{"id":1916,"date":"2020-08-10T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:41","slug":"harry-styles-watermelon-sugar-surges-to-top-of-billboard-hot-100-becoming-his-first-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles&#8217; &#8216;Watermelon Sugar&#8217; Surges to Top of Billboard Hot 100, Becoming His First No. 1"},"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\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus, Billie Eilish&#8217;s &#8220;My Future&#8221; debuts at No. 6.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/harry-styles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harry Styles<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Watermelon Sugar&#8221; takes the top seed on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart, becoming his first No. 1 on the ranking, as it blasts from No. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Styles is the second member of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/one-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One Direction<\/a>&nbsp;to have led the Hot 100, following Zayn with &#8220;Pillowtalk&#8221; in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Weeknd<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Blinding Lights,&#8221; at No. 4 on the Hot 100, scores a historic week on two other charts, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billie Eilish<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;My Future&#8221; soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 6, marking her third top 10 and highest debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Aug. 15) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E07s5ZYygMg\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Watermelon Sugar,&#8221; released on Erskine\/Columbia Records, is the 1,107th No. 1 in the Hot 100&#8217;s 62-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a deeper look at the song&#8217;s coronation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 sales, No. 2 in airplay:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Watermelon Sugar&#8221; bounds 9-1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart, up 614% to 63,000 downloads sold in the week ending Aug. 6, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data. It pushes 3-2 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Songs<\/a>, up 8% to 71.7 million audience impressions in the week ending Aug. 9, and jumps 29-18 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streaming Songs<\/a>, although down 1% to 14.2 million U.S. streams in the week ending Aug. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song was on sale in Styles&#8217; webstore via three physical\/digital combination offerings during the tracking week ending Aug. 6. Consumers could buy cassette and vinyl singles (priced at $14.98-$15.98), with each purchase including a digital download; the download (the sale of which contributed to the latest tracking week) would be sent upon purchase, with physical versions due to arrive at a later date. The song (its original version and an instrumental) was also sale-priced to 69 cents at all digital retailers during the tracking week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Styles scores his second Digital Song Sales No. 1, after &#8220;Sign of the Times&#8221; led for a week upon its debut in April 2017. On Radio Songs, he matches his best rank; prior single &#8220;Adore You&#8221; peaked at No. 2 in early July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMcIfZuRuU8\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New videos, #WatermelonSugarDay:<\/strong>&nbsp;Further enhancing the profile for &#8220;Watermelon Sugar&#8221; in the tracking week, an official&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2iDjkpz7FfM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;behind the scenes&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;video for the song premiered July 31, while a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WMcIfZuRuU8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;lost tour visual&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;clip arrived Aug. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, the hashtag&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9428485\/watermelon-sugar-day-harry-styles-fans-tweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#WatermelonSugarDay trended Aug. 3<\/a>&nbsp;(coinciding with National Watermelon Day, the slice of the year that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationaldaycalendar.com\/national-watermelon-day-august-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recognizes the refreshing summertime treat<\/a>&nbsp;enjoyed at picnics and fairs&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harry&#8217;s history:<\/strong>&nbsp;As Styles achieves his first Hot 100 No. 1, he surpasses his prior best rank, earned when &#8220;Sign of the Times&#8221; debuted and peaked at No. 4 in April 2017. In his other top 10 visit as a soloist, &#8220;Adore You&#8221; reached No. 6 this April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One Direction, two leaders:<\/strong>&nbsp;Styles becomes the second member of One Direction to have led the Hot 100, following Zayn, whose &#8220;Pillowtalk&#8221; reigned in its debut week in February 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a group, One Direction has tallied six Hot 100 top 10s, reaching a No. 2 best. Its debut smash &#8220;What Makes You Beautiful&#8221; hit No. 4 in April 2012, followed by &#8220;Live While We&#8217;re Young&#8221; (No. 3, October 2012); &#8220;Best Song Ever&#8221; (No. 2, August 2013); &#8220;Story of My Life&#8221; (No. 6, November 2013); &#8220;Drag Me Down&#8221; (No. 3, August 2015); and &#8220;Perfect&#8221; (No. 10, November 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zayn departed the act, which is currently on hiatus, in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1D is, thus, now among an elite listing of groups with multiple members that have topped the Hot 100 solo. The Beatles became the first such act, when, after landing a record 20 No. 1s in 1964-70, George Harrison and Paul McCartney earned their first leaders apart from the band in 1970 and 1971, respectively. (By 1974, Ringo Starr and John Lennon also led solo.