{"id":26376,"date":"2014-07-10T03:18:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=26376"},"modified":"2014-07-10T03:18:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T07:18:19","slug":"becky-g-kongos-sam-hunt-advance-itunes-sales-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/10\/becky-g-kongos-sam-hunt-advance-itunes-sales-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Becky G, KONGOS, Sam Hunt Advance on iTunes Sales Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quickly establishing itself as a song the masses are singing in their showers, Becky G&#8217;s &#8220;Shower&#8221; has officially entered the Top 20 on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>The song, which continues to make solid gains at pop radio and recently benefited from a music video release, had advanced to #19 on the overall iTunes chart by press time.  It easily ranks as the biggest hit for the seventeen-year-old&#8217;s career, and it appears poised to only rise higher in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>And the Becky G release is not the only song making waves on the iTunes sales chart:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Florida Georgia Line&#8217;s new single &#8220;Dirt&#8221; continues to reign at #1.  While it might not retain the top spot through Sunday, it is expected to garner the largest overall sales tally this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Iggy Azalea&#8217;s blockbuster &#8220;Fancy (Charli XCX)&#8221; and Ariana Grande&#8217;s new&#8221; Break Free (featuring Zedd)&#8221; have fallen to #9 and #10, respectively.  Their declines have paved the way for Maroon 5&#8217;s &#8220;Maps&#8221; to reach #6, Charli XCX&#8217;s &#8220;Boom Clap&#8221; to claim #7 and Sia&#8217;s &#8220;Chandelier&#8221; to hit a new peak of #8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; KONGOS&#8217; enduring &#8220;Come with Me Now,&#8221; which continues to build steam at pop and Hot AC radio and remains one of alternative radio&#8217;s Top 3 songs, had entered the Top 20 (at #20) by press time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Benefiting from its buzzworthy video, exposure on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/09\/kieszas-hideaway-goes-top-40-meghan-trainor-makes-run\/\">growing radio support<\/a> and a listing under the &#8220;What&#8217;s Hot&#8221; section on iTunes, Meghan Trainor&#8217;s &#8220;All About that Bass&#8221; is positioned at #30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sam Hunt&#8217;s breakthrough &#8220;Leave the Night On,&#8221; which is splashing at country radio with support from the iHeartRadio &#8220;On the Verge&#8221; campaign, has surged to #32.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Clean Bandit&#8217;s &#8220;Rather Be (featuring Jess Glynne),&#8221; an &#8220;On the Verge&#8221; track at pop radio, has climbed to #34.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;Black Widow (featuring Rita Ora),&#8221; the follow-up to Iggy Azalea&#8217;s &#8220;Fancy,&#8221; has rapidly entered the Top 50 at #49.  It is rapidly gaining traction at pop and rhythmic radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Echosmith&#8217;s &#8220;Cool Kids,&#8221; which is the &#8220;On the Verge&#8221; pick for Hot AC and also at the center of MTV&#8217;s latest Artist to Watch campaign, had advanced to #50 by publication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;She Came to Give it To You (featuring Nicki Minaj),&#8221; Usher&#8217;s new single, is listed at #60.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Tove Lo&#8217;s &#8220;Habits (Stay High),&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/03\/tove-los-habits-finally-overtakes-remix-itunes\/\">which recently overtook the Hippie Sabotage remix as a consequence of its multi-format radio exposure<\/a>, had advanced to #81 at press time. <\/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":[2330,2439,1978,1825,432,1822,1753,2435,2434,2369,2191,294],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Becky G, KONGOS, Sam Hunt Advance on iTunes Sales Chart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Quickly establishing itself as a song the masses are singing in their showers, Becky G&#039;s &quot;Shower&quot; has officially entered the Top 20 on iTunes. 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