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Stats: Billboard launches new Dance/Electronic Songs Chart
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Billboard launches new Dance/Electronic Songs Chart
New Dance/Electronic Songs Hybrid Chart Highlights a Trio of New Rankings
January 17, 2013 | By Silvio Pietroluongo, New York Billboard is expanding its coverage of the burgeoning dance scene by launching Dance/Electronic Songs, the first-ever ranking of the nation's top dance songs combining digital download sales (tracked by Nielsen SoundScan), radio airplay (monitored by Nielsen BDS) and streaming data (tracked by BDS from such services as Spotify, Muve, Slacker, Rhapsody, Rdio, MySpace, Xbox Music and Guvera) and reported club play from a select national panel of 140 club DJs.
Outside of club play data, Dance/Electronic Songs will match the methodology applied to Billboard's signature all-genre songs ranking, the Billboard Hot 100. Titles eligible for the chart will be determined based on a song's core sound and tempo, as they have been for our sales-based Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart, which launched in 2010. Dance remixes of titles categorized as pop, rock, R&B, rap or another genre would not make a song eligible for Dance/Electronic Songs, even if the title appears on the Dance Club Songs or Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart.
Topping the inaugural Dance/Electronic Songs chart is "Scream & Shout" by will.i.am & Britney Spears, followed by EDM trio Swedish House Mafia with "Don't You Worry Child" at No. 2. The chart's top 10 also features pop/dance tracks from Ne-Yo, Pitbull and Ludacris (with help from David Guetta) and EDM cuts from Calvin Harris and Zedd.
Billboard is also expanding its menu of streaming charts with the launch of Streaming Songs. The chart ranks the top web radio streams and on-demand audio titles from the leading streaming services mentioned above. This ranking represents the streaming portion of the Hot 100's data pool as well as Billboard's other hybrid genre charts for Country, R&B/Hip-Hop, R&B, Rap, Latin, Rock, and now Dance/Electronic Songs.
Where On-Demand Songs, which launched in March 2012, measures consumer-activated audio plays on the above streaming services with on-demand functionality, Streaming Songs includes that data, as well as on-demand streams.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz holds the top spot on both Streaming Songs with 1.45 million total streams in the U.S.
Additionally, Billboard is launching the R&B Albums chart, which ranks the week's top R&B-only (non-rap) titles. R&B Albums, a companion chart to the recently-launched R&B Songs, will serve as 25-position distillation of the overall Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Rihanna's "Unapologetic," which is bumped down to No. 2 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, claims the first-ever No. 1 on R&B Albums, followed by Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire at No. 2 and The Weeknd's "Trilogy" at No. 3. The three titles are the only albums to share top 10 placement on both R&B Albums and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
Dance/Electronic Songs
Issue Date: 2013-01-26
This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
on Producer(Songwriter) Position
Chart Imprint | Catalog No. | Distributing Label
1 NEW 1 Scream & Shout, will.i.am & Britney Spears
2 NEW 1 Don't You Worry Child, Swedish House Mafia Featuring John Martin 2
3 NEW 1 Sweet Nothing, Calvin Harris Featuring Florence Welch 3
4 NEW 1 Gangnam Style, PSY 4
5 NEW 1 Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself), Ne-Yo 5
6 NEW 1 Rest Of My Life, Ludacris Featuring Usher & David Guetta 6
7 NEW 1 Feel This Moment, Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera 7
8 NEW 1 She Wolf (Falling To Pieces), David Guetta Featuring Sia 8
9 NEW 1 Clarity, Zedd 9
10 NEW 1 Spectrum, Zedd Featuring Matthew Koma 10
11 NEW 1 Greyhound, Swedish House Mafia 11
12 NEW 1 The Lucky Ones, Kerli 12
13 NEW 1 Numb, Usher 13
14 NEW 1 Beam Me Up (Kill-Mode), Cazzette 14
15 NEW 1 Big Banana, Havana Brown Featuring R3hab 15
16 NEW 1 I Need Your Love, Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding 16
17 NEW 1 Alive, Krewella 17
18 NEW 1 Summit, Skrillex Featuring Ellie Goulding 18
19 NEW 1 Superlove, Lenny Kravitz 19
20 NEW 1 Gold 2012, Spandau Ballet 20
21 NEW 1 Louder, DJ Fresh Featuring Sian Evans 21
22 NEW 1 Bom Bom, Sam And The Womp! 22
23 NEW 1 Every Day, Eric Prydz 23
24 NEW 1 One Day / Reckoning Song, Asaf Avidan & The Mojos 24
25 NEW 1 Right In, Skrillex 25
26 NEW 1 Right Now, Rihanna Featuring David Guetta 26
27 NEW 1 Dancing In My Head, Eric Turner vs Avicii 27
28 NEW 1 Bonfire, Knife Party 28
29 NEW 1 Drinking From The Bottle, Calvin Harris Featuring Tinie Tempah 29
30 NEW 1 Professional Griefers, deadmau5 Featuring Gerard Way 30
31 NEW 1 Feel The Love, Rudimental Featuring John Newman 31
32 NEW 1 The City, Madeon 32
33 NEW 1 Language, Porter Robinson 33
34 NEW 1 Just One Last Time, David Guetta Featuring Taped Rai 34
35 NEW 1 The Devil's Den, Skrillex & Wolfgang Gartner 35
36 NEW 1 Play Hard, David Guetta Featuring Ne-Yo & Akon 36
37 NEW 1 Doomsday, Nero 37
38 NEW 1 A Love I Call My Own, Crystal Waters, Nicola Fasano, Steve Forest 38
39 NEW 1 Freak, Stereo Missile vs. Carlotta Chadwick 39
40 NEW 1 Million Voices, Otto Knows 40
41 NEW 1 Thinking About You, Calvin Harris Featuring Ayah Marar 41
42 NEW 1 Crystallize, Lindsey Stirling 42
43 NEW 1 Days Turn Into Nights, Delerium 43
44 NEW 1 Lessons In Love, Kaskade Featuring Neon Trees 44
45 NEW 1 Finale, Madeon 45
46 NEW 1 Bring Out The Bottles, RedFoo 46
47 NEW 1 Call Me A Spaceman, Hardwell Featuring Mitch Crown 47
48 NEW 1 Kick Out The Epic Motherf**ker, Dada Life 48
49 NEW 1 Centipede, Knife Party 49
50 NEW 1 Internet Friends, Knife Party 50
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lol ... gaga would have top this chart with almost all of her singles except (You and I and Marry the Night)
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hm @ I Need Your Love charting at 16. not even released until march-ish
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Interesting. I am wondering why didn't they make the EDM chart sooner.
