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No.40 As bad as YNTCD by Taylor Swift

Not sure I see the relevance of that comparison? :P

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39 | :down: 37 | 9th week

 

Drake featuring 21 Savage

Jimmy Cooks

 

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Album track from Honestly, Nevermind

Released: 17th June 2022

Label: OVO

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (30/06/2022) | 7-14-19-23-21-27-31-37-39

 

Sales: 100k+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

60 Sales

08 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

A couple of years after he broke into the mainstream with 2009’s So Far Gone, Drake was browsing art in Los Angeles when a piece caught his eye: a big neon sign that read, “LESS DRAKE, MORE TUPAC.” For a minute, he felt angry, embarrassed—he wanted to walk up and rip the sign off the wall. Instead, he bought it. After all, he figured, you get someone hanging your name next to Tupac’s, even if it’s only to take a shot at it? You must be doing something right.

 

Born Aubrey Drake Graham in Toronto in 1986, Drake became—like Tupac—something of a generational voice, a prism for his pop-cultural moment. Was he an R&B singer who rapped or a rapper who sang? Was he really that sad, or just doing a bit? And if it wasn’t a bit, how could this guy—talented, intuitive, hardworking—really be so down?

 

From minute one, there was something a little different about him: He could be confessional, vulnerable, but also incredibly coarse; he could make an earnest commitment one minute (“Take Care”) and be drunk-dialing the next (“Marvins Room”); he could convince you he was an underdog from his perch on top of the world (“Started from the Bottom”). Critics—and he’s had plenty—like to point out that he started as an actor: He played Jimmy Brooks in the Canadian teen show Degrassi: The Next Generation. But most of all, he felt like a person—someone who isn’t canceled by his paradoxes, but defined by them.

 

Though the feelings remain (always feelings, big feelings), the sound—for the most part, courtesy of longtime affiliate Noah “40” Shebib—is always changing: a little dancehall here (“One Dance”), a little house there (“Passionfruit”), some old New Orleans bounce (“Nice for What”), a bit of Wu-style boom-bap (“Started from the Bottom”), some smooth, to-the-minute trap-soul (“Hotline Bling”). Like Kanye, Drake is as much a curator as he is a creator, an artist capable of arranging collaborators from a universe of styles and making them all fit into his personal vision—an approach that has made him one of the most definitive rappers and pop figures of his era. “I obviously spend a lot of time in my own world,” he told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe in 2016. “But when I do take a look at the broader scope of things, it’s often [in the studio]… Even though I don’t directly, literally address things in my music, I’ve always tried to make music that transcends gender, nationality—to try and unify people. Because that’s really what it’s about.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Drake

2009 42 Forever (feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem)

2010 50 Over -1-

2010 24 Find Your Love -2-

2010 37 Right Above It (Lil Wayne feat. Drake)

2010 01 What's My Name? (Rihanna feat. Drake) MILLIONAIRE

2011 22 Moment 4 Life (Nicki Minaj feat. Drake)

2011 78 I'm On One (DJ Khaled feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne)

2011 57 Headlines -1-

2011 58 She Will (Lil Wayne feat. Drake)

2011 49 Make Me Proud (feat. Nicki Minaj) -2-

2011 09 Take Care (feat. Rihanna) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2012 80 The Motto (feat. Lil Wayne) -4-

2012 37 Crew Love (feat. The Weeknd) -5-

2012 50 F**kin' Problems (A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)

2013 25 Started From The Bottom -1-

2013 44 Love Me (Lil Wayne feat. Drake & Future)

2013 04 Hold On, We're Going Home (feat. Majid Jordan) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2013 56 From Time (feat. Jhené Aiko) -AT-

2013 86 Too Much (feat. Sampha) -3-

2013 93 The Motion -AT-

2013 95 Furthest Thing -AT-

2014 65 Mine (Beyoncé feat. Drake)

2014 87 Who Do You Love (YG feat. Drake)

