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“Rockstar” rules for a third week, while “Havana” & “Perfect” soar to the top tier.

Post Malone‘s “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, tallies a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Nov. 11). Meanwhile, two songs surge to the top 10: Camila Cabello‘s “Havana,” featuring Young Thug, bounds 20-7 and Ed Sheeran‘s “Perfect” pounces 18-10.

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

“Rockstar,” released on Republic Records, logs a fifth (nonconsecutive) week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songschart with 53 million U.S. streams (down 2 percent), in the week ending Oct. 26, according to Nielsen Music. It dips 2-4 on Digital Song Sales (which it led for a week), down 4 percent to 52,000 downloads sold in the week ending Oct. 26, and jumps 26-19 on Radio Songs with 56 million in all-format audience (up 16 percent) in the week ending Oct. 29.

“Rockstar” concurrently leads the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songscharts for a third week each.

Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 for a third week following three weeks at No. 1. It keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (38.6 million, down 8 percent) and falls 5-8 on Digital Song Sales (33,000, down 11 percent) and 10-11 on Radio Songs (71 million, down 3 percent).

Logic’s “1-800-273-8255,” featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, is stationary at its No. 3 Hot 100 high. It holds at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (29.3 million, down 6 percent), while rising 6-4 on Radio Songs (88 million, up 5 percent).

Portugal. The Man‘s “Feel It Still” keeps at its No. 4 Hot 100 peak while crowning Radio Songs for a third week (128 million, up 11 percent). The track tops Hot Rock Songs for a fifth week and the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart for a third week and takes over atop the Pop Songs airplay list (2-1), where it’s the group’s first No. 1.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” repeats at its No. 5 Hot 100 high. It slips to No. 2 after two (nonconsecutive) weeks atop Digital Song Sales (60,000, down 10 percent) and becomes the band’s fourth top 10 on Radio Songs, where it charges 14-7 (81 million, up 16 percent).

Demi Lovato hits another new career high on the Hot 100, as “Sorry Not Sorry” rises 7-6. On Radio Songs, it pushes 7-4 (88 million, up 8 percent).

Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” featuring Young Thug, blasts 20-7 on the Hot 100. Following the Oct. 24 release of its official video (aka #HavanaTheMovie, clocking in at 6:42 long), the song lifts 6-4 on Digital Song Sales (42,000, up 20 percent); concurrently hits the Streaming Songs top 10 (18-8; 24.4 million, up 38 percent); and jumps 36-26 on Radio Songs (48 million, up 28 percent).

Cabello collects her second Hot 100 top 10 as a soloist and first as the sole lead artist; “Bad Things,” with Machine Gun Kelly, hit No. 4 in February. (As a member of Fifth Harmony, she reached the top 10 with last year’s No. 4-peaking “Work From Home,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign.)

Young Thug tallies his first Hot 100 top 10, among 21 entries dating to his first in 2014.

Cabello (born in Cojimar, Eastern Havana, Cuba) also charts the fourth Hot 100 top 10 this year whose title doubles as the name of a city. It follows prior trips to the top 10 for “Paris” by The Chainsmokers (No. 6 peak in March); “Portland” by Drake(No. 9, April); and “Malibu” by Miley Cyrus (No. 10, June).

J Balvin and Willy William‘s “Mi Gente,” featuring Beyonce, descends 6-8 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 3, while spending a fourth week at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs, and Sam Smith’s “Too Good at Goodbyes” slips 8-9 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 5 (upon its Sept. 30 debut).

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Ed Sheeran soars 18-10 with “Perfect.” The ballad gains in all metrics, holding at No. 3 on Digital Song Sales (53,000, up 7 percent) and climbing 30-22 on Radio Songs (53 million, up 16 percent) and 35-27 on Streaming Songs (13.1 million, up 14 percent).

Sheeran scores his sixth Hot 100 top 10, with half logged this year from his alum ÷, following “Shape of You” (12 weeks at No. 1) and “Castle on the Hill” (No. 6). His three previous top 10s (all from his last album, X): “Don’t” (No. 9, 2014); “Thinking Out Loud” (No. 2, 2015); and “Photograph” (No. 10, 2015).

Notably, Sheeran earns his ninth Hot 100 top 10 as a writer, as, in addition to his own six, he co-penned Justin Bieber‘s “Love Yourself” (No. 1 for two weeks in 2016); Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Bieber and MO (No. 2, 2016); and Liam Payne’s “Strip That Down,” featuring Quavo (No. 10, September). Meanwhile, Sheeran’s older brother, Matthew, co-wrote “Perfect” and achieves a top 10 in his first Hot 100 appearance as a writer.

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. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 24), 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 (Nov. 3).

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Plus: Gucci Mane, Beck and St. Vincent debut in top 10.

As expected, P!nk claims her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with Beautiful Trauma, which starts atop the list with 2017’s largest week for an album by a woman and the fourth-biggest week among all acts. It launches with a larger-than-expected 408,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 19, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 384,000 were in traditional album sales — the best sales week of the year among all acts.

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 Nov. 4-dated chart (where Beautiful Trauma debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s websites on Tuesday (Oct. 24).

Beautiful Trauma is the pop singer-songwriter’s second No. 1 album, following 2012’s The Truth About Love (her last solo studio effort), which started atop the list with 280,000 copies sold (before the chart transitioned to a consumption-ranked list in late 2014). In total, Beautiful is P!nk’s seventh top 10 effort.

Among all albums in 2017, in terms of weekly units earned, Beautiful Trauma trails only the debuts of Kendrick Lamar‘s DAMN. (603,000; chart dated May 6), Drake‘s More Life (505,000; April 8) and Ed Sheeran‘s ÷ (Divide) (451,000; March 25). P!nk’s album has the biggest week by a woman since Beyoncé‘s Lemonade arrived at No. 1 with 652,000 units (May 14, 2016).

