Billboard Hot 100: 03/16/2024

[lazer]

Why is Fein suddenly rising up? The songs decent though.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates « 2024 » / « 03 » / « 06 »

1(=) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 84.90(-0.71)
2(=) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 73.95(-0.15)
3(=) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] 67.06(+1.82)
4(=) Tyla - Water 62.94(-0.09)
5(=) Tate McRae - greedy 59.88(-0.46)
6(=) Teddy Swims - Lose Control 55.64(+0.51)
7(=) Dua Lipa - Houdini 51.81(-0.17)
8(+1) SZA - Snooze 48.76(+0.06)
9(-1) Luke Combs - Fast Car 48.58(-0.22)
10(=) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 46.72(-0.88)

11(+1) Kane Brown - I Can Feel It 43.81(+1.09)

23(+1) Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM 37.32(+0.92)

25(=) Thomas Rhett - Mamaw's House (feat. Morgan Wallen) 36.79(+0.99)

36(+2) Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 26.31(+0.84)

52(+3) Sam Hunt - Outskirts 20.18(+0.75)

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Beyoncé, Kanye, Teddy: Who Has the Edge in Next Week’s Crowded Race for No. 1?

3/6/2024

By Andrew Unterberger

In this week's The Contenders, Beyoncé looks to hold off a host of challengers for the top spot on next week's Hot 100.

The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week (for the upcoming Billboard Hot 100 dated March 16), Beyoncé’s country smash aims for a third week at No. 1, but will have its hands full fending off still-growing hits from Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign, Teddy Swims and more. 

Beyoncé, “Texas Hold ‘Em” (Parkwood/Columbia/Columbia Nashville): “Texas Hold ‘Em” squeezed out a Hot 100 victory on the river last week, just holding off a hard-charging “Carnival.” It remains a strong seller, hanging at No. 2 on this week’s Digital Song Sales chart and still notching two variants in the top 10 of the current real-time iTunes chart. And it is bounding onto radio playlists nationwide – and format-wide, as it now adds Adult Alternative to Pop, R&B, Country and other radio airplay charts it is currently populating – as it leaps 43-23 on this week’s all-format Radio Songs listing.

Where “Hold ‘Em” is increasingly vulnerable, however, is on streaming. After spending the prior week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Streaming Songs listing, it slides to No. 3 this week – and on the daily charts for both Spotify and Apple Music, it’s now slipped out of the top five. If it stabilizes in the last few days of the week, its advantage in sales and rapidly growing gains on radio may still be enough to keep it a frontrunner for the Hot 100’s top spot, but if those streams continue receding, the Queen may have a shorter reign on the chart than it was looking to be just a week ago.

¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign feat. Playboi Carti & Rich the Kid, “Carnival” (YZY): Streaming consistency may be an issue for Beyoncé, but it is certainly not a problem that the “Carnival” quartet has had since the song’s debut as part of Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign’s collaborative Vultures album a little over three weeks ago. The song takes over the top spot on Streaming Songs this week, while holding strong atop both Spotify’s and Apple Music’s daily charts, appearing to be only growing stronger there in its fourth week. It also reappears on Digital Song Sales this week, returning to the No. 19 spot after falling off entirely the week before.

The question for “Carnival” may still be one of radio. Following the recent backlash against Kanye’s latest controversies — including wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt and making repeated antisemitic comments (which he has since issued a public apology for in Hebrew) — as well as his departure from the major label system, support on the airwaves has been minimal for the hit single so far. Slowly but surely, however, it is growing there: top 40, rhythmic and mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio have all started taking “Carnival” for a spin – numbers that remain relatively small, but in a close race, could still be enough to make the difference.

Teddy Swims, “Lose Control” (SWIMS Int./Warner): Teddy Swims’ breakthrough hit is still hanging around the top five, dropping 3-5 this week but ranking in the top six on all three component charts: Digital Song Sales (No. 3), Streaming Songs and Radio Songs (No. 6 on each). It’s still climbing in airplay, and should get an extra boost in sales and streams this week from a slew of new variants released on Friday (March 1) — including instrumental, a cappella, sped up, slowed down and remixed versions – which are currently dotting the real-time iTunes chart, as the song’s original version (discounted to 69 cents for sale) holds atop the listing.

