Billboard Hot 100: 03/25/2023

[iHype.]

Sales were further reduced in Hot 100 formula at the end of the last year due to the metric becoming more out of touch. Nothing was filtered out, 33K just isn't enough to chart now.

The predictors had the sales predicted at 32K and didn't have it charting in the final Hot 100 prediction.

1K sales = 1 point now, and a song would've needed over 40K+ sales to chart with no radio/streaming this week.

[Groovy]

I'm guessing this is the next single off SOS. 

[kimberly]

Mar 21, 2023 14:31:26 GMT -5 Groovy said:

I'm guessing this is the next single off SOS. 

could be. but I think there's a video for "Low" ready to go, too, which moves up 92-83 this week in its 14th week charting as well. (peak: #17)

[artistry]

I am hoping both Escapism and Until I Found You reach new peaks, within the top 20. Also, next week I expect Kali Uchis' Moonlight to enter the Billboard Hot 100.

[mms82]

Mar 21, 2023 14:01:45 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Sales were further reduced in Hot 100 formula at the end of the last year due to the metric becoming more out of touch. Nothing was filtered out, 33K just isn't enough to chart now.

The predictors had the sales predicted at 32K and didn't have it charting in the final Hot 100 prediction.

1K sales = 1 point now, and a song would've needed over 40K+ sales to chart with no radio/streaming this week.

I wonder when sales will be done away with as a component chart, I doubt it’ll ever go away (nor should it) but like how they don’t make the physical single chart after high school musical domination during its death, the digital sales chart will go away after right wing K-pop domination during its death

[jdanton2]

Mar 21, 2023 12:51:48 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

#46. Meghan Trainor - Made You Look (+11)

got to 21 weeks since it moved back into the top 50.

[iHype.]

Mar 21, 2023 16:30:51 GMT -5 mms82 said:

Mar 21, 2023 14:01:45 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Sales were further reduced in Hot 100 formula at the end of the last year due to the metric becoming more out of touch. Nothing was filtered out, 33K just isn't enough to chart now.

The predictors had the sales predicted at 32K and didn't have it charting in the final Hot 100 prediction.

1K sales = 1 point now, and a song would've needed over 40K+ sales to chart with no radio/streaming this week.

I wonder when sales will be done away with as a component chart, I doubt it’ll ever go away (nor should it) but like how they don’t make the physical single chart after high school musical domination during its death, the digital sales chart will go away after right wing K-pop domination during its death

The physical single chart lasted until 2013 I believe actually, and at that point you needed barely 100 copies to chart. Digital sales are dead but not to that level yet, the cutoff on the chart is usually 1.5-2k currently.

The chart probably won't go away for a good handful of years at least.

[mikeymonster]

Updated chart runs for this week's top 10 + some others ;) (in comic sans, cuz that's more fun!) 

#1, Miley Cyrus - "Flowers"
1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 1 -

#2, Morgan Wallen - "Last Night"
27 - 3 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 1 - 2 -

#3, SZA - "Kill Bill"
3 - 7 - 11 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 3 -

#4, The Weeknd & Ariana Grande - "Die For You"
43 - 71 - 93 - off - 71 - 69 - 52 - 49 - 46 - 41 - 37 - 33 - 37 - 43 - 27 - 34 - 12 - 12 - 15 - 19 - 33 - 26 - 26 - 8 - 6 - 7 - 7 - 6 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 1 - 4 - 4 -

#5, Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, 21 Savage - "Creepin'"
5 - 13 - 19 - 22 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 5 - 3 - 4 - 6 - 6 - 5 -

#6, Pink Pantheress & Ice Spice - "Boy's A Liar, Pt. 2"
14 - 4 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 -

#7, Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"
1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 6 - 7 - 9 - 8 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 3 - 4 - 7 - 8 - 8 - 9 - 12 - 7 -

#8, Rema & Selena Gomez - "Calm Down"
91 - 92 - 88 - 80 - 75 - 74 - 89 - 86 - 88 - 88 - 82 - 82 - 87 - 87 - 83 - 83 - 79 - 46 - 38 - 35 - 28 - 26 - 27 - 25 - 19 - 15 - 19 - 8 -

