Billboard Hot 100: 11/05/2022

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Oct 31, 2022 18:21:23 GMT -5 Ling-Ling said:

Oct 31, 2022 17:30:53 GMT -5 Angel said:

Yeah the record is Katy's in my opinion. 6 #1s, 8 top 5s. Billboard changes criteria on a whim so it's only a matter of time until they officially recognise this one.  

Do you think "Part Of Me" would have debuted at #1 if it was an original album track from the parent album that had been out for over a year and a half? Absolutely not. It makes sense to separate it. It acted like a new single from a new release which gives it a clear advantage. A 7th single going top 5 from an album that's two years old is a way bigger accomplishment.

No arguments, but tell that to “My Boo” and “Don’t Forget About Us,” 🤓

[Ling-Ling]

Oct 31, 2022 18:38:04 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Oct 31, 2022 18:21:23 GMT -5 Ling-Ling said:

Do you think "Part Of Me" would have debuted at #1 if it was an original album track from the parent album that had been out for over a year and a half? Absolutely not. It makes sense to separate it. It acted like a new single from a new release which gives it a clear advantage. A 7th single going top 5 from an album that's two years old is a way bigger accomplishment.

No arguments, but tell that to “My Boo” and “Don’t Forget About Us,” 🤓

Dammit Rose, I'm drunk and handing out candy to raggedy children right now. Cut me some slack.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Oct 31, 2022 18:42:42 GMT -5 Ling-Ling said:

Oct 31, 2022 18:38:04 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

No arguments, but tell that to “My Boo” and “Don’t Forget About Us,” 🤓

Dammit Rose, I'm drunk and handing out candy to raggedy children right now. Cut me some slack.

Lock the door, shut off the lights and pour yourself another!

[Darkest Hour]

Two more debuts not yet mentioned:
#95 Meghan Trainor - Made You Look
#99 Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You

[artistry]

Oct 31, 2022 19:05:59 GMT -5 Darkest Hour said:

Two more debuts not yet mentioned:
#95 Meghan Trainor - Made You Look
#99 Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You

Whoa. Nice seeing Meghan Trainor back in the Hot 100. I wanted to see her song "Bad For Me" chart on the Hot 100 when it was released.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Oct 31, 2022 18:21:23 GMT -5 Ling-Ling said:

Oct 31, 2022 17:30:53 GMT -5 Angel said:

Yeah the record is Katy's in my opinion. 6 #1s, 8 top 5s. Billboard changes criteria on a whim so it's only a matter of time until they officially recognise this one.  

Do you think "Part Of Me" would have debuted at #1 if it was an original album track from the parent album that had been out for over a year and a half? Absolutely not. It makes sense to separate it. It acted like a new single from a new release which gives it a clear advantage. A 7th single going top 5 from an album that's two years old is a way bigger accomplishment.

maybe not a #1 debut, but #1 after 2 months on chart or something.

Teenage Dream wasn't a big album-seller like 21 (and even Set Fire To The Rain reached #1, despite 21 selling 8M copies at the time), so it would be the first time for most people to hear the song. Releasing it 2 months before the Grammys just to have big airplay numbers, performing the song there (like she did) and then the music video next day (Monday was the first tracking day of the week LOL). Not an impossible scenario if you ask me. This post is too much, I know. 😂

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

never left the top 3 in its first 29 weeks
30th week: #16

[Gary]

Five Reasons Why Taylor Swift Was Able to Make Chart History With Her ‘Midnights’ Debut Week
Taylor Swift's latest album blazes past Drake, Michael Jackson and The Beatles into the record books.


By Andrew Unterberger

10/31/2022

There might not be a clean sweep in the MLB World Series this week — not after the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros split the first two games of their best-of-seven matchup over the weekend — but there is one in the Billboard Hot 100‘s top 10. For the first time in the chart’s 64-plus-year history, all 10 spots in the chart’s highest tier belong to just one lead artist: Taylor Swift, who occupies the whole region with tracks from her new album, the Oct. 21-released Midnights.

The records for most simultaneous top 10 hits and most top 10 hits off the same album had been set originally by such artists as The Beatles (all of the top five at once in 1964) and Michael Jackson (seven top 10 hits from Thriller from 1982-84). But both marks were broken last year by one of Swift’s primary rivals for 21st-century chart dominance: Drake commanded nine of the top 10 spots on the Hot 100 dated Sept. 18, 2021, with the release of his much-anticipated Certified Lover Boy album. Just a little over a year later, the two records now turn over to Swift — and this time, they can only ever be tied, never bettered.

