Monthly Archives: September 2016

“Closer” continues its command, while D.R.A.M.’s Lil Yachty-featuring debut hit enters the top 10.

The Chainsmokers top the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 8) for a sixth week with “Closer,” featuring Halsey. Meanwhile, D.R.A.M. hits the top 10 with his debut hit “Broccoli,” featuring Lil Yachty, and three high-profile songs debut in the top 40.

As we do every Monday when the chart is refreshed, let’s look at the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on Billboard.com each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday.

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 leader for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Drew Taggart and Alex Pall) and featured alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a seventh week atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 162,000 downloads sold (down 5 percent) in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Nielsen Music.

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a sixth week, with 38.9 million U.S. streams (down 2 percent), and the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart (22.2 million on-demand clicks, down 5 percent) for a seventh frame. On Radio Songs, “Closer” climbs 4-2, drawing 127 million in airplay audience, up 12 percent.

“Closer” additionally tops Billboard‘s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a sixth week and takes over at No. 1 on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart. It’s the second Pop Songs topper for the duo, following “Don’t Let Me Down” (featuring Daya), which led for three weeks in July.

Twenty One Pilots’ “Heathens” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as the duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) remains at its best rank (“Stressed Out” peaked at No. 2 in February). “Heathens” keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (21 million, down 3 percent) and No. 3 on Digital Song Sales (85,000, down 7 percent), while reaching the Radio Songs top 10 (11-6; 94 million, up 15 percent), where it’s Twenty One Pilots’ third top 10. The track tallies a seventh week at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Justin Bieber and MO, is steady at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It stays at No. 3 on Radio Songs (121 million, up 5 percent) and Streaming Songs, where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1 (19.9 million, up 1 percent); its streaming sum benefits from a new “dance video” for the song, which arrived Sept. 15. “Water” falls 4-10 on Digital Song Sales, down by 40 percent to 43,000 sold (as its discount to 69 cents in the iTunes Store ended as of Sept. 16, the first day of the sales tracking week).

DJ Snake’s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Bieber, enters the Hot 100’s top five with a 6-4 advance. The track stays at No. 5 on Streaming Songs (14.6 million, essentially even week-over-week); rises 10-7 on Digital Song Sales (which it led upon its debut on the Aug. 27 chart), up by 8 percent to 45,000; and jumps 18-12 on Radio Songs (72 million, up 27 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Sia’s former four-week No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, retreats 4-5, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, logging an eighth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (130 million, down 3 percent).

Shawn Mendes’ “Treat You Better” hits a new high on the Hot 100, pushing 8-6, and The Chainsmokers’ other song in the top 10, “Don’t Let Me Down” (as noted above), drops 5-7.

D.R.A.M. reaches the Hot 100’s top 10 with his debut entry “Broccoli,” featuring Lil Yachty, also in his first visit to the chart. Streaming is the song’s greatest driver, as it holds at No. 4 on Streaming Songs (17.3 million, down 1 percent). It descends 16-20 on Digital Song Sales (29,000, down 7 percent) but rises 43-40 on Radio Songs (31 million, up 14 percent). It leads the Hot Rap Songs chart for a third week and ascends 2-1 to top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for the first time.

“I had no idea that it was going to be a Billboard top 40 record,” D.R.A.M. (aka, Virginia native Shelley Marchaun Massenburg-Smith) told Billboard last month. “I thought it was gonna be just lit for the culture, lit for SoundCloud, for the Internet. But it just really grew, to our surprise. So nobody’s mad over here.”

The song is also the latest vegetable-name-checking hit in the Hot 100’s 58-year history, joining a menu of such prior top 10s as “Mashed Potato Time,” by Dee Dee Sharp (No. 2, 1962) and “Green Onions,” by Booker T. & the MG’s (No. 3, also in 1962). (Now, lettuce continue …)

Charlie Puth’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” featuring Selena Gomez, returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 at a new high of No. 9, up from No. 13 (and passing its prior No. 10 peak). Capping the top 10, Calvin Harris’ No. 3-peaking “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, slides 7-10.

Meanwhile, Harris debuts at No. 24 on the Hot 100 with his new single, “My Way.” The track starts at No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (53,000), No. 45 on Streaming Songs (6 million) and No. 46 on Radio Songs (27 million).

“My Way” is one of three songs to launch in the Hot 100’s top 40. The highest is the all-star “Forever Country,” by Artists of Then, Now & Forever, which bounds in at No. 21, as well as all the way at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart.

Plus, The Weeknd soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 40 with “Starboy,” featuring Daft Punk. Released early Thursday morning (Sept. 22), the song begins at No. 22 on Digital Song Sales (28,000) and No. 37 on Radio Songs (36 million) (data that encompasses one day of sales and four days of airplay, per the chart’s tracking periods for each metric); the song should surge on the Oct. 15-dated Hot 100 following its first full week of tracking.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and other posts later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 27), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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“Closer” reigns for a fifth week, while “Let Me Love You” surges from No. 12 to No. 6.

