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Ariana Grande‘s “Thank U, Next” rules the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Dec. 1) for a third week.

While the track also tops the Streaming Songs chart for a third week, two titles take over the leads in the Hot 100’s other measured metrics: Halsey‘s “Without Me” reaches No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, while holding at No. 4 on the Hot 100, and Panic! at the Disco‘s “High Hopes” ascends to the top of Radio Songs, while marking a new personal best for the Brendon Urie-led act on the Hot 100, where it lifts 8-6.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 27).

“Next,” released on Republic Records and which debuted as Grande’s first Hot 100 No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 17, spends a third week atop Streaming Songs, with 43.8 million U.S. streams (down 31 percent) in the week ending Nov. 22, according to Nielsen Music.

The track drops to No. 4 after two weeks atop Digital Song Sales, with 23,000 downloads sold (down 47 percent) in the week ending Nov. 22, and debuts at No. 36 on Radio Songs, with 31.8 million in all-format airplay audience (up 45 percent), in the week ending Nov. 25.

“Next,” which plummets 29 percent in overall activity week-over-week, wins a fairly tight race over Travis Scott‘s “Sicko Mode” (up 4 percent), which spends a fourth total frame at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. The track keeps at No. 4 on Streaming Songs (37 million, up 5 percent) and rises 7-6 on Digital Song Sales (18,000, up 3 percent) and 9-8 on Radio Songs (62 million, up 3 percent). “Sicko” posts a fifth week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

With the sharp decline of “Next” and the advance of “Sicko,” the latter seems in play for No. 1 on the Hot 100 next week, although if Grande releases a proper video for the former during the current tracking week (ending Nov. 29), “Next” would likely surge in streaming. Grande has released two videos for “Next” so far — an audio clip upon its release Nov. 3 and a lyric video Nov. 6 — and has since teased the song’s forthcoming official proper video, believed to be in the vein of such early 2000s movies as Mean Girls, Bring It On, Legally Blonde and 13 Going on 30.

Marshmello and Bastille‘s “Happier” repeats at its No. 3 Hot 100 high. It falls to No. 2 after a week atop Radio Songs (though up 6 percent to 106 million), while holding at No. 5 on Digital Song Sales (22,000, up 2 percent) and No. 10 on Streaming Songs (21.2 million, essentially even week-over-week). The track tops Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 10th week.

Halsey’s “Without Me” is steady at its No. 4 Hot 100 peak, while climbing 2-1 on Digital Song Sales (37,000, up 5 percent). Halsey earns her second Digital Song Sales No. 1 and first as a lead artist, following her 13-week reign in 2016 as featured on The Chainsmokers’ “Closer.”

“Without Me” pushes 8-7 on Streaming Songs (26.8 million, up 3 percent) and becomes Halsey’s fifth Radio Songs top 10 (12-10; 58.6 million, up 16 percent). She previously hit the Radio Songs top 10 with “Closer” (No. 1, 11 weeks, 2016); “Now or Never” (No. 10, July 2017); “Bad at Love” (No. 3, January 2018); and “Him & I,” with G-Eazy (No. 6; March 2018).

Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2.

Panic! at the Disco’s second Hot 100 top 10, “High Hopes,” becomes its highest-charting, as it rises 8-6. It passes the No. 7 peak of the act’s debut entry, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” in 2006.

“Hopes” also becomes Panic!’s first leader on Radio Songs (3-1; 106.7 million, up 12 percent). The act previously reached the ranking only with “Sins,” which hit No. 13.

Notably, “Hopes” dethrones Marshmello and Bastille’s “Happier” atop Radio Songs, with both hits having topped the Alternative Songs airplay chart (“Happier” on Nov. 10 and “Hopes” for a third week this week). The tracks mark the second pair of back-to-back Radio Songs leaders in the past year that also each topped Alternative Songs, after Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” and Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” in late 2017. The prior such pair? Fun.’s “We Are Young,” featuring Janelle Monae, and Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” featuring Kimbra, in 2012. (The only other such set of consecutive Radio Songs No. 1s? Sugar Ray’s “Fly” and Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping,” in 1997.)

“Hopes” rises 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (23,000, up 2 percent) and debuts at No. 47 on Streaming Songs (12.8 million, up 5 percent), while leading Hot Rock Songs for a fourth week.

Sheck Wes’ debut hit “Mo Bamba” keeps at its No. 7 Hot 100 high and Maroon 5‘s former seven-week No. 1 “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, dips 5-8. The latter tallies a 25th week in the Hot 100’s top 10, becoming just the 20th single in the chart’s 60-year history to reach the milestone (and Maroon 5 and Cardi B’s first each); Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” holds the record with 33 weeks in the top 10 in 2017.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Baby and Gunna‘s “Drip Too Hard” rises 10-9, after hitting No. 4; and, Kodak Black‘s “ZEZE,” featuring Travis Scott and Offset, falls 9-10, after peaking at No. 2 upon its debut.

Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard‘s Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow @billboard and @billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 27), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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“Delta” scores the year’s biggest week for an alternative rock album.

