David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray leap onto Billboard’s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated April 22) with “Baby Don’t Hurt Me” at No. 8. The track starts with 2.5 million official streams, 1.4 million radio airplay impressions and 900 downloads sold in the April 7-13 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The reworking of Haddaway’s Eurodance classic “What Is Love,” which reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1993, amounts to Guetta’s 21st Hot Dance/Electronic Songs top 10, the fourth-most among all acts since the chart began in January 2013; Kygo leads with 24 top 10s, followed by Calvin Harris and The Chainsmokers, each with 22. “Hurt” is singer Anne-Marie’s second top 10 and rapper Leray’s first.
The debut also gives prolific DJ/producer Guetta a record-extending 76th charted title, the most of all acts. (Kygo is next, with 62.)
Concurrently, “Hurt” begins on the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart at No. 3.
The track traces the model of Guetta’s collab with Bebe Rexha, “I’m Good (Blue),” a reimagination of another Eurodance smash, Eiffel 65’s “Blue (Da Ba Dee),” a No. 6 Hot 100 hit in 2000. “Good” scores a 30th frame at No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, becoming only the fourth track to have logged 30 or more weeks on top, after Marshmello and Bastille’s “Happier” (69 weeks; 2018-20), Elton John and Dua Lipa’s “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” (36; 2021-22) and Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey’s “The Middle” (33; 2018).
‘Dancing’ to Top 10
Frank Walker and Ella Henderson ascend to the Dance/Mix Show Airplay summit with “I Go Dancing.” The first leader for both acts, among three and four top 10s, respectively, is drawing core-dance airplay on Music Choice’s Dance/EDM channel, KMVQ-HD2 San Francisco and WCPY (Dance Factory FM) Chicago, among other supporters.
It’s a busy week on Dance/Mix Show Airplay, with three tracks reaching the top 10. John Summit scores his third top 10 and Hayla, her second, with “Where You Are” (12-6); Kaleena Zanders earns her inaugural top 10 and Shift K3Y presses his second with “V I B R A T I O N” (15-8); and Duke and Jones draws their first top 10 and Marlhy, her second, with “State of Mind” (21-10).
(The Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart measures radio airplay on a select group of full-time dance stations, along with plays during mix shows on around 70 top 40-formatted reporters.)
‘Hammer’ Time
On the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, Brooklyn-based DJ/producer/singer Yaeji arrives at No. 9 with her first album, With a Hammer. The set arrives with 3,500 equivalent album units, including 2,600 from traditional album sales. With vocals in Korean and English, the release also hits World Albums (No. 13) and Heatseekers Albums (No. 18).
Yaeji is known for her underground hit “Raingurl,” from her five-track EP2. The short set hit No. 5 on the now-defunct sales-only Dance/Electronic Album Sales chart following its November 2017 release.