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25 Aug 2025 Music Now!

Led by HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ at No. 1, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Becomes First Soundtrack With Four Simultaneous Hot 100 Top 10s

KPop Demon Hunters is also the first soundtrack with four Hot 100 top 10s at all in nearly 30 years.

HUNTR/X’s “Golden” shines again atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart — and contributes to history for its parent album, the soundtrack to the smash animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters.

“Golden” rebounds a spot for a second week at No. 1, two weeks after it first led the Hot 100, as KPop Demon Hunters becomes the first soundtrack to generate four simultaneous top 10s over the chart’s 67-year archives. Also from the album, Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” holds at its No. 4 high and their “Soda Pop” surges 10-5 — while HUNTR/X slays with its second top 10, as “How It’s Done” bursts 14-10.

KPop Demon Hunters becomes just the fifth soundtrack with four Hot 100 top 10s at all, and the first since Waiting To Exhale spun off a record five in 1995-96.

Upon the original coronation of “Golden,” HUNTR/X — the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (in the roles of the film’s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey) — became the first female group associated with Korean pop to top the Hot 100. The act also became the first all-woman collective of three or more members to reign in 24 years, since Destiny’s Child with “Bootylicious” for two weeks in August 2001.

Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 30, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 26. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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24 Aug 2025 Music Now!

Morgan Wallen’s ‘I’m the Problem’ Makes It a Dozen Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200

Plus: Conan Gray scores his highest-charting album, while Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift surge back into top 10.

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem notches its 12th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 30). The set earned 121,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Aug. 21 (down 4%), according to Luminate. I’m the Problem debuted at No. 1 on the May 31-dated chart, spent it first eight weeks in the pole position, stepped away from the top for two weeks and then returned to No. 1 for four weeks running.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Conan Gray scores his highest-charting album yet as Wishbone bows at No. 3, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft jumps back into the top 10 after a new one-year anniversary vinyl variant was released, and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department returns to the top 10 following the buzz surrounding the announcement of her upcoming The Life of a Showgirl 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, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 30, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 26. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of I’m the Problem’s 121,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 21, SEA units comprise 116,000 (down 4%, equaling 154.02 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for a 13th nonconsecutive week), album sales comprise 4,000 (up 1%; it moves 21-17 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 1%).

Cumulatively, Wallen’s three No. 1 albums (I’m the Problem, One Thing at a Time and Dangerous: The Double Album) have spent a total of 41 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. That puts him in second place for the most weeks at No. 1 this century, surpassing Adele’s 40 weeks on top. Only Taylor Swift, with 86 weeks at No. 1 since 2000, has more. Before I’m the Problem’s 12 weeks at No. 1, One Thing at a Time ruled for 19 nonconsecutive weeks in 2023-34 and Dangerous: The Double Album was tops for 10 straight weeks in 2021.

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack holds at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 108,000 equivalent album units earned (up 3%). The album debuted at No. 8 nine weeks ago and has never left the top 10. The last soundtrack to spend its first nine weeks in the top 10 was Fifty Shades of Grey in 2015, which spent its first 14 weeks in the top 10.

Further, KPop Demon Hunters has spent five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2 — its peak to date. The last soundtrack to spend at least five weeks at No. 2, without reaching No. 1, was Forrest Gump in 1994, which notched five straight frames in the runner-up spot (behind another soundtrack, The Lion King). KPop Demon Hunters is likely to sport further gains on next week’s charts, with the Netflix film getting a wide release in movie theaters for a sing-a-long event this weekend.

Conan Gray scores his highest-charting album ever on the Billboard 200 as Wishbone bows at No. 3. It launches with 71,000 equivalent album units earned — his best week by units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 53,000 (his best sales week yet — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 18,000 (equaling 23.71 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 27 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across seven CD variants (including signed editions) and seven vinyl editions (some signed) and a standard digital download edition.

Gray previously hit the top 10 of the Billboard 200 twice, with Superache (No. 9 in 2022) and Kid Krow (No. 5 in 2020).

Wishbone was preceded by its single “Vodka Cranberry,” which peaked at No. 38 on the Pop Airplay chart.

Gunna’s The Last Wun falls one spot to No. 4 on its second week on the Billboard 200 (48,000 equivalent album units, down 40%), while Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright, Kid is steady at its No. 5 high for a second week (nearly 40,000 units, down 6%).