The achievements are just two of many notched by Swift this week, as she also moved a staggering 1.578 million equivalent album units of Midnights, according to Luminate — the largest first-week number of her career, and second only to Adele’s 25 (3.38 million in 2015) for any artist in the streaming era, since the Billboard 200 switched from a pure sales to equivalent-album model in December 2014. That also includes 575,000 in vinyl sales, a number that triples the previous weekly record (set earlier this year by Harry Styles’ Harry’s House with 182,000).

How was Swift able to crash the charts in such historic fashion this week, 16 years into her professional career? Let’s examine some of the factors below.

1. The culmination of a quarter-decade’s good will and smart decisions. At the turn of the decade, Taylor Swift’s stats were still mighty, but trending in the wrong direction: reputation‘s first-week number of 1.238 million in 2017 represented a slight dip from the 1.287 million units moved by 1989 in its first week in 2014, while 2019’s Lover became her first album since 2008 sophomore set Fearless to miss the million mark, moving 867,000 units. (It was also her first album since 2010’s Speak Now not to generate a Hot 100 No. 1, with lead singles “ME!” and “You Need to Calm Down” both peaking at No. 2.) The sets drew mostly positive reviews, but neither was received as rapturously as 1989 or 2012’s Red.

Swift’s first release of the new decade, 2020’s surprise-announced indie-folk swerve Folklore, didn’t totally reverse these trends — its first-week number of 846,000 was slightly lower than Lover‘s — but it did alter her overall momentum, drawing her strongest reviews and fan response since 1989 (as well as her first album of the year Grammy win since that set). Evermore, released later that year as something of a complement to Folklore, drew much smaller numbers of 329,000 but also positive reviews and another AOTY nod — and the twin LPs proved enduring, topping the Billboard 200 albums chart for a combined 12 weeks, where Lover reigned for just its debut week. (Both also produced Hot 100 No. 1s, in “Cardigan” and “Willow,” respectively.)

Then in 2021, Swift further gratified fans with the first two releases from her long-promised Taylor’s Version series, re-recording her first six studio albums in order to claim full ownership over them. While the project initially seemed to have limited commercial potential, Swift turned the releases into nostalgia bombs, not only fascinating fans with the re-recorded soundalikes of tracks from Fearless and Red, but also revisiting previously unearthed rarities and gems; most notably, her 10-minute version of fan favorite deep cut “All Too Well” not only became one of 2021’s most critically celebrated releases but even debuted atop the Hot 100. Consequently, the albums became mini-blockbusters all over again: Red (Taylor’s Version) debuted with 605,000 first-week units, better than the first week of any original album in 2021 outside of Certified Lover Boy and Adele’s 30.

And all of this 2020s success (Swift was even picked by the Billboard editorial staff as the Greatest Pop Star of 2021) had come without her releasing a proper new album in the mainstream pop mode fans had long expected from her. So when that finally did come this month, in the form of the Midnights album — harkening back to the alt-leaning synth-pop sound cultivated by Swift (and regular collaborators like writer/producer Jack Antonoff) from 1989 to Lover — it exploded with the anticipation built up over two and a half years’ worth of well-received detours, almost as if this was her first official LP release of the decade.

2. The perfect balance of surprise and hype. Swift’s last decade has been a fascinating case study in the benefits and drawbacks of the traditional extended rollout versus the newer-model sneak-release. Part of the reason that 2020’s Folklore announcement came as such a shock to the industry was that Swift had previously been such a staunch supporter of the months-long lead-up to an album, with a traditional lead single and music video, a blitz of public appearances and award show performances, and enough headlines to ensure everyone in the world knew she had a new album imminent. But when that approach backfired somewhat with the lukewarmly received lead single to Lover (the bombastic, Brendon Urie-featuring “ME!”) and the old-school media onslaught making her look slightly out of touch with the pace of pop in the streaming age, it was pretty clear something had to change.

But rather than keep with the Folklore and Evermore approach of only announcing her new albums the week of release, Swift split the difference with her Midnights drop. She announced the album months in advance, at August’s MTV Video Music Awards — where, incidentally, she also picked up three awards (including video of the year) for her “All Too Well (The Short Film)” — but never released an advance single for it. Instead, she unveiled other elements from the album: themes, images, song titles, treating each morsel of new information like a piece of the puzzle that would eventually be revealed in full with the LP’s release. And once the album did drop, she kept one more major surprise in reserve: the album’s 3am Edition, a pack of seven extra songs to further delight ravenous fans (and boost streaming totals).

