Havent gone through this thread but I assume people have already mentioned that there was a change in the Billboard rules where records that have been on the chart for a long time
Until this week,
Billboard employed a system that seemed reasonable enough: Songs were pulled from the Hot 100 if they'd dropped below No. 25 after 52 weeks, or below No. 50 after 20 weeks. That generally prevented the chart's lower reaches from getting crowded with stubborn-but-declining hits — endlessly charting smashes like
Post Malone's "I Had Some Help (feat.
Morgan Wallen)" and
Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" finally dropped off the chart in recent months thanks to this system — but didn't have an answer for songs that just weren't descending far enough or quickly enough.
Effective this week, the thresholds have moved dramatically, in ways that will reshape the charts in the months and years to come.
Now, if a song drops below No. 5 after 78 weeks — a year and a half! — it's gone. (Consider that "Lose Control" sat at No. 6 before The Life of a Showgirl came along.) If a song drops below No. 10 after 52 weeks, it's gone. If it drops below No. 25 after 26 weeks? Bzzzt. And if it drops below No. 50 after 20 weeks? That's a wrap.
So be sure to take a moment, light a candle and pause to reflect on such once-immortal, now-vanquished eternals as…
[lights dim as a screen bears the words "In Memoriam"] Lady Gaga and
Bruno Mars' "Die With a Smile" (60 weeks),
Benson Boone's "Beautiful Things" and "Sorry I'm Here for Someone Else" (89 and 32 weeks, respectively), Morgan Wallen's "I'm the Problem" and "Just in Case" (36 and 29 weeks, respectively
) and Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" (46 weeks), as well as songs by sombr and BigXthaPlug. We'll never know how long they might have lasted under the old system — except in the case of "Lose Control," which we can state with virtual certainty would have left the Hot 100 sometime after the next Ice Age.
I mean I guess its good in a way cause streaming overinflated shyt in general....but this is also go way in the other direction. Cause even in the radio play physical single era you could see songs on the chart for a full year
Obviously hip hop is gonna take a hit with no new songs but its also killing a lot of genres. And with no new acts being churned and manufactred out ause theres no budget in rap in labels, this shyt is resetting
Some people are really pushing the “Drake went away and it killed the genre” narrative lol. Drake never left, bruh been outside since 2024. He dropped tracks from the beef, 100 gigs, $$$, live streams, tours, and tracks from Iceman. The problem is…some of that shyt isn’t hitting.