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft rallies 24-6 after the release of a one-year anniversary vinyl edition of the album. The set, counting all versions of the album, including the new vinyl variant, earned 38,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week (up 64%). Of that sum, vinyl sales accounted for nearly 18,000. The anniversary edition of the vinyl was pressed on bio-vinyl dark blue and orange splatter with its cover printed on silver mirror foil board and contains a poster.

Hit Me Hard and Soft, which peaked at No. 2 in its debut week (chart dated June 1, 2024), was last in the top 10 on the June 7, 2025-dated list (at No. 9) and last ranked as high on the Feb. 22, 2025, chart (when it was also at No. 6).

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises a spot to No. 7 on the latest Billboard 200 (nearly 38,000 equivalent album units, down 1%), SZA’s former leader SOS is up two spots to No. 8 (35,000, down 1%) and Justin Bieber’s SWAG falls 7-9 (nearly 33,000, down 15%).

Closing out the top 10 is Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 The Tortured Poets Department, which jumps 18-10 with 30,500 equivalent album units earned (up 18%). Swift’s most recent studio album, which led the chart for 17 nonconsecutive weeks beginning in May 2024, returns to the top 10 for the first time since the Feb. 15-dated list (No. 9).

Poets’ vault back into the top 10 comes after Swift’s Aug. 12 announcement of her forthcoming new studio album, The Life of a Showgirl (due Oct. 3). On Aug. 13, Swift provided further details about the album, including its tracklist and producers, and appeared on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, to chat about the project. YouTube announced that the pod peaked at 1.3 million concurrent livestream viewers — more than any other podcast has garnered since the platform launched a “dedicated podcast experience in 2023,” per the company.

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19 Aug 2025 Music Now!

Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 for Milestone 10th Week

Plus, KPop Demon Hunters generates a third top 10, and the second by Saja Boys, with “Soda Pop.”

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” rebounds a rank to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking its milestone 10th week in the chart’s top spot.

Over the Hot 100’s 67-year history, a mere 4% of all Hot 100 No. 1s (47 of 1,183) have dominated for double-digit weeks. “Ordinary” is the first to reach the mark since Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” which led for 13 weeks beginning in March. Before that, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” reigned for a record-tying 19 weeks beginning in July of last year.

Meanwhile, the soundtrack to the smash Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters adds its third Hot 100 top 10, as Saja Boys’ “Soda Pop” bounds 14-10. It’s the second top 10 for the act — whose music is voiced by Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and samUIL Lee — joining “Your Idol,” which surges to the top five (8-4). The set’s “Golden” by HUNTR/X — the singing trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI — ranks at No. 2, a week after rising to No. 1.

rowse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 23, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 19. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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12 Aug 2025 Music Now!

HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

Plus, Chappell Roan’s “The Subway” rumbles in at a career-best No. 3.

HUNTR/X’s “Golden” goes up, up, up a spot for its first week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The aspirational song is from the soundtrack to the smash animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters and glows as the first Hot 100 leader for the act, whose music is voiced by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI. The set rules Billboard’s Soundtracks chart for a seventh week.

Notably, “Golden” is the ninth song associated with Korean pop to conquer the Hot 100 — and the first by female lead vocalists. It joins “Seven” by Jung Kook (featuring Latto) and “Like Crazy” by Jimin, both of BTS, in 2023, and BTS’ six No. 1s in 2020-21: “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo; “Dynamite”; “Life Goes On”; “Butter”; “Permission To Dance”; and “My Universe,” with Coldplay. (HUNTR/X singers EJAE and REI AMI were born in Seoul, South Korea; Nuna is from New Jersey.)

“Golden” is also the first IRL Hot 100 No. 1 by any act with a fictional background since the ensemble No. 1 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” which reigned for five weeks in February-March 2022. It, too, was released from a hit animated film, Disney’s Encanto, and sung by multiple vocalists as their characters in the movie.

As for all-women collectives of three or more members, HUNTR/X is the first to top the Hot 100 in 24 years — since Destiny’s Child dominated with “Bootylicious” for two weeks in August 2001.

Plus, Chappell Roan’s “The Subway” pulls into the Hot 100 at No. 3, marking her highest debut and rank. The song starts as her fourth top 10.

Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 16, 2025) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Aug. 12. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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5 Aug 2025 Music Now!

Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Leads Hot 100 for Ninth Week, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Slays with New Top 10

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while two adversarial acts from KPop Demon Hunters take their battle to the top 10.

“Ordinary” adds a ninth week atop the Hot 100, having become Warren’s first leader on the chart.