Benson Boone, “Beautiful Things” (Night Street/Warner): If Swims doesn’t get Warner its first No. 1 of the new year, his labelmate Benson Boone still might: Boone resumes pole position on Digital Song Sales this week, while hanging in the top five on Streaming Songs, where it’s lived for all six weeks of its release. And radio is officially coming for the song: It’s not moving quite as fast as “Texas Hold Em,” but it jumps 49-36 in its second week on Radio Songs, while lifting to No. 16 on Pop Airplay – an impressive top 40 embrace for a single that undergoes a dramatic mid-song transformation.

Jack Harlow, “Lovin on Me” (Generation Now/Atlantic): Don’t forget about Jack! His six-week No. 1 “Lovin on Me” remains a very real contender on the Hot 100 in its upcoming 17th week. On the current chart, it holds at No. 3 this frame, while spending its seventh week at No. 1 on Radio Songs and remaining top 10 on both Digital Song Sales and Streaming Songs. It’s hard to say what could still give it a boost on the Hot 100 this late in its life – though the song has still yet to receive the official remix treatment — but regardless, it remains a steady-enough performer on the chart that if its competition should ever pull up just a bit short, it could seize the crown once again with minimal effort.

[sayhey]

Teddy Swims' Lose Control is a solid power ballad that is destined to become a longevous radio staple throughout 2024 imo. I feel like this would eventually reach #1 organically, so it saddened me when I found out in this thread that Warner is likely manipulating its ascent to the top of the charts through fraudulent sales. Regardless of whether this is the case, Lose Control will have lasting success, so it doesn't really matter. Pop, HAC and especially AC will eat this up and it should get Alternative support, as evidenced by its already considerable success on AAA. Even Rhythmic has kinda picked it up (#24 this week).

Also, wanted to ask about Taylor's Is It Over Now. A couple days back it seemed to have stalled in the mid-50M range on radio but it suddenly started rapidly gaining AI once radio started dropping Cruel Summer. Is radio simply replacing its airtime of Cruel Summer with Is It Over Now or is there another reason behind this sudden jump?

[suburbandreams]

Nov 26, 2024 11:39:57 GMT -5 sayhey said:

Also, wanted to ask about Taylor's Is It Over Now. A couple days back it seemed to have stalled in the mid-50M range on radio but it suddenly started rapidly gaining AI once radio started dropping Cruel Summer. Is radio simply replacing its airtime of Cruel Summer with Is It Over Now or is there another reason behind this sudden jump?

Is it over now got big updates to allow it to top pop radio . It’s a common pattern there that once a song is close to the top there will be a big push by pop radio programmers and the label to hit #1 there. Happened a few times this year.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[iHype.]

Regardless of feelings about Carnival/Ye, what Warner Records is doing with Teddy Swims song is far more of a concern if it goes #1. 

It's straight up openly making fake numbers. It is crazy if Billboard/Luminate doesn't throw those sales out and that they're even attempting this knowing the bad PR it could get when publicly exposed.

[rimetm]

Nobody's actually posted evidence of sales having been faked, just supposition based on the proximity of each mix to each other (which at this point has deviated while being strong across the board).

[R.K.]

Regardless of how organic of a rise those 2 songs had, it would be delusional to think thousands of people are paying money for the instrumental and acappella versions of them. The labels are clearly buying them, and why wouldn’t they? If a few extra bands can get you a no.1 single, you do it.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 03/05/24

1(=) Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign - CARNIVAL 3,052,067 (-10,588)
2(=) Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 1,751,229 (+52,847)
3(=) Djo - End of Beginning 1,612,373 (+32,121)
4(=) 21 Savage - redrum 1,420,951 (-3,060)
5(=) Noah Kahan - Stick Season 1,409,385 (+31,105)
6(=) Bryson Tiller - Whatever She Wants 1,402,686 (+96,497)
7(=) Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD EM 1,293,926 (+37)
8(=) Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything 1,280,102 (+36,845)
9(=) SZA - Saturn 1,277,176 (+74,077)
10(=) Teddy Swims - Lose Control 1,222,785 (+153,858) (+14%)

