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I think the chaos of 2018 warped how I normally see the Hot 100. Granted, part of this feels driven by the fact that at this point last ye...

Okay, here we go - pretty bad week, but at least the Bazzi song was good, right? Right? Anyway, I've got Logic or Emotional Oranges...

...so yeah, there are weeks where I'm wrong, and then there's this week, where I might have been expecting a slowdown - which in s...

Sorry this is late, folks - fell asleep while the damn thing was rendering, whoops.  Anyway, next is Dirty Projectors, so stay tuned! ...

Okay look, I knew that any cooldown week coming out of an album bomb like Drake's would not be small, if only for the massive shifts w...

Okay, so this was... actually a pretty lousy week, not helped by YouTube dicking over my sub box (which apparently happened for multiple ...

So I've been predicting for the past few weeks that the charts are on the verge of something breaking - and thus far, the Hot 100 has ...

So this week... as I said on Patreon, I'm not precisely pleased with the thumbnail, but I think the episode turned out okay, which is...

If this was any normal week, I'd be inclined to say it was transitional, an otherwise regular week as older tracks rotate out in prepa...

And that's two years of Billboard BREAKDOWN... and we end with a Rae Sremmurd song at #1. Oh... oh boy. Now odds are I'll conti...

Seems like the end of a Billboard year can still surprise you, eh? If you had asked me six months or a year ago if I had wanted 2016's...