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Tank hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart for a ninth time, as “Before We Get Started,” featuring Fabolous, rises to the top of the June 1-dated survey. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Before We Get Started” is Tank’s third straight ruler, following “Slow,” […]
Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” adds two more Billboard airplay No. 1s to its collection, rising to the top of the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay tallies dated June 1.
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The coronation of “Like That” on both lists accompanies its continued reign on Rap Airplay for a fifth week and Rhythmic Airplay for a third frame.
“Like That” becomes the first song to rule all four charts since Drake and 21 Savage’s “Rich Flex” in 2023. “Rich Flex,” as with “Like That,” also reigned on all four simultaneously (Feb. 4, 2023).
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On Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, “Like That” is the sixth No. 1 for Future and first since “Wait for U,” featuring Drake and Tems, led for 16 weeks in 2022. He first led in 2014 as featured, with Chris Brown, August Alsina and Jeremih, on DJ Khaled’s “Hold You Down.” “Like That” is Lamar’s fifth No. 1 and first since 2017’s “Love.”; he first reigned with “Swimming Pools [Drank]” in 2012. Metro Boomin leads for the first time as a billed recording artist.
On R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay (which blends audience data on mainstream R&B/hip-hop and adult R&B stations), “Like That” leads with 17.5 million in reach, up 9%, May 17-23, according to Luminate. It becomes Future’s fourth No. 1 and first since “Wait for U.” It’s Lamar’s third (and first since “Love.”) and Metro Boomin’s first.
Concurrently, “Like That” debuts on Pop Airplay. While Future charted four titles at the format previously this decade and Metro Boomin reached the list twice in 2023, Lamar makes his first appearance on the ranking since 2018.
“Like That,” from Future and Metro Boomin’s collaborative album We Don’t Trust You (the pair’s first of two LPs in 2024), debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated April 6 and led for three frames. It ranked at No. 7 on the most recently published survey (dated May 25, reflecting data May 10-16).
We Don’t Trust You debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated April 6 and has earned 809,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated June 1 will update on Billboard.com Wednesday, May 29, a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday May 27.
Godsmack lands its 13th No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, reigning with “Truth” on the June 1-dated survey.
The song becomes Godsmack’s first ruler since “Surrender,” which led for five weeks beginning in November 2022. The band first reigned with “Awake” in February 2001. It first reached the chart with “Whatever,” a No. 7-peaking tune in March 1999.
With 13 No. 1s, Godsmack ties Van Halen for the sixth-most in Mainstream Rock Airplay’s 43-year history.
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Most No. 1s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:19, Shinedown17, Three Days Grace14, Five Finger Death Punch14, Foo Fighters14, Metallica13, Godsmack13, Van Halen12, Disturbed
“Truth” is the second song from Godsmack’s 2023 album Lighting Up the Sky to top Mainstream Rock Airplay, following “Surrender.” In between, “Soul On Fire” reached No. 2 last year.
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Concurrently, “Truth” lifts 10-9 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay survey with 3.3 million audience impressions, up 7%, May 17-23, according to Luminate.
On the most recent multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (dated May 25, reflecting data May 10-16), “Truth” placed at a No. 15 high. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 296,000 official U.S. streams in that span.
Lighting Up the Sky is purported to be Godsmack’s final studio LP. It debuted at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums survey in March 2023 and has earned 97,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated June 1 will update on Billboard.com Wednesday, May 29, a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday May 27.
Bailey Zimmerman notches his fourth career-opening leader in a row on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Where It Ends” elevates to No. 1 on the ranking dated June 1. It advanced by 18% to 33.3 million audience impressions May 17-23, according to Luminate.
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The 24-year-old from Louisville, Ill., co-authored the single with Grant Averill and Joe Spargur. It’s from Zimmerman’s LP Religiously, which opened at its No. 3 high on Top Country Albums in May 2023.
“‘Where It Ends’ was one of the first songs I wrote when I moved to Nashville,” Zimmerman tells Billboard. “Some days it feels like I still have no idea what I’m doing, but, man, the dreams just keep coming true. Four No. 1s … Let’s keep it going. Chase your dreams!”
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The track follows Zimmerman’s “Religiously,” which ruled Country Airplay for a week in September 2023. Before that, “Rock and a Hard Place” dominated for six frames beginning that April; his rookie single, “Fall in Love,” reigned for a week in December 2022.
Zimmerman, who worked at a meat processing plant and on a gas pipeline prior to his career in music, made history on the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs survey dated Sept. 3, 2022, when he became the first act to place three career-starting entries in the top 10 simultaneously since the list became an all-encompassing genre ranking in October 1958: “Rock and a Hard Place,” “Where It Ends” and “Fall in Love.”
Zimmerman’s streak of four consecutive Country Airplay No. 1s is the chart’s longest active run. Jelly Roll follows with three straight dating to January 2023: “Son of a Sinner,” “Need a Favor,” and “Save Me,” with Lainey Wilson. Since the list launched in January 1990, Luke Combs has the overall record streak: 14 consecutive leaders, from his debut hit “Hurricane” in May 2017 through “Doin’ This” in May 2022.
