2020 in Review THE STATE OF THE HOT 100 TOP 10 SELECT HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REPORT Compositional and Industry Trends for the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 The State of the Hot 100 Top 10 takes an in-depth look at the compositional and industry- related trends for the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10. What follows are a few select highlights from the 100+ page report. ABOUT THIS REPORT PAGE 2 | SONGS & CREDITS Data is for songs that charted in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 and excludes PAGE 3 | PERFORMING ARTISTS holiday songs. PAGE 7 | SONGWRITERS Data related to compositional characteristics are propriety to Hit Songs PAGE 11 | PRODUCERS Deconstructed. Artist, songwriter, producer, label and PAGE 14 | RECORD LABELS charting information are aggregated from the PRO’s, Billboard, and streaming PAGE 16 | TIKTOK HITS platforms. PAGE 18 | TOP 10 All credits are from the date songs entered the Top 10. PAGE 23 | #1 HIT SPOTLIGHT At times percentages may not add to 100% due to numbers being rounded up or down. Production teams (i.e. The Audibles) are counted as a single producer. © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 27 2020 IN REVIEW 75 21 Hot 100 Hot 100 Top 10 Songs #1 Hits Listen to Playlist Listen to Playlist In 2020, 75 songs charted in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, 12 more than in 2019. 41% of them charted in the Top 10 for just one week, and 35% charted for 10 weeks or more. Twenty one charted at #1. Behind those songs were 55 primary artists and 23 featured artists, 265 credited songwriters, 119 credited producers, and 20 record labels. 70 265 PERFORMING CREDITED ARTISTS SONGWRITERS 119 20 CREDITED RECORD PRODUCERS LABELS © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 2 of 27 Performing Artists Select Report Highlights (2020) © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 3 of 27 70 Seventy artists charted in the Hot 100 Top Performing 10 in 2020. 55 were primary artists and 23 Artists were featured artists. 2020 Eight artists had both primary and 55 23 featured artist credits on songs: DaBaby, PRIMARY FEATURED Drake, Juice WRLD, Lil Baby, Megan Thee ARTISTS ARTISTS Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Roddy Ricch and Young Thug. *Some primary artists are also featured artists. Songs with a Featured Artist 2016 - 2020 Songs with a featured artist increased 100 in 2020. 81% 80 72% 72% 64% 60 58% 100 42% Outside of hip hop, the percentage of 40 36% 28% 28% songs with a featured artists 20 19% 0 remained essentially the same. 2016 2017 2018L 2019 2020 However, within hip hop, the Has No Featured Artist percentage of songs with a featured Has A Featured Artist artist doubled. © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 4 of 27 Artists with the most Top 10 Hits: Songs Songs 10,000 Hours Come & Go Conversations Holy Hate the Other Intentions Side Monster Life's A Mess Stuck With U Smile Wishing Well Justin Bieber Yummy Juice WRLD 6 35 6 3 TOP 10 HITS WEEKS IN THE TOP 10 TOP 10 HITS WEEKS IN THE TOP 10 Songs Songs 34+35 Cardigan Positions Exile Rain On Me The 1 Stuck With U Willow Ariana Grande Taylor Swift 4 13 4 3 TOP 10 HITS WEEKS IN THE TOP 10 TOP 10 HITS WEEKS IN THE TOP 10 © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 5 of 27 Most #1 Hits Most Weeks at #1 Ariana Grande Roddy Ricch Rain On Me, Stuck With U The Box 3 3 1 11 #1 HITS WEEKS AT #1 #1 HIT WEEKS AT #1 21 primary artists had a credit on a #1 hit. 24kGoldn, Mood Jawsh 685, Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) 6ix9ine, Trollz Justin Bieber, Stuck With U Ariana Grande, Rain On Me, Stuck With U, Kid Cudi, THE SCOTTS Positions Lady Gaga, Rain On Me BTS, Dynamite, Life Goes On Megan Thee Stallion, Savage (Remix) Cardi B, WAP Nicki Minaj, Trollz DaBaby, Rockstar Post Malone, Circles Doja Cat, Say So (Remix) Roddy Ricch, The Box Drake, Toosie Slide Taylor Swift, Cardigan, Willow Harry Styles, Watermelon Sugar The Weeknd, Blinding Lights Jason Derulo, Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) Travis Scott, THE SCOTTS, Franchise © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 6 of 27 Songwriters Select Report Highlights (2020) © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 7 of 27 265 #1 Songwriters with Top 10 Hits HITS 2020 98 songwriters have a credit on a #1 hit. Of the 265 credited songwriters that 2020 charted in the Hot Top 10 in 2020, 98 scored #1 hits. Songwriter Team Size Songwriting team sizes of five or 2020 more continued to be the most 60 popular, while writers who go it 51% alone continued to be scarce. 