Plus: Kacey Musgraves and Baby Keem debut in the top five, while Metallica’s self-titled album returns to the top 10 after its 30th anniversary reissue.

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set earned 236,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 16 (down 61%), according to MRC Data. The set opened at No. 1 a week ago with the year’s biggest week for an album, 613,000 units.

Also in the top 10: Kacey Musgraves’ Star-Crossed debuts at No. 3, Baby Keem’s The Melodic Blue bows at No. 5 and Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album (often referred to as The Black Album) jumps from No. 158 to No. 9 following its 30th anniversary reissue.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 25, 2021-dated chart (where Certified Lover Boy holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Sept. 21. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Certified Lover Boy’s 236,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 16, SEA units comprise 227,000 units (down 60%, equaling 305.43 million on-demand streams of the album’s 21 tracks), album sales comprise 6,500 (down 86%) and TEA units comprise 2,500 units (down 45%).

Of Drake’s 10 No. 1 albums, Certified is his fourth to spend more than a week atop the list. His other multiple-week chart-toppers are Scorpion (No. 1 for five weeks in 2018), More Life (No. 1 for three weeks in 2017) and Views (No. 1 for 13 weeks in 2016).

Kanye West’s former No. 1 Donda is a non-mover at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 79,000 equivalent album units earned (down 44%).

Kacey Musgraves’ new studio album Star-Crossed debuts at No. 3 with 77,000 equivalent album units earned, scoring the singer-songwriter her fourth top five-charting effort. Plus, the album’s 77,000 units marks Musgraves’ largest week, by units earned, since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in December of 2014.

Of Star-Crossed’s 77,000 units, album sales comprise 47,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 38.23 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 units. Star-Crossed’s sales of 47,000 mark Musgraves’ second-largest sales week, trailing only the debut of Pageant Material, which bowed with 55,000 sold (July 11, 2015-dated chart).

Star-Crossed also logs the second-largest debut streaming week for a country album by a woman, in terms of on-demand streams (38.23 million). Only Taylor Swift’s re-recorded Fearless (Taylor’s Version) had a larger debut frame, when it launched with 142.98 million clicks on the April 24, 2021-dated chart.

Star-Crossed follows Musgraves’ 2018 album Golden Hour, which debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the April 14, 2018 chart. The set would later win two Grammy Awards, for best country album and for album of the year.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour is stationary at No. 4 with 54,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11%).

Baby Keem’s debut album The Melodic Blue bows at No. 5 with 53,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 52,000 (equaling 70.13 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise less than 1,000. The set features two collaborations with Baby Keem’s cousin Kendrick Lamar as well as a joint effort with Travis Scott and a track featuring Don Toliver.

Doja Cat’s Planet Her falls from No. 5 to No. 6 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned – though it’s up 1% for the week. During the tracking frame, she pulled double-duty on the Sept. 12 MTV Video Music Awards, as the show’s host and a performer. She also took home the award for best collaboration, for the album’s “Kiss Me More” featuring SZA.

The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love rises 8-7 with 39,000 equivalent album units (down less than 1%) and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album dips 6-8 with just under 39,000 units (down 3%). Both albums previously hit No. 1.

Metallica’s 1991 self-titled No. 1 album (often referred to as The Black Album, due to its stark black cover) surges from No. 158 to No. 9 in the wake of its 30th anniversary reissue on Sept. 10 in a variety of formats. The set earned 37,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 16 (up 397%). Of that sum, album sales comprise 29,000 (up 1,365%), SEA units comprise nearly 7,000 (up 34%, equaling 9.17 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 101%). All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.

Metallica returns to the top 10, and its highest rank, for the first time in 29 years. It was last in the top 10 on the Aug. 22, 1992, chart (at No. 10) and was last higher on the April 11, 1992, tally (No. 6).

The self-titled set became the band’s first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (of six to-date), and it debuted atop the list dated Aug. 31, 1991 and spent four straight and total weeks at No. 1. Metallica remains the top-selling album in the U.S. since MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991, with 17.3 million copies sold.

Rounding out the Billboard 200’s latest top 10 is Billie Eilish’s former No. 1 Happier Than Ever, falling 7-10 with 34,000 equivalent album units (down 14%).

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The set’s songs generate blockbuster 743.7 million on-demand streams in the U.S.

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy album makes a spectacular debut atop the Billboard 200 chart with the biggest week for any album in over a year. The long–awaited set, which was released on Sept. 3, is Drake’s 10th No. 1 and starts with 613,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 9, according to MRC Data. That’s the biggest week for an album since the Aug. 8, 2020-dated chart, when Taylor Swift’s Folklore launched at No. 1 with 846,000 units.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 18, 2021-dated chart (where Certified Lover Boy debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Sept. 14. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Certified Lover Boy’s 613,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 9, SEA units comprise 562,000 units (equaling 743.67 million on-demand streams of the album’s 21 tracks), album sales comprise 46,000 (all from digital album sales; a CD release is due on Oct. 1) and TEA units comprise 5,000 units.

Let’s take a look at some of the feats that Drake achieves with the debut of Certified Lover Boy:

10th No. 1 Album: Drake is now one of only eight artists with at least 10 No. 1 albums in the 65-year history of the Billboard 200 chart. The Beatles have the most No. 1s, with 19. They are followed by Jay-Z (14), Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand (11 each), Drake, Eminem, Elvis Presley and Kanye West (10 each). Drake first topped the Billboard 200 dated July 3, 2010, with Thank Me Later.

