Billboard Hot 100: 04/15/2023

[mms82]

With the fall I am grateful for Jimin going number one and stealing the record for biggest fall for #1 from Billboard year-end hit Willow. I wonder if it'll fall off entirely after two weeks and take that record too

[Skibidi Bop Bop]

Well, still congrats to Jimmin. Bad publicity is still a publicity.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Notable Gains:
#17. Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma - Ella Baila Sola (+14)
#32. Luke Combs - Fast Car (+12)
#33. Tyler the Creator - DOGTOOTH (+48)
#43. NLE Choppa - SLUT ME OUT (+39)
#64. Peso Pluma and Natanael Cano - PRC (+14)
#65. Peso Pluma - Por las Noches (+11)
#80. Fuerza Regida and Natanael Cano - Ch y la Pizza (+17)

Notable Losses:
#36. Luke Combs - Love You Anyway (-12)
#39. Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed (-13)
#45. Jimin - Like Crazy (-44)
#57. Taylor Swift - All of the Girls You Loved Before (-18)
#68. Carly Pearce - What He Didn't Do (-21)
#73. Morgan Wallen - Man Made A Bar (-14)
#74. Superstar Pride - PAINTING PICTURES (-18)
#81. The Kid LAROI - Love Again (-10)
#86. Lola Brooke feat. Billy B or Latto and Yung Miami - Don't Play With It (-17)
#91. Luke Combs - Growin' Up and Gettin' Old (-37)
#92. SZA - Nobody Gets Me (-27)
#96. Morgan Wallen - '98 Braves (-17)
#97. Zach Bryan feat. Maggie Rogers - Dawns (-12)

Re-entries:
#75. Russ - NASTY
#98. Melanie Martinez - DEATH

Notable Dropouts:
Low (16 weeks)
Watch This (ARIZONATEARS Pluggnb Remix) (6 weeks)

Biggest Gain in Airplay: Last Night
Biggest Gain in Sales: Kill Bill
Biggest Gain in Streaming: DOGTOOTH

Gained in Points:
#1. Morgan Wallen - Last Night (+2)
#2. SZA - Kill Bill (+2)
#7. Rema and Selena Gomez - Calm Down (+1) *new peak*
#10. Bailey Zimmerman - Rock and A Hard Place (+3)
#11. Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze (+5)
#14. Toosii - Favorite Song (+3) *new peak*
#15. Miguel - Sure Thing (+3) *new peak*
#24. Morgan Wallen - One Thing At A Time (+1)
#26. Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma - La Bebe (+8) *new peak*
#27. Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange (=)
#28. Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown - Thank God (+1)
#29. Laine Wilson - Heart Like A Truck (+3)
#37. HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson - wait in the truck (+3)
#41. Drake and 21 Savage - Spin Bout U (=)
#44. Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary (-1)
#50. Parker McCollum - Handle On You (+3) *new peak*
#51. Corey Kent - Wild As Her (+7) *new peak*
#53. Jordan Davis - Next Thing You Know (+8) *new peak*
#62. Megan Moroney - Tennessee Orange (+2)
#63. Gabito Bellasteros, Peso Pluma, and Natanael Cano - AMG (+4) *new peak*
#67. Tyler Hubbard - Dancin' in the Country (+8) *new peak*
#70. Lizzo feat. SZA - Special (-4)
#71. Yandel and Feid - Yandel 150 (+2)
#78. Coco Jones - ICU (-4)
#83. Lil Baby feat. Fridayy - Forever (=)
#85. FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid (+9) *new peak*
#87. Cody Johnson - Human (+2)
#90. Dierks Bentley - Gold (+2)

I don't particularly like laughing at the misfortune of other people but seeing the meltdown of ARMYs, wont lie and say it doesn't make me smile.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

