{"id":973968,"date":"2019-12-10T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=924717"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:22:02","slug":"rs-charts-the-weeknds-heartless-takes-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/rs-charts-the-weeknds-heartless-takes-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Charts: The Weeknd\u2019s \u2018Heartless\u2019 Takes Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Weeknd.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-weeknd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-weeknd\" data-tag=\"the-weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a> was the only artist standing between Mariah Carey and Number One on the latest <\/span><i><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/i><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/charts\/songs\/\"> Top 100 Songs chart<\/a>. The Weeknd launched \u201cHeartless\u201d and \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d to Numbers One and Two, respectively; the singles amassed more than 40 million streams between them. But Carey\u2019s canonical holiday single \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d proved to be a fierce competitor, earning 20 million streams and slotting in at Number Three.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHeartless\u201d and \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d mark the first new solo songs from the Weeknd since April 2018. \u201cHeartless,\u201d which is co-produced by the Atlanta super-producer Metro Boomin, finds the Weeknd intent on reestablishing his callous credentials: \u201cI\u2019m back to my ways \u2019cause I\u2019m heartless\/All this money and this pain got me heartless\/Low life for life \u2019cause I\u2019m heartless.\u201d \u201cBlinding Lights,\u201d co-written and co-produced by Max Martin, reaches for a different reference point: 1980s pop. The clipped beat suggests Don Henley, while the chirpy synth riff could have come from General Public.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/i><span> Top 100 chart tracks the most popular songs of the week in the United States. Songs are ranked by song units, a number that combines audio streams and song sales using a custom weighting system. The chart does not include passive listening like terrestrial radio or digital radio. The <\/span><i><span>Rolling Ston<\/span><\/i><span>e Top 100 chart is updated daily, and each week <\/span><i><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/i><span> finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Carey was hardly an outlier on this week\u2019s <\/span><i><span>RS <\/span><\/i><span>100, which was buried under a deluge of seasonal tracks: Brenda Lee\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree,\u201d Bobby Helms\u2019 \u201cJingle Bell Rock,\u201d and Burl Ives\u2019 \u201cA Holly Jolly Christmas\u201d all cracked the Top Ten. Christmas-themed singles from Wham!, Dean Martin, and the Ronettes weren\u2019t far behind.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Next week, new songs from Camilla Cabello and Roddy Ricch will fight Christmas singles for space on the chart. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rs-charts-top-100-the-weeknd-heartless-924717\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd was the only artist standing between Mariah Carey and Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. The Weeknd launched \u201cHeartless\u201d and \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d to Numbers One and Two, respectively; the singles amassed more than 40 million streams between them. But Carey\u2019s canonical holiday single \u201cAll I Want for Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:04:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}