Billboard Hot 100 - 2000s - We Belong Together

[badrobot]

Madonna on Club Play of the decade:
1 Hung Up
2 Music
13 Jump
18 Die Another Day
19 Sorry

(odd that she could have 5 songs in the top 20 but then no more in the top 50)

[jebsib]

Ah ha! Thank you 2m! Damn, All these years I overlooked it!

[wavetunes]

Thanks 2m!!

[wolfmother]

Dec 11, 2009 8:17:21 GMT -5 colson said:

Dec 11, 2009 8:14:13 GMT -5 LC3 said:

Looks all in all Bey has a lot to be proud of this decade!

Yeah, the number of hits she has in this decade is phenomenal. It would be hard to imagine her doing this well by the end of the next decade, b/c this one was near record-breaking. :o

near record-breaking? Not even close, Mariah Carey with 14 #1's in the 90's and many other success, Madonna, Michael J and Whitney Houston in the 80's, all had more successfull decades than her, and let's not talk about The Beatles in the 60's.

[dbt88]

Dec 11, 2009 14:23:46 GMT -5 wolfmother said:

Dec 11, 2009 8:17:21 GMT -5 colson said:

Yeah, the number of hits she has in this decade is phenomenal. It would be hard to imagine her doing this well by the end of the next decade, b/c this one was near record-breaking. :o

near record-breaking? Not even close, Mariah Carey with 14 #1's in the 90's and many other success, Madonna, Michael J and Whitney Houston in the 80's, all had more successfull decades than her, and let's not talk about The Beatles in the 60's.

Exactly. They're pushing it a little bit too much. I don't see anywhere in which Beyonce really dominated overall, but even as a female, she has Alicia Keys with her on Hot 100, and Britney performed better on BB 200. Not downplaying her achievements, but record breaking is too much

[kellybcfan98]

YEAH KELLY!!!!!!!!!

[jamrock16]

Dec 11, 2009 15:15:59 GMT -5 @dbt88 said:

Dec 11, 2009 14:23:46 GMT -5 wolfmother said:

near record-breaking? Not even close, Mariah Carey with 14 #1's in the 90's and many other success, Madonna, Michael J and Whitney Houston in the 80's, all had more successfull decades than her, and let's not talk about The Beatles in the 60's.

Exactly. They're pushing it a little bit too much. I don't see anywhere in which Beyonce really dominated overall, but even as a female, she has Alicia Keys with her on Hot 100, and Britney performed better on BB 200. Not downplaying her achievements, but record breaking is too much

Can't everyone just agree that she is the highest ranking female therefore she dominated the entire decade MORE than any other female? The fact that she placed lower on the BB 200 than Britney is irrelevant since it is a combination of the 2 charts where she clearly performed better than anyone else.

[skizzo]

is there a Hot 100 year end of the 2000s for single sales (not digital)?

[galvanize]

Dec 11, 2009 15:34:37 GMT -5 skizzo said:

is there a Hot 100 year end of the 2000s for single sales (not digital)?

Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales

1 MARIA MARIA Santana Featuring The Product G&B Arista
2 MUSIC Madonna Maverick/Warner Bros.
3 HOT BOYZ Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott Featuring NAS, EVE & Q-Tip The Gold Mind/East West/EEG
4 INCOMPLETE Sisqo Dragon/Def Soul/IDJMG
5 THIS IS THE NIGHT/BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Clay Aiken RCA/RMG
6 BREATHE Faith Hill Warner Bros. (Nashville)/WRN
7 GET IT ON TONITE Montell Jordan Def Soul/IDJMG
8 FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY BROKEN HEART Britney Spears Jive
9 FLYING WITHOUT WINGS/SUPERSTAR Ruben Studdard J/RMG
10 I LIKE IT Sammie Freeworld/Capitol
11 I WANNA LOVE YOU FOREVER Jessica Simpson Columbia
12 CAN'T FIGHT THE MOONLIGHT LeAnn Rimes Curb
13 THANK GOD I FOUND YOU Mariah Carey Featuring Joe & 98 Degrees Columbia
14 DOESN'T REALLY MATTER Janet Def Jam/Def Soul/IDJMG
15 A MOMENT LIKE THIS Kelly Clarkson RCA/RMG
16 GIRL ON TV LFO Arista
17 SWEAR IT AGAIN Westlife Arista
18 HE WASN'T MAN ENOUGH Toni Braxton LaFace/Arista
19 SMOOTH Santana Featuring Rob Thomas Arista
20 SAY MY NAME Destiny's Child Columbia
21 LOVERBOY Mariah Carey Featuring Cameo Virgin/Capitol
22 DANCE WITH ME Debelah Morgan The DAS Label/Atlantic
23 COME ON OVER BABY (ALL I WANT IS YOU) Christina Aguilera RCA
24 MIRROR MIRROR M2M Atlantic
25 WHAT A GIRL WANTS Christina Aguilera RCA
26 ANOTHER DUMB BLONDE Hoku Geffen/Interscope
27 THERE YOU GO Pink LaFace/Arista
28 STUTTER Joe Featuring Mystikal Jive
29 GET OVER YOURSELF Eden's Crush 143/London-Sire
30 HE LOVES U NOT Dream Bad Boy/Arista
31 AMAZED Lonestar BNA
32 HE CAN'T LOVE U Jagged Edge So So Def/Columbia
33 ALL THE SMALL THINGS Blink-182 MCA
34 LIQUID DREAMS O-Town J
35 THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER Whitney Houston Arista/RMG
36 I KNEW I LOVED YOU Savage Garden Columbia
37 BENT matchbox twenty Lava/Atlantic
38 MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE Whitney Houston Arista
39 DO I MAKE YOU PROUD/TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS Taylor Hicks Arista/RMG
40 MY BABY Lil' Romeo Soulja/Priority
41 ALL FOR YOU Janet Virgin/Capitol
42 INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN/INDEPENDENCE DAY Carrie Underwood Arista/RMG
43 AARON'S PARTY (COME GET IT) Aaron Carter Jive
44 GOODBYE EARL Dixie Chicks Monument
45 DON'T SAY YOU LOVE ME M2M Atlantic
46 PICTURE Kid Rock Featuring Sheryl Crow Universal South
47 COULD IT BE Jaheim Divine Mill/Warner Bros.
48 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? City High Booga Basement/Interscope
49 GIVE ME JUST ONE NIGHT (UNA NOCHE) 98 Degrees Universal/UMRG
50 24/7 Kevon Edmonds RCA

After 2001, the physical market pretty much waivered off except for the American Idol singles.

[Young Money]

Interesting !^

[David]

Its funny how Pink was #7 on Hot 100 Airplay Artists, yet doesn't even have 1 song in the Hot 100 Airplay. LOL!

[weaver]

Dec 11, 2009 9:12:58 GMT -5 r.enato said:

Dec 11, 2009 9:04:45 GMT -5 KMJ1 said:

reeeally confused lol- IGF spent exactly the same amount of weeks at #1, sold WAY more than WBT and basically spent the same time in the top 40; so how is WBT way ahead? Lord, Billboard couldnt be more up Mariahs a*s lol.

Oh please. We Belong Together was the big hit of the decade. There's no denying in that. Proof is that I Gotta Feeling landed at #5.

Yes, I Gotta Feeling sold WAY more than We Belong Together, but remember the latter spent weeks with over 200 million AI while the former barely reached 120 million.

It also was #1 on something like 7 different formats for multiple weeks.

[neverduplicated]

Dec 11, 2009 17:46:42 GMT -5 weaver said:

Dec 11, 2009 9:12:58 GMT -5 r.enato said:

Oh please. We Belong Together was the big hit of the decade. There's no denying in that. Proof is that I Gotta Feeling landed at #5.

Yes, I Gotta Feeling sold WAY more than We Belong Together, but remember the latter spent weeks with over 200 million AI while the former barely reached 120 million.

It also was #1 on something like 7 different formats for multiple weeks.

Also, digital sales in 2009 are much higher than those in 2005 for all singles. So comparing their raw sales isn't fair (though IGF wins either way). Likewise, airplay for all songs is much lower in 2009 than in 2005 (though WBT wins either way). However, WBT's airplay dominance was unparalleled.

[K.]

Why is Christina so low? And why is Beautiful not even in the top 100 songs? Weird.