BUBBLING UNDER
#1. Junior H and Peso Pluma - El Azul (+7)
#2. Scotty McCreery - It Matters to Her (+1)
#3. Melanie Martinez - THE CONTORTIONIST (DEBUT)
#4. JISOO - FLOWER (DEBUT)
#5. Chinito Pac and Fuerza Regida - Dijeron Que No La Iba Lograr (-3)
#6. Libianca - People (-2)
#7. Melanie Martinez - EVIL (DEBUT)
#8. Summer Walker - Karma (-2)
#9. Melanie Martinez - TUNNEL VISION (DEBUT)
#10. Grupo Frontera and Grupo Marca Registrada - Di Que Si (-1)
#11. Tyler the Creator - HEAVEN TO ME (DEBUT)
#12. Keith Urban - Brown Eyed Baby (+4)
#14. Tyler the Creator - WHAT A DAY (DEBUT)
#14. Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples - STUNTMAN (DEBUT)
#15. Justin Moore and Priscilla Block - You, Me & Whiskey (-3)
#16. Dean Lewis - How Do I Say Goodbye (-3)
#17. Sam Hunt - Water Under the Bridge (+1)
#18. Fuerza Regida and Peso Pluma - Igualito a Mi Apá (+3)
#19. Melanie Martinez - NYMPHOLOGY (DEBUT)
#20. Brent Faiyaz - JACKIE BROWN (-9)
#21. Gucci Mane feat. 21 Savage and DaBaby - '06 Gucci (DEBUT)
#22. Tyler the Creator, YG - BOYFRIEND, GIRLFRIEND (DEBUT)
#23. Gerardo Coronel "El Jerry" - Qué Onda Perdida (DEBUT)
#24. Cartel de Santa feat. La Kelly - Shorty Party (re-entry)
#25. Jon Pardi - Your Heart or Mine (DEBUT)

[mms82]

Apr 11, 2023 5:30:12 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Notable Gains:
#17. Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma - Ella Baila Sola (+14)

I would love this to go top 10 and have a regional Mexican music song hit the region for the first time!

[Gary]

Biggest drops from #1 - alltime (number listed is position held after leaving #1)
BTS songs take up 3 of the top 10


1 *All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey (off the chart)
2 Like Crazy, Jimin 45
3 Willow, Taylor Swift 38
4 Trollz, 6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj 34
5 Life Goes On, BTS,28
6 Franchise, Travis Scott 25
7 Butter, BTS 17
8 Heartless, The Weeknd 17
9 Nothing From Nothing, Billy Preston 15
10 Then Came You, Dionne Warwick,Spinners 15

[enwhy]

I was not prepared for those tweets. not the one stan tagging @cnn 😭

[Push The Button]

Oof. They bad mad.

It is still crazy to me that people in another country are so obsessed with the American music chart.

[rideordie]

I’m curious… did billboard change the digital sales rules again? Because why were so many sales for Jimins single filtered this week compared to the week of release?

[atg]

Apr 11, 2023 7:53:15 GMT -5 Gary said:

Biggest drops from #1 - alltime (number listed is position held after leaving #1)
BTS songs take up 3 of the top 10


1 *All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey (off the chart)
2 Like Crazy, Jimin 45
3 Willow, Taylor Swift 38
4 Trollz, 6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj 34
5 Life Goes On, BTS,28
6 Franchise, Travis Scott 25
7 Butter, BTS 17
8 Heartless, The Weeknd 17
9 Nothing From Nothing, Billy Preston 15
10 Then Came You, Dionne Warwick,Spinners 15

I remember when Heartless had the biggest drop from #1 and that was all. Abel stays making trends happen!

[kcdawg13]

Apr 11, 2023 9:21:07 GMT -5 rideordie said:

I’m curious… did billboard change the digital sales rules again? Because why were so many sales for Jimins single filtered this week compared to the week of release?

The cynical side of me thinks it was because of the all the clicks and publicity they got from the ARMY last week, which is why they waited until this week to do anything about the inflated sales.

[Choco]

Regarding Jimin's publicity, no one outside of his fanbase heard the song last week, let alone this week when it fell out of top 50 lol. Completely niche song that had no business charting well even last week.

