The trio had previously reached a No. 5 high with Burnin’ Up” in 2008.

Jonas Brothers‘ comeback single “Sucker” rockets onto the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (dated March 16) at No. 1, marking their first leader on the list.

The group, consisting of Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas, initially appeared on the chart over 12 years go and reached a prior No. 5 high with “Burnin’ Up” in 2008.

Jonas Brothers, who formed in 2005, ascended to boy band royalty soon after thanks to their numerous Disney TV and film projects, in addition to their music, which included a pair of No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart in 2008 and 2009. After their split in 2013, they announced their reunion Feb. 28 and released “Sucker,” and its official video, the following day (at midnight ET on March 1).

Also on the latest Hot 100, Cardi B and Bruno Mars‘ “Please Me” blasts to a new No. 3 peak following the March 1 premiere of its official video.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 12).

No. 1 in sales & streams: “Sucker,” released on Republic Records, starts as the 1,085th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 60-year history.

The track launches atop the Streaming Songs chart with 43.7 million U.S. streams in the week ending March 7, according to Nielsen Music. The trio reigns in its first appearance on the tally (which began in 2013).

“Sucker” also debuts at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales with 88,000 first-week downloads sold in the week ending March 7. The trio’s 22nd entry on the chart is its first No. 1 (following three No. 2-peaking hits, all in 2008: “Burnin’ Up,” “Pushing Me Away” and “Tonight”).

On the Radio Songs chart, “Sucker” arrives at No. 46, a career-best rank for the act, with 22.6 million audience impressions in the week ending March 10.

Helping power the strong start for “Sucker,” Jonas Brothers promoted their return with a week-long residency last week on CBS’ The Late Late Show With James Corden, including their buzzy Carpool Karaoke.

First No. 1, after 12 years on the Hot 100: Jonas Brothers achieve their first Hot 100 No. 1 after initially appearing on the chart 12 years and one month ago: first entry “Year 3000” debuted, at No. 40, on the chart dated Feb. 17, 2007 (and rose to No. 31 that March).

The group charted 16 titles in 2007-09 and one more (the No. 60-peaking “Pom Poms”) in 2013. Two top 10s preceded “Sucker”: “Burnin’ Up” (No. 5) and “Tonight” (No. 8), both in 2008.

Jonas Brothers’ 12-year-plus trek for a first Hot 100 No. 1 marks the longest since Daft Punk waited close to 20 years between its first entry, “Around the World” (August 1997), and first leader, as featured on The Weeknd’s “Starboy” (January 2017). The record? Santana spanned almost exactly 30 years between its first Hot 100 visit, with “Jingo” (Oct. 25, 1969), and its first No. 1, “Smooth,” featuring Rob Thomas (Oct. 23, 1999).

…and after six years away from the Hot 100: “Pom Poms,” Jonas Brothers’ last Hot 100 entry before “Sucker,” spent a week on the chart, dated April 20, 2013. Their nearly six-year absence marks the longest break between a prior entry and a chart-topping comeback since Luis Fonsi took eight years and six months between his No. 92-peaking “No Me Doy Por Vencido” in 2008 and his record-tying 16-week No. 1 “Despacito,” with Daddy Yankee and featuring Justin Bieber, in 2017.

Oh, brothers: Jonas Brothers are the fifth act with the word “brothers” in its name to top the Hot 100, following The Everly Brothers, The Righteous Brothers, The Doobie Brothers and Bellamy Brothers. Of those, the Jonases join the Everly and Bellamy duos as real-life sibling acts to lead the list.

Of course, other (partial or full) sibling and/or family acts have the led the Hot 100, including The Beach Boys, Jackson 5, Carpenters, The Osmonds, Bee Gees, Heart, Bangles, New Kids on the Block, Wilson Phillips, Nelson, Hanson, K-Ci & JoJo, 98 Degrees, Rae Sremmurd and Migos.

First boy band at No. 1 in over 16 years: Jonas Brothers are the first act regarded as a boy band (even if Nick is 26, Joe is 29 and Kevin is 31) to crown the Hot 100 since B2K, whose “Bump, Bump, Bump,” with P. Diddy, led the chart dated Feb. 1, 2003. (In December, Billboard exclusively broke the news of B2K’s reunion for the Millennium Tour, which began Friday, March 8.)

Before B2K, in Y2K, *NSYNC hit No. 1, in July 2000, with “It’s Gonna Be Me,” after 98 Degrees had led that February as featured, with Joe, on Mariah Carey’s “Thank God I Found You.” (As for the other boy band kings to break through in that era, Backstreet Boys reached a No. 2 best with “Quit Playing Games [With My Heart]” in 1997.)

Among other boy bands this decade on the Hot 100, One Direction hit No. 2 with “Best Song Ever” in 2013; The Wanted reached No. 3 with “Glad You Came” in 2012; 5 Seconds of Summer scored their first top 10, reaching No. 7 last October, with “Youngblood”; and BTS became the first K-pop boy band to notch a top 10, with “Fake Love” (No. 10, last June).

Meanwhile, between B2K and Jonas Brothers’ coronations, *NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake (most recently in 2016) and 1D’s Zayn (the same year, with “Pillowtalk”) topped the Hot 100 as soloists.

Speaking of boy band members on their own, while “Sucker” is the first single by Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas as the Jonas Brothers since 2013, Nick logged the No. 7-peaking solo Hot 100 hit “Jealous” in 2015, while, as a member of DNCE, Joe reached No. 9 in 2016 via the act’s “Cake by the Ocean.”

Sweet success: A decade before “Sucker,” Kelly Clarkson topped the Hot 100 for two weeks in February 2009 with “My Life Would Suck Without You.” (Unwrapping a No. 1 related in name to Jonas Brothers’ new leader, Lil Wayne licked the competition in 2008 with “Lollipop,” featuring Static Major.)

Tedder, Dukes & Bell ring up a new No. 1: Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas co-wrote “Sucker” with Ryan Tedder. The brothers all lead the Hot 100 for the first time as writers, while Tedder makes his second trip to the top in that role; Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love,” which he co-penned with Jesse McCartney, ruled for four weeks in 2008.

Frank Dukes and Louis Bell co-produced “Sucker.” The former adds his second No. 1 as a producer (after Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” featuring Young Thug, last year) and the latter logs his fifth leader, and third of 2019, following Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, in 2017 and “Psycho,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, in 2018, and this year’s “Without Me” by Halsey and “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” by Post Malone and Swae Lee.

Five No. 1s in 2019: Just over three months into 2019, five songs have ascended to No. 1 on the Hot 100 this year, as “Sucker” follows Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s “Shallow,” Ariana Grande‘s “7 Rings,” “Sunflower” and “Without Me.” That’s the quickest accumulation of five new No. 1s in a year since 1998, when that total was technically reached two days faster, on the chart dated March 14.

