achievement "Levitating" becomes the biggest female lead Hot 100 hit of the 21st century

[Green]

This week "Levitating" passes "We Belong Together" on the All Time Hot 100 list and becomes the biggest female hit (as lead artist) of the 21st century:

 

Top 10 female hits (as lead artists) of the 21st century:

 

All-time rank / Artist / Song

 

15. Dua Lipa - Levitating

16. Mariah Carey - We Belong Together

31. Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love

40. Adele - Rolling In The Deep

57. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

60. Alicia Keys - No One

69. Ke$ha - TiK ToK

75. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

78. Lorde - Royals

108. Mary J. Blige - Family Affair

 

 

 

[MALAMENTE]

Madonna won

[tost1]

Physical deserved

[St. Charles]

I never knew No One was that big 

[Cain]

a LEGEND

 

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

The fact that EVERY SINGLE SONG beneath it was bigger, commercially and culturally. 
 

You just have to love the chart system in the 2020’s, honestly. 

 

 

OT: Congrats Lipa. I want to see the CaCa stans argue against this one. 

Edited March 31, 2022 by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

[HASHTAGPOW]

A modern classic

[Armani?]

[Smarticle]

That's kind of sad

[sourtwink]

the payola is astounding and this highlights how flawed the current chart rules are. this song felt like a moderate hit at best i fear 

[starataneori]

Half of the songs on the list was bigger. 2020s chart run are a joke

[Hector]

The longevity of this classic  ODHs already creating excuses

[Azulito]

It’s gonna end up in the top 10  

 

But where is Save Your Tears on that list?

[State of Grace.]

YEAH YEAH YEAH!!  

[raven]

this song felt MASSIVE idk what some of y'all are talking about 

[Carrie-is-no-1]

40 minutes ago, Green said:

78. Lorde - Royals

108. Mary J. Blige - Family Affair

never knew these 2 were THAT big

 

36 minutes ago, tost1 said:

Physical deserved

should've been 

OT: deserved 

[Ribs]

Congrats Dua Lipa and DaBaby

[Carrie-is-no-1]

26 minutes ago, GoodGuyGoneGhetto said:

The fact that EVERY SINGLE SONG beneath it was bigger, commercially and culturally. 

Levitating's peak was no where near as crazy, but i'm pretty sure the streaming system is a better measurement of music consumption. It's hard to compare because all these songs are from different era, but i wouldn't discredit Levitating feeling not as big.

I mean, Britney's Oops is probably flopping if we're adding chart points or whatever, but if it came out during the streaming era, man... 

[Green]

35 minutes ago, Marvin said:

It’s gonna end up in the top 10  

 

But where is Save Your Tears on that list?

 

It's #117 on the current update

[MingYouToo]

5 minutes ago, Carrie-is-no-1 said:

Levitating's peak was no where near as crazy, but i'm pretty sure the streaming system is a better measurement of music consumption. It's hard to compare because all these songs are from different era, but i wouldn't discredit Levitating feeling not as big.

I mean, Britney's Oops is probably flopping if we're adding chart points or whatever, but if it came out during the streaming era, man... 

This. Streaming has honestly become more faithful to the 'most popular songs every week' label the BB Hot 100 is attached to. The digital and physical eras were very 'buy once and thats it', we don't know if recurring listens of the purchased mediums happen. While repeated listens is a useless metric in terms of commercial benefit, it really proves how often people really love the songs/albums. Streaming has solved that issue.

[Timber]

It’s close to 2B Spotify streams and will likely surpass all females songs on that platform as well. Idk what the haters need. It hasn’t been on TTH in a while but it’s still slaying. Come up with something new.

[Timber]

9 minutes ago, Ribs said:

Congrats Dua Lipa and DaBaby

I thought Billboard removed DaBaby’s credit? Do you stan that homophobic man? 

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

9 minutes ago, MingYouToo said:

The digital and physical eras were very 'buy once and thats it'

What?

 

 

Those eras were never “buy once and that’s it”, considering most hits from the 2000’s (excluding the period where airplay was the dominant metric in deterring a songs lifespan) and early 2010’s had similar chart runs (or even bigger chart runs) to many of the hits released during the streaming era, and this stemmed from a period whereby songs were actually purchased as opposed to streamed which is still, heavily, influenced by playlisting. 
 

7 minutes ago, Timber said:

I thought Billboard removed DaBaby’s credit? Do you stan that homophobic man? 

So DaBaby isn’t credited on this despite him being a key factor in the songs success throughout, at least, half of its chart run?

 

I had no idea he was still un-credited. 
 

Lipa won.
 

Edited March 31, 2022 by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

[GreatestLoveofAll]

I mean finally- its out charted all them other songs some two times over

 

i had no clue Alicia and Mary were in the top 10 tho!

[Timber]

2 minutes ago, GoodGuyGoneGhetto said:

So DaBaby isn’t credited on this despite him being a key factor in the songs success throughout, at least, half of its chart run?

 

I had no idea he was still un-credited. 
 

Lipa won.
 

When you do clownery. 
 

But it could have to do with radio not playing DaBaby’s version, which would fairly mean he shouldn’t be credited in terms of numbers.

Edited March 31, 2022 by Timber