Other:
11(+1) Travis Scott, Playboi Carti - FE!N 1,119,234 (+72,868)
12(+1) Tate McRae - greedy 1,103,252 (+76,950)
13(-2) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 1,079,289-1,053,163 (+26,126)
14(=) Flo Milli - Never Lose Me 1,009,628 (+4,894)
15(=) Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine 1,005,765 (+36,353)
16(+1) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 947,392 (+33,624)
17(-1) Rich Amiri - ONE CALL 942,814 (-17,540)
18(=) Yeat - Breathe 920,124 (+7,377)
19(=) Xavi - La Diabla 888,746 (+34,211)
23(=) SZA - Snooze 772,293 (-7,934)
24(+3) Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign - BURN 752,217 (+40,844)
26(-2) YG Marley - Praise Jah in the Moonlight 739,812 (-31,577)
28(=) JID, 21 Savage, Baby Tate - Surround Sound 711,852 (+20,069)
29(+4) Sabrina Carpenter - Feather 705,835 (+53,868)
31(+1) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 696,036 (+18,270)
32(-2) Drake, Sexyy Red, SZA - Rich Baby Daddy 691,981 (+7,966)
33(+7) 4batz - act ii: date @ 8 683,932 (+76,019) (+13%)
34(-5) The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp - One of the Girls 683,852 (-7,886)
35(+2) Michael Marcagi - Scared to Start 673,756 (+53,661) *NEW PEAK*
36(-1) Good Neighbors - Home 663,760 (+24,181)
37(-3) Xavi - La Victima 660,577 (+19,124)
43(+6) Ritchy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen 611,480 (+58,713) (+11%) *NEW PEAK*
44(-5) Travis Scott - MY EYES 606,257 (-5,357)
46(-2) Frank Ocean - Pink + White 586,628 (-4,557)
47(=) TV Girl - Lovers Rock 576,781 (+22,825)
48(-2) Don Toliver - Bandit 572,808 (+550)
51(=) Zach Bryan - Heading South 551,562 (+5,771)
53(+1) Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign - FUK SUMN 539,178 (+7,770)
54(-2) The Weeknd, Playboi Carti, Madonna - Popular 537,474 (-2,805)
57(+2) Jessie Murph, Jelly Roll - Wild Ones 528,703 (+21,310)
59(-2) Tate McRae - exes 524,749 (+8,195)
60(-2) Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 519,055 (+9,530)
62(-1) Tyla - Water 515,937 (+11,776)
63(+3) BigXthaPlug - Mmhmm 508,103 (+26,122)
64(-1) Muni Long - Made For Me 505,341 (+12,620)
66(+1) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? 500,627 (+21,006)
67(-3) Luke Combs - Where the Wild Things Are 498,598 (+7,141)
69(-1) TV Girl - Not Allowed 494,535 (+17,013)
70(-5) Ariana Grande - yes, and? 491,194 (+7,811)
74(-4) Kali Uchis, Peso Pluma - Igual Que Un Ángel 479,625 (+8,043)
77(+2) Fuerza Regida - TÚ NAME 476,321 (+28,064) *NEW PEAK*
80(+13) Dua Lipa - Training Season 462,004 (+29,007)
88(-6) 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Metro Boomin - née-nah 443,141 (+1,322)
90(+10) Bad Bunny, Feid - PERRO NEGRO 442,529 (+16,172)
92(-7) Dylan Gossett - Coal 436,127 (-1,132)
95(=) Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten 434,681 (+4,140)
99(=) Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours 431,720 (+4,959)
100(-2) Noah Kahan - Northern Attitude 431,126 (+3,788)

