The Week's Billboard Hot 100 #1

Lady Gaga's best days are behind her.

Amusingly, the music video for "Perfect Illusion" shows her angrily driving to a desert and kicking sand around, as if mad about the song tanking.

pfff, I like that interpretation.

I like the song, personally, but it's really not a strong lead single. I'm sure they've got something better than that.

If you told me three months ago that "i hate u, i love u" would end up in the top 10, I wouldn't have believed you. The song screams of "low charting fluke entry."

I imagine Starboy's gonna take the top spot next week if 24k Magic doesn't make a surprise No. 1 debut. If Closer sticks to the top like glue again though I'd only be slightly surprised.

Shame that Perfect Illusion's tanking, too. Really like Gaga.

Holy shit, 24k Magic is awesome! I fully expect it to top the charts for 10+weeks at least!

Bruno Mars debuts. "Closer" just won't quit.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (October 29, 2016):

1. The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey — "Closer" (9 weeks at #1)
2. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk — "Starboy"
3. twenty one pilots — "Heathens"
4. DJ Snake featuring Justin Bieber — "Let Me Love You"
5. Bruno Mars — "24K Magic" (debut)
6. D.R.A.M. featuring Lil Yachty — "Broccoli"
7. Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ — "Cold Water"
8. Shawn Mendes — "Treat You Better"
9. Sia featuring Sean Paul — "Cheap Thrills"
10. Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj — "Side to Side" (new entry)

Songs outside of the top 10:

55. John Legend — "Love Me Now"
56. Maroon 5 featuring Kendrick Lamar — "Don't Wanna Know"
76. Lady Gaga — "Million Reasons"

edited 17th Oct '16 11:39:48 AM by BurntMario

Other songs outside the Top 10 (according to Billboard's Facebook livestream and Gary Trust's tweets):

20. Hailee Steinfeld and Grey featuring Zedd — "Starving"

48. DJ Khaled featuring Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, August Alsina, Jeremih, Future and Rick Ross — "Do You Mind"

70. Brad Paisley — "Today" (debut)

77. Pikotaro — "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen" (debut)

82. Jon Bellion — "All Time Low" (debut)

85. Zara Larsson — "Ain't My Fault" (debut)

One of these songs is not like the others...

edited 17th Oct '16 2:57:37 PM by TheEmperah

"Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen" (simplified to "PPAP" for the rest of my post) is only 45 seconds long. Does that mean it is the shortest song to ever chart on the Hot 100? Even if you consider other versions of the song, most of them don't even reach the 1-minute mark.

I did some research on the shortest song to chart on the Hot 100. Turns out it's The Womenfolk's rendition of "Little Boxes" and it's 1 minute and 3 seconds long. It peaked at #83 in 1964. Most versions of "PPAP" are shorter than a minute anyway. Does that mean the song just broke a 52-year record? Maybe the editors of Billboard will mention this in tomorrow's article an article later this week.

For what it's worth, "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs is the shortest song to top the Hot 100 at 1 minute and 36 seconds. It topped the chart in 1960.

edited 18th Oct '16 2:39:44 PM by tropeslave

How did it get on Billboard in the first place?

Probably some sort of meme.

Possibly due to You Tube.

edited 18th Oct '16 7:02:07 AM by TheEmperah

I kinda hope it charts higher so they're forced to play it on the radio.

Yes.

edited 20th Oct '16 2:20:17 AM by tropeslave

On the other side of things, here's a fairly long track that will probably chart fairly soon.

Man, I've only just tried to shut out election talk and already it's looking for me.

You can never escape

The Future.

A Billboard article on the shortest and longest Hot 100 songs. It's noteworthy that "the marks for both longest and shortest Hot 100 hits have been rewritten in 2016."