Mumford & Sons score their third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the band’s new studio set, Delta, debuts in the top slot. The quartet’s album, which was released on Nov. 16 via Gentlemen of the Road/Glassnote Records, launches with 230,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 22, according to Nielsen Music. That’s the biggest week for an alternative rock album in 2018. Of the album’s starting sum, 214,000 were in album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 1-dated chart (where Delta bows at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Tuesday (Nov. 27).

Delta, Mumford & Sons’ fourth full-length studio album, marks the third leader for group, following their last two studio sets: Wilder Mind (2015) and Babel (2012). Wilder Mind launched with 249,000 units (231,000 in album sales), while Babelbowed with 600,000 in album sales (before the album transitioned to a units-ranked tally in late 2014). The act’s first full-length set, Sigh No More, peaked at No. 2 in 2011.

Overall, Delta is the Mumford’s fifth top 10 effort. All four of the act’s full-length studio releases have reached the top 10. The band notched another top 10 with the five-song Johannesburg EP in 2016, which peaked at No. 9. The set was a collaborative effort with Baaba Maal, The Very Best and Beatenberg.

Delta’s debut of 230,000 equivalent album units is the largest week for an alternative album in 2018, and the second-biggest for any rock album. Among all rock titles, only Dave Matthews Band’s Come Tomorrow collected a bigger week, when it debuted at No. 1 (June 23-dated chart) with 292,000 units.

Delta’s first-week album sales of 214,000 is 2018’s largest week for an alternative album, the second-biggest for a rock title (following Come Tomorrow, with 285,000) and the sixth-largest among all titles this year. The only bigger sales weeks in 2018 were tallied by the debut frames of Come Tomorrow (the largest sales week of 2018 overall), Travis Scott’s Astroworld (270,000; Aug. 18), Eminem’s Kamikaze (252,000; Sept. 15), Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty (251,000; Sept. 29) and Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods (242,000; Feb. 17).

Delta’s first-week sales was bolstered by sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with the group’s upcoming U.S. tour.

Delta’s lead radio single, “Guiding Light,” spent its fourth week at No. 1 on the most recently published Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart (dated Nov. 24). It’s the fourth leader for the act on the tally, following “Believe” (five weeks at No. 1 in 2015), “Lover of the Light” (four weeks, 2013) and “I Will Wait” (11 weeks, 2012).

“Guiding Light” also rose 6-4 on the latest Alternative Songs airplay chart. It’s the eighth top 10 hit for the act, and the band’s fifth song to reach the top five.

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Michel Bublé collects his eighth top 10 album, as Love(on Reprise/Warner Bros. Records) starts with 111,000 units (105,000 in album sales). Of the pop singer’s eight top 10 sets, six have reached the top two: Love, Nobody But Me (No. 2, 2016); To Be Loved (No. 1 for one week, 2013); Christmas (No. 1, five weeks; 2011-2012); Crazy Love (No. 1, two weeks; 2009); and Call Me Irresponsible (No. 1, one week; 2007).

The various artists compilation The Greatest Showman: Reimagined debuts at No. 3 with 89,000 units (70,000 in album sales). The album (released via Fox/20th Century Fox/Atlantic Records) features an array of chart-topping musicians covering songs from the former No. 1 soundtrack to The Greatest Showman. Among the familiar names on the new album: Panic! at the Disco (covering “The Greatest Show”), P!nk(“A Million Dreams”), Zac Brown Band (“From Now On”) and James Arthur and Anne-Marie (“Rewrite the Stars”).

The Reimagined album follows in the footsteps of another Atlantic Records refresher set, the chart-topping The Hamilton Mixtape (released via Hamilton Uptown/Atlantic). The Hamilton Mixtape set boasts a bevy of stars covering and reinterpreting tunes from the top 10-charting Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton: An American Musical.

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Bornsoundtrack climbs 5-4 with 62,000 units (but down 10 percent). The album spent its first three weeks at No. 1, and has yet to depart the top five after seven weeks on the tally.

Pop diva Mariah Carey earns her 18th top 10 album, as her new studio effort Caution debuts at No. 5 with 51,000 units (43,000 in album sales). Notably, of Carey’s 21 charting efforts, only three have missed the top 10, and all were compilations: #1 To Infinity (No. 29, 2015), The Remixes (No. 26, 2003) and Greatest Hits (No. 52, 2001).

Caution was introduced with a series of pre-release tracks, starting with the teaser cut “GTFO” in September, which was followed by the radio single “With You” and the instant-grat track “The Distance” in October, and “A No No.” On the most recently published Adult Contemporary airplay chart (dated Nov. 24), “With You” held at its No. 11 high. It climbed 14-13 on Adult R&B Songs and 41-38 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart.

