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Colson

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Feb 22 14 8:54 AM

4. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 158.254 (+ 7.103)

This will probably be #1 on the Hot 100 next week and stay there for awhile. And like someone mentioned earlier, it's definitely pacing itself to set some airplay records down the road.

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Feb 22 14 5:12 PM

esettle0 wrote:
I loved the song for like a week, but it's so redundant now. It's like he's saying the same thing over and over for 4 minutes.


Gotta agree with you, I still love the song and happy for Pharell But I wish the chorus changed words!! "Come along if you feel like a room..." He should've definitely changed those words in the 2nd half or alternate two choruses. Even though those are great lyrics

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Feb 26 14 2:27 PM

Pharrell Williams' 'Happy' Hits No. 1 On Hot 100

After two weeks at No. 2, the song rises to the top, dethroning Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse,' featuring Juicy J, after four weeks at the summit. Plus, John Legend lands his first top 10

Clap for Pharrell Williams, whose bouncy single "Happy" reaches the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with a 2-1 rise. The song unseats Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, which reigned the past four weeks (and despite the release of the latter's song's video last week). Meanwhile, John Legend earns his first Hot 100 top 10 with "All of Me."

As we do each Wednesday, let's run down the numbers behind the Hot 100's top 10.

Williams claims his fourth Hot 100 No. 1, but first as a lead artist. He'd previously ruled as a featured act on Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" (three weeks, 2004); Ludacris' "Money Maker" (two weeks, 2006); and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (also featuring T.I.; 12 weeks, 2013). (Technically, Williams boasts one other "Number One" on the Hot 100: his song "Number One," featuring Kanye West, reached No. 57 in 2006 …)

As half the duo the Neptunes, Williams has also produced and co-written two other Hot 100 No. 1s on which he doesn't claim an artist billing: Nelly's "Hot in Herre" (seven weeks, 2002) and Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" (four weeks, 2005).

With Williams having first graced the Hot 100 the week of March 2, 2002 (as a guest, with Diddy, on Busta Rhymes' No. 11-peaking "Pass the Courvoisier Part II"), he waited 12 years and a week (as this week's chart is dated March for his first Hot 100 topper as a lead act. He closes the longest interval between an act's first chart entry and first No. 1 as a lead since Dr. Dre needed 15 years and three weeks from 1993's No. 2 hit "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" to 2009's "Crack a Bottle," on which he shares lead billing with Eminem and 50 Cent. (In between, Dre spent four weeks at No. 1 in 1996 as a featured act on Blackstreet's "No Diggity.")

The longest such wait among all acts? Santana spanned almost exactly 30 years between the group's first Hot 100 hit, "Jingo" (Oct. 25, 1969), and its first No. 1, "Smooth," featuring Rob Thomas, which began its 12-week command on the Oct. 23, 1999, chart.

*Quick quiz: The Hot 100's new top title is also the fifth in the Hot 100's 55-year history with the word "happy" in its title. Can you name the others? Answer at the end of this story.
"Happy" tops the Hot 100 fueled largely by a 22% gain to 402,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and leads Digital Songs for a second week. The sum marks the biggest sales week for a song outside the Christmas season since the week ending Sept. 15, 2013, when Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" crashed No. 1 with 477,000 sold (after the song's buzz-worthy video had debuted on Sept. 9). "Happy" additionally pushes 4-2 on Radio Songs with a 28% surge to 139 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS, and hikes 7-4 on Streaming Songs with 6.1 million U.S. streams (up 38%), according to BDS.

The song claims the Hot 100's Airplay Gainer award for a fifth consecutive week and the Digital Gainer nod for a third straight frame.

"Happy" concurrently spends a second week at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

"Happy" takes over atop the Hot 100 despite added streaming points for Perry's "Dark Horse" (1-2), whose official video was released on Feb. 20. "Horse" posts a second week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (150 million, up 5%), while the clip's premiere spurs the track's return to the top of Streaming Songs (3-1; 11.6 million, up 86%), netting it the Hot 100's Streaming Gainer ribbon; the song had first ruled Streaming Songs four weeks ago. "Horse" leads the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart (2.9 million U.S. streams, down 2%, according to BDS) for a seventh week. On Digital Songs, which it led for five weeks, "Horse" holds at No. 2 (251,000, down 9%).

The "Happy" and "Horse" race to the top of the Hot 100 was close again this week. Last week, "Horse" won over "Happy" by a tight 5% overall points margin. This week, with "Happy" up by 26% and "Horse" up by 15%, the former crosses the finish line first with a similarly slim 4% lead. (Likely further aiding Williams' cause next week: he'll perform "Happy" at the Oscars on Sunday (March 2). The track is nominated for best original song.)