Billie Eilish is on top in the land Down Under with Hit Me Hard And Soft, while 10 tracks from it impact the ARIA Top 50 Singles chart.
Hit Me Hard And Soft (via Interscope/Universal) debuts at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, May 24, giving Eilish a perfect three-from-three. The U.S. pop phenomenon’s debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? logged eight non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2019-20, and followup Happier Than Ever spent two weeks at the top in 2021.
Eilish dines out with album track “Lunch,” which arrives at No. 5 on the national singles survey for the top debut of the week. It’s her 15th top five hit spot in Australia, a tally that includes two No. 1s (“Bad Guy” in 2019 and “What Was I Made For?” in 2023).
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Eilish’s third LP knocks overs Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department (Universal), down 2-1, while Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts (Geffen/Universal) completes the ARIA Chart podium, holding at No. 3.
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Much-loved Australian rock act Hoodoo Gurus returns to the survey with Stoneage Romeos (Universal), their debut album which enjoys the 40th anniversary treatment. Stoneage Romeos reenters the ARIA Chart at No. 8, besting its original peak position of No. 29 back in 1984. That’s the ARIA Hall of Fame-inducted band’s seventh top 10 appearance. Hoodoo Gurus will play the classic album in full when they return to the road this November and December for the national Back to the Stoneage Tour, produced by Empire Touring.
Meanwhile, new releases from Slash (Orgy Of The Damned at No. 14 via Gibson/Sony) and Zayn (Room Under The Stairs at No. 16 via Universal) crack the top 20.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Tommy Richman bags his first leader on the Australian singles with “Million Dollar Baby” (Conc), up 2-1. The singer and songwriter is the fourth act to score their first No. 1 this year, following Noah Kahan, Benson Boone and Sabrina Carpenter, ARIA reports.
Country cuts round out the top three, with Post Malone and Morgan Wallen‘s “I Had Some Help” (Universal), down 1-2, and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (EMP), holding at No. 3.
Knocked Loose lands at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart for the first time, reigning over the May 25-dated survey with You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. The set starts with 24,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. May 10-16, according to Luminate. The sum includes 18,000 in album sales […]
Over the course of her career, Camila Cabello has gone from competition show contestant to girl group bandmate, then from burgeoning pop soloist to genre-shifting musical scientist. And in that process, the Cuba-born, Miami-raised artist has scored numerous hits on the charts. After getting her start on The X Factor, where Fifth Harmony was assembled, […]
Amazon Prime Video’s new Fallout series sports a strong start on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), scoring five of the 10 songs on the April 2024 survey, paced by The Ink Spots’ “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” at No. 1.
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Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of April 2024.
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“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” was recorded by The Ink Spots in 1941 (it reached No. 4 on Billboard‘s Best Selling Retail Records chart that year) and is familiar to fans of the Fallout video game series on which the TV show is based, as it is also part of the soundtrack of the games Fallout 3, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.
The song, featured in episode two of the series (all of which premiered April 10), snagged 4.6 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads in April 2024, according to Luminate.
Fallout takes No. 2 on Top TV Songs, too: Johnny Cash’s “So Doggone Lonesome” is in the runner-up spot after being heard in the series premiere and third episode. Cash’s 1955 single racked up 1.9 million streams and 1,000 downloads in April 2024.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass’ “Ladyfingers” (No. 4; 2.6 million streams), The Platters’ “Only You (And You Alone)” (No. 6; 2.1 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and Nat “King” Cole’s “Orange Colored Sky” (No. 7; 1.7 million streams, 1,000 downloads) also help coronate Fallout’s arrival on Top TV Songs.
The top non-Fallout title, meanwhile, is Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual,” which bows at No. 3. Jones’ first song to reach a Billboard chart (it peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1965), the track appears in the series premiere of Dead Boy Detectives, the newly premiered Netflix series that debuted its full first season on April 25.
“It’s Not Unusual” earned 2.9 million streams in April 2024. It’s joined on the ranking by The Church’s “Under the Milky Way,” which bows at No. 10 after a synch in Dead Boy Detectives’ seventh episode (1.2 million streams). “Under the Milky Way” was also a Hot 100 hit, reaching No. 24 in June 1988.
See the full top 10, also featuring music from Ripley and Baby Reindeer, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire,” The Ink Spots, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
“So Doggone Lonesome,” Johnny Cash, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
“It’s Not Unusual,” Tom Jones, Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix)
“Ladyfingers,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
“In Dreams,” Roy Orbison, Ripley (Netflix)
“Only You (And You Alone),” The Platters, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
“Orange Colored Sky,” Nat “King” Cole, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
“How to Fight Loneliness,” Wilco, Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
“Il Cielo In Una Stanza,” Mina, Ripley (Netflix)
“Under the Milky Way,” The Church, Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix)
Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” is the No. 1 song on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart for a second straight week, while Kendrick Lamar hits the top five, and a pair of Future and Metro Boomin tracks debut within the top 10 of the May 25-dated tally.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity May 13-19. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
A flurry of trends and viral usages continues to contribute to the success of “Million Dollar Baby” on TikTok, as previously reported, after its virality was initially kicked off thanks to a tease of the tune on the app on April 13.
