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With five weeks at No. 1, “Bruno” now boasts more weeks at the summit than the other two leaders from Disney movies combined.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Disney’s hit animated film Encanto, rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fifth week.

The song, by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast (all singing as the characters that they voice in the movie), extends its mark for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 ever for a hit from a Disney movie – and now claims more weeks on top than the other two leaders from Disney movies combined.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated March 5, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 1). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Bruno” drew 29.9 million U.S. streams (down 7%), 7.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 23%) and sold 6,600 downloads (down 12%) in the Feb. 18-24 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The ensemble anthem tops the Streaming Songs chart for an eighth week and rebounds 11-5 on Digital Song Sales, which it led for a week. (It pushes 26-24 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart and bullets again at No. 32 on Pop Airplay, up 25% and 28% in plays on each respective ranking.)

Upon its Hot 100 coronation four weeks ago, “Bruno” became the first No. 1 on the chart released on Walt Disney Records; the first leader for its sole writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda; and the second No. 1 from a Disney animated film, after Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, led for a week (March 6, 1993).

As “Bruno” tops the Hot 100 for a fifth frame, it furthers its mark as the longest-leading No. 1 from any Disney movie, animated or live action. The only No. 1 from a Disney film other than “Bruno” or “World,” “All For Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from the live action The Three Musketeers, led for three weeks in 1994. Thus, with five weeks at No. 1, “Bruno” now boasts more weeks at the summit than the other two leaders from Disney movies combined.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” ranks at its No. 2 Hot 100 high for a second consecutive week. It crowns the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 23rd week each.

Notably, the top two songs on the Hot 100 were written by a single writer each: as noted above, Lin-Manuel Miranda penned “Bruno,” while Glass Animals’ frontman Dave Bayley wrote “Heat Waves.” A week earlier, the songs marked the first solo-authored titles in the top two simultaneously since Matchbox Twenty’s “Bent,” written by the band’s Rob Thomas, and Vertical Horizon’s “Everything You Want,” written by the group’s Matt Scannell, placed at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the chart dated July 29, 2000.

As “Bruno” and “Heat Waves” add a second week at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, solo-written songs claim the Hot 100’s top two positions in consecutive weeks for the first time in over 25 years, since Toni Braxton’s Diane Warren-written “Un-Break My Heart” and R. Kelly’s self-written “I Believe I Can Fly” ranked at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, for four weeks (Dec. 21, 1996-Jan. 11, 1997). Before that, a seven-week such stretch occurred Aug. 20-Oct. 1, 1994, encompassing Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories’ “Stay (I Missed You),” written by Loeb; Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You,” penned by Babyface (Kenny Edmonds); and Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey’s “Endless Love,” written by Lionel Richie (who spent nine weeks at No. 1 with its original version, with Diana Ross, in 1981).

GAYLE’s breakthrough hit “abcdefu” hits a new Hot 100 best, rising 4-3. It concurrently ascends to No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart. The song, previously a stand-alone single, will be on GAYLE’s debut EP, A Study of the Human Experience Volume One, announced Feb. 23 and due March 18.

Adele’s “Easy on Me” dips 3-4 on the Hot 100, after 10 weeks at the summit. The ballad leads Radio Songs for a 14th week (71.5 million, down 4%), extending her longest stay atop the tally. It’s also one of just nine titles to have led Radio Songs for at least 14 weeks, dating to the list’s December 1990 inception; The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” reigned for a record 26 weeks in April-October 2020.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” rebounds from No. 6 to its No. 5 Hot 100 high, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a sixth week each; The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slips 5-6 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1; Bieber’s “Ghost” lifts 8-7 for a new highpoint; and Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” backtracks 7-8, after hitting No. 4.

Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” surges back to the Hot 100’s top 10 (14-9), after it reached No. 2 for two weeks in August-September 2021. It gained by 12% to 10.4 million streams and 48% to 4,200 sold in the Feb. 18-24 tracking week following the Feb. 17 release of its remix featuring Bring Me the Horizon, which the two British acts previewed with a performance Feb. 8 at the 2022 Brit Awards.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Elton John and Dua Lipa’s “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” also revisits the region (12-10), after it hit No. 7. John expands his span of top 10s to 51 years, one month and one week, dating to his first appearance in the top 10 with “Your Song” (Jan. 23, 1971), the longest among all acts not involving holiday songs. “Cold Heart” tops the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 20th week.

