Billboard Hot 100: 01/13/2024

[dremolus - solarpunk]

New Singles:
Christine and the Queens - Stayin' Alive (Cover of The Bee Gees)
The Army with The Navy - Play the Music
Walker County - Pancho and Lefty
60 juno - Milk thistle
Sarah Klang - Hurts Me Too
Wild Child - Backwards
Kaitlin Butts - Tomorrow Will Be Kinder
Kina Grannis, Imaginary Future, people i like, Mree, and Henri Bardot - july
DYLN - Facts
Baby Storme - WHY? (PSA)
Just_us - Years
cehryl - kill the thought
WiseWords feat. Conway the Machine - Fair Amount
BIG Naughty - INFJ / IMFP
The Republic of Wolves - A Long December
Shim You Sun - if i could back to then
tobi lou feat. FARADA - Numbers
Peso Pluma, Junior H, and Oscar Maydon - Rompe La Dompe
SEULGI - Polaroid
Catsclaw - Namesake
MIRAR - Dégenèse
Marley B. - Heard of Me

New Albums and EPS:
Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine & The Alchemist - Hall & Nash 2
Lord of the Lost - Weapon of Mass Seduction
trusttt - clearminded EP
Mata - 2038: WARSZAWA

[edward]

Can some A-listers release something already? It's so quiet and boring, and radio is still refusing to play new top songs like the mitski and noah kahan song or even I Remember Everything, I'm so tired of seeing cruel summer and snooze and last night week after week. Where's SZA??? When's Ariana coming? Are they all just waiting for the new year? I really hope we don't get ALL the new music in the same week.

[whaleblubber]

^ Ariana is definitely coming soonish. Lil Nas X is also rumored to drop in January (although YMMV if he's an A-lister).

SZA is most likely coming January too, didn't she delay some AM performance to January?

[fridayteenage]

When cruel summer is still charting through the summer...

[Taylor.]

They didn't even bother updating the New Music Friday Canada playlist today lol

[velaxti]

Dec 29, 2023 8:32:32 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

When cruel summer is still charting through the summer...

It's crazy to think they started promoting it as a single in June. I kind of thought it it got to #1 at all it would've been in August or September maybe, I wouldn't have guessed it'd be #1 in December lol.

[85la]

Dec 29, 2023 13:54:06 GMT -5 velaxti said:

Dec 29, 2023 8:32:32 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

When cruel summer is still charting through the summer...

It's crazy to think they started promoting it as a single in June. I kind of thought it it got to #1 at all it would've been in August or September maybe, I wouldn't have guessed it'd be #1 in December lol.

It will probably get a minor resurgence next (as well as every) summer. If it can manage to stay in the top 25 from now and through then, that means it will have over 60 weeks on the charts, and if it manages to re-chart in future years and becomes a sort of mini version of All I Want For Christmas Is You for the summer, it could seriously become one of the biggest hits of all time.

[neel]

Dec 29, 2023 15:23:18 GMT -5 85la said:

Dec 29, 2023 13:54:06 GMT -5 velaxti said:

It's crazy to think they started promoting it as a single in June. I kind of thought it it got to #1 at all it would've been in August or September maybe, I wouldn't have guessed it'd be #1 in December lol.

It will probably get a minor resurgence next (as well as every) summer. If it can manage to stay in the top 25 from now and through then, that means it will have over 60 weeks on the charts, and if it manages to re-chart in future years and becomes a sort of mini version of All I Want For Christmas Is You for the summer, it could seriously become one of the biggest hits of all time.

That’s stretching it a bit. For what SHOULD’VE been the follow-up to “Me”. I don’t think the song’s going to be returning and staying on the charts for 13 additional weeks each year, especially when we start moving out from the Eras Tour phenomenon of a year that was 2023. But then again, idk, crazier things have happened on the Hot 100.