2014 36 Believe Me (Lil Wayne feat. Drake)

2014 68 0 To 100 - The Catch Up -NAS-

2014 35 Only (Nicki Minaj feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown)

2015 53 Preach (feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR) -AT-

2015 70 Legend -AT-

2015 71 Energy -AT-

2015 92 10 Bands -AT-

2015 95 Know Yourself -AT-

2015 77 Back To Back -NAS-

2015 03 Hotline Bling -1- MILLIONAIRE

2015 81 Right Hand -NAS-

2015 58 Jumpman (Drake & Future) -1*- MILLIONAIRE

2016 02 Work (Rihanna feat. Drake) MILLIONAIRE

2016 23 Summer Sixteen -NAS-

2016 01 One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2016 33 Pop Style (feat. The Throne) -PS-

2016 03 Too Good (feat. Rihanna) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2016 18 Controlla -4- MILLIONAIRE

2016 55 With You (feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR) -AT-

2016 68 Grammys (feat. Future) -AT-

2016 72 U With Me? -AT-

2016 62 Feel No Ways -AT-

2016 70 Hype -AT-

2016 84 9 -AT-

2016 78 Still Here -AT-

2016 90 Keep The Family Close -AT-

2016 93 Weston Road Flows -AT-

2016 77 Childs Play -AT-

2016 88 Fire & Desire -AT-

2016 99 Redemption -AT-

2016 25 For Free (DJ Khaled feat. Drake)

2016 10 Fake Love -1- MILLIONAIRE

2016 52 Sneakin' (feat. 21 Savage) -PS-

2016 51 Wanna Know (Dave feat. Drake)

2016 67 Used To This (Future feat. Drake)

2017 49 No Frauds (Nicki Minaj, Drake & Lil Wayne)

2017 03 Passionfruit -2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 09 KMT (feat. Giggs) -AT-

2017 10 Blem -AT-

2017 17 No Long Talk (feat. Giggs) -AT-

2017 24 Get It Together (feat. Black Coffee & Jorja Smith) -AT-

2017 27 Portland (feat. Quavo & Travis Scott) -AT-

2017 31 Madiba Riddim -AT-

2017 32 Gyalchester -AT-

2017 35 Skepta Interlude -AT-

2017 36 Free Smoke -AT-

2017 37 Teenage Fever -AT-

2017 39 4422 (feat. Sampha) -AT-

2017 42 Jorja Interlude -AT-

2017 51 Sacrifices (feat. 2 Chainz & Young Thug) -AT-

2017 54 Lose You -AT-

2017 55 Glow (feat. Kanye West) -AT-

2017 58 Can’t Have Everything -AT-

2017 61 Do Not Disturb -AT-

2017 62 Nothings Into Somethings -AT-

2017 63 Since Way Back (feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR) -AT-

2017 65 Ice Melts (feat. Young Thug) -AT-

2017 58 Come Closer (Wizkid feat. Drake)

2017 73 To The Max (DJ Khaled feat. Drake)

2017 14 Signs -NAS-

2018 01 God's Plan -1- MILLIONAIRE

2018 21 Diplomatic Immunity -AT-

2018 31 Walk It Talk It (Migos feat. Drake)

2018 17 Look Alive (BlocBoy JB feat. Drake)

2018 01 Nice For What -2- MILLIONAIRE

2018 46 Yes Indeed (Lil Baby & Drake)

2018 37 I'm Upset -PS-

2018 02 Don't Matter To Me (feat. Michael Jackson) -3-

2018 04 Nonstop -AT-

2018 05 Emotionless -AT-

2018 01 In My Feelings -4- MILLIONAIRE

2018 19 No Stylist (French Montana feat. Drake)

2018 46 Never Recover (Lil Baby, Gunna & Drake)

2018 13 MIA (Bad Bunny feat. Drake)

2018 55 FLIP THE SWITCH (Quavo feat. Drake)

