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Elsewhere on the chart, Lil Dicky’s “Earth” launches in the top 20 & Taylor Swift’s “ME!” arrives at No. 100 solely from initial airplay.

Lil Nas X tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth week with “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

Plus, Khalid collects his fifth Hot 100 top 10, as “Talk” vaults from No. 20 to No. 8.

Elsewhere on the Hot 100, Lil Dicky launches in the top 20 with his all-star charity single “Earth” and Taylor Swift‘s new single, “ME!,” featuring Brendon Urie, debuts at the No. 100 anchor spot based solely on its first three days of airplay, ahead of its likely challenge for the upper reaches of next week’s chart once its first week of streaming and sales is factored in.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated May 4), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 30).

As on the Hot 100, “Road” paces the Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week, with 114.4 million U.S. streams (down 9%) in the week ending April 25, according to Nielsen Music. The sum is the fourth-best ever; the track set the record two weeks earlier, following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus. Here’s an updated look at the 10 biggest streaming weeks:

Total Weekly U.S. Streams, Title, Artist, Chart Date
143 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 20, 2019
125.2 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 27, 2019
116.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, July 28, 2018
114.4 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, May 4, 2019
106.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, Aug. 4, 2018
103.1 million, “Harlem Shake,” Baauer, March 2, 2013
101.7 million, “God’s Plan,” Drake, March 3, 2018
97.6 million, “Harlem Shake,” Baauer, March 9, 2013
95.4 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, Aug. 11, 2018
93.8 million, “Thank U, Next,” Ariana Grande, Dec. 15, 2018

“Road” tops the Digital Song Sales chart for a third week with 89,000 downloads sold (down 2%) in the week ending April 25. It continues to surge in radio airplay, bounding 18-12 on the Radio Songs chart (55.4 million audience impressions, up 23%, in the week ending April 28), as it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third week.

As “Road” marks Lil Nas X’s first Hot 100 entry, he boasts the longest-leading debut No. 1 (among artists billed as leads) since OMI reigned for six weeks in 2015 with his first Hot 100 hit, “Cheerleader.” In between, Cardi B logged the longest-leading rookie No. 1 until “Road” (as a lead act) when “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” banked three weeks on top in 2017.

“Road” concurrently posts a fourth week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songsand Hot Rap Songs charts.

Nos. 2 through 4 hold in place on the Hot 100: Post Malone‘s “Wow.” spends a third week at its No. 2 high; his and Swae Lee‘s former one-week leader “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” keeps at No. 3; and Ariana Grande‘s former eight-week No. 1 “7 Rings” is steady at No. 4.

Jonas Brothers‘ former one-week Hot 100 leader “Sucker” rises 6-5, tallying its first week in the top five since it debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 16 (although it has spent all eight of its weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10). The trio’s first Hot 100 leader notches a second week atop Radio Songs, where it’s also the act’s first No. 1, up 4% to 95.6 million in audience.

Halsey‘s former two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Without Me” slips 5-6 and Sam Smith and Normani‘s “Dancing With a Stranger” repeats at its No.  7 high.

Khalid lands his fifth Hot 100 top 10, as “Talk” jumps 20-8. The track hikes 13-8 on Streaming Songs (24.6 million, up 17%) and 27-20 on both Radio Songs (41.4 million, up 12%) and Digital Song Sales (10,000, up 30%).

Khalid previously hit the Hot 100’s top 10 as featured, with Alessia Cara, on Logic’s “1-800-273-8255” (No. 3, September 2017) and with “Love Lies,” with Normani (No. 9, September 2018), “Eastside,” with Benny Blanco and Halsey (No. 9, this January), and his own “Better” (No. 8, two weeks ago; it ranks at No. 19 this week). Both “Better” and “Talk” are from Khalid’s album Free Spirit, which arrived as his first Billboard 200 No. 1 two weeks earlier.

Billie Eilish‘s “Bad Guy” holds at No. 9 on the Hot 100, after debuting at No. 7 three weeks earlier. As previously reported, parent album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? rebounds for a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, J. Cole‘s No. 4-peaking “Middle Child” re-enters the region (11-10).

Just outside the Hot 100’s top 10, Ava Max rises 13-11 with her debut hit “Sweet But Psycho” and Lil Dicky’s “Earth” enters as the chart’s top debut at No. 17. The latter song features over 30 high-profile guests, including Grande, Halsey, Justin Bieber, Adam Levine and Katy Perry, with proceeds benefiting various environmental organizations.

Meanwhile, Swift’s “ME!,” featuring Urie (of Panic! at the Disco) just makes the Hot 100, debuting at No. 100. The song starts based solely on its first three days of airplay, after its release at midnight ET Friday (April 26), arriving with 36.9 million in radio reach, and at No. 27 on Radio Songs. As the Hot 100’s airplay tracking week runs Monday through Sunday while streaming and sales are tracked Friday through Thursday, the first-week streams and sales for “ME!” (April 26-May 2) will impact next week’s Hot 100 (dated May 11), along with its first full week of airplay (April 29-May 5). With all metrics combined, “ME!” is likely to challenge for the upper reaches of next week’s Hot 100.

“ME!” is expected to serve as the first single from Swift’s forthcoming seventh proper studio LP. For comparison, “Look What You Made Me Do,” the lead single from her last album, 2017’s reputation, opened at No. 77 on the Hot 100 (and No. 23 on Radio Songs) from its first three days of airplay (45.6 million in the audience). Once streams and sales began contributing to its Hot 100 total, “Look” vaulted to No. 1 in its second Hot 100 frame and reigned for three total weeks.

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 (April 30), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Also in the top 10: Lizzo’s “Cuz I Love You” bows at No. 6 and Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” re-enters at No. 9.

Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? jumps back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, rising 2-1 in its fourth week on the tally and collecting its second total week at No. 1. The effort earned 88,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 25 in the U.S. according to Nielsen Music (up 10%).

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 May 4-dated chart, where When We All Fall Asleep rebounds to No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on April 30.

