Billboard Hot 100: 06/11/2022

[Future Captain]

Well, I guess the It Girl of 2022 is Kate Bush after all. I for one very much welcome this.

[Darkest Hour]

Meg Myers' cover of Running Up That Hill is also rising on iTunes. The original song should be massive at this point.

[Enigma.]

May 31, 2022 7:03:52 GMT -5 Future Captain said:

Well, I guess the It Girl of 2022 is Kate Bush after all. I for one very much welcome this.

We need Aerial and 50 Words for Snow back on album charts too.

[renfield75]

May 31, 2022 6:19:22 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Say thank you streaming era for instances like this lol.

I do wonder why in the digital sales era there was never really these type of instances where old songs could chart *this* high after going viral or being used in media. Especially when sales was an older demographic than streaming overall.

The only big example I remember was Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" jumping to number one on iTunes after it was covered on American Idol. It may have been able to crack the top 20 on the Hot 100 but this was before catalog songs were allowed to re-enter.

And of course there was "Don't Stop Believin'"...

[jamatthews83]

#2 on Spotify, 500k behind Harry.

[iHype.]

May 31, 2022 8:01:45 GMT -5 renfield75 said:

May 31, 2022 6:19:22 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Say thank you streaming era for instances like this lol.

I do wonder why in the digital sales era there was never really these type of instances where old songs could chart *this* high after going viral or being used in media. Especially when sales was an older demographic than streaming overall.

The only big example I remember was Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" jumping to number one on iTunes after it was covered on American Idol. It may have been able to crack the top 20 on the Hot 100 but this was before catalog songs were allowed to re-enter.

And of course there was "Don't Stop Believin'"...

The biggest example is how AIWFCIY couldn’t even reach top 20 on iTunes at the height of digital sales during 2012/2013. Now every year it’s a given to go #1 on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.

It actually reached #1 on sales back in 2005 when iTunes was in its infant stage and only used by a niche crowd like present days, then when digital sales exploded it (and other Holiday classics) did worse. Yet it’s the opposite and as streaming explodes they just do better.

[rimetm]

Yeah, it's at least not in doubt that Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" would've made it to the top 50 had the rule been in place earlier. It sold over 170,000 copies that week, and the prior week, an Academy Award-winning song charted solely on sales at #61 with "just" 41,000 sales (the relative scale feels so weird now that the top of the metric is a tossup as to whether it reaches 5 digits...).

[firefox]

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I agree it would be smart for radio to test “Running Up That Hill.” The Stranger Things connection already did the work for the song, and unlike “Dreams,” this song hasn’t exactly been everpresent on stations that play older songs occasionally or regularly, so it might have a bit of a fresh feel to it.

One can dream.

[KeepDeanWeird]

RUTH could benefit from the flushing out of several stagnant songs in the 20-40s because of the consecutive album bombs and that there isn't a bomb this chart week.

[Verisimilitude]

Running Up That Hill getting a new peak actually does seem more like a possibility now! Love to see it! I remember being happy when Ghosttown DJ's had a new peak with My Boo when it went viral on Vine several years ago. Hope to see this go top 20/top 25 on the Hot 100 next week!

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates « 2022 » / « 05 » / « 31 »

1(=) Harry Styles - As It Was 97.16(-0.21)
2(=) Jack Harlow - First Class 94.37(+0.88)
3(=) Latto - Big Energy 81.26(+0.20)
4(=) The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber - Stay 66.75(-0.86)
5(=) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 66.39(-1.07)
6(+1) Dove Cameron - Boyfriend 64.45(+0.93)
7(-1) Imagine Dragons - Enemy From League Of Legends 64.33(-1.15)
8(=) Justin Bieber - Ghost 60.94(-0.25)
9(=) Lil Nas X - Thats What I Want 58.75(-0.46)
10(=) Doja Cat - Woman 55.12(-0.79)

11(+1) Lizzo - About Damn Time 53.39(+1.36)

13(=) Em Beihold - Numb Little Bug 51.39(+0.56)