106(+10) Nicki Minaj - FTCU 424,112 (+21,982)
107(-20) Zach Bryan - Oklahoma Smokeshow 423,252 (-13,068)
113(+2) Zach Bryan - Sun to Me 415,596 (+11,757)
116(+19) Dua Lipa - Houdini 413,876 (+30,843)
118(-30) Morgan Wallen, Eric Church - Man Made A Bar 410,921 (-25,140)
125(+29) 310babii - soak city (do it) 402,499 (+33,768)
129(-10) Noah Kahan - Forever 397,245 (-3,558)
130(-17) Drake - You Broke My Heart 394,794 (-12,446)
135(+20) Dominic Fike - Babydoll 391,214 (+22,843) *NEW PEAK*
136(+20) Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out) 390,951 (+23,202)
141(-11) The Red Clay Strays - Wondering Why 386,863 (-280)
150(+18) Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart) 382,066 (+19,500)
151(-13) Blake Roman, Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg - Poison 381,525 (-852)
158(+26) Key Glock - Let's Go 375,317 (+23,186)
164(-4) Taylor Swift - Don't Blame Me 371,040 (+4,522)
168(-24) Travis Scott, Swae Lee, Chief Keef - Nightcrawler 369,099 (-7,923)
169(+12) KAROL G, Tiësto - CONTIGO 368,301 (+13,344)
175(re-entry) Brent Faiyaz - Best Time 365,619
181(-12) Morgan Wallen - Spin You Around (Morgan's Version) 359,776 (-2,620)
183(-18) HARDY - TRUCK BED 357,700 (-6,218)
185(-2) Peso Pluma, Anitta - BELLAKEO 356,438 (+2,446)
190(+4) Feid, ATL Jacob - LUNA 352,722 (+8,345)
192(-10) Dasha - Austin 351,931 (-2,134)
196(=) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On the Dancefloor 349,183 (+5,187)
198(-11) Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David, Blake Roman - Loser, Baby 348,880-350,033 (-1,153)

Biggest Gains (50K+): Evergreen, Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1, Scared to Start, act ii: date @ 8, Feather, FE!N, greedy, Lose Control, Saturn, Whatever She Wants, Beautiful Things

[musiclife]

Really rooting for Teddy.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Mar 1, 2024 0:25:00 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

Mid-Week Releases

New Singles:
Justice - Incognito
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
Luke Hemmings - Shakes
Jean Dawson - New Age Crisis
King Hannah with Sharon Van Etten - Big Swimmer
of Montreal - Yung Hearts Bleed Free
Laufey - Goddess
Dehd - Light On
Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope
Kamasi Washington - Prologue
Lauren Jauregui - Burning
Mustafa - Imaan
Jlin - Summon
SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Respite For A Tragic Tale / Silhouettes in Motion
Pabllo Vittar - Ai Ai Ai Mega Principe
Machinedrum with Tinashe - ZOOM
The Libertines - Oh Shit
O. - Green Shirt
Kim Gordon - Psychedelic Orgasm
Kenny Mason - JUMPIN IN / US
Iron & Wine - All in Good Time
Stand Still - Mysticism
La Luz - Strange World
Bruiser Wolf - Brick Up
Wand - Help Desk
Slow Fiction - Monday
Kouek - Heart
Kharma - By Any Means
Zsela - Fire Excape
glaive - Pardon Me
Two Door Cinema Club - Happy Customers
Magnolia Park - Hellstar
Northlane - Afterimage
Sadie Elisabeth and Hopscotch McQuack - hold on closer
Swamp Dogg - Mess Under That Dress
Clementine Was Right - Meet Me in the Dark
Green Gardens - Face, Flesh, Flash
Ryu Sujeong - Walking on Clouds
Serial Chiller - No Pay
Cera Gibson - Zombified
Dotter - It’s Not Easy to Write a Love Song
Too Close to Touch with Bad Omens - Novocaine
Electric Field - One Milkali (One Blood)
Porij - Unpredictable
This is Lorelei - Dancing in the Club
Brevin Kim - razrblade
Jacqline - Effortless
juno - bitemytongue
D-LITE - Falling Slowly
HORI7ON - DAYTOUR
Crywolf with hemalyn - tenebrescence
Jay Smith - Back to My Roots
Scene Queen - Finger
NOFX - I'm A Rat