Further, Beautiful Trauma has the largest sales week among all albums since Drake’s Views debuted with 852,000 copies sold (May 21, 2016).

Of Beautiful Trauma‘s overall unit start, 10,000 were in TEA units, while 13,000 were in SEA units. The set was overwhelmingly powered by traditional album sales: 384,000. Of that sum, 101,000 were digital albums, while 283,000 were physical CDs. (It sold another 1,000 on vinyl LP.)

The album’s sales launch is the biggest sales week for an album in 2017, and the largest for any album since Drake’s Views debuted at No. 1 with 852,000 copies sold (chart dated May 21, 2016).

Like so many other albums, Beautiful Trauma’s debut frame was boosted by a concert ticket/album sale redemption promotion. The cost of the CD edition of the album was bundled into the purchase price of each ticket sold online to P!nk’s upcoming 40-date U.S. and Canada tour. After purchasing a ticket, customers received (via email) a redemption offer for the album, where they could choose to redeem the CD and have it mailed to them. The only sales that count towards the charts are those albums that are redeemed by customers. Many ticket buyers never redeem the offer.

Nielsen Music does not break out specifically how much of any album’s sales are generated by concert ticket/album bundle offers. However, CD sales from ticket bundles are categorized as Internet sales by the company, and Beautiful Trauma‘s Internet sales figure was 249,000. So, one can assume most of that number is from the ticket bundle — minus a smallish amount (perhaps in the low five-figures) for traditional sales from Amazon and other web-based retailers.

Artists and record labels have increasingly turned to offering ticket/album bundles as a way to sell music, as the traditional retail landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, and as album sales continue to shrink. Not only are a growing number of fans turning to streaming in order to consume albums (instead of buying them), but the brick-and-mortar retailers that remain in business have dramatically reduced the number of titles they sell in stores (as well as the physical floor space for those albums). In turn, artists have found new ways to sell their music — from selling them bundled with merchandise, to offering them with concert tickets.

Tickets for P!nk’s tour went on sale Oct. 10 for American Express card members, and then to the general public on Oct. 13 (the same day as the album’s release).

Because most ticket buyers usually take advantage of these ticket/album sale redemption offers in an album’s first week of release, albums offered with a bundle tend to have a large debut frame — but then fall hard in their second week when there are far fewer sales generated by the bundle. So far in 2017, the chart has seen a variety of No. 1-debuting albums enhanced by ticket bundle offers implode in their second frames. Shania Twain‘s Now tumbled from No. 1 to No. 29 in its second week, The Killers‘ Wonderful Wonderful fell 1-59, LCD Soundsystem‘s American Dream dropped 1-56, Arcade Fire‘s Everything Now collapsed 1-38, and so on.

P!nk’s Beautiful Trauma was ushered in by the single “What About Us,” which has so far peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 (the artist’s 23^rd top 40-charting effort), No. 3 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart, No. 13 on the Pop Songs airplay chart, and No. 10 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart.

To promote the album, P!nk was profiled on CBS’ Sunday Morning (Oct. 8), and performed on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Oct. 12), NBC’s Saturday Night Live (Oct. 14), and ABC’s Good Morning America (Oct. 16).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, rapper Gucci Mane debuts with Mr. Davis, launching with 70,000 units (21,000 from traditional album sales). The set was powered by streams, as it racked up 46,000 SEA units (equaling 68.7 million streams of the songs on the album during its debut frame). Mr. Davis ties 2016’s Everybody Looking as Gucci Mane’s highest-charting album. Everybody Lookingbowed with 68,000 units. Overall, Gucci Mane has logged 19 charting albums, with four of them reaching the top 10.

Alt-rock singer-songwriter Beck bows at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with his new album, Colors (46,000 units; 41,000 in traditional album sales). It’s his sixth top 10 album, and follows Morning Phase (No. 3 in 2014; 87,000 copies sold in its first week — before the chart became consumption-based), which won the Grammy Award for album of the year in 2015.

Post Malone‘s Stoney holds at its No. 4 high (45,000 units; up 1 percent), Lil Uzi Vert‘s Luv Is Rage 2 rises 7-5 (35,000 units; down 5 percent) and Ed Sheeran’s ÷(Divide) climbs 10-6 (33,000 units; up 1 percent). The latter album gets a boost from SEA and TEA units, as its latest single, “Perfect,” continues to find success.

Imagine Dragons‘ Evolve ascends 9-7 (nearly 33,000; down 5 percent), A Boogie Wit da Hoodie‘s The Bigger Artist falls 6-8 (31,000; down 21 percent) and Lil Pump‘s self-titled album drops 3-9 in its second week (30,000; down 34 percent).

Closing out the top 10 is an artist who earns her first Billboard 200 top 10: St. Vincent, with Masseduction debuting at No. 10 (29,000 units; 25,000 in traditional album sales). The singer-songwriter previously peaked at No. 12 with her last album, her 2014 self-titled effort, which bowed with 29,000 copies sold (again, before the chart began ranking titles by units).

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Plus, two rock bands place in the top five simultaneously for the first time in a decade & Demi Lovato hits another career-high rank.

Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Nov. 4). Meanwhile, two rock bands – Portugal. The Man and Imagine Dragons – appear in the top five simultaneously for the first time in over 10 years, while Demi Lovato lifts to another personal-best rank with “Sorry Not Sorry.”

As we do every Monday, let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends all-genre streaming, airplay and sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 24).

“Rockstar,” released on Republic Records, logs a fourth (nonconsecutive) week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart with 54.3 million U.S. streams (up 6 percent), in the week ending Oct. 19, according to Nielsen Music. It rises 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (which it led for a week), up 14 percent to 54,000 downloads sold in the week ending Oct. 19, and surges 38-26 on Radio Songs with 48 million in all-format audience (up 37 percent, good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award) in the week ending Oct. 22.

