Billboard Hot 100: 03/26/2022

[Future Captain]

At this point I'm rooting for Heat Waves to remain stable because it's literally the only thing preventing Stay from returning to #1

[312999]

When the 1 song to enter the top 10 this week is the worst song in the top 10 right now....

[Caviar]

Awful the Whitney record was broken.

[Dylan :)]

I hope Stay can return to #1!

[Groovy]

Wow, only three songs in the top 10 right now that debuted there.

[phieaglesfan712]

Stay has been in the Top 2 for at least one week in now 7 different months (August, September, October, November, December, January, and now March). It is on pace to make it 8 months next week.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

OH THIS MISERY
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY ENEMYYYYYYY

IT HAS BEGUN: The chart run in the Top 10 for Imagine Dragons' _{(and JIDs)} first number one hit

WE CAN DO THIS!

FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF ALL MUSIC!

Now everyone stream Enemy or else :)

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Mar 21, 2022 12:33:12 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Mar 21, 2022 7:59:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

And that’s good why?

They’re the one thing preventing world peace

Men made Heat Waves and that's all the reason I need to vaporize all men.

[otaviohmg]

Mar 21, 2022 12:49:00 GMT -5 Dylan :) said:

I hope Stay can return to #1!

Please no.

[85la]

Mar 21, 2022 12:46:15 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Awful the Whitney record was broken.

I'm a bit sorry to see it go too, but with the way the charts are going these days it was bound to happen sooner or later, and Exhale itself was not the absolute biggest top 2 hit points-wise, so it sorta got lucky to log all those weeks at #2 as well.

[Gary]

Longevity records will start to fall quicker


It is possible that even that the song that will beat the Blinding Lights record is charting now

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

such a shame they didn't have a song on the Hot 100 in 2012.

[Limited Edition]

Mar 20, 2022 19:53:22 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

Mar 20, 2022 19:16:04 GMT -5 Limited Edition said:

2017:

1. Rockabye (8.5/10)
2. Love On The Brain (8.5/10)
Not a single great song in that top 10 imo

dang where is the "great" line for you if an 85% isn't it
my "great" line starts at 70% lol

Great starts at 9.

0: Worst song ever
1. Awful
2. Very bad
3. Bad
4. Very mid
5. Mid
6. Decent
7. Good
8. Very good
9. Great
10. Perfect

[Deleted]

Do they plan to change something how the charts are made or they can just drop the charts business, because this is not even funny, this is a catastrophe. So when there is 520 top 10 chart places in a year and lets say average top 10 song is charting 32 weeks, then we can have about 20 top 10 songs per year, yess that will make music business easy... Also we can remove 4 weeks or about 40 top 10 units and reserve these for Mariah and other forever-charting Chrismas songs and we have less than 500 top 10 units left. I wonder whether diversity in the music business is making more money. So that is the question for music business. Right now we have 20 hits songs per year and 10 hit albums the same time period, when it used to be 10 times more(200 hits and 100 albums) 20 years ago. I am pretty sure that everybody is losing - artists, listeners and record companies.

[livelightning]

Mar 21, 2022 13:48:39 GMT -5 @sigur said:

Do they plan to change something how the charts are made or they can just drop the charts business, because this is not even funny, this is a catastrophe. So when there is 520 top 10 chart places in a year and lets say average top 10 song is charting 32 weeks, then we can have about 20 top 10 songs per year, yess that will make music business easy... Also we can remove 4 weeks or about 40 top 10 units and reserve these for Mariah and other forever-charting Chrismas songs and we have less than 500 top 10 units left. I wonder whether diversity in the music business is making more money. So that is the question for music business. Right now we have 20 hits songs per year and 10 hit albums the same time period, when it used to be 10 times more(200 hits and 100 albums) 20 years ago. I am pretty sure that everybody is losing - artists, listeners and record companies.

If that's what people are listening to, that's what people are listening to. Don't blame the charts for reflecting that

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Mar 21, 2022 13:48:39 GMT -5 @sigur said:

Do they plan to change something how the charts are made or they can just drop the charts business, because this is not even funny, this is a catastrophe. So when there is 520 top 10 chart places in a year and lets say average top 10 song is charting 32 weeks, then we can have about 20 top 10 songs per year, yess that will make music business easy... Also we can remove 4 weeks or about 40 top 10 units and reserve these for Mariah and other forever-charting Chrismas songs and we have less than 500 top 10 units left. I wonder whether diversity in the music business is making more money. So that is the question for music business. Right now we have 20 hits songs per year and 10 hit albums the same time period, when it used to be 10 times more(200 hits and 100 albums) 20 years ago. I am pretty sure that everybody is losing - artists, listeners and record companies.

