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Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” tops the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Feb. 25) for a third total week. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga blasts back onto the chart with a record-tying No. 4 re-entry for “Million Reasons” (which had previously peaked at No. 52) after she performed the song during her Super Bowl LI halftime show (Feb. 5).

As we do every Monday, let’s kick off our recap of the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Feb. 14.

In its fifth week on the Hot 100, “Shape,” released on Atlantic Records, holds at No. 1; it debuted atop the Jan. 28-dated chart, spent the next two weeks at No. 2 and then returned to No. 1 on the Feb. 18-dated list. Sheeran’s first Hot 100 No. 1 as an artist also becomes his first No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart (3-1), gaining by 13 percent to 130 million in audience in the week ending Feb. 12, according to Nielsen Music. He’d previously peaked as high as No. 2 on the airplay tally with x singles “Thinking Out Loud” and “Photograph,” both in 2015. “Shape” earns the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a fourth straight week, the longest streak for a song by a solo male since Justin Bieber‘s No. 1 “Love Yourself” (which Sheeran co-wrote, earning him his first Hot 100 leader as a writer) linked four weeks in January-February 2016.

“Shape” keeps at No. 2 on both Digital Song Sales (115,000 downloads sold, essentially even week-over-week) and Streaming Songs (33.3 million U.S. streams, up 5 percent). The single introduces Sheeran’s third studio album, ÷, due March 3.

Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, stays at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. Still, the track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week with 47.3 million U.S. streams (down 6 percent). It also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week (19.7 million on-demand clicks, down 15 percent).

“Bad” drops 5-8 on Digital Song Sales (41,000 downloads sold, down 4 percent) but stays at its No. 16 high on Radio Songs, up 1 percent to 59 million in airplay audience. It additionally rules Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a sixth week each.

Zayn and Taylor Swift‘s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” remains at its No. 3 peak on the Hot 100. It falls to No. 3 after a second (nonconsecutive) week atop Digital Song Sales, down 20 percent to 109,000, despite a 69-cent iTunes Store sale price; a week earlier, it surged by 124 percent to 137,000 sold following the Jan. 26 premiere of its official video. The collab backtracks 3-4 on Streaming Songs (22.8 million, down 12 percent) but hits the top five on Radio Songs (7-5; 98 million, up 10 percent), becoming Swift’s ninth Radio Songs top five and Zayn’s second.

“Forever” is the lead single from the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack, with both the album and the movie having arrived Friday (Feb. 10). As it holds at its No. 3 high, the song remains tied for the highest-charting Hot 100 hit from the Fifty Shades franchise. 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey yielded the No. 3-peaking “Love Me Like You Do” by Ellie Goulding and “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” by The Weeknd.

Lady Gaga’s “Million Reasons” vaults back onto the Hot 100 at No. 4 after she performed the Joanne track as part of her Super Bowl halftime show. The ballad makes a revival similar to that of the New England Patriots, who erased a 28-3 deficit to defeat the Atlanta Falcons, 34-28, in the game. In fact, just as the Patriots staged the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history (covering 51 games), Gaga makes a record return on the Hot 100, tying two other songs for the highest re-entry in the chart’s 58-year archives.

“Reasons” originally peaked at No. 52 on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 24, 2016, and had last appeared on the chart dated Feb. 11 (two weeks ago), after an initial 11 weeks on the survey.

Gaga’s No. 4 re-entry on the Hot 100 matches the record No. 4 returns of LL Cool J‘s “Control Myself,” featuring Jennifer Lopez (April 29, 2006), and Dixie Chicks‘ “Not Ready to Make Nice” (March 3, 2007). The former came back after first reaching No. 89 six weeks earlier, driven by its No. 2 debut on Digital Song Sales (as the rapper’s Todd Smith bowed at No. 2 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums), while the latter returned after initially climbing to No. 23 in May 2006, following the country trio’s five wins at the Grammy Awards in 2007, including record and song of the year for “Nice.”

“Reasons” re-enters Digital Song Sales at No. 1, up 1,334 percent to 149,000 sold, also boosted by 69-cent iTunes Store sale-pricing. It also surges by 128 percent to 7.6 million U.S. streams. It continues to build in airplay (15 million, up a hefty 50 percent), as it enters the top 20 (21-19) on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart and bullets at No. 32 on Pop Songs.

Gaga earns her 14th top 10 Hot 100 hit and 10th top five single. She last appeared in the top five with the No. 4-peaking “Applause” on the chart dated Sept. 7, 2013. She scores her fifth No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (where “Reasons” first reached No. 6 in December) and first in six years; she last boasted the week’s top-selling song with “Born This Way,” which led for four weeks in February-March 2011.

As previously reported, “Reasons” parent album Joanne rockets 66-2 on the Billboard 200 (74,000 equivalent album units, up 818 percent). The set’s lead single, “Perfect Illusion,” debuted and peaked at No. 15 on the Hot 100 dated Oct. 1. Joanne debuted atop the Nov. 12-dated Billboard 200, arriving as Gaga’s fourth No. 1 set. Meanwhile, another song that Gaga performed in her Super Bowl halftime medley, “Bad Romance,” re-enters the Hot 100 at No. 50 (having peaked at No. 2 for seven weeks in 2009-10). It returns to Digital Song Sales at No. 9 (39,000, up 2,753 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello‘s “Bad Things” slides to No. 5 from its No. 4 high, led by its No. 4 rank on Radio Songs (105 million, down 5 percent). It tops the Pop Songs airplay chart for a second week.

As his new album I Decided. debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking his second leading set, Big Sean notches his third Hot 100 top 10, and ties for his highest-peaking hit, as the album’s “Bounce Back” blasts 15-6. It jumps 8-3 on Streaming Songs (25.8 million, up 31 percent) and 28-21 on Radio Songs (48 million, up 15 percent) and gains by 6 percent to 24,000 sold, despite a 26-31 drop on Digital Song Sales. The hip-hop star scored his first two Hot 100 top 10s in 2012: “Dance (A$$),” featuring Nicki Minaj (No. 10), and as featured on Bieber’s “As Long as You Love Me” (No. 6).

The Chainsmokers‘ “Closer,” featuring Halsey, slip 5-7 on the Hot 100, after spending 12 weeks at No. 1. It extends its record for the most weeks logged in the top 10 from a title’s debut, having totaled all 28 of its weeks on the chart in the top 10 since its bow at No. 9 on Aug. 20. It leads the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 26th week, tying for the most weeks logged at No. 1 since the chart began in January 2013: Avicii‘s “Wake Me Up” also ruled for 26 weeks in 2013-14.

Alessia Cara‘s “Scars to Your Beautiful” rises 10-8 on the Hot 100, its best rank so far. After she performed it on NBC’s Saturday Night Live Feb. 4, the song gains by 19 percent to 27,000 sold.

Maroon 5‘s “Don’t Wanna Know,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, falls to No. 9 on the Hot 100 from its No. 6 highpoint. It also departs the Radio Songs summit after eight weeks on top (1-2; 118 million, down 8 percent), remaining tied with 2012’s “One More Night” for the group’s longest-leading Radio Songs No. 1. (Last week, Interscope Records announced that “Don’t” follow-up “Cold,” featuring Future, will arrive just after midnight tonight.)

