NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of January 6, 2023

Bet on these new releases.

The code to this week’s batch of New Music Friday releases unlocks great new songs from NewJeans, Shania Twain and Skrillex…

Notable albums out this week: Gabrielle Aplin‘s Phosphorescent (Stream), Iggy Pop‘s Every Loser (Stream), RuPaul‘s Black Butta (Stream), YoungBoy Never Broke Again‘s I Rest My Case (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: (tba)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“Another Dimension”, Mascot (Stream)
“Ay Ay Ay”, Preston Pablo (Stream)
“Believer”, SYML (Stream)
“Bender”, MyKey (Stream)
“Bets On Us”, Cheat Codes & Dolly Parton (Stream)
“Borderline”, Joesef (Stream)
“Cambiaste”, Yahritza Y Su Esencia (Stream)
“Don’t Love Me Now”, 2KBaby featuring Charlieonnafriday (Stream)
“Giddy Up!”, Shania Twain (Stream)
“Good To You”, RHODES (Stream)
“Hide & Seek (Remix)”, Stormzy featuring FLO (Stream)
“I Hate Cowboys”, Chase Rice (Stream)
“In Ha Mood”, Ice Spice (Stream)
“Kelly Time”, Owl City (Stream)
“Lay Low”, Tiësto (Stream)
“Learn To Breathe”, Matt Haughey & Marianne Beaulieu (Stream)
“Let’s Talk About It”, Queen Naija (Stream)
“Me For Me”, Tyler Hubbard (Stream)
“Memory Lane”, Old Dominion (Stream)
“New York”, Steve Aoki, Regard & Mazie (Stream)
“Oblivious”, Young Rising Sons (Stream)
“OMG”, NewJeans (Stream)
“Place For Me”, Kasey Tyndall & Dylan Marlowe (Stream)
“Pull Up”, Fresco Trey featuring Brezay (Stream)
“Puppet On A String”, NERIAH (Stream)
“Put You On Game”, Russ (Stream)
“Radio”, Sigala featuring MNEK (Stream)
“See, I’m Sorry”, Seafret (Stream)
“Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”, Daughtry featuring Lzzy Hale (Stream)
“Somewhere In Between”, Leony (Stream)
“Teenage Dixie”, Muscadine Bloodline (Stream)
“That Girl”, Kenzie Cait (Stream)
“To Be Alive”, Rhys Lewis (Stream)
“Trouble”, Josh Ross (Stream)
“Tulsa”, Elle King (Stream)
“Ugly Crier”, McKenna Grace (Stream)
“Used To Love You”, ROZES (Stream)
“Wasted”, Suriel Hess (Stream)
“We Caa Done”, Popcaan featuring Drake (Stream)

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Next week’s releases include: new singles from Maneskin, Miley Cyrus, ThxSoMch and others.

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of December 24, 2021

A very Peruvian Christmas.

Are you on the nice list for New Music Friday? If so, you’re unwrapping top tunes from Alok, Fireboy DML, Lights, Walk The Moon and more. Get your gifts below:

Notable albums out this week: Kidd G‘s Down Home Boy: Gone Since Last October (Deluxe) (Stream), Nas‘s Magic (Stream), SpotemGottem‘s Back From The Dead (Stream), Stray Kids‘s SKZ2021 (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Fly By Midnight‘s Silver Crane (Acoustic Demos) (Stream), Passenger & Stu Larsen‘s Happy Christmas My Dear (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“12×3”, DEKKO (Stream)
“Bad Luck”, Guardin (Stream)
“Bedroom”, Aiyana-Lee (Stream)
“Better”, Daniel Blume (Stream)
“Body Mind Soul”, DVBBS & Benny Benassi featuring Kyle Reynolds (Stream)
“Breaking Each Other’s Hearts”, Joss Stone (Stream)
“Butterfly Effect (Demo)”, Sophie Holohan (Stream)
“Double Jump”, Joey Valence & Brae (Stream)
“Give You Up”, Lucky Rose featuring Mila Falls (Stream)
“Holy Water”, Brett Eldredge (Stream)
“Mon Soleil”, Ashley Park (Stream)
“No Bones Day”, Tep No (Stream)
“Pendulum”, Faustix & Reality Test featuring Litening (Stream)
“Peru”, Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran (Stream)
“Pine Barrens”, Jakey (Stream)
“Rain For Christmas”, Abe Parker (Stream)
“Real Thing”, Lights featuring Elohim (Stream)
“Self Made”, Tay Money (Stream)
“Skylight”, Gabrielle Aplin (Stream)
“Soundscape”, Armin Van Buuren (Stream)
“Suit Up”, Jordan K (Stream)
“Sweet Talker (Acoustic)”, Years & Years (Stream)
“Typical”, Alok & Steve Aoki featuring Lars Martin (Stream)
“We Don’t Give A What”, NumbChuck (Stream)
“We Good”, Lil Dicky featuring GaTa (Stream)
“Win Anyway”, Walk The Moon (Stream)

