Make it three weeks for Eminem’s “The Monster (featuring Rihanna),” which held off Pitbull & Ke$ha’s “Timber” to extend its tenure atop the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n
Boosted by its recently released music video, “Monster” ascended to number one on Streaming Songs, which represents one of the criteria for the Hot 100. On Radio Songs (airplay), On-Demand Songs and Digital Songs (sales), the other categories, “Monster” held at numbers one, one and three, respectively.<\/p>\n
Thanks to its strong performance in all categories, “The Monster” outperformed “Timber” in Hot 100 chart points by 17%. Last week’s lead was 15%.<\/p>\n
The repeat performance for “Monster” adhered to the dynamic of familiarity that governed much of the Hot 100. “Timber” stayed at number two, while OneRepublic’s “Counting Stars,” A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera’s “Say Something” and Lorde’s “Royals” remained in third, fourth and fifth, respectively.<\/p>\n
Imagine Dragons’ “Demons” stayed in sixth, besting Passenger’s rising “Let Her Go” (up 9-7), Avicii’s declining “Wake Me Up” (down 7-8) and Miley Cyrus’ sliding “Wrecking Ball” (down 8-9). One Direction’s “Story of My Life” stayed at number ten.<\/p>\n
Still dominant on the album sales chart, Beyonce also gained some notice on this week’s Hot 100. Her “Drunk in Love (featuring Jay-Z)” debuted at number twelve, which ties “Ring the Alarm” as the artist’s best Hot 100 debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[1175,775,1397,639,1164,1442,58,761,1236,1065,640,116,562,1470,1064,1238,129,641,1269,1062,1237],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n