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“Million Dollar Baby” concurrently falls 2-3 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100, albeit with a rise in consumption; it’s the chart’s greatest gainer in both streams and sales, racking up 66.3 million official U.S. streams (up 14%) and 7,000 downloads (up 17%) in the May 10-16 tracking period, according to Luminate.
It reigns over Lay Bankz’s “Tell Ur Girlfriend,” No. 2 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for a second week after a previous three-week reign, and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which lifts one spot to a new peak of No. 3.
Laila!’s “Like That!” rounds out the top five, but one position ahead of it at No. 4 is Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which in its second week on the list jumps 9-4. One of the more viral uploads featuring the Drake diss in recent days shows Billie Eilish rapping along to the song’s “they not like us” refrain, and the majority of the top-performing creations either express surprise at the lyrical content or show users dancing along to the track.
Like “Million Dollar Baby,” “Not Like Us” is also up in overall consumption despite dropping 1-2 on the Hot 100, landing a 2% boost in streams to 72 million.
A pair of songs from Future and Metro Boomin’s joint album We Don’t Trust You debut in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10 after becoming available on TikTok following Universal Music Group’s new deal with the app. “Type Shit,” featuring the rapper and producer plus Travis Scott and Playboi Carti, starts at No. 6, while “Fried (She a Vibe)” bows at No. 9.
The lead trend for “Type Shit” is one in which a creator responds to the prompt “You was ugly anyway” with a CapCut of themselves since, while “Fried” largely includes a lip-synch motif to the “I’m fried, yes, fried/ I’m f–ked up” lyric.
There’s one other song in the top 10 of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the first time: Adrianne Lenker‘s “Not a Lot, Just Forever” leaps 30-7 in its second week on the survey. It’s the second top 10 for Lenker, whose “Anything” reached No. 8 in April (her band Big Thief has an additional top 20 with “Vampire Empire” in January).
Like “Anything,” “Not a Lot, Just Forever” is featured on Lenker’s 2020 album Songs. Its current prevailing trend utilizes the “Not a lot, just forever/ Intertwined, sewn together” lyric to show off bracelets and other jewelry users created, as well as one where an app shows what their pets’ “bouquets” would be.
“Not a Lot, Just Forever” sports a 21% jump in streams to 946,000 in the latest tracking week.
A pair of songs just outside the top 10 that could soon challenge for that region debut at Nos. 12 and 13, respectively, in Tinashe’s “Nasty” and Eilish’s “Blue.” “Nasty,” originally released April 12, has become viral on TiKTok via a dance trend, and “Blue,” premiered May 17 on Eilish’s new album Hit Me Hard and Soft, benefits from a lip-synch video from Eilish herself to usher in the LP’s premiere, while others either do their own lip-synch clips to the song or talk about how the tune was initially an unreleased track called “True Blue” before being reworked for the new album.
“Nasty” bursts 56% in streams to 1.6 million, while the full impact of “Blue” will be known on the June 1-dated Billboard charts.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Depending on who you’re talking to, sex is either the most natural thing on earth or a shameful sin that must be endured without pleasure to ensure the future of the human race.
Whether it’s being celebrated or censored, discussed openly or surreptitiously, done for procreation or recreation, you can be sure of one thing – if you mention it, you get people’s attention. (Hey, that’s just biology. Or chemistry. Or some sort of science thing.)
When the Billboard Hot 100 launched on Aug. 4, 1958, America wasn’t exactly in its most socially progressive era. You could sing about crushes, hand holding and even kissing on the radio, but you dare not mention the dirty. But since humans are wired to think about it regardless of social mores, songs that subtly tipped to the nasty penetrated popular music anyway.
Musicians spoke about it in coded slang terms, alluded to it in song lyrics (both poetic and crass) or implied it by singing the most innocent words in a suggestive tone. Heck, rock n’ roll – the youth culture music of the Boomer Era – is named after it (as far back as the 1910s, African American communities were using the phrase “rock and roll” as a euphemism for sex).
Following the sexual revolution of the ‘60s, the U.S. began to loosen up, and by the ‘70s, it was only the old fogies wagging their fingers and clucking their tongues when the words “sex” and “sexy” began to appear in the titles of hit songs on the Billboard charts.
And that’s what this list is about – the most popular songs in Hot 100 history to have the words “sex” or “sexy” in the title. Some of these Hot 100 hits are, well, hot; others are hokey; a couple have aged poorly.
Without beating around the bush any further, here are the 15 biggest songs with “sex” or “sexy” in the title in Hot 100 history.
This ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. To ensure equitable representation of the biggest hits from each era, certain time frames were weighted to account for the difference between turnover rates from those years.
Marcy Playground, “Sex and Candy”