Since the Hot 100 adopted Nielsen data in late 1991, making for slower turnover atop the chart than before, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2012 and now 2019 have all seen the fifth new No. 1 of each year reach pole position on charts dated in mid-March.

Pop on top: Four pop songs have led the Hot 100 so far in 2019: “Sucker,” “Shallow,” “7 Rings” and “Without Me.” Already, the total tops that of all of 2018, a year in which rap songs led for a record 34 consecutive weeks and when three pop songs reigned: Cabello’s “Havana,” Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, and Grande’s “Thank U, Next” (the only pop No. 1 of 2018 without a guest rapper).

Started from the top: “Sucker” is the 34th single to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It’s the second of 2019, after Grande’s “Rings” (Feb. 2). Grande also logged the prior such bow, with “Thank U, Next” on Nov. 17, and Republic Records has released five of the last six songs to start at the summit; prior to Jonas Brothers and Grande’s two No. 1 openers, Drake entered at No. 1 last year with “Nice for What” (in April) and “God’s Plan” (February). (Childish Gambino’s Grammy Award-winning “This Is America,” released on RCA Records, debuted at No. 1 last May.)

Before “Sucker,” only one song by a group in a lead role had ever roared in atop the Hot 100: Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” on Sept. 5, 1998. Like Jonas Brothers, Aerosmith waited a long time before finally having what it takes to elevate and walk all the way to No. 1: “Miss” became the band’s first leading hit nearly 25 years after its first visit to the chart.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10…

Grande’s “7 Rings” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after spending its first five weeks at No. 1. It concurrently makes a record-setting rise to No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay chart.

Cardi B and Bruno Mars surge from No. 14 to a new No. 3 Hot 100 high with “Please Me” (which debuted at No. 5 two weeks ago). Following the March 1 arrival of its official video, the collab surges 14-2 on Streaming Songs with an 86 percent gain to 45.3 million streams. (Note that while its sum is higher than Jonas Brothers’ “Sucker,” at 43.7 million, the latter ranks at No. 1 on Streaming Songs due to the application of weighting of paid subscription, ad-supported and programmed streams.)

“Please Me” rebounds 11-3 on Digital Song Sales (28,000 sold, up 71 percent) and charges 14-11 on Radio Songs (52.9 million impressions, up 11 percent). It also hits No. 1 for the first time on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” is stationary at No. 4 on the Hot 100 and Halsey’s “Without Me” descends 3-5. The latter track tops Radio Songs for a second week (103 million, down 4 percent) and becomes Halsey’s second No. 1 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart, after her featured turn on The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” in 2016.

After translating its Academy Award win for best original song, and Gaga and Cooper’s performance of the ballad at the Oscars (Feb. 24), to a No. 1 flight on last week’s Hot 100, “Shallow” falls to No. 6. (The drop is the steepest from the summit since Zayn’s “Pillowtalk” plummeted 1-7 in February 2016.) “Shallow” dips from No. 1 to No. 2 on Digital Song Sales (56,000, down 51 percent) and 9-14 on Streaming Songs (24.6 million, down 10 percent), while continuing to scale Radio Songs, where it rises from No. 27 to a new No. 22 high (43.4 million, up 24 percent, good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award).

Post Malone’s “Wow.” reaches a new Hot 100 peak, pushing 8-7; Marshmello and Bastille‘s No. 2-reaching “Happier” slips 6-8, while leading Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 25th week; and J. Cole‘s No. 4-peaking Hot 100 hit “Middle Child” descends 5-9.

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Travis Scott‘s former No. 1 “Sicko Mode” holds at No. 10 as it spends its 31st week (encompassing its entire run on the chart) in the top 10, the most ever for a hip-hop hit. Only four songs overall have tallied more time in the top 10:

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, “Closer,” The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, 2016-17
32, “How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes, 1997-98
31, “Sicko Mode,” Travis Scott, 2018-19
31, “Uptown Funk!,” Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, 2014-15
30, “Smooth,” Santana feat, Rob Thomas, 1999-2000

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 (March 12), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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It’s the singer-songwriter’s first No. 1. Plus: 2 Chainz, Lil Skies and Solange debut in top 10.

Hozier scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his sophomore full-length set Wasteland, Baby! bows atop the list. The LP, released via Rubyworks/Columbia on March 1, earned 89,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 7, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 75,000 were in album sales.

Wasteland is the first rock album to lead the Billboard 200 in more than three months, since Mumford & Sons’ Delta debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 1, 2018-dated chart.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new March 16-dated chart — where Wasteland launches at No. 1 — will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on March 12.

Wasteland follows Hozier’s 2018 EP Nina Cried Power, which topped out at No. 60. Before that, the singer-songwriter’s self-titled debut full-length set bowed and peaked at No. 2 on the Oct. 25, 2014-dated list. The album was led by the smash single “Take Me to Church,” which climbed to No. 1 on the Hot Rock Songs tally the week after the album arrived on the charts. “Church” spent 23 weeks atop the list, and also hit No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.

The Hozier album has spent 174 weeks on the Billboard 200 (including its re-entry on the new March 16-dated list at No. 175) and has earned 2.6 million equivalent album units in the U.S., with 972,000 of that sum in album sales.

Wasteland’s debut week of 89,000 units is the largest for any rock album since Mumford & Sons’ Delta started with 230,000 units (chart dated Dec. 1, 2018). Wasteland also snares the largest sales week for a rock album since Delta, with 75,000 copies sold (Delta sold 214,000 in its debut frame).

Wasteland’s opening sum was aided by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with Hozier’s U.S. tour, which begins tonight (March 10).

Wasteland’s standard-edition track list includes two of the four songs on the Nina Cried Power EP, including the title tune, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart late last year. The set’s latest radio single, “Movement,” has so far peaked at No. 3 on the most recently published Adult Alternative Songs chart (dated March 9).

Wasteland is also the first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for Columbia Records in nearly a year, since Jack White’s Boarding House Reach (Third Man/Columbia) premiered atop the list dated April 7, 2018.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 is Ariana Grande’s former leader, Thank U, Next, which holds in the runner-up slot for a second week. It earned 86,000 equivalent album units (down 26 percent). Thank U spent its first two weeks at No. 1.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack falls from No. 1 to No. 3 with 74,000 units (down 42 percent).

A pair of rappers collect top five entries, as 2 Chainz and Lil Skies see their latest albums enters at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively.

