NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of September 10, 2021

The stars are out this week.

It’s a particularly starry New Music Friday ahead of this late summer weekend, with top albums twinkling from Baby Keem, Kacey Musgraves and Masked Wolf, as well as shining songs from Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter and Sam Hunt. The musical hunt for new bops starts now:

Notable albums out this week: Ann Marie‘s Hate Love (Stream), Baby Keem‘s The Melodic Blue (Stream), Barlow & Bear‘s The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical (Stream), Donny Osmond‘s Start Again (Stream), Foy Vance‘s Signs Of Life (Stream), Kacey Musgraves‘s Star-Crossed (Stream), Masked Wolf‘s Astronomical (Stream), Pentatonix‘s The Lucky Ones (Deluxe) (Stream), Steps‘s What The Future Holds, Pt. 2 (Stream), The Band CAMINO‘s The Band CAMINO (Stream), YEBBA‘s Dawn (Stream), The Metallica Blacklist (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Alan Walker‘s Walker Racing League (Stream), BoyWithUke‘s Faded (Stream), Deb Never‘s Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Stream), Ella Jane‘s This Is Not What It Looks Like! (Stream), Lorde‘s Te Ao Mārama (Stream), Mitchell Tenpenny‘s Midtown Diaries (Stream), Mxmtoon‘s True Colors (Stream), Nessa Barrett‘s Pretty Poison (Stream), PHANGS‘s I Love Everything (Stream), Tyler Posey‘s Drugs (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“23”, Sam Hunt (Stream)
“24/5”, Mimi Webb (Stream)
“730”, Pia Mia (Stream)
“A-O-K”, Tai Verdes & 24KGoldn (Stream)
“After Goodbye”, Jasmine Thompson (Stream)
“All My Friends”, FRENSHIP (Stream)
“Already Do”, Josh Gray (Stream)
“Always”, Cold War Kids (Stream)
“Angel Baby”, Troye Sivan (Stream)
“Another Day”, Fiji Blue (Stream)
“Arcadia”, Lana Del Rey (Stream)
“Bad Day”, Justus Bennetts (Stream)
“Big Persona”, Maxo Kream featuring Tyler, The Creator (Stream)
“Bluebonnets”, Austin George (Stream)
“Break”, WizTheMC (Stream)
“Burning Bridges (Crush Club Remix)”, Sigrid (Stream)
“Calling All Angels”, Chelsea Cutler featuring Quinn XCII (Stream)
“Can’t Hide It”, Curtis Harding (Stream)
“Casita”, Goth Babe (Stream)
“Certainty”, Big Thief (Stream)
“Cheers!”, Jukebox The Ghost (Stream)
“Claim”, Drumaq & Olivia O’Brien (Stream)
“Crash”, Clara Mae (Stream)
“Crazy Tings”, Tems (Stream)
“Damn It Feels Good To Be Me”, Andy Grammer (Stream)
“Dancer”, LÉON (Stream)
“Don’t Make Me Miss You”, Wayne Regretzky & Sad Alex (Stream)
“Drive”, Valerie Broussard (Stream)
“Easy Girl Easy Boy”, Haven (Stream)
“Election Night”, Cassidy Mann (Stream)
“End Of Me”, Billy Talent featuring Rivers Cuomo (Stream)
“Everything Sucks”, Vaultboy featuring GRACEY (Stream)
“Fancy Like”, Walker Hayes featuring Kesha (Stream)
“Femme Fatale”, Sir Chloe (Stream)
“Flipside”, Clubhouse (Stream)
“Footprints”, Tom Gregory (Stream)
“Friday Nights In October”, 90’s Kids (Stream)
“Get You Down” and “The Kitchen (Live)”, Sam Fender (Stream)
“Ghost Story”, Cheat Codes & All Time Low (Stream)
“Ghosted”, Michael Aldag (Stream)
“Good Days”, Young Rising Sons (Stream)
