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Plus, Justin Bieber & Chance the Rapper’s “Holy” returns to the top 10.

24kGoldn‘s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Gabby Barrett‘s “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth, rises from No. 8 to a new No. 6 Hot 100 high and takes over as the most-heard song on U.S. radio, climbing to the top of the Radio Songs chart.

Plus, Justin Bieber‘s “Holy,” featuring Chance the Rapper, re-enters the Hot 100’s top 10 at No. 9, while Bieber’s newest single, “Lonely,” with benny blanco, debuts just outside the top tier.ARTISTS MENTIONED

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Oct. 31) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 27). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Mood,” released on RECORDS/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both 24kGoldn and Iann Dior, drew 19.5 million U.S. streams (down 4%) and sold 9,000 downloads (up 18%) in the week ending Oct. 22, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also tallied 72.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 15%) in the week ending Oct. 25.

The track jumps 6-3 on Radio Songs, and holds at No. 4 on the Streaming Songs chart and No. 6 on Digital Song Sales. On the Hot 100, it wins the top Airplay Gainer award for the seventh time in the past eight weeks, marking the first song to earn the honor at least that many times in such a span since Pharrell’s “Happy” did so for eight weeks in a row in February-March 2014.

Multiple radio formats are supporting “Mood,” which hits No. 1 on the Pop Songs chart, where it likewise becomes each act’s first leader. It bullets at No. 2 on Rhythmic Airplay, No. 11 on both Alternative Airplay and Rap Airplay and No. 23 on Adult Pop Songs. Reaching the top of Pop Songs in its ninth chart week, the song completes the fastest ascent to No. 1 on the list this year. It also wraps the quickest trip to the Pop Songs summit for a lead artist’s first entry on the chart since Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass,” which also hit No. 1 in its ninth week in 2014.

“Mood” tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a ninth week each and Hot Rap Songs for a second frame. (All three charts employ the same methodology as the Hot 100.)

Cardi B’s “WAP,” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after four weeks at No. 1, as it leads Streaming Songs for a 10th week (23.7 million, down 9%). It concurrently rules the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for a 10th frame (marking the first of Cardi B’s five leaders to reign for double-digit weeks, as well as the first of Megan Thee Stallion’s two No. 1s to reach the milestone.)

Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, is steady at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 peak.

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after spending four weeks at No. 1. It ranks in the top five for a record-extending 30th week, while logging a 36th week in the top 10, the second-most weeks ever spent in the bracket, after Post Malone’s “Circles” (39 weeks, 2019-20). “Blinding Lights” leads the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-padding 32nd week.

Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it vaulted to No. 1, aided by BTS remixes.

Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth, hits a new Hot 100 high, rising 8-6. It concurrently crowns Radio Songs for the first time (76.2 million, up 3%), as it halts the record 26-week reign of The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.” “I Hope” led the Country Airplay chart for a week in April and, aided by its Puth remix released that month, has crossed to adult and pop radio. It leads Adult Pop Songs for a second week and ranks at No. 7 on Pop Songs and No. 8 on Adult Contemporary.

Notably, the song is just the fourth to have topped both the Country Airplay and all-format Radio Songs charts, dating to the surveys’ 1990 inceptions (and the latter list’s 1998 expansion to include country panelists, among other format reporters). Here’s a recap, with all four songs having achieved both country and pop radio success. Of the quartet, “I Hope” is the only song to have led both charts thanks to the addition of a billed artist (Puth) after its Country Airplay coronation.

Radio Songs No. 1s That Also Topped Country Airplay
“You Belong With Me,” Taylor Swift, two weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs, beginning Oct. 3, 2009
“Need You Now,” Lady A, two weeks, beginning March 27, 2010
“Meant to Be,” Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line, five weeks, beginning April 14, 2018
“I Hope,” Gabby Barrett feat. Charlie Puth, one week to date, Oct. 31, 2020

Barrett, who placed third on ABC’s American Idol in 2018, is first artist to have topped both Country Airplay and Radio Songs with a debut single, thanks to “I Hope.” Puth adds his third Radio Songs No. 1, following his featured turn on Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” (six weeks, 2015) and his own “Attention” (five weeks, 2017).

“I Hope” dominates the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 14th week.