2 Chainz notches his fifth top 10 album, as Rap or Go to the League debuts at No. 4 with 65,000 equivalent album units (with 13,000 of that sum comprising album sales). He previously visited the region with Pretty Girls Like Trap Music (No. 2, 2017), Collegrove (No. 4, 2016), B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME (No. 3, 2013) and Based on a T.R.U. Story (No. 1, 2012). Lil Skies, meanwhile, scores his second top 10 effort, as Shelbybows at No. 5 with 54,000 units (with 6,000 of that figure in album sales). Lil Skies netted his first top 10 with Life of a Dark Rose, which peaked at No. 10 on the Jan. 17, 2018-dated chart.

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack descends 5-6 with 44,000 units (down 29 percent).

Solange’s When I Get Home is the fourth and final debut in the top 10, as it starts at No. 7 with 43,000 equivalent album units (with 11,000 of that figure in album sales), marking her third top 10 effort. Solange’s last album, A Seat at the Table, garnered the artist her second top 10, and first No. 1, when it entered atop the list dated Oct. 22, 2016.

Closing out the new top 10, Gunna’s Drip or Drown 2 falls 3-8 with 42,000 units (down 54 percent), Offset’s Father of 4 falls 4-9 with 39,000 units (down 56 percent) and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN slips 8-10 with 35,000 units (down 6 percent).

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Gaga earns her fourth No. 1 and first since “Born This Way” in 2011.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s “Shallow” blasts from No. 21 to No. 1 for its first week atop the Billboard Hot 100songs chart. “Shallow” surges following the 91st Academy Awards Feb. 24, when the pair performed the ballad, from the box office hit A Star Is Born, in which they star and which Cooper directed, and it won for best original song.

“Shallow,” Gaga’s fourth Hot 100 No. 1, and first since 2011, and Cooper’s first, dethrones Ariana Grande‘s “7 Rings” after five weeks atop the chart.

Meanwhile, as “Shallow” is the top-selling song of the week and “Rings” is the most-streamed, Halsey‘s former Hot 100 No. 1 “Without Me,” now at No. 3, takes over as the most-heard hit on radio.

Plus, J. Cole‘s “Middle Child” returns to the Hot 100’s top five (11-5) after the premiere of its official video and Blueface earns his first top 10, with “Thotiana” (13-9).

Let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100 (dated March 9), which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 5).

Gaga and Cooper’s “Shallow,” released on Interscope Records, vaults to the Hot 100’s summit for the first time, from No. 21 in its 22nd week on the list. It had previously hit a No. 5 high, in its second frame (Oct. 20, 2018). It becomes the 1,084th No. 1 in the chart’s 60-year history.

Gaga earns her fourth Hot 100 No. 1 and first in nearly eight years, since “Born This Way,” which led for six weeks in February-April 2011. “Poker Face” ruled for two weeks in April 2009 after her debut entry “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O’Donis, tallied three weeks on top in January 2009. Cooper achieves his first Hot 100 leader.

Gaga ends the longest gap between Hot 100 No. 1s since Beyoncé, who waited two weeks shy of nine years between “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” in 2008-09 and “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran in 2017-18; she was credited as a co-lead on the latter song for the first five of its six weeks at No. 1, driven by its duet remix.

At 22 weeks, “Shallow” ties for the 10th-longest climb to No. 1 on the Hot 100, matching the rise of “Just Dance” (and Vangelis’ “Chariots of Fire,” which led in 1982). Los Del Rio’s “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” completed a record 33-week trek to the top in 1996.

Flying 21-1, “Shallow” makes the biggest jump to No. 1 on the Hot 100 since XXXTentacion’s “Sad!” soared 52-1 on the June 30, 2018-dated chart, following his June 18 death. (“Shallow” is the second song ever to hike exactly 21-1, after Usher’s “U Remind Me” in 2001.)

No. 1 in sales: “Shallow” rebounds 2-1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, for a seventh total week on top (extending Gaga’s longest command of her six career No. 1s on the chart), up 225 percent to 115,000 sold in the week ending Feb. 28, according to Nielsen Music.

The sum is the best since Drake’s “In My Feelings” also sold 115,000 (although slightly more than “Shallow” before rounding off), as reflected on the chart dated last July 28; a week later, it sold 104,000, the last frame in which a song sold over 100,000 until “Shallow.” (Thus, this week ends a span of 30 weeks without a six-digit seller; in brighter days for download sales, the top-selling song sold at least 100,000 each week from Feb. 10, 2007 through Sept. 5, 2015.)

First week in Steaming Songs top 10: “Shallow” re-enters the Streaming Songschart at No. 9, marking its first week in the top 10 (27.3 million, up 185 percent, in the week ending Feb. 28), after reaching a prior No. 28 high in October. Aiding the song’s streaming sum for the week was the video, uploaded to Gaga’s official YouTube channel, of her and Cooper’s performance of it at the Oscars. She adds her third Streaming Songs top 10 and first since 2013, while he collects his first.

On the Radio Songs chart, “Shallow” also hits a new high, leaping 37-27, up 30 percent to 34.8 million audience impressions in the week ending March 3.

Best original song winners atop the Hot 100: “Shallow” had been tied with Idina Menzel’s’ No. 5 Hot 100 hit “Let It Go,” from Frozen, in 2014, for the top-charting best original song Oscar winner in 16 years. Now, “Shallow” is the first such No. 1 since Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” (from 8 Mile), which ruled for 12 weeks in 2002-03. “Shallow” is the first duet best original song winner to reign since Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme),” which led the chart 26 years ago (March 6, 1993).

Overall, “Shallow” is the 19th best original song recipient to crown the Hot 100, dating to the first, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” by B.J. Thomas, in 1970. One of those 19 No. 1s is Barbra Streisand’s 1977 leader “Evergreen,” the love theme from the 1976 adaptation of A Star Is Born.

Gaga, Cooper No. 1 on Billboard 200, too: As previously reported, Gaga and Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack rebounds for a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Star and “Shallow” mark the first soundtrack and a single from it to top the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously since April 25, 2015, when Furious 7 rose 2-1 on the former and Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” featuring Charlie Puth, began a 12-week Hot 100 command.

Grande’s “7 Rings” drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after spending its first five frames at No. 1. Still, it leads Streaming Songs for a sixth week, with 43.9 million U.S. streams, down 1 percent. “Rings” rises 6-4 on Radio Songs, up 13 percent to 80.8 million audience impressions, as it claims the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a fifth week. It dips 3-5, after posting three weeks at No. 1, on Digital Song Sales (23,000 sold, down 15 percent).

With the retreat of “Rings,” Grande’s second Hot 100 No. 1, she remains two weeks from matching her longest reign, as her first leader, “Thank U, Next” (down 4-7 this week), dominated for seven weeks beginning with its No. 1 debut on the chart dated Nov. 17.