Next week, expect a lighter schedule due to New Year’s Day. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of January 22, 2021

New musical love for your Friday.

Need something other than sea shanties to sing along to? It’s New Music Friday and our new voyage includes the latest albums from BRS Kash, Lil Skies and Maggie Lindemann, as well as fresh tracks from Billie Eilish, Ellie Goulding and Sabrina Carpenter. Let’s sail away:

Notable albums out this week: Adam Calhoun‘s Pressure (iTunes), Anuel AA & Ozuna‘s Los Dioses (iTunes), Bicep‘s Isles (iTunes), BRS Kash‘s Kash Only (iTunes), Jarryd James‘s P.M. (iTunes), Lil Skies‘s Unbothered (iTunes), LOVA‘s Grown-ish (iTunes), Moon Taxi‘s Silver Dream (iTunes), Rhye‘s Home (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: Bow Anderson‘s New Wave (iTunes), EASHA‘s Fact Of The Fiction (iTunes), ELIO‘s Can You Hear Me Now? (iTunes), Emily Weisband‘s Not Afraid To Say Goodbye (Stripped) (iTunes), Finn Askew‘s Peach (iTunes), Maggie Lindemann‘s Paranoia (iTunes), Paul Rey‘s Note To Her (iTunes), Steve Aoki‘s 6OKI (Rave Royale) (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“2:35 (I Want You)”, Ashanti (iTunes)
“21st Century Vampire”, LILHUDDY (iTunes)
“Ain’t Got Time”, Lil Wayne featuring Fousheé (iTunes)
“All My Favorite Songs”, Weezer (iTunes)
“Anxious”, Dennis Lloyd (iTunes)
“Black Hole”, Griff (iTunes)
“Blueberry Eyes”, MAX featuring Lil Mosey, SUGA & Olivia O’Brien (iTunes)
“Break My Own”, Taylor Bickett (iTunes)
“Bubble Gum”, Lele Pons & Yandel (iTunes)
“Candyman”, R3HAB x Marnik (iTunes)
“Champion”, Jesse Ruben (iTunes)
“Citizen”, Sir Sly featuring Gary Clark Jr. (iTunes)
“Cloak N Dagger”, Ericdoa & Glaive (iTunes)
“Cruise Control”, Ben Kessler (iTunes)
“Dance Alone”, Boy In Space (iTunes)
“Dead Butterflies”, Architects (iTunes)
“Doodoodoo”, Curtis Waters (iTunes)
“Driver’s License”, Jxdn (iTunes)
“Easy”, Lillian Hepler (iTunes)
“Emancipation Of The Mind”, Bad Religion (iTunes)
“Endless”, Rence (iTunes)
“Flirting With Disaster”, Pretty Sister (iTunes)
“Follow My Echo”, Dylan Dunlap (iTunes)
“For A Reason”, Natalie Taylor (iTunes)
“Good Vibes (Za)”, Wale (iTunes)
“Hearts On Fire (Lucas & Steve Remix)”, Illenium & Dabin featuring Lights (iTunes)
“I Hate The Way I Love You”, Britton Buchanan (iTunes)
“I Need You”, Jon Batiste (iTunes)
“I’m So Sad”, 3OH!3 (iTunes)
“It’s A Sin”, Years & Years (iTunes)
“Last One Standing”, Zoe Clark (iTunes)
“Lifestyle”, Jason Derulo featuring Adam Levine (iTunes)
“Lo Vas A Olvidar”, Billie Eilish & ROSALÍA (iTunes)
“Molasses (Walk The Walk)”, Dylan Cartlidge (iTunes)
“Morning”, Karen Harding & Shift K3Y (iTunes)
“Never Gonna Be The Same”, Mia Wray (iTunes)
“Never Stay Down”, UNSECRET featuring Sam Tinnesz (iTunes)
“New Love”, Silk City & Ellie Goulding (iTunes)
“Paradise (Vintage Culture Remix)”, MEDUZA featuring Dermot Kennedy (iTunes)
“Postmates”, Valentina Cy (iTunes)
“Reasons”, Mimi Webb (iTunes)
“Rose Gold”, PnB Rock featuring King Von (iTunes)
“Rubberband”, Tate McRae (iTunes)
“Shades On”, Raissa (iTunes)
“Shuttup”, Snow Tha Product (iTunes)
“Sicko”, CLOVES (iTunes)
“Skin”, Sabrina Carpenter (iTunes)
“Sound Of The South”, Kaleb Austin (iTunes)
“Standing In The Storm”, August Burns Red (iTunes)
“Stars”, PRETTYMUCH (iTunes)
“Sun Goes Down”, Cloonee (iTunes)
“Sunshine (The Light)”, Fat Joe featuring Amorphous (iTunes)
“Surrender”, Birdy (iTunes)
“Sweet & Dandy”, Tash Sultana (iTunes)
“Tell Me I’m Pretty”, Brynn Elliott (iTunes)
“The Business, Pt. II”, Tiësto & Ty Dolla $ign (iTunes)
“The World”, Jimi Somewhere (iTunes)
“Too Much (Alle Farben Remix)”, Marshmello & Imanbek featuring Usher (iTunes)
“Troubled Paradise”, Slayyyter (iTunes)
“Typhoons”, Royal Blood (iTunes)
“Wake Up”, Confetti (iTunes)
“We Met On The Internet”, Will Joseph Cook (iTunes)
“Where Was Your Love”, Philmon Lee (iTunes)
“Winter Rain”, Winona Oak (iTunes)
“You A Dime”, DJ Chose & Gucci Mane (iTunes)

