Sam Smith performs during the No Tomorrow festival, held at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham.
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The British singer/songwriter rises 2-1, fueled by continued strong album sales and another Hot 100 top 10
Sam Smith takes over atop the landmark new Billboard Artist 100 chart, rising 2-1.The list, which launched last week, provides the first-ever weekly
ranking dedicated to measuring artist activity across Billboard's most
influential charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 and
Social 50, among others. The Artist 100 is modeled after the formula
utilized to compile our annual Year in Music Top Artist list (as well as
the Billboard Music Awards Artist of the Year category), blending
information from album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and
social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional
ranking of artist popularity.
Sam Smith at Bonnaroo 2014
British pop newcomer Smith surges 2-1 on the Artist 100, displacing
inaugural champion Trey Songz, who dips 1-8 as the latter's album
"Trigga" tumbles 1-4 on the Billboard 200
with 35,000 sold (down 66 percent), according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Meanwhile, Smith holds at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with "In the Lonely
Hour" (42,000, minus just 6 percent) and is stationary on the Hot 100 at No. 5
with his set's lead single "Stay With Me," the Hot 100's top Airplay
Gainer (125 million in all-format radio audience, up 13 percent,
according to Nielsen BDS). Of Smith's overall Artist 100 chart points,
36 percent are from album sales and 35 percent from track sales.
Smith concurrently rises 11-10 on the Hot 100 as featured on
Disclosure's "Latch." (An act in a featured role claims a smaller
portion of a song's overall points than the lead act for purposes of the
Artist 100's tabulation.) Smith is the only act in the top 10 of the
Billboard Artist 100 to place in the top 10 of the Billboard 200,
Digital Songs and Radio Songs.
Below Smith, Iggy Azalea and MAGIC! rank at Nos. 2 and 3,
respectively, on the Artist 100. While MAGIC!'s "Rude" overtakes
Azalea's "Fancy" atop the Hot 100 this week, Azalea also ranks at No. 3
on the Hot 100 as a guest on Ariana Grande's "Problem." Her overall
airplay, track sales, streaming and social activity are enough to
overcome MAGIC!'s top Hot 100 rank, as well as the group's slight lead
in album sales (16,000 for its "Don’t Kill the Magic" vs. 13,000 for her
"The New Classic").
Sam Smith: Billboard Profile
Two acts blast into the Artist 100's top 10 from outside the top 20
last week: Florida Georgia Line vaults 23-4, fueled by the No. 11 Hot
100 debut of its new single "Dirt,"
which sold 182,000 first-week downloads. At No. 5, Sia soars from No.
38 as her album "1000 Forms of Fear" bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
with 52,000 copies sold. Digital song sales of "Dirt" and other songs by
Florida Georgia Line account for 61 percent of the pair's Artist 100
points, while album sales form 66 percent of Sia's sum. Notably, Florida
Georgia Line represents the only country act in the Artist 100's top
10.
Classic rock icons Judas Priest score the week's highest debut on the
Artist 100, entering at No. 31 thanks to the band's No. 6 start on the
Billboard 200 with "Redeemer of Souls." With 33,000 sold of the set,
album sales account for nearly all the group's Artist 100 points total.
Highlighting how social activity can impact the Artist 100, Justin
Bieber jumps 67-34 as he returns to the top of the Social 50 for a
record-extending 90th week. Social metrics, as measured by Next Big
Sound, account for 91 percent of Bieber's Artist 100 sum.
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