It's not even a "See You Again" for Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth and the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100: it's that they're never leaving. For the 12th nonconsecutive week, the Furious 7 soundtrack single has topped the charts - but new singles from OMI, Jack Ü with Justin Bieber and Rachel Platten are coming up quickly as summer gets hotter.
"See You Again" ties the record for the longest rap No. 1 (with The Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow") but the single does it with fairly unremarkable numbers, leading neither sales, streams nor radio play. However, Khalifa is doing just well enough in all three major metrics to hold off OMI's "Cheerleader" from the top spot.
The meteoric rise of "Cheerleader" continues this week, as OMI's surprise hit single rises one spot, unseating Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" at No. 2. "Cheerleader" leads digital downloads this week, with 170,000 songs sold and rises up 19 percent in streams. Billboard reports that "Cheerleader" follows "See You Again" by only a slight margin, so a new No. 1 next week is not unfathomable.
OMI isn't the only new artist to have a quick vault to the top of the charts - Silento's dance hit "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" also continues its huge climb this week, rising up four positions from No. 4 to No. 3. Thanks to the help of Vine, "Watch Me" hit No. 2 on streams and sold 127,000 copies this week with a No. 3 showing on digital downloads.
With the newbies taking over, Taylor Swift's one-week No. 1 "Bad Blood" fell to No. 4 this week, followed by another former chart stronghold Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen," which sits at No. 5. The Weeknd's new soon-to-be hit single "I Can't Feel My Face" holds its No. 6 position.
Other familiar songs take up Nos. 7 and 9, with Walk the Moon's "Shut Up and Dance" clocking in at the higher position and David Guetta's "Hey Mama" rising slightly to No. 9.
Between the chart veterans, two new songs broke into the top 10 this week. Justin Bieber returns to the top 10 for the first time in two years, thanks to his Jack Ü collaboration "Where Are Ü Now." Thanks to the song's artsy music video, which dropped on June 29, "Where Are Ü Now" rocketed up to No. 5 on the Streaming Songs chart and also saw increases in sales and radio play. This landed the song a new heightened position at No. 8.
The other newcomer on the charts this week goes to a different sort of song, Rachel Platten's empowerment anthem "Fight Song." The debut single climbed up four spots this week to No. 10 thanks to a 31 percent increase in streams (4.7 million total).
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