official chart H100: Heat Waves #1, Super Gremilin #4

[slw84]

Come through Dua and Meg.

Next week

Edited March 7, 2022 by slw84

[Green]

Dua and Megan should have released a Levitating remix instead and get that jump to #1 considering that the points are so low right now.

[fridayteenage]

In the streaming era, it's the first song to go #1 without being top 3 in sales or streaming.

2006-2012 before streaming songs started, no song topped without being top 3 in sales.

[Capruni]

1 hour ago, Green said:

Points for the top 2:

 

1. Heat Waves  226

2. We Don't Talk About Bruno  211

 

Wow It’s incredible and unprecedented what “Heat Waves” achieved this week. Number #1 after 59 weeks charting on Hot 100! The fact the number #1 is doing less than 230 points, wow! Hope Dua & Megan can do some movement on this top 10, it’s very boring at this time.

Edited March 7, 2022 by Capruni

[Ger]

Congratulations Glass Legends, what a great melancholic song.  

 

An historic #1, a once in a lifetime smash.

[slw84]

1 hour ago, Capruni said:

Wow It’s incredible and unprecedented what “Heat Waves” achieved this week. Number #1 after 59 weeks charting on Hot 100! The fact the number #1 is doing less than 230 points, wow! Hope Dua & Megan can do some movement on this top 10, it’s very boring at this time.

True

[Renan90]

3 hours ago, Green said:

Points for the top 2:

 

1. Heat Waves  226

2. We Don't Talk About Bruno  211

 

Hummmm

[Kings.]

So happy for Glass Animals

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[ChrisTheLoner]

Heat Waves Cold Heart another week top 10 

[Ger]

Weeks in Top 10

 

34: STAY

24: Bad Habits

20: Easy on Me

18: Shivers

17: Heat Waves

9: We Don't Talk About Bruno & Super Gremlin

8: abcdefu

6: Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)

4: Ghost

[MonsterNavy]

wow glass animals  I remember listening to them in 2016 or something

tiktok's power in music these days is really huge  

[TrieLz]

Bad Habits 24 weeks in the top 10 

Shivers 18 weeks in the top 10, Smasheeran did that!

 

and Stay coming for 40+ weeks in the top 10 since  debut 

 

Ghost better hit a new peak next week as EOM freefall on hot 100

 

Looking for a 2nd week #1 for Heat waves and after that Gayle can take the #1

[Capruni]

3 minutes ago, TrieLz said:

Bad Habits 24 weeks in the top 10 

Shivers 18 weeks in the top 10, Smasheeran did that!

 

and Stay coming for 40+ weeks in the top 10 since  debut 

 

Ghost better hit a new peak next week as EOM freefall on hot 100

 

Looking for a 2nd week #1 for Heat waves and after that Gayle can take the #1

Hope Dua & Megan snatch a #1 debut.

Edited March 8, 2022 by Capruni

[Ger]

It could be an interesting race between HW and EOM for 2022 Year End #1 tbh.

[Ger]

5 Reasons Why Glass Animals’ ‘Heat Waves’ Took a Record-Breaking 59 Weeks to Top the Billboard Hot 100

 

1. Taking the alternative-to-pop long crossover route.

A common factor in many of the longest-enduring Hot 100 hits is that they started on a different radio format before crossing over to pop — and eventually spreading to many others in between. This was certainly the case with “Heat Waves,” which debuted on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart in November 2020 and topped it in March 2021 — about a month after it bowed on Pop Airplay, which “Waves” finally topped this January. It’s a similar route to ones taken by previous long-trek alt-to-pop Hot 100-toppers like Vertical Horizon’s “Everything You Want” (26 weeks) and Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open” (27 weeks), as well as Imagine Dragons’ No. 3-peaking “Radioactive,” which until The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” passed it last year, held the record for longest total run on the Hot 100 with 87 weeks.

 

2. Longer Hot 100 endurance in the 2020s. 

As suggested by the previously alluded-to record 90-week run of “Blinding Lights” on the Hot 100 in 2019-21, big hits have a tendency to hang around the Hot 100 — particularly its upper stretches — for longer than they used to. In fact, even with its 59 weeks on the chart, “Heat Waves” is still only the third-longest-running Hot 100 hit currently in the chart’s top 25, behind both Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” (69 weeks) and The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” (61 weeks), at Nos. 15 and 21, respectively. Meanwhile, of the five songs with the longest runs in the chart’s top 10 and the top five — both lists led by “Lights” — none are from longer ago than 2016.