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, more Chainsmokers: “Closer” follow-up “Paris” returns to the region (11-10), following its No. 7 debut, and peak so far, three weeks earlier. It descends 6-10 on Digital Song Sales (39,000, down 4 percent) but rebounds 11-10 on Streaming Songs (16.9 million, down 1 percent) and keeps gaining on Radio Songs (19-17; 59 million, up 3 percent).

Looking ahead to next week’s Hot 100 (dated March 4), Katy Perry should make a splashy start with “Chained to the Rhythm,” featuring Skip Marley. Released Friday (Feb. 10) and performed during last night’s 59th Annual Gammy Awards, the single debuts at No. 20 on Adult Pop Songs (marking her highest entrance among 20 career hits on the chart), No. 24 on Pop Songs and No. 30 on Adult Contemporary (as those charts follow a Monday-Sunday tracking period). Following its first week of sales and streaming (measured Friday-Thursday), the song should make a lofty launch on the Hot 100 next week.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 14), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

Plus: Lady Gaga places two albums inside the top 10, following her Super Bowl halftime show.

Big Sean nabs his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as I Decided. debuts atop the list, earning 151,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 9, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 65,000 were in traditional album sales. I Decided. was released on Feb. 3 through G.O.O.D./Def Jam Recordings.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Feb. 25, 2017-dated chart (where Big Sean debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Feb. 14.

Big Sean previously led the chart with his last album, 2015’s Dark Sky Paradise, which bowed with 173,000 units and 139,000 in traditional album sales. The new album also grants the hip-hop star his fourth top five-charting solo effort (and as one-half of the duo Twenty88, he notched another top five set with the act’s self-titled debut in 2016).

As expected, Lady Gaga’s Joanne album roars from No. 66 to No. 2 with 74,000 units (up 818 percent) and 48,000 copies sold (up 1,054 percent). The former No. 1 album gains following Gaga’s Super Bowl halftime show performance on Feb. 5, where she played six of her hits, including the Joanne single “Million Reasons.” Elsewhere in the top 10, Gaga’s The Fame re-enters the tally straight in at No. 6 with 38,000 units (up 986 percent) and 17,000 copies sold (up 1,920 percent). She also bounces back onto the list with Born This Way (No. 25 with 17,000 units; up 1,117 percent) and ARTPOP (No. 174 with 5,000 units; up 420 percent).

Back in the top 10, Migos’ Culture dips from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week, earning another 68,000 units (down 48 percent).

Reba McEntire’s first inspirational album, Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope, starts at No. 4 with 54,000 units (52,000 from traditional album sales). The arrival grants the country superstar her 10^th top 10-charting set on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, and a 13^th leader on the Top Country Albums chart. Sing It Now also launches at No. 1 on the Top Christian Albums chart – McEntire’s first entrance on that tally.

The Weeknd’s Starboy falls one position on the Billboard 200 to No. 5 with 47,000 units (down 7 percent) and, below Gaga’s The Fame at No. 6, Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic is steady at No. 7 with 32,000 units (up 2 percent).

The original Broadway cast recording of Dear Evan Hansen makes a splashy debut in the top 10, as it arrives at No. 8 with 29,000 units (25,000 from traditional album sales — all from downloads). It’s the highest debut on the chart by a cast recording since 1961, when the original Broadway cast recording of Camelot bowed at No. 4 on the mono albums chart (before Billboard combined its then-separate mono and stereo charts into one all-encompassing albums chart in 1963). Indeed, Dear Evan Hansen even outpaced the debut chart position of the successful Hamilton: An American Musical album, which bowed at No. 12 (later peaking at No. 3).

Dear Evan Hansen was released to digital retailers and streaming services on Feb. 3 through Atlantic Records (the same label that released Hamilton). The album’s CD edition will arrive to retailers on Feb. 24.

Dear Evan Hansen also logs the third-largest debut sales week for a cast recording since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales in 1991. It follows only the debuts of Hamilton: An American Musical (28,000; in 2015) and Rent (43,000 in 1996).

Remarkably, Dear Evan Hansen is just the fourth cast recording to reach the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in the last 50 years. In that span of time, the only cast albums to visit the region, before Dear Evan Hansen, were: Hamilton (No. 3 in 2016), The Book of Mormon (No. 3 in 2011) and Hair (No. 1 for 13 weeks in 1969).

Dear Evan Hansen opened on Broadway at Music Box Theatre on Dec. 4, 2016, following preview performances that began on Nov. 14. The show stars Ben Platt (of the first two Pitch Perfect films) and its music and lyrics were written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Pasek and Paul also wrote the bulk of the lyrics for the songs in the movie La La Land, which earned the duo a pair of Academy Award nominations for best original song (“Audition” and “City of Stars”).

Post Malone’s Stoney is a non-mover at No. 9 with 27,000 units (up less than 1 percent).

Rounding out the top 10 is the latest streaming-only compilation: The RCA-List, Vol. 4. It starts at No. 10 with 26,000 units — all from streams. The 36-song effort features a bevy of singles from the RCA label, including many that aren’t found on albums by the various songs’ respective artists.

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“Shape of You” rebounds for a second week at No. 1, while “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” jumps 5-3.

Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1 for a second total week atop the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Feb. 18). Meanwhile, Zayn and Taylor Swift rise 5-3 with “I Don’t Wanna Love Forever (Fifty Shades Darker),” with both songs benefiting from newly released official videos.

As we do every Monday, let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Feb. 7.

In its fourth week on the Hot 100, Sheeran’s “Shape of You” returns to No. 1; it had spent the past two weeks at No. 2 following its bow at No. 1 on the Jan. 28-dated chart. With its official video having premiered Jan. 30, the song gains by 19 percent to 31.7 million U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 2, according to Nielsen Music, and holds at No. 2 on the Streaming Songs chart. It increases by 11 percent to 115,000 downloads sold, although it dips to No. 2 after logging its first three weeks on Digital Song Sales at No. 1. On Radio Songs, “Shape” pushes 5-3 (116 million in audience, up 24 percent), good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third straight week.

Notably, as it ranks at Nos. 2, 2 and 3 on Streaming Songs, Digital Song Sales and Radio Songs, respectively, “Shape” is the first song to top the Hot 100 but not rank at No. 1 on any of those component charts in more than six months, since Sia’s “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, led the Hot 100 but not any of those tallies on Aug. 13, 2016.

“Shape” previews Sheeran’s third studio album ÷, due March 3.

Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, fueled in part by memes and tweets playing off the song’s “raindrop, drop top” lyrics. Still, the track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a sixth week with 50 million U.S. streams (up 8 percent), its greatest weekly total yet. It also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a sixth week (23.1 million on-demand clicks, up 17 percent).

“Boujee” slides 3-5 on Digital Song Sales (43,000 downloads sold, down 16 percent) but bounds 23-16 on Radio Songs, gaining by 19 percent to 59 million in airplay audience. It additionally rules Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fifth week each.

As previously reported, Migos’ second full-length, Culture (featuring the track), arrives as the hip-hop trio’s first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Top R&B Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums.

