Billboard Hot 100: 02/17/2024

[clsvltn]

Feb 6, 2024 19:06:35 GMT -5 ontopofthis said:

Houdini barely got a boost even with a Grammy performance. She is about to have a really rough era

One song does not determine the era.  She just came off the Grammy and Golden Globe nominated song, I don't think anyone is worried.

[Az Paynter]

Feb 6, 2024 19:06:35 GMT -5 ontopofthis said:

Houdini barely got a boost even with a Grammy performance. She is about to have a really rough era

If you're talking about the daily Spotify numbers as they're posted here, we haven't seen the immediate post-Grammys numbers yet; the most recent numbers are for February 5th (day of), and we don't have the numbers yet for Feb 6th (day after).

[kingvavis]

Feb 6, 2024 19:13:01 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

Feb 6, 2024 19:06:35 GMT -5 ontopofthis said:

Houdini barely got a boost even with a Grammy performance. She is about to have a really rough era

If you're talking about the daily Spotify numbers as they're posted here, we haven't seen the immediate post-Grammys numbers yet; the most recent numbers are for February 5th (day of), and we don't have the numbers yet for Feb 6th (day after).

The day of the Grammys was February 4th. February 5th (Monday) is the day after which is already out.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Feb 6, 2024 19:13:01 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

Feb 6, 2024 19:06:35 GMT -5 ontopofthis said:

Houdini barely got a boost even with a Grammy performance. She is about to have a really rough era

If you're talking about the daily Spotify numbers as they're posted here, we haven't seen the immediate post-Grammys numbers yet; the most recent numbers are for February 5th (day of), and we don't have the numbers yet for Feb 6th (day after).

Nope. Grammys were Feb. 4. Feb 5 Spotify is out: Flowers re-entered at 40; Fast Car (Tracy' Version) debuted at 73, etc.

Dua's day-after Grammys numbers:
85 +2 Dua Lipa - Dance The Night 464,445 +59,230
119 +9 Dua Lipa - Houdini 414,168 +68,510

[parrotparent]

Feb 6, 2024 14:32:46 GMT -5 renfield75 said:

That's really sad about Toby Keith, stomach cancer is a rough way to go.

I wonder if we'll see any of his songs re-enter? He had an insane number of hits and a large fan base, so I could see his passing having an impact on the Hot 100.

As of writing he has 2 T20 & 2 more T40 AM songs along with flooding Digital Songs. So I expect something somewhere. If Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car didn't have such a huge lead he'd be #1 there too. But I expect a bigger BB200 than H100 impact, given there's no album RC rule and we only have 3 sales & streaming days to work with.

[ontopofthis]

Feb 6, 2024 19:13:01 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

Feb 6, 2024 19:06:35 GMT -5 ontopofthis said:

Houdini barely got a boost even with a Grammy performance. She is about to have a really rough era

If you're talking about the daily Spotify numbers as they're posted here, we haven't seen the immediate post-Grammys numbers yet; the most recent numbers are for February 5th (day of), and we don't have the numbers yet for Feb 6th (day after).

The 4th is the day of the Grammys

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Feb 6, 2024 20:38:07 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Feb 6, 2024 19:13:01 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

If you're talking about the daily Spotify numbers as they're posted here, we haven't seen the immediate post-Grammys numbers yet; the most recent numbers are for February 5th (day of), and we don't have the numbers yet for Feb 6th (day after).

Nope. Grammys were Feb. 4. Feb 5 Spotify is out: Flowers re-entered at 40; Fast Car (Tracy' Version) debuted at 73, etc.

Dua's day-after Grammys numbers:
85 +2 Dua Lipa - Dance The Night 464,445 +59,230
119 +9 Dua Lipa - Houdini 414,168 +68,510

Her increases for both songs are almost the normal increases they would have gotten after the weekly Sunday dip. The other songs are cited do show noticeable Grammy win/performance boosts.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

More Than One Third of TikTok’s Most Popular Songs Are Gone After UMG Fallout

2/6/2024

By Elias Leight

With Universal Music Group and TikTok clashing over licensing terms, at least 17 tracks on Billboard's TikTok Top 50 chart can no longer be used on the app.

More than one third of the songs — at least 17 tracks — on Billboard’s TikTok Top 50 chart are no longer available for use on the app after Universal Music Group‘s negotiations with the platform fell apart last week. UMG said the Bytedance-owned company refuses to pay “fair value for the music.”

The missing tracks include several of the most popular songs on TikTok: Muni Long’s “Made for Me” (No. 2 on the TikTok Top 50), Xavi’s “La Diabla” (No. 7), Drake’s “Rich Baby Daddy” (No. 9), and Lana Del Rey’s “Let the Light In” (No. 11).

