{"id":1982159,"date":"2025-08-27T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1982159"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:49:05","slug":"chart-check-hot-100-cardi-bs-imaginary-playerz-is-the-weeks-overall-highest-debut-top-selling-new-female-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chart-check-hot-100-cardi-bs-imaginary-playerz-is-the-weeks-overall-highest-debut-top-selling-new-female-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart Check [Hot 100]: Cardi B&#8217;s &#8216;Imaginary Playerz&#8217; Is the Week&#8217;s Overall Highest Debut &#038; Top-Selling New Female Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/08\/chart-check-hot-100-cardi-bs-imaginary-playerz-is-the-weeks-overall-highest-debut-top-selling-new-female-song\/\" class=\"post-image-link\"\/><picture fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-rounded img-responsive mb15 alignnone size-large wp-image-488313\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thatgrapejuice-2025-imaginary-playerz-cardi-b-am-drama-video-600x300.jpg.webp\"\/>\n<\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Won\u2019t have to use your imagination to see <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/cardi-b\"><strong>Cardi B<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/08\/new-video-cardi-b-imaginary-playerz\/\"><strong>Imaginary Playerz<\/strong><\/a>,\u2019 the latest tune from her forthcoming \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/08\/cardi-b-unveils-striking-am-i-the-drama-alternative-album-cover\/\"><strong>Am I the Drama<\/strong><\/a>\u2018 album to get the video treatment, is off to a solid start on this week\u2019s Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/94836679\/primis_TGJ_1x1_Desk --><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cardi B - Imaginary Playerz [Official Music Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cg2MY3F2iAk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Released <strong>August 15<\/strong>, the <strong>JAY-Z<\/strong>-sampling cut made its debut on this week\u2019s Hot 100 at #70. Here are the numbers that powered its placement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Streaming<\/strong> \u2248 5.4 million U.S.-based streams<\/li>\n<li><strong>Radio Airplay<\/strong> \u2248 2.5 million audience impressions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sales<\/strong> \u2248 7,000 digital downloads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to the handsome streaming, radio, and sales combo outlined above, \u2018Playerz\u2019 pounced to a third quadrant premiere on the updated Hot 100. Its arrival marked the highest of any new song printed on the all-genre chart this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the sales front, \u2018Playerz\u2019 was also crowned the week\u2019s top-seller among all new female-led songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among all acts, however, only <strong>Tom MacDonald<\/strong>\u2018s previously uncharted tune \u2018<strong>The Devil Is a Democrat<\/strong>\u2018 ranked higher on the updated Billboard <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/2025-08-26\">Digital Song Sales<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Undoubted proof of the excitement building for the<strong> September 19<\/strong> delivery of her long-awaited sophomore album \u2018Drama,\u2019 the #70 bow of \u2018Playerz\u2019 follows the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/06\/hot-100-cardi-b-makes-history-as-outside-debuts-in-top-10\/\">historic top 10 opening<\/a> of the LP\u2019s lead single \u2018<strong>Outside<\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Look below to see who joins Cardi on the updated edition of TGJ Chart Check.<\/p>\n<p>See the full chart <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/2025-08-25\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">[photo source: Billboard]<\/h6>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source thatgrapejuice.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Won\u2019t have to use your imagination to see Cardi B\u2018s \u2018Imaginary Playerz,\u2019 the latest tune from her forthcoming \u2018Am I the Drama\u2018 album to get the video treatment, is off to a solid start on this week\u2019s Hot 100. Released August 15, the JAY-Z-sampling cut made its debut on this week\u2019s Hot 100 at #70. 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