Monday, February 23, 2015

Chart Highlights: Madonna's 'Living for Love' Debuts on Pop Songs, Leads Dance Club Songs


Chart Highlights offers a sneak peek at a select group of Billboard charts every Monday. (All charts below are based on radio airplay except for Dance Club Songs, which is based on reports submitted by a panel of DJs.) Find out the top songs, Greatest Gainers and debuts on the surveys listed below.

Pop Songs
Debut No. 36 "Living For Love" Madonna
Madonna debuts on Pop Songs at No. 36 with "Living for Love," aided by concentrated on plays on several iHeartMedia-owned stations; for instance, WHTZ New York played it 19 times in the week ending Feb. 22, according to Nielsen Music, and KIIS Los Angeles spun it 16 times. She makes her 29th visit (dating to the chart's October 1992 launch) and first since 2012, when "Give Me All Your Luvin'," featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., and "Girl Gone Wild" reached Nos. 24 and 38, respectively (sparked by notable plays at iHeartMedia; "Luvin' " aired hourly for nearly three days at the chain leading up to her Super Bowl halftime appearance that year).

As previously reported, "Living," which Madonna performed at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, makes esteemed history on Dance Club Songs, where it reaches No. 1, becoming Madonna's 44th leader on the list. She ties George Strait, who's logged 44 No. 1s on Hot Country Songs, for the most toppers by an artist ever on any Billboard chart. "Living" also debuts on Dance/Mix Show Airplay at No. 35.

Dance Club Songs
*** No. 1 (1 week)***/Greatest Gainer "Living For Love" Madonna

Dance/Mix Show Airplay
Debut No. 35 "Living For Love" Madonna


Note: Chart info above is for the issue dated March 7, 2015.

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