30(+2) Keith Urban - Wild Hearts 31.61(+0.51)

54(+2) Lady Gaga - Hold My Hand 20.61(+0.50)

-(-) Post Malone - Cooped Up (feat. Roddy Ricch) 10.24(+1.50) +

-(-) Harry Styles - Late Night Talking 9.65(+1.07)

-(-) Kendrick Lamar - Silent Hill f/Kodak Black 9.42(+0.72)

-(-) Bad Bunny - Despues De La Playa 2.42(+0.81) +

-(-) Dj Nelson - Te Veo Bailar f/Wisin & Yandel 2.10(+0.96) +

[renfield75]

How great would it be if everyone listening to "Running Up That Hill" then discovered "Cloudbusting"? That song is just waiting for a viral moment.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 05/30/22

1(=) Harry Styles - As It Was 1,850,284 (-6,860)
2(+16) Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 1,310,081 (+588,142)
3(-1) Harry Styles - Late Night Talking 1,243,098 (-16,755)
4(-1) Jack Harlow - First Class 1,045,244 (-33,170)
5(-1) Bad Bunny, Chencho Corleone - Me Porto Bonito 990,898 (-32,470)
6(-1) Lizzo - About Damn Time 917,678 (-17,636)
7(=) Harry Styles - Music for a Sushi Restaurant 865,477 (-22,182)
8(-2) Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó 852,641 (-37,730)
9(=) Harry Styles - Matilda 840,117 (-22,286)
10(-2) Harry Styles - Daylight 839,202 (-27,513)

Harry Styles - Harry's House
16(-2) Grapejuice 735,655 (-24,595)
17(-2) Little Freak 729,946 (-26,889)
18(+2) Satellite 700,753 (-16,176)
22(+1) Keep Driving 638,147 (-19,260)
23(-1) Cinema 635,969 (-21,696)
24(=) Daydreaming 617,372 (-23,061)
25(=) Love of My Life 586,677 (-15,455)
37(-2) Boyfriends 492,406 (-18,741)
Total Streams: 10,775,103 (-2%)

Bad Bunny - Un Verano Tin Si
12(-1) Ojitos Lindos 766,843 (-8,962)
15(-3) Moscow Mule 751,962 (-23,088)
20(-3) Después de la Playa 690,968 (-31,241)
21(=) Party 663,233 (-28,736)
32(+1) Efecto 523,092 (-4,445)
41(-2) Tarot 462,628 (-13,417)
44(-2) Un Ratito 449,540 (-13,573)
51(-3) Yo No Soy Celoso 413,242 (-13,555)
57(-2) Neverita 378,642 (-10,383)
61(-5) La Corriente 364,855 (-9,814)
86(-4) Otro Atardecer 318,478 (-5,676)
97(-10) Andrea 306,624 (-6,068)
106(-10) Callaita 296,341 (-5,964)
107(-9) Aguacero 296,075 (-5,205)
112(-11) El Apagón 287,911 (-10,994)
113(-5) Un Coco 287,698 (-4,839)
117(-5) Dos Mil 16 278,514 (-6,543)
135(-10) Enséñame a Bailar 261,139 (-7,309)
141(-11) Me Fui de Vacaciones 257,278 (-5,315)
155(-7) Un Verano Sin Ti 246,144 (-3,069)
Total Streams: 10,144,746 (-5%)

