official chart H100: Truth Hurts #1, You Need To Calm Down #4, Lover #10

[evtimow]

Just now, taustin13 said:

Got it, I wasn't mocking, I was just clarifying. Still impressive pure sales. 

No, no, I was not talking about you.

 

Several users above you were trying to make subtle claims and thought your comment will be a nice opportunity to talk about this. 

[Fitzswiftie]

Fun fact

 

"Truth Hurts" is the seventh song by a woman to spend time atop the Hot 100 in 2019. 

 

It follows the 6 previous #1s this year: 

 

Ariana Grande – thank u, next

Halsey – Without Me

Ariana Grande – 7 rings

Lady Gaga – Shallow

Billie Eilish – Bad Guy

Camila Cabello – Señorita

 

It is the first time that 7 credited women have been #1 since the 2014 year when the following were all #1:

 

Rihanna – The Monster (featured)

Kesha – Timber (featured)

Katy Perry – Dark Horse

Iggy Azalea & Charli XCX – Fancy

Taylor Swift – Shake It Off

Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass

Taylor Swift – Blank Space

 

Moreover, as Rihanna and Kesha were credited as featured acts, 2019 was the first time since 2012 that 7 women reached #1 with all of them as lead, a total 9 women reached that year with 2 more in featured roles. The following were #1 hits in 2012: 

 

Rihanna – We Found Love

Adele – Set Fire to the Rain

Kelly Clarkson – Stronger (What Makes Kill You)

Katy Perry – Part of Me 

Janelle Monae – We Are Young (featured)

Kimbra – Somebody That I Used to Know (featured)

Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 

Rihanna – Diamonds

 

[KKCuteCat]

10 minutes ago, evtimow said:

Yes, but this reflects much more on the market's condition rather than Taylor herself.

 

For example, in both of their respective weeks, the albums occupied a similar market share (29 and 27 percent) of the whole album sales market in the country. 

 

People who try to mock her for the Lover numbers are not only extremely ignorant, but also show how little they know about the music market nowadays. 

The album itself felt like a non evenful compared to her previous plus i feel like it has no hit to keep the strong sales so it's probably just frondloaded.

 

However, the first week's number was still impressive enough for me. Considering she has no #1 hit this era. 

[evtimow]

2 minutes ago, KKCuteCat said:

The album itself felt like a non evenful compared to her previous plus i feel like it has no hit to keep the strong sales so it's probably just frondloaded.

 

However, the first week's number was still impressive enough for me. Considering she has no #1 hit this era. 

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Her drop, predicted by HDD, is a regular: around 75-80%. Nothing astonishing. Reputation had the same drop, was released later on streaming and still was the #1 album of 2018 by Billboard.  

 

The album (Lover) lead single was a mess, but Calm did more than great, as we can see. Multiple weeks in the top 5 and hasn't left the top 20 since release. This the longest a single of hers has spent in the top 20 since 1989. Lover (the song) is showing great potential too. 

[KKCuteCat]

3 minutes ago, evtimow said:

Her drop, predicted by HDD, is a regular: around 75-80%. Nothing astonishing. Reputation had the same drop, was released later on streaming and still was the #1 album of 2018 by Billboard.  

 

The album (Lover) lead single was a mess, but Calm did more than great, as we can see. Multiple weeks in the top 5 and hasn't left the top 20 since release. This the longest a single of hers has spent in the top 20 since 1989. Lover (the song) is showing great potential too. 

I didn't say her second week's drop is abysmal but u can get my point. If there is no hit to keep the album alive, it will sink regardless of how she holds the second week. 

 

Calm did well but i wouldn't say it is a smash compared to her hits such as Shake or Blank Space or even Look at what you made me do. So far it spent 2 weeks in Top 5, one of which was its debut week and the other was the album's release week. I had a nice run inside Top 20 tho but i would say it's only a moderate hit for her standard. 

[evtimow]

Just now, KKCuteCat said:

I didn't say her second week's drop is abysmal but u can get my point. If there is no hit to keep the album alive, it will sink regardless of how she holds the second week. 

 

Calm did well but i wouldn't say it is a smash compared to her hits such as Shake or Blank Space or even Look at what you made me do. So far it spent 2 weeks in Top 5, one of which was its debut week and the other was the album's release week. I had a nice run inside Top 20 tho but i would say it's only a moderate hit for her standard. 

Yeah, I absolutely get you and you are right for the most part. 

 

I'm just saying reputation was in a similar position (Look was completely dead by the time the album came out) and still managed to pull through, even when its pure sales collapsed and its performance on streaming was limited because of the delay. 

