Chart read · 17 Sep 2026
Rod Wave put 16 songs on the Hot 100 in one week. A week later, 2 were left.
No radio campaign, no top 10, and a No. 1 album anyway. Here is what his fans did to the chart, and what the chart did the week after, read song by song from Billboard's own pages.
Rod Wave songs on the Hot 100, by chart date
Background photo: Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 · source. Not a photo of Rod Wave.
Release week
Sixteen songs, spread across the whole chart
Every Rod Wave song on the Hot 100 dated 12 September 2026, placed at its position: 14 debuts and 2 re-entries, alongside a No. 1 debut for Don't Look Down on the Billboard 200 with 99,000 units.
One week later
14 of 16 fell off
On the chart dated 19 September, two Rod Wave songs were still there: Dope Girl, down from No. 70 to No. 89, and Piece Of Your Love, from No. 40 to No. 97.
That is not a flop. It is how the chart treats an album fans play front to back: every track counts in release week, and only the favourites survive the next.
The career shape
107 entries. Zero top 10s.
Career Hot 100 entries against top 10s for the 27 rappers in our Hot 100 dataset, through the Billboard Hot 100 dated September 19, 2026. Rod Wave is the only one of the 27 on the zero line. His audience does not arrive through radio singles; it arrives all at once, on release day, for the whole album.
Song by song
Every Rod Wave song on the chart dated 12 September
| No. | Song | Status | 19 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | Piece Of Your Love | Re-entry | No. 97 |
| 48 | Hustle | Re-entry | off chart |
| 52 | Take Care | New | off chart |
| 54 | War Wounds | New | off chart |
| 55 | I Am | New | off chart |
| 70 | Dope Girl | New | No. 89 |
| 72 | Keep Dancing feat. Hazlett | New | off chart |
| 74 | Look At Me Momma | New | off chart |
| 75 | Not New To It | New | off chart |
| 82 | Kiss Me Interlude | New | off chart |
| 88 | Venusian feat. Hazlett | New | off chart |
| 89 | TP | New | off chart |
| 90 | 2017 (Streamer U) feat. Aimee Carty | New | off chart |
| 92 | LaCosa Nostra | New | off chart |
| 94 | Mainstay feat. Luv Von | New | off chart |
| 95 | Lost And Insecure | New | off chart |
Read from Billboard's Hot 100 pages for the charts dated 5 September, 12 September and 19 September 2026. Why a release week floods the chart: album-equivalent units.
Questions people are asking
Rod Wave's chart week, answered
How many Billboard Hot 100 entries does Rod Wave have?
107, through the Billboard Hot 100 dated September 19, 2026, after 14 new songs from Don't Look Down debuted on the chart dated 12 September 2026.
Has Rod Wave ever had a top 10 hit?
No. As of the Billboard Hot 100 dated September 19, 2026 he has 107 Hot 100 entries and no top 10. Of the 27 rappers with the most Hot 100 entries in our dataset, he is the only one with zero top 10s.
How many songs from Don't Look Down charted?
16 Rod Wave songs were on the Hot 100 dated 12 September 2026: 14 debuts and 2 re-entries. The highest was Piece Of Your Love at No. 40. On the chart dated 19 September, 2 remained.
Did Don't Look Down go No. 1?
Yes. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated 12 September 2026 with 99,000 equivalent album units, his fourth No. 1 album after SoulFly, Beautiful Mind and Nostalgia, per Billboard.
Why do so many album songs chart at once and then drop?
The Hot 100 counts streams of every song. In an album's release week, fans stream the whole tracklist, so deep cuts clear the chart threshold together. The following week, streams concentrate on a few favourites and the rest fall below it.