2018 13 Going Bad (Meek Mill feat. Drake)

2019 41 Girls Need Love (Summer Walker & Drake)

2019 06 No Guidance (Chris Brown feat. Drake)

2019 13 Money In The Grave (feat. Rick Ross) -1-

2019 33 Omertà -AT-

2019 42 Gold Roses (Rick Ross feat. Drake)

2019 50 How Bout Now -AT-

2019 72 4pm In Calabasas -AT-

2019 50 Won't Be Late (Swae Lee feat. Drake)

2019 49 Behind Barz -OST-

2019 31 LOYAL (PARTYNEXTDOOR feat. Drake)

2020 03 Life Is Good (Future feat. Drake) MILLIONAIRE

2020 54 Oprah's Bank Account (Lil Yachty & DaBaby feat. Drake)

2020 01 Toosie Slide -1-

2020 10 Chicago Freestyle (feat. GIVĒON) -AT-

2020 17 Pain 1993 (feat. Playboi Carti) -AT-

2020 08 GREECE (DJ Khaled feat. Drake)

2020 05 Only You Freestyle (Headie One & Drake)

2020 11 POPSTAR (DJ Khaled feat. Drake)

2020 69 TWIST & TURN (Popcaan feat. Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR)

2020 04 Laugh Now Cry Later (feat. Lil Durk) -NAS-

2020 24 Outta Time (Bryson Tiller feat. Drake)

2020 28 Mr. Right Now (21 Savage & Metro Boomin feat. Drake)

2020 45 You're Mines Still (Yung Bleu feat. Drake)

2021 04 What's Next -1*-

2021 06 Lemon Pepper Freestyle (feat. Rick Ross) -AT-

2021 10 Wants And Needs (feat. Lil Baby) -AT-

2021 36 Solid (Young Stoner Life, Young Thug & Gunna feat. Drake)

2021 42 Seeing Green (Nicki Minaj, Drake & Lil Wayne)

2021 49 Having Our Way (Migos feat. Drake)

2021 34 Wasting Time (Brent Faiyaz feat. Drake)

2021 97 Over The Top (Smiley feat. Drake)

2021 02 Girls Want Girls (feat. Lil Baby) -AT-

2021 03 Fair Trade (feat. Travis Scott) -AT-

2021 05 Champagne Poetry -AT-

2021 11 Way 2 Sexy (feat. Future & Young Thug) -1-

2021 60 Bubbly (Young Thug feat. Drake & Travis Scott)

2022 76 P power (Gunna feat. Drake)

2022 08 WAIT FOR U (Future feat. Drake & Tems)

2022 50 I'M ON ONE (Future feat. Drake)

2022 19 Churchill Downs (Jack Harlow feat. Drake)

2022 07 Jimmy Cooks (feat. 21 Savage) -AT-

2022 08 Massive -1-

2022 10 Falling Back -AT-

2022 30 Sticky -AT-

2022 21 STAYING ALIVE (DJ Khaled feat. Drake & Lil Baby)

 

6 x #1 | 21 x Top 5 | 33 x Top 10 | 45 x Top 20 | 74 x Top 40 | 144 x Top 100

 

21 Savage

2016 52 Sneakin' (Drake feat. 21 Savage)

2017 41 Bank Account -1-

2017 01 rockstar (Post Malone feat. 21 Savage) MILLIONAIRE

2017 60 Ghostface Killers (21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin feat. Travis Scott) -AT-

2018 40 Bartier Cardi (Cardi B feat. 21 Savage)

2018 94 PASS OUT (Quavo feat. 21 Savage)

2018 69 10 Freaky Girls (Metro Boomin feat. 21 Savage)

2018 80 Don't Come Out The House (Metro Boomin feat. 21 Savage)

2019 29 a lot -1-

2019 81 Wish Wish (DJ Khaled feat. Cardi B & 21 Savage)