Next week, the current albums and EPs from Celeste, Jake Hoot and Weezer 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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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of April 3, 2020

Hunting for a chart-topper.

While you’re trying to stay busy at home, this week’s music release schedule features new albums from All Time Low, Sam Hunt and Steve Aoki, as well as singles from Drake, Hayley Williams, Kygo, Lindsay Lohan and more. April showers us with all these treats:

ASHLEY MCBRYDE – Never Will (iTunes)
Features: “One Night Standards”, a current top 40 song on the Country radio chart

SAM HUNT – Southside (iTunes)
Features: “Kinfolks”, a recent #1 song on the Country radio chart, as well as the new single “Hard To Forget”

Notable albums out this week: All Time Low‘s Wake Up, Sunshine (iTunes), Allan Rayman‘s Christian (iTunes), Ben Wise‘s In The Stars Tonight (iTunes), Black Atlass‘s Dream Awake (iTunes), Empress Of‘s I’m Your Empress Of (iTunes), Kiana Ledé‘s Kiki (iTunes), Peach Pit‘s You And Your Friends (iTunes), Purity Ring‘s Womb (iTunes), Rod Wave‘s Pray 4 Love (iTunes), Steve Aoki‘s Neon Future IV (iTunes), Stu Larsen‘s Marigold (iTunes), Thundercat‘s It Is What It Is (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: Ant Saunders‘s Bubble (iTunes), Billy Raffoul‘s A Few More Hours At YYZ (iTunes), Luke Sital-Singh‘s New Haze (iTunes), Rayvon Owen‘s Las Virginia (iTunes), Sj‘s In The Light (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“All Day”, Asher Angel (iTunes)
“All Day All Night”, Marc Scibilia featuring Jim Jones & Phil Collen (iTunes)
“All You’re Not”, Fergus (iTunes)
“Back To Me”, Lindsay Lohan (iTunes)
“Battle Of A Pandemic”, Matt Maltese (iTunes)
“Be A Light”, Thomas Rhett featuring Reba McEntire, Hillary Scott, Chris Tomlin & Keith Urban (iTunes)
“Be Slow (Acoustic)”, Harrison Storm (iTunes)
“Been Thru This Before”, Marshmello, Southside, SAINt JHN & Giggs (iTunes)
“Being Human (Bad Robot Session)”, Chaz Cardigan (iTunes)
“Boys Ain’t Sh*t”, SayGrace featuring Tate McRae & Audrey Mika (iTunes)
“Brixton To Oxford Circus”, Ramz (iTunes)
“Burning Bridges”, Ella Vos (iTunes)
“Can You Hear Me”, Anson Seabra (iTunes)
“Carefree”, RAC featuring LeyeT (iTunes)
“Changes”, Ilse DeLange (iTunes)
“Chasing The Feeling”, Mayer Hawthorne (iTunes)
“Chosen Family”, Rina Sawayama (iTunes)
“Come Over (Acoustic)”, Dagny (iTunes)
“Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)”, Isaac Dunbar (iTunes)
“Cover Girl”, BIA (iTunes)
“Curfew”, Token (iTunes)
“Do It All Again”, Wild (iTunes)
“Don’t You Want Me” and “Moving”, Love Regenerator & Calvin Harris x Eli Brown (iTunes)
“Drink To Drown”, Stand Atlantic (iTunes)
