Posted January 7, 201510 yr BILLBOARD HOT 100 (billboard chart date 17th January 2015) 02 01 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk! 01 02 Taylor Swift - Blank Space 03 03 Hozier - Take Me To Church 07 04 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud 04 05 Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin 05 06 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass 09 07 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off 06 08 Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One 10 09 Nick Jonas - Jealous 08 10 Maroon 5 - Animals 11 11 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd - Love Me Harder 12 12 Big Sean featuring E-40 - I Don’t F**k With You 14 13 Fall Out Boy - Centuries 13 14 Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants 17 15 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang 15 16 Nicki Minaj featuring Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown - Only 16 17 James Newton Howard featuring Jennifer Lawrence - The Hanging Tree 18 18 ILoveMakonnen featuring Drake - Tuesday 24 19 Sam Smith - Stay With Me 20 20 Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) 19 21 Rae Sremmurd - No Type 21 22 Mr. Probz - Waves 22 23 Ed Sheeran - Don't 25 24 Beyonce - 7/11 23 25 Bobby Shmurda - Hot Boy 26 26 O.T. Genasis - Coco 35 27 MAGIC! - Rude 33 28 Usher featuring Juicy J - I Don’t Mind 27 29 Iggy Azalea featuring MØ - Beg For It 28 30 Jeremih featuring YG - Don't Tell 'Em 29 31 Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora - Black Widow 31 32 Calvin Harris featuring John Newman - Blame 46 33 Pitbull & Ne-Yo - Time Of Our Lives 34 34 One Direction - Night Changes ** 35 Kanye West featuring Paul McCartney - Only One (NEW) 32 36 Vance Joy - Riptide 39 37 Sia - Chandelier 38 38 Fergie - L.A.LOVE (la la) 36 39 Alesso featuring Tove Lo - Heroes (We Could Be) 30 40 Jason Derulo - Trumpets 43 41 Ella Henderson - Ghost 37 42 Carrie Underwood - Something In The Water 41 43 Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider 44 44 Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be 47 45 Milky Chance - Stolen Dance 40 46 Fifth Harmony - Sledgehammer 45 47 DeJ Loaf - Try Me 48 48 Nicki Minaj - Anaconda 52 49 Eric Church - Talladega 42 50 Rich Gang featuring Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan - Lifestyle 53 51 Florida Georgia Line - Sun Daze 56 52 Trey Songz featuring Nicki Minaj - Touchin, Lovin 62 53 OneRepublic - I Lived 58 54 Flo Rida featuring Sage The Gemini - G.D.F.R 51 55 One Direction - Steal My Girl 57 56 Luke Bryan - I See You 63 57 Brad Paisley - Perfect Storm 54 58 Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life 59 59 Nicki Minaj featuring Beyonce - Feeling Myself 71 60 Lillywood & Robin Schulz - Prayer In C 73 61 Ne-Yo featuring Juicy J - She Knows 69 62 Blake Shelton featuring Ashley Monroe - Lonely Tonight 60 63 Lee Brice - Drinking Class 55 64 DJ Khaled featuring Chris Brown, August Alsina, Future & Jeremih - Hold You Down 66 65 Colbie Caillat - Try 74 66 Jason Aldean - Just Gettin' Started 61 67 RaeLynn - God Made Girls 81 68 Kenny Chesney - Til It's Gone 65 69 The Weeknd - Often 70 70 David Guetta featuring Sam Martin - Dangerous 84 71 Taylor Swift - Style 76 72 Thomas Rhett - Make Me Wanna 77 73 Chris Young - Lonely Eyes 85 74 Parmalee - Close Your Eyes 83 75 Brett Eldredge - Mean To Me 72 76 Kid Ink featuring Usher & Tinashe - Body Language 89 77 Walk The Moon - Shut Up + Dance 93 78 Prince Royce featuring Snoop Dogg - Stuck On A Feeling 82 79 Keith Urban - Somewhere In My Car 92 80 Shawn Mendes - Something Big 75 81 Beyonce featuring Nicki Minaj Or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - ***Flawless 86 82 Darius Rucker - Homegrown Honey 96 83 Randy Houser - Like A Cowboy 64 84 Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband 79 85 Nico & Vinz - In Your Arms 94 86 J. Cole - Apparently 49 87 The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) 88 88 August Alsina - No Love 97 89 Blake Shelton - Neon Light RE 90 Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding - Outside 80 91 Nicki Minaj featuring Skylar Grey - Bed Of Lies ** 92 Rae Sremmurd featuring Nicki Minaj and Young Thug - Throw Sum Mo (NEW) ** 93 Sam Hunt - Take Your Time (NEW) 90 94 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat ** 95 Jake Owen - What We Ain't Got (NEW) RE 96 Sheppard - Geronimo ** 97 Tyler Farr - A Guy Walks Into a Bar (NEW) ** 98 Chase Bryant - Take It on Back (NEW) ** 99 Cole Swindell - Ain't Worth the Whiskey (NEW) ** 100 G-Eazy featuring Remo - I Mean It (NEW) 50 OUT Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me 67 OUT Pentatonix - Mary, Did You Know? 68 OUT Jessie J - Masterpiece 78 OUT Taylor Swift - Bad Blood 87 OUT Jessie J featuring 2 Chainz - Burnin' Up 91 OUT Charli XCX - Break The Rules 95 OUT French Montana featuring Jeremih - Bad B*tch 98 OUT Becky G - Can't Stop Dancin' 99 OUT Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa & Ty Dolla $ign featuring Kill The Noise & Madsonik - Shell Shocked 100 OUT Meghan Trainor - Title Bubbling Under 11 01 Omarion Featuring Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko - Post To Be 12 02 B.o.B Featuring Trey Songz - Not For Long 06 03 Hoodie Allen Featuring Ed Sheeran - All About It 09 04 Wale Featuring Jeremih - The Body 08 05 Fall Out Boy - Immortals 16 06 David Nail - Kiss You Tonight 21 07 Dierks Bentley - Say You Do 15 08 Big Data Featuring Joywave - Dangerous 17 09 Tamar Braxton Featuring Future - Let Me Know 20 10 Kevin Gates Featuring August Alsina - I Don't Get Tired (#IDGT) 19 11 Dan + Shay - Show You Off ** 12 Lady Antebellum - Freestyle 18 13 Foo Fighters - Something From Nothing RE 14 Avicii - The Nights ** 15 George Ezra - 1 Budapest 24 16 Rae Sremmurd - Up Like Trump RE 17 J Balvin - Ay Vamos ** 18 P Reign Featuring Drake & Future - DnF RE 19 MercyMe - Greater ** 20 Cage The Elephant - Cigarette Daydreams 22 21 K. Michelle - Love 'Em All ** 22 Banks - Beggin For Thread ** 23 Quvenzhane Wallis - It's The Hard-Knock Life RE 24 Wiz Khalifa - Ass Drop ** 25 Kristian Bush - Trailer Hitch
January 7, 201510 yr Author Chart HighlightsMark Ronson (featuring Bruno Mars) earns his first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Uptown Funk!" claiming the top spot after eight weeks on the chart.Bruno Mars gets his second #1 as a featured artist (B.o.B (featuring Bruno Mars "Nothin On You" [2 wks in 2010]), to add to the four solo #1 he already had ("Just The Way You Are" [4 wks in 2010], "Grenade" [4 wks in 2011], "Locked Out Of Heaven" [1 wk in 2013], and "When I Was Your Man" [1 wk in 2013] ).Kanye West (featuring Paul McCartney (on keyboard) enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #35 with "Only One". The entry gives Paul McCartney the longest time period of top 40 hits on the Hot 100. He first appeared in the top 40 with The Beatles in January 1964, when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" climbed into the Top 40 (eventually spending 7 weeks at #1), making it just under 51 years since his first appearance.The next longest time period is also assisted by Kanye West. Otis Redding last appeared in the top 40 in 2011, with "Otis" by Jay-Z & Kanye West (featuring Otis Redding). The song peaked at #12, but spent its last week in the top 40 in October 2011. His first appearance in the top 40 was in June 1965, with "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" (eventually peaking at #21), making it just over 46 years since his first appearance.This week's total digital track sales were down -9% compared with the same week last year.
