Billboard Hot 100: 03/05/2022

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Notable Singles:
Fontaines D.C. - I Love You
Baby Tate - What's Love and Sl*t Him Out
Jack Harlow - Nail Tech
Sabrina Carpenter - Fast Times
King Yosef - Barbed Teeth
Troye Sivan and Jay Som - Trouble
Nilüfer Yanya - anotherlife
Buddy feat. Blxst - Wait Too Long
Mahalia - Letter to Ur Ex
Kurt Vile - Like Exploding Stones
Regard with Years & Years - Hallucination
Lucky Daye feat. Lil Durk - NWA
Isaac Dunbar - Bleach
Selin - Give and Take
Suzy - Satellite
Ian Isiah - MSR
Bronze Avery - CRY a LOT
Animals As Leaders - Gordian Naught
SEB - f**k it, i'm the man
Lil Texas - Turn the Volume Up
The Knocks with Dragonette - Slow Song
Tion Wayne with M24 - Knock Knock
Clean Bandit feat. A7S - Everything But You
Ty Dolla $ign feat. Wiz Khalifa - Champions
Bob Moses - Never Ending
Future Islands - King of Sweden
Shenseea feat. 21 Savage - R U That
The Wedding Present - I Am Not Going to Fall in Love with You
Kid Cudi with Nigo - Want It Bad
Jake Owen - Fishin' On A River
Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (Bring Me The Horizon Remix)
COIN - I Think I Met You in a Dream
ReleastK - Love Me
Sara Kays - When You Look At Me
Benson Boone - Room for 2
Mike Dimes - HOME
347aiden - BAD KIDS
SAINt JHN - For the Squadron
DDG feat. Gunna - Elon Musk
Maude Latour - Headphones
Romeo Santos - Sus - Huellas
Jessie Murph - Pray
Mimi Webb - House on Fire
Stefflon Don - Like That
ROLE MODEL - if jesus saves me, she's my type

Notable Albums:
Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Hurray For The Riff Raff - Life On Earth
Yeat - 2 Alivë
BROODS - Space Island
gabby start - luca (EP)
Ran - 世存
The Birthday Massacre - Fascination
Bad Boy Chiller Crew - Disrespectful
A Will Away - Stew
Blue Hawaii - My Bestfriend's House (EP)
Chandler Owens - my unpredictable thoughts under the moonlight.
Sunset Sons - Too Many Humans, Not Enough Souls.
Astrid Williamson - Into The Mountain
Methyl Ethel - Are You Haunted?
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Nightroamer
Metronomy - Small World
Big K.R.I.T. - Digital Roses Don't Die
Josef Salvat - Islands
Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane
Sleepwulf - Sunbeams Curl
Pure Wrath - Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
Immolation - Acts Of God
Curren$y & The Alchemist - Continuance
Carlie Hanson - Tough Boy
Blessed Are The Hearts That Bend - Sadness Be Damned
Nicholas Craven - Craven N 3
DC the Don - My Own Worst Enemy
Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
KnifeTrick - no one is having fun (EP)
Sipho. - She Might Bleed (EP)
Debit - The Long Count
And So I Watch You From Afar - Jettison
Coals - Rewal (EP)
Gregor Barnett - Don't Go Throwing Roses In My Grave
Modern Studies - We Are There
White Lies - As I Try Not To Fall Apart
Black Map - Melodria
The Body & OAA - Enemy of Love
Kendra Morris - Nine Lives
Eric Chenaux - Say Laura
Big Nothing - Dog Hours
Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci - Winds Bells Falls
Tinlicker - In Another Lifetime
Commodo Deft 1s (EP)
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Moon (EP)
Spaceship - Ravines
The Skinner Brothers - Soul Boy II
Kuru - Splitting Time (EP)
Goodbye June - See Where The Night Goes
Shovels & Rope - Manticore
Sally Shapiro - Sad Cities
Danny Ocean - @dannocean
Oliver Tree - Cowboy Tears

[fridayteenage]

doesn't look like much big will be out today album-wise.

i was gonna say the man picking a fight with billie eilish for caring about other human beings was a cert with his mid-week album, but an article says he doesn't want to release on apple/spotify/amazon/youtube? hmm.

[Caviar]

Awful week for new releases.

[JukeboxJacob]

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as RJ from Over the Hedge once said, nice! It looks like Dremolus won, sorry Otavioh! Someday I'll claim my victory and start the weekly thread!

Anyway, things are still slow 😫 also, they dropped Joker & The Flop to #25 on TTH 😂

[otaviohmg]

Sorry for making another thread. I got way too excited hahahaha

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[iHype.]

