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Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” leads the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated April 8) for a ninth week.

Meanwhile, Drake debuts two songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, “Passionfruit” and “Portland” (the latter featuring Quavo and Travis Scott), joining Sheeran as the only artists ever to debut two songs in the top 10 simultaneously. The bows are part of Drake’s monster week, as his album More Life rockets in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and he charts a one-week record 24 songs on this week’s Hot 100.

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, March 28.

As it continues to command the Hot 100, Sheeran’s “Shape,” released on Atlantic Records, also logs a ninth week at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart (97,000 downloads sold, down 7 percent, in the week ending March 23, according to Nielsen Music), as well as a seventh week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (171 million in audience, up 3 percent, in the week ending March 26). Notably, the song is the first to crack the 170-million audience barrier since Adele’s “Hello” (172 million) on Jan. 16, 2016. “Shape” also leads the Streaming Songs chart for a third frame (46.4 million U.S. streams, down 3 percent, in the week ending March 23).

Impressively, “Shape” has topped the Hot 100’s three main component charts (Digital Song Sales, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs) simultaneously for three weeks running. Since Streaming Songs launched in early 2013 (as the youngest of the three lists), only two songs had previously led the trio of tallies (as well as the Hot 100) for at least three straight weeks at the same time: The Chainsmokers’ “Closer,” featuring Halsey (six weeks, 2016), and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!,” featuring Bruno Mars (streaks of six and three weeks, 2015).

Speaking of Mars, his “That’s What I Like” holds at its No. 2 high on the Hot 100. It climbs 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (80,000, up 3 percent) and 5-3 on Radio Songs (103 million, up 18 percent), while dipping 4-6 on Streaming Songs despite a 3 percent rise to 27.7 million. The song also nabs the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for the fourth time in the last five weeks. “Like” logs a sixth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart and a second week atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Zayn and Taylor Swift’s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” rebounds 4-3, after hitting No. 2; Migos’ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, drops 3-4 following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, while topping the Hot Rap Songs chart for a 12th week; and The Weeknd’s “I Feel It Coming,” featuring Daft Punk, is steady at its No. 5 peak.

Kodak Black’s first Hot 100 top 10, “Tunnel Vision,” bullets for a third week at its No. 6 Hot 100 high, while The Chainsmokers again chart two songs in the top 10: “Something Just Like This,” with Coldplay, rises 8-7 after reaching No. 5, while leading the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a third (nonconsecutive) week, and “Paris” dips 9-10 on the Hot 100 after rising to No. 6.

Meanwhile, The Chainsmokers, the twosome of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, have now spent 47 consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10, dating to May 21, 2016 (and encompassing four top 10s), moving to within a week of matching Ace of Base’s record streak for a duo or group. Here’s an update among all acts:

Most consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10
69 weeks, Katy Perry, 2010-11
51 weeks, Drake, 2015-16
48 weeks, Ace of Base, 1993-94
47 weeks, The Chainsmokers, 2016-17
46 weeks, Rihanna, 2010-11
45 weeks, The Weeknd, 2015

In between The Chainsmokers two current Hot 100 top 10s, Drake soars in with two debuts, both from his new album More Life: “Passionfruit,” at No. 8, and “Portland,” at No. 9. Drake is only the second artist to debut two songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 simultaneously, following Sheeran, whose “Shape” and “Castle on the Hill” launched at Nos. 1 and 6, respectively, on the Jan. 28-dated chart.

“Passionfruit” and “Portland” both arrive driven primarily by streaming, with the former bowing at No. 4 on Streaming Songs and No. 1 on the On-Demand Streaming Songs chart (29.1 million U.S. streams, almost all via on-demand clicks). The latter launches at Nos. 5 and 2 on the lists (28.5 million U.S. streams; 27.3 million on-demand), respectively.

More Drake honors: With the debuts, Drake ups his count to 20 career Hot 100 top 10s, becoming the 17th artist in the chart’s 58-year history to hit the mark (and tying the totals of Chicago, The Supremes and Taylor Swift). Madonna leads with 38 top 10s, followed by The Beatles (34), Rihanna (30) and Michael Jackson, the front-runner among solo males with 29.