Halsey’s former two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Without Me” slips 2-3 on the Hot 100 but ascends to No. 1 on Radio Songs (107.7 million, essentially even week-over-week). Halsey achieves her second Radio Songs ruler and first in a lead role, after she topped the chart for 11 weeks in 2016 as featured on The Chainsmokers’ “Closer.” “Without Me” halts the 14-week Radio Songs reign of Panic! at the Disco’s “High Hopes” (which departs the Hot 100’s top 10, falling to No. 11 from No. 9).

Post Malone and Swae Lee‘s former Hot 100 leader “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” backtracks 3-4, while leading the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a ninth week each.

J. Cole‘s “Middle Child” bounds 11-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4 (Cole’s career-best rank) four weeks earlier. It jumps 6-2 on Streaming Songs (39.4 million, up 25 percent) following the Feb. 25 premiere of its official video. It ranks at No. 19 on Digital Song Sales (12,000, up 4 percent) and enters Radio Songs at No. 48 (21.8 million, up 12 percent).

Marshmello and Bastille‘s “Happier” holds at No. 6 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2, as it leads Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 24th week; Grande’s “Next” drops 4-7 on the Hot 100; and Post Malone’s “Wow.” returns to its No. 8 high from No. 10, as it becomes his fifth Radio Songs top 10 (11-9; 58.9 million, up 10 percent).

Blueface earns his first Hot 100 top 10, as his debut entry “Thotiana” climbs 13-9. The track by the Los Angeles-based rapper (real name: Jonathan Porter), which sports remixes with Cardi B and YG and a pair of Cole Bennett- directed official videos, charges 9-4 on Streaming Songs (37.8 million, up 24 percent) and lifts 14-13 on Digital Song Sales (15,000, up 15 percent).

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Travis Scott‘s former No. 1 “Sicko Mode” slides 7-10.

Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard‘s Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow @billboard and @billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (March 5), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (March 8).

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Plus: Gunna, Offset, Gary Clark Jr., Lil Pump and Kehlani all debut in the top 10.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a fourth nonconsecutive week on top, as the set steps 3-1 with 128,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 28 (up 152 percent), according to Nielsen Music.

The album got a big boost from publicity and promotion spurred by its parent film’s showcase on the Feb. 24 Academy Awards. The movie was nominated for eight awards, including best picture. A Star Is Born took home one award, for best original song, for “Shallow.” The tune was sung on the show by newly minted Oscar-winner Gaga (“Shallow’s” co-writer), alongside Cooper, in a warmly-received performance.

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 March 9-dated chart — where Star is back at No. 1 — will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on March 5.

Star bumps Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next, which spent its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1, down to No. 2 with 116,000 units (down 23 percent).

On Feb. 26, industry forecasters expected that Thank U was going to spend a third week in charge with perhaps 110,000 to 115,000 units, while Star was going to post a big gain, but settle for the runner-up slot with around 100,000 units. So, what happened between then and Feb. 28, the final day of the tracking week that ultimately put A Star Is Born back at No. 1?

It’s likely that Amazon’s sale pricing of the digital album edition of the Star soundtrack pumped a late-in-the-week sales surge for the set. On Feb. 27, the album was priced at $3.99, and then on Feb. 28, it dropped to $2.99. (Lady Gaga tweeted about both sale prices to her 78 million followers, so awareness was high with her fans about the discount.)

Grande’s Thank U also got in on the discount action, as the set was sale priced at Amazon and via Grande’s official site for $3.99 — along with temporary price cuts on her merchandise/album bundles. Like Gaga, Grande also socialized sale pricing offers. (Thank U did not dip to $2.99, as Star did, as $3.49 is the minimum price for an album to chart during its first four weeks of release. The new chart reflects Thank U‘s third week of release.)

As it turns out, while Star’s overall units gain by 152 percent, the set’s album sales surge by 166 percent (to 76,000; up from 29,000). Further, its digital album sales rise by 353 percent (to 50,000; up from 11,000).

With a fourth week at No. 1, Star nets the most weeks atop the chart for any soundtrack since the companion set to the Disney animated film Frozen ruled for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2014. (Between Frozen and Star, Black Panther notched three weeks at No. 1.)

Star now has the most weeks at No. 1 for a live-action film soundtrack since Disney Channel’s TV movie High School Musical 2 saw its soundtrack claim four straight weeks at No. 1 in 2007. Going back even further, the last live-action theatrically released movie soundtrack (like Star’s) to score four weeks at No. 1 was Bad Boys IIin 2003.

Star spent its first three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (charts dated Oct. 20-Nov. 3, 2018), and has yet to depart the weekly top 10 in its 21 weeks on the tally.

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Grande’s Thank U, Next is down one rung, and tallies 116,000 equivalent album units (down 23 percent), as noted above. It also fell 7 percent in album sales, to 19,000 (down from 20,000).

Rapper Gunna scores his highest charting album yet, as Drip or Drown 2 debuts at No. 3 with 90,000 equivalent album units (7,000 in album sales). He surpasses his previous chart high, Drip Harder, his collaborative set with Lil Baby. That debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the Oct. 20, 2018-dated list (starting with 130,000 units; of which 6,000 were in album sales).

Gunna’s Drip or Drown 2 is the first of five debuts in the top 10 — the most new entries to the top tier since the Oct. 20, 2018-dated tally, when six new arrivals graced the top 10. (Coincidentally, that was the same week both Drip Harder and A Star Is Born bowed in the top 10, as Nos. 4 and 1, respectively.)

Coming in at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 is Offset with his debut solo effort, Father of 4. The album enters with 89,000 equivalent album units earned (of which nearly 7,000 were in album sales). Offset previously logged one earlier top 10 entry, which debuted and peaked at No. 4: Without Warning, a collaborative effort with Metro Boomin and 21 Savage. (Offset is also a member of the trio Migos, which has notched two top 10s, both of which entered at No. 1.)

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack rounds out the top five, as it dips 2-5 with 61,000 equivalent album units (up 10 percent). The album is also basking in the glow of the Academy Awards. Queen, with Adam Lambert, opened the show with a medley of “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions.” The film Bohemian Rhapsody was nominated for five Oscars, and won four — the most of any film this year — one best actor win for Rami Malek.

At No. 6, singer-songwriter Gary Clark Jr. achieves his third top 10 album with This Land. The set bows with 54,000 equivalent album units earned (of which 51,000 were in album sales, aided by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with the artist’s upcoming U.S. tour).

The debut parade continues at No. 7, as rapper Lil Pump claims his second top 10 effort, as Harverd Dropout bows with 48,000 equivalent album units (25,000 in album sales, boosted in part by an array of merchandise/album bundles). He previously visited the top 10 with a self-titled effort, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 46,000 units earned in its debut frame (Oct. 28, 2017-dated chart).

A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s former No. 1 Hoodie SZN slips 6-8 with 37,000 units (down 5 percent).

