Taylor Swift’s song “Fortnight”, featuring Post Malone, held the No. 1 spot for a second week on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (due to its strong Title).
A week ago, Swift made history by entering the top 14 on the Hot 100, all from her new Republic Records LP, Section of tortured poetswhich simultaneously adds a second week at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Swift had three top 100 hits on the group’s second chart run, with “Fortnight” joining “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” at 9th place and “Down Bad” at 10th place.
Additionally, three acts climbed into their first five Hot 100 debuts: Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” debuted at No. 2; Chabuzi’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” reached No. 27-3, after starting at No. 36 two weeks earlier; Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” rose 22-4, two weeks after entering the chart at No. 7, becoming her first Top 10 hit.
The Hot 100 combines all genres of US streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, with the latter measure reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; Digital individual sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from the chart calculations. All charts (dated May 11, 2024) will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 7. For all the charts news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter and Instagram.
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Here’s a summary of the 100 most recent songs on the Hot 100 list.
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“two weeks” = two weeks
“Fortnight” makes it to the top of the Hot 100 for two weeks. The song attracted 38.2 million official streams (down 50%), 33.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 7%) and 6,000 sales (down 68%) in the United States from April 26 to April 26. May 2.
The single drops to No. 2 on the Streaming Songs chart and No. 4 on Digital Song Sales, a week after reaching the top of every chart, pushing 14-11 on Radio Songs.
(The two-week period for “Fortnight” also follows the appropriate one-week order for Barenaked Ladies’ 1998 No. 1.)
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You can spend up to 36 career weeks in the first position
Swift boasts that she has held the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 for nine weeks out of its 12 leaders combined, with “Fortnight” knocking her out of a tie with Adele, Elton John and Bruno Mars during her time at the top.
Most weeks at number one on the Hot 100:
- 93, Mariah Carey
- 60, Rihanna
- 59, The Beatles
- 56, Drake
- 50, Boyz II Men
- 47, Asher
- 46, Beyoncé
- 37, Michael Jackson
- 36, Taylor Swift
- 34, Adele
- 34, Elton John
- 34, Bruno Mars
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Richman dismisses
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Tommy Richman had his first hit on the Hot 100, with “Million Dollar Baby” at No. 2 with 38 million streams, 302,000 radio viewers and 4,000 sales following its April 26 release, after he teased it on TikTok. He counted his former sole painting The chart entry as featured on Brent Faiyaz’s “Upset” (also featuring Felix), which reached No. 12 and 33 on the multiple Hot R&B Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, respectively, last November.
Fueled by his relationship with Faiyaz, Richman scored the highest Hot 100 debut by an artist with no prior chart history since last August, when fellow Virginia native Oliver Anthony Music became the first act to top the Hot 100 with no prior chart history chart at number one with “Rich Men North of Richmond” taking the top spot.
“Million Dollar Baby” simultaneously debuts at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and Hot R&B Songs charts. (While its total raw streams are the second-highest of the week, behind “Fortnight,” “Million Dollar Baby” tops streaming songs due to weighting applied to all paid/subscription titles, ad-supported on-demand streams, and programmatic/radio streams.)
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Chabuzi raises the bar
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Chapozi’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” sits at No. 27-3 on the Hot 100 with 35 million streams (up 67%), 1.4 million at radio (up 741%), and 21,000 copies sold (up 50%) , where she won the award. Highest live streaming awards and sales in the chart. It bounces for a second week atop Digital Song Sales and posts a second frame atop the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart.
The single, which echoes J-Kwon’s No. 2 and 2004 Hot 100-peaking hit “Tipsy,” marks the first Top 10 hit on the chart for another Virginia-born artist (born Collins Obinna Chibueze).
Shaboozey guests on two tracks on Beyoncé’s new LP Cowboy Carter, the duet became his first Hot 100 entries in April: “Spaghettii” (also with Linda Martell; peaking at No. 31) and “Sweet * Honey * Buckiin'” (No. 61). He said recently painting He is “very happy to have such a strong artist who chose to make this trip to the country, so it’s amazing to be a part of that.”
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Carpenter raises the first strike of the top five
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Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” rises 22-4 on the Hot 100, two weeks after entering the chart at No. 7, becoming her first Top 10 hit. The track attracted 30.8 million streams (up 27%), a 13.9 million streaming audience (up 73%) and 4,000 items sold (up 13%) in the most recent tracking week.
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New names in the top 10 of the Hot 100
Furthermore, on the Hot 100 chart, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things”, which peaked at No. 2, bounced 15-5, and Teddy Swims’ former No. 1 single-week “Lose Control” jumped 18-6, as Top Radio Songs for the fourth week (audience 70.4 million, up 1%).
It is worth noting that thanks to Richman, Chabuzi, Carpenter, Boone and Teddy Swims, five songs by artists were able to occupy the top 100 songs in the region for the first time in nearly two years. In the chart dated June 25, 2022, five such songs were ranked 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10, respectively: Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves,” “Big Energy” by Latto, “Me Porto Bonito” by Chencho Corleone (with Bad Bunny) and “Glimpse of Us” by Joji.
Hozier’s “Too Sweet” jumped 16-7 on the Hot 100, after two weeks at No. 1, adding a sixth week each atop the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs, and Hot Alternative Songs charts.
Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s former three-week Hot 100 leader “Like That” takes 17-8, ruling the multi-measure Hot Rap Songs for a sixth week.
Among the top 10 on the Hot 100, Swift’s “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” fell from 3 to 9, and “Down Bad” fell from 2 to 10.
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