[David]

Dec 11, 2009 18:31:35 GMT -5 K. said:

Why is Christina so low? And why is Beautiful not even in the top 100 songs? Weird.

Genie, her biggest hit, was in 1999. I think WAGW was as well. Then you have to factor in she's really only released 2 albums within this decade. B2B only spawned like 2 hits. Also, Christina seems to only get Pop airplay. She crosses over to HAC every now and again, but she's mainly a Pop artist.

As for Beautiful.. not 100% sure why thats not even on the list. But I'm guessing it just barely missed out.

[Rodze]

www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-the-fascinating-lady-gaga-1004053213.story

'MUSIC' MAKES THE PEOPLE WONDER ...

Hi Gary,

Two questions:

1, How can the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" rank higher "Boom Boom Pow" on the entire decade's Billboard Hot 100 chart than and yet lower on the 2009 year-end Hot 100 chart?

2, How can the decade-end Hot 100 pan out such that a song like Madonna's "Music," which spent four weeks at No. 1, is omitted?

Just curious.

Sincerely,

David Fritz
Reseda, California


Hi David,

Keen of you to notice that, yes, the Peas' two 2009 smashes appear in reverse order on our year-end and decade-end tallies. The oddity is due to different methodologies being used in the compilation of each list.

Billboard director of charts Silvio Pietroluongo explains some of the rationale that went into the creation of our extensive recap of 2009 and the entire past decade, which premiered on billboard.com today.

The second and third Q&As below apply specifically to your question about the Black Eyed Peas:

"Q: How were the decade-end charts compiled?

A: Most of our decade-end music charts represent aggregated sales or radio airplay (audience impressions or total plays) for each artist and title from the weekly charts on which they appeared from the start of the 2000 chart year (Dec. 4, 1999) though the end of the 2009 chart year (Nov. 28, 2009).

In other words, if a weekly chart is based on unit sales, audience impressions, or total radio plays, those numbers are added up for each week a title or an artist appeared on that chart during the decade. The Billboard 200 rankings, for example, are based on total sales for each title or artist, while they were on the chart.

Sales totals are based on weekly data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, with radio airplay measured by Nielsen BDS.

Q: Does that methodology apply to all the decade-end charts?

A: No. Some charts that changed methodology during the decade (such as Country Songs, which segued from weekly plays to weekly audience impressions) employ an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at the chart's lower end earning the least.

The Hot 100, which is ranked on a weekly basis incorporating airplay, sales and streaming data, also employs this inverse point system for its decade-end lists, since the chart's formula was altered various times during the 2000s.

Q: So, the Hot 100 formula is different for the decade-end charts than it is for the 2009 rankings?

A: That is correct. Since the Hot 100 formula was stable for 2009, we simply aggregated weekly points for each title and artist. This explains why some songs on the decade-end Hot 100 tally might be ranked in a different order than they appear on their corresponding year-end rankings.

Q: How were the top artists of the decade categories compiled (for overall, country, R&B and Latin genres)?

A: The overall top artists of the decade category is based on a formula blending aggregated sales totals for each artist's title in the weeks it appeared on the Billboard 200 chart with the inverse points system used for the Hot 100 recaps for all of the artist's titles that appeared on that list.

The top artists categories for country, R&B and Latin were determined by employing the inverse point system based on an artist's weekly ranking on each format's respective albums and songs charts."

As for your question about Madonna's "Music" not making the decade-end cut, consider that 129 songs rose to No. 1 in the 2000s, so there was simply no way that every Hot 100 topper this decade was going to make the top 100 recap. When a pop culture monster like "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," which, like "Music," reigned for four weeks, ranks at No. 99 for the decade, it's clear that competition was, pardon the Beyonce pun, fierce.

And, in some ways, that's a good thing. With such major hits not making our list, it's a sign that the 2000s gave us a deep reservoir of pop music that has made a lasting impression on fans and consumers.



I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SALES TOTAL IS

Dear Gary,

How well is Mariah Carey's beautiful album "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" doing sales-wise in the U.S.?