Back on the Billboard 200, Queen’s soundtrack to Bohemian Rhapsody rises 7-6 (48,000 units; down 10 percent), Travis Scott’s former leader Astroworld ascends 10-7 (a little more than 44,000 units; up 9 percent) and Drake’s former chart-topper Scorpion moves 9-8 (44,000 units; up 2 percent). The latter two titles rise in part due to sales generated by their vinyl release on Nov. 16

Trippie Redd’s A Love Letter to You 3 falls 3-9 in its second week (41,000 units; down 51 percent) and Metro Boomin’s former No. 1 Not All Heroes Wear Capes dips 8-10 (39,000 units; down 25 percent).

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Panic! earns its first top 10 since 2006.

Ariana Grande‘s “Thank U, Next” leads the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Nov. 24) for a second week, gaining in streams after its first full week of tracking. The song blasted in atop the Hot 100 a week ago, becoming Grande’s first No. 1 on the chart.

Meanwhile, Marshmello and Bastille‘s “Happier” returns to its No. 3 Hot 100 high and takes over at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart, dethroning Maroon 5‘s “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, after the latter spent 16 weeks atop the airplay tally.

Plus, Panic! at the Disco earns its second Hot 100 top 10, and first since 2006, as “High Hopes” jumps from No. 12 to No. 8.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 20).

“Next,” released on Republic Records, repeats atop the Hot 100, as well as the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts, with 63.4 million U.S. streams (up 14 percent) and 43,000 downloads sold (down 47 percent) in the week ending Nov. 15, according to Nielsen Music. The track debuted with 55.5 million streams and 81,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 8, with just over five days of streaming and sales data, as it was released late Saturday, Nov. 3.

Grande has released two videos for the song so far, an audio clip upon its release and a lyric video Nov. 6, and on Nov. 18 teased a proper clip.

“Next” concurrently nears Radio Songs, up 94 percent to 22 million in all-format airplay audience. On the mainstream top 40 radio-based Pop Songs chart, the track flies 33-20 with Greatest Gainer honors.

Just below the Hot 100’s top 10, Grande’s “Breathin” surges 21-14 for a new peak, following the Nov. 7 premiere of its official video. The song bounds by 28 percent to 15.6 million streams and 2 percent to 12,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 15. It also becomes her 10th Radio Songs top 10 (12-7; 68.7 million, up 17 percent).

“Breathin” is from Grande’s third No. 1 Billboard 200 album, Sweetener, which debuted atop the chart dated Sept. 1, while “Next” is, as of now, a stand-alone track.”Breathin” follows two Hot 100 top 10s from the set: “No Tears Left to Cry” (No. 3 peak in May) and “God Is a Woman” (No. 8, September).

“Next” (down 3 percent in overall activity week-over-week) easily outpaced Travis Scott‘s “Sicko Mode,” which rebounds from No. 3 to its No. 2 Hot 100 high. The track rises 5-4 on Streaming Songs (35.2 million, up 1 percent) and 17-7 on Digital Song Sales (17,000, up 45 percent, boosted by a 69-cent sale price in the iTunes Store) and becomes Scott’s first Radio Songs top 10 (11-9; 60.2 million, up 2 percent).

“Sicko” scores a fourth week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Marshmello and Bastille’s “Happier” rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100, revisiting its best rank, as it becomes each act’s first No. 1 on Radio Songs (3-1; 99.2 million, up 9 percent). The song unseats Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You” after 16 weeks atop Radio Songs (1-2; 98.3 million, down 10 percent), leaving “Girls” tied for the second-longest No. 1 run in the chart’s 28-year history, after Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” (18 weeks, 1998). “Girls” matched the 16-week Radio Songs commands of Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” in 2005 and No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” in 1996-97.

Powered by its cross-genre appeal of DJ Marshmello and alt band Bastille, “Happier” continues atop the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart (for a sixth week) and Pop Songs (for a second), after ruling the Nov. 10-dated Alternative Songs airplay tally.

“Happier” dips 4-5 on Digital Song Sales (22,000, down 11 percent) and holds at No. 10 on Streaming Songs (21.2 million, down 4 percent), while adding a ninth week atop Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.

Halsey‘s “Without Me” pushes 6-4 on the Hot 100, becoming her highest-charting song as a lead artist, as the ballad bests the No. 5 peak of “Bad at Love” in January. She also hit the top 10 as featured on The Chainsmokers’ “Closer,” which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 in 2016.

“Without Me” rises 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (35,000, up 3 percent); slips 7-8 on Streaming Songs (but with a 3 percent gain to 26 million); and vaults 23-12 on Radio Songs (50.5 million, up 22 percent).

Maroon 5’s “Girls” drops 2-5 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1; Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” descends 5-6, after reaching No. 2; and, Sheck Wes’ debut hit “Mo Bamba” posts up 9-7 for a new high.

Panic! at the Disco notches its second Hot 100 top 10, and first in over 12 years, as “High Hopes” darts 12-8. The track climbs 6-3 on Radio Songs (95.1 million, up 17 percent, good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award) and 6-4 on Digital Song Sales (23,000, down 3 percent) and gains by 2 percent to 12.2 million streams just below Streaming Songs.