BTS’ “Dynamite” drops 5-7 on the Hot 100, after three weeks at No. 1, as it tallies a ninth week atop Digital Song Sales (25,000, down 43%), and DaBaby’s seven-week Hot 100 leader “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, descends 7-8.

Justin Bieber’s “Holy,” featuring Chance the Rapper, returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, bounding 14-9. It debuted at its No. 3 peak four weeks earlier. The song resurges after Bieber performed it on the Oct. 17 episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. It climbs 10-5 on Digital Song Sales (11,000, up 70%, good for top Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100), 13-9 Streaming Songs (14.4 million, up 6%) and 18-17 on Radio Songs (36.9 million, up 5%).

Bieber also performed his newest single, “Lonely,” with benny blanco, on SNL and the track enters the Hot 100 at No. 14. It starts at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (16,000) and No. 6 on Streaming Songs (16.3 million), while having also drawn 10.7 million in radio reach in its first full tracking week following its Oct. 16 release.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Internet Money and Gunna’s “Lemonade,” featuring Don Toliver and NAV, ranks at its No. 10 best for a second week.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Oct. 31), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 27).

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It also becomes the first album to sell a million copies in the U.S. in 2020.

Taylor Swift’s Folklore surges back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth nonconsecutive week on top, as the set jumps from No. 10 with 77,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 22 (up 170%), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

The album’s huge increase is owed to an explosion of sales generated from Swift’s official webstore, where the superstar sold autographed CDs of the set for $25 each for a limited time. Of Folklore’s units earned for the week, album sales comprised 57,000 of that figure – a gain of 709%.

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 comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 31-dated chart (where Folklore returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 27. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Folklore’s 77,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Oct. 22, album sales (as noted above) comprise 57,000 (up 709%), SEA units total 20,000 (down 7%, equaling 26.35 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise a little under 500 (up 2%).

With another 57,000 copies sold in the latest tracking week, Folklore’s total album sales jump past 1 million (to 1.038 million), making it the first album to sell a million copies in 2020. It’s also the first album released in 2020 to sell a million. Folklore is Swift’s ninth album to sell at least 1 million copies in the U.S. Those nine albums include all eight of her studio efforts, along with her Christmas release The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection.

Folklore’s eighth week at No. 1 also marks its third total visit to the top, as the Republic Records release debuted at No. 1 on the Aug. 8-dated chart and spent its first six weeks at No. 1. It then vacated the top slot for two weeks, and then returned for one week on Oct. 3. It stepped aside for three more weeks, until its latest stanza atop the tally.

Folklore is the second album to enjoy three separate visits to No. 1 in 2020, following Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, which had four visits to the top between December 2019 and February. It debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 21, 2019-dated chart, then had three more one-week visits on Jan. 18, Feb. 8 and Feb. 22.

The last album by a woman to have three distinct stays at No. 1 was Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which had three one-week visits to the top on April 13, May 5 and June 8, 2019.

Folklore continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 for any album since Drake’s Views notched 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2016. Folklore also continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 among all non-R&B/hip-hop titles, and albums by women, since Adele’s 25 landed 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2015-16.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (released via Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic) falls one spot with 66,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%). 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s Savage Mode II (Boominati/Slaughter Boomin/Republic/Epic) dips 2-3 with 47,000 units (down 29%). With Republic Records claiming Nos. 1-3 (the label shares distribution credit with Epic on Savage Mode II), it’s the first time a label has held the top three since Republic itself did it on the July 14, 2018-dated chart. That week, Drake’s Scorpion (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic) debuted at No. 1, while Florence + the Machine’s High as Hope (Republic) debuted at No. 2 and Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys (Republic) held at No. 3.

Tom Petty’s 1994 album Wildflowers re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 5 – a new peak – after its deluxe reissue on Oct. 16. The set bounds back onto the tally with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1,765%). Of that sum, 38,000 comprise album sales (up 8,409%), a little under 5,000 comprise SEA units (up 161%) and 1,000 comprise TEA units (up 710%).

Wildflowers originally debuted and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 19, 1994. The set spent six nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 between Nov. 19, 1994 and Jan. 21, 1995. The album contained the top 20-charting Billboard Hot 100 hit “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” which also reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart. The set also sported the Mainstream Rock Songs top 10 hits “You Wreck Me” (No. 2) and “It’s Good to Be King” (No. 6).