Feb 18, 2022 0:12:21 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Awful week for new releases.

Awful year* at this point lol.

Looks like Encanto will join The Bodyguard and Saturday Night Fever as the only Soundtracks to occupy #1 on Billboard 200 & #1 on Hot 100 for 5+ consecutive weeks.

[Abbaschand]

Feb 18, 2022 0:33:27 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Feb 18, 2022 0:12:21 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Awful week for new releases.

Awful year* at this point lol.

If the lack of new music is the thing that will make Heat Waves reach #1, then I'm down.

[jayhawk1117]

Unless something new pops off we’ll be getting close to double digits for Bruno lol

It being Disney’s most (chart) successful song would WILD

[nathanalbright]

Anyone want to think about what bubbling under songs are the most likely to debut? They have a bigger chance than about 90% of these new releases.

[lazer]

Come on people, at least stream the new songs to see which one will click the most. The lack of new hits these days is just outrageous, I have no idea why this is happening. It's the reason why songs like Heat Waves is still getting streams.

[Caviar]

I have. Most of these new releases are a steaming pile of s**t. “Nail Tech” goes hard tho.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Feb 18, 2022 0:46:24 GMT -5 Caviar said:

I have. Most of these new releases are a steaming pile of s**t. “Nail Tech” goes hard tho.

Have u at least tried the new Beach House?

[Mayman]

Feb 18, 2022 0:49:20 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Feb 18, 2022 0:46:24 GMT -5 Caviar said:

I have. Most of these new releases are a steaming pile of s**t. “Nail Tech” goes hard tho.

Have u at least tried the new Beach House?

Ordered that on vinyl, excited to hear the rest later.

Nail Tech is pretty good too, as is the new Kid Cudi song.

[Caviar]

Feb 18, 2022 0:49:20 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Feb 18, 2022 0:46:24 GMT -5 Caviar said:

I have. Most of these new releases are a steaming pile of s**t. “Nail Tech” goes hard tho.

Have u at least tried the new Beach House?

I’m going thru the singles for now. “Trouble” is really good too but not as instant as "You".

[lazer]

I like Nail Tech, it's pretty good. I think that Oliver Tree song sounds decent imo.

[Caviar]

[firefox]

Feb 18, 2022 1:10:33 GMT -5 Caviar said:

So we won't see an album bomb for Donda 2. The Hot Christian Songs chart is safe.

[JukeboxJacob]

Feb 18, 2022 0:45:01 GMT -5 lazer said:

Come on people, at least stream the new songs to see which one will click the most. The lack of new hits these days is just outrageous, I have no idea why this is happening

YES. This is it. There's not a lack of new music, there's a lack of new music consumption. I'vE sAiD iT bEfOrE, but there's plenty of great new music out recently, but for whatever reason, people just aren't listening to any of it!

[After Minutes]

Yeah Nail Tech is a hit. Don't necessarily expect it to have a huge debut but it should climb over the next few weeks

[gikem]

It’s possible Kanye could do what he did with TLOP back in 2016 and give Donda 2 a wider release at a later date. Plus, given this is Kanye we’re talking about, I don’t trust for a second that he’ll keep to his word until he actually does what he says.

As for the lack of new releases, yeah, it’s frustrating that nothing has come along to really capture the cultural zeitgeist so far this year, where not even the TikTok-driven songs are going above and beyond in consumption like they could in the past. If anything, this is making me appreciate how surprisingly decent mainstream country has been so far this year. Sure, we still have a few mediocre songs here and there, and even a couple outright awful ones in AA and Beers On Me, but for the most part, I’ve been enjoying the charting country offerings a lot more than some other genres with presence. I know a lot of you don’t like or care for the genre, but I do suggest you take a listen to songs like You Should Probably Leave, Half of My Hometown, Heart on Fire, If I Was A Cowboy, and Never Wanted To Be That Girl if you want a taste of what Nashville has to offer right now.

[jenglisbe]

Feb 18, 2022 4:16:56 GMT -5 JukeboxJacob said:

Feb 18, 2022 0:45:01 GMT -5 lazer said:

Come on people, at least stream the new songs to see which one will click the most. The lack of new hits these days is just outrageous, I have no idea why this is happening

YES. This is it. There's not a lack of new music, there's a lack of new music consumption. I'vE sAiD iT bEfOrE, but there's plenty of great new music out recently, but for whatever reason, people just aren't listening to any of it!

Well, in a sense old music is new music if you’re just now discovering it. There’s a lot of old music out there (literally a century’s worth), so it makes sense to me it gets more streams then new music.