Zayn and Taylor Swift’s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” climbs 5-3 on the Hot 100, a new high for the song in its eighth week on the chart. Following a full week of tracking after the Jan. 26 premiere of its official video, it claims the Hot 100’s top Digital and Streaming Gainer trophies, jumping 2-1 for a second week atop Digital Song Sales (137,000, up 124 percent, aided by a 69-cent sale-price in the iTunes Store) and 12-3 on Streaming Songs (25.7 million, up 58 percent). On Radio Songs, “Forever” flies 11-7 (89 million, up 15 percent), becoming Swift’s 12th Radio Songs top 10 and Zayn’s second.

“Forever” is the lead single from the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack, with both the album and the movie arriving Friday (Feb. 10). Notably, as the song reaches No. 3, it ties for the highest-charting hit from the Fifty Shades franchise. 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey yielded the No. 3-peaking Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” and The Weeknd’s “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey).”

Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello‘s “Bad Things” holds at its No. 4 high on the Hot 100. It backtracks 3-4 on Radio Songs but with a 2 percent gain to 111 million; keeps at No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (43,000, up 3 percent); and descends 11-12 on Streaming Songs, although its total of 16.7 million is essentially even from the prior week. As previously reported, the track tops the Pop Songs airplay chart (2-1), marking Kelly’s first No. 1 on the chart and Cabello’s first as a soloist; before leaving Fifth Harmony, she led the list as a member of 5H with “Work From Home” (featuring Ty Dolla $ign) last June.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Chainsmokers‘ “Closer,” featuring Halsey, retreats 3-5, after spending 12 weeks at No. 1. It extends its record for the most weeks logged in the top 10 from a song’s debut, having totaled all 27 of its weeks on the chart in the top 10 since its bow at No. 9 on Aug. 20. Meanwhile, with a 25th week in the top five, “Closer” ties two singles for the most top-five weeks in the chart’s 58-year history: Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!,” featuring Bruno Mars (2015) and LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live” (1997-98).

“Closer” also tops the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 25th week, pulling within one of the record for the most weeks at No. 1 since the chart launched in January 2013: Avicii’s “Wake Me Up!” reigned for 26 weeks in 2013-14.

Maroon 5‘s “Don’t Wanna Know,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, reaches a new Hot 100 highpoint, lifting 7-6, while ruling Radio Songs for an eighth week (129 million, down 5 percent). The band ties its longest Radio Songs rule: its “One More Night” led for eight weeks in 2012.

The Weeknd‘s “Starboy” rebounds 8-7 on the Hot 100 after its one week at No. 1, while leading Hot R&B Songs for a 19th week; Drake‘s “Fake Love” climbs to a new best rank on the Hot 100 (9-8); Rae Sremmurd‘s “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane, slides 6-9, following its seven-week command; and Alessia Cara’s “Scars to Your Beautiful” remains at its No. 10 peak so far. Cara’s song could show gains next week following her performance of it on NBC’s Saturday Night Live this past weekend (Feb. 4).

Just below the Hot 100’s top 10, The Chainsmokers’ “Paris” rebounds 13-11 in its third week, after debuting at No. 7; The Weeknd’s “I Feel It Coming,” featuring Daft Punk, hits a new high (18-16), while becoming his seventh top 10 (and Daft Punk’s third) on Radio Songs (14-10; 76 million, up 10 percent); and Migos’ “T-Shirt,” from Culture, vaults 37-19.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 7), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The Hot 100 and other charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale Friday (Feb. 10).

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Hip-hop trio Migos scores its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the arrival of Culture. The set — which was led by the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert — launches atop the list with 131,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 2, according to Nielsen Music. Culture, Migos’ second album, was released on Jan. 27 through Quality Control/300 Entertainment.

The act had previously peaked as high as No. 17 on the Billboard 200 with its debut set, Yung Rich Nation, in August 2015.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Feb. 18-dated chart (where Migos debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Feb. 7.

Culture’s debut was driven by streams of its songs, as streaming equivalent album units accounted for 59 percent of the set’s first-week total (77,000 of 131,000). The album sold 44,000 in traditional album sales and earned 10,000 in track equivalent album units. It also arrives as Migos’ first No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts.

Migos leads a busy top 10, as five albums debut in the region. That’s the most new arrivals in the top 10 since the Dec. 24, 2016-dated list, when five titles also bowed in the top 10.

Brantley Gilbert’s The Devil Don’t Sleep debuts at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 77,000 units earned in its first week (66,000 from traditional album sales — it’s also the top selling album of the week). It’s the third top five-charting effort for the country singer, following Just as I Am (No. 2 in 2014) and Halfway to Heaven (No. 4 in 2011).

The Devil Don’t Sleep is the highest-charting country title on the Billboard 200 since the Nov. 19, 2016-dated tally, when Kenny Chesney’s Cosmic Hallelujah debuted and peaked at No. 2. Gilbert’s new album also starts at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart, securing the artist his second leader on that list, after Just as I Am.

Back on the Billboard 200 chart, singer/songwriter Kehlani bows at No. 3 with her debut studio effort ,SweetSexySavage, earning 58,000 units (32,000 in traditional album sales). It follows her No. 36-peaking mixtape You Should Be Here, which was released in 2015 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for best urban contemporary album.

SweetSexySavage scored a top 40-charting single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart last November, with “CRZY,” which peaked at No. 34.

The Weeknd’s Starboy slips from No. 1 to No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 with 51,000 units (down 10 percent).

The Now 61 compilation album starts at No. 5 with 37,000 units (all from traditional album sales). The long-running series has seen all 61 of its main (numbered) albums reach the top 10.

The soundtrack to La La Land is pushed down three slots to No. 6, though it boasts a 15 percent gain, rising to 36,000 units earned in the week. The album scored a 27 percent increase in sales (climbing to 25,000 copies sold), thanks in part to a surge in vinyl LP sales for the set (5,000; up 453 percent). The title became widely available on black vinyl on Jan. 27 after a limited release on blue vinyl.

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls 4-7 with 31,000 units earned (though it’s up two percent).

Train rolls in at No. 8 with its sixth top 10-charting album, A Girl a Bottle a Boat, starting with 30,000 units earned (23,000 in traditional album sales). The band recently notched its 14^th top 10 hit on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart with the album’s “Play That Song.”

Train previously hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with Bulletproof Picasso (No. 5 in 2014), California 37 (No. 4, 2012), For Me, It’s You (No. 10, 2006), My Private Nation(No. 6, 2003) and Drops of Jupiter (No. 6, 2001).

Rounding out the new top 10 are Post Malone’s Stoney (7-9 with a little more than 27,000 units; up five percent) and the soundtrack to Moana (6-10 with 27,000 units; down less than one percent).
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Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” leads for a third week, while “Scars to Your Beautiful” becomes Cara’s second top 10.

Migos‘ viral hit “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, tops the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Feb. 11) for a third total week. Meanwhile, Alessia Cara collects her second top 10, as “Scars to Your Beautiful” ascends from No. 13 to No. 10.

As we do every Monday, let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 31.