Biggest Week for an Album in Over a Year: With 613,000 equivalent album units earned, Certified Lover Boy logs the largest week for any album since Swift’s Folklore launched at No. 1 on the Aug. 8, 2020-dated chart with 846,000 units. Certified also easily scores 2021’s biggest week, blowing past the previous high, logged just a week earlier (Sept. 11 chart), when West’s Donda bowed at No. 1 with 309,000 units.

Largest Week for a Rap Album Since Drake’s Own ‘Scorpion’ Two Years Ago: It’s rare for an album to post as large a week as Certified. So rare, that in the last five years (going back to September 2016), only albums by Drake and Swift have been as big or bigger in a single week. Swift’s Reputation debuted with 1.24 million units on the Dec. 2, 2017-dated chart, followed by Drake’s Scorpion (732,000; July 14, 2018) and Swift’s Lover (867,000; Sept. 7, 2019) and Folklore (846,000; Aug. 8, 2020). Thus, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy snares the biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop album, a rap album, an album by a male artist, and any album by someone not named Taylor Swift since Drake’s own Scorpion in 2018.

Blockbuster Streams: Certified’s start of 562,000 SEA units equals a whopping 743.67 million on-demand streams of the album’s 21 tracks. Of that sum, audio on-demand streams comprise 714.83 million, while video on-demand streams comprise 28.84 million. Only one album has ever scored a larger streaming week by on-demand audio streams: Drake’s Scorpion, with 745.92 million for its 25 tracks during its debut week. (When Scorpion launched, SEA units only included on-demand audio streams, not on-demand video. Video streams did not join the Billboard 200’s methodology until the Jan. 18, 2020-dated chart.)

Certified Lover Boy was not preceded by any pre-release singles. Scorpion, however, was led by a trio of hits on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: “God’s Plan,” “Nice for What” (both No. 1s, leading the list for 11 and eight weeks, respectively) and “I’m Upset.” (Scorpion ultimately housed seven Hot 100 top 10s, including another No. 1: the 10-week leader “In My Feelings.”) At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, West’s Donda falls to No. 2 in its second week with 141,000 equivalent album units earned (down 54%).

Iron Maiden earns its highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200, as its latest studio effort, Senjutsu, debuts at No. 3. The veteran hard rock band previously peaked at No. 4 with its last two studio releases: The Book of Souls (in 2015) and The Final Frontier (2010). In total, Senjutsu is Iron Maiden’s 15th top 40-charting album (dating to its first, The Number of the Beast, in 1982), of which four have hit the top 10.

Of Senjutsu’s 64,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 61,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.57 million on-demand streams of the set’s 10 tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Senjutsu logs the second-largest week of 2021 for a hard rock album in both equivalent album units earned and in traditional album sales. It trails only Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight, which debuted on the Feb. 20 chart with 70,000 units (of which 64,000 were in album sales). (Hard rock albums are defined as those that have charted on Billboard’s Hard Rock Albums chart.)

At No. 4 on the Billboard 200, Olivia Rodrigo’s former chart-topper Sour falls one spot with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (down 18%). Doja Cat’s Planet Her dips 4-5 (49,000 units; down 7%), Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 6 (40,000; down less than 1%), Billie Eilish’s former leader Happier Than Ever is also steady at No. 7 (just over 39,000; down 1%) and The Kid LAROI’s chart-topping F*ck Love falls 5-8 (39,000; down 10%).

Imagine Dragons claim their fifth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as the rock band’s latest studio set, Mercury – Act 1, debuts at No. 9. The effort launches with 31,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 17,000; SEA units comprise 13,000 (equaling 17.04 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Rod Wave’s former No. 1 SoulFly closes out the new top 10, dipping 8-10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (down 21%).

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Plus: New albums from Halsey and Lil Tecca bow in the top 10.

Kanye West lands his 10th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Donda debuts atop the list with the year’s biggest week for any album: 309,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 2, according to MRC Data. It surpasses the year’s previous best week, when Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour started with 295,000 units (on the chart dated June 5).

West is now one of only seven artists with at least 10 No. 1 albums in the 65-year history of the Billboard 200 chart. The Beatles have the most No. 1s, with 19. They are followed by Jay-Z (14), Bruce Springsteen (11), Barbra Streisand (11), Eminem (10), Elvis Presley (10) and West. (Waiting in the wings for their 10th No. 1s are the acts with nine leaders: Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Drake, Madonna, The Rolling Stones and Taylor Swift. Of those, two have albums either just released, or on the way: Drake’s Certified Lover Boy dropped on Sept. 3 and Swift’s Red [Taylor’s Version] is due on Nov. 19.)

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 11, 2021-dated chart (where Donda debuts to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Wednesday, Sept 8 – one day later than usual, owed to the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. on Monday, Sept. 6. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Donda keeps up a hot streak for West on the Billboard 200, as he once again ties Eminem for the most No. 1 debuts in a row on the chart. Donda is West’s 10th straight charting album to bow atop the list. Eminem earned his 10th straight No. 1 debut with his last release, Music to Be Murdered By in 2020. (Overall, Jay-Z has the most debuts at No. 1, with 14, although they were not consecutive.)

West also ties Eminem for the most consecutive No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, each with 10.

