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On the December Beyond Radio 250 even the ubiquitous Ariana Grande could not stop the Ronson/Cyrus juggernaut. “Thank You, Next” had to settle for the runner-up position for a second month.
Ava Max’s “Sweet But Psycho” moves into the top 5, adding 31 charts this month. The other songs with over 20 adds during the month include Jax Jones’ “Play”, Grande’s “Imagine”, Avril Lavigne’s second single release of the year “Tell Me It’s Not Over” and Grimes Alt-(Pop?) gem “We Appreciate Power”.
Beyond Radio’s Personal Chart Adds Top 100 plus, December 30
The Genre charts are based on the past 4 week adds trend.
After 3 massive weeks Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus only get 3 adds this week and fall out of the top 30. This makes way for “Imagine” by Ariana Grande to move from 2-1, doubling her chart total. Sam Smith climbs up to #3 in the second week of release for “Fire On Fire”. Ava Max moves back into the top 5 on 8 adds, now on 78 charts.
After a 10 year hiatus, Jack White’s side band the Raconteurs place 2 songs in the top 25 with “Sunday Driver” at #6 and “Now That You’re Gone” at #23.
5 Seconds Of Summer have teamed up with Julia Michaels on a new single “Lie To me” which comes in at #13 in its first week out. Just behind is Allie X’s Christmas single “Last Xmas”.
You can listen to the top 30 adds this week on Spotify.
LW/TW/ARTIST/SONG/ADDS/POINTS /TOTAL CHARTS/ TOTAL WEEKS OUT
2 1 ARIANA GRANDE Imagine 651.7 12 24 3
189 2 SAM SMITH Fire On Fire 511 9 11 2
113 3 DIDO Friends 292.1 7 9 2
9 4 AVA MAX Sweet But Psycho 267.4 8 78 16
3 5 AVRIL LAVIGNE Tell Me It’s Over 245.1 5 28 3
66 6 THE RACONTEURS Sunday Driver 244.5 5 8 2
80 7 LADBABY We Built This City 233.5 3 5 2
11 8 ARIANA GRANDE Santa Tell Me 228 4 9 53
653 9 BREAKING BENJAMIN Tourniquet 216.6 3 4 2
6 10 ALICE MERTON Funny Business 213.4 5 18 5
352 11 BROKEN BELLS Shelter 206 4 9 3
28 12 SEEB f/ BASTILLE Grip 198.5 6 19 4
new 13 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER f/ JULIA MICHAELS Lie To Me 188.4 5 5 1