January 7, 201510 yr Author BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 10 (billboard chart date 17th January 2015) LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES 02 01 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk! - 382,000 (1,756,000) 01 02 Taylor Swift - Blank Space - 284,388) 2,809,967) 03 03 Hozier - Take Me to Church - 265,000 (2,563,000) 06 04 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud - 219,000 04 05 Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin - 194,000 (1,256,000) 07 06 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off - 154,000 (3,585,000) 05 07 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass - 152,000 (4,509,000) 10 08 Fall Out Boy - Centuries - 141,000 11 09 Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One - 125,000 ** 10 Kanye West Featuring Paul McCartney - Only One - 124,737 (NEW) 09 11 Nick Jonas - Jealous - 120,282 (1,283,710) 12 12 James Newton Howard featuring Jennifer Lawrence - The Hanging Tree - 116,641 (824,997) 15 14 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang 13 15 Big Sean Featuring E-40 - I Don't F**k With You - 94,713 (963,022) 14 16 Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants - 86,000 25 17 Sam Smith - Stay With Me 17 18 Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown - Only - 79,596 (610,032) 24 19 One Direction - Night Changes 35 20 Pitbull & Ne-Yo - Time Of Our Lives - 76,000 16 21 Ariana Grande & The Weeknd - Love Me Harder - 74,824 (757,781) 21 24 Ed Sheeran - Don't 22 25 Iggy Azalea featuring M0 - Beg For It - 71,278 (574,668) 20 27 I LOVE MAKONNEN Featuring Drake - Tuesday - 64,375 (849,190) 36 28 Ella Henderson - Ghost 18 29 Rae Sremmurd - No Type - 62,62,459 (562,632) RE 31 John Legend - All Of Me - John Legend - 60,464 (5,179,091) 38 34 Usher featuring Juicy J - I Don't Mind - 57,936 (292,442) 48 35 Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX - Fancy - 56,671 (4,030,899) 30 39 Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora - Black Widow RE 36 Taylor Swift - Style - 56,000 RE 37 Pharrell Williams - Happy - 55,211 (6,620,029) 34 44 Carrie Underwood - Something In The Water - 46,000 (713,000) 42 46 Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider - 45,000 (489,000) RE 49 Bastille - Pompeii
January 7, 201510 yr Author SALES, RADIO & STREAMING 1) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk! - Digital Songs (1) - 382,000 (-12%) - Radio Songs (9) - 76 million all-format audience impressions (+11%) - Streaming Songs (2) - 10 million US streams (+14%) 2) Taylor Swift - Blank Space - Digital Songs (2) - 284,000 (-44%) - Radio Songs (1) - 144 million all-format audience impressions (+0%) - Streaming Songs (1) - 10.9 million US streams (+22%) 3) Hozier - Take Me to Church - Digital Songs (3) - 265,000 (-34%) - Radio Songs (5) - 92 million all-format audience impressions (+1%) - Streaming Songs (4) - 8.5 million US streams (+6%) - - of which On-Demand Songs (1) - 4.2 million US streams (+1%) 4) Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud - Digital Songs (4) - 219,000 (-6%) - Radio Songs (19) - 51 million all-format audience impressions (+12%) - Streaming Songs (8) - 7.4 million US streams (+21%) 5) Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin - Digital Songs (5) - 194,000 (-43%) - Radio Songs (15) - 54 million all-format audience impressions (+3%) - Streaming Songs (5) - 8.5 million US streams (-7%)
January 7, 201510 yr Author I am stunned that "Uptown Funk!" has managed to get to #1 so soon :o It's airplay is nowhere near "Blank Space".
January 8, 201510 yr So glad for Prayer in C. Why is Ella's "Ghost" taking so long to go up?! :) Nice to see George Ezra (purely from "another Brit" point of view) bubbling under.
January 8, 201510 yr Woo for Ronson. Who'd have thought he'd ever get a US #1? Great to see Kanye debuting in the top 40 too and 'Outside' back on the H100 again (is it finally getting some airplay now?)
January 9, 201510 yr Uptown Funk being the massive hit that it is in the UK in the US :D Could see this getting lots of weeks at #1 (6-8)
January 9, 201510 yr Uptown Funk being the massive hit that it is in the UK in the US :D Could see this getting lots of weeks at #1 (6-8) It was a big hit in the US before the UK! (Although not a #1 of course).
January 9, 201510 yr Not very often a song tops UK charts before US, usually it's the other way round. Happy of course was another exception.
January 9, 201510 yr Not very often a song tops UK charts before US, usually it's the other way round. Happy of course was another exception. This is a really interesting question. Anyone have any data on this? It seems to me songs blow up much earlier and faster in the UK, but then again there are the release delays...
