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The Charts Update (October 10, 2009)

As previously reported, BAD HABITS is on the move. The moves have continued upward. The song just entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Great! According to Billboard.com, MAXWELL has just made history again.

From billboard.com: This week, for the first time in the 16-year history of the Adult R&B radio airplay chart, one act monopolizes the top two slots on the survey. Maxwell not only achieves the honor with “Bad Habits” rising 3-1 and “Pretty Wings” dipping 1-2, but he also becomes just the second act to succeed itself at No. 1. Alicia Keys first traded songs at the summit when “No One” replaced “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” atop the chart dated Nov. 10, 2007.

“Bad Habits” is Maxwell’s fourth Adult R&B No. 1. “Fortunate” spent a chart-record 18 weeks on top in 1999, and “Lifetime” commanded for 15 frames in 2001-02.

What is slightly confused is the positioning, of Bad Habits & Pretty Wings. On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, LMN reported information found via Mediabase, Pretty Wings was still in the number 1 position and Bad Habits in the number 2 position on URBAN AC radio. In the snippet from the article above, it states Bad Habits is in the number 1 position on the Adult R&B Radio Airplay Chart (viewable billboard.biz). Adult R&B radio airplay charts are a measure of URBAN AC radio stations.

Regardless of position, the 16-year history still holds!! MAXWELL has two singles in the top 1 and 2 positions on URBAN AC (Adult R&B radio airplay chart) charts. So, congrats to MAXWELL and his band members.

Issue Date: October 10, 2009

Billboard Charts

MAXWELL – BLACKsummersnight:
Billboard 200 – #27 (Last wk #21)
Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – #6 (Last wk #8)

MAXWELL – Pretty Wings:
Billboard Hot 100 – #44 (Last Wk #38)
Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – #1 (Last Wk #1)
Billboard Radio Songs – #15 (Last Wk #12)
Billboard Ringtones – #32 (Last Wk #22)

MAXWELL – Bad Habits:
Billboard Hot 100 – #96 (Debut Wk # -)
Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – #9 (Last wk #16)
Billboard Radio Songs – #58 (Last Wk -#65)

U.S. Airplay Charts
The following is information collected (September 29, 2009) from Mediabase

MAXWELL – Pretty Wings:
URBAN – #4 (Last Wk #3) | Spins – 3,285
URBAN AC (Adult Contemporary) – #1 (Last Wk #1) | Spins – 1,930

RHYTHMIC – #37 (Last Wk #33) | Spins – 735
SMOOTH AC – #22 (Last Wk #28) | Spins – 56

MAXWELL – Bad Habits:
URBAN – #35 (Last Wk #43) | Spins 685
URBAN AC – #2 (Last Wk #3) | Spins 1,882

Units Moved:
MAXWELL – BLACKsummersnight (Last wk 16,800+) Total (777,909+)
RIAA Status – GOLD (500,000+)

MAXWELL Facts:
Pretty Wings gives Maxwell his first #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in ten years.
The single “Pretty Wings” was the sixth title in the chart’s 15-year history to launch in the top 15.

#1 debut on the Billboard Top 200 chart with BLACKsummers’night (Maxwell’s second consecutive #1 album debut and best career sales week)
#1 for three weeks on all R&B Album sales charts, BLACKsummers’night
#1 on the iTunes R&B Album chart, BLACKsummers’night
#1 on the iTunes R&B Singles chart, “Pretty Wings”
#1 for four weeks on Top Single Sales chart, “Pretty Wings”
#1 Song on the full R&B Panel, “Pretty Wings”. Replacing Drake’s run at the top of the chart.
#1 on America’s Urban Adult for the sixth week, “Pretty Wings”

Sources: Billboard, Mediabase, RIAA, AllAccess

Posted in: Charts

Tags: all access, billboard, Hits Daily Double, mediabase, riaa

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