NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of April 26, 2024

Things are going swimmingly.

It’s yet another bewitching and bop-filled New Music Friday, including top tunes from Jessie Murph, JT, Normani and many others…

Notable albums out this week: Anitta‘s Funk Generation (Stream), Chandler Leighton‘s Proof You Weren’t The Only One (Stream), Charley Crockett‘s $10 Cowboy (Stream), Diplo‘s Thomas Wesley: The Mixtape (Stream), Jess Glynne‘s Jess (Stream), Justice‘s Hyperdrama (Stream), Laufey‘s Bewitched (Goddess) (Stream), MacKenzie Porter‘s Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart (Stream), PARTYNEXTDOOR‘s PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) (Stream), Pet Shop Boys‘s Nonetheless (Stream), Picture This‘s Parked Car Conversations (Stream), St. Vincent‘s All Born Screaming (Stream), Stephen Sanchez‘s Angel Face (Club Deluxe) (Stream), Teddy Swims‘s I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1.5) (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Dylan Schneider‘s Bad Decisions (Stream), Haven Madison‘s Turn Off All The Lights (Stream), Isaac Dunbar‘s Beep Beep Repeat (Stream), Luke Hemmings‘s Boy (Stream), Ringo Starr‘s Crooked Boy (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“1:59”, Normani featuring Gunna (Stream)
“A Love Like This”, New Kids On The Block (Stream)
“Another Life”, Carter Ryan (Stream)
“Baby Daddy’s Weekend”, Elle King (Stream)
“Backslide”, Twenty One Pilots (Stream)
“Bad Thoughts”, Rachel Platten (Stream)
“Bail Money”, Matt Schuster (Stream)
“Best Part”, Hunter Hayes (Stream)
“Bleachers”, Haiden Henderson (Stream)
“Bumpa”, King & Jason Derulo (Stream)
“Can We Just Be Friends”, James Charles (Stream)
“Can’t Come Back”, Coi Leray (Stream)
“Chiquita”, Giovannie And The Hired Guns (Stream)
“Clotheslined”, Henrik (Stream)
“Cold”, Jessie Murph (Stream)
“Day I Die”, Alexander Stewart (Stream)
“Daydream”, Billianne (Stream)
“Do Better”, Rachel Grae (Stream)
“Dogs Of War”, Mötley Crüe (Stream)
“Drinkin’ Buddies”, Lee Brice, Nate Smith & Hailey Whitters (Stream)
“Drowning In Nostalgia”, Mat Kearney (Stream)
“Dust”, Galantis (Stream)
“End Game”, Cat Burns (Stream)
“Energy In My Town”, Issey Cross (Stream)
“Famous Girl”, Aitch (Stream)
“Feeling Lucky”, BIBI & Jackson Wang (Stream)
“Friday”, The Chainsmokers & Fridayy (Stream)
“Girlfriend Is Better”, Girl In Red (Stream)
“Good Things”, Bea And Her Business (Stream)
“Heatin’ Things Up”, Josh Turner (Stream)
“Highland Girl”, Nathan Evans (Stream)
“How It Ends”, Charlotte Lawrence (Stream)
“I Ain’t A Cowgirl”, Tiera Kennedy (Stream)
“Jenny’s Got A Boyfriend”, Bonnie McKee (Stream)
“Johnny Moonshine”, Maggie Antone (Stream)
“Knocka”, YG (Stream)
“Legs (Keep Dancing)”, Vanessa Williams (Stream)
“Long Yellow Dress”, Train (Stream)
“Lose You Now”, Lily Fitts (Stream)
“Love Me JeJe”, Tems (Stream)
“Love Will Survive”, Barbra Streisand (Stream)
“Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Live/ACM Awards 2023)”, Cody Johnson (Stream)
“Never Been Over (Duet)”, Darius Rucker & Jennifer Nettles (Stream)
“Never Tell”, Luke Chiang (Stream)
“Next To You”, Ole 60 (Stream)
“Past Life”, Paco Versailles (Stream)
“Potential”, Lauv (Stream)
“Recovery”, Aaron Carter (Stream)
“Red Clay”, Kidd G (Stream)
“Sad October” / “Stray”, Jxdn (Stream)
“Scary Love”, Mickey Guyton (Stream)
“See It Like You”, Spencer Crandall (Stream)
“Something You Can Hold”, Mason Ramsey (Stream)
“Split”, Warren Hue (Stream)
“SVO”, Rainbow Kitten Surprise (Stream)
“Take It Slow”, Hudson Westbrook (Stream)
“Taste”, August Moon (Stream)
“The Fire”, Vincent Lima (Stream)
“Vitamins”, Mabel (Stream)
“Winter Jacket”, Shawn Hook (Stream)

