The Chainsmokers’ ‘Closer’ tops Hot 100 for a seventh week, The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ soars to no. 3

J.G. Taruc

October 4, 2016

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  The Chainsmokers ‘Closer’ featuring Halsey continues its reign on Billboard Hot 100 for a seventh week. Meanwhile, The Weeknd’s new single ‘Starboy’ featuring Daft Punk vaults 40-3 according to Billboard.

  ‘Closer’ currently tops the Radio Songs chart, climbing 2-1 with 138 million in airplay audience, up 9 percent. It, thus, commands the Hot 100 and all three of the Hot 100’s main component charts (Digital Song Sales, Streaming Songs and Radio Songs), as well as On-Demand Songs, simultaneously.

  

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  The Weeknd climbs 40-3 on the Hot 100 at No. 40 with ‘Starboy,’ featuring Daft Punk. The song debuted on the Oct. 8-dated Hot 100 with 28,000 in sales, 2.9 million U.S. streams and 36 million in airplay audience. On the new Oct. 15-dated Hot 100, following its first full week of tracking, ‘Starboy’ zooms 22-2 on Digital Song Sales (88,000), enters Streaming Songs at No. 2 (22.8 million) and bounds 37-16 on Radio Songs (64 million).

  The Weeknd earns his fifth Hot 100 top 10, and first since ‘The Hills’ became his second No. 1, after ‘Can’t Feel My Face,’ in late 2015. Daft Punk takes its second top 10; its ‘Get Lucky,’ featuring Pharrell Williams, peaked at No. 2 for five weeks in 2013.

  Notably, ‘Starboy’ makes the biggest jump into the Hot 100’s top five (or top three) since Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, leapt 53-1 on the June 6, 2015, chart.

   

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