Posted September 15, 20213 yr BILLBOARD HOT 100 Week ending September 18, 2021 | Tracking period: 9/3–9/9 TW LW PP WC Artist – Song 01 ** 01 01 Drake feat. Future & Young Thug ‒ Way 2 Sexy (HOT SHOT DEBUT) 02 ** 02 01 Drake feat. Lil Baby ‒ Girls Want Girls 03 ** 03 01 Drake feat. Travis Scott ‒ Fair Trade 04 ** 04 01 Drake ‒ Champagne Poetry 05 ** 05 01 Drake feat. 21 Savage & Project Pat ‒ Knife Talk 06 02 01 09 The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber ‒ Stay (BIGGEST AIRPLAY GAIN) 07 ** 07 01 Drake feat. Lil Durk & Giveon ‒ In The Bible 08 ** 08 01 Drake ‒ Papi's Home 09 ** 09 01 Drake ‒ TSU 10 ** 10 01 Drake feat. JAY-Z ‒ Love All 11 ** 11 01 Drake ‒ No Friends In The Industry 12 ** 12 01 Drake feat. Future ‒ N 2 Deep 13 03 02 11 Ed Sheeran ‒ Bad Habits 14 ** 14 01 Drake ‒ Pipe Down 15 04 01 17 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Good 4 U 16 ** 16 01 Drake ‒ 7am On Bridle Path 17 01 01 16 BTS ‒ Butter 18 ** 18 01 Drake ‒ Race My Mind 19 05 03 22 Doja Cat feat. SZA ‒ Kiss Me More 20 07 02 07 Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow ‒ Industry Baby 21 09 09 12 Walker Hayes ‒ Fancy Like 22 ** 22 01 Drake feat. Kid Cudi ‒ IMY2 23 08 02 49 Dua Lipa ‒ Levitating 24 ** 24 01 Drake & YEBBA ‒ Yebba's Heartbreak 25 ** 25 01 Drake feat. Lil Wayne & Rick Ross ‒ You Only Live Twice 26 ** 26 01 Drake feat. Tems ‒ Fountains 27 ** 27 01 Drake feat. Ty Dolla $ign ‒ Get Along Better 28 14 01 39 The Weeknd & Ariana Grande ‒ Save Your Tears 29 06 06 02 Kanye West ‒ Hurricane 30 15 01 24 Lil Nas X ‒ Montero (Call Me By Your Name) 31 13 03 23 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Deja Vu 32 ** 32 01 Drake ‒ F***ing Fans 33 23 19 34 Glass Animals ‒ Heat Waves (BIGGEST STREAMING GAIN) 34 19 13 10 Wizkid feat. Justin Bieber & Tems ‒ Essence 35 ** 35 01 Drake ‒ The Remorse 36 21 11 11 Doja Cat & The Weeknd ‒ You Right 37 25 06 05 The Weeknd ‒ Take My Breath 38 24 14 13 Doja Cat ‒ Need To Know 39 35 29 11 Maneskin ‒ Beggin' 40 33 19 16 Marshmello x Jonas Brothers ‒ Leave Before You Love Me 41 11 11 02 Kanye West ‒ Off The Grid 42 38 11 06 Billie Eilish ‒ Happier Than Ever 43 50 15 07 Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood ‒ If I Didn't Love You (BIGGEST SALES GAIN) 44 18 18 02 Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar ‒ Family Ties 45 36 26 07 Farruko ‒ Pepas 46 29 01 27 Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ‒ Leave The Door Open 47 31 01 25 Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon ‒ Peaches 48 37 24 12 Luke Bryan ‒ Waves 49 39 09 16 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Traitor 50 17 17 02 Kanye West ‒ Moon 51 45 32 17 Lainey Wilson ‒ Things A Man Oughta Know 52 51 42 19 Thomas Rhett ‒ Country Again 53 47 34 19 Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris ‒ Chasing After You 54 44 30 22 Duncan Laurence ‒ Arcade 55 32 04 04 Lizzo feat. Cardi B ‒ Rumors 56 55 45 10 Jameson Rodgers feat. Luke Combs ‒ Cold Beer Calling My Name 57 46 16 13 Megan Thee Stallion ‒ Thot Shit 58 10 10 02 Kanye West ‒ Jail 59 48 20 14 Roddy Ricch ‒ Late At Night 60 56 52 10 Tai Verdes ‒ A-O-K 61 67 61 10 Old Dominion ‒ I Was On A Boat That Day 62 54 33 20 Moneybagg Yo ‒ Wockesha 63 22 22 02 Meek Mill feat. Lil Baby & Lil Durk ‒ Sharing Locations 64 49 20 19 DJ Khaled feat. Lil Baby & Lil Durk ‒ Every Chance I Get 65 12 12 02 Kanye West ‒ Ok Ok 66 20 20 02 Kanye West ‒ Praise God 67 57 14 06 Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ‒ Skate 