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Next week’s releases include: new albums/EPs from Dua Lipa, Rachel Chinouriri, Sia and others.

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of April 28, 2023

Friday is for feeling good.

We’re glad u came to check out the latest New Music Friday releases, including songs from Jason Derulo, Miguel, Niall Horan and many others…

Notable albums out this week: Anna Of The North‘s Crazy Life (Deluxe) (Stream), Bebe Rexha‘s Bebe (Stream), Cole Swindell‘s Stereotype (Broken) (Stream), Diplo‘s Thomas Wesley: Chapter 2 – Swamp Savant (Stream), Freya Ridings‘s Blood Orange (Stream), Griffen Palmer‘s Unlearn (Stream), Illenium‘s Illenium (Stream), Jack Harlow‘s Jackman (Stream), Jessie Ware‘s That! Feels Good! (Stream), Joseph‘s The Sun (Stream), Joy Oladokun‘s Proof Of Life (Stream), KAMAUU‘s Lacuna In The House Of Mirrors (Stream), Kip Moore‘s Damn Love (Stream), Labrinth‘s Ends & Begins (Stream), Matt Maltese‘s Driving Just To Drive (Stream), Nate Smith‘s Nate Smith (Stream), Rema‘s Rave & Roses (Ultra) (Stream), Ryan Beatty‘s Calico (Stream), Shania Twain‘s Queen Of Me (Royal) (Stream), The National‘s First Two Pages Of Frankenstein (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Kevin Atwater‘s Downers Grove (Stream), Peach PRC‘s Manic Dream Pixie (Stream), TAEYANG‘s Down To Earth (Stream), Warren Zeiders‘s Pretty Little Poison (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“4Runner”, Brenn! (Stream)
“18”, Jonah Kagen (Stream)
“American Jesus”, Nessa Barrett (Stream)
“As If”, Glaive (Stream)
“Bittersweet”, Marc Scibilia (Stream)
“Bops” / “My Body”, Coi Leray (Stream)
“Break For You”, Valley (Stream)
“Cold War”, NSB (Stream)
“Cosmos”, Zinadelphia (Stream)
“Crumbled”, ThxSoMch (Stream)
“Die For A Night”, A R I Z O N A (Stream)
“Double XL”, Teee Dollar featuring Shoday & Billirano (Stream)
“Eat The Acid” / “Fine Line”, Kesha (Stream)
“Even If It Hurts”, NERIAH (Stream)
“Fix You”, Cody Fry (Stream)
“Give It To Me”, Miguel (Stream)
“Glad U Came”, Jason Derulo (Stream)
“God Of Rock & Roll”, McFly (Stream)
“Guillotine”, Rival Sons (Stream)
“Heartbreak In The Making”, Dagny (Stream)
“Hopelessly”, Prateek Kuhad (Stream)
“How Soon”, ASTN (Stream)
“I’m Her”, Natalie Jane (Stream)
“In My Head”, Mad Tsai (Stream)
“Inject Me”, Tash Blake (Stream)
“I’ve Loved You For So Long”, The Aces (Stream)
“Just Relax”, Lola Brooke (Stream)
“Last Train To London (I Won’t Look Back)”, Mimi Webb (Stream)
“Live Without Love”, Shouse & David Guetta (Stream)
“Love Letter”, Knox (Stream)
“Meltdown”, Niall Horan (Stream)
“Merry Go Round”, The BLSSM (Stream)
“Miss Me The Same”, Sara Kays & Anson Seabra (Stream)
“Moonshine”, Scoot Teasley (Stream)
“Never Ending Moment”, Des Rocs (Stream)
“New”, Lauren Daigle (Stream)
“No More Lies”, Thundercat & Tame Impala (Stream)
“Only Girl”, Stephen Sanchez (Stream)
“Part Of Your World”, Halle (Bailey) (Stream)
“Push It Down”, L Devine (Stream)
“Raw Raw”, K.Flay (Stream)
“Ribs”, Rachel Chinouriri (Stream)
“Same Thing Every Day”, The Flints (Stream)
“Silly Me”, Jess Glynne (Stream)
“Storage”, Conor Maynard (Stream)
“Sweet Affection”, Ashley Singh (Stream)
“Take The Lonely”, Hayden Coffman (Stream)
“Tall Boi”, Salem Ilese (Stream)
“This Call Is Coming From Inside The House”, Bea Miller (Stream)
“Turn It Up”, Rico Nasty (Stream)
“Unanswered”, Hanniou (Stream)
“Warm A Cold Heart”, Harrison Storm (Stream)
“Whatever It Takes”, Dennis Lloyd (Stream)
“When The Day Is Done”, Grentperez (Stream)
“Without You”, JESSIA (Stream)
“You Tear Me Apart”, Dev Lemons (Stream)