[jenglisbe]

[sayhey]

So, on the 26th Taylor's Cruel Summer was #1 on radio with 65.50M AI on kworb, which would translate to less than 60M on Mediabase (if I'm not mistaken, Mediabase is always a bit lower than kworb, but I might be wrong). That should be lower or on par with the 60M AI of Sunroof and As It Was of October 15 & October 22, 2022, making it amongst the lowest recorded AIs for a #1 in recent times (I'm sure in the early-mid 90s there were radio #1s with lower AIs).

Basically, I wanted to ask you guys why you think there has been such a downward spiral in radio audience in the recent couple of years. Obviously, initially, Covid was to blame, as people drove less with the curfews and work-from-home, which is reflected in the sudden early 2020 dip in airplay for the #1 song (Blinding Lights dropped from its 114.6M high on May 23 to a 74.7M low by August 1, while still at #1). The AI for the #1 song then fluctuated but remained low until early 2021, reaching an all-time low for the week ending April 17 with 62.8M for Olivia's Drivers License. Thereafter, the #1's AI started slowly improving, probably reflecting the loosening of the curfews, returning to the 90M range (and even 101.2M with Adele's radio blockbuster, Easy On Me, in early 2022).

One would expect the AI of radio #1s to then remain in its pre-Covid range of the high 90 millions-low 100 millions. However, right after Adele's Easy On Me, it once again collapsed to the mid-60M range, slightly recovering in the summer with Lizzo and again in late 2022-early 2023 and especially with the monster radio smash that was Miley's Flowers, which hit an unbelievable (for today's radio climate) 107.9M on April 1. However, after Flowers, the AI has slowly dwindled back to 60M.

Why do you think that is? Covid and curfews can no longer serve as a valid explanation. I was thinking that people increasingly use Bluetooth to stream music in cars. I mean, Bluetooth has been an option in cars since at least the late 2000s but maybe people are finally switching to streaming Spotify playlists more exclusively at the expense of radio audience. Do you think AIs will keep dropping, stabilize or even increase again in the future? I sure don't want to see the radio industry completely plummeting, but we'll see!

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Dec 29, 2023 20:45:00 GMT -5 sayhey said:

So, on the 26th Taylor's Cruel Summer was #1 on radio with 65.50M AI on kworb, which would translate to less than 60M on Mediabase (if I'm not mistaken, Mediabase is always a bit lower than kworb, but I might be wrong). That should be lower or on par with the 60M AI of Sunroof and As It Was of October 15 & October 22, 2022, making it amongst the lowest recorded AIs for a #1 in recent times (I'm sure in the early-mid 90s there were radio #1s with lower AIs).

Basically, I wanted to ask you guys why you think there has been such a downward spiral in radio audience in the recent couple of years. Obviously, initially, Covid was to blame, as people drove less with the curfews and work-from-home, which is reflected in the sudden early 2020 dip in airplay for the #1 song (Blinding Lights dropped from its 114.6M high on May 23 to a 74.7M low by August 1, while still at #1). The AI for the #1 song then fluctuated but remained low until early 2021, reaching an all-time low for the week ending April 17 with 62.8M for Olivia's Drivers License. Thereafter, the #1's AI started slowly improving, probably reflecting the loosening of the curfews, returning to the 90M range (and even 101.2M with Adele's radio blockbuster, Easy On Me, in early 2022).

One would expect the AI of radio #1s to then remain in its pre-Covid range of the high 90 millions-low 100 millions. However, right after Adele's Easy On Me, it once again collapsed to the mid-60M range, slightly recovering in the summer with Lizzo and again in late 2022-early 2023 and especially with the monster radio smash that was Miley's Flowers, which hit an unbelievable (for today's radio climate) 107.9M on April 1. However, after Flowers, the AI has slowly dwindled back to 60M.

Why do you think that is? Covid and curfews can no longer serve as a valid explanation. I was thinking that people increasingly use Bluetooth to stream music in cars. I mean, Bluetooth has been an option in cars since at least the late 2000s but maybe people are finally switching to streaming Spotify playlists more exclusively at the expense of radio audience. Do you think AIs will keep dropping, stabilize or even increase again in the future? I sure don't want to see the radio industry completely plummeting, but we'll see!

