Alessia Cara Earns First Airplay Chart No. 1 With ‘Here’
Alessia Cara earns her first airplay No. 1 as her debut single "Here" steps 2-1 on the Rhythmic Songs airplay chart dated Dec. 19.
Alessia Cara earns her first airplay No. 1 as her debut single “Here” steps 2-1 on the Rhythmic Songs airplay chart dated Dec. 19 (up three percent in spins during the week ending Dec. 6, according to Nielsen Music). The track spent 17 weeks scaling the chart, after debuting at No. 36 on the Aug. 29-dated list.
The 19-year-old’s breakout R&B/pop hit also continues climbing on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, hopping 10-8 to its new peak. (The Hot 100 blends airplay, sales and streaming data for songs across all genres of music.) The track appears on the singer’s debut album Know-It-All, which slides 32-38 on the Billboard 200, after debuting at No. 9 on the chart dated Dec. 5.
The chart-topping hike marks the fourth artist of 2015 to achieve a Rhythmic Songs with their first charting song, following Natalie La Rose’s “Somebody” featuring Jeremih (April 4), Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” (May 23), and OMI’s “Cheerleader” (Sept. 5.)
Badu Bows: Erykah Badu enters Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums at No. 2 with her latest release, But You Caint Use My Phone, bringing her tally to seven trips to the top 3. The set bows with 31,000 copies sold.
Badu last peaked as high in 2010 when New Amerykah: Part Two: Return Of The Ankh debuted at No. 2. Its first installation, New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War), also arrived at the No. 2 spot in 2008. To date, her debut set Baduizm remains her best chart showing, spending its first four weeks atop Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in March, 1997. Her follow up, Live, reached No. 1 in December of that year, where it spent three weeks.
The new album’s title and its opening track borrow from Badu’s 1997 R&B hit “Tyrone” (from Live), a six-week chart leader on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, which ends with the line “You need to call Tyrone. Hold on, but you can’t use my phone.”
The Weeknd’s ‘Night’ Shines: On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, The Weeknd’s “In The Night” jumps 18-14, reaching a new peak (in its sixth week), and taking both Airplay Gainer and Digital Gainer honors. With 61 percent of points counting towards its rank, radio is the main driver for the track. A 13 percent rise in digital sales, to 18,000 downloads, also help the track to climb.
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