As for the featured acts on “Portland,” Quavo earns his first Hot 100 top 10 as a soloist (in addition to his first and only top 10 as a member of Migos, “Bad and Boujee”), while Travis Scott also achieves his first top 10 on the tally.

Meanwhile, Drake’s week is historic on the Hot 100, as he charts a record-breaking 24 songs overall on the April 8-dated ranking (including all 22 from More Life), besting his prior mark of 20 set on May 21, 2016, the week that his last album, Views, opened atop the Billboard 200. He debuts 21 songs total on the latest Hot 100 (all from More Life; they join the set’s “Fake Love,” which reached No. 8 in February), also a new one-week record, surpassing the 16 songs (all from Views) that he sent onto the May 21-dated Hot 100.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (March 28), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Plus: Rick Ross & Depeche Mode debut in the top 5.

Drake scores his seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and sets a new streaming record, as his More Lifeset bows atop the tally dated April 8.

The effort, which was released on March 18, earned 505,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 23, according to Nielsen Music. That’s the biggest week for any album since Drake’s own Views launched with 1.04 million units on the list dated May 21, 2016.

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 April 8, 2017-dated chart will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, March 28.

Of More Life’s starting sum, a record 257,000 units were driven by streaming equivalent album units, equating to 384.8 million streams of songs from the 22-track album during the tracking frame (each unit equals 1,500 streams of songs from the album).

More Life’s streaming sum beats the previous record holder of Drake’s Views, which launched with 163,000 streaming equivalent units (245.1 million song streams).

With 257,000 units of More Life’s debut sum comprised of SEA, the remaining amount was comprised of 23,000 TEA units and 226,000 in traditional album sales (all from digital downloads of the album, as it is so far initially commercially available only through digital retailers). The latter sum is the second-largest sales week of 2017, behind only the arrival of Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide), which launched with 322,000 copies sold (it was available as both a digital and physical album). Drake’s last album release, Views, bowed with 852,000 copies sold (all from digital albums).

Drake’s More Life was released to all streaming and digital retail services on Saturday (March 18). Its streaming and commercial release was preceded that day by the project’s premiere on Drake’s OVO Sound radio program on Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio at 3:30 p.m. PT. It will be released on CD on March 31, with a vinyl LP release to follow in the coming weeks.

More Life is Drake’s seventh consecutive album to debut at No. 1. Only his debut EP, So Far Gone, has missed the top slot, as it debuted and peaked at No. 6 back in 2009.

Drake’s seven No. 1s ties him with Kanye West and Eminem for the second-most No. 1s among hip-hop acts, trailing only Jay Z, with 13 leaders.Last week’s No. 1, Ed Sheeran’s ÷, falls to No. 2 after two weeks leading the list. ÷ earned 119,000 units in the latest tracking frame — down 34 percent.

Rick Ross nabs his ninth top 10 album, as his new Rather You Than Me starts at No. 3 with 106,000 units (70,000 in traditional album sales). Ross’ last album, 2015’s Black Market, debuted and peaked at No. 6 with 65,000 units earned in its first week (and 54,000 in sales). Rather You Than Me logs Ross’ largest sales sum since Mastermind debuted at No. 1 in 2014 with 179,000 copies sold. All nine of Ross’ studio albums have debuted in the top 10. His hot streak began with the No. 1 arrival of Port of Miami in 2006.

The Beauty and the Beast soundtrack is pushed down one spot to No. 4, despite a 74 percent gain in units. The set earned 99,000 units in the week (up from its debut of 57,000 units), as the album profits from publicity generated by its parent film’s blockbuster opening in theaters on March 17. (The latest album tracking week ran from March 17 through March 23.) Beauty and the Beast sold 74,000 copies last week — up 52 percent. That’s the largest sales week for a soundtrack since the Suicide Squad album bowed with 128,000 copies sold on the chart dated Aug. 27, 2016.

Depeche Mode clocks the third and final debut in the new Billboard 200’s top 10, as the band’s Spirit starts at No. 5 with 64,000 units (62,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the act’s eighth top 10 album and follows the No. 6 debut and peak of 2013’s Delta Machine (52,000 sold in its first week). The alt/dance vets last ranked higher in 2009 with Sounds of the Universe (No. 3). All eight of the group’s studio efforts dating back to 1990’s Violator have reached the top 10.

Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the new Billboard 200: Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic moves 4-6 with 51,000 units (down 6 percent), the soundtrack to Moana falls 5-7 with 50,000 units (down 4 percent), Future’s self-titled album dips 6-8 with 40,000 units (down 19 percent), The Weeknd’s Starboy descends 7-9 with 39,000 units (down 12 percent) and Migos’ Culture slides 8-10 with 37,000 units (down 12 percent).

Sheeran’s “Shape of You” continues to reign, while KYLE’s “iSpy,” featuring Lil Yachty, becomes the former’s first top 10.

Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated April 1) for an eighth week. Meanwhile, rapper KYLE notches his first Hot 100 top 10 with “iSpy,” featuring Lil Yachty.

As on every Monday, let’s all do some spying on the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, March 21.

As it continues to rule the Hot 100, Sheeran’s “Shape,” released on Atlantic Records, also logs an eighth week at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart (104,000 downloads sold in the week ending March 16, according to Nielsen Music), as well as a sixth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (165 million in audience, up 3 percent, in the week ending March 19). It leads Streaming Songs for a second frame (47.8 million U.S. streams, down 6 percent, in the week ending March 16) and the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs survey for a fourth week (21.1 million on-demand clicks, down 14 percent).

As previously reported, Sheeran’s LP, ÷ (Divide), featuring “Shape,” spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with 180,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 16.

Bruno Mars‘ “That’s What I Like” hits a new peak on the Hot 100, rising 3-2 as it continues to build momentum after its official video arrived March 1. The track jumps 7-4 on Streaming Songs (27 million) and 7-5 on Radio Songs (87 million, up 17 percent), while dipping 2-3 on Digital Song Sales (78,000, down 18 percent).

Notably, with Sheeran’s “Shape” and Mars’ “Like” at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously, Atlantic Records boasts the Hot 100’s top two titles for the first time since Feb. 19, 2011, and that chart also featured Mars at No. 2: that week, Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow” (on Atlantic/RRP) bounded 4-1, dethroning Mars’ “Grenade” after four weeks at No. 1.

Until this week, no label had doubled up at Nos. 1 and 2 since Feb. 13, 2016, when Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” and “Sorry,” on Republic Records, held the top two spots, respectively.

Meanwhile, “Like” logs a fifth week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, while becoming Mars’ first No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Of his prior entries on the latter list, he’d reached a high of No. 3 with “24K Magic” in December.

Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, dips 2-3 on the Hot 100 following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. Still, “Bad” tops the Hot Rap Songs chart for an 11th week.

Zayn and Taylor Swift‘s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 2, gaining by 56 percent to 58,000 downloads sold, boosted by a 69-cent iTunes Store sale price.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Weeknd’s “I Feel It Coming,” featuring Daft Punk, blasts to a new high (12-5), besting its prior No. 9 peak. The Weeknd achieves his fifth top five Hot 100 hit, and Daft Punk its third (and second as featured on a track by The Weeknd; prior single “Starboy” topped the Jan. 7 chart). “Feel” keeps at No. 4 on Radio Songs (97 million, up 3 percent) and flies 24-8 on Digital Songs Sales (55,000, up 78 percent) and 49-20 on Streaming Songs (14.8 million, up 46 percent), sparked by both the premiere of its official video on March 9 and an iTunes discount to 69 cents.

Kodak Black‘s first Hot 100 top 10, “Tunnel Vision,” bullets for a second week at its No. 6 high and Rihanna‘s “Love on the Brain” retreats 5-7. A week ago, the ballad became Rihanna’s 22nd top five hit, breaking her out of a fifth-place tie with Elvis Presley (21); the only artists with more top five Hot 100 hits than Rihanna: The Beatles (29), Madonna (28), Mariah Carey (26) and Janet Jackson (24).

The Chainsmokers chart two songs in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Something Just Like This,” with Coldplay, rebounds 11-8 after reaching No. 5, while leading the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a second (nonconsecutive) week, and “Paris” descends from No. 7 to No. 9 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 6.