“Rockstar” concurrently leads the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songscharts for a second week each.

Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after three weeks at No. 1. It keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (42.1 million, down 9 percent) and rebounds 6-5 on Digital Song Sales (37,000, down 7 percent) and 11-10 on Radio Songs (73 million, down 3 percent).

Logic’s “1-800-273-8255,” featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, is steady at its No. 3 Hot 100 peak. It holds at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (31.2 million, essentially even week-over-week), while jumping 8-6 on Radio Songs (84 million, up 10 percent).

Meanwhile, two rock bands rise in the Hot 100’s top five: Portugal. The Man and Imagine Dragons. The former pushes to a new high (5-4) with “Feel It Still,” which also crowns Radio Songs for a second week (115 million, up 5 percent). It lifts 5-4 on Digital Song Sales (38,000, down 9 percent) and 33-26 on Streaming Songs (15.1 million, up 7 percent). On Hot Rock Songs, “Feel” reigns for a fourth week.

Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” rumbles 8-5 on the Hot 100 (surpassing its prior No. 7 high). It returns to the top of Digital Song Sales for a second week at No. 1 (66,000, up 4 percent) and roars 20-14 on Radio Songs (70 million, up 18 percent) and 24-21 on Streaming Songs (15.9 million, up percent). The band earns its third top five Hot 100 hit, following previous single “Believer” (No. 4 in August) and “Radioactive” (No. 3, 2013).

With Portugal. The Man and Imagine Dragons at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively, two rock songs share space in the Hot 100’s top five for the first time in over a year, since the Sept. 10, 2016-dated chart, when twenty one pilots’ “Heathens” and “Ride” ranked at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively. However, the last time until this week that two different rock bands doubled up in the Hot 100’s top five? More than a decade ago, on the chart dated Feb. 17, 2007, when Fall Out Boy’s “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” and Daughtry’s “It’s Not Over” charted at Nos. 3 and 4, respectively.

(In between, the last time rock songs by two rock acts, but not two groups, specifically, appeared in the top 10 together until this week? Over five years ago, on June 30, 2012, when soloist Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” featuring Kimbra, and trio fun.’s “We Are Young,” featuring Janelle Monae, ranked at Nos. 2 and 5, respectively.)

On the Alternative Songs airplay chart, “Thunder” becomes Imagine Dragons’ third No. 1 (3-1). It dethrones “Feel It Still” after 17 weeks at No. 1, two weeks shy of Muse’s record 19-week reign with “Madness” in 2012-13.

J Balvin and Willy William’s “Mi Gente,” featuring Beyonce, holds at No. 6 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 3 two weeks ago (following the first full week of tracking for its remix featuring Beyonce). It dips 5-6 on Streaming Songs (27.2 million, down 2 percent), while climbing 17-12 on Digital Song Sales (28,000 sold, up 4 percent, with the Beyonce remix accounting for two-thirds of the song’s sales for the week) and 22-16 on Radio Songs (61 million, up 10 percent). “Mi Gente” spends a third week at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs.

Demi Lovato lifts to a new career high on the Hot 100, as “Sorry Not Sorry” rebounds 9-7 (besting its previous No. 8 peak). It also bounds 13-7 on Radio Songs (81 million, up 18 percent), where it’s the singer-actress’s fourth top 10. She previously reached the Radio Songs top 10 with “Give Your Heart a Break” (No. 6, 2012), “Heart Attack” (No. 7, 2013) and “Cool for the Summer” (No. 7, 2015). As previously reported, “Sorry” becomes Lovato’s second No. 1 on the Pop Songsairplay chart, following “Give” in 2012.

Sam Smith’s “Too Good at Goodbyes” backtracks 7-8 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 5 (upon its Sept. 30 debut) and French Montana’s “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee, reverses course (10-9), after reaching No. 3.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Taylor Swift’s former three-week No. 1 “Look What You Made Me Do” tumbles 4-10. As “Look” drops from No. 1 to No. 7 on Pop Songs, marking the steepest fall from the top in the chart’s 25-year history, it concurrently plunges from No. 5 (its peak) to No. 20 on Radio Songs, where it’s likewise the biggest fall from the top five since the chart began in 1990; it passes the 5-16 descent of Kanye West’s “Gold Digger,” featuring Jamie Foxx (Dec. 24, 2005).

(In more positive Swift chart news, her “…Ready for It?,” up 53-52 on the Hot 100 after debuting at No. 4 on the Sept. 23 chart, debuts on Radio Songs at No. 48 with 26 million in audience, up 10 percent; its official video arrives Thursday, Oct. 26. Plus, a third song from Swift’s new album Reputation, due Nov. 10, should bow on next week’s Hot 100: “Gorgeous,” following its first full week of tracking after its early Oct. 20 release.)

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, four songs surge to the top 20: Gucci Mane’s “I Get the Bag,” featuring Migos (24-11); P!nk’s “What About Us,” from her new No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, Beautiful Trauma (23-13); Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” (22-18); and Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” featuring Young Thug (26-20, with its official video due to arrive tomorrow, Oct. 24).

Plus, two acts each earn their first top 40 Hot 100 hits: Dua Lipa, as “New Rules” rises 44-38, and Blackbear, whose “Do Re Mi” lifts 45-40.

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. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 24), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Plus: Lil Pump & Marilyn Manson debut in top 10; Kane Brown bolts 56-5.

Rapper NF notches his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart — and first top 10 — as his third full-length studio album, Perception, debuts atop the list. The set was released on Oct. 6 through NF Real Music/Capitol/Caroline and starts with 55,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 12, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 38,000 were in traditional album sales — NF’s best sales week yet.

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. 28-dated chart (where Perception debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Oct. 17.

