The Hot 100 combines American streaming of all genres (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated March 6) will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 2). For all the news on the charts, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram.
“License” was released on January 8 by Geffen / Interscope Records and debuted first on the Hot 100 on January 23, marking Rodrigo’s first leader. The music of the singer, songwriter and actress, who appeared with roles on Disney Channel’s Bizaardvark and Disney + ‘s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, totaled 21.5 million streams in the United States (down 4%) and 13,000 downloads sold (up 38%) in the week ended February 25, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 67.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 13%) in the week ending February 28.
Improving the profile of the song in the follow-up week, NBC’s Saturday Night Live broadcast a play on February 20 in honor of its popularity. (Rodrigo, who celebrated her birthday that day, okay of the present.)
The track regains 8-2 on the digital music sales chart (after three weeks in the first place), by winning the Hot 100 award for best sales; pushes 5-2 on radio songs; and slides 2-3 in streaming music (after four weeks as No. 1).
“License” also receives honors from Airplay Gainer on the Hot 100 for the sixth consecutive week, becoming the first song to link such a sequence since Sia’s “Cheap Thrills” with Sean Paul in June-July 2016.
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Helping to boost your radio outbreak, “License” changes from 2 to 1 on the Pop Airplay chart (which reflects reproductions on a panel of more than 160 main stations). The song reaches the top in its seventh week, completing the fastest trip to the top since Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (also seven weeks in 2017).
As “License” is Rodrigo’s first Pop Airplay entry, it is the first initial hit by an artist in a lead role to rule the charts so quickly since the fun “We Are Young” with Janelle Monae (seven, 2012), and the first inaugural entry by a soloist in a lead role in almost 18 years – since 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” (seven, 2003). No woman with main earnings had sent her first entry in Pop Airplay to the top spot as fast as Rodrigo in almost 20 years – since “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)” By Blu Cantrell (seven, 2001).
In addition, “License” is only the seventh single to have debuted first on the Hot 100 and spent at least the first seven weeks at the top. It is the first to receive the distinction of number 1 from an artist as the only act charged.
Singles who will spend the first seven weeks or more on the Hot 100 in first position
16 weeks, “One Sweet Day”, Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995-96
14 weeks, “Candle in the Wind 1997” https://news.google.com/ “Something About the Way You Look Tonight”, Elton John, 1997-98
11 weeks, “God’s Plan”, Drake, 2018
11 weeks, “I’m going to miss you”, feat Puff Daddy & Faith Evans. 112, 1997
10 weeks, “Hello”, Adele, 2015-16
8 weeks, “Fantasy”, Mariah Carey, 1995
7 weeks, “Driver’s license”, Olivia Rodrigo, 2021
“Up” by Cardi B jumps 5-2 on the Hot 100, returning to its high point where it debuted two weeks ago. It increases 3-2 in streaming music (24.3 million, up 8%), 5-4 in digital music sales (9,000, down 17%) and 41-33 in radio music (22.8 million , 20% increase).
“Up” recovers for the second week in the first place on the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which employ the same methodology as the Hot 100.
“Go Crazy”, by Chris Brown and Young Thug, climbs 8-3 to a new peak for the Hot 100, surpassing its previous peak No. 5, after the February 19 release of its remix with Future, Lil Durk and Mulatto. The track adds a seventh week to the top of Radio Songs (77.6 million in audience, down 2%); 50-12 explosions in streaming music (13.2 million, an increase of 74%); and rejoins digital music sales at 35 (3,000 units sold, up 76%) (Future, Lil Durk and Mulatto were not credited for the song on the Hot 100, as the remix did not attract most of their activity in the week of side dish).
Brown posted his highest ranking in the Hot 100 ranking in more than a dozen years, since “Forever” reached second place for two weeks in the summer of 2008.
“Go Crazy”, at the same time, marks a third week at the top of the Hot R&B Songs multimeter chart.
Ariana Grande’s “34 + 35” drops to fourth position on the Hot 100, a week after revisiting her second position (when the official video released on February 12 of her official video starring Grande, Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion)
The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” drops 4-5 on the Hot 100. The song spent four weeks in first place between April and May (eventually ending up as the biggest Hot 100 hit in 2020) and posted its 64th week on the chart total. He adds a record 51st week in the top 10 and record 42nd week in the top five.
The Weeknd boasts consecutive top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, with “Save Your Tears” remaining in sixth position, two weeks after reaching fourth position.
“Mood”, 24kGoldn, with Iann Dior, remains in seventh position on the Hot 100, after eight non-consecutive first weeks in October through mid-January. It governs the Hot Rock and Multi-Metric Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 26th week each.
Lil Tjay’s “Calling My Phone”, with 6LACK, drops to eighth position on the Hot 100, a week after being released in third position. Adds a second week to the top of Streaming Songs (25.4 million, down 25%).
Completing the top 10 of the Hot 100, Grande’s “Positions” rises 10-9, after spending his first week on the first chart in November, and Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” with DaBaby, moves backwards 9-10 after get to No 5.
Again, for all news on the charts, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated March 6), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 2nd).