NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of July 30, 2021

A happier release week.

This week’s pack of New Music Friday releases can take the sadness out of any night of the week, including the latest albums from Billie Eilish, Bleachers and Prince, as well as notable big singles from Clean Bandit, Internet Money and Silk Sonic. Have a good skate to these bountiful bops:

Notable albums out this week: Billie Eilish‘s Happier Than Ever (Stream), Bleachers‘s Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night (Stream), Brett Dennen‘s See The World (Stream), Bri Steves‘s TBH (Stream), Cookiee Kawaii‘s Vanice (Stream), Creeper‘s American Noir (Stream), Grizfolk‘s Grizfolk (Stream), Isaiah Rashad‘s The House Is Burning (Stream), Kid Brunswick‘s XForever (Stream), Logic‘s Bobby Tarantino III (Stream), NEEDTOBREATHE‘s Into The Mystery (Stream), Parker McCollum‘s Gold Chain Cowboy (Stream), Parmalee‘s For You (Stream), Prince‘s Welcome 2 America (Stream), Ryan Caraveo‘s Northend Sweetheart (Stream), Travis Thompson‘s BLVD Boy (Stream), Yola‘s Stand For Myself (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: BANNERS‘s It’s Gonna Be OK (Stream), Chase Matthew‘s County Line (Stream), L Devine‘s Near Life Experience (Part One) (Stream), Mark Ronson‘s Watch The Sound (Soundtrack) (Stream), Olivia Dean‘s Growth (Stream), Rozzi‘s Hymn For Tomorrow (Stream), SEB‘s It’s Okay, We’re Dreaming (Stream), Seether‘s Wasteland: The Purgatory (Stream), SYML‘s Ancient Call (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“7 O’Clock”, Penelope Scott (Stream)
“2055”, Sleepy Hallow featuring Coi Leray (Stream)
“Adorable”, Natasha Bedingfield (Stream)
“Again”, Keanu Silva (Stream)
“Appreciation”, Ant Clemons featuring Ty Dolla $ign & 2 Chainz (Stream)
“At Will”, G-Eazy featuring EST Gee (Stream)
“Atone”, Jerry Cantrell (Stream)
“Baby”, A1 x J1 featuring Deno (Stream)
“Baby4U”, Georgee (Stream)
“Back To Back”, Wrabel & Duncan Laurence (Stream)
“Backwoods Bougie”, Hayden Joseph (Stream)
“Bad Habits”, Sally Boy (Stream)
“Bad Habits (MEDUZA Remix)”, Ed Sheeran (Stream)
“Bastard”, Glaive (Stream)
“Beers On Me”, Dierks Bentley featuring Breland & HARDY (Stream)
“Better Days”, Dermot Kennedy (Stream)
“Better With You”, Ayokay (Stream)
“Billy Joel (NY Lullaby)”, Local Nomad (Stream)
“Blackout”, Turnstile (Stream)
“Box Of Bones”, Third Eye Blind (Stream)
“Boy.”, Will Hyde (Stream)
“Boy Tears”, Saro (Stream)
“Brighter Days (Are Before Us)”, Meet Me @ The Altar (Stream)
“Chad An Gordy”, Eyedress (Stream)
“Coast”, Ryan Hurd (Stream)
“Crying During Sex”, Carol Ades (Stream)
“Danger”, AHI (Stream)
“Die Right Here”, David Hugo (Stream)
“Don’t Tread On Me”, Volbeat (Stream)
“Dressed For The Weather”, Marc Scibilia featuring Thad Cockrell (Stream)
“Drive”, Clean Bandit & Topic featuring Wes Nelson (Stream)
“Drive You Home”, Internet Money & Jackson Wang (Stream)
“Easy Living”, Steezy Prime & No One’s Perfect (Stream)
“Everything”, WizTheMC (Stream)
“Fearless”, Joyous Wolf (Stream)
“February”, Matilda Mann (Stream)
“Feel The Night”, Tom Speight (Stream)
“Feel This Way Tomorrow”, Olivia Noelle (Stream)
“For A Night Like This”, Darren Criss (Stream)
“Get After It”, The Cadillac Three (Stream)
“Golden”, Zella Day (Stream)
“Guardian Angel”, Scorey (Stream)
“Happy For You”, Jasmine Thompson (Stream)
“Hazel Eyes”, Prentiss (Stream)
“Hero (Michael Calfan Remix)”, Faouzia (Stream)
“Hold It Out”, Elias (Stream)
“Hotel Room”, Forrest Nolan (Stream)
