Billboard Hot 100: 01/08/2022

[chartfreak]

Dec 25, 2021 11:11:00 GMT -5 lazer said:

Will "Rockin" reach number one?

Considering it and the other Xmas songs will only have 3 days at most with massive streaming, not happening.

[Groovy]

Dec 25, 2021 11:11:00 GMT -5 lazer said:

Will "Rockin" reach number one?

No

[pnobelysk]

Christmas isn’t cancelled still not breaking into the top 200 of streaming shows the song just didn’t land. Hopefully next year Kelly promotes SCYHM which is already a top 40 hit in the UK

[kalmanta]

Santa Tell Me is down almost 1M streams compared to 2020, is it not so prominently featured on the big playlists this year?

[gikem]

So I’m seeing that Griff has a Christmas song charting near the top 50 on AM - can we make her a thing in the US in the future? I liked the couple of original songs she’s charted in the UK over the past year.

[fridayteenage]

Dec 25, 2021 13:51:39 GMT -5 pnobelysk said:

Christmas isn’t cancelled still not breaking into the top 200 of streaming shows the song just didn’t land. Hopefully next year Kelly promotes SCYHM which is already a top 40 hit in the UK

she did perform it on television

[kalmanta]

Also Germany is again going fully nuts, 25 songs over 1M streams, up from 19 last year.
Last Christmas is on top with almost 3M

[pnobelysk]

Dec 25, 2021 15:10:42 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

Dec 25, 2021 13:51:39 GMT -5 pnobelysk said:

Christmas isn’t cancelled still not breaking into the top 200 of streaming shows the song just didn’t land. Hopefully next year Kelly promotes SCYHM which is already a top 40 hit in the UK

she did perform it on television

I know but I was more thinking, official music video, sent to hot ac, ac, & pop. Having Ariana perform it on her talk show. A full blitz

[jenglisbe]

Dec 25, 2021 14:29:05 GMT -5 kalmanta said:

Santa Tell Me is down almost 1M streams compared to 2020, is it not so prominently featured on the big playlists this year?

It may not be, not sure. But aren't a lot of holiday songs down from last year?

[kimberly]

yeah if what I said last year holds up, more people are gathering this year and seeing family and friends, meaning less individual Spotify users are on aux for the holidays. that's my hypothesis anyway.

[jenglisbe]

Dec 25, 2021 15:12:34 GMT -5 kalmanta said:

Also Germany is again going fully nuts, 25 songs over 1M streams, up from 19 last year.
Last Christmas is on top with almost 3M

Wow those are incredible totals. Their population is like 1/4 of the U.S. and those would be great totals here.

[kimberly]

she's low-key become the modern queen of christmas.

"Santa Tell Me," "Last Christmas," and "Santa Baby" are all recurring classics, and her "Oh Santa!" collaboration from last year also makes a comeback this year in the Spotify US charts. her latest with Kelly Clarkson, "Santa Can't You Hear Me" is also charting. 5 songs puts her in a tie with Doja Cat for most songs charting yesterday among women, I believe. and that horrid "Masked Christmas" song with Jimmy Fallon and Megan Thee Stallion reached Top 40 on Pop Radio.

also it's extremely impressive that Doja Cat is still charting 5 songs off of Planet Her in the Top 200 on Spotify. SOUR is down to 4 songs, MONTERO and Certified Lover Boy each have 3, and Adele's 30 has only 2 left charting, much like Ed Sheeran's =. when I say Planet Her is the AOTY I mean it.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Dec 25, 2021 22:10:37 GMT -5 kimberly said:

also it's extremely impressive that Doja Cat is still charting 5 songs off of Planet Her in the Top 200 on Spotify. SOUR is down to 4 songs, MONTERO and Certified Lover Boy each have 3, and Adele's 30 has only 2 left charting, much like Ed Sheeran's =. when I say Planet Her is the AOTY I mean it.

it's impressive, but I think that's pretty much how many singles they released from those albums. Get Into It is the only non-single here, but it is/was huge on TikTok. I LOVE Planet Her, but I think Sour will always be THE album of 2021, and 5,5 billion streams in 7 months basically confirms it.

