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The JT comparisons are tempting but imo they're only valid insofar as Nick used to be in a teen-pop group and broke out and has done decently so far. But the JoBros never really held the place in pop culture that *NSYNC did; *NSYNC rode a teen-pop wave that was central to the pop world at the time, but the JoBros, while big for a couple years, had attachments to Disney that I think kind of relegated them to a niche in most people's minds. *NSYNC's status in pop culture brought heft to their breakup and JT's breakout, but the JoBros just kind of fizzled out after a kind-of hiatus (during which Nick made his first stab at a career outside the band—remember this isn't his first) and a failed comeback.

 

Nick's definitely done well for himself but I don't think his career trajectory is exactly parallel to JT's, and as such I don't think his career will become iconic in the way JT's is. That's not to say he couldn't be a big star on the same level as JT at some point, but I don't think his teen-pop past will define his solo career as much as JT's did for his.

I agree it's a pretty unexceptional track outside of its context, and it sounds like it should've been a hit at least four or five years ago and the fact that it's a #1 contender in 2015 is kind of jarring. But I'm also one of those chumps who fall prey to the sentiment of a song so it's been kind of hard for me to resist this, even without having seen a single film in the series.

Every Body Talk single to re-enter pls

Re: "See You Again"'s chances for #1, I think it has a good chance. "Uptown Funk!"'s sales have been deteriorating for a while and the video for "SYA" should give it a boost streaming-wise. Depends on how fast "Uptown Funk!" slips at airplay but I think it'll happen sooner rather than later. It's a shame in a way; I'd been long sick of "Uptown Funk!" but after it became a legitimate contender for the all-time record I started rooting for it again :o I hope it can at least hang on at #1 for another week and break the now 7-way tie for second-place, then make way for "See You Again" the week after.

SALES, RADIO & STREAMING

 

1) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!

- Digital Songs (2) - 163,000 (-1%)

- Radio Songs (1) - 159 million all-format audience impressions (-5%)

- Streaming Songs (1) - 15.8 million US streams (-3%)

 

2) Maroon 5 - Sugar

- Digital Songs (3) - 147,000 (+2%)

- Radio Songs (2) - 140 million all-format audience impressions (+5%)

- Streaming Songs (3) - 10.5 million US streams (+11%)

↳ On-Demand Songs (2) - 4.7 million US streams (+17%)

 

4) The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)

- Digital Songs (6) - 125,000 (+17%)

- Radio Songs (6) - 104 million all-format audience impressions (+21%)

- Streaming Songs (4) - 9.8 million US streams (+10%)

 

10) Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again

- Digital Songs (1) - 168,000 (+488%)

- Radio Songs (BU) - 8.6 million all-format audience impressions (+68%)

- Streaming Songs (26) - 4.1 million US streams (+259%)

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 10

 

(billboard chart date 11th April 2015)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES (TOTAL SALES)

 

42 01 Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again - 168,000 (257,000)

01 02 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk! - 163,000 (5,234,000)

02 03 Maroon 5 - Sugar - 147,000 (2,000,000)

05 04 Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money - 133,000 (241,000)

08 05 Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini & Lookas - G.D.F.R. - 126,000 (1,262,000)

06 06 The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) - 125,000 (1,182,000)

04 07 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do - 118,000 (1,658,000)

10 08 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen - 114,000 (616,000)

03 09 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud - 109,000 (3,740,000)

09 10 Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance - 107,000

 

12 12 Nick Jonas - Chains - 99,000 (708,000)

15 13 Jason Derulo - Want to Want Me

11 14 Sam Smith - Lay Me Down - 83,000 (828,000)

31 17 Kelly Clarkson - Heartbeat Song - 69,000 (527,000)

20 18 Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good.

