Billboard Hot 100: 07/16/2022

[nathanalbright]

How long of a chart run would it need to top those? It looks like it's well on its way to becoming a YE hit, for example.

[atg]

Jul 6, 2022 12:57:42 GMT -5 nathanalbright said:

DJ Khaled really wants to give God the credit on his new album, alright then.

This man can get anyone in the industry to work with him and he still puts out garbage while literally not even doing anything i don’t even know how he does it.

[Gary]

Jul 6, 2022 13:29:26 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Jul 6, 2022 13:26:49 GMT -5 Gary said:

Excl Christmas songs, Running Up That Hill appears likely to become the biggest reissued hit since Bohemian Rhapsody, December 1963 or Unchained Melody in the 90s

Is it not already bigger than "December" and "Unchained" considering they didn't make the top 10?

Getting really specific LOL

If we assume peak positions do not tell the whole story about which hit is bigger - I can't answer the statement -- you deecide

For what it's worth:

December 1963 reissue charted 27 weeks

Unchained Melody was big enough to have two recordings in the top 20 at the same time

[85la]

Jul 6, 2022 12:14:39 GMT -5 Groovy said:

A collab that actually makes sense. 

Also...

If they're lucky, Stay With Me could be the That's What Friends Are For of the 2020's.

I'm also liking that Khaled clip. Am I crazy for thinking the music was strangely brilliant?

[Envoirment]

"Running Up That Hill" increasing in streams on spotify again and widening the gap between her and Harry there. Come on #1 this week please!

Also Lizzo being so close to the #1 slot too! Kate followed by Lizzo for the #1s on the Hot 100 please. *_*

[degen]

Jul 6, 2022 14:54:40 GMT -5 Envoirment said:

"Running Up That Hill" increasing in streams on spotify again and widening the gap between her and Harry there. Come on #1 this week please!

Also Lizzo being so close to the #1 slot too! Kate followed by Lizzo for the #1s on the Hot 100 please. *_*

Hmmm, I feel like Lizzo’s team scheduled the album release a week too late. This upcoming week would’ve been a great shot for her album to help give the song a streaming boost. I’m worried by July 15th Kate Bush’s airplay will be too strong and she will be “running up” for #1.

[atg]

Tbh I’m fine if neither doesn’t end up being #1 anyways. The fact that they’re both just in the top 5 alone is already insane. Kate Bush getting a deserved re-peak on the charts and Lizzo actually getting a proper hit that is also in the same year that it released. Both these songs don’t need a #1 title to their name if they can’t get there because they’ve already won.

[phieaglesfan712]

[JukeboxJacob]

Stay With Me better be SOTY material considering the combined talent of those artists

[fridayteenage]

those bored of heat waves being the top group song on spotify because "it's toooo old!" now get to see master of puppets take its place.

[atg]

Jul 6, 2022 23:42:13 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

those bored of heat waves being the top group song on spotify because "it's toooo old!" now get to see master of puppets take its place.

If Heat Waves is an ‘old’ song, Master Of Puppets must be the stone age in comparison.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

I don't know if it's telling of me or how miserable this year is that outside of RUTH (which is also the only hit this year I've actually found myself dancing to), the only other hits worth I've cared about have been an upbeat sounding song that's actually about how numbing it is to cope with depression and suicide, a indie country song about a relationship that may or may not even be worth fighting for, and another depressing piano ballad. I'm don't usually think like "the politics of the day directly influences what's popular" because the past 6 years have also been shit but there've still been upbeat songs I've found fun and dance worthy, it's still ironic to think about.

But then again when the "upbeat" hits this year include Bam Bam, Sunroof, Get Into It (Yuh), Late Night Talking, I Like You, Big Energy, any of the Encanto songs that were hits, maybe it is fine just listening to the sad songs than forcing myself to pretend to be happy and listen to any of those songs again.