When We All Fall Asleep debuted at No. 1 on the April 13-dated list with 313,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week, according to Nielsen Music. The set then slipped to No. 2 for the next two weeks.

Khalid’s Free Spirit climbs 3-2 on the new Billboard 200 chart, with 60,000 units earned (down 27%). BTS’ Map of the Soul: Persona, slips from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week, scoring 57,000 units (down 75%).

Beyoncé’s Homecoming: The Live Album rises 7-4 after its first full chart tracking week of activity, earning 57,000 equivalent album units (up 47%). The album gains in both SEA and TEA units, but declines in album sales (8,000; down 43%). A week ago, on the April 26-dated chart (reflecting the tracking week ending April 18), the album debuted on the list from just two days of activity, as it was released on April 17.

Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next rises 6-5 with 43,000 units (down 6 percent).

Lizzo makes her Billboard 200 chart debut at No. 7 with her first major label full-length album, Cuz I Love You. The set was released via Nice Life/Atlantic Records and earned 41,000 equivalent album units, with 24,000 of that sum in album sales. The buzzed-about performer ushered in the new album with some notable TV appearances, including performances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Lizzo has been denting Billboard’s charts since 2013, when her independently released album Lizzobangers reached the Heatseekers — West North Central regional chart. She revisited the same list in 2016 with her second indie album, Big Grrrl Small World, and then with her first Atlantic release, the Coconut Oil EP. The latter also hit the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

More recently, Lizzo has been starting to gain chart traction with the Cuz I Love Yousingle “Juice.” In March, the tune hit No. 26 on the Adult R&B Songs airplay chart and No. 44 on the Dance Club Songs tally. The track is also bubbling under the most recently published Pop Songs airplay chart (dated April 27).

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap falls 5-7 with 36,000 units (down 34%) while Juice WRLD’s Death Race for Love is steady at No. 8 with 31,000 units (down 8%).

Beyoncé has a second album inside the top 10, as her former No. 1 Lemonade re-enters the chart at No. 9. The set, released in 2016, returns to the list following its wide streaming debut on April 23. The album was only previously available to stream via the Tidal service (though was widely available to purchase digitally and physically).

In the week ending April 25, Lemonade earned 30,000 equivalent album units (up 627%). Of that sum, 4,000 were in album sales (up 35%), a little more than 1,000 in in TEA units (up 72%) and 25,000 in SEA units (up 5,801%). The latter figure translates to 31.45 million on-demand streams for its songs during the week (up from about a half-million streams in the previous week).

Lemonade was last in the top 10 on March 7, 2017, when the set zoomed 33-9 following its exposure on the Grammy Awards (Feb. 12).

With Homecoming: The Live Album and Lemonade both in the top 10, this is the first time that Beyoncé has claimed two concurrent top 10 sets. She’s the first woman with two simultaneous top 10s in more than two years, since Lady Gaga scored two in the top 10 on the list dated Feb. 25, 2017 following her Super Bowl halftime show performance.

Closing out the Billboard 200’s new top 10 is Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys, which dips 9-10 with 29,000 equivalent album units (down less than 1%).

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“Dancing With a Stranger” rises 12-7 & “Boy With Luv” launches at No. 8. Plus, Jonas Brothers’ “Sucker” tops the Radio Songs chart.

Lil Nas X leads the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week with “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

Two songs are new to the Hot 100’s top 10: Sam Smith and Normani‘s “Dancing With a Stranger” darts from No. 12 to No.  7 and BTS blasts onto the chart at No. 8 with “Boy With Luv,” featuring Halsey. The latter song, from BTS’ new album, Map of the Soul: Persona, which launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, is the act’s second Hot 100 top 10 and the highest-charting for a K-pop group, besting BTS’ own “Fake Love,” which debuted and peaked at No. 10 in June 2018.

Plus, Jonas Brothers‘ former Hot 100 leader “Sucker,” at No. 6, takes over atop the Radio Songs chart, marking the sibling trio’s first No. 1 on the airplay tally.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated April 27), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 23).

As on the Hot 100, “Road” rules the Streaming Songs chart for a third week, with 125.2 million U.S. streams (down 12%) in the week ending April 18, according to Nielsen Music. The sum is the second-best ever, after the track drew a record 143 million clicks a week earlier, following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus.

Here’s an updated look at the 10 biggest streaming weeks:

Total Weekly U.S. Streams, Title, Artist, Chart Date
143 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 20, 2019
125.2 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 27, 2019
116.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, July 28, 2018
106.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, Aug. 4, 2018
103.1 million, “Harlem Shake,” Baauer, March 2, 2013
101.7 million, “God’s Plan,” Drake, March 3, 2018
97.6 million, “Harlem Shake,” Baauer, March 9, 2013
95.4 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, Aug. 11, 2018
93.8 million, “Thank U, Next,” Ariana Grande, Dec. 15, 2018
92.8 million, “God’s Plan,” Drake, March 10, 2018

“Road” tops the Digital Song Sales chart for a second week with 91,000 downloads sold (down 26%) in the week ending April 18. It continues to advance in radio airplay, powering 33-18 on Radio Songs (45.2 million audience impressions, up 57%, in the week ending April 21), as it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week.

“Road” concurrently posts a third week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songsand Hot Rap Songs charts.

Post Malone‘s solo single “Wow.” rises from No. 3 on the Hot 100 back to its No. 2 peak, swapping spots with his and Swae Lee‘s former one-week leader “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” (2-3).

Capping the Hot 100’s top five are two former No. 1s: Ariana Grande‘s “7 Rings” (which reigned for eight weeks) and Halsey’s “Without Me” (two), at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively.

Jonas Brothers’ “Sucker,” which soared in as their first No. 1 on the March 16-dated Hot 100, becomes their likewise first leader on Radio Songs, rising from No. 3 (92.1 million, up 13%). The group had previously charted two titles in the lower rungs of the airplay tally, “When You Look Me in the Eyes” and “Burnin’ Up,” both in 2008. As previously reported, “Sucker,” the lead single from Jonas Brothers’ first album in a decade, Happiness Begins, due June 7, concurrently becomes their first No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay chart.

