Billboard Hot 100 - 4/10/2010

[fridayteenage]

I still when I hear the word umbrella often think "ella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh." I don't think that when I hear rude I will think boy boy can you get it up?

[imbondz]

Rhianna is the new Paula Abdul...in 10 years, will never hear from her again.

any chance Hey Soul Sister can climb to #1?

[stanr]

Mar 31, 2010 9:40:26 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Mar 31, 2010 9:37:47 GMT -5 stanr said:

in a simple word it means that 257 million people were listening to WBT in a week.
correct me if i'm wrong.

k, gotcha. thanks- a freakin' lot of people heard the song in one week. I didn't realize it was just 1 week.

hmm. not exactly 257M people were listening to that song in a week.
example:
if you listening to Rude boy 10 times today on radio. bds would count you as 10 different people

[badrobot]

Mar 31, 2010 9:55:42 GMT -5 stanr said:

Mar 31, 2010 9:40:26 GMT -5 imbondz said:

k, gotcha. thanks- a freakin' lot of people heard the song in one week. I didn't realize it was just 1 week.

hmm. not exactly 257M people were listening to that song in a week.
example:
if you listening to Rude boy 10 times today on radio. bds would count you as 10 different people

It means that the song was heard on the radio 257 million times in one week.

It could have been heard on average 10 times each by 25.7 million people, for example.

[HolidayGuy]

Saying it was heard 257 million times may implicate that the song was played that many times, which we know isn't the case. :) Rather, 257 million audience impressions- whether that's unique listeners or multiple listens by various listeners. The Arbitron ratings are as flawed in their underrepresentation as the Nielsen ratings, but that's the measurement we must go by.

Re Rihanna- she's had a bigger streak of hit albums and singles, though, than Paula Abdul. While Rihanna isn't that important as an artist (as Abdul wasn't), there's no denying her success and appeal to the music-buying public. So, I wouldn't be so sure about counting her out 10 years from now- but, we'll see.

[badrobot]

Audience impressions = number of times a song was heard.

That is the simplest definition -- not sure how anyone would interpret that as number of times a song was played. That would be the spin count.

[worldwide]

Mar 31, 2010 9:19:05 GMT -5 foxxden said:

Why does "Umbrella" still feel like Rihanna's biggest hit despite "Rude Boy" passing it very soon?

soon? umbrella stayed at #1 for 7 weeks , RB has been #1 for 2 weeks so far. Umbrella had the biggest debut week ever on digital chart, it was selling like crazy. RB is not selling that good, airplay is helping it more than sales, where at umbrella's case sales were stronger. not to mention the quality of songs and the impact of umbrella. umbrella is one of the most known songs and the song that we remember 00's for. umbrella also had new sound.
disturbia is way better than RB and it's bigger hit so far.
RB is just a catchy trash.
I feel like rihanna's fans are making it bigger than it is or it will be.

[wallace]

Mar 31, 2010 9:49:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Rhianna is the new Paula Abdul...in 10 years, will never hear from her again.

Paula's not exactly been invisible over the past decade.

[Deleted]

Mar 31, 2010 11:24:42 GMT -5 wallace said:

Mar 31, 2010 9:49:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Rhianna is the new Paula Abdul...in 10 years, will never hear from her again.

Paula's not exactly been invisible over the past decade.

I think they mean musically

There was a brief time 20 years ago that Paual Abdul was the hottest artist out.

[nighttime]

Rude Boy is an amazingly catchy song from a critically acclaimed album, that sounds like nothing on the radio right now. I don't see the problem when we've had such predictable hits this year.
a HUGE hit on three different formats - possibly #1, in it's SIXTH week as the biggest airplay gainer. great, solid strong sales.

while it's obviously not umbrella, why are there always people trying to make everything she does smaller than it is? ;)

[as485y]

Mar 31, 2010 11:02:50 GMT -5 worldwide said:

Mar 31, 2010 9:19:05 GMT -5 foxxden said:

Why does "Umbrella" still feel like Rihanna's biggest hit despite "Rude Boy" passing it very soon?

soon? umbrella stayed at #1 for 7 weeks , RB has been #1 for 2 weeks so far. Umbrella had the biggest debut week ever on digital chart, it was selling like crazy. RB is not selling that good, airplay is helping it more than sales, where at umbrella's case sales were stronger. not to mention the quality of songs and the impact of umbrella. umbrella is one of the most known songs and the song that we remember 00's for. umbrella also had new sound.
disturbia is way better than RB and it's bigger hit so far.
RB is just a catchy trash.
I feel like rihanna's fans are making it bigger than it is or it will be.

Agreed no matter how long this stays #1 i cant see it as that big of a hit for...esp sinceits not selling the album very well

[as485y]

Mar 31, 2010 11:39:40 GMT -5 nighttime said:

Rude Boy is an amazingly catchy song from a critically acclaimed album, that sounds like nothing on the radio right now. I don't see the problem when we've had such predictable hits this year.
a HUGE hit on three different formats - possibly #1, in it's SIXTH week as the biggest airplay gainer. great, solid strong sales.

while it's obviously not umbrella, why are there always people trying to make everything she does smaller than it is? ;)

The same reason her fans blow EVERYTHING up.