“Bad,” the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both hip-hop trio Migos (Quavo, Takeoff and Offset) and rapper Lil Uzi Vert (as well as the first for the 300 Entertainment label), has inspired abundant memes and tweets playing off the song’s “raindrop, drop top” lyrics. The track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week with 47 million U.S. streams in the week ending Jan. 26, according to Nielsen Music. It also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week (19.7 million on-demand clicks).

“Bad” rebounds 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (51,000 downloads sold, down 25 percent) and jumps 27-23 on Radio Songs, gaining by 20 percent to 49 million in airplay audience. It additionally rules Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fourth week each. Migos’ second full-length, Culture, featuring “Bad,” was released Friday (Jan. 27) and is set to debut on Billboard album charts dated Feb. 18; another song from the set, “T-Shirt,” enters the Hot 100’s top 40 (43-37) on its second week on the chart.

Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100 following its No. 1 debut two weeks ago, while remaining the best-selling song in the U.S. and gaining in streams and airplay. The cut holds atop Digital Song Sales, down 14 percent to 104,000 sold. It becomes the first song to sell more than 100,000 in its first three weeks of release since Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” did so in its first eight frames (beginning May 28, 2016).

“Shape,” which previews Sheeran’s third studio album ÷, due March 3, stays at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (26.5 million) and surges to the Radio Songs top five (12-5; 93 million, up 25 percent), earning the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week. Sheeran scores his fourth top five Radio Songs hit and, at four weeks, completes his speediest flight to the region; it’s the fastest blast to the top five since (guess who) Timberlake also needed only four weeks with “Feeling” (June 4).

As previously reported, the proper official video (following its earlier lyric clip) for “Shape” arrived today, which should further enhance the song’s fortunes on next week’s charts.

The Chainsmokers‘ “Closer,” featuring Halsey, lifts 4-3 on the Hot 100, after spending 12 weeks at No. 1. It extends its record for the most weeks logged in the top 10 from a song’s debut, having totaled all 26 of its weeks on the chart – a full six months – in the top 10 since its bow at No. 9 on Aug. 20. “Closer” also tops Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 24th week. (Plus, after debuting at No. 7 on the Hot 100 a week ago, The Chainsmokers’ radio follow-up “Paris” drops to No. 13, down by 57 percent to 40,000 sold, as it dips 2-5 on Digital Song Sales. It backtracks 9-10 on Streaming Songs, with 16.8 million, and roars 32-22 on Radio Songs, up 36 percent to 50 million.)

Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello‘s “Bad Things” reaches the Hot 100’s top five, rising 6-4. It pushes 5-3 on Radio Songs (109 million, up 10 percent); 5-4 on Digital Song Sales (42,000, down 10 percent); and 12-11 on Streaming Songs (16.7 million). Kelly earns his first top five Hot 100 hit, while Cabello does the same as a soloist. She matches her previous high achieved before she went solo; as a member of Fifth Harmony, she reached No. 4 with “Work From Home” (featuring Ty Dolla $ign) last June.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Zayn and Taylor Swift‘s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” reaches the region and its best rank, climbing 8-5; it debuted at its prior No. 6 high on the Dec. 31-dated chart. The collab, from the film Fifty Shades Darker (due Feb. 10, along with its soundtrack), rises 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (61,000, down 16 percent, although aided by a 69-cent iTunes Store sale price); 14-11 on Radio Songs (78 million, up 12 percent); and 15-12 on Streaming Songs (16.3 million). The song could gain further on next week’s Hot 100, following the Jan. 27 arrival of its official video.

Zayn adds his second top five solo Hot 100 hit, following last year’s No. 1 “Pillowtalk” (while he also made three trips to the tier as a member of One Direction), and Swift scores her 11th top five and first since the No. 5-peaking “Wildest Dreams” in November 2015.

Rae Sremmurd‘s “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane, slides 3-6 on the Hot 100, following its seven-week command; Maroon 5‘s “Don’t Wanna Know,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, rebounds to its Hot 100 highpoint (9-7), while ruling Radio Songs for a seventh week (136 million, down 4 percent); The Weeknd‘s “Starboy” descends 5-8 on the Hot 100 after its one week at No. 1, while leading Hot R&B Songs for an 18th week; and Drake‘s “Fake Love” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 (11-9) and its peak to date (previously set on the Jan. 14 and 21 charts, becoming his 18th top 10). “Fake” also becomes Drake’s 18th Radio Songs top 10 (11-10; 78 million, up 2 percent), a sum second among solo males only to Lil Wayne’s 19 (in the chart’s 26-year history); Rihanna leads all acts with 28.

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Alessia Cara collects her second top 10, as “Scars to Your Beautiful” lifts 13-10. “Scars” keeps at No. 2 on Radio Songs (128 million, down 1 percent) and No. 25 on Digital Song Sales (22,000, down 11 percent) and bounds 37-25 on Streaming Songs (12.6 million). Likely helping the song’s profile, NBC’s Saturday Night Live announced Jan. 23 that Cara will be the musical guest on the show’s Feb. 4 episode (to be hosted by Kristen Stewart. Meanwhile, Sheeran will perform on the Feb. 11 episode, to be hosted by Alec Baldwin). “Scars” also leads the Pop Songs airplay chart for a second week.

In its 22nd week on the Hot 100, the track completes the steadiest climb to the top 10 since gnash’s “I Hate U I Love U,” featuring Olivia O’Brien, made the bracket in its 25th week (Oct. 22, 2016). Until “Scars,” no song by a lead female had taken a more scenic journey to the top 10 since Anna Kendrick’s “Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When I’m Gone)”: 28 weeks, 2013.

Cara, the winner of the Rule Breaker award at Billboard’s 2016 Women in Music celebration in December, first hit the Hot 100’s top 10 with her breakthrough single “Here,” which peaked at No. 5 on the Feb. 6, 2016, chart. With both songs from her debut full-length, Know-It-All, Cara is the first artist to notch at least two top 10s from a first LP since Fetty Wap banked three from his self-titled debut in 2015. She’s the first woman to earn the honor since Meghan Trainor, who also landed three from Title in 2014-15.

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top tier, two songs climb to new heights in the top 20: Rihanna‘s “Love on the Brain” (17-14) and The Weeknd’s “I Feel It Coming” (19-18), like “Starboy” also featuring Daft Punk.

Also note two key changes, effective this week (for the chart dated Feb. 11), to the Hot 100’s methodology (as well to that of Billboard’s multi-metric genre charts: Hot Country Songs, Hot Rock Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs). First, Billboard has applied a formula adjustment, as is regularly administered, to the Hot 100 (and those charts cited) to rebalance the ratio among sales, airplay and streaming, accounting for changes in music consumption patterns, i.e., increases in streaming and decreases in sales.

Plus, as noted in more detail in a separate announcement, influential Pandora streaming data is added to the Hot 100’s data pool, as well as to those of the other aforementioned charts.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 31), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The Hot 100 and other charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale Friday (Feb. 3).

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“Bad and Boujee” logs a second week on top, replacing Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You,” which debuted at the summit a week ago. Plus, The Chainsmokers’ “Paris” launches at No. 7.

Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1 to top the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Feb. 4) for a second total week, again driven in part by viral online buzz; it first led the Jan. 21-dated chart. The song dethrones Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” (1-2), which debuted at No. 1 a week ago (on the Jan. 28 tally).

Plus, The Chainsmokers debut at No. 7 on the Hot 100 with their new single, “Paris,” marking their highest entrance to date.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 24.

“Bad,” the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both hip-hop trio Migos (Quavo, Takeoff and Offset) and rapper Lil Uzi Vert (as well as the first for the 300 Entertainment label), has inspired numerous memes and tweets playing off the song’s “raindrop, drop top” lyrics. Also helping the song’s profile, Donald Glover shouted it out during his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes on Jan. 8. With Migos having guested on the FX series Atlanta, created by and starring Glover, the artist said, “I really wanna thank the Migos, not for being in the show, but for making ‘Bad and Boujee.’ Like, that’s the best song ever.”

“Bad” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week with 43 million U.S. streams (up 11 percent) in the week ending Jan. 19, according to Nielsen Music. The majority of its streams stem from YouTube (21.8 million), followed by Spotify (10.6 million). The track also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week (21 million on-demand clicks, up 17 percent).

Impressively, “Bad” wins the Hot 100’s top Streaming Gainer award for a record fifth straight week. It passes Desiigner‘s “Panda” and Rihanna‘s “Work,” featuring Drake, each of which earned the honor for four consecutive frames in 2016.

“Bad” dips 3-4 on Digital Song Sales (68,000 downloads sold, down 21 percent) but surges 34-27 on Radio Songs, gaining by 23 percent to 41 million in airplay audience. It additionally rules Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a third week each. Migos’ second full-length, Culture, featuring “Bad,” arrives Friday (Jan. 27); another song from the set, “T-Shirt,” debuts on the Hot 100 at No. 43.

Sheeran’s “Shape” shifts to No. 2 on the Hot 100 following its No. 1 debut, although it remains the best-selling song in the U.S. and gains in streams and airplay. The cut holds atop Digital Song Sales, down 50 percent to 120,000 sold (having sold 360,000 in its first two frames). It pushes 4-2 on Streaming Songs (21.3 million, up 7 percent) and 18-12 on Radio Songs (75 million, up 31 percent, good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer nod).

Meanwhile, Sheeran’s other top 10-debuting song from a week ago, “Castle on the Hill,” tumbles 6-28 on the Hot 100, down 2-11 on Digital Song Sales (37,000 sold, down 78 percent) and 11-18 on Streaming Songs (9.2 million, down 29 percent). The songs preview Sheeran’s third studio album ÷, due March 3. Both boast an official lyric video, with the proper official clip for “Castle” having arrived early today (Jan. 23). At radio, “Shape” is being promoted to pop and adult pop formats, while “Castle” is being worked to alternative and adult alternative.

Rae Sremmurd‘s “Black Beatles” holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, following its seven-week command, and The Chainsmokers‘ “Closer,” featuring Halsey, rebounds 5-4, after spending 12 weeks at No. 1. “Closer” extends its record for the most weeks logged in the top 10 from a song’s debut, having totaled all 25 of its weeks on the chart in the region since its debut at No. 9 on Aug. 20. The track additionally tops the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 23rd week. (More on The Chainsmokers’ debut, as well as a new Hot 100 entry for Halsey, just ahead …)

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Weeknd‘s “Starboy” descends 4-5 after its one week at No. 1. Linking the top five (and as insightful reader Angel Lopez noticed), for a second week all titles are present or current No. 1s. The last time the top five sported nothing but No. 1-peaking titles? Nearly five years ago, as the March 3, 2012-dated Hot 100 looked like this, in order from No. 1 to No. 5 (and featured only women, for that matter): “Part of Me,” Katy Perry; “Set Fire to the Rain,” Adele; “I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston; “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You),” Kelly Clarkson; and “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele.

That week in 2012, Perry’s song debuted at No. 1; Adele’s two hits had led for two and seven weeks, respectively; Houston’s had reigned for 14 weeks back in 1992-93 before returning in 2012 following her passing; and Clarkson’s had spent two of its three weeks on top. (The last time before this and last week that the Hot 100 sported at least two straight weeks of top fives with only No. 1 hits? In December 2010-January 2011, for six consecutive weeks.)

Back to the current Hot 100, Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello‘s “Bad Things” bounds to a new high, hiking 10-6. It climbs 9-5 on Radio Songs (99 million, up 12 percent); 7-5 on Digital Song Sales (46,000, down 6 percent); and 14-12 on Streaming Songs (13.3 million, up 5 percent).

And … more Chainsmokers, who debut at No. 7 on the Hot 100 with “Paris.” The song, released Friday, Jan. 13 (and accompanied by an official lyric video), enters Digital Song Sales at No. 2 (92,000); Streaming Songs at No. 9 (14.6 million); and Radio Songs at No. 32 (37 million). The duo earns its fourth Hot 100 top 10 and bests the No. 9 debut of “Closer” for their highest arrival. Also notably, the act has also ranked in the Hot 100’s top 10 for 38 consecutive weeks,  thanks to “Paris,” “Closer” and the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down” (featuring Daya). The record among duos or groups: 48 straight weeks in the top 10 for Ace of Base in 1993-94. Perry holds the overall mark: 69 weeks in a row in 2010-11.

Global success: “Paris” is the second top 10 to name-check the French capital in its title, following Jay Z and Kanye West’s “Ni**as in Paris,” which hit No. 5 in 2012. The Chainsmokers’ new single is also the second song simply titled “Paris” to grace the Hot 100, with the first having charted just after the list’s August 1958 launch; that October, Perez Prado and His Orchestra took their “Paris” to No. 95.

Zayn and Taylor Swift‘s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, rising 12-8. After debuting at No. 6 on the Dec. 31-dated chart, the collab reaches its highest rank since, aided by continued interest in the Fifty Shades Darker extended trailer, which arrived Jan. 2, and the film’s pending Feb. 10 premiere; its soundtrack arrives the same day. The track pushes 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (73,000, up 8 percent); bullets for a second week at No. 14 on Radio Songs (69 million, up 10 percent); and ascends 16-15 on Streaming Songs (11.9 million, up 14 percent), while its official video is possibly imminent. (At No. 77 on the Hot 100, another song from the film and its soundtrack debut: Halsey’s “Not Afraid Anymore,” powered by its No. 17 start on Digital Song Sales with 30,000 sold.)

Maroon 5‘s “Don’t Wanna Know,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, drops 8-9 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 7, while ruling Radio Songs for a sixth week (142 million, down 2 percent). Closing out the Hot 100’s top 10, Bruno Mars‘ “24K Magic” descends 7-10 after peaking at No. 4.

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top tier, three songs climb to new heights: Big Sean‘s “Bounce Back” (16-15); Rihanna‘s “Love on the Brain” (19-17); and The Weeknd‘s “I Feel It Coming” (22-19), like “Starboy” also featuring Daft Punk. Meanwhile, “Brain” becomes Rihanna’s record-extending 28th Radio Songs top 10, furthering her lead over runner-up Mariah Carey, who has notched 23 (dating to the chart’s December 1990 inception).