68 60 16 09 BIA feat. Nicki Minaj ‒ Whole Lotta Money 69 66 54 08 Dua Lipa ‒ Love Again 70 78 70 07 Lee Brice ‒ Memory I Don't Mess With 71 61 24 15 Chase Rice feat. Florida Georgia Line ‒ Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen. 72 82 72 06 Scotty McCreery ‒ You Time 73 69 32 15 Rauw Alejandro ‒ Todo de Ti 74 84 74 05 Jordan Davis feat. Luke Bryan ‒ Buy Dirt 75 62 51 08 Sleepy Hallow ‒ 2055 76 80 76 06 Luke Combs ‒ Cold As You 77 72 22 06 Aventura x Bad Bunny ‒ Volvi 78 16 16 02 Kanye West ‒ Junya 79 79 53 20 Elle King & Miranda Lambert ‒ Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) 80 76 68 06 Doja Cat ‒ Woman 81 65 41 12 Justin Moore ‒ We Didn't Have Much 82 74 71 06 Capella Grey ‒ Gyalis 83 71 14 08 Normani feat. Cardi B ‒ Wild Side 84 73 10 14 Bad Bunny ‒ Yonaguni 85 28 28 02 Kanye West ‒ Believe What I Say 86 75 50 09 Kane Brown x blackbear ‒ Memory 87 ** 87 01 Meek Mill feat. Lil Uzi Vert ‒ Blue Note$ II 88 81 68 05 Doja Cat ‒ Get Into It (Yuh) 89 87 70 11 Elvie Shane ‒ My Boy 90 83 26 19 Cole Swindell ‒ Single Saturday Night 91 27 27 02 Kanye West ‒ Jonah 92 91 63 10 Chris Stapleton ‒ You Should Probably Leave 93 89 42 07 Camila Cabello ‒ Don't Go Yet 94 93 91 04 Dustin Lynch feat. Lauren Alaina or MacKenzie Porter ‒ Thinking 'Bout You 95 26 26 02 Kanye West ‒ Jesus Lord 96 85 48 03 Shawn Mendes & Tainy ‒ Summer Of Love 97 88 24 11 Doja Cat ‒ Ain't Shit 98 86 13 09 Post Malone ‒ Motley Crew 99 40 40 02 Kanye West ‒ Remote Control 100 94 80 06 Yung Bleu, Chris Brown & 2 Chainz ‒ Baddest OUT 30 30 01 Kanye West ‒ God Breathed OUT 34 16 29 Giveon ‒ Heartbreak Anniversary OUT 41 02 45 Luke Combs ‒ Forever After All OUT 42 42 01 Kanye West ‒ Heaven And Hell OUT 43 43 01 Kanye West ‒ 24 OUT 52 52 01 Kanye West ‒ Pure Souls OUT 53 53 01 Kanye West ‒ No Child Left Behind OUT 58 58 01 Kanye West ‒ Donda OUT 59 59 01 Kanye West ‒ Keep My Spirit Alive OUT 63 63 01 Kanye West ‒ Jail Pt 2 OUT 64 64 01 Halsey ‒ I Am Not A Woman, I'm A God OUT 68 68 01 Kanye West ‒ New Again OUT 70 70 01 Kanye West ‒ Lord I Need You OUT 77 77 01 Kanye West ‒ Come To Life OUT 90 90 01 Kanye West ‒ Tell The Vision OUT 92 64 13 H.E.R. feat. Chris Brown ‒ Come Through OUT 95 87 04 Kenny Chesney ‒ Knowing You OUT 96 96 01 J Balvin & Skrillex ‒ In Da Getto OUT 97 12 12 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Brutal OUT 98 41 10 Nio Garcia x J Balvin x Bad Bunny ‒ AM OUT 99 80 03 Lil Tecca & Gunna ‒ Repeat It OUT 100 49 02 Trippie Redd feat. Juice WRLD ‒ Matt Hardy 999 Bubbling Under TW LW Artist – Song 01 ** THE ANXIETY: WILLOW & Tyler Cole ‒ Meet Me At Our Spot 02 11 NoCap ‒ Vaccine 03 10 Eslabon Armado feat. DannyLux ‒ Jugaste y Sufri 04 05 Zac Brown Band ‒ Same Boat 05 01 Michael Ray ‒ Whiskey And Rain 06 07 Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley ‒ Freedom Was A Highway 07 ** Bobby Shmurda ‒ No Time For Sleep (Freestyle) 08 02 Blxst & Tyga feat. Ty Dolla $ign ‒ Chosen 09 08 Jon Pardi ‒ Tequila Little Time 10 06 Lady A ‒ Like A Lady 11 RE Imagine Dragons ‒ Wrecked 12 04 Anne Wilson ‒ My Jesus 13 ** CORPSE & Night Lovell ‒ Hot Demon P!Tches Near U ! ! ! 14 13 Wale feat. Chris Brown ‒ Angles 15 12 Grupo Firme ‒ Ya Superame (En Vivo) 16 16 Priscilla Block ‒ Just About Over You 17 23 Kelsea Ballerini feat. Kenny Chesney ‒ Half Of My Hometown 18 24 Grupo Firme & Carin Leon ‒ El Toxico 19 18 Surf Curse ‒ Freaks 20 15 Maroon 5 ‒ Lost 21 20 Evan Craft x Danny Gokey x Redimi2 ‒ Be Alright 22 17 YoungBoy Never Broke Again ‒ Nevada 23 ** Jhay Cortez & Anuel AA ‒ Ley Seca 24 19 Maneskin ‒ I Wanna Be Your Slave 25 RE Parker McCollum ‒ To Be Loved By You
