{"id":2205,"date":"2021-03-22T19:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:36","slug":"cardi-bs-up-soars-to-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100-after-grammy-awards-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2205","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B&#8217;s &#8216;Up&#8217; Soars to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 after Grammy Awards Performance"},"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 song is Cardi B&#8217;s fifth Hot 100 leader dating to her first, &#8220;Bodak Yellow,&#8221; in October 2017.<\/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;Up&#8221; surges from No. 6 to No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;to spend its first week atop the tally. The song, which becomes Cardi B&#8217;s fifth Hot 100 No. 1, debuted at No. 2 five weeks earlier and tallied three weeks at the runner-up spot before reaching the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helping power its ascent, Cardi B&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/awards\/9540394\/cardi-b-megan-thee-stallion-wap-2021-grammys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">performed<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;Up&#8221; as part of a medley, with Megan Thee Stallion, of their four-week 2020 Hot 100 No. 1 &#8220;WAP&#8221; on the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, broadcast on CBS, March 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Levitating,&#8221; featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dababy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DaBaby<\/a>, rebounds to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 (13-7) after the pair performed it on the Grammys (also as part a medley, with her prior hit &#8220;Don&#8217;t Start Now&#8221;).ARTIST MENTIONED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated March 27) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow (March 23). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCiBgLOcuKU\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at Cardi B&#8217;s coronation with &#8220;Up,&#8221; released on Atlantic Records and the 1,118th No. 1 in the Hot 100&#8217;s 62-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Streams, Airplay &amp; Sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Up&#8221; drew 22.7 million U.S. streams (down 5%) and 18,000 downloads sold (up 96%, good for the Hot 100&#8217;s top Sales Gainer award) in the week ending March 18, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 34.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 7%) in the week ending March 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track rises 5-3 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, which it led for two weeks; 7-3 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>, where it spent a week in the lead; and 17-14 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cardi B&#8217;s 5th Hot 100 No. 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;Here&#8217;s an updated look at Cardi B&#8217;s 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, four, Aug. 22, 2020<br>&#8220;Up,&#8221; one (to date) March 27, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardi B extends her record for the most Hot 100 No. 1s among female rappers. (Of her five leaders, four have also topped the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, all except Maroon 5&#8217;s &#8220;Girls Like You,&#8221; on which she&#8217;s featured.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Up&#8221; is Cardi B&#8217;s first Hot 100 No. 1 with no accompanying acts since &#8220;Bodak Yellow.&#8221; Thanks to the two leaders, Cardi B is the first female rapper with two Hot 100 No. 1s with no accompanying artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dating to her first week atop the Hot 100 with &#8220;Bodak Yellow&#8221; (Oct. 7, 2017), Cardi B ties for the most No. 1s among all acts in the span since, matching the five each earned in that stretch by Drake and Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Up&#8221; to No. 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;Amid an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9462429\/number-one-debuts-hot-100-travis-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">onslaught<\/a>&nbsp;of No. 1 Hot 100 debuts, &#8220;Up&#8221; is the first song to rise from another rank to No. 1 for its first week atop the chart in five months, since 24kGoldn&#8217;s &#8220;Mood,&#8221; featuring Iann Dior, elevated 4-1 on the Oct. 24, 2020-dated chart. All five new No. 1s in between spent their first weeks on the chart at No. 1: Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Positions&#8221;; BTS&#8217; &#8220;Life Goes On&#8221;; Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Willow&#8221;; Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Drivers License&#8221;; and Drake&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;s Next.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(In that stretch, one No. 1 returned to the top, twice from No. 2, for its fourth and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9504998\/mariah-carey-christmas-tops-hot-100-fifth-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fifth<\/a>&nbsp;weeks at the apex: Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In a word \u2026<\/strong>&nbsp;Only one all-time No. 1 Hot 100 song title is shorter than &#8220;Up&#8221;: Britney Spears&#8217; &#8220;3,&#8221; from 2009. &#8220;Up&#8221; is the shortest proper one-word No. 1 title and ties two other hits for the fewest letters in a leading song: Rihanna&#8217;s &#8220;S&amp;M,&#8221; featuring Spears, and Katy Perry&#8217;s &#8220;E.T.,&#8221; featuring Kanye West, both from 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recap of the briefest No. 1 Hot 100 song titles (those encompassing three or fewer letters):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;3,&#8221; Britney Spears, 2009<br>&#8220;Up,&#8221; Cardi B, 2021<br>&#8220;S&amp;M,&#8221; Rihanna feat. Britney Spears, 2011<br>&#8220;E.T.,&#8221; Katy Perry feat. Kanye West, 2011<br>&#8220;WAP,&#8221; Cardi B, 2020<br>&#8220;Sad!,&#8221; XXXTENTACION, 2018<br>&#8220;OMG,&#8221; Usher feat. will.i.am, 2010<br>&#8220;Low,&#8221; Flo Rida, 2008<br>&#8220;SOS,&#8221; Rihanna, 2006<br>&#8220;Bad,&#8221; Michael Jackson, 1987<br>&#8220;Ben,&#8221; Michael Jackson, 1972<br>&#8220;War,&#8221; Edwin Starr, 1970<br>&#8220;ABC,&#8221; Jackson 5, 1970<br>&#8220;Why,&#8221; Frankie Avalon, 1959<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, nine of the 14 titles above have led in the last 15 years, with the advent of social media and hashtags\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6015001\/roar-royals-radioactive-why-hit-songs-now-have-one-word-titles\" target=\"_blank\">playing into<\/a>\u00a0the increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Word &#8220;up&#8221;:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Up&#8221; is the 16th Hot 100 No. 1 with the word &#8220;up&#8221; in its title, including those with variations of the word, such as &#8220;upside&#8221; or &#8220;uptown.