My belief is that radio listenership continues to drop. The numbers might refute this but I also wonder whether radio has been able to angle the numbers in a way to basically show they're maintaining or increasing listeners. It's all in how you tell the story, after all. But who among us even listens to radio? And if so, how frequently and how long?

Radio has always been the primary driver of hits in a grander sense. Streaming hits and viral hits can and will exist going forward, but they will never have the reach that radio hits once had, so as radio continues to dwindle, so too will the number of major hits. That's why songs like "As It Was," "Blinding Lights," "Flowers" and "Cruel Summer" hang on for as long as they do.

[neel]

Dec 29, 2023 20:45:00 GMT -5 sayhey said:

So, on the 26th Taylor's Cruel Summer was #1 on radio with 65.50M AI on kworb, which would translate to less than 60M on Mediabase (if I'm not mistaken, Mediabase is always a bit lower than kworb, but I might be wrong). That should be lower or on par with the 60M AI of Sunroof and As It Was of October 15 & October 22, 2022, making it amongst the lowest recorded AIs for a #1 in recent times (I'm sure in the early-mid 90s there were radio #1s with lower AIs).

Basically, I wanted to ask you guys why you think there has been such a downward spiral in radio audience in the recent couple of years. Obviously, initially, Covid was to blame, as people drove less with the curfews and work-from-home, which is reflected in the sudden early 2020 dip in airplay for the #1 song (Blinding Lights dropped from its 114.6M high on May 23 to a 74.7M low by August 1, while still at #1). The AI for the #1 song then fluctuated but remained low until early 2021, reaching an all-time low for the week ending April 17 with 62.8M for Olivia's Drivers License. Thereafter, the #1's AI started slowly improving, probably reflecting the loosening of the curfews, returning to the 90M range (and even 101.2M with Adele's radio blockbuster, Easy On Me, in early 2022).

One would expect the AI of radio #1s to then remain in its pre-Covid range of the high 90 millions-low 100 millions. However, right after Adele's Easy On Me, it once again collapsed to the mid-60M range, slightly recovering in the summer with Lizzo and again in late 2022-early 2023 and especially with the monster radio smash that was Miley's Flowers, which hit an unbelievable (for today's radio climate) 107.9M on April 1. However, after Flowers, the AI has slowly dwindled back to 60M.

Why do you think that is? Covid and curfews can no longer serve as a valid explanation. I was thinking that people increasingly use Bluetooth to stream music in cars. I mean, Bluetooth has been an option in cars since at least the late 2000s but maybe people are finally switching to streaming Spotify playlists more exclusively at the expense of radio audience. Do you think AIs will keep dropping, stabilize or even increase again in the future? I sure don't want to see the radio industry completely plummeting, but we'll see!

That’s cuz radio is dying, we already knew that in like 2017 or so but covid sped everything up. And thank fucking god for that too, letting iHeartRadio control the entirety of Top 40 pop stations just so they can rotate the same 4 songs for 15 months was a huge mistake.

Hopefully the number falls down to 30-40M so we don’t see songs like “Flowers” or “Calm Down” that already peaked on streaming MONTHS AGO run on the Hot 100 for 60-70 weeks.

[85la]

To add to the dwindling radio conversation, there has always been wide variation in the listenership for the #1 spot, in the heighdays ranging anywhere from the low 100 millions to up to 200 million, so the fact that it fluctuates now between 60 million and 100 million or whatever isn't too surprising. Some of the top hits are just bigger than others and have wider format appeal, but yes, overall, on average, the numbers are continuing to clearly go down, and I think the two main reasons for this are the permanent effects we are still seeing from COVID (more remote work and slightly less driving) and the continued increase in streaming, and I can't see radio listenership doing anything else but continue to decline in years to come.

