Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:
1- "Truth Hurts" - Lizzo (=) -- "Truth Hurts" holds at No. 1 for a fifth week thanks to its increased lead on radio, up 3 percent to 119.4 million audience impressions, as well as good enough numbers on sales and streaming, down 5 percent in sales to 26,000 downloads sold and down 6 percent in streaming to 27.5 million U.S. streams. Again, I don't think this is that strong of a No. 1 hit right now. Despite leading on the radio, it fell to No. 2 on sales and is at No. 7 on streaming. It's just holding the fort until something stronger comes around. And I'm not upset at that.
2- "Señorita" - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (=) -- Shawn and Camila hang out at No. 2 again this week. Although Billboard gave up several weeks ago on reporting what the song's numbers are, so your guess is as good as mine as to how for behind "Truth Hurts" it is. At this point, I'm guessing it's not doing well enough to overtake it.
3- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi (+1) -- Honestly the song that seems to be in strong position to take over for "Truth Hurts" at No. 1 is this song right here, judging solely on the fact that it's only been around for a few weeks in the top 10 while the other two songs ahead of it have been around significantly longer. But again, Billboard didn't report what the numbers on this one were, so we'll have to wait and see. The song did take forever to hit the top 10, so if it's hit its peak, I wouldn't be too surprised.
4- "Ran$om" - Lil Tecca (+2) -- We really need to stop streaming this song. I don't get the appeal. But that's what it's back at No. 4. That and some of the songs ahead of it fell.
5- "No Guidance" - Chris Brown featuring Drake (+2) -- Chris Brown gets his first top five hit since 2008 while Drake collects his 15th career top five. And I couldn't care less about either artist and their achievements this week. I'm just happy the song hasn't blown up too much, but I'm equally as annoyed that it hasn't started losing traction.
6- "Panini" - Lil Nas X (-1) -- We'll have to wait and see what this song ends up doing. At this point, I currently have no idea. It shot up to No. 5 last week due to the arrival of the music video. Now it's fallen one spot. It would be nice if it continued to fall.
7- "bad guy" - Billie Eilish (-4) -- Ouch. That's quite the tumble for Billie this week. But the song did spend 19 weeks in the top five and is at week No. 25 in the top 10, so I guess it was inevitable that it would fall at some point. It's currently the No. 3 song of the year according to my personal tracking and it's sneaking up behind "Sunflower" for that No. 2 spot. Whether or not it catches it will depend on how long it manages to stay in the top 10. If it has anymore tumbles like this week, that might not be very long.
8- "Circles" - Post Malone (+1) -- Post Malone remains stagnant with his two remaining top 10 hits. They just switched spots, which infers that "Circle" may be gaining traction? We'll have to see it if can get any stronger momentum and actually climb higher.
9- "Goodbyes" - Post Malone featuring Young Thug (-1) -- After a surprisingly disappointing run compared to previous Post Malone singles, "Goodbyes" might be finally on the way out since it has nothing else to prop it back up and "Circles" seems to be the new single that's being pushed.
10- "Old Town Road" - Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (=) -- One more week for "Old Town Road." Mainly because there's nothing too strong below the top 10.
Rising on the Hot 100:
16- "Money in the Grave" - Drake featuring Rick Ross (+2) -- This isn't going anywhere. It's just kinda coasting here in the teens, rising up and down based on what the songs around it are doing.
18- "Suge" - DaBaby (+2) -- DaBaby has an album set to impact the charts next week. So unfortunately we might see this get a huge boost next week.
20- "Hot Girl Summer" - Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign (+2) -- I'm a bit surprised that this song hasn't gained enough traction to make much of an impact, but it snuck back into the top 20 this week.
21- "Baby" - Lil Baby & DaBaby (+6) -- DaBaby's presence here might help this surge next week thanks to his album. And that's unfortunate.
28- "Only Human" - Jonas Brothers (+10) -- Jonas Brothers are getting a second big hit following "Sucker." Good for them, I suppose.
38- "223's" - YNW Melly & 9lokknine (+21) -- Make this go away.
39- "I Don't Know About You" - Chris Lane (+8) -- Eh.
43- "Good as Hell" - Lizzo (+7) -- I'm a bit surprised this is still around given how old it is. But I'm not complaining. Out of the two Lizzo songs charting right now, this is certainly the better of the two. So if it can continue to gain traction, I'll be happy.
44- "Lover" - Taylor Swift (+5) -- Taylor really needs a win with this song. She had an excellent week when her album debuted, but it was rough before that and it's continued to be rough after that. If "Lover" doesn't gain traction, she's going to be in danger of falling into obscurity.
47- "One More Night" - Marshmello & Kane Brown (+5) -- This one refuses to go away.
71- "Baby Sitter" - DaBaby featuring Offset (+10) -- Again, thanks to DaBaby's album, this will probably do quite well next week. And that's upsetting.