I mean, you can blame the charts all you want when it’s the consumers and what they listen to that actually controls them. Do you tweet at the meteorologist because you don’t like the temperatures and think they should measure weather differently? Idgi

[Limited Edition]

Mar 20, 2022 19:47:18 GMT -5 mms82 said:

Mar 20, 2022 19:16:04 GMT -5 Limited Edition said:

2017:

1. Rockabye (8.5/10)
2. Love On The Brain (8.5/10)
3. That's What I Like (7.5/10)
4. Bounce Back (6/10)
5. Paris (6/10)
6. Bad And Boujee (5/10)
7. Closer (4/10)
8. Shape Of You (3/10)
9. I Don't Wanna Live Forever (2/10)
10. Tunnel Vision (1/10)


2017 was really rough. Not a single great song in that top 10 imo and several bad ones.

So unbelievably disagree haha, that's one of the best top 10s ever


1. Rockabye (8.5/10) pretty accurate
2. Love On The Brain (8.5/10) pretty accurate
3. That's What I Like (7.5/10) pretty accurate
4. Bounce Back (6/10) Big Sean is a super underrated rapper and this is one of his best (9/10)
5. Paris (6/10) my bias showing, but even as one of the worst songs from MDNO, this song is still a (9/10)
6. Bad And Boujee (5/10) one of, if not the best, rap songs to go number one in the past 10 years (9.5/10)
7. Closer (4/10) the greatest song of all time (11/10)
8. Shape Of You (3/10) so overplayed, but overplayed for a reason (8/10)
9. I Don't Wanna Live Forever (2/10) I wish Taylor would do a song like this again, and Zayn at his best (9/10)
10. Tunnel Vision (1/10) Honestly the worst song in the top 10, but still holds up really well 5 years later (6/10)

Tunnel Vision makes me laugh. It's that bad lol.
I think I Don't Wanna Live Forever is one of the most forgettable hit songs of the 2010s. Almost Don't Wanna Know by Maroon 5 level of nothing.
Paris is good by Chainsmokers standards. But I still don't think it's much better than decent. Actually 7/10 might be more accurate.
I never liked Bad And Boujee that much but I've always thought it was pretty good...until I relistened to it yesterday. It's way more boring than I remembered. Similar case with Bounce Back.
Shape Of You has always been a bad song. Never understood the appeal. Cringy lyrics, very repetitive and boring production.
I think Closer has an awful drop but otherwise it's okay. Andrew Taggart sucks as a vocalist though.

But of course these are just my opinions and some of these were incredibly successful (Closer, Shape Of You), so some people clearly like them. 2017 was a pretty good year for music but I don't like this particular top 10. 

[fridayteenage]

sweetest pie starting lower than wild side. How wild

[imbondz]

Mar 21, 2022 12:33:12 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Mar 21, 2022 7:59:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

And that’s good why?

They’re the one thing preventing world peace

More than half of this board would die.

[skizzo]

Mar 21, 2022 13:48:16 GMT -5 Limited Edition said:

Mar 20, 2022 19:53:22 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

dang where is the "great" line for you if an 85% isn't it
my "great" line starts at 70% lol

Great starts at 9.

0: Worst song ever
1. Awful
2. Very bad
3. Bad
4. Very mid
5. Mid
6. Decent
7. Good
8. Very good
9. Great
10. Perfect

We have very similar rankings:

00 = ghastly
01 = terrible
02 = very bad
03 = bad
04 = underwhelming
05 = mediocre
06 = decent
07 = good
08 = very good
09 = great
10 = amazing

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Mar 21, 2022 14:21:20 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Mar 21, 2022 12:33:12 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

They’re the one thing preventing world peace

More than half of this board would die.

K.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Mar 21, 2022 14:21:20 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Mar 21, 2022 12:33:12 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

They’re the one thing preventing world peace

More than half of this board would die.

But just think of all the lives saved!

[renfield75]

Mar 21, 2022 12:46:15 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Awful the Whitney record was broken.

It's still the only song to get as many as 11 *consecutive* weeks at number 2. I think "Good 4 U"'s 11 week run was non-consecutive too.