Both West and Eminem have only missed No. 1 once in their chart careers on the Billboard 200, each with their debut chart effort. West peaked at No. 2 with The College Dropout in 2004, and Eminem peaked at No. 2 with The Slim Shady LP in 1999.

Donda was surprise-released on an off-cycle Sunday, Aug. 29 (instead of the usual Friday for most new albums), and, thus, launches with just five days of activity in its first chart week, instead of seven. The 27-track album was released only via streamers and digital retailers, while a release date for a physical album has not been announced. Donda includes guest turns by the likes of Chris Brown, DaBaby, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Lil Durk, Marilyn Manson, Roddy Ricch and The Weeknd – though none are given billed artist credit.

Anticipation for Donda was fueled by three huge ticketed listening events held on July 22, Aug. 5 and Aug. 26 – and all three were live-streamed by Apple Music. The latter gave Donda and West’s catalog of music premium placement on its platform (as did Apple’s iTunes Store).

Of Donda’s 309,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 2, SEA units comprise 272,000 units (equaling 357.39 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks – the largest streaming week of the year for an album), album sales comprise 37,000 and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 units. (Donda’s tracks are not currently available to purchase a la carte from digital retailers, but were briefly purchasable earlier during the tracking week in the iTunes Store.)

Donda surpasses 2021’s previous largest streaming week for an album, logged by J. Cole’s The Off-Season. The latter bowed on the May 29 chart with 243,000 SEA units – which equaled 325.05 million on-demand streams of the set’s 12 tracks.

Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power debuts at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 – marking the singer-songwriter’s fourth straight, and total, album to reach the top two. If I Can’t Have Love starts with 98,000 equivalent album units, and of that sum, album sales comprise 70,500 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 26,500 (equaling 34.76 million on-demand streams of the set’s 13 tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Of If I Can’t Have Love’s 70,500 in total album sales, physical sales comprise 52,500 (across CD, vinyl LP and cassette configurations), while digital album sales comprise 18,000.

If I Can’t Have Love was announced on July 7 with its Friday, Aug. 27 release date in place. Pre-orders began on July 7, as well. West’s Donda, which debuts at No. 1 ahead of If I Can’t Have Love, surprise-dropped on Aug. 29, also with an active pre-order campaign from digital retail. Halsey’s previous album, Manic, also bowed at No. 2 behind another surprise-release album, Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered By. Both Manic and Music were released on Jan. 17, 2020. The former had four months of advance promotion while the latter arrived with no warning.

Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour falls 1-3 on the new Billboard 200 with 74,000 equivalent album units earned (down 44%). Doja Cat’s Planet Her is a non-mover at No. 4 with 53,000 units (down 7%), The Kid LAROI’s former chart-topper F*ck Love rises 7-5 with 44,000 units (down 9%) and Morgan Wallen’s No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album climbs 9-6 with 40,000 units (down 4%).

Billie Eilish’s former leader Happier Than Ever dips 6-7 with nearly 40,000 equivalent album units earned (down 20%), Rod Wave’s No. 1 SoulFly falls 3-8 with 39,000 units (down 38%) and Trippie Redd’s Trip at Knight falls 2-9 in its second week with 35,000 units (down 57%).

Lil Tecca closes out the top 10 with his new album We Love You Tecca 2, as it launches at No. 10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 28,000 (equaling 40.52 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

We Love You Tecca 2 is the third straight top 10 effort for the rapper – the entirety of his charting efforts.

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Bieber rewrites his longest reign as a lead artist.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber‘s “Stay” scores a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Notably, among Bieber’s eight Hot 100 No. 1s, “Stay” passes the three-week reign of “Sorry” in 2016 for his longest reign as a lead artist. He’s topped the chart longer only as featured on Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” for 16 weeks in 2017.

Plus, Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating,” at No. 6 on the Hot 100, notches its 34th week in the top 10, passing Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, for the longest top 10 stay among songs by women in the chart’s history.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Sept. 4) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 31). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Stay,” released July 9 on Raymond Braun/Columbia Records/Def Jam, drew 63.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 25%; good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for a third consecutive week) and 31.7 million U.S. streams (down 3%) and sold 13,700 downloads (down 4%) in the week ending Aug. 26, according to MRC Data.

The track adds a sixth week atop the Streaming Songs chart and rises 5-4 on Digital Song Sales and 7-6 on Radio Songs.

With a fourth week atop the Hot 100 for “Stay,” Bieber rewrites his longest command as a lead artist, as the song surpasses his “Sorry,” which led for three weeks in 2016. He has dominated longer only via his featured turn on Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” for 16 weeks in 2017.

Here’s an updated look at all eight of Bieber’s Hot 100 No. 1s, ranked by most weeks on top:

16 weeks, “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, hit No. 1 on May 23, 2017
4 weeks (to date), “Stay,” The Kid LAROI & Bieber, Aug. 14, 2021
3 weeks, “Sorry,” Jan. 23, 2016
2 weeks, “Love Yourself,” Feb. 13, 2016
1 week, “Peaches,” feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon, April 3, 2021
1 week, “Stuck With U,” with Ariana Grande, May 23, 2020
1 week, “I’m the One,” DJ Khaled feat. Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne, May 20, 2017
1 week, “What Do You Mean?,” Sept. 19, 2015

“Stay” also hits No. 1 on the mainstream top 40-based Pop Airplay chart, jumping from No. 5 as the radio ranking’s Greatest Gainer (up 15% in plays). The Kid LAROI earns his first Pop Airplay No. 1 and Bieber adds his ninth, tying Bruno Mars for the most among solo males, dating to the chart’s 1992 inception. Overall, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Rihanna lead with 11 Pop Airplay No. 1s each, followed by Bieber, Mars, P!nk and Taylor Swift, each with nine.

Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It keeps at No. 3 on Radio Songs (75 million, up 4%) and climbs 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (15,800, essentially even week-over-week) and 7-5 on Streaming Songs (16.2 million, down 2%).

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” which ruled the Hot 100 in its debut week in May, repeats at No. 3, as it leads Radio Songs for a third week (76.3 million, on par with the prior frame).

Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, rebounds 5-4 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3, and Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” bumps 7-5, returning to the top five four weeks after it debuted at its No. 2 high. The latter also adds a fourth week each atop the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100.

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” keeps at No. 6 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2. It posts a 34th week in the top 10, passing Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You,” featuring Cardi B, for the longest top 10 stay among songs by women. Overall, it claims outright the third-longest run in the region in the chart’s 63-year history.

Most weeks in Hot 100’s top 10:
57, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd, No. 1 peak (four weeks), beginning April 4, 2020
39, “Circles,” Post Malone, No. 1 (three weeks), Nov. 30, 2019
34, “Levitating,” Dua Lipa, No. 2, May 22, 2021
33, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse),” Post Malone & Swae Lee, No. 1 (one week), Jan. 19, 2019
33, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, No. 1 (seven weeks), Sept. 29, 2018
33, “Shape of You,” Ed Sheeran, No. 1 (12 weeks), Jan. 28, 2017

BTS’ “Butter” lifts 8-7 after nine weeks atop the Hot 100, as it leads Digital Song Sales for a 13th week (68,800, up 25%, sparking the chart’s top Sales Gainer award).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” ascends 9-8, after hitting No. 3; Lil Nas X’s former one-week leader “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” rises 10-9; and The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” returns to the tier (11-10), also after a week at No. 1.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Sept. 4), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 31).

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Plus: Trippie Redd & Lorde debut in top five, while reissues from Rod Wave, TOMORROW X TOGETHER & Aaliyah impact the top 10.

Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour returns for a fifth week nonconsecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, following its vinyl LP release on Aug. 20. It continues to have the second-most weeks at No. 1 in 2021, behind only Morgan Wallen’s 10-week run with Dangerous: The Double Album.

In the tracking week ending Aug. 26, Sour earned 133,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. (up 133%), according to MRC Data. Of that sum, album sales comprise 84,000 (up 1,201%), with vinyl LP sales equaling 76,000 of that figure (the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album since MRC Data began electronically tracking sales in 1991).

Also in the new top 10, the latest efforts from Trippie Redd and Lorde debut in the top 10, while deluxe reissues of Rod Wave’s SoulFly and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Chaos Chapter: Freeze return to the to the region, and Aaliyah’s long out-of-print 1996 album One In a Million hits the top 10 for the first time following its reissue on Aug. 20.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 4, 2021-dated chart (where Sour returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 31. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Sour’s 133,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 26, album sales comprise 84,000 (up 1,201%), SEA units comprise 48,000 (down 3%, equaling 69.82 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000 units (down 1%).

As noted above, vinyl LP sales drove 76,000 of Sour’s total sales in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 26. That marks the second-largest sales week for an album on vinyl since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991. The only larger week was logged by the arrival of Taylor Swift’s Evermore on vinyl, when it sold 102,000 in the week ending June 3.

Like Evermore, Sour’s debut on vinyl came months after the album’s initial release via other formats. Evermore as bowed digitally and through streamers on Dec. 11, 2020, but its vinyl edition was not issued until May 28. Sour arrived via streamers and on CD, cassette and digital download on May 21, but did not hit vinyl until Aug. 20. By the time both Evermore and Sour were released on vinyl, they had months of pre-orders fueling their initial vinyl sales.

Trippie Redd logs his sixth consecutive, and total, top five-charting album as Trip at Knight debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. It launches with 81,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 75,000 units (equaling 107.99 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 5,000 and TEA units comprise less than 1,000. The rapper previously visited the top 10 five times, all with top five-charting efforts: Pegasus (No. 2 in 2020), A Love Letter to You 4 (No. 1, 2019), I (No. 3, 2019), A Love Letter to You 3 (No. 3, 2018) and Life’s a Trip (No. 4, 2018).

Rod Wave’s former No. 1, SoulFly, rallies 38-3 after its deluxe reissue on Aug. 20 with nine additional tracks. The set earned 62,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 26 (up 350%), with nearly all of that sum driven by SEA units (61,000; up 349%). SoulFly was originally released as a 19-track album on March 26 and debuted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 dated April 10.

Doja Cat’s Planet Her falls 2-4 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).

Lorde’s third full-length studio album, Solar Power, premieres at No. 5 with 56,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 34,000, SEA units comprise 22,000 (equaling 28.38 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000. Solar Power is the third top five effort for the singer-songwriter, who saw both of her previous full-length studio sets also reach the top five: Melodrama hit No. 1 in 2017 and Pure Heroine peaked at No. 3 in 2013.

A pair of former No. 1s are next on the Billboard 200, as Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever falls 1-6 in its fourth week (49,000 equivalent album units; down 18%) and The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love dips 4-7 (48,000; down 7%).

TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Chaos Chapter: Freeze re-enters the chart at No. 8 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned (up 667%) following a deluxe reissue on Aug. 20 with additional tracks and new physical CD packaging. The set previously debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the June 19-dated chart.

Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album falls 5-9 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (down 2%).

Aaliyah’s 1996 sophomore album, One In a Million, reaches the top 10 for the first time, as the set re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 10. The album was reissued on Aug. 20 after years out-of-print, and earned 26,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 26. Of that sum, album sales comprise 13,000; SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 14.29 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 2,000. One In a Million originally peaked at No. 18 on the Feb. 1, 1997-dated chart. The album is first of a series of reissues for the Blackground label, including other previously long-unavailable albums from Aaliyah, Ashley Parker Angel, Toni Braxton, JoJo, Tank and Timbaland (and Timbaland & Magoo).

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Plus: Dan + Shay, $uicideboy$ and The Killers debut in top 10.

Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever stands at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a third straight week. The set earned 60,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 19 (down 29%), according to MRC Data. The album opened atop the list two weeks ago.

It’s the second album of 2021 to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 (following Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album) and the first set by a woman to do so since Taylor Swift’s Folklore spent its first six weeks atop the list on the Aug. 8-Sept. 19, 2020 charts (of its eventual eight total nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1).

Happier now has as many weeks atop the chart as Eilish’s last album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? The latter logged three individual nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, in 2019 (April 13-dated chart, its debut; May 4 and June 8).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 28, 2021-dated chart (where Happier Than Ever is No. 1 for a third week) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 24. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Happier Than Ever’s 60,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 19, SEA units comprise 36,000 (down 25%, equaling 49.6 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 23,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week; down 35%) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 27%).

Notably, Happier’s third-week sum of 60,000 units is the lowest for a No. 1 album since the Jan. 16-dated chart (reflecting the traditionally sleepy post-New Year’s tracking week ending Jan. 7), when Taylor Swift’s Evermore spent its third nonconsecutive week at No. 1 with 56,000 units.

Doja Cat’s Planet Her rises 5-2 with 59,000 equivalent album units (up 6%). The set has remained in the top five for all of its eight chart weeks. It returns to its peak, first achieved when it debuted at No. 2 on the July 10-dated chart.

Three former No. 1s are next up on the Billboard 200, as Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour slips 2-3 (57,000 equivalent album units; down 6%), The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love is a non-mover at No. 4 (52,000; down 7%) and Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album rises 6-5 (43,000; down 3%).

Dan + Shay arrive at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with the duo’s latest studio album, Good Things. It’s the fourth consecutive top 10 for the act – the entirety of their charting efforts. Good Things bows with 33,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 19,000 (equaling 25.6 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 12,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Good Things contains a trio of top 10-charting hits on the Hot Country Songs chart: “10,000 Hours” (No. 1 for 21 weeks), with Justin Bieber; “I Should Probably Go to Bed” (No. 4) and “Glad You Exist” (No. 2 as of the most recently published chart dated Aug. 21). Both “10,000 Hours” and “Glad” also topped the weekly Country Airplay chart, while “I Should” topped out at No. 2.

Dan + Shay previously visited the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with their self-titled album (No. 6 in 2018), Obsessed (No. 8, 2016) and Where It All Began (No. 6, 2014).

Rap duo $uicideboy$ logs the act’s second top 10 and highest charting album, as Long Term Effects of Suffering starts at No. 7 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 26,000 (equaling 36.5 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise 6,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Long Term is the pair’s third charting effort, following Stop Staring at the Shadows (No. 30 in 2020) and I Want to Die in New Orleans (No. 9, 2018).

Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s former No. 1 The Voice of the Heroes is a non-mover at No. 8 with 28,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).

The Killers capture their seventh top 10 effort as their seventh studio album, Pressure Machine, debuts at No. 9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 22,000, SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 5 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. All seven of the band’s studio albums have reached the top 10.

Pressure Machine was announced on July 19 and comes slightly less than a year after the band’s last studio effort, Imploding the Mirage, debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the Sept. 5, 2020-dated chart. (Pressure was released on Aug. 13, 2021; Imploding was released on Aug. 21, 2020.)

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia rounds out the Billboard 200’s top 10, as the set moves 9-10 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%).

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Plus, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” hits No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber‘s “Stay” spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, a week after ascending to the summit.

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after a week at No. 1, takes over as the most-heard song on U.S. airwaves, as it tops the Radio Songs chart. It also ties for the most weeks totaled in the Hot 100’s runner-up spot (11), a mark first set by Whitney Houston’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” in 1995-96.

Plus, The Weeknd‘s “Take My Breath” enters the Hot 100 at No. 6, arriving as his 13th top 10.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Aug. 21) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 17). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Stay,” released July 9 on Raymond Braun/Columbia Records/Def Jam, drew 40.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 26%; good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100) and 31.8 million U.S. streams (up 3%) and sold 12,700 downloads (down 12%) in the week ending Aug. 12, according to MRC Data.

The track adds a fourth week atop the Streaming Songs chart, dips 5-6 on Digital Song Sales and bounds 19-10 on Radio Songs. The Kid LAROI tallies his second Radio Songs top 10, after “Without You” hit No. 5 in May, and Bieber earns his 19th.