Wildflowers was reissued on Oct. 16, and its sales benefit from a variety of expansive deluxe editions, dubbed Wildflowers & All the Rest. All versions of the album, including the original 1994 release, are combined for tracking and charting purposes. The All the Rest subtitle refers to the inclusion of a number of previously unreleased bonus tracks, many of which were originally intended for the Wildflowers album. (The set was initially meant to be a double album, but was whittled down to a 15-song release.)

Korean pop group NCT lands its first entry on the Billboard 200, as the 23-member act’s second album Resonance, Pt. 1, debuts at No. 6 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 40,000 comprise album sales, a little under 3,000 comprise SEA units, and a negligible sum in TEA units. NCT’s previous album, 2018’s NCT 2018 Empathy, missed the Billboard 200.

NCT’s spin-off group NCT 127 (whose 10 members are also part of NCT) has charted three albums on the Billboard 200, including the top 10 set NCT #127: Neo Zone, The 2nd Album, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 on March 21.

Lil Baby’s former No. 1 My Turn falls 4-7 with 37,000 equivalent album units (down 3%), the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical is a non-mover at No. 8 with 32,000 units (down 2%) and Machine Gun Kelly’s previous No. 1 Tickets to My Downfall drops 5-9 with 30,000 units (down 18%). Blackpink’s The Album closes out the top 10, descending 6-10 with 29,500 units (down 15%).

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Plus, Internet Money & Gunna’s “Lemonade” reaches the top 10.

24kGoldn‘s “Mood,” featuring iann dior, rises to No. 1, from No. 4, on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The song is the first leader on the list for each artist.

Plus, Internet Money and Gunna‘s “Lemonade,” featuring Don Toliver and NAV, hits the Hot 100’s top 10, pushing 12-10.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Oct. 24) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 20). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Here’s a deeper look at the coronation of “Mood,” released on RECORDS/Columbia Records (and the 1,112th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year history).

Streams, sales & airplay: “Mood” drew 20.3 million U.S. streams (down 2%) and sold 7,000 downloads (down 2%) in the week ending Oct. 15, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also tallied 62.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 16%) in the week ending Oct. 18.

The track rises 6-4 on the Streaming Songs chart, 8-6 on Digital Song Sales and 7-6 on Radio Songs. On the Hot 100, it wins the top Airplay Gainer award for the sixth time in the past seven weeks, marking the first song to hoist the trophy six times in a span of seven weeks since Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, in May-July 2017.

Each act’s first No. 1: 24kGoldn (real name: Golden Landis Von Jones), earns his first Hot 100 No. 1 with his second entry, after “Valentino” spent a week at No. 92 last November. (“Mood” is as of now a stand-alone single; “Valentino” is from 24kGoldn’s November 2019 release Dropped Outta College.)

Dior (real name: Michael Ian Olmo) reigns in his first visit to the chart.

Leading labels: The RECORDS imprint, formed in 2015, lands its first Hot 100 No. 1 with “Mood.”

Meanwhile, Columbia collects its fourth Hot 100 No. 1 of 2020, tying Republic Records for the most leaders that a label has sent to the summit for the first time this year.

17th No. 1 of 2020: “Mood” is the 17th song to ascend to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for the first time in 2020. This year marks the highest total of songs earning their first weeks on top since 17 also did in 2010 (and the most by the fourth chart week of October since Nielsen Music/MRC Data-based information began fueling the chart in November 1991).

Good ‘mood’: 24kGldn and dior boast the second Hot 100 No. 1 with the word “mood” in its title, and the first in over 59 years, since Pat Boone’s “Moody River” wound its way to the top of the June 19, 1961-dated chart.

The only other such top 10: “In the Mood,” by Ernie Fields, hit No. 4 in December 1959.

First rock & rap ruler: “Mood” tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for an eighth week each and ascends to its first week at No. 1 on Hot Rap Songs, all of which employ the same methodology as the Hot 100.

The song is the first to crown all three charts, or even both Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (formerly Hot Rock Songs), which began in 2009, and Hot Rap Songs, which dates to 1989. (Hot Alternative Songs originated this June.)