[kimberly]

Dec 25, 2021 22:26:37 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Dec 25, 2021 22:10:37 GMT -5 kimberly said:

also it's extremely impressive that Doja Cat is still charting 5 songs off of Planet Her in the Top 200 on Spotify. SOUR is down to 4 songs, MONTERO and Certified Lover Boy each have 3, and Adele's 30 has only 2 left charting, much like Ed Sheeran's =. when I say Planet Her is the AOTY I mean it.

it's impressive, but I think that's pretty much how many singles they released from those albums. Get Into It is the only non-single here, but it is/was huge on TikTok. I LOVE Planet Her, but I think Sour will always be THE album of 2021, and 5,5 billion streams in 7 months basically confirms it.

To me, it speaks volumes that Doja's only official pre-album single there is "Kiss Me More." "You Right" became the second single along with the album, and "Need To Know" and "Woman" only became singles after they performed greatly on their own (and "Get Into It" might join them soon, I bet). On the contrary, MONTERO and SOUR mainly have their pre-album singles charting (most of which hit #1—so that's their leg up on Doja Cat), spanning 5-6 months of single promo leading up to the albums, aside from "traitor" and "That's What I Want," of course.

I am a huge fan of all three projects—Planet Her is my #1 most-played album of the year, whereas SOUR finishes at #3 and MONTERO at #6. I just think Planet Her has the better reach across demographics and longer-lasting hit singles that just seem to be sticking around with little effort. Between these three albums, "Kiss Me More" and "Need To Know" are on pace to become the longest-charting hits. Doja's charted on the Hot 100 with "Need To Know," "Woman," "Get Into It," and "Ain't Shit" simultaneously for quite a while throughout the summer and early fall despite none of them being "singles" at that point. Kind of like how "traitor" and a couple of other album tracks from SOUR did—but those album tracks have been pushed off due to Christmas, which is the point I was making essentially.

To me, SOUR is the Breakthrough of the Year while Planet Her is the Album of the Year. I make that distinction so that I have more love to give, basically, and not as an insult to Olivia's accomplishments.

[fridayteenage]

album chart points for 2021
2 2,749,000 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo
7 1,442,000 PLANET HER Doja Cat

[JukeboxJacob]

MONTERO is my AOTY. Tales Of Dominica is a masterpiece that'll probably go under the radar forever (much like a certain Dreamworks movie I'm passionate about)

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Internet's not very good here (and even if it was, not in the mood to do 90 minutes of work on my vacation) but I can give brief reports:

Only 36 non Christmas songs are in the Top 200 of Spotify, only 2 in the Top 100
Top 10 without the Holiday Songs:
1. INDUSTRY BABY (this is all the way down at #78)
2. Super Gremlin
3. Broadway Girls
4. STAY
5. Heat Waves
6. abcdefu
7. Easy On Me
8. Enemy
9. Knife Talk
10. I Hate U

[Abbaschand]

NINETY-EIGHT PERCENT?!!

SPOTIFY TOP 100 IS 98 PERCENT CHRISTMAS?!!!!!

AND 82 PERCENT IN THE TOP 200?!!!!!!!!

[Az Paynter]

Before anyone comes to post the Kworb radio update; as of this post Mediabase hasn't updated yet today, which means neither has AllAccess (and thus Kworb's update, which is sourced from AllAccess, is wrong).

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Noted. If it does eventually manage to update correctly, I'll post it.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Dec 25, 2021 18:08:54 GMT -5 kimberly said:

yeah if what I said last year holds up, more people are gathering this year and seeing family and friends, meaning less individual Spotify users are on aux for the holidays. that's my hypothesis anyway.

Excellent point. The same number of ppl may hear a song, but because more ppl are listening to a single device when in groups, the raw number of streams is lower. Considering TSA numbers on 12/23 + 12/24 were nearly triple from 2020, it’s a safe bet ppl are gathering with family again.

[gikem]

Can't wait for all most of the Christmas songs to be Thanos-snapped from the Spotify, iTunes and AM charts tomorrow.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Non-chart related, here's an article I came across that is an interesting read about music:

How music AI could create a future Grammy award winner

[Au$tin]

Dec 25, 2021 12:16:51 GMT -5 Groovy said:

Dec 25, 2021 11:11:00 GMT -5 lazer said:

Will "Rockin" reach number one?

No

I wouldn't be so sure. Rockin has particularly dominated on Spotify this year. It has been #1 there for like 2 weeks, right? That's new. It has managed a few days at #1 here and there in the past, but it's never held it for such a long streak like this before.

Obviously Spotify is one small sliver of the pumpkin pie, but I do personally see it as an indicator that AIWFCIY isn't always guaranteed to be #1 every Christmas. With virtually no effort, RATCT won Spotify this year. Who's to say eventually it won't do the same on enough of the other platforms to finally reach #1 overall? The only real challenge is airplay, as Brenda lacks that pop airplay appeal that Mariah has.

