Thanks to his latest single, ‘Dancing in the Flames,’ Pop superstar The Weeknd has danced right into the Hot 100’s history books.
Details inside.
Scorching the updated all-genre chart as the week’s top-selling song overall thanks to a multi-version EP, ‘Flames’ premiered at #14.
Here are the numbers that powered the placement.
- Streaming ≈ 15.7 million U.S.-based streams
- Sales ≈ 18,000 digital downloads
- Radio Airplay ≈ 19.8 million audience impressions
The lead single from ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow,’ the final installment of the Canadian hitmaker’s (born Abel Tesfaye) trilogy of albums that includes ‘Dawn FM’ (2022) and the blockbuster ‘After Hours‘ (2020), ‘Flames’ also blazed the Hot 100 as the week’s overall top debut – besting the highly anticipated arrivals of new hits like Playboi Carti‘s ‘All Red‘ (#15), Tate McRae‘s ‘It’s Ok I’m Ok’ (#20), and Rod Wave‘s ‘Passport Junkie.’
Coming as the 51st top 40 hit of Tesfaye’s career, he’s now only the second Black male vocalist in the chart’s 66-year history to have over 50 tunes peak in the chart region.
Chris Brown, with 52 top 40 hits, was the first. Among all male vocalists, only Elton John (59) and Elvis Presley (81) have more appearances in the chart region.
The news comes just months after Abel made headlines for joining Brown as the only Black male singers in Hot 100 history to have over 100 placements overall.
Look below to see who joins ‘Flames’ on this week’s TGJ Chart Check.
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Stevie Wonder was the number one Billboard hot 100 Artist of the 70s and he has 10 Number ones. Michael Jackson was named the number one Billboard hot 100 Artist of the 80s and he has 13 Number ones. Usher was named the number one Billboard hot 100 Artist of the 00s and he has 9 Number ones. All three has more timely classics while releasing less songs. Quality over quantity. Chris Brown has only two number ones and he haven’t had a number one since 2007 and all he does release 30 damn forgettable songs every year.
They are the only three Male R&B/Pop Artist who was named Billboard hot 100 Artist of the decade and all was in their prime decades where they were the absolute most dominant Number one artists. In both Chris Brown and the Weeknd prime decades they were out sold and out performed on the charts by Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber. So please stop comparing or blasphemy saying either one of their no singing assesss are above Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Usher.
BTW Stevie, Michael and Usher dominated without FREE STREAMING NUMBERS.