Billboard: Another British Takeover

 

Wait... are boy bands making a comeback? It seems like the charts have recently seen an overhaul of female domination. All of the top ranking artists in recent years have been female. Adele. Rihanna. Beyoncé. Nicki Minaj. Gaga. Britney. Welp, it's about time some guys take turns raping the charts. Hmm... bad word choice, but you get what I mean. 

fun., The Wanted and Coldplay all made powerful movements on the Billboard charts this week. Check out the top ten for the Hot 100 Songs, Digital Songs and Top 200 Albums charts below...

...but before that, here's some information on the new Billboard chart. They're calling it the On-Demand chart, and it pretty much counts streaming, on-demand music services, like Spotify.

Billboard, the publisher of the Hot 100 singles and other music charts, will be incorporating spins from on-demand streams from services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, Muve, MOG, Slacker and Rdio in determining which songs top its charts. It will also publish a new chart for top on-demand streaming tunes, with the first chart debuting Wednesday.

The charts will rely on data from Nielsen, which has been tracking digital music streams since 2005, but had not publicly shared the information. In the first 70 days of this year, Nielsen said it captured 4.5 billion audio streams -- 625 million of those in the last week, up from 494 million during the week that ended March 4. Nielsen does not track Pandora, which does not provide data to Nielsen on its personalized radio streaming service to more than 20 million users.

Hot 100 Songs Chart

1. fun. f/ Janelle Monae, "We Are Young" (=)
2. Kelly Clarkson, "Stronger" (=)
3. Adele, "Set Fire To The Rain" (=)
4. The Wanted, "Glad You Came" (=)
5. Gotye f/ Kimbra, "Somebody That I Used To Know" (+4)
6. David Guetta f/ Nicki Minaj, "Turn Me On" (+2)
7. Drake f/ Rihanna, "Take Care" (+4)
8. Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa f/ Bruno Mars, "Young, Wild & Free" (-1)
9. Nicki Minaj, "Starships" (-3)
10. Katy Perry, "Part of Me" (-5)

Hot Digital Songs

1. fun. featuring Janelle Monae "We Are Young" (322,000) (1,802,000)
2. The Wanted "Glad You Came" (191,000) (957,000)
3. Kelly Clarkson "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" (175,000) (2,105,000)
4. Nicki Minaj "Starships" (163,000) (646,000)
5. Gotye featuring Kimbra "Somebody That I Used To Know" (153,000) (1,027,000)
6. Flo Rida feauturing Sia "Wild Ones" (151,000)
7. Katy Perry "Part Of Me" (124,000) (870,000)
8. Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe" (118,000)
9. Adele "Set Fire To The Rain" (114,000) (3,225,000)
10. Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars "Young, Wild & Free" (103,000) (2,149,000)

 Top 200 Albums

1. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (196,000)

2. Adele - 21 (195,000) <---- DAMN

3. Now 41 - (152,000)

4. Lady Antebellum - We Own The Night (108,000)

5. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (100,000)

6. Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits (70,000)

7. Drake - Take Care (58,000)

8. Lil Wayne - Tha Cartver IV (36,000)

9. Luke Bryan - Spring Break 4: Suntan City (30,000)

10. Andrew Byrd - Break It Yourself (30,000)