Sam Smith and Normani’s “Dancing With a Stranger” surges 12-7 on the Hot 100. The duet jumps 6-2 on Radio Songs (84.1 million, up 15%); 16-11 on Digital Song Sales (12,000, up 5%); and 34-30 on Streaming Songs (16.1 million, up 3%).

Smith adds sixth Hot 100 top 10, following “Stay With Me” (No. 2, 2014), as featured on Disclosure’s “Latch” (No. 7, 2014) and his own “I’m Not the Only One” (No. 5, 2014), “Lay Me Down” (No. 8, 2015) and “Too Good at Goodbyes” (No. 4, 2017).

Normani has now ascended to the Hot 100’s top 10 in both of her solo visits, after hitting No. 9 with “Love Lies,” with Khalid, in September 2018. As a member of Fifth Harmony, she reached the region with “Work From Home,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign (No. 4, 2016).

BTS’ “Boy With Luv,” featuring Halsey, vaults onto the Hot 100 at No. 8, marking the septet’s second top 10 and the highest-charting entry for a K-pop group. It surpasses BTS’ own “Fake Love,” which debuted and peaked at No. 10 in June 2018. BTS becomes the first K-pop group with multiple Hot 100 top 10s and the second K-pop act overall to achieve the feat, after PSY, who hit No. 2 with “Gangnam Style” in 2012 and No. 5 with “Gentleman” in 2013.

Halsey, meanwhile, collects her fifth Hot 100 top 10, after her featured turn on The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” (12 weeks at No. 1 in 2016) and her own “Bad at Love” (No. 5, 2018), “Eastside,” with Benny Blanco and Khalid (No. 9, this January), and “Without Me.”

“Luv” launches at No. 5 on Streaming Songs with 29.9 million U.S. streams, marking BTS’ second top 10 and best rank on the chart (passing the No. 7 high of “Fake Love”) and the top streaming week for any K-pop act, outpacing the 27.4 million that “Fake Love” logged upon its debut. Halsey earns her third Streaming Songs top 10.

“Luv” enters Digital Song Sales at No. 3 (31,000), becoming BTS’ fourth top 10 and Halsey’s fifth. The collaboration also boasts 9.7 million in radio reach and rises 35-29 on Pop Songs.

Billie Eilish‘s “Bad Guy” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 (11-9), after debuting at No. 7 two weeks earlier, when parent album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?began atop the Billboard 200. The song re-enters the tier with top Sales Gainer honors (12,000, up 13%).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Cardi B and Bruno Mars‘ “Please Me” drops 7-10, after reaching No. 3.

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 (April 23), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (April 26).

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Plus: Anderson .Paak and Beyoncé debut in the top 10.

BTS captures its third No. 1 album in less than 12 months on the Billboard 200 chart, as Map of the Soul: Persona, debuts atop the list. The seven-track set, which was released on April 12, starts with 230,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music — a career-best week for BTS. Of that sum, 196,000 were in album sales — another career-high week for the South Korean pop group.

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 April 27-dated chart (where Personaenters at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on April 23.

Of Persona’s first-week units, 196,000 were in album sales, 8,000 in TEA units, and 26,000 in SEA units. The latter figure translates to 37.4 million on-demand audio streams for the set’s songs.

Let’s take a look at some of the notable achievements BTS notches with the arrival of Persona.

Third No. 1 Album in Less Than 11 Months: Some acts take years to accumulate three No. 1 albums, but for BTS, the group needed just under 11 months. Starting from the week they got their first No. 1, Love Yourself: Tear (June 2, 2018-dated chart), continuing through second No. 1, Love Yourself: Answer (Sept. 8, 2018), and now with Persona (April 27, 2019), that’s a span of just under 11 months.

The last act to score three No. 1s faster was Future, when he logged his first three No. 1s in just six months and three weeks with DS2 (Aug. 8, 2015); What a Time To Be Alive, with Drake (Oct. 10, 2015); and Evol (Feb. 27, 2016).

Notably, before Future’s feat, the ensemble cast of the Fox TV series Glee notched all three of its No. 1 soundtracks in just one month and three weeks in 2010. Glee: The Music — The Power of Madonna, bowed at No. 1 on May 8, 2010 and was quickly followed by the chart-topping Glee: The Music, Volume 3 — Showstoppers (June 5, 2010) and Glee: The Music — Journey to Regionals (June 26, 2010).

First Group Since the Beatles to Earn Three No. 1s in Less Than a Year: It’s uncommon for any act to tally three Billboard 200 No. 1s in less than a year. How rare? Before BTS, the last traditional group (excluding the Glee ensemble, whose multiple cast members rotated) to log three leaders within such a quick span was the Beatles in 1995-96, when the band’s archival releases Anthology 1, Anthology 2and Anthology 3 all debuted at No. 1 in a stretch of 11 months and a week (between Dec. 9, 1995 and Nov. 16, 1996).

Fastest Accumulation of No. 1 Albums by a Group Since the Monkees in 1967:The last group to collect three No. 1s at a faster pace than BTS was the Monkees in 1967, when the quartet reached No. 1 with More of the Monkees (Feb. 11, 1967), Headquarters (June 24, 1967) and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones LTD. (Dec. 2, 1967) in just nine months and three weeks. (Dates mark each album’s first week at No. 1.)

The Fourth Mostly Non-English Album at No. 1 in the Past Year: Persona, like BTS’ previous two No. 1 albums, is performed mostly in the Korean language, with bits of English. In the past year, aside from BTS’ three leaders, Andrea Bocelli’s mostly all-Italian-language album Si also led the list (Nov. 10, 2018).

BTS’ Biggest Week Ever, Fourth-Largest Week of 2019: With 230,000 equivalent album units earned, Persona captures BTS’ biggest week ever in terms of total units, the second-biggest week of 2019 for a group and the fourth-largest frame of 2019. BTS’ previous best was logged with the debut week of Love Yourself: Answer, which began with 185,000 units. The only larger weeks in 2019 were tallied by the opening frames of Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next (360,000 units), Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (313,000) and Backstreet Boys’ DNA (237,000).