[jasper0102]

Jul 6, 2022 17:59:42 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Man, if the gaps for the number one are gonna be this close, let me just say, get ready for the mess this thread will be once that number one's revealed.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Jul 6, 2022 23:42:13 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

those bored of heat waves being the top group song on spotify because "it's toooo old!" now get to see master of puppets take its place.

difference is that Master of Puppets is actually a good song

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 07/06/22

1(=) Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 1,723,066 (+23,101)
2(=) Joji - Glimpse of Us 1,409,490 (+42,703)
3(=) Harry Styles - As It Was 1,199,140 (+6,776)
4(=) Drake, 21 Savage - Jimmy Cooks 1,191,400 (+43,481)
5(=) Bad Bunny, Chencho Corleone - Me Porto Bonito 1,017,606 (-4,792)
6(+1) Metallica - Master of Puppets 898,009 (+73,475)
7(-1) Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó 874,673 (-20,328)
8(=) Doja Cat - Vegas 822,462 (+28,985)
9(=) Post Malone, Doja Cat - I Like You (A Happier Song) 768,895 (+20,936)
10(+1) Jack Harlow - First Class 722,561 (+12,186)

Others:
11(-1) Lizzo - About Damn Time 699,717 (-11,960)
12(=) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 690,268 (-16,433)
13(=) Future, Drake, Tems - WAIT FOR U 686,752 (+16,098)
14(=) Harry Styles - Late Night Talking 665,535 (+7,080)
15(=) OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried 610,201 (+12,236)
16(=) Bad Bunny - Efecto 599,287 (+7,282)
17(=) Cardi B, Kanye West, Lil Durk - Hot Shit 598,224 (+17,385)
18(=) Bad Bunny - Moscow Mule 575,973 (-2,473)
19(+1) Charlie Puth, Jung Kook - Left and Right 573,285 (+6,382)
20(-1) Bad Bunny, Bomba Estéreo - Ojitos Lindos 571,995 (-517)
21(=) Morgan Wallen - You Proof 540,029 (-10,130)
22(+5) Steve Lacy - Bad Habit 528,274 (+73,655)
23(-1) Beyoncé - BREAK MY SOUL 509,924 (-3,919)
24(-1) Nicky Youre, dazy - Sunroof 503,276 (-3,482)
25(-1) Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro - Party 496,393 (-8,832)
26(=) Pharrell Williams, 21 Savage, Tyler, The Creator - Cash In Cash Out 481,162 (+17,492)
28(-3) Bad Bunny - Después de la Playa 470,396 (-38,194)
29(+15) Yung Gravy - Betty (Get Money) 457,371 (+65,204)
30(-1) Drake - Sticky 451,030 (+11,639)
31(=) Future - PUFFIN ON ZOOTIEZ 443,568 (+10,576)
32(+4) J. Cole - No Role Modelz 438,353 (+19,273)
34(+12) The Weeknd - Die For You 435,396 (+48,443)
35(-1) Post Malone, Roddy Ricch - Cooped Up 433,561 (+9,047)
36(-4) Luke Combs - The Kind of Love We Make 427,281 (-4,958)
38(-1) KAROL G - PROVENZA 422,321 (+5,068)
41(-1) Drake - Massive 416,916 (+6,226)
42(=) Bad Bunny, Jhay Cortez - Tarot 411,951 (+6,659)
43(-8) Morgan Wallen - Wasted On You 411,087 (-10,637)
44(-5) Yeat - Rich Minion 409,068 (-4,286)
45(-2) Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange 408,869 (+8,279)
46(+4) Sleepy Hallow, 347aidan - Die Young 406,418 (+24,201)
47(+1) Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You 404,756 (+17,978)
49(+3) Joji - SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK 377,998 (+16,379)
50(+1) Harry Styles - Music for a Sushi Restaurant 375,568 (+537)
51(+8) Steve Lacy - Dark Red 374,734 (+29,892)
54(+3) Bailey Zimmerman - Rock and A Hard Place 368,351 (+16,757)
55(=) Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World 363,731 (+7,112)
59(+2) Imagine Dragons, JID - Enemy 347,953 (+11,332)
61(+2) Bad Bunny - Un Ratito 329,749 (+2,484)
65(-3) Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie 325,781 (-1,925)
66(+1) Bad Bunny, Tony Dize - La Corriente 321,902 (+555)
67(+2) WILLOW - Wait a Minute! 321,874 (+6,632)
79(-1) Latto - Big Energy 305,758 (+3,069)
85(+11) Dove Cameron - Boyfriend 299,296 (+13,213)
88(-7) Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Bryce Miller/Alloy Tracks Remix) 297,332 (-2,238)
93(-4) Bad Bunny - Neverita 291,612 (-1,862)
94(+7) Quavo, Takeoff - HOTEL LOBBY (Unc & Phew) 287,584 (+9,626)
95(+3) Bad Bunny - Yo No Soy Celoso 284,824 (-950)
96(+18) The Weeknd, Lana Del Rey - Stargirl Interlude 284,643 (+16,857)
99(-8) Cole Swindell - She Had Me At Heads Carolina 281,327 (-8,226)

