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21 Dec 2023

Billie Eilish’s ‘When the Party’s Over’ Returns to Charts Thanks to Nicki Minaj Sample

Billie Eilish’s “When the Party’s Over” returns to Billboard’s charts thanks to its sample in “Are You Gone Already,” the first track on Nicki Minaj’s new album, Pink Friday 2.

The 2018 track bows at No. 25 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ranking dated Dec. 23. (Older songs are eligible for Billboard’s multi-metric song charts if ranking in the top half with meaningful reasons for their resurgences.) The song earned 2.8 million official U.S. streams – up 13% week-over-week – Dec. 8-14, according to Luminate. Eilish’s track also ranks at No. 14 on Hot Alternative Songs.

“When the Party’s Over” was released in October 2018 and included on Eilish’s debut 2019 album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? The cut reached No. 3 on the Alternative Digital Song Sales in January 2019 and peaked at No. 29 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 that April.

The song’s parent album has earned 7.4 million equivalent album units to date. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in April 2019 and reigned for three weeks.

Minaj’s “Are You Gone Already,” which features a portion of Eilish’s vocal from “When the Party’s Over” pitched up, starts with 10.1 million streams and 4,000 downloads and debuts at No. 60 on the Hot 100. It’s one of 14 songs from Pink Friday 2 on the ranking.

The LP launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 228,000 equivalent album units in its first week – the largest frame for a rap album by a woman in the 2020s, and the biggest for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman this year.

21 Dec 2023

JID Tops TikTok Billboard Top 50, Nicki Minaj & Lil Uzi Vert’s Collab Enters Top 10 | Billboard News

JID’s “Surround Sound” tops the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for a second week with Lana Del Rey and Nicki Minaj securing spots in the Top 10.

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JID holds on to the top spot while Lana Del Rey and Nicki Minaj break into the Top 10.

JID’s “Surround Sound” featuring 21 Savage and Baby Tate claims a second week at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the chart posting December 21st.

Christmas music continues to rule most of the Top 10 but Lana Del Rey and Father John Misty jumped from No. 34 all the way up to No. 4 with “Let The Light In.”

Another newbie to the Top 10 is Nicki Minaj.

“Everybody” featuring Lil Uzi Vert debuts at No. 9 it’s one of two tracks on ‘Pink Friday 2’ to debut on the chart.

Every Thursday, Billboard will bring you the verified list of the hottest songs on TikTok by monitoring music discovery and engagement on the platform in the United States. To find the TikTok Billboard Top 50 each week, users can simply go to any sound detail page and tap the top right button to access the charts page.

Watch the full video above!

21 Dec 2023

JID’s ‘Surround Sound’ Remains Atop TikTok Billboard Top 50, Timothee Chalamet Debuts

JID’s “Surround Sound” remains at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 dated Dec. 23, holding off a challenge from a pair of Christmas songs in Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and The Ronettes’ “Sleigh Ride.”

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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 Dec. 11-17. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.

“Surround Sound,” which features 21 Savage and Baby Tate, maintains its reign on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, leading for a second week as the viral song continues to be used in a variety of ways, chiefly its Ceiling Challenge in which creators tape a phone or camera above them and do a choreographed dance below.

The Dec. 8-14 Billboard chart tracking week saw “Surround Sound” leap another 11% to 9.8 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate.

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (which concurrently returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, as previously reported) and the PhatCap! trap remix of The Ronettes’ “Sleigh Ride” rank at Nos. 2 and 3 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, respectively. Four of the top 10 are holiday tunes, with Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at No. 6 and Wham!’s “Last Christmas” at No. 8 also appearing.

Six-week No. 1 “My Love Mine All Mine” by Mitski remains at No. 4, while the top five receives a new challenger for the top of the tally in Lana Del Rey’s “Let the Light In,” featuring Father John Misty, at No. 5.

“Let the Light In,” from Del Rey’s latest album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, has vaulted in streams in recent weeks via a trend that involves tying a pink bow to various people, animals or objects for what they call a coquette aesthetic.

It’s not the only song from either artist on the latest list. Del Rey’s “Margaret,” this time featuring Bleachers, appears at No. 13, while Father John Misty’s “Real Love Baby” ranks at No. 48. “Margaret” draws closer to the top 10 after initially scoring virality in October with users (mostly women) explaining what their “Roman Empire is,” referencing the trend in which women asked men how often they thought about the Roman Empire.

“Margaret” concurrently returns to the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart at No. 45, its first time on the ranking since its debut (at No. 43) in April.

The TikTok Billboard Top 50’s highest debut of the week belongs to Nicki Minaj’s “Everybody,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, which bows at No. 9. The new song is the 11th track on Minaj’s latest album, Pink Friday 2, which simultaneously bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

“Everybody” isn’t the only song from Pink Friday 2 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50; “FTCU” debuts at No. 18. But “Everybody,” which samples Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet,” has users doing just that on TikTok, with a variety of dancing clips among the sound’s top uploads of the week.

