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Was Billboards Hot 100 chart accurate around this time? around this time, single sales had COMPLETELY died out. The Hot 100 was basically the AirPlay Hot 100. As a result, there were only 8 #1 hits in 2002 (or 2003, I forgot). Many singles that seemed like huge hits completely flopped. One example would be Christina aguileras dirrty. Obviously the song was never big enough for a #1 chart position, and probably not even a top 10 position. But, it for sure felt bigger than a #48 peaking hit ?. TRL was huge at the time and had massive impact of teenagers and young adults. In my opinion, Billboard should've use stats from TRL. Obviously radio should've still been the main component, but TRL should've contributed a bit to the chart too. There were songs with music videos that were massive (dirrty) which meant the GP knew and was talking about the song, but completely flopped on the hot 100 because of poor AirPlay. Any thoughts?

http://www.billboard.com/articles/list/464875/britney-spears-20-biggest-billboard-hits So many recent ones from this decade in the top 10, she really found new heights of success in many areas this decade

PRINCE: ROYALLY AWESOME STREAMING NUMBERS The long-awaited release of the Prince catalog on all on-demand streaming services bore immediate fruit, according to info from BuzzAngle Music. The first two days the music was available (2/12 and 2/13), Prince songs were streamed 5.9 million times. Previously exclusive to Tidal, the across-the-board availability of Prince’s music resulted in astronomical increases. The last time Prince received more than 5 million streams was on April 29, 2016, just weeks after his death. This was just the second time in the past six months when more than 1 million Prince tracks were streamed. Total streaming activity on Prince albums increased 5,578 % compared to the previous five days. During those first two days, Purple Rain was the most streamed album (1,535,608 streams), followed by 1999 (701,153 total streams). “Let’s Go Crazy” was the most streamed song (339, 748 streams). In related news, Jim Lidestri knows what it sounds like when doves cry. http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=305003 Glad they realize that Tidal alone doesn't pay the bills

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Extends Reign as Highest Certified Album in U.S. History Doug Morris, Rob Stringer, John Branca, Richard Story, L.A. Reid and Karen Langford. Michael Jackson’s blockbuster album Thriller just keeps on getting bigger. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has certified the set at 33-times platinum in the U.S., extending Thriller’s record as the highest certified album in history. That means Thriller -- released in 1982 -- has earned 33 million equivalent album units in the U.S. That sum blends traditional album sales (one album sale equals one unit), tracks sold from an album (10 tracks sold equals one unit) and on-demand audio and/or video streams (1,500 streams equals one unit). A plaque commemorating the milestone was presented at the home of Epic Records chairman Antonio "L.A." Reid over Grammy weekend, where Sony Music CEO Doug Morris, Columbia Records chairman and incoming Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer, Sony president, commercial group Richard Story, attorneys Karen Langford and John Branca toasted the certification. The RIAA revamped its Gold & Platinum Awards Program on Feb. 1, 2016, growing from a pure album sales certification process to one that includes tracks and streams. That same day, Thriller’s certification was raised from 30 million to 32 million. Thriller continues to maintain its place as the highest-certified album ever, ahead of Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, with 29 million (It was last certified on Jan. 30, 2006.) Simultaneous with Thriller’s raised certification, its follow-up, Bad, climbs to 10-times platinum (the RIAA’s Diamond award). Jackson is one of just 22 acts with more than one Diamond-certified album. Source Other artists with 2 Diamond albums: Mariah Carey - Music Box and Daydream Britney Spears - Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show Billy Joel - The Stranger and Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II Madonna - Like a Virgin and The Immaculate Collection Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. and Live/1975–85 2pac - All Eyez On Me and Greatest Hits Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces and Fly Adele - 21 and 25 NSYNC - NSYNC and No Strings Attached Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys and Millennium Celine Dion - Falling into You and Let's Talk About Love Van Halen - Van Halen and 1984 Def Leppard - Pyromania and Hysteria More than 2: Eagles - 3 Shania Twain - 3 Led Zeppelin - 5 The Beatles - 6 Garth Brooks - 7 @asanders10795544