The end result was a masterful balancing act between the strategies of Old Taylor and New Taylor, hyping the album with enough advance notice to get the music world raring for its release — and to properly prep the kind of physical volume of vinyl and CDs necessary to produce these kinds of blockbuster sales numbers — while also keeping enough secrets about it hidden to maintain the mystery, and not overwhelming prospective listeners before they even got a chance to hit play.

3. The unavoidable first single. Though she may be a singer-songwriter at heart, Taylor Swift is also a savvy enough pop star to know that no matter how much critical acclaim you amass, no matter how coherent your albums are as full-length statements, and no matter how much general good will you can claim as an artist — if you wanna stay a true pop star, every once in a while you gotta give the people an undeniably killer pop single. (Just ask Beyoncé.)

Swift didn’t lead Midnights with an advance single this time out, but it was still very clear within the first day of the album’s release what the first hit from it was going to be. “Anti-Hero” not only came with its own ambitious music video, Thursday Night Football promo and TikTok-geared #TSAntiHeroChallenge (the latter in collaboration with YouTube Shorts), but with a wallop of a chorus whose meme potential was unmistakable from first listen: “It’s me, hi/ I’m the problem, it’s me.” “Anti-Hero” was immediately and equally embraced by the internet and by pop radio — becoming ubiquitous in references on Twitter and Instagram and debuting at No. 13 on Billboard‘s Radio Songs tally this week, her highest-ever entrance on the chart.

It’s no surprise that “Anti-Hero” is the top debut from Midnights on the Hot 100 this week, but it also played a part in the rest of Swift’s chart dominance by doing the things that huge lead singles are supposed to do: Worming its way into all facets of pop culture, getting irremovably stuck in your head, and making sure that even your great aunts and uncles know that Taylor Swift Is Back.

4. The era advantages. As we did with Drake’s 2021 takeover, it’s important to point out that while Swift’s chart impact this week is jaw-dropping, it doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s actually more popular than The Beatles or Michael Jackson were at their peaks. Rather, she has advantages built-in to competing on the charts in 2022 that those pop icons simply didn’t at their respective commercial peaks, back when songs needed to be specifically released and promoted as singles to even be eligible for the Hot 100. Those rules were eliminated in 1998, but it wasn’t until the rise of iTunes the next decade — and even more so, the beginning of streaming in the 2010s — that an album’s tracks could be consumed individually enough for it to potentially chart every song at once in its first week.

And what’s more, as popular music continues to get more and more diffuse, megastars like Swift and Drake have a greater opportunity every year to monopolize the top tier of charts like the Hot 100. The primary competition for the 13 tracks on Midnights this week came via Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” and Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit,” two viral tracks from artists with little recent Hot 100 success — only Smith has any real history there, and they hadn’t scored higher than No. 39 with a single this decade — and whose peaks at radio, streaming and sales are unlikely to totally overlap. As the annual volume of four-quadrant smashes produced in pop keeps dwindling, it only gets easier for an artist of Swift’s size and reach to just come in and immediately command the whole room.

5. The last-second push. Of course, it also never hurts to give a couple of your tracks a little bit of an extra boost, as Swift did on Thursday (Oct. 27) — the last day of the tracking week — by making the original and instrumental versions of “Bejeweled” and “Question…?” available on her webstore for 69 cents. The move helped the two songs become two of the set’s best-sellers for the week (“Question…?” leads this week’s entire Digital Song Sales chart), and further helped ensure the top 10 Hot 100 placement for both songs, which rank at No. 6 and No. 7 this week, respectively — though indeed, streams for Swift’s songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 ended up being strong enough that all 10 tracks would’ve ranked in the region even without any chart points from sales or radio airplay.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Oct 31, 2022 19:47:20 GMT -5 Gary said:

Oct 31, 2022 19:45:05 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

never left the top 3 in its first 29 weeks
30th week: #16

It will likely be back

top 10 yes, I doubt about the top 3 tho

[Gary]

It is still top 3 this week in fact if you take out the 13 Taylor songs ahead of it -- most of which will fall - in week 2

[leoapp]

Oct 31, 2022 15:16:13 GMT -5 mms82 said:

Oct 31, 2022 12:30:46 GMT -5 leoapp said:

I can't with Swifties vs Arianator

Arianators:
the hot 100 if thank u next & midnights were released the same day
#1. 7 rings 603 pts
#2. Break up… your girlfriend 514 pts
#3. Anti-Hero 510 pts
#4. Thank u next 438 pts
#5. Lavender haze 338 pts

Swifties mentioning:
First female artist to occupy the entire top 3 SOLO without SAMPLED songs

Someone also complaining the Lana duet ruining the top 4 solo (to beat Ariana):
"midnight rain came so close tho😭 sotb shouldve been 5 ugh😭"

so silly - also do Ari and Tay have any beef or is this all manufactured Stan drama? I can’t recall them ever interacting

No beef at all between the 2 artists.
The fans did it.