“I Been Better”, Tyler Hammond (Stream)
“I Found You”, Vantage featuring Benjamin Ingrosso (Stream)
“I Need My Girl”, Aly & AJ (Stream)
“If Standing Was Flying”, Stephen Day (Stream)
“I’m Tired”, Amber Run (Stream)
“In My Mind”, Alok & John Legend (Stream)
“Inner Light”, Elderbrook & Bob Moses (Stream)
“Jiggy (Whiz)”, ArrDee (Stream)
“Just Feels Tight”, FISHER (Stream)
“Karma”, Letdown. (Stream)
“Kindness”, MØ (Stream)
“Like A Pro”, Kash Doll featuring Juicy J (Stream)
“Locust Laced”, Sleigh Bells (Stream)
“Loser”, Neoni (Stream)
“Losing My Mind”, Angels & Airwaves (Stream)
“Louie Bag”, Yebba featuring Smino (Stream)
“Love Can Be So Lonely, Sometimes”, Nick Wilson featuring Gabrielle Aplin (Stream)
“Lying”, Dan + Shay (Stream)
“Made To Fly (Ashworth Remix)”, Colton Dixon (Stream)
“Magic”, Jany Green & Kenny Beats (Stream)
“Malibu”, Sangiovanni & Trevor Daniel (Stream)
“Miami”, Nicky Jam (Stream)
“Missing You Today”, PUBLIC (Stream)
“Mistakes”, Loud Luxury & Cat Dealers (Stream)
“MMC”, Des Rocs (Stream)
“Monster”, PVRIS (Stream)
“Most Nights”, Kat & Alex (Stream)
“Movin'”, David Archuleta (Stream)
“Need You There”, M-22 (Stream)
“Nice And Easy (Acoustic)”, American Authors & Mark McGrath (Stream)
“Okay”, X Ambassadors (Stream)
“One Foot In Front Of The Other (Acoustic)”, Griff (Stream)
“Paper Planes”, Lucas & Steve x Tungevaag (Stream)
“Paranoia”, Spencer Sutherland (Stream)
“Pink Ferrari”, Zach Hood (Stream)
“PMA”, All Time Low featuring Pale Waves (Stream)
“Poppin'”, Arlie (Stream)
“Prada”, Rich The Kid (Stream)
“Prada Bae”, Young T & Bugsey featuring Nafe Smallz (Stream)
“Psycho (Acoustic)”, Maisie Peters (Stream)
“Push It Down”, Taylor Janzen (Stream)
“Really, Really”, Serena Isioma (Stream)
“Remember Her Name”, Mickey Guyton (Stream)
“Renegades (Acoustic)”, One OK Rock (Stream)
“Resentment”, Madi Diaz (Stream)
“River (Alle Farben Remix)”, Tom Gregory (Stream)
“Rooftop”, LiL Lotus (Stream)
“Rosanna”, Benny Bellson (Stream)
“Roses”, Emie Nathan (Stream)
“Sad Faces (Acoustic)”, Sam DeRosa (Stream)
“Safety Dance”, Angel Olsen (Stream)
“Screw Feelings”, Au/Ra (Stream)
“Sent From Above”, Dolly Parton (Stream)
“Share A Little Love”, KC Lights featuring LOWES (Stream)
“Sh*t Happens”, Katelyn Tarver (Stream)
“Sike”, Cali Rodi (Stream)
“Skate”, Silk Sonic (Stream)
“Smile Like That”, Terror Jr (Stream)
“So High”, Aidan Bissett (Stream)
“Soon”, Johnny Yukon (Stream)
“Sound The Alarm”, The Knocks featuring Rivers Cuomo & Royal & The Serpent (Stream)
“Still Breathing”, Arizona Zervas (Stream)
“Superficial”, Contradash (Stream)
“Take Me For A Ride”, Steps (Stream)
“Tears For Later”, Don Diablo & Galantis (Stream)
“The Hypothetical”, Caroline Romano (Stream)
“The Moment (Acoustic)”, Remme (Stream)
“The Riddle”, Sam Feldt featuring Lateshift (Stream)
“Thin Lines”, PawPaw Rod (Stream)
“Till It Hurts”, JORDY (Stream)
“Time Of My Life”, UPSAHL (Stream)
“Tinted Green”, Powfu featuring Mila Moon & Jomie (Stream)
“Too Good (Unknown Mortal Orchestra Remix)”, Arlo Parks (Stream)
“Train”, TALK (Stream)
“Trenches (Remix)”, Morray x Polo G (Stream)
“Trust”, PRETTYMUCH (Stream)
“Try Again”, DallasK featuring Lauv (Stream)
“Underwater”, Tujamo (Stream)
“What I Like”, Destiny Rogers (Stream)
“Where Are You Now”, Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott (Stream)
“Why Can’t We Get Along”, Zak Abel (Stream)
“Write Me A Letter”, Oscar Lang (Stream)
“Yesterday”, Vedo (Stream)
“You Are My High”, DJ Snake (Stream)