“Far Away From Here”, Liz Huett (iTunes)
“Feel Something”, Illenium featuring Excision & I Prevail (iTunes)
“Find My Way”, DaBaby (iTunes)
“Flashdrive” and “OMG Plz Don’t Come Around”, The Driver Era (iTunes)
“Follow”, Karol G x Anuel AA (iTunes)
“F*ck My Friends”, Eddie Benjamin (iTunes)
“Get Happy”, The Knocks featuring Mat Zo (iTunes)
“Ghost”, Wolf (iTunes)
“Grown Men Don’t Cry”, Reo Cragun (iTunes)
“Heading Home”, Alan Walker & Ruben (iTunes)
“Heart-Shaped Box”, Amber Mark (iTunes)
“High Road”, Young Bombs featuring Robinson (iTunes)
“Hurts Like Hell (Piano)”, Wrabel (iTunes)
“I Beg To Differ (This Will Get Better)”, Billy Talent (iTunes)
“I Choose”, Alessia Cara (iTunes)
“I Got You (End Of The World)”, Zayde Wølf (iTunes)
“I See The Future In Your Eyes”, Netsky (iTunes)
“I Will Always Be There”, A Great Big World (iTunes)
“If The World Was Ending (Spanglish)”, JP Saxe & Evaluna Montaner (iTunes)
“I’ll Wait”, Kygo & Sasha Sloan (iTunes)
“Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America”, The 1975 (iTunes)
“Just Say Goodbye”, Chris Perez Band (iTunes)
“Lay It On Me Baby”, Nick Lowe (iTunes)
“Let Me Go”, Duke Dumont featuring RY X (iTunes)
“Let’s Blow Our Feelings Up With Dynamite”, Emma Steinbakken (iTunes)
“Like No One Does”, Jake Scott (iTunes)
“Little Things”, Louis The Child featuring Quinn XCII & Chelsea Cutler (iTunes)
“Living With No One”, Phil Good (iTunes)
“Lonely Star”, Oh Wonder (iTunes)
“Love Like Mine”, Stela Cole (iTunes)
“Make The Most”, Lonr. featuring H.E.R. (iTunes)
“Misery Business”, Machine Gun Kelly & Travis Barker (iTunes)
“Missed A Spot”, Dinah Jane (iTunes)
“Modern Loneliness (Acoustic)”, Lauv (iTunes)
“No Eyes On Me”, Justin Caruso (iTunes)
“No Man’s Land”, HAEVN (iTunes)
“Over Yet”, Hayley Williams (iTunes)
“Own Worst Enemy”, LOVA (iTunes)
“Pink Pony Club”, Chappell Roan (iTunes)
“Renee’s Song”, Bazzi (iTunes)
“Run Into You”, Clara Mae (iTunes)
“Sad And Successful”, Haven (iTunes)
“Somebody Else”, Loote (iTunes)
“Sometimes”, Grey Daze (iTunes)
“Stained Glass”, Madison Beer (iTunes)
“Stand By Me (Tiësto Remix)”, John Newman (iTunes)
“Summertime”, Orville Peck (iTunes)
“Switchblade”, NIKI (iTunes)
“Take Yourself Home”, Troye Sivan (iTunes)
“Tennessee Strong”, Jake Hoot (iTunes)
“This City (Frank Walker Remix)”, Sam Fischer (iTunes)
“This Time It’s Different”, Jackson Harris (iTunes)
“Toosie Slide”, Drake (iTunes)
“Tycoon”, Future (iTunes)
“Wake Me When It’s Over”, Faouzia (iTunes)
“Wanna Go Dancin'”, FISHER (iTunes)
“What I Like”, Famous Dex featuring Rich The Kid & Tyga (iTunes)
“What If I Told You That I Love You (Don Diablo Remix)”, Ali Gatie (iTunes)
“Who Needs Love”, Tory Lanez (iTunes)
“You Do You”, Dillon Francis & BabyJake (iTunes)