The Chainsmokers lead the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 1) for a fifth week with “Closer,” featuring Halsey. Meanwhile, DJ Snake hits the top 10 with “Let Me Love You,” featuring Justin Bieber.

As we do every Monday when the chart is refreshed, let’s look at the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on Billboard.com each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday.

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Drew Taggart and Alex Pall) and featured alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a sixth week atop the Digital Songs chart with 170,000 downloads sold (down 15 percent) in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Nielsen Music.

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week, with 39.5 million U.S. streams (down 2 percent), and the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart (23.3 million on-demand clicks, down 4 percent) for a sixth frame. On Radio Songs, “Closer” jumps 9-4, drawing 113 million in airplay audience, up 24 percent; it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third week.

“Closer” additionally tops Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a fifth week.

Twenty One Pilots’ “Heathens” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as the duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) keeps at its best rank; its “Stressed Out” peaked at No. 2 in February. “Heathens” remains at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (21.7 million, up 5 percent); drops 2-3 on Digital Songs, but with a 7 percent gain to 91,000; and hikes 15-11 on Radio Songs (82 million, up 21 percent). It logs a sixth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Justin Bieber and MO, is stationary at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs, where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1, with 19.6 million U.S. streams (up 2 percent) and slips 3-4 on Digital Songs, which it led for a week (upon its debut), but with a 27 percent gain to 71,000 sold (helped by a 69-cent price tag in the iTunes Store during the tracking week; as of Friday, Sept. 16, it went  back to the regular $1.29). It rises 4-3 on Radio Songs (115 million, up 7 percent). As previously reported, “Water” takes over at No. 1 on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart.

Notably, while an official lyric video was released for “Water” on July 21, a new“dance video” for the song arrived Sept. 15. The new clip could help the song’s fortunes on the Hot 100 going forward. (Keep reading for more Bieber news …)

Sia’s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, is a non-mover at No. 4, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, tallying a seventh week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (134 million, down 6 percent). Additionally, Sia’s new single, “The Greatest,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, soars 52-24 in its second week on the Hot 100; it takes top Streaming Gainer honors, fueled by its 177 percent streaming increase, to 10.2 million, following the Sept. 5 arrival of its official video.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Chainsmokers’ other song in the bracket, the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, stays at No. 5. (Thus, the top five is identical to last week, marking the first such repeat since the June 18-dated Hot 100.)

DJ Snake’s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Bieber, reaches the Hot 100’s top 10 in its sixth week on the chart, vaulting 12-6. The track retreats 4-5 on Streaming Songs (14.6 million, essentially even week-over-week) and falls 5-10 on Digital Songs (which it led upon its debut on the Aug. 27 chart), down by 10 percent to 41,000, although it charges 25-18 on Radio Songs (57 million, up 27 percent).

DJ Snake scores his third Hot 100 top 10, following two No. 4 hits: “Turn Down for What,” with Lil Jon (2014), and “Lean On,” with Major Lazer and featuring MO (2015). Bieber lands his 11th Hot 100 top 10, and his fifth song to rank in the region in 2016, pushing him past Drake for the most top 10s by any act this year. (Having notched his first top 10, “Baby,” featuring Ludacris, in 2010, Bieber boasts the third-most top 10s among male artists this decade, after Drake, with 15 in that span, and Bruno Mars, with 12. Bieber is in sixth place among all acts this decade; Rihanna leads with 17 Hot 100 top 10s in the 2010s.)

Calvin Harris’ No. 3-peaking “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, holds at No. 7 on the Hot 100, and Shawn Mendes’ “Treat You Better” roars back to the Hot 100’s top 10 at its peak (13-8), first set on the Sept. 24 chart. It bumps 8-5 on Radio Songs (104 million, up 10 percent) and 18-15 on Streaming Songs (10.6 million, up 1 percent). It tumbles 23-33 on Digital Songs (23,000, down 19 percent, following its second week back at $1.29 in the iTunes Store following its earlier 69-cent sale run).

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Twenty One Pilots’ second song in the Hot 100’s top 10, “Ride,” descends 6-9, after reaching No. 5, and Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” drops to No. 10 from its No. 8 highpoint.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and other posts later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 20), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Plus: a quartet of rockin’ new top 10 debuts from Bastille, The Head and the Heart, The Beatles and Jack White.

Jason Aldean earns his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with arrival ofThey Don’t Know. The set, which was released on Sept. 9 through Macon/Broken Bow Records, earned 138,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 131,000 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 Oct. 1-dated chart (where Aldean enters at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

They Don’t Know is also Aldean’s third consecutive No. 1 on the chart. His last two chart entries, which also happen to be his last two studio albums, likewise opened atop the list. His last album, 2014’s Old Boots, New Dirt, launched at No. 1 with 278,000 copies sold. Two years before that, Night Train rolled in at No. 1 with 409,000 sold.