Next week, the latest albums from Barbra Streisand, Chris Young and Tinashe are among the larger releases on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (July 27, 2021)

Welcome to Add Lib, your Tuesday report on POP! Goes The Charts that’s mad about CHR/Top 40 adds, based on the station data provided by Mediabase 24/7 and Add Board. This week: it’s yet another win for Camila Cabello at the pop radio format. Let’s add ’em up:

“GO” GETS GOING: For the first time in a while, the top seven songs on this week’s adds report (five of which officially impacted) haven’t previously appeared in the top ten on the usual Tuesday update. In the lead with a big 153 first-week stations, Camila Cabello easily took the top spot on the log with “Don’t Go Yet”, a song which debuted at #30 this past Sunday. It also led the report at the Hot AC format yesterday.

The second and third place entries were separated by one add: with 66 stations in a pre-impact week, “Industry Baby” started in the runner-up position for Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow. The single remains at #1 on Spotify on the U.S.-based chart and continues to do well on other platforms. Meanwhile, Bazzi earned his 65 adds for “I Like That”, as he aims to score his highest-charting song at the format in 2-1/2 years.

Rounding out the top five this week, social media star Dixie started in fourth place with the Rubi Rose-assisted “Psycho” at 34 adds, while the return of Swedish House Mafia earned them 33 stations for the Ty Dolla $ign and 070 Shake-assisted “Lifetime”, coming in fifth.

Charting singles from Normani, Pop Smoke and Post Malone returned to the top ten on the adds report this week.

We’ll see you next week for another action-packed adds session.

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
1. CAMILA CABELLO, “Don’t Go Yet” (Epic)
2. LIL NAS X & JACK HARLOW, “Industry Baby” (Columbia)
3. BAZZI, “I Like That” (Atlantic)
4. DIXIE (D’AMELIO) featuring RUBI ROSE, “Psycho” (HITCO/in2une)
5. SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA featuring TY DOLLA $IGN & 070 SHAKE, “Lifetime” (SSA/Republic)
6. MÅNESKIN, “Beggin'” (Arista)
7. CONAN GRAY, “People Watching” (Republic)
8. POST MALONE, “Motley Crew” (Republic)
9-T. NORMANI featuring CARDI B, “Wild Side” (Keep Cool/RCA)
9-T. POP SMOKE featuring DUA LIPA, “Demeanor” (Victor Victor/Republic)

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RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (July 26-27, 2021)

It’s time once again to analyze the airwaves and find out if your favorite new releases will be lighting up your local station’s playlist this week. Which tunes will climb to the top and which ones will hit a stop? Here are seven new releases impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

BAZZI, “I Like That” (Atlantic)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: Three years ago this month, Bazzi spent a week at #1 with “Mine”. He has struggled at the format more recently.

CAMILA CABELLO, “Don’t Go Yet” (Syco/Epic)
Album: Familia (2021)
Past T40 History: “Don’t” started at #30 on the most recent update. It’s her 15th solo top 40 song and first from her upcoming set.

CAMILO & SHAWN MENDES, “Kesi (Remix)” (HAMM/The Orchard)
Album: Mis Manos (2021)
Past T40 History: Colombia’s Camilo has never charted here before. His original version of “Kesi” hit the national top 40 in Spain.

CONAN GRAY, “People Watching” (Republic)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: Since the spring of 2020, he has entered the list with three minor entries: “Heather”, “Maniac” and “Overdrive”.