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Mar 31, 2010 11:02:50 GMT -5 worldwide said:

I feel like rihanna's fans are making it bigger than it is or it will be.

Her fans are clearly manipulating radio day in and day out and forging digital support with extremely effective consecutive (stan-driven) download days. I don't know who they think they're fooling with Flop Boy! I'm glad some of us are smart enough to see through it all though!

[juliobrasil]

MEDIABASE

1. LADY ANTEBELLUM - Need You Now : 127.272 (- 0.026)
2. RIHANNA - Rude Boy: 124.930 (+ 2.936)
3. B.O.B - Nothin' On You f/Bruno Mars: 100.424 (+ 1.437)
4. YOUNG MONEY - Bedrock f/Lloyd: 91.900 (- 1.038)
5. BLACK EYED PEAS - Imma Be: 90.170 (+ 0.374)
6. LADY GAGA - Telephone f/Beyonce = 89.674 (+ 1.256)
7. TREY SONGZ - Say Aah: 83.035 (- 0.527)
8. TRAIN - Hey, Soul Sister: 75.399 (+ 0.576) ▲
9. JASON DERULO - In My Head: 74.210 (+ 1.274) ▲
10. KESHA - Tik Tok = 73.290 (- 2.547) ▼
11. LADY GAGA - Bad Romance = 68.378 (- 1.377)
12. TIMBALAND - Say Something f/Drake: 66.044 (+ 0.250)
13. TIMBALAND - Carry Out f/Justin Timberlake = 63.244 (+ 0.722)
14. LUDACRIS - How Low = 53.772 (- 1.095)
15. ORIANTHI - According To You = 53.639 (- 0.707)
16. TAIO CRUZ - Break Your Heart f/Ludacris: 53.052 (+ 1.527) ▲
17. USHER - Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home) = 53.048 (+ 0.972)
18. THE SCRIPT - Breakeven: 52.675 (- 0.295) ▼
19. CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Temporary Home = 50.003 (- 0.306)
20. ZAC BROWN BAND - Highway 20 Ride BCharts = 49.546 (- 0.326)



ADAM LAMBERT - Whataya Want From Me = 48.788 (- 0.028)
EASTON CORBIN - Little More Country Than That: 47.985 (- 0.564)
LADY ANTEBELLUM - American Honey = 46.419 (+ 0.287)
KRIS ALLEN - Live Like We're Dying = 46.043 (- 0.670)
ONEREPUBLIC - All The Right Moves: 45.847 (+ 0.489)
MONICA - Everything To Me: 45.324 (- 0.165)
KEITH URBAN - Til Summer Comes Around: 43.856 (- 0.255)
LUDACRIS - My Chick Bad f/Nicki Minaj: 43.014 (+ 1.709)
KENNY CHESNEY - Ain't Back Yet: 41.748 (+ 0.554)
MICHAEL BUBLE - Haven't Met You Yet = 39.839 (+ 0.092)
TREY SONGZ - Neighbors Know My Name: 37.412 (- 0.585)
ROBIN THICKE - Sex Therapy: 37.145 (- 0.764)
DAUGHTRY - Life After You = 36.277 (+ 0.087)
JUSTIN BIEBER – Baby: 34.605 (- 0.529)
JOHN MAYER - Heartbreak Warfare: 34.189 (+ 0.006)
DRAKE - Over: 33.610 (+ 0.933)
CHRIS YOUNG - The Man I Want To Be: 32.113 (+ 0.655)
TAYLOR SWIFT – Fearless = 31.995 (+ 0.174)
ROB THOMAS - Someday = 30.486 (- 0.195)
RASCAL FLATTS – Unstoppable = 29.980 (+ 0.711)
JUSTIN MOORE – Backwoods = 28.840 (- 0.035)
LIFEHOUSE - Halfway Gone = 27.738 (+ 0.116)
YOUNG MONEY - Steady Mobbin' f/Gucci Mane = 26.708 (+ 0.309)
GUCCI MANE - Lemonade: 26.269 (+ 0.028)
USHER - Lil' Freak f/Nicki Minaj: 24.972 (+ 0.911)
TAYLOR SWIFT - Today Was A Fairytale: 24.177 (+ 0.447)
JAY-Z - Young Forever f/Mr. Hudson: 23.190 (+ 0.600)
MARTINA MCBRIDE - Wrong Baby Wrong: 22.547 (+ 0.300)
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME - O Let's Do It: 21.432 (- 0.331)
REBA - I Keep On Lovin' You: 18.398 (+ 0.471)
SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE - Naturally = 17.923 (+ 0.137)
IYAZ - Solo: 17.652 (+ 0.230)
USHER - There Goes My Baby: 15.087 (+ 0.440)
ALICIA KEYS - Unthinkable (I'm Ready): 14.033 (+ 0.855)
KE$HA - Your Love Is My Drug: 13.671 (+ 1.414)
T.I. - I'm Back: 10.984 (+ 0.218)
LA ROUX - Bulletproof: 10.239 (+ 0.542)
COLBIE CAILLAT - I Never Told You: 9.660 (+ 0.190)
KEVIN RUDOLF - I Made It: 9.632 (- 0.176)
SEAN KINGSTON & JUSTIN BIEBER - Eenie Meenie: 9.186 (+ 0.525)
KELLY CLARKSON - All I Ever Wanted: 8.800 (+ 0.385)
LADY GAGA - Alejandro: 7.861 (+ 0.901)
TIMBALAND - If We Ever Meet Again f/Katy: 6.724 (+ 0.097)
MILEY CYRUS - When I Look At You: 1.836 (- 0.049)
CHRISTINA AGUILERA - Not Myself Tonight: 1.579

[Ace]

thanks julio!