“Cold Heart” additionally hits No. 1 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, where John scores his first leader (after he previously peaked at a No. 4 best with “Blessed” in 1996, the year that the list launched) and Lipa lands her third. The song topped Dance/Mix Show Airplay for 14 weeks starting last October, the sixth-longest reign since the chart began in 2003.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated March 5), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 1).

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Plus, Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” ascends to No. 2, GAYLE’s “abcdefu” hits the top five and Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to the top 10.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Disney’s hit animated film Encanto, leads the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fourth week.

The ensemble song – by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast (all singing as the characters that they voice in the movie) – claims outright the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 ever for a hit from a Disney movie, animated or live action, as it passes the three-week reign of “All for Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from The Three Musketeers, in 1994.

Meanwhile, Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” rises to a new No. 2 Hot 100 high; GAYLE’s “abcdefu” reaches the top five, climbing 7-4; and Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to the top 10, pushing 12-9 for a new best.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Feb. 26, 2022) will update on Billboard.com Wednesday (Feb. 23, a day later than usual due to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. Feb. 21). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Bruno” tallied 32.2 million U.S. streams (down 10%), 6.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 18%) and 7,500 downloads sold (down 11%) in the Feb. 11-17 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week and falls 2-11 on Digital Song Sales, which it led for a week.

Record-breaking reign for a Disney movie song:  Three weeks ago, among other honors, “Bruno” became the first Hot 100 No. 1 released on Walt Disney Records; the first leader for its sole writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda; and the second No. 1 from a Disney animated film, after Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, led for a week (March 6, 1993).

As “Bruno” rules for a fourth frame, it makes more history, solely achieving the longest Hot 100 command for a song from any Disney movie, animated or live action, one-upping the three-week reign of “All for Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from the live-action The Three Musketeers, in January-February 1994.

Here’s a recap of the highest-charting Hot 100 hits from Disney movies, animated and live-action combined:

Peak position, Year Title, Artist, Disney production (* denotes live-action film) (Label)

• No. 1 (four weeks to-date), 2022, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto Cast, Encanto (Walt Disney)
• No. 1 (three weeks), 1994, “All for Love,” Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting, The Three Musketeers* (A&M)
• No. 1 (one), 1993, “A Whole New World,” Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle, Aladdin (Columbia)
• No. 4, 2009, “The Climb,” Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie* (Walt Disney/Hollywood)
• No. 4, 2006, “Breaking Free,” Zac Efron, Andrew Seeley & Vanessa Anne Hudgens, High School Musical* (Walt Disney)
• No. 4, 1995, “Colors of the Wind,” Vanessa Williams, Pocahontas (Hollywood)
• No. 4, 1994, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Elton John, The Lion King (Hollywood)
• No. 5, 2014, “Let It Go,” Idina Menzel, Frozen (Walt Disney)

Soundtrack & song No. 1 for fourth week simultaneously: As “Bruno” tops the Hot 100 for a fourth week, its parent album, the Encanto soundtrack, leads the Billboard 200 albums chart for a sixth week (and fifth in a row), with 98,000 equivalent album units (down 11%).

Encanto and “Bruno” mark the first soundtrack and corresponding song to have led the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for at least four weeks in 29 years, since Whitney Houston’s soundtrack to The Bodyguard and “I Will Always Love You” lined up atop the respective rankings for 12 weeks (Dec. 12, 1992-Feb. 27, 1993; coincidentally, “Always” was dethroned by “A Whole New World”).

Longest double domination for any album and song since 2018: Beyond soundtracks, Encanto and “Bruno” are the first album and corresponding song overall to have topped the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for as many as four weeks since Drake’s Scorpion and “In My Feelings” on the charts dated July 21-Aug. 11, 2018.

‘It’s like I hear him now …’: “Bruno” continues to scale the Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay charts, rising 31-26 (up 44% in plays) on the former and 40-32 (up 45%) on the latter.

The song’s all-format radio audience has risen from 1.5 million to 3.6 million (up 132%) to 5.5 million (up 53%) to 6.5 million (up 18%) over its Hot 100 reign.

WNEW New York led all Adult Pop Airplay chart reporters with 525,000 in audience for “Bruno” in the Feb. 11-17 tracking week, while KIIS Los Angeles paced all Pop Airplay panelists with 420,000 impressions.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” ascends 4-2 for a new Hot 100 best (after it charted as high as No. 3). The song reaches the runner-up spot in its 57th week on the chart, shattering the mark for the longest climb to the top two, previously held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (35 weeks, over multiple seasonal runs until the 1994 classic hit No. 1 for the first time in December 2019).

