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Fifth Harmony & Gucci Mane’s “Down” Debuts At #42 On Billboard Hot 100

The Fifth Harmony-Gucci Mane collaboration ranks as the week’s top debut.

Fifth Harmony’s “Down (featuring Gucci Mane)” debuts comfortably inside this week’s Billboard Hot 100.

The song takes #42 on the listing. It is the week’s highest-ranking debut.

Billboard’s Hot 100 ranks songs from all genres based on combined activity from sales, streams and radio airplay.

This week’s chart accounts for the song’s first full week of activity in all metrics, but there are some elements worthy of a deeper dive.

The music video helped the weekly streaming total — but only to a degree. It debuted on the final day of the June 2-8 streaming tracking week.

Label Epic Records, meanwhile, set a June 13 mainstream radio impact date for the song. While “Down” still received a considerable amount of airplay this past week (as in, more than is typically garnered by all but the absolute biggest releases), it may have received more support had Epic scheduled the impact for last week. The Hot 100 radio tracking week was June 5-11.

“Down” did, however, benefit from a launch-day performance on “Good Morning America.”

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. Brian's reporting has been cited by major websites like BuzzFeed, Billboard, the New Yorker and The Fader -- and shared by celebrities like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj. Contact Brian at brian.cantor[at]headlineplanet.com.

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