[phieaglesfan712]

If you look at the charts all around the world, you will see that AIWFCIY isn’t as strong in 2021 as it was in 2019 and 2020. On the ARIA chart, AIWFCIY failed to top the charts for the first time in 4 years. On the U.K. charts, it wasn’t even the highest charting Christmas classic (it charted behind Last Christmas).

[jenglisbe]

Dec 26, 2021 10:29:52 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

Dec 25, 2021 12:16:51 GMT -5 Groovy said:

No

I wouldn't be so sure. Rockin has particularly dominated on Spotify this year. It has been #1 there for like 2 weeks, right? That's new. It has managed a few days at #1 here and there in the past, but it's never held it for such a long streak like this before.

Obviously Spotify is one small sliver of the pumpkin pie, but I do personally see it as an indicator that AIWFCIY isn't always guaranteed to be #1 every Christmas. With virtually no effort, RATCT won Spotify this year. Who's to say eventually it won't do the same on enough of the other platforms to finally reach #1 overall? The only real challenge is airplay, as Brenda lacks that pop airplay appeal that Mariah has.

Are you sure it's with no effort? It's clear Spotify playlists favor older holiday songs as they surge as we near Christmas each year, and the newer songs fall behind. I don't know how much of playlist placement is Spotify and how much of that is label/team work.

FYI the airplay lead "AIWFCIY" has is only worth about 1 million streams, so it isn't that big of an advantage.

[rimetm]

Taking the helm from Drem in their vacation:

U.S. Spotify Daily Top 200 - December 25, 2021

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{All of this before our first non-Christmas songs.}

Top 10 Non-Holiday Songs (Including Currents)










Top Gainers (>50,000 Day-Over-Day): Every Christmas song except White Christmas [Amy Grant, off the chart possibly due to metadata mixups], O Holy Night [Etta James], The Christmas Waltz, We Three Kings of Orient Are (1991 Remix) [Beach Boys], Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24, Hallelujah [Pentatonix], Officially Christmas, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero), You Deserve it All [John Legend], & Frosty the Snowman [Pentatonix ft. Alessia Cara]
Top Losses (>50,000 Day-Over-Day): Every Non-Christmas song except Sky & 2055

Off the List Today

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{Check out the full list behind here!}

[otaviohmg]

Amazing. I was doing too but much slower than you lol. Tomorrow I will try to bring the update faster. I can't promise because I'm bad at calculating and codes.

[Caviar]

Good job getting the Spotify data! Christina really improved her ranking this year with “This Christmas”!

[strongerq]

On Global Spotify slight increase compared to last year (mostly thanks to the app growing globally).

Year	24th	25th
2021	572,574,709	500,148,376
2020	555,245,855	499,751,288
2019	435,039,692	381,091,829
2018	388,152,254	347,063,373
2017	285,503,974	254,094,048

The growth of Spotify (table view & graph).

Number of entries over X million on the Daily Global chart.

Year	1M+	2M+	3M+	4M+	5M+	6M+	7M+	8M+	9M+	10M+	11M+	12M+	13M+	14M+	15M+	16M+	17M+	18M+	19M+
2017	22,920	7,606	2,528	794	345	197	94	14	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	28,410	8,034	2,785	849	366	170	95	41	21	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	31,567	8,517	3,115	1,236	515	253	115	64	28	4	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	35,156	10,026	3,852	1,794	730	270	86	22	16	13	8	5	3	2	2	1	1	-	-
2021	36,434	10,005	4,339	1,917	958	537	309	157	102	62	31	18	9	3	3	2	2	1	1

By tomorrow there will be more 2M+ songs compared to last year.

7-day average

An interesting thing (on the higher end):

Songs over 10M (excluding Christmas entries):

2018  - 1 ('SAD!'- 1 day)

2019 - 2 ('7 rings' - 1 day & "I Don't Care" 1 day)

2020 - 1 ('DAKITI' - 1 day)

2021 - 9 songs with 51 entries ('good 4 u' - 16 days, 'drivers license' - 12 days, 'STAY' - 12 days, 'Easy On Me' - 6 days, 'Butter' - 1 day, 'Champagne Poetry' - 1 day, 'Fair Trade' - 1 day, 'Girls Want Girls' - 1 day & "Papi's Home" - 1 day)