In total, They Don’t Know is Aldean’s sixth top 10 effort, and seventh charting album. He previously hit the top 10 with My Kinda Party (No. 2 in 2010), Wide Open (No. 4 in 2009) and Relentless (No. 4 in 2007). His self-titled debut album peaked at No. 37 in 2005.

They Don’t Know is the first country album to rule the Billboard 200 late 2015, whenChris Stapleton’s Traveller spent two weeks atop the list on the Nov. 21 and Nov. 28-dated charts. (Traveller reentered the chart, straight in at No. 1 on the Nov. 21-dated list, following his big night on last year’s Country Music Association Awards.)

They Don’t Know is the first country album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in over a year — since Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights bowed in the penthouse on Aug. 29, 2015.

This year marks the first since 2001 that we’ve waited until a chart dated in October for a country album top the Billboard 200. That year, one country set reigned: Garth Brooks‘ Scarecrow, on the Dec. 1, 2001, chart.

Drake’s former No. 1, Views, rises one rung to No. 2 with 59,000 units. Streams of the set’s songs continue to drive the album’s high rank on the chart. In the latest tracking week, Views’ streaming equivalent units totaled 43,000. (That equals 63.8 million streams of Views’ songs.) Views was the most-streamed album of the week, by total streams of its songs. Comparably, Aldean’s They Don’t Know logged only 1.5 million streams for its tracks.

The Suicide Squad soundtrack also rises a notch, to No. 3, with 52,000 units. UnlikeViews, the Suicide Squad soundtrack’s units are evenly distributed across traditional album sales (19,000 copies sold), track equivalent albums (16,000), and streaming equivalent albums (17,000).

At No. 4 is the second of five debuts in the top 10, as Bastille’s Wild World enters with 43,000 units (35,000 copies sold). It’s the band’s highest charting album, first top 10, and best sales week yet. It trumps the No. 11 debut and peak of its first album, Bad Blood, which arrived with 34,000 sold in its first week, back in 2013. Bastille also charted a pair of EPs, with Haunt (No. 104 in 2013) and Vs.: Other People’s Heartache Pt. III (No. 87 in 2014).

The Head and the Heart also score its highest-charting album yet, as Signs of Lightbows at No. 5 with 40,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales). The group previously hit the top 10 once, at No. 10, with its last album, Let’s Be Still in 2013 (42,000 sold in its first week — still the act’s best sales frame).

On the Top Rock Albums chart, which ranks the week’s best-selling rock albums, The Head and the Heart debut at No. 1 with Signs of Light, while Bastille’s Wild Worldenters at No. 2.

Back on the new Billboard 200, last week’s No. 1, Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, falls to No. 6 with 38,000 units (down 57 percent).

The Beatles notch their 32nd top 10 album, as Live at the Hollywood Bowl debuts at No. 7 with 36,000 units (35,000 in traditional album sales). The group last hit the top 10 in 2013 with On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2 (No. 7).

The Beatles boast the third-most top 10s in the Billboard 200’s history. The Rolling Stones lead with 36, followed by Barbra Streisand, with 34.

The new album — like its 1977 predecessor, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl — features songs from The Beatles’ three Hollywood Bowl performances in 1964 and 1965. The 1977 album peaked at No. 2, and eventually fell out of print.

The 1977 album’s 13 songs are on the new 2016 album, along with four bonus tracks. The 2016 set was newly mixed and remastered, and directly sourced from the original three track tapes of the concerts.

Jack White’s new archival compilation, Acoustic Recordings: 1998-2016, enters at No. 8 with 32,000 copies sold (30,000 in traditional album sales). The 26-song set includes alternative versions, mixes and previously unreleased recordings from White and his bands The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. Acoustic Recordings is the third top 10 set for White, following a pair of No. 1s: Lazaretto in 2014 andBlunderbuss in 2012.

The new set was a hot seller on vinyl LP, with 12,000 copies sold on the format, and a debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. Acoustic’s vinyl sales mark the biggest week for a vinyl set since Blink-182’s California started with 20,000 LPs sold back in July.

The sizable vinyl sales are usual for White, who is a fan of the format and set a vinyl sales record in 2013 with Lazaretto. That album launched with 40,000 vinyl LPs sold — the largest sales week for a vinyl LP since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales in 1991.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman (rising 11-9 with 30,000 units; up 19 percent) and Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots (dipping 5-10 with 30,000 units; down 29 percent).

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“Closer” rules for a fourth week, while “We Don’t Talk Anymore” climbs to No. 10.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey rule the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Sept. 24) for a fourth week with “Closer.” Meanwhile, Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez reach the top 10 with “We Don’t Talk Anymore.”

As we do every Monday when the chart is refreshed, let’s run down the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on Billboard.com each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday.

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 leader for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall) and featured alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a fifth week atop the Digital Songs chart with 199,000 downloads sold (down 4 percent) in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Nielsen Music.