[phieaglesfan712]

Feb 18, 2022 0:45:01 GMT -5 lazer said:

Come on people, at least stream the new songs to see which one will click the most. The lack of new hits these days is just outrageous, I have no idea why this is happening. It's the reason why songs like Heat Waves is still getting streams.

Something went wrong between September and now. The top of the charts were still competitive just six months ago, when 350 points didn’t guarantee Stay the #1.

WDTAB potentially spending more weeks at #1 than Stay feels so wrong. Stay had over 300 points week in and week out for a 3-4 month stretch, while WDTAB never reached that threshold.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Feb 18, 2022 7:27:37 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Feb 18, 2022 4:16:56 GMT -5 JukeboxJacob said:

YES. This is it. There's not a lack of new music, there's a lack of new music consumption. I'vE sAiD iT bEfOrE, but there's plenty of great new music out recently, but for whatever reason, people just aren't listening to any of it!

Well, in a sense old music is new music if you’re just now discovering it. There’s a lot of old music out there (literally a century’s worth), so it makes sense to me it gets more streams then new music.

You know that's not what they goddamnt meant. And people aren't listening old music to discover it, as it's been proven many times: most streams are for catalog, i.e. the people who are already fans of an artists are listening to their older catalog.

As Jukebox said: there's a lot of great music that's been coming out in the last few weeks: FKA twigs, Black Country New Road, Beach House, Foxes, Big Thief, Raveena, Father John Misty, Tove Lo, Grimes, AURORA, Denzel Curry, Hatchie, yeule, Vylet Pony, Mitski, Hikaru Utada, and MANY more I could list. I goddamn promote new music every week. Forget about whether or not something will chart, just be more adventurous and listen to the new releases.

[chanman]

Feb 18, 2022 7:27:37 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Feb 18, 2022 4:16:56 GMT -5 JukeboxJacob said:

YES. This is it. There's not a lack of new music, there's a lack of new music consumption. I'vE sAiD iT bEfOrE, but there's plenty of great new music out recently, but for whatever reason, people just aren't listening to any of it!

Well, in a sense old music is new music if you’re just now discovering it. There’s a lot of old music out there (literally a century’s worth), so it makes sense to me it gets more streams then new music.

Agreed. But I am wondering what else contributes to the lack of consumption.
I've listened to several songs this year, you can find good stuff and it all depends what you are into. However, if one is looking for songs with mass appeals like Stay or The Box or Drivers License, I can see why there isn't any major hit as yet. The standout singles are simply not there and its mostly generic or 'I've heard similar before'. When you look at the top 10, new entrants by "Ghost" and "That's What I Want" are really last year releases even though its peak is coming in 2022. So yeah, the top 10 is still 2021ish. Then I ask myself…is it Billboard that needs to change charts rules again in some way to promote newer music or is it that the GP is just tired and some prefer to go back to older stuff?????



I don't know what other factors are at play - pandemic (is getting a bit stale to be a reason, though it probably damaged music since 2020) - by now I was more hoping that more Gen Zzzzs would have lit up the charts...but at least there is newbie Gayle and Kodak is back for now. I would hope Spring and Summer bring the relief and paves the way. And we'll never know what's in everyone's head (meaning the GP and music industry bigs) at the moment. Who knows maybe there is need for a new genre creating a wave of artists to come or need for just that one artist who is able to change the industry and take the world by storm to shake things up.



Onto this week releases, what sounds like hits to me:

Nail Tech – Jack Harlow

Want It Bad – Kid Cudi, Nigo

House on Fire – Mimi Webb

Pray – Jessie Murph

NWA – Lucky Daye, Lil Durk

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Feb 18, 2022 7:52:33 GMT -5 chanman said:

Feb 18, 2022 7:27:37 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Well, in a sense old music is new music if you’re just now discovering it. There’s a lot of old music out there (literally a century’s worth), so it makes sense to me it gets more streams then new music.

Agreed. But I am wondering what else contributes to the lack of consumption.
I've listened to several songs this year, you can find good stuff and it all depends what you are into. However, if one is looking for songs with mass appeals like Stay or The Box or Drivers License, I can see why there isn't any major hit as yet. The standout singles are simply not there and its mostly generic or 'I've heard similar before'. When you look at the top 10, new entrants by "Ghost" and "That's What I Want" are really last year releases even though its peak is coming in 2022. So yeah, the top 10 is still 2021ish. Then I ask myself…is it Billboard that needs to change charts rules again in some way to promote newer music or is it that the GP is just tired and some prefer to go back to older stuff??