Singer-songwriter Kehlani captures her second top 10 album, as While We Waitarrives at No. 9 with 34,000 equivalent album units (of which 6,000 were in album sales). While follows her one previous top 10, SweetSexySavage, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Feb. 18, 2017-dated list (with 58,000 units earned in its opening frame).

Closing out the top 10 is Post Malone’s previous leader, beerbongs & bentleys, which falls 7-10 with 33,000 units (down 2 percent).

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Just two months into 2019, women in lead roles have already matched their total time on top in all of 2018.

Ariana Grande‘s “7 Rings” rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fifth week.

Meanwhile, Cardi B and Bruno Marsblast onto the Hot 100 at No. 5 with “Please Me,” their second shared top 10. Their prior collab, “Finesse,” reached No. 3 last year.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 26).

‘7 Rings’ No. 1 again: Grande’s “7 Rings” spends a fifth week atop the Hot 100, encompassing its entire run on the ranking. “Rings” leads the Streaming Songschart for a fifth frame, with 44.5 million U.S. streams, down 30 percent, in the week ending Feb. 21, according to Nielsen Music.

“Rings” ranks at No. 3, after posting three weeks at No. 1, on Digital Song Sales(27,000 sold in the week ending Feb. 21) and pushes 9-6 on Radio Songs, up 16 percent to 71.3 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 24, as it claims the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a fourth week.

“Rings” is the first song to spend its first five weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 since Drake’s “God’s Plan,” which ranked on top for its first 11 (covering its entire reign) in February-April 2018. “Rings” is the first song by a woman to lead for its first five weeks since Adele’s “Hello,” which placed at No. 1 for its first 10 frames (also encompassing its entire command) in November 2015-January 2016.

Lead women at No. 1 in 2019 = 2018: Women have now spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 on charts dated in 2019, all in lead roles, starting with the seventh and last week on top on for Grande’s prior No. 1, “Thank U, Next,” on the chart dated Jan. 5, followed by two weeks in charge for Halsey‘s “Without Me” and now five for “Rings.” Thus, as of the first chart dated in March, women in lead roles have matched last year’s total time atop the Hot 100, as women credited as leads tallied eight weeks at No. 1 in all of 2018 (including the first six weeks on top for “Next”; Camila Cabello and Cardi B also ruled for a week each as leads in 2018).

In 2017, women as lead acts spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, three each by Taylor Swift (“Look What You Made Me Do”) and Cardi B (“Bodak Yellow [Money Moves]”). The 2018 and 2017 totals trail that of 2016, when lead women ran up 16 weeks at No. 1, by Adele, Rihanna and Sia.

As previously reported, “Rings” parent LP Thank U, Next logs a second week at No. 1on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Grande’s “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” falls 2-8 in its second week on the Hot 100. A week ago, as “7 Rings” and “Thank U, Next” sandwiched the song at Nos. 1 and 3, respectively, Grande became the first soloist to rank at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 simultaneously, and the second act overall, after The Beatles in 1964.

While “Girlfriend” dips 2-4 on Streaming Songs (31.9 million, down 46 percent) and 2-7 on Digital Song Sales (16,000, down 55 percent), it gains by 59 percent to 21.3 million in radio airplay audience.

Panic! at the Disco‘s “High Hopes” descends 8-9 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4. It leads Hot Rock Songs for a 17th week and Radio Songs for a 14th frame (109.1 million, down 1 percent), as it ties for the fifth-most time atop the radio ranking (which began in 1990):

Most weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs
18, “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, 1998
16, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, 2018
16, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
16, “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt, 1996-97
14, “High Hopes,” Panic! at the Disco, 2018-19
14, “No One,” Alicia Keys, 2007-08
14, “Because You Loved Me,” Celine Dion, 1996

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Post Malone’s “Wow.” drops 9-10, after hitting No. 8.

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 (Feb. 26), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (March 1).

Halsey’s former two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Without Me” rebounds 4-2. As reported earlier, Benny Blanco, Halsey and Khalid‘s “Eastside” (at No. 12 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 9) completes a record 31-week ascent to No. 1 on Billboard‘s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, dethroning “Without Me” after four weeks on top.

Post Malone and Swae Lee‘s former one-week Hot 100 leader “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” rises 5-3, while topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songsand Hot Rap Songs charts for an eighth week each.

Grande’s “Next” drops 3-4 on the Hot 100.

Cardi B and Bruno Mars surge onto the Hot 100 at No. 5 with “Please Me.” The stand-alone single (released on Atlantic Records, both artists’ home label) starts at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales with 51,000 sold. Cardi B collects her third No. 1 on the sales survey, while Mars adds his ninth.

The track bows at No. 10 on Streaming Songs with 27.9 million U.S. streams, marking Cardi B’s 11th top 10 and Mars’ eighth. On Radio Songs, it charges 33-22 (39 million in audience reach).

On the Hot 100, Cardi B notches her seventh top 10 and Mars earns his 16th. Their first charted hit together, “Finesse,” rose to No. 3 on the Hot 100 in January 2018. The pair joins other twosomes who aren’t official regular duos but who have also teamed up for multiple Hot 100 top 10s. Rihanna, for example, has shared three Hot 100 top 10s with Drake and a pair each with JAY-Z, Kanye West, Eminem and Calvin Harris. Drake, meanwhile, boasts five top 10s with Lil Wayne. Plus, Grande has combined for two top 10s with Nicki Minaj, while, going back to the 1980s, Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney tallied two together, each of which peaked in 1983: “The Girl Is Mine” (No. 2) and “Say Say Say” (No. 1 for six weeks, into 1984).

Marshmello and Bastille‘s “Happier” is steady at No. 6 on the Hot 100, after reaching a No. 2 high, as it leads Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 23rd week, while Travis Scott‘s former one-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Sicko Mode” holds at No. 7.

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Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making it the first album by a solo woman to spend more than a single week at No. 1 in over a year. 

Thank U earned 151,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 21 (down 58 percent from its debut of 360,000 units), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 20,000 were in album sales (down 82 percent).

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 March 2-dated chart (where Thank U holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Feb. 26.

Thank U’s second week sum of 151,000 units is mostly comprised of SEA units: 124,000. That figure translates to 168.6 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s songs in its second week (down from 307 million in its debut frame, when it set the record for both an album by a woman and for a pop album). The 168.6 million streaming figure for Thank U’s second week easily makes it the most streamed album of this week, and also ranks it as the third-largest week for a woman ever (trailing its own debut frame, plus the first week of Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy, with 202.6 million) and the second-biggest week ever for a pop album (after only Thank U’s debut week).

Thank U also marks Grande’s first album to tally more than just a single week atop the list. Her three previous leaders all locked up one frame each at No. 1.