“Guerrilla” and “Sexy Villain”, Remi Wolf (Stream)
“Hanging On Your Hinges”, Stereophonics (Stream)
“Happy For Me”, Kenzie (Stream)
“Have Mercy”, Chlöe (Stream)
“Hero” and “Island”, Alice Merton (Stream)
“I Don’t Wanna Leave”, PRETTYMUCH featuring Jeremih (Stream)
“I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)”, Glass Animals (Stream)
“I Forgot About You”, Jake Miller (Stream)
“I Think I”, Ben Kessler & Lizzy McAlpine (Stream)
“I Wanna See You Smile”, Aquilo (Stream)
“If It Weren’t For You”, Christopher (Stream)
“If You Say The Word”, Radiohead (Stream)
“I’ll Find My Way To You”, Elderbrook & Emmit Fenn (Stream)
“Kill The Noise”, Papa Roach (Stream)
“Lala (Unlocked)”, Alicia Keys featuring Swae Lee (Stream)
“Lalisa” and “Money”, Lisa (Stream)
“Less Of A Man”, Zak Abel (Stream)
“Let Her Talk”, Cooper Alan (Stream)
“Life’s So Good”, Chet Porter featuring Cherry Surf (Stream)
“Lifeline”, Layto (Stream)
“Lips”, Alaina Castillo (Stream)
“Lonely”, Arctic Lake (Stream)
“Lonely”, DaBaby & Lil Wayne (Stream)
“Long Way”, Eddie Vedder (Stream)
“Love Under Pressure”, James Blunt (Stream)
“Love You To Death”, Fickle Friends (Stream)
“Luv U A Lil’ Bit”, DACEY (Stream)
“Majesty (Where We Gonna Take It)”, Common featuring PJ (Stream)
“Mal De Amores”, Sofía Reyes x Becky G (Stream)
“Mood Swings”, New Dialogue (Stream)
“Movie”, Blake Rose (Stream)
“Nobody Has To Know”, Thomas Headon (Stream)
“Nostálgico”, Rvssian, Rauw Alejandro & Chris Brown (Stream)
“Obsessed With You”, Central Cee (Stream)
“One Day”, Monsta X (Stream)
“Optimistic”, KYLE & Dougie F (Stream)
“Osaka (End Of The World Remix)”, SHAED (Stream)
“Over You”, RAY BLK featuring Stefflon Don (Stream)
“Petrichor”, Cassyette (Stream)
“Piece Of Me”, Gryffin & LOVA (Stream)
“Pressure”, Ari Lennox (Stream)
“Public”, KA$HDAMI (Stream)
“Pull Up”, J. Rey Soul & Will.I.Am featuring Nile Rodgers (Stream)
“Right Track”, Syd featuring Smino (Stream)
“Runaway”, Ben Abraham (Stream)
“Sad Boy”, R3HAB & Jonas Blue featuring Ava Max & Kylie Cantrall (Stream)
“Safe Word”, Carlos Guevara (Stream)
“Scarlett”, Holly Humberstone (Stream)
“Screaming Underwater”, Alex Warren (Stream)
“Shivers”, Ed Sheeran (Stream)
“Shoot”, Tommy Lefroy (Stream)
“Silk Chiffon”, MUNA featuring Phoebe Bridgers (Stream)
“Skinny Dipping”, Sabrina Carpenter (Stream)
“Social Stamina”, ROSIE (Stream)
“Socials”, Good Future (Stream)
“Some Habits”, Cole Swindell (Stream)
“Somebody Else”, Boon (Stream)
“Sophie”, Jad Saad (Stream)
“Story Time”, Fivio Foreign (Stream)
“Straight To 4th”, Mozzy (Stream)
“Summertime”, Ellery Bonham featuring TOBi (Stream)
“The Announcement”, G-Eazy (Stream)
“The Anonymous Ones”, SZA (Stream)
“The Assignment”, Tay Money (Stream)
“True Seekers”, Sleigh Bells (Stream)
“Unbreakable”, TELYKast & Sam Gray (Stream)
“Unlonely Me”, MacKenzie Porter (Stream)
“Utah Freestyle”, Russ (Stream)
“Victory”, DVBBS featuring YBN Nahmir (Stream)
“Voulez-Vous Me To”, Serena Isioma (Stream)
“Ways Of Love”, Bahari (Stream)
“We Cry”, JP Cooper (Stream)
“Wonder Woman”, WSTRN (Stream)
“Would I Lie To You”, Nico Santos (Stream)

