{"id":1106,"date":"2018-09-10T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:49","slug":"drake-ties-usher-for-most-weeks-at-no-1-in-a-year-on-billboard-hot-100-as-in-my-feelings-leads-for-ninth-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Drake Ties Usher for Most Weeks at No. 1 in a Year On Billboard Hot 100 as &#8216;In My Feelings&#8217; Leads for Ninth Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article__deck\">Drake also passes Usher for the most career weeks at No. 1 among solo males, &amp; Eminem debuts two songs in the top 10 from his new Billboard 200 leader, &#8220;Kamikaze.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\">Drake<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;In My Feelings&#8221; log a ninth week at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>\u00a0chart (dated Sept. 15), granting the superstar sole ownership of one record and a share for another, both involving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/usher\">Usher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among his six career No. 1s, Drake has now led the Hot 100 for 48 total weeks, breaking a tie with Usher for the most time at the top spot all-time among solo males.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Drake leads the Hot 100 for a 28th week in 2018, thanks to his three No. 1s this year, matching Usher for the most time in charge in a single year. Usher tallied 28 weeks at No. 1 in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/eminem\">Eminem<\/a>\u00a0debuts two songs on the Hot 100 in the top 10: &#8220;Lucky You,&#8221; featuring Joyner Lucas (No. 6), and &#8220;The Ringer&#8221; (No. 8), marking his 18th and 19th top 10s, respectively, and first since his 2013-14 four-week No. 1 &#8220;The Monster,&#8221; featuring Rihanna. Both new top 10s are from his new album\u00a0<em>Kamikaze<\/em>, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8474185\/eminem-kamikaze-debuts-number-one-billboard-200-chart\">launches as his ninth No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 on the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 11).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feelings&#8221; adds a ninth week atop the Hot 100 despite not ranking at No. 1 in any individual metric. The song, released on Young Money\/Cash Money\/Republic Records, falls to No. 3 after eight weeks at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart, with 47.7 million U.S. streams, down 6 percent, in the week ending Sept. 6, according to Nielsen Music. (The song set the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8466563\/drake-in-my-feelings-number-one-best-streaming\">weekly streaming record<\/a>\u00a0on the chart dated July 28 with 116.2 million, then driven largely by the viral\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8466078\/drake-in-my-feelings-challenge-is-going-worldwide-see-the-best-videos\">&#8220;In My Feelings&#8221; challenge<\/a>before its official video arrived Aug. 2.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feelings&#8221; rebounds 4-3 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>\u00a0chart, which it led for six weeks (28,000 downloads sold, up 6 percent, in the week ending Sept. 6), and dips 4-5 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>, where it reached No. 3 (89.5 million audience impressions, down 4 percent, in the week ending Sept. 9). (The song is the first to top the Hot 100 without simultaneously leading any of the chart&#8217;s three main component surveys since Drake&#8217;s own &#8220;Nice for What&#8221; on July 14.)<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;Feelings&#8221; continuing its Hot 100 command, Drake passes Usher for the most total weeks at No. 1 among solo males: 48. Among all acts, Drake also claims a solo share of fifth place. Here is a look at the artists to spend the most time at No. 1 (and their number of leaders) in the Hot 100&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8468122\/hot-100-turns-60-chubby-checker-the-twist-the-beatles\">60-year history<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>79 weeks, Mariah Carey (18 No. 1s)<br \/>\n60 weeks, Rihanna (14)<br \/>\n59 weeks, The Beatles (20)<br \/>\n50 weeks, Boyz II Men (five)<br \/>\n<b>48 weeks, Drake (six)<\/b><br \/>\n47 weeks, Usher (nine)<br \/>\n41 weeks, Beyonc\u00e9 (six)<br \/>\n37 weeks, Michael Jackson (13)<br \/>\n34 weeks, Elton John (nine)<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Drake has been a lead artist on 38 of his 48 frames atop the Hot 100, while Usher has spent all 47 of his weeks at No. 1 with lead-artist billing. (Mariah Carey has been lead on all of her record 79 weeks at No. 1.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRS_PpOrUZ4\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRS_PpOrUZ4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Drake has also now led the Hot 100 for 28 weeks in 2018, as, prior to &#8220;Feelings,&#8221; &#8220;Nice for What&#8221; spent eight weeks at No. 1 beginning April 21, directly succeeding &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan&#8221; after 11 weeks on top (with all songs from his album\u00a0<em>Scorpion<\/em>). Here is an update of the acts to spend the most time at No. 1 in any January-December period:<\/p>\n<p><b>28 weeks, Drake, 2018<\/b><br \/>\n<b>28 weeks, Usher, 2004<\/b><br \/>\n26 weeks, The Black Eyed Peas, 2009<br \/>\n19 weeks, Drake, 2016<br \/>\n19 weeks, Puff Daddy, 1997<br \/>\n18 weeks, Monica, 1998<br \/>\n18 weeks, The Beatles, 1964<br \/>\n17 weeks, Justin Bieber, 2017<br \/>\n17 weeks, Beyonc\u00e9, 2003<br \/>\n17 weeks, Nelly, 2002<br \/>\n17 weeks, Boyz II Men, 1994<\/p>\n<p>Usher first set the yearly mark of 28 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 via four No. 1s in 2004: &#8220;Yeah!,&#8221; featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris (12 weeks, beginning that Feb. 28); &#8220;Burn&#8221; (eight weeks, May 22); &#8220;Confessions Part II&#8221; (two, July 24); and &#8220;My Boo,&#8221; with Alicia Keys (six, Oct. 30).