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Next week’s releases include: new albums/EPs from Ed Sheeran, Grandson, Megan Moroney and others.

ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (April 5, 2022)

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: Harry Styles nearly closed the panel in stylish fashion. Let’s add ’em up:

“WAS” WINS: Harry’s House is in the house at the Top 40 format, as the first single from the forthcoming Harry Styles album had a huge day on the adds report with 174 stations reporting on impact. The robust total is just three adds shy of clearing the panel in one week, a very impressive feat. At the Hot AC format, the song was added at 81 of the 94 stations on the panel yesterday. On the pop chart, the song started at #26 on last weekend’s published update, becoming the seventh solo chart entry for Styles to date.

Shawn Mendes also had a fairly strong first week for “When You’re Gone”, which earned 129 stations and a second-place finish. The track took the runner-up position at the Hot AC format yesterday with 51 adds there. It recently became his 13th top 40 hit to date.

Charting singles from Doja Cat, Em Beihold and Pharrell Williams also 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. HARRY STYLES, “As It Was” (Erskine/Columbia)
2. SHAWN MENDES, “When You’re Gone” (Island/Republic)
3. DOJA CAT, “Get Into It (Yuh)” (Kemosabe/RCA)
4. THE WEEKND, “Out Of Time” (XO/Republic)
5. EM BEIHOLD, “Numb Little Bug” (Moon Projects/Republic)
6. OLIVIA ROX, “Been This Way B4” (Songbird)
7. PHARRELL WILLIAMS, “Just A Cloud Away” (Back Lot/Columbia)
8. JNR CHOI, “To The Moon” (Black Butter/Epic)
9. TYGA featuring DOJA CAT, “Freaky Deaky” (EMPIRE-Kemosabe/RCA)
10. DIPLO & MIGUEL, “Don’t Forget My Love” (Higher Ground/Mad Decent)

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (March 29, 2022)

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: The Weeknd has a timely new release for the pop panel. Let’s add ’em up:

“TIME” TO IMPACT: The Weeknd easily led this week’s adds report at the Top 40 format with “Out Of Time”, in with 62 adds on impact. It also had a solid performance at the Hot AC format, earning 21 stations in its first week and a first place finish as well.