22 22 Tove Lo - Talking Body - 52,000 (388,000)

43 24 Fifth Harmony featuring Kid Ink - Worth It - 51,000 (220,000)

29 25 David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj & Afrojack - Hey Mama

 

MILESTONES

2M: Maroon 5 – "Sugar"

500K: Natalie la Rose featuring Jeremih – "Somebody"; Kelly Clarkson – "Heartbeat Song"

Bubbling Under

 

03 01 Kevin Gates featuring August Alsina - I Don't Get Tired (#IDGT)

05 02 Kalin and Myles - Trampoline

** 03 Sia - Big Girls Cry

06 04 Major Lazer X DJ Snake featuring MØ - Lean On

10 05 Nate Ruess - Nothing Without Love

** 06 Kid Ink, Tyga, Wale, YG & Rich Homie Quan - Ride Out

12 07 Easton Corbin - Baby Be My Love Song

** 08 Machine Gun Kelly featuring Victoria Monet - A Little More

RE 09 Kid Ink featuring DeJ Loaf - Be Real

14 10 Brad Paisley - Crushin' It

09 11 Who Is Fancy - Goodbye

21 12 Kygo featuring Parson James - Stole the Show

15 13 Chedda da Connect - Flicka da Wrist

** 14 Death Cab for Cutie - Black Sun

16 15 Deorro X Chris Brown - Five More Hours

** 16 Snoop Dogg featuring Charlie Wilson - Peaches n Cream

18 17 J Balvin - Ay Vamos

** 18 Rachel Platten - Fight Song

07 19 Migos - One Time

** 20 Brantley Gilbert - One Hell of an Amen

24 21 Josh Turner - Lay Low

13 22 J. Cole - G.O.M.D.

RE 23 Jeremih featuring J. Cole - Planes

22 24 Avicii - The Nights

** 25 Matt Maher - Because He Lives (Amen)

 

 

Observations*:

• "Uptown Funk!" ties with six other singles for the second-longest #1 run of all time.
• "See You Again" becomes Wiz Khalifa's sixth top-ten hit and Charlie Puth's first**, and leaps 41 spots to #1 on Digital Songs. Three soundtrack singles now crowd the top ten: "LMLYD", "Earned It", and "See You Again".
• Rihanna earns her 35th top-20 hit with "BBHMM"; Meghan Trainor earns her third top-40 with "Dear Future Husband".

*aka abbreviated chart highlights

**At the expense of Natalie :(

I just realised that the Nick Jonas track reminds me of 'Hold On, We're Going Home'. Anyone else see it?

It has the same musical DNA as a couple other recent songs imo, namely "Love Me Harder" and "Style" (and going back to late '13 with "HOWGH", "Do What U Want")

2. WALK THE MOON – Shut Up and Dance

 

Don't think "Pompeii" got that high last year (correct me if I'm wrong), so I'm guessing this is this the first rock crossover song by a group (ie. discounting Hozier) to get this high since fun.? Bodes well for the track, and I genuinely like it so it's nice to see it doing well.

Oh wait, forgot about Imagine Dragons. I slot them now as a Top 40 pop band along with Maroon 5 and OneRepublic for some reason.

2. WALK THE MOON – Shut Up and Dance

 

Don't think "Pompeii" got that high last year (correct me if I'm wrong), so I'm guessing this is this the first rock crossover song by a group (ie. discounting Hozier) to get this high since fun.? Bodes well for the track, and I genuinely like it so it's nice to see it doing well.

I found this song kinda grating at first but I like it more now. It was one of the buzzier songs when the album came out so I guess it makes sense a single choice. Really rooting for "AYHTDWS" and "New Romantics" though. I'd root for "Out of the Woods" too but I feel like if they wanted to release it they would've done so by now.

SALES, RADIO & STREAMING

 

1) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!