Sales need to be filtered more and weighed less. It's a dead metric outside of stanbases like BTS or Taylor Swift or Nicki Minaj and very few of those go on to become legitimate hits on other metrics (there's three Like Crazy fueled fancrazes for every Super Freaky Girl that actually connects with audiences).

[mms82]

That 1-17 from “10-week number one” Butter is still so absurd (as was the 1-7-1 movement when they shifted to Permission to Dance as the target)

[Az Paynter]

Much as it should feel good to witness the Army getting a lesson in real time about the correlation between 'f**k around' and 'find out', it's honestly a little bit scary to read how unhinged and divorced from reality their tweets right now are.

Apr 11, 2023 9:21:07 GMT -5 rideordie said:

I’m curious… did billboard change the digital sales rules again? Because why were so many sales for Jimins single filtered this week compared to the week of release?

I'm gonna presume whatever they did last week amounted to the 'one lifetime sale' limit Billboard imposed a couple months back (so no, there was no 11th hour rule change like the Army is crying about, they just found out the hard way), and then this week they lathered, rinsed, repeated then ran smack bang into that 'one lifetime sale' rule which is why all those sales just got Thanos'd. It really puts into perspective how little people are actually engaging with the material when the Army shot their wad on week 1 and now their system-gaming attempts couldn't be more blatant.

[Groovy]

I can see Last Night staying at 1 for some time, it has good streams and gaining on radio.

[rideordie]

Apr 11, 2023 9:59:03 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

Much as it should feel good to witness the Army getting a lesson in real time about the correlation between 'f**k around' and 'find out', it's honestly a little bit scary to read how unhinged and divorced from reality their tweets right now are.

Apr 11, 2023 9:21:07 GMT -5 rideordie said:

I’m curious… did billboard change the digital sales rules again? Because why were so many sales for Jimins single filtered this week compared to the week of release?

I'm gonna presume whatever they did last week amounted to the 'one lifetime sale' limit Billboard imposed a couple months back (so no, there was no 11th hour rule change like the Army is crying about, they just found out the hard way), and then this week they lathered, rinsed, repeated then ran smack bang into that 'one lifetime sale' rule which is why all those sales just got Thanos'd. It really puts into perspective how little people are actually engaging with the material when the Army shot their wad on week 1 and now their system-gaming attempts couldn't be more blatant.

A far as I’m concerned those rules need revisiting. Limit the number of remixes that can actually contribute to chart points.

[rainygirl]

Apr 11, 2023 9:21:07 GMT -5 rideordie said:

I’m curious… did billboard change the digital sales rules again? Because why were so many sales for Jimins single filtered this week compared to the week of release?

are they still allowing 4 digital copies per account ? That could be why the singles numbers are so inflated

[kindofbiased]

I don't think Like Crazy is gonna immediately tank like a lot of BTS #1s tbh, it actually has decent streaming, I wouldn't be surprised if it sticks in this range for a while. Like Crazy was definitely not the most popular song in America last week but Like Crazy being the 45th most popular song in America this week feels a lot more believable

[shayonce]

yeah. whole 1 sales (per version) forever and no reset thing was known for months.. so seems like those twitter predictor lied to get attention?

[bonicap]

Every fanbase has its share of delusional people, but BTS fanbase is just too much. I don't know if it is because they are mostly teenagers and even preteens or there is any other reason behind it, but the amount of deranged, ignorant and brainwashed people in there is just astonishing.

[bonicap]

The "one lifetime sale" rule is good, but it won't prevent songs like this one to reach #1. It will only make them drop significantly the week after. Billboard still has some fixing to do, like allowing only one remix/alternative version or banning the "alternative digital cover" scam and similar tricks.

[sheardbeard]

Apr 10, 2023 23:28:51 GMT -5 Gary said:

I have an iTunes playlist of every hot 100 number one ever. Including all the Bts songs.

So do I, in chronological order, starting with Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool”.

