Adele is very comfortable at No. 1. As her new album 25 spends yet another week on top of the album chart, her smash single "Hello" is similarly holding steady atop the Hot 100. For the 10th straight week, "Hello" is dominating the world of music, above singles from Justin Bieber, Drake and twenty one pilots.
Adele can sing "Hello" to the top for the 10th straight week, Billboard reports, as her new single once again dominates sales and radio airplay. This week (thanks to Christmas gift cards), "Hello" sold 327,000 downloads, an 88 percent increase from the previous week. That good luck also spilled over into radio, where "Hello" gained 9 percent with 172 million audience impressions.
The only arena in which Adele didn't dominate was streaming (yet again). That honor went to the No. 2 single, "Sorry" from Justin Bieber, which is spending a seventh week in the runner-up slot. Bieber leads streams with 23.2 million plays, but is a lock at No. 2 thanks to his second-place numbers in sales (271,000 copies sold) and radio (137 audience impressions).
Though Bieber is in second place for almost two months straight now, he shouldn't be feeling "Sorry" for himself. His other Purpose singles "Love Yourself" and "What Do You Mean" also keep in place in the top five at Nos. 3 and 5, respectively.
With Bieber's trio of singles and Adele at No. 1 yet again, the top five songs in the country this week remain locked in as Drake's "Hotline Bling" spends a second week at No. 4.
Beneath the stagnant top five, there is a little movement in Nos. 6 through 10. Likely thanks to iTunes gift cards, Shawn Mendes' "Stitches" saw a massive 171 percent boost in sales. With 140,000 downloads sold, the song lifted back up two spots to No. 6. Mendes is then followed by another flurry of teen pop favorites whom he displaced. Selena Gomez's "Same Old Love" and Alessia Cara's "Here" both fell one spot, landing at Nos. 7 and 8, respectively.
Though most of the songs in the top 10 are familiar tunes to pop music fiends, there is one new song to crack the charts: twenty one pilot's breakout hit "Stressed Out." The alternative rock/hip-hop track jumped up four spots from No. 13 to 9 this week with a 95 percent rise in sales to 159,000 total downloads. The rise in digital downloads was also accompanied by a modest rise on radio (59 million audience impressions) and streaming (7.1 million plays), landing it into the No. 9 spot.
Though there is a little new blood in the top 10, the chart ends with a familiar song and dance. Meghan Trainor and John Legend's "Like I'm Gonna Lose You" is spending a fourth straight week at No. 10.