Next week, new albums from Lil Nas X and Scotty McCreery 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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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (August 15, 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. For your favorite records and rumors, here’s all that’s popping at the format this week:

“U”, “VU” AND TWO: Pop star Olivia Rodrigo holds at #1 on the Top 40 radio chart for the fourth week with “Good 4 U”, while her past single “Déjà Vu” remains at #2 for the second week. The former title still leads the latter by over 800 spins.

With four recurrents being removed from the chart, there’s quite a bit of debut action in the top 40 and top 50. The highest of the four singles entering the top 40 comes from Lizzo and Cardi B. “Rumors” lands at #29, marking their fifth and 11th top 40 hits, respectively. Moving up from 43-38, Masked Wolf scores his second top 40 hit with “Say So”. Next, Conan Gray jumps from 42-39 with the song that becomes his fourth top 40 entry, “People Watching”. Lastly, the viral TikTok hit “Seaside” leaps from 45-40 for newcomer SEB, which is also on the move in the top 40 at the Alternative radio format.

Starting at #41, the Black Eyed Peas, Saweetie and Lele Pons hit the jackpot with their collaboration called “Hit It”. Madison Beer has a new entry at #45 with “Reckless”, which is followed by “Vacation” at #48, which teams two groups together for the first time: Dirty Heads and Train. The original version of the track (without Train) got to #10 on the Alternative radio chart in November 2017, but it’s been moving again recently thanks to a run on TikTok. One notch lower, Doja Cat meows in at #49 with “Need To Know”, marking the third song to chart from the Planet Her album. Finishing things off, Walker Hayes crosses from the country radio airwaves to pop playlists with a new entry at #50: “Fancy Like”.

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (August 10, 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: The Weeknd breathes some new life into the adds report with a big win. Let’s add ’em up:

“BREATH” CONTROL: The Top 40 radio panel took a breath and found “Take My Breath” in rare air at the top of the report. Scoring 165 stations on impact, the new single from The Weeknd dominated this week, pacing more than 100 adds ahead of the song in second place.

Looking for her fourth big hit from the album Sour, Olivia Rodrigo landed in third place on the log with another 49 stations on impact for “Traitor”. Finishing in fourth, “Hit It” earned 41 adds on impact, a collaboration from the Black Eyed Peas, Saweetie and Lele Pons.

Charting singles from Bazzi, Måneskin and Masked Wolf 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, “Take My Breath” (XO/Republic)
2. SILK SONIC, “Skate” (Aftermath Ent./Atlantic)
3. OLIVIA RODRIGO, “Traitor” (Geffen/Interscope)
4. BLACK EYED PEAS featuring SAWEETIE & LELE PONS, “Hit It” (Epic)
5. LIL NAS X & JACK HARLOW, “Industry Baby” (Columbia)
6. MÅNESKIN, “Beggin'” (Arista)
7. BAZZI, “I Like That” (Atlantic)
8. MASKED WOLF, “Say So” (Elektra/EMG)
9. SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA featuring TY DOLLA $IGN & 070 SHAKE, “Lifetime” (SSA/Republic)
10. KANE BROWN x BLACKBEAR, “Memory” (RCA)

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RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (August 9-10, 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 four new titles impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

BLACK EYED PEAS featuring SAWEETIE & LELE PONS, “Hit It” (Epic)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: The band earned three top 40 hits from their last album Translation. Will this collaboration also translate here?