- Digital Songs (1) - 165,000 (-12%)

- Radio Songs (1) - 166 million all-format audience impressions (-4%)

- Streaming Songs (1) - 16.2 million US streams (-15%)

 

2) Maroon 5 - Sugar

- Digital Songs (2) - 143,000 (-8%)

- Radio Songs (2) - 133 million all-format audience impressions (+3%)

- Streaming Songs (4) - 9.5 million US streams (-4%)

 

5) The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)

- Digital Songs (6) - 107,000 (+4%)

- Radio Songs (6) - 86 million all-format audience impressions (+23%)

- Streaming Songs (6) - 8.9 million US streams (+24%)

 

10) Natalie la Rose featuring Jeremih - Somebody

- Digital Songs (14) - 68,000 (+7%)

- Radio Songs (8) - 73 million all-format audience impressions (+9%)

- Streaming Songs (19) - 4.3 million US streams (+5%)

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 10

 

(billboard chart date 11th April 2015)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES

 

01 01 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk! - 165,000 (5,071,000)

02 02 Maroon 5 - Sugar - 143,000

04 03 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud - 129,000

03 04 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do - 114,000 (1,540,000)

** 05 Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money - 108,000 (NEW)

06 06 The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) - 107,000 (1,057,000)

05 07 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds - 100,000 (1,439,000)

07 08 Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini & Lookas - G.D.F.R. - 99,500 (1,136,000)

08 09 Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance - 93,000

09 10 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen - 91,000 (502,000)

 

10 11 Sam Smith - Lay Me Down

12 12 Nick Jonas - Chains

13 14 Natalie la Rose featuring Jeremih - Somebody - 68,000

19 15 Jason Derulo - Want to Want Me - 66,000

RE 17 Little Big Town - Girl Crush - 60,000 (330,000)

18 20 Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good.

17 21 Hozier - Take Me to Church

21 23 Ariana Grande - One Last Time

** 24 Breaking Benjamin - Failure - 43,000 (NEW)

** 25 Iggy Azalea featuring Jennifer Hudson - Trouble - 41,000 (NEW)

Chart Highlights

• With 13 weeks on top, Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!" topples Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" to become the longest-running #1 of the decade so far. The song joins only nine others to have tallied at least as many weeks at #1; the last song to do so was "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas, which spent 14 weeks on top in 2009. The song also spends a 13th week atop Digital Songs, tying Flo Rida's "Low" for the longest run at #1. It passes 5,000,000 in sales this week.

• The Weeknd's "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)" becomes the singer's first top-5 hit. It's the second song from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack to reach the top 5, following Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do". The song passes 1,000,000 in sales this week.

• Natalie la Rose and Jeremih hit the top 10 with "Somebody". The song is Natalie's first top-10 and Jeremih's fourth.

• Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money" debuts at #23. It sold 108,000 in its first four days on sale, good for a #5 debut on Digital Songs.

Bubbling Under

 

06 01 Kelsea Ballerini - Love Me Like You Mean It

20 02 Future - Commas

08 03 Kevin Gates Featuring August Alsina - I Don't Get Tired (#IDGT)

13 04 Ludacris featuring Miguel - Good Lovin

11 05 Kalin and Myles - Trampoline

RE 06 Major Lazer X DJ Snake featuring MØ - Lean On

** 07 Migos - One Time

** 08 Granger Smith - Backroad Song

03 09 Who Is Fancy - Goodbye

RE 10 Nate Ruess - Nothing Without Love

RE 11 Wale featuring Usher - The Matrimony

17 12 Easton Corbin - Baby Be My Love Song

RE 13 J. Cole - G.O.M.D.

RE 14 Brad Paisley - Crushin' It

** 15 Chedda da Connect - Flicka da Wrist

** 16 Deorro X Chris Brown - Five More Hours

12 17 Empire Cast featuring V. Bozeman - What Is Love

RE 18 J Balvin - Ay Vamos

14 19 Empire Cast featuring Jussie Smollett - Good Enough

RE 20 Hozier - Work Song

** 21 Kygo featuring Parson James - Stole the Show

RE 22 Avicii - The Nights

RE 23 Big Data featuring Joywave - Dangerous

RE 24 Josh Turner - Lay Low

22 25 Kacey Musgraves - Biscuits

It's mostly airplay that causes songs to stick around (and no, they're not gonna take airplay out of the equation after 57 years)

The Rihanna track doesn't seem like something that pop radio would jump at the chance to play. It might become something like "Drunk in Love"/"Anaconda" and get to the upper reaches of the Hot 100 on strong sales/streams but airplay won't push it to #1.