2020 28 Mr. Right Now (21 Savage & Metro Boomin feat. Drake) -2-

2020 43 Runnin (21 Savage & Metro Boomin) -1-

2020 54 Rich N***a Shit (21 Savage & Metro Boomin feat. Young Thug) -AT-

2021 13 m y . l i f e (J. Cole, 21 Savage & Morray)

2021 64 Bout A Million (Pop Smoke feat. 42 Dugg & 21 Savage)

2021 87 Knife Talk (Drake feat. 21 Savage & Project Pat)

2022 73 Cash In Cash Out (Pharrell Williams feat. 21 Savage & Tyler, The Creator)

2022 07 Jimmy Cooks (Drake feat. 21 Savage)

 

1 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 6 x Top 40 | 18 x Top 100

 

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38 | :up: 39 | 20th week

 

Latto and Mariah Carey featuring DJ Khaled

Big Energy

 

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1st single from 777

Released: 24th September 2021 / 28th March 2022

Label: Streamcut / RCA Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (14/04/2022) | 57-48-41-33-28-21-23-21-21-23-24-30-32-35-26-28-35-37-39-38

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

03 Sales

34 Audio Streaming

61 Video Streaming

 

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Biography

 

Latto

Latto's unadulterated confidence and Southern flavour have made her a standout in the 2020s golden era of women rappers. Born in 1998, Alyssa Michelle Stephens was raised in Atlanta and began writing raps at age 10. At 16, the artist formerly known as Mulatto won The Rap Game, a music competition reality show hosted by legendary producer Jermaine Dupri, but ultimately turned down the prize (a deal with Dupri’s So So Def Records) to stay independent and self-release mixtapes while working the Georgia circuit. Her breakout single, 2019’s taunting “B*tch from Da Souf”, proved her growth from a fledgling teen artist and expertly showcased her trap influences and cleverly brash bars. It also landed her a record deal with RCA Records shortly after its release. The song catapulted Latto's career and positioned her alongside other female artists: Saweetie and rap icon Trina guest on “B*tch from Da Souf (Remix)”, and Latto made a cameo in Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's provocative, empowering “WAP” video. On 2020's “Muwop” from her debut album, Queen of Da Souf, she flips Gucci Mane’s 2007 hit “Freaky Gurl”, borrowing his flow and proudly embracing her sexual prowess, much like her peers. “I think it’s only up from here,” she told Apple Music. “Every day, it’s a new female rapper going viral on the internet… Now [kids] got a lot [of women rappers] to choose from, and we all different.” Latto may be one of many, but she’s also one of a kind. - Apple Music

 

Mariah Carey

The morning after a rough performance at a 2016 New Year’s Eve show, Mariah Carey took to social media to offer her recap: “S**t happens.” What else could she say? What else did she need to say? Thirty-plus years in the business, more No. 1 singles than any solo artist in history (and second overall only to The Beatles), more writing and production credits on those singles than any other female composer—Carey is one of the few artists who might legitimately be beyond apology, a diva incarnate whose songs bridge the confessional intimacy of singer-songwriters with the mass appeal of pop. Yeah, she had some knocks along the way. Everyone does. But few take them in stride, let alone with such style.

 

Born in Long Island in 1969 or 1970 (she once quipped that she doesn’t acknowledge time), Carey grew up on the classics: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight. She moved to New York City after high school, cobbling together jobs while working on demos with then-collaborator Ben Margulies at the back of Margulies’ father’s cabinet factory. Her biggest tracks—from the early, dance- and gospel-influenced “Someday” and “Dreamlover” to the club leanings of “Fantasy” and “Honey” and ballads such as “Forever” and “Always Be My Baby”—stand like mile markers in the culture, capturing a feeling of sweetness and euphoria that straddles pop, hip-hop, and R&B without slotting neatly into any of them. Meanwhile, her melismatic style—a technique that entails singing a single syllable with a long run of notes—redefined our sense of what pop vocals sound like. Mimi, The Elusive Chanteuse, The Imperfect Angel...or maybe just Mariah. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Latto