September 15, 20213 yr Author Drake Dominates With Record 9 of Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100, Led by 'Way 2 Sexy' at No. 1 By Gary Trust | 9/13/2021 Drake boasts one of the most dominant weeks in the 63-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as he becomes the first artist ever to claim as many as nine of the top 10 positions in a single frame. Among his Hot 100 haul, the superstar infuses the entire top five, a feat previously achieved only by The Beatles for a week in 1964. Leading the way, Drake's "Way 2 Sexy," featuring Future and Young Thug, launches at No. 1 on the Hot 100. In all, Drake debuts 21 songs on the Hot 100, all from his new album Certified Lover Boy (released Sept. 3 on OVO Sound/Republic Records), which blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 613,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 9, according to MRC Data, the biggest weekly sum for an album in over a year. Meanwhile, with all nine of Drake's new Hot 100 top 10s from Certified Lover Boy, the set is the first album ever to generate as many as nine top 10 Hot 100 hits. Here's a look at Drake's nine songs in the Hot 100's top 10, and the U.S. streams, radio airplay and sales in the Sept. 3-9 tracking week that drove their debuts: Rank, Title, Artist Billing (if other than Drake), (Streams, Airplay Audience, Sales) No. 1, "Way 2 Sexy," feat. Future & Young Thug (67.3 million streams, 7.7 million in airplay audience, 7,000 sold) The song's streaming sum marks the second-best in a single week in 2021, trailing only the opening frame of Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" (76.1 million, Jan. 23); "Sexy" is also being promoted as a radio single to pop, rhythmic and R&B/hip-hop formats. No. 2, "Girls Want Girls," feat. Lil Baby (57.4 million streams, 1.5 million in airplay audience, 3,000 sold) No. 3, "Fair Trade," feat. Travis Scott (53.8 million streams, 2.4 million in airplay audience, 5,800 sold) No. 4, "Champagne Poetry" (48.3 million streams, 297,000 in airplay audience, 1,900 sold) No. 5, "Knife Talk," feat. 21 Savage & Project Pat (45.9 million streams, 141,000 in airplay audience, 3,300 sold) No. 7, "In the Bible," feat. Lil Durk & Giveon (41.4 million streams, 489,000 in airplay audience, 800 sold) No. 8, "Papi's Home" (39.9 million streams, 663,000 in airplay audience, 1,800 sold) No. 9, "TSU" (39.8 million streams, 1.2 million in airplay audience, 1,500 sold) No. 10, "Love All," feat. JAY-Z (39.1 million streams, 2.5 million in airplay audience, 3,200 sold) Not '2 Sexy' for No. 1: As "Way 2 Sexy" soars in atop the Hot 100, Drake notches his ninth No. 1. Here's a recap of all his Hot 100 leaders: "What's My Name?," Rihanna feat. Drake (one week at No. 1, beginning Nov. 20, 2010) "Work," Rihanna feat. Drake (nine weeks, beginning March 5, 2016) "One Dance," Drake feat. WizKid & Kyla (10 weeks, beginning May 21, 2016) "God's Plan," Drake (11 weeks, beginning Feb. 3, 2018) "Nice for What," Drake (eight weeks, beginning April 21, 2018) "In My Feelings," Drake (10 weeks, beginning July 21, 2018) "Toosie Slide," Drake (one week, April 18, 2020) "What's Next," Drake (one week, March 20, 2021) "Way 2 Sexy," Drake feat. Future and Young Thug (one week to-date, Sept. 18, 2021) Plus, "Sexy" is Drake's record-tying fifth song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100, following "God's Plan," "Nice for What," "Toosie Slide" and "What's Next." He matches Ariana Grande for the mark. Drake debuts atop Hot 100 & Billboard 200: As Certified Lover Boy and "Way 2 Sexy" premiere at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, respectively, Drake joins Justin Bieber, BTS and Taylor Swift as the only acts to have debuted atop both charts simultaneously. Swift inaugurated the club when Folklore and "Cardigan" began atop the respective charts dated Aug. 8, 2020; BTS' Be and "Life Goes On" followed (Dec. 5); Swift repeated the feat with Evermore and "Willow" (Dec. 26); and Bieber doubled up atop the April 3 rankings with the entrances of Justice and "Peaches," featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon. Future's first Hot 100 No. 1: With "Way 2 Sexy," Future celebrates his first Hot 100 leader, ending the longest wait for a first No. 1 among chart-topping acts (by total appearances), as he now totals 126 career entries. The song is Future's fourth Hot 100 top 10, and third with Drake, after "Life is Good," by Future featuring Drake, peaked at No. 2 for eight weeks in January-March 2020 and "Love Me," by Lil Wayne featuring Drake and Future, reached No. 9 in March 2013. In between, Future's own "Mask Off" hit No. 5 in May 2017. Young Thug's third Hot 100 No. 1: Young Thug scores his third Hot 100 No. 1, following his fellow featured turns on Travis Scott's "Franchise," also featuring M.I.A. (one week at No. 1, October 2020), and Camila Cabello's "Havana" (one, January 2018). "Way 2 Sexy" is also Young Thug's fifth Hot 100 top 10. "2 ... 3 Sexy": "Way 2 Sexy" interpolates Right Said Fred's '90s smash "I'm Too Sexy," and now a third iteration of the composition takes a winning turn on the Hot 100's catwalk. The British act's original led the Hot 100 for three weeks in February 1992. In 2017, Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do," which likewise reworks elements of "I'm Too Sexy," spent three weeks at No. 1 that September. Drake meets The Beatles: Drake becomes the second act ever to monopolize the Hot 100's top five in a single week. The Beatles first achieved the feat on the chart dated April 4, 1964, at the heights of early U.S. Beatlemania, with these five classics: No. 1, "Can't Buy Me Love" No. 2, "Twist and Shout" No. 3, "She Loves You" No. 4, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" No. 5, "Please Please Me" ("Chart Crawls With Beatles," a page 1 headline read in that week's issue, above a story by Jack Maher and one of the Hot 100's founding fathers, Tom Noonan.) Notably, two of The Beatles assist in Drake's record-tying week. "Champagne Poetry," at No. 4, interpolates The Beatles' "Michelle," and John Lennon and Paul McCartney receive writing credit on the new entry. ("Michelle," released on the Fab Four's 1965 album Rubber Soul, became a worldwide hit and won the 1967 Grammy Award for song of the year. While the song was not released as a single for The Beatles in the U.S., three "Michelle" covers hit the Hot 100 in 1966: by David & Jonathan [No. 18 peak], Bud Shank [No. 65] and Billy Vaughn [No. 77].) Drake is, thus, the first soloist to own the entire top five on the Hot 100 in a single week, as well as the first artist to debut songs at Nos. 1-5 in one frame. For the latter mark, he bests his triple on the chart dated March 20, when he became the first act to debut titles in the top three together: "What's Next"; "Wants and Needs," featuring Lil Baby; and "Lemon Pepper Freestyle," featuring Rick Ross, at Nos. 