In second place, Pharrell Williams scored 27 adds for “Just A Cloud Away”. The single originated on the soundtrack to 2013’s Despicable Me 2, but recently went viral on TikTok and continues to perform very well.

Charting singles from Eddie Benjamin, Em Beihold and Fireboy DML also 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. THE WEEKND, “Out Of Time” (XO/Republic)
2. PHARRELL WILLIAMS, “Just A Cloud Away” (Back Lot/Columbia)
3. TYGA featuring DOJA CAT, “Freaky Deaky” (EMPIRE-Kemosabe/RCA)
4. DIPLO & MIGUEL, “Don’t Forget My Love” (Higher Ground/Mad Decent)
5. EM BEIHOLD, “Numb Little Bug” (Moon Projects/Republic)
6-T. BECKY G & KAROL G, “Mamiii” (Kemosabe/RCA)
6-T. FIREBOY DML x ED SHEERAN, “Peru” (YBNL Nation/EMPIRE/Further.)
8-T. BAKER GRACE, “Midnight Thoughts” (Independent)
8-T. JNR CHOI, “To The Moon” (Black Butter/Epic)
10. EDDIE BENJAMIN, “Weatherman” (Vol. 1/Epic)

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (March 20, 2022)

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. Don’t lose sight of these emerging records…

X-TRA TIME: Five weeks ago, Lil Nas X led the Top 40 radio chart with “That’s What I Want”, his third consecutive #1 hit from the album Montero. Now, it returns to the top for a second nonconsecutive week. All three cuts have now spent a combined total of five weeks at the top spot since July of last year.

In the top 40, “Don’t Forget My Love” jumps from 43-37 for Diplo and Miguel, taken from the former’s self-titled release. It’s the ninth solo credit for Diplo in the top 40, while Miguel earns his sixth entry into the region. Mimi Webb heats up from 42-38 with “House On Fire”, the second top 40 entry for the singer in under a year. It recently reached the top ten in both the U.K. and Ireland. Iann Dior climbs from 44-39 with “Let You”, also marking his second top 40 hit at the format. Lastly, Jena Rose lifts from 41-40 with “Checkmate”, her first top 40 song.

From HBO’s Euphoria, “I’m Tired” is in at #41 on the chart, as Labrinth and Zendaya enter with their first collaboration together. The duo Lawrence debuts at #44 with “Don’t Lose Sight”, which was recently heard in a Microsoft commercial. Ylona Garcia entertains the format at #46 with “Entertain Me”, while Yung Bleu and Kehlani decorate with #48 spot with “Beautiful Lies”, a recent #1 single on the Rhythmic radio chart.

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RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (March 7-8, 2022)

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 six songs impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER, “Complete Mess” (BMG)
Album: TBA (2022)
Chart Position: #37 (3/6/22)
T40 Hits To Date: 12

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CAMILA CABELLO featuring ED SHEERAN, “Bam Bam” (Syco/Epic)
Album: TBA (2022)
Chart Position: #35 (3/6/22)
T40 Hits To Date: 16 (Cabello – solo appearances) / 26 (Sheeran)

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DIPLO & MIGUEL, “Don’t Forget My Love” (Higher Ground/Mad Decent)
Album: Diplo (2022)
Chart Position: #45 (3/6/22)
T40 Hits To Date: 8 (Diplo – includes LSD, Silk City) / 5 (Miguel)

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LABRINTH & ZENDAYA, “I’m Tired” (HBO/Columbia)
Album: Euphoria: Season 2 (Soundtrack) (2022)
Chart Position: #97 (3/6/22)
T40 Hits To Date: 3 (Labrinth – includes LSD) / 2 (Zendaya)

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LAWRENCE, “Don’t Lose Sight” (Beautiful Mind/Lakeside)
Album: Hotel TV (2021)
Chart Position: #59 (3/6/22)
T40 Hits To Date: None

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OMAH LAY & JUSTIN BIEBER, “Attention” (Sire/Warner)
Album: TBA (2022)
Chart Position: #57 (3/6/22)
T40 Hits To Date: None (Lay) / 38 (Bieber)

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of March 4, 2022

Bam! It’s another New Music Friday.