I don't know what other factors are at play - pandemic (is getting a bit stale to be a reason, though it probably damaged music since 2020) - by now I was more hoping that more Gen Zzzzs would have lit up the charts...but at least there is newbie Gayle and Kodak is back for now. I would hope Spring and Summer bring the relief and paves the way. And we'll never know what's in everyone's head (meaning the GP and music industry bigs) at the moment. Who knows maybe there is need for a new genre creating a wave of artists to come or need for just that one artist who is able to change the industry and take the world by storm to shake things up.

Well again, I think you answered your question. For most people: broad mass appeal isn't what they want to listen to. Streaming has only grown and splintered people into listening to what they want/that's familiar to them so you don't need to care about big name artists too much. Yes we'll still have artists generating big hype and buzz like veterans such as Taylor, Kanye, Drake, etc., as well as newcomers making waves like Olivia, Doja, Lil Nas, and others. And as Olivia showed, if people give something a chance and latch on to it, they'll make it big organically. But most of what's good doesn't have broad mass appeal (another way of saying what's popular isn't always good)

In a way, it makes sense the biggest song right now is a song from a children's movie. That's as broad as you can get.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Yeah, I agree with that. The current ‘state’ of music charts might be what becomes normal as people continue to create their own individual path of what they listen to that deviates from popular music. So then any song that does happen to have overlap in its audience reach (such as Bruno) will stick around for much longer.

I also think the pandemic might continue to play a role. I’m not sure to what degree clubs and other gathering places are reopened in other places yet, but these places allowed people to experience music together as a social thing. Without that, we rely on social media, memes, tiktok to share music with people we know. I think that impacts how music is able to expand and grow in this context too.

[king_billboard_100]

No new hits this week. So WDTAB coming for the 10 weeks?

[king_billboard_100]

Feb 18, 2022 8:20:00 GMT -5 king_billboard_100 said:

No new hits this week. So WDTAB coming for the 10 weeks? Unless kendrick release

[jenglisbe]

Feb 18, 2022 7:43:05 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Feb 18, 2022 7:27:37 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Well, in a sense old music is new music if you’re just now discovering it. There’s a lot of old music out there (literally a century’s worth), so it makes sense to me it gets more streams then new music.

You know that's not what they goddamnt meant. And people aren't listening old music to discover it, as it's been proven many times: most streams are for catalog, i.e. the people who are already fans of an artists are listening to their older catalog.

As Jukebox said: there's a lot of great music that's been coming out in the last few weeks: FKA twigs, Black Country New Road, Beach House, Foxes, Big Thief, Raveena, Father John Misty, Tove Lo, Grimes, AURORA, Denzel Curry, Hatchie, yeule, Vylet Pony, Mitski, Hikaru Utada, and MANY more I could list. I goddamn promote new music every week. Forget about whether or not something will chart, just be more adventurous and listen to the new releases.

When something goes viral off TikTok, that's not people who are already fans of an artist listening to their old catalog. When someone listens to a Spotify playlist curated for a certain mood, genre, or the daily ones Spotify creates, the playlist very often has songs the person hasn't heard before (or at least hadn't consciously picked). I've discovered songs that are old, but new to me, that way and then begin to listen to them as if they are new.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Feb 18, 2022 8:39:31 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Feb 18, 2022 7:43:05 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

You know that's not what they goddamnt meant. And people aren't listening old music to discover it, as it's been proven many times: most streams are for catalog, i.e. the people who are already fans of an artists are listening to their older catalog.

As Jukebox said: there's a lot of great music that's been coming out in the last few weeks: FKA twigs, Black Country New Road, Beach House, Foxes, Big Thief, Raveena, Father John Misty, Tove Lo, Grimes, AURORA, Denzel Curry, Hatchie, yeule, Vylet Pony, Mitski, Hikaru Utada, and MANY more I could list. I goddamn promote new music every week. Forget about whether or not something will chart, just be more adventurous and listen to the new releases.

When something goes viral off TikTok, that's not people who are already fans of an artist listening to their old catalog. When someone listens to a Spotify playlist curated for a certain mood, genre, or the daily ones Spotify creates, the playlist very often has songs the person hasn't heard before (or at least hadn't consciously picked). I've discovered songs that are old, but new to me, that way and then begin to listen to them as if they are new.

But we weren't talking about people discovering old music through TikTok or Spotify curated songs, again that's not what Jukebox was talking about. When they said "new music consumption" they were clearly talking about music that's just been released but you're making it sound like as if they were just talking about consuming music that's new to younger people.