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week, up by 10 percent to 40.5 million U.S. streams. It’s just the fourth song to pass 40 million domestic clicks in a week, joining Desiigner’s “Panda” (June 4); Rihanna’s “Work,” featuring Drake (two weeks earlier this year); Adele’s “Hello” (three weeks, 2015); and Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” (four weeks, 2013). “Closer” also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart for a fifth week (24.4 million on-demand streams, up 6 percent).

On Radio Songs, “Closer” reaches the top 10 (11-9; 91 million in airplay audience, up 16 percent); it adds the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week.

“Closer” additionally tops Billboard‘s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a fourth week.

Below “Closer,” Twenty One Pilots‘ “Heathens” hits a new Hot 100 high, rising 3-2. The duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) matches its best rank, as its “Stressed Out” peaked at No. 2 in February. “Heathens” holds at No. 2 on Digital Songs (85,000, up 4 percent) and Streaming Songs (20.6 million, up 3 percent), while climbing 18-15 on Radio Songs (68 million, up 23 percent). It logs a fifth week at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Dominant duos: With The Chainsmokers and Twenty One Pilots at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the Hot 100, duos claim the chart’s top two spots simultaneously for the first time in … more than 31 years. It’s the first such double-up by duos since June 8, 1985, when Tears for Fears and Wham! ranked at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and “Everything She Wants.” (The week before, those two ’80s classics ranked in the opposite order.) The only other instances of two twosomes holding the Hot 100’s top two at the same time: On Dec. 1, 1984, Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and Daryl Hall and John Oates’ “Out of Touch” placed at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively; the next week, the songs switched spots.

Major Lazer‘s “Cold Water,” featuring Justin Bieber and MO, drops to No. 3 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 peak. It stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1) with 19.2 million U.S. streams (down 3 percent); rebounds 6-3 on Digital Songs (which it led for a week, upon its debut), with 56,000 sold, up 4 percent (helped by a 69-cent price tag in the iTunes Store); and jumps 7-4 on Radio Songs (108 million, up 9 percent). “Water” also rises 2-1 on the Dance Club Songs chart.

Sia‘s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, is steady at No. 4, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, tallying a sixth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (143 million, down 3 percent). Sia also claims the Hot 100’s top debut of the week, as her new single “The Greatest,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, launches at No. 52.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Chainsmokers’ other song in the region, the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, stays at No. 5.

Twenty One Pilots’ second song in the Hot 100’s top 10, “Ride,” rebounds 7-6, after reaching No. 5. It switches spots with Calvin Harris‘ No. 3-peaking “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna (6-7).

Adele‘s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” reaches a new high on the Hot 100, returning to the top 10 with an 11-8 jump. As previously reported, the track takes over atop the Pop Songs radio airplay chart, where it’s her fourth No. 1 and second from her album 25, following “Hello.”

Rihanna’s “Needed Me” rises 10-9 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 7, and rises 2-1 on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it’s her sixth leader. The track halts the record 18-week reign of Drake‘s “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla, atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. (Meanwhile, “Dance,” which led the Hot 100 for 10 weeks, departs the chart’s top 10, dropping 9-11, ending Drake’s streak of 51 consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10. Still, despite the run stopping a week shy of a full year, it’s the best streak ever by a male artist and is second among all acts only to Katy Perry’s 69-week run in 2010-11.)

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Charlie Puth’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” featuring Selena Gomez, reaches the top 10, lifting 12-10. The collab holds at No. 4 on Digital Songs (53,000, down 10 percent; it’s on sale for 69 cents in the iTunes Store); pushes 13-12 on Streaming Songs (11.9 million, up 3 percent); and backtracks 16-17 on Radio Songs, but with a 5 percent gain to 64 million.

Puth scores his second Hot 100 top 10 and first as a lead artist; he previously reached the tier as featured on Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 last year. Gomez achieves her sixth top 10 (and first in a featured role). (As for the song’s title, it’s the second “We Don’t Talk Anymore” to reach the Hot 100’s top 10; Cliff Richard’s same-named but different composition rose to No. 7 in 1980.)

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, DJ Snake‘s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Bieber, returns to its No. 12 high (13-12), first reached upon its debut four weeks ago;D.R.A.M.‘s “Broccoli,” featuring Lil Yachty, leaps 18-14; and Ariana Grande boasts two songs, both from her album Dangerous Woman, in the top 20: “Into You,” which holds at No. 15 (after reaching No. 13), and “Side to Side,” featuring Nicki Minaj, which bounds 31-18 in its second week. Grande and Minaj’s collab soars into the Streaming Songs top 10 (17-8; 13.5 million, up 34 percent) and speeds 26-11 on Digital Songs (40,000, up 39 percent) following the first full week of tracking after the song’s video premiered Aug. 29; they performed it on the MTV Music Video Awards the night before.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and other posts later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 13), when all rankings, 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 (Sept. 16).

It’s the fifth Apple/iTunes exclusive to hit No. 1 in 2016.

