NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of December 20, 2019

Hey there, you cool cats, it’s the week before Christmas and you’re looking for some new music. These albums and singles hit stores this Friday:

Notable albums out this week: Gucci Mane‘s East Atlanta Santa 3 (iTunes), Laleh‘s Postcards (iTunes), NLE Choppa‘s Cottonwood (iTunes), Popcaan‘s Vanquish (iTunes), Sam Setton‘s My Dream Girl Is My Ex Now (iTunes), Cats (Soundtrack) (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: DaniLeigh‘s My Present (iTunes), Emmit Fenn‘s Until We Meet Again (iTunes), Trixie Mattel‘s Moving Parts (Acoustic Soundtrack) (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again (Purple Disco Machine Remix)”, Elton John & Taron Egerton (iTunes)
“Alive”, Daughtry (iTunes)
“Before You Go (Piano Version)”, Lewis Capaldi (iTunes)
“Better Half Of Me (Ferreck Dawn Remix)”, Tom Walker (iTunes)
“Blue”, Keshi (iTunes)
“Camouflage”, The Front Bottoms (iTunes)
“City Of Angels”, Cub Sport (iTunes)
“FCUKIZYOUDOIN”, Kid Ink (iTunes)
“Hell Bound (Ad 01)”, Vince Staples (iTunes)
“High Heels (Acoustic)”, Melanie C (iTunes)
“Lovers + Strangers (Mark Maxwell Remix)”, Starley (iTunes)
“M.I.A. (Cahill Remix)”, Cher Lloyd (iTunes)
“Maybe”, SoMo (iTunes)
“Memories (Devault Remix)”, Maroon 5 (iTunes)
“Mirage (Don’t Stop) (Benji B. Dub)”, Jessie Ware (iTunes)
“Motives”, Kenzie (iTunes)
“Not Around (Acoustic)”, Zac Pajak (iTunes)
“Other People”, Lxandra (iTunes)
“Purpose”, Calboy featuring G Herbo (iTunes)
“Put Your Hands Up (Deepend Remix)”, Forest Blakk (iTunes)
“Saboteur”, Aaron Taos (iTunes)
“Sell My Soul”, Sigma featuring Maverick Sabre (iTunes)
“Skip This Christmas”, Bruce Wiegner (iTunes)
“So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings (A.G. Cook Remix)”, Caroline Polachek (iTunes)
“Stargazing (Tariq Pijning Remix)”, Kygo & Justin Jesso (iTunes)
“The Truth (Sam Feldt Remix)”, James Blunt (iTunes)
“To The People I Hurt”, Lauren Sanderson (iTunes)
“Why Are You Here”, Machine Gun Kelly (iTunes)
“Why U Look Mad”, Lil Tecca (iTunes)

Expect some smaller updates during the next few weeks as we head closer to the holiday season. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of June 21, 2019

Feeling like a good Friday for new music…

The feelings of summer and highly-anticipated music meet in the middle this week, as we welcome some excellent names and releases into the market. Here are the top new albums and singles hitting stores this Friday:

LIL NAS X – 7 (EP) (iTunes)
Features: “Old Town Road”, the #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for the past eleven weeks that’s also led the Rhythmic and Urban radio charts, as well as the newly-released cut “Panini”

MARK RONSON – Late Night Feelings (iTunes)
Features: The Camila Cabello-assisted “Find U Again” and the Miley Cyrus-assisted “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart”, both of which charted at the Hot AC and Top 40 radio formats, the former of which is currently in the top 40 at both

THE RACONTEURS – Help Us Stranger (iTunes)
Features: “Help Me Stranger”, a current top 40 track on both the Alternative and Triple A radio charts, as well as “Now That You’re Gone” and “Sunday Driver”, two prior singles from the project