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” which ruled the Hot 100 in its debut week in May, holds at No. 2 as it rises to No. 1 on Radio Songs, up 2% to 77.4 million in audience. Rodrigo claims her second Radio Songs leader, after “Drivers License” for five weeks in March and April.

“Good 4 U” logs its record-tying 11th week at No. 2 on the Hot 100, encompassing the chart’s 63-year history. It matches Whitney Houston’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop),” which also debuted at No. 1 before settling in at No. 2. “Good 4 U” has ranked directly below BTS’ “Butter” (for eight weeks) and “Permission to Dance” (one week) and now The Kid LAROI and Bieber’s “Stay” (two weeks). “Exhale” spent all 11 of its weeks at No. 2 a spot below Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” in 1995-96.

Songs to Spend the Most Weeks at No. 2 on the Hot 100:
11, “Good 4 U,” Olivia Rodrigo, first week at No. 2: June 5, 2021
11, “Exhale (Shoop Shoop),” Whitney Houston, Dec. 2, 1995
10, “Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish, June 8, 2019
10, “That’s What I Like,” Bruno Mars, April 1, 2017
10, “Work It,” Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, Nov. 16, 2002*
10, “Freak Me,” Silk, March 27, 1993
10, “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” Foreigner, Nov. 28, 1981*

(*Five of the seven songs above hit No. 1 on the Hot 100; only “Work It” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You” peaked at No. 2.)

Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” rises to a new No. 3 Hot 100 high, from No. 5, and Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, climbs 6-4, after reaching No. 3.

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, drops 3-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2. As for another longevity mark in the chart’s upper reaches, it posts a 32nd week in the top 10, tying for the sixth-longest run in the region (and for the longest top 10 stay among songs not to reach No. 1, equaling the time spent in the tier by LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live”).

Most weeks in Hot 100’s top 10:
57, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd, No. 1 peak (four weeks), beginning April 4, 2020
39, “Circles,” Post Malone, No. 1 (three weeks), Nov. 30, 2019
33, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse),” Post Malone & Swae Lee, No. 1 (one week), Jan. 19, 2019
33, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, No. 1 (seven weeks), Sept. 29, 2018
33, “Shape of You,” Ed Sheeran, No. 1 (12 weeks), Jan. 28, 2017
32, “Levitating,” Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby, No. 2, May 22, 2021
32, “Sicko Mode,” Travis Scott, No. 1 (one week), Dec. 8, 2018
32, “Closer,” The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, No. 1 (12 weeks), Sept. 3, 2016
32, “How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes, No. 2, Dec. 13, 1997
31, “Mood,” 24kGoldn feat. iann dior, No. 1 (eight weeks), Oct. 24, 2020
31, “Uptown Funk!,” Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, No. 1 (14 weeks), Jan. 17, 2015

The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath” debuts at No. 6 on the Hot 100. The song, released Aug. 6, starts with 30. 7 million in radio audience, 19.3 million streams and 18,000 sold (digital and physical singles combined). It enters at No. 4 on both Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales and No. 25 on Radio Songs.

“Breath” was available for purchase in its first week as a download (discounted to 69 cents) for its original version and in extended and instrumental form, while its original mix was also available as a CD single for $1.99. Plus, six clips of the song were posted to The Weeknd’s official YouTube channel in the tracking week: its official music video; official audio and lyric videos; its extended and instrumental versions; and an “XO Lens” treatment.

The Weeknd achieves his 13th Hot 100 top 10, a run that began in November 2014 with the No. 7-peaking “Love Me Harder,” with Ariana Grande. “Breath” is his fourth song to debut in the top 10. BTS’ “Butter” descends 4-7 after nine weeks atop the Hot 100, as it leads Digital Song Sales for an 11th week (62,900, down 20%).

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” slips 7-8 on the Hot 100, two weeks after launching at No. 2, and tops the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a third week each.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s former one-week No. 1 “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” drops 8-9 and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” backtracks 9-10, after reaching No. 3.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Aug. 21), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 17).

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Plus: Nas’ ‘King’s Disease II’ debuts in the top five and George Harrison’s 1971 No. 1 ‘All Things Must Pass’ returns to the top 10 after its 50th anniversary reissue.

Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week on top, as the set earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 12 (down 64%), according to MRC Data. The album debuted at No. 1 a week ago with 238,000 units – the fifth-largest week of 2021 for an album. Happier Than Ever is the second album released in 2021 to spend its first two weeks at No. 1, following Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (which spent 10 weeks at No. 1, all consecutive, from its debut on the Jan. 23-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 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. 21, 2021-dated chart (where Happier Than Ever holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 17. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Happier Than Ever’s 85,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 12, SEA units comprise 49,000 (down 42%, equaling 66.1 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 36,000 (the top-selling album of the week; down 76%) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 55%).

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour is up one spot to No. 2 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (down 6%).

Nas scores his 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200, and highest charting effort since 2012, as King’s Disease II debuts at No. 3. The set, released on Aug. 6, earned 56,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 35,000 (equaling 47.44 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 19,000 and TEA units comprise a little over 1,000.

King’s Disease II was announced only a week before its release, on July 29, and is the sequel to King’s Disease, which was released in 2020 and debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 5, 2020). The new album is Nas’ highest-charting set since 2012’s Life Is Good debuted at No. 1 on the Aug. 4, 2012-dated list.