The absence impacts both recent releases — Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?” along with a pair of songs from Nicki Minaj’s December album — and catalog: Lesley Gore’s “Misty,” originally released way back in 1963, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” which came out in 2002 but charted on the Hot 100 for the first time recently due to a synch in the film Saltburn.

Users still appear to be able to still make videos with an official “orchestral version” of “Murder on the Dancefloor” — likely because it’s licensed to a different label. And even though UMG and TikTok’s licensing agreement expired, 10k.Caash’s “Aloha,” which was released by the UMG label Def Jam in 2019, is available to soundtrack TikTok videos as of Thursday morning. 

In addition, TikTok has long had a vibrant bootleg scene, which means that in some cases, users have uploaded their own versions of UMG songs or made remixes in place of the official sounds. Those bootlegs were also a source of frustration for the record company, which said last week that “TikTok makes little effort to deal with the vast amounts of content on its platform that infringe our artists’ music.” It’s worth noting, however, that labels often encourage remixers to rework their artists’ songs without the proper clearances in the hopes that it starts a viral trend.

TikTok has been a dominant force in the music industry since 2019, transforming both marketing and signing strategy. “We fully immerse ourselves in the diverse subcultures of TikTok,” said Alec Henderson, vp of digital at the independent label APG, in December. “We have weekly meetings dedicated to sharing things that we’re seeing there. We view the TikTok viral chart with a competitive mindset. And we put a high emphasis on working with artists that are native to the platform.”

As the industry became increasingly focused on TikTok, it also became increasingly uneasy about the platform’s power. The app started to get saturated — with brands, movies, videogames, cats, ASMR, and more all battling for attention — which made marketing music both more expensive and less effective. Labels are used to having some level of influence over promotional levers; TikTok proved frustratingly hard to leverage.

Tension over the platform’s low payouts started to grow as well. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, “doesn’t view music as a value add,” one senior executive told Billboard in the fall of 2022. “They just view music as a cost center they have to limit as much as possible.”

“The [payout] numbers are horrifying,” said a manager at the time. A marketer who oversaw the campaign for a single that was used in roughly half a million TikTok videos, earning billions of views, found that his artist took home less than $5,000 from the platform. It was no surprise when UMG CEO Lucian Grainge fired a warning shot late in 2022, noting pointedly at an industry conference that a value gap was “forming fast in the new iterations of short-form video.”

Last week, Universal Music Group said that its license agreement with TikTok was set to expire on Jan. 31. “TikTok proposed paying our artists and songwriters at a rate that is a fraction of the rate that similarly situated major social platforms pay,” UMG said in an open letter. The record company accused TikTok of trying to “intimidate us into conceding to a bad deal that undervalues music and shortchanges artists and songwriters as well as their fans.”

After UMG issued its statement, TikTok hit back, accusing the record company of promoting a “false narrative.” It’s “sad and disappointing,” TikTok added, “that [UMG] has put their own greed above the interests of their artists and songwriters.” These comments elicited yet another response from UMG.

If the standoff between the two companies continues, it will start to affect even more music: At the end of the month, TikTok will have to take down any song that Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has a stake in. Many UMPG songwriters collaborate with artists signed to other labels (or are signed as artists on other labels). This means that the number of songs that become unusable on TikTok could balloon.

Artists can market their music elsewhere, of course — TikTok has competitors in both YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. However, neither of those apps have demonstrated the ability to break a song with the speed and intensity of TikTok.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 02/05/24

1(=) Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 1,711,282 (+370,695) (+28%)
2(=) Noah Kahan - Stick Season 1,537,612 (+235,509) (+18%)
3(+1) 21 Savage - redrum 1,376,381 (+236,864) (+21%)
4(+3) Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything 1,321,811 (+238,171) (+22%)
5(=) Flo Milli - Never Lose Me 1,245,177 (+156,765) (+14%)
6(-3) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 1,228,922 (+51,928)
7(+2) Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine 1,155,172 (+176,595) (+18%)
8(-2) Megan Thee Stallion - HISS 1,063,499 (-23,209)
9(-1) Xavi - La Diabla 1,028,935 (+38,921)
10(=) Tate McRae - greedy 1,019,218 (+97,657) (+11%)