Next week, the larest albums from Grey Daze and The Strokes are among the major titles on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

ADAM’S TOP 100 OF 2019: #70-61

As 2019 and the decade draw to a close, it’s time for the annual Top 100 of the year! According to my tabulations, these titles ranked as the most successful on my personal chart. The year was full of love, found and lost, from “Higher Love” and “Lover” to “Somebody You Loved” and more. Time was the essence, whether it was “All The Time” or “The Last Time”, and the light guided the way towards the upper half of the list, including “Light On” and “Lights Up”.

So, come along with “ME!” as I count down the hits, won’t you? Let’s get some numbers rolling…

The 2019 chart year encompasses a period of 52 weekly surveys from the chart dated December 2, 2018 to the chart dated November 24, 2018. Peaks listed reflect the highest position reached by the final list of this period. For any ties in points, a song with the higher peak is listed first, and further ties are broken by the weeks at a song’s peak position and the amount of time charted in the top 40. 167 titles had at least one point qualify towards the year-end chart, a decrease from the 171 that did so in 2018.

70. NIALL HORAN, “Nice To Meet Ya”
Album: (single only)
Label: Neon Haze/Capitol
Peak: #1 for six+ weeks (2019/2020)

69. CHARLI XCX & TROYE SIVAN, “1999”
Album: Charli
Label: Atlantic/EMG
Peak: #12

68. BARNS COURTNEY, “You And I”
Album: 404
Label: Capitol
Peak: #12

67. BEN PLATT, “Grow As We Go”
Album: Sing To Me Instead
Label: Atlantic
Peak: #13

66. JAMES TW, “Incredible”
Album: Chapters
Label: Island/Republic
Peak: #12

65. STEVE AOKI featuring BACKSTREET BOYS, “Let It Be Me”
Album: (single only)
Label: Ultra
Peak: #8

64. BACKSTREET BOYS, “No Place”
Album: DNA
Label: K-Bahn/RCA
Peak: #12

63. SEEB x BASTILLE, “Grip”
Album: (single only)
Label: Island/Republic
Peak: #12

62. KELLY CLARKSON, “Heat”
Album: Meaning Of Life
Label: Atlantic/EMG
Peak: #9

61. ARIANA GRANDE, “Thank U, Next”
Album: Thank U, Next
Label: Republic
Peak: #10

Scroll up for more information from this year’s top 100 list. Thanks for visiting PGTC!

RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (November 18, 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. Are we happy about Thanksgiving? We may know a few guys who are happier than most this week, but it’s merely a rumor. Anyways, here’s all the action this Sunday:

BASTILLE’S DAY: After topping the Alternative chart two weeks ago, “Happier” by Marshmello x Bastille becomes the new #1 song at the Top 40 format, advancing from #2 last week. It’s the first song by both acts to lead the pop chart. It’s also the first title to reach the top at both formats since “Thunder” by Imagine Dragons during the fall of last year. The collaboration still has a chance at topping the Hot AC survey, up 9-7 on the current chart. Meanwhile, on the Top 40 airwaves, Ariana Grande‘s “Breathin” (up 8-4) and Panic! At The Disco‘s “High Hopes” (up 10-5) should battle it out for the next chart-topper in the coming weeks.