MASKED WOLF, “Say So” (Elektra/EMG)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: “Say” is the follow-up to the international hit “Astronaut In The Ocean”, which reached #8 at the Top 40 format.

OLIVIA HOLT, “Next” (Hollywood)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: In 2017, Holt peaked at #50 with “History”. Though she’s impacted with further songs, she hasn’t charted again.

THE WEEKND, “Take My Breath” (XO/Republic)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: “Take” scored a giant debut at #29 on the chart over the weekend, marking the singer’s 19th top 40 song to date.

Next week: the rumors of a new Lizzo single are true… will the Top 40 format be ready?

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

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (August 1, 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. Put on your skates and glide into what’s popping this week:

FOR THE “GOOD” TIMES: Up over 200 spins for the week, pop star Olivia Rodrigo stays at #1 on the Top 40 chart for the second week with “Good 4 U”, taken from the album Sour. This is her seventh total week at the summit on the pop airwaves in 2021.

Five new titles enter both the top 40 and the top 50 this week, with Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow‘s “Industry Baby” leading the way. Landing at #32, the collaboration marks their fifth and second top 40 singles at the format, respectively. Italian breakouts Måneskin are up from 44-34 on the Top 40 radio chart with their cover of “Beggin’”, becoming their first U.S. pop hit. Bazzi scores his first top 40 entry in more than a year with “I Like That”, his fifth time on the survey, which lands at #35. Twenty One Pilots rise from 45-37 on the list with “Saturday”, now a five hit on the Alternative radio chart and the duo’s eighth top 40 single to date at the Top 40 format. Finally, Tesher moves from 42-39 on the chart with the Jason Derulo-assisted “Jalebi Baby”, becoming their first and 24th entries in the region, respectively.

TikTok personality Dixie D’Amelio has a debut at #42 with her labelmate Rubi Rose-assisted “Psycho”, while the Swedish House Mafia, Ty Dolla $ign and 070 Shake collaboration “Lifetime” starts its chart life at #45. A notch lower, Silk Sonic has a silky smooth entrance at #46 with “Skate”, the new single from their upcoming album An Evening With Silk Sonic. Next, format newcomer SEB reaches the “Seaside” and the top 50 on the pop chart with his viral demo recording, which comes in at #49. Finally, Masked Wolf slides in at #50 with “Say So”.

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (April 6, 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: Olivia Rodrigo is the lead driver among the records racing for adds. Let’s add ’em up:

ENJOY THE “VU”: With the follow-up to the recent chart-topper “Driver’s License”, which spent five weeks at #1, Olivia Rodrigo scored a very nice 121 adds on impact for “Déjà Vu”. The tune snuck into the top 40 last weekend and should see some good movement in the coming days. It tied for eighth place at the Hot AC format yesterday, which appeared due to a handful of stations that reported early.

Lil Nas X secured 49 adds during the session for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”, good for the runner-up spot. The single and its music video have been the subject of much online conversation recently, which helped propel it to a #1 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Demi Lovato also entered the top five with the Ariana Grande-assisted “Met Him Last Night”, scoring 20 adds and a fifth place finish. A week ago, Lovato’s “Dancing With The Devil” impacted here with a total of 44 stations during its first week. Given the new single swap, we’ll see what occurs on the airplay chart in the coming weeks.

Charting singles from Addison Rae, Justin Bieber and Masked Wolf 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 (ELEVEN)
1. OLIVIA RODRIGO, “Déjà Vu” (Geffen/Interscope)
2. LIL NAS X, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” (Columbia)
3. ARIANA GRANDE, “POV” (Republic)
4. JUSTIN BIEBER featuring DANIEL CAESAR & GIVEON, “Peaches” (Def Jam)
5. DEMI LOVATO featuring ARIANA GRANDE, “Met Him Last Night” (Island/Republic)
6. GIVĒON, “Heartbreak Anniversary” (Not So Fast/Epic)
7. ADDISON RAE, “Obsessed” (Sandlot/AWAL-in2une)
8. JUSTIN BIEBER, “Hold On” (Def Jam)
9. KALI UCHIS, “Telepatía” (Virgin EMI/Interscope)
10-T. MASKED WOLF, “Astronaut In The Ocean” (Elektra/EMG)
10-T. SOFIA CARSON, “Fool’s Gold” (Hollywood)

