Plus, Billie Eilish earns her first top five hit with “Bad Guy.”

Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, leads the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a seventh week.

The song fends off Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber‘s “I Don’t Care,” which blasts in at No. 2. Plus, Billie Eilishachieves her first top five Hot 100 hit, as “Bad Guy” bounds from No. 9 to No. 4.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated May 25), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 21).

As on the Hot 100, “Road” rules the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week, with 103.1 million U.S. streams (down 1%) in the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. The song set the weekly streaming record following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus, and now claims six of the eight biggest streaming weeks ever:

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,” April 27, 2019
116.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Drake, July 28, 2018
114.4 million, “Old Town Road,” May 4, 2019
106.2 million, “In My Feelings,” Aug. 4, 2018
104.1 million, “Old Town Road,” May 18, 2019
104 million, “Old Town Road,” May 11, 2019
103.1 million, “Old Town Road,” May 25, 2019

Volume for “Road” should surge on next week’s charts (dated June 1) following the Friday (May 17) premiere of its official video.

The track dips to No. 2 on the Digital Song Sales chart, after four weeks at No. 1, with 69,000 downloads sold (down 12%) in the week ending May 16.

On the Radio Songs chart, “Road” pushes 4-3, with 83.8 million audience impressions, up 8%, in the week ending May 19. It also takes over atop both the Rhythmic Songs (2-1) and Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop (7-1) format airplay charts, marking Lil Nas X’s first No. 1s on any Billboard radio rankings. Cyrus, meanwhile, scores his first No. 1 on an airplay tally since his breakthrough smash “Achy Breaky Heart” dominated Country Airplay for five weeks in May and June 1992.

“Road” concurrently crowns the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a seventh week each.

Sheeran and Bieber’s “I Don’t Care,” released at midnight ET Friday, May 10, soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 2, as it opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (77,000) and No. 3 on Streaming Songs (34.1 million) and charges 33-13 on Radio Songs (49.1 million). Like “Road,” the official video for “Care” premiered Friday (May 17).

Top 10 totals: Bieber banks his 15th Hot 100 top 10 and Sheeran adds his seventh. While “Care” marks their first song co-billed as artists, Sheeran co-wrote two Bieber top 10s: “Love Yourself” (No. 1 for two weeks in February 2016) and Major Lazer‘s “Cold Water,” featuring Bieber and MO (No. 2, August 2016).

Bieber and Sheeran also contributed vocals to Lil Dicky‘s recent No. 17 Hot 100 hit“Earth,” in the roles of, respectively, a baboon (who’s like a man, just less advanced, and … they have other differences …) and a koala bear (that sleeps all the time; so what? It’s cute).

No. 1 in sales: Bieber adds his ninth Digital Song Sales No. 1 and 30th top 10. Sheeran scores his fourth No. 1 and 10th top 10. Taylor Swift leads all artists with 16 No. 1s and 45 top 10s on the tally.

Most No. 2 debuts:  Bieber extends his mark for the most No. 2 entrances on the Hot 100 to four. He previously opened at the runner-up spot with “Boyfriend” (April 14, 2012), “Sorry” (Nov. 14, 2015) and “Cold Water” (Aug. 13, 2016). Of those songs, “Sorry” went on to hit No. 1 (for three weeks).

“Care” is the 28th single to debut at No. 2 on the Hot 100. Mariah Carey made the first such arrival with “Always Be My Baby” (April 6, 1996), which subsequently reigned for two weeks.

More Max Martin: Sheeran and Bieber co-wrote “Care” with Max Martin, among the song’s six authors. Martin boasts 22 Hot 100 No. 1s and nine hits that have hit No. 2 (including “Care”). He last reached such heights as a writer via Ariana Grande’s “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored,” which debuted at its No. 2 peak in February.