Cardi B’s “WAP,” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, rises 3-2 on the Hot 100, after four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it leads Streaming Songs for a ninth week (25.9 million, down 8%). It concurrently rules the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for a ninth week.

Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, lifts 4-3 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 peak.

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” climbs 6-4 on the Hot 100, after spending four weeks at No. 1. It returns to the top five for a record-extending 29th week in the region, while logging a 35th week in the top 10, the second-most weeks ever in the tier, after Post Malone’s “Circles” (39 weeks, 2019-20). “Lights” leads the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-padding 31st week and Radio Songs (76.8 million, down 2%) for a record-furthering 26th frame.

BTS’ “Dynamite” drops 2-5 on the Hot 100, after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it posts an eighth week atop Digital Song Sales (44,000, down 53%).

Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” falls to No. 6 on the Hot 100, a week after it vaulted from No. 8 to No. 1 aided by two new BTS remixes. (With activity for the BTS versions not outperforming those by Jawsh 685/Derulo in the latest tracking week, unlike last week, BTS is now not listed as a credited act on the song on the chart, after the group received billing on the song for the first time last week; for historical purposes, all three artists retain credit for the song’s week at No. 1 on the Hot 100.)

DaBaby’s seven-week Hot 100 leader “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, repeats at No. 7; Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth, holds at its No. 8 high, as it rules the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 13th week;  and Harry Styles’ “Watermelon Sugar” rebounds 11-9 on the Hot 100, after achieving a week at No. 1.

Internet Money and Gunna’s “Lemonade,” featuring Don Toliver and NAV, hits the Hot 100’s top 10, rising 12-10. The track, from Internet Money’s LP B4 the Storm, which debuted at its No. 10 high on the Billboard 200 in September, climbs 4-2 on Streaming Songs (21.7 million, down 7%).

Gunna claims his second Hot 100 top 10, after “Drip Too Hard,” with Lil Baby, hit No. 4 in October 2018. Production collective Internet Money, Toliver and NAV each earn their first Hot 100 top 10.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Oct. 24), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 20).

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Plus: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ is back in the top 10 for the first time in 42 years.

After a three-month wait, Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second week. The set rises 3-1 and earned 67,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 15 (down 1 percent), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated July 18, and then spent the next 13 weeks lodged in the top four positions of the list, until its return to No. 1 this week. (Further, during that 13-week span, nine of those weeks were at No. 2.)

It’s the second album in 2020 to have such a lengthy wait between weeks at No. 1, following Lil Baby’s My Turn. That album, like Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, debuted at No. 1 (on the March 14 chart) and then spent 13 weeks hovering near the top of the list (between Nos. 2-6) before returning to No. 1 (on the June 20 chart).

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 comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 24-dated chart (where Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

For the first time in over two months, there are no debuts in the top 10. The chart last had zero debuts in the top 10 on the Aug. 15-dated chart. Additionally, this week’s absence of top 10 debuts comes after two debut-filled weeks: on the Oct. 17 chart (five debuts) and the Oct. 10 chart (six debuts).

Back on the new Billboard 200, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s Savage Mode II falls 1-2 in its second week on the list, with 66,000 equivalent album units earned (down 61 percent). Three former No. 1s are next in line on the tally, as Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die climbs 8-3 (45,000 units; down 1 percent), Lil Baby’s My Turn rises 10-4 (38,000 units; up 9 percent and Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall shifts 6-5 (35,000 units; down 35 percent).

BLACKPINK’s The Album descends 2-6 in its second week, with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (down 68 percent).

After a 42-year wait, Fleetwood Mac’s former No. 1 album Rumours returns to the top 10, as the set jumps 13-7. The set is basking in the glow of sales and streaming increases spurred on by publicity generated from a viral TikTok video set to the album’s song “Dreams.”

Rumours earned 33,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 15 – up 15 percent. Of that sum, 23,000 comprise SEA units (up 15 percent, equating to 30.6 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), a little under 7,000 are in album sales (up 15 percent) and 4,000 are in TEA units (up 13 percent).

The TikTok video in question has “Dreams” soundtracking a man in a hoodie (Nathan Apodaca) seemingly being pulled on a skateboard, as he drinks from a bottle of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice and sings along with Stevie Nicks’ lead vocal. The video became so popular, it moved the band’s own Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks to create their own tribute clips.

