WARNING: If you hate banality and environments where things never change, don't read the following summary of last week's Digital Downloads chart. The first five spots all remained exactly the same as last week. Exactly. The. Same.
Pharrell Williams remained at the top for an 11th straight week, moving 208,000 copies of his single "Happy." John Legend remained at no. 2, moving 187,000 copies of "All of Me." Jason Derulo remained at no. 3, moving 145,000 copies of "Talk Dirty." Idina Menzel remained at no. 4, moving 133,000 copies of "Let It Go." All of the tracks mentioned above saw sales decreases from the following week.
Only two tracks saw sales increases, and that's why we're going to break our boring x + y formatting for them. Lil Jon and DJ Snake might remain in the no. 5 spot from last week with their single "Turn Down For What," but they also saw a 10 percent increase in sales at the same time. That brought them to 131,000 downloads, and puts the act in a prime position to pass both Menzel and Derulo next week. Here's hoping.
Iggy Azalea was the only other act to see a boost in sales for her single this week. "Fancy," featuring Charlie XCX, rose by 29 percent to no. 6, selling 108,000 downloads. She got a boost from her album The New Classic that dropped this week, which sold more than 60 percent of its copies in the digital format.
Katy Perry restarts the downward sales trend for the rest of the Top 10, as her long-running single "Dark Horse" sold 104,000 copies while staying put at no. 7. Luke Bryan saw the same percentage drop as Perry (8 percent) for his track "Play It Again," which actually rose to no. 8 despite falling to 96,000 downloads. Justin Timberlake only fell one percent in sales for "Not A Bad Thing," but that was small enough for him to move up to no. 9 with 87,000 downloads. Ed Sheeran matched Williams for the biggest drop (24 percent) and took no. 10 after selling 80,000 copies of "Sing."