Twenty-six-year-old NF (real name Nate Feuerstein) tops the list following initial industry forecasts suggesting he was vying for No. 1 with an estimated start of 50,000 alongside Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits and Lil Pump’s debut self-titled album. NF comes out on top by a sizable gap ahead of Petty at No. 2 (55,000 vs. 47,000) thanks to better-than-expected sales for Perception, aided in part by direct-to-consumer offers via NF’s official website.

Still, Perception’s launch is the smallest for a No. 1-debuting album in 2017 and the fifth-smallest unit total for a No. 1 album overall since the chart began ranking titles by consumption units in late 2014. (More on that in just a moment…)

NF made his Billboard album chart debut in 2014 with his self-titled EP, charting on multiple tallies including Rap Albums (No. 15) but not the Billboard 200. He arrived on the big chart with his 2015 release Mansion (reaching No. 62). He followed it up with 2016’s No. 12-peaking Therapy Session, which started with 29,000 units in its first week (25,000 were in album sales). The album has sold 122,000 copies, while Mansion has sold 136,000 and his self-titled EP has sold 33,000. In total, NF’s catalog of music has generated more than a 500 million on-demand streams in the U.S. (audio and video streams combined).

NF is also just the second act in 2017 to reach No. 1 without ever charting a song on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, following alternative rock band Brand New. The latter saw its Science Fiction launch atop the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 9 with 58,000 units.

It’s probably then not surprising that, given the limited mainstream exposure of both acts (as evidenced by their lack of Hot 100 hits), both Perception and Science Fiction bowed with the two smallest openings — by units earned — for a No. 1-debuting album in 2017. Both acts were able to debut at No. 1 — despite their small unit starts — thanks to dedicated fan bases and little competition in the marketplace during their respective release weeks.

NF’s Perception opens at No. 1 following four straight frames where the top slot hosted a new album that bowed with more than 100,000 units earned (Perceptionwas preceded by Shania Twain’s Now, The Killers’ Wonderful Wonderful, Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold and Thomas Rhett’s Life Changes, respectively). Many big albums were issued in September in order to qualify for the upcoming Grammy Awards, as Sept. 30 was the deadline for new releases to be considered for the 2017 eligibility year.

NF is also the 13th act to notch their first No. 1 album in 2017, following The Killers, Thomas Rhett, LCD Soundsystem, Lil Uzi Vert (with his first studio album), Brand New, Lorde, Halsey, Bryson Tiller, Harry Styles (with his debut effort), Logic, The Chainsmokers and Migos. (In all of 2016, there were 11 acts that scored their first No. 1.)

As noted above, Petty and The Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits holds at No. 2 for a second week, earning 47,000 units (down 44 percent) and selling 29,000 in traditional album sales (down 45 percent). The album re-entered the chart a week ago, at its new peak, following the death of Petty on Oct. 2.

Rapper Lil Pump premieres at No. 3 with his self-titled debut effort, earning 46,000 units (just 6,000 in traditional album sales). The effort was powered largely by streams, as the title earned 38,000 SEA units (equating to 56.8 million on demand audio streams of the album’s tracks). A further 2,000 were generated by TEA units. To put Lil Pump’s streaming figure in perspective, the album would have still debuted in the top 10 without any traditional album sales or TEA units. Lil Pump’s album was led by the hit single “Gucci Gang,” which currently ranks at No. 12 on the Hot Rap Songs chart (dated Oct. 21).

Post Malone’s Stoney hits a new chart high — and the top five for the first time — after 44 weeks on the list, as the album rises 6-4 with 45,000 units (up 7 percent). The set debuted and initially peaked at No. 6 on Dec. 31, 2016-dated chart and has never left the top 25. The album’s top five ascent comes concurrent with the success non-album cut “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, as well as the surprise viral hit of the Stoney track “I Fall Apart.”

Stoney’s slow rise to the top five is the longest climb to the top five for a continuously charting album in over nine years, since Amy Winehouse’s Back to Blackreached the top five in its 49th week. (Back to Black debuted at No. 7 on the March 31, 2007-dated chart, and then lingered in the top 100 until almost a full year later, when it zoomed 24-2 on the March 1, 2008-dated chart after Winehouse won five Grammy Awards at the Feb. 10 ceremony, including best new artist, record of the year and song of the year.)

Kane Brown’s self-titled album also hits a new peak on the new Billboard 200, following its deluxe reissue on Oct. 6. The set zooms 56-5 with 43,000 units (up 332 percent) and 26,000 in traditional album sales (up 1,163 percent). The LP — which initially debuted and peaked at No. 10 on the Dec. 24, 2016-dated list with 51,000 units — was reissued on Oct. 6 with a handful of bonus tracks. On the Oct. 21-dated Hot Country Songs chart, the its “What If’s,” featuring Lauren Alaina, become brown’s first No. 1. (The song was on the original version of the album.)

A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s The Bigger Artist slips 4-6 in its second week on the chart (39,000 units; down 42 percent), while Lil Uzi Vert’s former No. 1, Luv Is Rage 2, holds steady at No. 7 (37,000 units; down 9 percent).

Marilyn Manson debuts at No. 8 with Heaven Upside Down (35,000 units; 32,000 in traditional album sales), granting the rock act his ninth top 10 effort (and seventh in a row). Manson has been on a top 10 roll since 2003, when The Golden Age of Grotesque bowed at No. 1 (the act’s second leader, following 1998’s Mechanical Animals). Following Golden, he hit the top 10 successively with Lest We Forget: The Best Of (No. 9 in 2004), Eat Me, Drink Me (No. 8, 2007), The High End of Low (No. 4, 2009), Born Villain (No. 10, 2012), The Pale Emperor (No. 8, 2015) and now Heaven Upside Down. Before Mechanical Animals, Manson notched one more top 10 with Antichrist Superstar (No. 3 in 1996).

Rounding out the top 10, Imagine Dragons’ Evolve descends one rung to No. 9 with 34,000 units (down 11 percent) and Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) is stationary at No. 10 with 32,000 units (up 3 percent).