Notable albums out this week: Aaron Watson‘s Red Bandana (iTunes), Ben Rector‘s MAGIC: Live From The USA (iTunes), Collective Soul‘s Blood (iTunes), Gucci Mane‘s Delusions Of Grandeur (iTunes), Prince‘s Originals (iTunes), The Rolling Stones‘s Bridges To Bremen (Live) (iTunes), Trina‘s The One (iTunes), Two Door Cinema Club‘s False Alarm (iTunes), Unspoken‘s Reason (iTunes), Will Young‘s Lexicon (iTunes), Willie Nelson‘s Ride Me Back Home (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: Emily Burns‘s PDA (iTunes), ILOVEMAKONNEN‘s M3 (iTunes), Kevin McHale‘s Boy (iTunes), Lukr‘s Sunstead (iTunes), SG Lewis‘s Dawn (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“(Gonna Take) A Little Time”, Paul Loren (iTunes)
“20th Century Boy”, Brasko featuring Mr. Gabriel (iTunes)
“All My Love”, Sabrina Claudio & Wale (iTunes)
“All The Time”, Zara Larsson (iTunes)
“And I Am A Woman”, Angie McMahon (iTunes)
“Angeline”, Seramic (iTunes)
“Another One”, Kim Petras (iTunes)
“Bad Idea”, YBN Cordae featuring Chance The Rapper (iTunes)
“Better”, Corey Harper (iTunes)
“Come On Over”, Pretty Sister (iTunes)
“Crown”, Stormzy (iTunes)
“Crybaby”, Pia Mia featuring Theron Theron (iTunes)
“Dancing With Nobody”, Austin Mahone (iTunes)
“Dang”, Top Bunk (iTunes)
“Do You”, Elle Winter (iTunes)
“Door”, Caroline Polachek (iTunes)
“Easy”, Kyd The Band & Elley Duhé (iTunes)
“Eat Your Heart Out”, Walk The Moon (iTunes)
“Elvis”, Skela (iTunes)
“Expensive”, Rence featuring Noah Cyrus (iTunes)
“Feel Something”, Bea Miller (iTunes)
“Generational Divide”, Blink-182 (iTunes)
“Greenlight”, Jonas Brothers (iTunes)
“Hummingbird”, Mark Diamond (iTunes)
“I Don’t Know You Anymore (Demo)”, Sody (iTunes)
“I’m So Sorry”, Hearts & Colors (iTunes)
“ICLYA”, Mokita (iTunes)
“Identity Crisis”, Emily Weisband (iTunes)
“Imagination”, Foster The People (iTunes)
“Is It Even You?”, Hannah Jane Lewis (iTunes)
“Just Another Dreamer”, Myzica (iTunes)
“Leave It All Behind”, Sleeping With Sirens (iTunes)
“Left Me Yet”, Daya (iTunes)
“Little Things”, Jessica Mauboy (iTunes)
“Lonely Night”, ALMA (iTunes)
“Love It”, UNSECRET featuring Ivory Lane (iTunes)
“Loved You Once (Demo)”, Clara Mae (iTunes)
“Megatron”, Nicki Minaj (iTunes)
“Minute”, Parson James (iTunes)
“Miracle Pill”, Goo Goo Dolls (iTunes)
“Mount Everest”, Labrinth (iTunes)
“Nostalgic”, A R I Z O N A (iTunes)
“One Thing Right”, Marshmello & Kane Brown (iTunes)
“Pretty”, Ingrid Michaelson (iTunes)
“Run Game”, Lupe Fiasco (iTunes)
“Runaway”, Sebastian Yatra, Daddy Yankee, Jonas Brothers & Natti Natasha (iTunes)
“Say Less”, Alex Harris (iTunes)
“Señorita”, Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (iTunes)
“Short Kings Anthem”, Blackbear & Tiny Meat Gang (iTunes)
“Stacy”, Quinn XCII (iTunes)
“Start Again”, Jamie N Commons (iTunes)
“Stitch”, Allan Rayman (iTunes)
“Strangers”, City And Colour (iTunes)
“Stripper Bowl”, Migos (iTunes)
“Swimming Pool”, Millie Turner (iTunes)
“That’s Life”, 88-Keys featuring Mac Miller and Sia (iTunes)
“The First One (Acoustic)”, Astrid S (iTunes)
“The Lake”, Wylder (iTunes)
“This Is Magic”, A Great Big World (iTunes)
“Time Waits For No One”, Freddie Mercury (iTunes)
“Typical Story”, Hobo Johnson (iTunes)
“Underground”, Lindsey Stirling (iTunes)
“Waking Up”, Fly By Midnight (iTunes)
“What Do I Do?”, Georgia Ku (iTunes)
“Would You Ever”, Luke Christopher (iTunes)