New Albums and EPs:
MIKE and Tony Seltzer - Pinball
Downt - Underlight & Aftertime
WiFiGawd - BLOCK MUSIC VOLUME 2
Takanori Iwata - ARTLESS
LII YILEI - NONAGE
Yuinishio - Weekday
SPENSR - Drunk
Olof Dreijer - Coral EP
Hello Meteor - SAID GHOSTS
潘PAN - Ghosts EP
Yusuke - Thank 遊
Tom Finster - Untiefe EP
​Kudaranai1nichi - Every Last One of Them
Sara Wakui - Into My System
b!ni - 멋진사이 EP
Valaire - Sofa So Good EP
Za Ningen - Gingen Zekyou
Oeil - Dream Within A Dream
Sakanamon - liverally.ep
Shin Kokawa - touch the subconscious
Koresawa - 日々愛々
Sule - Written on Wides Corner
Los Tres - Revuelta EP
Zookaraderu - 太陽歩行 (Taiyō Hogō)
Young Oceans - Somehow I Know It’s Love
Florian T M Zeisig - Planet Inc
Phyllomedusa - Mince of the Frog Prince
Ivan the Terrible - Infinite Peace
Tiakola - X
Mayberg - MINI
LANA - 19.5 EP

[mms82]

Mar 6, 2024 22:17:21 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Regardless of feelings about Carnival/Ye, what Atlantic Records is doing with Teddy Swims song is far more of a concern if it goes #1. 

It's straight up openly making fake numbers. It is crazy if Billboard/Luminate doesn't throw those sales out and that they're even attempting this knowing the bad PR it could get when publicly exposed.

I wonder if this will be similar to Gooba a few years back. Ye/6ix9ine are obviously not sympathetic figures, but both look possibly to be robbed. Hopefully Ye goes on a rant and reveals insider knowledge like 6ix9ine did.

(Ironically 6ix9ine followed up being robbed with Gooba with Trollz, one of the fakest number ones ever haha)

[breezy05]

The fact that French Montanna got so heavily filtered for obvious sales fraud makes me think something similiar will happen with Teddy this week. Which would definitely be a shame because it's a much better song that I'd rather see go Number 1.

[iHype.]

Mar 6, 2024 23:26:15 GMT -5 rimetm said:

Nobody's actually posted evidence of sales having been faked, just supposition based on the proximity of each mix to each other (which at this point has deviated while being strong across the board).

If you’re thinking someone with 20K followers on social media, no fanbase, and 0 hits before this can send 7 versions of a song to top 20 on iTunes simultaneously you’re pretty much the type of person who argues anything for the sake of arguing

[mms82]

Mar 7, 2024 8:52:11 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Mar 6, 2024 23:26:15 GMT -5 rimetm said:

Nobody's actually posted evidence of sales having been faked, just supposition based on the proximity of each mix to each other (which at this point has deviated while being strong across the board).

If you’re thinking someone with 20K followers on social media, no fanbase, and 0 hits before this can send 7 versions of a song to top 20 on iTunes simultaneously you’re pretty much the type of person who argues anything for the sake of arguing

TeddysFishes rise up! craziest Stan base on Twitter, forget swifties / barbz / army / beyhive, most intense standom is clearly the teddysfishes

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

with basically 0 airplay.

[kingvavis]

Mar 7, 2024 8:52:11 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Mar 6, 2024 23:26:15 GMT -5 rimetm said:

Nobody's actually posted evidence of sales having been faked, just supposition based on the proximity of each mix to each other (which at this point has deviated while being strong across the board).

If you’re thinking someone with 20K followers on social media, no fanbase, and 0 hits before this can send 7 versions of a song to top 20 on iTunes simultaneously you’re pretty much the type of person who argues anything for the sake of arguing

Although I do believe it is suspicious, I wouldn't say it is fair to say he has had no fanbase or presence on social media since he has a big presence on YouTube with over 3 million subscribers and over 4 m IG followers. Twitter isn't everything.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates « 2024 » / « 03 » / « 07 »

1(=) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 84.47(-0.42)
2(=) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 73.51(-0.45)
3(=) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] 68.67(+1.61)

4(=) Tyla - Water 63.29(+0.34)
5(=) Tate McRae - greedy 59.67(-0.20)
6(=) Teddy Swims - Lose Control 56.13(+0.50)
7(=) Dua Lipa - Houdini 51.45(-0.36)
8(=) SZA - Snooze 48.40(-0.36)
9(=) Luke Combs - Fast Car 48.31(-0.27)
10(=) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 45.96(-0.76)

