{"id":1924,"date":"2020-08-17T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:41","slug":"cardi-b-megan-thee-stallions-wap-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100-with-record-first-week-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B &#038; Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s &#8216;WAP&#8217; Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 with Record First-Week Streams"},"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\">The collab is Cardi B&#8217;s fourth leader &amp; Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s second.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/cardi-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cardi B<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;WAP,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/megan-thee-stallion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>, blasts onto the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart at No. 1. The collab launches as Cardi B&#8217;s fourth leader on the list and Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Released Aug. 7, the song drew 93 million U.S. streams in the week ending Aug. 13, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data, the most for any track ever in its first week of release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Aug. 22) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hsm4poTWjMs\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;WAP,&#8221; released on Atlantic Records, is the 1,108th No. 1 in the Hot 100&#8217;s 62-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s recap its entrance at the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 streams &amp; sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;WAP&#8221; roars in at No. 1 on both the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;charts, with 93 million U.S. streams and 125,000 downloads sold in the week ending Aug. 13, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data. It also drew 11.6 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending Aug. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;WAP&#8221; is Cardi B&#8217;s third No. 1 on Streaming Songs and fourth on Digital Song Sales. Megan Thee Stallion scores her second No. 1 on each chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song&#8217;s official video was released Aug. 7 at midnight ET, after the track was made available for pre-order in Cardi B&#8217;s webstore via 12 autographed physical\/digital combinations Aug. 3-6. Consumers could pre-order cassette, CD and vinyl singles (priced at $5-$15), with each purchase including a digital download; the download (the sale of which contributed to the latest tracking week) was made available and fulfilled to purchasers Aug. 7, with physical versions due to arrive at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Record first-week streams:<\/strong>&nbsp;As noted above, with 93 million, the streaming sum for &#8220;WAP&#8221; is the greatest ever for a song in its first week of release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It surpasses the haul of 85.3 million for Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; in its first week of availability (Feb. 2, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most weekly streams this year:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;WAP&#8221; starts with the most weekly streams for a song in 2020, besting the 77.2 million for Roddy Ricch&#8217;s &#8220;The Box&#8221; (Jan. 25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Notably, the total for &#8220;WAP&#8221; is the highest since\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8547900\/roddy-ricch-the-box-hot-100-number-one\" target=\"_blank\">streamlined the inclusion of YouTube user-generated content<\/a>\u00a0[UGC] for song charts that incorporate streaming data, including the Hot 100, with charts dated Jan. 18.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All-time ranks:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;WAP&#8221; scores the second-greatest streaming week among songs by women overall, just below the 93.8 million that Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; logged in its fifth frame on Streaming Songs (Dec. 15, 2018), following the premiere of its official video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among all songs in all weeks, &#8220;WAP&#8221; boasts the 18th-biggest streaming sum, with the 17 higher weeks tallied among five songs, led by Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus), which peaked with 143 million on the April 20, 2019, Streaming Songs chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Record on-demand audio streams among women:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;WAP&#8221; claims the mark for the most weekly on-demand U.S. audio streams among songs by women: 54.7 million. It just passes the 54.6 million for Grande&#8217;s &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; (Feb. 2, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening frame for &#8220;WAP&#8221; marks the 10th-greatest week for on-demand audio streams overall, another category paced by &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; (78.1 million; April 20, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest sales week in over a year:<\/strong>&nbsp;Meanwhile, the sales sum for &#8220;WAP&#8221; is the highest in a single week since Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Me!,&#8221; featuring Brendon Urie, bounded in with 193,000 on the chart dated May 11, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PEGccV-NOm8\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cardi B&#8217;s 4th Hot 100 No. 1, Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s 2nd:<\/strong>&nbsp;Upon the entrance of &#8220;WAP,&#8221; here&#8217;s an updated look at Cardi B&#8217;s four Hot 100 No. 1s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Title, Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1<br>&#8220;Bodak Yellow (Money Moves),&#8221; three, Oct. 7, 2017<br>&#8220;I Like It,&#8221; with Bad Bunny &amp; J Balvin, one, April 21, 2018<br>&#8220;Girls Like You,&#8221; Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, seven, Sept. 29, 2018<br>&#8220;WAP,&#8221; with Megan Thee Stallion, one (to date), Aug. 22, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dating to her first week atop the Hot 100, Cardi B ties for the most No. 1s in the span since, matching the four each earned in that stretch by Drake, Grande and Post Malone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan Thee Stallion notches her second Hot 100 No. 1, after &#8220;Savage,&#8221; featuring Beyonc\u00e9, topped the May 30-dated chart. She is the first artist whose first two Hot 100 leaders have both been all-female collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>42nd No. 1 debut:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;WAP&#8221; marks the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/426225\/billboard-hot-100-number-1-song-debuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">42nd single to open at No. 1 on the Hot 100<\/a>, and the first each for Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is the seventh to debut atop the Hot 100 in 2020, extending the record for the most in a single year. (Next up, four songs each started at No. 1 in both 2018 and 1995.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historic year for female collabs continues:<\/strong>&nbsp;Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion combine for the ninth Hot 100 No. 1 credited to two or more women (and no other billed acts), and the fourth this year. Prior to 2020, five such songs had led over 40-plus years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an updated list of every Hot 100 No. 1 exclusively by multiple women soloists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Title, Artists, Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1<br>&#8220;WAP,&#8221; Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion, one (to date), Aug. 22, 2020<br>&#8220;Rain on Me,&#8221; Lady Gaga &amp; Ariana Grande, one, June 6, 2020<br>&#8220;Savage,&#8221; Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyonc\u00e9, one, May 30, 2020<br>&#8220;Say So,&#8221; Doja Cat feat. Nicki Minaj, one, May 16, 2020<br>&#8220;Fancy,&#8221; Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX, seven, June 7, 2014<br>&#8220;S&amp;M,&#8221; Rihanna feat. Britney Spears, one week, April 30, 2011<br>&#8220;Lady Marmalade,&#8221; Christina Aguilera, Lil&#8217; Kim, Mya &amp; P!nk, five, June 2, 2001<br>&#8220;The Boy Is Mine,&#8221; Brandy &amp; Monica, 13, June 6, 1998<br>&#8220;No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),&#8221; Barbra Streisand &amp; Donna Summer, two, Nov. 24, 1979<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 hip-hop, rap:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;WAP&#8221; concurrently soars in at No. 1 on 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track is Cardi B&#8217;s fifth No. 1 on the former chart and fourth on the latter. Megan Thee Stallion scores her second leader on each list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check Billboard.com later today for highlights of the rest of the top 10 on the latest Hot 100.<\/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. 18), 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-1924\" data-postid=\"1924\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1924 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collab is Cardi B&#8217;s fourth leader &amp; Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s second. Cardi B&#8216;s &#8220;WAP,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;Megan Thee Stallion, blasts onto the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart at No. 1. The collab launches as Cardi B&#8217;s fourth leader on the list and Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s second. 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