[@michael]

False God deserve better

[fridayteenage]

Female albums, that had a trinity of songs go T10 in the 2nd half of the decade

(technically 2014: 1989)

2015: Revival

2016: Anti

2019: Thank U Next

Lover

[G.U.Y_Del_Rey]

YNTCD's jump oh wow 

Lover Deserves to go top 5 in the future

ME!

 

 

Edited September 4, 2019 by G.U.Y_del_Rey

[mcohen]

6 minutes ago, fridayteenage said:

Female albums, that had a trinity of songs go T10 in the 2nd half of the decade

(technically 2014: 1989)

2015: Revival

2016: Anti

2019: Thank U Next

Lover

Winners

[Superbitch]

2 hours ago, Nova_23 said:

Wait so that song didn’t even get a VMAs hump 

Oh my  sad!

 

the ones dragging Taylor “decline” lmfao. I don’t even like her ass but y’all look dam dumb. No one can push numbers like her nowadays. Even In her “decline” she’s slaying everyone and that’s a Fact. So shade all

you want none of our faves can do that in 2019. Only woman that could is Adele. 

[Superbitch]

Lizzo going #1 is incredible. Im

so ****ing happy. She deserves and another win for women after so many years of man dominating. 

 

Has lizzo ever thanked netflix? Or acknowledged the fact the song really tooo off after someone great? Lol that’s how I found it. I shazamed it. 

[fridayteenage]

Back in 2012 Red broke the market share record with 19% of all albums sold that week, edging out Speak Now's 18%.

 

What a decline Lover has with 27%

[Superbitch]

10 hours ago, bbbrndn said:

11. ME! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At the Disco!)
23. The Man
28. I Forgot That You Existed
29. Cruel Summer
38. The Archer
45. Paper Rings
49. Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
51. I Think He Knows
57. Cornelia Street
62. London Boy
63. Soon You’ll Get Better (feat. Dixie Chicks)
67. Death By A Thousand Cuts
75. Afterglow
77. False God
89. Daylight
92. It’s Nice to Have A Friend

Imagine seeing this, her doing numbers no one really does(at least none of Atrl faves) and call her a flop lol. 

 

Tf am I doing defending swift  

[LiveYourLife]

3 hours ago, bbbrndn said:

Sell another 200k units of her album and move into the year-end top 5 after 2 weeks

 

 

3 hours ago, Ger-55 said:

Fall.

So many options 

[Bentley]

So @Green @simmnfierzig Is Senorita going back number 1 next Monday?

[fais_2311]

4 minutes ago, Bentley said:

So @Green @simmnfierzig Is Senorita going back number 1 next Monday?

[Meev]

3 hours ago, Bentley said:

So @Green @simmnfierzig Is Senorita going back number 1 next Monday?

I think the consensus is no, Truth Hurts will remain no. 1 next Monday

[Feanor]

6 hours ago, fridayteenage said:

Back in 2012 Red broke the market share record with 19% of all albums sold that week, edging out Speak Now's 18%.

 

What a decline Lover has with 27%

What were the percentages for 1989 and rep?

[mcohen]

5 minutes ago, Feanor said:

What were the percentages for 1989 and rep?

Rep - 29%

1989 - No clue

[Katamari]

11 hours ago, ****Selena said:

#66 Motivation (-33)

 

all of that **** that normani stan was talking for that

 

ot: 

 

[Heart.me]

ME! and YNTCD 

 

 

[simmnfierzig]

15 minutes ago, Heart.me said:

ME! and YNTCD 

 

 

I am currently putting the numbers together for last week as a starting point for my new predictions... But even with everything from Billboard those 2 placements make absolutely no sense

 

YNTCD is #9 on streaming songs, #12 on radio and somehow #4 on the Hot 100. Billboard says 24.6 million streams for it. That puts it at least 50 points behind #4 for me

Me! is #33 on streaming songs, not top 50 on radio and somehow #11 on the Hot 100. 

 

We don't have digital songs positions for the 2 as they were hit by CMA effect, but wtf??????

I would need to put them at like 60-70k sales each to reach #4 and #11. That doesn't make any sense 

[Armani?]

Maybe they counted those Me! vinyl records this week.

[simmnfierzig]

1 minute ago, Armani? said:

Maybe they counted those Me! vinyl records this week.

That doesnt explain YNTCD (or the archer where I was 30 spots off too) and only were 20k 

And how much CMA were there for them to have 60k sales and still not be on the top 50 digital songs chart. Not like they sold that much before album release or the album sold that much digitally