11(=) Kane Brown - I Can Feel It 44.70(+0.89)

20(+3) Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM 38.52(+1.21)

24(+1) Thomas Rhett - Mamaw's House (feat. Morgan Wallen) 37.71(+0.92)

32(+1) Muni Long - Made For Me 27.94(+0.70) 

-(-) El Fantasma - El Exitoso 8.05(+0.77)

-(-) Tyla - Truth Or Dare 7.31(+0.89) +

-(-) SZA - Saturn 4.17(+1.87) +

[iHype.]

Mar 7, 2024 10:36:38 GMT -5 kingvavis said:

Mar 7, 2024 8:52:11 GMT -5 iHype. said:

If you’re thinking someone with 20K followers on social media, no fanbase, and 0 hits before this can send 7 versions of a song to top 20 on iTunes simultaneously you’re pretty much the type of person who argues anything for the sake of arguing

Although I do believe it is suspicious, I wouldn't say it is fair to say he has had no fanbase or presence on social media since he has a big presence on YouTube with over 3 million subscribers and over 4 m IG followers. Twitter isn't everything.

And his Instagram and TikTok have absolutely 0 acknowledgement of him dropping new versions of the song.

So when in history has an artist with no hits prior, no large fanbase, no buying campaign, and not even acknowledging the versions being released just casually charted the same song 8 times on iTunes in high positions?

[kingvavis]

Mar 7, 2024 11:39:48 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Mar 7, 2024 10:36:38 GMT -5 kingvavis said:

Although I do believe it is suspicious, I wouldn't say it is fair to say he has had no fanbase or presence on social media since he has a big presence on YouTube with over 3 million subscribers and over 4 m IG followers. Twitter isn't everything.

And his Instagram and TikTok have absolutely 0 acknowledgement of him dropping new versions of the song.

So when in history has an artist with no hits prior, no large fanbase, no buying campaign, and not even acknowledging the versions being released just casually charted the same song 8 times on iTunes in high positions?

Like I said, it is suspicious, I'm just saying what you said about him having no fanbase or social media presence is wrong.

[thatpolishboy]

Mar 7, 2024 10:04:53 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

with basically 0 airplay.

Nothing unusual to be fair.. vitality always moves songs up the charts faster than airplay latches on. With how pop this song is it will probably latch on to radio for a long long time when it eventually does

[iHype.]

Mar 7, 2024 12:04:37 GMT -5 kingvavis said:

Mar 7, 2024 11:39:48 GMT -5 iHype. said:

And his Instagram and TikTok have absolutely 0 acknowledgement of him dropping new versions of the song.

So when in history has an artist with no hits prior, no large fanbase, no buying campaign, and not even acknowledging the versions being released just casually charted the same song 8 times on iTunes in high positions?

Like I said, it is suspicious, I'm just saying what you said about him having no fanbase or social media presence is wrong.

Instagram & TikTok followers are nice I guess but I focused on Twitter because that’s mainly the social media site where fanbases engage in buying parties/campaigns and spread awareness. They aren’t doing that on Instagram and TikTok. For Beyonce, BTS, Taylor, etc when they went #1 with mass buying you could easily find thousands of interactions to buy versions amongst their fanbase. He has 20k followers (and no fan pages) which indicates no real Twitter following for a sales campaign.

This fanbase of his wasn’t there when the album sold 7,000 pure first week and then left the Sales chart after 1 week and never returned. So it’s a bit odd they’re in unison to buy Lose Control (Strings Version).

[KeepDeanWeird]

I'd note that SNTY has had a similar pattern of having several versions on iTunes with several versions charting consecutively. It's usually on Wednesdays, which why I thought I'd check, and Sundays for the past several weeks.

Today it's numbers: 27, 30, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 60, 63.

Totally organic! I don't even get the point of doing this 2 or 3 times a week for several weeks.