The Chainsmokers have now spent 46 consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10, dating to May 21, 2016 (and encompassing four top 10s). The duo ties Rihanna for the fourth-longest top 10 streak all-time and is within two weeks of matching Ace of Base’s record for a duo or group. Here’s an update among all acts:

69 weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10, Katy Perry, 2010-11
51 weeks, Drake, 2015-16
48 weeks, Ace of Base, 1993-94
46 weeks, The Chainsmokers, 2016-17
46 weeks, Rihanna, 2010-11
45 weeks, The Weeknd, 2015

(Meanwhile, The Chainsmokers’ former 12-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Closer,” featuring Halsey, departs the top 10 after 32 weeks in the region, remaining tied for the most top 10 weeks in the chart’s history with LeAnn Rimes’ 1997-98 smash “How Do I Live.” Having spent all of its 32 weeks in the top 10 from its debut at No. 9 on Aug. 20, “Closer” also wraps its record for the most frames that a song has spent in the top tier from a debut week.)

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Los Angeles-area rapper KYLE leaps to his first top 10, as “iSpy,” featuring Lil Yachty, surges 14-10 following the March 6 arrival of its official lyric video. The single backtracks 4-5 on Streaming Songs, but with a 9 percent gain to 24 million, and jumps 21-16 on Digital Song Sales (33,000, essentially even week-over-week), while adding 26 million (up 21 percent) in airplay audience.

Lil Yachty earns his second Hot 100 top 10; he hit No. 5 in November as featured on D.R.A.M.’s “Broccoli.”

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (March 21), 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 (March 24).

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Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) holds on to the No. 1 slot for a second week on the Billboard 200 chart, as the set earned 180,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 16, according to Nielsen Music. That’s down 60 percent compared to its debut frame, when it launched atop the list with 451,000 units.

÷ sold 87,000 in traditional album sales in its second week — down 73 percent compared to its starting sales stanza of 322,000.

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 April 1-dated chart (where ÷ is No. 1 for a second week) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, March 21.

Sheeran’s album is the first in six months to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 on the chart. The last to do so was the Suicide Squad soundtrack, which debuted atop the Aug. 27, 2016-dated list, and spent a second week at No. 1 the following frame, dated Sept. 3.

The last album by an artist to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 was Drake’s Views, way back on May 21-28, 2016. (There have been albums that have spent multiple weeks in a row at No. 1 since then — just not their first two. Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas debuted at No. 3, and later climbed to No. 1 for two straight weeks. The Weeknd’s Starboy opened at No. 1 last December, fell out of the top position, and then later returned to No. 1 for four consecutive weeks in January.)

A step below Sheeran on the new Billboard 200 is Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, which holds at No. 2 with 102,000 units (up 25 percent) and 100,000 in traditional album sales (up 26 percent). The set continues to profit largely from a concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion with the act’s stadium tour that went on sale on Feb. 17. The tour starts on May 10 in Baltimore, Md., at M&T Bank Stadium. Redemptions of Hardwired included with the purchase of a ticket register as a sale in the week the customer redeems/receives the album.

Sheeran and Metallica lead a fairly quiet top 10, where only one album debuts in the region: the new Beauty and the Beast soundtrack, at No. 3. The companion set to the live action remake of the 1991 animated Disney film starts with 57,000 units (48,000 in traditional album sales). The album, which boasts the vocal talents of its cast (including Emma Watson) and recording artists like Ariana Grande and Josh Groban, easily surpasses the No. 19 peak of the animated film’s soundtrack.

It bowed at No. 146 on the chart dated Dec. 7, 1991, and eventually peaked at No. 19 on the April 18, 1992-dated tally. The set spent 76 weeks on the list and has sold 2.3 million copies in the U.S. It also housed a top 10-charting Billboard Hot 100 in its title track, as performed by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson. The new album features a redux of the song, this time with Grande and John Legend.

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls one rung on the Billboard 200 to No. 4 with 54,000 units (down 17 percent), while the Moana soundtrack climbs three spots to No. 5 with 52,000 units (up 32 percent). The album benefits from promotion related to the film’s home video release on Blu-ray, DVD and digital HD on March 7.