#9, Morgan Wallen - "Thought You Should Know"
12 - 50 - 62 - 69 - 76 - 74 - 86 - 80 - 88 - 89 - 81 - 85 - 93 - 91 - 94 - 81 - 96 - 96 - 98 - 96 - off - 33 - 27 - 31 - 27 - 21 - 13 - 16 - 15 - 13 - 7 - 9 -

#10, Morgan Wallen - "You Proof"
6 - 26 - 21 - 31 - 36 - 41 - 36 - 28 - 22 - 23 - 22 - 21 - 18 - 15 - 13 - 13 - 10 - 6 - 6 - 8 - 7 - 5 - 7 - 19 - 14 - 25 - 13 - 13 - 25 - 34 - 49 - 46 - 46 - 13 - 15 - 20 - 20 - 18 - 18 - 23 - 20 - 21 - 8 - 10 -

others 

#11, Bailey Zimmerman - "Rock And A Hard Place"
24 - 72 - 61 - 54 - 49 - 42 - 33 - 40 - 35 - 39 - 29 - 38 - 36 - 38 - 37 - 29 - 27 - 31 - 35 - 53 - 54 - 58 - 57 - 54 - 61 - 65 - 66 - 64 - 61 - 20 - 17 - 21 - 19 - 16 - 19 - 18 - 16 - 17 - 20 - 11 -

#12, Coi Leray - "Players"
98 - 78 - 54 - 49 - 38 - 28 - 22 - 17 - 16 - 24 - 12 - 

#13, Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy"
3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 11 - 3 - 10 - 3 - 3 - 4 - 7 - 9 - 10 - 10 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 4 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 16 - 13 - 

#14, David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - "I'm Good (Blue)"
81 - 46 - 31 - 24 - 21 - 18 - 16 - 14 - 24 - 15 - 20 - 7 - 7 - 11 - 18 - 26 - 23 - 19 - 4 - 4 - 6 - 6 - 7 - 9 - 10 - 10 - 11 - 21 - 14 - 

#15, Harry Styles - "As It Was"
1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 16 - 5 - 17 - 5 - 8 - 14 - 21 - 38 - 35 - 31 - 7 - 8 - 10 - 9 - 9 - 10 - 12 - 12 - 14 - 23 - 15 - 

#16, Chris Brown - "Under The Influence"
36 - 29 - 25 - 23 - 23 - 29 - 25 - 21 - 32 - 17 - 14 - 21 - 33 - 45 - 37 - 39 - 14 - 12 - 14 - 16 - 13 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 18 - 26 - 16 - 

#18, Lil Uzi Vert - "Just Wanna Rock"
86 - 48 - 48 - 44 - 47 - 21 - 35 - 51 - 60 - 55 - 53 - 16 - 16 - 16 - 12 - 10 - 12 - 11 - 11 - 12 - 22 - 18 - 

#21, Kane Brown & Katelyn Brown - "Thank God"
22 - 30 - 38 - 39 - 26 - 38 - 51 - 43 - 52 - 43 - 46 - 55 - 56 - 63 - 60 - 56 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 18 - 17 - 21 - 13 - 13 - 19 - 28 - 21 -

#22, Beyoncé - "Cuff It"
13 - 50 - 81 - 91 - off - 85 - 61 - 54 - 36 - 27 - 33 - 39 - 31 - 38 - 20 - 16 - 20 - 28 - 42 - 39 - 38 - 10 - 13 - 17 - 15 - 15 - 6 - 9 - 9 - 10 - 25 - 22 - 

#23, RAYE & 070 Shake - "Escapism" 
100 - 79 - 72 - 75 - 43 - 28 - 22 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 26 - 23 - 22 - 33 - 23 - 

#24, Miguel - "Sure Thing"
94 - 87 - 76 - 71 - 63 - 58 - 57 - 56 - 42 - 43 - 36 - 44 - 39 - 41 - 44 - 43 - 49 - 40 - 40 - 43 - 45 - 45 - 49 - off - 49 - 42 - 39 - 36 - 30 - 31 - 28 - 28 - 37 - 24 -