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Nine of top 10, topping … Drake: Meanwhile, with nine of the Hot 100's top 10, Drake breaks his own record for the most simultaneous top 10 Hot 100 hits. On the chart dated July 14, 2018, he claimed a prior-record seven top 10 spots, concurrent with the chart start of Scorpion, his last proper studio album before Certified Lover Boy. A record nine Hot 100 top 10s from one album: In its debut chart week, Certified Lover Boy becomes the album with the most Hot 100 top 10s from a single set, thanks to Drake's nine debuts from the LP. Certified Lover Boy eclipses four albums that each spun off seven Hot 100 top 10s: Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982-84); Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. (1984-85); Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989-91); and Drake's own Scorpion (2018). Certifying other Drake records: Not to be lost among Drake's historic week on the Hot 100 are other records that he either breaks or extends. Drake pads his record total to 54 Hot 100 top 10s. Here is an updated look at the acts with the most top 10 Hot 100 hits (dating to the chart's Aug. 4, 1958, inception): 54, Drake 38, Madonna 34, The Beatles 31, Rihanna 30, Michael Jackson 29, Taylor Swift 28, Mariah Carey 28, Stevie Wonder 27, Janet Jackson 27, Elton John With his nine latest entrances, Drake also swells his record total to 39 career debuts in the Hot 100's top 10. Drake further extends his records to 140 top 40 Hot 100 hits, as all 21 songs on Certified Lover Boy debut in the region, and 258 entries on the chart overall. Additionally, Drake, from Toronto, passes Bieber (nine to eight) for the most No. 1s among Canadians over the Hot 100's history, a leaderboard that has been transformed in recent years, thanks to the pair and, in third place, The Weeknd (six). JAY-Z's 22nd top 10: Among other acts upping their top 10 counts on the Hot 100 via features on new Drake entries, JAY-Z collects his 22nd top 10, as "Love All" debuts at No. 10. It's JAY-Z's first top 10 since his featured turn on wife Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love," which hit No. 2 in February 2014. JAY-Z now boasts Hot 100 top 10s in the 1990s (dating to his first, as featured on Foxy Brown's No. 7-peaking "I'll Be" in 1997), 2000s, '10s and '20s. He joins Mariah Carey as the only acts to rank in the top 10 in each of the last four decades, with the pair sharing a No. 1: Carey's "Heartbreaker," on which he's featured, led for two weeks in October 1999, becoming his first of four No. 1s. (Carey reached the milestone thanks to the annual resurgence of "All I Want for Christmas Is You.") Plus, here are updated Hot 100 top 10 totals for other acts thanks to their features on Drake's newest top 10s: Travis Scott (10); Lil Baby (eight); 21 Savage (five); Giveon, Lil Durk (two each); and Project Pat (one; after two prior Hot 100 entries in 2001 and 2008). Drake extends R&B/hip-hop No. 1 record: "Way 2 Sexy" concurrently launches at No. 1 on on the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100), as Drake achieves his record-extending 23rd leader. (Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder share the second-most No. 1s in the chart's history, which also dates to 1958 as an all-encompassing genre songs survey, with 20 each.) The track likewise debuts atop the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart, where it's also Drake's record-padding 23rd No. 1. Meanwhile …: At No. 6 on the April 4, 1964-dated Hot 100 was Terry Stafford's "Suspicion," below the all-Beatles top five that week. Similarly beneath Drake's top five domination this week, The Kid LAROI and Bieber's "Stay" ranks at No. 6, down from No. 2 after four weeks at No. 1 (Aug. 14-Sept. 4). The song (on Raymond Braun/Columbia Records/Def Jam) drew 76.