{"id":3614,"date":"2023-01-24T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2023-01-24T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:35:15","slug":"miley-cyrus-flowers-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3614","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u2018Flowers\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot\u00a0100"},"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\">Cyrus adds her second leader, after &#8220;Wrecking Ball&#8221; in 2013. Plus, Bizarrap and Shakira launch at No. 9 with &#8220;Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/miley-cyrus\/\">Miley Cyrus<\/a>\u00a0plants \u201cFlowers\u201d at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>\u00a0songs chart in its debut week. Her new single soars in as her second leader, after \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d reigned for three weeks in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bizarrap\/\">Bizarrap<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/shakira\/\">Shakira<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53\u201d blasts onto the Hot 100 at No. 9. The song marks Bizarrap\u2019s first top 10 and Shakira\u2019s fifth, and first since 2007.<\/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 Jan. 28, 2023) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (Jan. 25). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Official Video)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/G7KNmW9a75Y?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Streams, airplay &amp; sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cFlowers,\u201d released on Smiley Miley\/Columbia Records, ran up totals of 52.6 million streams, 33.5 million radio airplay audience impressions and 70,000 sold in its first full tracking week, Jan. 13-19, according to Luminate (after it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/miley-cyrus-flowers-stream-1235198408\/\">arrived Jan. 12<\/a>&nbsp;at 7 p.m. EST; in its first five hours, it tallied 2.4 million in radio reach, 685,000 streams and 2,000 sold).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The single launches at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, surges 21-1 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;and debuts at No. 18 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\/\">Radio Songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyrus first announced during her&nbsp;<em>Miley\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve Party<\/em>&nbsp;NBC special that \u201cFlowers\u201d would be released Jan. 13, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/miley-cyrus-new-song-arrive-liam-hemsworth-birthday-fans-react-1235192954\/\">fans keenly recognized<\/a>&nbsp;as her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/miley-cyrus-liam-hemsworth-relationship-timeline-8527223\/\">ex-husband<\/a>&nbsp;Liam Hemsworth\u2019s birthday. That narrative and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/sza-miley-cyrus-taylor-swift-shakira-hot-100-no-1\/\">rabid interaction on TikTok<\/a>&nbsp;have helped swell the profile of the song, which introduces Cyrus\u2019 eighth studio album,&nbsp;<em>Endless Summer Vacation<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/miley-cyrus-new-album-release-date-announced-1235194508\/\">due March 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cyrus\u2019 2nd Hot 100 No. 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cFlowers\u201d bounds in as Cyrus\u2019 second Hot 100 No. 1, after \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d rose to the top (after it debuted at No. 50) for three weeks beginning in September 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFlowers\u201d is the 65th title to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/billboard-hot-100-number-1-song-debuts-426225\/\">roar in at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/hot-100-64-years-fun-facts-ricky-nelson-lizzo-1235122282\/\">Hot 100\u2019s history<\/a>. It\u2019s the 1,145th leader overall, and the first new No. 1 of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyrus ends a break of nine years, one month and two weeks between Hot 100 No. 1s, the longest between leaders since Coldplay went 13 years, three months and two weeks from \u201cViva La Vida\u201d in 2008 to \u201cMy Universe,\u201d with BTS, in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyrus also adds her 11th Hot 100 top 10 and first since The Kid LAROI\u2019s \u201cWithout You\u201d (which she joined for a remix)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/weeknd-ariana-grande-save-your-tears-second-week-number-one\/\">hit No. 8<\/a>\u00a0in May 2021. Her previous top 10s, in order of peak date, including one under her Hannah Montana alter ego: \u201cSee You Again\u201d (No. 10, 2008); \u201c7 Things\u201d (No. 9, 2008); \u201cThe Climb\u201d (No. 4, 2009); \u201cHe Could Be the One\u201d (Hannah Montana; No. 10, 2009); \u201cParty in the U.S.A.