Meanwhile, “Golden,” by HUNTR/X — the trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI — holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as “Your Idol,” by Saja Boys — Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and samUIL Lee — reaches the top 10, bounding 12-9. The songs, each act’s first top 10, are from the hit Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters and its soundtrack, which notches a second week at its No. 2 best on the Billboard 200 albums chart. It rules the Soundtracks chart for a sixth week.

Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 9, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 5. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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28 Jul 2025 Music Now!

Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Holds at No. 1 on Hot 100, HUNTR/X’s ‘Golden’ Up, Up, Up to No. 2

Plus, Morgan Wallen adds a new chart achievement.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” adds an eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has spent all its weeks on top consecutively, having become his first leader on the chart.

Concurrently, Warren’s album You’ll Be Alright, Kid vaults 19-5 on the Billboard 200, becoming his first top 10 on the ranking, after it was expanded with 10 songs, including “Ordinary.”

Plus, Morgan Wallen’s former Hot 100 No. 1 “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, at No. 4, sparks history for the singer-songwriter on the Hot Country Songs chart, where it leads for a 10th week. It marks his record-breaking fourth song to reign for 10-plus weeks, surpassing Florida Georgia Line’s three.

Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 2, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 29. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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22 Jul 2025 Music Now!

Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Leads Hot 100 for Seventh Week, Justin Bieber & Ravyn Lenae New in Top 10

Bieber’s “Daisies” debuts at No. 2 and Lenae’s “Love Me Not” leaps to No. 7.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” scores a seventh week atop the Billboard Hot 100. The song has spent all its weeks on top consecutively, having become his first No. 1 on the chart.

Plus, two songs are new to the Hot 100’s top 10, led by Justin Bieber’s “Daisies,” which debuts at No. 2. The track is from his new album, Swag, which likewise bounds onto the Billboard 200 at No. 2. Bieber earns his 27th career Hot 100 top 10 — tying Janet Jackson for the 10th-most in the chart’s history. It also opens as the week’s most-streamed song.

Meanwhile, Ravyn Lenae lands her first Hot 100 top 10 as “Love Me Not” surges five spots to No. 7. The song became her first entry on the chart in April.

Additionally in the Hot 100’s top 10, Teddy Swims’ former leader “Lose Control,” at No. 9, makes history, becoming the first song ever to spend 100 weeks on the chart.

Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated July 26, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 22. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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21 Jul 2025 Music Now!

‘JACKBOYS 2’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

Plus: Justin Bieber, Clipse, TWICE, ATEEZ and GIVĒON make waves in the top 10.

The JACKBOYS 2 project from Travis Scott and his JACKBOYS collective debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 26), earning 232,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending July 17, according to Luminate.

The set was announced in March and is the follow-up to the first JACKBOYS set, which debuted at No. 1 on the Jan. 11, 2020-dated chart. A release date wasn’t shared for the new album until July 10, when Scott announced the set would drop on July 13. (Thus, JACKBOYS 2 debuts on the Billboard 200 with five days of activity in its first week on the chart. Most albums are released on Friday of each week; Luminate’s tracking week for the chart runs Friday through Sunday.)

JACKBOYS 2 (also the top-selling album of the week) leads a busy top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, where five albums debut in the region — the most in more than two years. Plus, a former No. 2-peaking album reenters the chart in the top 10.

Justin Bieber’s surprise album SWAG starts at No. 2 (with Bieber’s biggest streaming week ever, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums); Clipse’s first album in nearly 16 years, Let God Sort Em Out, debuts at No. 4; TWICE’s THIS IS FOR launches at No. 6; ATEEZ’s GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 (which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in June) re-enters the chart at No. 7 following its deluxe reissue; and GIVĒON’s BELOVED starts at No. 8.

The last time the top 10 housed at least five debuts was on the July 17, 2023-dated chart, when six albums premiered in the region.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 26, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 22. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of JACKBOYS 2’s 232,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 17, album sales comprise 160,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 72,000 (equaling 94.86 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

JACKBOYS 2 was released on July 13 as a seven-song album (as a digital download that was widely available, on five vinyl variants exclusively sold by the JACKBOYS’ webstore) and as an expanded 17-song album (available via streaming services, digital download stores and on a JACKBOYS’ store-exclusive CD across five variants). The JACKBOYS webstore also offered nine deluxe boxed sets containing branded clothing and a copy of a CD, as well as four webstore-exclusive download album variants (three contained one bonus track each, while one had alternative cover art). On July 17, the final day of the tracking week, a 20-song edition of the album became available to digital retailers and streamers — it contained all the songs on the 17-song edition, along with the three bonus tracks that had previously been only available on the webstore-exclusive download albums.