DIXIE (D’AMELIO) featuring RUBI ROSE, “Psycho” (HITCO/in2une)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: In October, TikTok star D’Amelio hit the top 40 with “Be Happy”, her first single. Will this be her second entry?

SUPER-HI x NEEKA, “Following The Sun” (Blended/Further.)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: Neither of these acts has impacted here before. The track has already performed nicely in Austria and Germany.

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA featuring TY DOLLA $IGN and 070 SHAKE, “Lifetime” (SSA/Republic)
Album: Paradise Again (2021)
Past T40 History: The reunited trio last appeared on the list with “Don’t You Worry Child”, which held for six weeks at #2 in 2013.

Next week: the adds report returns to normal with the latest solo effort from Khalid.

How will these songs perform on the adds report? Let me know!

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (July 25, 2021)

Welcome to Radio Active, a Sunday evening report from POP! Goes The Charts that gets to the chart of the matter: all the highlights from the CHR/Top 40 chart, as published by Mediabase 24/7 and Mediabase Research. Here’s what’s sweet, sour and popping on the chart this week:

“GOOD” EVENING: With her second #1 song of the year so far, Olivia Rodrigo climbs from 2-1 on the Top 40 chart with “Good 4 U”. It’s also up to #9 on this week’s Hot AC chart. Rodrigo has now achieved four top 40 songs from the Sour album at the pop format since January, the newest of which is just down the page…

Camila Cabello leads four new tunes in the top 40 with “Don’t Go Yet”, which bows way up at #30 after only two days of airplay. This is her 15th top 40 entry outside of Fifth Harmony and the first from her upcoming album Familia. The second posthumous top 40 single for Pop Smoke is “Demeanor”, which debuts at #37. Taken from the album Faith, the track features Dua Lipa, who scores her 15th top 40 hit at the format. Speaking of Fifth Harmony, Normani struts onto the survey at #39 with the Cardi B-assisted “Wild Side”. The new collaboration is the fourth solo top 40 hit for the former and the tenth for the latter. Finally, the aforementioned Rodrigo blasts from 46-40 with “Traitor”.

Eurovision winners Måneskin add some Italian flavor to the Top 40 radio chart with “Beggin’”, their remake of a 1967 tune from The Four Seasons, which checks in at #44. The current top ten song on the Alternative chart for Twenty One Pilots, “Saturday”, is next at #45. New at #46, Alessia Cara is back in the mix with one of two cuts she just released simultaneously, “Sweet Dream”. Lastly, with the current chart-topper on the Billboard Hot 100, BTS are in at #48 with “Permission To Dance”. It can be found as the b-side to their current hit “Butter”.

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Highlights from Adam’s Top 40: July 25, 2021

All 4 number one.

DEBUTS
40. Olivia Rodrigo – Traitor
38. SEB – Seaside
37. Jax – 90s Kids | HIGHEST DEBUT

TOP GAINERS
25. Imagine Dragons – Wrecked (30) | BIGGEST MOVER — two weeks

THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
10. Olivia Rodrigo – Déjà Vu (05) | PEAK: #04
09. Elle King & Miranda Lambert – Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) (09) | PEAK: #01 for five weeks
08. John Mayer – Last Train Home (10) | PEAK: #08
07. Mimi Webb – Good Without (03) | PEAK: #03
06. Bleachers – Stop Making This Hurt (08) | PEAK: #06
05. Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits (07) | PEAK: #05
04. Dua Lipa – Love Again (06) | PEAK: #04
03. Duran Duran – Invisible (04) | PEAK: #03
02. Coldplay – Higher Power (01) | PEAK: #01 for four weeks
01. Olivia Rodrigo – Good 4 U (02) | PEAK: #01 for one week | NEW #1

Top 10 Next In Line:
1. Olivia Holt – Next (5)
2. American Authors featuring Mark McGrath – Nice And Easy (3)
3. Nic D – Fine Apple (1)
4. Walk Off The Earth x Lukas Graham – Love You Right (9)
5. Brandi Carlile – Right On Time (-)
6. Jxdn featuring Machine Gun Kelly – Wanna Be (10)
7. Ralph – Tommy (7)
8. Dixie D’Amelio featuring Rubi Rose – Psycho (-)
9. Conan Gray – People Watching (-)
10. Maisie Peters – Psycho (-)