[sportytheartist]

US iTunes Top 20 Songs | 1:00pm EST

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1 = Teddy Swims - Lose Control
2 = Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
3 = Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM
4 +3 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me
5 = Miley Cyrus - Flowers
6 = Muni Long - Made For Me
7 +2 Luke Combs - Where the Wild Things Are
8 +5 Zach Bryan - I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
9 -1 Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM
10 +5 Justin Timberlake - Selfish
11 -7 Will Moseley - Gone For Good
12 = Lainey Wilson - Country's Cool Again
13 +8 Jelly Roll - Save Me (with Lainey Wilson)
14 +8 Jelly Roll - Need a Favor
15 +2 Paul Russell - Lil Boo Thang
16 +9 Teddy Swims & Freak Freely - Lose Control (Live at The Ryman)
17 -7 New Kids On the Block - Kids
18 -2 Luke Combs - Fast Car
19 +1 Morgan Wallen - Thinkin’ Bout Me
20 -1 Teddy Swims - Lose Control (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Session)

[sportytheartist]

Mar 7, 2024 10:04:53 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

with basically 0 airplay.

It’s getting there, slowly, but mostly on Alternative.


(POP):
DJO End Of Beginning 19 0 19 0.039

(HOT AC):
DJO End Of Beginning 9 0 9 0.025

(ALTERNATIVE):
DJO End Of Beginning 61 25 36 0.103

TOTAL AI: 0.167M

[theycallmedualian]

Mar 6, 2024 22:17:21 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Regardless of feelings about Carnival/Ye, what Warner Records is doing with Teddy Swims song is far more of a concern if it goes #1. 

It's straight up openly making fake numbers. It is crazy if Billboard/Luminate doesn't throw those sales out and that they're even attempting this knowing the bad PR it could get when publicly exposed.

The funniest part is that, given this is happening against Kanye, you know billboard will not remove or dig into those fraudulent sales, if not they’ll buff sales for their formula just so they can block Kanye.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 03/06/24

1(=) Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign - CARNIVAL 2,949,958 (-102,109)
2(=) Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 1,741,822 (-9,407)
3(=) Djo - End of Beginning 1,447,980 (-164,393)
4(+1) Noah Kahan - Stick Season 1,407,991 (-1,394)
5(-1) 21 Savage - redrum 1,406,414 (-14,537)
6(=) Bryson Tiller - Whatever She Wants 1,355,623 (-47,063)
7(+1) Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything 1,314,802 (+34,700)
8(+1) SZA - Saturn 1,303,048 (+25,872)
9(+1) Teddy Swims - Lose Control 1,193,786 (-28,999)
10(-3) Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD EM 1,143,144 (-150,782)