Next week, look out for new albums from Ingrid Michaelson, The Black Keys and more. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (January 8, 2019)

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: Post Malone wows the Top 40 panel with another reactive single, as the Backstreet Boys take their chances on a second release from their forthcoming album. Let’s add ’em up:

OUR LATEST POST: Though hot releases by Ava Max, Bad Bunny featuring Drake, Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus and Zara Larsson remained strong on the leaderboard for the first session of 2019, it was Post Malone and his new track “Wow.” leading this week’s Top 40 report. The song impacted with 78 stations at the format, while also collecting 55 adds on the Rhythmic panel, the Most Added song there, and 40 adds at Urban radio, taking a fifth place finish. Over the holiday break, “Wow.” topped a few different sales and streaming charts, including the main U.S. lists on Apple Music, iTunes and Spotify. Look for it to climb into the top 40 here by the end of the week.

Following the band’s top 20 hit “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” from last year, the Backstreet Boys are well on their way to a second chart entry off their new set DNA, out in just over two weeks. “Chances” impacts with a pretty solid 22 stations and a seventh place finish this week. It’s already in the top 20 on the Hot AC chart, a format where “Don’t” reached the top ten.

Next week, look out for impacting songs by Lauren Daigle (at #10 this week) and Sam Smith & Normani to dominate the list.

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
1. POST MALONE, “Wow.” (Republic)
2. MARK RONSON featuring MILEY CYRUS, “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” (RCA)
3. AVA MAX, “Sweet But Psycho” (APG/Atlantic)
4. ZARA LARSSON, “Ruin My Life” (TEN/Epic)
5. BAD BUNNY featuring DRAKE, “MIA” (Rimas/OVO Sound/Warner Bros.)
6. LOUD LUXURY featuring BRANDO, “Body” (Armada/in2une)
7-T. BACKSTREET BOYS, “Chances” (RCA)
7-T. GUCCI MANE, BRUNO MARS & KODAK BLACK, “Wake Up In The Sky” (Atlantic)
9. MADISON BEER featuring OFFSET, “Hurts Like Hell” (First Access/in2une)
10. LAUREN DAIGLE, “You Say” (Centricity/12Tone/Warner Bros.)

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (December 16, 2018)

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. We certainly have the highest of hopes for a great 2019, but there are a couple of more weeks until the calendar changes. Until then, here’s what’s popping this week:

NO NEED TO PANIC: Panic! At The Disco leads the Alternative, Hot AC and Top 40 lists for the second week in a row with the song “High Hopes”, a cut from their album Pray For The Wicked. Individually, it’s spending its sixth, third and second weeks on top of those respective formats. So, there’s no need to panic (other than with Panic!) this holiday season… look for the song to hold at #1 for the duration of the usual freeze, remaining firmly ahead of the competition at all three formats. On the Top 40 airwaves, Ariana Grande‘s hit “Breathin” is waiting in the wings, remaining at #2, while Halsey‘s “Without Me” sticks it out at #4 again this week.

With several songs being purged this week ahead of the holidays, there are four new titles entering the top 40 this week. The highest is in at #36, the fourth top 40 hit for the Danish band Lukas Graham. “Love Someone” can be found on 3 (The Purple Album), the latest set by the act, which was released in late October. Their biggest hit at the format, “7 Years”, spent a week at #1 in May 2016. In at #38, Rita Ora returns to the top 40 with her sixth entry, “Let You Love Me”. The single has already reached the top ten in quite a few countries, including Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. “Wake Up In The Sky”, a recent #1 song on the Rhythmic and Urban charts, jumps in at #39 this week, giving Gucci Mane his fourth top 40 single (and the first in a lead role), Bruno Mars his 20th and Kodak Black his first. Mane’s album Evil Genius should debut in the top five on the upcoming Billboard 200 list. Finally, at #40, “I Found You” pairs Benny Blanco and Calvin Harris together, giving the former his second chart hit as an artist

Ella Mai has the week’s highest new entry in the top 50 with “Trip”, climbing aboard at #46. It’s also the new #1 single at Rhythmic radio on the current update. Two notches lower, “Arms Around You” enters at #48, credited to four performers: XXXTentaction x Lil Pump featuring Maluma & Swae Lee. It’s another of the Rhythmic crossovers on the Top 40 list; “Arms” is rising through the top 20 there. “You Say” is also new to the top 50, coming in at #50 for Christian crossover star Lauren Daigle. It’s her first track at this format to chart, though she’s had plenty of hit songs in the religious music world.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from PGTC!

