Ariana Grande on the 2015 Post-Super Bowl Fallon [Douglas Gorenstein/NBC]
Since it was released on October 30 — the day after the October 23-29 tracking week concluded — none of its sales and streaming activity counted toward this week’s Billboard charts.
Since the radio tracking week ran from October 26-November 1, Ariana Grande’s “Focus” did, however, receive three days of eligible airplay credit. That radio activity earns the new single a place on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
“Focus” takes #24 on the listing, which ranks the top songs that have yet to appear on the actual Billboard Hot 100.
With full weeks of sales, streaming, and radio activity in play, “Focus” will surely make a splash on next week’s edition of that actual Hot 100.
For now, it is “Bubbling Under.”