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The track is the fifth rap No. 1 of 2017, tying for the most in a single year. Plus, Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” is the top radio hit & Sam Smith returns to the top 10.

Congratulations are in order for Post Malone, whose “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, hits No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Oct. 28), marking the first leader for each artist. Plus, Portugal. The Man‘s “Feel It Still” reaches the Hot 100’s top five, and takes over atop the Radio Songs chart, while Sam Smith returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 with “Too Good at Goodbyes.”

As we do every Monday, let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends all-genre streaming, airplay and sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 17).

“Rockstar,” released on Republic Records, becomes the 1,068th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 59-year history. Post Malone (born Austin Richard Post) had previously peaked at a No. 8 high with “Congratulations,” featuring Quavo, in July, while 21 Savage (Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph) had hit a No. 12 best with “Bank Account.”

No. 1 in Streaming: After spending its first three weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 2, “Rockstar” reigns as it logs a third (nonconsecutive) week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart with 51.3 million U.S. streams, up 3 percent, in the week ending Oct. 12, according to Nielsen Music (without the benefit so far of an official proper video, for that matter). It rises 5-3 on Digital Song Sales (which it led for a week), up 11 percent to 48,000 downloads sold in the week ending Oct. 12, and debuts at No. 38 on Radio Songs with 35 million in all-format audience, up 36 percent, in the week ending Oct. 15.

(Post-poned: As noticed by reader @Loago96, “Rockstar” is the third song to spend at least its first three weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 2 and then rise to No. 1. Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” logged its first four weeks at No. 2 in April 1996, before topping the chart for two weeks that May, while Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie,” featuring Rihanna, waited patiently at No. 2 for its first three weeks in July 2010 before beginning a seven-week reign. Plus, per reader Pablo Nelson, 21 Savage hitting No. 1 on the Hot 100 is something that twenty one pilots have yet to do … although Savage Garden has.)

“Rockstar” also becomes the first No. 1 for both Post Malone and 21 Savage on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Rap-“rock”: Notably, five of the 10 songs to ascend to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2017 have been rap songs, tying for the most in any year. “Rockstar” dethrones Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” after three weeks atop the Hot 100. Previously, DJ Khaled’s “I’m the One,” featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne; Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble.”; and Migos’ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert, led this year.

Comparatively, in 2016, two of 10 Hot 100 No. 1s doubled up were rap (Desiigner’s “Panda” and Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane). They followed one such No. 1 in 2015 (Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” featuring Charlie Puth), two in 2014 and three in 2013.

Further, all five rap Hot 100 No. 1s this year mark the first chart champs for all five lead acts (Post Malone, Cardi B, DJ Khaled, Kendrick Lamar and Migos).

2017 marks the first year that as many as five rap hits have topped the Hot 100 since 2006, when D4L’s “Laffy Taffy”; Nelly’s “Grillz,” featuring Paul Wall, Ali and Gipp; Sean Paul’s “Temperature”; Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’,” featuring Krayzie Bone; and Ludacris’ “Money Maker,” featuring Pharrell, all reigned. Five rap hits also ruled the Hot 100 in 2004 and 2003.

“Rock” era: Meanwhile, the word “rock” appears in the title of a Hot 100 No. 1 for the 12th time (dating to the first, Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock,” in 1973). In another sign of hip-hop’s growth, the last two such leaders haven’t actually been rock songs: before “Rockstar,” LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” ruled in 2011 (and features Lauren Bennett and another rock-er: GoonRock).

(The song renowned for kicking off the rock era, Bill Haley and His Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock,” was originally a hit in 1955, three years before the Hot 100’s inception. It eventually hit No. 39 in 1974, sparked by its usage as the theme for both the movie American Graffiti and, via a rerecording, the hit TV show that the film helped inspire, Happy Days.

Cardi B‘s “Bodak Yellow” drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100. In ceding the summit, it remains tied for the longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 by a female artist in 2017, matching the three-week rule of the song it supplanted at the top spot, Taylor Swift‘s “Look What You Made Me Do.” (No song by a lead female has led for more than three weeks since Sia’s “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul: four frames in August 2016.)

“Bodak” holds at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (46.1 million, down 3 percent). It drops 4-6 on Digital Song Sales with 40,000 downloads sold (down 13 percent) and 10-11 on Radio Songs (75 million, although up 4 percent).

Logic’s “1-800-273-8255,” featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, returns to its No. 3 Hot 100 peak, from No. 4. It’s steady at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (31.2 million, down 5 percent) and reaches the Radio Songs top 10 (12-8; 76 million, up 11 percent). Logic and Khalid each earn their first Radio Songs top 10, while Cara collects her fourth.

Swift’s “Look” rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100 and, as previously reported, hits No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay chart.

New airplay No. 1: Portugal. The Man pushes 6-5 for its first top five Hot 100 hit, “Feel It Still,” which also crowns Radio Songs (2-1; 110 million, up 3 percent). Hip-hop isn’t ruling fully at rock’s expense, as “Feel” is the first rock hit (defined as a title that has appeared on the Hot Rock Songs chart) to top Radio Songs in nearly four years, since Lorde’s “Royals” ruled Radio Songs for six weeks in November-December 2013.

The last rock band to top Radio Songs before Portugal. The Man? fun., for six weeks in April-May 2012 with “We Are Young,” featuring Janelle Monae. (Maybe the key is to put a period in your name? fun. … Portugal. The Man … Before fun. no rock band had led Radio Songs since Lifehouse, with “Hanging by a Moment,” back in 2001.)

As on the Hot 100, “Feel” rises 6-5 on Digital Song Sales (42,000, up 1 percent), while lifting 37-33 on Streaming Songs (14.1 million, up 3 percent). It tops Hot Rock Songs for a third week. On the Alternative Songs airplay chart, “Feel” leads for a 17th week, the third-longest domination in the list’s history; Muse’s “Madness” leads with 19 weeks at No. 1 in 2012-13.

