14 weeks for Applause. It never spent one week out of the top 10 from its release to ARTPOP. Do What U Want flying 30 positions and coming for that Top 10.
Bon Jovi's 1987 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 "Livin' On a Prayer" returns to the ranking at No. 25 thanks to renewed viral interest. The iconic rock track debuts on Streaming Songs at No. 5 after garnering 5.1 million streams in the U.S. last week (up 390%), according to Nielsen BDS.
Mostly all of the song's total streams (96%) arrive from user-generated clips, as viewers have spurred renewed viral interest in a video posted in 2009 of Boston Celtics basketball fan Jeremy Fry dancing to "Prayer" during a stoppage in play at Boston's TD Garden. A fresh upload of Fry's dance routine to viral video and content aggregator Utrend.tv on Oct. 17 has drawn 11 million worldwide views alone and has been shared on Facebook more than 1.6 million times since its posting. (wait, are they counting Facebook streams/views, too? )
"Prayer" re-enters the Hot 100 more than 26 years after it spent four weeks atop the chart (Feb. 14-March 7, 1987). It returns with 94% of its Hot 100 chart points owed to streaming. Still, it sports an 11% uptick to 4,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and jumps 19-8 on Hot Rock Songs. The song, long a staple of adult and rock radio stations' '80s music libraries, received more than 500 plays among the Hot 100's more than 1,200 reporters last week, according to BDS.
Bon Jovi has tallied 25 Hot 100 hits since first arriving with the No. 39-peaking "Runaway" in 1984. Until this week, the band had last appeared on the chart in 2009 with "We Weren't Born to Follow," which reached No. 68. In addition to "Prayer," the band has ruled the chart with "You Give Love a Bad Name" (1986), "Bad Medicine" (1988) and "I'll Be There for You" (1989).
Gorilla should've gone top 10 with the video that got a ton of views on release day
Gorilla only has like 12 million views total, and at launch only had about 1 million per day. Considering only 1/4 or so of those views would have come from the US it would have little to no impact on the Hot 100 chart.
Passenger's "Let Her Go" jumps from #12 to #11 in its 16th week. Digital sales rank: #8 (113K). Passenger is the stage name of British singer/songwriter Michael David Rosenberg. "Let Her Go" reached #2 on the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart….
"23" by Mike WiLL Made-It featuring Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J jumps from #17 to #12 in its ninth week. The song has already climbed as high as #11…
Katy Perry's "Unconditionally" leaps from #21 to #16 in its fourth week. It's vying to become her 13th top 10 hit.
The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather" jumps from #29 to #17 in its 23rd week…
"My Hitta" by YG featuring Jeezy & Rich Homie Quan jumps from #24 to #19 in its seventh week…
"Stay The Night" by Zedd featuring Hayley Williams jumps from #34 to #22 in its ninth week…
AWOLNATION's "Sail" jumps from #35 to #23 in its 63rd week. The song has climbed as high as #17.
Bon Jovi's 1987 smash "Livin' On A Prayer" re-enters the chart at #25. The song logged four weeks at #1 in 1987, a total matched by only one other single that year: George Michael's "Faith"…
Sara Bareilles' "Brave" finally cracks the top 30, jumping from #37 to #27 in its 23rd week. It's Bareilles' first top 30 hit since her 2007 breakthrough smash "Love Song," which reached #4…
"White Walls" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring ScHoolboy Q & Hollis jumps from #39 to #31 in its ninth week.
"We Were Us" by Keith Urban & Miranda Lambert drops from #26 to #33 in its 10th week. The song is #1 on Hot Country Songs for the second week…
Florida Georgia Line's "Stay" jumps from #47 to #37 in its fifth week.
Matthew Schuler's version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is the week's top new entry (as opposed to re-entry) at #40. Digital sales rank: #9 (106K). This is the second version of this classic song to make the top 40 on the Hot 100. A version by Justin Timberlake & Matt Morris featuring Charlie Sexton from Hope For Haiti Now reached #13 in 2010. Three other artists have put the song on the Hot 100: Kate Voegele (#68 in 2008), Lee DeWyze (#44 in 2010) and k.d. lang (#61 in 2010). Cohen's original version appeared on his album Various Positions in 1984. Jeff Buckley's famous cover version appeared on his album Grace in 1995. Schuler is a contestant on Season 5 of The Voice.
Ellie Goulding's "Burn" jumps from #57 to #48 in its 11th week.. The song topped the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart for three weeks over the summer…
Justin Bieber's "All Bad" is the week's second highest new entry at #50. Another week, another Justin single…
Bastille's "Pompeii" jumps from #66 to #53 in its 14th week…
Parmalee's "Carolina" jumps from #65 to #57 in its ninth week…
David Nail's "Whatever She's Got" jumps from #70 to #61 in its seventh week….
John Legend's "All Of Me" jumps from #97 to #66 in its sixth week.
"Show Me" by Kid Ink featuring Chris Brown re-enters the chart at #68…
Martin Garrix's "Animals" drops from #81 to #83 in its ninth week. The song has climbed as high as #75. "Animals" enters The U.K.'s Official Singles Chart at #1 this week. With Lorde at #1 on the Hot 100, this means that a 17-year old is #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. this week. ("Royals" reached #1 in the U.K. three weeks ago.)
Drake's "The Language" re-enters the chart at #89. The song has climbed as high as #51…
Another Drake song, "Pound Cake" (featuring Jay Z) re-enters at #96. The song has climbed as high as #65…
In between the two Drake songs, American Authors' "The Best Day Of My Life" debuts at #93. The song has been featured in a Lowe's TV ad, on ESPN and in a trailer for the upcoming Vince Vaughn movie Delivery Man. American Authors are a Brooklyn-based indie rock band.
Romeo Santos' "Propuesta Indecente" re-enters the chart at #98. The song has climbed as high as #79…
Jon Pardi's "Up All Night" debuts at #99. It's from the country singer's debut album, Write You A Song, which is due early next year…
Daughtry's "Waiting For Superman" re-enters at #100. The song has climbed as high as #70. More songs re-entered the chart this week (six) than debuted for the first time (four). These are strange times in chartland.
Bruno Mars has two reasons to celebrate this week. His 2010 smash "Just The Way You Are" becomes the 25th song to top the 6 million mark in digital sales. Also, Mars becomes the third artist to top the 2 million mark in digital sales in 2013 with three different songs. (And he's the only one to do it entirely on his own, without any collabos.) "Treasure" tops the 2 million mark this week. "When I Was Your Man" has sold 3,845,000 copies so far this year. "Locked Out Of Heaven" has sold 2,086,000. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Justin Timberlake have also achieved this feat, counting collabos.
Thomas Rhett's "It Goes Like This" tops the 1 million mark in digital sales this week. It's the 15th country song to sell 1 million digital copies in 2013. The year's top three country sellers are Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" (4,479,000), Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel" (2,412,000) and "Boys 'Round Here" by Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies (2,149,000).
I hope The Monster can destroy the thing in the #1. 
The rest of the Top 10: Roar, Demons. 
And I'm happy to see DWUW and Unc climbing. 
