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Sia spends another week at the top of the Hot 100 with “Cheap Thrills” featuring Sean Paul. “Cheap Thrills” was Sia’s first Hot 100 chart topper as a singer (she has had others as a songwriter) and this is the third week that the song has topped the chart. The Chainsmokers debut a song in the top 10 giving them two songs currently in the top 10.
1 (1) Sia “Cheap Thrills” f. Sean Paul 74K (-41%), 151M AI [#1} (+6%), 13.8M streams (-4%)
2 (3) Drake “One Dance” f. Wizkid & Kyla 46K (-16%), 137M AI (-5%), 15.7M streams (-5%), 14.2M on-demand [#1] (-5%)
3 (3) Calvin Harris “This is What You Came For” f. Rihanna
4 (5) Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling”
5 (2) Major Lazer “Cold Water” f. Justin Bieber & MØ: 69K (-59%), 54M AI (+35%), 18.9M streams [#1] (-4%)
6 (6) The Chainsmokers “Don’t Let Me Down” f. Daya
7 (7) Twenty One Pilot “Ride”
8 (8) Rihanna “Needed Me”
9 (NEW) Chainsmokers “Closer” f. Halsey 103K [#1], 19M AI, 13.9M streams
10 (9) Adele “Send My Love (To Your Next Lover)”
Here are the Spotify top 10s for the week.
You may not want Justin Bieber as your neighbour (unless you like scrambled eggs for breakfast), but you most certainly want him singing your songs. Justin Bieber is guest singing all over the place. After a rather disastrous coming-of-age period, Bieber arrived back as a relevant musician featured on Skrillex and Duplo’s “Where are Ü Now”. Then he put out “Purpose” which saw three number one songs. Last week, he helped to debut Major Lazar’s “Cold Water” on the top of the sales chart with MØ (this article now has more Scandanavian letters than any other article I’ve ever posted – let’s go for broke with this old chestnut “Rødgrød med fløde”). This week, he’s on top of iTunes again featured on DJ Snake’s “Let Me Love You”. Proving that you can be as erratic as you want so long as you sell music.
The Olympics have breathed new life into “The Girl from Ipanema”. The song was featured during the opening ceremonies where Gisele took her last catwalk (sure, she did. Wait for her triumphant return in about a month). Normally, the song is streamed 3000 times a day (now I want to know how many times other old songs are streamed), but on Saturday, it was streamed 40,000 times.
When Prince was alive, he cared very much about his image and his music. His fights with YouTube were legendary and he had teams that combed the site to issue take down notifications. He was meticulous. But in death, he didn’t give a rat’s ass. His estate is a mess with no will and heirs (and anybody who gamely wants to try to get declared an heir) are all scrambling for position. If the wrong one gets control of his music, expect to see “When Doves Cry” featured in facial tissue commercials, an album of post-humous duets (and a hologram of Prince performing on The Voice with Blake Shelton) and a bunch of “new music” scrounged from his reject pile. Billboard has some suggestions if you want to avoid the same fate. While most of us don’t have as much of a legacy to protect, make out a damn will so its easier on the people who have to close out your affairs and distribute what is left over.