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, rap songs have now led the Hot 100 for a record-extending 33 consecutive weeks. Along with Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Feelings,&#8221; &#8220;Nice&#8221; and &#8220;Plan,&#8221; the streak includes Childish Gambino&#8217;s &#8220;This Is America&#8221; (for two weeks);\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Psycho,&#8221; featuring Ty Dolla $ign (one); XXXTentacion&#8217;s &#8220;Sad!&#8221; (one); and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/cardi-b\">Cardi B<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bad-bunny\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-balvin\">J\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-balvin\">Balvin<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;I Like It&#8221; (one).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feelings&#8221; concurrently tops the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>\u00a0charts for a ninth week each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/maroon-5\">Maroon 5<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Girls Like You,&#8221; featuring Cardi B, ranks at its No. 2 Hot 100 high for a fifth week, while ruling Radio Songs for a sixth frame (127.6 million, up 1 percent). It rebounds 3-1 for a sixth week atop Digital Song Sales (32,000, up 15 percent), marking the band&#8217;s longest-leading No. 1; &#8220;Moves Like Jagger,&#8221; featuring Christina Aguilera, led for five weeks in 2011. On Streaming Songs, &#8220;Girls&#8221; descends 5-9 (28.9 million, down 3 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the gap between Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Feelings&#8221; and Maroon 5&#8217;s &#8220;Girls&#8221; on the Hot 100 continues to dwindle, with the former down 4 percent in overall activity and the latter up 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin&#8217;s &#8220;I Like It&#8221; holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100; 6ix9ine&#8217;s &#8220;FEFE,&#8221; featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/nicki-minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a>\u00a0and Murda Beatz, rises 5-4, after reaching No. 3; and, Post Malone&#8217;s &#8220;Better Now&#8221; backtracks to No. 5 from its No. 4 peak.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1arz9Q9qBas\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1arz9Q9qBas\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Eminem sends two tracks onto the Hot 100 in the top 10: &#8220;Lucky You,&#8221; featuring Joyner Lucas, at No. 6, and &#8220;The Ringer,&#8221; at No. 8, marking his 18th and 19th top 10s, respectively, and first since his 2013-14 four-week No. 1 &#8220;The Monster,&#8221; featuring Rihanna. Both of his new top 10s are from his new album\u00a0<em>Kamikaze<\/em>, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8474185\/eminem-kamikaze-debuts-number-one-billboard-200-chart\">arrives as his ninth No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart.<\/p>\n<p>Now with 19 Hot 100 top 10s, Eminem boasts the fourth-most top 10s among artists who are primarily rappers, after Drake (31), JAY-Z (21) and Lil Wayne (20). Eminem passes Ludacris, with 18.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Eminem becomes the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8469837\/drake-in-my-feelings-travis-scott-debuts-hot-100\">fifth act to have debuted multiple songs in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 simultaneously<\/a>, following Drake, who has achieved the feat three times (including entering a record four songs in the top 10 on July 14), Ed Sheeran, J. Cole and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/travis-scott\">Travis Scott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lucky&#8221; launches as Eminem&#8217;s second Streaming Songs No. 1 (after &#8220;The Monster&#8221;), with 42.2 million U.S. streams, while &#8220;The Ringer&#8221; chimes in at No. 5 (31.8 million). On Digital Song Sales, the tracks begin at Nos. 5 (26,000) and 2 (28,000), respectively. (Notably, &#8220;Lucky&#8221; leads Streaming Songs, while Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Feelings&#8221; ranks at No. 3, despite the former sporting 42.2 million and the latter, 47.7 million; &#8220;Lucky&#8221; finishes atop the tally following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8427967\/billboard-changes-streaming-weighting-hot-100-billboard-200\">application of weighting<\/a>, as it almost doubled &#8220;Feelings&#8221; in on-demand streams.)<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, Juice WRLD&#8217;s No. 3-peaking &#8220;Lucid Dreams&#8221; drops 6-7; Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Sicko Mode&#8221; slips 7-9, after hitting No. 4; and,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/tyga\">Tyga<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Taste,&#8221; featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/offset\">Offset<\/a>, falls from its No. 8 high to No. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly &#8220;Hot 100 Chart Moves&#8221; column and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chart-beat\/id1082747004?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chart Beat Podcast<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pop-shop-podcast\/id720291560?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop Shop Podcast<\/a>\u00a0and follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@billboard<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboardcharts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@billboardcharts<\/a>. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 11), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0magazine is on sale Friday (Sept. 14).<\/p>\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1106\" data-postid=\"1106\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1106 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake also passes Usher for the most career weeks at No. 1 among solo males, &amp; Eminem debuts two songs in the top 10 from his new Billboard 200 leader, &#8220;Kamikaze.&#8221; Drake&#8216;s &#8220;In My Feelings&#8221; log a ninth week at No. 1 on the\u00a0Billboard Hot 100\u00a0chart (dated Sept. 15), granting the superstar sole ownership of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drake-tour-toronto-aug-21-2018-billboard-15482.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}