It bows at No. 26 on the Hot 100, the top debut from Pink Friday 2, via 16 million streams and 6,000 downloads.

Finally, Timothee Chalamet makes an appearance on a Billboard chart thanks to his rendition of “Pure Imagination” from the movie Wonka, which debuts at No. 27 after the film’s Dec. 15 premiere. Usages of the song include footage of the movie, the red carpet at its premiere, reviews of Chalamet’s singing voice and more.

See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here, also featuring debuts from NLE Choppa, Jhene Aiko, Trippie Redd and more. 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.

21 Dec 2023

Chart Rewind: In 1985, George Strait Took a Seat at No. 1 With ‘The Chair’

On Dec. 21, 1985, George Strait’s “The Chair” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. It became the seventh of his record 44 career leaders on the list.

Strait tallied 18 Hot Country Songs No. 1s in the 1980s, 17 in the ‘90s and nine in the 2000s. He first led with “Fool Hearted Memory” in 1982 and most recently reigned with “River of Love” in 2009.

Hank Cochran and Dean Dillon co-wrote “The Chair,” released as a single from Strait’s album Something Special, and Strait and Jimmy Bowen produced it.

“I’ve always had a knack for picking good songs for myself,” Strait mused in a 2013 Billboard cover story. “I’ve always said that it’s hard to put my finger on what it is exactly that tells me that a song is right for me, but it comes down to the melody first. You can have a really well-written song, but without a great melody it’s probably not going to go too far. On the other hand, a great melody can do a whole lot toward making a lyric better. Great songs have both great lyrics and a great melody. Thank God for all the great writers whose songs I’ve been fortunate enough to find and record.”

Strait also boasts a record 86 Hot Country Songs top 10s, having most recently ranked in the region with “Give It All We Got Tonight” in 2013.

Strait, who was born May 18, 1952, in Poteet, Texas, made history on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart in October 2019, becoming the first artist to tally 100 entries with the debut of “The Weight of the Badge,” which he co-penned with son Bubba Strait and Dillon. The song’s parent set, Honky Tonk Time Machine, became Strait’s record 27th No. 1 on Top Country Albums.

Strait, 71, is set to headline a string of stadium concerts starting May 4 in Indianapolis, with Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town.

20 Dec 2023

Frank Sinatra Ranks in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 20 for the First Time Since 1967 With ‘Jingle Bells’

A song written in 1857 by an artist born in 1915 makes its first appearance in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023.

Frank Sinatra’s version of “Jingle Bells” dashes from No. 28 to No. 20 on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 23. The song drew 16.9 million official U.S. streams (up 19%) and 15.3 million in all-format radio audience and sold 1,000 downloads Dec. 8-14, according to Luminate.

The late Chairman of the Board adds his fourth top 20 Hot 100 hit – and his first since 1967. He previously reached the region with “Strangers in the Night,” which topped the July 2, 1966, chart; “That’s Life” (No. 4 peak, December 1966) and “Somethin’ Stupid,” with daughter Nancy Sinatra (No. 1 for four weeks, beginning in April 1967).

Sinatra, who passed away in May 1998 at age 82, appears in the Hot 100’s top 20 for the first time since the chart dated June 3, 1967, when “Somethin’ Stupid” ranked at No. 16.

Sinatra initially hit the Hot 100 in October 1958, after the chart began that August, although he was on Billboard’s first song sales chart, published in July 1940 – as the vocalist at No. 1, on Tommy Dorsey’s “I’ll Never Smile Again.”

Sinatra’s version of “Jingle Bells” was originally released in 1948, and his remains the only recording of the festive favorite, written by James Lord Pierpont and published in 1857, to have hit the Hot 100.

Among the carol’s more relatively recent history, Kimberley Locke’s “Jingle Bells” sleigh-rode to No. 1 on Adult Contemporary in 2006; the Glee Cast’s cover hit No. 10 on Holiday Digital Song Sales in 2010; and Lauren Daigle’s interpretation reached No. 3 on Christian Airplay over the 2016 holidays.

Meanwhile, Meghan Trainor’s newly-released take on “Jingle Bells” rises to No. 74 on the Dec. 23 Holiday 100 chart.

20 Dec 2023

Billboard Explains: The Year-End Charts

With 2023 coming to a close, Billboard‘s year-end charts have finally touched down. But when were the year-end charts first put into practice, and how are they measured? The latest episode of Billboard Explains dives into the final charts of the calendar year, with some help from Billboard‘s Managing Director of Charts & Data Operations Keith Caulfield.