BTS’ Largest Sales Week, Second-Biggest Sales Week of 2019: BTS easily claims its largest sales week for an album, as Persona sold 196,000 copies in its first week, beating the act’s previous high with the opening week of Love Yourself: Answer(141,000). In 2019, the only album to log a bigger sales week was Backstreet Boys’ DNA, with 227,000 copies sold in its premiere frame.

Persona likely got a boost in sales from devoted fans who purchased multiple CD copies of the album, as it was released in four different collectible packages (following a similar release strategy for the Love Yourself series of albums). The four versions of the CD package for Persona all came with the same CD album, but the paper goods inside the package (including a poster, booklet and trading cards) vary.

A Third Week With Over 200,000 Units at No. 1: With 230,000 units earned in its first week, Persona gives the Billboard 200 its third week in a row where the No. 1 album has tallied more than 200,000 units. Persona follows the chart-topping arrivals of Khalid’s Free Spirit (202,000) and Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep (313,000). The last time the No. 1 slot had three weeks in a row of 200,000-plus weeks was Aug. 18-Sept. 1, 2018, when Travis Scott’s Astroworld clocked its first two weeks at No. 1 (537,000 and 205,000 units) and Grande’s Sweetener debuted (231,000).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep is steady at No. 2 for a second week with 98,000 equivalent album units (down 17%). Khalid’s Free Spirit slips from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week, with 82,000 units (down 59%).

Anderson .Paak claims his first Billboard 200 top 10, as Ventura debuts at No. 4. The set, which features guests ranging from Smokey Robinson and Brandy to Nate Dogg and André 3000, earned 55,000 units in its first week (of which 39,000 were in album sales). He previously hit the Billboard 200 with Oxnard (No. 11; Dec. 11, 2018) and Malibu (No. 79; Feb. 6, 2016).

At No. 5 on the new Billboard 200, Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap falls two spots (55,000 units; down 13%). Grande’s former leader Thank U, Next slips 4-6 with 46,000 units (down 1%).

Beyoncé’s surprise-released Homecoming: The Live Album debuts at No. 7 with 38,000 units earned from just two days of tracking activity (with 14,000 of that sum in album sales). The album dropped with no warning in the very early hours of Wednesday, April 17, and the tracking week for the chart ended on April 18. (Billboard’s album charts’ tracking week runs Friday through Thursday.)

Homecoming: The Live Album was released to digital retail and streaming services shortly after the premiere of Beyoncé’s Homecoming film on Netflix at 12:01 a.m. on April 17. Both projects chronicle Beyoncé’s headlining performances at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Homecoming: The Live Album is Beyoncé’s eighth top 10 album as a soloist. She also recently visited the top 10 as one-half of The Carters (alongside husband Jay-Z) with 2018’s No. 2-peaking Everything Is Love.

It’s possible that Homecoming: The Live Album could rise higher on next week’s Billboard 200 chart (dated May 4), after its first full tracking week of activity.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the new Billboard 200 are Juice WRLD’s Death Race for Love (5-8 with 34,000 units; down 9%), Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys (7-9 with just over 29,000 units; down 5%) and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN (9-10 with 29,000 units; down 4%).

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Plus, Khalid hits the top 10 with “Better.”

Lil Nas X logs a second week atop the Billboard Hot 100 as “Old Town Road,” now featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, who joined for a remix released April 5, reigns with a record-blasting streaming week.

The track leads the Streaming Songschart for a second frame with 143 million U.S. streams in the week ending April 11, according to Nielsen Music. The sum easily surpasses the prior mark, set when Drake‘s “In My Feelings” drew 116.2 million streams, as reflected on the chart dated July 28, 2018. (Both the remix and the original version of “Road” count toward the song’s singular chart placement.)

Meanwhile, Khalid collects his fourth Hot 100 top 10, as “Better” bounds 16-8 as his new album Free Spirit arrives as his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated April 20), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 16).

Record streams: “Road” rockets by 207%, from 46.6 million U.S. streams to 143 million, shattering the record for the most in a week. Here’s an updated look at the biggest streaming weeks:

Total Weekly U.S. Streams, Title, Artist, Chart Date
143 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 20, 2019
116.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, July 28, 2018
106.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, Aug. 4, 2018
103.1 million, “Harlem Shake,” Baauer, March 2, 2013
101.7 million, “God’s Plan,” Drake, March 3, 2018
97.6 million, “Harlem Shake,” Baauer, March 9, 2013
95.4 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, Aug. 11, 2018
93.8 million, “Thank U, Next,” Ariana Grande, Dec. 15, 2018
92.8 million, “God’s Plan,” Drake, March 10, 2018
92.7 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, Aug. 18, 2018

Best sales week in over a year: “Road” also roars by 454% to 124,000 downloads sold in the week ending April 11, as it tops Digital Song Sales for the first time. That’s the biggest weekly total since Drake’s “God’s Plan” debuted with 127,000 sold (Feb. 3, 2018).

Airplay advances: “Road” additionally surges in radio airplay, entering the all-genre Radio Songs chart at No. 33, up 142% to 28.8 million audience impressions in the week ending April 14. As for individual formats, the track charges 23-15 on Rhythmic Songs and 30-21 on Pop Songs and debuts at No. 28 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop. (It departs Country Airplay after a week at No. 53, when its reach at the format was powered largely by syndicated morning show plays; all four charts are based purely on airplay on reporters to each respective panel.)

“Road” sweeps the Hot 100’s top Streaming, Sales and Airplay Gainer awards, marking the first title to triple up with all three honors since Ariana Grande‘s “Thank U, Next,” after the release of its official video, atop the chart dated Dec. 15, 2018.

Billy Ray No. 1 … after Miley: Billy Ray Cyrus came in like a wrecking ball, too.

Now credited on “Road,” as streaming and sales for the week were driven most heavily by the new Cyrus remix, he scores his first Hot 100 No. 1. The country chart veteran bests his prior No. 4 Hot 100 peak, set by his debut smash “Achy Breaky Heart” in July 1992. Four months later … daughter Miley was born, and now her father has his first Hot 100 No. 1 … after Miley reigned. Her “Wrecking Ball” swung to No. 1 for three weeks beginning Sept. 28, 2013.

