General Charts Discussion - Taylor's 1989 is swiftly coming for 5M+

[BROSEIDON 1,214]

31,615 this week for Slay2Slay

[Gagamel 3,410]

it reminds me of moment for life which I loved. I really like ATG the instrumental is so perfect

The instrumental is awesome and its emotional and all, but the lyrics in the rapping parts are just awfully connected... it sounds like she is just talking.... its like i can take a instrumental and talk over it :|

[Mills 446]

As Taylor Swift's Blank Space spends its 3rd week at #1 on the HOT 100, Taylor Swift has become the only female artist in the 2010s so far to score at least 3 weeks at #1 for each of her chart-topping singles. She's the 5th overall to achieve this feat, following Pharrell Williams, Maroon 5, LMFAO, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. And among all these acts who achieved multiple #1s w/ at least 3 weeks each at the top, Taylor Swift's the only solo act to do this. 
 
Taylor Swift's also the 7th female artist in the 2010s to score multiple #1 singles, and the 14th overall. And speaking of 7th, she's also the 7th act to score at least 3 #1 singles in the 2010s. Plus, she's the 2nd solo artist of the current decade to score multiple #1s without any featured act at all, just after Adele.
 
Here are the artists with multiple #1s on the HOT 100 for this decade so far (2010-present):
 
Artist / #1 Singles / Peak Year / # of weeks at #1
 
Female acts

Rihanna - 8 #1 singles overall, 6 #1 singles as a lead 
Rude Boy - 2010, 5 weeks
Love The Way You Lie (w/ Eminem) - 2010, 7 weeks
What's My Name? (feat. Drake) - 2010, 1 week
Only Girl (In The World) - 2010, 1 week
S&M (feat. Britney Spears) - 2011, 1 week
We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) - 2011-2012, 10 weeks
Diamonds - 2012, 3 weeks
The Monster (w/ Eminem) - 2013-2014, 4 weeks
TOTAL: 32 weeks at #1
 
Katy Perry - 8 #1 singles
California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg) - 2010, 6 weeks
Teenage Dream - 2010, 2 weeks
Firework - 2010-2011, 4 weeks
E.T. (feat. Kanye West) - 2011, 5 weeks
Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - 2011, 2 weeks
Part Of Me - 2012, 1 week
Roar - 2013, 2 weeks
Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J) - 2014, 4 weeks
TOTAL: 26 weeks at #1
 
Kesha - 3 #1 singles overall, 2 #1 singles as a lead 
Tik Tok - 2010, 9 weeks
We R Who We R - 2010, 1 week
Timber (w/ Pitbull) - 2014, 3 weeks
TOTAL: 13 weeks at #1
 
Adele - 3 #1 singles
Rolling In The Deep - 2011, 7 weeks
Someone Like You - 2011, 4 weeks
Set Fire To The Rain - 2012, 2 weeks
TOTAL: 13 weeks at #1
 
Taylor Swift - 3 #1 singles
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - 2012, 3 weeks
Shake It Off - 2014, 4 weeks
Blank Space - 2014, 3 weeks
TOTAL: 10 weeks at #1
 
P!nk - 2 #1 singles
Raise Your Glass - 2010, 1 week
Just Give Me A Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - 2013, 3 weeks
TOTAL: 4 weeks at #1
 
Britney Spears - 2 #1 singles overall, 1 #1 single as a lead
Hold It Against Me - 2011, 1 week
S&M (w/ Rihanna) - 2011, 1 week
TOTAL: 2 weeks at #1
 
 
One-time chart-toppers:
 
As lead/solo:
Lady Gaga - Born This Way - 2011, 6 weeks
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - 2012, 3 weeks
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe - 2012, 9 weeks
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball - 2013, 3 weeks
Lorde - Royals - 2013, 9 weeks
Iggy Azalea - Fancy (feat. Charli XCX) - 2014, 7 weeks
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass - 2014, 8 weeks
 
As featured:
Dev - Like A G6 (w/ Far East Movement) - 2010, 3 weeks
Nayer - Give Me Everything (w/ Pitbull) - 2011, 1 week
Lauren Bennett -  Party Rock Anthem (w/ LMFAO) - 2011, 6 weeks
Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger (w/ Maroon 5), 2011, 4 weeks
Janelle Monae - We Are Young (w/ fun.) - 2012, 6 weeks
Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (w/ Gotye) - 2012, 8 weeks
Charli XCX - Fancy (w/ Iggy Azalea) - 2014, 7 weeks

 
Male acts

Bruno Mars - 5 #1 singles overall, 4 #1 singles as a lead
Nothin' On You (w/ B.o.B) - 2010, 2 weeks
Just The Way You Are - 2010, 4 weeks
Grenade - 2011, 4 weeks
Locked Out Of Heaven - 2012-2013, 6 weeks
When I Was Your Man - 2013, 1 week
TOTAL: 17 weeks at #1
 
Eminem - 3 #1 singles
Not Afraid - 2010, 1 week
Love The Way You Lie (feat. Rihanna) - 2010, 7 weeks
The Monster (feat. Rihanna) - 2013-2014, 4 weeks
TOTAL: 12 weeks at #1
 
Pharrell Williams - 2 #1 singles overall, 1 #1 single as a lead
Blurred Lines (w/ Robin Thicke & T.I.) - 2013, 12 weeks
Happy - 2014, 10 weeks
TOTAL: 22 weeks at #1
 