Other:
11(=) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 966,672-888,688 (+77,984)
12(+3) SZA - Snooze 953,185 (+215,620) (+29%)
13(-1) Teddy Swims - Lose Control 922,479 (+135,402) (+17%)
14(+3) Rich Amiri - ONE CALL 856,709 (+144,793) (+20%) *NEW PEAK*
16(-3) Kali Uchis, Peso Pluma - Igual Que Un Ángel 819,868 (+80,003) (+11%)
17(+1) The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp - One of the Girls 818,503 (+124,107) (+18%)
18(+1) Don Toliver - Bandit 812,886 (+119,950) (+17%)
19(-5) Drake, Sexyy Red, SZA - Rich Baby Daddy 775,682 (+35,993)
20(+9) Travis Scott - I KNOW ? 773,973 (+145,320) (+23%)
21(+13) Olivia Rodrigo - vampire 767,613 (+184,080) (+32%)
22(+2) Lil Tecca - 500lbs 761,983 (+91,760) (+14%)
23(-1) JID, 21 Savage, Baby Tate - Surround Sound 746,895 (+70,844) (+10%)
24(+30) Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 741,122 (+255,970) (+53%)
25(+3) 4batz - act ii: date @ 8 736,676 (+93,335) (+15%) *NEW PEAK*
26(-5) The Weeknd, Playboi Carti, Madonna - Popular 734,330 (+56,366)
27(-4) Ariana Grande - yes, and? 710,013 (+38,107)
28(-2) Xavi - La Victima 706,965 (+43,042)
30(-3) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 699,282 (+50,328)
31(+15) Travis Scott, Playboi Carti - FE!N 689,914 (+171,148) (+33%)
32(=) Frank Ocean - Pink + White 689,532 (+97,893) (+17%)
33(+7) Good Neighbors - Home 685,240 (+157,450) (+30%) *NEW PEAK*
34(+18) SZA - Kill Bill 678,364 (+180,079) (+36%)
35(-2) Drake, Yeat - IDGAF 668,473 (+80,016) (+14%)
36(+46) Luke Combs - Fast Car 660,128 (+249,987) (+61%)
37(+1) YG Marley - Praise Jah in the Moonlight 660,026 (+109,180) (+20%) *NEW PEAK*
39(-19) Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart) 639,549 (-38,519)
40(re-entry) Miley Cyrus - Flowers 626,436
41(+28) Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero 626,236 (+191,820) (+44%)
42(=) TV Girl - Lovers Rock 623,535 (+97,358) (+19%)
44(-9) Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red 611,385 (+38,122)
46(+2) 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Metro Boomin - née-nah 608,718 (+101,146) (+20%)
47(-6) Drake, J. Cole - First Person Shooter 605,865 (+79,684) (+15%)
49(-5) Tate McRae - exes 595,433 (+70,566) (+13%)
50(-1) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? 593,777 (+87,104) (+17%)
51(-20) Nicki Minaj - FTCU 593,382 (-9,638)
52(-7) Zach Bryan - Heading South 584,759 (+63,769) (+12%)
53(-6) Sabrina Carpenter - Feather 576,677 (+63,627) (+12%)
55(-5) Morgan Wallen - Spin You Around (Morgan's Version) 557,315 (+51,808) (+10%)
56(+2) TV Girl - Not Allowed 556,802 (+78,425) (+16%)
58(-22) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor 552,010 (-14,574)
59(+11) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David, Blake Roman - Loser, Baby 545,291 (+112,637) (+26%) *NEW PEAK*
61(+48) Travis Scott - MY EYES 534,910 (+160,038) (+43%)
62(-1) Michael Marcagi - Scared to Start 532,620 (+78,898) (+17%)
63(+1) Ritchy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen 531,926 (+87,714) (+20%)
64(+12) Blake Roman, Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg - Poison 525,604 (+107,083) (+26%) *NEW PEAK*
70(-15) Fuerza Regida, Marshmello - HARLEY QUINN 505,908 (+22,556)
71(-8) Calle 24, Chino Pacas, Fuerza Regida - Que Onda 494,950 (+42,676)
73(DEBUT) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 489,502
74(+10) PARTYNEXTDOOR - Break from Toronto 488,374 (+80,000) (+20%)
76(-10) Tyla - Water 480,290 (+42,140) (+10%)
78(+28) Taylor Swift - cardigan 479,547 (+103,253) (+27%)
79(-14) Peso Pluma, Anitta - BELLAKEO 476,761 (+33,219)
80(+3) Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours 474,927 (+65,021) (+16%)
81(-9) Taylor Swift - Don't Blame Me 468,334 (+39,895)
83(+14) The Weeknd, Lana Del Rey - Stargirl Interlude 465,712 (+79,334) (+21%)
85(+2) Dua Lipa - Dance the Night 464,445 (+59,230) (+15%)
86(-5) Kenya Grace - Strangers 464,265 (+50,658) (+12%)
87(-7) Jessie Murph, Jelly Roll - Wild Ones 463,719 (+49,412) (+12%)
89(+21) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Jeremy Jordan, Amir Talai, Erika Henningsen, Kimiko Glenn - Hell's Greatest Dad 459,778 (+85,280) (+23%) *NEW PEAK*
90(-19) Bad Bunny, Feid - PERRO NEGRO 459,476 (+29,497)
91(+36) Taylor Swift - Karma 458,961 (+112,561) (+32%)
94(-21) Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten 452,098 (+26,135)
95(+10) 21 Savage - all of me 451,452 (+73,789) (+20%)
96(-2) 21 Savage, Doja Cat - n.h.i.e. 450,481 (+57,434) (+15%)
97(-2) Zach Bryan - Oklahoma Smokeshow 449,963 (+57,599) (+15%)
98(+28) SZA - Good Days 449,938 (+100,843) (+29%)