“Heat Waves” tops the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 22nd week each and spends a second week atop Adult Pop Airplay; it previously led Alternative Airplay for three weeks and Pop Airplay for two frames.

Adele’s “Easy on Me” holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after 10 weeks at the summit. It leads Radio Songs for a 13th week (77.3 million, down 7%), extending her longest stay atop the tally.

GAYLE’s breakthrough hit “abcdefu” reaches the Hot 100’s top five, pushing 7-4. It likewise enters the Radio Songs top five (8-5; 54.8 million, up 3%).

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” repeats at No. 5 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1; Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” holds at No. 6, after reaching No. 5, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fifth week each; and Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” rebounds 8-7 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 4.

Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” hovers at No. 8, up from No. 9, for a new Hot 100 best. As previously reported, it becomes his 10th Pop Airplay No. 1, the most among male soloists.

Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, advancing 12-9 for a new high. The song debuted at its previous No. 10 best on the Oct. 2, 2021, chart as parent album Montero opened at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The track (which has remained in the Hot 100’s top half each week since its debut) drew 52.3 million in radio reach and 8.6 million streams and sold 3,200 in the tracking week.

The single topped the Feb. 19-dated Pop Airplay chart, becoming the third No. 1 on the survey from Montero, after “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” and “Industry Baby,” the latter with Jack Harlow.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Gunna and Future’s “Pushin P,” featuring Young Thug, re-enters the tier (11-10). It spent three weeks at its No. 7 high starting upon its Jan. 22 debut.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Feb. 26), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 23).

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Plus: Eminem and Dr. Dre return to the top 10 following Super Bowl halftime show.

The Encanto soundtrack stays firm at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for a sixth nonconsecutive week on top. It is now tied with Adele’s 30 for the third-most weeks at No. 1 in the last five years. Only Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (with 10) and Taylor Swift’s Folklore (eight) have tallied more weeks at No. 1 since January 2017.

Encanto earned 98,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 17 (down 11%), according to MRC Data.

Plus, Eminem’s Curtain Call: The Hits and Dr. Dre’s Dr. Dre – 2001 albums both return to the top 10, following the artists’ performance during the Super Bowl LVI halftime show on Feb. 13.

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, compiled by MRC Data. 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 Feb. 26, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 23 (one day later than usual, due to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. on Feb. 21). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Encanto’s 98,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 83,000 (down 9%, equaling 123.44 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 12,500 (down 25%) and TEA units comprise 2,500 (down 8%).

A trio of former No. 1s trail Encanto, as Gunna’s DS4Ever holds at No. 2 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%), Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album rises 4-3 with 42,000 units (up 3%) and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy climbs 7-4 with 34,000 units (though down 3%).

The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights bumps 8-5 with 33,000 equivalent album units earned (down 2%), Doja Cat’s Planet Her ascends 10-6 with 31,000 units (down 2%) and Adele’s 30 moves 9-7 with nearly 31,000 units (down 3%).

Eminem and Dr. Dre return to the top 10 on the Billboard 200, following their co-headlining performance during the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 13. Eminem’s former No. 1 Curtain Call: The Hits vaults from 126-8 with almost 31,000 equivalent album units earned (up 256%) while Dr. Dre’s Dr. Dre – 2001 zooms 108-9 with 30,500 units (up 220%). Eminem and Dr. Dre starred in the halftime show alongside Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar, with special guests 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak.

Curtain Call returns to the top 10 for the first time since the March 11, 2006 chart, when it ranked at No. 8. It debuted atop the Billboard 200 dated Dec. 24, 2005. Dr. Dre – 2001 debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Dec. 4, 1999-dated chart and was last in the top 10 on the May 13, 2000, list (No. 9).

During the halftime show, Eminem performed “Lose Yourself,” which is featured on Curtain Call, while three tracks included on Dr. Dre – 2001 were also performed during halftime: “The Next Episode,” “Forgot About Dre” and “Still D.R.E.”

Of Curtain Call’s 31,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 26,000 (up 227%, equaling 37.67 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 1,500 (up 267%) and TEA units comprise 3,500 (up 1,015%). As for Dr. Dre – 2001’s 30,500-unit total, SEA units comprise 21,500 (up 168%, equaling 30.56 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 4,000 (up 323%) and TEA units comprise 5,000 (up 860%).

