(Billboard) – After their well-received live performances at the Academy Awards, Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” and Idina Menzel’s “Let It Go,” the latter of which won best original song honours, both shine on the Billboard Hot 100. The former leads the list for a third week, while the latter blasts into the top 10, vaulting 17-9.
“Happy” maintains its Hot 100 command adding all three of the Hot 100’s Gainer awards: Digital, Airplay and Streaming, marking just the second song to sweep the prizes since the Streaming Gainer nod began two years ago this week. The other triple-winner also featured Williams’ vocals: Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” featuring Williams and TI, which claimed all three ribbons on the June 22 and Aug 17, 2013, charts.
With sales comprising the majority (55%) of its chart points, as they did last week, “Happy” leads the Digital Songs chart for a fourth week with a 19% gain to 490,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. “Happy” posts the 13th-largest sales week ever for a digital song and the eighth-greatest for a non-debuting title.
Having sold 413,000 downloads in the previous tracking week and 402,000 in the week before that, “Happy” is also the first song to earn three straight weeks of more than 400,000 in sales since “Blurred Lines” did so in the three consecutive weeks last June.
“Happy” snares the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a seventh consecutive week, the best streak since “Lines” linked a record 10 weeks (in a row and total) last year. “Happy” crowns the Radio Songs chart for a second week with a 14% surge to 187 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS.
On Streaming Songs, “Happy” climbs 3-2 with 8 million U.S. streams (up 20%), according to BDS. It concurrently takes over atop the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart (2-1; 3.2 million U.S. streams, up 28%, according to BDS).
