trackten chart roundup 1.6.26
Choosin' new music now that holiday songs have left the chart
It’s a big reset week on the charts as Christmas songs (mostly) leave the Hot 100, clearing out the top 10 entirely. While the top four may look pretty familiar, we’re seeing some shuffling around of things a bit below that, as well as some new stuff (and returning hits) on Spotify and Youtube’s charts.
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Billboard Hot 100 #1: The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift
9th week at #1
18.3 million streams (+9%) and
60.7 million radio airplay (+12%)
30,000 sales (+ 779%)
Billboard 200 #1 Album & Song: The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift (The Fate of Ophelia)
12th week at #1
81,000 EAUs
47,000 Streaming Equivalent Albums (+10%)
33,000 sales (-66%)
1,000 track equivalent albums (+25%)
Spotify Weekly US #1: The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift
9th week at #1
7,603,292 streams (+578,837)
Youtube Weekly US #1: Golden by HUNTR/X
23rd week at #1
9,348,447 views (+402,911)
Billboard Global 200 #1: The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift
4th week at #1
78.3 million streams (+2%) and
9,000 sales (+16%)
r/Popheads Chart: The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift
my last.fm: The Bolter by Taylor Swift
Random, I know!
trending up:
I Thought I Saw Your Face Today by She & Him (which is from 2008) enters the top 10 on Spotify (#9) and hits #43 on the Hot 100 thanks to a TikTok trend
Zoo by Shakira maintains its #3 peak on Youtube and debuts on the Hot 100 at #77
Ice Spice is getting some traction with Big Guy, peaking at #4 on Youtube, despite missing the Hot 100 so far
4 Raws by EsDeeKid enters the top 40 on the Hot 100, jumping from #64 to #38 and #11 on Spotify. Phantom (with Rico Ace) also rises to #67 on the Hot 100, and on Spotify EsDeeKid has 4 songs in the top 200.
NEW girl, get up. By Doechii feat. SZA - Obviously a big improvement from Anxiety, but I’m worried Doechii may have learned some of the wrong lessons from the success of that one. Song is fine, but I was hoping for Nissan Altima pt. II and this is not that.
NEW Internet Girl by KATSEYE - I really can’t decide how I feel about this one… curious to see where it ends up on the charts next week. I imagine the build up could mean top 20.
NEW moments of glory by flora cash - this one reminds me of sufjan stevens at the start but then manages to add layers that make it unique
Guest Pick: Drink Deep by Florence + the Machine
Erin , who writes the substack The Grateful Poet is this week’s featured guest! Erin is a writer and creative and has some great pieces discussing artists like Taylor Swift’s creative process that you should check out. Here’s what she had to say about her pick: “I am absolutely dazzled by Drink Deep by Florence and the Machine. I love that she wrote a fantasy novel in the confines of a song, about dalliances with fairies gone wrong. It’s a gem on an album full of feminine rage, love, and despair.”
consensus pick: The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift
I feel like I’m earning my stripes as a Swift-watcher after predicting this last week. While not shocking, Golden was charting a few slots higher than TFOO last week, and likely would have been back at #1 if not for the vinyl single sales that Taylor held off on shipping so they could track for this week. Taylor now has a #1 hit in the first 7 years of the 2020s. As I wrote in my Mariah Carey piece a few weeks ago, it is rare to see an artist with this level of dominance over a decade, not only in number of weeks at #1 (now up to 27) but also with chart-topping singles with four years left to go. My guess is that Taylor is going to push more physical sales for another week at #1, unless something like Choosin’ Texas or Man I Need starts getting crazy radio pick up that makes it hard to fight off.
contrarian pick: Choosin’ Texas by Ella Langley
Langley was running up the charts in the leadup to Christmas, but even with those holiday songs falling off this week, this was a a big jump for the song, rising to #5 on the Hot 100 (from a previous peak of #11). Its position at #6 on Spotify and #14 on Youtube also show that this song has legs beyond radio programming. She also appears as the featured artist on Riley Green’s Don’t Mind If I Do (#23 on Hot 100) and BigXthaPlug’s Hell at Night (#28 on Hot 100), tying her for most Top 40 hits this week (alongside Morgan Wallen and Olivia Dean). Country, and guitar-based music more broadly, continues to be on a hot streak and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Ella hit #1 in the next few weeks.
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