\u201d (No. 2, 2009 \u2013 it debuted at that spot, marking her top start until \u201cFlowers\u201d); \u201cCan\u2019t Be Tamed\u201d (No. 8, 2010); \u201cWe Can\u2019t Stop\u201d (No. 2, 2013); \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d; and \u201cMalibu\u201d (No. 10, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cyrus\u2019 first Hot 100 No. 1 as a writer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Cyrus co-wrote \u201cFlowers\u201d with Aldae (Gregory Hein) and Michael Pollack, each of whom achieves a first No. 1 Hot 100 writing credit. Cyrus adds her sixth top 10 as a writer; Pollack, his fifth; and Aldae, his first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson co-produced \u201cFlowers.\u201d They notch their third shared and total Hot 100 No. 1 each, following their work on Harry Styles\u2019 \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d (2020) and \u201cAs It Was\u201d (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cyrus\u2019 streaming &amp; sales leaders:<\/strong>&nbsp;With \u201cFlowers,\u201d Cyrus claims her third Streaming Songs No. 1, following \u201cWe Can\u2019t Stop,\u201d for 11 weeks in 2013, \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d (13, 2013-14) and \u201cAdore You\u201d (one, 2014) \u2013 all from her album&nbsp;<em>Bangerz<\/em>. With 52.6 million streams, \u201cFlowers\u201d marks the highest weekly sum since Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d started with 59.7 (Nov. 5, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyrus scores her third Digital Song Sales No. 1, after \u201cParty in the U.S.A.\u201d reigned for six weeks in 2009, and \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d for one week in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, \u201cFlowers\u201d begins with multi-format radio support, as starts at No. 14 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, No. 15 on Adult Contemporary and No. 16 on Pop Airplay \u2013 Cyrus\u2019 highest entrance on each ranking, as is the track\u2019s No. 18 premiere on the all-format Radio Songs chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Flowers\u2019 deconstructed:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThe underlying strength of \u2018Flowers\u2019 is that it imparts an immediate sense of familiarity, while invoking strong, universal emotions such as nostalgia, loss and empowerment,\u201d notes Hit Songs Deconstructed, which analyzes the compositional traits of Hot 100 top 10s. \u201cThis is achieved, in part, through its classic, inspirational \u201970s disco influence, \u00e0 la Gloria Gaynor\u2019s \u2018I Will Survive,\u2019 also found in Lizzo\u2019s recent Hot 100 No. 1, \u2018About Damn Time.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(\u201cYour new song carries the torch of empowerment and encourages everyone to find strength in themselves to persevere &amp; thrive. Well done Miley!,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/gloria-gaynor-miley-cyrus-flowers-seal-of-approval-well-done-1235201777\/\">Gaynor praised<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter Jan. 19. \u201cI love you. Thank you,\u201d Cyrus responded.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFlowers\u201d additionally, per Hit Songs Deconstructed, \u201cshares melodic, lyrical and rhyming commonalities with the chorus in Bruno Mars\u2019 [No. 1] 2013 hit \u2018When I Was Your Man,\u2019 which also ties in with Miley\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/miley-cyrus-flowers-liam-hemsworth-easter-eggs\/\">story<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Babs, Neil, Posty, Swae &amp; Miley:<\/strong>&nbsp;Cyrus\u2019 \u201cFlowers\u201d blooms as the third Hot 100 No. 1 with that word in its title. Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbra-archives.info\/singles-dont-bring-me-flowers-duet-diamond\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">virtual duet<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cYou Don\u2019t Bring Me Flowers\u201d reigned for two weeks in December 1978 and Post Malone and Swae Lee\u2019s \u201cSunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)\u201d ruled for a week in January 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some dirt on similarly-themed Hot 100 No. 1s: \u201cRoses Are Red (My Love),\u201d by Bobby Vinton, led in 1962; \u201cEvery Rose Has Its Thorn,\u201d by Poison, in 1988-89; and \u201cKiss From a Rose,\u201d by Seal, in 1995. (We can also give flowers to past leading acts David Rose, Rose Royce and Guns N\u2019 Roses. And Iggy Azalea.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SZA\u2019s \u201cKill Bill\u201d holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, with 34.9 million streams (up 12%), 29.4 million in radio reach (up 106%) and 2,000 sold (up 69%), boosted by the Jan. 13 arrival of a four-track single option with the song\u2019s original, sped-up, instrumental and a cappella versions. It ranks at No. 2 on Streaming Songs after three weeks at No. 1, jumps 49-21 on Digital Song Sales and debuts at No. 26 on Radio Songs. The track tops Streaming Songs for a fourth week and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a sixth week each. The song is from her album&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>, which adds a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/sza-sos-number-one-billboard-200-sixth-week-1235203694\/\">sixth week at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d falls to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after eight weeks at the summit, having