Billboard Hot 100: 02/17/2024

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Feb 12, 2024 13:57:39 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Feb 9, 2024 22:09:31 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

I remember the R&B chart having practically a new #1 every week back in the 90s. 30+ weeks at #1 is crazy!

I wonder if a song in the 1990s would have had this many weeks at #1 under the current rules. Maybe the 1990s aren't a good example because of how diverse the Hot 100 was then ("Snooze" being #1 for so many weeks in part shows how as of late there aren't many R&B songs in the upper part of the Hot 100).

Radio in general has gotten slower, but the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay records this decade are mainly because that chart combines Urban & Urban AC airplay (as it always has) and nowadays they are near each other in audience for songs. Urban AC ofcourse moves way slower in general like all AC-related formats, so now the R&B songs that are played on the format have way longer chart runs.

Today the #1 on Urban has 17 million audience, while the #1 on Urban AC has 11 million.
This week 20 years ago, #1 on Urban has 75 million audience, while the #1 on Urban AC had 18 million.

So when combining the charts in the past for R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Urban format by far carried the chart and has a much faster turnover so songs couldn't spend anywhere near as long at the top.


It's like if AC format suddenly had 50 million for the #1 song like Pop/Top 40 has 50 million for the #1 song, then suddenly we would see old Pop songs chart WAY longer at #1 and top 10 on the Overall Radio chart. Flowers is still #2 on AC, so if it had near the same audience as a #2 on Pop (+32 million more) it would be top 2 on overall.