[Darkest Hour]

Peso Pluma, Junior H & Óscar Maydon - Rompe La Dompe is #73 on US Apple Music daily (#64 real-time). It also debuts at #32 on US Spotify with 555,089 streams.

Xavi, Los Dareyes De La Sierra - Poco A Poco debuts at #176 on US Spotify with 310,648 streams.

[fridayteenage]

la diabla #1 on us youtube.

listened to the song one time. it's...ok?

[Au$tin]

Dec 29, 2023 3:38:12 GMT -5 edward said:

Can some A-listers release something already? It's so quiet and boring, and radio is still refusing to play new top songs like the mitski and noah kahan song or even I Remember Everything, I'm so tired of seeing cruel summer and snooze and last night week after week. Where's SZA??? When's Ariana coming? Are they all just waiting for the new year? I really hope we don't get ALL the new music in the same week.

It's a very long standing tradition that the music industry shuts down from mid December to early January. (That doesn't fully excuse radio being slow, though, as both of those songs were making noise before the holidays.) But, yes, once Thanksgiving has passed, most artists wait until the new year to release new music. And no, it won't all be on the same week if they can help it.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Regarding radio, it is already in its year-end mode for a few days, after a few days of being in its Christmas freeze mode.

[Mayman]

For anyone interested there's about 2 days left to send for the 2023 Hot 100 rankdown. Up to nearly 60 participants, it'd be cool to get some more in - the more the merrier!

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/222417/2023-billboard-hot-year-rankdown

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Who are the A-listers these days?

[lurker2]

Dec 30, 2023 13:48:43 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Who are the A-listers these days?

Drake, Taylor, Morgan Wallen, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Zach Bryan, Peso Pluma, Ye, Future, Bad Bunny, 21 Savage, and SZA are all debatable IMO (plus maybe Rihanna, Ariana, and other artists that haven't released in a minute). The only ones I feel super strongly about are Drake, Taylor, Wallen, and The Weeknd - the others feel marginal.

[Future Captain]

Ariana is absolutely an A-lister. She just hadn't got anything out for like 3 years compared to Taylor, Drake, and The Weeknd who all have a new project every year since 2019/2020

[sayhey]

Dec 29, 2023 21:45:06 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Dec 29, 2023 20:45:00 GMT -5 sayhey said:

My belief is that radio listenership continues to drop. The numbers might refute this but I also wonder whether radio has been able to angle the numbers in a way to basically show they're maintaining or increasing listeners. It's all in how you tell the story, after all. But who among us even listens to radio? And if so, how frequently and how long?

Radio has always been the primary driver of hits in a grander sense. Streaming hits and viral hits can and will exist going forward, but they will never have the reach that radio hits once had, so as radio continues to dwindle, so too will the number of major hits. That's why songs like "As It Was," "Blinding Lights," "Flowers" and "Cruel Summer" hang on for as long as they do.

Yeah, agreed about the number of major hits. I do feel like radio tends to introduce more songs to the public and at a more rapid succession than streaming, even if the very top echelon of the radio chart can at times be stagnant.

After the ongoing rebound in the airplay of 2023's top hits thanks to the YEC countdowns, I'd like to see how 2024 unfolds in terms of AI numbers.

85la you're right about Covid having permanent effects too, remote work has generally increased with less people driving overall. That could account for some of the AI's drop.

neel I do agree that radio has been very stagnant lately. So the lessening of its chart influence with the dropping AIs is actually not a bad thing, agreed. 

