The Week's Billboard Hot 100 #1

I mean, everyone seems to be giving "Purple Rain" specifically all the love (seriously, all the Prince covers I've seen and heard about in the past week or so have literally just been "Purple Rain", which I don't get—it's a good song, but I wouldn't even call it the best song on the album, plus there are tons of others, even tons of other hits of his, people could be giving attention to), so my money's on that one.

Don't remember Todd discussing him, though I remember the Rap Critic discussing him and the song.

edited 27th Apr '16 5:17:22 AM by Odd1

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It was in the Worst of 2015 video.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

I'm not expecting a nine minute long ballad to continue to do well in the charts tbh.

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"

"Purple Rain" should be in the top ten next week, especially after the monstrous sales boost it received following Prince's death. Some are even speculating that it might go to #1, which would be an interesting thing to see, especially when it never reached the top during its original run in '84. It peaked at #2 behind Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go."

And hey, "Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake was a mid-tempo song that was eight minutes long, and that was one of the biggest hits of 2013.

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Except that the version of Mirrors that was played on radio stations and was bought by many was only four and a half minutes long. It's guaranteed that anyone who plays Purple Rain on radio would play the long version.

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"

Really? I mean, I haven't listened to that much radio since Prince's death, so I don't know if programmers prefer the long version or not. Most of "Purple Rain"'s resurgence in popularity appears to be sales-based.

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Nah, I'm confident that radio stations prefer to use cut versions whenever they can (unless it's a Classic Rock Radio Station, in which case they play stuff like Free Bird or 2112 in full length).

Yeah. I heard Station to Station played on a classic rock station (what a strange and rare choice) and they used the French 3:40 single.

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"

I have no doubt that they'd play the shortened version. After all... (2:33-2:50 if the timecode doesn't work right)

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Calvin Harris, Elle King, Flo Rida, Jason Derulo, MAGIC!, X Ambassadors & Zedd have released new tracks.

edited 1st May '16 7:00:52 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

"Panda" is still #1. Two Prince songs enter the top ten.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (May 14, 2016):

1. Desiigner — "Panda" (2 weeks at #1)
2. Drake featuring WizKid and Kyla — "One Dance"
3. Lukas Graham — "7 Years"
4. Prince and the Revolution — "Purple Rain" (reentry)
5. Mike Posner — "I Took a Pill in Ibiza"
6. Rihanna featuring Drake — "Work"
7. Fifth Harmony featuring Ty Dolla $ign — "Work from Home"
8. Prince — "When Doves Cry" (reentry)
9. ZAYN — "PILLOWTALK"
10. Beyonce — "Formation" (debut)

Songs outside the top 10:

15. Justin Bieber — "Love Yourself"

edited 2nd May '16 12:02:44 PM by BurntMario

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Here are the Prince songs that charted outside of the Top 10 this week:

20. Little Red Corvette

23. Kiss

25. Let's Go Crazy

27. 1999

33. Raspberry Beret

39. I Would Die 4 U

As for songs from Beyonce's latest album ''Lemonade'' that charted outside of the Top 10:

11. Sorry

13. Hold Up

18. 6 Inch (ft. The Weeknd)

28. Don't Hurt Yourself (ft. Jack White)

35. Freedom (ft. Kendrick Lamar)

37. Pray You Catch Me

38. All Night

41. Daddy Lessons

43. Sandcastles

47. Love Drought

63. Forward (ft. James Blake)

As for other songs outside of the Top 10 (according to Gary Trust's tweets):

14. The Chainsmokers ft. Daya — "Don't Let Me Down"

22. Rihanna — "Needed Me"

67. Rihanna — "Kiss It Better"

edited 2nd May '16 1:22:32 PM by TheEmperah

Wouldn't have expected Jack White on a Beyonce song. That sounds like an interesting combination EDIT: but apparently I'll never find out if it is, since everywhere I can find to stream it is either a muted video or just nothing. Y'know, maybe if I'd heard the song and liked it, I'd have actually bought it, Beyonce's record company. EDITx2: And apparently the only way to stream it is Tidal. Fuck that.

EDIT: So after some more digging around, I found it through alternative means^note which I would normally feel guilty about, but I'm too angry to care about that right now, and it's actually pretty good. I might listen to the rest of the album, against my better judgement.

edited 3rd May '16 6:58:00 PM by Odd1

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"Lemonade" is not a Tidal exclusive. It's actually available on iTunes. If it had been a Tidal exclusive, I don't think it would have gotten to #1 on the Billboard 200.