[musik...]

Mar 31, 2010 9:49:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Rhianna is the new Paula Abdul...in 10 years, will never hear from her again.

any chance Hey Soul Sister can climb to #1?

People said in 2005 that no one would even remember her in five years, GaGa would fail after Just Dance's explosion on radio/itunes, and Train would never reach top 10 after Drops of Jupiter, and lo and behold, Rihanna is at number one on the Hot 100 in 2010, The Fame Monster has spawned two massive hits, and Train is top 10. I think these lofty and uninformed predictions are pretty pointless and have consistently been proven wrong.

[wavey.]

Love when people doubt new artists. But its not funny when I do it. Haahhahah

[wavetunes]

Thanks for the mediabase numbers!!

I hope someone can post the digital song numbers.

[Honeymoon]

My own predictions for the top 4: (hot 100)

1. Rihanna
2. BoB
3. Lady Gaga
4. Train

Hope we get the real thing by tonight

[Black Jesus]

Come on GaGa! Get in that Top 5!

[Junkiex]

Mar 31, 2010 9:49:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Rhianna Ke$ha is the new Paula Abdul...in 10 years months, will never hear from her again.

any chance Hey Soul Sister can climb to #1?

[sghosal22]

DRAKE crack the top 10 G!

[R.K.]

Mar 31, 2010 9:49:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Rhianna is the new Paula Abdul...in 10 years, will never hear from her again.

any chance Hey Soul Sister can climb to #1?

I had the same thoughts about 2 years ago, but now I have to say Rihanna is a lot smarter, or should I day, Rihanna's team.

[Honeymoon]

Mar 31, 2010 9:49:08 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Rhianna is the new Paula Abdul...in 10 years, will never hear from her again.

any chance Hey Soul Sister can climb to #1?

What a weird thing to say whilst her single is dominating the Hot 100 chart for its third week (well it's very likely anyway)

If HSS gets #1 it has a much greater chance at doing it next week rather than this week's chart.

[HolidayGuy]

You're right, br- I think I had an anal moment there. :) Wasn't that anyone would interpret that as # of spins. If I speak to 10 people, 10 people hear what I said; but it wasn't "heard 10 times." Like I said, one of those moments. :)

Why do people have a problem with "Rude Boy's" success? Like other big singles haven't failed to drive the parent album back to the top of the charts? And, radio is wise to mega-fan's radio campaigns, so it's not that driving the airplay so much. And, as proven, download days do not have large effect on the charts. So, again, it's deserving of its success thanks to big airplay and sales.

[felipe]

Mar 31, 2010 18:47:33 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

You're right, br- I think I had an anal moment there. :) Wasn't that anyone would interpret that as # of spins. If I speak to 10 people, 10 people hear what I said; but it wasn't "heard 10 times." Like I said, one of those moments. :)

I get what you're saying. If you say something and 10 people hear you, you were heard once by ten people. You weren't heard 10 times. If you say something ten times then you were heard 10 times.
If a song has a 257 mi audience it wasn't heard 257 mi times, it was heard by 257 mi people (even thought they might not be different people).
When someone has the most votes on American Idol it does not mean more people voted for him. It just means that people voted for him the most times, even if it was just 10 people voting.

[galvanize]

Mar 31, 2010 18:47:33 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

You're right, br- I think I had an anal moment there. :)

[NeRD]

I think its more of the fact that she wasnt supposed to have a HUGE single from Rated R. No one, including myself had any idea of how massive Rude Boy would be.

[WotUNeed]

Mar 31, 2010 18:56:37 GMT -5 felipe said:

I get what you're saying. If you say something and 10 people hear you, you were heard once by ten people. You weren't heard 10 times. If you say something ten times then you were heard 10 times.
If a song has a 257 mi audience it wasn't heard 257 mi times, it was heard by 257 mi people (even thought they might not be different people).

Saying something was heard by 257 million people connotes that they're all different people; a person can't count as more than one person unless there's some sort of qualifer added. Saying it was heard 257 million times is more accurate, albeit still inexact. If you wanted to word it precisely, it's an approximation of the sum of the number of people listening to the song each instance it was spun throughout the week. In this way, a person is counted each time he or she is listening without actually being counted as more than one person; however, that's also wordy and less easy to understand.

[songkaiwen]

I feel that this single is still undeserving of its success. Russian Roulette, which was a much better song and showcased a mature direction, was ignored, while this song that sounds like a remix desperately trying to repeat Umbrella's success is spending multiple weeks at #1...