Maroon 5 - 2 #1 singles
Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera) - 2011, 4 weeks
One More Night - 2012, 9 weeks
TOTAL: 13 weeks at #1
 
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - 2 #1 singles
Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz) - 2013, 6 weeks
Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton) - 2013, 5 weeks
TOTAL: 11 weeks at #1
 
LMFAO - 2 #1 singles
Party Rock Anthem (feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock) - 2011, 6 weeks
Sexy And I Know It - 2012, 2 weeks
TOTAL: 8 weeks at #1
 
Pitbull - 2 #1 singles
Give Me Everything (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer) - 2011, 1 week
Timber (feat. Kesha) - 2014, 3 weeks
TOTAL: 4 weeks at #1

 

Summary:

 

Top acts with the most combined weeks at #1 in the 2010s:

Rank / Artist / Weeks at #1
1. Rihanna - 32 weeks (21 weeks as lead)
2. Katy Perry - 26 weeks 
3. Pharrell Williams - 22 weeks (10 weeks as lead)
4. Bruno Mars - 17 weeks (15 weeks as lead)
5. Adele - 13 weeks
5. Kesha - 13 weeks (10 weeks as lead)
5. Maroon 5 - 13 weeks

 

 

Top lead acts with the most combined weeks at #1 in the 2010s:

1. Katy Perry - 26 weeks

2. Rihanna - 21 weeks

3. Bruno Mars - 15 weeks

4. Adele - 13 weeks

4. Maroon 5 - 13 weeks

5. Eminem - 12 weeks

[luckythisway 2,602]

The instrumental is awesome and its emotional and all, but the lyrics in the rapping parts are just awfully connected... it sounds like she is just talking.... its like i can take a instrumental and talk over it :|

Yeah the verses are kinda all over the place...

[Bad Monster Kid 13,140]

Beyonce, JT, Ed, Sam smith, Katy, etc just to list a few contenders

JT probably not. Haven't heard his name thrown around in any predictions. Would Beyonce be considered POP or R&B?

[Fish 6,086]

JT probably not. Haven't heard his name thrown around in any predictions. Would Beyonce be considered POP or R&B?

I hope RnB, this album is no pop album at all. 

[Paper Gangsta 6,692]

I read somwhere The Hanging Tree was sent to radios? Is it true?

[Whispering 18,865]

Beyonce, JT, Ed, Sam smith, Katy, etc just to list a few contenders

 

JT isn't eligible. Both part one and part two of 20/20 were submitted for last years Grammy Awards, because they fell under that eligibility period. 

 

Eligible this year:  Ariana, Coldplay, Sia, Maroon 5 and the other 4 you listed. (although Beyoncé won't be nominated in this category, as the album isn't seen as a Pop album) Those are the albums that are ARTPOP's competition.

[Gagamel 3,410]

I read somwhere The Hanging Tree was sent to radios? Is it true?

Yes, Billboard said so

[Runway 27,876]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6334880/hot-100-taylor-swift-no-1-selena-gomez-mark-ronson

CONGRATS TO SELENA

#1 Blank Space

#2 All About That Bass

#3 Take Me To Church

#4 Shake It Off

#5 Animals

#6 The Heart Wants What It Wants

#7 I'm Not The Only One

#8 Uptown Funk

#9 Habits (Stay High)

#10 Love Me Harder

#13 Lips Are Movin

Didnt know Selegend went top 10 :air:

Only a queen :legend:

[Pure Adrenaline 1,518]

Yes, Billboard said so

coming for BS's weave I see

[Fizzy 2,179]

Didnt know Selegend went top 10 :air:

Only a queen

The Chart Wants What It Wants :bunny:

[SomethingMore 1,701]

Jessie J's Masterpiece is #1 in Germany :cry:

 

Monster hit !

[PicklePower 1,649]

BB 200:

 

 

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Title (EP)
Meghan Trainor

15   104   12

 

:air: Even without an iTunes release.

[ViviLittleM 3]

 

Album Charts with Digital Track Sales and Streaming?

Lately various countries added track sales and streaming to their national album chart. And from this week on, the biggest music market of the world, the USA, makes the same. The official Billboard Top 200 Album Chart combined now album sales (conversion factor 1:1), digital track sales (10:1) and streaming (1500:1). And it seems that other countries follow this example in the next time.

Let us look back in the past: with the breakthrough of the Compact Disc at the end of the Eighties and the earlier Nineties, the global album sales grew strongly with a peak in the second half of the Nineties. But now, for over 10 years the global album sales shrink dramatically. What happened??

The main reason for this decline was the new market of the Digital Tracks! Today many people don't buy a complete album as before, but they looking for the best tunes of an album and purchase only these songs. Since one, two years there's another 'problem'... Streaming! More and more people having a subscription of Spotify or other streaming-providers and buying no longer music in digital or physical formats.

That's why the downward momentum of the global album sales accelerated this year and for the first time ever also the digital track sales are on the way down. Several times in the last months i thought about it, to give it up the Global Album Chart, because the worldwide sales fall further and further (certainly also in the coming years).

I will summarize again: the Digital Track Sales and Streaming are the reasons for the decay of the global album sales, and that's why we follow the example of the US-Billboard Chart and other... from the week 2, 2015 on, we'll integrate Track Sales and Streaming to the Global Album Chart.

It was a very difficult decision, but believe it or not, a pure sales-based album chart has no future! The additional sales from Digital Tracks and Streaming bringing a fair compensation and incidentally more stability!

Fred Chuchel / Media Traffic