

7 and leads Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a sixth week Charli XCX’s “Boom Clap” reaches a new peak (10-8) and Sia’s “Chandelier” returns to the top 10 (11-9). 4 hit “Break Free,” featuring Zedd, keeps at No. 6 on the Hot 100 (and departs the Radio Songs summit after six weeks) Grande’s No. IHeartRadio Fest Friday Highlights: Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj Grab Guests, J-Law Watches Coldplay “Widow” jumps 9-7 on Radio Songs (99 million, up 12 percent) and, despite a 5-8 slip on Streaming Songs, it increases by 4 percent to 7.9 million streams. 1 “Baby Got Back,” tops Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs for a fifth week each.Īzalea’s “Black Widow” retreats 4-5 on the Hot 100, although it keeps its bullet thanks to a 4 percent points gain. The track, which samples Sir Mix-A-Lot’s five-week 1992 Hot 100 No. 2), although it continues scaling Radio Songs (31-30 41 million, up 8 percent). Minaj’s “Anaconda” drops 3-4 on the Hot 100 (having reached No. 3 on Digital Songs (144,000, down 2 percent), dips 4-6 on Streaming Songs, but with a 7 percent rise to 8 million, and lifts 13-11 on Radio Songs (81 million, up 14 percent). Jessie J, Grande and Minaj’s “Bang Bang” powers by 6 percent in total points as it climbs 5-3 on the Hot 100. “Bass” appears comfortable at the Hot 100’s pinnacle: it widens its lead over “Shake,” dropping by 2 percent in overall chart points, while “Shake” loses a heftier 7 percent of its total.

The track rebounds 2-1 for a third week atop Digital Songs (294,000, down 5 percent) and descends 3-5 on Streaming Songs (8.4 million, down 24 percent the track had soared by 58 percent in streaming in the prior tracking week after a video featuring Kentucky fraternity brothers performing a lip dub to the song went viral on YouTube and Swift Tweeted her clear approval of it.) 2 on the Hot 100 with top Airplay Gainer honors for the first time, pushing 4-2 on Radio Songs (128 million, up 12 percent). It drops 1-2 after four weeks on top of the Digital Songs chart (282,000 sold, down 10 percent, according to Nielsen SoundScan).Īs previously reported, “Bass” also crowns the Pop Songs radio airplay chart and passes 2 million downloads sold to date. streams, and a fourth week atop the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart (4.1 million, up 11 percent), according to BDS. 1 on Streaming Songs, up by 1 percent to 15.7 million U.S. Trainor’s debut Epic Records single rules the Hot 100 fueled by its coronation on Radio Songs, where it rises 3-1 with a 9 percent gain to 134 million in all-format audience, according to Nielsen BDS. Ladies First: Meghan Trainor & 20 Females Who Topped the Hot 100 With Their First Entry (It’s the 10th including the week of June 30, 1979, when four solo women and one all-female group, Sister Sledge, barred all boys from the region.) The current run of three straight weeks of only women in the top five is the second-longest such streak after a four-week stretch in February/March 1999.

Women, therefore, control the top five exclusively for a third straight week, marking just the ninth week in the Hot 100’s 56-year history in which solo women have kept men out of the top five. 5.Īsk Billboard: It’s All About Women In The Hot 100’s Top Five 4 and Azalea’s “Black Widow,” featuring Rita Ora, slips from its No. 2 for a third week Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj’s “Bang Bang” reaches a new peak (5-3) Minaj’s “Anaconda” drops from No. It’s Wednesday, the day that the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100 is compiled each week, so let’s run down the numbers behind the tally’s top 10 and more.īelow “Bass” on the Hot 100, Taylor Swift’s former two-week No. 18 with her own celebration of curves, “Booty,” featuring Iggy Azalea and Pitbull, fueled by a strong start in streaming following the premiere of its video. Meanwhile, R&B/hip-hop crooner Jeremih jumps into the Hot 100’s top 10 with “Don’t Tell ‘Em,” featuring YG, and Jennifer Lopez bounds in at No. Meghan Trainor’s ode to booty beauty, “All About That Bass,” spearheads an all-female top five on the Billboard Hot 100 for a third straight week and becomes the new No.
