Billboard Hot 100: 01/08/2022

[Envoirment]

Glad to see predictions have "Easy On Me" at #1. Hopefully it'll stay that way in the official chart. I want it to get at least 10 weeks at #1. *_*

[NeRD]

I don't see how EOM won't get 10 weeks at #1 at this point. abcdefu has slowed a bit due to the freeze and EOM has a huge airplay advantage.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

If 10 weeks at #1 happens, Adele will be the first female artist since...Adele to do that. and with the 11th week, she would be the the first female since Mariah Carey (WBT 14 weeks in 2005) to spend at least 11 weeks at #1.

[Soulsista]

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

January 6, 1962

01 01 The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens (3rd and final week at #1)
02 03 The Twist - Chubby Checker
03 02 Run To Him - Bobby Vee
04 06 Peppermint Twist (Part 1) - Joey Dee & The Starlighters
05 10 Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
06 08 Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka
07 04 Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren
08 05 Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke
09 13 When I Fall In Love - The Lettermen
10 14 Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles


January 7, 1967

01 01 I'm a Believer - The Monkees (2nd of 7 weeks at #1)
02 02 Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen
03 07 Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
04 03 Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band
05 05 Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra
06 04 That's Life - Frank Sinatra
07 10 Good Thing - Paul Revere & The Raiders feat. Mark Lindsay
08 19 Words Of Love - The Mamas & The Papas
09 15 Standing In The Shadows Of Love - The Four Tops
10 06 Mellow Yellow - Donovan


January 8, 1972

01 01 Brand New Key - Melanie (3rd and final week at #1)
02 02 American Pie (Parts 1 & 2) - Don McLean
03 03 Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone
04 14 Let's Stay Together - Al Green
05 05 Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
06 07 Scorpio - Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band
07 08 Sunshine - Jonathan Edwards
08 12 I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - The New Seekers
09 09 Cherish - David Cassidy
10 10 Hey Girl - Donny Osmond


January 8, 1977

01 02 You Don't Have To Be a Star (To Be In My Show) - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. (1st and only week at #1)
02 04 You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
03 01 Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
04 07 I Wish - Stevie Wonder
05 09 Car Wash - Rose Royce
06 06 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Elton John
07 08 Dazz - Brick
08 03 The Rubberband Man - The Spinners
09 10 After The Lovin - Engelbert Humperdinck
10 11 Stand Tall - Burton Cummings


January 9, 1982

01 01 Physical - Olivia Newton-John (8th of 10 weeks at #1)
02 02 Waiting For a Girl Like You - Foreigner
03 03 Let's Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire
04 04 I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates
05 05 Young Turks - Rod Stewart
06 06 Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
07 08 Leather And Lace - Stevie Nicks w/Don Henley
08 11 Centerfold - The J. Geils Band
09 14 Turn Your Love Around - George Benson
10 10 Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham

[Gary]

Reading some of the older threads from October. Most of the predictions for 'Easy On Me' was 3-4 weeks at #1 tops

[Soulsista]

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

January 10, 1987

01 01 Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles (4th and final week at #1)
02 03 Notorious - Duran Duran
03 04 Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott
04 02 Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
05 06 C'est La Vie - Robbie Nevil
06 07 Control - Janet Jackson
07 05 The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
08 08 War - Bruce Springsteen
09 15 At This Moment - Billy Vera & The Beaters
10 12 Is This Love - Survivor


January 11, 1992

01 01 Black Or White - Michael Jackson (6th of 7 weeks at #1)
02 03 All 4 Love - Color Me Badd
03 04 Can't Let Go - Mariah Carey
04 02 It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - Boyz II Men
05 08 2 Legit 2 Quit - MC Hammer
06 13 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
07 11 Addams Groove - MC Hammer
08 12 Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - George Michael & Elton John
09 06 Finally - CeCe Peniston
10 10 Wildside - Marky Mark


January 11, 1997

01 01 Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton (6th of 11 weeks at #1)
02 02 I Believe I Can Fly - R. Kelly
03 03 Don't Let Go (Love) - En Vogue
04 05 Nobody - Keith Sweat feat. Athena Cage
05 06 I Believe In You And Me - Whitney Houston
06 04 No Diggity - Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre
07 08 I'm Still In Love With You - New Edition
08 07 Mouth - Merril Bainbridge
09 14 Last Night - Az Yet
10 11 It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion


January 5, 2002

01 01 How You Remind Me - Nickelback (3rd of 4 weeks at #1)
02 02 U Got It Bad - Usher
03 03 Family Affair - Mary J. Blige
04 04 Get The Party Started - P!nk
05 07 Always On Time - Ja Rule feat. Ashanti
06 09 My Sacrifice - Creed
07 06 Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
08 05 Hero - Enrique Iglesias
09 08 Differences - Ginuwine
10 11 A Woman's Worth - Alicia Keys

[Soulsista]

Billboard Top 10 Flashback:

January 6, 2007

01 01 Irreplaceable - Beyonce (4th of 10 weeks at #1)
02 02 I Wanna Love You - Akon feat. Snoop Dogg
03 04 Fergalicious - Fergie feat. will.i.am
04 03 Smack That - Akon feat. Eminem
05 05 My Love - Justin Timberlake feat. T.I.
06 06 Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
07 08 How To Save a Life - The Fray
08 07 We Fly High - Jim Jones
09 09 Shortie Like Mine - Bow Wow feat. Chris Brown & Johnta Austin
10 10 Lips Of An Angel - Hinder


January 7, 2012

01 02 Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO (1st of 2 weeks at #1)
02 01 We Found Love - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris
03 05 The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
04 03 It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
05 06 N***as In Paris - Jay-Z & Kanye West
06 04 Good Feeling - Flo Rida
07 13 Set Fire To The Rain - Adele
08 07 Someone Like You - Adele
09 15 Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & Goonrock
10 12 Dance (A$$) - Big Sean

19 32 Mistletoe - Justin Bieber


January 7, 2017

01 02 Starboy - The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk (1st and only week at #1)
02 01 Black Beatles - Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane
03 03 Closer - The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey
04 04 24k Magic - Bruno Mars
05 08 Juju On That Beat (TZ Anthem) - Zay Hilfigerrr & Zaylon McCall
06 05 Side To Side - Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj
07 09 Let Me Love You - DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber
08 10 Don't Wanna Know - Maroon 5 feat. Kendrick Lamar
09 14 Bad Things - Machine Gun Kelly x Camila Cabello
10 12 Fake Love - Drake

16 20 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey


January 9, 2021

01 07 Mood - 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior (7th of 8 weeks at #1)
02 14 positions - Ariana Grande
03 RE Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
04 21 Holy - Justin Bieber feat. Chance The Rapper
05 44 Dynamite - BTS
06 24 Go Crazy - Chris Brown & Young Thug
07 25 Laugh Now Cry Later - Drake feat. Lil Durk
08 30 I Hope - Gabby Barrett
09 01 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
10 27 Levitating - Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby

11 37 Bang! - AJR
16 41 Kings & Queens - Ava Max
18 42 Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish
19 40 34+35 - Ariana Grande
22 51 What You Know About Love - Pop Smoke
24 57 Better Together - Luke Combs
25 53 Lonely - Justin Bieber & Benny Blanco
26 RE ROCKSTAR - DaBaby feat. Roddy Rich

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Is this Pulse or grade 2? Is there a difference anymore?

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Jan 2, 2022 12:51:43 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Is this Pulse or grade 2? Is there a difference anymore?

Some people need to be stuffed in lockers 

[Groovy]

Expect the top 10 to be late again. 

[gikem]

[jenglisbe]

Jan 2, 2022 13:12:54 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Jan 2, 2022 12:51:43 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Is this Pulse or grade 2? Is there a difference anymore?

Some people need to be stuffed in lockers 

Lol at outrage over a snarky comment but not at people praising bullying behavior. Never change, Pulse.

[gikem]

Jan 2, 2022 13:45:06 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Expect the top 10 to be late again. 

And this'll happen again in a couple weeks due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That's 3 out of the first 4 weeks of the calendar year with delayed chart reveals. Lovely.

[85la]

^ I would say have some compassion for hard workers simply taking off holidays to relax, but the fact of their increasing paywalls and recent doubling of their subscription price makes me lose a lot of sympathy.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jan 2, 2022 14:39:13 GMT -5 85la said:

^ I would say have some compassion for hard workers simply taking off holidays to relax, but the fact of their increasing paywalls and recent doubling of their subscription price makes me lose a lot of sympathy.

