1957) slips 5-6, after climbing to No. 3 also in each of the last two holiday seasons.

SZA’s “I Hate U” soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 7, with 26.7 million streams, 485,000 in radio airplay audience and 4,600 sold.

The song, which was first issued on SoundCloud over the summer and went viral on TikTok ahead of its Dec. 3 wide release, is SZA’s fifth Hot 100 top 10. It follows her featured turn on Maroon 5’s “What Lovers Do” (No. 9 peak, November 2017); “All the Stars,” with Kendrick Lamar (No. 7, March 2018); “Good Days” (No. 9, this February); and her featured role on Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More” (No. 3, July).

“I Hate U” marks SZA’s second debut in the Hot 100’s top 10 (and first as a lead artist), tying the No. 7 start of “Kiss Me More.”

“I Hate U” likewise launches at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. It’s SZA’s first leader on the former and second on the latter, after “The Weekend,” for a week in January 2018.

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” dips 6-8 on the Hot 100, after a week at No. 1, as it posts a 16th week atop the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart, and Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” backtracks 8-9, after reaching No. 7, on the Hot 100, as it leads the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 12th week each.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, the late Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” returns to the tier (11-10), with 21.3 million streams (up 11%), 18.6 million in radio reach and 1,700 sold (up 13%). Originally released in 1963, the song hit a No. 5 best last holiday season.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 18), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 14).

[annoymous1]

So glad SZA debuted in the top 10 and 7 at that!

[fridayteenage]

Easy on Me is the first song this year to be #1 despite being outside the top 5 in both sales and streaming.

[phieaglesfan712]

Stay, with its 22nd consecutive week in the Top 10, passes Kiss Me More as the longest continuous Top 10 run of 2021. KMM had previously spent its first 21 weeks in the Top 10.

[thegreatdivine]

Weeks in the top 10:
22 Stay
19 Industry Baby
17 All I Want for Christmas Is You
11 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
9 Jingle Bell Rock
8 Easy on Me
8 A Holly Jolly Christmas
6 Heat Waves

6 It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
1 I Hate U

[phieaglesfan712]

Butter sold 26.5k:

[otaviohmg]

New Entries:

Juice WRLD & Justin Bieber - Wandered To LA (49)
Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas (72)
Nardo Wick, Lil Baby & Future - Me Or Sum (86)
Camila Cabello - I'll Be Home For Christmas (97)
Brent Faiyaz - Mercedes (98)

Polo G's Album Bomb:

Don't Play featuring Lil Baby (66)
Young N Dumb (87)
Start Up Again featuring MoneyBaggYo (94)
Partin Ways (100)

*I will edit if updates more new entries

[ontopofthis]

SZA would have debuted at number three without the Christmas songs. That with no video and no airplay is impressive. What is the wait with her next album? People are obviously really anticipating it

[jenglisbe]

Dec 13, 2021 14:32:45 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Butter sold 26.5k:

Did it make the Hot 100, or is this two weeks in a row where the #1 on Digital Songs misses the Hot 100?

[Envoirment]

Glad to see "Easy On Me" #1 for a 7th week. Even though a lot of focus around Adele is for her album sales, she's sure racking up a great catalogue of big hits. Hopefully "Oh My God" will find its footing post-christmas and become a big hit too.

[nathanalbright]

Dec 13, 2021 15:27:04 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Dec 13, 2021 14:32:45 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Butter sold 26.5k:

Did it make the Hot 100, or is this two weeks in a row where the #1 on Digital Songs misses the Hot 100?

Still recurrent?  It would be nice to see some re-entry notifications.

[sheardbeard]

otaviohmg said:

New Entries:

Camila Cabello - I'll Be Home For Christmas (97)

Anyone else heard this? It’s an Amazon Original exclusive so you can’t really hear it anywhere but Amazon… but the way she pronounces Christmas is so cringey: “kwismoiss”

[JukeboxJacob]

Dec 13, 2021 15:27:04 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Dec 13, 2021 14:32:45 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Butter sold 26.5k:

Did it make the Hot 100, or is this two weeks in a row where the #1 on Digital Songs misses the Hot 100?

even then Billboard will still treat sales like they're relevant

[fridayteenage]

Dec 13, 2021 18:46:31 GMT -5 JukeboxJacob said:

Dec 13, 2021 15:27:04 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Did it make the Hot 100, or is this two weeks in a row where the #1 on Digital Songs misses the Hot 100?

even then Billboard will still treat sales like they're relevant

They are. Or are you saying that 30's million sales so far shouldn't matter to the perception of its popularity?

[jenglisbe]

Dec 13, 2021 17:45:41 GMT -5 nathanalbright said:

Dec 13, 2021 15:27:04 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Did it make the Hot 100, or is this two weeks in a row where the #1 on Digital Songs misses the Hot 100?

Still recurrent?  It would be nice to see some re-entry notifications.

I didn't realize it had made it to recurrent status lol

[forg]

I wish we can have an idea of how strong the numbers are for the holiday songs on Amazon, the one time they make big impact on the charts lol

[jenglisbe]

Dec 13, 2021 20:00:15 GMT -5 forg said:

I wish we can have an idea of how strong the numbers are for the holiday songs on Amazon, the one time they make big impact on the charts lol

You can sort of figure it out; not in actual numbers, but based on the total streams for "AIWFCIY" and the numbers we do have, I think it's clear it gets a lot more streams on Amazon than Spotify. That would likely be true for other holiday songs as well.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Okay we really need to see how strong these Amazon exclusives are because how did this gain when it's only available on Amazon?