[rainygirl]

Apr 11, 2023 11:31:00 GMT -5 bonicap said:

The "one lifetime sale" rule is good, but it won't prevent songs like this one to reach #1. It will only make them drop significantly the week after. Billboard still has some fixing to do, like allowing only one remix/alternative version or banning the "alternative digital cover" scam and similar tricks.

you have to wonder why BB doesn’t seem interested in a meaningful fix . I’m sure they are all very smart people so somehow this chaos surely isn’t unpredictable to them

[TakeMe]

Like Crazy sonically has all the makings of a no.1 hit in this era of music.
I say this as someone of this generation with 0 interest in K Pop music at all.

I guess I just don’t understand how Jimin fans going out of there way to buy the album is any different than TS fans streaming the hell outta Mid just to flood the top 10 with a bunch of forgettable songs and Anti Hero. Can anyone make sense of this for me? What’s the balance when your songs selling, it’s streams aren’t far behind other songs in the top 10/20???? Why is radio held so much? Songs paid to be played constantly so it forces you to “like” it or think “it deserves to be a hit”.
Literally only thing keeping the most of top 40 from collapsing is radio!!! The sales and streams are WEAK!

[gs]

Billboard, instead of just ripping the bandaid off, continues to only slowly penalise sales with each chart update, so that manipulation can still occur. Although manipulation has been significantly reduced from its peak in 2020-2021, it clearly remains possible during the first week.

Seriously, there have been so many little adjustments to sales (both rules and formula-wise), but each one only slightly mitigates the issue without providing a robust solution. Understandably, they need to satisfy record labels and prioritize the best interests of the music industry, but their reactive "post-mortem" approach to rule updates show a persistent inability to anticipate just how much fanbases can disrupt the charts.

[rainygirl]

That’s a great comment @gs. Unfortunately all BB is doing is contributing to the ‘system is broken’ argument .

[dodgerslakers94]

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[badrobot]

I advocate for making the Hot 100 a "minutes listened" chart. Remove sales entirely. Add the total audience impressions + total streams (and bring back UGC as part of the total streams so tiktok/reels/etc are included). The only "weighting" should just be by how many minutes a song was heard (so, for example, maybe 10-15 short clips on social media would end up being as much weight as one full listen of a song).

Then you'd just have one easily comparable number for each song. So, maybe "Flowers" was listened to for 500m minutes while another song had 459m minutes, etc. It would also make it far easier to compare each song's performance over time rather than using the abstract of "points" which are constantly recalibrated anyway.

[mms82]

Apr 11, 2023 12:48:02 GMT -5 badrobot said:

I advocate for making the Hot 100 a "minutes listened" chart. Remove sales entirely. Add the total audience impressions + total streams (and bring back UGC as part of the total streams so tiktok/reels/etc are included). The only "weighting" should just be by how many minutes a song was heard (so, for example, maybe 10-15 short clips on social media would end up being as much weight as one full listen of a song).

Then you'd just have one easily comparable number for each song. So, maybe "Flowers" was listened to for 500m minutes while another song had 459m minutes, etc. It would also make it far easier to compare each song's performance over time rather than using the abstract of "points" which are constantly recalibrated anyway.

interesting idea, but then you'd have artists game the system with really long songs as opposed to songs being shorter like they are now. Taylor Swift songs would be like Anti-Hero (10 Minute Version) and BTS would have a Butter (24 Hour Remix) to help stans game the system

While that would be funny for a hot second I think that would be more annoying lol. while we all recognize Billboard needs to make changes, there is no "perfect" system that isn't manipulatable

[bonicap]

Apr 11, 2023 11:48:24 GMT -5 rainygirl said:

Apr 11, 2023 11:31:00 GMT -5 bonicap said:

The "one lifetime sale" rule is good, but it won't prevent songs like this one to reach #1. It will only make them drop significantly the week after. Billboard still has some fixing to do, like allowing only one remix/alternative version or banning the "alternative digital cover" scam and similar tricks.

you have to wonder why BB doesn’t seem interested in a meaningful fix . I’m sure they are all very smart people so somehow this chaos surely isn’t unpredictable to them

You are right. The clicks they get when these people go #1 must be insane. They need to be careful with their credibility, though.