Other:
11(=) Travis Scott, Playboi Carti - FE!N 1,130,180 (+10,946)
12(=) Tate McRae - greedy 1,106,645 (+3,393)
13(=) Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me 1,028,201 (-51,088)
14(=) Flo Milli - Never Lose Me 1,000,597 (-9,031)
15(=) Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine 998,299 (-7,466)
16(+1) Rich Amiri - ONE CALL 982,727 (+39,913)
17(+1) Yeat - Breathe 919,248 (-876)
18(-2) Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 912,952 (-34,440)
19(=) Xavi - La Diabla 882,371 (-6,375)
23(=) SZA - Snooze 763,268 (-9,025)
24(+5) Sabrina Carpenter - Feather 744,509 (+38,674)
27(+1) JID, 21 Savage, Baby Tate - Surround Sound 711,352 (-500)
29(-3) YG Marley - Praise Jah in the Moonlight 705,107 (-34,705)
30(+2) Drake, Sexyy Red, SZA - Rich Baby Daddy 693,141 (+1,160)
31(-7) Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign - BURN 689,004 (-63,213)
32(-1) Doja Cat - Agora Hills 686,305 (-9,731)
33(=) 4batz - act ii: date @ 8 681,565 (-2,367)
34(=) The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp - One of the Girls 681,526 (-2,326)
35(+2) Xavi - La Victima 652,109 (-8,468)
36(-1) Michael Marcagi - Scared to Start 648,600 (-25,156)
39(-3) Good Neighbors - Home 639,611 (-24,149)
41(+2) Ritchy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen 608,530 (-2,950) *NEW PEAK*
44(+2) Frank Ocean - Pink + White 604,305 (+17,677)
45(+3) Don Toliver - Bandit 585,696 (+12,888)
47(=) TV Girl - Lovers Rock 576,571 (-210)
49(+2) Zach Bryan - Heading South 564,777 (+13,215)
51(+8) Tate McRae - exes 546,458 (+21,709)
53(-9) Travis Scott - MY EYES 542,953 (-63,304)
56(-2) The Weeknd, Playboi Carti, Madonna - Popular 531,482 (-5,992)
57(=) Jessie Murph, Jelly Roll - Wild Ones 528,971 (+268)
59(+1) Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 527,530 (+8,475)
60(-7) Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign - FUK SUMN 525,169 (-14,009)
62(+1) BigXthaPlug - Mmhmm 515,376 (+7,273)
64(-2) Tyla - Water 506,483 (-9,454)
65(+4) TV Girl - Not Allowed 503,636 (+9,101)
66(+1) Luke Combs - Where the Wild Things Are 503,273 (+4,675)
68(-4) Muni Long - Made For Me 497,136 (-8,205)
71(-5) Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? 486,057 (-14,570)
72(-2) Ariana Grande - yes, and? 482,999 (-8,195)
77(-3) Kali Uchis, Peso Pluma - Igual Que Un Ángel 474,474 (-5,151)
78(-1) Fuerza Regida - TÚ NAME 472,730 (-3,591)
81(+9) Bad Bunny, Feid - PERRO NEGRO 464,655 (+22,126)
83(-3) Dua Lipa - Training Season 461,641 (-363)
91(+16) Zach Bryan - Oklahoma Smokeshow 436,660 (+13,408)
92(+3) Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten 436,523 (+1,842)
93(-5) 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Metro Boomin - née-nah 433,554 (-9,587)
94(-2) Dylan Gossett - Coal 433,510 (-2,617)
95(+4) Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours 433,232 (+1,512)
97(+16) Zach Bryan - Sun to Me 431,222 (+15,626)

103(-3) Noah Kahan - Northern Attitude 422,988 (-8,138)
105(+11) Dua Lipa - Houdini 422,441 (+8,565)
111(+14) 310babii - soak city (do it) 417,340 (+14,841)
116(-10) Nicki Minaj - FTCU 412,434 (-11,678)
126(+3) Noah Kahan - Forever 404,743 (+7,498)
128(-10) Morgan Wallen, Eric Church - Man Made A Bar 403,370 (-7,551)
132(-2) Drake - You Broke My Heart 398,064 (+3,270)
141(=) The Red Clay Strays - Wondering Why 390,985 (+4,122)
147(-12) Dominic Fike - Babydoll 387,375 (-3,839)
154(+10) Taylor Swift - Don't Blame Me 371,040 (+4,522)
158(-7) Blake Roman, Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg - Poison 381,525 (-852)
159(-9) Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart) 382,066 (+19,500)
168(=) Travis Scott, Swae Lee, Chief Keef - Nightcrawler 374,529 (+5,430)
174(+7) Morgan Wallen - Spin You Around (Morgan's Version) 365,742 (+5,966)
175(-17) Key Glock - Let's Go 365,395 (-9,922)
179(DEBUT) Laufey - Goddess 363,429
182(-46) Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out) 359,350 (-31,601)
185(re-entry) Lil Yachty - A Cold Sunday 357,666
186(-17) KAROL G, Tiësto - CONTIGO 357,350 (-10,951)
189(DEBUT) GloRilla - Yeah Glo! 353,737
190(=) Feid, ATL Jacob - LUNA 352,334 (-388)
193(-18) Brent Faiyaz - Best Time 350,775 (-14,844)
195(re-entry) Steve Lacy - Some 350,390
196(=) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On the Dancefloor 349,851 (+668)
197(-12) Peso Pluma, Anitta - BELLAKEO 349,072 (-7,366)

[Caviar]

Beyonce is collapsing.

[artistry]

Even though it will probably not make any impact on the Billboard Hot 100, Laufey's Goddess is beautiful. Another new song that stood out is Norah Jones' Paradise. Her new project should get some Grammy love.