1. All About That Bass = (-2 - +2% of lead)
2. Shake It Off =
3. Habits (Stay High) +3
4. Bang Bang =
5. Black Widow -2
6. Animals +2
7. Don't Tell 'Em =
8. Anaconda -3
9. Stay With Me =
10. Break Free =
11. Hot N*gga +1
12. Rather Be -1
13. Don't +4
14. Burnin' It Down +6
15. Chandelier =
16. Rude -2
17. Ew HOT SHOT DEBUT
18. Trumpets +5
19. Boom Clap -3
20. Cool Kids -1
1. All About That Bass = (-2 - +2% of lead)
2. Shake It Off =
3. Habits (Stay High) +3
4. Bang Bang =
5. Black Widow -2
6. Animals +2
7. Don't Tell 'Em =
8. Anaconda -3
9. Stay With Me =
10. Break Free =
11. Hot N*gga +1
12. Rather Be -1
13. Don't +4
14. Burnin' It Down +6
15. Chandelier =
16. Rude -2
17. Ew HOT SHOT DEBUT
18. Trumpets +5
19. Boom Clap -3
20. Cool Kids -1
The big question is Will Billboard Count it? The version used is a remixed version, not the original one.
Remixes usually count to the original. Only recent case where they were separated were Scream & Shout and it's hip hop remix, which I think was stupid to separate, since it wasn't THAT different to the orirignal, it still had the same hook, whilst songs like Stay High, Summertime Sadness, Bad, Somebody That I Used to Know and Party Rock Anthem had popuular remixes which were more different to the originals and they all got to be combined.
And after nine months, not one artist-album has yet to hit the million-unit mark, although the Frozen soundtrack is the year's best-seller so far with a robust 3.12 million units.
In the prior year, five albums each had scanned over a million units, led by Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience, which at the end of 2013's third quarter had scans of 2.3 million units.
1. All About That Bass = (-2 - +2% of lead)
2. Shake It Off =
3. Habits (Stay High) +3
4. Bang Bang =
5. Black Widow -2
6. Animals +2
7. Don't Tell 'Em =
8. Anaconda -3
9. Stay With Me =
10. Break Free =
11. Hot N*gga +1
12. Rather Be -1
13. Don't +4
14. Burnin' It Down +6
15. Chandelier =
16. Rude -2
17. Ew HOT SHOT DEBUT
18. Trumpets +5
19. Boom Clap -3
20. Cool Kids -1
I'm going with Taylor back on top, since her leads in sales and airplay are growing daily over Meghan. I think these two songs will stay in the Top Two for a couple of more weeks, then Habits might catch up. I wonder how Taylor's follow-up song and CD release in a couple of weeks will affect Shake It Off.
I'm also curious as to see how big a leap the Complete My Album effect has on Burnin' It Down and Dirt. Also, I guess it's the Country Music Awards next month, not the Academy of Country Music Awards. Notice how I steered clear of using the same acronym which can be used for two different things in this paragraph (CMA).
By the way, I noticed Billboard actually removed Tove Lo's "Habits (Stay High)" from its Rock Genre Chart last week (not the chart dated 18 October, but 11 October). This is an unprecedented move, for Billboard, as the magazine never removed WANEGBT from Country or "Thrift Shop" from R&B/Hip-Hop when those songs performed poorly at those formats home airplay formats (Swift did better at Pop, and Thrift Shop did better at Rock). Did anyone see Billboard's reason for doing this, given the fact "Habits" is still charting at Alternative?
Remixes usually count to the original. Only recent case where they were separated were Scream & Shout and it's hip hop remix, which I think was stupid to separate, since it wasn't THAT different to the orirignal, it still had the same hook, whilst songs like Stay High, Summertime Sadness, Bad, Somebody That I Used to Know and Party Rock Anthem had popuular remixes which were more different to the originals and they all got to be combined.
Your thinking is backwards.
Those last few songs you mentioned only got production face lifts. So yeah they got to be combined, because they were essentially the same song - new beat. Melodies and all in tact.
Scream & Shout's remix was pretty much a brand new song.
So really you should be thinking the other way around because: new beat/exact same song > same hook/all new verses and melodies. People complain about Katy's remixes and them counting, but they should because it just adds a new verse from a rapper. Otherwise 98% of the song is the same. S&S, 5% was the same.
1. All About That Bass = (-2 - +2% of lead)
2. Shake It Off =
3. Habits (Stay High) +3
4. Bang Bang =
5. Black Widow -2
6. Animals +2
7. Don't Tell 'Em =
8. Anaconda -3
9. Stay With Me =
10. Break Free =
11. Hot N*gga +1
12. Rather Be -1
13. Don't +4
14. Burnin' It Down +6
15. Chandelier =
16. Rude -2
17. Ew HOT SHOT DEBUT
18. Trumpets +5
19. Boom Clap -3
20. Cool Kids -1
Yas Tove Lo
But can Shake It Off go #1 this week?
And does Habits has a chance to go #1 in the future?
By the way, I noticed Billboard actually removed Tove Lo's "Habits (Stay High)" from its Rock Genre Chart last week (not the chart dated 18 October, but 11 October). This is an unprecedented move, for Billboard, as the magazine never removed WANEGBT from Country or "Thrift Shop" from R&B/Hip-Hop when those songs performed poorly at those formats home airplay formats (Swift did better at Pop, and Thrift Shop did better at Rock). Did anyone see Billboard's reason for doing this, given the fact "Habits" is still charting at Alternative?
Thrift Shop got to #33 on R&B/hip-hop airplay iirc, which is higher than some songs which get included on the chart. It's definitely not a rock song lol. I think alternative stations played it since he wasn't signed to a major record label, and they like playing independent artists.
I think Stay by Rihanna was included in the R&B/hip hop songs chart on the album release week but got removed when it became a single. I'm not 100% sure about this though. I actually think Stay would've got urban airplay if Rihanna sent it for adds though, piano ballads by Alicia Keys and John Legend got plays before.