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 7%) and 27.7 million streams (down 8%) and sold 12,100 downloads (down 9%) in the tracking week. (In another achievement for Canada this week, at least one Canadian artist ranks in each of the top 10 positions on the latest Hot 100, with Drake at Nos. 1-5 and 7-10 and Bieber at No. 6. Also notably, no song in the tier has spent double-digit weeks on the chart: Drake debuts nine songs and "Stay" logs its ninth week on the chart.) As for the week's top song in each metric measured for the Hot 100, "Way 2 Sexy" debuts atop the Streaming Songs chart, where it's Drake's record-extending 11th No. 1, Young Thug's second and Future's first; Ed Sheeran's "Bad Habits" leads Radio Songs for a second week (76.4 million, up 1%); and BTS' "Butter" tops Digital Song Sales for a 15th frame (84,500, down 41%). On the Hot 100, "Bad Habits" drops from No. 3 to No. 13, after reaching No. 2, and "Butter" falls 1-17. A week earlier, the latter rebounded for its 10th week at No. 1, sparked by its remix featuring Megan Thee Stallion.
September 15, 20213 yr Hopefully this will be a turning point for Billboard like Divide was over here. You know most of the tracks will plummet next week, just like the Kanye ones did this week. It’s only going to get worse otherwise, what with Billboard rules encouraging albums with 20+ track lists. Edited September 15, 20213 yr by GTH
September 15, 20213 yr This was the ONLY way BTS were going to be stopped wasn't it? All hail Drake king of music :winner:
September 15, 20213 yr Lol. Surprised BTS only went 1-17 though and would've been #4 without Drake album bomb.
September 15, 20213 yr What a mess!! I really don’t get why charts like Billboard and OCC don’t have some sort of system that means artists/labels have to confirm which tracks are singles. Cause all of those songs are only charting because people are streaming the whole album, which should only be reflected in the album chart (which it was). IMO, he should only have 1 song chart which should be the single he’s pushing with the album.
September 15, 20213 yr Hopefully this will be a turning point for Billboard like Divide was over here. You know most of the tracks will plummet next week, just like the Kanye ones did this week. It’s only going to get worse otherwise, what with Billboard rules encouraging albums with 20+ track lists. To be fair, most weeks in the Billboard Top 100 over the last couple of years there have been album bombs mainly from hip hop artists, and 20+ tracks is not uncommon but this one has been the most popular one ever. But some don't do as amazing as expected - like Polo G for example earlier this year. Of course the reaction from non Drake fans (including me) is a bit WTF but in a way I kind of like following the sprawling randomness of the US Billboard Top 100. Most of the tracks will plummet next week. 'Arcade' by Duncan Lawrence didn't go recurrent despite meeting the criteria - over 20 weeks and falling out of the top 50. Guess Billboard seeing it is a record in its ascendency and so have treated it with leniency!