Anyway congrats to Rihanna for getting a first number one R&B album ever 
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Originally posted by nky0411
lol ... gaga would have top this chart with almost all of her singles except (You and I and Marry the Night)
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stop, none of gaga's singles are dance/electronic 
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Xtina getting a Top 10 hit 
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Zedd and Guetta having two top tens
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congrats to the inaugural chart listings
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Originally posted by nky0411
lol ... gaga would have top this chart with almost all of her singles except (You and I and Marry the Night)
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It's hard to know what would've counted to this chart, but:
Love Game would've been definitely beaten to #1 by I Gotta Feeling at least.
Paparazzi might also have been beaten by I Gotta Feeling, 3, Fireflies or Party in the USA if any of those would've counted.
Alejandro might have got beaten to #1 by OMG.
Judas would've probably ranked at #4 behind S&M, On the Floor and Till the World Ends.
I think all the others would've definitely made it though.
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stop, none of gaga's singles are dance/electronic |
Considering some of the songs that are included here, I think most of Gaga's discography would've been eligible for this.
Imagine if they did this back in 2006. SOS would've been #1 for like 6 months. 
However, I'm not sure if I like the fact that drum & bass and dubstep songs are getting to chart here... I know they're sub-genres of "dance" music, but they're musically very different to the stuff David Guetta, Calvin Harris, etc. do.
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Originally posted by helveticarter
stop, none of gaga's singles are dance/electronic |
stop it gurl. U tried too hard.
Billboard classified The Fame, The Fame Monster and Born This Way as electronic/dance albums.
if anything, Gaga is probably the only major pop gurl that has songs closest to dance electronic. She started with dance song aka Just Dance and Poker Face, until Born This Way, Judas, Marry The Night
Other artists are just jumping on the trend.
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4 NEW 1 Gangnam Style, PSY 4
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 still that high!
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Originally posted by nky0411
stop it gurl. U tried too hard.
Billboard classified The Fame, The Fame Monster and Born This Way as electronic/dance albums.
if anything, Gaga is probably the only major pop gurl that has songs closest to dance electronic. She started with dance song aka Just Dance and Poker Face, until Born This Way, Judas, Marry The Night
Other artists are just jumping on the trend.
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She's the closest one but I refuse to believe RedOne's stuff (who did most of her singles) is EDM. Leave that to Calvin, Swedish House Mafia, Zedd, Madeon, etc.
Now when ARTPOP comes out…the whole album will probably chart on here.
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Originally posted by helveticarter
She's the closest one but I refuse to believe RedOne's stuff (who did most of her singles) is EDM. Leave that to Calvin, Swedish House Mafia, Zedd, Madeon, etc.
Now when ARTPOP comes out…the whole album will probably chart on here.
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Stop It's obvious that this isn't even a strictly EDM chart now, so Gaga's stuff would have definitely charted here
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Originally posted by helveticarter
She's the closest one but I refuse to believe RedOne's stuff (who did most of her singles) is EDM. Leave that to Calvin, Swedish House Mafia, Zedd, Madeon, etc.
Now when ARTPOP comes out…the whole album will probably chart on here.
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your opinion =/= billboard's rules
it is obvious when BB already classified TF, TFM, BTW as EDM albums.
well it is billboard, it classifies Rihanna's songs to R&B ....
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I'm a bit confused on what songs they're choosing to include. What makes Numb and Let Me Love You qualify for this chart but not Beauty And A Beat?
If Gangnam Style can qualify shouldn't I Cry?
If Feel This Moment qualifies shouldn't Don't Stop The Party?
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"Where On-Demand Songs, which launched in March 2012, measures consumer-activated audio plays on the above streaming services with on-demand functionality, Streaming Songs includes that data, as well as on-demand streams. "
I didnt get it! Can someone explain me this?
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Originally posted by DiegoMarcoCMM
"Where On-Demand Songs, which launched in March 2012, measures consumer-activated audio plays on the above streaming services with on-demand functionality, Streaming Songs includes that data, as well as on-demand streams. "
I didnt get it! Can someone explain me this?
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I as well am confused as ****.
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Originally posted by DiegoMarcoCMM
"Where On-Demand Songs, which launched in March 2012, measures consumer-activated audio plays on the above streaming services with on-demand functionality, Streaming Songs includes that data, as well as on-demand streams. "
I didnt get it! Can someone explain me this?
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Streaming Songs is a new chart including On-Demand Songs (Spotify, etc) + Passive Streaming (Yahoo, Pandora, Vevo etc.)
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Originally posted by Katy V.!
Streaming Songs is a new chart including On-Demand Songs (Spotify, etc) + Passive Streaming (Yahoo, Pandora, Vevo etc.)
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Ohhh Thanks! So the "On-Demand Songs" chart includes only spotify, myspace, etc?
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