It's been getting some pop airplay, though I think it's being treated as DJ Snake's follow-up to "Turn Down for What" rather than a breakout for AlunaGeorge. It would be cool to see AG chart regardless.

SALES, RADIO & STREAMING

 

1) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!

- Digital Songs (1) - 187,000 (-1%)

- Radio Songs (1) - 173 million all-format audience impressions (-3%)

- Streaming Songs (1) - 19.1 million US streams (+13%)

- - of which On-Demand Songs (1) - 4.6 million US streams (-6%)

 

2) Maroon 5 - Sugar

- Digital Songs (2) - 156,000 (-13%)

- Radio Songs (4) - 129 million all-format audience impressions (+5%)

- Streaming Songs (4) - 9.8 million US streams (-1%)

 

4) Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do

- Digital Songs (3) - 132,000 (-14%)

- Radio Songs (5) - 110 million all-format audience impressions (+14%)

- Streaming Songs (5) - 8.3 million US streams (-22%)

 

10) Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini & Lookas - G.D.F.R.

- Digital Songs (7) - 101,000 (+9%)

- Radio Songs (26) - 39 million all-format audience impressions (+23%)

- Streaming Songs (13) - 5.2 million US streams (+4%)

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 10

 

(billboard chart date 4th April 2015)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES

 

01 01 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk! - 187,000 (4,906,000)

02 02 Maroon 5 - Sugar - 156,000

04 03 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do - 132,000 (1,426,000)

05 04 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud - 127,000

06 05 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds - 113,000 (1,339,000)

07 06 The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) - 102,000 (951,000)

08 07 Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini & Lookas - G.D.F.R. - 101,000 (1,037,000)

13 08 Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance - 83,000

12 09 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen - 76,000 (411,000)

03 10 Sam Smith - Lay Me Down - 75,000

 

17 13 Natalie la Rose featuring Jeremih - Somebody - 64,000 (410,000)

18 16 Sam Hunt - Take Your Time

16 17 Hozier - Take Me to Church

32 18 Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good.

29 20 Tove Lo - Talking Body

25 21 Ariana Grande - One Last Time

27 22 Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin

Chart Highlights

• In its 12th week on top, "Uptown Funk!" becomes only the 15th hit to spend that many weeks at #1 in Hot 100 history. It also ties Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" for the longest tenure on top this decade. The song likewise spends a 12th week atop Digital Songs, having sold nearly 5,000,000 copies thus far.

• Flo Rida earns his 10th top-10 hit with "G.D.F.R.", becoming the 15th rapper to do so. With the climb, rapper Sage the Gemini and producer Lookas also earn their first top-10s. The song passes 1,000,000 sales this week.

• Meghan Trainor's latest single "Dear Future Husband" re-enters at #47 following the release of its video. Prior to its single release, the song sold well as an album track; it has been certified gold and spends its 10th week on the Hot 100.

• Kendrick Lamar debuts 6 songs on the Hot 100 from To Pimp a Butterfly, led by "King Kunta" at #61. We also see the notable return of funk legend George Clinton, who is featured on Kendrick's "Wesley's Theory" at #91. Clinton charted 14 hits with his bands Parliament, Funkadelic, and Parliament-Funkadelic from 1969-96, and made one previous solo entry as a featured artist on Ice Cube's "Bop Nation", which peaked at #23 in 1994.

BILLBOARD HOT 100

 

(billboard chart date 4th April 2015)

 

01 01 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!

02 02 Maroon 5 - Sugar

03 03 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud

04 04 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do

05 05 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds

06 06 The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)

07 07 Taylor Swift - Style

10 08 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen

09 09 Pitbull & Ne-Yo - Time Of Our Lives

13 10 Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini & Lookas - G.D.F.R.