101(-9) BigXthaPlug - Mmhmm 448,668 (+54,750) (+14%)
105(+81) Lil Yachty - A Cold Sunday 442,528 (+137,498) (+45%) *NEW PEAK*
108(+15) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Christian Borle, Amir Talai, Joel Perez - Stayed Gone 438,357 (+86,566) (+25%) *NEW PEAK*
109(-16) The Red Clay Strays - Wondering Why 434,286 (+41,030) (+10%)
110(+5) Steve Lacy - Clouded 433,960 (+65,308) (+18%)
111(-12) Justin Timberlake - Selfish 428,857 (+45,689) (+12%)
112(+6) TV Girl - Cigarettes out the Window 428,214 (+63,563) (+17%)
119(+9) Dua Lipa - Houdini 414,168 (+68,510) (+20%)
120(=) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Daphne Rubin-Vega - Out for Love 411,474 (+51,384) (+14%)
137(-23) Bad Bunny - MONACO 388,175 (+18,816)
138(+9) Chris Stapleton - White Horse 388,165 (+55,456) (+17%)
142(DEBUT) Killer Mike, André 3000, Eryn Allen Kane, Future - SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS 384,472
146(-11) Oscar Ortiz, Edgardo Nuñez - FIRST LOVE 381,483 (+41,294) (+12%)
147(+46) Hozier - Work Song 380,053 (+77,917) (+26%) *NEW PEAK*
149(+9) Drake - You Broke My Heart 375,584 (+56,537) (+18%)
150(re-entry) Taylor Swift - You're Losing Me 375,563
151(+26) Dylan Gossett - Coal 374,825 (+66,399) (+22%)
155(+17) Zach Bryan - Tourniquet 372,767 (+63,283) (+20%)
158(+24) Artemas - if u think i'm pretty 371,436 (+64,794) (+21%) *NEW PEAK*
159(-56) Nicki Minaj, Lil Uzi Vert - Everybody 370,426 (-9,285)
160(-31) Aimee Carty - 2 days into college 370,140 (+26,168)
161(+9) Steve Lacy - Some 368,729 (+57,943) (+19%)
162(+35) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Erika Henningsen, Shoba Narayan, Patina Miller, Jessica Vosk, Stephanie Beatriz - You Didn't Know 367,383 (+69,417) (+23%) *NEW PEAK*
167(re-entry) Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze 362,732
169(re-entry) Brent Faiyaz - Best Time 361,677
170(+13) Warren Zeiders - Pretty Little Poison 360,357 (+53,802) (+18%)
172(re-entry) boygenius - Not Strong Enough 358,724
174(-25) Xavi, Los Dareyes De La Sierra - Poco A Poco 358,086 (+27,928)
175(DEBUT) Victoria Monét - On My Mama 357,512
176(+4) Junior H - Y LLORO 357,390 (+49,849) (+16%)
177(-13) Zach Bryan - Sun to Me 356,450 (+39,121) (+12%)
182(re-entry) Chance Peña - i am not who i was 350,798
183(re-entry) SZA, Travis Scott - Open Arms 350,668
184(re-entry) Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty - Let the Light In 349,587
187(re-entry) Taylor Swift - You're On Your Own, Kid 348,017
192(-19) Morgan Wallen, Eric Church - Man Made A Bar 346,322 (+37,207) (+12%)
193(-14) Josh Meloy - Porch Light 345,882 (+38,057) (+12%)
194(+4) Luke Combs - Where the Wild Things Are 344,712 (+46,855) (+16%)
198(re-entry) Noah Kahan - All My Love 342,075