(Another “Post” man: in a week in which Post Malone posts a new No. 1 on the Hot 100, it’s worth repeating that “Feel” interpolates The Marvelettes’ “Please Mr. Postman,” which stamped itself at No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 11, 1961.)

J Balvin and Willy William‘s “Mi Gente,” featuring Beyonce, drops 3-6 on the Hot 100 after surging from No. 21 the week before, sparked last week by the first full week of tracking for its new remix featuring Beyonce. This week, it falls 1-17 on Digital Song Sales (26,000 sold, down 67 percent); holds at No. 5 on Streaming Songs (27.7 million, down 4 percent); and bounds 29-22 on Radio Songs (55 million, up 20 percent). “Mi Gente” spends a second week at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs.

Sam Smith’s “Too Good at Goodbyes” soars 13-7 on the Hot 100 after he performed the ballad on NBC’s Saturday Night Live Oct. 7. The song, which debuted at its No. 5 Hot 100 high (Sept. 30), charges 11-7 on Digital Song Sales (39,000, up 30 percent, good for the Hot 100’s top sales gain); 14-12 on Streaming Songs (20.6 million, up 7 percent); and 20-19 on Radio Songs (59 million, up 5 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Imagine Dragons‘ “Thunder” slips to No. 8 from its No. 7 high, although with the Hot 100’s top gain in airplay (59 million, up 19 percent); Demi Lovato‘s “Sorry Not Sorry” descends to No. 9 from No. 8, her best career rank; and French Montana‘s “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee, keeps at No. 10, after reaching No. 3.

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. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 17), 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 (Oct. 20).

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The remixed “Mi Gente” surges 21-3. Plus, Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” marks a milestone, Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” rolls to the top 10 & Demi Lovato lifts to a new career high.

Cardi B‘s “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a third week, marking a new longevity record for a hit by an unaccompanied female rapper. Plus, J Balvin and Willy William‘s “Mi Gente” blasts from No. 21 to No. 3, sparked by its newly added featured artist, Beyonce; Imagine Dragons‘ “Thunder” rumbles 17-7; and Demi Lovato hits a new best career rank, as “Sorry Not Sorry” rises 10-8 on the latest chart (dated Oct. 21).

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

With three weeks at No. 1, “Bodak,” released on The KSR Group/Atlantic Records, is now the longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 for a female rapper without any other billed artists. It passes the only other such leader, Lauryn Hill‘s “Doo Wop (That Thing),” which ruled for two weeks beginning with its Nov. 14, 1998, debut at No. 1.

“Bodak” dips to No. 2 after two nonconsecutive weeks atop the Streaming Songschart, with 47.6 million U.S. streams (down 1 percent) in the week ending Oct. 5, according to Nielsen Music. It drops 3-4 on Digital Song Sales with 45,000 downloads sold (down 18 percent) in the week ending Oct. 5 and becomes Cardi B’s first top 10 on Radio Songs (11-10), with 72 million all-format audience impressions (up 4 percent) in the week ending Oct. 8.

The breakthrough hit for the Bronx, New York, rapper also spends an eighth week at No. 1 on the Hot Rap Songs chart and a sixth frame atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, logs a third week at No. 2 on the Hot 100, where it’s ranked in each of its first three weeks on the chart. It also inks a second week atop Streaming Songs (49.7 million, up 16 percent).

“Mi Gente” surges from No. 21 to No. 3 on the Hot 100 (after previously reaching No. 19), after the first full week of tracking for its new remix featuring Beyonce, scoring the chart’s greatest gains in sales and streaming. It rockets 34-1 on Digital Song Sales (79,000 sold, up 436 percent, with 87 percent of its sales from its new remix) and 14-5 on Streaming Songs (28.7 million, up 50 percent), while also climbing 32-29 on Radio Songs (46 million, up 18 percent).

J Balvin and William each earn their first Hot 100 top 10, while Beyonce banks her 17th (as a soloist, to go along with 10 as a member of Destiny’s Child). She had last reached the region with Lemonade track “Formation,” which spent a week at No. 10 (upon its debut) in May 2016. She notches her highest rank since “Drunk in Love,” featuring JAY-Z, peaked at No. 2 on Feb. 15, 2014.

The two lead artists on “Mi Gente” likewise top Digital Song Sales for the first time, while Beyonce tallies her sixth No. 1 on the chart and first in nearly a decade, since “Singles Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” reigned for three weeks in 2008-09.

Also impressively, “Mi Gente” dethrones Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee‘s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, atop the Hot Latin Songs chart after the latter led for 35 weeks, six weeks shy of tying the record: Enrique Iglesias’ “Bailando,” featuring Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona, ruled for 41 weeks in 2014-15. Balvin earns his fourth Hot Latin Songs leader, while William and Beyonce each achieve their first. Of her four prior appearances, Beyonce had hit a No. 4 high in 2007 with “Irremplazable,” her Spanish-language version of her 10-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Irreplaceable.” (Her other Hot Latin Songs top 10: the No. 10-peaking “Beautiful Liar,” with Shakira, also in 2007.)

“Mi Gente,” meanwhile, follows in the footsteps of “Despacito,” which bounded to the Hot 100’s top 10 after Bieber joined as a featured artist and went on to top the Hot 100 for a record-tying 16 weeks. This week, it slips 5-9 on the Hot 100.

Logic‘s “1-800-273-8255,” featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, is steady at No. 4 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 3; Taylor Swift‘s “Look What You Made Me Do” descends 3-5, following three weeks at No. 1; and Portugal. The Man pushes 7-6 with its first top 10, “Feel It Still,” which also crowns Hot Rock Songs for a second week.

