User blog:CAMERAwMUSTACHE/JD Billboard Positions (January 12, 2019)

Christmas is finally over, as 30 songs fall off the chart and bring in a tidal wave of non-holiday tunes to fill the gap, including one about an actual sea creature.

Half of the chart consists of songs moving up 10 spots or more and an abundance of reentries fill the bottom 50. Several songs reach new peaks as well and some songs right at the edge of their release cycles finally make an appearance.

In terms of debuts there really isn’t that much to say as it is mostly country songs and songs that would have otherwise charted had it not been for all the holiday songs. This week’s Hot Shot Debut goes to Pinkfong’s “Baby Shark” at #32 thanks to an unusually good sales week allowing it to finally enter outside of its release cycle (the song was originally released in 2016). Why this is still a thing, I have no idea. The most notable of the debuts this week in my opinion is “Body” by Loud Luxury ft. Brando at #87. The song was a hit in other countries and did well on the Canadian charts but never hit the Hot 100 until now. “Body” also reenters the EDM chart at a new peak of #7. It had previously tallied 41 weeks on the chart peaking at #10. This reentry was made shortly after the EDM was originally published, and as a result the only debut did not make the cut making this week a debut-less one for the EDM chart.

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Hot 100
RIP Christmas music. Mariah did manage to break the record for highest position to fall off from on her way out though.

Year-End 2018
Note the chart year runs from charts dated 12/1/2017 to 12/1/2018

Hot 100
This year saw major achievements for hip-hop artists such as Drake and Post Malone. The list is kind of lame with some people noting the abundance of songs in the lower half that barely reached the top 50.

Dance/Electronic
Because it's a 100-song recap of a 50-song chart, almost anything that reached the top 10 this year made it in.

Greatest of All Time
See User blog:CAMERAwMUSTACHE/JD Billboard Positions (August 25, 2018)

Just Dance Unlimited

 * Positions 101 to 125 correspond to positions 1 to 25 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart, which acts as an extension of the Hot 100.
 * Prior to 2012, songs did not have to be predominantly in Spanish to chart on the Hot Latin Songs chart and the chart was predominantly based on airplay.
 * The Dance/Electronic chart was established in January 2013. Songs that predate the chart only charted if the song saw a significant enough increase to chart sometime after the chart was established.