Notably, over half a century ago, a famous father also earned his first Hot 100 No. 1 after his daughter first led the list; Nancy Sinatra topped the chart for a week in February 1966 with “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” Over a year later, beginning in April 1967, she and father Frank led with their duet “Somethin’ Stupid,” his only Hot 100 No. 1; of course, his career predated the Hot 100’s Aug. 4, 1958, launch, with the iconic crooner claiming credit at No. 1 on Billboard‘s first chart ranking the national sales of recorded songs, dated July 27, 1940.

Cyrus makes his first appearance on a Billboard songs chart since his featured turn on Buck 22’s “Achy Breaky 2,” a reworking of “Achy Breaky Heart,” which hit No. 11 on Hot Rap Songs and No. 80 on the Hot 100 in March 2014.

No. 1 hip-hop & rap: “Road” concurrently posts a second week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Post Malone and Swae Lee‘s former one-week Hot 100 leader “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” is steady at No. 2, while Post Malone’s solo single “Wow.” rebounds 4-3 following its No. 2 peak.

Grande’s “7 Rings” slips 3-4 on the Hot 100 after eight weeks at No. 1, while topping Radio Songs for a second week (82 million, down 8%); Halsey‘s former two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Without Me” holds at No. 5; Jonas Brothers‘ “Sucker,” which soared in as their first No. 1 on the March 16-dated Hot 100, rises 8-6; and Cardi Band Bruno Mars‘ “Please Me” dips 6-7 after reaching No. 3.

Khalid vaults 16-8 on the Hot 100 with “Better,” which becomes his fourth top 10 on the chart, and first as a sole lead artist. He previously reached the region as featured, with Alessia Cara, on Logic’s “1-800-273-8255” (No. 3, September 2017) and with “Love Lies,” with Normani (No. 9, September 2018) and “Eastside,” with Benny Blanco and Halsey (No. 9, this January).

Fueled most heavily by streaming, “Better” blasts 46-9 on Streaming Songs (24.8 million, up 36%), becoming Khalid’s first top 10 on the chart as a lead artist, and second overall, after “1-800-273-8255” hit No. 3. “Better” is from his new album Free Spirit, which launches atop the Billboard 200 with 202,000 equivalent album units.

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Plus: Sara Bareilles and Brooks & Dunn bow in top 10.

Khalid notches his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his third release, Free Spirit, opens atop the tally. The set, released on April 5 through Right Hand/RCA Records, starts with 202,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 11, according to Nielsen Music — the fourth-largest week of 2019 for an album. Of that sum, 85,000 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 as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new April 20-dated chart (where Free Spiritbows at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on April 16.

Free Spirit’s start of 202,000 equivalent album units is the fourth-biggest week for an album in 2019, and the largest for a set by a male solo artist. The only bigger weeks logged in 2019 were the starting frames of Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next(360,000), Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (313,000) and Backstreet Boys’ DNA (234,000).

Of Free Spirit’s opening-week unit sum, 111,000 were in SEA units (translating to 146.9 million on-demand audio streams for the albums tracks), 85,000 were in album sales (boosted by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour) and 6,000 were in TEA units.

Concurrent with the success of Khalid’s two earlier albums, he has also notched 20 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, including a trio of top 10s: as a featured artist on Logic’s “1-800-273-8255” and with “Love Lies,” with Normani, and “Eastside,” with Benny Blanco and Halsey.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep dips from No. 1 in its second week on the tally, earning 118,000 units (down 62%).

Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap slips one rung to No. 3 with 63,000 units (down 5%), Grande’s Thank U, Next falls 3-4 with 47,000 units (down 12%) and Juice WRLD’s Death Race for Love is steady at No. 5 with 38,000 units (down 14%).

Sara Bareilles’ Amidst the Chaos debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, marking the singer-songwriter’s sixth top 10 effort. The set launches with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (of which 29,000 were in album sales). She previously visited the top 10 with What’s Inside: Songs From Waitress (No. 10 in 2015), The Blessed Unrest (No. 2, 2013), Once Upon Another Time (No. 8, 2012), Kaleidoscope Heart (No. 1, 2010) and Little Voice (No. 7, 2008).

Of Free Spirit’s opening-week unit sum, 111,000 were in SEA units (translating to 146.9 million on-demand audio streams for the albums tracks), 85,000 were in album sales (boosted by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour) and 6,000 were in TEA units.

Notably, Free Spirit is the first R&B album to reach No. 1 in nearly a year. The last to do so was The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy EP, which bowed atop the tally dated April 14, 2018. Before that, one has to scroll back to June 17, 2017, when Bryson Tiller’s True to Self opened at No. 1.

Free Spirit follows Khalid’s 2017 debut album, American Teen, and last year’s Suncity. The former climbed to a peak of No. 4 back in September of 2017, while Suncitydebuted and peaked at No. 8 in November of 2018. American Teen has yet to depart the chart after 110 consecutive weeks on the tally (it climbs 35-33 on the latest chart). Through April 11, American Teen has earned 2.45 million equivalent album units, while Suncity has collected 450,000 units.

So far, Khalid’s catalog of tunes has tallied 4 billion on-demand audio streams.

Concurrent with the success of Khalid’s two earlier albums, he has also notched 20 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, including a trio of top 10s: as a featured artist on Logic’s “1-800-273-8255” and with “Love Lies,” with Normani, and “Eastside,” with Benny Blanco and Halsey.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep dips from No. 1 in its second week on the tally, earning 118,000 units (down 62%).

Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap slips one rung to No. 3 with 63,000 units (down 5%), Grande’s Thank U, Next falls 3-4 with 47,000 units (down 12%) and Juice WRLD’s Death Race for Love is steady at No. 5 with 38,000 units (down 14%).