Thank you,

Zwan Chandon Didier
Kaduna, Nigeria


Hi Zwan,

Carey's 12th studio release has sold 344,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 upon its debut in October and became her fifth No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

On the decade-end Hot 100, Carey boasts the No. 1 title, 2005's "We Belong Together."

Carey has also just announced that her eight-week, 19-city "Angels Advocate" tour will begin New Year's Eve and run through Feb. 27 in Las Vegas.



I WANT TO KNOW WHAT BARBARA'S SOURCE IS

Hi Gary,

On Wednesday (Dec. 9), I watched the Barbara Walters special, "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009," and am once again confused by a statistic quoted during Lady Gaga's introduction.

Walters stated that Lady Gaga is the "first artist ever to have four No. 1 hits off a debut album," which I have heard several times in the past few months. As a huge fan of Mariah Carey, I know that Lady Gaga wasn't the first artist to accomplish this feat, as Mariah saw her first four singles go to No. 1 in 1990 and 1991.

Maybe I'm missing something, but can you please provide any insight and/or clarification?

I love Lady Gaga. But, I love Mariah more!

Thanks,

Travis Parker Lee
Arlington, Virginia


Hi Travis,

Both divas dominated with four career-opening No. 1 songs - but on different charts.

Mariah Carey topped the Hot 100 with "Vision of Love," "Love Takes Time," "Someday" and "I Don't Wanna Cry" in 1990-91.

Lady Gaga has led the mainstream top 40-based Pop Songs radio airplay chart with "Just Dance," "Poker Face," "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi," a record run from the start of an artist's career on the 17-year-old tally. She could add a fifth, as "Bad Romance" darts 13-11. And at No. 36, she bows this week with her sixth entry on Pop Songs, "Telephone," featuring Beyonce.

Gaga is Walters' second-most "fascinating" person of the year, trailing only Michelle Obama. One other musician made the list - Adam Lambert - while Michael Jackson's three children, Paris Michael Katherine, Prince Michael Jr., and Prince Michael II ("Blanket"), share the No. 10 ranking.

On Billboard's 2009 year-end chart festivities, Lady Gaga is a standout. She earns the coveted honors of the year's top new artist, top Hot 100 artist, top female Hot 100 artist, top Hot Digital Songs artist, top Pop Songs artist, top Hot Dance Airplay artist, top Dance/Electronic Albums artist and has the top Dance/Electronic Album ("The Fame").



BTW. All these gazillion threads about the year-end and decade charts are a terrible MESS to go through.

[felipe]

Either BBP was bigger than I Gotta Feeling or it was not. If year-end chart has one thing and decade chart has another, then something in the fromula is obviously wrong.

[jebsib]

On the Hot 100 of the 2000s list:

26% of the songs did not make #1

Roughly 24% are not r&b based songs (up to interpretation, but you get the idea)

also, concluding that the cut-off was during I Gotta Feeling's reign:

# 1 Songs that didn’t make the list:

• What a Girl Wants
• Thank God I Found You
• Amazed
• Say My Name
• Be With You
• It’s Gonna Be Me
• Incomplete
• Doesn’t Really Matter
• Music
• Come On Over Baby
• Ms. Jackson
• Stutter
• Butterfly
• Angel
• Lady Marmalade
• Bootylicious
• A Moment Like This
• Bump Bump Bump
• All I Have
• 21 Questions
• This Is The Night
• Shake Ya Tailfeather
• Slow Jamz
• I Believe
• Confesions part 2
• Slow Motion
• Inside Your Heaven
• Don’t Forget About Us
• Laffy Taffy
• Grillz
• So Sick
• SOS
• Ridin’
• Hips Don’t Lie
• Do I Make You Proud
• London Bridge
• Money Maker
• My Love
• I Wanna Love you
• Say It Right
• What Goes Around Comes Around
• This Is Why I’m Hot
• Glamorous
• Don’t Matter
• Give It To Me
• Makes Me Wonder
• Beautiful Girls
• Touch My Body
• Take A Bow
• Womanizer
• My Life Would Suck Without You
• Crack a Bottle

[seanblain]

Dec 11, 2009 9:04:45 GMT -5 KMJ1 said:

reeeally confused lol- IGF spent exactly the same amount of weeks at #1, sold WAY more than WBT and basically spent the same time in the top 40; so how is WBT way ahead? Lord, Billboard couldnt be more up Mariahs a*s lol.