Closing out the top 10 on the Billboard 200 is Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1, Sour, rising 12-10 with just over 30,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%).

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Plus, Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby’s “Do We Have a Problem?” launches at No. 2 and Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” hits the top 10, rising to No. 9.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Disney’s hit animated film Encanto, tops the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a third week.

The ensemble song – by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast (all singing as the characters that they voice in the movie) – ties for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 ever for a hit from a Disney movie, animated or live-action, matching the three-week reign of “All for Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from The Three Musketeers, in 1994.

Plus, Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby’s “Do We Have a Problem?” soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 2 and Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” reaches the top 10, ascending to No. 9.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Feb. 19, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 15). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

In the Feb. 4-10 tracking week, “Bruno,” according to MRC Data, tallied 35.6 million U.S. streams (down 5%), 5.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 53%) and 8,400 downloads sold (down 38%; it was aided by 69-cent discount pricing in the iTunes Store the prior two weeks).

The track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a sixth week and holds at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales, three weeks after it topped the latter list.

Record-tying domination for a Disney movie song:  Two weeks ago, among other achievements, “Bruno” became the first Hot 100 No. 1 released on Walt Disney Records; the first leader for its sole writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda; and the second No. 1 from a Disney animated film, after Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, led for a week (March 6, 1993).

As “Bruno” reigns for a third frame, it adds more history, tying for the longest Hot 100 command for a song from any Disney movie, animated or live-action, equaling the three-week reign of “All for Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from the live-action The Three Musketeers, in January-February 1994.

Here’s a recap of the highest-charting Hot 100 hits from Disney movies, animated and live-action combined:

Peak position, Year Title, Artist, Disney production (* denotes live-action film) (Label)
No. 1 (three weeks to-date), 2022, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto Cast, Encanto (Walt Disney)
No. 1 (three weeks), 1994, “All for Love,” Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting, The Three Musketeers* (A&M)
No. 1 (one), 1993, “A Whole New World,” Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle, Aladdin (Columbia)
No. 4, 2009, “The Climb,” Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie* (Walt Disney/Hollywood)
No. 4, 2006, “Breaking Free,” Zac Efron, Andrew Seeley & Vanessa Anne Hudgens, High School Musical* (Walt Disney)
No. 4, 1995, “Colors of the Wind,” Vanessa Williams, Pocahontas (Hollywood)
No. 4, 1994, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Elton John, The Lion King (Hollywood)
No. 5, 2014, “Let It Go,” Idina Menzel, Frozen (Walt Disney)

Most weeks at No. 1 for Disney Music Group: While “Bruno” is the first Hot 100 No. 1 for Walt Disney Records, it’s the second for the Disney Music Group, which includes the Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records labels. “Bruno” now claims the longest reign outright for a Disney Music Group hit, passing its sole other leader to-date: Hollywood release “Hey There Delilah” by Plain White T’s led for two weeks in July-August 2007.

Soundtrack & song No. 1 for third week simultaneously: As “Bruno” tops the Hot 100 for a third week, its parent album, the Encanto soundtrack, crowns the Billboard 200 albums chart for a fifth week (and fourth in a row), with 110,000 equivalent album units (down 2%).

Encanto and “Bruno” mark the first soundtrack and corresponding song to have led the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for at least three weeks in over 26 years, since Dangerous Minds and Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise,” featuring L.V., aligned atop the respective rankings dated Sept. 9, 16 and 23, 1995.

Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby’s “Do We Have a Problem?” bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 2, with 24.4 million streams, 3.7 million in radio reach and 48,000 sold in its first week, following its Feb. 4 release.

Minaj adds her 20th Hot 100 top 10. She’s the 22nd artist to reach the milestone over the chart’s history (which dates to 1958), and the seventh woman, after Madonna (38), Rihanna (31), Taylor Swift (30), Mariah Carey (28), Janet Jackson (27) and Whitney Houston (23). Drake leads all acts with 54 top 10s.

In Minaj’s two most recent trips to the Hot 100’s top 10 before “Problem,” she earned her first two No. 1s: as featured on Doja Cat’s “Say So,” which topped the May 16, 2020-dated chart, and with 6ix9ine on “Trollz,” which bowed atop the June 27, 2020, chart.