102(+16) Taylor Swift - Don't Blame Me 276,633 (+14,740)
103(+14) Elley Duhé - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 274,600 (+11,338)
105(+16) Ruth B. - Dandelions 269,867 (+16,190)
108(-80) Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A. 268,360 (-178,581)
109(+1) Morgan Wallen - Thought You Should Know 266,834 (-3,114)
111(-14) Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 262,063 (-23,971)
120(+3) Bailey Zimmerman - Fall in Love 255,487 (+2,028)
125(-20) Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey 251,009 (-25,188)
127(+21) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 250,313 (+14,886)
137(-11) ERNEST, Morgan Wallen - Flower Shops 245,388 (-6,331)
139(+19) The Kid LAROI - Thousand Miles 244,370 (+12,391)
140(-9) Nate Smith - Whiskey On You 242,936 (-6,303)
147(-38) Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 239,625 (-31,194)
150(+28) Mr.Kitty - After Dark 238,534 (+15,272)
152(+45) Metallica - Enter Sandman 235,828 (+18,797)
153(+22) Doja Cat - Get Into It (Yuh) 234,940 (+10,978)
156(-109) Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried 234,189 (-152,732)
166(-13) Tyler Hubbard - 5 Foot 9 231,300 (-1,852)
172(+12) Kendrick Lamar, Kodak Black - Silent Hill 228,409 (+6,926)
175(DEBUT) $uicideboy$ - Antarctica 227,391
176(+18) Polo G - Distraction 226,996 (+8,761)
177(DEBUT) Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse 226,346
180(-18) Lil Nas X, YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Late to Da Party 225,498 (-3,068)
183(-7) Shakira, Rauw Alejandro - Te Felicito 224,630 (+693)
185(+13) AJR - World's Smallest Violin 223,799 (+6,839)
188(re-entry) Cafuné - Tek It 222,956
189(re-entry) Marshmello, Khalid - Numb 221,232
190(-60) Luke Combs - When It Rains It Pours 220,863 (-29,472)
192(re-entry) SleazyWorld Go, Lil Baby - Sleazy Flow 218,702
193(re-entry) Em Beihold - Numb Little Bug 217,728
196(re-entry) Lil Baby - Right On 217,304
198(re-entry) Leah Kate - 10 Things I Hate About You 217,140

Biggest Gains (50K+): Betty (Get Money), Bad Habit, Master of Puppets

[phieaglesfan712]

The charts would look dramatically different the next week, as Drake released Scorpion. The #15 song this week, Plug Walk, went recurrent as a result of Scorpion. It remains the highest song to fall into recurrency.

[jasper0102]

Jul 7, 2022 8:49:13 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

6(+1) Metallica - Master of Puppets 898,009 (+73,475)

So, how high are we guessing Master of Puppets is gonna chart? The Spotify numbers alone are probably enough for it to chart, and it's 22 on Apple Music.