Nas landed his first top 10 album 25 years ago, when his second studio album, It Was Written, bowed at No. 1 on the July 20, 1996, chart.

The Kid LAROI’s former chart-topper F*ck Love falls 2-4 with nearly 56,000 equivalent album units (down 15%), Doja Cat’s Planet Her is steady at No. 5 with 55,000 units (up 2%) and Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 6 with 44,000 units (down 2%).

George Harrison’s former No. 1 album All Things Must Pass returns to the top 10 for the first time since 1971, as the set re-enters at No. 7 following its 50th anniversary reissue on Aug. 6. The album was newly mixed and reissued in a variety of formats for its re-release. All versions of the album, including the original 1970 release, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.

All together, the set earned 32,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Aug. 12 — up 1,401% (from about 2,000 in the week previous). Of its 32,000 units earned, album sales comprise 28,000, SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.96 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000. The album, Harrison’s third solo studio effort and first No. 1 album, topped the Billboard 200 chart for seven consecutive weeks in 1971 (Jan. 2-Feb. 13, 1971-dated charts). It launched a pair of top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: his first No. 1, the double-sided hit “My Sweet Lord” / “Isn’t It a Pity,” and the No. 10 hit “What Is Life.”

With All Things Must Pass’ return to the top 10, it marks Harrison’s first time in the region since 1988, when Cloud Nine peaked at No. 8. It’s also Harrison’s highest rank since Dark Horse galloped to No. 4 on Jan. 25, 1975. (Harrison died in 2001.)

Rounding out the new Billboard 200 top 10 are Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s former No. 1 The Voice of the Heroes (holding at No. 8 with 28,000 equivalent album units earned; down 6%), Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (stationary at No. 9 with 27,000 units; down 6%) and Polo G’s former No. 1 Hall of Fame (a non-mover at No. 10 with 24,000 units; down 4%).

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The collab is The Kid LAROI’s first leader and Bieber’s eighth.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber‘s “Stay” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, from No. 4, in its fourth week on the survey. The duet marks The Kid LAROI’s first leader on the list and Bieber’s eighth.

Meanwhile, The Kid LAROI becomes the first Australian-born solo male to top the Hot 100 since Rick Springfield with “Jessie’s Girl” just over 40 years ago.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Aug. 14) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 10). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.ARTIST MENTIONED

“Stay,” released July 9 on Raymond Braun/Columbia Records/Def Jam, is the 1,127th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 63-year history. Here’s a deeper look at its coronation.

Streams, airplay & sales: “Stay” drew 31.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 16%) and 30.9 million U.S. streams (up 1%) and sold 14,400 downloads (up 70%), aided by a discount to 69 cents, in the week ending Aug. 5, according to MRC Data.

The track rebounds 2-1 for a third week atop the Streaming Songs chart, jumps 9-5 on Digital Song Sales, as it wins top Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100, and pushes 25-19 on Radio Songs.

The Kid LAROI’s first No. 1, Bieber’s eighth: The Kid LAROI lands his first Hot 100 No. 1, among three top 10s. He hit a prior No. 8 best peak with “Without You,” with Miley Cyrus, in May.

Bieber achieves his eighth Hot 100 leader. Here’s a recap:

“What Do You Mean?,” one week at No. 1, beginning Sept. 19, 2015
“Sorry,” three, Jan. 23, 2016
“Love Yourself,” two, Feb. 13, 2016
“I’m the One,” DJ Khaled feat. Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne, one, May 20, 2017
“Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Bieber, 16, May 23, 2017
“Stuck With U,” with Ariana Grande, one, May 23, 2020
“Peaches,” feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon, one, April 3, 2021
“Stay,” The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber, one to-date, Aug. 14, 2021

Dating to his first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 nearly six years ago, Bieber breaks out of a tie with Drake for the most leaders since.

Bieber & Drake dominate among Canadians: Bieber and Drake, meanwhile, now share the record for the most No. 1s among Canadians over the Hot 100’s history, a leaderboard that has been transformed in recent years, thanks to the pair and, in third place, The Weeknd.

Here’s an updated rundown of the Canadian artists with the most Hot 100 No. 1s:

8, Justin Bieber
8, Drake
6, The Weeknd
4, Bryan Adams
4, Celine Dion
3, Nelly Furtado
2, Paul Anka

Down under, up top: The Kid LAROI, born and raised in New South Wales, is the first Australian-born artist to lead the Hot 100 since Sia (born in Adelaide) reigned for four weeks in August 2016 with “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul.

Plus, The Kid LAROI is the first Australian-born solo male to top the Hot 100 in just over 40 years, since Rick Springfield (born in South Wentworthville, a suburb of Sydney) ruled the charts dated Aug. 1 and 8, 1981, with “Jessie’s Girl.” The two are the only Australian-born solo males ever to lead the Hot 100.

(Born Charlton Howard, The Kid LAROI took his stage name as a nod to his family’s heritage in the Kamilaroi tribe, part of the larger Aboriginal community in Australia.)

At seventeen (still): The Kid LAROI was born Aug. 17, 2003, making him the most-recently-born artist to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100. Thus, his age as of the Aug. 14, 2021-dated chart: three days shy of his 18th birthday. He’s the youngest artist to lead the survey since Jawsh 685 was 17 years, 11 months and two weeks old when “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jason Derulo and BTS, topped the Oct. 17, 2020, chart.

