Today’s thread is brought to you by the numbers 8, 10 and 65. On the Hot 100, Ariana Grande returns to the top of the chart with “Thank U, Next” and the biggest week ever for a woman (93.8M). That puts her 7th overall after a bunch of weeks by Drake (“In My Feelings” (116.1M) […]
Monday Morning Mediabase 12/10/2018
Four milestones for the Monday Morning Mediabase report… This week continues to see the rise of Christmas songs. “Carol of the Bells” by Lindsey Stirling ascends to the top 15 on AC. Also on AC, Pentatonix’s “Grown-Up Christmas List” climbs into the top 30. But that doesn’t mean that other songs aren’t climbing to new […]
Billboard Year – 2018 – Part 3
Today we look at concert results (I would have done that yesterday for Concert day, but the results weren’t available in the morning) including Top 25 boxscores and top 25 tours. Then, we’ll cover off the Gospel charts. I believe that this year we have our first Voice star topping year-end charts. Top 25 Boxscores […]
Billboard Year – 2018 (Part 2)
No concerts to report, so we’ll continue on our tour of the top Billboard charts for 2018. Today we look at Song charts, Social charts, Pop charts and Country charts (including one topped by Carrie Underwood) Digital Song Artists (25) 1 Imagine Dragons 5 Camila Cabello Digital Songs Sales (75) 1 “Perfect” Ed Sheeran 2 […]
Billboard Year – 2018
Billboard announced last night that they are reviewing this week’s charts due to some reporting discrepancies, so let’s look at some of the year end charts today that include artists we follow. I’ll only include charts where our artists appear, but I’ll also list the top artist on that chart (the number in brackets is […]
Monday Morning Mediabase 12/03/2018
Two milestones to kick-off the last month of the year. Kelly Clarkson, the original winner of American Idol, warms up the winter charts with “Heat”. This third official single from her 2017 “Meaning of Life” album moves into the top 20 on HAC. Over on the Christmas song front, we have Pentatonix teaming up with […]
Idols in Concert 11/29/2018
One of the draws of AGT for contestants is the AGT Live shows one gets to do in Las Vegas. The live shows are a success selling out all 5 nights and bringing in almost $800K in revenue. America’s Got Talent Live Nev. Nov. 2-4,: Las Vegas, 2018: Paris Theatre at Paris Las Vegas: 6,538 […]
Billboard Update: Chart Date 12/01/18
Pentatonix’s “Christmas is Here!” spends a third week on the top of the Holiday Album Sales chart. The album also returns to the top of the Top Holiday Albums chart. Koryn Hawthorne continues to top charts with “Won’t He Do It”. The song is number one on the Hot Gospel Songs (37th week) and Gospel […]
Monday Morning Mediabase 11/26/2018
Five milestones to amp up your Cyber Monday. Like winter, Christmas is coming. As such, all our milestones are from Christmas songs. Pentatonix continues to make gravy from the season as two of their songs hit milestones. “What Christmas Means to Me” climbs into the top 15 on AC while “Grownup Christmas List” debuts top […]
Sales – 11/23/2018
Happy Black Friday everybody! There were no concerts to report yesterday, and Hits hasn’t updated their sales predictions since the 20th, but it it is at 68%. Mumford and Sons are back to top the chart with “Delta” and in second is cover versions of the songs from “The Greatest Showman”. Featured on that album […]