Sara Bareilles’ Amidst the Chaos debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, marking the singer-songwriter’s sixth top 10 effort. The set launches with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (of which 29,000 were in album sales). She previously visited the top 10 with What’s Inside: Songs From Waitress (No. 10 in 2015), The Blessed Unrest (No. 2, 2013), Once Upon Another Time (No. 8, 2012), Kaleidoscope Heart (No. 1, 2010) and Little Voice (No. 7, 2008).

Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys is a non-mover at No. 7 with 31,000 units (down 1%).

Country duo Brooks & Dunn returns to the top 10 for the first time in nearly a decade, as Reboot debuts at No. 8. The all-star collaborations effort features Brooks & Dunn covering their familiar hits with the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Luke Combsand Thomas Rhett. The album bows with 31,000 equivalent album units earned, with 21,000 of that sum in album sales. All told, Reboot marks Brooks & Dunn’s 10th top 10 album, and first since the 2009 greatest hits album #1s… And Then Some (No. 5; Sept. 26, 2009).

With Brooks & Dunn’s 10th top 10 album, the act breaks out of a tie with Rascal Flatts for the most top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 among country duos and groups.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN and Drake’s Scorpion are stationary at Nos. 9 and 10, respectively, earning 30,000 units (down 1%) and 29,000 units (up less than 1%).

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Plus, Billie Eilish earns first her top 10 with “Bad Guy,” from her first Billboard 200 No. 1 album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”

Lil Nas X blasts from No. 15 to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his debut hit and viral smash “Old Town Road.”

Plus, Billie Eilish scores her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Bad Guy” bounds onto the chart at No. 7. The song is her from album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which launches as her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Additionally, Ariana Grande‘s “7 Rings,” which falls to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after eight weeks at No. 1, becomes her first leader on the Radio Songs chart.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated April 13), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 9).

“Old Town Road” becomes the 1,086th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 60-year history. Here’s a look at highlights of the list’s new leader by Atlanta native Lil Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill; he was born April 9, 1999, and, thus, celebrates his 20th birthday tomorrow with a host of chart honors to unwrap.

No. 1 in streaming: “Road” roars to No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, from No. 7, up 60% to 46.6 million U.S. streams in the week ending April 4, according to Nielsen Music. The song wins the Hot 100’s top Streaming Gainer award for a third consecutive week.

“Road” also rises 11-3 on Digital Song Sales, surging by 83% to 22,000 downloads sold in the week ending April 4, as it claims top Sales Gainer honors for the second time in three weeks.

The song additionally gains by 190% to 11.9 million all-format audience impressions in the week ending April 7, as it continues to approach the Radio Songs chart.

Debut ‘Moves’: While Lil Nas X is the first artist to take an initial Hot 100 entry to No. 1 since Bradley Cooper just five weeks earlier, thanks to Cooper’s duet “Shallow” with Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X is the first artist unaccompanied by another act to top the Hot 100 on a first try since Cardi B, whose “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” spent three weeks at No. 1 in October 2017.

Lil Nas X is the first male artist (in a lead role) to lead the Hot 100 in a first visit since Desiigner took “Panda” to the top for two weeks in May 2016.

15 to 1: “Road” makes the second-biggest jump to No. 1 on the Hot 100 this year. “Shallow” soared 21-1 following its win for best original song at the 91st Academy Awards.

Quick ‘Road’ to No. 1: “Road” reaches No. 1 on the Hot 100 in just its sixth week on the chart. While the song it replaces at the summit, Grande’s “7 Rings,” debuted at No. 1, “Road” marks the fastest flight to No. 1 for an artist’s debut entry (in a lead role) since Zayn’s “Pillowtalk” opened on top in February 2016.

As Zayn was already known as a former member of powerhouse boy band One Direction, Lil Nas X makes the swiftest ascent to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for an act with no prior Hot 100 history at all since Baauer blasted in at the top spot with his five-week leader “Harlem Shake” in March 2013.

Columbia in command: After buzz began building for “Road,” Lil Nas X signed with Columbia Records. Now, the label boasts its first Hot 100 No. 1 since The Chainsmokers’ “Closer,” featuring Halsey, reigned for 12 weeks from September through November 2016.

“Road” is the first debut Hot 100 No. 1 for an artist on Columbia since OMI’s “Cheerleader” stood atop the chart’s pyramid for six weeks in 2015.

NIN at No. 1: As “Road” samples Nine Inch Nails’ track “34 Ghost IV,” from the industrial rock band’s 2008 album Ghosts I–IV, NIN’s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross sport co-writing and co-producing credit on “Road.” (Lil Nas X also earns a writing credit, while YoungKio additionally claims producer credit.)

Reznor and Ross make their first trip to No. 1 on the Hot 100 as writers and producers. As a band, NIN hit a No. 17 Hot 100 high in August 1999 with “The Day the World Went Away” (written and co-produced by Reznor).

No. 1 hip-hop & rap: “Road” concurrently becomes Lil Nas X’s first No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, leaping from No. 7 on each list.

‘Road’ ahead: “Road” should benefit on next week’s charts (dated April 20) thanks its new remix, featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, released Friday, April 5; data for the remix’s first full tracking week will feed next week’s tallies, which will reflect the streaming and sales week of April 5-11 (with both the remix and original version counting toward the song’s singular chart placement).

Post Malone‘s former one-week Hot 100 leader “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse),” with Swae Lee, rebounds 3-2 and Grande’s “7 Rings” descends to No. 3 after eight weeks at No. 1, her career-best rule among her two toppers; “Thank U, Next” led for seven weeks beginning in November.

Still, “7 Rings” becomes Grande’s first No. 1 on Radio Songs, rising from No. 2 despite a 3% percent dip to 88.7 million in audience. Grande previously reached a No. 2 high on the chart with “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea, in 2014 (and sent five subsequent singles to No. 3, including “Next”).

Post Malone’s solo single “Wow.” drops to No. 4 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 peak; Halsey‘s former two-week No. 1 “Without Me” falls 4-5; and Cardi B and Bruno Mars‘ “Please Me” retreats 5-6 after reaching No. 3.

