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Alessia Cara’s “Here” Has Best Sales Week Yet, Goes Top 50 on Hot 100

Momentum continues to build for Alessia Cara’s breakthrough “Here,” which just achieved its best weekly sales performance.

It also rises to a new peak on the Billboard Hot 100.

According to Nielsen Music, “Here” drove 26,963 paid US downloads during the September 18-24 tracking week. Up 18% from last week’s position, the mark earns “Here” the #41 position on this week’s Digital Songs subchart.

It also brings the song’s cumulative US sales total to 241,241.

In conjunction with it sales gain — and respectable streaming and radio activity — “Here” rises eight places to a new peak of #47 on Billboard’s all-encompassing Hot 100.

Written by Brian Cantor

Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. He has been a leading reporter in the music, movie, television and sporting spaces since 2002.

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