Hot 100 Fast Facts: Huge chart falls make way for three new artists in the Top 10

P!NK keeps the top frame to herself on the latest Hot 100, while three new artists assume their spots in the Top 10 after some disastrous falls.

‘What About Us’ by P!NK has resisted pressure from Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber to notch her third consecutive week at #1. She still has a long way to go to match her most successful Hot 100 single, ‘Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)’, which reigned for seven weeks straight in 2007.

The rest of the Top 3 consists of Bieber & Bloodpop’s ‘Friends’ and Imagine Dragons’ ‘Thunder’, with both tracks boasting new peaks on the chart. Kesha’s ’Praying’ is really picking up some steam at #4 after rising 12 spots last week.

Don’t write off country crossover artist Sam Hunt. After it looked like ‘Body Like A Back Road’ had hit a wall at #11, it rockets into the Top 5 this week with all commercial networks catching onto Hunt mania.

Thanks to some monumental slides by Jessica Mauboy’s ‘Fallin’’ (#6 to #15), Niall Horan’s ‘Slow Hands’ (#9 to #16) and Liam Payne’s ‘Strip That Down’ (#4 to #18), the likes of Dua Lipa and John Gibbons have capitalised.

‘New Rules’ and ‘P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)’ have hit #8 and #10, respectively. They’ve both been in the the chart for between eight and ten weeks and may well make a push further up towards the Top 5.

It’s worth mentioning that after all the hype around Taylor’s single ‘Look What You Made Me Do’, most radio networks have backed off, making it the only track to fall in Top 10 this week.

“Swift’s drop from the Top 5, while very sudden, is not entirely unexpected,” said TMN Charts Editor Daniel Respall. “She does have the record debut on the chart, but with a slight slowing of spins from Nova, Hit and KIIS, it didn’t have legs to remain up the top.”