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 24), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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The xx scores its highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200 chart, as the alternative band’s third studio album, I See You, debuts at No. 2. The set earned 46,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Jan. 19, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 36,000 were in traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Feb. 4-dated chart (where I See You starts at No. 2) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

The xx had previously peaked as high as No. 5 in 2012 with Coexist, the act’s second album. It debuted at its peak, starting with 73,000 sold in its first week. The band has charted one other title, its self-titled debut effort, which reached No. 92 in 2010.

I See You’s 36,000 in traditional album sales enables the title to bow at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, which ranks the week’s best-selling albums.

I See You is blocked from the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 by The Weeknd’s Starboy, which holds for a third straight week at No. 1, and collects a fourth week atop the list overall. (It debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 17, then returned to the top on Jan. 21, where it has been since.) Starboy earned 61,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking frame (down 3 percent). The bulk of those units were generated by streams of the songs from the album, as streaming equivalent album units for Starboy totaled 38,000 for the week (which translates to 57.2 million streams of the album’s tracks). The rest of Starboy’s overall units were powered by track equivalent album units (10,000) and traditional album sales (13,000 copies sold).

Starboy has now blocked three challengers for No. 1 in the last three weeks: the Moana soundtrack surged 6-2 on the Jan. 21 list; the La La Land soundtrack vaulted 15-2 a week ago, and this week the xx debuts in the runner-up slot. The last time one album blocked three successive ascending or debuting (at No. 2) titles from hitting No. 1 was Drake’s Views, which thwarted ScHoolboy Q’s Blank Face LP, NEEDTOBREATHE’s HARD LOVE and Gucci Mane’s Everybody Looking between July 30 and Aug. 13. (All three of those titles debuted at No. 2.)

As for the rest of the new top 10: La La Land dips one rung to No. 3 on the Billboard 200, with 42,000 units (up less than 1 percent), while Moana falls one slot as well, to No. 4, with 34,000 units (down 13 percent).

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls one position to No. 5 with 33,000 units (down 10 percent), while the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical, is steady at No. 6 with 28,000 units (down 4 percent). J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only slips two slots to No. 7 with a little more than 27,000 units (down 10 percent), and Drake’s Views descends a spot to No. 8 with 27,000 units (down 4 percent). Post Malone’s Stoney is a non-mover at No. 9 with 25,000 units (up 7 percent), largely driven by streams (18,000 of the album’s units were generated by streams).

Rounding out the top 10 is the Trolls soundtrack, climbing four slots to No. 10 with 23,000 units (up 20 percent). The set had a big gain in traditional album sales, as it sold 14,000 for the week (up 40 percent). The album was sale-priced for $6.99 in the iTunes Store during the tracking period.

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Sheeran scores his first Hot 100 No. 1 as a performer & becomes the first act ever to debut in the top 10 with two titles simultaneously.

Ed Sheeran earns his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 as a performer, as “Shape of You” starts atop the chart dated Jan. 28. The pop singer-songwriter also becomes the first artist ever to debut in the top 10 with two songs simultaneously, as “Castle on the Hill” follows with an entrance at No. 6.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 18 (a day later than usual, due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday having pushed back chart processing this week).

“Shape,” the 1,061st No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 58-year history, rockets in powered most heavily by sales, as it also bows atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 240,000 first-week downloads sold in the week ending Jan. 12, according to Nielsen Music. It launches at No. 4 on Streaming Songs with 20 million U.S. streams and soars 41-18 on Radio Songs with 57 million in airplay audience following its first full week of tracking.

Sheeran simultaneously starts at No. 6 on the Hot 100 with “Castle on the Hill,” which opens at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (171,000 sold) and No. 11 on Streaming Songs (13 million U.S. streams). (With both debuts, Sheeran ups his career count to five Hot 100 top 10s.)

“Shape” and “Castle” were released Jan. 6 on Atlantic Records and preview Sheeran’s third studio album ÷ (pronounced “Divide”), due March 3. Each song is accompanied by an official lyric video so far. At radio, “Shape” being promoted to pop and adult pop formats and “Castle,” to the more niched alternative and adult alternative formats.

Upon Sheeran’s shining week, let’s look at the many feats that he achieves.

Sheeran’s first No. 1 as an artist: Sheeran tops the Hot 100 for the first time among 16 career entries, dating to his arrival with “The A Team” (on July 28, 2012). He previously peaked as high as No. 2 (for eight weeks) with “Thinking Out Loud” in 2015. (He’d debuted as high as No. 15 with “Sing” in 2014.) Still, Sheeran had topped the Hot 100 as a writer, having co-written Justin Bieber‘s “Love Yourself,” which spent two weeks at No. 1 in February 2016 and went on to become the top title on the 2016 year-end Hot 100.

Sheeran scores his second Hot 100 No. 1 as a writer, while “Shape” co-writers Steve Mac and Johnny McDaid each tally their first. Notably, Sheeran and McDaid co-penned Sheeran’s 2015 No. 10 hit “Photograph.” (Another note on Mac’s success follows below …)

First artist with simultaneous top 10 debuts: As pointed out above, until Sheeran on the new Hot 100, no act in the chart’s history had debuted with two titles in the top 10 in the same week. In 2016, two artists just missed the honor by one notch each: on the May 14 chart, Beyonce blasted in at No. 10 with “Formation” and No. 11 with “Sorry.” On the Dec. 31 chart, J. Cole debuted at No. 7 with “Deja Vu” and No. 11 with “Immortal.”

Started from the top: “Shape” is the 27th title to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It’s the first since Justin Timberlake‘s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” on May 28, 2016. Speaking of Timberlake …

Solo success: “Shape” marks the first No. 1 by an artist unaccompanied by any featured acts since Timberlake’s “Feeling” debuted and spent its one week at No. 1. Sheeran’s new leader ends a Hot 100-record 34 consecutive weeks of No. 1s sporting featured acts, linked by Drake‘s “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla (nine weeks at No. 1); Sia‘s “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul (four); The Chainsmokers‘ “Closer,” featuring Halsey (12); Rae Sremmurd‘s “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane (seven); The Weeknd‘s “Starboy,” featuring Daft Punk (one); and, the song that “Shape” dethrones, Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert (one). (More on the four lattermost songs ahead …)

3 for ’17: “Shape” is already the third song to log its first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 on charts dated in 2017, following The Weeknd’s “Starboy” and Migos’ “Bad and Boujee,” which climbed to No. 1 (for a week each) on the Jan. 7 and 21 charts, respectively. If that seems like quick a rate of turnover at the top, it is: since Nielsen data began powering the Hot 100 in November 1991, never before had three songs hit No. 1 for the first time each in January. Such turnover last occurred in January 1991, when Madonna‘s “Justify My Love” (Jan. 5), Janet Jackson‘s “Love Will Never Do (Without You)” (Jan. 19) and Surface‘s “The First Time” (Jan. 26) all reached No. 1.