Billie Eilish notches her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Bad Guy” vaults onto the chart at No. 7. The song is her from album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which arrives as her first Billboard 200 No. 1. She outdoes her prior best Hot 100 rank, as fellow Asleep song “Bury a Friend” reached No. 14 in February.

After the official video for “Bad Guy” premiered March 29, the song starts at No. 2 on Streaming Songs with 34.7 million U.S. streams. On Digital Song Sales, the track enters at No. 7 (16,000 sold).

“Bad Guy” is one of five songs that Eilish places in the Hot 100’s top 40, joined by “Friend” (41-25); current pop radio single “When the Party’s Over” (a re-entry at No. 29, a new high); “Wish You Were Gay” (84-31); and “Xanny” (new at No. 35). (She had previously appeared in the top 40 only with “Friend.”)

Jonas Brothers‘ “Sucker,” which started as the trio’s first No. 1 on the March 16-dated Hot 100, lifts 9-8, while achieving top Airplay Gainer honors for a fourth week. The track becomes the group’s first Radio Songs top 10, pushing 12-8 (69 million, up 24%).

Marshmello and Bastille‘s No. 2 Hot 100 hit “Happier” backtracks 6-9, while ruling the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 29th week, and J. Cole‘s No. 4-peaking Hot 100 hit “Middle Child” slips 7-10.

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 (April 9), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (April 12).

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Set scores second-biggest week of 2019 for any album, third-largest streaming week ever for an album by a woman.

Billie Eilish scores her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? storms in atop the tally with 313,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 4, according to Nielsen Music, scoring the second-largest week of 2019 for any album. Of the album’s starting sum, 170,000 were in album sales, the second-largest sales week for an album this year.

When We All Fall Asleep was released on March 29 through Darkroom/Interscope Records.

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 April 13-dated chart (where When We All Fall Asleep enters at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on April 9.

The new album follows the steady success of Eilish’s first release, Don’t Smile at Me, which has spent 67 weeks on the chart, and rises 20-15 on the new tally. (It peaked at No. 14 in January.) The nine-song set was issued in 2017, has earned 947,000 equivalent album units, and generated more than 1.2 billion on-demand audio streams for its tracks.

In 2018, Eilish charted her first five entries on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, and has notched three more debuts in in 2019 (through the most recently published chart, dated April 6). She also clocked a top 10 hit on the Alternative Songs airplay chart in December with “You Should See Me in a Crown,” the first single from When We All Fall Asleep.

Here’s a look at some of the eye-popping achievements Eilish has accomplished with the debut of her new album, When We All Fall Asleep.

Second-Largest Week of 2019 for an Album: With When We All Fall Asleep’s starting sum of 313,000 units, it logs the second-largest week of 2019, in terms of total units, among all albums. Only Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next garnered a bigger frame, when it debuted with 360,000 units earned (bowing at No. 1 on the Feb. 23-dated chart).

300,000 Club: As When We All Fall Asleep snared 313,000 units earned in its first week, it’s just the seventh album by a woman to tally over 300,000 units in at least one week, since the Billboard 200 chart began measuring by equivalent album units in December of 2014. The others: Taylor Swift’s 1989, Adele’s 25, Beyoncé’s Lemonade, P!nk’s Beautiful Trauma, Swift’s reputation and Grande’s Thank U, Next.

Further, When We All Fall Asleep is marketed as Eilish’s proper debut album. If one compared the new album’s opening week to those of other debut albums, it would be the largest since the chart transitioned to an equivalent album units ranking in December 2014.

2019’s Second-Biggest Sales Week: When We All Fall Asleep sold 170,000 copies in its first frame, the second-largest sales week of 2019 for an album, and the largest for an album by a woman. The only bigger sales frame was tallied by Backstreet Boys’ DNA, which launched with 227,000 copies sold (Feb. 9-dated chart). (Both DNAand When We All Fall Asleep had concert ticket/album sale redemption offers assisting their first weeks.)

Vinyl Victory: When We All Fall Asleep sold a stunning 15,000 copies on vinyl LP, marking the largest sales week of 2019 for a vinyl album. The last larger week was tallied by Panic! at the Disco’s Pray for the Wicked, when it bowed with 26,000 sold on the July 7, 2018-dated chart. In total, since Nielsen began electronically tracking music sale purchases in 1991, When We All Fall Asleep is just the second album by a woman to sell at least 15,000 vinyl LPs in a week. The other? Adele’s 25, which notched five frames of 15,000-plus vinyl weeks.

Third-Biggest Streaming Week Ever for an Album by a Woman: Of When We All Fall Asleep’s starting total unit sum of 313,000 units, SEA units comprised 137,000 units. That latter total translates to 194 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s songs during its debut week. That figure represents the third-biggest streaming week for an album by a woman, following the debut weeks of Thank U, Next (307.07 million) and Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy (202.65 million; chart dated April 21, 2018).

Youngest Woman at No. 1 Since 2009: Eilish is the first artist born in the 2000s to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. (Her birth date is Dec. 18, 2001.) At just 17 years and 3 months old, she is the youngest artist to hit No. 1 since 2015, when a then 16-year-old Shawn Mendes topped the chart dated May 2, 2015 with Handwritten. (Mendes was 16 years and eight months old at the time.) Eilish is the youngest woman to reach No. 1 since Demi Lovato debuted at No. 1 on the Aug. 8, 2009-dated chart with Here We Go Again, when she was 16 years and 11 months old.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, the late Nipsey Hussle re-enters straight in at No. 2 with his 2018 debut studio effort Victory Lap. The set earned 66,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 4 (up 2,244 percent), with 17,000 of that sum in album sales (up 7,205 percent). The album surpasses its original peak of No. 4, achieved in its debut frame on March 3, 2018.

Hussle died on March 31 after being shot outside of his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles.

Ariana Grande’s former No. 1, Thank U, Next, slips 2-3 in its eighth week on the tally with 53,000 units (down 14 percent).