In The Mix:
Mimi Webb – Dumb Love
Saint Phnx – Happy Place
Scott Helman – Old Friends
Vaultboy – Everything Sucks (new)

Chart Notes:

• Olivia Rodrigo scores her second #1 song on my personal chart with “Good 4 U”, climbing from 2-1 this week. She now has five singles charting concurrently from her recent album Sour, making her the first woman to pull off the trick. American Idol alum Jax has the Highest Debut on the list with “90s Kids”, which nostalgically enters at #37. The viral demo “Seaside” is in at #38 for newcomer SEB, while the aforementioned Rodrigo is new at #40 with “Traitor”.

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ADAM’S TOP 40 FLASHBACK: July 27, 2014

Travelling the musical map.

It’s the start of another weekend, which means it’s time for another trip back into the archives on Adam’s Top 40 Flashback! Every Saturday, the day before my latest top 40 goes up for the week, I feature the highlights of a past countdown. They’re all here — the hit songs, the songs that flopped, and the songs that may be a little embarrassing to reflect on.

This week, we stroll back seven years and find out what was topping my chart for the week of July 27, 2014…

Debuts:
40. MAUSI, “My Friend Has A Swimming Pool”
39. FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS, “Fools Gold”
30. THE SCRIPT, “Superheroes”

Biggest Mover:
MARY LAMBERT, “Secrets” (38-29, nine spots)

10. PASSENGER, “Scare Away The Dark” (down 4)
Album: Whispers (2014, Nettwerk Records)
Peak: #1 for two weeks

09. A GREAT BIG WORLD, “Already Home” (down 4)
Album: Is There Anybody Out There? (2014, Epic Records)
Peak: #1 for seven weeks

08. AMERICAN AUTHORS, “Believer” (up 1)
Album: Oh, What A Life (2014, Mercury Records/Island Def Jam Music Group)
Peak: #8 for two weeks

07. TRAIN, “Angel In Blue Jeans” (up 1)
Album: Bulletproof Picasso (2014, Columbia Records)
Peak: #5 for two weeks

06. CHARLI XCX, “Boom Clap” (up 4)
Album: The Fault In Our Stars (Soundtrack) and Sucker (2014, Atlantic Records)
Peak: #4 for three weeks

05. MAROON 5, “Maps” (up 2)
Album: V (2015, 222/Interscope Records)
Peak: #2 for three weeks

04. GRAFFITI6, “The Bridge” (down 2)
Album: The Bridge (2014, Independent)
Peak: #2 for two weeks

03. CHRISTINA PERRI, “Burning Gold” (up 1)
Album: Head Or Heart (2014, Atlantic Records)
Peak: #2 for three weeks

02. JAMIE SCOTT, “My Hurricane” (up 1)
Album: My Hurricane (2015, Virgin/Capitol Records)
Peak: #1 for four weeks

01. COLDPLAY, “A Sky Full Of Stars” (steady, fourth week)
Album: Ghost Stories (2014, Parlophone/Atlantic Records)
Peak: #1 for four weeks

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of July 23, 2021

Uh-oh… here come the bops.

This week’s New Music Friday releases are perfectly kissable and ready for you to stream, including the newest albums from Anne-Marie, EST Gee and The Kid LAROI, as well as notable big singles from Camila Cabello, Khalid and Lil Nas X. Here’s what’s going on in the industry, baby:

