charts discussion US Airplay Discussion

[pride4jc1222]

Back again:

 

100

+5

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

1069

1

(x199)

11.48

+0.14

[Into The Void]

Miley 

[Into The Void]

Wonder how much Flowers grows in just a week this is insane

[Gaia]

SZA actually getting two radio hits simultaneously  

 

Good because in the streaming age NGM would struggle after KB 

[LCTV]

FLOWERS  

[Luckitty]

bloody mary surprised me, i thought radio listeners would hate it

[nick4bty]

Okay Bloody Mary is ACTUALLY coming

[FAN]

Flowers radio deal wtffff  insane

[besaid]

Not Bloody Mary out here fighting the SZA songs on pop radio  What timeline is this

[LCTV]

21 minutes ago, besaid said:

Not Bloody Mary out here fighting the SZA songs on pop radio  What timeline is this

Im just thanking Gen-z and their TASTE

[Ger]

8 (+1) As It Was: 9056 (-38) | 32.307 (-0.203) 

9 (-1) Bad Habit: 8956 (-164) | 28.084 (-0.479) 

10. Victoria's Secret: 8898 (-43) | 25.416 (+0.046)  

 

11. CUFF IT: 8785 (-19) | 26.454 (-0.169) 

12 (+1) golden hour: 8358 (-14) | 24.186 (+0.062) 

 

I made a mistake with the initial fake "positive" CUFF IT update, which makes it... worse.  We need more hits, that damn AIW is sitting comfortable. Btw, I understand that AIW is breaking the record for most weeks inside the Top 10 on Pop radio with 41 weeks so far, surpassing "STAY".

[Ger]

OVERALL

 

** = Incorrect update (song was dropped from or added to a format)

 

1. Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero" 100.16 (+0.14) 

2. David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - "I'm Good (Blue)" 89.42 (+0.45) 

3. Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy" 87.51 (-0.48) 

4. The Weeknd - "Die for You" 80.12 (+0.52) 

5. Harry Styles - "As It Was" 65.35 (-0.28) 

6. Beyoncé - "CUFF IT" 62.57 (-0.61) 

7. Nicki Minaj - "Super Freaky Girl" 55.36 (-0.96)  

8 (+1) Meghan Trainor - "Made You Look" 50.39 (+0.26) 

9 (-1) Post Malone - "I Like You (A Happier Song) [feat. Doja Cat]" 50.31 (-0.35) ** 

10 (+1) Sia - "Unstoppable" 47.56 (-0.06) 

 

11 (-1) Jax - "Victoria's Secret" 47.37 (-0.45) 

12 (+3) Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - "Creepin'" 45.98 (+2.91) 

13 (-1) Chris Brown - "Under the Influence" 44.07 (-0.36) 

14. Jordan Davis - "What My World Spins Around" 43.89 (+0.68) 

15 (-2) Nicky Youre & dazy - "Sunroof" 43.13 (-0.62) 

16. Steve Lacy - "Bad Habit" 42.07 (-0.89) ** 

17. Glass Animals - "Heat Waves" 41.78 (-0.70) 

18 (+1) Nate Smith - "Whiskey on You" 40.52 (+0.03) 

19 (-1) The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - "STAY" 40.46 (-0.77) 

20 (+2) Drake & 21 Savage - "Rich Flex" 39.64 (+0.95) 

 

Kane Brown & Katelyn Brown - "Thank God" 39.52 (+0.42) 

Rihanna - "Lift Me Up" 38.35 (-1.50) 

Cole Swindell - "She Had Me at Heads Carolina" 37.81 (-0.33)

Lizzo - "About Damn Time" 37.44 (-0.46) 

Jelly Roll - "Son of a Sinner" 36.65 (-1.26) 

Morgan Wallen - "You Proof" 36.27 (-0.55) 

GloRilla & Cardi B - "Tomorrow 2" 35.10 (-0.08) 

Taylor Swift - "Lavender Haze" 34.39 (-0.04) 

Lewis Capaldi - "Forget Me" 32.76 (+0.01) 

Morgan Wallen - "Thought You Should Know" 30.43 (+0.50) 

JVKE - "golden hour" 28.61 (+0.12) 

P!nk - "Never Gonna Not Dance Again" 20.13 (+0.18) 

Lil Uzi Vert - "Just Wanna Rock" 18.44 (+1.26) 

SZA - "Kill Bill" 17.09 (+2.07) 

Bailey Zimmerman - "Rock and a Hard Place" 15.66 (+0.34) 

Rema & Selena Gomez - "Calm Down" 14.64 (+0.55) **

Drake & 21 Savage - "Circo Loco" 13.89 (-0.12) 

Miley Cyrus - "Flowers" 12.72 (+10.30) **

Lady Gaga - "Bloody Mary" 7.41 (+0.60) 

SZA - "Nobody Gets Me" 7.12 (+0.33) 

RAYE - "Escapism. (feat. 070 Shake)" 5.03 (+0.87) 

[Ger]

I found this amazing article (here is a summary) which discusses the problem that radio has to find hits during the streaming era.

 

 

Quote

 

WHY AREN’T THERE MORE FOLLOW-UPS?

 

For years, it was a given. If an artist had a CHR hit, there would almost certainly be a follow-up, maybe even on the first Tuesday after that song peaked. There were only a few typical exceptions — artists at the end of an album project that had already yielded multiple hit singles; occasionally an artist from so far outside the Top 40 world that there wasn’t a suitable follow-up available.

 

But as the promotional landscape shifts, a CHR follow-up even to the biggest hit is not guaranteed. At least two of last year’s biggest CHR hits — Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” and Latto’s “Big Energy” – never had a direct follow-up single. Only eight of the current top 40 CHR songs are direct follow-ups, and that includes songs like Sam Smith’s “Unholy” that are bigger than the song before them.

 

Overall, out of Mediabase’s top 30 CHR hits of 2022:

• 18 had a traditional follow-up worked; of those, nine are songs that became consensus hits;
• Nine did not have a follow-up officially worked, although a few artists have gotten significant airplay on other songs anyway; e.g., Post Malone’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger”;
• Three have not had a follow-up yet because the artists are either between projects (Doja Cat) or their current hits are still in play (Steve Lacy, Sam Smith).

Those numbers are offset somewhat by the handful of artists who have several viable titles working at once: Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, and now SZA, who impacted two songs this week. But as Top 40 grapples for a steady flow of product, and to create superstar artists, a lack of follow-ups has clear implications for a format that depends on both a steady flow of product and at least a few marquee artists to generate attention.

 

The obvious explanation is the increased reliance by both labels and radio on TikTok and song streams to determine which songs are worth pursuing. A potential follow-up can be scuttled well before a sound even becomes a song, much less a “radio single.” But even if labels chose to spend the money on a follow-up every time, many broadcasters would now look askance at any song brought to them without a streaming story.

 

In addition:

• The durability of a relatively small number of hit singles makes labels reluctant to send a follow-up into the buzzsaw of a previous single that won’t stop testing. In the past, an artist whose follow-up was upstaged by an ongoing hit was more likely to be a developing act. Now, it can be the Weeknd. Glass Animals’ “I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance),” a great potential follow-up, had fallen off the Alternative chart long before “Heat Waves” peaked.
• A lack of programmer enterprise makes it less likely that anybody at radio will be listening to a project for potential follow-ups, although both Harry Styles’s and Taylor Swift’s recent albums have songs that received play ahead of being worked.
• An increased number of “comeback” songs spurred by TikTok and/or streaming by inactiveartists mean that many artists aren’t even on schedule for new product, although Sia has just followed “Unstoppable” with the sync-generated “Titanium (Megan’s V3rsion).” But there’s no new Kate Bush single yet.
• Spotify rules favor just-released product over a song that has been sitting on an album for several months, unless there’s a remix, also leading to less singles depth. And there’s less emphasis on albums as an artistic unit (and less likelihood to think of long-term game plans for multiple singles).

 

The lack of follow-ups is tied to all the challenges that inform the radio/label relationship at the moment. Those issues aren’t likely to change until both parties come up with a new model for working together — one with more radio willingness to champion new music and a lower cost of entry for each new single. It’s hard to know where that discussion will start.

 

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by Ger-55

[Ger]

SPANISH CONTEMPORARY

0    47    SHAKIRA & BIZARRAP    BZRP Music Sessions #53    213    0    213    1.432

 

TROPICAL LATIN (Incomplete)

BZRP Music Sessions #53: 52 Spins | 0.462 Audience

 

LATIN URBAN (Incomplete)

BZRP Music Sessions #53: 7 Spins | 0.205 Audience

 

RHYTHMIC (Incomplete)

BZRP Music Sessions #53: 5 Spins | 0.030 Audience

 

POP (Incomplete)

BZRP Music Sessions #53: 5 Spins | 0.015 Audience

 

REGIONAL MEXICAN (Incomplete)

BZRP Music Sessions #53: 2 Spins | 0.001 Audience

[brianc33710]

Son Of A Sinner vividly displays a major problem at Country radio. SOAS was on fire & getting requested like crazy once getting its foot in the door. The problem is, SOAS was on fire LAST APRIL & MAY!!! By the time SOAS hit #1 at Christmas much of the songs popular appeal had long since worn off. SOAS should've been allowed to climb last summer. Instead it barely remained on the charts cause of Country radio's fickleness for a hot song by an unknown artist that unnecessarily needs 10-11 months to reach #1! The song would lose its bullet, make tiny gains the next week then back & forth like for months on end.

[keatonzee]

Players by Coi Leray debuts on number 50

[Ger]

POP

1. Anti-Hero 18105 (+80) | 58.144 (+0.169) 

2. Unholy: 17778 (-118) | 57.567 (-0.600) 

3. I'm Good (Blue): 17442 (-73) | 55.347 (-0.239) 

4. Die for You: 16165 (+36) | 54.526 (+0.065) 

5. Super Freaky Girl: 13629 (-222) | 42.918 (-0.775) 

6. Made You Look: 11154 (+198) | 33.929 (+0.545) 

7. I Like You (A Happier Song): 10191 (-44) | 34.422 (-0.467) 

8. As It Was: 8997 (-59) | 31.986 (-0.321) 

9 (+1) Victoria's Secret: 8848 (-50) | 25.402 (-0.014)  

10 (-1) Bad Habit: 8819 (-137) | 27.663 (-0.421) 

 

11. CUFF IT: 8801 (+16) | 26.278 (-0.176) 

12. golden hour: 8441 (+83) | 24.523 (+0.337) 

13 (+2) Creepin': 7833 (+371) | 30.145 (+1.618) 

14. Lavender Haze: 7812 (+21) | 24.654 (+0.078) 

15 (-2) STAR WALKIN' (League of Legends Worlds Anthem): 7736 (-468) | 18.178 (-1.709) 

16. Forget Me: 5951 (-6) | 16.320 (-0.122) 

17. SNAP: 5092 (+63) | 10.756 (+0.052) 

18. Under the Influence: 4847 (+109) | 12.228 (+0.278)  

19. Calm Down: 4745 (+70) | 12.453 (+0.189) 

20 (+1) Enough: 3424 (+35) | 7.107 (+0.012) 

 

21 (+2) Kill Bill: 3353 (+419) | 12.459 (+1.512) 

22 (-2) World's Smallest Violin: 3132 (-359) | 6.302 (-0.914) 

23 (+3) Flowers: 2933 (+695) | 10.789 (+2.756) 

24 (-2) uh oh: 2859 (-260) | 6.056 (-0.712) 

25 (-1) Never Gonna Not Dance Again: 2466 (+125) | 5.107 (+0.190) 

26 (+1) Bloody Mary: 2404 (+242) | 7.276 (+0.481) 

27 (+2) Nobody Gets Me: 2218 (+166) | 6.444 (+0.406) 

28. Die for You (Joji): 2087 (+26) | 3.018 (+0.037) 

29 (-4) My Mind & Me: 1944 (-334) | 3.487 (-0.653) 

30 (+1) Lift Me Up: 1851 (-133) | 5.249 (-0.579) 

 

32 (+1) Million Dollar Baby: 1742 (+16) | 3.014 (-0.008) 

34. Miss You: 1615 (-3) | 2.538 (-0.019) 

35. I'm a Mess: 1508 (+32) | 2.387 (+0.026) 

36. Sex, Drugs, Etc.: 1489 (+80) | 2.902 (+0.044) 

37 (+2) Escapism.: 1437 (+223) | 4.574 (+0.779) 

41 (+1) Nonsense: 820 (+70) | 1.697 (+0.201) 

43. Nxde: 687 (-40) | 0.748 (-0.079) 

44. 10:35: 582 (+17) | 1.295 (+0.087) 

47. Rich Flex: 387 (+15) | 0.957 (-0.007) 

[Polgg48]

10 (-1) Bad Habit: 8819 (-137) | 27.663 (-0.421) 

 

11. CUFF IT: 8801 (+16) | 26.278 (-0.176) 

 

top 10 tomorrow, what a run for bey

[Raphy23]

2 hours ago, keatonzee said:

Players by Coi Leray debuts on number 50

Big Energy 2.0

[Ger]

OVERALL

 

** = Incorrect update (song was dropped from or added to a format)

 

1. Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero" 100.37 (+0.21) 

2. David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - "I'm Good (Blue)" 89.47 (+0.05) 

3. Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy" 86.92 (-0.59) 

4. The Weeknd - "Die for You" 80.39 (+0.26) 

5. Harry Styles - "As It Was" 65.02 (-0.32) 

6. Beyoncé - "CUFF IT" 62.13 (-0.44) 

7. Nicki Minaj - "Super Freaky Girl" 54.23 (-1.13)  

8. Meghan Trainor - "Made You Look" 51.17 (+0.78) 

9. Post Malone - "I Like You (A Happier Song) [feat. Doja Cat]" 50.16 (-0.15) 

10 (+2) Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - "Creepin'" 48.92 (+2.94) 

 

11 (-1) Sia - "Unstoppable" 47.84 (+0.28) 

12 (-1) Jax - "Victoria's Secret" 46.75 (-0.62) 

13. Chris Brown - "Under the Influence" 44.55 (+0.48) 

14. Jordan Davis - "What My World Spins Around" 44.34 (+0.45) 

15. Nicky Youre & dazy - "Sunroof" 42.56 (-0.57) 

16. Steve Lacy - "Bad Habit" 41.26 (-0.82) 

17. Glass Animals - "Heat Waves" 41.13 (-0.65) 

18. Nate Smith - "Whiskey on You" 40.74 (+0.23) 

19 (+1) Drake & 21 Savage - "Rich Flex" 40.45 (+0.81) 

20 (-1) The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - "STAY" 40.17 (-0.28) 

 

Kane Brown & Katelyn Brown - "Thank God" 39.95 (+0.43) 

Cole Swindell - "She Had Me at Heads Carolina" 37.66 (-0.15)

Rihanna - "Lift Me Up" 36.91 (-1.44) 

Lizzo - "About Damn Time" 36.73 (-0.71) 

Morgan Wallen - "You Proof" 36.63 (+0.36) 

GloRilla & Cardi B - "Tomorrow 2" 35.20 (+0.10) 

Taylor Swift - "Lavender Haze" 34.35 (-0.04) 

Lewis Capaldi - "Forget Me" 32.60 (-0.16) 

Morgan Wallen - "Thought You Should Know" 30.55 (+0.12) 

JVKE - "golden hour" 29.06 (+0.45) 

P!nk - "Never Gonna Not Dance Again" 20.27 (+0.14) 

SZA - "Kill Bill" 19.70 (+2.61) 

Lil Uzi Vert - "Just Wanna Rock" 19.50 (+1.06) 

Miley Cyrus - "Flowers" 16.89 (+4.18) 

Bailey Zimmerman - "Rock and a Hard Place" 16.24 (+0.58) 

Rema & Selena Gomez - "Calm Down" 15.05 (+0.41) 

Drake & 21 Savage - "Circo Loco" 13.98 (+0.09) 

Coi Leray - "Players" 11.61 (+1.38) 

Lady Gaga - "Bloody Mary" 8.00 (+0.59) 

SZA - "Nobody Gets Me" 7.64 (+0.52) 

RAYE - "Escapism. (feat. 070 Shake)" 6.18 (+1.15) 

Bizarrap & Shakira - "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" 3.35 (+0.84) 

[Kamil24]

Country

2    1     JORDAN DAVIS    What My World Spins Around    8210    7518    692    36.711
4    2    NATE SMITH    Whiskey On You    7535    7118    417    34.196
5    3    KANE BROWN & KATELYN BROWN    Thank God    7235    6635    600    32.84
1    4    JELLY ROLL    Son Of A Sinner    6825    8114    -1289    31.365
6    5    GABBY BARRETT    Pick Me Up    6412    6045    367    26.323

 

Gabby Top 5 Country radio is so slow though, this song came out in 2021 and has been climbing super slow since then.

[simmnfierzig]

Flowers 

Wow

 

And bye Unholy. You wont be missed 

[Ger]

Who knows if it's over but the fact "I'm Good" was like 600 spins of difference away from #1 and yet it peaked at #3 is... unlucky. It still could peak at #2.

[Julia Fox]

Nonsense  

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

Seems like a 4th week at number one for Anti-Hero is highly possible. Great comeback for Taylor after the upsets incurred during the 2019-21 period.