“Hopes” leads Hot Rock Songs for a third week and Alternative Songs for a second week, while charging 9-4 on Pop Songs and rising 5-4 on Adult Pop Songs.

Panic, the group-turned-solo-project of Brendon Urie, earns its first Hot 100 top 10 since its debut entry, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” hit No. 7 in August 2006. The act’s 12-year, two-month and three-week wait between weeks in the top 10 (Sept. 2, 2006-Nov. 24, 2018) is the longest since Prince, following his April 21, 2016, death, returned to the region with both “Purple Rain” (with the Revolution) and “When Doves Cry” after 21 years, 11 months and two weeks, for the first time since “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” ranked in the top 10 (June 18, 1994-May 21, 2016).

Panic ends the longest top 10 drought between new top 10s (unlike Prince’s return with prior hits) since Paul McCartney, who took 29 years and two weeks between “Spies Like Us” and “FourFiveSeconds,” with Rihanna and Kanye West (Feb. 8, 1986-Feb. 21, 2015), a record gap among acts billed in lead roles on bookending songs. Dobie Gray holds the overall mark: 30 years, two months and one week between his sole two top 10s, “Drift Away” and Uncle Kracker’s remake of the song, featuring Gray (May 26, 1973-Aug. 2, 2003).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Kodak Black‘s “ZEZE,” featuring Travis Scott and Offset, falls 8-9, after peaking at No. 2 upon its debut four weeks earlier; and, Lil Baby and Gunna’s “Drip Too Hard” holds at No. 10, after hitting No. 4.

Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard‘s Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow @billboard and @billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 20), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Plus: Takeoff debuts in the top 10; Queen surges with “Bohemian Rhapsody” & “Greatest Hits I II & III.”

Metro Boomin lands his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as the producer’s new guest-laden album, Not All Heroes Wear Capes, debuts in the top slot. The surprise set, which was announced Oct. 31 and released Nov. 2 via Boominati/Republic Records, earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 5,000 were in album sales, as the album was largely driven by streaming activity.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Nov. 17-dated chart (where Heroes starts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

The 25-year-old Metro Boomin (born Leland Wayne) has produced hits such as Migos’ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert (No. 1 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart), Future’s “Mask Off” (No. 5), Kodak Black’s “Tunnel Vision” (No. 6) and Post Malone’s “Congratulations,” featuring Quavo (No. 8).

On Heroes, Metro is joined by an array of guest artists, including Travis Scott, Young Thug, 21 Savage and J Balvin, among many others.

Streams power the bulk of Heroes’ starting sum of 99,000 units. Of that sum, it earns 92,000 SEA units, which translates to 125.3 million on-demand audio streams for the set’s tracks in its first week (making it the most streamed album of the week, too). The remaining 7,000 units in Heroes’ starting figure are comprised of album sales (5,000) and TEA units (2,000).

Metro Boomin previously visited the top 10 twice, with Double or Nothing, with Big Sean (No. 6; Dec. 20, 2017), and Without Warning, with 21 Savage and Offset (No. 4; Nov. 18, 2017).

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack holds at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 for a second week, earning 79,000 units (down 15 percent); it spent its first three weeks at No. 1.

Queen earns its highest-charting album in 38 years, as the Bohemian Rhapsody film soundtrack surges 25-3 with 59,000 units (up 187 percent) after the film’s opening in U.S. theaters on Nov. 2. Of its unit haul, album sales comprised 24,000 — up 182 percent).

The companion album to the hit biopic of the same name collects highlights from Queen’s career, including the title tune, “Under Pressure” with David Bowie, a new remix of “We Will Rock You,” and a handful of tracks from the band’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 — the first time the recordings have been released in audio form.

Bohemian Rhapsody is Queen’s highest-reaching album since 1980, when The Gamespent five weeks at No. 1. (The Game includes Queen’s two Hot 100 No. 1 singles: “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”)

The Queen excitement doesn’t stop with Bohemian Rhapsody, as the 51-track Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection vaults 194-9 with 39,000 units (up 662 percent), with 18,000 of that sum in album sales (up 380 percent). The album previously topped out at No. 48 in 2002.

With both Bohemian Rhapsody and Greatest Hits I II & III in the top 10, Queen has a pair of albums in the top 10 concurrently for the first time. They also represent the group’s seventh and eighth top 10 albums, overall. Queen was last in the top 10 in the spring of 1992, when the hits set Classic Queen spent six weeks in the top 10 (May 16-June 13), peaking at No. 4. At the time, the album was basking in the glow of the success of the movie Wayne’s World, which featured a head-banging sequence set to “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The song peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 dated May 9, 1992.

At No. 4 on the Billboard 200, Takeoff’s first solo album, The Last Rocket, enters with 49,000 units (5,000 in album sales). Takeoff is the third member of the Migos trio to chart on the Billboard 200 apart from the group, following Quavo (with his solo set Quavo Huncho, which peaked at No. 2; Oct. 27, 2018) and Offset (via his collaborative album Without Warning, with Metro Boomin and 21 Savage; peaking at No. 4, on Nov. 18, 2017).