EDIT: Oh, wait. You're talking about streaming, not buying. Never mind.

edited 4th May '16 1:03:23 AM by TheEmperah

My work has mandated that we keep the local top 40 station on all day, but I guess the upside is that now I know most of these songs being discussed again.

Funny thing about "Seven Years": I dislike the song, but went and looked it up just now because there's one line that the radio edit leaves almost completely unintelligible and I was wondering what the missing words were - "By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor".

"NO" is pretty irritating - Granted, I felt the same way about "All About That Bass" before it grew on me ^note Most of her other singles in between were okay, but I don't see that happening here ever. I want someone to do a "supercut" type edit just to find out what percentage of the song consists of the title drop. I don't see it is a "boy band type" song though - there's definitely something late-90's-through-early-2000's about it, but I think it's a failed attempt to sound like a Destiny's Child song of that period.

Ariana Grande's "Dangerous Woman" is probably a distant second in the category of songs in the top 40 that irritate me - it's just really plodding and non-melodic.

It's apparently just outside of the top 40 (Wikipedia says it's gotten as high as #41 on Billboard) but the song I'm minding the least right now is "Lost Boy" by Ruth B. Somehow it helps that I was trying to figure out if the Peter Pan motif was supposed to be a metaphor for something, but apparently she just was watching Once Upon a Time and decided to write a song from the point of view of one of the Lost Boys.

edited 5th May '16 9:35:45 PM by MikeK

That's my biggest gripe with "NO"...could've been a lot better if it hadn't run those particular lines into the ground with repetition.

It couldn't have been much better, seeing as a) Meghan Trainor is rapping, b) it tries to be a boy band-like song, and c) the production is absolute shit.

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"

I mean, point B there doesn't necessarily have much to do with it—that's just the style it's going for, and no style is inherently bad unless the style is Nightcore.

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The Song of 2015. Calling it already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgaO-hSuJc

I love you, Krillin!! -struggling to breathe- I love you as well, honey..

Man, people are time traveling for weird reasons these days.

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I'd actually be kinda glad if that became a hit, we need more weird on the radio.

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@NO: I actually kinda like that song (a first Meghan Trainor-wise; I can't stand All About That Bass). It's catchy as hell, actually sounds very much like Single Ladies by Beyonce in both sound and lyrics.

I'm probably not going to post this week's top ten tomorrow. Got a few things called "finals" I have to deal with.

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It probably won't happen, but I wish that a song from A Moon Shaped Pool would chart. Perhaps if they release True Love Waits as the next single.

edited 8th May '16 3:56:50 PM by golgothasArisen

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 -- May 21, 2016

"One Dance" hits #1, "Don't Let Me Down" enters the Top 10, and "This Is What You Came For" debuts.

1. Drake ft. Wizkid and Kyla — "One Dance"
2. Desiigner — "Panda"
3. Lukas Graham — "7 Years"
4. Mike Posner — "I Took a Pill in Ibiza"
5. Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dolla Sign — "Work from Home"
6. Rihanna ft. Drake — "Work"
7. The Chainsmokers ft. Daya — "Don't Let Me Down" (new entry)
8. Zayn — "Pillowtalk"
9. Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna — "This Is What You Came For" (debut)
10. Justin Bieber — "Love Yourself" (re-entry)

Also, a whole bunch of Drake songs debuted on the Hot 100. Here's a list of all the Drake songs outside of the Top 10:

21. Pop Style (ft. The Throne)

33. Hype

34. Controlla

38. Grammys (ft. Future)

40. Still Here

44. U With Me?

45. 9

47. With You (ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR)

49. Child's Play

52. Too Good (ft. Rihanna)

53. Feel No Ways

54. Weston Road Flows

61. Redemption

68. Keep the Family Close

72. Faithful (ft. Pimp C & dvsn)

75. Fire & Desire

86. Views

89. Summer Sixteen

And what about other songs outside the Top 10 (as brought up on the Billboard article linked at the top and their Periscope livestream)?

11. Beyonce — "Sorry"

13. Rihanna — "Needed Me"

16. Beyonce — "Hold Up"

18. Ariana Grande — "Dangerous Woman"

19. Beyonce — "Formation"

20. Florida Georgia Line — "H.O.L.Y." (debut)

67. Disturbed — "The Sound of Silence"

76. Rihanna — "Kiss It Better"

It has been quite a chaotic few weeks for the Billboard Hot 100, hasn't it?

edited 9th May '16 12:39:27 PM by TheEmperah

goddammit who let formation back on the charts? it's not like it's gonna fix itself.

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"