Total Streams for Various Artists - Hazbin Hotel (Original Soundtrack) [6/16]: 2,747,887 (+23%)

Biggest Gains (50K+): Pretty Little Poison, Glock in My Lap, Blue Hair, You Didn't Know, Some, if u think i'm pretty, Wet Dreamz, Tourniquet, Trance, Coal, You Broke My Heart, Work Song, august, Too Many Nights, Novacane, White Horse, Iris, Don't, Burn Burn Burn, Can't Catch Me Now, Dawns, prove it, I Love You So, From the Start, Linger, Superhero (Heroes & Villains), Everlong, Out for Love, Houdini, Thinkin Bout You, Money Trees, All the Stars, Cigarettes out the window, Clouded, Stayed Gone, When I Was Your Man, Lover, A Cold Sunday, The Night We Met, Mmhmm, Apocalypse, Good Days, Oklahoma Smokeshow, n.h.i.e., all of me, Daylight, Jimmy Cooks, Karma, Hell's Greatest Dad, Strangers, Dance the Night, Die For You, Stargirl Interlude, Dial Drunk, I Wanna Be Yours, cardigan, Runaway, Dark Red, Break from Toronto, The Color Violet, Hey Driver, Romantic Homicide, Poison, Evergreen, Scared to Start, MY EYES, Shut up My Moms Calling, Loser Baby, Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1, Not Allowed, Spin You Around, Heartless, Feather, Heading South, Is It Over Now?, exes, First Person Shooter, née-nah, No Role Modelz, Lovers Rock, Anti-Hero, Praise Jah in the Moonlight, Fast Car [Luke Combs], IDGAF, Kill Bill, Home, Pink + White, FE!N, Agora Hills, Popular, act ii: date @ 8, What Was I Made For?, Surround Sound, 500lbs, vampire, I KNOW ?, Bandit, One of the Girls, Igual Que Un Ángel, Something in the Orange, ONE CALL, Lose Control, Snooze, Cruel Summer, greedy, My Love Mine All Mine, Lovin On Me, Never Lose Me, I Remember Everything, redrum, Stick Season, Beautiful Things

[musiclife]

Can Benson Boone go #1?

[Ryan]

12 Toby Keith songs charted on the US Spotify chart today. Rest In Peace.

#4 Should've Been a Cowboy 1,295,085
#11 Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) 1,033,746
#16 As Good As I Once Was 944,271
#18 Beer For My Horses 865,798
#19 How Do You Like Me Now? 856,134
#44 I Love This Bar 663,407
#63 Red Solo Cup 559,423
#70 I Wanna Talk About Me 541,407
#79 Wish I Didn't Know Now 518,765
#110 A Little Less Conversation and a Lot More Action 452,946
#129 Who's Your Daddy? 421,676
#182 You Ain't Much Fun 370,240

[stormlover74]

Feb 7, 2024 1:50:33 GMT -5 musiclife said:

Can Benson Boone go #1?

This week? No

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates « 2024 » / « 02 » / « 07 »

1(=) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 84.05(+0.45)
2(=) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 67.43(+0.38)
3(=) Tyla - Water 65.78(-0.20)
4(=) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 64.57(-0.92)
5(=) Tate McRae - greedy 62.57(-0.18)
6(=) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] 53.13(+0.34)
7(=) SZA - Snooze 51.84(+0.08) +
8(=) Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red 50.12(-0.93)
9(=) Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down 48.65(-0.14)
10(+1) Nicki Minaj - Everybody (feat. Lil Uzi Vert) 46.01(-0.05)

17(+2) Riley Green - Different Round Here f/L.Combs 39.09(+0.76)

100(+5) Billy Joel - Turn the Lights Back On 10.28(+0.79)

-(-) Luar La L & Ozuna - Otra Vibra 0.94(+0.82) +

[parrotparent]

I also found out Toby Keith signed Taylor Swift to her 1st Record Label. He jointly owned Big Machine Records in 2005. So without TK we might not have TS.

[jenglisbe]

Feb 7, 2024 9:47:13 GMT -5 Ryan said:

12 Toby Keith songs charted on the US Spotify chart today. Rest In Peace.

#11 Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) 1,033,746

JFC

[wavey.]

body

[Studio Cart]

Feb 7, 2024 10:26:29 GMT -5 parrotparent said:

I also found out Toby Keith signed Taylor Swift to her 1st Record Label. He jointly owned Big Machine Records in 2005. So without TK we might not have TS.