[phieaglesfan712]

Jul 7, 2022 9:36:58 GMT -5 jasper0102 said:

Jul 7, 2022 8:49:13 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

6(+1) Metallica - Master of Puppets 898,009 (+73,475)

So, how high are we guessing Master of Puppets is gonna chart? The Spotify numbers alone are probably enough for it to chart, and it's 22 on Apple Music.

Hopefully, this will reach the Top 25 soon, but it’s not worth trying to guess and get another warning that will get me suspended for a week. (Apparently, you can’t do that on here because it “derails the thread”.)

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates « 2022 » / « 07 » / « 07 »

1(=) Lizzo - About Damn Time 110.86(+0.16) -
2(=) Jack Harlow - First Class 107.79(-1.05)
3(=) Harry Styles - As It Was 99.15(-0.07)
4(=) Latto - Big Energy 66.94(-0.56) +
5(=) Em Beihold - Numb Little Bug 65.52(+0.38)
6(=) The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber - Stay 61.42(-0.56)
7(+1) Doja Cat - Get Into It (Yuh) 60.77(+0.36)
8(-1) Dove Cameron - Boyfriend 60.17(-0.53)
9(=) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 56.06(+0.05)

10(=) Justin Bieber - Ghost 52.15(-0.11)

11(=) Harry Styles - Late Night Talking 48.89(+1.29)

13(+3) Beyoncé - BREAK MY SOUL 44.77(+1.86)

18(=) Scotty McCreery - Damn Strait 42.12(+0.71)

19(=) Nicky Youre & Dazy - Sunroof 38.69(+0.78)

28(=) Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) 33.86(+0.95)

73(+20) Cardi B - Hot Ish f/Ye & Lil Durk 14.31(+1.96)

100(+12) Luke Bryan - Country On 11.73(+0.81)

-(-) Wisin & Yandel - Llueve f/Sech, Jhay Cortez 1.96(+0.91) +

-(-) Kx5, Kaskade, Deadmau5 - Escape f/Hayla 0.95(+0.85) +

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Jun 30, 2022 23:44:57 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Mid-Week Releases:

Notable Singles:
Alvvays - Pharmacist
Julien Baker - Guthrie
Bring Me the Horizon - sTraNgeRs
TURQUOISEDEATH - i heart u
Blackwinterwells - 480
FLO - Immature
Of Montreal - Blad Sabbath Lathe of Maiden
Armor for Sleep - How Far Apart
Killer Mike feat. Young Thug - RUN
Willow Kayne - White City
Easy Life - OTT
Stay Flee Get Lizzy feat. Lancey Foux - Simple
DOMi & JD Beck feat. Anderson .Paak - TAKE A CHANCE
Creativiting Band. - Furriness / Teddy bear / Breathe in
Baby Queen - Nobody Really Cares
Loyle Carner - Hate
Junior Varsity - Rushh
Ken Carson - The End
Mayday Parade - Thunder
Duuh Silva - Explode
Quay Dash with Contessa Stuto - Bella Don
Little Big Town - All Summer
Brian Kelley - American Spirit
AViVA - The outside
Parkway Drive - The Greatest Fear
The Dark Side Club - It Seemed That Everything Was Over!
Joey Valence - STARTAFIGHT
The Driver Era - Keep Moving Forward
No Age - Andy Helping Andy
Tom Chaplin - Midpoint
Rei Brown - Solar
J Balvin & Ryan Castro - Nivel de Perreo
TINI, Becky G. & Anitta - La Loto
Midwxst - broken
JASHO JR. - pearl
Key Glock - Diapers
Marlee Gray - Plasma
Panterah - Discover
Mark Tuan - imysm
Big Time Rush - Honey
Flo Rida - What A Night
m1v & luvwillow - moron
Robert Grace - Fcked In The Head
Yoe Mase - Getaway Car
MEGUSUNK GANG - fless
Vexatan - Eternal Torment
Crystal Gates - My Glorious Fall
MC Icy - If They Knew
Grima - Giant's Eternal Sleep
Solegnium - Oneiroid Ominous
Luke Bryan - Country On
Coldplay - Biutyful