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of December 7, 2018

A genius holiday gift.

The Evil forces are out to get you this Friday! Will they be strong enough to take the spot on the Billboard 200 survey? These are the notable digital and physical releases out this Friday:

GUCCI MANE – Evil Genius (iTunes)
Featuring the current #1 hit on the Rhythmic and Urban radio charts, “Wake Up In The Sky”, a collaboration with Bruno Mars and Kodak Black, the set could become Mane’s first #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. He’s had a pair of albums peak at #2 since 2016.

21 SAVAGE – I Am > I Was (iTunes)
This performer made the top five on the Billboard 200 survey twice in 2017 with a solo set and a collaborative effort with Offset and Metro Boomin. We’ll see if his latest solo outing is savage enough to return to the region. (It very likely will.)

Notable albums out this week: Bastille‘s Other People’s Heartache, Pt. 4 (iTunes), Brett Young‘s Ticket To L.A. (iTunes), Coldplay‘s Live In Buenos Aires (iTunes), Cold War Kids‘s This Will All Blow Over In Time (iTunes), John Mellencamp‘s Other People’s Stuff (iTunes), LP‘s Heart To Mouth (iTunes), Plested‘s First & Foremost (iTunes), XXXTentacion‘s Skins (iTunes), Mary Poppins Returns (Soundtrack) (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: AFI‘s The Missing Man (iTunes), Benny Blanco‘s Friends Keep Secrets (iTunes), Justin Jesso‘s Let It Be Me (iTunes), SHY Martin‘s Overthinking (iTunes), Smallpools‘s Social (iTunes), Tyde Levi‘s Tyde Levi (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“8 Letters (Party Pupils Remix)”, Why Don’t We (iTunes)
“All Into Nothing”, R3HAB & Mokita (iTunes)
“Alive” and “Wrapped Up”, Natalie Portman (iTunes)
“Animals”, RØMANS (iTunes)
“As Long As I’m With You”, Omi featuring CMC$ (iTunes)
“Bad Night”, Joshua Speers (iTunes)
“Better Now”, Yuna (iTunes)
“Call Your Girlfriend”, Clara Mae (iTunes)
“Catch Me If You Can”, Kelsy Karter (iTunes)
“Closer”, Astrid S (iTunes)
“Come With Us”, Bronze Radio Return (iTunes)
“Cowboy (Just Kiddin Remix)”, ALMA (iTunes)
“Done (Acoustic)”, Nikki Vianna (iTunes)
“Dragonflies”, SVRCINA (iTunes)
“Emotional Karate”, Gracen Hill featuring Lukr (iTunes)
“Everything Or Nothing”, Picture This (iTunes)
“Feelin Like”, Flipp Dinero (iTunes)
“Gimme Your Love”, Stan Walker (iTunes)
“Glow (Acoustic)”, Gavin James (iTunes)
“Good Years”, ZAYN (iTunes)
“Grip”, Seeb x Bastille (iTunes)
“Hey Julie!”, KYLE featuring Lil Yachty (iTunes)
“How Can I Forget (Ryan Riback Remix)”, MKTO (iTunes)
“How You Love Me”, Hardwell featuring Conor Maynard & Snoop Dogg (iTunes)
“Hurt”, Oliver Tree (iTunes)
“I Don’t Think About You”, HRVY (iTunes)
“K For Christmas”, Lil Mosey (iTunes)
“Last Christmas”, James TW (iTunes)
“Let You Know”, Sody (iTunes)
“Losing My Mind (Acoustic)”, Betcha (iTunes)
“Love Has No Limits”, Fleurie (iTunes)
“Neighborhood”, American Authors featuring Bear Rinehart (iTunes)
“No Fun”, birthday (iTunes)
“Operate”, Vesperteen (iTunes)
“Prefer The Rain”, Luke Christopher (iTunes)
“Project Dreams”, Marshmello x Roddy Ricch (iTunes)
“Real Estate”, Adam Melchor (iTunes)
“Ride Wit U”, Millie Go Lightly (iTunes)
“Sexual Vibe”, Stephen Puth (iTunes)
“Thursday (Nicky Romero Remix)”, Jess Glynne (iTunes)
“Touch Down (Remix)”, Stylo G x The Fanatix featuring Nicki Minaj & Vybz Kartel (iTunes)
“Twenty One”, Greyson Chance (iTunes)
“White House”, Bibi Bourelly (iTunes)

