{"id":404,"date":"2016-12-08T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:49:37","slug":"the-year-in-charts-2016-adele-rules-as-top-artist-again-justin-bieber-leads-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Charts 2016: Adele Rules as Top Artist (Again!), Justin Bieber Leads Hot 100"},"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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/278035\/adele\/chart\">Adele<\/a> finishes 2016 in a familiar place: on top. Nearly five years after her last blockbuster album \u2014 2011\u2019s <em>21<\/em>, which spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a> \u2014 the 28-year-old British pop powerhouse returned as if she had never left, closing out 2016 as <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s top artist for a record third time. (She previously ruled 2011 and 2012.)<\/p>\n<p><b>2016 Year-End Charts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/year-end\/2016\/hot-100-songs\">Hot 100<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/year-end\/2016\/top-billboard-200-albums\">Billboard 200<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/year-end\/2016\/top-artists\">Top Artists<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Long breaks between albums seem only to confirm that Adele\u2019s adoring fan base will spring for new music no matter when it arrives. Her third studio album, <em>25<\/em>, hit shelves on Nov. 20, 2015, with a blend of epic ballads and soulful pop similar to that on her sophomore hit, <em>21<\/em>, and easily conquered the Billboard 200, blasting in at No. 1 with a Nielsen Music-era (1991 to the present) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6777905\/adele-25-sales-first-week-us\">record of 3.4 million copies sold in its first week<\/a>. So far, those sales have climbed to 9.1 million and counting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/year-end\">Click Here For All the 2016 Year-End Charts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s runaway success \u2028is especially impressive \u2014 and indicative of Adele acolytes\u2019 enduring loyalty \u2014 considering the fact that the singer initially shunned streaming services, denying <em>25 <\/em>to Spotify until seven months after the album\u2019s release. That didn\u2019t hurt <em>25 <\/em>one bit: It spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200 (a chart driven by both track and album sales plus streaming) and is far and away the chart\u2019s year-end winner.<\/p>\n<p>That Adele announced her\u2028 return with one of the year\u2019s most inescapable singles certainly helped her clinch 2016\u2019s top charts prize. \u201cHello\u201d felt like a nod to listeners who had stuck out the last five years, going on to rule both the Billboard Hot 100 (staying at No. 1 for 10 weeks) and the pop culture landscape (see the numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/307447\/lionel-richie\/chart\">Lionel Richie<\/a> vs. Adele \u201cHello\u201d memes, a viral \u201cCarpool Karaoke\u201d segment and a \u201cHello\u201d-inspired <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>skit, for starters).<\/p>\n<p>The song closes out 2016 as \u2028the Hot 100\u2019s year-end No. 8\u2028 track \u2014 the second time Adele has finished within the top 10 on that list, following her No. 1 in 2011 with \u201cRolling in the Deep.\u201d And it\u2019s just one of <em>25<\/em>\u2019s triumphs: Two other tracks, \u201cWhen We Were Young\u201d \u2028and \u201cSend My Love (To Your New Lover),\u201d charted in the weekly Hot 100\u2019s top 20, and Adele went on to sell out a world tour, raking in more than $150 million from 100-plus shows across Europe and North America and finishing the year as the No. 4 tour.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyEuk8j8imI\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On the year-end Hot 100, another artist who stepped away from the pop world\u00a0claims the top two songs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/305459\/justin-bieber\/chart\">Justin Bieber<\/a>, who released <em>Purpose <\/em>the same month as Adele\u2019s <em>25<\/em>, and more than three years after his previous studio effort, 2012\u2019s <em>Believe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a new tropical house-influenced sound and a trio of 2016\u2019s most infectious singles, Bieber returned to pop as a bona fide superstar. <em>Purpose <\/em>topped the Billboard 200, and Bieber earned his first three No. 1 songs on the Hot 100, becoming only the third artist in the chart\u2019s 58-year history to score its year-end top two songs (\u201cLove Yourself \u201d and \u201cSorry\u201d). The last act to achieve that? Bieber\u2019s mentor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/430708\/usher\/chart\">Usher<\/a>, with \u201cYeah!