Notable Projects:
Bones - AmericanSweetHeart
VIVIS - Summer Vibe
H1-KEY - RUN
ENHYPEN - MANIFESTO : DAY 1
IRRIS - WANNA KNOW
WINNER - HOLIDAY
WJSN - Sequence
Coldrain - Nonnegative
Digifae - digifae
Lotic - Sparkling Warer EP
2nd In Command - sing me a song about sacrifice / Wilting Flowers / A Warm Blanket Of Bad Habits
L.J. Harvey & The Death's Head Band - The Shape of Faith to Come
RoRo - Meet Me Where I'm at EP
Mejiwahn - Beanna
The Fernweh - Torschlusspanik!
Kirk Knuffke - Gravity Without Airs
For The Record - Fake It ‘Til You Make It EP
Vice - For The Fallen
Downfall - Behind The Curtain
Nissanny11 - Neon City
Robin's Ghost - soundtrack to a skate film EP
Emma Dilemma - Spit
Baby Zionov - Henrietta
Salvador - BURKITTSVILLE MASSIVE MIX-TAPE **#MURDERVILLE VOL. 2.5**
Snow Strippers - The Snow Strippers
The Mary Onettes - What I Feel In Some Places EP
Frank Meadows - Dead Weight
Abhorrency - Climax of Disgusting Impurities
Ben Quad - I’m Scared That’s All There Is
Citizens - A Thousand Shores EP
Misanthropik Torment - #KillYourLocalPedophile
The Wild Wild - Island EP
Mike Lazarev - When You Are
Alessandro Incorvaia - It Emerged to Hold Me
Luna França - UM
Mice Parade - lapapọ
Éclo - Éclo
Zitten - Summer EP
Wandl - Body Memory
Gaspar Claus - 2359 EP
Kannushi - Sutras of Suffering EP
Dellafuente - Tanteo EP
Forces - Inertia
Breshnev - No Soy un Robot? EP
SeFu - How To Cry
Sempra - If It's True EP
Weymouth - Year of the Weymouth EP
Laurence Pike - Isola
Emiliana - Shades of Blue EP
NILS - im blinded EP
Tui - Priest Lines
Andrew Heath & James Osland - Once We Were All Here And Nowhere Else
Pink Blob - Pink Blob
Lord Vigo - We Shall Overcome
BEARKID - what i been on EP
Hekseblad - Abattoir Dust, Vol. 2 EP
Buenos Vampiros - DESTRUYA!
Bleeding Through - Rage EP
Feux - OPAL BLUES
BENNETT - When It's Too Good EP
Prehistoric War Cult & Secret Tongues - Prehistoric War Cult / Secret Tongues EP
Luke Vibert - Grit.
Alex Crispin - Alex Crispin
Chance To Dance - Get Loud And Out
WANUKA - Greenhorn
Aquila - The Great Fire
Once Was Never - The Great Dying
SPURME - Tesseract 
FRONTIER BACKYARD - million feelings
G Perico - 111th East EP
Sub Zero Project - Renaissance of Rave
Perpetual - Memento Mori
Forest Lawn - Forest Lawn
Narakah - Nemesis Cloak
Medicine Singers - Medicine Singers
Kryatjurr Of Desert Ahd - Unbearable Nightmares of Heat and Desertification EP
Wst Taylor - THE MOTH
Di-Meh - OV3 EP
Options - Swimming Feeling
Farma Beats & LoGun Of Main Aim - The Renaissance Man EP
Aleksandir - Momus / Sacro EP
Congo Natty - Athos / Jungle Defender
Shaudy Kash - Game Time 
ReallyHiiiM - Stop Sample Snitching EP
MC2nd - Second
Tom Jarmey - Wing Theory Part II EP
Bull - Stuck Between The Virtual And Physical World EP
JayBaby TheGreaty - Green Belt
A Lie Nation - Sociopathology
Wizzo - Most Severe Crisis
Orthodox - Proceed
Pique Roscoe - Music To Eat Carolina Reapers To EP
Your Highness - The Ragbag Vol​.​1 EP
Dunwich Horror - At the Mountains of Madness EP
Creativiting Band. - Real World
Plague - Tape II
EJM - Nectard
Penza Penza - Neanderthal Rock
Chihedo - The Fire Within EP
Soul Professa - Soul Searching
Dronny Darko & G M Slater - Dissolving into Solitary Landscapes
The New Atlas - The New Atlas EP
Valknee - vs. EP
Melvin Junko - Out There EP
Treeshadow - Technical Martyrium Code EP
MICO - second thoughts EP
Theodicy - Torture of Industry