74- "Playing Games" - Summer Walker (+20) -- I skipped this song when it debuted because it was Taylor Swift week that week and I decided I'd spent too much time on that charts with covering all of Taylor's songs. But I promised I'd get back to it if it started rising and I'm keeping to my word. And, well, turns out I wasn't missing anything. Granted, I've never been much of an R&B person. I don't hate the genre, I just find it mostly boring. That's the most accurate word to describe this song. Boring. It's too chopped up and really slow. There's not much in terms of content and it barely lasts more than two minutes. So if you're an R&B person and you love this, then I'm happy for you. It's just not my thing. It's not horrible or offensive, just dull and forgettable.
76- "Tip of My Tongue" - Kenny Chesney (+12) -- I can't even remember this song.
79- "Hot Girl Bummer" - blackbear (+12) -- Gross. Why are we making this a thing?
85- "Remember You Young" - Thomas Rhett (+15) -- Yes. I might've been a bit nitpicky here when I covered this song last week since it could've been a lot better. But as is, I'm still happy it's around and I'm more than happy if it becomes a pop country hit.
New Arrivals:
17- "INTRO" - DaBaby -- As I've said a few times now, I'm bracing for a DaBaby album bomb next week. I'm not going to cover any of the songs, but I'm expecting it to happen due to the strong presence the songs have on the Apple Music charts at the moment. Yet I'm really confused as to why this song showed up this week and why it's even here in the first place. Intro songs shouldn't exist on the charts. But whatever. If you're into nonsense like this, enjoy yourself, I guess.
22- "Memories" - Maroon 5 -- It's funny, yesterday Gwen Stefani did one of those Wired autocomplete interviews. She talked about "The Voice" for a second and it made me reflect on how refreshing it is to not have any Maroon 5 songs on the charts (although I would LOVE for more Gwen Stefani). I guess I forgot to knock on wood because then today I see this. Although I got 15 seconds in before I had to pause it and figure out what the heck the name of that classical song is that they interpolate here. Yes, I love classical music, but I'm not enough of a classic music nerd to always remember the names of the songs. And Googling doesn't ever help because they don't have lyrics. Luckily Genius helped me out and told me that "Memories" interpolates "Canon in D" by Pachelbel. So before returning to "Memories," I enjoyed myself some "Canon in D" on YouTube. I think the best version is when it's piano and cello combined. Brooklyn Duo has a beautiful version of that if you want to go treat yourself.
Back to the song "Memories," though, I suppose if you want me to not hate your music, interpolating "Canon in D" is a good way to do that. It makes for a soothing, reflective Maroon 5 song, which fits quite well into the themes of the song, with Adam singing about all the memories from the past and how said memories consequentially bring back this girl that he'd previously forgotten about. The song certainly doesn't break any ground for this group that for some reason still call themselves a band, but I'm personally a bit shocked that I'm not upset at this song's existence. Usually I'm upset at Maroon 5 because they put out nothing but boring, generic pop music with zero personality that the pop radio stations across the country completely salivate over. And that's disappointing because Adam has a unique voice and they were once a really cool rock band. So I'm still trying to digest this current song. I don't know if I'm happy because the song is actually good or if it's simply tolerable in contrast to all of their other boring nonsense from the past decade. I guess I'll update you on that as the weeks go by because I'm assuming this will be around on the charts for the majority of the next year due to how much the radio loves Maroon 5.
86- "Adicto" - Tainy, Anuel AA & Ozuna -- I was going to just skip this song, but since there's only five new arrivals, I humored these three and gave it a shot. And it was about as boring as I expected. Tainy and Ozuna are tolerable enough, but they don't sound too interested in the song and Anuel AA just gets on my nerves, as always. I used my strong deductive skills to determine that "Adicto" translates to "Addicted." That's apparently 100 percent correct. So I translated the chorus and apparently this girl wants nothing to do with him, but he refuses to give up because he is addicted to her... skin? I mean, if you speak Spanish, please inform me if "piel" means something different. If not, then this is an extremely shallow song. He doesn't want her back because he still loves her or wants to be with her. She's just too attractive to let go.
93- "Stuck in a Dream" - Lil Mosey & Gunna -- Nope.
96- "Loco Contigo" - DJ Snake, J Balvin & Tyga -- There was once a point in time where I liked DJ Snake. But it's been a while since he's done anything worthwhile. Instead he's settled with collaborating with people like this that will help him become popular rather than trying to make good music. In fairness to this song, it's slightly more upbeat than "Adicto" as it at least has a background rhythm from DJ Snake this is kinda catchy, but no, this is another useless reggaeton song that has J Balvin sounding quite bored despite singing about how crazy he is for this girl. Tyga comes in and does something, although he seems more confused and out of place than anything. There's no reason for him to be here and it feels like he knows that, but gives them some sort of semblance of a useless verse anyways. And I'm sorry I translated the lyrics because then I found the line, "You beat it like grandma's oatmeal." What?
No comments:
Post a Comment