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:: SINGLES :: :: GOLD :: Alabama Shakes - Don't Wanna Fight Andy Grammer - Good To Be Alive (Hallelujah) Anne-Marie - Alarm Bishop Briggs - River Chad Brownlee - I Hate You For It Chris Stapleton - Parachute Cole Swindell - Midlle Of A Memory Dani And Lizzy - Dancing In The Sky Jake Owen - American Country Love Song Jon Pardi - Dirt On My Boots Little Big Town - Better Man Little Mix - Shout Out To My Ex Maren Morris - 80s Mercedes Miranda Lambert - Vice Noah Cyrus ft. Labrinth - Make Me (Cry) Old Dominion - Song For Another Time Pentatonix - Hallelujah Russ - What The Want Sage The Gemini - Now And Later Serena Ryder - Got Your Number Starley - Call On Me Steve Aoki ft. Louis Tomlinson - Just Hold On Tebey - Wake Me Up Travis Scott - Goosebumps :: PLATINUM :: Andy Grammer - Fresh Eyes Big Sean - Blessings Chris Young - I'm Coming Over Chris Young - Think Of You Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye Coleman Hell - Fireproof Dierks Bentley - Somewhere On A Beach Dierks Bentley ft. Elle King - Different For Girls Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill Fifth Harmony ft. Fetty Wap - All In My Head (Flex) John Legend - Love Me Now Jon Bellion - All Time Low Jonas Blue ft. JP Cooper - Perfect Strangers Kenny Chesney ft. P!nk - Setting The World On Fire Lukas Graham - Mama Said MAGIC! ft. Sean Paul - Lay You Down Easy Maren Morris - My Church Old Dominion - Break Up With Him Old Dominion - Snapback Rob $tone ft. J. $pooks - Chill Bill The Chainsmokers - Paris Tim Hicks - Get By Zay Hilfigerrr & Zayion McCall - Juju On That Beat (TZ Anthem) ZAYN ft. Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever :: DOUBLE PLATINUM :: Drake - Controlla Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go Jonas Blue ft. Dakota - Fast Car :: TRIPLE PLATINUM :: Big Sean ft. E-40 - IDFWU Martin Garrix ft. Bebe Rexha - In The Name Of Love Meghan Trainor - Me Too Sia ft. Kendrick Lamar - The Greatest :: QUINTUPLE PLATINUM :: Adele - Skyfall Drake ft. Rihanna - Too Good :: SIX TIMES PLATINUM :: Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling! Lukas Graham - 7 Years :: SEVEN TIMES PLATINUM :: The Chainsmokers ft. Daya - Don't Let Me Down :: DIAMOND :: Drake ft. WizKid & Lyla - One Dance

Michael Jackson's Thriller has become the first album certified 33x Diamond for United States sales and streams. Thinking about how to redecorate the offices to fit the new artwork are, from left, Sony Music CEO Doug Morris, Columbia Records Chairman & CEO Rob Stringer, Estate Co-Executor John Branca, Commercial Music Group President Richard Story, Epic RecordsChairman & CEO L.A. Reid and the Jackson Estate’s Karen Langford. Alternative fact: Doug Morris scored higher than Rob Stringer at Sony’s annual “Moonwalk” competition. http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=304993 Dang

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Lovers who plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day with some music in the bedroom have voted — they do it to Rihanna. Leading streaming service Spotify marked the holiday of love Tuesday by analyzing playlists described by users as songs for making love. The top choice was Rihanna’s “Sex With Me,” a track off her latest album “Anti” in which the sultry singer boasts of her prowess. Read more: http://entertainment.inquirer.net/215434/sex-rihanna-tops-valentines-playlists#ixzz4YmQ4Q3DO Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook Next smash coming, poor others!