Jonas Brothers‘ former one-week Hot 100 leader “Sucker” rises 4-3 and becomes the trio’s first No. 1 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart. It spends a fifth week atop Pop Songs, where it’s also the act’s first No. 1.

Billie Eilish notches her first top five Hot 100 hit as “Bad Guy” roars 9-4, besting its prior No. 7 peak. The track returns to its No. 2 high on Streaming Songs (from No. 3), up 4% to 39.9 million U.S. streams; rises 11-8 on Digital Song Sales (15,000, up 15%); and debuts at No. 43 on Radio Songs (24.1 million, up 42%).

Post Malone‘s “Wow.” rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2, and his and Swae Lee‘s one-week No. 1 “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” rises 7-6.

Sam Smith and Normani‘s “Dancing With a Stranger” revisits the Hot 100’s top 10 and its No. 7 high (from No. 11), as it rules Radio Songs for a second week (106.6 million, up 4%).

Taylor Swift‘s “Me!,” featuring Brendon Urie, drops 3-8 on the Hot 100, after arriving at No. 2 two weeks ago, and Khalid re-enters the top 10 (12-9) with his No. 8-peaking “Talk,” which becomes his fourth Radio Songs top 10 (12-6; 70.2 million, up 21%, good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100). “Talk” tops the Hot R&B Songs chart for a fourth week.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Halsey‘s two-week No. 1 “Without Me” backtracks 8-10, as it ties for the eighth-most weeks spent in the top 10 in the chart’s 60-year history:

Most weeks in Hot 100’s top 10
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, “Smooth,” Santana feat, Rob Thomas, 1999-2000
29, “Without Me,” Halsey, 2018-19
29, “Party Rock Anthem,” LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock, 2011-12

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 (May 21), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (May 24).

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Plus: Sammy Hagar and Mac DeMarco debut in top 10.

Logic notches his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind debuts atop the tally.

The set starts with 80,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 24,000 were in album sales. Confessions were released on May 10 via Visionary/Def Jam Recordings.

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 25-dated chart, where Confessions bows at No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on May 21.

Logic previously led the list with Bobby Tarantino II (in 2018) and Everybody (2017). Logic made his Billboard 200 debut in 2014 with Under Pressure, which peaked at No. 4 — his first of six top 10 albums (including Confessions).

Confessions’ debut frame was largely powered by streaming activity, as the set racked up 54,000 SEA units (of its total 80,000 overall units). That 54,000 SEA number equates to 73.93 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks in the album’s debut frame, which also made it the most streamed album of the week.

Billie Eilish’s When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is steady at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 with 68,000 units (down 3%), while Khalid’s Free Spirit is also a non-mover, holding at No. 3 with 46,000 units (down 8%).

Sammy Hagar & The Circle’s Space Between debuts at No. 4, granting Hagar his first top 10 album ever. The set opens with 40,000 equivalent albums units earned. The sizable sales week was mostly powered by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for the rocker’s tour that started in April. The sales start also marks Hagar’s third-largest sales week since Nielsen Music began tracking data in 1991.

While Space Between marks Hagar’s first visit to the top 10 as a solo act, he’s been heard on seven previous top 10s with his former band Van Halen (six between 1986-1996, and then one more in 2004), and two with the supergroup Chickenfoot(2009-20110). Notably, Hagar’s band on Space, The Circle, boasts former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, alongside guitarist Vic Johnson and drummer Jason Bonham. Hagar previously topped out on the chart at No. 14 in 1987 with I Never Said Goodbye.

Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next, is stationary at No. 5 on the new Billboard 200 (36,000 units; down 11 percent), while Queen’s Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection vaults 29-6 with 32,000 units (up 92%) thanks to sale pricing in the iTunes Store. The 51-track collection was deeply discounted to just $6.99 during the tracking week, thus stirring its 53% sales hike (rising to 9,000 sold) and 391% digital sales increase (jumping to 6,000 sold).