Yay…………

[mms82]

Feb 7, 2024 9:47:13 GMT -5 Ryan said:

12 Toby Keith songs charted on the US Spotify chart today. Rest In Peace.

#4 Should've Been a Cowboy 1,295,085
#11 Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) 1,033,746

Both still anthems that can get a frat darty going 20-30 years later

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

From the weekly "Trending Up" article:

Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ Up 241% in Streams, 38,000% in Sales After Grammys Performance

“Fast Car” Keeps on Driving After Grammys Performance

Though she hasn’t been nominated at the awards since 2010, Tracy Chapman was unquestionably one of the biggest winners from the Grammys on Sunday night (Feb. 4). She made a rare public appearance at the ceremonies to perform her signature 1988 smash “Fast Car” alongside country superstar Luke Combs, whose cover version brought the song back into the mainstream in 2023. The much-buzzed-about performance has led to days of celebration of Chapman’s at times under-recognized legacy — and, of course, a whole lot of “Fast Car” consumption.

“Fast Car” racked up 949,000 official on-demand U.S. streams on Monday (Feb. 5), the day following the Grammys — up 241% from the 278,000 it notched the prior Monday (Jan. 29). That’s a big gain, though it’s nothing compared to how the song exploded in digital song sales, soaring 38,400% from a negligible amount to nearly 14,000. The Combs version also saw some huge gains over the same period, rising 37% in streams to nearly 1.6 million and nearly 3,900% in sales to just over 6,000.

Could it be enough for Chapman’s “Fast Car,” which originally peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988 to return to the chart? It’s not impossible, though it will have to do well enough to make the top half of the chart to be eligible for a re-entrance, due to Billboard chart rules about catalog songs. If it keeps cruising through the week on its early momentum though, it may have a shot — and as of Wednesday, it was still No. 2 and No. 52 on the daily U.S. charts for iTunes and Spotify, respectively. — ANDREW UNTERBERGER

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Well their TikTok removal ain't gonna help those artists any either (though I'm sure Taylor and Drake will be fine regardless).

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 02/06/24

1(=) Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 1,948,017 (+236,735) (+14%)
2(=) Noah Kahan - Stick Season 1,560,645 (+23,033)
3(=) 21 Savage - redrum 1,441,718 (+65,337)
4(=) Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything 1,326,492 (+4,681)
5(DEBUT) Toby Keith - Should've Been A Cowboy 1,295,085
6(=) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 1,294,158 (+65,236)
7(-2) Flo Milli - Never Lose Me 1,279,153 (+33,976)
8(-1) Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine 1,167,905 (+12,733)
9(=) Xavi - La Diabla 1,072,831 (+43,896)
10(=) Tate McRae - greedy 1,055,629 (+36,411)