Arianators vs Swifties was happening because of "occupying the top 3 all solo hits by female - thing"
When those predictions appeared earlier, the Lana Duet was predicted to hit no.3.
So Arianators claiming Ariana was still the winner, because Ariana's whole top 3 were all solo hits, no feature.
Swifties were triggered of course...and made sure the solo hits, predicted to hit no.4 /no.5 would sneak at no.3 and no.4, just to tie / break Ariana.
Arianators were triggered to promote the Lana duet to keep staying at no.3, so Ariana's record gonna be safe, as well even promoted Unholy to survive at no.10.

Lol...very cute "beef" right?

[jasper0102]

Holy *every swear word imaginable* she actually did it!

[M5AGTS]

Oct 31, 2022 19:51:17 GMT -5 leoapp said:

Oct 31, 2022 15:16:13 GMT -5 mms82 said:

so silly - also do Ari and Tay have any beef or is this all manufactured Stan drama? I can’t recall them ever interacting

No beef at all between the 2 artists.
The fans did it.

Arianators vs Swifties was happening because of "occupying the top 3 all solo hits by female - thing"
When those predictions appeared earlier, the Lana Duet was predicted to hit no.3.
So Arianators claiming Ariana was still the winner, because Ariana's whole top 3 were all solo hits, no feature.
Swifties were triggered of course...and made sure the solo hits, predicted to hit no.4 /no.5 would sneak at no.3 and no.4, just to tie / break Ariana.
Arianators were triggered to promote the Lana duet to keep staying at no.3, so Ariana's record gonna be safe, as well even promoted Unholy to survive at no.10.

Lol...very cute "beef" right?

I hate seeing this, cause I'm an Arianator and a Swiftie (as you can assume by my username). It's always so annoying seeing these two fanbases that I'm both in fight each other.

[jasper0102]

Oct 31, 2022 19:51:17 GMT -5 leoapp said:

Oct 31, 2022 15:16:13 GMT -5 mms82 said:

so silly - also do Ari and Tay have any beef or is this all manufactured Stan drama? I can’t recall them ever interacting

No beef at all between the 2 artists.
The fans did it.

Arianators vs Swifties was happening because of "occupying the top 3 all solo hits by female - thing"
When those predictions appeared earlier, the Lana Duet was predicted to hit no.3.
So Arianators claiming Ariana was still the winner, because Ariana's whole top 3 were all solo hits, no feature.
Swifties were triggered of course...and made sure the solo hits, predicted to hit no.4 /no.5 would sneak at no.3 and no.4, just to tie / break Ariana.
Arianators were triggered to promote the Lana duet to keep staying at no.3, so Ariana's record gonna be safe, as well even promoted Unholy to survive at no.10.

Lol...very cute "beef" right?

Stan Twitter beef is weird in the way that it is both funny in how petty it is and sad in why it’s even happening at all.

[fridayteenage]

Oct 31, 2022 19:50:17 GMT -5 Gary said:

It is still top 3 this week in fact if you take out the 13 Taylor songs ahead of it

wow, there are 99 songs each week that would be #1 if you take out the songs ahead of them too!

...doesn't look too big, but Antihero's 9.3 million US Youtube views for the video are the biggest since week starting 5/6 - The Heart Pt 5 11.5

most of the year's big weeks were for bruno:
16.5 mil
15.8 mil
15.7 mil
15.6 mil
14.9 mil
14.7 mil
14.1 mil
13.9 mil
11.7 mil
10.9 mil
9.9 mil.

[jasper0102]

Oct 31, 2022 19:50:17 GMT -5 Gary said:

It is still top 3 this week in fact if you take out the 13 Taylor songs ahead of it -- most of which will fall - in week 2

Given how Taylor needs only 1 SONG (Anti-Hero) to hold well enough to keep AIW from re-entering the Top 3 (and that’s not counting Lavender Haze), and there’s still Lift Me Up and Shirt, it’s not re-entering the Top 3 next week. 

[Gary]

Oct 31, 2022 20:45:14 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

Oct 31, 2022 19:50:17 GMT -5 Gary said:

It is still top 3 this week in fact if you take out the 13 Taylor songs ahead of it

wow, there are 99 songs each week that would be #1 if you take out the songs ahead of them too!
.

LOL- but in this case - 13 of the songs that caused this song to fall all the way to #16 in one week are from one album - many of which will take big week 2 tumbles

This song has more staying power than many people thought - I don't think it is done. Not sure where it is this week but last week it was #1 on radio.