Others:
11(-1) Kanye West, XXXTENTACION 774,149 (-41,069)
13(=) Future, Tems, Drake - WAIT FOR U 763,703 (+1,039)
14(+2) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 762,345 (+15,130)
19(=) Kendrick Lamar - N95 694,221 (-25,889)
26(=) Morgan Wallen - You Proof 569,089 (+819)
27(=) Post Malone, Roddy Ricch - Cooped Up 557,203 (-10,619)
28(=) Future - PUFFIN ON ZOOTIEZ 556,337 (-9,403)
29(+1) Kendrick Lamar - Die Hard 541,132 (-15,847)
30(+4) Morgan Wallen - Wasted On You 539,426 (+20,067)
31(-2) Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Young Thug - Potion 529,783 (-28,089)
33(-2) Sleepy Hallow, 347aidan - Die Young 517,959 (-11,753)
34(-2) KAROL G - PROVENZA 516,607 (-11,217)
35(+1) The Kid LAROI - STAY 499,245 (+239)
36(+1) Doja Cat - Woman 495,273 (-1,142)
40(+1) J. Cole - No Role Modelz 479,740 (+5,906)
42(+1) Justin Bieber - Ghost 452,338 (-3,322)
43(+2) Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange 451,381 (+13,943)
46(-2) Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit 428,423 (-18,489)
47(+3) Imagine Dragons - Enemy 423,965 (+4,017)
48(-1) Jack Harlow - Dua Lipa 421,314 (-7,734)
49(+3) Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You 421,313 (+14,592)
52(+1) WILLOW - Wait a Minute! 399,123 (+5,674)
53(-2) Kendrick Lamar - Silent Hill 396,376 (-20,315)
54(=) Camila Cabello - Bam Bam 393,434 (+4,233)
56(+3) Arctic Monkeys - 505 386,446 (+14,591)
62(+3) Steve Lacy - Dark Red 359,546 (+9,190)
64(=) Elley Duhé - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 355,285 (+3,158)
65(-3) Becky G, KAROL G - MAMIII 349,687 (-10,613)
66(+4) Dove Cameron - Boyfriend 347,247 (+6,558)
68(+8) Nicky Youre, dazy - Sunroof 342,516 (+12,339)
69(-3) Kodak Black - Super Gremlin 340,905 (-7,957)
72(+6) The Walters - I Love You So 337,147 (+7,953)
73(=) Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa - Sweetest Pie 335,254 (-1,888)
77(-9) Quavo, Takeoff - HOTEL LOBBY 331,359 (-12,806)
78(+3) Morgan Wallen - Thought You Should Know 330,460 (+4,132)
79(-8) Latto - Big Energy 328,056 (-10,911)
80(+4) Tyler the Creator - See You Again 326,014 (+6,968)
81(-9) Kendrick Lamar - United in Grief 324,307 (-13,480)
83(-3) Tate McRae - she's all i wanna be 323,140 (-3,986)
92(-9) Kendrick Lamar - Father Time 308,762 (-15,356)
100(+2) The Kid Laroi - Thousand Miles 303,641 (+4,897)

102(-14) Future, Drake - IM ON ONE 301,194 (-9,468)
104(+10) Cody Johnson - 'Til You Can't 299,306 (+18,237)
108(+1) Yeat - Monëy so big 291,776 (+2,371)
119(-8) Kendrick Lamar - Count Me Out 276,709 (-11,794)
124(+9) Cafuné - Tek It 275,394 (+16,350)
126(+10) Ruth B. - Dandelions 273,466 (+16,242)
127(=) Leah Kate - 10 Things I Hate About You 270,678 (+5,690)
132(-1) Morgan Wallen - Don't Think Jesus 266,345 (+4,175)
137(+4) Doja Cat - Vegas 258,220 (+5,171)
143(-5) Tyler the Creator - NEW MAGIC WAND 256,564 (+1,529)
146(-11) Doja Cat - Get Into It (Yuh) 254,426 (-3,255)
165(+8) Em Beihold - Numb Little Bug 239,231 (+7,177)
166(+6) The Rare Occasions - Notion 239,033 (+6,642)
168(-24) Kendrick Lamar - Savior 238,898 (-11,534)
173(-28) MoneyBagg Yo - See Wat I'm Sayin 235,526 (-14,639)
182(-15) Jack Harlow - Churchill Downs 229,411 (-5,547)
187(-13) SleazyWorld Go, Lil Baby - Sleazy Flow (Remix) 227,778 (-4,085)
195(DEBUT) Declan McKenna - Brazil 224,949
199(-10) Lil Baby - Right On 222,906 (-3,218)

Biggest Gains (50K+): Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Kate BOSS

[badrobot]

Could not be happier for Kate Bush!