Other:
11(re-entry) Toby Keith - Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) 1,033,746
12(=) SZA - Snooze 1,027,769 (+74,584)
13(-2) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 993,835 (+27,163)
14(-1) Teddy Swims - Lose Control 967,685 (+45,206)
15(-7) Megan Thee Stallion - HISS 960,445 (-103,054) (-10%)
16(DEBUT) Toby Keith - As Good As I Once Was 944,271
17(-3) Rich Amiri - ONE CALL 903,704 (+46,995)
18(DEBUT) Toby Keith, Willie Nelson - Beer for My Horses 865,798
19(DEBUT) Toby Keith - How Do You Like Me Now?! 856,134
20(-2) Don Toliver - Bandit 855,676 (+42,790)
22(-5) The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp - One of the Girls 843,009 (+24,506)
23(-7) Kali Uchis, Peso Pluma - Igual Que Un Ángel 836,763 (+16,895)
24(-2) Lil Tecca - 500lbs 820,402 (+58,419)
25(-5) Travis Scott - I KNOW ? 816,067 (+42,094)
26(-7) Drake, Sexyy Red, SZA - Rich Baby Daddy 808,168 (+32,486)
27(-4) JID, 21 Savage, Baby Tate - Surround Sound 796,049 (+49,154)
28(-7) Olivia Rodrigo - vampire 780,191 (+12,578)
29(-4) 4batz - act ii: date @ 8 756,498 (+19,822)
30(-6) Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 755,756 (+14,634)
31(=) Travis Scott, Playboi Carti - FE!N 751,373 (+61,459)
32(-6) The Weeknd, Playboi Carti, Madonna - Popular 747,928 (+13,598)
33(-5) Xavi - La Victima 745,860 (+38,895)
34(-7) Ariana Grande - yes, and? 741,514 (+31,501)
35(+1) Luke Combs - Fast Car 740,252 (+80,124) (+12%)
37(-7) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 717,783 (+18,501)
38(-6) Frank Ocean - Pink + White 716,011 (+26,479)
39(-4) Drake, Yeat - IDGAF 704,115 (+35,642)
40(=) Miley Cyrus - Flowers 689,000 (+62,564) (+10%)
41(-8) Good Neighbors - Home 677,659 (-7,581)
43(-9) SZA - Kill Bill 669,317 (-9,047)
44(DEBUT) Toby Keith - I Love This Bar 663,407
45(-8) YG Marley - Praise Jah in the Moonlight 656,165 (-3,861)
46(-7) Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart) 653,060 (+13,511)
47(+6) Sabrina Carpenter - Feather 647,011 (+70,334) (+12%)
48(-1) Drake, J. Cole - First Person Shooter 642,099 (+36,234)
49(-3) 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Metro Boomin - née-nah 634,218 (+25,500)
51(-7) Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red 630,442 (+19,057)
52(+21) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 619,846 (+130,344) (+27%) *NEW PEAK*
53(-11) TV Girl - Lovers Rock 618,552 (-4,983)
55(-4) Nicki Minaj - FTCU 616,006 (+22,624)
56(-7) Tate McRae - exes 614,851 (+19,418)
57(-7) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? 614,819 (+21,042)
60(-19) Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero 583,592 (-42,644)
61(-9) Zach Bryan - Heading South 583,078 (-1,681)
63(DEBUT) Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup 559,423
64(-6) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor 553,499 (+1,489)
65(-4) Travis Scott - MY EYES 552,342 (+17,432)
67(-11) TV Girl - Not Allowed 544,514 (-12,288)
68(-5) Ritchy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen 544,248 (+12,322)
69(-10) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David, Blake Roman - Loser, Baby 541,924 (-3,367)
70(DEBUT) Toby Keith - I Wanna Talk About Me 541,407
72(-17) Morgan Wallen - Spin You Around (Morgan's Version) 532,878 (-24,437)
74(-3) Calle 24, Chino Pacas, Fuerza Regida - Que Onda 526,402 (+31,452)
75(-13) Michael Marcagi - Scared to Start 525,279 (-7,341)
76(-12) Blake Roman, Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg - Poison 523,075 (-2,529)
79(DEBUT) Toby Keith - Wish I Didn't Know Now 518,765
81(-11) Fuerza Regida, Marshmello - HARLEY QUINN 513,398 (+7,490)
82(-4) Taylor Swift - cardigan 510,269 (+30,722)
84(-8) Tyla - Water 499,875 (+19,585)
85(-6) Peso Pluma, Anitta - BELLAKEO 492,326 (+15,565)
86(+4) Bad Bunny, Feid - PERRO NEGRO 491,604-459,476 (+32,128)
87(-13) PARTYNEXTDOOR - Break from Toronto 489,613 (+1,239)
90(+11) BigXthaPlug - Mmhmm 480,049 (+11,239)
92(-6) Kenya Grace - Strangers 475,504 (+11,239)
94(+15) The Red Clay Strays - Wondering Why 473,355 (+39,069)
95(-12) The Weeknd, Lana Del Rey - Stargirl Interlude 473,078 (+7,366)
97(-12) Dua Lipa - Dance the Night 470,977 (+6,532)
96(-16) Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours 471,339 (-3,588)
99(-12) Jessie Murph, Jelly Roll - Wild Ones 469,373 (+5,654)

