A second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 is in the cards for Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em.” A week earlier, the song ascended to the summit, becoming her ninth leader on the chart.
Plus, SZA’s “Saturn” rockets onto the Hot 100 at No. 6. The song starts as her 10th career top 10.
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“Texas Hold ‘Em,” on Parkwood/Columbia Records/Columbia Nashville, drew 27.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 72%) and 25.5 million streams (down 12%) and sold 22,000 downloads (down 24%) in the Feb. 23-29 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The single dips to No. 2 on the Digital Song Sales chart, after two weeks at No. 1, and to No. 3 after a week atop Streaming Songs, while bounding 43-23 on Radio Songs, as the song claims top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for a second week.
Being promoted to multiple radio formats, “Texas Hold ‘Em” leaps 28-16 on Adult Pop Airplay, 25-17 on Pop Airplay, 36-23 on Rhythmic Airplay – as the Greatest Gainer on each chart – 28-24 on Adult R&B Airplay, 36-32 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and 40-32 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. It also debuts on Adult Alternative Airplay at No. 36, while slipping 34-38 on Country Airplay; thanks to its placement on the two tallies, where Beyoncé had not previously logged any entries, she has tied Pharrell Williams for the most airplay charts – 18 – on which any artist has appeared.
“Texas Hold ‘Em” is one of two songs that Beyoncé released Feb. 11 (with instrumental and clean and explicit a cappella versions of the song released Feb. 14), along with “16 Carriages.” Their arrival was announced via a Verizon commercial that aired during CBS’ broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII Feb. 11, ahead of the March 29 release of her new album, which follows her 2022 Renaissance LP.
“Texas Hold ‘Em” concurrently adds a third week at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, which uses the same multimetric methodology as the Hot 100. The banjo-inflected single became her historic first No. 1 on the ranking; prior to its coronation, no Black woman, or female known to be biracial, had previously led the list.
Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnival,” featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, rebounds to a new No. 2 Hot 100 high, from No. 4. It also rises 2-1 for a second week atop Streaming Songs (32.2 million, up 31%), as it wins the Hot 100’s top Streaming Gainer nod. The track also scores its first week atop both the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts. On the former, Ye notches his ninth No. 1; Ty Dolla $ign, his second; and Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, their first each. On the latter, the acts’ career No. 1 counts now stand at 11, three, one and one, respectively.
Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me” descends 2-3 on the Hot 100, following six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it posts a seventh week atop Radio Songs (79.4 million, essentially even week-over-week).
Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” bumps 5-4 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 3, as the chart’s top Sales Gainer, as it becomes his first leader on Digital Song Sales (3-1; 25,000, up 249%, aided by the Feb. 23 release of new a cappella, acoustic, instrumental, piano instrumental, slowed down and sped-up mixes).
Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” retreats 3-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2.
SZA’s “Saturn” starts at No. 6 on the Hot 100, with 25 million streams, 960,000 in airplay audience and 2,000 sold in its first week, following its Feb. 23 release (after SZA teased the track in a Mastercard commercial that aired during CBS’ broadcast of the Grammy Awards Feb. 4).
“Saturn” launches as SZA’s 10th Hot 100 top 10, and joins her No. 2-peaking “Snooze” (6-9) in the region. “Saturn” simultaneously dethrones “Snooze” atop the multimetric Hot R&B Songs chart, debuting as her sixth No. 1. (“Snooze” topped Hot R&B Songs for 30 weeks, tying SZA’s own “Kill Bill” for the longest command by a woman dating to the chart’s 2012 inception.)
Meanwhile, “Saturn” joins a small system of Hot 100 top 10s with names of planets in their titles. The identified such objects that have flown to the top 10:
- “Venus,” Frankie Avalon (No. 1 for five weeks, 1959)
- “Venus,” The Shocking Blue (No. 1, one week, 1970)
- “It’s Too Late”/“I Feel the Earth Move,” Carole King (No. 1, five weeks, 1971)
- “Give Me Love – (Give Me Peace on Earth),” George Harrison (No. 1, one week, 1973)
- “Venus,” Bananarama (No. 1, one week, 1986; a remake of The Shocking Blue’s leader, above)
- “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” Belinda Carlisle (No. 1, one week, 1987)
- “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me),” Train (No. 5, 2001)
- “Saturn,” SZA (No. 6 peak, to date, 2024)
- “Venus in Blue Jeans,” Jimmy Clanton (No. 7, 1962)
Notably, Saturn becomes the fourth planet in the title of a Hot 100 top 10 (with six of the nine songs above having hit No. 1). Honorable mentions to: Bruno Mars (18 career top 10s), Earth, Wind & Fire (seven), Rare Earth (three) and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (one); The Neptunes, who have produced 16 top 10s; “Baby Pluto” by Lil Uzi Vert (No. 6, 2020; Pluto was downgraded to “dwarf planet” status in 2006); and all top 10s released on Mercury Records, from the Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace” in 1959 through Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” (on Mercury/Republic Records) last month.
(Puts telescope away …)
Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves, climbs 9-7 on the Hot 100, after it led for a week upon its debut last September. It tops the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs charts for a 27th week each.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Tate McRae’s “Greedy” pushes 9-8, after reaching No. 3, and, below SZA’s “Snooze,” Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” falls 7-10, following four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in October.
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