Final Prediction For Billboard Hot 100 For Week Ending April 4, 2026

this will be the most emotional #1 on Hot 100 for me after the Dynamite one.

Looking at top 5, I must say radioplay can do wonders and I am also pretty disappointed with the playlisting SWIM is getting even after being at #1 on spotify for 7 days .

Not so according to this

Ella Langley 265 points

BTS 258 points

It takes account of BTS' mass buying

With this 'final' predictions stations will play less BTS songs and play more Langley songs to site them

Ohh wow I wasn’t expecting this

Does anyone know why billboard removed YouTube streams from its chart. Tbh thats probably most legit platform, much better than radio where labels have to pay to play the songs😒 & you can easily get data for non ad views. Ad views dont even gets count on YouTube music charts😒.

Bts have high streams from youtube US, but all of them are not getting counted now bcoz of this dumb rule🙄 Probably main reason half of songs on hot 100 are unknown

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Does anyone know why billboard removed YouTube streams from its chart. Tbh thats probably most legit platform, much better than radio where labels have to pay to play the songs😒 & you can easily get data for non ad views. Ad views dont even gets count on YouTube music charts😒.

Bts have high streams from youtube US, but all of them are not getting counted now bcoz of this dumb rule🙄 Probably main reason half of songs on hot 100 are unknown

YouTube removed themselves.

They demanded that Billboard weigh streams from free accounts the same as streams from paid/premium accounts, and Billboard refused to budge. So YouTube have pulled out as, I guess, an attempt to exert some leverage?

I doubt it's going to work out for them.

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YouTube removed themselves.

They demanded that Billboard weigh streams from free accounts the same as streams from paid/premium accounts, and Billboard refused to budge. So YouTube have pulled out as, I guess, an attempt to exert some leverage?

I doubt it's going to work out for them.

If I'm not mistaken it's only for US billboard

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Does anyone know why billboard removed YouTube streams from its chart. Tbh thats probably most legit platform, much better than radio where labels have to pay to play the songs😒 & you can easily get data for non ad views. Ad views dont even gets count on YouTube music charts😒.

Bts have high streams from youtube US, but all of them are not getting counted now bcoz of this dumb rule🙄 Probably main reason half of songs on hot 100 are unknown

Like jeyikal307 said, the issue is counting of paid and free streams. YouTube is against that they are counted differently or that free streams worth less than paid streams

Even if they end up at 2nd place that's awesome

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Like jeyikal307 said, the issue is counting of paid and free streams. YouTube is against that they are counted differently or that free streams worth less than paid streams

Kinda agree with youtube

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Does anyone know why billboard removed YouTube streams from its chart. Tbh thats probably most legit platform, much better than radio where labels have to pay to play the songs😒 & you can easily get data for non ad views. Ad views dont even gets count on YouTube music charts😒.

Bts have high streams from youtube US, but all of them are not getting counted now bcoz of this dumb rule🙄 Probably main reason half of songs on hot 100 are unknown

Again, it was 258 2 days ago. Where did the 29 points come from? From the yonders?

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Like jeyikal307 said, the issue is counting of paid and free streams. YouTube is against that they are counted differently or that free streams worth less than paid streams

I'm with Billboard this time.

It's easy to manipulate the chart with free accounts.

One reason to not trust Youtube Music chart completely if this is how Youtube created their chart internally.

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Even if they end up at 2nd place that's awesome

Not so since that means the end of BTS' power.

Its too close to say at this point and I don't trust BB given their extremely shady history towards BTS but regardless if #1 or #2, BTS did ridiculous numbers this comeback in every avenue! Its absolutely unprecedented what they have achieved thus far

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I'm with Billboard this time.

It's easy to manipulate the chart with free accounts.

One reason to not trust Youtube Music chart completely if this is how Youtube created their chart internally.

Spotify has payola, YouTube has ads. You can akways rig the system if it's allowed. Apple music is 100% genuine