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‘License’ was released on January 8 on Geffen / Interscope Records and on the 1st date on Hot 100, which took place on January 23, in the first place, which was Rodrigo’s first leader. The song by singer-songwriter and actress, who broke through with roles on Disney Channel’s Bizaardvark and Disney + s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, according to MRC Data, 21.5 million US streams (with 4% lower) and 13,000 downloads (38% higher). In the week ending February 28, it drew 67.3 million audience impressions on radio broadcasts (13% higher).
Improving the profile of the song in the tracking week, NBCs Saturday Night Live aired a sketch on February 20 as a tribute to its popularity. (Rodrigo, who celebrated her birthday that day, approved of the gift.)
The track jumps back 8-2 on the Digital Song Sales chart (after three weeks at number 1) as it wins the Hot 100 Award’s Best Sales Gainer Award; press 5-2 on Radio Songs; and slipped 2-3 on Streaming Songs (after four weeks at number 1).
‘License’ also claims the leading Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for the sixth consecutive week, becoming in June-July 2016 the first song to link such a series since Sia’s ‘Cheap Thrills’ with Sean Paul.
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With the help of its radio boost, ‘License’ moves 2-1 on the Pop Airplay map (which reflects plays on a panel of more than 160 mainstream top 40 stations). The song reaches the top in its seventh week and completes the fastest to the top since Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (also seven weeks, in 2017).
Since ‘License’ is Rodrigo’s first Pop Airplay entry, it’s the first hit from an artist in a lead role to have had the rule so quickly since the fun. ‘We Are Young’ with Janelle Monae (seven, 2012), and the first major entry by a soloist in a lead role in almost 18 years – since 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” (seven, 2003). No lead-billing woman has sent a first Pop Airplay entry to # 1 as fast as Rodrigo in almost twenty years – since Blu Cantrell’s “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)” (Seven, 2001).
In addition, ‘License’ is just the seventh single to make its No. 1 debut on the Hot 100 and spend at least the first seven weeks on top of it. It is the first to earn the honor for the first number of an artist as the sole invoice.
Singles to spend first seven weeks or more on Hot 100 at No. 1
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 Will Miss You,” Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112, 1997
10 weeks, “Hello,” Adele, 2015-16
8 Weeks, “Fantasy”, Mariah Carey, 1995
7 Weeks, “Driver’s License”, Olivia Rodrigo, 2021
Cardi B’s “Up” jumps 5-2 on the Hot 100 and returns to its peak where it started two weeks ago. It rose 3-2 on Streaming Songs (24.3 million, up 8%), 5-4 on Digital Song Sales (9,000, down 17%) and 41-33 on Radio Songs (22.8 million, with 20%). %).
‘Up’ jumps for a second week at number 1 on both the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs and the Hot Rap Songs charts, using the same method as the Hot 100.
Chris Brown and Young Thug’s “Go Crazy” rise 8-3 for a new Hot 100 high, reaching their previous No. 5 peak, following the February 19 release of the remix featuring Future, Lil Durk and Mulatto. The track adds a seventh week on top of Radio Songs (77.6 million audience, 2% lower); explosions 50-12 on Streaming Songs (13.2 million, 74% higher); and re-entered digital songs at number 35 (3000 sales, 76% higher). (Future, Lil Durk and Mulatto are not attributed to the song on the Hot 100, as the remix did not make up most of its activity during Detection Week.)
Brown holds his highest Hot 100 rank in more than a dozen years, as ‘Forever’ was in second place for two weeks in the summer of 2008.
‘Go Crazy’ simultaneously achieves a third week at the top of the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart.
Ariana Grande’s “34 + 35” drops to No. 4 on the Hot 100, a week after revisiting its No. 2 high (when it premiered its February 12 video of Grande, Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion.).
The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” drops 4-5 on the Hot 100. The song spent four weeks at number 1 last April-May (and ultimately ends up being the Hot 100’s top hit of the entire 2020) and places its 64th total week on the chart. It adds a record-breaking 51st week in the top-10 and a record-breaking 42nd week in the top-five.
The Weeknd boasts hits in the Hot 100’s top-10, as “Save Your Tears” holds at number 6, two weeks after reaching its number 4 high.
24kGoldn’s “Mood”, starring Iann Dior, remains at 7 in the Hot 100, after eight uninterrupted weeks at 1 in October to mid-January. It regulates the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 26th week each.
Lil Tjay’s “Calling My Phone”, with 6LACK, drops to number 8 on the Hot 100, a week after it was launched at number 3. It adds a second week on top of Streaming Songs (25.4 million, 25% less).
With the completion of the Hot 100’s top 10, Grande’s “Positions” rises 10-9, after spending his first week at number 1 on the map in November, and Dua Lipa’s “Levitating”, with DaBaby, backtracks 9-10, after reaching No. 5.
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