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The annual year-end charts were launched back in the 1940s, and have become a staple of the magazine and website since. The end-of-year tallies measure metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor from charts dated Nov, 19, 2022, to Oct 21, 2023. Technological advancements have allowed this process to change throughout the years, but according Caulfield, the process can be simplified as such: “You take all of the combined performance for all of the songs, artists, albums on a particular chart throughout that chart year, add them all together and then you get a bunch of numbers, and that, generally speaking, is what the year-end version of what that chart looks like.”

While the data-collection process is both rigorous and regimented, surprises sometimes happen. Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” was crowned the top song on the 2021 year-end Billboard Hot 100 chart, despite it never hitting No. 1. Though the track never crowned the Hot 100, the song’s many weeks on the tally (77 during the tracking period) allowed it to have more “points” than a song that, say, reached No. 1, but was at the summit for only a week.

“It’s not always about where you peaked at on the chart during the chart year, it’s your continued performance throughout the entire year that ultimately tells the story of where you end up on the year end chart,” Caulfield adds.

Visit Billboard‘s 2023 year-end charts here and watch the full episode above.

After the video, catch up on more Billboard Explains videos and learn about how Beyoncé arrived at Renaissance, the evolution of girl groups, BBMAs, NFTs, SXSW, the magic of boy bands, American Music Awards, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, the Hot 100 chart, how R&B/hip-hop became the biggest genre in the U.S., how festivals book their lineups, Billie Eilish’s formula for success, the history of rap battles, nonbinary awareness in music, the Billboard Music Awards, the Free Britney movement, rise of K-pop in the U.S., why Taylor Swift is re-recording her first six albums, the boom of hit all-female collaborations, how Grammy nominees and winners are chosen, why songwriters are selling their publishing catalogs, how the Super Bowl halftime show is booked and why Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” was able to shoot to No. 1 on the Hot 100.

20 Dec 2023

Bad Bunny Collects His 28th Top 10 on Latin Airplay With ‘Mónaco’

Bad Bunny picks up his 28th top 10 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart as “Mónaco” pushes 16-4 on the list dated Dec. 23.

“Mónaco” takes the Greatest Gainer honor of the week with a 46% gain in audience impressions, to 7.42 million, earned in the U.S. during the Dec. 8-14 tracking week, according to Luminate.

The song is the third single from Benito’s eight-week No. 1 on Top Latin Albums set Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana to enter the top 10 on Latin Airplay. Previously “Where She Goes” and “Un Preview” sat at No. 1 for one week each in August and December, respectively. Further, one other song from the 23-track set arrives on the overall radio chart this week, “Perro Negro” with Feid, at No. 46, for Bad Bunny’s 47th overall entry there.

As “Mónaco” rises to the upper region on Latin Airplay, Benito ties with Maluma and Wisin & Yanel for the fourth-most top 10s among Latin rhythmic acts since the tally’s inception in 1994, behind the overall record holder Daddy Yankee with 48 top 10s, J Balvin with 41, and Ozuna with 38.

Beyond its new radio boost, “Mónaco” reaches other heights across the charts: No. 1 on the multimetric Hot Latin Songs tally, where it sat for eight weeks at No. 1; it enjoyed a six-week domination on Latin Streaming Songs; and a No. 2 high on the overall Streaming Songs list, all starting the Oct. 28-dated rankings Plus, it peaks at No. 2 on the current Latin Rhythm Airplay chart.

20 Dec 2023

Doja Cat’s ‘Agora Hills’ Climbs to No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay Chart

Doja Cat’s “Agora Hills” grabs the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart on the list dated Dec. 23. The new champ jumps from No. 3 after a 12% gain in plays that made it the most-played song on U.S. monitored rhythmic radio stations in the tracking week of Dec. 8 – 14, according to Luminate.

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“Agora Hills,” released on Kemosabe/RCA Records, gives Doja Cat her 11th Rhythmic Airplay leader and pushes the rapper/singer into a tie for ninth place on the overall count among all acts. Thanks to her latest No. 1, she breaks out of a tie with Post Malone and equals Nicki Minaj’s mark. Here’s an updated look at the leaderboard for most Rhythmic Airplay No. 1s:

  • 39, Drake
  • 17, Rihanna
  • 13, Bruno Mars
  • 13, Chris Brown
  • 13, The Weeknd
  • 13, Usher
  • 12, Beyoncé
  • 12, Lil Wayne
  • 11, Doja Cat
  • 11, Nicki Minaj
  • 10, Post Malone

With “Agora Hills,” Doja Cat recaptures the Rhythmic Airplay crown just five weeks after she last reigned; her previous single “Paint the Town Red” wrapped a seven-week run atop the chart dated Nov. 18, the longest stay at No. 1 for any song this year. Both tracks feature on Doja Cat’s newest album, Scarlet, which was released in September.

