Won’t have to use your imagination to see Cardi B‘s ‘Imaginary Playerz,’ the latest tune from her forthcoming ‘Am I the Drama‘ album to get the video treatment, is off to a solid start on this week’s Hot 100.
Released August 15, the JAY-Z-sampling cut made its debut on this week’s Hot 100 at #70. Here are the numbers that powered its placement.
- Streaming ≈ 5.4 million U.S.-based streams
- Radio Airplay ≈ 2.5 million audience impressions
- Sales ≈ 7,000 digital downloads
Thanks to the handsome streaming, radio, and sales combo outlined above, ‘Playerz’ pounced to a third quadrant premiere on the updated Hot 100. Its arrival marked the highest of any new song printed on the all-genre chart this week.
On the sales front, ‘Playerz’ was also crowned the week’s top-seller among all new female-led songs.
Among all acts, however, only Tom MacDonald‘s previously uncharted tune ‘The Devil Is a Democrat‘ ranked higher on the updated Billboard Digital Song Sales chart.
Undoubted proof of the excitement building for the September 19 delivery of her long-awaited sophomore album ‘Drama,’ the #70 bow of ‘Playerz’ follows the historic top 10 opening of the LP’s lead single ‘Outside.’
Look below to see who joins Cardi on the updated edition of TGJ Chart Check.
Hot 100 This Week
See the full chart here.
Cardi b is never going nna interview with you Rashad 😂😂😂😂
Cardi should get credit for so casually having nothing but TOP 40 hits (mostly). I dont think Cardi has ANY single that missed the Hot 100 entirely.
EXACTLY!!!!
This is at 70 can yall read because I’m just convinced yall cant read like her
Bull s***!
None of her singles from this era made any noise. I’m speaking of 2024-2025. Cheating by including hits from 2021 doesn’t count.
Bardi Gang loves to boast about how such and such single debuted in the top 10 or 20 but neglects to mention how they freefall a week later.
The SYMPATHY and PAYOLA has run out. Atlantic has a new staff and they are pissed. They’re going to shelve her after this.
Not everyone can be the Queen of Rap. 😉
I knew yall would try to frame this flop as such 😂😂😂😂😂😂
ITS A FLOP
Cardi’s flop and your flop is not the same!
Still a flop regardless but w/e helps you sleep at night
Number 70 with crazy promotions and a music video is the floppiest flop a flop can flop be very fr
Typed all of this just to say her SINGLE flopped 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
TGJ proved my point entirely 😂. Fell right into to my trap.
Congratulations Cardi 😂 – the best lyricist, best writer, the best everything at this point.
I’m thinking I might put TGJ as my future job reference. They’re very good at making the bad look good. Kudos 👌
#Pressed 😂
Please! Nobody else launched a single last week. What a s*** of a new… Honestly, she won’t even earn the money to pay that sample to JAY Z. It is a flop, 70 in the Hot 100!!!
At this point her album is gonna BOMB💣
Atlantic isn’t financing her anymore. She dropped the ball with her sophomore album. She preferred to get knocked up by no good Offflop, model Shein garments and manufacture drama for clicks than get in the booth and make fire music.
Sure some will stream out of curiosity because she is still socially relevant but musically she is DONE.
The album might crack 100-110k and the free fall will be insane.
Where’s Dc????????? Come get this dragging luv.
Nicki last debut was Last time I bored you it debuted at 23 which seems to be a system that only allows her to go to 23. She also went 23 with Big Foot which was clearly trash nobody liked. Tell Nicki drop and go top 10, like outside, then drop again and go 23, I bet she cant.