Future’s self-titled album dips from No. 4 to No. 6 with 50,000 units (down 4 percent), The Weeknd’s Starboy is steady at No. 7 with 44,000 units (up 4 percent) and Migos’ Culture falls 6-8 with 42,000 units (down 4 percent).

Future’s HNDRXX descends 5-9 with 39,000 units (down 21 percent) and the Trollssoundtrack closes out the top 10 with 32,000 units (down 12 percent).

Sheeran’s “Shape of You” rules for a seventh week, Rihanna adds her 22nd top five hit, Clean Bandit surges 24-9 with “Rockabye” & The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” ties the record for the most weeks totaled in the top 10.

Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” spends a seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated March 25), as parent LP ÷ (Divide) storms in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Also in an action-packed Hot 100 top 10: Rihanna‘s “Love on the Brain” reaches the top five, becoming her 22nd top five hit; Clean Bandit blasts from No. 24 to No. 9 with “Rockabye,” featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie; and The Chainsmokers‘  “Closer” (featuring Halsey) ties the record for the most weeks totaled in the top 10 in the Hot 100’s 58-year history.

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

As it tops the Hot 100 for a seventh week, Sheeran’s “Shape,” released on Atlantic Records, also logs a seventh week at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart (116,000 downloads sold in the week ending March 9, according to Nielsen Music), as well as a fifth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (160 million in audience, up 3 percent, in the week ending March 12). It additionally takes over at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, up 28 percent to 50.8 million U.S. streams in the week ending March 9. It tops the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs survey for a third week (24.5 million on-demand clicks, up 34 percent).

Impressively, “Shape” leads all three of the Hot 100’s main component charts — Digital Song Sales, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs  — becoming the first song to top all the lists simultaneously since “Closer” (Nov. 12, 2016).

As previously reported, Sheeran’s third studio album, ÷ (Divide), launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 451,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 9, the largest week for an album in 2017. Sheeran is the first artist to top the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously since Drake on July 30, with “One Dance” (featuring WizKid and Kyla) and Views, respectively.

Meanwhile, 10 songs from ÷ debut on the Hot 100: “Perfect” (No. 37), “Dive” (No. 49), “Galway Girl” (No. 53), “Happier” (No. 59), “New Man” (No. 72), “Supermarket Flowers” (No. 75), “What Do I Know?” (No. 83), “Eraser” (No. 90), “Hearts Don’t Break Around Here” (No. 93) and “Barcelona” (No. 96). They join “Shape,” the No. 6-peaking “Castle on the Hill” (which roars 75-39) and the No. 41-reaching “How Would You Feel (Paean)” (a re-entry at No. 83), making for 13 of the 16 songs on the deluxe version of the album that have hit the Hot 100; all 12 tracks on the standard version of the album have now reached the Hot 100.

The record for most debuts by an act in a week? 13, by Justin Bieber on Dec. 5, 2015, the week that his album Purpose bowed atop the Billboard 200. And, in a chart quirk, Sheeran owns all 10 of the Hot 100’s debuts this week; that’s the highest amount of new entries all by one act, with no other debuts by anyone else, in a single week in the Hot 100’s history.

Beyond all (impressive) things Ed Sheeran, Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100 following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The cut drops to No. 2 on Streaming Songs after 10 weeks on top (42.7 million, down 3 percent). Still, “Bad” leads Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a 10th week each.

Bruno Mars‘ “That’s What I Like” hits a new peak on the Hot 100, rising 4-3 and besting the No. 4 peak of prior single “24K Magic,” the title track from Mars’ latest album. Following the first full tracking week after the official video for “Like” arrived March 1, the track lifts 3-2 on Digital Song Sales, up 25 percent to 95,000 sold, and enters the top 10 on Radio Songs (12-7; 75 million, up 14 percent) and Streaming Songs (11-7; 19.4 million, up 12 percent). On the Hot R&B Songs chart, “Like” collects a fourth week at No. 1.