Travis Scott claims his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new effort, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, debuts straight in at No. 1. The set, which was released on Sept. 2 through Grand Hustle/Epic Records, earned 88,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 53,000 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 Sept. 24-dated chart (where Scott bows at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight is exclusively available through the Apple Music streaming service, and the iTunes Store for purchase. It’s the fifth album to hit No. 1 in 2016 initially as an Apple and iTunes exclusive, following Frank Ocean’s Blonde,DJ Khaled’s Major Key, Drake’s Views and Future’s Evol. (Scott, Khaled and Future also share the same label: Epic Records.)

The songs on Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight generated 50.2 million streams during its first tracking week, equating to 33,000 SEA units. The remainder of the album’s total units for the week were generated by track equivalent albums (TEA) — just 2,000 units. The TEA number is low because only one of the album’s songs is available or purchase a la carte from the album.

Scott’s new album follows his debut effort, Rodeo, which peaked at No. 3 on the tally in 2015. Rodeo launched with 85,000 units (70,000 in pure album sales).

Rock band A Day to Remember bows at a career-high peak of No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with Bad Vibrations, as the set starts with 67,000 units (62,000 in pure album sales). It’s also the best-selling album of the week, and debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

A Day to Remember previously reached No. 37 with Common Courtesy (on the chart dated Jan. 11, 2014), No. 11 with What Separates Me From You (Dec. 4, 2010) and No. 21 with Homesick (Feb. 21, 2009).

Bad Vibrations also enters at No. 1 on the Independent Albums chart — the group’s third leader on the tally. It previously led the list with What Separates Me From Youand Homesick.

Drake’s Views rises one rung to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 60,000 units (down 15 percent) — still driven mostly by SEA units (42,000). The Suicide Squad soundtrack climbs 6-4 with 55,000 units (down 12 percent).

Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots dips 2-5 in its second week, with 42,000 units (down 71 percent), while last week’s No. 1 album, Barbra Streisand’s Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, falls to No. 6 with 41,000 units (down 73 percent).

Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface rises 10-7 with just more than 30,000 units (down 1 percent), Rihanna’s Anti moves 9-8 with 30,000 units (down 6 percent) and Beyonce’s Lemonade falls 7-9 with nearly 30,000 units (down 21 percent).

Ocean’s Blonde rounds out the top 10, descending 5-10 with 29,000 units (down 58 percent).

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A look back at Drake’s scorching summer, and more, on the charts.

For months, he’s just been too good.

As previously reported, Drake’s “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla, claimed the title of top song of the summer, having outperformed every other hit on the Billboard Hot 100between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

“One Dance” also made history on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it reigns for a record 18th week (on the chart dated Sept. 17). On the Sept. 10 tally, the track bested the command of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” featuring T.I. and Pharrell, which led for 16 weeks in 2013. In third place, Mary J. Blige’s “Be Without You” ruled for 15 weeks in 2006.

(For the purposes of this research, and Drake’s record run at No. 1, data goes back to Oct. 20, 1958, when Billboard unveiled the first all-encompassing R&B songs ranking, aka, the present-day Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.)

With Drake having dominated summer ’16, here’s a look at 10 other honors he’s recently achieved.

•  Drake has led the Billboard Artist 100 chart for 21 weeks overall, the most among males. That’s second overall only to Taylor Swift’s 31 weeks on top (dating to the chart’s July 2014 inception).

•  Drake’s album Views has spent 12 total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the most time in charge for an album by a male artist since Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All logged 17 weeks at No. 1 in 1992.

•  Views boasts the third-most total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 ever for a hip-hop album. It trails only MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (21 weeks, 1990) and Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme (16 weeks, 1990-91). Notably, Views has led the Billboard 200 longer than any other hip-hop album since Nielsen Music data began powering the chart in May 1991.

•  Views has drawn more than 2.3 billion on-demand audio streams for its tracks in the U.S. (through Sept. 1), according to Nielsen Music. That’s the biggest streaming total ever for an album’s songs, and Views is the only album with more than 2 billion streams earned by its tracks. (The count includes plays by Views songs released before the album’s arrival, including “Hotline Bling.”)

•  “One Dance” and Views combined to give Drake the longest control, among solo males, of both the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously with one song and one album: nine weeks. Drake passed Michael Jackson’s seven-week run of “Billie Jean” and Thriller leading both lists at the same time in 1983. Among all artists, Drake’s total is second only to the Whitney Houston’s 12-week stretch in 1992-93, which the late legend earned thanks to “I Will Always Love You” and the soundtrack to The Bodyguard.

•  Drake foreshadowed his steamy summer ’16 by making history on the Hot 100 May 21 (the week that Views bowed atop the Billboard 200), when he charted a record-breaking 20 titles on the Hot 100 at once, the most that any act has posted in one week.

•  Drake has linked the most consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10 among all male artists: 51 (and counting!), as of the Sept. 17 chart. Only Katy Perry, with 69 straight weeks in the top 10 in 2010-11, has scored a longer streak.