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (March 30, 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: Fruity finds are leading the way, as Justin Bieber tops the adds report. Let’s add ’em up:

A PEACHY POSITION: Justin Bieber leads the adds report at Top 40 radio with the Daniel Caesar and Givēon-assisted hit “Peaches”, earning another sweet and sugary 70 stations this week. Bieber’s “Hold On” is also holding onto a spot in the top five again, scoring 28 more adds and a third place finish. The former is looking to fly straight into the top 20 this week, while the latter is still approaching the top 30.

The top impacting titles on the log were by Demi Lovato and Addison Rae: the former’s “Dancing With The Devil” spun into the runner-up spot with 44 stations, while the latter’s “Obsessed” preoccupied the pop panel with 21 stations, good for fifth place. Lovato’s song is likely to reach the lower end of the top 40 by the weekend, while Rae’s should start somewhere in the top 50.

Charting singles from Ariana Grande, Cardi B and Masked Wolf 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. JUSTIN BIEBER featuring DANIEL CAESAR & GIVEON, “Peaches” (Def Jam)
2. DEMI LOVATO, “Dancing With The Devil” (Island/Republic)
3. JUSTIN BIEBER, “Hold On” (Def Jam)
4. ARIANA GRANDE, “POV” (Republic)
5. ADDISON RAE, “Obsessed” (Sandlot/AWAL-in2une)
6-T. GIVĒON, “Heartbreak Anniversary” (Not So Fast/Epic)
6-T. LIL NAS X, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” (Columbia)
6-T. SOFIA CARSON, “Fool’s Gold” (Hollywood)
9. MASKED WOLF, “Astronaut In The Ocean” (Elektra/EMG)
10. CARDI B, “Up” (Atlantic)

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (March 23, 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: Ariana Grande is positioned at the top once again. Let’s add ’em up:

ENJOY THE VIEW: Top 40 radio has a point of view on Ariana Grande’s “POV”, which leads the adds report with 81 stations on impact. This will soon be the third top 40 hit from the album Positions: both the title track and “34+35” reached #1 at the format.

Five adds behind Grande, Justin Bieber opened in second place with the Daniel Caesar and Givēon-assisted hit “Peaches”. At 76 stations this week, it comes in well ahead of another recent Bieber release, “Hold On”, scoring 24 adds and a fourth place finish. Meanwhile, featured artist Givēon is also breaking out with his own tune “Heartbreak Anniversary”, which takes fifth place with 18 new commitments from the panel.

Format newcomer Duncan Laurence also had a great day with “Arcade”, a hit which won the Eurovision Song Contest two years ago. Thanks in part to recent activity on TikTok, it’s having a successful second life: it secured up 50 adds on impact, good for third place.

Charting singles from Bebe Rexha, Cardi B and Masked Wolf 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. ARIANA GRANDE, “POV” (Republic)
2. JUSTIN BIEBER featuring DANIEL CAESAR & GIVEON, “Peaches” (Def Jam)
3. DUNCAN LAURENCE, “Arcade” (Capitol)
4. JUSTIN BIEBER, “Hold On” (Def Jam)
5. GIVĒON, “Heartbreak Anniversary” (Not So Fast/Epic)
6. MASKED WOLF, “Astronaut In The Ocean” (Elektra/EMG)
7-T. ANNIKA WELLS, “Sucks Being Sober” (Vol. 1/Epic)
7-T. BEBE REXHA, “Sacrifice” (Warner)
9-T. CARDI B, “Up” (Atlantic)
9-T. GLASS ANIMALS, “Heat Waves” (Republic)

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (March 16, 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: duo Silk Sonic narrowly gets the win and opens the door to the top. Let’s add ’em up:

“DOOR” GOES FOR MORE: “Leave The Door Open” checks into the hit hotel for another week, as Silk Sonic (featuring Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) leads the Top 40 adds report with 35 new stations in its second week. That puts the track just ahead of two singles tied for second place, coming in with 31 adds: “Astronaut In The Ocean” by Masked Wolf and “Beautiful Mistakes” by Maroon 5 featuring Megan Thee Stallion. All three songs are well into the top 30 at the format.