"Running Up That Hill" would probably make my top ten songs of all time lost, I'm so thrilled to see it get such love again!

[phieaglesfan712]

Provided all of these songs stayed on the 6/4 chart, Pushin P, Never Wanted To Be That Girl, Me Or Sum, and No Love are expected to go recurrent this week due to the 50/20 rule. AA would also go recurrent if it drops below #50.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

So between Running Up That Hill and All Too Well, Sadie Sink is inadvertedly responsible for two of the best pop songs to chart this year year.

I think I know who can help get Rina to chart...

[fridayteenage]

Oops. I was thinking she'd go up about 50%. Instead, around 80%.

Dreams peaked with 1,032,229.

Hopefully Harry fans calm down so she can have at least a day on top.

[Enigma.]

I think it's the casual streamers that are keeping As It Was that high, not really his fans.

[85la]

May 30, 2022 23:44:42 GMT -5 renfield75 said:

May 30, 2022 23:04:21 GMT -5 85la said:

I would not bet on this, definitely not right away. Radio is extremely rigid. I could see it maybe getting a little increased AC play, but CHR will not touch a 36 year-old deep catalog song, especially if it isn't pushed by the label (which I wouldn't even expect them to do because labels can be very rigid as well). In doing a little research, the only precedent I can see for this is Bohemian Rhapsody, which re-peaked on the airplay chart at #9 (of an overall #2 re-peak) when it was re-released in 1992, but I'd imagine that was heavily pushed by the label.

There was an odd phenomenon of this happening in 1989. During that year Real Life's #29 1984 hit "Send Me An Angel" was re-released and reached a new peak of #26, Benny Mardones' #11 1980 hit "Into The Night" re-charted at number 20, Q-Feel's 1983 Bubbling Under hit "Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)" cracked the Hot 100 for the first time, Peter Gabriel's 1986 hit "In Your Eyes" re-charted at number 41, Synch's "Where Are You Now" peaked at #10 after originally stalling at #77 in 1986, and in the most extreme case Sheriff's #61 hit from 1983, "When I'm With You", went all the way to number one after a station started playing it regularly.

Not sure what was in the water that year but labels were giving big pushes to forgotten minor hits from previous years and radio was very into it.

Interesting, very strange. Maybe Billboard changed their rules then that enabled older songs to chart more easily, and labels took advantage of this and purposely pushed songs they thought would have the best chances of re-peaking?

[joshtheking]

May 31, 2022 12:18:07 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

So between Running Up That Hill and All Too Well, Sadie Sink is inadvertedly responsible for two of the best pop songs to chart this year year.

I think I know who can help get Rina to chart...

Chosen Family short film when???

[Envoirment]

I really hope the song can reach a new peak on the Hot 100. Given the way things are going I assume it's almost a given that it should re-enter the top 50?

There's currently a new entry on Kworb's daily US youtube chart

10 NEW Unknown Artist - Unknown Title 1,184,312

I assume that it's for "Running Up That Hill". If so, it's doing 500k+ views/day in the US currently on there.

#4 on Global spotify with over 5 million streams. I hope it keeps rising and maybe even gets playlist support/added to today's top hits etc.

[phieaglesfan712]

lol at the pedo song re-charting again 9 years after its original run. Was she still 16 years old or was she 25 when it recharted?

[85la]

May 31, 2022 6:48:17 GMT -5 iHype. said:

May 31, 2022 6:43:24 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Well again, sales is consumption is VASTLY different than it was 7-12 years ago. It's easier to get a #1 these days because not as many people are buying songs. We didn't have the alternative to just streaming a song but back then, it was either buying the song, listening to radio, or YouTube and YouTube only started being part of the formula in 2013. Nowadays the Top 10 songs on the charts are probably not even the Top 20 on Digital Sales.

You're not understanding what I'm saying at all....