Drake’s former No. 1 Scorpion climbs 7-5 on the new Billboard 200 with 45,000 units (down 8 percent), Lil Wayne’s fellow former chart-topper Tha Carter V dips 5-6 with 43,000 units (down 17 percent) and Lil Baby and Gunna’s Drip Harder slips 6-7 with 42,000 units (down 16 percent).

Closing out the top 10 are two more former No. 1s: Travis Scott’s Astroworld climbs 9-8 with 40,000 units (down 11 percent) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys is steady at No. 10 with 39,000 units (down 6 percent).

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After appearing on the list since 2013, Grande reigns, landing the first No. 1 debut for a woman since Adele with “Hello.”

Ariana Grande scores her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Nov. 17), as “Thank U, Next” rockets onto the chart at No. 1, arriving as the top-streamed and top-selling song of the week.

The track dethrones Maroon 5‘s “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, after seven weeks on top, although the collaboration ties for the second-most weeks spent at No. 1 in the history of the Radio Songs chart.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 13).

Grande’s first Hot 100 No. 1: “Next,” released on Republic Records, is Grande’s first Hot 100 No. 1, and the 1,079th in the chart’s 60-year history. She previously hit a No. 2 high with “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea, in 2014. “Next” also bows as her 11th Hot 100 top 10 and first since “God Is a Woman,” which reached No. 8 in September.

Grande reigns at last with her 35th Hot 100 entry. Among Hot 100 chart-topping acts, she ends the longest wait for her first No. 1 (by total chart appearances from a first entry) since Justin Bieber set the mark by earning his first leader with his 47th charted title, “What Do You Mean?,” in 2015.

Grande first hit the Hot 100 (debuting at No. 10) on April 13, 2013, with the eventual No. 9-peaking “The Way,” featuring Mac Miller.

No. 1 in streams & sales: “Next” launches with 55.5 million U.S. streams and 81,000 downloads sold in the week ending Nov. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Notably, the song debuts on the Hot 100 with just over five days of streaming and sales data, as it was released late Saturday, Nov. 3 (as the tracking week for those metrics runs Friday through Thursday). Grande has released two videos for the song so far: an audio clip upon its release and a lyric video Nov. 6.

With “Next,” Grande likewise earns her first No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and her fourth leader on Digital Song Sales, after “Problem,” for three weeks in 2014; “Bang Bang,” with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj (one week, 2014); and “No Tears Left to Cry” (one, this May).

“Next” also drew 11.3 million in all-format radio audience in the week ending Nov. 11.

“God Is a Woman” and “No Tears” are from Grande’s third Billboard 200 No. 1 album, Sweetener, which debuted atop the list dated Sept. 1, while “Next” is, as of now, a stand-alone track, with the song’s lyrics referencing past relationships with, among others, Big Sean, ex-finance Pete Davidson and the late Miller.

Meme-orable: As for its lyrics, aiding the buzz of “Next” are, specifically, its lines, “One taught me love / One taught me patience / One taught me pain,” which have sparked an onslaught of memes.

New at No. 1: “Next” is the 32nd single to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and the first by a female artist in three years, since Adele’s “Hello” on the chart dated Nov. 14, 2015.

As noticed by chart-watcher Jake Rivera, “Next” is the fourth No. 1 debut of 2018, tying the record established in 1995, the first year that any single soared in at the summit. “Next” follows prior 2018 No. 1 bows for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” (May 19) and Drake’s “Nice for What” (April 21) and “God’s Plan” (Feb. 3). The four No. 1 entrances in 1995: Michael Jackson’s “You Are Not Alone,” Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy,” Whitney Houston’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” and Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day.”

Pop on top, again: As “Next” follows Maroon 5’s “Girls,” featuring Cardi B, at No. 1, two pop songs have led the Hot 100 in succession for the first time since Jan. 27, when Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” featuring Young Thug, replaced Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect.” “Next” also ends a record streak of 42 weeks of No. 1s with at least one credited rapper, from Young Thug (on “Havana”) to Cardi B (“Girls” and “I Like It,” with Bad Bunny and J Balvin). The run also included Drake (“Plan,” “Nice” and “In My Feelings”); Childish Gambino (“America”); Post Malone and Ty Dolla $ign (“Psycho”); and, XXXTentacion (“Sad!”).

As “Girls” drops to No. 2, pop songs rank at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Hot 100 in the same week for the first time since Jan. 27 (“Havana” and “Perfect,” respectively).

No. 1 is a woman: Grande is the first female soloist to top the Hot 100 unaccompanied by another act since Cardi B on Oct. 21, 2017, when her debut hit “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” spent its third and final week at No. 1.

Solo women in lead roles have led the Hot 100 for just three weeks (of 46 total so far) in 2018, thanks to “Next,” “I Like It” and “Havana.” That follows totals of six weeks in 2017 (via two No. 1s); 16 in 2016 (three No. 1s); 10 in 2015 (four No. 1s); 28 in 2014 (five No. 1s); and, 17 in 2013 (four No. 1s).