[Fears in the Fire]

Radio is just a scapegoat for songs lasting longer on the charts, since everyone on here loves to hate radio. The reality is that people keep streaming the same songs for long periods of time, a drastic change from the sales era when you would only buy a song once.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 12/29/23

1(=) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 1,606,606 (+136,128)
2(=) Noah Kahan - Stick Season 1,294,493(+82,093)
3(=) Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything 1,226,135 (+79,286)
4(=) Tate McRae - greedy 1,096,219 (+61,365)
5(+1) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 1,059,480 (+90,627)
6(-1) Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine 1,027,540 (+17,570)
7(=) Nicki Minaj - FTCU 959,223 (+64,027)
8(=) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 904,842 (+53,756)
9(=) JID, 21 Savage, Baby Tate - Surround Sound 848,779 (+35,073)
10(+3) Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red 834,511 (+85,348) (+11%)

Other:
11(-1) Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange 830,384 (+32,632)
12(-1) SZA - Snooze 823,841 (+43,097)
13(-1) Drake, Yeat - IDGAF 775,528 (+5,339)
14(+4) Xavi - La Diabla 770,396 (+78,049) (+11%) *NEW PEAK*
15(-1) Gunna - fukumean 762,544 (+13,768)
16(-1) Morgan Wallen - Last Night 747,908 (+18,088)
17(=) Olivia Rodrigo - vampire 743,492 (+34,773)
18(+1) Drake, J. Cole - First Person Shooter 725,786 (+37,099)
19(-3) Lil Tecca - 500lbs 722,004 (+11,870)
20(+4) Xavi - La Victima 692,219 (+58,612) *NEW PEAK*
21(=) Travis Scott - I KNOW ? 680,761 (+26,138)
22(-2) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? 679,935 (+17,950)
23(-1) SZA - Kill Bill 671,575 (+17,311)
25(+1) Nicki Minaj, Lil Uzi Vert - Everybody 627,894 (+36,609)
26(+3) Fuerza Regida, Marshmello - HARLEY QUINN 612,317 (+37,214)
27(=) Drake, Sexyy Red, SZA - Rich Baby Daddy 610,370 (+25,107)
29(-1) Tate McRae - exes 595,310 (+16,498)
30(+2) Tyla - Water 588,493 (+53,592) (+10%)
31(+6) Peso Pluma, Anitta - BELLAKEO 573,375 (+63,634) (+12%) *NEW PEAK*
32(DEBUT) Peso Pluma, Junior H, Oscar Maydon - Rompe La Dompe 555,089
33(+1) Bad Bunny - MONACO 555,015 (+34,547)
35(-2) Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 548,163 (+23,722)
36(+6) The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp - One of the Girls 544,766 (+40,802) *NEW PEAK*
37(+6) Teddy Swims - Lose Control 544,524 (+41,519) *NEW PEAK*
38(-8) Frank Ocean - Pink + White 538,669 (-1,550)
40(-2) Kenya Grace - Strangers 534,389 (+24,723)
41(-6) Juice WRLD, Eminem, benny blanco - Lace It 527,840 (+10,164)
42(+3) Calle 24, Chino Pacas, Fuerza Regida - Que Onda 525,962 (+29,673)
43(-3) Morgan Wallen - Thinkin' Bout Me 522,541 (+15,620)
45(-9) TV Girl - Lovers Rock 517,078 (+5,978)
46(=) Olivia Rodrigo - Can't Catch Me Now 511,528 (+15,512)
47(+2) Sabrina Carpenter - Feather 506,349 (+32,195) *NEW PEAK*
48(-7) TV Girl - Not Allowed 505,816 (+1,177)
52(-2) Zach Bryan, The War and Treaty - Hey Driver 480,343 (+7,005)
53(+8) KAROL G, Peso Pluma - QLONA 476,636 (+27,280)
54(+1) Luke Combs - Fast Car 476,538 (+13,432)
59(-3) Taylor Swift - You're Losing Me 468,298 (+11,451)
60(+19) Bad Bunny, Feid - PERRO NEGRO 467,441 (+56,409) (+14%)
69(=) Taylor Swift - Now That We Don't Talk 441,545 (+12,124)
70(-4) Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours 438,109 (-146)
71(-1) PARTYNEXTDOOR - Break from Toronto 436,790 (+7,701)
74(-1) Zach Bryan - Heading South 431,290 (+6,992)
78(-6) The Red Clay Strays - Wondering Why 428,372 (+425)
79(-2) Taylor Swift - Don't Blame Me 423,493 (+8,095)
80(+2) Drake - You Broke My Heart 422,991 (+25,441)
82(+5) Jessie Murph, Jelly Roll - Wild Ones 419,258 (+28,316)
92(-4) TV Girl - Cigarettes out the Window 384,179 (-2,598)
96(-10) Nicki Minaj, Drake - Needle 378,492 (-13,647)
97(-4) Ritchy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen 378,036 (-909)
99(+15) BigXthaPlug - Mmhmm 376,032 (+25,115) *NEW PEAK*
100(+3) Chris Stapleton - White Horse 373,887 (+11,422)

