It's still a month full of "Uptown Funk" on the Hot 100 this week. For the sixth consecutive week, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' throwback Uptown Special single tops the Billboard Hot 100. Though it's been a great ride for the track, it may be over soon as two new songs from Rihanna and Ellie Goulding debut in the top 10 and two stars prep major music video debuts.
"Uptown Funk" just cannot be beat in sales, as Mars and Ronson's track leads the Digital Downloads Chart for the seventh week, moving 319,000 copies. But that's not the only way that "Uptown Funk" is dominating, it also leads in radio and streaming, making it an easy chart-topper.
Despite the incoming shakeup in sales and streams from the 2015 Grammys, which took place on Sunday (Feb. 8), the top three of the Hot 100 remain the same this week, with Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" and Hozier's "Take Me to Church" sticking still at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. The top five in general remains fairly similar, with Nos. 4 and 5 just swapping places this week as Maroon 5's "Sugar" rises to No. 4 and Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" slips down one spot.
The new arrival in the top 10 arrived this week and can be expected to continue to make gains. Rihanna's collaboration with Kanye West and Paul McCartney, "FourFiveSeconds," lifted up nine spots this week to break into the No. 6 position on the Hot 100. The track may have gotten a last-minute Grammys sales bump, with a 31 percent rise in digital downloads to 181,000 units. However, RiRi didn't need the Grammys for a top 10 breakthrough. "FourFiveSeconds" rose 33 percent at radio and an astonishing 830 percent in streams thanks to the newly released music video.
Expect that song to go places.
Though Rihanna had the biggest gains this week, she wasn't the only new appearance in the top 10. Ahead of the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, Ellie Goulding's soundtrack song "Love Me Like You Do" reached No. 9 this week thanks to a major lift in sales (115,000 copies) and a 43 percent bump in radio play.
The rest of the chart is filled with familiar favorites. Meghan Trainor's "Lips Are Movin'" and Sam Smith's "I'm Not the Only One" both stumble one spot, to Nos. 7 and 8, respectively, and Swift rounds things off with "Shake It Off."
Nest week, expect a major shakeup in the top 10 of the Hot 100. Not only will high profile performances at the Grammys impact sales, but new music videos from Taylor Swift ("Style") and Ariana Grande ("One Last Time") are set to debut this weekend.
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