This week's music charts highlight the remarkable staying power of certain songs, particularly in the streaming era. A posthumous album by Mac Miller debuts, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars dominate the top spots, and Imogen Heap achieves a career milestone with a song propelled by a viral video game trend.
Imogen Heap , seen here performing during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, scored her first song on the Hot 100 charts. 'Die With a Smile' tops the singles chart for a fourth consecutive week. In fact, to locate the most notable attributes in this week's charts, we'll be looking not at the typical meteoric rises and falls but at the remarkable longevity of certain tracks.
But, given the limits on its availability — it's no longer available via Swift's website and hasn't dropped on streaming services — was destined to be a short-timer, and it's already disappeared from the charts as quickly as it arrived. That left the 'Die With a Smile' at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive week. The only new album to hit this week's top 10 — in fact, it's the only new album to hit this week's top, which debuts at No. 3, was recorded and shelved more than a decade ago, then completed years after the rapper's death in 2018. It's Miller's second posthumous album, following 2020's 'Circles.' leaps from No. 10 to No. 5 thanks to a physical release of its deluxe edition on vinyl and CD.. The biggest news revolves around Bruno Mars — who now performs on two of the week's top three songs — and Lady Gaga, whose 'Die With a Smile' sits at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive week. With Bad Bunny's 'DTMF' holding at No. 2, Mars's duet withneither 'Die With a Smile' nor 'APT.' will be the last word from Gaga or Mars in 2025, either. The former just announced the arrival of her new album, titled 'Fat, Juicy & Wet.' The song isn't radio-friendly, to put it mildly, but in a world where streaming dominates, it wouldn't be out of the question to see Mars rejoin himself (and himself) on the charts in the weeks to come. And that's saying nothing of a possible new album, given that he hasn't released a full-length solo record since 2016's '24K Magic.' With so little action in the top 10, there are two other songs worth noting in the chart's lower regions. One is GELO's viral hit, 'Tweaker,' which sits at No. 38 in its third week on the chart. For those who don't follow basketball, or only follow players who've found success in college or the NBA, GELO is LiAngelo Ball — a.k.a. the middle child of the heavily hyped Ball family. (His siblings Lonzo and LaMelo play in the NBA; LiAngelo has bounced around a few non-NBA professional leagues.) GELO even performed 'Tweaker' at the Detroit Lions' ill-fated playoff game against the Washington Commanders, so it's more than just an internet fixation. 's song 'Headlock' debuted on last week's Hot 100 at… No. 100. This week, it soars all the way up to No. 98. Why is this newsworthy? It turns out that, in a pioneering electro-pop career that stretches back roughly three decades, Heap had never landed one of her own songs on the Hot 100 until now. Not even her classic 'Hide and Seek' — which popped up on Netflix's 'Stranger Things' — hitting the charts 20 years after its release. It turns out that the song's unsettling, futuristic vibe has helped make it part of a social-media trend wherein users place the song over footage from the horror video game Mouthwashing. That has, in turn, led to a surge in streaming for 'Headlock.' 200. She's influenced generations of pop, hip-hop and R&B musicians. And, thanks to Derulo and her contributions to Taylor Swift's '1989,' Heap has experienced life at the top of the charts. But it took a video game — a video game she had nothing to do with! — to finally land one of her own recordings on the Hot 100 in its own right. charts in the streaming era, it's that the humble pop song — that most seemingly ephemeral of art forms — has developed an ever-longer shelf life. Before streaming, a huge pop hit might climb the chart for a month or two, peak in the top 10, then head back into oblivion in a matter of a few months. Now, it's not that unusual for our most inescapable hits to chart for a year or more.The first is that Shaboozey's song of last summer (and fall), 'A Bar Song (Tipsy),' has just tied the all-time record for weeks atop's Radio Songs chart, which measures commercial radio airplay. Airplay trends often follow streaming trends, and partially as a result, songs are hanging around on radio playlists to what can seem like an infinite degree. In the case of 'A Bar Song' — as it was in the case of's 'Blinding Lights,' the 2020 track it ties — that means 26 weeks, or a full half-year, at No. 1. Trailing far behind, with 18 weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs, are Goo Goo Dolls' 1998 lighter-waver 'Iris' and ''Lose Control' — which, like 'A Bar Song (Tipsy),' still sits comfortably in the top 10. 'Lose Control' has just logged its incredible 20th week on the Hot 100, a feat exceeded by just six other songs. The track debuted, inauspiciously enough, at No. 99 back in August 2023. This week, it actually climbs, jumping from No. 9 to No. 7. Swims will perform at the Grammys this weekend, so it's not as if he's fading from view any time soon. Here are the six songs that have exceeded the Hot 100 top 10 run posted by 'Lose Control,' listed in ascending order. Unsurprisingly, every one of them came out in the 21st century:4. AWOLNATION, 'Sail,' 79 weeks beginning in 201
MUSIC CHARTS POP MUSIC STREAMING TRENDS POSTHUMOUS ALBUMS VIRAL VIDEO GAMES IMOGEN HEAP MAC MILLER LADY GAGA BRUNO MARS
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