The last year in which lead solo women logged as few as three weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100? 1975, thanks to one each for Linda Ronstadt (“You’re No Good”), Olivia Newton-John (“Have You Never Been Mellow”) and Minnie Riperton (“Lovin’ You”). (After the Hot 100’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception, no lead solo women reigned until June 27, 1960, when Connie Francis spent her first of two weeks on top with “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.”)

‘Thank’s for the memories: Grande is thankful for the fourth Hot 100 No. 1 that includes “thank” in its title, following “Thank God I Found You,” by Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees (2000), “Thank God I’m a Country Boy,” by John Denver (1975), and “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin”/”Everybody Is a Star,” by Sly & The Family Stone (1970).

(Grande’s new No. 1 also takes over as the highest-charting Hot 100 hit to begin with “Thank U”; Alanis Morissette’s “Thank U” reached No. 17 in 1998. The only other such title? “Thank U Very Much” by The Scaffold, a No. 69 hit in 1968. You’re welcome for that trivia …)

More Grande: Beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, Grande’s “Woman” holds at No. 20 and fellow Sweetener single “Breathin” charges 32-21, passing its prior No. 22 peak; following the Nov. 7 premiere of its official video, “Breathin” bounds by 64 percent to 12.2 million streams by 118 percent to 12,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 8 and claims the Hot 100’s top Streaming and Sales Gainer awards.

“Next” easily outperformed Maroon 5’s “Girls” in the tracking week, as the latter drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after seven weeks at No. 1. Still, “Girls” leads Radio Songs for a 16th week, with 109.3 million in audience (down 4 percent), tying for the second-longest No. 1 run in the chart’s 28-year history. “Girls” matches the longest Radio Songs reign this century, equaling Carey’s 16-week command with “We Belong Together” in 2005.

Here is an updated look at the longest-leading Radio Songs No. 1 since the chart launched in December 1990:

Longest-Leading Radio Songs No. 1s
Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1
18, “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, Aug. 1, 1998
16, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, Aug. 4, 2018
16, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, May 28, 2005
16, “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt, Dec. 7, 1996
14, “No One,” Alicia Keys, Nov. 3, 2007
14, “Because You Loved Me,” Celine Dion, April 13, 1996

Below “Next” and “Girls,” Travis Scott‘s “Sicko Mode” drops to No. 3 from its No. 2 Hot 100 peak, as it posts a third week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songsand Hot Rap Songs charts; Marshmello and Bastille‘s “Happier” dips to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 high, while logging an eighth week atop Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and becoming each act’s first No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay chart; and, Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” descends 4-5 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Halsey‘s “Without Me” hits a new high, jumping 9-6; Post Malone‘s “Better Now” falls 5-7, after hitting No. 3; Kodak Black‘s “ZEZE,” featuring Scott and Offset, backtracks 6-8 after debuting at its No. 2 peak; Sheck Wes’ debut hit “Mo Bamba” rises 10-9, reaching a new best rank; and, Lil Baby and Gunna’s “Drip Too Hard” retreats to No. 10 after hitting No. 4.

Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard‘s Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow @billboard and @billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 13), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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“Girls” is the longest-leading No. 1 by a group since Maroon 5’s own “One More Night” in 2012.

Maroon 5‘s “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, spends a seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Nov. 10), again winning a close race over Travis Scott‘s “Sicko Mode,” which holds at its No. 2 high.

Plus, two songs enter the Hot 100’s top 10: Halsey‘s “Without Me” and Sheck Wes’ “Mo Bamba.”

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 6).

With a seventh week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, “Girls” has logged the longest reign by a group (of at least three members) since Maroon 5’s previous No. 1: “One More Night” led for nine weeks beginning Sept. 29, 2012. (“Girls” passes MAGIC!’s “Rude,” which ruled for six weeks in 2014.)

“Girls” leads the Radio Songs airplay chart for a 15th week, with 114.2 million in audience, down 2 percent, in the week ending Nov. 4, according to Nielsen Music. Here is an updated look at the longest-leading Radio Songs No. 1 since the chart launched in December 1990:

Longest-Leading Radio Songs No. 1s
Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1
18, “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, Aug. 1, 1998
16, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, May 28, 2005
16, “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt, Dec. 7, 1996
15, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, Aug. 4, 2018
14, “No One,” Alicia Keys, Nov. 3, 2007
14, “Because You Loved Me,” Celine Dion, April 13, 1996

“Girls” dips 9-13 on Digital Song Sales, with 14,000 downloads sold, down 18 percent, in the week ending Nov. 1, after leading the list for six weeks, and retreats 12-13 on Streaming Songs (23.2 million U.S. streams, down 5 percent, in the week ending Nov. 1), where it reached No. 5.

Scott’s “Sicko Mode” keeps at its No. 2 Hot 100 peak. It slips 2-3 on Streaming Songs (35.4 million, down 8 percent); repeats at No. 11 on Radio Songs (60.1 million, up 4 percent); and backtracks 14-15 on Digital Song Sales (12,000, down 12 percent).