Next week: look out for new albums from Bruce Springsteen, Mitchell Tenpenny, Offset, ZAYN and more. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (December 4, 2018)

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: we break it down with two former chart-toppers at the format on that trip to the top of the adds report that we do every Tuesday. So, let’s add ’em up:

NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A CHART: After a top five debut on iTunes and plenty of early radio action, “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” scores big this week for Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus, picking up 82 stations on impact. The song will be featured on a forthcoming album by Ronson, due sometime in 2019. No other track comes close to that total on the latest update, but another hit that’s impacting this week finishes in the runner-up position with 25 new stations. The latest crossover track from R&B singer Ella Mai is “Trip”, which recently reached #1 on the Urban chart and remains in the top five on the Rhythmic chart. Otherwise, most of the songs in the top ten this week are repeat titles and/or already established hits trying to close out the panel.

Next week is anyone’s guess, as no prominent titles are currently scheduled to impact. Stay tuned for more information.

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
1. MARK RONSON featuring MILEY CYRUS, “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” (RCA)
2. ELLA MAI, “Trip” (10 Summers/Interscope)
3-T. DJ SNAKE featuring SELENA GOMEZ, OZUNA & CARDI B, “Taki Taki” (Geffen/Interscope)
3-T. ELLIE GOULDING x DIPLO featuring SWAE LEE, “Close To Me” (Interscope)
3-T. THE CHAINSMOKERS featuring KELSEA BALLERINI, “This Feeling” (Disruptor/Columbia)
6-T. GUCCI MANE, BRUNO MARS & KODAK BLACK, “Wake Up In The Sky” (Atlantic)
6-T. XXXTENTACTION x LIL PUMP featuring MALUMA & SWAE LEE, “Arms Around You” (EMPIRE-Warner Bros.)
8. KHALID, “Better” (Right Hand/RCA)
9-T. ARIANA GRANDE, “Thank U, Next” (Republic)
9-T. RITA ORA, “Let You Love Me” (Warner Bros.)

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (November 25, 2018)

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. Black Friday may be over, but there are still plenty of hot sellers to be found here on the pop airwaves. Seeing green yet? Here’s all the action this Sunday:

HAPPIER THAN BEFORE: Leading the Top 40 chart for the second week, “Happier” by Marshmello x Bastille is still gaining nicely at the format, as the recent Alternative radio chart-topper stays at #2 on that list. With Panic! At The Disco‘s “High Hopes” holding steady at #1 there and climbing 5-2 on the Top 40 survey, the published charts at the two formats contain the same songs in the top two positions (in a different order) for the first time since May 2012. Yes, it’s been that long since “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye featuring Kimbra and “We Are Young” by fun. featuring Janelle Monáe were present in the region. For “High” and its climb to #2 on the pop chart, another piece of chart history: the title now ties the 2006 peak for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” at the format that summer, an incredible feat for a band who hasn’t gone any higher than #30 in-between those two songs. Does the song become their first to reach the summit on the Top 40 airwaves? We think it’ll be a tragedy-free December for the smash.

This week’s debut action is very light, with AJ Mitchell‘s “Girls” climbing from 41-40 as the sole top 40 entry on the survey. It’s the teenage singer’s first top 40 song at the format. Further down, two collaborations land in the top 50 for the first time: “I Found You” enters at #47 for Benny Blanco & Calvin Harris, while “Wake Up In The Sky” comes in at #50 for Gucci Mane x Bruno Mars x Kodak Black. The latter song never received an adds date at this format, though it’s currently sitting at #1 on the Rhythmic chart and in the top five at Urban radio. Blanco’s “Eastside”, featuring Halsey and Khalid, re-enters the top ten here this week, up 11-8.

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