2022 21 Big Energy (Latto & Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled) -1-

2022 99 I Just Called (NEIKED, Anne-Marie & Latto)

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 2 x Top 100

 

Mariah Carey

1990 09 Vision Of Love -1-

1990 37 Love Takes Time -2-

1991 38 Someday -3-

1991 54 There's Got To Be A Way -4-

1991 17 Emotions -1-

1992 20 Can't Let Go -2-

1992 17 Make It Happen -3-

1992 02 I'll Be There (feat. Trey Lorenz) -1-

1993 09 Dreamlover -1-

1993 07 Hero -2-

1994 01 Without You -3-

1994 08 Anytime You Need A Friend -4-

1994 03 Endless Love (Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey)

1994 01 All I Want For Christmas Is You -1- MILLION SELLER

1995 04 Fantasy -1-

1995 06 One Sweet Day (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men) -2-

1996 04 Open Arms -3-

1996 03 Always Be My Baby -4-

1997 03 Honey -1-

1997 22 Butterfly -2-

1998 98 My All / Breakdown -IMPORT-

1998 87 The Roof (Back In Time) -IMPORT-

1998 04 My All -3-

1998 04 When You Believe (Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston) -1-

1999 16 I Still Believe -2-

1999 05 Heartbreaker (feat. Jay-Z) -1-

2000 10 Thank God I Found You (feat. Joe & 98 Degrees) -2-

2000 01 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) (feat. Westlife) -3-

2001 12 Loverboy (feat. Cameo) -1-

2001 32 Never Too Far / Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica) -2-

2002 08 Through The Rain -1-

2003 17 Boy (I Need You) (feat. Cam'ron) -2-

2003 03 I Know What You Want (Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey feat. The Flipmode Squad)

2005 04 It's Like That -1-

2005 02 We Belong Together -2-

2005 09 Get Your Number / Shake It Off -3-

2005 11 Don't Forget About Us -4-

2006 27 Say Somethin' (feat. Snoop Dogg) -5-

2008 05 Touch My Body -1-

2008 30 Bye Bye -2-

2008 84 I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time (feat. T.I.) -3-

2008 95 I Stay In Love -4-

2009 52 Obsessed -1-

2009 19 I Want To Know What Love Is -2-

2010 81 Angels Cry (feat. Ne-Yo) -3-

2013 22 #Beautiful (feat. Miguel) -1-

2013 90 The Art Of Letting Go -2-

2014 87 You're Mine (Eternal) -3-

2020 67 Oh Santa! (feat. Ariana Grande & Jennifer Hudson) -1-

2021 87 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) -AT-

2022 21 Big Energy (Latto & Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled)

 

3 x #1 | 16 x Top 5 | 24 x Top 10 | 32 x Top 20 | 40 x Top 40 | 51 x Top 100

 

DJ Khaled

2011 78 I'm On One (feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne) -1-

2014 98 All I Do Is Win (feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg & Rick Ross) -1-

2016 25 For Free (feat. Drake) -1-

2017 71 Shining (feat. Beyoncé & Jay Z) -1-

2017 01 I'm The One (feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 49 To The Max (feat. Drake) -NAS-

2017 01 Wild Thoughts (feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2017 75 Don't Quit (DJ Khaled & Calvin Harris feat. Travis Scott & Jeremih) -AT-

2018 41 Top Off (feat. Jay-Z, Future & Beyoncé) -1-

2018 03 No Brainer (feat. Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper & Quavo) -2-

2019 37 Jealous (feat. Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Big Sean) -AT-

2019 43 Higher (feat. Nipsey Hussle & John Legend) -3-

2019 48 Celebrate (feat. Travis Scott & Post Malone) -AT-

2020 08 GREECE (feat. Drake) -1/2-

2020 11 POPSTAR (feat. Drake) -1/2-

2021 53 Sunshine (The Light) (Fat Joe, DJ Khaled & Amorphous)

