Cruel Summer predicted to go recurrent next week

That doesn’t seem fair, the charts are supposed to showcase what is popular that particular week, if it is still getting enough airplay, streaming and sales to keep it on hot 100 it should not be removed. I wonder what the next iteration of charting will look like.

It’s so crazy thinking back to when everything was either radio singles or illegal downloads from Napster. Now we can just stream whatever we want and the charts are like “welp” It will tho. For example Levitating left the chart for a few weeks here and there but ended up charting for 77 weeks in total. Similar thing happened with Flowers, As It Was, Blinding Lights and pretty much every big hit, they leave the chart for a while here and there but start charting again and considering Cruel Summer is a hit of that level, it’ll chart again, and this is primarily because of Billie releasing her album, so next week when her songs fall Cruel Summer will rise again.

After a certain amount of time (I think a year?), Billboard requires a song to be in the top 25(?) for it to continue being counted as a Hot 100 track, so Cruel Summer will need to be a top 25 track to extend its official record