For a second week, “Girls” narrowly defends its Hot 100 crown over “Sicko” (which features Drake’s vocals, although he’s not credited as an artist on the song; he also appears in the song’s official video, released Oct. 19), with the songs declining by 5 and 4 percent, respectively, in overall activity.

On other format charts, “Girls” becomes Maroon 5’s third No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary airplay tally, following “Maps” (one week, 2015) and “Don’t Wanna Know” (five weeks, 2017), while “Sicko” spends a second week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Marshmello and Bastille‘s “Happier” hits a new Hot 100 peak, rising 4-3. It holds at No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (23,000, down 13 percent) and No. 5 on Radio Songs (83.3 million, up 11 percent) and climbs 13-11 on Streaming Songs (22.3 million, up 3 percent). As it increases by 3 percent in overall activity, it could seriously challenge for No. 1 on the Hot 100 as soon as next week.

The multi-format hit logs a seventh week at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and takes over atop Alternative Songs (3-1), where it becomes Marshmello’s first No. 1 and Bastille’s second, after the band ruled for four weeks in 2013 with its breakthrough hit, “Pompeii.”

“Happier,” the highest-charting career Hot 100 hit for both acts, is the top-ranking title that has also appeared on Alternative Songs since another dance/rock collaboration: The Chainsmokers and Coldplay’s “Something Just Like This” peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 in April 2017 (before reaching No. 16 on Alternative Songs that July).

Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” descends 3-4 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2, while the songs at Nos. 5-8 all hold in place, respectively: Post Malone‘s “Better Now,” after hitting No. 3; Kodak Black‘s “ZEZE,” featuring Scott and Offset, which debuted at its No. 2 peak two weeks ago (and spends a third week atop Streaming Songs, with 39.5 million U.S. streams, down 6 percent); 5 Seconds of Summer‘s “Youngblood,” steady at its No. 7 high; and, Lil Baby and Gunna‘s “Drip Too Hard,” following its No. 4 peak.

Following the Oct. 29 premiere of its official video, Halsey’s “Without Me” jumps 12-9 on the Hot 100, as it rises 3-2 on Digital Song Sales (32,000, up 17 percent), also hits the Streaming Songs top 10 (18-9; 22.8 million, up 24 percent) and darts 45-34 on Radio Songs (32.6 million, up 17 percent).

Halsey earns her third Hot 100 top 10. She spent 12 weeks at No. 1 in 2016 as featured on The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” and hit No. 5 with her own “Bad at Love” this past January.

Notably, “Without Me” brings a portion of a prior Hot 100 top 10 back to the region: the song’s bridge interpolates Justin Timberlake’s first top 10, “Cry Me a River,” which hit No. 3 in February 2003; Timberlake, Timbaland (Timothy Mosley) and Scott Storch, the three writers of “River,” all receive writing credit on “Without Me.”

Also new to the Hot 100’s top 10, Sheck Wes’ first chart entry “Mo Bamba” vaults 16-10. Streaming accounts for the bulk of its activity, as it climbs 6-4 on Streaming Songs (31.1 million, up 15 percent), while charging 38-19 on Digital Song Sales (10,000, up 46 percent).

The Harlem-based rapper uploaded the song, named for Mohamed Bamba, center for the NBA’s Orlando Magic and with whom Wes grew up, to SoundCloud a year ago and its official video arrived on YouTube on Jan. 30. Thanks to social media posts about it from Drake, Shaquille O’Neal, Odell Beckham Jr. and others, the track has steadily gained traction in recent months. (Bamba himself isn’t doing too badly, either, as he leads the Magic in blocks in the early going of the 2018-19 NBA season.)

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, Panic! at the Disco’s “High Hopes” soars 21-11, as the band seeks its second top 10, after its first entry, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” rose to No. 7 in August 2006. Plus, Cardi B’s “Money” moves 54-13 after its first full week of tracking.

Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard‘s Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow @billboard and @billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 6), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (Nov. 9).

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Plus: Joji and Tory Lanez debut in top 10.

Andrea Bocelli achieves his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new studio effort, Si, debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released via Sugar/Decca Records on Oct. 26, earned 126,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 1, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 123,000 were in album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Nov. 10-dated chart –where Si starts at No. 1 — will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Andrea Bocelli’s First No. 1: The 26th time’s the charm, as Bocelli bows atop the Billboard 200 with his 26th charting album, Si. The singer has charted on the tally since Dec. 20, 1997, when Romanza debuted at No. 114, on its way to a No. 35 peak on Dec. 19, 1998. All told, Si marks Bocelli’s ninth top 10 effort.

Bocelli has come quite close to No. 1 previously: he’s peaked at No. 2 twice, with My Christmas (five weeks at No. 2 in 2009) and Passione (one week at No. 2 in 2013). The former spent five consecutive weeks stuck in the runner-up slot. In its first two weeks at No. 2, Bon Jovi’s The Circle and John Mayer’s Battle Studies debuted at No. 1, respectively. Then, in My Christmas’ third week at No. 2, Susan Boyle’s debut album I Dreamed a Dream bowed at No. 1 and spent six straight weeks at No. 1.

