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Meghan Trainor Breaks BB Hot 100 Record (With Some Help)
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Meghan Trainor's Epic Records single "All About That Bass" leads an all-female top five for a fifth straight week, breaking the record for the most weeks in a row that women have kept men out of the region in the chart's 56-year history.
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Beneath "Bass" on the Hot 100, Taylor Swift's former two-week No. 1 "Shake It Off" holds at No. 2 for a fifth week; Iggy Azalea's "Black Widow" (featuring Rita Ora) reaches its best rank (4-3), while also taking over atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Rap Songs; Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's "Bang Bang" rebounds 5-4; and Minaj's "Anaconda" slithers 3-5.
Women, thus, account for the Hot 100's top five exclusively for a fifth straight week, rewriting the chart's longest such streak. The run bests that of four weeks in 1999 (Feb. 13-March 6), when songs by Monica ("Angel of Mine"), Britney Spears ("…Baby One More Time"), Deborah Cox ("Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"), Cher ("Believe"), Brandy ("Have You Ever?"), Whitney Houston ("Heartbreak Hotel," featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price) and Sarah McLachlan ("Angel") combined to lock men out of the bracket.
This week also marks just the 11th week in the Hot 100's history in which solo women have excluded men from the top five. It's the 12th such denial of men including the June 30, 1979, chart, when four soloists (Anita Ward, Donna Summer, with two titles, and Rickie Lee Jones) and the all-female group Sister Sledge hung a "no boys allowed" sign on the top five's door.
As previously reported, a strong batch of female-sung hits, a dearth of competitive product from their male counterparts and simply timing have combined to help women to their record-breaking dominance.
Fittingly, it's not only the seven women in the Hot 100's top five who are reaping the benefits of their hit songs: so are women on the other side of the mic, as songs like "Bass" and "Anaconda" (each in their own playful ways) celebrate a strong self-image. "I wrote it for me, as well [as other women], because I've struggled with [body image] since I was very young," Trainor told Billboard in July. "So, if other girls can relate to the song, it makes me feel even better. It's unreal that I'm kind of helping people."
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