Imagine Dragons add their fourth Hot 100 top 10, as “Thunder” storms 17-7. It bullets at No. 2 after a week atop Digital Song Sales (76,000, up 17 percent), helped by its appearance in Microsoft Surface Laptop’s “Powerfully Beautiful” ad. It also jumps 41-28 on Streaming Songs (14.7 million, up 15 percent) and 35-25 on Radio Songs (50 million, up 35 percent), winning the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award.

The group previously hit the Hot 100’s top 10 with prior single “Believer” (down to No. 11 this week after climbing to No. 4); “Demons” (No. 6, 2013); and “Radioactive” (No. 3, 2013; the song also spent the most time on the Hot 100 in the chart’s history: 87 weeks).

Meanwhile, of the 58 Hot 100 top 10s in 2017, three have been rock tracks (defined as titles that have hit the Hot Rock Songs chart), with two by Imagine Dragons (“Believer” and “Thunder”); the other is Portugal. The Man’s “Still.” In 2016, fairly similarly, five of 57 total top 10s were rock, and also by two acts: Prince (two, originally from the ’80s, following his passing) and Twenty One Pilots (three).

Demi Lovato‘s “Sorry Not Sorry” lifts 10-8 on the Hot 100, marking a new personal best; she had previously charted as high as No. 9 with her 2008 Joe Jonas duet “This Is Me,” from the Disney movie Camp Rock (starring both singers). (Her two other top 10s each reached No. 10: “Skyscraper,” in 2011, and “Heart Attack,” in 2013.) “Sorry” bullets at No. 13 on Streaming Songs (19.7 million, essentially even week-over-week) and jumps 20-15 on Radio Songs (65 million, up 15 percent).

Below “Despacito” on the Hot 100, and capping the top 10, French Montana‘s “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee, falls 8-10, after reaching No. 3.

Just outside the Hot 100’s top 10, Charlie Puth‘s “Attention” places at No. 15, after reaching No. 5, and rules Radio Songs for a fifth week (112 million, down 4 percent). Plus, two titles hit the Hot 100’s top 40 for the first time: Camila Cabello‘s “Havana,” featuring Young Thug (44-29), and Post Malone’s “I Fall Apart” (65-39).

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. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 10), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Plus: Demi Lovato, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, and Miley Cyrus arrive in Top 10; Tom Petty re-enters at No. 2.

Shania Twain debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Now, her first studio album in nearly 15 years. The set starts atop the list with 137,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 5, according to Nielsen Music.

Of that sum, 134,000 were in traditional album sales — the third-largest sales week for a country album in 2017, and the largest for a woman in nearly two years. Now, which was released on Sept. 29 through Mercury Nashville, is Twain’s second No. 1 album and the first chart-topping country set by a female artist in over three years.

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. 21-dated chart (where Now debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Oct. 10.

Twain’s Now is the singer’s fifth studio album, and first since Up!, which was released in November of 2002. The latter album marked the performer’s first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and spent five weeks in the penthouse (and six weeks at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart). Following Up!, she issued a Greatest Hits album two years later that hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on Top Country Albums. Then, in 2015, she released the live album Still the One: Live From Las Vegas, which peaked at No. 55 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on Top Country Albums.

Now is the second country album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2017, following Thomas Rhett’s Life Changes. Now is also the first country set by a woman to lead the chart in over three years, since Miranda Lambert’s Platinum spent a week at No. 1 (June 21, 2014).

Additionally, Now notches the third-biggest sales week for a country album in 2017, following Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 1 (202,000) and Zac Brown Band’s Welcome Home (139,000). Now also claims the biggest sales frame for a country album by a woman since Carrie Underwood’s Storyteller started with 164,000 (Nov. 14, 2015-dated chart).

Twain made her Billboard chart debut on March 27, 1993 with the single “What Made You Say That,” which entered the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 74. It eventually peaked at No. 55, marking the first of over 30 hits for Twain on the list. Her self-titled debut album topped out at No. 67 in 1993 on the Top Country Albums chart, and did not reach the all-genre Billboard 200.

Her follow-up, The Woman in Me, seriously changed her chart fortunes, as the album spent 29 weeks at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. Her third album, the blockbuster Come On Over, spent a record 50 weeks at No. 1 on Top Country Albums (still the longest run at No. 1 for any album in the chart’s history), and hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

Twain’s Now was led by the single “Life’s About to Get Good,” which hit No. 33 on Hot Country Songs and has so far peaked at No. 12 on the Adult Contemporary airplay chart.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, the late Tom Petty re-enters with his Greatest Hits (alongside The Heartbreakers), as the album returns to the list with 84,000 units (up 2,231 percent) and 52,000 in traditional album sales (up 3,407 percent). Petty died on Oct. 2. Greatest Hits initially peaked at No. 5 in February of 1994, following its release the previous year.

Greatest Hits is Petty’s third album to peak at No. 2 on the chart, alongside Mojo(2010) and Damn the Torpedoes (1980). He hit No. 1 once, with Hypnotic Eye in 2014.

Demi Lovato earns her sixth top 10 album with the debut of Tell Me You Love Me at No. 3. It bows with 75,000 units (48,000 in traditional album sales). She previously hit the top 10 with all five of her prior releases: Confident (No. 2 in 2015), Demi (No. 3, 2013), Unbroken (No. 4, 2011), Here We Go Again (No. 1, 2009), and Don’t Forget(No. 2, 2008).

At No. 4, Rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie scores his first top 10 album, as his first full-length studio album, The Bigger Artist, launches with 67,000 units (10,000 in traditional album sales). The set is largely powered by streaming activity, as it collected 54,000 SEA units (equaling 81.2 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s songs in its first week). A Boogie Wit da Hoodie has charted twice previously with the mixtapes Artist (No. 70) and TBA (No. 63).