Rumours spent 31 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1977-78 — a record number of weeks atop the list for an album by a duo or group. Rumours was last in the top 10 on the Feb. 18, 1978-dated chart (at No. 10), and last ranked at No. 7 or higher on the Feb. 11, 1978 chart (where it placed at No. 7).

The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical climbs 11-8 on the new Billboard 200 (just under 33,000 equivalent album units earned; down 4 percent), while YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s former No. 1 Top is a non-mover at No. 9 (32,000 units; down 11 percent) and Taylor Swift’s fellow former leader Folklore rises 12-10 (28,000 units; down 13 percent).

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Plus, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin debut two songs in the top 10.

Jawsh 685, Jason Derulo and BTS‘ “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” blasts to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, from No. 8, aided by new BTS remixes released at the start of the survey’s tracking week.

The song becomes the second Hot 100 No. 1 each for Derulo and BTS and the first for Jawsh 685.

Plus, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin debut two collaborations in the Hot 100’s top 10 from their new album Savage Mode II, which launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “Runnin” arrives at No. 9 on the Hot 100 and “Mr. Right Now” opens at No. 10. The latter song also marks featured artist Drake‘s record-extending 42nd Hot 100 top 10.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Oct. 17) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 13). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Here’s a deeper look at the coronation of “Savage Love,” released on Columbia Records.

Streams, sales & airplay: “Savage Love” drew 16 million U.S. streams (up 32%) and sold 76,000 downloads (up 814%) in the week ending Oct. 8, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also tallied 70.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 2%) in the week ending Oct. 11.

The track jumps 5-2 on the Digital Song Sales chart, descends 4-5 on Radio Songs and rises 20-14 on Streaming Songs, while claiming top Sales and Streaming Gainer honors on the Hot 100.

Two BTS remixes (a vocal and an instrumental version) of “Savage Love” were released at midnight ET Oct. 2. With almost all of the song’s overall airplay favoring the Jawsh 685/Derulo version, the bulk of its overall sales owed to the BTS remixes and the song’s overall streams split more evenly among the versions with and without BTS in the tracking week, its overall activity in that span favored the Jawsh 685/Derulo/BTS versions, so BTS is now officially listed on the Hot 100 as a billed act on the song for the first time.

BTS & Derulo’s second No. 1, Jawsh 685’s first: BTS achieves its second Hot 100 No. 1 with “Savage Love.” The septet scored its first leader with “Dynamite,” which debuted atop the Sept. 5 chart.

Derulo earns his second Hot 100 No. 1, after first leading with his debut entry “Whatcha Say” on the chart dated Nov. 14, 2009. He ends the longest wait between No. 1s (11 years and 11 months) since Dr. Dre went 12 years, two months and three weeks between his featured role on Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” in 1996 and “Crack a Bottle,” with Eminem and 50 Cent, in 2009.

Jawsh 685 crowns the Hot 100 in his first visit to the chart.

Biggest jump to No. 1 this year: Surging 8-1, “Savage Love” makes the greatest leap to the top of the Hot 100 since The Weeknd’s “Heartless” vaulted 32-1 on the chart dated Dec. 14, 2019, following its first full week of tracking, as well as the arrival of its official video.

16th No. 1 of 2020: “Savage Love” is the 16th song to ascend to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for the first time in 2020, one-upping the total of all of 2019. This year marks the highest total of songs earning their first weeks on top since 17 did in 2010 (and the most by the third chart week of October since Nielsen Music/MRC Data-based information began powering the chart in November 1991).

1 more thing …: “Savage Love” is the 1,111th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year archives.

The song gains induction to this chart-fan favorite club:

1st Hot 100 No. 1: “Poor Little Fool,” Ricky Nelson, Aug. 4, 1958
11th Hot 100 No. 1: “Venus,” Frankie Avalon, March 9, 1959
111th Hot 100 No. 1: “A World Without Love,” Peter and Gordon, June 27, 1964
1,111th Hot 100 No. 1: “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo x BTS, Oct. 17, 2020

Meanwhile, BTS’ “Dynamite” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. It adds a seventh week atop Digital Song Sales (94,000, up 9%); falls 13-21 on Streaming Songs (13.4 million, down 2%); and charges 39-26 on Radio Songs (27.3 million, up 18%).