2021 53 I DID IT (feat. Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Baby & DaBaby) -4-

2021 73 EVERY CHANCE I GET (feat. Lil Baby & Lil Durk) -3-

2021 80 SORRY NOT SORRY (feat. Nas, JAY-Z & James Fauntleroy) -AT-

2022 21 Big Energy (Latto & Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled)

2022 21 STAYING ALIVE (DJ Khaled feat. Drake & Lil Baby)

 

2 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 5 x Top 20 | 9 x Top 40 | 21 x Top 100

 

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Another play for the Big Energy remix *.* not even slightly bored of this yet, easily one of the best tracks of the year :wub:
The longevity of this just about makes up for it missing top 20
I'll miss Scott hosting the chart :( He hasn't been perfect (no-one can be!) but overall he's been a very good host. Looks like Jack Saunders is taking over, from what I've seen from him I think he'll do a decent job too.

Enjoying Alien Superstar - hope it’s not just gonna to disappear into outer space.

 

Haven’t heard Big Energy for a while so happy to again. It’s a well put together track but there’s something that doesn’t quite pop for me.

Another play for the Big Energy remix *.* not even slightly bored of this yet, easily one of the best tracks of the year :wub:

I do prefer the original version.

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37 | :down: 35 | 31st week

 

Cat Burns

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1st single from Emotionally Unavailable

Released: 31st July 2020

Label: Since 93 / RCA

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (27/01/2022) | 53-48-48-45-47-34-29-19-10-8-6-6-5-5-3-3-3-3-4-2-3-3-4-6-6-20-22-28-32-35-37

 

Sales: 800k+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

 

07 Sales

02 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

A 21 year old singer/songwriter from South London, helping you get through stuff one song at a time. - Spotify

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2022 02 go -1-

 

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100

 

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I do prefer the original version.

The original's good (and was a top 5 hit in my personal chart last year) but the remix is very much where it's at for me!

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36 | :up: 40 | 23rd week

 

Diplo and Miguel

Don't Forget My Love

 

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6th single from Diplo

Released: 11th February 2022

Label: Higher Ground

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (17/03/2022) | 96-92-83-73-54-60-48-41-39-47-44-40-40-35-35-38-42-44-32-30-40-40-40-36

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

19 Sales

46 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Diplo

As a kid growing up in South Florida, Diplo listened to whatever: hip-hop, punk rock, Miami bass, Christian radio. “I would watch Rap City on BET and then Country Music Television back-to-back every day after I got out of school,” he told Apple Music in 2020. “It was equal.” The attitude stuck. More than just a DJ or producer, Diplo has become an avatar for the eclectic, border-free nature of pop in the internet era, the kind of artist who not only jumps from genre to genre, but also finds the common denominator that brings them all together. If his teenage listening habits didn’t make immediate sense, that’s the point: It isn’t where the music comes from, it’s how you hear it. Born Thomas Wesley Pentz in 1978, he got his start in his mid-twenties as half of the DJ duo Hollertronix, whose mixes—think “Rock the Casbah” with a Missy Elliott verse on top—captured the wild omnivorousness of 2000s mash-up culture. A few years later, he cofounded Major Lazer, a collaborative, shapeshifting project that brought global dance music to the big-tent festival crowd. The records he’s worked on since—M.I.A.’s ”Paper Planes,” Usher’s “Climax,“ Beyoncé’s “Hold Up,” the Skrillex and Justin Bieber collaboration “Where Are Ü Now”—constitute some of the best, most progressive pop of the millennium, the kind of tracks that have appealed as much to club audiences as to critical cognoscenti. He’s also used his platform to shed light on lesser-known global dance scenes, from New Orleans bounce to Brazilian baile funk—a role that elevates the DJ to cultural ambassador. He plays about 300 shows a year. On a break from touring during 2020, he said there were parts of his house he swears he’d never seen before. And he was ready to get back out and party. - Apple Music

 

