Selena Gomez dropped to 55 and 38 respectively because they're lousy songs, plain and simple.ДЄnd most of our gains this week are decent enough too. Beyond that, the rest of the drops make sense: 'Sun Daze' by Florida Georgia Line continues its freefall to 81В because it's at the end of its run 'I Bet My Life' by Imagine Dragons keeps fading now to 59В that the album hype is completely gone 'Energy' by Drake drops to 51 because Drake's not promoting any songs from that album as singles or releasing videos, and 'Coco' by OT Genasis and 'I Want You To Know' by Zedd ft. I mean, the one song I'm a little disappointed to see weaken is 'Like A Cowboy' by Randy Houser going to 82, but it wasn't really catching on so I get why it's dropping. But we honestly didn't get a lot of losers this week, and even less that I care about. As expected this week, 'Bang Bang' by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj finally exits the chart, along with 'Drinking Class' by Lee Brice, 'Often' by The Weeknd, and a whole load of Big Sean songs that weren't going to stick around. But even that won't last forever - I can see this one being replaced come next week.ДЄnd on that topic, let's talk about drop-outs and losers. Finally we have 'Blank Space' by Taylor Swift holding onto #10, which is only here because it's still massively dominant in YouTube and that's pretty much it. It probably won't last here, and will likely be overtaken by Pitbull & Ne-Yo's 'Time Of Our Lives' pretty soon, which jumped to #9 this week thanks to sales and streaming compensating for painfully weak YouTube and airplay gains. Both were enough to push 'Take Me To Church' by Hozier down to #8, which is holding onto decent enough sales, streaming, and YouTube to compensate for steadily dropping airplay.

Below that we've got another upward shift for 'Style' by Taylor Swift at #6, which is still gaining airplay well enough to compensate for weaker video performance and a thin sales week, and for 'Earned it' by The Weeknd jumping to #7 thanks to strong sales and streaming compensating for not a lot of airplay whatsoever. Behind it, unsurprisingly, is 'FourFiveSeconds' by Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney, which was doing strong in sales and streaming, but YouTube has always been shaky and it looks like airplay may have peaked early for this track, which is interesting. Behind it thanks to huge streams is Ellie Goulding's 'Love Me Like You Do' holding steady at #4, although solid airplay boosts are helping as well. Also because close behind it was 'Sugar' by Maroon 5 - which has been consistently been gaining across the board like usual - not topping anything, but good sales are helping. That would be 'Thinking Out Loud' by Ed Sheeran, which also peaked in airplay - and really, it's surprising it held on here, granted it wasn't the strongest in sales, streaming, or YouTube. Mostly because so little changed - I mean, sure, 'Uptown Funk' finally peaked in airplay and seems to slowly be receding, but it's so dominant in the market that its closest competition isn't close. And folks, we came pretty close hereВ - yeah, we got some rough songs, but we also got a bonafide classic, and I couldn't be happier about that.Д«ut before we discuss that in detail, let's talk about the one place where things were not interesting in the slightest this week: the Top Ten. I don't think it's quite possible to ever have a perfect week - simply based on the law of averages I reckon it's impossible to a Hot 100 that's all great music - but you can have great weeks.

The good songs win, the bad songs lose, the new songs kick ass, and even the returning tracks aren't bad.

but sometimes you the weeks where it all just clicks in some of the best ways possible. Sometimes on Billboard BREAKDOWN, we can get some pretty rough weeks.

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