103(-5) SZA - Good Days 461,778 (+11,840)
104(-23) Taylor Swift - Don't Blame Me 461,778 (-6,556)
106(-11) 21 Savage - all of me 461,080 (+9,628)
108(-14) Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten 460,007 (+7,909)
110(DEBUT) Toby Keith - A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action 452,946
114(-18) 21 Savage, Doja Cat - n.h.i.e. 449,495 (-986)
115(-26) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Jeremy Jordan, Amir Talai, Erika Henningsen, Kimiko Glenn - Hell's Greatest Dad 449,417 (-10,361)
116(+3) Dua Lipa - Houdini 447,306 (+33,138)
117(-20) Zach Bryan - Oklahoma Smokeshow 446,100 (-3,863)
118(-27) Taylor Swift - Karma 444,116 (-14,845)
120(-10) Steve Lacy - Clouded 441,103 (+7,143)
121(-10) Justin Timberlake - Selfish 440,155 (+11,298)
122(-14) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Christian Borle, Amir Talai, Joel Perez - Stayed Gone 434,863 (-3,494)
129(DEBUT) Toby Keith - Who's Your Daddy? 421,676
134(+16) Taylor Swift - You're Losing Me 415,555 (+39,992) (+11%)
135(-23) TV Girl - Cigarettes out the Window 415,444 (-12,770)
146(+3) Drake - You Broke My Heart 399,861 (+24,277)
151(+8) Nicki Minaj, Lil Uzi Vert - Everybody 370,426 (-9,285)
154(+20) Xavi, Los Dareyes De La Sierra - Poco A Poco 393,897 (+35,811) (+10%)
155(-18) Bad Bunny - MONACO 393,591 (+5,416)
156(-51) Lil Yachty - A Cold Sunday 393,160 (-49,368) (-11%)
158(=) Artemas - if u think i'm pretty 390,938 (+19,502)
159(-13) Oscar Ortiz, Edgardo Nuñez - FIRST LOVE 390,152 (+8,669)
161(+8) Brent Faiyaz - Best Time 388,269 (+26,592)
163(-16) Hozier - Work Song 386,096 (+6,043)
164(-44) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Daphne Rubin-Vega - Out for Love 384,153 (-27,321)
172(-21) Dylan Gossett - Coal 377,933 (+3,108)
173(+3) Junior H - Y LLORO 376,762 (+19,372)
175(-20) Zach Bryan - Tourniquet 375,505 (+2,738)
177(-16) Steve Lacy - Some 372,758 (+4,029)
180(-5) Victoria Monét - On My Mama 370,923 (+13,411)
182(DEBUT) Toby Keith - You Ain't Much Fun 370,240
185(-1) Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty - Let the Light In 367,174 (+17,587)
191(-29) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Erika Henningsen, Shoba Narayan, Patina Miller, Jessica Vosk, Stephanie Beatriz - You Didn't Know 364,594 (-2,789)
193(-10) SZA, Travis Scott - Open Arms 363,921 (+13,253)
194(-56) Chris Stapleton - White Horse 362,265 (-25,900)
196(re-entry) Feid, ATL Jacob - LUNA 360,986
197(-20) Zach Bryan - Sun to Me 358,618 (+2,168)

Total Streams for Various Artists - Hazbin Hotel (Original Soundtrack) [6/16]: 2,698,026 (-2%)

Biggest Gains (50K+): Fast Car [Tracy Chapman], Feather, Flowers, Fast Car [Luke Combs], FE!N, Snooze, Lovin On Me, redrum, Beautiful Things

[Ryan]

[lostinhavana]

jacks lead is so big i think he'll get at least another two//three weeks??

[neel]

It’s incredible really, cuz…..how the hell is a song that automatically becomes terrible because its artist DOESN’T know how to sing or scream and literally could’ve been done better by anyone else, is rising all the way to top?

Hope Jack maintains a radio lead to block that song until a rightful competitor comes for him.

[omieethehomieee]

Oh hell no why is HISS falling so hard?!? Ariana might as well just move on to the second single bc wtf?

[thegreatdivine]

Hiss is gonna drop even harder. There are 2 more days in the tracking week and I see it bleeding streams into the Wednesday and Thursday Spotify US updates. It might go from debuting at #1 to dropping to as low as #19 in its second week.

Can't even be surprised. The song is terrible and only performed as well as it did because of controversy and the attention Nicki brought to it by doing the most. Cobra was a much better song and that didn't much. Same with Bongos.

I don't see whatever album she ends up dropping doing much damage either because I believe most people don't care to genuinely support her music but I'm all up for being proven wrong.

[Golden Bluebird]

Feb 8, 2024 5:23:02 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Can't even be surprised. The song is terrible

I mean, first off, you're wrong, and second, regardless of the song's quality, it's always going to have a hard time doing well beyond the beef because it doesn't really have much pop appeal. The fact that it even debuted at #1 is already pretty miraculous.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Yeah I don’t know why people keep applying pop hit trajectories to songs like HISS that are anything but

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Feb 8, 2024 5:23:02 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

I don't see whatever album she ends up dropping doing much damage either because I believe most people don't care to genuinely support her music but I'm all up for being proven wrong.

I can agree with this, the drop was expected, but not this big imo. If HISS was hyped and streamed by more Nicki's haters than Megan's fans, I don't see any impressive numbers with her future project(s). Time will tell, but it'd be better for her to release something ASAP.

[jesseda]

Hahahahahaha I LIVE for the hypocrisy in “oh, it’s a rapppy rap song making waves” or “Megan’s quality music is sticking with people”. And then the song literally in its second week falls from #1 everywhere to top20 - and keeps tanking. And now the excuse is “oh, but it’s not pop”. Make it make sense. If it were a Niki song y’all would be saying “well of course, it was 95k sales first week. The GP didn’t like it”. Bffr 😂