Luke Combs’ This One’s For You jumps 12-7, revisiting the top 10 for the first time in nearly a year. The album, which was released in 2017, was last in the top 10 (at No. 10) on the July 28, 2018-dated chart, and peaked at No. 4 on June 16 of that same year (following a deluxe reissue of the set).

In the latest tracking week, This One’s For You earned 28,000 equivalent album units (up an overall 5%) and gained in album sales (up 12%), TEA units (up 8%) and SEA units (up 3%). The rise in activity is likely owed to promotion and excitement generated by Combs’ new single “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” which was released on May 8, and which Combs preformed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonon May 9. (The track is not on This One’s For You, but is from a forthcoming new album.)

DaBaby’s Baby On Baby hits a new high and reaches the top 10 for the first time, as the album rises 14-8 with nearly 28,000 equivalent album units (up 9%). The set debuted at No. 25 on the chart dated March 16, and has never left the top 40. The album has increased in units in six of the last eight weeks, mostly derived from streaming activity (led by the set’s song “Suge”).

Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys is steady at No. 9 on the new Billboard 200, with 27,000 units earned (down 5%).

Closing out the new top 10 is Mac DeMarco, who logs his first top 10 album with Here Comes the Cowboy bowing at No. 10. The set earned nearly 27,000 equivalent album units, with 20,000 of that sum generated by album sales. The latter figure was enhanced by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with DeMarco’s tour, which began earlier in May.

Here Comes the Cowboy is DeMarco’s fourth chart entry and fourth top 40-charting effort. He previously visited the chart with This Old Dog (No. 29 in 2017), Another One (No. 25; 2015) and Salad Days (No. 30; 2014).

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Mendes scores a career-best No. 2 rank.

Lil Nas X extends his reign atop the Billboard Hot 100 to a sixth week with “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

Meanwhile, two songs launch on the Hot 100 in the top five: Shawn Mendesdebuts at a career-best No. 2 rank with “If I Can’t Have You” and Logic enters at No. 5 with “Homicide,” featuring Eminem.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated May 18), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 14).

As on the Hot 100, “Road” leads the Streaming Songs chart for a sixth week, with 104.1 million U.S. streams (up less than 1%) in the week ending May 9, according to Nielsen Music. “Road” set the weekly streaming record following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus, and now claims five of the seven biggest streaming weeks ever:

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
104.1 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, May 18, 2019
104 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, May 11, 2019

“Road” rebounds 2-1 on the Digital Song Sales chart for a fourth week at No. 1, with 78,000 downloads sold (up 1%) in the week ending May 9.

On the Radio Songs chart, “Road” rises 6-4, with 77.6 million audience impressions, up 16%, in the week ending May 12, good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for the fourth time in five weeks.

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 ruled for six weeks in 2015 with his first Hot 100 hit, “Cheerleader.” No such rookie No. 1 has led longer since earlier in 2015, when Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!,” featuring Bruno Mars, dominated for 14 weeks beginning that January. (Before then, Ronson tallied two top 10s as a writer and producer, of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab,” a No. 9 hit in 2007, and Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven,” No. 1 for six weeks in 2012-13.)

“Road” concurrently adds a sixth week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Mendes’ “If I Can’t Have You” soars in at a personal-best No. 2 on the Hot 100, as it opens at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (64,000) and No. 8 on Streaming Songs (24 million) and bounds 43-27 on Radio Songs (35.7 million).

Mendes notches his fourth Hot 100 top 10, following “Stitches” (No. 4, 2015), “Treat You Better” (No. 6, 2016) and “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” (No. 6, 2017). He easily achieves his highest debut, besting the No. 24 start (and peak) of his first entry, “Life of the Party,” in 2014.