20-Year Wait for First No. 1 Album: Bocelli waited a little more than 20 years and 10 months for his first No. 1, dating back to when Romanza bowed on the list dated Dec. 20, 1997. That’s the longest wait for a chart-topper since January of 2016, when the late David Bowie tallied his first leader 43 years and nine months after his chart debut. He hit No. 1 with Blackstar on the Jan. 30, 2016-dated chart, and he made his chart debut on the tally way back on April 15, 1972 with Hunky Dory. (Bowie died of cancer on Jan. 10, 2016, two days after Blackstar was released.) Before Bocelli, the last living artist to wait longer for their first No. 1 was James Taylor, who notched his first leader with Before This World on July 4, 2015 — 45 years after his chart debut on March 14, 1970 with Sweet Baby James.

Bocelli’s Largest Sales Week Since 2009: Si sold 123,000 copies (of its 126,000 total units), marking the singer’s best sales week since My Christmas sold 284,000 copies over the Christmas week of 2009 (reflected on the chart dated Jan. 9, 2010). Si’s significant debut was powered by sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer tied to a series of Bocelli shows in 2018 and early 2019. (Sialso nabs the largest sales week for any classical album since July 2, 2001, when Jackie Evancho’s classical crossover set Dream With Me sold 161,000 copies in its first week and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.)

First Classical No. 1 in 10 Years: Si also debuts at No. 1 on both the Classical Crossover Albums chart and the overall Classical Albums chart. (The latter tally combines both classical crossover and traditional classical efforts.)

In turn, Si is the first classical album to be No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart since Jan. 5, 2008, when Josh Groban’s classical crossover holiday effort Noel spent its fifth and final week atop the tally. Si is the first classical set to debut at No. 1 since the vocal quartet Il Divo bowed at No. 1 with Ancora, another classical crossover effort, on the Feb. 11, 2006-dated chart.

First No. 1 for Sugar Music & First No. 1 for Decca Records in 10 Years: Si was released through Sugar Music/Decca Records, and marks the first leader for Sugar, and the first chart-topper for Decca, since 2008. Decca last led the list with the soundtrack to the film Mamma Mia!, which was released via Decca/UMe, and spent one week at No. 1 on the Aug. 23, 2008-dated tally.

A Non-English Album at No. 1: Si is a mostly all-Italian-language album, making it one of the few non-English efforts to hit No. 1. It’s actually the third primarily non-English album to lead the list in 2018, following two mostly Korean albums from BTS: Love Yourself: Answer (Sept. 8) and Love Yourself: Tear (June 2). Before BTS, the last mostly non-English album to lead the list was Il Divo’s Ancora on Feb. 11, 2006. (The album is comprised of songs performed in Spanish, Italian and French, along with a track sung partially in English.)

As for Si, it includes collaborations with Josh Groban, Dua Lipa, Russian soprano Aida Garifullina, Ed Sheeran and Bocelli’s 21-year-old son Matteo Bocelli. (Groban, Lipa and Sheeran all sing in Italian on Si.) The album benefits from a variety of available versions of the set, including an edition of the album with Spanish-language versions of seven songs.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s soundtrack to A Star Is Born falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 after three weeks at No. 1. The set earned 93,000 units in the week ending Nov. 1 (down 15 percent).

Coming in at No. 3 is Joji’s BALLADS 1, with 57,000 units earned (with 34,000 of that sum in album sales). Joji (real name: George Miller) is a former YouTuber who previously logged an entry on the Billboard 200 with the In Tongues EP (peaking at No. 58 on the Nov. 25, 2017-dated list). BALLADS 1’s sales were bolstered by a range of merchandise/album bundles.

Tory Lanez clocks his third consecutive top five-charting album, as his third release, Love Me Now?, starts at No. 4 with 54,000 units (5,000 in album sales). The bulk of Love’s first-week units were driven by streams, as it tallied 48,000 SEA units (translating to 62.5 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s tracks). Lanez previously hit the top five with his two earlier albums: Memories Don’t Die (No. 3; March 17) and I Told You (No. 4; Sept. 10, 2016).

At No. 5 on the new Billboard 200, Lil Wayne’s former No. 1, Tha Carter V, is a non-mover with 52,000 units (down 20 percent). Lil Baby and Gunna’s Drip Harder is stationary at No. 6 with just over 49,000 units (down 13 percent) and Drake’s former leader Scorpion is steady at No. 7 with 49,000 (down 13 percent).

Future and Juice WRLD’s collaborative effort WRLD ON DRUGS falls 2-8 in its second week (just over 45,000 units; down 54 percent), while a pair of former No. 1s round out the top 10: Travis Scott’s Astroworld sits still at No. 9 (45,000 units; down 4 percent) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys is steady at No. 10 (41,000 units; down 2 percent).

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