Zayn and Taylor Swift‘s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” drops 3-4 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 2, while Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain” bumps 6-5 on the Hot 100, hitting a new peak. The song is Rihanna’s 22nd top five hit, breaking her out of a fifth-place tie with Elvis Presley (who tallied 21 top fives after the Hot 100’s 1958 inception; his career predates the Hot 100, as he first hit Billboard charts in 1956). The only artists with more top five Hot 100 hits than Rihanna: The Beatles (29), Madonna (28), Mariah Carey (26) and Janet Jackson (24). Airplay continues to drive the ballad most heavily, as it keeps at No. 3 on Radio Songs (107 million, essentially even week-over-week).

Kodak Black’s first Hot 100 top 10, “Tunnel Vision,” hits a new high (8-6), while bulleting for a second week at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (33.3 million, up 9 percent); The Chainsmokers‘ “Paris” holds at No. 7 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 6, while returning for a second week at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and hitting the Radio Songs top 10 (11-9; 67 million, up 1 percent); and Big Sean‘s “Bounce Back” lives up to its title, ascending 9-8 on the Hot 100 after climbing to No. 6.

Clean Bandit’s “Rockabye” rockets 24-9 on the Hot 100 (after previously reaching No. 21), sparked by its 17-3 vault on Digital Song Sales (68,000, up 97 percent), boosted by 69-cent sale-pricing in the iTunes Store. It also pushes 23-19 on Radio Songs (50 million, up 7 percent) and bullets at No. 34 (down from No. 32) on Streaming Songs (12.7 million, up 6 percent). The track — which incorporates the lyrics to nursery rhyme “Rock-a-bye Baby,” which dates back more than two-and-a-half centuries, to 1765, specifically — is Clean Bandit’s second Hot 100 top 10, surpassing the No. 10 peak of “Rather Be” (featuring Jess Glynne) in 2014.

While Anne-Marie achieves her first Hot 100 top 10 (in her first visit to the chart) with “Rockabye,” fellow featured act Paul scores his 10th top 10. Notably, he notched his first eight in 2002-2010; he’s collected his latest two in the last nine months, spending four weeks at No. 1 as featured on Sia’s “Cheap Thrills” in August, prior to “Rockabye.”

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, The Chainsmokers’ “Closer,” which spent 12 weeks at No. 1, adds a historic honor, tying the record for the most weeks logged in the top 10: 32 (all from its debut at No. 9 on Aug. 20, 2016). The track equals the top 10 run of LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live”: 32 top 10 weeks in 1997-98.

Plus, The Chainsmokers have now spent 45 consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10, dating to May 21, 2016 (and encompassing four top 10s). The duo ties The Weeknd for the fifth-longest top 10 streak all-time and is within three weeks of matching Ace of Base’s mark for a duo or group. Here’s an update among all acts:

69 weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10, Katy Perry, 2010-11
51 weeks, Drake, 2015-16
48 weeks, Ace of Base, 1993-94
46 weeks, Rihanna, 2010-11
45 weeks, The Chainsmokers, 2016-17
45 weeks, The Weeknd, 2015

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, the chart’s largest leap belongs to Lorde’s “Green Light,” which soars from No. 100 to No. 19 after its first full week of tracking (following its March 2 release). The lead single from Lorde’s second full-length, Melodrama (due June 16), debuts on Digital Song Sales at No. 6 (52,000) and Streaming Songs at No. 20 (13.6 million), while adding 20 million in radio airplay audience.

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

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Plus, Metallica jumps to No. 2 & Khalid debuts at No. 9.

Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, earning a whopping 451,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 10, according to Nielsen Music. That’s the largest week for an album in 2017, and the biggest since J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only launched at No. 1 with 492,000 on the Dec. 31, 2016-dated list.

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 March 25-dated chart (where Sheeran debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, March 14.

Further, ÷ starts with 322,000 in traditional album sales — again, the largest sales frame for an album since 4 Your Eyez Only debuted with 363,000 copies sold.

This is Sheeran’s second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, following the chart-topping bow of his previous studio effort, x (Multiply), in 2014. That set launched with 209,000 in traditional album sales (before the Billboard 200 transitioned to a ranking based on equivalent album units).

Additionally, ÷ logs the biggest streaming week for an album since 4 Your Eyez Only’s debut frame. ÷ earned 90,000 streaming equivalent album units (which equates to 134.6 million streams of songs from the album in the tracking week). 4 Your Eyez Only arrived with 118,000 streaming equivalent album units (176.9 million streams of the album’s songs).

Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct jumps from No. 14 to No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 with 81,000 units (up 191 percent) and 79,000 in album sales (up 209 percent). The gain is owed mostly to a concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion with the band’s stadium tour that went on sale on Feb. 17. The trek launches on May 10 in Baltimore, Md., at M&T Bank Stadium. Redemptions of albums included with the purchase of a concert ticket register as a sale in the week the customer redeems/receives the album.

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic holds at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 65,000 units (up 12 percent), Future’s self-titled album dips 2-4 with 52,000 units (down 18 percent), while last week’s leader, Future’s HNDRXX, falls to No. 5 with 49,000 units in its second week (down 59 percent).

Migos’ Culture is steady at No. 6 with 44,000 units (down 6 percent), The Weeknd’s Starboy is stationary at No. 7 with 42,000 units (down 8 percent), and the Moanasoundtrack is also a non-mover at No. 8 with 39,000 units (up less than 1 percent).

The second and final debut in the top 10 belongs to Khalid, whose American Teenarrives at No. 9 with 37,000 units (12,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the 19-year-old R&B singer’s debut effort, and was led by the single “Location,” which has reached the top 20 of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Rounding out the Billboard 200’s top 10 at No. 10 is the Trolls soundtrack, falling five slots with 36,000 units (down 28 percent).

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The Chainsmokers are just the third duo or group ever with three simultaneous top 10s. Meanwhile, Sheeran’s “Shape of You” leads for a sixth week & Kodak Black notches his first top 10.

Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” rules the Billboard Hot 100 (dated March 18) for a sixth total week.

Meanwhile, The Chainsmokers boast three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 — “Something Just Like This” (with Coldplay), “Paris” and “Closer” (featuring Halsey) — becoming just the third duo or group ever with three simultaneous top 10s, following The Beatles and Bee Gees.

Plus, Kodak Black earns his first Hot 100 top 10 with “Tunnel Vision.”

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

Starting with The Chainsmokers, the duo of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart infuses the Hot 100’s top 10 with its Coldplay collab “Something Just Like This,” up from No. 56 to No. 5, “Paris” (6-7) and “Closer” (5-10), all released on Disruptor/Columbia Records. The Chainsmokers join elite company as only the third duo or group to log at least three concurrent top 10s, following The Beatles and Bee Gees, dating to the Hot 100’s Aug. 4, 1958, launch.

At the height of early Beatlemania, The Beatles tallied 10 weeks in 1964 with at least three titles in the Hot 100’s top 10 at the same time, highlighted by two weeks with five hits; on April 4, 1964, all five ranked between Nos. 1 and 5, marking the only week that an act has monopolized the entire top five. Bee Gees danced to three simultaneous top 10s for two weeks in 1978, all from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. As the brother trio last managed the achievement on March 4, 1978, until this week it had been 39 years and two weeks since a duo or group had tripled up in the top 10.

Among all artists, The Chainsmokers are the 14th act with at least three Hot 100 top 10s in the same week. Justin Bieberhad last earned the honor, for 10 weeks (Dec. 5, 2015-Feb. 6, 2016) with “Love Yourself,” “Sorry” and “What Do You Mean?”

“Something” soars after its first full week of tracking, following its Feb. 22 release. It bounds 21-2 on Digital Song Sales (83,000 downloads sold in the week ending March 2, according to Nielsen Music) and debuts at No. 7 on Streaming Songs (18.1 million U.S. streams), while adding 22 million in airplay audience (in the week ending March 5). The song is The Chainsmokers’ fifth Hot 100 top 10 and Coldplay’s fourth, and first since “A Sky Full of Stars” (No. 10) in 2014; Coldplay had last ranked higher than No. 5 in 2008 with its sole No. 1, “Viva La Vida.”

“Something” additionally crowns Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, dethroning “Paris,” which last week had replaced “Closer” at No. 1. The songs mark the first set of back-to-back-to-back No. 1s by the same artist in the tally’s four-year history.

