Wow! Yesterday when I said that Sean Kingston was in music’s fast lane to the top, I meant it. But, WOW! He soared 22 places today to sit proudly at #1 on the Hot 100 Billboard chart with his “Beautiful Girls”! The “R&B Rookie” leaped ahead, partly due to the infectious groove of the song, but also partly from Billboard’s new chart formula.
Billboard’s Hot 100 now calculates streaming and on-demand music as well as digital and physical sales to decide who is really Hot each week. Billboard has included digital downloads in its system since February 2005, but this is the first time that other digital options were included in the mix.
Sean Kingston is what’s HOT this week! “Beautiful Girls” garnered the second-highest download count for a debut entry, it was downloaded 260,000 times this week; second only to Rhianna’s “Umbrella.”
Watch Sean Kingston - “Beautiful Girls”:
That video is so sweet… Kingston will perform at Carifest in NYC on August 25th.
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Billboard Charts
yahoo news
More info on the revamp of Billboard’s Hot 100
Billboard also revealed that Kanye West has a new track on the charts, “Stronger” which samples the Daft Punk banger, “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” and will be included on his 9/11 release, Graduation on Def Jam Records.
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