With “Savage Love” at No. 1 and “Dynamite” at No. 2 on the Hot 100, BTS is the first group to double up in the top two simultaneously since The Black Eyed Peas did so for four weeks in June-July 2009 with “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling.” Only three other duos or groups have won both gold and silver medals in the same weekly competition: OutKast (eight weeks, 2003-04); Bee Gees (five, 1978); and The Beatles (10, 1964).

Cardi B’s “WAP,” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100 after four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it leads Streaming Songs for an eighth week (28.3 million, down 11%). It concurrently rules both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which employ the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for an eighth week each.

24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring iann dior, hits a new Hot 100 high, rising 5-4 with the chart’s top Airplay Gainer award, as it enters the Radio Songs top 10 (11-7; 55.1 million, up 18%). It tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a seventh week each.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, dips 4-5, after debuting at its No. 2 peak.

The Weeknd’s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Blinding Lights” is steady at No. 6, after spending a record 28 weeks in the top five. It logs a 34th week in the top 10, claiming a solo share of the second-most time tallied in the region:

Most Weeks in Hot 100’s Top 10
39, “Circles,” Post Malone, 2019-20
34, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd, 2020
33, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse),” Post Malone & Swae Lee, 2018-19
33, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, 2018-19
33, “Shape of You,” Ed Sheeran, 2017
32, “Sicko Mode,” Travis Scott, 2018-19
32, “Closer,” The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, 2016-17
32, “How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes, 1997-98
31, “Uptown Funk!,” Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, 2014-15
30, “Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish, 2019
30, “Smooth,” Santana feat. Rob Thomas, 1999-2000

“Blinding Lights” leads the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-extending 30th week and Radio Songs (79.4 million, down 1%) for a record-furthering 25th frame.

DaBaby’s seven-week Hot 100 leader “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, repeats at No. 7 and Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth, reaches a new peak, ascending 10-8, as it rules the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 12th week.

21 Savage and Metro Boomin debut two co-billed songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 from their new album Savage Mode II, as “Runnin” and “Mr. Right Now” bound in at Nos. 9 and No. 10, respectively. On Streaming Songs, the tracks start at Nos. 2 and 3 with 26.1 million and 24.7 million respective streams.

21 Savage scores his second and third Hot 100 top 10s, following his featured turn on Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” which reigned for eight weeks in 2017. Metro Boomin earns his first and second top 10s as a billed artist, after writing six top 10s, and producing five, including two No. 1s: Migos’ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert (2017), and The Weeknd’s “Heartless” (2019).

As Drake is featured on “Mr. Right Now,” he notches his record-extending 42nd Hot 100 top 10, pushing further ahead of runner-up Madonna (38). Plus, Drake posts his record-padding 27th title to debut in the top 10.

(As for last week’s Hot 100 No. 1, Travis Scott’s “Franchise,” featuring Young Thug and M.I.A., it plummets to No. 25 from the summit, where it debuted. Down 40% in streams (to 11.7 million) and 85% in sales (to 15,000), the song makes the second-steepest drop from No. 1 to another rank in the Hot 100’s history; 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj’s “Trollz” tumbled from the top, where it began, to No. 34 on the July 4-dated chart.)

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Plus: BLACKPINK, YG, Bryson Tiller and LANY debut in top 10.

Rapper 21 Savage and producer Metro Boomin’s third collaborative album, Savage Mode II, bows atop the Billboard 200 chart, earning 171,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 8, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

The album launches with the biggest week, in terms of overall units earned, for either artist. It also marks the second No. 1 for both acts, though, it’s the pair’s first of three co-billed sets to hit No. 1.

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 comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 17-dated chart (where Savage Mode II bows to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 13. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Savage Mode II’s 171,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Oct. 8, SEA units comprise 148,000 (equaling 200.1 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales total 22,000 (helped in part by merchandise/album bundles) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Savage Mode II marks the fourth top 10 for 21 Savage, and second No. 1, following I Am > I Was (No. 1 in 2019), Without Warning (a collaborative set credited to 21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin, No. 4 in 2017) and Issa Album (No. 2 in 2017).

