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What Will the Early Year Be Like on the Hot 100?
In this week’s Five Burning Questions, we look at the first Hot 100 of the year and try to project what may be dominant on the chart in the months to come.
Katie Atkinson: My money is on “Water.” Tyla got her biggest U.S. look yet when she was one of only five Times Square performers on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, so this new peak comes after that mainstream moment. “Murder on the Dancefloor” is the definition of a feel-good banger, it fits naturally within our current pop landscape and the deliciously weird memes surrounding it could very well propel it to further heights on the Hot 100 in the weeks to come. Stephen Daw: Among the crop of candidates currently charting, I’m watching Nicki Minaj’s “FTCU.” Pink Friday 2 may be meandering down the Billboard 200, but “FTCU” has quickly become the most talked-about song off the album in the weeks since its release.
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