DrogeMiester's Billboard Analysis - February 1, 2020

The new Billboard charts have arrived and so it's time again for me to give you my thoughts! This is a weekly post where I cover three main sections of the charts: the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the songs rising on the Hot 100, and the new arrivals. As pertaining to the rising songs, in order to be included, a song has to rise at least two spots between Nos. 11 and 20, five spots spots between Nos. 21 and 50, or 10 spots between Nos. 51 and 100. As pertaining to new arrivals, I used to dedicate myself to covering every single song that debuted, but that started to burn me out, especially with the high number of album bombs, so I've been a lot more selective recently and so far I've received no complaints. However, if I skip a song that you want to hear my thoughts on, feel free to let me know. I'll occasionally mix things up depending on the week, like throwing in a notable re-entry into the rising songs section, but generally this is what I go with. Most of the data I give you comes from Billboard.com, usually Gary Trust's weekly article. If I pull from elsewhere, I'll generally let you know. With all of that out of the way, let's dive in and see what this week has to offer!

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:

1- "The Box" - Roddy Ricch (=) -- Another monster week on streaming for Roddy Ricch, although it is actually down from last week, but only 3 percent to 75 million U.S. streams. Does that mean the song has plateaued on streaming? Perhaps. But with streaming totals that high, it doesn't matter because nothing is close to it right now. Sales were also down and radio rose 38 percent, but said radio and sales are a very small percentage of the song's chart points as this is a streaming heavy song at the moment. Of note, there isn't yet an official music video for this song. Whenever Roddy's team decides to release that, the streaming could actually go up again.

2- "Life is Good" - Future featuring Drake (=) -- It makes me sad that this is still at No. 2. Yes, it's down from last week across the board, but it still has enough streaming to unfortunately keep it around, which is unfortunate. No one needs anymore Future or Drake. We've had way too much of both of them.

3- "Godzilla" - Eminem featuring Juice WRLD (new) -- Juice WRLD? Eminem has dipped this low, too? That's disappointing. I don't listen to songs that feature dead rappers, regardless of how big of a role they play on this song. So I'll never cover this.

4- "Circles" - Post Malone (-1) -- Despite the three rap songs ahead of this, all boosted heavily by streaming, Post Malone is managing to stick around due to strong radio. In fact, it's still No. 1 on radio right now. As long as that stays that way, this song might stubbornly stick around. And I'm still OK with that, all things considered.

5- "Memories" - Maroon 5 (-1) -- At one point I thought this had potential to go No. 1. And I was going to be fine with that. But that doesn't appear to be the case anymore. The song just never had quite enough momentum to get over the hill and now it's being held back by a trio of streaming monsters, which is insurmountable for a pop song.

6- "10,000 Hours" - Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber (+1) -- This song went up a spot? That actually really surprises me. I thought it had simply got a boost thanks to Justin's new song. But now that is gone and this is still rising. It's actually kinda impressive.

7- "Dance Monkey" - Tones and I (+1) -- I suppose hanging out in the bottom half of the top 10 isn't too bad. Having this song here in the top 10 in the first place is enough cause for celebration. But I would like this to get more momentum.

8- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi (-2) -- I'm not sure how much longer this will be around, but it's certainly had an excellent run. No tears shed for me.

9- "Roxanne" - Arizona Zervas (=) -- Make this go away.

10- "Lose You to Love Me" - Selena Gomez (-5) -- This falling back down to Earth was expected. Selena got a boost last week from her new album, which didn't have much of an impact on the charts. But with that out of the way, Selena goes back to barely hanging onto a spot in the top 10.

Rising on the Hot 100:

20- "High Fashion" - Roddy Ricch featuring Mustard (+7) -- Not much in the rising songs section due to a double album bomb from Eminem and Mac Miller. But I'm a little annoyed that one of the songs that managed to do well in spite of the album bombs is another song from Roddy Ricch.

21- "Blinding Lights" - The Weeknd (+11) -- This, on the other hand, is great news. "Blinding Lights" is a song that deserves to be a monster hit. At first I wasn't sure if it was going to stick around, but I'm stoked that this is getting traction.

34- "Suicidal" - YNW Melly (+5) -- Make this go away.

55- "Tusa" - Karol G & Nicki Minaj (+14) -- Why?

New Arrivals:

3- "Godzilla" - Eminem featuring Juice WRLD -- A double album bomb this week. I'm mildly curious about Eminem, but the long list of songs to cover from him and Mac Miller is just too long right now and I have other things I feel like doing. 

16- "What a Man Gotta Do" - Jonas Brothers -- I'm getting the feeling that the Jonas Brothers don't put a whole lot of effort into writing their music. Or maybe that was already common knowledge. The positives here are that this song is upbeat and catchy enough to get a pass. It's obvious that the Jonas Brothers also know exactly who their target audience and they are good at writing music that panders directly to them. But I feel like that target audience is composed of mostly teenage girls who swoon after these brothers rather easily and don't care to pay attention to the lyrics at all. Because lyrically this is the most generic pop song you can come up with, especially coming from a boy band sort of thing. This reminds me of a One Direction song, if I'm being honest. Personally I'd like to see the Jonas Brothers put a little more effort into creating a song that that actually has some meaning to it rather than coming up with yet another empty pop song that will be huge for five seconds, then disappear into oblivion, never to be heard of again. But given that I'm obviously not the target audience here, what does my opinion really mean? Sure, I liked "Sucker." But I feel like ever since they released "Sucker," all they've done is try to re-write "Sucker" over and over and frankly I'm kinda bored. But if all the girls love it, they did their job, right?

28- "Darkness" - Eminem -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

31- "Those Kinda Nights" - Eminem featuring Ed Sheeran -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

36- "Unaccomodating" - Eminem featuring Young M.A -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

38- "Blue World" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

48- "Circles" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

52- "You Gon' Learn" - Eminem featuring Royce da 5'9" & White Gold -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

57- "Black Swan" - BTS -- Lost in the mix of all the Eminem and Mac Miller is this little Korean group called BTS. Have you heard of them?

58- "P---- Fairy (OTW)" - Jhene Aiko -- I don't care who the artist is, I'm never going to listen to a song with a title like that.

61- "Leaving Heaven" - Eminem featuring Skylar Grey -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

63- "Comlicated" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

64- "Hand Me Downs" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

67- "Premonition (Intro)" - Eminem -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

68- "I Can See" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

71- "In Too Deep" - Eminem -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

75- "Woods" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

80- "Everybody" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

83- "Marsh" - Eminem -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

84- "No Regrets" - Eminem featuring Don Tolliver -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

89- "Lock It Up" - Eminem featuring Anderson .Paak -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

91- "Surf" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.

93- "Stepdad" - Eminem -- I'm not covering Eminem's album bomb, but let me know if this song or any others are any good if you have listened to it.

100- "That's On Me" - Mac Miller -- Mac Miller is dead. I don't listen to songs from dead rappers because I hate what the industry is doing with them. Also, I wouldn't have listened to and covered a Mac Miller album when he was alive, anyways. Sorry.