Kendrick Lamar’s ‘We Cry Together’ Posts Biggest Drop in Billboard Hot 100 History — Kind of…
variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorKendrick Lamar’s “We Cry Together,” a harrowing enactment of an ugly argument between lovers, is not a song most people will want to hear more than once.
And even though it is expected to be the next video from Lamar’s brilliant and challenging new album “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” and premiered at No.
16 on the Billboard Hot 100, it plummeted a record-setting 81 points in its second week — well, record-setting with an asterisk.The drop, which was noted by XXL on Wednesday, cited unofficial sources for the claim, so we went to Billboard’s chart department to see if it was accurate — and it is, kind of: The drop is the biggest in Hot 100 history for a song that remained on the Hot 100 chart.
A rep for the Billboard charts team noted that earlier this year, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” nosedived from No.
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