Miley Cyrus’ Younger Now rounds out the debuts in the top 10, as the album bows at No. 5 with 45,000 units (33,000 in traditional album sales). It’s Cyrus’ 13^thcharting effort, and 11^th top 10 album (including titles billed to her former Disney Channel alter ego, Hannah Montana). She was last in the top 10 with her 2013 effort Bangerz, which debuted at No. 1.

Post Malone’s Stoney is steady at No. 6 on the new Billboard 200, with 42,000 units (up 14 percent) while Lil Uzi Vert’s Luv Is Rage 2 dips four slots to No. 7 with 40,000 units (down 10 percent). Imagine Dragons’ Evolve falls one position to No. 8 with 39,000 units (though up 6 percent) and Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. descends 8-9 with 34,000 units (down less than 1 percent). Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) closes out the top 10, as it’s a non-mover at No. 10 with 31,000 units (up 4 percent).

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More than 13 years after The Killersdebuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the rock band scores their first No. 1 with its fifth studio effort, Wonderful Wonderful. The set — which was released Sept. 22 through Island Records — debuts atop the chart with 118,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 111,000 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. 14-dated chart (where Wonderful Wonderfuldebuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Tuesday (Oct. 3).

The Killers’ previous studio album, Battle Born, launched at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 113,000 copies sold in 2012 (before the chart transitioned from a pure sales ranking to a consumption based chart in late 2014).

In total, the group has claimed eight chart entries, with five of those reaching the top 10. The band’s debut studio release, Hot Fuss, arrived in July of 2004 and eventually peaked at No. 7 in May of 2005, as the album’s hit single “Mr. Brightside” was rising up the Billboard Hot 100 (on its way to an eventual peak of No. 10 in June of that year). The group again visited the top 10 of the Billboard 200 with its sophomore set, Sam’s Town (No. 2 in 2006), third album Day & Age (No. 6, 2008) and Battle Born.

Wonderful Wonderful was led by the hit single “The Man,” which has so far peaked at No. 2 on the Alternative Songs airplay chart. It’s the act’s second-highest charting song on the list, surpassed by its one No. 1 hit, “When You Were Young,” in 2006. The Killers have notched nine top 10 hits on the Alternative Songs chart, including a pair of No. 3-peaking titles with their introductory hit “Somebody Told Me,” and its follow-up, “Mr. Brightside,” in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

Wonderful Wonderful’s debut benefits from a concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion in association with the act’s 2018 U.S. tour. The album is the latest chart topper to profit from such an offer, following such No. 1s as LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream, Arcade Fire’s Everything Now, The Chainsmokers’ Memories… Do Not Open, and Katy Perry’s Witness. (Ticket/album bundle sale redemption offers have existed for years, employed by acts like Michael Bublé, Shawn Mendes, Josh Groban, Barbra Streisand, Tom Petty and Madonna, among many others.)

Wonderful Wonderful is also the sixth rock album to lead the Billboard 200 in 2017, following Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold, LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream, Brand New’s Science Fiction, Arcade Fire’s Everything Now and Linkin Park’s One More Light. (In all of 2016, there were 10 rock albums that led the list.)

The Killers is also the latest act to score its first No. 1 album a decade after their debut on the list. Previously in 2017, LCD Soundsystem and Brand New hit the top of the list more than a decade after their chart debuts (April 2007 and July 2003, respectively).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Macklemore debuts with his second solo album, GEMINI, bowing with 51,000 units (27,000 in traditional album sales). GEMINI follows a pair of charting albums from the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: This Unruly Mess I’ve Made (No. 4 in 2016) and The Heist (No. 2 in 2012). Macklemore’s first solo album, 2005’s The Language of My World, did not chart.

GEMINI was ushered in by the single “Glorious,” featuring Skylar Grey, which has reached the top 20 of the Pop Songs airplay chart and also hit the Hot 100.

Lil Uzi Vert’s former No. 1, Luv is Rage 2, slips from No. 2 to No. 3 in its fifth week on the Billboard 200 (45,000 units; down 9 percent).

Kevin Gates scores his second top 10 effort, as By Any Means 2 vaults from No. 100 to No. 4 in its second week (40,000 units; up 467 percent), after the album arrived on the list a week ago with one day of tracking activity from its Sept. 21 release. In the newest tracking frame, it sold 15,000 in traditional album sales (up 398 percent). Gates previously visited the top 10 with the No. 2-peaking Islah in 2016. (By Any Means 2‘s 96-position leap is the biggest jump into the top 10 since Kelly Clarkson’s Piece by Piece zoomed 120-6 on the March 9, 2016-dated list — a 114 position rise. Piece by Piece flew back into the top 10 after Clarkson gave an emotional performance of the album’s title track on American Idol.)

Singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko claims her third solo top 10 album with the debut of Trip at No. 5 on the new Billboard 200 (37,000 units; 10,000 in traditional album sales). The set is powered by streams, as the set collected 25,000 in SEA units (equaling 37.8 million on-demand audio streams of the album’s songs during the tracking week). Aiko previously hit the top 10 with Souled Out (No. 3 in 2014) and Sail Out (No. 8 in 2013). In addition, the duo Twenty88 (Aiko and Big Sean) reached No. 5 in 2016 with its self-titled debut.

Post Malone’s Stoney rises 10-6 — matching its initial debut and peak position in Dec. 2016 — with 37,000 units (up 41 percent) as buzz around the rapper continues to grow. Imagine Dragons’ Evolve moves 8-7 with 36,000 units (up 29 percent) after the set was sale priced in the iTunes Store, and the album’s latest single, “Thunder,” impacts top 40 radio. The track rose 37-28 on the most recent Pop Songs airplay chart (dated Oct. 7).

Khalid’s American Teen dips 6-9 with 32,000 units (though, it’s up 1 percent) and Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) rounds out the top 10, climbing 11-10 with 30,000 units (up 18 percent).

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