 

12 11 Taylor Swift - Blank Space

11 12 Hozier - Take Me To Church

15 13 Natalie La Rose featuring Jeremih - Somebody

14 14 Nicki Minaj featuring Drake & Lil Wayne - Truffle Butter

21 15 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance

18 16 Ariana Grande - One Last Time

17 17 Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin

08 18 Sam Smith - Lay Me Down

16 19 Usher featuring Juicy J - I Don’t Mind

20 20 Nick Jonas - Chains

 

27 21 Sam Hunt - Take Your Time

23 22 Chris Brown & Tyga - Ayo

19 23 Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One

22 24 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

28 25 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

24 26 Zedd featuring Selena Gomez - I Want You to Know

45 27 Jason Derulo - Want to Want Me

30 28 Kelly Clarkson - Heartbeat Song

25 29 Fall Out Boy - Centuries

37 30 Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding - Outside

 

29 31 Nicki Minaj featuring Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown - Only

41 32 Omarion featuring Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko - Post to Be

35 33 Big Sean featuring Drake - Blessings

33 34 Big Sean featuring E-40 - I Don’t F**k With You

40 35 Maroon 5 - Animals

26 36 Ne-Yo featuring Juicy J - She Knows

34 37 Sam Smith - Stay With Me

32 38 Nick Jonas - Jealous

46 39 Tove Lo - Talking Body

38 40 Vance Joy - Riptide

 

42 41 Zac Brown Band - Homegrown

36 42 Beyonce - 7/11

48 43 Cole Swindell - Ain't Worth the Whiskey

39 44 Lillywood & Robin Schulz - Prayer In C

52 45 One Direction - Night Changes

47 46 Sia - Chandelier

RE 47 Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband

49 48 Sia - Elastic Heart

50 49 Rae Sremmurd - No Type

57 50 Chris Young - Lonely Eyes

 

61 51 Rae Sremmurd featuring Nicki Minaj & Young Thug - Throw Sum Mo

54 52 Drake - Energy

51 53 Kanye West featuring Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney - All Day

60 54 Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life

63 55 Darius Rucker - Homegrown Honey

77 56 Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good.

66 57 Drake - Know Yourself

64 58 Trey Songz - Slow Motion

58 59 Sheppard - Geronimo

43 60 Ciara - I Bet

 

** 61 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta (NEW)

72 62 George Ezra - Budapest

62 63 Drake - Legend

59 64 O.T. Genasis - CoCo

71 65 Dierks Bentley - Say You Do

** 66 Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry (NEW)

31 67 Mumford & Sons - Believe

53 68 Brett Eldredge - Mean To Me

76 69 Silento - Watch Me

56 70 Jason Aldean - Just Gettin' Started

 

69 71 Nicki Minaj featuring Beyonce - Feeling Myself

55 72 Miranda Lambert - Little Red Wagon

74 73 Tyler Farr - A Guy Walks Into a Bar

80 74 Tori Kelly - Nobody Love

67 75 J. Cole - Apparently

78 76 Drake - 10 Bands

83 77 A Thousand Horses - Smoke

87 78 Fifth Harmony featuring Kid Ink - Worth It

84 79 Keith Urban featuring Eric Church - Raise 'Em Up

65 80 Blake Shelton featuring Ashley Monroe - Lonely Tonight

 

88 81 Billy Currington - Don't It

100 82 Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again

** 83 Kendrick Lamar - Alright (NEW)

** 84 Twenty One Pilots - Fairly Local (NEW)

79 85 Fall Out Boy - Immortals

82 86 Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants

68 87 Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You

70 88 Empire Cast featuring Jussie Smollett & Yazz - You're So Beautiful

75 89 Thomas Rhett - Make Me Wanna

81 90 Luke Bryan - I See You

 

** 91 Kendrick Lamar featuring George Clinton & Thundercat - Wesley's Theory (NEW)

89 92 OneRepublic - I Lived

95 93 LunchMoney Lewis - Bills

** 94 Kendrick Lamar featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat - These Walls (NEW)

90 95 Little Big Town - Girl Crush

RE 96 Florida Georgia Line - Sippin' on Fire

92 97 Eric Pasley - She Don't Love You

93 98 Skrillex & Diplo featuring Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now

** 99 Kendrick Lamar featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Snoop Dogg - Institutionalized (NEW)

73 100 James Newton Howard featuring Jennifer Lawrence - The Hanging Tree

 

44 OUT Ella Henderson - Ghost

85 OUT Jessie J - Masterpiece

86 OUT Empire Cast featuring Estelle & Jussie Smollett - Conqueror

91 OUT Jake Owen - What We Ain't Got

94 OUT Luke Bryan - Games

96 OUT Echosmith - Bright

97 OUT Kenny Chesney with Grace Potter - Wild Child

98 OUT Tim McGraw with Catherine Dunn - Diamond Rings and Old Barstools

99 OUT Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns

 

 

Bubbling Under

 

** 01 Kendrick Lamar - u

** 02 Kendrick Lamar - Hood Politics

01 03 Who Is Fancy - Goodbye

03 04 Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias - El Perdón

** 05 David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj & Afrojack - Hey Mama

04 06 Kelsea Ballerini - Love Me Like You Mean It

09 07 Eric Church - Like a Wrecking Ball

02 08 Kevin Gates Featuring August Alsina - I Don't Get Tired (#IDGT)

** 09 Kendrick Lamar featuring James Fauntleroy & Ronald Isley - How Much a Dollar Cost

07 10 Canaan Smith - Love You Like That

05 11 Kalin and Myles - Trampoline

12 12 Empire Cast featuring V. Bozeman - What Is Love

08 13 Ludacris featuring Miguel - Good Lovin

06 14 Empire Cast featuring Jussie Smollett - Good Enough

19 15 DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It

** 16 James Bay - Let It Go

13 17 Easton Corbin - Baby Be My Love Song

** 18 Kendrick Lamar - Momma

14 19 Empire Cast featuring Yazz & Serayah McNeill - Drip Drop

11 20 Future - Commas

** 21 Empire Cast featuring Jussie Smollett - Nothing to Lose

** 22 Kacey Musgraves - Biscuits

** 23 Kendrick Lamar - For Sale? (Interlude)

** 24 Kendrick Lamar - For Free? (Interlude)

** 25 Kendrick Lamar featuring Rapsody - Complexion (A Zulu Love)

I wish new artists would stop relying on the anonymity shtick because it doesn't work anymore. It worked in '06 when actual unknowns could post music on MySpace and become viral hits, but in 2015 labels know how to use internet buzz in their favor so stuff like this just rings so false. A quick Google search (which, hey, was the point here I guess) will tell you that this guy's under Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta and was first introduced at an industry event so it's not like we're dealing with some shady Soundcloud producer plucked from obscurity here. Also anonymity only works in your favor if your music's distinctive and exceptional; this is anonymous, but only in that it could literally have been made by anyone.

Eric Wareheim directed it so this is exactly what you'd expect from an Eric Wareheim-directed video

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 10

 

(billboard chart date 28th March 2015)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES

 

01 01 Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk! - 189,000

02 02 Maroon 5 - Sugar - 178,000

** 03 Sam Smith - Lay Me Down - 157,000 (NEW)

04 04 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do - 152,000

03 05 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud - 137,000

05 06 Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds - 124,000 (1,226,000)

07 07 The Weeknd - Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) - 99,000 (848,000)

10 08 Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini & Lookas - G.D.F.R. - 93,000 (936,000)

** 09 Mumford & Sons - Believe - 87,000 (NEW)

09 10 Taylor Swift - Style - 82,000

 

14 11 Nick Jonas - Chains

17 12 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen - 68,000 (335,000)

20 13 Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance - 67,000

11 16 Hozier - Take Me to Church

24 17 Natalie la Rose featuring Jeremih - Somebody - 57,000 (347,000)

** 19 Jason Derulo - Want to Want Me - 50,000 (NEW)

28 25 Ariana Grande - One Last Time