With 232,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week, the JACKBOYS 2 project collects the second-largest debut week for a rap album in 2025 (trailing only the opening frame of Playboi Carti’s MUSIC, with 298,000, in March). Plus, with 160,000 albums sold, JACKBOYS 2 logs the largest sales week for a rap album since Scott’s Days Before Rodeo rode in with 331,000 on the Sept. 7, 2024-dated chart.

Justin Bieber’s surprise album SWAG starts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, earning 163,000 equivalent album units in its first week. The album was first teased on July 10, one day before it was released. The 21-track set is the 11th top 10-charted effort for Bieber.

Of SWAG’s opening-week units sum, SEA units comprise 155,000 equivalent album units (equaling 198.77 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — that’s Bieber’s best streaming week ever, and the album debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it debuts at No. 14 on Top Album Sales, it was only available in one standard widely available download album; physical versions aren’t expected until December) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

After spending its first eight weeks on the Billboard 200 at No. 1, Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem falls to No. 3 with 147,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).

Clipse’s first album in nearly 16 years, Let God Sort Em Out, opens at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 118,000 equivalent album units earned, marking the second top 10-charted effort for the brother duo (Pusha T and Malice). The set matches the peak of the pair’s debut project, and only other top 10, 2002’s Lord Willin’, which debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the Sept. 7, 2002-dated chart.

Let God Sort Em Out is Clipse’s first album since the July 2009 release Til the Casket Drops. The set was preceded by the top 40 hit “Ace Trumpets” on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Of the new album’s 118,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 59,000 (equaling 77.49 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it’s Clipse’s biggest streaming week, and he project debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 58,000 (it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

The new album was issued on July 11 in a widely-available 12-track standard CD and vinyl LP, and as digital download and streaming set with one bonus track. The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across four vinyl variants (including a signed edition), three CD variants (including one signed), two cassette tapes, and more than a dozen deluxe boxed sets exclusive to Clipse’s webstore (each containing a piece of branded clothing on a copy of the CD album).

In its fourth week, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is pushed down 2-5 on the latest Billboard 200, though it has the largest week-over-week unit gain on the chart. It increases by 10,000 equivalent album units (a 14% jump) to 85,000 in the latest tracking week.

KPop Demon Hunters is the only soundtrack to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and then see unit increases in its second, third and fourth weeks since the chart began ranking titles by equivalent album units in December 2014.

Of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack’s 85,000 units earned in its fourth week, SEA units comprise 79,000 (up 14%, equaling 109.53 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it’s pushed down 2-3 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 5,000 (up 13% — though it’s down 9-17 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 10%).

KPop Demon Hunters’ streaming sum of 109.53 million clicks is the biggest for a soundtrack since Encanto was in its seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (March 5, 2022; with 114.67 million).

KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S., and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending July 13, the animated film held at No. 2 in its fourth week on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart.

TWICE (who also feature on the KPop Demon Hunters album) claims its seventh top 10-charted effort as THIS IS FOR launches at No. 6 with 80,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 68,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 12,000 (equaling 16.21 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Released on July 11, THIS IS FOR was available as a standard widely available digital download and streaming album, across 15 CD and three vinyl variants (all containing collectible ephemera, some randomized). On July 14, a widely available deluxe edition of the album with two bonus tracks was released via digital stores and streamers.

ATEEZ’s GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the June 28-dated chart, reenters the chart at No. 7 following its deluxe reissue on July 11. The album — with all versions, old and new, combined — earned 79,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week, a gain of 1,489%. Of that sum, album sales comprise 70,000 (up 1,750% — it jumps 12-2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 8,000 (up 595% — with that unit figure equaling 11.21 million on-demand official streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise nearly 1,000.

The deluxe set, dubbed GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 ‘In Your Fantasy Edition,’ includes 10 bonus tracks and was issued across six CD variants (all with collectible ephemera, some randomized, inside its packaging). All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.

GIVĒON’s BELOVED bows at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, marking the second top 10-charted set for the artist. It begins with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (his best week ever by units), of which SEA units comprise 36,000 (equaling 47.78 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it debuts at No. 7 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 8,000 (his best sales week ever, it debuts at No. 10 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

The new album was preceded by a pair of top 30 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: “Twenties” (No. 19 in February) and “Rather Be” (No. 30 in May).

BELOVED was available as a standard widely available download and streaming set, as well as across five vinyl variants (including one signed) and two CD variants (one signed).

Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart are two former No. 1s: Wallen’s One Thing at a Time falls 3-9 (39,000 equivalent album units; down 1%) and SZA’s SOS is pushed down 4-10 (though it gains by 3% to 37,000 units).

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13 Jul 2025 Music Now!

Morgan Wallen’s ‘I’m the Problem’ Spends First Two Months at No. 1 on Billboard 200

Also in the top 10: The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack gains & Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits gets a boost after Independence Day.

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem has spent its first two months on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 as the set holds atop the chart dated July 19, earning 151,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending July 10 (down 12%). The album opened at No. 1 on the May 31 chart.

Cumulatively, Wallen’s three No. 1 albums (I’m the Problem, One Thing at a Time and Dangerous: The Double Album) have spent a total of 37 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. That sum ties him with Harry Belafonte and Drake for the fifth-most weeks at No. 1 among male artists in the history of the Billboard 200 (since it began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956). Among the gents, the leaders are: Elvis Presley (67 weeks), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), Elton John (39), Belafonte, Drake and Wallen (37 each). Among all artists, The Beatles have the most weeks at No. 1, with 132 across 19 No. 1 albums.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack hits a new peak, climbing 3-2 in its third week on the chart. Meanwhile, Toby Keith’s chart-topping 35 Biggest Hits surges 43-9 in the wake of streaming gains generated by Independence Day festivities.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 19, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of I’m the Problem’s 151,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 10, SEA units comprise 143,500 (down 12%, equaling 188.69 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for an eighth week), album sales comprise 6,500 (down 12% — it rises 11-5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 23%).

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack climbs 3-2 — a new peak — in its third week, earning 75,000 equivalent album units (up 21%). It’s the first soundtrack to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and then see unit increases in its second and third weeks since the Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 album in 2017.

In the 2020s, only four soundtracks have reached the top two on the Billboard 200: KPop Demon Hunters, Wicked (which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in 2024), Barbie (also No. 2 debut and peak, in 2023) and Encanto (nine weeks at No. 1 in 2022).

Of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack’s 75,000 units earned in its third week, SEA units comprise 70,000 (up 24%, equaling 96.33 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it holds at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 4,000 (down 6% — it rises 21-9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 6%).

As the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack racked up 96.33 million streams for its songs in its third week, it scores the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in more three years. The last soundtrack to post a bigger streaming figure was Encanto, on the March 12, 2022-dated chart, when it rang up 101.16 million streams for its songs in its eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S., and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending July 6, KPop Demon Hunters held at No. 2 in its third week on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart.

Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time climbs 6-3 on the latest Billboard 200 (with 39,000 equivalent album units earned; down 2%); SZA’s chart-topping SOS rises 7-4 (36,000; down 7%); Sabrina Carpenter’s former No. 1 Short n’ Sweet bumps 9-5 (35,000; up 6%); Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album ascends 11-6 (29,000; down 4%); Bad Bunny’s former No. 1 Debí Tirar Más Fotos jumps 16-7 (nearly 29,000; up 3%); and Karol G’s Tropicoqueta falls 5-8 (just under 29,000; down 29%).

Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits returns to the top 10, rallying 43-9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (up 56%) following streaming gains generated by Independence Day celebrations. The album, released in 2008, hit No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart in the wake of Keith’s death that Feb. 5.

Of 35 Biggest Hits’ 26,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 24,000 (up 59%, equaling 32.93 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it jumps 43-11 on Top Streaming Albums). The rest of the album’s 2,000 units were generated by album sales and TEA units. About one-third of the album’s streams for the week were generated by Keith’s 2002 No. 1 Hot Country Songs hit “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” which was also his most-streamed song of the week.

Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s former No. 1 $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, rising 17-10 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%).

Source: billboard.com

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8 Jul 2025 Music Now!

Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Rules Billboard Hot 100 for Fifth Week

Plus, Morgan Wallen ties Kendrick Lamar and nears the Beatles for a record.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” rolls on atop the Billboard Hot 100, as his first leader on the chart notches a fifth week at No. 1.

Meanwhile, Morgan Wallen logs his fifth week in 2025 with at least three songs in the Hot 100’s top five simultaneously, as “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, holds at No. 2, “Just in Case” rises 4-3 and “I’m the Problem” keeps at No. 5. Wallen ties Kendrick Lamar for the most weeks with three or more concurrent top five hits in a single year among soloists, with Lamar also having posted three such weeks this year. Among all acts, only the Beatles in their historic 1964 breakthrough boasted more such frames (eight).

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated July 12, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 8. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Source: billboard.com

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