Attention: it’s the first New Music Friday for the month of March, which serves us new albums from Diplo, Dolly Parton and Sueco and singles from 5 Seconds Of Summer, Camila Cabello and Omah Lay…

Notable albums out this week: Band Of Horses‘s Things Are Great (Stream), Bob Moses‘s The Silence In Between (Stream), Chelsea Cutler‘s When I Close My Eyes (Deluxe) (Stream), DaBaby & YoungBoy Never Broke Again‘s Better Than You (Stream), Diplo‘s Diplo (Stream), Dolly Parton‘s Run Rose Run (Stream), Elevation Worship‘s Lion (Stream), King Von‘s What It Means To Be King (Stream), LÉON‘s Circles (Stream), MICHELLE‘s After Dinner We Talk Dreams (Stream), Peach Pit‘s From 2 To 3 (Stream), Sabaton‘s The War To End All Wars (Stream), Sueco‘s It Was Fun While It Lasted (Stream), Tinashe‘s 333 (Deluxe) (Stream), Yung Bae‘s Groove Continental: Side A (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Arden Jones‘s Age Tape 2 (Stream), BENEE‘s Lychee (Stream), Caspr‘s Untitled (Vol. 1) (Stream), Dora Jar‘s Comfortably In Pain (Stream), Machine Gun Kelly‘s Lockdown Sessions (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“Angelica”, Wet Leg (Stream)
“Another Man’s Jeans”, Ashe (Stream)
“At The End Of The Day”, Wallows (Stream)
“Attention”, Omah Lay & Justin Bieber (Stream)
“Ay!”, Machine Gun Kelly & Lil Wayne (Stream)
“Baby”, Charli XCX (Stream)
“Bam Bam”, Camila Cabello featuring Ed Sheeran (Stream)
“Better Off Without Me”, Matt Hansen (Stream)
“Black & White”, Sad Night Dynamite (Stream)
“Body Language”, Gavin Haley (Stream)
“Bring Back The Time”, New Kids On The Block featuring En Vogue, Rick Astley & Salt-N-Pepa (Stream)
“Buffalo Stance”, Robyn featuring Mapei (Stream)
“California”, Luke Sital-Singh (Stream)
“Cold”, Solence & Sarah Barrios (Stream)
“Come & Go”, ArrDee (Stream)
“Complete Mess”, 5 Seconds Of Summer (Stream)
“Confidence”, Blake Rose (Stream)
“Cooler Than Me”, Lancey Foux (Stream)
“Counterfeit”, Exit & 44Blonde (Stream)
“Crying In The Rain”, Ali Gatie (Stream)
“Dark”, Alesso (Stream)
“Dark Night”, Warren Zeiders (Stream)
“Dear Denny”, Leah Kate (Stream)
“Deserve It”, Shenseea (Stream)
“Do It Again”, Cochise (Stream)
“Down Bad”, Fash (Stream)
“Down To The Bar”, Cole Swindell featuring HARDY (Stream)
“Elliot’s Song”, Dominic Fike & Zendaya (Stream)
“Everything I Didn’t Say”, Ella Henderson (Stream)
“Favorite Human”, Poo Bear (Stream)
“Feeling Good Feeling Great”, Nicole Millar (Stream)
“Feels Like Magic”, Sarah Proctor (Stream)
“FFlow”, Rozzi (Stream)
“Forget About Us”, Albin Lee Meldau (Stream)
“Forgive Me”, Sofi Tukker & Mahmut Orhan (Stream)
“Frozen (Fireboy DML Remix)”, Madonna & Sickick (Stream)
“Get It”, Keshi (Stream)
