The South African Airplay Chart ranks the best-performing singles in South Africa. Its data, published by Entertainment Monitoring Africa, is based collectively on each single's weekly airplay. [1]
Date | Song | Artist(s) | Ref. |
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21 May | "Blurred Lines" | Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams | [2] |
28 May | [3] | ||
4 June | [4] | ||
11 June | [5] | ||
18 June | [6] | ||
25 June | [7] | ||
2 July | [8] | ||
9 July | [9] | ||
16 July | "Get Lucky" | Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams | [10] |
23 July | "Blurred Lines" | Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams | [11] |
30 July | [12] | ||
6 August | [13] | ||
13 August | "Treasure" | Bruno Mars | [14] |
20 August | [15] | ||
27 August | "Jika" | Mi Casa | [16] |
3 September | [17] | ||
10 September | [18] | ||
17 September | [19] | ||
24 September | [20] | ||
1 October | [21] | ||
8 October | [22] | ||
15 October | [23] | ||
22 October | [24] | ||
29 October | [25] | ||
5 November | [26] | ||
12 November | [27] | ||
19 November | [28] | ||
26 November | "Hold On, We're Going Home" | Drake featuring Majid Jordan | [29] |
3 December | [30] | ||
10 December | "Nelson Mandela" | Zahara | [31] |
17 December | [32] | ||
24 December | "Hold On, We're Going Home" | Drake featuring Majid Jordan | [33] |
31 December | [34] |
Position | Artist | Weeks at No. 1 |
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1 | Mi Casa | 13 |
2 | Pharrell Williams | 12 |
3 | Robin Thicke | 11 |
3 | T.I. | 11 |
4 | Drake | 4 |
4 | Majid Jordan | 4 |
5 | Bruno Mars | 2 |
5 | Zahara | 2 |
6 | Daft Punk | 1 |
Colombian singer and songwriter Shakira has released 11 studio albums, five live albums, two compilation albums, 68 singles and 62 music videos. With estimated sales of 80 million records worldwide as of 2014 according to Billboard, she is the highest-selling Colombian artist and the best-selling female Latin artist of all time. She is the only South American artist to peak at number one on the Australian Singles Chart, the UK Singles Chart, and the US Billboard Hot 100. Her singles "Hips Don't Lie" and "Waka Waka ", have achieved sales in excess of five million units, becoming some of the best-selling singles worldwide.
The discography of Mexican recording artist Thalía, consists of eighteen studio albums, twenty four compilation albums, two live albums and seventy singles. She has also sung in Portuguese, French and Tagalog, apart from Spanish and English, in order to promote her music in other music markets. Thalía's popularity was further enhanced by her telenovelas, that were broadcast in over 180 countries, giving her the chance to create a solid fan base in many countries and gain stardom mainly by Spanish recording records. Her records have sold in markets that Latin stars don't normally sell such as China, Yemen, and the Philippines.
Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Ricky Martin has released 67 singles as lead artist, seven singles as a featured artist, seven promotional singles, and six charted non-single songs. He has amassed 50 chart entries on the US Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, including eleven number ones and 27 top tens. Martin made his chart debut on the US Hot Latin Songs with "Fuego Contra Fuego", the lead single from his 1991 self-titled debut album. It peaked at number three on the chart.
The Pop Airplay is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, a subsidiary of the U.S.' leading marketing research company. Consumer researchers, Nielsen Audio, refers to the format as contemporary hit radio (CHR). The current number-one song as of the chart dated October 1, 2022 is "I Like You " by Post Malone featuring Doja Cat.
The airplay music charts in South Africa were gathered and published by the company Entertainment Monitoring Africa (EMA), formerly known as Mediaguide South Africa. It is a member of the Times Media Group, under Entertainment Logistics Services (ELS). The company provides a weekly top 10 airplay chart, which is available for viewing by the general public online. A top 100 is available for subscribed users of the company's website. The first top 10 airplay chart under the EMA was issued for May 21, 2013, with its first number one single being "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams. In 2014, the City Press wrote that the EMA charts were "regarded as the industry standard when it comes to tracking what songs are being played on radio". EMA currently monitors 48 radio stations and 8 television stations.
"Pompeii" is a song by British pop rock band Bastille. It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and was released on 11 January 2013. The song's title and lyrics refer to the Roman town of the same name that was destroyed and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
"Burn" is a song by English singer Ellie Goulding from Halcyon Days (2013), the reissue of her second studio album, Halcyon (2012). The song was written by Ryan Tedder, Goulding, Greg Kurstin, Noel Zancanella and Brent Kutzle, while production was handled by Kurstin and vocal production was done by Tedder. It was released on 5 July 2013 as the lead single from the reissue. The song was originally recorded by British singer Leona Lewis for her third studio album, Glassheart (2012), but it was ultimately scrapped.
"Am I Wrong" is a song by Norwegian musical duo Nico & Vinz. Produced by William Wiik Larsen, the song was initially released as a digital download single in Norway on 12 April 2013, credited to the duo's previous name Envy, and became a hit in various Nordic countries, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
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"Súbeme la Radio" is a song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias featuring Cuban singer Descemer Bueno and Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Zion & Lennox. The song was released by RCA Records and Sony Music Latin on 24 February 2017. It was written by Iglesias, Zion & Lennox, Bueno, Chris Jeday, Juan Rivera and Luis Ortiz, and produced by Jeday, Carlos Paucar and Gaby Music. "Súbeme la Radio" peaked at number two in Spain and on the US Hot Latin Songs chart.
"Feel It Still" is a song by American rock band Portugal. The Man. The song, which interpolates the Marvelettes' 1961 hit "Please Mr. Postman", was written by the band along with John Hill and Asa Taccone, with the latter two serving as producers. It serves as the second single and first radio single off their eighth studio album, Woodstock. The song reached number one on the US Alternative Songs, Mexican and Russian Tophit airplay chart. It was also their first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming a sleeper hit, as it took eight months to peak at number four in November 2017.
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