Catalog music in general can take off much heavier in the streaming world than it ever did on iTunes at its peak days in 2010-2015.

Old music would go viral, be used in media, get covered on Glee/American Idol/etc, and it would never just take off to top 10 on iTunes. Then in the streaming era old songs can now go top 10 on streaming platforms after having a viral/media usage moment.

10 years ago you would see a song get used in a huge TV show like this, then go to like #80 on iTunes and that was a big deal. Never something like #3 or #5 simply off usage in a single TV show or movie.

Those songs were available on iTunes and the demographic consuming music was older then so you'd think old/classics songs would've been able to chart just as high on consumption back then.

I think it's just because at the height of the digital age, it took MUCH more sales for a song to make top 10 or #1 (almost every song in the top 10 then had 100K+ units, with the #1 moving 200-300k+ units), so obviously it would obviously be much harder to get 200k+ consumers on board (vs. like 10k today) to purchase a song from a popular show or something that went viral, and the average digital sales consumer was actually much younger back then than today, since it was a newer technology (boomers and such were still buying CDs or relying on the radio for their music, etc.).

[joshtheking]

May 31, 2022 12:49:59 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

lol at the pedo song re-charting again 9 years after its original run. Was she still 16 years old or was she 25 when it recharted?

???

[lazer]

May 31, 2022 12:49:59 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

lol at the pedo song re-charting again 9 years after its original run. Was she still 16 years old or was she 25 when it recharted?

What does that even mean??

[phieaglesfan712]

May 31, 2022 13:33:18 GMT -5 lazer said:

May 31, 2022 12:49:59 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

lol at the pedo song re-charting again 9 years after its original run. Was she still 16 years old or was she 25 when it recharted?

What does that even mean??

The first lines of the song is “She’s just 16 years old leave her alone they say…”

I wonder how something with those lyrics got two runs on the chart, let alone one in 1980.

[renfield75]

May 31, 2022 13:33:18 GMT -5 lazer said:

May 31, 2022 12:49:59 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

lol at the pedo song re-charting again 9 years after its original run. Was she still 16 years old or was she 25 when it recharted?

What does that even mean??

It's a reference to the Benny Mardones song "Into The Night" charting at #20 9 years after initially peaking at #11 in 1980. Mardones was in his mid 30s in 1980 and the song started "She's just 16 years old, leave her alone they say...". And the video (you really have to see it to believe it) showed him spying through her window before taking her on a flying carpet ride. I love the song but it's super creepy, especially when you see him literally singing it to a young girl.

[Push The Button]

This is SURREAL! A peak ‘80s classic.

[mst3k]

May 31, 2022 12:41:59 GMT -5 85la said:

May 30, 2022 23:44:42 GMT -5 renfield75 said:

There was an odd phenomenon of this happening in 1989. During that year Real Life's #29 1984 hit "Send Me An Angel" was re-released and reached a new peak of #26, Benny Mardones' #11 1980 hit "Into The Night" re-charted at number 20, Q-Feel's 1983 Bubbling Under hit "Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)" cracked the Hot 100 for the first time, Peter Gabriel's 1986 hit "In Your Eyes" re-charted at number 41, Synch's "Where Are You Now" peaked at #10 after originally stalling at #77 in 1986, and in the most extreme case Sheriff's #61 hit from 1983, "When I'm With You", went all the way to number one after a station started playing it regularly.

Not sure what was in the water that year but labels were giving big pushes to forgotten minor hits from previous years and radio was very into it.

Interesting, very strange. Maybe Billboard changed their rules then that enabled older songs to chart more easily, and labels took advantage of this and purposely pushed songs they thought would have the best chances of re-peaking?

No change in chart rules, it was more a case of a radio programmer pushing "Red Red Wine" enough in 1988 that it became an unlikely #1 five years after its initial release, and then every other radio programmer wanted to be the one to break the next oldie to rechart, so a bunch of songs got thrown at the wall and a few stuck. The record labels weren't generally supportive of this back then (they'd rather be promoting new product), but radio forced their hands on a few of these.