{"id":2511,"date":"2021-12-13T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:26","slug":"adeles-easy-on-me-adds-7th-week-atop-hot-100-szas-i-hate-u-debuts-at-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"Adele\u2019s \u2018Easy on Me\u2019 Adds 7th Week Atop Hot 100, SZA\u2019s \u2018I Hate U\u2019 Debuts at No. 7"},"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<p> Plus, five holiday hits rank in the top 10, led by Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; at No. 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/adele\">Adele<\/a>\u2018s \u201cEasy on Me\u201d rules the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart for a seventh total week. Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sza\/\">SZA<\/a>\u2018s \u201cI Hate U\u201d launches at No. 7 on the Hot 100, arriving as her fifth top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/andy-williams\/\">Andy Williams<\/a>\u2018 \u201cIt\u2019s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year\u201d returns to the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, up 11-10, joining four other holiday classics jingle-belling in the region: Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d Brenda Lee\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree,\u201d Burl Ives\u2019 \u201cA Holly Jolly Christmas\u201d and Bobby Helms\u2019 \u201cJingle Bell Rock,\u201d at Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 6, respectively.<\/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 Dec. 18) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow (Dec. 14). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U3ASj1L6_sY\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEasy on Me,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9645426\/adele-easy-on-me-video-song\/\">released<\/a>&nbsp;Oct. 14 on Columbia Records, drew 85.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 1%) and 20.7 million U.S. streams (down 15%) and sold 9,200 downloads (down 12%) in the Dec. 3-9 tracking week, according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ballad spends a third week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart and drops 4-6 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>, after two weeks at the summit, and 4-7 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>, after five weeks on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song, Adele\u2019s fifth Hot 100 No. 1, is her third to reign for at least seven weeks, after \u201cRolling in the Deep\u201d (seven, 2011) and \u201cHello\u201d (10, 2015-16). Adele is the sixth artist with three or more such No. 1s, joining Drake (five); Mariah Carey, Rihanna (four each); Beyonc\u00e9 and Boyz II Men (three each).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adele has entered the elite club as the only act to command the Hot 100 for seven weeks or more with a lead single from three consecutive albums: \u201cRolling in the Deep\u201d is from&nbsp;<em>21<\/em>; \u201cHello\u201d is from&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>; and \u201cEasy on Me\u201d is from&nbsp;<em>30<\/em>, which controls the Billboard 200 chart for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/adele-30-billboard-200-chart-number-one-third-week-1235008486\/\">third week<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d pushes 3-2 on the Hot 100, with 32.5 million U.S. streams (up 26%), 24.6 million airplay audience impressions (up 4%) and 6,900 sold (up 20%). It tops Streaming Songs for a 12th total week (and is the only holiday song to have led, dating to the survey\u2019s January 2013 inception); ranks at No. 9 on Digital Song Sales; and jumps 31-24 on Radio Songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carol was first released in 1994 and, as holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services\u2019 seasonal playlists, hit the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 for the first time in December 2017 and ascended to No. 1 in both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8546418\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one\">December 2019<\/a>&nbsp;(for three weeks) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one-2020\/\">December 2020<\/a>&nbsp;(two).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song also crowns the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-holiday-songs\">Holiday 100<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 48th week, of the ranking\u2019s 53 total weeks since the tally began in 2011; it has led for 33 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and dominates as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/mariah-carey-charlie-brown-greatest-of-all-time-holiday-charts-1234999010\/\">top title<\/a>&nbsp;on the recently-revealed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/greatest-of-all-time-holiday-100-songs\/\">Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenda Lee\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree,\u201d originally released in 1958, rises 4-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2 in each of the last two holiday seasons, and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cStay\u201d dips 2-4, after seven weeks at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Burl Ives\u2019 \u201cA Holly Jolly Christmas\u201d (from 1964) lifts 7-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 4 in the 2019 and 2020 holiday seasons, and the late Bobby Helms\u2019 \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d (from 1957) slips 5-6, after climbing to No. 3 also in each of the last two holiday seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O04nsyB8gqA\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SZA\u2019s \u201cI Hate U\u201d soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 7, with 26.7 million streams, 485,000 in radio airplay audience and 4,600 sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song, which was first issued on SoundCloud over the summer and went viral on TikTok ahead of its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/first-stream-ariana-grande-kid-cudi-juice-wrld-justin-bieber-1235005522\/\">Dec. 3 wide release<\/a>, is SZA\u2019s fifth Hot 100 top 10. It follows her featured turn on Maroon 5\u2019s \u201cWhat Lovers Do\u201d (No. 9 peak, November 2017); \u201cAll the Stars,\u201d with Kendrick Lamar (No. 7, March 2018); \u201cGood Days\u201d (No. 9, this February); and her featured role on Doja Cat\u2019s \u201cKiss Me More\u201d (No. 3, July).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI Hate U\u201d marks SZA\u2019s second debut in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 (and first as a lead artist), tying the No. 7 start of \u201cKiss Me More.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI Hate U\u201d likewise launches at No. 1 on 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\/r-and-b-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. It\u2019s SZA\u2019s first leader on the former and second on the latter, after \u201cThe Weekend,\u201d for a week in January 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow\u2019s \u201cIndustry Baby\u201d dips 6-8 on the Hot 100, after a week at No. 1, as it posts a 16th week atop the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, and Glass Animals\u2019 \u201cHeat Waves\u201d backtracks 8-9, after reaching No. 7, on the Hot 100, as it leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rock-songs\">Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-alternative-songs\">Hot Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts for a 12th week each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/73UqDX_quk0\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, the late Andy Williams\u2019 \u201cIt\u2019s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year\u201d returns to the tier (11-10), with 21.3 million streams (up 11%), 18.6 million in radio reach and 1,700 sold (up 13%). Originally released in 1963, the song hit a No. 5 best last holiday season.<\/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 Dec. 18), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (Dec. 14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2511\" data-postid=\"2511\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2511 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, five holiday hits rank in the top 10, led by Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; at No. 2. Adele\u2018s \u201cEasy on Me\u201d rules the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart for a seventh total week. Plus,&nbsp;SZA\u2018s \u201cI Hate U\u201d launches at No. 7 on the Hot 100, arriving as her fifth top 10. 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