Title disco-graphy: Upon its arrival, “If I Can’t Have You” is the second-highest-charting Hot 100 hit by that title. Yvonne Elliman’s song of the same name topped the chart exactly 41 years ago today (May 13, 1978). The classic was written by the Bee Gees and released from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

Taylor Swift‘s “Me!,” featuring Brendon Urie, dips to No. 3 from its No. 2 Hot 100 high reached a week earlier, when it made a record 98-spot vault after its first full week of tracking. The collab falls from No. 1 to No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (29,000, down 85%) and 2-5 on Streaming Songs (26.8 million, down 47%), while ascending to the Radio Songs top 10 (13-10; 62.2 million, up 15%).

Swift scores her 15th Radio Songs top 10, while Panic! at the Disco frontman Urie earns his first as a soloist; In December, Panic achieved its first No. 1 (with its first top 10), as “High Hopes” began a 14-week command.

Jonas Brothers‘ former one-week leader “Sucker” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100.

Logic’s “Homicide” bounds in at No. 5 on the Hot 100, starting at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (36.3 million) and No. 3 on Digital Song Sales (42,000).

Logic lands his second Hot 100 top 10, after “1-800-273-8255,” featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid (No. 3, September 2017). Eminem earns his 21st top 10, tying JAY-Z for the third-most top 10s among rappers, after Drake (33) and Lil Wayne (24).

Thanks to Mendes and Logic’s entrances, the Hot 100 boasts two simultaneous top five debuts for the first time since Oct. 27, 2018, when songs also started at Nos. 2 and 5: Kodak Black’s “ZEZE,” featuring Travis Scott and Offset, and Bad Bunny’s “MIA,” featuring Drake, respectively.

Post Malone‘s “Wow.” drops 3-6 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2 and his and Swae Lee‘s one-week No. 1 “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” descends 5-7.

Halsey‘s two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Without Me” retreats 7-8, as it ties for the ninth-most weeks spent in the top 10 in the chart’s 60-year history. Halsey previously logged a then-record 32 weeks in the tier as featured on The Chainsmokers’ “Closer”:

Most weeks in Hot 100’s top 10
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, “Smooth,” Santana feat, Rob Thomas, 1999-2000
29, “Party Rock Anthem,” LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock, 2011-12
28, “Without Me,” Halsey, 2018-19
28, “That’s What I Like,” Bruno Mars, 2017
28, “You Were Meant for Me”/”Foolish Games,” Jewel, 1997

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Billie Eilish‘s “Bad Guy” keeps at No. 9 after reaching No. 7, winning top Streaming Gainer kudos (38.4 million, up 18 percent), and Ariana Grande‘s former eight-week No. 1 “7 Rings” slides 6-10.

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 (May 14), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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The band’s third chart-topper logs the biggest week for a rock album in 2019.

Vampire Weekend scores its third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the band’s Father of the Bride bows atop the list.

The set earned 138,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 9, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 119,000 were in album sales. Both sums represent the largest for any rock album in 2019.

Father was released on May 3 via Spring Snow/Columbia Records. It is the group’s first album with Columbia Records after issuing three studio albums and a live set through XL Recordings.

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 18-dated chart, where Father debuts at No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on May 14.

Vampire Weekend previously led the Billboard 200 with the act’s last two studio releases, Modern Vampires of the City (in 2013) and Contra (2010).

Of Father’s 138,000 unit start, its 119,000 in album sales were driven largely by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for the act’s upcoming tour, which launches in June.

Father secures the largest week for a rock album in 2019 in both units and album sales, and the biggest since Mumford & Sons’ Delta debuted at No. 1 with 230,000 units (214,000 in album sales) on the list dated Dec. 1, 2018.

Father earned just 1,000 in TEA units and 18,000 in SEA units. The latter figure translates to 20.29 million on-demand audio streams for the set’s songs in its opening week — the biggest debut streaming week for a rock album in 2019. The only rock albums to log larger streaming frames this year were two Queen albums that were released before 2019: the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack and its Greatest Hits album, both with multiple frames over 20.29 million clicks in 2019.