Notable albums out this week: Anne-Marie‘s Therapy (Stream), Bizzy Banks‘s Same Energy (Stream), Brittany Howard‘s Jaime (Reimagined) (Stream), Chiiild‘s Hope For Sale (Stream), Dave‘s We’re All Alone In This Together (Stream), Delilah Montagu‘s Baby (Stream), EST Gee‘s Bigger Than Life Or Death (Stream), GirlzLuhDev‘s Day 1 Starter (Stream), Jackson Browne‘s Downhill From Everywhere (Stream), Leon Bridges‘s Gold-Diggers Sound (Stream), Pretty Sister‘s Catalina (Stream), The Kid LAROI‘s F*ck Love 3: Over You (Stream), Walk Off The Earth‘s Meet You There (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Against The Current‘s Fever (Stream), Josie Dunne‘s Episode 1 (Stream), Lexi Jayde‘s A Teenage Diary (Stream), Nothing But Thieves‘s Moral Panic II (Stream), Quinn Lewis‘s When I Was Sad (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“1949”, Jordan Fisher (Stream)
“7/22”, Taylor Edwards (Stream)
“Adrenaline”, Zero 9:36 & ICE NINE KILLS (Stream)
“All Of The Little Things”, Winston Surfshirt featuring Ramirez (Stream)
“Alone With You”, Alina Baraz (Stream)
“Alright”, HVME featuring 24KGoldn & Quavo (Stream)
“Baby Let’s Pretend”, L.A. Exes (Stream)
“Better Believe”, Belly, The Weeknd & Young Thug (Stream)
“Better Than I Know Myself”, Del Water Gap (Stream)
“Blue Hunnids”, LightSkinKeisha (Stream)
“Brand New”, Vistas (Stream)
“Break Like You Do”, Chris Young (Stream)
“Burn”, Jordyn Simone featuring Ncognita (Stream)
“By Your Side (Acoustic)”, Calvin Harris featuring Tom Grennan (Stream)
“Chevrolet You Down”, Ryan Waters Band (Stream)
“Coloratura”, Coldplay (Stream)
“Crying On Vacation”, Kaptan (Stream)
“Day I Die”, DeathByRomy (Stream)
“Dead Inside”, Noah Cunane (Stream)
“Devil”, Two Feet (Stream)
“Digital Age (URCHN Lofi Remix)”, PHANGS & LFO (Stream)
“Dirt”, The Golf Club (Stream)
“Don’t Go Yet”, Camila Cabello (Stream)
“Downtown”, Jake Bugg (Stream)
“Eat Spit!”, Slush Puppy featuring Royal & The Serpent (Stream)
“Eavesdropping”, Cobi (Stream)
“Econto”, Wun Two (Stream)
“Edamame”, Bbno$ featuring Rich Brian (Stream)
“Evolve”, The Warning (Stream)
“Faint”, Oliver Riot (Stream)
“False Alarms”, Lawrence & Jon Bellion (Stream)
“Feel Love”, Suriel Hess (Stream)
“Firestarter”, Raja Kumari (Stream)
“Forever&More”, Role Model (Stream)
“Freedom (You Bring Me)”, Snakehips x Armand Van Helden (Stream)
“Get Me High”, Marco Luka (Stream)
“Glowing”, A Great Big World (Stream)
“Good Mourning”, Sophie Holohan (Stream)
“Grow”, Samm Henshaw (Stream)
“Guts”, K CAMP featuring True Story Gee (Stream)
“He Usually Likes Boys”, Jetta (Stream)
“He’s Not You”, VÉRITÉ (Stream)
“Head Up”, The Score (Stream)
“Headline”, Bren Joy (Stream)
“Holy Ghosts”, Elephante (Stream)
“Honest”, Jeremy Zucker (Stream)
“Hopeless Romantics”, James TW (Stream)
“Hot Summer”, Prince (Stream)
“I Can See The Future”, Tinashe (Stream)
“I Don’t Owe You Sh*t”, Emily Roberts (Stream)
“I Don’t Wanna Know”, Willow Kayne (Stream)
“I Like That”, Bazzi (Stream)
“If I Didn’t Love You”, Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood (Stream)
