Airplay news
Bleeding Love stays at #1 on Top40 Airplay with 11702 spins (+625 for the week: 5.64% increase) and 73.571m audience - up 0.155m on yesterday, a 58 spin increase.
The smaller published panel Top 40 historic news is that BL has hit 10790 spins - a +44 increase on yesterday. The record in the history of the Top 40 chart was Timbaland ft. One Republic with Apologize which peaked at 10752 spins in midweek but whose official published record taken from the Sunday end-of-week figures is 10693. Leona has now beaten the overall record by 38 spins, and has a 97 spin cushion on the end-of-week record.
Rhythmic spins for Bleeding Love keep enjoying a second wind, with an increase of 853 (26.98%) in the last week taking the total to 4015. BL rises to #8 in this airplay chart and is being played by 77 stations (+3 on yesterday).
HAC spins continue their stately increase to 2600 remaining at #11 (+572 for the week, 28.21%, 104 stations playing it, up 3 from yesterday). AC sees another good climb in spins to 707 and rises to #14 (+301 for the week, 74.14%, 73 stations, +7 on yesterday).
And on the day Bleeding Love makes CHR/Pop airplay history, it is also top of the taking-off charts on Rhythmic, Hot AC and AC.
The trickle of support from Urban (93 spins) and Urban AC (13 spins) continues with news that it officially goes to Urban adds next week.
Overall audience impressions: 116.816m.
Digital Sales news
BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 50
3 1 LEWIS*LEONA BLEEDING LOVE 235880 30 182133 1565977
1 2 MADONNA FEAT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAK 4 MINUTES 185159 -8 201799 1031730
2 3 LIL WAYNE LOLLIPOP 175793 -4 183237 1065755
Bleeding Love becomes the first song to sell more than 200k in 4 separate weeks in the digital era. Recent weekly sales:
10/5/08 235880
03/5/08 182133
26/4/08 223361
19/4/08 200614
12/4/08 186928
05/4/08 219237
29/3/08 120461
22/3/08 59196
Billboard Hot 100 news
Confirmed digital sales for Bleeding Love this week should be more than enough to see it take the top spot on the Hot 100 for the third time tomorrow, matching the only song to have previously achieved this feat in chart history, Chic's "Le Freak" in 1978/79.
Billboard 200 news
Mariah Carey Remains Atop Billboard 200
Mariah Carey
April 30, 2008, 11:10 AM
Katie Hasty, N.Y.
Despite a 61% decline in sales, Mariah Carey's Island Def Jam set "E=MC2" remains atop The Billboard 200 for a second straight week. The album, the diva's sixth No. 1, moved 182,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. British singer Leona Lewis' "Spirit" (Syco/J) follows suit, staying put at No. 2 in its second week with 96,000 and a 1% sales increase.
While Mariah Carey's "E=MC2" holds tight at No. 1 (182,000; down 61%)
in its second week, Leona Lewis' "Spirit" posts a 1% increase at No. 2 after she performed on the "American Idol" results show last week (April 23). A 1% gain may not seem like a big deal, however, it's the first time an album that debuted at No. 1 has posted any sort of gain in its second or third week since December 2006. That's when Ciara's "The Evolution" earned a 35% increase in its third week in the thick of the Christmas holiday shopping season.
SHE DID IT! SHE HAS THE MOST PLAYED SONG IN POP RADIO HISTORY!
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