The Longest Hot 100 Hits
(9:57) "Blackstar," David Bowie, No. 78 peak, 2016
(9:30) "Better Place to Be (Parts 1 & 2)," Harry Chapin, No. 86, 1976
(8:55) "November Rain," Guns N' Roses, No. 3, 1992
(8:37) "American Pie (Parts I & II)," Don McLean, No. 1 (four weeks), 1972
(8:16) "Untitled 07 L Levitate," Kendrick Lamar, No. 90, 2016

The Shortest Hot 100 Hits
(0:45) "PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)," Piko-Taro, No. 77 (to date), 2016
(1:02) "Little Boxes," The Womenfolk, No. 83, 1964
(1:17) "Some Kind-A Earthquake," Duane Eddy His Twangy Guitar and the Rebels, No. 37, 1959
(1:19) "Forward," Beyonce feat. James Blake, No. 63, 2016
(1:20) "What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)," Andrew Seeley & Vanessa Anne Hudgens, No. 67, 2006

edited 22nd Oct '16 10:13:09 PM by tropeslave

Maroon 5 surges their way to the top ten.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (November 5, 2016):

1. The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey — "Closer" (10 weeks at #1)
2. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk — "Starboy"
3. twenty one pilots — "Heathens"
4. DJ Snake featuring Justin Bieber — "Let Me Love You"
5. D.R.A.M. featuring Lil Yachty — "Broccoli"
6. Bruno Mars — "24K Magic"
7. Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ — "Cold Water"
8. Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj — "Side to Side"
9. Maroon 5 featuring Kendrick Lamar — "Don't Wanna Know" (new entry)
10. Shawn Mendes — "Treat You Better"

Other song(s) outside the Top 10, according to Billboard's Facebook livestream:

18. Hailee Steinfeld and Grey featuring Zedd — "Starving"

Waiting to see whether or not more songs outside the Top 10 will be revealed.

edited 24th Oct '16 12:47:31 PM by TheEmperah

Can nothing take "Closer" from the top spot?

Sadly, no.

New Drake songs have recently been released (because we totally needed more Drake this year) and are now occupying the Top 2 on iTunes US, so we'll see if he could compete with the Chainsmokers in the coming weeks.

Also, we shouldn't really rule out "Starboy" altogether as the contender for the next #1 just yet. His album will be released later that month which could help boost the song's performance and get The Weeknd to #1 if he still hasn't at that point.

edited 25th Oct '16 5:00:32 AM by TheEmperah

x4 People like their watered-down club music, what can I say?

Give it a couple weeks and Bruno Mars should do it. 24K Magic has more or less displaced everything above it on my local radio stations.

"Juju on That Beat (TZ Anthem)" enters the top ten this week. I'm guessing we've been getting all these new entries every week to make up for the, uh, lack of turnover we're having at the top of the chart. As for the song itself, I guess it was something that got popular off of Vines (I wouldn't know, I've never used it myself), so if it was, considering the news about Vine shutting down soon, this could be the last hit to ever get big off of that app.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (November 12, 2016):

1. The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey — "Closer" (11 weeks at #1)
2. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk — "Starboy"
3. twenty one pilots — "Heathens"
4. DJ Snake featuring Justin Bieber — "Let Me Love You"
5. D.R.A.M. featuring Lil Yachty — "Broccoli"
6. Bruno Mars — "24K Magic"
7. Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj — "Side to Side"
8. Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ — "Cold Water"
9. Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion Mc Call — "Juju on That Beat (TZ Anthem)" (new entry)
10. Gnash featuring Olivia O'Brien — "i hate u, i love u" (reentry)

Songs outside of the top 10:

14. Hailee Steinfeld featuring Zedd — "Starving"
16. Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane — "Black Beatles"
19. Sia featuring Kendrick Lamar — "The Greatest"
24. Drake — "Fake Love"
32. Pentatonix — "Hallelujah"
38. Drake featuring 21 Savage — "Sneakin'"
57. Lady Gaga — "Million Reasons"
66. Lady Gaga — "A-YO"
78. Lady Gaga — "Perfect Illusion"