Lil Baby notches his ninth Hot 100 top 10 and ties his best rank and debut: he previously began at No. 2 as featured on two Drake tracks: “Wants and Needs” (March 2021) and “Girls Want Girls” (September 2021).

“Problem” concurrently starts atop Digital Song Sales (via three versions: its original mix, a clean edit and its instrumental track), where it’s Minaj’s ninth No. 1 and Lil Baby’s first, and No. 2 on Streaming Songs. It also premieres at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100; Minaj posts her seventh leader on each genre list and Lil Baby lands his first.

Adele’s “Easy on Me” descends 2-3 on the Hot 100, after 10 weeks on top, as it tied “Hello” in 2015-16 for her personal-best reign, among her five No. 1s. “Easy” leads the Radio Songs chart for a 12th week (85.3 million, down 4%), passing “Hello” for her longest stay atop the airplay tally, also among her five No. 1s.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” drops to No. 4 on the Hot 100 from its No. 3 high. The track also tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 21st week each and hits No. 1 on Adult Pop Airplay; it previously led Alternative Airplay for three weeks and Pop Airplay for two frames.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slips 4-5 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1; Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” falls to No. 6 from its No. 5 high; GAYLE’s “abcdefu” backtracks to No. 7 from its No. 6 best, as it wins the chart’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third week (52.9 million, up 15%); and Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” slides 7-8, after hitting No. 4.

Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” reaches the Hot 100’s top 10, rising 12-9. The song drew 62 million airplay impressions (up 6%) and 7.9 million streams (up 8%) and sold 3,400 (up 20%) in the tracking week. It lifts 5-4 on Radio Songs, 24-17 on Digital Song Sales and 40-36 on Streaming Songs.

Bieber banks his 26th Hot 100 top 10, pushing him into a solo share of the 11th-most top 10s in the chart’s history.

“Ghost” was released on Bieber’s album Justice, which in April 2021 debuted as his eighth Billboard 200 No. 1. As it enters the Hot 100’s top 10 in its 20th week on the chart, it completes his longest trek to the tier, surpassing the 18-week journey of Skrillex and Diplo’s No. 8-peaking “Where Are Ü Now,” featuring Bieber, in 2015. (Of Bieber’s 26 top 10s, 17 have debuted in the top 10.)

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Jessica Darrow’s “Surface Pressure,” from Encanto, retreats to No. 10 from its No. 8 high.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Feb. 19), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 15).

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Plus: Yo Gotti and Mitski score their highest charting albums ever on the Billboard 200 with their latest releases.

Walt Disney Records’ Encanto soundtrack spends its fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming the soundtrack with the most weeks atop the chart since Disney’s own Frozen ruled for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2014.

With their totals at No. 1 (so far), Frozen and Encanto boast the most, and second-most, weeks at No. 1, respectively, among soundtracks in the 21st century.

Encanto earned 110,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 10 (down 2%), according to MRC Data.

Also in the top 10, both Yo Gotti and Mitski land their highest-charting albums ever on the Billboard 200, as the former’s CM10: Free Game debuts at No. 3 and the latter’s Laurel Hell arrives at No. 5.

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, compiled by MRC Data. 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 Feb. 19, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Encanto’s 110,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 91,000 (down 3%, equaling 134.82 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 17,000 (up 5%) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 28%).

Encanto continues to be powered largely by streaming activity for its songs, including its five top 40-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100: “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (which spent its second week atop the most recently published list, dated Feb. 12), “Surface Pressure,” “The Family Madrigal,” “What Else Can I Do?” and the Academy Award-nominated “Dos Oruguitas.”

Notably, Encanto is one of only six soundtracks to spend at least five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the last 30 years. Before Encanto, there was Frozen (13 weeks, 2014), Titanic (16, 1998), Waiting to Exhale (five, 1996), The Lion King (10, 1994-95) and the Whitney Houston-led The Bodyguard (20, 1992-93). (Before that, the last soundtrack with at least five weeks at No. 1 was Prince’s Batman in 1989, with six weeks at No. 1.) The soundtrack — and overall album — with the most weeks at No. 1 is West Side Story, with 54 weeks atop the list in 1962-63.

Back on the new Billboard 200, Gunna’s former No. 1 DS4Ever rises 3-2 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned (though down 13%).