[Limited Edition]

Came and went:

[firefox]

Oct 31, 2022 13:16:34 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

This marks the first time I've never heard a song in the top 10.

Don't make this about you. Lol

[JukeboxJacob]

Oct 31, 2022 19:05:59 GMT -5 Darkest Hour said:

#95 Meghan Trainor - Made You Look

please don't be a hit

[nickd]

Oct 31, 2022 19:51:17 GMT -5 leoapp said:

Oct 31, 2022 15:16:13 GMT -5 mms82 said:

so silly - also do Ari and Tay have any beef or is this all manufactured Stan drama? I can’t recall them ever interacting

No beef at all between the 2 artists.
The fans did it.

Arianators vs Swifties was happening because of "occupying the top 3 all solo hits by female - thing"
When those predictions appeared earlier, the Lana Duet was predicted to hit no.3.
So Arianators claiming Ariana was still the winner, because Ariana's whole top 3 were all solo hits, no feature.
Swifties were triggered of course...and made sure the solo hits, predicted to hit no.4 /no.5 would sneak at no.3 and no.4, just to tie / break Ariana.
Arianators were triggered to promote the Lana duet to keep staying at no.3, so Ariana's record gonna be safe, as well even promoted Unholy to survive at no.10.

Lol...very cute "beef" right?

You also had 1-2 Lana heads trying to bait Arianators into the feud and enlist them in helping SOTB chart higher.

[mms82]

Lana does now have her highest charting single of all time

[No Brakes]

Genius marketing by TS but the system is clearly broken (and I like TS).

This would be like artist in the Pre-Streaming Era getting credit not only for albums or singles sold, but their fans playing the songs off the album over and over again and going towards the Hot 100.

I think most people don’t even take the Hot 100 or Billboard seriously anymore, and if they were, this will end it.

Oh, and the Lana song is one of the worst on the album.

[ificanthaveyou]

Lol I love this tweet for someone:

Nine Taylor Swift songs could’ve been #1 on Billboard Hot 100 this week if it wasn’t for Taylor Swift.

[Joe1240]

Congrats to Taylor Swift on this amazing feat! Taylor Swift just keeps re-peaking and keeps releasing great albums. Not many artist can do what Taylor Swift has done in her career.

One thing a lot of people are forgetting is most artists peak early in their career either it is with their debut,2nd or 3rd album release and those artists never put out a great album after. What Taylor does is special that she keeps releasing great music late in her career,It's a rare thing you don't see much in the music industry.

[woods]

I remember when Ed Sheeran became the first artist to have 2 songs debut in the top 10 in the same week (SOY/COTH) and it felt like a huge achievement at the time, Taylor made that look like it's nothing

[mms82]

Looks like I’m Blue would go top 10 w/o Taylor, crazy comeback, what were each of their most recent top 10s?

[badrobot]

Big congrats to Taylor. I don’t relate to her music but it’s clear a lot of people do. Funny how she and Drake are such chart forces despite being just about as opposite in sound as possible.

You have to wonder how NSync, Britney, Eminem, and Backstreet Boys would’ve performed on the Hot 100 at their peak if it was during the current streaming era.

I do believe this reinforces the case that we need 2 song charts, though. One for all songs, and one specifically for “hot” songs that are making impact beyond just being an album cut on a blockbuster album. Chart eras all have their quirks, but it’s tough to compare what’s happening now with previous eras when it was literally impossible for album cuts to chart.

[thegreatdivine]

Oct 31, 2022 18:10:59 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Oct 21, 2022 20:22:24 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Most top 5 songs

Drake 30
The Beatles 29
Madonna 28
Mariah Carey 27
Janet Jackson 26
Taylor Swift 24
Rihanna 23

Most top 10 songs

Drake 59
Taylor Swift 40

Most #1 debuts

Drake 7
Ariana Grande 5
BTS 5
Taylor Swift 5

Most #1 songs (this century)

Rihanna 14
Drake 11
Katy Perry 9
Taylor Swift 9

Most top 10 debuts

Drake 44
Taylor Swift 30

Most top 40 entries

Drake 158
Taylor Swift 104

Most Hot 100 entries

Drake 278
Glee Cast 207
Taylor Swift 188

updated

Nice to know Drake will be adding to this two weeks from now.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Oct 31, 2022 21:48:44 GMT -5 mms82 said:

Looks like I’m Blue would go top 10 w/o Taylor, crazy comeback, what were each of their most recent top 10s?

For David Guetta, Hey Mama, for Bebe Rexha, Meant to Be.