Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart - What does a song / artiste really need to do to get their song into the charts?

It really is all about money. Interscope bought airtime from a radio station (somewhere in Seattle?) to get Limp Bizkit some play. This was back in the days of $3 Dollar Bill, Y'all. I remember reading some articles about radio stations charging labels ridiculous amounts of money to get their crap played on their station. Deregulation of the radio industry was a BRILLIANT move.

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I remember in college I read about how in the 30's or something movie studios would often own the theaters as well, and in a major Supreme Court action, that kind of arrangement was deemed to be a monopoly and banned. What we have now is a similar situation, if not much worse. I wonder what keeps these current monopolies from such legal action. Are they just too powerful?

Album-related--closest thread I could find.

Someone I work with told me that Beck's album had gone to #1 after the Grammys--I can't see anything even close to that. But when I checked, I did notice that #38-40 right now goes Missy Elliott's Under Construction, Morning Phase, and Elliott's Miss E...So Addictive.

https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200

the person might have meant it went #1 on itunes after the grammys, which seems likely. (iirc the itunes charts track the top sellers since the last time it updated, which happens every few hours.)

Drake is not present on the Hot 100 for the first time since his debut (5/23/09), ending a 430 week streak of continuous charting.

— chart data (@chartdata) August 15, 2017

Where were *you* in May 2009?

(I was breaking up with my fiancé and moving back to the burbs, lol)

RIP Drake era...and hello to the Cardi B era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzj3pOdCOqU

we could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it

So this Cardi B song is #1. I hadn’t heard it before since it’s one of those rap songs that don’t have much international appeal.

Serious question as someone who doesn’t live in the US: why is this song at #1? Is it the lyrics? The beat? Featured in a meme? Is it just driven by her persona? I found it very generic on my first listen but I might be missing parts of the story.

It's #1 because radio and a streaming audience loved it immediately. It's not great but context matters: it sounds fabulous on the radio.

It’s somewhat fascinating to me to hear it’s so popular in the US because it’s the sort of rap song that wouldn’t cause any reaction in latinamerica. The backing track is too minimal and the hooks in the vocals are almost nonexistent if you don’t really listen to lyrics in english.

I think one of my favorite features in Spotify is being able to listen to the top 50 per country. One of the most interesting ones for me is Netherlands... they always have different music at the top compared to other countries. Right now almost every European country has Post Malone - Rockstar at the top but Netherlands. Latinamerica and Spain also don’t follow much of hip hop/rap. In Mexico about 70% of the top 50 is reggaeton...Rockstar is in the slot 28 and Cardi B isn’t in the top 50 at all but it seems like that song only has appeal in the US as even in the UK list it’s in 31 and falling.

her already extant fame here gave her a boost too

my own personal experience with "bodak yellow": heard it once on my local rap station's new music mixshow, thought the beat was annoyingly simple at first but then came around to how it's subdivided on the verses. listened again when i got home, was esp intrigued by the "i don't dance ... / i don't gotta dance ..." line, saw it was already racking up massive streams despite barely being at the bottom of the urban airplay charts, to say nothing of airplay at other formats. fast-forward to now, both rap stations in my city are playing it far more than any other song on their playlist but i have yet to hear the pop station play it once, even after midnight. naturally, all the while it's been huge on the streaming services (to my knowledge it was not the subject of any big memes or any other viral social media phenomena).

i understand that some people knew of her before this song but i certainly hadn't.