HITS RUN “DEEP”: Making a move from 43-39 this week, Zara Larsson‘s “Ruin My Life” becomes her seventh top 40 single at the format and leads a pair of new entries to the region. The other title, “Waste It On Me”, crawls up one notch from 41-40 and gives both Steve Aoki and BTS their third top 40 titles here. Additionally, Aoki previously remixed BTS’s first single to reach the Top 40 chart, “MIC Drop”, which spent two weeks at #24 in January.

Further down the list, prominent re-entries by Bad Bunny featuring Drake (“MIA”, #44) and Rita Ora (“Let You Love Me”, #45) lead the way with notable moves back into the region. The highest new song of the week, checking in at #48, is the debut chart entry for singer Ava Max. “Sweet But Psycho” has been a Viral hit on Spotify for some time and is reacting very well nationally in parts of Europe. Additionally, Logan Henderson‘s “Pull Me Deep” breaks in at #50, his second solo single to reach the region. In May, the first of his two entries, “Bite My Tongue”, got to #38. He also sang on three top 40 songs for the boy band Big Time Rush.

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of November 9, 2018

Imagine that… another hit album.

You don’t have to imagine where these big releases originated from; they’re all vying for #1 on next week’s album chart. Who has the best chance of leading the way? These are the notable digital and physical releases out this Friday:

IMAGINE DRAGONS – Origins (iTunes)
Just last year, the Las Vegas band dropped an album called ƎVOLVE that launched massive hits like “Believer” and “Whatever It Takes” onto the charts at several radio formats. Now, with “Natural” achieving similar results, look for the act’s current album to be a strong contender for the top spot on the Billboard 200 list next week.

KANE BROWN – Experiment (iTunes)
Brown’s built up quite a hit streak at country radio, especially given the format’s hesitance with his first top 40 release, “Used To Love You Sober”. Now, as “Lose It” appears headed for the top in the coming weeks, his latest studio album should deliver a nice opening sales week with a solid amount of streaming action.

LIL PEEP – Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (iTunes)
The late performer’s first EP entered the top 40 on the Billboard 200 in 2017, and his second release should result in even better numbers. He’s currently just below the top 40 on the Alternative and Rhythmic radio lists with a non-album collaboration called “Falling Down” with the late XXXTENTACION.

MUSE – Simulation Theory (iTunes)
Currently climbing on the Alternative and Active Rock charts with a single titled “Pressure”, this English group will likely receive their fifth top ten album in the U.S. next week. Their last set, released in 2015, went all the way to #1. Could this do the same?