 

The reasons for this are many, but in large part due to streaming supplanting song sales as a major driver of consumption on the Hot 100 (which also factors radio airplay), and allowing for greater chart endurance in the process. (Listeners are likely to buy a song only once, but they can stream it countless times over many weeks.) Meanwhile, rather than try to compete with the freshness and immediacy that streaming can offer, pop radio has largely slowed down its playlist turnover and drifted further than ever towards established hits — particularly in the last couple years over the course of the pandemic, where familiarity has been paramount as radio seeks programming safety amid fewer workers commuting and, thus, potentially listening in cars. It all adds up to major cross-platform hits lasting longer than they ever have before.

 

3. Virality breeding further virality.

We’ve long been used to the concept of a song going viral resulting in an accelerated journey to a high, quick peak — one that usually dies out nearly as quickly. But a few years into the TikTok era, virality is proving it doesn’t have to be so fast or extreme: Instead, songs have longer, more gradual, and sometimes less linear growth curves — where it can be harder to tell what point you’re currently at in the curve in real time. Such was the case with “Heat Waves,” which spread very slowly over multiple bumps — one from a fanfic trend in late 2020, one just from a sense of seasonal appropriateness in mid-2021, and one from a remix trend on TikTok a little later that year.

 

While none of the bumps resulted in stratospheric gains for the song, they’ve all added up to the song being one of the biggest streaming hits of the past couple years — and one that now has a life of its own well beyond any of the mini-trends it’s been involved with. It’s never reached higher than No. 5 on the Streaming Songs chart, but it’s been on the chart for 49 weeks now, and returns to that No. 5 peak this week — nearly four months after hitting it initially. It wouldn’t be surprising at this point if it was still pretty close to there a couple months from now.

 

4. A slow-burner. 

Appropriately for a song of its title, “Heat Waves” isn’t a pop scorcher so much as a slowly enveloping temperature shift. Whereas the major trend of 2020s pop has been the return of uptempo — from “Blinding Lights” to “Levitating” to “Stay” — “Heat Waves” instead wriggled into the charts with a decidedly midtempo groove and a catchy-but-low-key chorus, one less obviously immediate but arguably even more insidious. It’s the sort of song that takes more than a couple listens to prove totally addictive; just listening to it, you can hear why it wasn’t a crossover smash immediately out of the gate, but it’s also hardly shocking that it eventually became a favorite to millions of stateside pop fans, either.

 

5. Lack of major new competition.

As evidenced by last November’s Encanto soundtrack and its breakout single “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” owning the Billboard 200 albums chart and Hot 100 respectively over the past month, there have not been a large number of major new song or album releases dotting the calendar thus far in 2022 — with most of the songs recently rising in the upper stretches of the Hot 100 (GAYLE’s “abcdefu,” Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin,” Justin Bieber’s “Ghost”) being holdovers from 2021. With “Heat Waves” remaining fairly steady in radio and streaming over recent weeks, what put it over the top on the Hot 100 was not any particular new gain in metrics, but rather just holding on long enough while “Bruno” started to drop at a greater rate.

It will be interesting to see now if “Heat Waves” can reign for as long as “Bruno” did merely through the steadiness that’s defined its 2022 to date, or if another hit — either one of those aforementioned risers, or a new song that we don’t know about yet — will rise to actually seize the mantle from it.

[Ger]

Great analysis.  

 

I think this is has to do the most on the historic achievement.

 

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The reasons for this are many, but in large part due to streaming supplanting song sales as a major driver of consumption on the Hot 100 (which also factors radio airplay), and allowing for greater chart endurance in the process. (Listeners are likely to buy a song only once, but they can stream it countless times over many weeks.) Meanwhile, rather than try to compete with the freshness and immediacy that streaming can offer, pop radio has largely slowed down its playlist turnover and drifted further than ever towards established hits — particularly in the last couple years over the course of the pandemic, where familiarity has been paramount as radio seeks programming safety amid fewer workers commuting and, thus, potentially listening in cars. It all adds up to major cross-platform hits lasting longer than they ever have before.

Don't think it does good to radio taking that route, but it's the truth. One could think they would speed up more considering pandemic is... so 2020, but yeah.

[Ger]

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[fridayteenage]

1 hour ago, TrieLz said:

Bad Habits 24 weeks in the top 10 

Shivers 18 weeks in the top 10, Smasheeran did that!

Ed Sheeran's two mountains of longevity made me curious so I looked up 21stc female albums with multiple solos at 4 months top 10. A very short list:
1989
21.

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