1040 20 17% 16% 13% The only two solo writers in 2020 3% are Tones and I (Dance Monkey) 0 2020L and 6ix9ine (Gooba). 5+ 2 3 4 1 5 Year Trends Songwriter Team Size 100 58% 60% 51% 10050 45% 49% 7% 3% 5% 3% 0 0% 2016 2017 2018L 2019 2020 5+ 1 © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 8 of 27 Songwriters with the most Top 10 Hits: Drake was the top performing artist writer with seven Top 10 hits, including the #1 hit Toosie Slide, and 40 weeks in the Top 10. OZ was the top behind-the-scenes writer, scoring five Top 10 hits and spending 25 weeks in the Top 10. Ariana Grande scored the most #1 hit songwriting credits, with three (Positions, Rain On Me, Stuck With U). 7 4 7 40 TOP 10 WEEKS IN Drake TOP 10 WEEKS IN Juice WRLD HITS THE TOP 10 HITS THE TOP 10 Greece, Laugh Now Cry Later, Come & Go, Conversations, Life Is Good, Mr. Right Now, Godzilla, Hate the Other Side, Life's Pain 1993, Popstar, Toosie Slide A Mess, Smile, Wishing Well 6 35 5 25 TOP 10 WEEKS IN Justin Bieber OZ TOP 10 WEEKS IN HITS THE TOP 10 HITS THE TOP 10 10,000 Hours, Holy, Greece, HIGHEST IN THE Intentions, Monster, ROOM, Life Is Good, Stuck With U, Yummy Popstar, Toosie Slide 4 13 4 3 Ariana Grande TOP 10 WEEKS IN Taylor Swift TOP 10 WEEKS IN 34+35, Positions, Rain HITS THE TOP 10 Cardigan, Exile, HITS THE TOP 10 On Me, Stuck With U The 1, Willow © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 9 of 27 © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 10 of 27 Producers Select Report Highlights (2020) © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 11 of 27 Of the 119 credited producers 119 #1 that charted in the Hot 100 Producers HITS Top 10 in 2020, 38 scored #1 with Top 10 Hits 38 producers have hits. 2020 a credit on a #1 hit. 2020 Unlike songwriting teams, which Producer Team Size 2020 tend to be much larger, producer 60 teams got even smaller in 2020. 41% In fact, songs with a single 40 producer surpassed those with 10 29% 20 19% two for the first time since 2016, 5% 5% and only four songs featured a 0 2020L producer team of five or more – For 1 2 3 4 5+ The Night, Go Crazy, Holy and Lemonade. 5 Year Trends Producer Team Size 50 47% 46% 41% 41% 41% 20 37% 36% 33% 31% 29% 20% 21% 19% 13% 12% 2016 2017 2018L 2019 2020 1 2 3 © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 12 of 27 Producers with the most Top 10 Hits: OZ, in addition to being the top behind-the-scenes songwriter of 2020, was also the top producer with five Top 10 hits. FINNEAS and Aaron Dessner followed close behind with four, each. Songs Greece HIGHEST IN THE ROOM Life Is Good Popstar Toosie Slide OZ 5 25 TOP 10 HITS WEEKS IN THE TOP 10 Songs everything i wanted Lose You to Love Me My Future Therefore I Am 4 13 FINNEAS TOP 10 HITS WEEKS IN THE TOP 10 Songs Cardigan Exile The 1 4 3 Willow TOP 10 HITS WEEKS IN THE TOP 10 Aaron Dessner © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 13 of 27 Record Labels Select Report Highlights (2020) © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™. All rights reserved. Page 14 of 27 Record Republic was the top record label for the seventh Labels straight year, landing 19 Top 10 hits and seven #1s. 20 And while the label’s Top 10s in 2019 were mainly pop, in 2020 it was a near-even split between pop and hip hop. Interscope followed close behind with 16 Top 10s and two #1s. 300 Columbia HITCO ScumGang Records Atlantic Nashville Internet Money Ten Thousand Projects Big Loud Records Def Jam Records Vertigo Capitol EMG Interscope Warner Columbia Epic RCA Warner Music Nashville Republic Rimas Labels with the most Top 10 Hits: Republic 2020 Republic 2019 Genre Breakdown Genre Breakdown 100 100 74% 10050 47% 42% 10050 16% 11% 5% 5% Republic 0 0 Pop Hip Hip R&B/Soul Rock 19 Songs Pop Hip Hop/RapL R&B/Soul Hop/RapHop/Rap 7 #1 Hits Interscope 2019 Interscope 2020 Genre Breakdown Genre Breakdown 100 100 64% 50% 100 10050 38% 50 36% Interscope 6% 6% 0 Pop L Hip Hop/Rap 16 Songs Pop Hip Dance/ Rock Dance/ Hop/RapElectronic Electronic 2 #1 Hits © 2010-2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed™.