“Gr8 Timing!”, Fanclubwallet (Stream)
“Head On Fire”, Griff & Sigrid featuring King Princess & MØ (Stream)
“Hear Me Clearly”, Pusha T & Nigo (Stream)
“Heartbursts”, Lucius (Stream)
“History”, Mitch James (Stream)
“How Are You Not Freaking Out?”, Greta Isaac (Stream)
“How To Be Alone”, Rachel Grae (Stream)
“Hurricane”, Cannons (Stream)
“I See You”, Party Favor featuring Marc E. Bassy (Stream)
“Is It Worth Being Sad”, Meg Mac (Stream)
“Jealous”, Gavin James (Stream)
“Keep Hoping”, Tayler Buono (Stream)
“Last Call”, Khalid (Stream)
“Last Man On Earth”, Anna Bates (Stream)
“Lately”, Hotboii (Stream)
“Leave You Alone”, Kane Brown (Stream)
“Light Switch (Tiësto Remix)”, Charlie Puth (Stream)
“Lost”, Charlotte Sands (Stream)
“Lost Track”, HAIM (Stream)
“Love Runs Out”, Great Good Fine OK (Stream)
“Matinee”, Delaney Jane (Stream)
“Mercy”, Sir Chloe (Stream)
“More”, Between Friends (Stream)
“Moves”, Amelia Moore (Stream)
“Mr. Forgettable”, David Kushner (Stream)
“Next Life”, ROSIE (Stream)
“Night Away (Dance)”, A1 x J1 featuring Tion Wayne (Stream)
“Nowhere To Hide”, Kamal. (Stream)
“On Your Own”, Hayden James & Cassian featuring Elderbrook (Stream)
“Opiate²”, Tool (Stream)
“Out Of My Mind”, The China Blue (Stream)
“Over”, Tom The Mail Man (Stream)
“Oxygen”, Emeli Sandé (Stream)
“Palpitations”, Kid Sistr (Stream)
“Payback”, Cheat Codes featuring Icona Pop (Stream)
“Pearl”, Larissa Lambert (Stream)
“Phoebe Told Me”, Sydney Rose (Stream)
“Pink Rover”, Scene Queen (Stream)
“Poster Child”, Red Hot Chili Peppers (Stream)
“Power”, MILCK (Stream)
“Power Power”, DUCKWRTH featuring Shaun Ross (Stream)
“Reckoning”, Arkells (Stream)
“Sabada”, Filous & Daði Freyr (Stream)
“Same Team”, Alice Merton (Stream)
“Seventeen”, Wild Youth (Stream)
“Shut Up”, Mia Rodriguez (Stream)
“Skeleton Cartier”, Popcaan (Stream)
“Sleeping On The Floor”, Powfu (Stream)
“Spine Curves”, Sir Sly (Stream)
“Stalker”, Stevie Howie (Stream)
“Stay”, PUBLIC (Stream)
“Still Here”, Morray featuring Cordae (Stream)
“Struck Gold”, Renao (Stream)
“Teeth”, Mallrat (Stream)
“Thank You”, Lennon Stella (Stream)
“That’s Why”, Troy Cartwright (Stream)
“The Days”, Sandro Cavazza (Stream)
“Trampoline”, David Guetta & Afrojack featuring Missy Elliott, Bia & Doecchi (Stream)
“Try Peace…”, Tiana Major9 (Stream)
“Turned Heads”, Janey Jacké & Lady Bee (Stream)
“Twenties”, Ghost (Stream)
“Watercolor Puddles”, Aldrch & Poptropicaslutz! (Stream)
“What Dreams Are Made Of”, Brent Morgan (Stream)
“Wildfire”, Dynoro (Stream)
“WTSGD”, CLAY & Alessia Cara (Stream)

Next week, the new albums from for KING & COUNTRY and Rex Orange County are among the largest releases on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (March 1, 2022)