[ephelia]

Jul 7, 2022 9:00:27 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

The charts would look dramatically different the next week, as Drake released Scorpion. The #15 song this week, Plug Walk, went recurrent as a result of Scorpion. It remains the highest song to fall into recurrency.

The numbers in each of those metrics from just four years ago are so jarring...

[kindofbiased]

Really hoping that radio can help out Glimpse Of Us, of course it's doing insanely well for a Joji song but I'm hoping it can avoid a Good Days type run, which is exactly what it looks like is happening right now

[korbel16]

damn, wish kate had at least one massive day during the week with 2 million + streams to close that gap! let’s pray the chart release on monday will be like that week bad guy surprisingly hit number 1 and no one predicted it😭😭

[degen]

Jul 7, 2022 7:14:29 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

I don't know if it's telling of me or how miserable this year is that outside of RUTH (which is also the only hit this year I've actually found myself dancing to), the only other hits worth I've cared about have been an upbeat sounding song that's actually about how numbing it is to cope with depression and suicide, a indie country song about a relationship that may or may not even be worth fighting for, and another depressing piano ballad. I'm don't usually think like "the politics of the day directly influences what's popular" because the past 6 years have also been s**t but there've still been upbeat songs I've found fun and dance worthy, it's still ironic to think about.

But then again when the "upbeat" hits this year include Bam Bam, Sunroof, Get Into It (Yuh), Late Night Talking, I Like You, Big Energy, any of the Encanto songs that were hits, maybe it is fine just listening to the sad songs than forcing myself to pretend to be happy and listen to any of those songs again.

I would def say the charts were boring the first few months of 2021. But if you are still complaining even though we now have Drake, Beyonce, Lizzo , Jack Harlow and a dominant Harry being thrown into the mix, along with an unprecedented revival of “Running up that Hill” then I’m afraid nothing is going to satisfy you. The charts have not been this vibrant in a long time.


On top of that, this is the most efficient I’ve seen radio in a very long time. They are reacting quickly to everything hot and trending. All the streaming hits are huge radio hits and Vice versa, at a much more rapid pace. Even “Running up that hill” is now a huge radio hit. If anything, I am really happy with how all fronts are moving at this point.

Yes “Heat Waves” is there and it’s annoying, but I’m not surprised. The song is stream bait for weather moods, which for whatever reason have longevity (I call it the “Sweater Weather” effect).

[phieaglesfan712]

Jul 7, 2022 16:33:40 GMT -5 degen said:

Jul 7, 2022 7:14:29 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

I don't know if it's telling of me or how miserable this year is that outside of RUTH (which is also the only hit this year I've actually found myself dancing to), the only other hits worth I've cared about have been an upbeat sounding song that's actually about how numbing it is to cope with depression and suicide, a indie country song about a relationship that may or may not even be worth fighting for, and another depressing piano ballad. I'm don't usually think like "the politics of the day directly influences what's popular" because the past 6 years have also been s**t but there've still been upbeat songs I've found fun and dance worthy, it's still ironic to think about.

But then again when the "upbeat" hits this year include Bam Bam, Sunroof, Get Into It (Yuh), Late Night Talking, I Like You, Big Energy, any of the Encanto songs that were hits, maybe it is fine just listening to the sad songs than forcing myself to pretend to be happy and listen to any of those songs again.