Yo Gotti achieves his highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200, as CM10: Free Game debuts at No. 3 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the rapper’s fifth top 10 on the chart and surpasses his previous high of No. 4 with The Art of the Hustle in 2016.

Of CM10: Free Game’s 46,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 43.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 15,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. On Feb. 4, CM10: Free Game was initially released in two versions: an 11-song edition and a 22-song version (both containing the same core 11 songs). On Feb. 7, a 25-song deluxe edition of the album was released with three bonus tracks.

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%).

Mitski’s Laurel Hell arrives at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, marking the highest-charting album ever for the singer-songwriter, and first to reach the top 40. The new album is Mitski’s sixth full-length studio set and first since she became wildly popular on TikTok. (Mitski’s last album was released in 2018.)

Laurel Hell was released on Feb. 4 via the record label Dead Oceans, and launches with 36,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 24,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 12,000 (equaling 15.63 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Laurel Hell also captures career-high weeks for Mitski, both in terms of units earned and album sales.

Notably, Laurel Hell sold nearly 17,000 copies on vinyl LP — the largest vinyl sales week for any album released in 2022, and largest vinyl debut for an album by a female artist since Adele’s 30 launched with 35,000 (Dec. 4, 2021-dated chart).

Mitski previously charted just one album on the Billboard 200, with Be the Cowboy spending one week at No. 52 in 2018. (It also peaked at No. 6 on Top Alternative Albums and No. 7 on Top Rock Albums.) Mitski made her Billboard album chart debut in 2016 with Puberty 2 on a range of charts, including Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums (peaking at Nos. 19 and 32, respectively).

Mitski also recently snared her first top 10 any Billboard song chart, as the new album’s “The Only Heartbreaker” has hit No. 8 on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart (on the lists dated Feb. 5 and 12).

Laurel Hell is also the first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 for Dead Oceans, and the fourth to reach the top 40. The label’s previous high came in 2020 with Khruangbin’s No. 31-peaking Mordechai (released via Night Time Stories/Dead Oceans).

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are The Weeknd’s Dawn FM (falling 2-6 with 35,000 equivalent album units; down 49%), Drake’s chart-topping Certified Lover Boy (holding at No. 7 with nearly 35,000; up 1%), The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights (steady at No. 8 with 34,000; up 2%), Adele’s former leader 30 (6-9 with 32,000; down 7%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her (9-10 with 32,000; down 2%).

The Weeknd has now gone five straight weeks with two albums concurrently in the top 10. He’s the first to do so since early 2017, when Pentatonix strung together five weeks in a row with a pair of albums in the top 10 (Dec. 17, 2016 — Jan. 14, 2017; with two holiday efforts — That’s Christmas To Me and A Pentatonix Christmas). Excluding Christmas/holiday albums, Justin Bieber was the last to manage the feat, with five straight weeks in the top 10 from April 10-May 8, 2010, with My World and My World 2.0. (In 2010, the Billboard 200 was ranked solely by traditional album sales. It did not transition to become an equivalent album units ranked chart until Dec. 2014.)

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The song is the first multi-weekly leader for an animated Disney hit; reaches new highs in streaming, sales and radio airplay; and enters its first airplay charts.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Disney’s Encanto, casts its spell atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a second week.

The ensemble song – by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast (all singing as the characters that they voice in the movie) – becomes the first song from a Disney animated film to lead the Hot 100 for multiple weeks. It one-ups the only other such song to have reigned: Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s Aladdin theme “A Whole New World,” which spent a week at No. 1 in 1993.

Meanwhile, “Bruno” logs its highest weekly totals yet in streaming, sales and radio airplay, as it reaches its first airplay charts: Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Feb. 12, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 8). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

New highs in streams, airplay & sales: “Bruno” drew new weekly bests of 37.6 million U.S. streams (up 8%), 3.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 132%) and 13,600 downloads sold (up 10%, aided by 69-cent discount pricing in the iTunes Store, and good for the Hot 100’s top Sales Gainer trophy for a second straight week) in the Jan. 28-Feb. 3 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week and rises 3-2 on Digital Song Sales, two weeks after it led the latter list.

Record domination for a Disney animated movie song: A week ago, among other feats, “Bruno” became the first Hot 100 No. 1 released on Walt Disney Records; the first leader for its sole writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda; and the second No. 1 from a Disney animated film, after Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, ruled for a week (March 6, 1993).

As “Bruno” reigns for a second frame, it becomes the first song from a Disney animated movie to have led the Hot 100 for multiple weeks.

