
Praised WNCS program director Zeb Norris last week, “More than a musician, more than a rock star, more than an actor or celebrity, David Bowie was one of the most important artists of our times.Standing alongside the cast’s interpretations of classics from his canon are the three final David Bowie studio recordings. Leading the way: 17 plays in the tracking week on WNCS Burlington, Vt., and 16 on WFUV New York. 26 on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart. Radio likewise is celebrating Bowie, as “Lazarus” debuts at No. 43 (debut), “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)”

39 (debut), “I Can’t Give Everything Away” 34 (debut), “‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” 13 (re-entry), “Blackstar” (after spending a prior week at No. 5 (debut), “Under Pressure” (with Queen) (and No. Here’s a look at all of Bowie’s songs on Hot Rock Songs this week:

Both surveys blend measurements of sales, streaming and airplay.) With his 21 concurrent chart entries (one a re-entry), Bowie shatters the record for the most titles on Hot Rock Songs in a week Mumford & Sons had previously charted 14 simultaneous hits for three weeks in 2012, following the release of their album Babel. (Similar to the Hot 100, older songs can chart if ranking in the Hot Rock Songs list’s upper half. Meanwhile, on the 50-position Hot Rock Songs chart (which premiered in 2009), Bowie boasts a record 21 songs, including all seven on Blackstar. Thus, while “Lazarus” was the most-streamed Bowie song of the week (8.1 million), “Oddity” was his top-selling track (44,000). Plus, the Blackstar title track debuts at No. (Older songs are allowed to return to the Hot 100 if ranking in the top 50 and showing notable gains.) “Oddity” re-enters the Hot 100 with 5.5 million streams (up from 414,000) and 44,000 downloads sold (up from 1,000), while “Pressure” resurges with 5.9 million streams (up from 455,000) and 36,000 sold (up from 2,000). 29 in 1982 (and would later be sampled in Vanilla Ice’s 1990 No. 42, and his Queen collaboration “Under Pressure,” at No. Two Bowie classics also re-enter the Hot 100: “Oddity,” at No. It also sold 16,000 downloads in the tracking week (up from less than 1,000). “Lazarus” launches with the bulk (86 percent) of its Hot 100 chart points from streaming, as the track starts on Streaming Songs at No. Of that sum, 174,000 were in pure album sales, marking Bowie’s biggest sales week for an album since Nielsen began electronically tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991.ĭavid Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ Is His First No. 1 on the chart with 181,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking Bowie’s first-ever No. 1: “Fame,” for two weeks in 1975, and “Let’s Dance,” for a week in 1983.Īs previously reported, Blackstar begins at No. Of his 14 top 40 Hot 100 hits, six soared to the top 10, with two climbing all the way to No. “Lazarus” is Bowie’s 14th top 40 entry on the Hot 100 overall.

It’s his first top 40 Hot 100 hit since “Never Let Me Down,” which reached No. “Lazarus,” from Bowie’s farewell album Blackstar, debuts at No. A$AP Rocky Carries Giant Pink Tote While Out With Rihanna for His Birthday