Breaking out in the top ten, Tones And I came in fifth place with 21 stations on impact for “Fly Away”, while Justin Bieber held onto ninth place with “Hold On”, securing 17 more adds this week.

Charting singles from AJR, Daya and JESSIA returned to the top ten on the adds report this week.

Next week, Duncan Laurence hits the adds arcade at the Top 40 format, as his song crosses from the AC and Hot AC charts.

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN (ELEVEN)
1. SILK SONIC (BRUNO MARS/ANDERSON .PAAK), “Leave The Door Open” (Aftermath/Atlantic)
2-T. MAROON 5 featuring MEGAN THEE STALLION, “Beautiful Mistakes” (222/Interscope)
2-T. MASKED WOLF, “Astronaut In The Ocean” (Elektra/EMG)
4. BEBE REXHA, “Sacrifice” (Warner)
5. TONES AND I, “Fly Away” (Bad Batch-Elektra/EMG)
6-T. AJR, “Way Less Sad” (S-Curve/Hollywood)
6-T. GLASS ANIMALS, “Heat Waves” (Republic)
8. DAYA, “Bad Girl” (Sandlot/AWAL)
9. JUSTIN BIEBER, “Hold On” (Def Jam)
10-T. JESSIA, “I’m Not Pretty” (Artist Driven/Republic)
10-T. LIL TJAY featuring 6LACK, “Calling My Phone” (Columbia)

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (March 9, 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: Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion keep the adds report looking very beautiful. Let’s add ’em up:

MAROONED AT THE TOP: With 145 stations on impact, Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion earn the week’s Most Added track at the Top 40 format with “Beautiful Mistakes”, a song that has already entered the top 30 as of last weekend. The song also scored 72 adds at the Hot AC format yesterday, more than enough to lead that report too. Look for it to continue to grow into the spring.

The new duo Silk Sonic, comprised of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, finishes in second place with 129 stations for “Leave The Door Open”. The tune also took the runner-up spot at the Hot AC and Rhythmic formats with 48 and 44 adds, respectively. At R&B (f/k/a Urban AC) radio, it paced well ahead of the competition with 53 adds on impact and a Most Added win.

Bebe Rexha also had a pretty good day with “Sacrifice”, earning 44 adds on impact and a third place finish. It’s the follow-up to a recent top 20 entry at the format, the Doja Cat-assisted “Baby, I’m Jealous”, which got as high as #19 in December.

Charting singles from Cardi B, Daya and Glass Animals returned to the top ten on the adds report this week.

Taking flight on next week’s adds report: the impacting “Fly Away” by Tones And I, among other titles.

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
1. MAROON 5 featuring MEGAN THEE STALLION, “Beautiful Mistakes” (222/Interscope)
2. SILK SONIC (BRUNO MARS/ANDERSON .PAAK), “Leave The Door Open” (Aftermath/Atlantic)
3. BEBE REXHA, “Sacrifice” (Warner)
4. GLASS ANIMALS, “Heat Waves” (Republic)
5. CARDI B, “Up” (Atlantic)
6-T. ASHE & FINNEAS, “Till Forever Falls Apart” (Mom + Pop/Further.)
6-T. DAYA, “Bad Girl” (Sandlot/AWAL)
8-T. AJR, “Way Less Sad” (S-Curve/Hollywood)
8-T. LIL TJAY featuring 6LACK, “Calling My Phone” (Columbia)
8-T. MASKED WOLF, “Astronaut In The Ocean” (Elektra/EMG)

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