For Metro Boomin, Savage Mode II is also his fourth top 10 and second No. 1, following Not All Heroes Wear Capes (No. 1 in 2018), Double or Nothing (a co-billed project with Big Sean, No. 6 in 2017) and Without Warning.

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, BLACKPINK’s debut full-length The Album enters with 110,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that figure, 81,000 are from album sales (boosted by merchandise/album bundles, as well as many variants of the album released on CD), 26,000 from SEA units (equaling 40.3 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and 2,000 from TEA units.

The South Korean quartet previously placed two top 40-charting EPs on the chart with Kill This Love (No. 24 in 2019) and Square Up (No. 40 in 2018). The Album marks the highest-charting album by an all-female group since Danity Kane’s second album Welcome to the Dollhouse debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 5, 2008. The Album additionally is the highest-charting debut full-length album by an all-female group since Danity Kane’s self-titled effort opened at No. 1 on Sept. 9, 2006.

Pop Smoke’s former No. 1 Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon climbs one spot to No. 3 with 68,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%).

YG nabs his fifth top 10 album, as My Life 4Hunnid bows at No. 4 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that total, 47,000 are from album sales (aided in part by merchandise/album bundles), 17,000 from SEA units (equaling 23.1 million in on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and a negligible sum from TEA units.

My Life 4Hunnid is YG’s highest charting album since My Krazy Life debuted and peaked at No. 2 (April 5, 2014). He has also visited the top 10 with Still Brazy (No. 6, 2018), Stay Dangerous (No. 5, 2018) and 4Real 4Real (No. 7, 2019).

Bryson Tiller captures his third total and consecutive top 10 album, as Anniversary debuts at No. 5 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned. That sum comprises 52,000 in SEA units (equaling 68.6 million in on-demand streams of the album’s songs), 4,000 in album sales and 1,000 in TEA units. Tiller previously hit the top 10 with his No. 1 album True to Self (2017) and Trapsoul (No. 8 in 2016).

Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall drops 1-6 in its second week on the list, earning 56,000 equivalent album units (down 56%).

LANY scores its highest charting album, and first top 10, as the trio’s Mama’s Boy bows at No. 7 with 55,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that figure, 46,000 are from album sales (assisted by merchandise/album bundles), 9,000 from SEA units (equating to 11.5 million in on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and a negligible sum from TEA units.

LANY had previously charted as high as No. 32 with its self-titled album in 2017. A follow-up, 2018’s Malibu Nights, debuted and peaked at No. 36.
Rounding out the new top 10 are a trio of former No. 1s: Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die dips 6-8 (46,000 equivalent album units earned; down 4%), YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Top is a non-mover at No. 9 (36,000 units; down 16%) and Lil Baby’s My Turn rises 12-10 (34,000 units; down 3%).

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Featured acts Young Thug & M.I.A. lead for the second and first time, respectively.

Travis Scott‘s “Franchise,” featuring Young Thug and M.I.A., blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

The track is Scott’s fourth total Hot 100 No. 1 and third to debut at the summit in less than a year, marking a new record for the fastest accumulation of three No. 1 entrances by any artist in the Hot 100’s history.

Young Thug adds his second Hot 100 No. 1 and M.I.A. earns her first.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Oct. 10) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 6). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Franchise,” released on Cactus Jack/Epic Records, is the 1,110th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year archives. Here’s a deeper look at its chart-topping start.

Streams, sales & airplay: “Franchise,” released Sept. 25 at midnight ET, opens with 19.4 million U.S. streams and 98,000 sold (58,000 on cassette and CD; 40,000 digital downloads) in its first week, ending Oct. 1, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also drew 10.6 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 4.

The track debuts at No. 2 on the Digital Song Sales chart (which reflects digital download sales) and No. 6 on Streaming Songs.

The song was available for purchase during the tracking week for digital download, as a cassette single and via two CD single options, with an instrumental version also available for download. (The physical and instrumental versions were available exclusively in Scott’s webstore, with the digital versions discounted to 69 cents and certain physical offerings discounted to $1 during the tracking week.)

