Today’s thread is brought to you by the numbers 1 and 12, but not the letters ‘O’ and ‘U’.
Rae Sremmurd and Gucci Mane ascend to the top of the Hot 100 this week with “Black Beatles”. While the meme that got them their may feature people standing very, very still, this song was on the move seeing triple digit percentage climbs. “Black Beatles” is number one in sales, streams and on-demand. The Chainsmokers get sent outside to fume at 2nd, while The Weeknd’s “Starboy” was a little less airborne at 3rd. Twenty One Pilots had to take a back seat one spot back and DJ Snake/Justin Bieber slithered a spot down as well. Bruno Mars has the Magic as he moves up one spot switching spots with Ariana Grande/Nicki Minaj as they move side by side down a slot. Zay and Zaylon hold steady at 8 while kids refusing to eat their broccoli moves D.R.A.M down 4 spots. Maroon 5 climbs back into the top 10.
1 (9) Rae Sremmurd “Black Beatles” f. Gucci Mane 144K [#1] (+320%); 43.3M streams [#1] (+122%); 25M AI (+57%); 20.8M YouTube (lw 8.7M), 12.1M Spotify (lw 5.8M), 22.4M On-Demand [#1] (+108%)
2 (1) The Chainsmokers “Closer” feauring Halsey 59K (-18%), 27.4M streams (-4%), 151M AI [#1] (-1%)
3 (2) The Weeknd “Starboy” featuring Daft Punk
4 (3) Twenty One Pilots “Heathens”
5 (4) DJ Snake “Let Me Love You” featuring Justin Beiber
6 (7) Bruno Mars “24 Magic” 68K (+26%)
7 (6) Ariana Grande “Side to Side” featuring Nikki Minaj 82M AI (+14%)
8 (8) Zay Hilfigerrr & Zaylon McCall “Juju on That Beat (TZ Anthem)”
9 (5) D.R.A.M. “Broccoli” featuring Lil Yachty
10 (11) Maroon 5 “Don’t Wanna Know” featuring Kendrick Lamar 78M (+9%)
HDD has X-Factor’s Olly Mur topping the UK Album chart so far this week. “25 HRS” would be his fourth consecutive number 1. Maybe he can use some of that cash to buy a vowel.
Leonard Cohen’s death has spurred sales of his music and covers of his music. Pentatonix’s version of “Hallelujah” is number one on the iTunes video chart and 12th on iTunes.