102(+11) Peso Pluma, Tito Double P - LA PEOPLE 372,289 (+21,206) *NEW PEAK*
105(+32) Paul Russell - Lil Boo Thang 370,186 (+36,536) (+11%) *NEW PEAK*
107(-3) Tate McRae - run for the hills 367,571 (+5,916)
116(+13) Flo Milli - Never Lose Me 357,222 (+16,690) *NEW PEAK*
117(-7) Steve Lacy - Clouded 357,102 (+4,581)
132(+24) Jung Kook - Standing Next to You 341,800 (+25,993)
136(-3) Zach Bryan - Sun to Me 339,131 (+1,491)
146(+28) 310babii - Soak City (Do it) 330,143 (+24,463) *NEW PEAK*
148(+5) HARDY - TRUCK BED 329,752 (+10,885)
150(+44) Warren Zeiders - Pretty Little Poison 328,661-294,062 (+34,599) (+12%) *NEW PEAK*
153(-7) Taylor Swift - "Slut!" 326,811 (-307)
154(-4) Steve Lacy - Infrunami 324,888 (+2,167)
158(+23) Dua Lipa - Houdini 321,222 (+18,642)
159(+11) Olivia Rodrigo - get him back! 321,167 (+10,972)
160(+3) Drake - Virginia Beach 320,659 (+9,111)
166(+30) Zach Bryan - Revival 315,635-293,665 (+21,970)
167(-10) TV Girl - Blue Hair 315,606 (+362)
176(DEBUT) Xavi, Los Dareyes De La Sierra - Poco A Poco 310,648
182(re-entry) Maluma, Carin Leon - Según Quién 307,097
185(-7) Bryan Martin - We Ride 305,478 (+1,162)
198(re-entry) Dylan Gossett - Coal 298,796

Biggest Gains (50K+): PERRO NEGRO, BELLAKEO, Water, La Victima, La Diabla, Paint the Town Red, Agora Hills, FTCU, Cruel Summer, greedy, I Remember Everything, Stick Season, Lovin On Me

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[omieethehomieee]

Agora Hills top 10 yesssss!!

Dec 30, 2023 23:37:49 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

[sportytheartist]

Dec 30, 2023 23:37:49 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

Water and Agora Hills projecting top 10! That’s what I like to see!

(Extra: it’s amazing to see “I Remember Everything” chart stability, especially since radio for some reason (I guess cuz it’s a slow song??) won’t push it.

[Darkest Hour]

US Spotify - Saturday
89 (-57) Peso Pluma, Junior H, Oscar Maydon - Rompe La Dompe (381,142 streams)
181 (new) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (298,009 streams)

Also this Spotify playlist will boost some songs high tomorrow:

[velaxti]

^ How did Rihanna get to be #1 on that playlist? Good for her I guess.

I'm curious to hear that Tiesto remix of Barbie Girl. The funny thing is I have no idea whether it's from 1998 or whether it's from 2023 becaus Tiesto was actually already famous when Barbie Girl originally came out.

And great for Sophie Ellis-Bextor to be on the list. Murder on the Dancefloor is one of the catchiest pop songs ever and I wish it was more famous in the US,