The Week's Billboard Hot 100 #1

Vinyl's been relevant again for the last 5ish years dude.

It's a hard thing to get used to, okay?

"Bad and Boujee" is #1.

edited 9th Jan '17 12:44:03 PM by TheEmperah

It's odd how they have the video posted before the article. Usually they both come out around the same time.

Songs outside of the top 10:

12. Alessia Cara — "Scars to Your Beautiful"
14. Zayn and Taylor Swift — "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"
18. Big Sean — "Bounce Back"

I know I'm probably going to end up jinxing it, but I'm surprised by the competition for the top spot so far this year. I wonder if Ed Sheeran will finally go to #1, though it seems likely that he or "Bad and Boujee" will be staying for quite a while later on.

Just a heads-up: This week's Hot 100 Top 10 will be revealed a day later than usual due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Also, brace yourselves for the two new Ed Sheeran songs to possibly debut in the Top 10, one of which may just become his first #1 hit this week. It's worth noting that if this happens (which it most likely will), this will be the first time two songs from a single artist debut in the Top 10 in the same week.

Billboard has been delaying the chart an awful lot lately.

Ed Sheeran debuts at #1 and #6, marking the first time two songs from a single artist debut in the Top 10 in the same week in the chart's 58-year history.

The Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (January 28, 2017)

1. Ed Sheeran — "Shape of You" (debut; 1st week at #1)
2. Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert — "Bad and Boujee"
3. Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane — "Black Beatles"
4. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk — "Starboy"
5. The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey — "Closer"
6. Ed Sheeran — "Castle on the Hill" (debut)
7. Bruno Mars — "24K Magic"
8. Maroon 5 featuring Kendrick Lamar — "Don't Wanna Know"
9. Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj — "Side to Side"
10. Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello — "Bad Things"

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

12. Zayn and Taylor Swift — "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"

19. Rihanna — "Love on the Brain"

22. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk — "I Feel It Coming"

33. Adele — "Water Under the Bridge"

47. The Weeknd — "Party Monster"

51. Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie — "Rockabye"

edited 17th Jan '17 12:51:33 PM by TheEmperah

Dang, I'm feeling kind of bad for Bruno Mars right now. 24k Magic just didn't quite make it to the top 3. Guess it was too much of a throwback.

Eh, Bruno Mars couldn't quite make lightning strike another time and put out another "Uptown Funk"-sized hit with a throwback style, but on its own "24K Magic" is doing just fine. So it's hard for me to really say.

24K is too much of a rehash, not to mention it's just too much going on for one song.

I haven't listened to "Shape of You", but I heard "Castle on the Hill" and I was not impressed.

I've listened to both, and while I can say that I can easily see why "Shape of You" is the higher-charting hit, it's kind of generic "Your Body Is Hot" type of song. It has only the minimum amount of Sheeran's personality in it. I'm in no way a fan of Sheeran, mind you, but I think even bad character is better than no character.

"Castle on the Hill" is much more indie-oriented, and thus pleases my ear more. Sure, it kind of sounds like a very calculated halfway between "Use Somebody" and "Story of My Life", but something about its bettersweet tone just speaks to me more than "Shape Of You."

edited 18th Jan '17 4:57:32 AM by Xeroop

My dad says "Castle on the Hill" is one of his favorite songs of the last five years.

In other news, Lukas Graham refuses to go away.

Ed Sheeran has also become the first artist to debut in the top two positions of the U.K. singles chart with new tracks.

Castle on the Hill reminds me a ton of Thinking out Loud, and Shape of You sounds like an intermediary point between Sing and Sia's The Greatest. They're both decent in my opinion, but I prefer Shape of You, if only for its tempo.

Another Lukas Graham song where the music is inoffensive enough but the obnoxious and self-absorbed lyrics make it unlistenable.

"Bad and Boujee" is back.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (February 4, 2017):

1. Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert — "Bad and Boujee" (2 weeks at #1)
2. Ed Sheeran — "Shape of You"
3. Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane — "Black Beatles"
4. The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey — "Closer"
5. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk — "Starboy"
6. Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello — "Bad Things"
7. The Chainsmokers — "Paris" (debut)
8. Zayn and Taylor Swift — "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (reentry)
9. Maroon 5 featuring Kendrick Lamar — "Don't Wanna Know"
10. Bruno Mars — "24K Magic"

Songs outside of the top 10:

15. Big Sean — "Bounce Back"
17. Rihanna — "Love on the Brain"
19. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk — "I Feel It Coming"
28. Ed Sheeran — "Castle on the Hill"
43. Migos — "T-Shirt"
77. Halsey — "Not Afraid Anymore"

edited 23rd Jan '17 11:38:01 AM by BurntMario

Other songs outside the Top 10 (as mentioned in Billboard's Facebook livestream and tweets from Gary Trust):

13. Alessia Cara — "Scars to Your Beautiful"

30. James Arthur — "Say You Won't Let Go"

32. Kyle featuring Lil Yachty — "iSpy"

34. Adele — "Water Under the Bridge"

38. Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie — "Rockabye"

53. Bebe Rexha — "I Got You"

54. Fitz and the Tantrums — "HandClap"

85. Kaleo — "Way Down We Go"

edited 23rd Jan '17 2:52:14 PM by TheEmperah

Holy crap, Castle on the Hill dropped hard. It was starting to grow on me even more, too.

Why won't Halsey stop

She's a talentless indie hack who's just one of the many Lana Del Rey impersonators with even less sincerity, creativity, and likeability

edited 23rd Jan '17 5:22:58 PM by golgothasArisen

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

why couldn't it have been one of their good songs

as in a song from their first album

and nothing past it

Twenty One Pilots, Flo Rida & Fat Joe have released new singles.

I notice now that it was uploaded to YT a while ago, but it wasn't released as a single until last month.

edited 27th Jan '17 10:33:35 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77

HeavyDirtySoul isn't new though.

It's still not a new song though, just say "new single" instead of "new song" haha

Anyway

that Fat Joe music video takes forever to get to the song

I'll be honest, the last song I remember hearing Fat Joe on was "What's Luv?" and I don't remember his voice sounding so midrange.

oh my god this music video is so insufferable, that Remy Ma scene is so cringe. Her verse isn't that bad, though one line I thought was clever but I misheard it and it turned out to be infinitely more boring^note "Bitch claiming she the queen, what? Not hardly" thought that last part was "No, Harley", like, you think you're a queen but you're just a joker or something but there was a different line I kinda liked ^note Hoes be grabbing his dick, I be grabbing his gun, and her flow is decent, but her lines are just...eh, I've heard it all before, and it doesn't even fit in with the rest of the song. Same for Fat Joe's verses, it's just meh, typical "I like strippers" song and nothing more. The beat's kinda nice at least.