(While “Bruno” is the first Hot 100 No. 1 for Walt Disney Records, it’s the second for the Disney Music Group, which includes the Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records labels. “Bruno” now equals the reign of Disney Music Group’s sole other leader to-date: Hollywood release “Hey There Delilah” by Plain White T’s led for two weeks in 2007.)

‘Bruno’ bows on airplay charts: As all-format radio audience for “Bruno” bounds by 132% to 3.6 million, the song appears on its first radio-based rankings, as it debuts at No. 33 on Adult Pop Airplay and No. 38 on Pop Airplay.

(The Adult Pop Airplay chart reflects total weekly plays among its reporting panel of 80 adult top 40 stations. Pop Airplay reflects plays among over 150 mainstream top 40 stations.)

WGER Saginaw, Mich., led all Adult Pop Airplay reporters with 41 plays for “Bruno” in the tracking week, followed by KIOI San Francisco (36); KEZR San Jose, Calif. (30); and WNEW New York (24). Among Pop Airplay panelists, KYLD San Francisco and WARQ Columbia, S.C., led with 37 plays each for the song, followed by KCRZ Fresno, Calif. (22); WPYO Orlando, Fla. (19); and KJYO Oklahoma City, Okla. (18).

Soundtrack & song both No. 1 for second week: As “Bruno” crowns the Hot 100 for a second week, its parent album, the Encanto soundtrack, tops the Billboard 200 albums chart for a fourth week (and third in a row), with 113,000 equivalent album units (down 2%).

Encanto and “Bruno” mark the first soundtrack and corresponding song to have led the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for multiple weeks in over 19 years, since 8 Mile and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” ruled the respective rankings dated Jan. 11 and 18, 2003. Before that, the last such multi-week double domination belonged to Titanic and Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” on the charts dated Feb. 28 and March 7, 1998.

(Reel talk: Encanto includes an ode to Titanic, at the 1:44 mark of Jessica Darrow’s “Surface Pressure”; see below for more on the song, which hits a new high in the top 10.)

Among all instances of a soundtrack and one of its songs topping the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously, Encanto and “Bruno” last week marked the first tandem to claim such a coronation for even a week since A Star Is Born and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow” (March 9, 2019).

Meanwhile, “Bruno” is now the first soundtrack song to top the Hot 100 for multiple weeks since Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” featuring Charlie Puth, from Furious 7, tallied 12 weeks at No. 1 in April-July 2015. In between, three soundtrack hits led for a week each: Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!,” from Trolls (May 28, 2016); Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower,” from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Jan. 19, 2019); and “Shallow.”

‘Encanto’ debuts on Hot 100: Encanto music bookends the latest Hot 100, as Carlos Vives’ “Colombia, Mi Encanto” debuts at No. 100. The song by the venerable star – like Gaitán and Castillo, from Colombia – is the eighth from the Encanto soundtrack to hit the Hot 100.

Adele’s “Easy on Me” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after 10 weeks at the summit, as it tied “Hello” in 2015-16 for her personal-best command, among her five No. 1s. “Easy” leads the Radio Songs chart for an 11th week (88.3 million, down 7%), likewise matching “Hello” for her longest reign on the airplay tally. “Easy” also drew 13.1 million streams (down 7%) and sold 4,300 downloads (down 19%) in the tracking week.

The songs at Nos. 3 through 5 on the Hot 100 also repeat their ranks from a week earlier, led by Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves.” The track, at its highest placement, concurrently tops the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 20th week each.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. The collab has spent its first 30 weeks on the chart in the top 10, becoming just the fifth song to achieve the feat; Post Malone’s “Circles” set a record by logging its first 38 weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” keeps at its No. 5 Hot 100 high, as it tops the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fourth week each.

GAYLE’s breakthrough hit “abcdefu” hits a new Hot 100 best, rising 8-6, as it wins the chart’s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week (45.7 million, up 23%). The track also reaches the Radio Songs top 10 for the first time (12-10).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” slips 6-7, after hitting No. 4; Jessica Darrow’s “Surface Pressure,” from Encanto, ascends to a new best, lifting 9-8; Gunna and Future’s “Pushin P,” featuring Young Thug, drops to No. 9 from its No. 7 high; and Doja Cat’s “Need to Know” returns to the region, rising 11-10 after reaching No. 8.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Feb. 12), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 8).

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