We Belong Together is also the #1 Hot 100 Airplay song of the decade all time. Mariah broke the one-week audience total in BDS history many times over and spent a decade-best 16 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart.

[PDC1987]

Dec 12, 2009 1:40:49 GMT -5 seanblain said:

Dec 11, 2009 9:04:45 GMT -5 KMJ1 said:

reeeally confused lol- IGF spent exactly the same amount of weeks at #1, sold WAY more than WBT and basically spent the same time in the top 40; so how is WBT way ahead? Lord, Billboard couldnt be more up Mariahs a*s lol.

We Belong Together is also the #1 Hot 100 Airplay song of the decade all time. Mariah broke the one-week audience total in BDS history many times over and spent a decade-best 16 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart.

Yet it came nowhere near the sales of many other (smaller) radio hits of the time.

[neverduplicated]

Dec 12, 2009 9:07:38 GMT -5 PDC1987 said:

Dec 12, 2009 1:40:49 GMT -5 seanblain said:

We Belong Together is also the #1 Hot 100 Airplay song of the decade all time. Mariah broke the one-week audience total in BDS history many times over and spent a decade-best 16 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart.

Yet it came nowhere near the sales of many other (smaller) radio hits of the time.

Yet it fueled the sales of the best-selling album of 2005. People don't buy the single from Itunes if they're going to buy the whole album instead.

BTW, your avatar is creeeepy.

[Myth X]

I can't believe "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" is not here in the list Hot 100 of 2000s.

It ranked higher than "Candy Shop" on the Year-end chart of 2005. Boulevard was #7 and Candy Shop was #8.

Now in this list "Candy Shop" is #52 and "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" isn't here.

[HolidayGuy]

The decade-end chart probably is chart-performance-based, hence the discrepancy. "Candy Shop" was #1 for multiple weeks, no? "Boulevard" "only" peaked at #2.

[Deleted]

It is chart peformance based. An inverse point system was employed due to various definition changes throughout the decade. Here time at #1 means more. Whereas the 2009 list was based on points rather than chart runs

[badrobot]

I am surprised at the omission of "Music" as well. It not only spent 4 weeks at #1, but an additional 6 weeks at #2.

I think they could have done a better method for compiling the decade chart. Chart methods may have changed, but at its core every week has been about adding up total points. If you normalize the chart so that if, say, during 02-04 it only took 125 pts on average to hit #1, but during 07-09 it took 250 pts on average (or something like that), you could just double the points value for that time. Similar to the idea of "adjusted grosses" for movies.

Ranking based on position alone completely ignores weeks where a certain song, or songs, may have been WAY ahead of the competition, while on other weeks the entire top ten might have been extremely close.

[falkos]

Congrats to MIMI
BEST POP SONG EVER BY FAAAAAAR
and i hope no one try to cover it, i'll kill him/her

[CTE]

With all the hype Beyonce gets you'd think she was #1 in every category.

I'm shocked that her songs aren't higher. Soulja boy higher than SL? Shocking...

[felipe]

Dec 13, 2009 2:11:37 GMT -5 badrobot said:

I am surprised at the omission of "Music" as well. It not only spent 4 weeks at #1, but an additional 6 weeks at #2.

I think they could have done a better method for compiling the decade chart. Chart methods may have changed, but at its core every week has been about adding up total points. If you normalize the chart so that if, say, during 02-04 it only took 125 pts on average to hit #1, but during 07-09 it took 250 pts on average (or something like that), you could just double the points value for that time. Similar to the idea of "adjusted grosses" for movies.

Ranking based on position alone completely ignores weeks where a certain song, or songs, may have been WAY ahead of the competition, while on other weeks the entire top ten might have been extremely close.

I think they could've come up with a better method too. If they're trying to rank the biggest hits of the decade it should be more objetive and not something that looks kind of random and has hugh disccrepancies if comparade to, say, 2009's year-end chart.

[Deleted]

It wasn't random

Because the definition of being on the Hot 100 changed several times in 10 years , they established an point sytem. More weight went to longer stays at #1 and total chart runs

[r.enato]

Yeah it had to be that way.