“Paris” slips a spot from its No. 6 high on the Hot 100, but lifts 12-11 on Radio Songs (66 million, up 5 percent). “Paris” and “Something” are from The Chainsmokers’ first full-length album, Memories…Do Not Open, due April 7.

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, “Closer,” which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, extends its mark for the most weeks in the top 10 from a title’s debut, having totaled all 31 of its frames on the chart in the top 10 since its entrance at No. 9 on Aug. 20, 2016. The track also ties Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!,” featuring Bruno Mars (31 top-10 weeks in 2014-15), for the second-most time in the top 10: LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live” did one better, 32 weeks in 1997-98.

Atop the Hot 100, Sheeran’s “Shape,” released on Atlantic Records, spends a sixth week at No. 1, as well as a sixth frame atop the Digital Song Sales chart (141,000 downloads sold, down 4 percent) and a fourth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs, up by 1 percent to 156 million in audience. It stays at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (39.8 million U.S. streams, down 5 percent) and tops the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a second week (18.3 million on-demand clicks, up 2 percent).

The song is from Sheeran’s third studio album, ÷, released Friday (March 3) and set to storm in at No. 1 on the March 25-dated Billboard 200 albums chart.

Migos‘ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100 following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The cut commands Streaming Songs for a 10th week, with 43.9 million U.S. streams (down 5 percent) and dips 13-14 on Radio Songs (61 million, down 3 percent) and 18-22 on Digital Song Sales (31,000 downloads sold, down 12 percent). “Bad” leads Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a ninth week each.

Zayn and Taylor Swift‘s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” is likewise stationary, at No. 3 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 2. The duet keeps at No. 2 on Radio Songs (113 million, down 1 percent) and descends 4-6 on Streaming Songs (20.2 million, down 6 percent) and 6-8 on Digital Song Sales (47,000, down 26 percent).

Bruno Mars additionally stays in place on the Hot 100 with “That’s What I Like” (No. 4), although the song makes gains following the March 1 arrival of its official video. It backtracks 2-3 on Digital Song Sales, but with a 1 percent lift to 76,000 sold, and pushes 15-11 on Streaming Songs (17.4 million, up 8 percent) and 18-12 on Radio Songs (65 million, up 18 percent), winning the chart’s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week. On the Hot R&B Songs chart, “Like” logs a third week at No. 1.

Rihanna‘s “Love on the Brain” rises 7-6 on the Hot 100, hitting a new peak. The song is her 30th top 10, a milestone that only Madonna (the leader with 38 top 10s) and The Beatles (34) had previously achieved. Airplay continues to lead the way for the ballad, which keeps at No. 3 on Radio Songs (107 million, down 2 percent).

Kodak Black blasts 27-8 on the Hot 100 with “Tunnel Vision,” his first top 10 on the chart. The track, whose politically charged video arrived Feb. 16, pushes 5-3 on Streaming Songs, up 65 percent to 30.7 million U.S. streams. It zooms 7-2 on the Hot Rap Songs chart and, as on the Hot 100, becomes the rapper’s first top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (12-4).

Taking a deeper look at “Tunnel Vision”… the track becomes the highest-charting hit in the Hot 100’s history with the word “tunnel” in its title: it one-ups Bruce Springsteen’s “Tunnel of Love,” which rode to No. 9 in 1988. And, triple “vision”: Kodak Black’s hit is the third top 10 with “vision” in its title, following Foreigner’s “Double Vision” (No. 2, 1978) and Mariah Carey’s debut smash “Vision of Love” (No. 1, four weeks, 1990).

Meanwhile, Big Sean‘s “Bounce Back” is steady at No. 9 after reaching No. 6.

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, Justin Timberlake‘s former No. 1 “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” rebounds 29-13, blasting 35-6 on Digital Song Sales (51,000, up 124 percent) after he opened the Academy Awards (Feb. 26) with a live performance of the song, from the Trolls soundtrack. Plus, KYLE’s “iSpy,” featuring Lil Yachty, hits a new Hot 100 peak (20-14); Shawn Mendes‘ “Mercy” returns to its highpoint (18-17); and Sam Hunt‘s “Body Like a Back Road” steers into the top 20 (22-20).

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (March 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 (March 10).

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