September 15, 20213 yr as much as I think the chart is a mess, I think we're too far gone in the streaming era to ever go back to a singles-only chart. it worked in the '90s when record labels could drop a random cd single and people would buy it in droves, not so much now when record labels take cues from whatever song is getting the most streams on an album to release as a single I would support some sort of fudging with the ratio but at the end of the day it's all just arbitrary tweaking edit: did some thinking and I think it would be a good idea to take the number of streams of least-streamed track on an album during a given week, subtract it from the streams of all the other tracks, and have those streams count for the album chart, and the leftover streams would count for the hot 100. that way you're getting a uniform # of streams for the album, and the leftover streams would reflect the popularity of the tracks themselves example: Track 1 - 5000 Track 2 (the single) - 10000 Track 3 (short interlude people only play when they listen to the album) - 2000 Track 4 - 6000 Track 5 - 8000 subtract 2000 streams from all tracks, have them count for the album chart, and you're left with 3000, 8000, 0, 4000, and 6000 streams respectively for the songs chart, which accurately reflects the popularity of the songs outside the album I know the OCC does something similar and it makes sense! idg why billboard don't just do the same thing Edited September 15, 20213 yr by dhwhore
September 15, 20213 yr What an utter nightmare. First Trump and now this. Thank God I don't live there.
September 15, 20213 yr but I'm sure Billboard is actually happy with this, same as with BTS only thing BB care about is people people talking about it, even for the wrong reasons so if BTS gets to #1 for 10 weeks thanks to mass buying from Korea or th label or whatever, they don't care they only care about their traffic on twitter
September 15, 20213 yr Btw Bré, Billboard only think it's Young Thug's second no.1. Lol they really don't have a clue...
September 15, 20213 yr I think seeing records broken is cool and interesting. Can't fathom that people follow the charts just to see them carry on in a perfunctory manner where nothing exciting ever happens.
September 15, 20213 yr 'Arcade' by Duncan Lawrence didn't go recurrent despite meeting the criteria - over 20 weeks and falling out of the top 50. Guess Billboard seeing it is a record in its ascendency and so have treated it with leniency! no. the rule is that if the track is still promoted on radio it can not be removed to recurrent chart. See Keith Urban and P!nk duet - it hasn't been removed for more than 10 weeks below top 50 because country radio still playlisted it
September 16, 20213 yr What a rubbish week for the Hot 100... I don't I'll ever follow it again. Sure, it's got people talking, but not for the right reasons; chart positions are meaningless now, as are most new chart records. People will simply stop caring, especially as chart achievements are now so devalued.
September 16, 20213 yr Hilarious. A hot new album gets arbitrarily called 45,376 singles and the artist gets a new "record" over the real record-holders who achieved the feat with actual physical product. had The Beatles had the same system available then they would of course have done the very same thing every time they released an album, only that would also have been "fake sales" because it's really an album that everybody's just chosen to listen to out of curiosity rather than buy. Except The Beatles also sold bucketloads of albums. Nobody buys Drake stuff, by and large, his listeners prefer not to part with cash to support the new records if they can avoid it and get it for free while doing something more important. Probably. On the shoulders of giants he continues to have a career? Maybe try writing a tune and arrangement and playing instruments by y'self Drakey? Or just release a book of poetry? :P Just a few thoughts.... :teresa:
September 16, 20213 yr Nobody buys Drake stuff, by and large, his listeners prefer not to part with cash to support the new records if they can avoid it and get it for free while doing something more important. Weird elitism aside, Drake's had 4 albums and a mixtape move over 400,000 pure sales in their first week ("Views" even did 850,000+ in 2016) all in eras of music piracy & streaming at large so this is a weird mark against him.
September 16, 20213 yr Ah yes, anyone who doesn't play instruments is a fake musician and shouldn't make the charts. I remember now.
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