Plus, Thank U is first album by a solo woman to earn more than one week at the top in over a year, since Taylor Swift’s reputation tallied four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (its first three: Dec. 2-Dec. 16, 2017, and then Jan. 6, 2018). (In between reputation and Thank U, the A Star Is Born soundtrack, credited to both Lady Gagaand Bradley Cooper, spent three frames at No. 1.)

Meanwhile, since reputation was last No. 1 (from the Jan. 13, 2018 through March 2, 2019-dated charts), five albums by solo men have spent at least two weeks atop the list: A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN(two weeks), 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was (two), Travis Scott’s Astroworld (three), Drake’s Scorpion (five) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys (three).

Perhaps more surprising, of the 43 No. 1s since reputation was last on top, only five were by solo women. Grande’s two No. 1s: Sweetener and Thank U, Next; Camila Cabello’s Camila, Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy,and Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty. Twenty-four were by solo men, 11 were from groups (and all of those groups were comprised entirely of men) and three were soundtracks (The Greatest Showman, Black Panther, and Gaga and Cooper’s A Star Is Born).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, the soundtrack to Bohemian Rhapsody hits a new peak, as it rises 3-2 with 56,000 units (up 17 percent) as it continues to bask in the glow of the film’s home video release on DVD and blu-ray on Feb. 12. The set beats its previous chart high of No. 3.

With Bohemian’s new chart peak, it’s now solely Queen’s second-highest charting effort, breaking out of a tie with the No. 3-peaking News of the World, from 1978. Ahead of Bohemian is Queen’s only No. 1, 1980’s The Game.

The A Star Is Born soundtrack slips 2-3, despite a 3 percent increase (to 51,000 units). The former No. 1 has yet to depart the top 10, encompassing its first 20 weeks on the chart.

Both Bohemian and Star are primed for further gains on next week’s chart in the wake of Sunday’s (Feb. 24) Academy Awards. The two films are both up for best picture and have five and eight total nominations, respectively. Plus, Queen is slated to open the Oscars broadcast with a performance, while Gaga and Cooper are scheduled to perform Star’s hit single “Shallow,” which is nominated for best original song.

At No. 4 on the Billboard 200, Florida Georgia Line’s Can’t Say I Ain’t Country starts at No. 4, giving the country duo its fourth top five effort. The set enters with 50,000 units (29,000 in album sales). The act’s last album, Dig Your Roots, entered at No. 2 on the Sept. 17, 2016-dated chart with 145,000 units.

Debuting at No. 5 on the new Billboard 200 is Drake’s 10-year-old So Far Gone mixtape. The set enters with 45,000 units (7,000 in album sales), garnering Drake his 10th total and consecutive top 10.

The mixtape, which was originally released for free in early 2009, but never commercially issued or distributed to streaming services until Feb. 15 of this year, made its commercial and streaming debut to celebrate Gone’s 10th anniversary.

While the full So Far Gone album never previously charted on Billboard’s charts (back in 2009, an album needed to be commercially released in order to chart), a distillation of the set did reach Billboard tallies that year. The So Far Gone EP was released later in 2009 as Drake’s first commercially released album (through Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records). The EP combined five tracks from the full-length mixtape (including his first Billboard Hot 100 hit, the No. 2-peaking “Best I Ever Had”), along with two new cuts. The So Far Gone EP debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 3, 2009.

Closing out the new Billboard 200’s top 10 are a quintet of previous No. 1s. A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN falls 4-6 (39,000 units; down 10 percent), Post Malone’s beerbongs dips 5-7 (34,000 units; down 14 percent), Travis Scott’s Astroworld drops 6-8 (33,000 units; down 12 percent), 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was descends 7-9 (32,000 units; down 12 percent) and Meek Mill’s Championships is steady at No. 10 (32,000 units; down 6 percent).

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‘7 Rings’ reigns for a fourth week, ‘Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored’ debuts at No. 2 and ‘Thank U, Next’ rebounds to No. 3.

Ariana Grande becomes the first artist to hold the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964, as her new album Thank U, Next launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200albums tally.

Grande’s “7 Rings” rules the Hot 100 (dated Feb. 23) for a fourth week, while “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” debuts at No. 2 and former seven-week leader “Thank U, Next” rebounds from No. 7 to No. 3. All three songs are from the Thank U, Next album, released on Republic Records.

Grande is just the second act in the Hot 100’s 60-year history to monopolize the top three in a week. The Beatles earned the honor for five weeks in March and April 1964, even claiming the entire top five on the April 4, 1964-dated chart.

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

“7 Rings” No. 1 again: Grande’s “7 Rings” spends a fourth week atop the Hot 100, encompassing its entire run on the chart. “Rings” leads the Streaming Songs chart for a fourth frame, with 63.5 million U.S. streams, up 10 percent, in the week ending Feb. 14, according to Nielsen Music. On Radio Songs, “Rings” rises 10-9, up 23 percent to 61.7 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 17, good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third week.

“Break Up” bows at No. 2: New Thank U, Next single “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” blasts onto the Hot 100 at No. 2 (marking Grande’s 13th top 10). It launches at No. 2 on both Streaming Songs (59.2 million) and Digital Song Sales (36,000 sold), while drawing 13.4 million airplay impressions.

“Next” up, at No. 3: Meanwhile, the Thank U, Next title track and lead single rebounds 7-3 on the Hot 100, after spending seven weeks at No. 1, beginning with its Nov. 17 debut at the summit. It’s powered most heavily by its 36.8 million U.S. streams, up 52 percent, as it surges 14-5 on Streaming Songs and claims the Hot 100’s top Streaming Gainer nod.

Ariana meets The Beatles: Grande is only the second act in the Hot 100’s history to rank at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 simultaneously and the first in nearly 55 years. The Beatles achieved the feat for five weeks in 1964, that March 14, 21 and 28 and April 4 and 25; on April 4, 1964, the group claimed the entire top five.

“7 Rings,” “Break Up” and “Next” mark the first triple-up for an artist at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the Hot 100 since The Beatles held the same spots on April 25, 1964, with “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Twist and Shout” and “Do You Want to Know a Secret,” respectively. (Thus, the last time the honor was earned, the No. 1 song was about how “I don’t care too much for money; money can’t buy me love”; “7 Rings” finds Grande declaring “retail therapy my new addiction.”)

Between The Beatles’ and Grande’s tri-umphs, Drake came closest to the feat, placing at Nos. 1, 2 and 4 on the Hot 100 dated July 14, 2018, with “Nice for What,” “Nonstop” and “God’s Plan,” respectively. The songs contributed to Drake’s record seven simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s, as his album Scorpion debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 the same week.

