billboard BREAKDOWN - hot 100 - january 7, 2017 (VIDEO)

So yeah, I forgot to put up these videos here, so here we go, the first Billboard BREAKDOWN of the new year - enjoy!

billboard BREAKDOWN - hot 100 - january 7, 2017

This was the sort of week I didn't expect - on the one hand it's the aftermath of J. Cole's big debut so inevitably there was going to be a pretty major course correction... but that wasn't the only thing that happened, because Christmas music came back in force to compete with a pileup of hip-hop that I don't think anyone was asking for. And yet that's not the biggest story of this week... because we have a new #1.