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Alessia Cara’s “Scars To Your Beautiful” Pacing For #1 At Pop Radio

Alessia Cara’s “Scars To Your Beautiful” is poised to top this week’s Mediabase pop radio airplay chart.

“Scars” received 7,661 spins during the first three days of the January 15-21 tracking period. Up 5.1% from the count at this point last week, the tally slots the song at #1 on the building chart.

Maroon 5’s “Don’t Wanna Know (featuring Kendrick Lamar),” which topped last week’s chart, is #2 on the building chart. It is not too far behind — its spin count after three days is 7,589 — but Cara’s tune has a clear momentum advantage. Whereas “Scars” is up 5.1% over last week, “Don’t Wanna Know” is up just 0.8%.

Should “Scars To Your Beautiful” indeed hold for #1, it will become the singer-songwriter’s second pop radio chart-topper. She previously reached the format’s summit with her breakthrough single “Here.”

Brian Cantor

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