Sunday, February 2, 2014

Chart Highlights: Rihanna Extends Top 5 Record


Katy Perry's "Unconditionally" holds tight at #1 for a third . The song outperformed her recent singles "Walking On Air" (#2), "Roar" (#3) and "Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J)" (#8 so far) which led off her third studio album PRISM.  Her singles "Hot N Cold", "California Gurls" and "Firework" would have all reached the top spot, but they were released before the chart's inception. Thus, "Unconditionally" became the seasoned performer's first ever #1 single.

OneRepublic holds at #2 with "Counting Stars" this week. Although it slides to 91 overall spins this week (-4), "Stars" still tallies a 5th straight frame at #2. Among non #1 peaking songs, it ties for 1st place for the most weeks at #2, tying  Avril Lavigne's 5 week runner-up "Rock N Roll", but above Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' 3 week #2 "Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert)". Among overall #2 visits (including #1 peaking singles), it ranks 3rd (with Avril Lavigne), Calvin Harris & Florence Welch's "Sweet Nothing" (2nd; 8 weeks) and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)" (1st; 9 weeks).

Ayah Marar holds at #3 with "Mind Controller". After returning as the highest re-entry in chart history 2 weeks ago, the song bounded into the top 5, becoming Ayah's 2nd single to do so. It slides to 90 plays this week (down 4). It received a large amount of extra votes this week, just like last week.

Mia Martina and Dev's "Danse" moves 7-4 this week. It bumps to 89 spins up a large 10 spins from last week. Mia Martina lands her 2nd consecutive top 5 single and Dev will get her 1st top 5 single.

Shakira's "Can't Remember to Forget You (feat. Rihanna)" bumps 8-5 on the survey with a weekly total of 88 (up 10 from last week). Unlike Shakira, Rihanna isn't new to the chart's upper crust and scores her 12th top 5 single in a short 2 year span, the most in history.

"The Monster (feat. Rihanna)" slides 4-6 this week, although it remained even with last week's 85 spin total. Before dropping off the top slot, Rihanna scored her 20th cumulative week at #1 while Eminem racked up his 4th.

Lady Gaga dips 5-7 with "Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly)". The song (which hit #1 for 6 weeks), is starting to suffer from not having an official video and is dropping faster than "Applause". To date it has spent 14 weeks in the top 5 and and records its lowest point scoring week in history (it started with over 200 points in October; a record). The official remix with Christina Aguilera could end up helping the song parallel the success of its predecessor.

Lady Gaga's diamond in the rough "Applause" also records its lowest week in terms of votes and position, and spends it's second week outside of the top 5 with a 6-8 drop. It spent a record 23 weeks in the top 5 (almost 5 weeks at every position) and tallies an 25th week in the top 10 which breaks the record just recently set by Avril Lavigne's "Rock N Roll" (which slides holds at #14 this week).

To round out the chart's top 10, "Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J)" remains stationary at #10. The single follows "The One That Got Away" and "Walking On Air" which peaked at #2, "Roar" which peaked at #3, "Wide Awake" which peaked at #5, "Part of Me" which peaked at #8 and most recently "Unconditionally" which has peaked at #1 for 3 weeks thus far.

Come back for last week's chart and this week's chart!

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