rewritten her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-anti-hero-eighth-week-number-one-zach-bryan-top-10-1235199856\/\">longest reign<\/a>\u00a0on the chart. The song rules Radio Songs for a fifth frame (88.5 million, down 1%). Helping power its radio reach, it leads Adult Pop Airplay for a ninth week, surpassing \u201cShake It Off\u201d (eight weeks at No. 1 in 2014) for her longest command at the format among her nine leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and 21 Savage\u2019s \u201cCreepin&#8217;\u201d rises to No. 4, from No. 5, for a new Hot 100 high; Sam Smith and Kim Petras\u2019 \u201cUnholy\u201d descends 3-5, after it topped the Oct. 29-dated chart; and David Guetta and Bebe Rexha\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Good (Blue)\u201d dips to No. 6 from its No. 4 best, as it leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/dance-electronic-songs\/\">Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for an 18th week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cDie for You\u201d backtracks to No. 7 from its No. 6 Hot 100 high and Drake and 21 Savage\u2019s \u201cRich Flex\u201d drops 7-8, after spending its first three weeks on the chart at its No. 2 peak beginning in November, as it tops the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\/\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 10th week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHAKIRA || BZRP Music Sessions #53\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/CocEMWdc7Ck?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bizarrap and Shakira\u2019s \u201cBzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53\u201d charges onto the Hot 100 at No. 9 with 20.2 million streams, 7.9 million in airplay audience and 9,000 sold Jan. 13-19 (its first full tracking week, following its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/latin\/shakira-bizarrap-song-music-session-53-gerard-pique-1235197480\/\">Jan. 11 release<\/a>&nbsp;at 7 p.m. EST). The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/latin\/shakira-bizarrap-music-session-artist-reactions-tokischa-1235197985\/\">buzzworthy<\/a>&nbsp;latest edition of the Argentine DJ\/producer\u2019s series, new at No. 3 on Streaming Songs and up 23-3 on Digital Song Sales, arrives as his first Hot 100 top 10, after \u201cBzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52,\u201d with Quevedo, hit No. 79 in October \u2013 and crowned the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and Billboard Global 200 charts for six and four weeks, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shakira scores her fifth Hot 100 top 10, and first since 2007, following \u201cWhenever, Wherever\u201d (No. 6, 2001), \u201cUnderneath Your Clothes\u201d (No. 9, 2002), \u201cHips Don\u2019t Lie,\u201d featuring Wyclef Jean (No. 1, two weeks, 2006), and \u201cBeautiful Liar,\u201d with Beyonc\u00e9 (No. 3, 2007). She ends a 15-year and nine-month break between top 10s, the longest outside holiday titles since Elton John waited 23 years, 11 months and two weeks between 1998 and 2022, when he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/adele-bruno-encanto-elton-john-dua-lipa-kodak-black-hot-100-1235017217\/\">returned<\/a>\u00a0to the tier with \u201cCold Heart (Pnau Remix),\u201d with Dua Lipa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVol. 53\u201d concurrently soars to the top of the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/latin-songs\/\">Hot Latin Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, marking Bizarrap\u2019s first No. 1 (after \u201cVol. 52\u201d became his first top 10, reaching No. 9) and Shakira\u2019s 12th; she ties Bad Bunny for the fourth-most Hot Latin Songs No. 1s, after Enrique Iglesias (27), Luis Miguel (16) and Gloria Estefan (15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Harry Styles\u2019 \u201cAs It Was\u201d slides 8-10, following 15 weeks at No. 1 beginning last April, the fourth-longest reign in the chart\u2019s history (a list topped in part by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-songs-longest-leading-no-1s\/\">another Cyrus<\/a>).<\/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 Jan. 28), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (Jan. 25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3614\" data-postid=\"3614\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3614 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyrus adds her second leader, after &#8220;Wrecking Ball&#8221; in 2013. Plus, Bizarrap and Shakira launch at No. 9 with &#8220;Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.&#8221; Miley Cyrus\u00a0plants \u201cFlowers\u201d at No. 1 on the\u00a0Billboard Hot 100\u00a0songs chart in its debut week. Her new single soars in as her second leader, after \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d reigned for three weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3619,"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-3614","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\/2023\/01\/Miley-Cyrus-Press-Photo-cr-Marcell-Rev-billboard-15481.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","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=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}