Beyond rhythmic radio, “Agora Hills” — whose title is a nod to Agoura Hills, Calif., where Doja Cat spent some of her youth — expands its reach on other radio formats. The track leaps 20-14 on the Pop Airplay chart following a 14% boost in weekly plays at mainstream top-40 stations and 7-6 on the Rap Airplay survey, where it jumps 14% in audience compared with last week’s total.

The growing radio swell drives “Agora Hills” 19-15 on the all-genre Radio Songs list, with a 21% improvement to 32.8 million in audience. From that surge, the single nabs the chart’s weekly Greatest Gainer prize, given to the song with the largest increase in audience numbers each week among the chart’s 50 titles.

19 Dec 2023

Nicki Minaj Lands 50th Top 10 on Hot Rap Songs Chart, Ties for Third Place All-Time

The huge week for Nicki Minaj and her Pink Friday 2 album includes a milestone achievement on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart, where she captures her 50th top 10 on the genre list, tying for the third-most among all acts. The superstar hits the mark thanks to three new tracks from Pink Friday 2, which debuts at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and Top Rap Albums charts.

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Minaj concurrently nabs her 48th, 49th and 50th top 10 visits on the multimetric Hot Rap Songs chart, which blends streaming, radio airplay and sales into its rankings with the debuts of “Everybody,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert (No. 3), “FTCU” (No. 5) and “Barbie Dangerous” (No. 10). With the trio’s showing in the top tier, Minaj ties Kanye West for the third-most top 10s on Hot Rap Songs, which launched in 1989. A pair of familiar names are the only acts with more than 50 appearances in the upper region – Minaj’s frequent collaborators, Drake (133) and Lil Wayne (54).

As Minaj moves to take a share of the bronze, here’s an updated recap of the acts with the most top 10 hits on Hot Rap Songs:

133, Drake
54, Lil Wayne
50, Nicki Minaj
50, Kanye West
44, Lil Baby
42, Jay-Z
40, Future

In addition to the three top 10 hits, Minaj lands nine more Pink Friday 2 debuts on the 25-position Hot Rap Songs chart:

No. 11, “Let Me Calm Down,” featuring J. Cole
No. 12, “Beep Beep”
No. 16, “Big Difference”
No. 17, “Fallin 4 U”
No. 18, “RNB,” featuring Lil Wayne & Tate Kobang
No. 20, “Pink Friday Girls”
No. 23, “Cowgirl,” featuring Lourdiz
No. 24, “Pink Birthday”
No. 25, “Bahm Bahm”

Plus, previous single “Red Ruby Da Sleeze,” which topped Hot Rap Songs for one week in March, returns at No. 22 following streaming and sales activity from the parent album’s release.

As mentioned above, Pink Friday 2 opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Top Rap Albums charts with 228,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week of Dec. 8 – 14, according to Luminate. The launch, notably, became Minaj’s third champ on the Billboard 200 – a new record among female rappers.

19 Dec 2023

Grupo Frontera Extends 2023 No. 1 Record on Regional Mexican Airplay With Junior H Collab

Grupo Frontera and Junior H conquer regional Mexican radio stations across the U.S. with their first joint single “En Altavoz,” as the song rises 2-1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart (dated Dec. 23).

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“En Altavoz,” released via Grupo Frontera on Sept. 4, tops the tally with 7.3 million audience impressions earned in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Dec. 14, according to Luminate; that’s a 12% increase from the prior week.

The new coronation yields a record-extending sixth No. 1 for Grupo Frontera in 2023, the most for any regional Mexican act during the year, and further opens a gap between the next contender, Carin León with three champs. Junior H also adds a new No. 1 to his 2023 chart career, following the triparted partnership “Bipolar,” with Peso Pluma and Jasiel Nuñez (Nov. 25).

As “Altavoz” adds a new ruler to Grupo Frontera’s Regional Mexican Airplay career, let’s review the group’s collection of hits so far:

Peak, Title, Artist, Weeks at No. 1
Jan 28, “Que Vuelvas,” with Carin Leon, six
March 18, “Bebe Dame,” with Fuerza Regida, three
April 29, “Di Que Si,” with Grupo Marca Registrada, three
Aug. 12, “Frágil,” with Yahritza Y Su Esencia, one
Oct. 7, “El Amor De Su Vida,” with Grupo Firme, four
Dec. 23, “En Altavoz,” with Junior H

With “Altavoz” as the new leader, Maluma and Carin León’s “Según Quien” falls to No. 4 after the latter’s one week in charge.

Beyond its Regional Mexican Airplay reign, the Tejano “Altavoz” enters the top 5 on the overall Latin Airplay tally for a new No. 5 peak.