Pop’s resurgence: Meanwhile, Grande has been at the forefront of a turnaround for pop songs’ fortunes atop the Hot 100. On Sept. 22, 2018, Drake’s “In My Feelings” spent its 10th and final week at No. 1, wrapping a record 34-week streak of rap leaders (29 by Drake). Since then, pop songs have led for 20 of 22 weeks, thanks to Maroon 5‘s “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B (seven weeks at No. 1); Grande’s “Next” (seven); Halsey‘s “Without Me” (two); and Grande’s “7 Rings” (four).

In that 22-week span, two rap titles each spent a week at No. 1: Travis Scott‘s “Sicko Mode” and Post Malone and Swae Lee‘s “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).”

Women at No. 1 in 2019: Plus, women have now spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 on charts dated 2019, starting with the seventh and last week on top on for Grande’s “Next” on the chart dated Jan. 5 (followed by two weeks in charge for “Without Me” and four for “7 Rings”). Thus, as of late February, women in lead roles have almost matched last year’s total time atop the Hot 100, as women as credited leads tallied eight weeks at No. 1 in all of 2018 (including the first six weeks on top for “Next”; Camila Cabello and Cardi B also ruled for a week each as leads in 2018).

In 2017, women as lead acts spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, three each by Taylor Swift (“Look What You Made Me Do”) and Cardi B (“Bodak Yellow [Money Moves]”). The 2018 and 2017 sums pale in comparison to 2016, when lead women logged 16 weeks at No. 1, by Adele, Rihanna and Sia.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Halsey’s “Without Me” dips 3-4 and Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” slides 4-5, as the latter track tops the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a seventh week each.

Marshmello and Bastille‘s “Happier” falls to No. 6 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 high, a week after surging following Marshmello’s groundbreaking set inside the Fortnite video game Feb. 2. The collaboration leads Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 22nd week.

Scott’s “Sicko Mode” slips 5-7 on the Hot 100 and Panic! at the Disco‘s “High Hopes” descends 6-8 after reaching No. 4. The latter song leads Hot Rock Songs for a 16th week and Radio Songs for a 13th frame (110.4 million, down 4 percent).

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Post Malone’s “Wow.” keeps at No. 9, after hitting No. 8, and Benny Blanco, Halsey and Khalid‘s “Eastside” returns to the region (11-10), after reaching No. 9.

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 (Feb. 20), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next storms in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 360,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 14, according to Nielsen Music. The set launches with the biggest week for a pop album in over a year and garners Grande her fourth No. 1 — and second in less than six months. Of Thank U, Next’s starting unit sum, 116,000 were in album sales.

Thank U, Next, released on Feb. 8 through Republic Records, is Grande’s fourth Billboard 200 No. 1. It also launches with the biggest streaming week ever for a pop album.

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 Feb. 23-dated chart (where Thank U, Next debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on Wednesday, Feb. 20 (a day later than usual, owed to the U.S. Washington’s Birthday holiday, often referred to as Presidents’ Day, on Feb. 18).

Grande’s Fourth No. 1 Album: It follows Sweetener (which debuted atop the list dated Sept. 1, 2018), My Everything (Sept. 13, 2014) and Yours Truly (Sept. 21, 2013). Grande ties Taylor Swift for the second-most No. 1s among women this decade, trailing Lady Gaga, with five leaders since 2010.

Two No. 1s in Less Than Six Months: Thank U, Next opens at No. 1 less than six months after Grande last topped the chart, with Sweetener, on the Sept. 1, 2018-dated chart. That span of five months and 22 days is the shortest gap between new No. 1s on the Billboard 200 for a woman since 1974-75, when Olivia Newton-John waited just five months and three days between the first weeks at No. 1 for If You Love Me Let Me Know (Oct. 12, 1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (March 15, 1975). Both titles spent one week at No. 1.

Grande’s accumulation of her two latest No. 1s is the fastest since K-pop group BTS notched its first two No. 1s in a little over three months just last year (Love Yourself: Tear on June 2, 2018 and Love Yourself: Answer on Sept. 8, 2018). In 2017, rapper Future nabbed an unprecedented pair of back-to-back new No. 1s in successive weeks (with his self-titled album March 11 and HNDRXX on March 18).

Biggest Week for a Pop Album in Over a Year: As Thank U, Next starts with 360,000 units, the set earns the biggest week for a pop album in over a year. The last pop set to tally a larger week was Swift’s Reputation, which began at No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 2, 2017 with 1.24 million units earned. Thank U, Next also scores the biggest week for an album by a woman since reputation.

Thank U, Next has the largest week of any album since Oct. 13, 2018, when Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V bowed at No. 1 with 480,000 units.

Largest Streaming Week for a Pop Album & Any Album by a Woman: Of Thank U, Next’s starting unit sum of 360,000 units, 228,000 are in SEA units. That latter sum translates to a whopping 307 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s songs during the tracking week. That’s a remarkable sum considering most-heavily-streamed albums are hip-hop sets. (Of the top 20 largest-streaming weeks ever for an album, Thank U, Next is the only non-hip-hop title.)

Thank U, Next easily sets the record for the largest streaming week for a pop album (beating the debut frame of Ed Sheeran’s ÷ [Divide] with 126.7 million on-demand audio streams for its songs; March 25, 2017) and the biggest streaming week for an album by a woman (surpassing the debut week of Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy with 202.6 million; April 21, 2018).

Thank U, Next has the ninth-largest streaming week for an album overall, and the eighth-biggest debut week. Drake’s Scorpion remains the streaming record-holder among all albums, with 745.9 million on-demand audio streams registered for its songs in its debut week (July 14, 2018). (Scorpion actually has two of the top nine biggest weeks, as the album’s second-week streaming sum is the fourth-largest overall, with 391 million.).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Bornsoundtrack steps 5-2 with 49,000 units (up 31 percent). The set is basking in the glow of Gaga’s performance of the album’s “Shallow” on the Feb. 10 Grammy Awards, where the song also won a pair of trophies (including one presented during the CBS broadcast: best pop duo/group performance).

Another soundtrack, Bohemian Rhapsody, rebounds to its peak position on the Billboard 200, as it zooms from No. 11 to No. 3 with 48,000 units (up 84 percent). The album’s parent film of the same name was released on DVD and blu-ray on Feb. 12, thus stirring interest in the movie’s soundtrack with consumers. (The movie was already available on digital home video.)

A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN falls to No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 with 43,000 units (down 7 percent), Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys rises 6-5 with 39,000 units (up 10 percent), Travis Scott’s Astroworld descends 4-6 with 37,000 units (down 3 percent), 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was tumbles 2-7 with nearly 37,000 units (down 8 percent) and Drake’s Scorpion is steady at No. 8 with 35,000 units (up 4 percent).

Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour rides its pair of Grammy Award wins on Feb. 10 to a return to the top 10, as the set re-enters the chart straight in at No. 9 with 35,000 units (up 524 percent). Of that sum, 20,000 were in album sales — a gain of 735 percent.