What a production: With “Shape,” Sheeran scores his first Hot 100 No. 1 as a producer, while co-producer Steve Mac adds his third, and first since two American Idol-related leaders in the early 2000s: he co-produced Kelly Clarkson‘s “A Moment Like This” (two weeks at No. 1 in 2002, and the first Hot 100 topper by an Idol contestant) and Clay Aiken‘s “This Is the Night” (one, 2003). (More recently, Mac had reached No. 3 as producer and co-writer of The Wanted‘s “Glad You Came,” which hit No. 3 in 2012. He’s also currently scaling the Hot 100 as co-writer and co-producer of Clean Bandit‘s “Rockabye,” featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie, up 61-51 on the latest chart.)

Sheeran Nos. 1 and 2 in sales: As “Shape” and “Castle” start in the top two spots on Digital Song Sales, Sheeran is the first act to debut at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously in the chart’s history. (Other acts had ranked, but not debuted, at both Nos. 1 and 2 at the same time, most recently Prince, last May 14). Meanwhile, the 240,000 that “Shape” sold in its first week mark the most for a song since Timberlake’s “Feeling” roared in with 379,000 (May 28).

Notably, Sheeran’s U.S. chart success with “Shape” and “Castle” accompanies his similarly striking start in his native UK, as the songs arrive at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the Official UK Singles chart, making him the first artist ever to debut in the list’s top two simultaneously.

As Sheeran starts at No. 1 (and No. 6) on the Hot 100, Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” drops to No. 2 after reaching the summit a week ago, although it sweeps the chart’s top streaming, digital sales and airplay gainer awards for the biggest increases in all three metrics (among non-debuting songs). Having inspired numerous memes and tweets playing off the song’s “raindrop, drop top” lyrics, “Bad” tops Streaming Songs for a third week (38.7 million U.S. streams, the song’s highest weekly sum yet, up 10 percent). It also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a third week (17.9 million on-demand clicks, up 13 percent).

“Bad” dips 2-3 on Digital Song Sales (below Sheeran’s two tracks), but with a 14 percent gain to 86,000 sold, and debuts on the Radio Songs chart at No. 34 (34 million in airplay audience, up 61 percent). It additionally rules Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a second week each.

Likely helping “Bad,” Donald Glover praised the song during his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes Jan. 8. With Migos having guested on the FX series Atlanta, created by and starring Glover, he said, “I really wanna thank the Migos, not for being in the show, but for making ‘Bad and Boujee.’ Like, that’s the best song ever.”

Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” slips 2-3 on the Hot 100 following its seven-week command and The Weeknd’s “Starboy” holds at No. 4 after its one week at No. 1.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” retreats 3-5, after spending 12 weeks at No. 1, and sets a record: having totaled all 24 of its weeks on the chart in the top 10, dating to its debut at No. 9 on Aug. 20, the collab with Halsey rewrites the mark for the most consecutive weeks tallied in the top 10 from a song’s debut week. It passes Bieber’s aforementioned Sheeran co-write “Love Yourself,” which logged its first 23 weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10 (Dec. 5, 2015-May 7, 2016). “Closer” additionally leads the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 22nd week.

(Looking ahead to next week, The Chainsmokers should make a lofty entrance with “Paris,” released Friday, Jan. 13. After its first three days of airplay, the follow-up radio single to “Closer” is already new at No. 24 on the Jan. 28-dated Pop Songs airplay chart.)

Below Sheeran’s “Castle” at No. 6 on the Hot 100, Bruno Mars‘ “24K Magic” descends 5-7 after peaking at No. 4; Maroon 5‘s “Don’t Wanna Know,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, drops from its No. 7 peak to No. 8, while topping Radio Songs for a fifth week (145 million, up 2 percent) and taking over atop Pop Songs (2-1); Ariana Grande‘s “Side to Side,” featuring Nicki Minaj, falls 6-9 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 4; and Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello‘s “Bad Things” keeps at No. 10 after hitting No. 9 three weeks earlier.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 18), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The Hot 100 and other charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale Friday (20).

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The rap acts each earn their first Hot 100 No. 1 with the viral track. Plus, Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic” is the week’s top-selling song for the first time.

Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, rises 2-1 to crown the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Jan. 21), driven in part by viral online buzz.

As we do every Monday, let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 10.

“Bad” is the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both hip-hop trio Migos (Quavo, Takeoff and Offset) and rapper Lil Uzi Vert (born Symere Woods). It’s also the first Hot 100 leader for the 300 Entertainment label, founded in 2014, as well as the first topper for the Quality Control imprint. (In the Hot 100’s 58-year history, the song is the 1,060th No. 1 all-time.)

As previously reported, “Bad” has inspired numerous memes and tweets playing off the song’s “raindrop, drop top” lyrics. A 60-second clip of Migos of performing “Bad” in Lagos, Nigeria, posted to Twitter Dec. 20, has also helped the song’s profile surge.

“Bad” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a second week with 35.3 million U.S. streams (up 9 percent) in the week ending Jan. 5, according to Nielsen Music. The majority of its streams stem from YouTube (19.3 million), followed by Spotify (9.2 million). The track also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a second week (15.9 million on-demand clicks, up 7 percent).

“Bad” pushes 4-2 in Digital Song Sales (76,000 downloads sold, down 35 percent; most songs dropped significantly in sales in the tracking week, following a hearty prior sales frame that included Christmas-week shopping) and nears the Radio Songs chart, gaining by 34 percent to 20 million in airplay audience. On R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, it bounds 14-6 as the chart’s Greatest Gainer (up 31 percent to 16.2 million in audience at the format).

“Bad” additionally takes over atop Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Looking ahead to next week, “Bad” could further gain thanks to Donald Glover’s shout-out of the song during his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes last night (Jan. 8). With Migos having guested on the FX series Atlanta, created by and starring Glover, he praised, “I really wanna thank the Migos, not for being in the show, but for making ‘Bad and Boujee.’ Like, that’s the best song ever.” (Any consumer reaction to the mention would count for next week’s Hot 100, which will cover streaming and sales from Jan. 6 through Jan. 12.)

As the act hits the Hot 100’s top spot, Migos has blasted past its previous best peak, No. 69, set by “Fight Night” in 2014. Meanwhile, Lil Uzi Vert’s second-highest-charting Hot 100 entry brings him more good news: “You Was Right” rises 42-40, reaching the top 40 at last in its 26th week on the list.

(And, good news for a Hot 100 No. 1 with “bad” in its title: Migos’ new leader is the first such song since Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, on June 6, 2015. It’s also the first such topper by a group since 1988, when Bon Jovi reigned with “Bad Medicine.” Bon Jovi, in fact, had scored the last two Hot 100 No. 1s with “bad” in their titles among groups prior to “Bad and Boujee”: “You Give Love a Bad Name” ruled in 1986.)

“Bad” dethrones a song that likewise originally topped the Hot 100 fueled in part by viral action, Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane, after seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1; “Beatles” had first led the Hot 100 dated Nov. 26, boosted by videos with the song’s audio serving as the soundtrack to Mannequin Challenge clips. “Beatles” rises 3-2 on Streaming Songs (24.7 million, down 13 percent); drops to No. 4 after seven weeks atop Digital Song Sales (66,000, down 52 percent); and keeps at its No. 8 high on Radio Songs (97 million, up 8 percent).

