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An identical Chart ‘Positions’
Hello Gary,
Isn’t it fascinating that whereas we’re on this Everlasting Sunshine/pre-Cowboy Carter interval, Ariana Grande and Beyoncé have precisely the identical tallies of No. 1s, high 10s and general Billboard Scorching 100 entries (as of the chart dated March 23)?
Greatest,
Pablo Nelson
Oakland, Calif.
Hello Pablo,
Enjoyable remark that the 2 superstars are neck-and-neck on the subject of profession Scorching 100 stats, reflecting every’s sustained chart success.
- Ariana Grande: 9 No. 1s / 22 high 10s / 85 general hits
- Beyoncé: 9 No. 1s / 22 high 10s / 85 general hits
(Déjà vu, to cite Beyoncé.)
In the meantime, each Grande and Beyoncé have siblings who’ve hit Billboard’s charts, and every has members of the family from totally different generations who’ve reached rankings – and made historical past concerning their ages.
First, Frankie Grande, Ariana’s brother, and Solange, Beyoncé’s sister, have every made surveys.
Plus, Grande’s grandmother, Nonna, 98 years younger, this week turns into the oldest dwelling artist ever to have hit the Scorching 100. Conversely, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, grew to become the youngest artist ever billed on a Billboard chart when Jay-Z’s “Glory,” that includes a then-minutes-old “B.I.C.” debuted on Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2012.
Amongst different coincidences, Grande and Beyoncé have every charted Scorching 100 hits consisting of numbers and no phrases: Grande with “34 + 35” and Beyoncé with each “1+1” and “7/11.”
Additional, and fittingly, given their quite a few accomplishments, Beyoncé despatched “Run the World (Ladies)” onto the Scorching 100 in 2011. In 2019, Grande charted as featured on 2 Chainz’s “Rule the World.”
(To get additional playful, each Grande and Beyoncé have hit the Scorching 100 with songs named after video games. Grande boarded the chart with “Monopoly” in 2019, whereas Beyoncé buzzed in with “Household Feud,” the survey stated in 2017.)
As for one more chart-topping achievement on the Scorching 100 for Beyoncé, previous to Grande’s newest coronation, and spotlighting different acts with spectacular longevity …
No. 1, Topped 40
Hello Gary,
Beyoncé led the Scorching 100 for 2 weeks starting on the chart dated March 2 with “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” at age 42. Every week later, Ye (previously generally known as Kanye West) reached No. 1 along with his collaborative hit “Carnival,” at age 46.
Within the youth-centered music trade, it’s uncommon for artists to rule the Scorching 100 of their 40s, or later. Billboard has beforehand coated a few of the few which have achieved the feat, together with such legends as Louis Armstrong, Cher, Eminem, Aretha Franklin, Madonna and Paul McCartney.
Has an artist 40 or older ever changed one other at No. 1 on the Scorching 100 earlier than this week?
(That’s excluding the latest holidays, when Mariah Carey and Brenda Lee twice switched off atop the Scorching 100, with “All I Need for Christmas Is You” and “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree,” respectively. Each are over 40 now, however have been nicely beneath that age when these songs have been initially launched.)
Thanks,
Jesse Rifkin
Washington, D.C.
Thanks, Jesse.
Beyoncé and Ye – and Ty Dolla $ign – mark simply the third set of soloists over age 40 (once more, not counting the vacation hits above, given after they have been recorded) main the Scorching 100 back-to-back.
Right here’s a take a look at all three such situations.
- March 16, 2024: “Carnival” by Ye, 46, and Ty Dolla $ign, 41 (feat. Wealthy the Child and Playboi Carti), changed “Texas Maintain ‘Em” by Beyoncé, 42
- Could 27, 2017: “Despacito” by Daddy Yankee, then 40 (with Luis Fonsi and feat. Justin Bieber), changed “I’m the One” by DJ Khaled, then 41 (feat. Bieber, Quavo, Probability the Rapper & Lil Wayne).
- Dec. 27, 1980: “(Simply Like) Beginning Over” by the late John Lennon – who was 40 when the music was launched, simply weeks earlier, previous to his Dec. 8 passing – changed “Girl” by Kenny Rogers, then 42.
Ye, Ty Dolla $ign and Beyoncé, thus, mark the primary grouping of as many as three solo artists throughout 40 topping the Scorching 100 consecutively.
With age comes invaluable expertise and perspective. In unveiling the duvet artwork for her new LP, Cowboy Carter, on Instagram March 19, Beyoncé shared, “This album has been over 5 years within the making. It feels good to see how music can unite so many individuals world wide, whereas additionally amplifying the voices of a few of the individuals who have devoted a lot of their lives educating on our musical historical past.
“I really feel honored to be the first Black girl with the primary single on the Scorching Nation Songs chart,” she added. “That may not have occurred with out the outpouring of assist from every considered one of you. My hope is that years from now, the point out of an artist’s race, because it pertains to releasing genres of music, shall be irrelevant.”
Effervescent Beneath the Scorching 100 (and Effervescent Beneath the Effervescent Beneath Chart)
Hello Gary,
I’ve seen just a few present songs that haven’t made the Scorching 100 but – and even the Scorching 100’s Effervescent Beneath chart. Some are on American High 40 With Ryan Seacrest and SiriusXM’s Hits 1 The Weekend Countdown, as I comply with these charts intently.
Amongst them:
- “Kissing Strangers,” Usher
- “Make You Mine,” Madison Beer
- “Not My Fault,” Renee Rapp & Megan Thee Stallion
- “Not the 1975,” Knox
- “Paradise,” Justin Timberlake feat. *NSYNC
- “Decide Up the Cellphone,” Henry Moodie
- “Sure I’m a Mess,” AJR
Hope to see them on the Scorching 100, as nicely!
Thanks,
Robert Wien
Thanks, Robert.
Two of these songs are presently on the Scorching 100’s Effervescent Beneath chart, which ranks the highest 25 tracks but to make the all-genre, multimetric Scorching 100: “Not My Fault,” at No. 19 (after reaching No. 2), and “Make You Mine,” at No. 24 (after hitting No. 9). Plus, “Kissing Strangers” rose to No. 5 in February.
Per your musical tastes, all seven songs above have both hit Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart or made inroads at high 40 radio, on which the listing is predicated. “Not My Fault” ascends to No. 16 on the newest chart, adopted by “Not the 1975” (No. 25), “Kissing Strangers” (No. 32) and “Make You Mine,” a debut No. 36. “Sure I’m a Mess” reached No. 24 in January, whereas “Decide Up the Cellphone” and “Paradise” – the latter newly launched (March 15) on Justin Timberlake’s album All the pieces I Thought It Was – are constructing assist.
Says Larry Blackford, who found Knox on Instagram, noting the opening line in “Not the 1975,” “With lyrics like ‘Vodka soda and saggy denims/ Utilizing none of that artwork diploma,’ how may [radio] not adore it?”
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