&#8221; It&#8217;s the first since Mark Ronson&#8217;s &#8220;Uptown Funk!,&#8221; featuring Bruno Mars, reigned for 14 weeks beginning in January 2015. The first such &#8220;up&#8221;-standing hit? Neil Sedaka&#8217;s &#8220;Breaking Up Is Hard to Do&#8221; in August 1962. (You can go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboardcharts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@billboardcharts<\/a>&nbsp;for the full list.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optimists, celebrate (as you figured you would): The 16 No. 1 titles that include &#8220;up&#8221; outpace the 10 leaders whose titles include &#8220;down.&#8221; The latter group includes this week&#8217;s polar-opposite No. 1 title &#8220;Down,&#8221; by Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne, from 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1, R&amp;B\/hip-hop, rap:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Up&#8221; concurrently rebounds 5-1 and 4-1, respectively, for a fourth week each atop the multi-metric&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 Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Up&#8221; is the first song by a solo female and no accompanying artists to top the Hot 100, Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs since Lizzo&#8217;s &#8220;Truth Hurts&#8221; in 2019. Before that, Cardi B&#8217;s &#8220;Bodak Yellow&#8221; last earned the honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/adLGHcj_fmA\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Silk Sonic&#8217;s &#8220;Leave the Door Open&#8221; ascends 4-2 in its second week on the Hot 100. The song by the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, which they performed on the Grammy Awards March 14, claims the chart&#8217;s top Airplay Gainer trophy, as it bounds 31-12 on Radio Songs (38.7 million, up 65%). It holds at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (21,000, down 21%) and No. 4 on Streaming Songs (19.4 million, down 16%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collab, billed on the Hot 100 as by Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars &amp; Anderson .Paak), and which contributes to the chart histories of both artists, adds a second week at No. 1 on the multi-metric\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\" target=\"_blank\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9536569\/olivia-rodrigo-drivers-license-number-one-eighth-week-hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eight-week<\/a>&nbsp;Hot 100 No. 1 &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; rises 5-3, as it spends a second week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (72.3 million airplay audience impressions, down 3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drake&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;s Next&#8221; falls to No. 4 on the Hot 100 a week after it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9541075\/drake-top-three-hot-100-debuts-whats-next-number-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched at No. 1<\/a>. It tallies a second week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (23 million, down 53%) and 3-24 on Digital Song Sales (4,000, down 78%), while debuting on Radio Songs at No. 42 (17.3 million, up 45%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weeknd&#8217;s &#8220;Save Your Tears&#8221; pushes 7-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4, and his &#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; also reverses course by two spots, rising 8-6, after spending four weeks at No. 1 last April-May. &#8220;Lights&#8221; adds a record-extending 54th week in the top 10, two weeks after it became the first song in the chart&#8217;s history to total a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9536919\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-chart-record-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">year in the bracket<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUVcZfQe-Kw\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dua Lipa&#8217;s No. 5-peaking &#8220;Levitating,&#8221; featuring DaBaby, returns to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, jumping 13-7 following the act&#8217;s Grammy Awards performance of the song March 14 (as part a medley, with Lipa&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Start Now,&#8221; which reached No. 2 in March 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Levitating&#8221; sports gains of 102% to 12,000 sold and 12% to 14.2 million streams in the week ending March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24kGoldn&#8217;s &#8220;Mood,&#8221; featuring Iann Dior, lifts 10-8 on the Hot 100, after eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in October through mid-January, as it tops 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 for a 29th week each, and Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;34+35&#8221; holds at No. 9 on the Hot 100, after it reached No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Wants and Needs,&#8221; featuring Lil Baby, falls from No. 2, where it debuted a week earlier, to No. 10. Drake&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;s Next,&#8221; &#8220;Wants and Needs&#8221; and &#8220;Lemon Pepper Style,&#8221; featuring Rick Ross (down 3-31), soared in at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the Hot 100 a week ago, making Drake the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9541075\/drake-top-three-hot-100-debuts-whats-next-number-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first<\/a>&nbsp;artist ever to open in the chart&#8217;s top three spots simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated March 27), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (March 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2205\" data-postid=\"2205\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2205 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song is Cardi B&#8217;s fifth Hot 100 leader dating to her first, &#8220;Bodak Yellow,&#8221; in October 2017. Cardi B&#8216;s &#8220;Up&#8221; surges from No. 6 to No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;to spend its first week atop the tally. The song, which becomes Cardi B&#8217;s fifth Hot 100 No. 1, debuted at No. 2 five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"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-2205","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\/2021\/03\/01-cardi-b-press-2021-cr-Flo-Ngala-billboard-1548-1613590782-compressed1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}