Notable albums out this week: Charles Bradley‘s Black Velvet (iTunes), Hanson‘s String Theory (iTunes), John Splithoff‘s Make It Happen (Deluxe) (iTunes), Jon Bellion‘s Glory Sound Prep (iTunes), Jonas Blue‘s Blue (iTunes), Olly Murs‘s You Know I Know (iTunes), Steve Aoki‘s Neon Future III (iTunes), The Revivalists‘s Take Good Care (iTunes), Train‘s Greatest Hits (iTunes), Trippie Redd‘s A Love Letter To You 3 (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: Chelsea Cutler‘s Sleeping With Roses II (iTunes), Crush Club‘s Alive (iTunes), I Don’t Know How But They Found Me‘s 1981 (iTunes), Lewis Capaldi‘s Breach (iTunes), Sabrina Carpenter‘s Singular (Act 1) (iTunes), Whethan‘s Life Of A Wallflower, Vol. 1 (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“ADHD”, Brunswick (iTunes)
“Amy’s Song”, Matt Simons (iTunes)
“Birdsong”, Regina Spektor (iTunes)
“Burn It”, FEVER 333 (iTunes)
“Bruises”, Luke Christopher (iTunes)
“Candy”, Theia (iTunes)
“Care Less More”, Olivia O’Brien (iTunes)
“Chances”, Backstreet Boys (iTunes)
“Empty Space (Luca Schreiner Remix)”, James Arthur (iTunes)
“Falling”, LÉON (iTunes)
“Fascination”, The Beaches (iTunes)
“For Your Love”, Montaigne (iTunes)
“Fortress”, Lennon Stella (iTunes)
“God Dammit”, Illenium & Call Me Karizma (iTunes)
“Gonna Be Alright”, Tritonal featuring Mozella (iTunes)
“Happier (Stripped)”, Marshmello x Bastille (iTunes)
“Hey DJ”, CNCO x Meghan Trainor x Sean Paul (iTunes)
“Hurts Like Hell”, Madison Beer featuring Offset (iTunes)
“Important” and “Oxygen”, RØMANS (iTunes)
“Invisible”, Anna Clendening (iTunes)
“Just Slide”, Harry Hudson featuring Jaden Smith (iTunes)
“Let You Love Me (Acoustic)”, Rita Ora (iTunes)
“Look At Me Now”, Emily King (iTunes)
“Look At Us Now”, The Him (iTunes)
“Love Made Me Do It”, Cheryl (iTunes)
“Need Somebody”, Chris Ayer (iTunes)
“Never Enough”, Kelly Clarkson (iTunes)
“Nostalgia Is A Lie”, Goody Grace (iTunes)
“Not Thinkin’ Bout You (Remix)”, Ruel featuring GoldLink (iTunes)
“Older”, Sasha Sloan (iTunes)
“Overseas”, Desiigner featuring Lil Pump (iTunes)
“Paper Dreams”, Jamie N Commons (iTunes)
“Paper Rain”, Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness (iTunes)
“Patient”, NUUXS featuring Zac Pajak (iTunes)
“Question Mark”, Alexander Oscar (iTunes)
“Run That Back (Remix)”, Sofi De La Torre featuring Rich The Kid (iTunes)
“Serious”, Midnight Kids featuring Matthew Koma (iTunes)
“Slow Dancing In The Dark (Loud Luxury Remix)”, Joji (iTunes)
“Shoot Out (English Version)”, Monsta X (iTunes)
“Such A Night”, Michael Bublé (iTunes)
“The Big Unknown”, Sade (iTunes)
“Thursday (Jack Wins Remix)”, Jess Glynne (iTunes)
“Used To”, Sandro Cavazza featuring Lou Elliotte (iTunes)
“Voices In My Head”, Ashley Tisdale (iTunes)
“Waiting On You”, Marc Scibilia (iTunes)
“Waste Of Time”, Lostboycrow featuring Bea Miller (iTunes)
“White Christmas”, OneRepublic (iTunes)
“Worst Nites”, Foster The People (iTunes)

Next week: look out for new albums from Little Mix, Mariah Carey, Mumford & Sons and more. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (November 4, 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. Don’t forget to vote on Tuesday! It’s a super important midterm election this year and your voice matters. Meanwhile, these voices count on the airwaves all around the country. Time to see what’s popping this Sunday:

THANK “GOD” IT’S SUNDAY: Congrats to Ariana Grande and her second #1 single of the Sweetener era, “God Is A Woman”, moving from 2-1 on this week’s Top 40 chart. It reaches the top in its 15th week in the top 40. Grande’s “Breathin” climbs from 13-9, which is also likely to cruise to #1 before the end of the year. However, this comes at the interesting time for the performer, as a new tune off her upcoming album, titled “Thank U, Next”, debuted on Saturday evening to a good dose of online buzz and solid sales and streaming momentum. (Expect some curiosity play in the coming days, though it hasn’t officially been serviced to any format.) Does “Thank” cut deeper into the spins for her two big hits, or will they all co-exist together in one big family of smashes? We’ll see soon.

“CLOSE” ENCOUNTERS: A pair of top pop songs enter the top 40 on this week’s chart, as DJ Snake featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B‘s “Taki Taki” rises from 43-38, while Why Don’t We‘s “8 Letters” climbs from 42-39. Meanwhile, four tracks are new to the top 50, led by “Waste It On Me” by Steve Aoki featuring BTS at #45. Aoki and the band previously charted together nearly a year ago, when his remix of the septet’s Desiigner-assisted “MIC Drop” spent two weeks at #24 in January. That release is the highest-charting song for both acts at the Top 40 format, while “Waste” will likely become the third top 40 hit for both. A couple of spots lower, “Close To Me” comes in at #47 for Ellie Goulding x Diplo featuring Swae Lee. It’s the first time that all three acts have appeared on the same song. Newcomers Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine bounce into the #49 position with “Ain’t Easy”, a radio hit in Canada across multiple formats from earlier this year. Finally, at #50, Rita Ora tries again for her second top 40 single of the year with “Let You Love Me”. She previously entered that region back in January with “For You”, a duet with Liam Payne from the movie Fifty Shades Freed that topped out at #35.

