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A First Look at the Hit Songs Deconstructed Q2 New Arrivals Report

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Every quarter, Hit Songs Deconstructed releases a New Arrivals Report. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the Hot 100 top 10's newest entries. What follows are a few highlights from the report.

Overview
38 songs charted in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 during the second quarter of 2024. 31 of these were brand new to the top 10.
Hozier’s “Too Sweet” stayed in the top 10 for 13 weeks, the longest of any new arrival.

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department yielded 10 new arrivals. Swift’s #1 hit, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, remained in the top 10 for five weeks — several weeks longer than the album’s other top 10s.

Shifts in Genre Trends
Pop was Q2’s most popular primary genre among top 10 new arrivals, representing 43% of songs. Taylor Swift significantly contributed to this surge, with nine of the 13 new pop arrivals being from The Tortured Poets Department.

Despite holding down the fort in Q2, pop is in a quarter-over-quarter decline as an influence across all new arrivals. It dropped from 91% of new arrivals in Q2 2023 to just 68% in Q2 2024.

Hip-hop/rap represented 32% of new arrivals, with half of songs stemming from Future and Metro Boomin's album, We Don't Trust You. The longest-charting Hip-hop/rap new arrival was Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” with nine weeks in the top 10.

Country rounded out the top three primary genres, representing 16% of new arrivals. However, country’s influence went beyond genre artists like Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan. 26% of all new arrivals featured a country influence. Among them are hits by non-country artists including Beyoncé, Post Malone, and Sabrina Carpenter.

Songs Trend Longer
The average song length has gone up by 31 seconds since the same period last year. Multiple new arrivals over the four-minute mark reached number one, including Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” (4:34), Hozier’s “Too Sweet” (4:11), and “Like That” (4:27), a collaboration between Future, Kendrick Lamar, and Metro Boomin.

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What other qualities defined the songs that charted for the very first time in Q2 2024?

Hit Songs Deconstructed just released its Q2 2024 New Arrivals report, which details the qualities that defined the quarter's new arrivals to the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Subscribers can download the report here.

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