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“Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, reigns for a fourth week, while “Congratulations,” featuring Quavo, marks Malone’s first top 10.

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee‘s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, leads the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated June 17) for a fourth week. Meanwhile, Post Malone scores his first top 10, with “Congratulations,” featuring Quavo.

As we do each Monday, let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends all-genre sales, airplay and streaming data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, June 6.

“Despacito” (released on Universal Music Latino / Raymond Braun / SchoolBoy / Def Jam / UMLE / Republic Records) leads the Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week, with 69.6 million U.S. streams (up 6 percent) in the week ending June 1, according to Nielsen Music. Only one song has posted a greater weekly total on Streaming Songs (which began on March 2, 2013): Baauer‘s “Harlem Shake,” which peaked with 103 million, powered heavily by user-generated clips featuring the song’s audio, the week that the survey debuted. “Despacito” passes prior runner-up “Humble.,” by Kendrick Lamar, which logged 67.4 million (May 6). The only other song to top 60 million: Adele’s “Hello” (61.6 million, in its first week, Nov. 14, 2015). “Despacito” also dominates the On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a third week, up 5 percent to 29.4 million on-demand domestic clicks.

“Despacito” rules the Digital Song Sales chart for a fifth week, with 148,000 downloads sold (up 8 percent) in the week ending June 1; the remix with Bieber accounts for 80 percent of the song’s sales (up from 77 percent a week ago and 73 percent each of the two previous weeks).

On Radio Songs, “Despacito” keeps at No. 7, with 101 million in all-format airplay audience (up 15 percent) in the week ending June 4, adding the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third consecutive week.

With a fourth week atop the Hot 100, “Despacito” is the second-longest-leading of the three Spanish language-dominant Hot 100 No. 1s in the chart’s history. Los Del Rio’s “Macarena” ruled for 14 weeks in 1996 and Los Lobos’ “La Bamba” (the only all-Spanish-language No. 1; the other two are sung mostly in Spanish) reigned for three weeks in 1987. “Despacito” (whose title translates to “slowly” in English) tops the Hot Latin Songs chart for an 18th week.

Bruno Mars‘ “That’s What I Like” ranks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 for a fifth week after topping the May 13-dated chart. It leads Radio Songs for a fifth week, with 165 million in audience (essentially even week-over-week), and tops Hot R&B Songs for a 16th week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a ninth week.

DJ Khaled‘s “I’m the One,” featuring Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne, tallies a fourth week at No. 3 after debuting atop the May 20-dated Hot 100. The collab climbs 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (75,000, down 6 percent) and dips 2-3 on Streaming Songs (42.3 million, down 6 percent), while holding at No. 8 on Radio Songs (92 million, up 15 percent). “One” collects a fifth week at No. 1 on the Hot Rap Songs chart.

Lamar’s “Humble.,” which topped May 6-dated Hot 100, holds at No. 4 and becomes his first Radio Songs top 10 as a lead artist (11-10; 66 million, up 9 percent). He’d previously reached the region as featured on two Radio Songs No. 1s: Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” (five weeks at No. 1 in 2015) and Maroon 5’s “Don’t Wanna Know” (eight weeks beginning Dec. 31). Before “Humble.,” Lamar had peaked as high as No. 19 as a lead with “Swimming Pools (Drank)” and “Poetic Justice,” the latter featuring Drake, both in 2013.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Ed Sheeran‘s former 12-week No. 1 “Shape of You” remains at No. 5 and extends its record for the most weeks spent in the top five from a song’s debut, having now logged its first 21 weeks on the Hot 100 in the top five, dating to its arrival at No. 1 (Jan. 28).

Future‘s No. 5-peaking “Mask Off” holds at No. 6 on the Hot 100 and wins the top Streaming Gainer award for its 13 percent boost to 43.3 million U.S. streams. The track also jumps 25-15 on Digital Song Sales (34,000, up 9 percent). Aiding its momentum: a new remix featuring Lamar, released May 25.

Zedd and Alessia Cara‘s “Stay” is steady at its No. 7 Hot 100 peak, while topping Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a third week, and The Chainsmokers and Coldplay‘s No. 3-peaking “Something Just Like This” remains at No. 8 on the Hot 100. The Chainsmokers spend a 57th consecutive week in the Hot 100’s top 10, a streak second only to Katy Perry’s record 69-week run in 2010-11. Lil Uzi Vert‘s “XO TOUR Llif3” is likewise stationary on the Hot 100, at No. 9 after reaching a No. 8 high.