I would def say the charts were boring the first few months of 2021. But if you are still complaining even though we now have Drake, Beyonce, Lizzo , Jack Harlow and a dominant Harry being thrown into the mix, along with an unprecedented revival of “Running up that Hill” then I’m afraid nothing is going to satisfy you. The charts have not been this vibrant in a long time.


On top of that, this is the most efficient I’ve seen radio in a very long time. They are reacting quickly to everything hot and trending. All the streaming hits are huge radio hits and Vice versa, at a much more rapid pace. Even “Running up that hill” is now a huge radio hit. If anything, I am really happy with how all fronts are moving at this point.

Yes “Heat Waves” is there and it’s annoying, but I’m not surprised. The song is stream bait for weather moods, which for whatever reason have longevity (I call it the “Sweater Weather” effect).

But Drake barely made a dent on the charts this time around. That project came and went. The charts are hardly vibrant. If you want to see something vibrant, look at that 2018 chart, which Drake totally obliterated the following week.

[atg]

Oh so now people want Drake to dominate like it’s 2018 again? Would we then complain the same way we did back and beg him to go away with a possibility of the charts going stale again?

[JukeboxJacob]

Jul 7, 2022 7:14:29 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

I don't know if it's telling of me or how miserable this year is that outside of RUTH (which is also the only hit this year I've actually found myself dancing to), the only other hits worth I've cared about have been an upbeat sounding song that's actually about how numbing it is to cope with depression and suicide, a indie country song about a relationship that may or may not even be worth fighting for, and another depressing piano ballad. I'm don't usually think like "the politics of the day directly influences what's popular" because the past 6 years have also been s**t but there've still been upbeat songs I've found fun and dance worthy, it's still ironic to think about.

But then again when the "upbeat" hits this year include Bam Bam, Sunroof, Get Into It (Yuh), Late Night Talking, I Like You, Big Energy, any of the Encanto songs that were hits, maybe it is fine just listening to the sad songs than forcing myself to pretend to be happy and listen to any of those songs again.

I've been saying pop music sucks this year since April. I started chart watching over a decade ago (wow that blows my mind), & it's never been this stagnant. There's great stuff being made this year, but the masses are lame, so none of it charts

[JukeboxJacob]

Jul 7, 2022 8:21:46 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Jul 6, 2022 23:42:13 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

those bored of heat waves being the top group song on spotify because "it's toooo old!" now get to see master of puppets take its place.

difference is that Master of Puppets is actually a good song

Heat Waves is a good song, just overplayed into oblivion

[JukeboxJacob]

Jul 7, 2022 16:33:40 GMT -5 degen said:

Jul 7, 2022 7:14:29 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

what they said

I would def say the charts were boring the first few months of 2021. But if you are still complaining even though we now have Drake, Beyonce, Lizzo , Jack Harlow and a dominant Harry being thrown into the mix, along with an unprecedented revival of “Running up that Hill” then I’m afraid nothing is going to satisfy you. The charts have not been this vibrant in a long time.


On top of that, this is the most efficient I’ve seen radio in a very long time. They are reacting quickly to everything hot and trending. All the streaming hits are huge radio hits and Vice versa, at a much more rapid pace. Even “Running up that hill” is now a huge radio hit. If anything, I am really happy with how all fronts are moving at this point.

Yes “Heat Waves” is there and it’s annoying, but I’m not surprised. The song is stream bait for weather moods, which for whatever reason have longevity (I call it the “Sweater Weather” effect).

*2022. Drake's album was a flop. There's only 1 new Beyonce song & it's just a 90's throwback. Yes things are better than they were a few months ago, but that was rock bottom. Charts are still stale. The last time things were vibrant was last summer. Also, radio still plays 10 songs or so on loop all day, so that format's not getting any better either

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

I guess the 2022 has been a slow year for certifications of recent songs and maybe some haven't bothered to pay RIAA for it yet: