charts discussion US Airplay Discussion

[OrgVisual]

5 hours ago, FAN said:

The way radio hates all women who aren’t Ariana

Not when Billie and Tate reached #1 a few weeks ago. Make it make sense

[Ger]

I have a feeling The Kid is going #1, and "pov" looks very strong as a #1 contender.

 

AITO better come faster 

[shookgrande]

"payola!" "scooter!"  

 

‘She’s Perfect Right Now for Top 40’: How Ariana Grande Made History at Pop Radio

billboard.com/articles/business/radio/9573936/ariana-grande-radio-pop-airplay-history

 

With a record number of singles in the top 10 of the Pop Airplay chart, the superstar is demonstrating her radio dominance -- as well as how top 40 has evolved.

 

Now, with a record three concurrent top 10 hits on the chart, Grande has demonstrated just how dominant her blend of traditional pop, R&B, hip-hop influences and powerhouse vocals have become at the format. "Listeners love her," says Jeremy Rice, director of branding and programming for WBLI (Long Island, N.Y.). "The consumption and research is there. She flows very well alongside other rhythmic and pop records. She's perfect right now for top 40."

 

"She's mass appeal -- she reaches moms and daughters among millions of followers," adds Jon Zellner, president of programming operations at iHeartMedia. "All three of these songs are catchy, they have strong hooks, they're melodic, and they span a couple of generations, which is different from a very young-end artist that doesn't have a larger appeal for thirty-plus listeners."

 

Not many artists can sit atop the Billboard Hot 100 and boast an even more significant chart achievement during the same week. Yet that’s arguably what Ariana Grande did last week, when “Save Your Tears,” her latest team-up with The Weeknd, spent a second consecutive week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 -- just as Grande made history on a different chart with three other hit singles.

On Billboard's mainstream top 40 radio-based Pop Airplay chart, “POV,” Grande’s latest single from last year’s Positions album, rose three spots to No. 10 in its seventh week (on the chart dated May 15), while the album’s first two singles, “Positions” and “34+35,” came in at No. 6 and No. 9, respectively. As such, Grande became the first artist to post three top 10 songs at the same timein the Pop Airplay chart’s 29-year history.

 

On Billboard's mainstream top 40 radio-based Pop Airplay chart, “POV,” Grande’s latest single from last year’s Positions album, rose three spots to No. 10 in its seventh week (on the chart dated May 15), while the album’s first two singles, “Positions” and “34+35,” came in at No. 6 and No. 9, respectively. As such, Grande became the first artist to post three top 10 songs at the same time in the Pop Airplay chart’s 29-year history.

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by shookgrande

[LCTV]

On 5/18/2021 at 10:17 AM, Ger-55 said:

POWER ROTATION REPORT

(May 11th, 2021)

 

1. WHTZ-FM (New York)

Ariana Grande - "positions"

Ariana Grande - "pov"

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)"

Dua Lipa - "We're Good" [RETURN]

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)"

 

2. WKTU-FM (New York)

Ava Max - "My Head & My Heart"

Chris Brown x Young Thug - "Go Crazy"

Daya - "Bad Girl" [RETURN]

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)"

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)" [NEW]

 

3. KIIS-FM (Los Angeles)

Ariana Grande - "34+35"

Ariana Grande - "pov"

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)" [NEW]

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)" [NEW]

Kali Uchis - "telepatía"

 

4. WXKS-FM (Boston)

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)"

Dua Lipa - "We're Good"

Justin Bieber - "Anyone"

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)"

Machine Gun Kelly & blackbear - "my ex's best friend"

Tate McRae - "you broke me first"

The Kid LAROI - "WITHOUT YOU"

 

5. KHKS-FM (Dallas)

Ariana Grande - "pov" [NEW]

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)"

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)"

The Weeknd - "Save Your Tears"

 

6. KRBE-FM (Houston)

Billie Eilish - "Therefore I Am"

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)" [NEW]

Olivia Rodrigo - "drivers license"

The Weeknd - "Save Your Tears"

 

7. WKSC-FM (Chicago)

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)" [RETURN]

Machine Gun Kelly & blackbear - "my ex's best friend" [RETURN]

The Kid LAROI - "WITHOUT YOU"

The Weeknd - "Save Your Tears"

Travis Scott & HVME - "Goosebumps (Remix)"

 

8. WIOQ-FM (Philadelphia)

Ariana Grande - "pov" [NEW]

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)"

Machine Gun Kelly & blackbear - "my ex's best friend"

The Weeknd - "Save Your Tears"

Travis Scott & HVME - "Goosebumps (Remix)"

 

9. WTOK-FM (Puerto Rico)

Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - "Leave the Door Open"

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)"

The Kid LAROI - "WITHOUT YOU"

 

10. KMVQ-FM (San Francisco)

Ariana Grande - "positions"

Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - "Leave the Door Open" [NEW]

Dua Lipa - "Levitating (feat. DaBaby)"

Justin Bieber - "Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon)"

 

Most playlisted songs:

8 Levitating (+2) // Peaches (+3)

4 pov (+2) // Save Your Tears (-2)

3 my ex's best friend (+1) // WITHOUT YOU (-1)

phew Levitating is truly the number one song in America  

[FAN]

2 hours ago, Sept said:

Not when Billie and Tate reached #1 a few weeks ago. Make it make sense

They literally plummeted the next week. Same with drivers license which is still top 15 on global Spotify with over 700M streams

 

[Ger]

POP

1. Peaches: 17.355 (+98) | 57.836 (+0.564)

2. Save Your Tears: 16.362 (-162) | 51.179 (-0.586)

3. WITHOUT YOU: 14.475 (+174) | 44.205 (+0.394)

4 (+1) pov: 12.754 (+216) | 43.926 (+0.659)

5 (-1) my ex's best friend: 12.521 (-263) | 37.403 (-0.429)

6. Leave the Door Open: 12.471 (+107) | 38.948 (+0.187)

7. positions: 10.207 (-185) | 35.605 (-0.611)

8. Astronaut in the Ocean: 9.721 (+54) | 28.566 (+0.192)

9 (+1) We're Good: 9.380 (-33) | 28.515 (-0.115)

10 (+1) Beautiful Mistakes: 9.309 (+46) | 27.281 (+0.084)

 

11 (-2) 34+35: 9.306 (-173) | 32.040 (-0.496)

12. Best Friend: 8.954 (+123) | 27.839 (+0.445)

13. Kiss Me More: 8.679 (+97) | 28.119 (+0.445)

14. drivers license: 8.092 (-161) | 24.463 (-0.677)

15. Goosebumps (Remix): 7.982 (-266) | 22.566 (-0.671)

16. deja vu: 7.693 (+27) | 22.675 (+0.097)

17. MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name): 7.541 (+264) | 22.422 (+1.006)

18. Heat Waves: 6.278 (+70) | 15.532 (+0.157)

19. Up: 5.391 (+22) | 14.664 (+0.002)

20. Your Power: 5.195 (+49) | 13.379 (+0.085)

 

21. Hold On: 4.823 (+43) | 14.312 (-0.002)

22. telepatía: 4.666 (+85) | 16.312 (+0.352)

23. Lil Bit: 4.303 (+81) | 9.032 (+0.183)

24. You: 4.091 (+125) | 9.340 (+0.202)

25. Way Less Sad: 3.635 (+2) | 8.326 (+0.049)

26. Arcade: 3.024 (+25) | 9.371 (+0.017)

27. Heartbreak Anniversary: 2.750 (+125) | 5.632 (+0.291)

28. Sacrifice: 2.632 (+65) | 4.994 (+0.149)

29. Calling My Phone: 2.495 (+22) | 4.508 (+0.023)

30. la di die: 1.572 (+54) | 2.513 (+0.097)

[Ger]

POP

R    R    DUA LIPA    Levitating    13637    11914    1723    50.616

+220 Spins

-131 Bullet

+0.610 Audience

 

 

POP

0    50    OLIVIA RODRIGO    good 4 u    322    0    322    1.501

+153 Spins

+153 Bullet

+0.602 Audience

Edited May 20, 2021 by Ger-55

[makeme]

Why is Best Friend and Kiss Me More getting such sub par updates on pop. Because they are both Doja songs? 

[gotportugal]

4 hours ago, Ger-55 said:

POP

R    R    DUA LIPA    Levitating    13637    11914    1723    50.616

+220 Spins

-131 Bullet

+0.610 Audience

 

 

POP

0    50    OLIVIA RODRIGO    good 4 u    322    0    322    1.501

+153 Spins

+153 Bullet

+0.602 Audience

pop queens only

[Green]

Does Levitating has a chance to reach the Pop Airplay #1?

[Ger]

3 hours ago, makeme said:

Why is Best Friend and Kiss Me More getting such sub par updates on pop. Because they are both Doja songs? 

Not necessarily, if anything Doja should help both songs since she has already a #1 Pop hit. The format is just too cautious when it comes to rap in general (BF). And about KMM, it's probably due to fammiliary, it's still a fresh song to test, situation should be different when its callouts are released.

 

1 hour ago, Green said:

Does Levitating has a chance to reach the Pop Airplay #1?

Sure it does, but I think it's going to depend on medium/small stations. Back to February (when it was dropped), most of these stations had it on Power, but big stations decided to drop it. The situation is quite the opposite now, so they had to decide if it's not already a 'saturated' record already.

 

Also, it has to fight against Republic avalanche with both Bieber already strong and Ari's "pov" coming hard.

[lillavend3r]

pov's rise is fishy come on now...

N/A on Spotify

N/A on AM

#279 iTunes

#50 Hot 100

#4 Pop radio

[FAN]

18 minutes ago, lillavend3r said:

pov's rise is fishy come on now...

N/A on Spotify

N/A on AM

#279 iTunes

#50 Hot 100

#4 Pop radio

I was called an “annoying ****” for pointing it out a few weeks ago.  It is probably the most radio driven single in history.

[moonlitdick]

5 minutes ago, FAN said:

I was called an “annoying ****” for pointing it out a few weeks ago.  It is probably the most radio driven single in history.

Not what I said to you living in your mind rent free!

[FAN]

2 minutes ago, moonlitdick said:

Not what I said to you living in your mind rent free!

Flopping on Shazam as well.

[Timber]

18 minutes ago, FAN said:

I was called an “annoying ****” for pointing it out a few weeks ago.  It is probably the most radio driven single in history.

But Ariana is perfect for top 40. 

[Sinister]

3 hours ago, lillavend3r said:

pov's rise is fishy come on now...

N/A on Spotify

N/A on AM

#279 iTunes

#50 Hot 100

#4 Pop radio

Idk why there’s no music video

[getinthezone]

2 hours ago, FAN said:

I was called an “annoying ****” for pointing it out a few weeks ago.  It is probably the most radio driven single in history.

there have been #1s based on airplay only do you research

[lillavend3r]

36 minutes ago, getinthezone said:

there have been #1s based on airplay only do you research

That was when sales were absolutely dead before digital era. No streaming either. There's no excuse now

[Communion]

59 minutes ago, lillavend3r said:

That was when sales were absolutely dead before digital era. No streaming either. There's no excuse now

The song has no playlisting because it already racked up 200M streams months ago.

Why does this have to be explained constantly?

 

There's no promo, no playlisting, nor any performances for it. 

 

Last time someone checked, it barely had 16M playlist reach on Spotify. 

 

Also it jumped 700 spots in on Apple Music to #320~ off of being added to one playlist. 

[lillavend3r]

5 minutes ago, Communion said:

The song has no playlisting because it already racked up 200M streams months ago.

Why does this have to be explained constantly?

 

There's no promo, no playlisting, nor any performances for it. 

Yet it's top 10 on pop radio and no one's streaming? Who wants to listen then? 

[Communion]

Just now, lillavend3r said:

Yet it's top 10 on pop radio and no one's streaming? Who wants to listen then? 

Metrics of consumption are not dependent on one another because the audience for each metric are not wholly overlapping. Again, this is music 101. Why is this confusing? When a significant portion of streaming is playlist-generated, why would a song being played on radio then make it dominate streaming despite having... no playlisting?

 

The song already went viral and racked up 200M streams. Many of the people who would be listening to it out-played it. 

 

This isn't like random airplay hits that'll stall at 30M streams its whole time yet be hammered by radio. The song was already certified platinum before radio even touched it.  

[Ger]

2 hours ago, Sinister said:

Idk why there’s no music video

I honestly believe Ari hates or doesn't care about "pov", and making it a third single was label's choice more than anything. 

 

I thought she was performing at the BBMA's. 

[FAN]

2 hours ago, getinthezone said:

there have been #1s based on airplay only do you research

“do you research” nnn like 20 years ago when labels would withhold physical sales until the last minute.

[Communion]

It's just disingenuous to talk about streaming while ignoring playlisting:

 

Song	TTH Position
1. Peaches	6
2. Save Your Tears	4
3. WITHOUT YOU	15
4 (+1) pov	N/A
5 (-1) my ex's best friend	N/A
6. Leave the Door Open	7
7. positions	N/A
8. Astronaut in the Ocean	8
9 (+1) We're Good	18
10 (+1) Beautiful Mistakes	10
11 (-2) 34+35	47
12. Best Friend	21
13. Kiss Me More	3
14. drivers license	N/A
15. Goosebumps (Remix)	12
16. deja vu	14
17. MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)	5
18. Heat Waves	17
19. Up	26
20. Your Power	9
21. Hold On	19
22. telepatía	32
23. Lil Bit	26
24. You	42
25. Way Less Sad	N/A
26. Arcade	29
27. Heartbreak Anniversary	13
28. Sacrifice	N/A
29. Calling My Phone	N/A
30. la di die	N/A
40. I'm Not Pretty	N/A
41. Just Like You	N/A
42. Rapstar	11
43. I Did It	35
44. Higher Power	23
45. Good Days	N/A
46. Waves of Blue	N/A
47. Sucks Being Sober	N/A
48. Track Star	N/A
49. Homesick	N/A
50. good 4 u	1

 

It's just odd to bash on pov when something like, for example, my ex's best friend got to #3 with less than 300M streams in the course of 9 months (it was also a pre-album single) while arguing that pov's streaming is weak at 200M streams in just a few months despite being a post-album single. 

 

Let alone none of us are arguing pov's streaming is strong. Of course it's weak - it's on zero playlists! 

Edited May 21, 2021 by Communion