Below the top two, Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," featuring 2 Chainz, logs a third week at No. 3 on the Hot 100. The cut backtracks 2-3 on Streaming Songs but with a 5% lift to 6.9 million. It rises 15-13 on Radio Songs (75 million, up 13%), while holding at No. 3 on Digital Songs (247,000, down 7%).

John Legend leaps to his first Hot 100 top 10, as "All of Me" vaults 11-4. The piano ballad notches a second week at No. 4 on Digital Songs (203,000, up 24%) and pushes 11-6 on Streaming Songs (4.5 million, up 26%) and 18-14 on Radio Songs (71 million, up 26%). While the song has become entrenched at R&B radio, leading Adult R&B songs for a fourth week this week, its profile and sales have soared after Legend sang it at the Grammy Awards on Jan. 26.

Prior to his first Hot 100 top 10, Legend had reached a No. 24 highpoint with two songs: "Ordinary People" in 2005 and "Green Light," featuring Andre 3000, in 2008.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Beyonce and featured artist/husband Jay Z hold at No. 5 with their No. 2-peaking "Drunk in Love." With a 12-9 advance on Radio Songs (92 million, up 9%), the track becomes Beyonce's 15th top 10 on the tally (and first since Lady Gaga's "Telephone," featuring Beyonce, in 2010) and Jay Z's 17th. (Beyonce notched another 10 Radio Songs top 10s with Destiny's Child in 1999-2005.)

In the second half of the Hot 100's top 10, Bastille's "Pompeii" rises 8-6 (a new peak) on the Hot 100 and leads Hot Rock Songs for a second week; Lorde's "Team" also reaches a new peak (9-7); A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera's "Say Something" falls to No. 8 from its No. 4 peak; OneRepublic's No. 2 hit "Counting Stars" descends 6-9; and Pitbull's former three-week No. 1 "Timber," featuring Ke$ha, slides 7-10.

*Quiz answer: Prior to Pharrell Williams' "Happy," four songs with the word "happy" in their titles topped the Hot 100: Dave "Baby Cortez's "The Happy Organ"(1959); Jimmy Soul's "If You Wanna Be Happy" (1963); the Turtles' "Happy Together" (1967); and Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (1988). (Meanwhile, optimists will be, well, happy, to know that only two songs with the word "sad" in their titles have led the chart: Robert John's "Sad Eyes" in 1979 and Billy Ocean's "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" in 1986.)

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Feb 26 14 2:41 PM

esettle0 wrote:
I loved the song for like a week, but it's so redundant now. It's like he's saying the same thing over and over for 4 minutes.
It's like that because it's reality smiley: laugh

Anyway, I am surprised it got to #1 this chart because of the "DH" video premiere. Wow. It's only ahead by 11 million impressions in airplay, so am I assuming correctly that it loses a lot more in the transition from Mediabase to BDS than "Happy" does?

Side note, but more than anything I am happy about John Legend getting his first top 10 hit. Who would have predicted John Legend would have a top 5 hit in 2014, and with a piano ballad no less? Love it.

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Feb 26 14 2:52 PM

I'm baffled by Happy's success. It's a cute song, but that's it (I really don't understand how Blurred Lines was such a big hit either). Can't believe Happy knocked off Dark Horse the week of it's video premiere.

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Mar 4 14 12:40 PM

Happy looks like it's on pace to eventually pass BL's all time record in Mediabase and BDS. It just passed DH.

1. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 208.063 (+ 5.816) ▲
2. KATY PERRY – Dark Horse: 206.369 (+ 0.247) ▼

Previous records:
We Belong Together
BDS = 212.1 Million
Mediabase = 253 Million
Blurred Lines
BDS = 228.9 Million
Mediabase = 284 Million

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"You think that's sexy? With the Rocket Pop's outside you?"

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Mar 4 14 2:45 PM

HDD says that his album pre-orders and interest in his album are extremely soft, so this could end be being some kind of Flo Rida deal where he has a huge smash single and the album scans like 150k.

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Mar 20 14 2:06 PM

1. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 279.985 (+ 3.573) smiley: eek  

I now hate Happy like I hated Blurred Lines last summer. I don't think I like any song to get this big at radio, unless it's Mariah. It's overkill, I can't drive 10 minutes without hearing this song on several of my stations.
   

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Mar 20 14 2:34 PM

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1. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy: 279.985 (+ 3.573) smiley: eek  

I now hate Happy like I hated Blurred Lines last summer. I don't think I like any song to get this big at radio, unless it's Mariah. It's overkill, I can't drive 10 minutes without hearing this song on several of my stations.
   
I think Happy is about 1,000 x worse than Blurred Lines though and that song was already crappy enough. I'd rather Timber had stayed at #1 for another 2 months instead of that garbage. smiley: sick


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