January 9, 201510 yr So I took all the transatlantic #1s from the past five years and the number of UK-first hits and vice-versa is actually essentially even. 14 UK-first, 13 US-first, and three are "tied" (going by announcement dates rather than chart dates). "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars UK: 20/12/14, US: 17/01/15 "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor US: 20/09/14, UK: 11/10/14 "Rude" by MAGIC! US: 26/07/14, UK: 03/08/14 "Happy" by Pharrell Williams UK: 04/01/14, US: 08/03/14 "Timber" by Pitbull featuring Ke$ha UK: 11/01/14 (announced 05/01/14), US: 18/01/14 (announced 08/01/14) "The Monster" by Eminem featuring Rihanna UK: 09/11/13, US: 21/12/13 "Royals" by Lorde US: 12/10/13, UK: 09/11/13 "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus US: 28/09/13, UK: 19/10/13 "Roar" by Katy Perry US: 14/09/13 (announced 04/09/13), UK: 14/09/13 (announced 08/09/13) "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell UK: 08/06/13, US: 22/06/13 "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz US: 02/02/13, UK: 16/02/13 "Diamonds" by Rihanna UK: 13/10/12, US: 01/12/12 "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen UK: 14/04/12, US: 23/06/12 "We Are Young" by fun. featuring Janelle Monáe US: 17/03/12, UK: 02/06/12 "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra UK: 18/02/12, US: 28/04/12 "Part of Me" by Katy Perry US: 03/03/12, UK: 31/03/12 "We Found Love" by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris UK: 15/10/11, US: 12/11/11 "Someone Like You" by Adele UK: 26/02/11, US: 17/09/11 "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock UK: 23/04/11, US: 16/07/11 "Give Me Everything" by Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer UK: 28/05/11, US: 09/07/11 "We R Who We R" by Ke$ha US: 13/11/10, UK: 05/02/11 "Grenade" by Bruno Mars US: 08/01/11, UK: 22/01/11 "What's My Name?" by Rihanna featuring Drake US: 20/11/10, UK: 15/01/11 "Only Girl (In the World)" by Rihanna UK: 13/11/10, US: 04/12/10 "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars US: 02/10/10 (announced 22/09/10), UK: 02/10/10 (announced 26/09/10) "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg US: 19/06/10, UK: 03/07/10 "Nothin' on You" by B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars US: 01/05/10, UK: 29/05/10 "OMG" by Usher featuring will.i.am UK: 24/04/10, US: 15/05/10 "Break Your Heart" by Taio Cruz (featuring Ludacris) UK: 26/09/09, US: 20/03/10 "Fireflies" by Owl City US: 07/11/09, UK: 30/01/10 I can only identify vague trends. I guess sudden international breakout hits (Carly, Gotye) tend to get to #1 quicker in the UK. Breakout hits from both countries usually get to #1 first in their home countries, with a few exceptions (and with a longer gap for UK acts). Big pop singles seem to be instant #1s in the UK, while they need a couple weeks for airplay to kick in in the US – unless you have release delays in the UK, or you're Katy Perry and you're releasing a lead single from a new album or a rerelease.
January 9, 201510 yr Author So I took all the transatlantic #1s from the past five years and the number of UK-first hits and vice-versa is actually essentially even. 14 UK-first, 13 US-first, and three are "tied" (going by announcement dates rather than chart dates). "Uptown Funk" would have been #1 in the UK after the US if it wasn't for Simon Cowell.
January 9, 201510 yr The thing is there's a lot of factors at play in terms of what goes to #1 where and how quickly. The average length for the build up of a UK hit is 4-6 weeks because airplay builds up quite a bit quicker (primarily due to the common C-B-B-A playlist pattern of Radio 1) whereas US radio play takes quite a bit more time to peak unless the song in question is incredibly anticipated (and even then it takes several weeks while 'Skyfall' hit the top of UK radio in week #2 from memory). Songs go from nowhere to #1 in the UK quite quickly once they start to catch on because you hit the A-list rotation of Radio 1/Capital within a month's time, and this particularly favours international hits (e.g 'Party Rock Anthem') whereas it can take several months for the same song to reach the same position in the US. Then there's also things like UK artists obviously getting a quicker start in their home country - 'Rolling In The Deep', 'Stay With Me' (obvs not a #1 but similar pattern) etc. American artists get much more press internationally than those from any other country, so an American artist getting a big hit on Billboard will translate much quicker to the UK charts than the reverse situation. You can also see a similar thing at play with songs like 'Prayer In C' - they almost always follow a pattern of mainland Europe > UK + Australia > US + Canada. So UK gets it first. Basically the only thing that leads to the US getting a #1 quicker is massive fanbases leading to #1 débuts ('Roar') and excessively delayed releases (everything from 'We R Who We R' to 'Rude').
January 10, 201510 yr I think a big part of the reason songs go up the charts (both radio and overall) much slower in the US than the UK is that the USA is essentially 50 different countries, there isn't a single nationwide station like Radio 1 in the UK (as far as I'm aware, I may be wrong) and presumably songs take off in some states earlier than in others.
January 10, 201510 yr Yeah – I guess the closest thing we have here to a Radio 1 are the Clear Channel/iHeartRadio-owned stations (and their nationwide promo programs), but still it's down to the individual programmers to decide what to play in their localities. I don't have any stats but I'd imagine that the big metro areas like New York and LA would give the big European hits a shot before the smaller cities do. Same goes for urban crossover hits. (And actually, I just took a look at Z100's (the big New York top 40 station) playlist and they've been playing "Prayer in C" a lot! I don't think I've even heard it in my area, and I'm only two hours away from New York.)
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