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: Kygo and DNCE get the Top 40 radio panel dancing and reporting. Let’s add ’em up:

“FEET” DON’T FAIL ME NOW: It was a more moderate start for the new collaboration from Kygo and DNCE, which led the adds report at the Top 40 format this week. “Dancing Feet” waltzed in with 59 stations on impact, well ahead of the tracks tied for the runner-up spot. It also tied for the Most Added title at the Hot AC format yesterday, scoring another 18 adds there. “Dancing” edged in at #49 on the pop chart last weekend and is currently seeing a nice climb for the next published update.

Watch out for emerging releases from Diplo & Miguel (18 adds) and Mimi Webb (17 adds), which are also beginning to see some action.

Charting singles from Avril Lavigne, Dove Cameron and Em Beihold also 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. KYGO featuring DNCE, “Dancing Feet” (RCA)
2-T. CAST OF “ENCANTO”, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (Walt Disney/Hollywood)
2-T. TATE MCRAE, “She’s All I Wanna Be” (RCA)
4. IMAGINE DRAGONS x JID, “Enemy” (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope)
5-T. DIPLO & MIGUEL, “Don’t Forget My Love” (Higher Ground/Mad Decent)
5-T. DOVE CAMERON, “Boyfriend” (Disruptor/Columbia)
7. MIMI WEBB, “House On Fire” (Epic)
8. AVRIL LAVIGNE featuring BLACKBEAR, “Love It When You Hate Me” (DTA/EMG)
9. EM BEIHOLD, “Numb Little Bug” (Moon Projects/Republic)
10. TIESTO & AVA MAX, “The Motto” (Atlantic)

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (February 27, 2022)

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. A-b-see you at the top spot…

THE GAYLES OF FEBRUARY: Format newcomer GAYLE earns her first #1 song at the Top 40 format with “Abcdefu”, rising from 2-1 in its 12th week in the countdown. It’s taken from her upcoming EP titled A Study Of The Human Experience (Volume One), due on March 18.

Actress and singer Dove Cameron leaps from 49-40 with “Boyfriend”, marking this week’s only top 40 entry. It’s her first song to chart.

In the top 50, there are three additional debuts: Diplo and Miguel come in at #48 with “Don’t Forget My Love”, which appears in the top 20 at the Dance radio format. Next, Kygo and DNCE shimmy into the #49 spot with “Dancing Feet”, a tune which impacts at the Top 40 format this week. Lastly, the #1 song at the Rhythmic and Urban formats starts at #50: “Super Gremlin”, new from Kodak Black and Syko Bob.

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of December 18, 2020

Don’t cry, it’s New Music Friday.

Feel free to listen to these New Music Friday releases once or twice today, including the new albums from Maggie Rogers and Paul McCartney, as well as fresh singles from Jxdn and TWICE. Have a holly jolly streaming party:

Notable albums out this week: Contradash‘s All-Star (iTunes), Diplo‘s Thomas Wesley, Chapter 1: Snake Oil (Deluxe) (iTunes), Eminem‘s Music To Be Murdered By: Side B (Deluxe) (iTunes), G-Eazy‘s The Beautiful & Damned (Deluxe) (iTunes), Maggie Rogers‘s Notes From The Archive: Recordings 2011-2016 (iTunes), Mike Posner‘s Operation: Wake Up (iTunes), Paul McCartney‘s McCartney III (iTunes), Quinn Lewis‘s Everyone But Me (iTunes), Riz La Vie‘s Feed. (Deluxe) (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: Hayley Williams‘s Petals For Armor: Self-Serenades (iTunes), J.I The Prince Of N.Y‘s Hood Life Krisis, Vol. 3 (iTunes), Kiesza‘s Dark Tales (iTunes), Rook Monroe‘s Californialand (iTunes), Shaylen‘s Goodbye (Acoustic Sessions) (iTunes), The Wrecks‘s Static (iTunes), Tokyo’s Revenge‘s Lilium (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“Aegean”, Push Baby (iTunes)
“All I Need (Rudimental Remix)”, Jake Bugg (iTunes)
“All The Smoke”, Tyla Waweh featuring Gunna & Wiz Khalifa (iTunes)
“Arizona”, UPSAHL (iTunes)
“Better”, Mike Donehey (iTunes)
“Better Off Dead”, Jxdn (iTunes)
“Blessings”, DVSN (iTunes)
“Breathless”, Caroline Polachek (iTunes)
“Chop Suey!”, August Burns Red (iTunes)
“Cry For Me”, TWICE (iTunes)
“Cycles”, Peter Thomas (iTunes)
“Desperados”, MILES (iTunes)
“Don’t Stop Me Eatin'”, LadBaby (iTunes)
“Every Girl I Ever Loved”, Noah Schnacky (iTunes)
“Exes”, Loote (iTunes)
“Fever (Oklou Remix)”, Dua Lipa & Angèle (iTunes)
“FTL”, James Droll (iTunes)
“Georgia On My Mind”, Broadway For Georgia (iTunes)
“Get In The Way”, Glades (iTunes)
“Goodbye”, Imanbek & Goodboys (iTunes)
“Gum”, CupcakKe (iTunes)
“Hallway Weather”, NIKI (iTunes)
“Happiness (Dyro Remix)”, John K (iTunes)
“Here’s To The Nights”, Ringo Starr (iTunes)
“Hold On To Me”, Sofia Carson (iTunes)
“How I Been”, YoungBoy Never Broke Again (iTunes)
“Holy”, Justin Bieber featuring Chance The Rapper & The Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Choir (iTunes)
“I Believe In Santa Claus”, Rob Thomas & Abby Anderson (iTunes)
“I Miss U (Joel Corry Remix)”, Jax Jones & Au/Ra (iTunes)
“I Need You To Hate Me (Alle Farben Remix)”, JC Stewart (iTunes)
“I’m F**ked, I Know”, Munn & Delanie Leclerc (iTunes)
“Last Christmas”, Great Good Fine OK & Abigail Barlow (iTunes)
“Learning To Fly”, Sheppard (iTunes)
“Lemonade”, Twin XL (iTunes)
“Maybe I’ll Be Alone For Christmas”, Kevin Garrett (iTunes)
“No Hopeless Soul”, Stephen Stanley (iTunes)
“November Sleep”, Lostboycrow (iTunes)
“OK”, Lil Skies (iTunes)
“Ones You Miss”, R3HAB (iTunes)
“Options”, EARTHGANG x Wale (iTunes)
“Redemption”, Nathaniel Rateliff (iTunes)
“Relations”, Felix Sandman featuring Astrid S (iTunes)
“She’s My Religion”, Pale Waves (iTunes)
“Should’ve Let Go”, Jackson Wang & JJ Lin (iTunes)
“Slow Down”, Why Don’t We (iTunes)
“Something Good”, Hux (iTunes)
“Take Me Out Of It”, Olivia Holt (iTunes)
“This Is Gonna Be Our Year”, HOKO (iTunes)
“Throw My Arms Around The World”, LeAnn Rimes (iTunes)
“Truth”, Brandon Colbein (iTunes)
“Villain”, Lily Rose (iTunes)
“Waking Up Is Hard To Do”, The WLDLFE (iTunes)
“Wasted Energy”, Alicia Keys featuring Diamond Platnumz & Kaash Paige (iTunes)
“When The Lights Go Down”, Bonnie Tyler (iTunes)
“White Tiger”, Elliphant (iTunes)
“Wish List”, Yo Gotti (iTunes)
“With Myself (MUNA Remix)”, Winona Oak (iTunes)
“World”, Lonr. (iTunes)

Next week, new releases are limited due to Christmas. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

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