Miguel

Miguel’s sound evolves every time he encounters a new way to express love—and as one of pop’s friskiest experimentalists, that means his career is a study in subverting the very notion of a conventional R&B star. The singer/songwriter born Miguel Jontel Pimentel (Los Angeles, 1985) was drawn to music’s insider/outsiders from the beginning, mimicking the moves of Michael Jackson at family gatherings at age three, and later drawing both artistic and sartorial inspiration from the likes of David Bowie, Prince, and Jimi Hendrix. So when it came time for his 2010 debut, All I Want Is You, Miguel flouted tradition by moving elegantly, sexily, both within and beyond his assigned genre. In back-to-back tracks, he slid from boom-bap soul to vulnerable a cappella to uptempo electro-funk. His confidence found composure on 2012’s Kaleidoscope Dream, which sounds as Technicolor and wondrous as the title suggests. Single “Adorn” merged timeless soul and modern production as seamlessly as it did deep love and physical longing, while songs like “P**** Is Mine” flipped expectations by casting Miguel as one of his partner’s many lovers, begging for validation. On 2015’s Wildheart, he dove deeper into psych rock, incorporating his own guitar and a Lenny Kravitz cameo into raw, grinding cuts that also supported Kurupt rapping and Miguel singing in Spanish. By 2017’s War & Leisure, he seemed to be flitting across genres just to prove he could: The sunny, pop-adjacent “Pineapple Skies” fit him just as snugly as the trippy, Travis Scott-assisted “Sky Walker.” That latter track seems to best capture the man as he coos out lyrical flexes both winkingly self-aware and genuinely braggy. Chameleon though he may be, Miguel is always Miguel—humorous, smart, and full of passion—no matter the setting. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Diplo

2011 13 C'mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise) (Tiësto vs. Diplo feat. Busta Rhymes) -NAS-

2013 04 Earthquake (DJ Fresh & Diplo feat. Dominique Young Unique)

2013 52 Boy Oh Boy (Diplo & GTA) -1-

2014 63 Take Ü There (Skrillex & Diplo present Jack Ü feat. Kiesza) -1-

2015 03 Where Are Ü Now (Skrillex & Diplo present Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2015 08 Be Right There (Diplo & Sleepy Tom) -NAS-

2018 72 Genius (LSD feat. Sia, Diplo & Labrinth)

2018 17 Thunderclouds (LSD feat. Sia, Diplo & Labrinth)

2018 04 Electricity (Silk City & Dua Lipa feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson)

2018 17 Close To Me (Ellie Goulding, Diplo & Swae Lee)

2019 89 Lonely (Diplo & Jonas Brothers) -1-

2020 04 Looking For Me (Paul Woolford, Diplo & Kareen Lomax) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2020 57 On My Mind (Diplo & SIDEPIECE) -1-

2021 65 New Love (Silk City & Ellie Goulding feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson)

2022 30 Don't Forget My Love (Diplo & Miguel) -3-

 

0 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 5 x Top 10 | 8 x Top 20 | 9 x Top 40 | 15 x Top 100

 

Miguel

2013 46 Power Trip (J. Cole feat. Miguel)

2013 22 #Beautiful (Mariah Carey feat. Miguel)

2013 49 Adorn -1-

2015 56 Everyday (A$AP Rocky feat. Miguel, Rod Stewart & Mark Ronson)

2015 97 Coffee (feat. Wale) -1-

2017 86 Lost In Your Light (Dua Lipa feat. Miguel)

2018 69 Remind Me To Forget (Kygo & Miguel)

2022 30 Don't Forget My Love (Diplo & Miguel)

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 2 x Top 40 | 8 x Top 100

 

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I'll miss Scott hosting the chart :( He hasn't been perfect (no-one can be!) but overall he's been a very good host. Looks like Jack Saunders is taking over, from what I've seen from him I think he'll do a decent job too.

 

Same here, gonna miss Scott on the chart show

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