Today’s threats is brought to you by the number 6, 8, 20 and 3.5M
Wow. The charts are getting crowded. Between Prince’s music flooding the charts, to Beyonce’s “Lemonade” quenching her fans thirst for new music and Drake releasing another sky-high album this week, the top of the chart is full. That’s going to make it hard for Voice contestants to get their top 10 bonus for this week and the next. Paxton is leading the charge this morning at 20th with “Break Every Chain”. Here is the rundown:
20 Paxton “Break Every Chain”
27 Mary “Johnny and June”
29 Laith “Make it Rain”
31 Alisan “Stay With Me Baby”
35 Adam “Lights”
36 Hannah “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
82 Bryan “Just the Way You Are”
101 Nick “Your Body is a Wonderland”
103 Shayla “The Climb”
106 Owen “Fire and Rain”
115 Daniel “Time After Time”
Over on the Hot 100, Desiigner’s (Spellcheck does not love that name) “Panda” breaks the longest streak of foreigners at the top of the Hot 100 at 41 weeks. The last American to top the chart was also a Rap song – Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” back on July 25th. It also tops the streaming chart with 35M. Lukas Graham will probably never now top the chart with their “7 years”, but they are back in second this week with 122M AI, 105K downloads and 17M streams. Drake’s “One Dance” leaps from 13th to 3rd this week powered by largely by streams. He jumps past himself as “Work” (Rihanna is the prime artist and he is the featured) tumbles from 1st to 4th (it spent 9 weeks at number one). Mike Posner’s “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” is 5th. “No” from Meghan Trainor is 7th. Justin Bieber hangs in the top 10 for another week at 9th extending “Love Yourself”‘s record to 23 weeks (longest in the top 10 since debut). The song also spends its 11th week at the top of the Radio songs chart. G-Eazy and Bebe Rex’s “Me, Myself and I” rounds out the top 10.
X-Factor lands two songs in the top 10. Fifth Harmony reaches a new chart peak with “Work From Home” featuring Ty Dolla $ign rising to 6th. Zayn’s “Pillowtalk” is 8th while topping the BB Pop Songs.
With just a half day of sales, Prince has the top selling song of the week and lands 6 songs in the Hot 100. “Purple Rain” sold 122K (+7,576% from the 2000K he sold the week before). This is his first number one on the Digital Songs chart (the chart started in 2003). Here is where he landed on the BB chart (along with the previous Hot 100 chart peak):
No. 17, “Purple Rain” (No. 2, 1984)
No. 20, “When Doves Cry” (No. 1, five weeks, 1984)
No. 28, “Kiss” (No. 1, two weeks, 1986)
No. 29, “Little Red Corvette” (No. 6, 1983)
No. 39, “Let’s Go Crazy” (No. 1, two weeks, 1984)
No. 41, “1999” (No. 12, 1983)
HDD reports that Prince sold 360K albums over the weekend and 1.7M downloads. “Purple Rain” is approaching 200K in sales and nine other office songs are in the 100 range.
BB put out a Chart Alert stating that Prince sold nearly 3.5M albums and songs since his death. Here is how his sales have looked the days after his death:
Thursday, April 21st: 256K Albums, 1.04M Songs
Friday, April 22nd: 227K Albums, 960K Songs
Saturday, April 23rd: 113K Albums, 521K Songs
Sunday, April 24th: 58K Albums, 301K Songs
