G-Eazy x Bebe Rexha, "Me, Myself & I"

Bebe has a Top 3 in her hands tbh

Lukas Graham, "7 Years"

http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...10-me-myself-i

Of course not...when you have the stats of a legend there's no need

2016 is going to be such a fun year for the hot 100. So much competition. I hope we have no #1s lasting more than 8 weeks tbh. Serve me 80s teas with the hot 100 #1s turnover

Not me! I hated the 1985-early 1991 turnover and Hot 100 as a whole. Having 20+ #1s in a year is awful, and I can even remember years with 30 #1s. That's an average of less than two weeks/song!

The Hot 100 formula was reweighted this past week to strengthen sales and weaken streaming. Streaming still dominates though. I do wish they had also weakened airplay too, but that appears unchanged.

How's My House doing on streaming? Is there a chance for My House to top Hot 100? I'm here for Flo blocking Rihanna

If Streaming Improves yes...However SuperBowl and Grammys are coming!

I wonder why Billboard changed the formula? For what basis?

To better balance out the metrics. When sales were at this level in 2006-7, the divisor was 5, but streaming was barely factored in. The adjustment should've really been made at the start of the 2016 Chart Year instead of two months in though instead of the 25/52 rule.

Zimmerfing and Friday Teenage figured out 1 sale now = 12.5 streams, when it was at 7.5 streams. BB doesn't want one metric over-dominating the Hot 100.

Airplay remained the same, now sales/8 instead of sales/10, and now streaming/100 instead of streams/75.

The end of 2010 was so exciting when we had a different #1 every week. Why wouldn't you want a lot of movement and excitement in the charts?

I feel like the charts will be like 2011-2012 now. At least 15 #1's in a year.

I like around 15 #1's in a year. Anything below 10 shows me there wasn't huge competition and seems boring. I don't want a new number one song each week. But 1-6 week running #1's more often would be nicer than having 3 double digit week #1's in a year. Just my opinion haha

Because I started following BB in the 1980s when there were up to 30 #1s a year and some years only one song reached 4 weeks at #1! And there was a 6.5 year gap between "Like A Virgin" (1984-5) and "Rush Rush" (Spring-Summer 1991) where no song could break past 4 weeks # #1! That's why I like the slower charts. Eight to ten #1s a year is good, as having a rapid turnover at the top cheapens the value of having a #1 song.

When sales count more on the Hot 100, the turnover rate at #1 (and the Top 10 in general) is faster. As streaming's influence increases through the year, the Hot 100 will slow down again.

Oh I see. That makes sense. The charts felt so incredibly slow last year with UF! and SYA dominating. Then we had The Hills for 6 weeks and Hello for 10 weeks. It was so slow and boring. At least we had a few #1 debuts to change things up.

Do you think #1 debuts will be more common now? We've had 2 (almost 3) last year, and now already have yet another one.

I'm surprised they didn't down weigh airplay. It's by far the most fabricated metric.

True. They should really make it 50 sales 35 streaming and 15 airplay.

Anyways this is how I feel like the next few weeks will be #1-wise:

Pillowtalk (1 week)
Love Yourself (1-2 weeks)
Stressed Out (2-3 weeks)
My House (2-3 weeks)
Work (4+ weeks)

That would give us 7 #1's into April-May.

Girls Work is #1 all of March and April so yall better pay IT now!

The real interesting thing about Stressed Out is that it will likely be peaking within a month on Pop. Probably end of Feb or early March on Pop. And that's likely only when it will be starting to blow up on Rhythmic

Major crossover hit. Right now it just needs to gain traction and some adds on Rhythmic though I wasn't expecting a debut on that format till Feb and it debuted like a week earlier than expected.

Also it's going to be neat to watch WWWY grow now on the charts. Her team is genius. The song will be charting for a long time. I was doubting her team but the song has been building up and longing on sales. Radio and streams are slightly increasing as well.

Do you really think SO could hit the top? I mean I guess it's possible. LY's longevity was underwhelming! I fear it won't go higher than 2

oh Lord... you really think Adele wont get even one week?? with Streaming plus THREE sales boost (BBC concert, Ellen and Grammy) plus maybe the video that week... you dont think she could get the #1 the week after that??

Final predictions?