Pitbull and Ke$ha spend a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Timber." Meanwhile, Katy Perry jumps into the top five with "Dark Horse" (featuring Juicy J), which also crowns the Digital Songs and On-Demand Songs charts.
It's Wednesday, so time for our weekly look at the numbers behind the Hot 100's top 10.
Pitbull's second Hot 100 No. 1 and Ke$ha's third leader remains atop the Hot 100 despite not ruling any of the Hot 100's three main component charts, Digital Songs, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs. (With this week marking the one-year anniversary of the launch of Streaming Songs, it's just the fifth week in which the Hot 100's top song doesn't rank atop one of the three tallies. The last such occurrence: June 15, when Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" spent its fifth and final week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, while Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," "Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors" and PSY's "Gangnam Style" crowned Digital Songs, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs, respectively.)
Still, the continued multi-platform success of "Timber" keeps the song atop the Hot 100. It falls 1-2 after four weeks in charge of Digital Songs with 227,000 downloads sold (down 25%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. It reaches a new peak on Radio Songs (5-3), gaining by 15% to 125 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS. On Streaming Songs, the track slips from its No. 2 highpoint to No. 3, although with a 3% gain to 5.4 million U.S. streams, according to BDS.
