Each week, Billboard places collectively a chart of the top a hundred most popular songs (as well as a number of other charts) primarily based on a national sample of high forty radio airplay, prime forty radio playlists, and music gross sales. Milk and bread will always dominate the upper echelons, with occasional exceptions for weeks when Saturday Kitchen does one thing cheeky with tamarind paste and everybody ransacks the specialist aisle. This week finds The Battle On Medicine climbing to #1 with a launch that’s been buzzing on the NACC 200 as an ‘Advance Tracks’ album for weeks.
Yet another effect of the new guidelines was the reappearance within the chart of plenty of seasonal favourites during Christmas 2007. Different entrants in the Top 5 US songwriters within the six months include Kendrick Lamar, who carried out on or contributed to no less than 17 Sizzling 100 hits in …