Copy and paste: Nos. 1-9 on the Hot 100 stay in place from last week. The last time that at least the top nine was static? On the chart dated Aug. 24, 2013, the top 11 titles repeated their ranks, led by Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” featuring T.I. and Pharrell, at No. 1. (One act has been a participant in both weeks: Mars placed at No. 7 that week in 2013 with “Treasure.”)

Post Malone celebrates his first Hot 100 top 10, as “Congratulations,” featuring Quavo, rises 13-10. The song bullets at No. 7 on Streaming Songs (30 million, up 3 percent); soars 24-12 on Digital Song Sales, up 13 percent to 37,000 sold, aided by a 69-cent sale price in the iTunes Store; and nears Radio Songs (19 million, up 5 percent). Malone previously peaked as high as No. 14 on the Hot 100 (among three previous visits) with his debut entry, “White Iverson,” in January 2016.

Both songs are from his debut album, Stoney, which debuted at its No. 6 peak in December and has spent its first 25 weeks in the chart’s top 25 (ranking at No. 13 on the current June 17-dated chart). (Malone recently met former NBA star Allen Iverson, for whom his breakout hit is named. “I’m still tripping at how sick it was,” Malone told Billboard.)

Quavo, meanwhile, collects his third Hot 100 top 10 as a soloist, all in featured roles. He first reached the region on Drake’s “Portland” (also featuring Travis Scott), which peaked at No. 9 in April, before hitting the top 10 with “I’m the One” and “Congratulations.” Quavo first entered the tier as part of Migos, whose “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, spent three weeks at No. 1 in January and February.

Beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, three songs are new to the top 20: Childish Gambino‘s “Redbone” (22-17); French Montana‘s “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee (23-18); and Ayo & Teo‘s “Rolex” (31-20).

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and by listening (and subscribing) to Billboard’s Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast, all posting this week. Plus, visit Billboard.com tomorrow (June 6), 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 (June 9).

Source: billboard.com

Plus: The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” returns to the top three, and Lil Yachty debuts in the top five.

Bryson Tiller notches his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his second studio effort, True to Self, debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released through TrapSoul/RCA Records on May 26, earned 107,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 1, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 47,000 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 June 17, 2017-dated chart (where Tiller debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, June 6.

True to Self was released a month earlier than its expected June 23 street date, and is the follow-up to Tiller’s debut set, Trapsoul. The latter set peaked at No. 8 on the chart in January of 2016, and helped Tiller finish the year as Billboard’s top new artist. Trapsoul has earned 1.6 million equivalent album units, of which 441,000 are in traditional album sales.

True to Self was supported mostly by SEA units (57,000) and traditional album sales. The remainder of its bow came from TEA units (2,000).

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. holds steady at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 84,000 units (down 14 percent).

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band returns to the chart, re-entering at No. 3 with 75,000 units (up 2,062 percent) with 71,000 in traditional album sales (up 3,889 percent). It is the highest rank for the former No. 1 album since the Dec. 30, 1967-dated chart, when the set also placed at No. 3.

The album bounces back to the tally courtesy of its 50^th anniversary reissue on May 26. The album was reissued in a variety of configurations, including some with a bevy of bonus tracks. It spent a total of 15 weeks atop the list back in 1967 — the most weeks at No. 1 for any of The Beatles’ 19 chart-topping albums.

Sgt. Pepper’s’ re-entry also grants The Beatles its highest rank on the chart in more than 16 years. The band has been absent from the top three since the March 10, 2001-dated list, when the greatest hits album 1 was No. 3. (The album had previously spent eight weeks at No. 1.)

Sgt. Pepper’s was last on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 23, 2016. It notched its last week in the top 10 on the Feb. 3, 1968-dated tally.

Drake’s More Life is a non-mover at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200, with 50,000 units (down 13 percent).

Lil Yachty’s debut studio album, Teenage Emotions, arrives at No. 5 with 46,000 units (20,000 in traditional album sales; 24,000 in SEA and 2,000 in TEA). Lil Yachty previously charted a pair of mixtapes with Lil’ Boat (No. 106) and Summer Songs 2(No. 197), both of which peaked in 2016.

Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) stays steady at No. 6 with 40,000 units (down 8 percent), Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic is stationary at No. 7 with a little more than 38,000 units (down 2 percent), and Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 1 descends 5-8 with 38,000 units (down 25 percent).

The new Summer Latin Hits 2017 compilation bows at No. 9 with 37,000 units (22,000 in SEA; 15,000 in TEA and a negligible sum of traditional album sales). The set is largely driven by streams and sales of one red-hot song: Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito.” The tune has been No. 1 for three weeks on the Hot 100 chart.

Closing out the new top 10 is Harry Styles’ self-titled effort, which falls from No. 3 to No. 10 with 36,000 units (down 47 percent).