Golden Hour won Grammy Awards for album of the year and best country album, while its songs “Butterflies” and “Space Cowboy” also took home trophies, for best country solo performance and best country song, respectively. Musgraves performed the album’s “Rainbow” on the Grammy Awards broadcast and also took part in an all-star tribute performance to Dolly Parton. (“Rainbow” is now being promoted as Musgraves latest single at country, adult pop and adult contemporary radio stations.) Golden Hour debuted and peaked at No. 4 last April.

Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is Meek Mill’s Championships, which falls 7-10 with 34,000 units (down 2 percent).

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Marshmello’s “Happier,” with Bastille, blasts to a new high from No. 8.

Ariana Grande‘s “7 Rings” rules the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week, topping the tally dated Feb. 16, after debuting at No. 1 two weeks earlier. The song launched as Grande’s second Hot 100 No. 1, and second to start at the top spot, following “Thank U, Next,” which debuted atop the chart in November and led for seven total weeks.

Meanwhile, Marshmello and Bastille bound from No. 8 to a new No. 2 Hot 100 high with “Happier,” after Marshmello performed a trailblazing in-game concert inside Epic Games’ video game Fortnite Feb. 2.

Let’s run down the top 10 of the Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Feb. 12).

Grande’s “Rings,” released on Republic Records, spends a third week as both the week’s most-streamed and top-selling song, while continuing to soar in airplay.

“Rings” leads the Streaming Songs chart for a third frame, with 57.7 million U.S. streams, down 9 percent, in the week ending Feb. 7, according to Nielsen Music. It also tops the Digital Song Sales chart for a third week, with 42,000 downloads sold, up 7 percent, in the week ending Feb. 7.

On Radio Songs, “Rings” rockets 19-10, up 21 percent to 50.6 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 10, good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award. The song reaches the Radio Songs top 10 in just its third week, marking the quickest climb to the region since Drake’s “In My Feelings” also needed only three frames in July-August. Grande ties her fastest ascent, as her “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea, hit the Radio Songs top 10 in its third week in 2014.

“Rings” is the radio follow-up to “Next,” and follows the track “Imagine,” which debuted and peaked at No. 24 on the Hot 100 (Dec. 29). All three songs, plus new radio single “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored,” due on next week’s Hot 100 (dated Feb. 23), are from Grande’s new album, Thank U, Next, which is set for a No. 1 launch on next week’s Billboard 200 chart.

Marshmello and Bastille’s “Happier” vaults 8-2, hitting a new peak, on the Hot 100 after Marshmello’s Fortnite concert Feb. 2. The song had previously peaked at No. 3 on Nov. 10.

As previously reported, the DJ’s virtual set, the first of its kind in Fortnite and which mixed his tracks “Alone,” “Check This Out,” “Chasing Colors” (with Ookay and featuring Noah Cyrus), “Flashbacks,” “Everyday” (with Logic), “Fly” (featuring Leah Culver) and “Happier,” took place within the game’s Pleasant Park location. The full roughly 10-minute performance was uploaded to Marshmello’s official YouTube channel, along with other related clips, while he also released an extended mix of the set to Apple Music (while numerous gamers uploaded portions of the performance to their channels).

“We made history today!,” Fortnite fan Marshmello wrote on Twitter afterwards. “The first-ever live virtual concert inside of @fortnite with millions of people in attendance. So insane!”

Aided by the set and its online presence, “Happier” hikes 11-2 on Streaming Songs, up 120 percent to 51.8 million U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 7, earning the Hot 100’s top Streaming Gainer prize. The collab had hit a previous No. 10 high on Streaming Songs in November (and a prior weekly best of 25.4 million streams, as reflected on the chart dated Feb. 2). On Digital Song Sales, it jumps 11-5 (22,000 sold, up 82 percent); it reached No. 2 on the chart on October. “Happier” holds at No. 4 on Radio Songs (89.3 million, down 4 percent) after leading the list for a week in November.

Marshmello and Bastille each earn a new career-best rank in the Hot 100 at No. 2, as “Happier” completes the longest trip to the top two (25 weeks) in over five years, since OneRepublic’s “Counting Stars” also reached No. 2 in its 25th frame (Jan. 18, 2014).

“Happier” concurrently leads Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 21st week (while “Alone” re-enters at No. 2, besting its prior No. 9 peak; on the Hot 100, “Alone” returns at No. 29, also a new high, after becoming Marshmello’s first Hot 100 entry in November 2016 and reaching No. 60 the following January).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five are three former No. 1s: Halsey‘s “Without Me” dips 2-3; Post Malone and Swae Lee‘s “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” drops 3-4, as it tops the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a sixth week each; and Travis Scott‘s “Sicko Mode” is stationary at No. 5, while showing across-the-board gains after Scott performed the song as part of the Super Bowl LIII halftime show performance Feb. 3, headlined by Maroon 5 (see below). “Sicko” holds at No. 5 on Streaming Songs (41.7 million, up 5 percent) and No. 8 on Radio Songs (63 million, up less than 1 percent) and elevates 13-8 on Digital Song Sales (17,000, up 63 percent).

Panic! at the Disco‘s “High Hopes” rebounds 7-6 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 4. The track paces Hot Rock Songs for a 15th week and Radio Songs for a 12th (115.1 million, down 2 percent).

Grande’s “Next” backtracks 6-7 on the Hot 100; J. Cole‘s “Middle Child” tumbles from its No. 4 peak to No. 8; and Post Malone’s “Wow.” keeps at No. 9 after reaching No. 8.

Helped by the band’s Super Bowl LIII halftime show performance Feb. 3, Maroon 5 holds at No. 10 on the Hot 100 with its former seven-week No. 1 “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, as the song ties a longevity record: “Girls” logs a 33rd week in the top 10, matching the longest top 10 run 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, “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

“Girls” charges 22-6 on Digital Song Sales (19,000, up 123 percent, claiming top Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100) and pushes 24-21 on Streaming Songs (20.5 million, up 13 percent), while keeping at No. 6 on Radio Songs (77.8 million, down 2 percent), which it led for 16 weeks.

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, four songs enter the top 20 for the first time: 21 Savage’s “A Lot” leaps 26-12; alt-pop singer-songwriter Billie Eilish earns a new personal-best rank as “Bury a Friend,” from her debut LP, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (due March 29), flies 74-14 after its first full week of tracking; Khalid’s “Better” rises 23-18, as it leads Hot R&B Songs for a fifth week; and rap newcomer Blueface climbs 28-20 with his debut hit “Thotiana”).

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 (Feb. 12), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The next issue of Billboard magazine is on sale Friday (Feb. 15).

Source: billboard.com