Drake Extends Record On The Hot 100 Chart

As previously reported, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, rules the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated June 24) for a fifth week..

Who else makes notable Hot 100 chart moves this week?

Fifth Harmony debuts its first single as a quartet, “Down,” featuring Gucci Mane, at No. 42 on the Hot 100. The lead single from the group’s forthcoming third LP starts at No. 12 on Digital Song Sales with 36,000 first-week downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music. It adds 9.2 million first-week U.S. streams and 7.1 million in airplay audience and enters the Pop Songs airplay chart at No. 37.

It could surge following the June 8 release of its official video.

“Down” marks the first 5H single since the December 2016 departure of Camila Cabello, whose own “Crying in the Club,” her first Hot 100 hit unaccompanied by another artist, lifts 61-56. On Pop Songs, “Club” climbs 25-21. “I think both songs belong on pop radio, and can co-exist,” says WBBM-FM (B96) Chicago assistant program director/music director Erik Bradley. “Each act is in such a groove right now.”

Fifth Harmony reached a No. 4 Hot 100 high in June 2016 with “Work From Home,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign. The lead single from its second full-length, 7/27, debuted at No. 12 with 10 million U.S. streams and 88,000 sold.

In a June 2 visit to Billboard’s New York offices, 5H’s Ally Brooke Hernandez revealed that the new set will mix “strong pop melodies” and “dark urban sounds.” Normani Kordei added that, for the first time, “We [co-]wrote more than half [the] album. It means more.”