•  Drake has totaled a record 17 No. 1s on Billboard‘s Hot Rap Songs chart. Puff Daddy is second with 10. Drake also has earned a record 53 top 10 hits on Hot Rap Songs. Lil Wayne ranks second, with 42. Drake’s latest Hot Rap Songs leader is the chart’s current topper “Too Good,” featuring Rihanna, which has spent three weeks at No. 1 (through the Sept. 17 chart).

•  Drake has earned 51 top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Since his first, “Best I Ever Had,” debuted on May 2, 2009, the runner-up has roughly half that sum, as Lil Wayne follows with 28 in that span.

•  Drake is close to becoming the soloist with the most entries ever on the Hot 100. He’s up to 126, trailing only Lil Wayne, who has 132. Among all acts, they are bested only by the cast of Fox’s Glee, with 207.

Perhaps he’s saving those superlatives, and likely others, for fall ’16, and beyond.

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“No. 1 on the dance chart … and I don’t dance,” Iglesias quips to Billboard. “Quite amazing, if you ask me!”

Enrique Iglesias breaks out of a tie for the most No. 1s among solo male artists in the 40-year history of Billboard‘sDance Club Songs chart, earning his 14th topper with “Duele El Corazon,” featuring Wisin, who earns his first leader. The track rises 2-1 on the chart dated Sept. 17.

“I’m one lucky guy! ‘Duele El Corazon’ keeps surprising me in all senses,” Iglesias tells Billboard. “The song is quite simple and profound at the same time. And, in the end, all we need is love. That give-and-take feeling that moves the world.

“No. 1 on the dance chart … and I don’t dance. Quite amazing, if you ask me!”

Iglesias passes Dave Aude and Pitbull, each with 13 No. 1s. Among all artists, he ties Lady Gaga for 10th place; Madonna leads with 46 No. 1s.

Dating to the Dance Club Songs chart’s Aug. 28, 1976, inception as a national survey, here’s an updated look at the acts with the most No. 1s:

46, Madonna
27, Rihanna
22, Beyonce
19, Janet Jackson
17, Mariah Carey
16, Jennifer Lopez
16, Kristine W
15, Katy Perry
15, Donna Summer
14, Lady Gaga
14, Enrique Iglesias
13, Dave Aude
13, Whitney Houston
13, Kylie Minogue
13, Pitbull

Iglesias’ new No. 1, remixed in Spanish and English by Aude, C-Rod and Tracy Young, among others (with added vocals by Tinashe and Javada), is the first leader with a foreign-language title since (the French) “Deja Vu,” by Giorgio Moroderfeaturing Sia (Aug. 1, 2015). “Duele” is the first Spanish-language No. 1 since Iglesias’ last leader, “Bailando,” featuring Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona (Oct. 18, 2014).

The crossover smash also remains No. 1 for a 12th (nonconsecutive) week onBillboard‘s Hot Latin Songs chart, where Iglesias has tallied a record 27 leaders.

Additional reporting by Leila Cobo

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The track led the weekly Songs of the Summer chart each week from start to finish.

Summer ’16 officially belonged toDrake, as the superstar’s “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla, isBillboard‘s No. 1 song of the summer of 2016.

The collab crowns Billboard‘s annualSongs of the Summer chart, which tracks the most popular hits based on cumulative performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

Impressively, “Dance” led Songs of the Summer for all 14 of the survey’s weeks this year. It’s the third song this decade to rule from start to finish, following Iggy Azalea‘s “Fancy,” featuring Charli XCX, in 2014, and Katy Perry‘s “California Gurls,” featuring Snoop Dogg, in 2010.

Drake earns his first summer chart championship. He previously ranked in the season’s final top 10 with his debut hit “Best I Ever Had” (No. 4, 2009) and “Find Your Love” (No. 9, 2010).

Last year, Wiz Khalifa‘s “See You Again,” featuring Charlie Puth, had led Songs of the Summer most of the season (for 13 of the chart’s first 15 tracking weeks), before OMI‘s “Cheerleader” (which ranked at No. 16 on the season’s first Songs of the Summer survey) pushed to the pinnacle to win the season’s title.

“Dance” first hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated May 21. The Songs of the Summer running tally covered the weeks dated June 18 through Sept. 17 this year; on June 18, “Dance” was in its fourth of 10 weeks atop the Hot 100, and the song would remain in the Hot 100’s top 10 for the entire summer tracking period, currently placing at No. 9.

“Dance” dominates as the top song of the summer of 2016 thanks in large part to radio airplay, as it was the most-heard song on U.S. airwaves during the chart’s tracking period, accumulating a monstrous 2 billion in radio audience in that span, according to Nielsen Music.

Justin Timberlake‘s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” is the No. 2 song of the summer. The track debuted atop the May 28 Hot 100 (before the Songs of the Summer tracking span) and spent the first 10 weeks of the seasonal chart’s tracking period in the Hot 100’s top five.

Timberlake lands his second runner-up ranking for the summer and first as a soloist; back in 2000, *NSYNC finished the season at No. 2 with “It’s Gonna Be Me” (below Matchbox Twenty‘s “Bent”).