Father marks the third No. 1 album for Columbia in 2019, following two other rock titles: Hozier’s Wasteland, Baby! (Rubyworks/Columbia) and Jack White’s Boarding House Reach (Third Man/Columbia). Notably, Columbia lays claim to all three of the No. 1 rock albums this year.

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, a pair of former No. 1s follow Vampire Weekend, as Billie Eilish’s When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? climbs 4-2 (70,000 units; down 8%) and Khalid’s Free Spirit rises 5-3 (49,000 units; down 15%).

At No. 4, rapper/singer PnB Rock notches his first top 10 effort, and third top 40 entry, as TrapStar Turnt PopStar starts with 42,000 equivalent album units (just 2,000 in album sales). The album’s debut was largely powered by streaming activity, tallying 39,000 SEA units (which translates to 45.73 million on-demand audio streams for its songs in its debut week). PnB Rock previously hit the top 40 of the Billboard 200 with Catch These Vibes (No 17 on Dec. 9, 2017) and GTTM: Goin Thru the Motions (No. 28 on Feb. 4, 2017).

Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next ascends 6-5 with 41,000 units (up 6%) while P!nk’s Hurts 2B Human falls 1-6 in its second week (36,000 units; down 68%). ScHoolboy Q’s CrasH Talk dips 3-7 in its second week (33,000 units; down 59%), BTS’ Map of the Soul: Persona moves 7-8 (30,000 units; down 8%) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys rises 12-9 (a little more than 28,000 units; down 1%).

Juice WRLD’s Death Race for Love rounds out the new top 10, lifting 11 to 10 with 28,000 units (though down 5%).

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Plus: Hillsong United, ScHoolboy Q & AJR bow in top 10.

P!nk claims her third total and consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Hurts 2B Humanarrives atop the tally with 115,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 2, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 95,000 were in album sales. Hurts follows P!nk’s previous leaders Beautiful Trauma (2017) and The Truth About Love (2012).

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 11-dated chart (where Hurts 2B Human debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on May 7.

Hurts 2B Human was ushered in by the radio single “Walk Me Home,” which recently became P!nk’s 16th top 10 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart. (The track has so far peaked at No. 6, as of the most recently published list, dated May 4). Over on the Pop Songs airplay list, it entered the tally at No. 40 on the May 4-dated chart, marking the diva’s 29th entry.

Hurts 2B Human follows P!nk’s Beautiful Trauma album, which charged in at No. 1 back in November 2017 with 408,000 units earned in its first week, of which 384,000 were in album sales — her largest sales week ever. That album, unlike Hurts, saw its sales bolstered by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for her then-upcoming tour (which is still currently on the road).

Nearly two decades into her Billboard 200 history, P!nk continues her hottest streak. The new set is also her eighth total and consecutive top 10, dating to her first, M!ssundaztood, in 2002. She first charted with Can’t Take Me Home (No. 26) in 2000.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Hillsong United’s People debuts, marking the act’s fourth top 10 and highest-charting effort yet. The live set arrives with 107,000 equivalent album units earned — the largest week for a Christian music album in 2018. The ensemble — an offshoot of the Hillsong Church — previously hit the top 10 with Wonder (No. 10 in 2017), Empires (No. 5 in 2015) and Zion (No. 5 in 2013). With 101,000 copies sold of People, Hillsong United also claims the week’s top-selling album and the act’s best sales week yet, surpassing the 47,000 sold of Empires in its first frame. (People’s debut was bolstered by sales from a concert ticket/album redemption offer for the act’s tour, which continues through July.)

ScHoolboy Q scores his third Billboard 200 top 10 album, as Crash Talk enters at No. 3 with 81,000 equivalent album units earned (18,000 in album sales). All three of the hip-hop artist’s top 10-charting albums have all reached the top three: Crash Talk (No. 3), Blank Face LP (No. 2 in 2016) and Oxymoron (No. 1 in 2014).