#25, Taylor Swift - "Lavender Haze"
2 - 6 - 23 - 21 - 26 - 52 - 61 - 65 - 67 - 64 - 37 - 30 - 34 - 30 - 19 - 26 - 24 - 22 - 23 - 31 - 25 - 

#28, Stephen Sanchez - "Until I Found You"
100 - off - 95 - off - 92 - 88 - 96 - 97 - 92 - 76 - 87 - 75 - 69 - 59 - 57 - 47 - 38 - 48 - 57 - 53 - 64 - 56 - 45 - 54 - 60 - 64 - 62 - 58 - 27 - 23 - 28 - 29 - 28 - 35 - 32 - 31 - 27 - 39 - 28 - 

#30, Zach Bryan - "Something In The Orange" 
55 - 77 - 77 - 75 - 42 - 40 - 37 - 41 - 50 - 39 - 37 - 30 - 33 - 41 - 45 - 42 - 42 - 42 - 42 - 32 - 25 - 21 - 23 - 16 - 12 - 12 - 28 - 29 - 26 - 19 - 17 - 28 - 41 - 53 - 50 - 42 - 11 - 10 - 13 - 11 - 14 - 20 - 21 - 26 - 26 - 42 - 30 - 

#43, Lady Gaga - "Bloody Mary" 
68 - 62 - 57 - 54 - 56 - 57 - 55 - 47 - 46 - 66 - 43 - 

[85la]

Mar 21, 2023 14:01:45 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Sales were further reduced in Hot 100 formula at the end of the last year due to the metric becoming more out of touch. Nothing was filtered out, 33K just isn't enough to chart now.

The predictors had the sales predicted at 32K and didn't have it charting in the final Hot 100 prediction.

1K sales = 1 point now, and a song would've needed over 40K+ sales to chart with no radio/streaming this week.

Hmm, not that I'm disappointed or want the song to chart AT ALL, but 32k is still a pretty substantial figure, and with it being #1 in sales, seems like it should at least chart somewhere on the Hot 100, even if it has zero in the other metrics. That to me seems like the formula is broken and sales might be too heavily down-weighted.

[rnb]

calm down yasss

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

with Lift Me Up, Rihanna is now the female artist with the most songs charting for at least 20 weeks. Cheers and Russian Roulette are her only top 10s with less than 20 weeks.

Artists with at least 30 songs:

# of songs with 20+ weeks / overall entries

Drake 78 / 293 (26,6%)
Lil Wayne 57 / 184 (30,9%)
Chris Brown 46 / 114 (40,3%)
Rihanna 44 / 63 (69,8%)
Nicki Minaj 43 / 126 (34,1%)
Taylor Swift 37 / 188 (19,6%)
Jay-Z 32 / 105 (30,4%)

some of the artists with at least 20 songs:

Usher 28, Kanye 28, Mariah 27, Beyonce 26, Future 25, Maroon 5 24, Justin Bieber 22, P!nk 22, Ariana Grande 21, The Weeknd 20

*remixes are counted

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Mar 21, 2023 13:51:30 GMT -5 mms82 said:

Morgan had 27 songs stay on?! So this week ties Drake then for the second most chart entries in a single week, right?

Actually 28. So he holds the two top weeks on his own.

[salt]

So "Justice For All" ended up at #4 on Bubbling Under. Miley got her revenge for it unseating her from #1 on iTunes by preventing it from charting on the H100.

[Music Fan]

Mar 21, 2023 18:34:31 GMT -5 mikeymonster said:

Updated chart runs for this week's top 10 + some others ;) (in comic sans, cuz that's more fun!) 

#2, Morgan Wallen - "Last Night"
27 - 3 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 1 - 2 -

With 6 weeks in the Top 5, what's the last country song to notch at least 5 weeks in the Top 5? We Are Never Getting Back Together by Taylor?

[salt]

Is "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" even considered country in the first place?

[Music Fan]

Mar 22, 2023 0:59:38 GMT -5 salt said:

Is "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" even considered country in the first place?

Admittedly the beginning of true Pop Star Taylor, but it made Top 20 on Country airplay and was nominated for a few Country awards, so I'd say yes.