\u201d (featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/307236\/lil-jon\/chart\">Lil Jon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/308504\/ludacris\/chart\">Ludacris<\/a>) and \u201cBurn\u201d in 2004, and, before him, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/383540\/beatles\/chart\">The Beatles<\/a> in 1964 with their debut hits \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand\u201d and \u201cShe Loves You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bieber\u2019s return started strong in early 2015 with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/300975\/diplo\/chart\">Diplo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/279545\/skrillex\/chart\">Skrillex<\/a>collaboration \u201cWhere Are U Now\u201d (reaching No. 8 on the Hot 100). His first Hot 100 No. 1 followed that \u2014 <em>Purpose <\/em>lead single \u201cWhat Do You Mean?\u201d \u2014 and he continued to turn out hits throughout 2016: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/276089\/ed-sheeran\/chart\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> co-write \u201cLove Yourself \u201d and \u201cSorry\u201d led the Hot 100 for two and three weeks, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cLove Yourself\u201d and \u201cSorry\u201d may have logged relatively brief visits to the No. 1 slot, their lengthy runs inside the top 10 helped cement their year-end status: \u201cLove Yourself\u201d ranked in the top 10 for 24 weeks (only 18 songs have managed a run at least that long in the chart\u2019s history), while \u201cSorry\u201d scored 21 weeks in the region.<\/p>\n<p>At No. 3 on the 2016 year-end Hot 100 roundup is Billboard&#8217;s official song of the summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1490118\/drake\/chart\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOne Dance\u201d featuring WizKid and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/7364130\/kyla\/chart\">Kyla<\/a>. Drake pops up at No. 4 on the tally as well, as he\u2019s the featured act on Rihanna\u2019s \u201cWork,\u201d while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/430557\/twenty-one-pilots\/chart\">Twenty One Pilots<\/a>\u2019 \u201cStressed Out\u201d rounds out the top five. Thus, two artists \u2013 Bieber and Drake \u2013 place two songs each among the top four songs of the year. That feat last happened in 2009, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/385091\/black-eyed-peas\/chart\">The Black Eyed Peas<\/a>\u2019 \u201cBoom Boom Pow\u201d and \u201cI Gotta Feeling\u201d were Nos. 1 and 4, bookending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/306341\/lady-gaga\/chart\">Lady Gaga<\/a>\u2019s \u201cPoker Face\u201d and \u201cJust Dance\u201d (featuring Colby O\u2019Donis) at Nos. 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty One Pilots lead the year-end top artists\u2013duo\/group category thanks to the duo\u2019s Billboard 200-topping success with <em>Blurryface<\/em> and its smash singles. In fact, Twenty One Pilots became the first rock act to notch three Hot 100 top five hits in a year since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/276451\/inxs\/chart\">INXS<\/a> back in 1988. Bieber is the year\u2019s top male, and Adele, of course, leads the way for the ladies. R&amp;B\/hip-hop artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/6627423\/bryson-tiller\/chart\">Bryson Tiller<\/a> is 2016\u2019s top new artist, fueled by the 23-year-old\u2019s debut studio album <em>Trapsoul<\/em>, which finishes at No. 11 on the year-end Billboard 200 list.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard<em>\u2019s year-end music recaps are based on chart performance during<\/em>\u2028<em>the span of Dec. 5, 2015, and Nov. 26, 2016. The year-end top artist category ranks the best-performing acts of the year derived from activity on the Billboard 200 albums tally and the Billboard Hot 100 singles list, as well as streaming, social and Billboard Boxscore data. Data registered before or after a title\u2019s chart run is not considered in these standings. That methodology detail, and the December- to-November time period, account for some of the differences between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Nielsen Music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-404\" data-postid=\"404\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-404 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adele finishes 2016 in a familiar place: on top. 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