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sweet success:<\/strong>&nbsp;Styles&#8217; new Hot 100 No. 1 marks the first leader with &#8220;watermelon&#8221; in its title. One such song previously hit the top 10: Mongo Santamaria Band&#8217;s &#8220;Watermelon Man&#8221; (No. 7, 1963).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Styles scores the sixth Hot 100 No. 1 with &#8220;sugar&#8221; in its title, and the first in over 49 years. The song follows Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs&#8217; &#8220;Sugar Shack&#8221; (five weeks on top in 1963); Four Tops&#8217; &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)&#8221; (two, 1965); The Archies&#8217; &#8220;Sugar, Sugar&#8221; (four, 1969); The Guess Who&#8217;s double-sided &#8220;American Woman&#8221;\/&#8221;No Sugar Tonight&#8221; (three, 1970); and The Rolling Stones&#8217; &#8220;Brown Sugar&#8221; (two, 1971).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DaBaby&#8217;s seven-week Hot 100 leader &#8220;Rockstar,&#8221; featuring Roddy Ricch, holds at No. 2. It rebounds for a 10th week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (30.2 million, down 8%), slips 2-3 on Radio Songs (70.6 million, up 4%) and rises 7-6 on Digital Song Sales (9,000, down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rockstar&#8221; concurrently leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a ninth week each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack Harlow&#8217;s &#8220;Whats Poppin,&#8221; featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne, keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4NRXx6U8ABQ\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weeknd&#8217;s &#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; ascends 5-4 on the Hot 100, following its four-week rule, and tops Radio Songs for a record-tying 18th frame (79.2 million in audience, up 4%). It matches Goo Goo Dolls&#8217; &#8220;Iris&#8221; for the longest Radio Songs command since the chart started in December 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs<br>18, &#8220;Blinding Lights,&#8221; The Weeknd, April 18, 2020<br>18, &#8220;Iris,&#8221; Goo Goo Dolls, beginning Aug. 1, 1998<br>16, &#8220;Girls Like You,&#8221; Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, Aug. 4, 2018<br>16, &#8220;We Belong Together,&#8221; Mariah Carey, May 28, 2005<br>16, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Speak,&#8221; No Doubt, Dec. 7, 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; also tops the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a record-breaking 21st week. It bests three 20-week No. 1s for the mark, including another by The Weeknd, dating to the ranking&#8217;s October 2012 start: Drake&#8217;s &#8220;One Dance,&#8221; featuring WizKid and Kyla (2016); The Weeknd&#8217;s &#8220;Starboy,&#8221; featuring Daft Punk (2016-17); and Bruno Mars&#8217; &#8220;That&#8217;s What I Like&#8221; (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAINt JHN&#8217;s &#8220;Roses&#8221; climbs 8-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4, as it dominates the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/dance-electronic-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 15th week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dm9Zf1WYQ_A\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Billie Eilish&#8217;s &#8220;My Future,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9426783\/billie-eilish-my-future-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released July 30<\/a>, roars onto the Hot 100 at No. 6 following its first full week of tracking. It flies 50-3 on Digital Song Sales (15,000) and opens at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (20.9 million), while having drawn 7.4 million in radio reach in the tracking week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eilish adds her third Hot 100 top 10 and notches her highest debut, topping the No. 7 start in April 2019 of &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8527749\/billie-eilish-bad-guy-number-one-hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">led for a week last August<\/a>. She returned to the top 10 last November with the No. 8-peaking &#8220;Everything I Wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My Future&#8221; concurrently crowns the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rock-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-alternative-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts (bounding from No. 18 on each list), becoming Eilish&#8217;s first No. 1 on each ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo&#8217;s &#8220;Savage Love (Laxed \u2013 Siren Beat)&#8221; hits a new Hot 100 high, rising 10-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Cardigan&#8221; falls to No. 8 on the Hot 100 a week after it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9428548\/taylor-swift-cardigan-folklore-debut-number-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched at No. 1<\/a>. After bowing atop Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales, it falls to No. 5 on the former (17.5 million, down 48%) and No. 8 on the latter (8,000, down 88%), while entering Radio Songs at No. 43 (19.2 million, up 51%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, Chris Brown and Young Thug&#8217;s &#8220;Go Crazy&#8221; returns to the region at a new peak (12-9) and Lil Mosey&#8217;s &#8220;Blueberry Faygo&#8221; also re-enters the tier (11-10), after reaching No. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 11), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1916\" data-postid=\"1916\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1916 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Billie Eilish&#8217;s &#8220;My Future&#8221; debuts at No. 6. Harry Styles&#8216; &#8220;Watermelon Sugar&#8221; takes the top seed on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart, becoming his first No. 1 on the ranking, as it blasts from No. 7. Styles is the second member of&nbsp;One Direction&nbsp;to have led the Hot 100, following Zayn with &#8220;Pillowtalk&#8221; in 2016. 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