Billie Eilish’s former No. 1 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? falls from No. 1 to No. 4 with 76,000 units (down 14%). The album spent it first and third weeks at No. 1 on the tally.

Three more former No. 1s trail Eilish, as Khalid’s Free Spirit falls 2-5 (58,000 units; down 4%), Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next slips 5-6 (38,000 units; down 13%), and BTS’ Map of the Soul: Persona descends 3-7 (33,000 units; down 42%). Meanwhile, Beyoncé’s Homecoming: The Live Album slides from its No. 4 high to No. 8 with 32,000 units (down 43%).

Brother trio AJR notches its first top 10 album, as Neotheater debuts at No. 9. The sibling band also logs its best week ever in total units and album sales, as the set begins with 32,000 units earned (of which 22,000 were in album sales). The group previously topped out at No. 61 in 2017 with its last album, The Click.

The new album was preceded by the single “100 Bad Days,” which has reached No. 13 on the Alternative Songs airplay chart (through the most recently published list, dated May 4) and No. 7 on the Hot Rock Songs chart.

Neotheater follows the act’s success in 2018 with a pair of hit radio singles from The Click: “Sober Up” and “Burn the House Down.” The former hit No. 1 on the Alternative Songs airplay chart and No. 15 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay tally. “Burn” hit No. 2 on Alternative and No. 15 on Adult Pop Songs. Meanwhile, The Clickhas so far earned 590,000 equivalent album units and tallied 631.1 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap, which falls 7-10 with 30,000 units (down 17%).

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Swift’s new single boasts the best sales week since her own ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ in 2017.

Lil Nas X leads the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth week with “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. The song fends off Taylor Swift‘s new single, “Me!,”featuring Brendon Urie, which makes the biggest vault in the Hot 100’s history, blasting from No. 100 to No. 2, after it debuted a week earlier based solely on its first three days of airplay, before its first week of streaming and sales factored into its Hot 100 rank.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100 (dated May 11), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 7).

As on the Hot 100, “Road” paves the way atop the Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week, with 104 million U.S. streams (down 9%) in the week ending May 2, according to Nielsen Music; the sum includes the song’s new remix with Diplo, released April 29. “Road” set the weekly streaming record following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus, and now claims four of the six biggest streaming weeks ever:

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
104 million, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, May 11, 2019
103.1 million, “Harlem Shake,” Baauer, March 2, 2013
101.7 million, “God’s Plan,” Drake, March 3, 2018

“Road” drops to No. 2 on the Digital Song Sales chart after three weeks at No. 1, with 78,000 downloads sold (down 12%) in the week ending May 2.

“Road” continues to bound in radio airplay, reaching the Radio Songs chart’s top 10 (12-6; 67.7 million audience impressions, up 22%, in the week ending May 5). Lil Nas X scores his first Radio Songs top 10 in his first visit to the chart, while Cyrus ascends to the tier for the first time nearly 27 years after his first entry. He charted three titles on Radio Songs prior to “Road”: “Achy Breaky Heart” (No. 38, 1992); “Busy Man” (No. 31, 1999); and “Ready, Set, Don’t Go,” with Miley Cyrus (No. 37, 2008).

“Road” reaches the Radio Songs top 10 in just its fourth week on the chart, marking the fastest flight to the bracket for an act’s debut entry on the survey (with lead billing) since Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” (four weeks, 2014).

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

Unable to dislodge the juggernaut that is “Old Town Road,” Swift’s “Me!,” featuring Urie (of Panic! at the Disco), rockets 100-2 on the Hot 100. To recap: the song, expected to serve as the lead single from Swift’s seventh proper studio LP, debuted at the anchor spot a week earlier based solely on its first three days of airplay, after its release at midnight ET Friday (April 26). 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) impact this week’s Hot 100 (dated May 11), along with the track’s first full week of airplay (April 29-May 5).