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (October 30, 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: Halloween hits from Steve Aoki featuring BTS and Zara Larsson are a dynamic trick-or-treating duo, but who has the best chartworthy costume of all? Time to answer the door and add ’em up:

A “LIFE” UPDATE: Four releases, three of them impacting, battled it out for the top spot on this Tuesday’s Top 40 report, which all ended north of 30 adds during the session. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be for those new three new titles, with “Sunflower” from Post Malone and Swae Lee (from the film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse) swinging back into the pop throne with 42 more stations this week. A mere two adds behind, Aoki and BTS finished in second place with “Waste It On Me”, as Larsson scored a third place finish with 37 stations for “Ruin My Life”. Additionally, Lukas Graham‘s “Love Someone”, climbing through the top 20 on the Hot AC survey, landed 34 Top 40 adds this Tuesday for a fourth place rank. Watch out for “Waste”, “Ruin” and “Love” in the top 50 at the format by this or next weekend. Now, it’s off to get some candy bars…

Next week, look for the newest hits by DJ Snake and Ellie Goulding to continue their ascent on Tuesday’s report, as “Taki Taki” and “Close To Me” officially impact here after significant early activity. This week, the former release is in eighth place with 22 new stations, while the latter ties for sixth with 26. (“Taki” is already in the published top 50, with “Close” well on its way to entering.)

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
1. POST MALONE & SWAE LEE, “Sunflower” (Interscope-Republic)
2. STEVE AOKI featuring BTS, “Waste It On Me” (Ultra)
3. ZARA LARSSON, “Ruin My Life” (TEN/Epic)
4. LUKAS GRAHAM, “Love Someone” (Warner Bros.)
5. DEAN LEWIS, “Be Alright” (Island/Republic)
6-T. CAMILA CABELLO, “Consequences” (Syco/Epic)
6-T. ELLIE GOULDING x DIPLO featuring SWAE LEE, “Close To Me” (Interscope)
8. DJ SNAKE featuring SELENA GOMEZ, OZUNA & CARDI B, “Taki Taki” (Geffen/Interscope)
9. LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER, “Shallow” (Interscope)
10. SILK CITY & DUA LIPA, “Electricity” (Columbia)

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RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (October 29-30, 2018)

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 new tracks impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

AVA MAX – “Sweet But Psycho” (APG/Atlantic)
Album: TBA (2018/2019?)
Past T40 History: Just in time for Halloween, Ava’s spooky single impacts at the Top 40 format. It’s her first radio release to date.

LIL DUVAL featuring SNOOP DOGG & BALL GREEZY – “Smile (Living My Best Life)” (EMPIRE)
Album: TBA (2018/2019?)
Past T40 History: Dogg’s last chart entry here was in 2015 as a featured artist on Prince Royce‘s “Stuck On A Feeling”, a #16 hit.

LIVVIA – “Damn” (12 Tone)
Album: TBA (2018/2019?)
Past T40 History: This performer’s last release at the format, the Quavo-assisted “Catch A Body”, reached #37 for a week in May.

LUKAS GRAHAM – “Love Someone” (Warner Bros.)
Album: 3 (The Purple Album) (2018)
Past T40 History: The Danish band is searching for their fourth top 40 song at the format. “7 Years” spent one week at #1 in 2016.

STEVE AOKI featuring BTS – “Waste It On Me” (Ultra)
Album: Neon Future III (2018)
Past T40 History: The popular DJ/producer and K-pop act have four top 40 tracks at the format between them. How will this do?

ZARA LARSSON – “Ruin My Life” (Epic)
Album: TBA (2018/2019?)
Past T40 History: Larsson has six top 40 songs to date, led by “Never Forget You” (with MNEK), which got as high as #5 in 2016.

Next week: collaborations led by DJ Snake and Ellie Goulding are among the top titles impacting at the format next Tuesday.

Which of these new songs would you like to see top the charts? Let me know!

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