Paramore Hits The Top 10 On Billboard’s Hot 100

After SEVEN YEARS of charting on the Billboard Hot 100, Paramore has finally cracked the Top 10 with “Ain’t It Fun,” and all the words and emojis in the world couldn’t even begin to explain our excitement! Check out an excerpt from the Billboard.com article below or read it HERE in full.

Paramore posts the week’s lone new Hot 100 top 10, as “Ain’t It Fun” climbs 13-10 to mark the pop/rock trio’s first top 10. The band had previously peaked as high as No. 24 with both “The Only Exception” (2010) and prior single “Still Into You” (in November). The group first appeared on the chart in July 2007 with “Misery Business,” which went on to reach No. 26.

“Fun” lifts 9-7 on Radio Songs (78 million, up 14 percent), with airplay accounting for 50 percent of its Hot 100 points; sales make up 35 percent and streaming, 15 percent. The track holds at No. 13 on Digital Songs (74,000, down 11 percent) and departs Streaming Songs after a week at the chart’s No. 50 anchor position (1.7 million, down 2 percent).

The song concurrently becomes Paramore’s first No. 1 on Hot Rock Songs (2-1). It displaces Bastille’s “Pompeii,” which drops to No. 2 after 12 weeks at No. 1 (and falls out of the Hot 100’s top 10, dropping 10-11).

With its bouncy, pop lean and gospel-choir bridge, “‘Ain’t It Fun’ is very different from songs we’ve written in the past,” says Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams. “I grew up on pop, funk and soul. We really got to show off our roots in this song.”

The charts will update sometime later today, at which point you can check those out HERE, and they will also be printed in the next issue of Billboard Magazine, available on Friday, May 16th at most major retailers.