Fastest span of 3 No. 1 debuts: Scott’s fourth Hot 100 No. 1 follows his three one-week leaders: “Sicko Mode,” which rose to the top of the Dec. 8, 2018-dated chart in its 17th week on the survey (all in the top 10); “Highest in the Room,” which launched atop the Oct. 19, 2019, chart; and “The Scotts” (billed as by The Scotts, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi), which began at No. 1 on the May 9, 2020, tally.

With the latest Hot 100 dated Oct. 10, Scott is the first artist ever to pack three No. 1 debuts into a span of less than a year, as “Franchise” joins “The Scotts” and “Highest in the Room” for the feat.

Scott surpasses Ariana Grande, who posted the No. 1 Hot 100 arrivals of “7 Rings,” “Stuck With U” (with Justin Bieber) and “Rain on Me” (with Lady Gaga) over a year and four months (Feb. 2, 2019-June 6, 2020).

Meanwhile, Scott is just the fifth artist with at least three No. 1 Hot 100 debuts, joining Grande, the record-holder with four, and Bieber, Mariah Carey and Drake, also each with three.

9th No. 1 debut of 2020: “Franchise” is the 44th single to start at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It’s the ninth to do so in 2020 (all since April), more than doubling the previous record for the most in a single year, as four songs entered at No. 1 in both 1995 and 2018.

15th No. 1 of 2020: Overall, “Franchise” is the 15th song to ascend to No. 1 for the first time in 2020, matching the total of all of 2019. This year marks the most songs to earn their first weeks on top since 17 did in 2010 and the most by the second chart week of October since 2007, when 16 had to that point (and 18 did for the entire year).

Young Thug & M.I.A. rule: Young Thug notches his second Hot 100 No. 1, after he first led as featured on Camila Cabello’s “Havana” for a week in January 2018.

M.I.A. makes her first trip to the top of the Hot 100, after logging three prior entries, including two top 10s: her own “Paper Planes” (No. 4, 2008) and as featured, with Nicki Minaj, on Madonna’s “Give Me All Your Luvin’ ” (No. 10, 2012).

Having first appeared on the Hot 100 dated Aug. 2, 2008, M.I.A. earns her first No. 1 after a wait of 12 years, two months and a week. She ends the longest such anticipation since Daddy Yankee took 12 years and nine months from his first charted title in August 2004 to his first leader, “Despacito,” with Luis Fonsi and featuring Bieber, in May 2017.

Among women, M.I.A. ends the longest stretch from a first Hot 100 appearance to a first No. 1 since another divine miss M: Bette Midler needed 16 years, five months and two weeks between her initial entry on the chart dated Dec. 23, 1972, and her first No. 1, “Wind Beneath My Wings,” on June 10, 1989.

(The longest such wait among all acts belongs to Santana, whose first Hot 100 leader, “Smooth,” featuring Rob Thomas, hit No. 1 in October 1999, two days shy of 30 years after the Carlos Santana-led band first appeared on the chart in October 1969.)

No. 1 hip-hop & rap: “Franchise” concurrently begins atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which employ the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. Scott scores his fifth No. 1 on each list, while Young Thug and M.I.A. each lead the respective rankings for the first time.

BTS’ “Dynamite” dips to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The single adds a sixth week atop Digital Song Sales (86,000 downloads sold, down 44%); retreats 12-13 on Streaming Songs (13.7 million streams, down 2%); and becomes the group’s first top 40 hit on the Radio Songs chart, rising 42-39 (23.1 million in audience, up 11%).

Cardi B’s “WAP,” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, slips 2-3 on the Hot 100 after four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it leads Streaming Songs for a seventh week (31.6 million, down 12%).

Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 peak, and 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring iann dior, is steady at its No. 5 high, as it tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a sixth week each.

The Weeknd’s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Blinding Lights” rebounds 7-6, after spending a record 28 weeks in the top five. It rules the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-extending 29th week and returns to No. 1 on Radio Songs (80.1 million, up 5%) for a record-padding 24th frame on top.

DaBaby’s seven-week Hot 100 leader “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, drops 6-7; Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” pushes 9-8, after reaching No. 7; and Harry Styles’ former one-week No. 1 “Watermelon Sugar” recedes 8-9.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth, keeps at its No. 10 high, as it rules the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for an 11th week.

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