Notably, hip-hop-based rap tracks lead the Hot 100 for the first time in back-to-back weeks for the first time in more than eight years (considering titles that have hit the top 40 of R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay): on Nov. 15, 2008, T.I.’s “Live Your Life,” featuring Rihanna, replaced his own “Whatever You Like” at the Hot 100’s summit.

The Chainsmokers’ “Closer,” featuring Halsey, rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100 after spending 12 weeks at No. 1. Having totaled all 23 of its weeks on the chart in the top 10, dating to its debut at No. 9 on Aug. 20, the collab ties the mark for the most consecutive weeks tallied in the top 10 from a song’s debut week. Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” likewise logged its first 23 weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10 (Dec. 5, 2015-May 7, 2016), including two at No. 1; the ballad went on to become the top title on the 2016 year-end Hot 100.

The Weeknd‘s “Starboy,” featuring Daft Punk, descends 3-4 on the Hot 100 after crowning the Jan. 7 chart, becoming The Weeknd’s third leader and Daft Punk’s first. It leads the Hot R&B Songs chart for a 15th week. Meanwhile, follow-up “I Feel It Coming,” also featuring Daft Punk, jumps 34-25 on the Hot 100 (nearing its No. 22 high set last month).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Bruno Mars‘ “24K Magic” holds at No. 5 after peaking at No. 4, while becoming the best-selling song of the week for the first time. It lifts 7-1 on Digital Song Sales (77,000, down 27 percent). (The track received notable further attention after Mars appeared on CBS’ The Late Late Show With James Corden Dec. 13, and sang it in the coveted passenger seat, in the show’s “Carpool Karoake” segment.)

Ariana Grande‘s “Side to Side,” featuring Nicki Minaj, reverses course on the Hot 100, lifting 7-6 after reaching No. 4. It leads the top 40-based Pop Songs airplay chart for a fifth week, tying Sia’s “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, in August-September and Swift’s “Bad Blood” (five weeks, 2015) for the longest reign by a lead female since Swift’s “Blank Space” topped Pop Songs for six weeks in 2014-15.

Maroon 5‘s “Don’t Wanna Know,” featuring Lamar, returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, and its peak (11-7), while topping Radio Songs for a fourth week (142 million, up 9 percent).

DJ Snake‘s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Bieber, stays at No. 8 on the Hot 100, after peaking at No. 4; Drake’s “Fake Love” is likewise steady, at No. 9, its best rank; and Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello’s “Bad Things” rebounds 12-10, after hitting No. 9 two weeks earlier.

Among moves just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, Alessia Cara‘s “Scars to Your Beautiful” climbs 15-12, hitting a new highpoint; Zayn and Taylor Swift‘s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” jumps 22-14, boosted by interest in the Jan. 2 arrival of the Fifty Shades Darker extended trailer, as the duet reaches its best rank since it debuted at No. 6 three weeks ago; and Big Sean‘s “Bounce Back” bumps 21-18, reaching the top 20 for the first time.

And, further looking ahead to next week, Ed Sheeran should make a splashy start on the Hot 100 with two songs: “Shape of You” and “Castle on the Hill.” Both released Friday (Jan. 6), the tracks launched at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the Billboard + Twitter Trending 140. Already, on the new Jan. 21-dated Radio Songs chart, “Shape” (the single being promoted to radio) debuts at No. 41 with 29 million audience in its first three days of airplay. Check Billboard.com this week for projections of where the songs could debut on next week’s Hot 100 following their first full week of tracking.

Plus, find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 10), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

After two weeks of Pentatonix ruling the Billboard 200 with its holiday effort A Pentatonix Christmas, the vocal group steps aside, to let The Weeknd return to the top slot with Starboy. The latter set climbs from No. 2 to No. 1 (for a second week in the penthouse) with 69,000 equivalent album units (down 26 percent) earned in the week ending Jan. 5, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 18,000 were in traditional album sales (down 46 percent).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Jan. 21, 2017-dated chart (where The Weekend jumps back to No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Jan. 10.

The Weeknd’s Starboy debuted at No. 1 six weeks ago, fell to No. 2 in its second week, but has been within the top three of the list each week since. It’s the first album to return to No. 1 in three months, since Drake’s Views spent its 13th and (so far) final week at No. 1, jumping from No. 2 to No. 1 on the Oct. 8, 2016-dated list — after having spent the previous seven weeks not at No. 1.

Meanwhile, last week’s leader, Penatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas, falls to No. 41 (12,000 units; down 88 percent). It is the only holiday album within the top 100 of the chart. The next highest-ranking seasonal set is Pentatonix’s previous holiday effort, That’s Christmas to Me, which falls from No. 9 to No. 112.

The Moana film soundtrack rises from No. 6 to No. 2 with 64,000 units (up 21 percent) and 44,000 in traditional album sales (up 37 percent — it is the best selling album of the week). It’s the only title in the top 10 to post a gain in either total units or sales, so, for the most part, albums with a small decline in units will rise up the list. That is typical for the first tracking week after the holiday shopping season and Christmas — when the chart adjusts to normal non-holiday business. And, soundtracks to music-heavy films popular at the beginning of the year ­— like Moana — tend to profit on the chart in January.

For example, two years ago this month, the soundtracks to both Into the Woods and the remake of Annie jumped into the top 15 for the first time. Back in January of 2013, the Les Miserables soundtrack rose to No. 1, while the Pitch Perfect soundtrack hit the top 10 for the first time (on its way to a No. 3 peak in February of that year). Other stunning January jumps for soundtracks include when Titanic sailed from No. 11 to No. 1 on the Jan. 24, 1998 chart and Dreamgirls zoomed from No. 31 on Jan. 6, 2007 to No. 1 just two weeks later.

Moana isn’t the only soundtrack basking in that post-holiday glow in the latest top 10: three more soundtracks populate the region: Sing (rising 21-8 with 28,000 units; though its down 9 percent), Suicide Squad (10-9 with 27,000 units; down 36 percent) and Trolls (14-10 with 26,000 units; down 28 percent). For Sing, the soundtrack hits a new peak, as it has climbed steadily since its debut at No. 113 on the Dec. 31, 2016-dated list. It then jumped to No. 70, then to No. 21 and now to No. 8. (While Moana, Sing and Trolls are all still currently in theaters, Suicide Squad was released in August and closed in November. However, the movie was issued on DVD and blu-ray on Dec. 13, which aids in its popularity this month.)

With four soundtracks inside the top 10, that’s the most concurrently charting soundtracks in the top tier in more than 18 years. It last happened on the Sept. 5, 1998-dated list when the soundtracks to Armageddon (No. 4), Dr. Dolittle (No. 7), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (No. 8) and City of Angels (No. 10) populated the top 10.

Farther up the top 10, Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic is steady at No. 3 with 45,000 units (down 44 percent) and Drake’s Views climbs 8-4 with 41,000 units (down 17 percent). J. Cole’s former No. 1, 4 Your Eyez Only, slips one rung to No. 5 with 39,000 units (down 48 percent), the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton falls a step to No. 6 with 32,000 units (down 41 percent) and Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface is a non-mover at No. 7 with 30,000 units (down 42 percent).

Source: billboard.com