[enwhy]

Mar 14, 2022 11:36:48 GMT -5 enwhy said:

Mar 14, 2022 7:44:03 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

lol at Sweetest Pie already being below Stay on Spotify. Stay might end up going back to #2 on the Hot 100 at this rate.

lol yup, we're about 2 weeks away from a Heat Waves / Stay top 2. Pretty fitting for the current music climate.

2 weeks ahead of schedule lol

[Deleted]

Mar 21, 2022 14:03:33 GMT -5 livelightning said:

Mar 21, 2022 13:48:39 GMT -5 @sigur said:

Do they plan to change something how the charts are made or they can just drop the charts business, because this is not even funny, this is a catastrophe. So when there is 520 top 10 chart places in a year and lets say average top 10 song is charting 32 weeks, then we can have about 20 top 10 songs per year, yess that will make music business easy... Also we can remove 4 weeks or about 40 top 10 units and reserve these for Mariah and other forever-charting Chrismas songs and we have less than 500 top 10 units left. I wonder whether diversity in the music business is making more money. So that is the question for music business. Right now we have 20 hits songs per year and 10 hit albums the same time period, when it used to be 10 times more(200 hits and 100 albums) 20 years ago. I am pretty sure that everybody is losing - artists, listeners and record companies.

If that's what people are listening to, that's what people are listening to. Don't blame the charts for reflecting that

Nope, the rules make the charts and always have and the charts has the effect on what people listen to. The most of the songs in top 10 should be recurrent. There use to be much much more good music around, so there are more popular artists who give more concerts to people etc. The people are not to blame, the system is...

[mms82]

if Taylor drops a new album now she could probably beat Ariana's record and snag the top four given the current weakness of the chart and Folklore's streaming numbers

[livelightning]

Mar 21, 2022 15:10:19 GMT -5 @sigur said:

Mar 21, 2022 14:03:33 GMT -5 livelightning said:

If that's what people are listening to, that's what people are listening to. Don't blame the charts for reflecting that

Nope, the rules make the charts and always have and the charts has the effect on what people listen to. The most of the songs in top 10 should be recurrent. There use to be much much more good music around, so there are more popular artists who give more concerts to people etc. The people are not to blame, the system is...

The charts don't have an effect on what people listen to. Very few people look at the hot 100 to find songs to listen to. And regardless, it is not the job of the hot 100 to dictate the pop music scene.

[Deleted]

Mar 21, 2022 15:24:45 GMT -5 livelightning said:

Mar 21, 2022 15:10:19 GMT -5 @sigur said:

Nope, the rules make the charts and always have and the charts has the effect on what people listen to. The most of the songs in top 10 should be recurrent. There use to be much much more good music around, so there are more popular artists who give more concerts to people etc. The people are not to blame, the system is...

The charts don't have an effect on what people listen to. Very few people look at the hot 100 to find songs to listen to. And regardless, it is not the job of the hot 100 to dictate the pop music scene.

The charts definitely has an effect, it not might be the direct one only, but the charts is one part of the whole music business and the whole business has enormous effect what people listen to. These times are long gone when small radio station started to play a song which eventually went to become a hit. 

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Mar 21, 2022 15:29:45 GMT -5 @sigur said:

Mar 21, 2022 15:24:45 GMT -5 livelightning said:

The charts don't have an effect on what people listen to. Very few people look at the hot 100 to find songs to listen to. And regardless, it is not the job of the hot 100 to dictate the pop music scene.

The charts definitely has an effect, it not might be the direct one only, but the charts is one part of the whole music business and the whole business has enormous effect what people listen to. These times are long gone when small radio station started to play a song which eventually went to become a hit. 

Maybe you're right. BRB, need to write some long-winded emails to the weather network and all my high school math teachers.

[jenglisbe]

Mar 21, 2022 15:36:15 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Mar 21, 2022 15:29:45 GMT -5 @sigur said:

The charts definitely has an effect, it not might be the direct one only, but the charts is one part of the whole music business and the whole business has enormous effect what people listen to. These times are long gone when small radio station started to play a song which eventually went to become a hit. 

Maybe you're right. BRB, need to write some long-winded emails to the weather network and all my high school math teachers.

I mean, I do think the Hot 100 affects listener habits a bit; the Hot 100 does get some press coverage, and it can lead to curious people checking out music that is doing well. I think some stations, playlists, etc cater to the charts as well. Having said that, it's not entirely self-fulfilling, of course, and the charts are following the public's lead more than the other way around.