And, while it ends summer as the No. 2 song of the season overall, “Feeling” was the top-selling song in that stretch: 1.28 million downloads sold (of 2 million total to date). (The track could have a new life ahead: It’s from the movie Trolls, not due in theaters until November.)

The Chainsmokers‘ “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, is the No. 3 song of the summer of 2016, and Sia‘s “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, is No. 4. The latter song began at No. 19 on the first Songs of the Summer chart and finishes the season in the top five fueled by its four-week reign atop the Hot 100 (Aug. 6-Aug. 27). Calvin Harris‘ “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, wraps as the No. 5 song of the summer.

Just beyond the Songs of the Summer’s final top five of 2016, Desiigner‘s “Panda” places at No. 6 and rules as the most-streamed song of the season: 302.7 million U.S. streams over the June 18-Sept. 17 tracking period.

Rounding out the Songs of the Summer’s top 10 are Rihanna‘s “Needed Me” (No. 7); Twenty One Pilots‘ “Ride” (No. 8); Fifth Harmony‘s “Work From Home,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign (No. 9); and Adele‘s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” (No. 10).

Check out the entire Songs of the Summer chart’s top 20 for 2016 here.

After performing “Closer” on the MTV Video Music Awards Aug. 28, The Chainsmokers & Halsey reign again. Plus, VMAs-related gains for Rihanna, who re-enters the top 10 with “Needed Me.”

The Chainsmokers and featured artist Halsey top the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Sept. 17) for a third week with “Closer.” The song makes gains following the acts’ performance of it at the MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast live on the network from Madison Square Garden in New York on Aug. 28.

Also benefitting from the VMAs spotlight: Rihanna, who re-enters the top 10 with “Needed Me.”

Let’s run down the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. The Hot 100 and all charts will post on Billboard’s websites tomorrow, Sept. 7 (one day later than normal, due to the Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday in the U.S.)

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first No. 1 for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall) and alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a fourth week atop the Digital Songs chart with 208,000 downloads sold (up 45 percent) in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music, after the acts’ performance of it at the VMAs.

“Closer” marks not only a new personal best for both artists for digital song sales in a week (surpassing last week’s sum), but also the first song to sell more than 200,000 downloads in a week in more than three months, since Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” debuted with 379,000 on the May 28 chart. The total is the best by a duo or group in more than year, since One Direction’s “Drag Me Down” launched with 350,000 (Aug. 22, 2015).

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a third week, up by 28 percent to 36.8 million U.S. streams. Spotify streams mark the greatest share (44 percent) of the song’s total clicks; its only official video so far is a lyric video (ahead of an expected proper clip). “Closer” also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart for a fourth week (22.9 million on-demand streams, up 24 percent).

On Radio Songs, “Closer” climbs 15-11 (79 million in airplay audience, up 31 percent). It adds the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award, while winning top Streaming Gainer honors for a third week. “Closer” additionally tops Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a third week.

Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Bieber and MO, keeps at its No. 2 Hot 100 peak. It stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1) with 19.8 million U.S. streams (down 1 percent). It dips 4-6 on Digital Songs (which it led for a week, upon its debut), with 54,000 sold (down 7 percent), but rises 8-7 on Radio Songs (99 million, up 14 percent).

Notably, for a second week, “Closer” and “Cold Water” rank at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on both the Hot 100 and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs simultaneously. Until last week, the top two on the charts had never before synched up, dating to the latter list’s January 2013 launch.

Twenty One Pilots ascend to a new Hot 100 high with “Heathens” (4-3). The song, from the Suicide Squad: The Album soundtrack, holds at No. 2 on Digital Songs (82,000, essentially even week-over-week) and Streaming Songs (20 million, also largely unchanged from a week ago), while bounding 27-18 on Radio Songs (55 million, up 34 percent). It scores a fourth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Twenty One Pilots’ other song in the Hot 100’s top 10, “Ride,” from their albumBlurryface, falls from its No. 5 peak to No. 7, but the duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) continues its control of two radio formats, as, for a second week, “Heathens” tops Alternative Songs and “Ride” rules Pop Songs. Until last week, no act had led the radio airplay tallies simultaneously with different songs.

Between “Heathens” and “Ride” on the Hot 100, Sia’s former four-week No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, descends 3-4, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, inking a fifth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (148 million, down 5 percent); The Chainsmokers’ second song in the top 10, the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, rises 7-5; and Calvin Harris’ “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, holds at No. 6 after reaching No. 3.

Back to The Chainsmokers: the act becomes only the fourth duo with simultaneous top five Hot 100 hits, although the second in two weeks, following Twenty One Pilots. As noted last week, when Twenty One Pilots joined the exclusive club, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (2013) and OutKast (2003-04) first achieved the feat.

Shawn Mendes’ “Treat You Better” rises 10-8 on the Hot 100. The track retreats 3-5 on Digital Songs (54,000, down 15 percent; it’s back to its regular $1.29 price tag following a 69-cent sale in the iTunes Store); lifts 10-9 on Radio Songs (90 million, up 10 percent); and holds at No. 16 on Streaming Songs (10.3 million, up 2 percent).