“If I Don’t Break Your Heart I’ll Break Mine”, Sophie And The Giants (Stream)
“If Not For You”, Tremonti (Stream)
“If The World Should Ever Stop”, JP Cooper (Stream)
“Industry Baby”, Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow (Stream)
“It’s A Start”, Cabin Boys (Stream)
“Juban District”, Ginger Root (Stream)
“Keep The Beat”, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Ynairaly Simo (Stream)
“Killer Killer”, J Ember (Stream)
“Kiss The World Goodbye”, Jesse McCartney (Stream)
“La Da Di Da”, Louyah (Stream)
“Lake Como”, Russ (Stream)
“Liam’s Song”, Tainted Lyric (Stream)
“Lifetime”, Swedish House Mafia featuring Ty Dolla $ign & 070 Shake (Stream)
“Liquor Store”, Remi Wolf (Stream)
“Living Proof”, The War On Drugs (Stream)
“Mad (Young Franco Remix)”, Hope Tala (Stream)
“Made It Back”, Midwxst (Stream)
“Mercy”, KiNG MALA (Stream)
“Model Village”, IDLES featuring Slowthai (Stream)
“Money On Me”, Lil Tecca (Stream)
“Monster”, ZHU featuring John The Blind (Stream)
“Motion”, Luke Hemmings (Stream)
“Never Felt Like This”, Devault featuring Kiiara (Stream)
“New Normal”, Khalid (Stream)
“New Truck”, Dylan Scott (Stream)
“Nice And Easy (Guy Fieri Remix)”, American Authors featuring Mark McGrath (Stream)
“Oh!”, The Linda Lindas (Stream)
“Okay”, Porches (Stream)
“OMG”, Marian Hill (Stream)
“On Fire”, Chelsea Sulkey (Stream)
“Our Bones Turn To Stone”, Aquilo (Stream)
“Parking Lot (Stripped)”, Genevieve Stokes (Stream)
“Peaceful Afternoon (Live)”, Rufus Wainwright (Stream)
“Pill Or A Lullaby”, Lola Young (Stream)
“Plot Line”, Emlyn (Stream)
“Psycho”, Dixie (D’Amelio) featuring Rubi Rose (Stream)
“Pushing Away”, Junior Mesa (Stream)
“Rather Be With You”, Hayden James featuring Crooked Colours (Stream)
“Reaction”, GOLDHOUSE & Mokita (Stream)
“Remember The Bad”, Tayler Buono (Stream)
“Requiem”, Ben Abraham (Stream)
“Resting B*tch Face (Part 2)”, Julia Wolf (Stream)
“Right On Time”, Brandi Carlile (Stream)
“Ring The Alarm”, DJ Snake & Malaa (Stream)
“Rocket”, Maja Kristina (Stream)
“Running In Place (Alternate)”, MisterWives (Stream)
“Safe With Me”, Loud Luxury featuring Drew Love (Stream)
“Saturday”, Julian Lamadrid (Stream)
“Save Me”, Eliza & The Delusionals (Stream)
“Say What You Will”, James Blake (Stream)
“Shoulders”, Coheed & Cambria (Stream)
“Single Part Of You”, Jamie Grey (Stream)
“Sleeping On My Left”, GASHI (Stream)
“Snow Globe”, Autograf vs. Waterparks (Stream)
“Some Kind Of Love”, Azure Ryder (Stream)
“Stoned At The Nail Salon”, Lorde (Stream)
“Suburbia”, Devon Again (Stream)
“Summerland”, half•alive (Stream)
“Tempo”, Valley (Stream)
“Thank God You Introduced Me To Your Sister”, Sarah Barrios (Stream)
“The Portrait (Ooh La La)”, R3HAB x Gabry Ponte (Stream)
“The Ugly Song”, Jordan Hollywood featuring Timbaland (Stream)
“Thump”, WhoKilledXIX (Stream)
“U & Me”, Kyle Hume (Stream)
“Ur Best Friend”, Kiana Ledé & Kehlani (Stream)
“Waves”, Culture Jam featuring Gunna & Polo G (Stream)
“What U Want”, Lil Xxel featuring Tyga & Coi Leray (Stream)
“Wherever I May Roam”, J Balvin featuring Metallica (Stream)
“Without You (D.O.D Remix)”, Brynn Elliott (Stream)