Country king George Strait clocks his 21st top 10 Billboard 200 album, as his new Honky Tonk Time Machine debuts at No. 4 with 51,000 units (with 44,000 of that sum in album sales). Strait continues to have the most top 10s on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart among all country artists. Strait debuted on the Billboard 200 chart 35 years ago, on March 3, 1984 with Right or Wrong; logged his first visit to the top 10 with the Pure Country soundtrack in 1992; and was last in the top 10 with 2015’s Cold Beer Conversation (also debuting, and peaking, at No. 4).

The new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is rounded out by a gaggle of former No. 1s. Juice WRLD’s Death Race for Love dips 3-5 (44,000 units; down 19 percent), NAV’s Bad Habits descends 1-6 in its second week (35,000 units; down 58 percent), Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys climbs 8-7 (32,000 units; up less than 1 percent), Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack falls 6-8 (31,000 units; down 11 percent), A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN slides 7-9 (30,000 units; down 4 percent) and Drake’s Scorpion bumps 12-10 (29,000 units; up less than 1 percent).

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Plus, Post Malone boasts two of the top three spots.

Ariana Grande rewrites her longest command of the Billboard Hot 100, as “7 Rings,” her second leader on the list, rules for an eighth week. She first topped the Hot 100 for seven weeks with “Thank U, Next” beginning in November.

Plus, Post Malone claims the Nos. 2 and 3 spots on the Hot 100, led by his single “Wow.,” which hits a new high at the runner-up rank.

Additionally, Blueface’s “Thotiana” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 at a new No. 8 peak and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s former Hot 100 No. 1 “Shallow,” now at No. 10, becomes Gaga’s first top 10 on the Radio Songs chart since “Applause” in 2013.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated April 6), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 2).

“Rings,” released on Republic Records, holds at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs, despite a 1 percent dip to 91.8 million audience impressions in the week ending March 31, according to Nielsen Music. It drops to No. 3 on the Streaming Songschart, after eight weeks at No. 1, with 35.5 million U.S. streams, down 3 percent, in the week ending March 28. On Digital Song Sales, it rebounds 6-5, after three weeks at No. 1 (17,000 downloads sold, down 5 percent, in the week ending March 28).

Post Malone sports two songs in the Hot 100’s top three for the first time, as “Wow.” rises to a new high, pushing 4-2, and former one-week leader “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse),” with Swae Lee, keeps at No. 3.

“Wow.” jumps 4-2 for a new peak on Streaming Songs, up 15 percent to 35.4 million streams in the week ending March 28, its first full frame of tracking after the March 19 premiere of its new official video. It’s steady at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (23,000, down 2 percent) and holds at No. 7 on Radio Songs (67.5 million, a new weekly best, up 3 percent).

“Sunflower” rebounds 2-1 for a third week atop Streaming Songs (38.7 million U.S. streams, up 7 percent) and lifts 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (21,000, up 13 percent).

Post Malone is the 30th artist in the Hot 100’s 60-year history to claim two of the top three positions simultaneously, joining 50 Cent, Akon, Ashanti, Iggy Azalea, The Beatles, Bee Gees, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, The Black Eyed Peas, Boyz II Men, Cardi B, Mariah Carey, Diddy, DJ Khaled, Drake, Grande, Ja Rule, Ludacris, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Monica, Nelly, OutKast, Rihanna, Donna Summer, Taylor Swift, T.I., The Weeknd, Pharrell Williams and Usher.

Grande and The Beatles are the only acts to rank at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the Hot 100 simultaneously, with Grande having achieved the feat on the chart dated Feb. 23.

“Wow.” concurrently ascends 2-1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, becoming Post Malone’s fourth No. 1 on each survey and dethroning “Sunflower.”

Halsey‘s former two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Without Me” descends 2-4, as it leads Radio Songs for a fifth week (92.1 million, down 5 percent). Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Cardi B and Bruno Mars‘ “Please Me” is stationary at No. 5 after reaching No. 3.

Marshmello and Bastille‘s No. 2 Hot 100 hit “Happier” holds at No. 6, while ruling the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 28th week, and J. Cole‘s No. 4-peaking Hot 100 hit “Middle Child” rises 9-7.

Blueface’s “Thotiana” revisits the Hot 100’s top 10, climbing from No. 11 to a new No. 8 high after first reaching No. 9 on March 9. The rapper’s debut hit holds at No. 5 on Streaming Songs, up 8 percent to 33.9 million streams.

Jonas Brothers‘ “Sucker,” which soared in at No. 1 on the March 16-dated Hot 100, takes an 8-9 licking but wins top Airplay Gainer honors for a third week, as it jumps 19-12 on Radio Songs (55.7 million, up 23 percent). On the Pop Songs airplay chart, “Sucker” surges 13-9, becoming the trio’s first top 10; it had previously reached a No. 12 best with “Burnin’ Up” in 2008.

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow” falls 7-10 after leading the March 9-dated chart. Still, the ballad rules Digital Song Sales for a 10th week (28,000, down 12 percent), becoming just the 12th single ever to run up a reign of double-digit weeks. It’s the chart’s longest-leading No. 1 since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, spent a record 17 weeks at No. 1 in 2017.

Meanwhile, “Shallow” reaches the Radio Songs top 10, ascending 12-10 (57.4 million, up 3 percent). Gaga earns her 11th top 10 on the airplay tally and first since “Applause,” which reached No. 7 in October 2013. She has scored two Radio Songs No. 1s: “Paparazzi” (one week, November 2009) and “Born This Way” (one, April 2011).

The ballad from A Star Is Born spent its first 17 weeks on Radio Songs between Nos. 50 and 36 before entering the top 30 for the first time on the March 9-dated chart, concurrent with its Hot 100 coronation following its Oscars win for best original song.

Just outside the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s breakthrough track “Old Town Road” blasts 32-15, as it reaches the Streaming Songs top 10, leaping 17-7 (29.1 million, up 61 percent, good for top Streaming Gainer honors on the Hot 100), and zooms 21-11 on Digital Song Sales (12,000 sold, up 47 percent). It also debuts on the Rhythmic Songs (No. 36) and Pop Songs (No. 38) airplay charts.

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 (April 2), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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