"Titanium"
Last week: 102K, this week: 126K, increase: 24K.

"Lights"
Last week: 121K, this week: 149K, increase: 28K.

It doesn't look like it.

for billboard: airplay, digital, and streaming gainer awards are based on percentage increases, not the amount that they increased by

But...



EDIT: umichgrad07 explained everything

Oh.

Since Billboard lauched On-demand chart, Hot 100 is getting boring now, the changes are so little.

That's easily due to how strong these songs are otherwise. Starships has been huge on radio, and it hasn't really lagged in sales, which is how it's stayed in as long as it has.

Same can be said for everything else. Besides, the On Demand chart almost matches with what's in Digital Songs and Radio Songs.

Carly 4x Platinum next week

Payphone 3x Platinum next week

Wide Awake platinum next week

My predictions:

1. Call Me Maybe
2. Payphone
3. Somebody That I Used To Know
4. Wide Awake
5. Where Have You Been
6. We Are Young
7. Lights
8. Starships
9. What Makes You Beautiful
10. Scream

But not so sure for those Streaming points

It's the reallity of how overplayed have been the songs this year

My thoughts exactly.

It's better this way compared to before, as it's harder to get to #1, as well as get to the Top 10.

Starships just will NOT die.

Somebody that I Used to Know is still selling almost 200K a week.

Not only that, but how it stabilizes the chart serves to expose how radio continues to overplay songs over a certain course of time.

It's honestly not the fault of On Demand points, but the fact is, radio has too much weight factored into charting. Starships is a big example.

Actually, I was curious how much it had affected the chart since February, & it really didn't affect the Top 10 all that much. It would be pretty similar to how it is now, just some changed positions.

It's a bit harder to get into the Top 10 now, but most songs would have ended up getting there anyway & getting the same peak anyway. Like Starships & WMYB would've had the exact same peak regardless.

Back In Time would've made the Top 10 though, but at like #10ish at most. That one is getting snubbed.

Ellie Goulding's "Lights" and Usher's "Scream" elevate to the Billboard Hot 100's top 10, while Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" rules the ranking for a third week.

As "Lights" brightens the top 10, the song grants Goulding a Hot 100 record.

The song rises 12-6 in its 27th week on the Hot 100, completing the longest ascent to the region in the chart's 54-year history for a song by a female that was not aided by crossover airplay from country to pop radio. It's the 13th-longest journey to the top 10 overall and the longest by any song since Shinedown's "Second Chance" also took 27 weeks to the tier in 2008-09.

Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" holds the longevity mark among all titles with a 38-week climb to the top 10 in 2006-07. (Crossover country songs can log lengthy rises to the Hot 100's top 10 by registering original chart runs as they climb the Country Songs airplay tally; once they eventually gain support at pop and adult radio, they can re-enter, continue scaling or rebound up the Hot 100 and reach a higher peak.)



Goulding's arrival in the top 10 marks a milestone in the Herefordshire, U.K., native's steady rise to U.S. prominence. Early last year, her debut album, "Lights," reached the U.K. albums chart's top 10. In April 2011, at Prince William and Kate Middleton's request, Goulding sang her version of Elton John's "Your Song" at the couple's wedding (with John in attendance). Following buzz generated by the performance, Goulding began making multiple U.S. TV appearances, including on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."

"Lights" claims the Hot 100's top Digital Gainer honor, jumping 9-5 on the Digital Songs chart with 149,000 downloads sold (up 23%) in the chart's tracking week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The track has sold 1.9 million to date. On Radio Songs, "Lights" lifts 14-12 with 56 million in all-format audience (up 16%), according to Nielsen BDS. It pushes 8-7 on On-Demand Songs with 669,000 on-demand streams (up 31%), according to BDS.

Usher, meanwhile, collects his 18th Hot 100 top 10, as "Scream" bumps 11-10. The song, from last week's No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, "Looking 4 Myself," dips 10-11 on Radio Songs, although with a 5% increase to 62 million in audience. Despite also falling on On-Demand Songs (17-21), it gains by 8% to 395,000. "Scream" slips 7-8 on Digital Songs (119,000, down 3%).

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Dating to his first week in the Hot 100's top 10 (Sept. 6, 1997), Usher extends his mark for the most top 10s among male singers.

Atop the Hot 100, Jepsen's "Maybe" maintains its reign. The cut tops Digital Songs for a sixth week (263,000, down 10%), leads On-Demand Songs for a third frame (1.1 million, up 18%) and progresses 3-2 on Radio Songs (129 million, up 3%). Jepsen's next single, "Good Time," with Owl City, was released to digital retailers yesterday and should debut on next week's Hot 100.

After ranking at No. 3 for eight of its first nine weeks, rising to No. 2 the week of May 26, Maroon 5's "Payphone," featuring Wiz Khalifa, returns to its runner-up peak. The song, from the group's album "Overexposed," released yesterday, bullets at No. 3 on Radio Songs (129 million, up 9%) and On-Demand Songs (927,000, up 19%), while backtracking 2-3 on Digital Songs (218,000, down 5%).

Gotye's former eight-week No. 1 "Somebody That I Used to Know," featuring Kimbra, slides 2-3 on the Hot 100, while Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" holds at No. 4 in just its fifth frame. "Awake" rises 3-2 on Digital Songs (221,000, up 12%), 11-10 on Radio Songs (65 million, up 14%) and 24-12 on On-Demand Songs (535,000, up 73%), as anticipation builds for her 3-D documentary/concert film, "Katy Perry: Part of Me," due July 5.

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A busy Hot 100 top five also welcomes Rihanna's "Where Have You Been," which surges 8-5 with the chart's top Airplay Gainer award. It lunges 7-4 on Radio Songs (96 million, up 17%), 22-16 on On-Demand Songs (438,000, up 36%) and 8-7 on Digital Songs (122,000, down less than 1%).

The advance bodes well for Rihanna: when she reaches the Hot 100's top five, she usually continues on to No. 1; eleven of her prior 14 top five hits have gone on to No. 1, including her last five.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10 between "Lights" at No. 6 and "Scream" at No. 10, fun.'s former six-week No. 1 "We Are Young," featuring Janelle Monae, drops 5-7, followed by Nicki Minaj's "Starships" (7-8) and One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful" (6-9).

The fact that Wide Awake hit the Top 10 in just 3 weeks compared to all the other songs this year just shows how epic the song is

It will hit #1 eventually I just know it!

"WHYB" will need a remix to top the chart. However I think Def Jam won't go for it since it's not close at all. Stable in the top ten and 2-2.5m in sales will do.

And I'm glad people are realizing streaming isn't some power with sole chart strength.

HOT 100 TOP TEN:
1. Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe” (=)
2. Maroon 5 f/ Wiz Khalifa, “Payphone” (+1)
3. Gotye f/ Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used To Know” (-1)
4. Katy Perry, “Wide Awake” (=)
5. Rihanna, “Where Have You Been” (+3)
6. Ellie Goulding, “Lights” (+6)
7. fun. f/ Janelle Monae, “We Are Young” (-2)
8. Nicki Minaj, “Starships” (-1)
9. One Direction, “What Makes You Beautiful” (-3)
10. Usher, “Scream” (+1)

Ellie and Rihanna

I hope after hitting #1 (which seems likely), WA could retain sustained longevity and make it to the top 5 of year end Hot 100. Katy would spend her third consecutive year in that frame!