With all metrics combined, “Me!,” which Swift and Urie performed live for the first time to kick off the 2019 Billboard Music Awards last Wednesday (May 1), makes notable moves on the Hot 100 and other charts.

Biggest jump in Hot 100 history: The 98-spot leap for “Me!” is the biggest in the Hot 100’s 60-year history, besting the prior mark by two positions. Here’s a look at the biggest jumps ever:

Position Increase, Title, Artist, Date
98 (100-2), “Me!,” Taylor Swift feat. Brendon Urie, May 11, 2019
96 (97-1), “My Life Would Suck Without You,” Kelly Clarkson, Feb. 7, 2009
95 (96-1), “Womanizer,” Britney Spears, Oct. 25, 2008
91 (94-3), “Beautiful Liar,” Beyonce & Shakira, April 7, 2007
90 (94-4), “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, June 16, 2018
88 (97-9), “Make Me Proud,” Drake feat. Nicki Minaj, Nov. 5, 2011
88 (95-7), “Smack That,” Akon feat. Eminem, Oct. 14, 2006
85 (96-11), “Cowboy Casanova,” Carrie Underwood, Oct. 10, 2009
85 (100-15), “Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny),” A R Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls feat. Nicole Scherzinger, March 14, 2009
83 (85-2), “Roar,” Katy Perry, Aug. 31, 2013

In making its record Hot 100 surge, “Me!” passes the last two songs on the above list for both the biggest jump from No. 100 and to No. 2, respectively.

Swift’s 23rd top 10: Swift scores her 23rd Hot 100 top 10, tying for the 12th-best total in the Hot 100’s archives. Whitney Houston, Paul McCartney (solo and with Wings) and The Rolling Stones have also tallied 23. (Madonna leads with 38 top 10s, followed by The Beatles with 34 and Drake with 33.)

“Me!” also marks Swift’s 57th top 40 Hot 100 hit, matching Elton John for fourth place, after Drake (95), Lil Wayne and Elvis Presley (81 each, with Presley’s chart career having predated the Hot 100’s 1958 inception).

Urie’s highest: After Panic! at the Disco notched its highest-charting Hot 100 hit with “High Hopes,” which reached No. 4 in January, frontman Urie does two spots better. Prior to “Me!,” he charted one other solo entry, also this year: Benny Blanco and Juice WRLD’s “Roses,” featuring Urie, peaked at No. 85 in February.

Swift’s record-extending 16th sales No. 1: “Me!” launches as Swift’s record-padding 16th Digital Song Sales No. 1 with 193,000 first-week downloads sold. (Rihanna ranks second with 14 leaders.) The sum is the best since Swift’s own “Look What You Made Me Do” sold 353,000 in its first week (Sept. 16, 2017).

Streaming & airplay: “Me!” opens at No. 2 on Streaming Songs with 50.7 million U.S. streams. (To compare, Swift’s “Look” opened with 84.5 million, then a weekly record among women.)

Following its first full week of airplay tracking, “Me!” flies 27-13 on Radio Songs (54.1 million in the audience, up from 36.9 million in its first three days).

Post Malone‘s “Wow.” dips to No. 3 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 high and Jonas Brothers‘ former one-week leader “Sucker” rises 5-4, as it spends a third week atop Radio Songs (98.9 million, up 4%). Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Post Malone and Swae Lee‘s one-week No. 1 “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” falls 3-5.

Ariana Grande‘s former eight-week Hot 100 No. 1 “7 Rings” retreats 4-6 and Halsey‘s two-week topper “Without Me” slips 6-7; Sam Smith and Normani‘s “Dancing With a Stranger” descends to No. 8 from its No. 7 high; Billie Eilish‘s “Bad Guy” holds at No. 9 after reaching No. 7; and Khalid‘s “Talk” backtracks to No. 10 a week after hitting its No. 8 best.

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 (May 7), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (May 10).

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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%).

Source: billboard.com