Idk, being a mainly print publication that has had to try to maintain readership and interest in a virtual environment, adding to that, charts themselves are probably having less relevance in today’s industry outside of the obvious stanbases, who likely don’t contribute much to the subscription numbers anyway, it’s possible that they’re probably getting closer to grasping at straws in attempts now to stay afloat.

[NeRD]

I know it's a prediction but abcdefu is still far behind Easy On Me. That's it's only competition at the moment unless something else pops up.

[waluigionascooter]

Jan 2, 2022 15:33:11 GMT -5 NeRD said:

I know it's a prediction but abcdefu is still far behind Easy On Me. That's it's only competition at the moment unless something else pops up.

We can always get another Drivers License

[iHype.]

Charts have less relevance in todays industry?

Um. There’s a reason why all these artists are now doing 25 gimmicks despite never doing gimmicks 10 years ago. Charts matter more than ever.

[Groovy]

Jan 2, 2022 14:29:49 GMT -5 gikem said:

Jan 2, 2022 13:45:06 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Expect the top 10 to be late again. 

And this'll happen again in a couple weeks due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That's 3 out of the first 4 weeks of the calendar year with delayed chart reveals. Lovely.

It's gonna be even more crazy in 2024 when both these holidays occur on Mondays. 

[JukeboxJacob]

Jan 2, 2022 12:22:46 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

Billboard Top 10 Flashback:

January 7, 2012

10 12 Dance (A$$) - Big Sean

I appreciate the love for booty but this song was TRASH

[NeRD]

Dance(Ass) was a bop! It was perfect for it's time.

[joshtheking]

Dance A$$ kinda gets better with age tbh

[kimberly]

Jan 2, 2022 7:59:28 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Jan 2, 2022 2:48:43 GMT -5 kimberly said:

you know it’s a slow week when we have essays and back-and-forths about Drake’s catalog and songwriting credits 🤦🏽 never change, pulsemusic dot proboards dot com.

I'm sure JukeboxJacob will be here any minute to point out the condescension.

No need to single me out when a large portion of posters here are snarky.

the difference is, my ~comedic commentary~ is aimed at no one in particular, just stating objectively what is being discussed to point out how little there is to discuss about the Hot 100 itself this week. I didn't write that to condescend thegreatdivine and I'm pretty sure she didn't take it that way either. 

n-e-ways...

[NeRD]

Y'all still going?

[phieaglesfan712]

Jan 2, 2022 16:23:51 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Jan 2, 2022 14:29:49 GMT -5 gikem said:

And this'll happen again in a couple weeks due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That's 3 out of the first 4 weeks of the calendar year with delayed chart reveals. Lovely.

It's gonna be even more crazy in 2024 when both these holidays occur on Mondays. 

We had that in Dec 2017/Jan 2018, and to make things even crazier, we had an intermediate 1/3/2018 chart in between 2 normally scheduled chart (12/30/2017 and 1/6/2018).

[iHype.]

Jan 2, 2022 12:22:46 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

January 6, 2007
08 07 We Fly High - Jim Jones

This quite possibly has the cheapest sounding production of any modern hit ever. 

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jan 2, 2022 16:03:30 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Charts have less relevance in todays industry?

Um. There’s a reason why all these artists are now doing 25 gimmicks despite never doing gimmicks 10 years ago. Charts matter more than ever.

I mean, artists and labels still care about them obviously but it doesn’t seem to be as widespread and across genres the way it used to be.

[kindofbiased]

Jan 2, 2022 19:33:08 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Jan 2, 2022 12:22:46 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

January 6, 2007
08 07 We Fly High - Jim Jones

This quite possibly has the cheapest sounding production of any modern hit ever. 

I only knew this song as the intro to those super old Chad Warden troll videos for the longest time so it barely even registers as a proper hit song to my ears

[korbel16]

Drivers license is gunna be a year on Saturday. let’s keep the tradition going, someone release a juggernaut I’m bored

[Groovy]

Maybe we'll get a hit from another Disney star like Sofia Wylie.