Chart Watch

  • “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz holds at #1 for the third week. It’s #1 on Hot Digital Songs for the fourth week. Impressively, the song’s sales have increased in each of those four weeks, from 236K to 279K in its first week at #1, then to 341K, then to 357K, and now to 381K. It’s the first song in the nine-year history of the Hot Digital Songs chart to post a sales increase in each of its first four weeks at #1.

    The genial song about bargain-hunting has a shot at another sales record. This is the fourth time the song’s weekly sales have topped 300K. (It first reached that mark in the week that included Christmas). The song may match fun’s record for the most weeks above 300K in weekly sales. “We Are Young” (featuring Janelle Monae) topped that mark seven times.

    “Thrift Shop” holds at #1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for the fourth week. This is the longest run at #1 on the R&B chart for a song by a white artist since Robin Thicke’s “Lost Without U” spent 11 weeks on top in 2007. The song is #1 on Hot Rap Songs for the fifth week.

    Needless to say, it’s the best-selling song so far this year. It will probably be up for a Grammy for Record of the Year at next year’s ceremony.

    Two more songs by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis debut this week. “Can’t Hold Us” opens at #97. “Same Love” bows at #99.

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  • Justin Bieber this week becomes the first artist in chart history to land five #1 albums or EPs while still in his teens. The 18-year old achieves the feat as Believe Acoustic enters The Billboard 200 at #1. The album follows My World 2.0, the EP Never Say Never: The Remixes, Under The Mistletoe and Believe.

    Miley Cyrus landed four #1 albums while still in her teens (counting Hannah Montana albums). She scored with Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus, Breakout and the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack, all by age 16. In third place is Britney Spears, who landed three #1 albums while still in her teens. She scored with …Baby One More Time, Oops!...I Did It Again and Britney, all by age 19.

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  • There was a day when you wouldn’t see “the F word” in the title of a top 10 hit. Times change. “F**kin Problems” by A$AP Rocky featuring Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar jumps from #15 to #10 in its 13th week on the Hot 100. It’s the third top 10 hit in two years with the once-taboo word in its title. P!nk’s “F**kin’ Perfect” peaked at #2 in February 2011. Cee-Lo Green’s “F**k You!” spent four weeks at #2 the following month.

    Two other song titles on this week’s Hot 100 will offend those with tender sensibilities. “Bad Ass” by Kid Ink featuring Meek Mill & Wale debuts at #90. Kendrick Lamar’s “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” re-enters the chart at #98.

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  • Gary Allan’s Set You Free enters The Billboard 200 at #1. It’s the country star’s first #1 album. Set You Free also enters Top Country Albums at #1, ending Taylor Swift’s 13-week lock on the top spot. This is the second time that a Swift album has been knocked off the top of the country chart by a star who is much less famous than she is. Fearless was bounced from #1 in February 2009 by Dierks Bentley’s Feel That Fire.

    Allan, 45, is far from an overnight success. He first cracked the pop and country album charts in 1996 with Used Heart For Sale. Set You Free is his fifth top five album on The Billboard 200, following Tough All Over (#3 in 2005), Greatest Hits (#5 in 2007), Living Hard (#3 in 2007) and Get Off On The Pain (#5 in 2010). It’s his third #1 on Top Country Albums, following Tough All Over and Greatest Hits.

    Allan’s “Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)” jumps to #1 on this week’s Hot Country Songs chart. It's Allan's first #1 country hit since 2004’s “Nothing On But The Radio.”

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  • “Suit & Tie” by Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z vaults from #84 to #4 in its second week on the Hot 100. The song sold 315K copies in its first week, a good, but not great, total. Many songs have gotten off to faster starts, including Flo Rida’s “Right Round,” which sold 636K in its first week in February 2009; Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” which sold 623K in its first week in August; and—and this is the one that will probably be hardest for Timberlake to take—Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend,” which sold 521K in its first week in April.

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  • A$AP Rocky’s debut album, Long.Live.A$AP, enters The Billboard 200 at #1. It’s the first debut album to top the chart since 2 Chainz’s solo debut Based On A T.R.U. Story opened at #1 in August. 2 Chainz is featured on A$AP’s hit single “Fu**in’ Problems,” along with Drake and Kendrick Lamar. (Drake also reached #1 with his first full-length album, Thank Me Later.)

    Long.Live.A$AP sold 96K digital copies (out of 139K total), which puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums.

    “Fu**in’ Problems,” which has sold 854K digital copies, broke into the top 20 on last week’s Hot 100. It is vying to become the third top 10 hit on Billboard’s flagship chart with “the F word” in the title, following Cee Lo Green’s “F**k You (Forget You)” and P!nk’s “Fu**in’ Perfect.” Those songs both reached #2.

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  • In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, here are 25 songs that touch on civil rights and race relations. This is not meant to be a complete list, but it’s a good cross-section of artists, styles and themes.

    Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit,” 1939. “Southern trees bear a strange fruit/Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots.” That’s the opening of this haunting ballad, which deals with the horrors of lynchings, which were not-so-distant history in 1939. The song was banned by some radio networks as too controversial.

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  • “Suit & Tie” by Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z enters the Hot 100 at #84, based on just two days of airplay (and no sales activity). It’s likely to vault into the top five next week. It will probably debut at #1 on Hot Digital Songs, with first-week sales in the 330K range.

    It’s will become Timberlake’s 20th top 10 hit on the Hot 100 (counting *NSYNC hits); Jay-Z’s 19th. Jay-Z first hit the Hot 100 in April 1996 with “Ain’t No Nigga,” featuring Foxy Brown. Timberlake first charted with *NSYNC in March 1998 with “I Want You Back.”

    This is the first single from Timberlake’s third solo album, The 20/20 Experience, which is expected to be released in March. Timberlake’s 2002 solo debut album, Justified, reached #2 on The Billboard 200 and spawned two top 10 hits. His 2006 sophomore album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, spent two weeks at #1 and spawned four top 10 hits, three of them #1s.

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  • Chris Tomlin’s Burning Lights enters The Billboard 200 at #1. Tomlin, 40, is a worship leader at Passion City Church in Atlanta. Tomlin isn’t the first artist who has a leadership role in a church to climb high on the chart. Marvin Sapp, the founder and senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, Mich., debuted and peaked at #2 in March 2010 with Here I Am.

    Burning Lights is Tomlin’s 12th album; his second to make the top 10. Hello Love hit #9 in September 2008. Tomlin won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for his 2010 album And If Our God Is For Us… He has won 17 Dove Awards (the top honor in the Christian music field).

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  • “Scream & Shout” by will.i.am featuring Britney Spears is the first song to enter the top 10 in 2013. It’s the 14th top 10 hit for will.i.am; the 12th for Spears. Spears first cracked the top 10 in December 1998 with “…Baby One More Time.” will.i.am first cracked the top 10 in August 2003 with the Black Eyed Peas’ “Where Is The Love?” (featuring Spears’ former beau, Justin Timberlake).

    This is will.i.am’s first top 10 hit as a solo artist in the top-billed position. It follows three top 10 hits on which he was the featured artist: Fergie’s “Fergalicious” (#2 in 2007), Flo Rida’s “In The Ayer” (#9 in 2008) and Usher’s “OMG” (#1 in 2010).

    It’s the first time that Spears has held the featured spot on a top 10 hit. (I’m not counting Rihanna’s “S&M” toward Spears’ top 10 tally. Spears was featured on a remix that was popular for a time, but that’s not the same as being featured on the original or most popular version of a song.)

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