[Skibidi Bop Bop]

74. Tennessee Number
75. Tennessee Orange
76. Tennessee Fun

That's crazy week for Tennessee. 😂

[musicspy]

Mar 22, 2023 4:52:20 GMT -5 Skibidi Bop Bop said:

74. Tennessee Number
75. Tennessee Orange
76. Tennessee Fun

That's crazy week for Tennessee. 😂

I wanted to note that too!!!

[Skibidi Bop Bop]

Mar 22, 2023 5:15:53 GMT -5 musicspy said:

Mar 22, 2023 4:52:20 GMT -5 Skibidi Bop Bop said:

74. Tennessee Number
75. Tennessee Orange
76. Tennessee Fun

That's crazy week for Tennessee. 😂

I wanted to note that too!!!

I think Spotify/streaming platform's algorithm made this possible besides album track listing. This era is the worst for chart watchers sadly. And this is a sign that streaming platform can be manipulated this way besides playlisting.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Mar 22, 2023 0:55:50 GMT -5 Music Fan said:

Mar 21, 2023 18:34:31 GMT -5 mikeymonster said:

Updated chart runs for this week's top 10 + some others (in comic sans, cuz that's more fun!) 

#2, Morgan Wallen - "Last Night"
27 - 3 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 1 - 2 -

With 6 weeks in the Top 5, what's the last country song to notch at least 5 weeks in the Top 5? We Are Never Getting Back Together by Taylor?

Fancy Like with 8 weeks

[jasper0102]

Mar 21, 2023 9:50:42 GMT -5 firefox said:

Yes. Selena, Taylor and Miley on top 10! Also Rock and A Hard Place was robbed.

Fr. Why Billboard let You Proof get another week in the top 10 but let that get stuck at 11 is behind me.

Mar 21, 2023 16:52:11 GMT -5 jdanton2 said:

Mar 21, 2023 12:51:48 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

#46. Meghan Trainor - Made You Look (+11)

got to 21 weeks since it moved back into the top 50.

And then will promptly and probably leave next week.

[Gary]

Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever

I wouldn't call that a country song

Although it was #1 on Hot Country Songs, it came out right at the start of Hot Country Songs being a subset of Hot 100 and taking in all-genre data


It did though get a quick blast of country airplay though while there was still some confusion about Taylor Swift the country singer and Taylor Swift the pop star, but then fell quickly


country airplay chart run

13-19-18-19-17-15-21-36

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[jfvtc2030]

Mar 22, 2023 6:24:56 GMT -5 Skibidi Bop Bop said:

Mar 22, 2023 5:15:53 GMT -5 musicspy said:

I wanted to note that too!!!

I think Spotify/streaming platform's algorithm made this possible besides album track listing. This era is the worst for chart watchers sadly. And this is a sign that streaming platform can be manipulated this way besides playlisting.

someone sounds old and bitter 😍😍

worst for chart watchers? nahhhhhh this era (2017ish-present) is the most fun for me personally (I'm more interested in on-demand audio streaming than anything else). And every era has had it's own share of 'manipulation', let's bffr 

Anyways, that's the only thing I'll say about this topic before this drags into an weird argument 

[Gary]

Random coincidence for the Tennessee thing -- all were different positions last week

[Choco]

Mar 22, 2023 7:08:46 GMT -5 jasper0102 said:

Mar 21, 2023 9:50:42 GMT -5 firefox said:

Yes. Selena, Taylor and Miley on top 10! Also Rock and A Hard Place was robbed.

Fr. Why Billboard let You Proof get another week in the top 10 but let that get stuck at 11 is behind me.

Mar 21, 2023 16:52:11 GMT -5 jdanton2 said:

got to 21 weeks since it moved back into the top 50.

And then will promptly and probably leave next week.

Sure but a Meghan Trainor song making recurrency in 2023 is news. I do think it was a fluke and she'll go back to the D List, but good for her for getting some non-Title coins

[salt]

Mar 22, 2023 4:52:20 GMT -5 Skibidi Bop Bop said:

74. Tennessee Number
75. Tennessee Orange
76. Tennessee Fun

That's crazy week for Tennessee. 😂

Now we just need "Tennessee" by Arrested Development and "Tennessee Whiskey" by Chris Stapleton to re-enter so Tennessee can own 1/20th of the chart.  DO IT, TIKTOK!