“Better,” Mendes’ second Hot 100 top 10, following last year’s No. 4 hit “Stitches,” is from his second full-length album, Illuminate, due Sept. 23.

Drake’s “One Dance” drops 8-9 on the Hot 100. Still, it posts an 18th week atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, extending the longest reign of his 16 No. 1s on the chart. “Dance” has ruled the Songs of the Summer chart each week this season. Will it finish first? Check Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 7) when we reveal the final rankings of the top songs of the summer.

And, as Drake remains in the Hot 100’s top 10, he has now spent 51 consecutive weeks in the bracket, padding his record among solo males. Only Katy Perry has linked a longer run: 69 consecutive weeks in the top 10 in 2010-11. Drake’s nearly year-long streak began on the Oct. 3, 2015, Hot 100, when “Hotline Bling” hiked 16-9. (He has been credited as the lead artist on songs in 40 weeks of his 50-week top 10 stretch.)

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Rihanna’s “Needed Me” returns to the region (11-10) after reaching No. 7. It leaps 27-22 on Digital Songs with a 14 percent increase to 30,000 after Rihanna performed the song as part of her four-segment medley of hits (in the third section) at the VMAs; Rihanna was also honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her catalog of hits and the career impact of her videos.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and other posts later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 7), when all rankings, 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 (Sept. 9).

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The icon extends her record as the woman with the most No. 1 albums in chart history.

Barbra Streisand achieves her 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, enters atop the list.

Her newest leader extends her record for the most No. 1 albums among women, and ties her with Bruce Springsteen for the third-most among all acts. The only artists with more No. 1s are The Beatles, with a record 19 chart-toppers, andJay Z, with 13.

Among women, Streisand outpaces Madonna, the runner-up with eight Billboard 200 No. 1s.

Encore was released on Aug. 26 through Columbia Records, and starts with 149,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music. That’s a stronger-than-expected launch for the set, which was forecast by industry sources to start in the No. 2 slot, behind Florida Georgia Line’s new Dig Your Roots. The latter album enters in the runner-up position, with 145,000 units.

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 Sept. 17-dated chart (where Encore debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Wednesday, Sept. 7 (one day later than normal, due to the Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday in the U.S).

Encore follows Streisand’s previous No. 1 albums: Partners (2014), Love Is the Answer(2009), Higher Ground (1997), Back to Broadway (1993), The Broadway Album (1986),Guilty (1980), Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1979), A Star Is Born (1977),The Way We Were (1974), and People (1964).

Further, Streisand surpasses her own record for the longest span between No. 1s on the Billboard 200. Encore arrives 51 years, 10 months and 17 days after her first No. 1, People, spent its initial week at No. 1 (Oct. 31, 1964). People ruled the tally for five consecutive weeks. Streisand previously set the record for the longest span between No. 1s when she topped the chart in 2014 with Partners — 49 years, 11 months and 14 days after People.

One more fun fact: Streisand continues to be the only act to have achieved No. 1 albums in the last six decades — the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

Encore is an all-star collaborative affair, and pairs Streisand with a range of actors to cover songs from Broadway. For example, Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) team up with Streisand for “At the Ballet,” from A Chorus Line; Jamie Foxx guests on “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” (from The Sound of Music) and Melissa McCarthy duets on “Anything You Can Do” (from Annie Get Your Gun).

Nearly all of Encore’s first-week unit total was comprised of traditional album sales — 148,000. And of that figure, physical album sales (CDs and vinyl LPs) equated to 126,000 — the largest sales week for a physical album in 2016. Previously, Blink-182’s California held the biggest physical week for an album this year, when it started with 107,000 sold.

Encore’s physical sales were bolstered by the availability of a deluxe edition of the set sold through Target, which came with four bonus solo Streisand performances.

In addition, the album benefits from a promotion with Streisand’s recent concert tour, where tickets purchased online were bundled with an offer for a CD copy ofEncore.

For ticket/album bundle offers where the purchase price of a ticket includes an album, only those albums that are actively redeemed by a customer count towards the charts. (The redemption rate is usually low for these offers, but can vary depending on the type of artist and how effectively they promote the ticket/album offer to their fans.)

Streisand is one of many acts that have employed a ticket/album bundle offer to sell music. Others include Kanye West (who sold The Life of Pablo with tickets to his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show), Justin Bieber, Duran Duran, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Michael Buble, Cyndi Lauper, Tom Petty, Bon Jovi and many more.

Streisand supported Encore by doing a number of big media appearances, including a sit-down chat and two performances on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Aug. 25. She was joined by one of her Encore partners, Alec Baldwin, on the show, and also did a humorous duet with Fallon (who impersonated Donald Trump). In addition, Streisand was interviewed on NPR’sWeekend Edition (Aug. 20), CBS Sunday Morning (Aug. 28) and CNN (Aug. 29).

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