Grammy Winning Albums:– Album sales for 25 by Adele jumped 232% Sunday night as a result of winning album of the year… 25 had 4,044 sales on Sunday.– Sturgill Simpson’s album A Sailor’s Guide to Earth had 3,471 sales on Sunday and experienced the biggest uplift in sales among all Grammy winning albums (that had sales < 500 sales) with an uplift of 789%.– Beyoncé’s Lemonade had the most sales on Sunday out of all the winning albums with 4,373 sales; that was an increase of 297% compared to the previous 6 day average.Other Album Impact:– Even though Bruno Mars album 24K Magic did not win a Grammy, his album jumped 206% with 6,728 sales on Sunday. 24K Magic was the 2nd biggest selling album in U.S. on Sunday with 6,728 sales.– While Maren Morris’ album did not win for Country album of the year, it did experience an uplift of 300% in sales on Sunday with 2,727 sales.Song Performance Impact:– All the Songs performed on the Grammy’s experienced an average increase of 2,363% in song sales on the night of the Grammys compared to the six days leading up to the awards show.– Maren Morris’ song Once (which she performed with Alicia Keys) had the the overall largest growth in sales of all songs performed; up over 13,477% in sales on Sunday compared to the previous six days. There were just about 5,600 sales for Once on Sunday night compared to a daily average of 41 sales for the previous 6 days.– William Bell’s Born Under A Bad Sign had the largest percentage growth in sales 23,691%; a unit sales increase of 1,698. The average daily songs sales for Born Under A Bad Sign leading up to the awards show was seven sales.– Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You and Bruno Mar’s That’s What I Like were the top two songs that had the largest sales gains on Sunday of all songs performed. Shape Of You had 46,266 sales on Sunday (up 164%) which was an increase of nearly 29,000 sales compared to the previous six days. That’s What I Like had 23,000 sales on Sunday (up 527%) which was an increase of nearly 20,000 sales compared to the previous six days– Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars were the performers that had the largest overall song sales increases among all performers.Ed Sheeran had 59,405 song sales on Sunday; with an increase of 37,080 sales compared to the previous 6 day average (or 166% growth).Bruno Mars had 48,756 song sales on Sunday; an increase of 36,382 sales compared to the previous 6 day average (or 294% growth).– Maren Morris had the largest Grammy growth for song sales among all performers (815%) who had a sales increase of greater than 10,000 sales.– There were four artists that experienced over 1,000% growth in song sales; Sturgill Simpson (1,063%), The Time (1,871%), Gary Clark Jr. (2,146%) and William Bell (5,803%).– The three artists that had tributes; Prince, Bee Gees and George Michael each had triple digit song sales growth:Prince song sales grew 338% on Sunday as a result of the tribute by Bruno Mars and The Time.George Michael song sales grew 553% on Sunday as a result of the tribute by Adele.Bee Gees song sales grew 640% on Sunday as a result of the tribute by Demi Lovato, Tori Kelly and Little Big Town.Artist Performance Sales Impact: Rank Artist Song Sales Unit Increase Song Sales % Increase 1 Ed Sheeran 37,080 166% 2 Bruno Mars 36,382 294% 3 Keith Urban 18,008 331% 4 Maren Morris 17,984 815% 5 The Weeknd 15,431 117% 6 Adele 13,783 196% 7 Beyoncé 12,881 139% 8 Lukas Graham 12,376 585% 9 Katy Perry 8,756 45% 10 Bee Gees 7,850 640% 11 Prince 7,492 338% 12 George Michael 7,131 553% 13 Sturgill Simpson 5,173 1,063% 14 Little Big Town 4,562 66% 15 Kelsea Ballerini 4,519 188% 16 John Legend 4,144 105% 17 Anderson .Paak 3,182 969% 18 Gary Clark Jr. 3,180 2,146% 19 Metallica 2,357 82% 20 A Tribe Called Quest 2,351 768% 21 Carrie Underwood 1,846 66% 22 William Bell 1,741 5,803% 23 The Time 1,687 1,871% 24 Pentatonix 1,276 95% 25 Alicia Keys 884 68% 26 Demi Lovato 834 87% 27 Tori Kelly 757 148% 28 Daft Punk 750 82% 29 Andra Day 699 79% 30 Kirk Franklin 146 49% 31 Cynthia Erivo 70 272% Grammys Song Performance Impact: Rank Title Artist Song Sales Unit Increase Song Sales % Increase 1 Shape of You Ed Sheeran 28,714 164% 2 That’s What I Like Bruno Mars 19,339 527% 3 The Fighter Keith Urban 14,824 1,180% 4 7 Years Lukas Graham 10,851 1,045% 5 I Feel It Coming The Weeknd 10,093 213% 6 Chained To The Rhythm Katy Perry 6,832 41% 7 Once Maren Morris 5,548 13,477% 8 Hello Adele 5,166 428% 9 Peter Pan Kelsea Ballerini 3,237 496% 10 Starboy The Weeknd 3,062 103% 11 All Around You Sturgill Simpson 2,163 9,684% 12 Love Drought Beyoncé 2,155 1249% 13 Fastlove George Michael 1,950 7,907% 14 How Deep Is Your Love Bee Gees 1,810 1450% 15 Born Under A Bad Sign William Bell 1,698 23,691% 16 Sandcastles Beyoncé 1,658 972% 17 God Only Knows Beach Boys 1,602 1,903% 18 Let’s Go Crazy Prince & The Revolution 1,511 799% 19 We The People…. A Tribe Called Quest 1,145 1,385% 20 Stayin’ Alive Bee Gees 1,121 415% 21 Jungle Love The Time 1,008 2,520% 22 Tragedy Bee Gees 906 2,323% 23 The Bird The Time 526 4,155% 24 Moth Into Flame Metallica 377 516% 25 Award Tour A Tribe Called Quest 245 1,412% 26 Movin Backwards A Tribe Called Quest 110 4,700% 27 ABC Jackson 5 86 85% Grammys Album Performance Impact: Rank Title Artist Song Sales Unit Increase Song Sales % Increase 1 25 Adele 2,825 232% 2 Lemonade Beyoncé 3,273 297% 3 A Sailor’s Guide to Earth Sturgill Simpson 3,081 789% 4 Hymns Joey + Rory 58 31% 5 Love Remains Hillary Scott & The Scott Family 22 15% 6 Blackstar David Bowie 168 133% 7 Undercurrent Sarah Jarosz 146 127% 8 Tell Me I’m Pretty Cage The Elephant 75 93% 9 This Is Where I Live William Bell 428 4,667% 10 Star Wars: The Force Awakens John Williams 7 13% 11 Skin Flume 59 151% 12 Losing My Religion Kirk Franklin 18 40% 13 Take Me to the Alley Gregory Porter 32 81% 14 Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Willie Nelson 103 886% 15 The Color Purple Various Artists 37 260% 16 Sing Me Home The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma 26 193% 17 The Last Days of Oakland Fantastic Negrito 43 398% 18 Country For Old Men John Scofield 33 275% 19 Culcha Vulcha Snarky Puppy 28 229% 20 Un Besito Más Jesse & Joy 19 231% 21 Coming Home O’Connor Band Mark O’Connor 40 956% 22 White Sun II White Sun 36 860% 23 E Walea Kalani Pe’a 40 1,258% 24 Miles Ahead Miles Davis 13 200% 25 Ziggy Marley Ziggy Marley 15 314% 26 Porcupine Meat Bobby Rush 12 400% 27 iLevitable iLe 13 500% 28 Presidential Suite (Eight Variations on Freedom) Ted Nash 13 950% 29 Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac Chucho Valdés 10 1,220% 30 Infinity Plus One Secret Agent 23 Skidoo 6 1,100% 31 Dónde Están Jose Lugo & Guasabara Combo 3 1,700% 33 Talking for Clapping Patton Oswalt 1 200% http://www.buzzanglemusic.com/2017-grammys-impact/

Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” tops the 3 million mark in digital sales this week. The song reached No. 5 in June 2003. https://www.yahoo.com/music/chart-watch-gaga-is-the-real-super-bowl-champ-215204259.html Classic!

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7686444/hot-100-ed-sheeran-shape-of-you-lady-gaga-million-reasons i can't believe it

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After garnering 2,922 first day plays at US radio, it becomes the first female song since 2015 to achieve this, and becomes the 3rd biggest debut by a female artist on US radio.

So it was predicted to do 136k this week and will be doing around 87k for the next week! http://kworb.net/cc/

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1. Million Reasons 13. Million Reasons 59% lead combined. http://www.livepopbars2.com/lpb1024.php?ref=lpb1&t=1451246503 United StatesiTunes Songs:1. Million Reasons 5. Born This Way6. Poker Face 8. Bad Romance 10. Just Dance 18. Million Reasons 21. The Edge of Glory29. Perfect Illusion 33. Telephone38. Paparazzi49. Bad Romance51. Yoü and I63. Applause68. Born This Way89. Telephone92. A-YO119. Alejandro135. Perfect Illusion151. The Edge of Glory161. LoveGame182. Bad Romance184. Bad Romance185. Poker FaceiTunes Albums:1. Joanne 3. Joanne 4. The Fame Monster 6. The Fame Monster 9. Born This Way 12. The Fame 19. Born This Way25. ARTPOP 43. The Fame Monster47. Cheek to Cheek 69. Cheek to Cheek76. Joanne84. Joanne

After an almost two-decade-long career Coldplay is still the bestselling band and the third bestselling act of 2016.

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After selling 25,000 copies this week, the total in pure sales is 5,401,000. I believe it's Justin's second highest selling album after My World. 2.0. Super impressive considering the stats of Under the Mistletoe/Believe/Journals combined with the current sales climate. I think he can push 6 million copies by the end of the year

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