Next week, the latest albums from Billie Eilish, Bleachers and Prince are among the larger releases on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (July 20, 2021)

Welcome to Add Lib, your Tuesday report on POP! Goes The Charts that’s mad about CHR/Top 40 adds, based on the station data provided by Mediabase 24/7 and Add Board. This week: Pop Smoke pops to the top in a collaboration with pop star Dua Lipa. Let’s add ’em up:

THIS LIST IS SMOKIN’: “Demeanor” scores the top spot on the adds report at the Top 40 format with 62 stations, as the late Pop Smoke teams with Dua Lipa on the lead single from his posthumous Faith album. The song also led the adds report at the Rhythmic format with 46 commitments there. The album is expected to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, while the tune should continue to rise through the end of the summer.

In second place on both the Top 40 and Rhythmic reports, Normani and Cardi B earned 53 and 46 adds, respectively, with “Wild Side”. A new track from Alessia Cara also cracked the top five on the pop radio log, as “Sweet Dream” placed fourth with 36 stations on impact.

Charting singles from Billie Eilish, Maroon 5 and Post Malone returned to the top ten on the adds report this week.

We’ll see you next week for another action-packed adds session.

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
1. POP SMOKE featuring DUA LIPA, “Demeanor” (Victor Victor/Republic)
2. NORMANI featuring CARDI B, “Wild Side” (Keep Cool/RCA)
3. BILLIE EILISH, “NDA” (Darkroom/Interscope)
4. ALESSIA CARA, “Sweet Dream” (Def Jam)
5. THE KID LAROI & JUSTIN BIEBER, “Stay” (Columbia)
6. KANE BROWN x BLACKBEAR, “Memory” (RCA)
7. POST MALONE, “Motley Crew” (Republic)
8. DUA LIPA, “Love Again” (Warner)
9. TWENTY ONE PILOTS, “Saturday” (Fueled By Ramen/EMG)
10. MAROON 5, “Lost” (222/Interscope)

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RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (July 19-20, 2021)

It’s time once again to analyze the airwaves and find out if your favorite new releases will be lighting up your local station’s playlist this week. Which tunes will climb to the top and which ones will hit a stop? Here are five new songs impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

ALESSIA CARA, “Sweet Dream” (Def Jam)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: Cara has struggled at the Top 40 format over the last few years, with four consecutive top ten misses since 2018.

BILLIE EILISH, “NDA” (Darkroom/Interscope)
Album: Happier Than Ever (2021)
Past T40 History: “NDA” ranks at #35 on the chart as of Sunday, marking her eighth top 40 hit and fourth from her upcoming set.

NORMANI featuring CARDI B, “Wild Side” (Keep Cool/RCA)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: Outside of Fifth Harmony, Normani has hit #1 twice at the format in collaborations with Khalid and Sam Smith.

POP SMOKE featuring DUA LIPA, “Demeanor” (Victor Victor/Republic)
Album: Faith (2021)
Past T40 History: Pop Smoke could earn his second posthumous top 40 entry: “What You Know Bout Love” peaked at #8 in April.

TWENTY ONE PILOTS, “Saturday” (Fueled By Ramen/EMG)
Album: Scaled And Icy (2021)
Past T40 History: This duo is looking for their eighth top 40 single on the pop chart. They last appeared in the top ten in late 2016.

Next week: We’ll be people and adds watching with new releases from Camilo/Shawn Mendes and Conan Gray.

How will these songs perform on the adds report? Let me know!

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (July 18, 2021)

Welcome to Radio Active, a Sunday evening report from POP! Goes The Charts that gets to the chart of the matter: all the highlights from the CHR/Top 40 chart, as published by Mediabase 24/7 and Mediabase Research. Gather your crew for what’s popping at the format this week:

REMEMBER THE “NAME”: Earning a second week at #1 on the Top 40 chart, Lil Nas X‘s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” lands just 34 spins ahead of the song at #2: “Good 4 U”, a future #1 at the format for Olivia Rodrigo. Meanwhile, “Montero” advances from 3-1 on the Rhythmic chart.

Post Malone leads a pack of five debuts in the top 40, as “Motley Crew” advances from 43-29 this week. It’s his 15th top 40 song to date. Up from 46-35, Billie Eilish picks up her eighth top 40 single with “NDA”. At three letters in length, it becomes one of the shortest titles to land on the chart, though we’ve had even shorter ones historically, including “Go”, “I”, “If” and “No”. Maroon 5 secures their 30th top 40 entry at the format with another relatively short title, “Lost”, lifting from 45-37. Kane Brown and Blackbear are next at #38 with “Memory”, which debuts at that position. It’s their third and eighth top 40 hits, respectively, though Brown has earned quite a few more on the Country chart. A fifth and final title moves from 41-40 to just sneak into the region, as TikTok star Nic D scores his first top 40 hit with “Fine Apple”. The song now joins a handful of other titles containing apples or pineapples to enter the chart, including “Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”, “Little Green Apples”, “One Bad Apple” and “Pineapple Princess”.

Currently in the top 20 on both the Rhythmic and Urban charts, “Thot Sh*t” twerks onto the pop radio list for Megan Thee Stallion at #49. One spot lower, we have another significant hit from the two radio lists: “Late At Night”, debuting at #50 for Roddy Ricch.

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