Columbia triples up at No. 1: Columbia Records claims the Hot 100’s last three No. 1s, as “Stay” follows BTS’ “Butter” and “Permission to Dance.” No label had run up such a streak since Interscope Records linked three in April-October 2009: Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and The Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling.”

Kid stuff: The Kid LAROI is the fourth “Kid”-named act to top the Hot 100, after New Kids on the Block (three No. 1s), WizKid and Kid Cudi (one each). No kidding.

(Honorable mention to the one such No. 1 song title: Eagles’ “New Kid in Town,” in 1977.)

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” which commanded the Hot 100 in its debut week in May, rebounds 3-2 and Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, rises 5-3, after reaching No. 2, as it adds a seventh week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (77.8 million, down 3%).

Notably, “Levitating” logs a 31st week in the Hot 100’s top 10, tying for the ninth-longest stay in the chart’s top tier.

Most weeks in Hot 100’s top 10:
57, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd, No. 1 peak (four weeks), beginning April 4, 2020
39, “Circles,” Post Malone, No. 1 (three weeks), Nov. 30, 2019
33, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse),” Post Malone & Swae Lee, No. 1 (one week), Jan. 19, 2019
33, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, No. 1 (seven weeks), Sept. 29, 2018
33, “Shape of You,” Ed Sheeran, No. 1 (12 weeks), Jan. 28, 2017
32, “Sicko Mode,” Travis Scott, No. 1 (one week), Dec. 8, 2018
32, “Closer,” The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, No. 1 (12 weeks), Sept. 3, 2016
32, “How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes, No. 2, Dec. 13, 1997
31, “Levitating,” Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby, No. 2, May 22, 2021
31, “Mood,” 24kGoldn feat. iann dior, No. 1 (eight weeks), Oct. 24, 2020
31, “Uptown Funk!,” Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, No. 1 (14 weeks), Jan. 17, 2015

BTS’ “Butter” drops to No. 4 after nine weeks atop the Hot 100. It posts a 10th week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (79,200, down 30%) and returns to its No. 20 high on Radio Songs (31.6 million, up 4%).

Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” holds at its No. 5 Hot 100 best and Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, keeps at No. 6, after hitting No. 3.

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” slides to No. 7 on the Hot 100 a week after launching at No. 2, although it dons the chart’s top Airplay Gainer ribbon, up 290% to 11.5 million in radio reach. It leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a second week each.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s former one-week No. 1 “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” repeats at No. 8; Olivia Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” rebounds 10-9, after reaching No. 3; and The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” returns to the region (11-10), after a week at the summit.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Aug. 14), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 10).

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Plus: Prince’s ‘Welcome 2 America’ and Isaiah Rashad’s ‘The House Is Burning’ debut in the top 10.

Billie Eilish earns her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, Happier Than Ever, debuts atop the list with 238,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 5, according to MRC Data. Happier launches with the fifth-largest week of 2021 by equivalent album units earned. The year’s biggest week belongs to Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, which charged in at No. 1 on the June 5 chart with 295,000 units.

Happier is Eilish’s first studio effort since 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which also launched at No. 1 (April 13, 2019-dated chart), and spent a total of three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The set finished 2019 as the year-end Top Billboard 200 Album and went on to win the Grammy Award for album of the year, and the 2020 Billboard Music Award for Top Billboard 200 Album. So far, the album has earned just over 5 million equivalent album units in the U.S., with 1.2 million of that in album sales.

All told, Happier is Eilish’s fifth charting effort on the Billboard 200, and third top 40-charting set, after When We All Fall Asleep and her debut chart entry Don’t Smile at Me (No. 14 peak in 2019). She also hit the chart with Live at Third Man Records (No. 55 in 2020) and Prime Day Show x Billie Eilish (No. 87 earlier this year).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 14, 2021-dated chart (where Happier Than Ever bows at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Happier Than Ever’s 238,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 5, album sales comprise 153,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week as well), SEA units comprise 84,000 units (equaling 113.87 million on-demand streams of the album’s 16 songs) and TEA units comprise a little more than 1,000.

Happier was preceded by five top 40-charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: “My Future,” “Therefore I Am,” “Your Power,” “Lost Cause” and “NDA.” Of those, “My Future” was first out of the gate, hitting the Hot 100 on the Aug. 15, 2020-dated chart.

Happier’s first week was supported by sturdy sales, with its 153,000 sold marking the third-biggest sales week of 2021, and the second-largest debut sales week of the year. Only Taylor Swift managed bigger sales weeks, when her 2020 album Evermore was released on vinyl in May, causing a huge surge in total sales (rising to 192,000 on the chart dated June 12) and when Fearless (Taylor’s Version) was released, selling 179,000 copies in its first week (April 24).

Happier was available in a great number of physical album formats. They include eight different colored vinyl LPs (including retail-exclusives for Amazon, independent record stores, Target, Urban Outfitters and Walmart), 10 CD variants (including a signed CD for indie stores, a version with alternative packaging hand-painted by Eilish, three premium boxed sets and a Target-exclusive edition packaged with a poster) and even multiple cassette tape variants (including a deluxe boxed set).

All those different configurations added up. Of the 153,000 Happier sold across all its permutations, physical sales comprise 129,000 (with a whopping 73,000 on vinyl, 46,000 on CD and nearly 10,000 on cassette) and 24,000 via digital download.

Happier’s vinyl sales of 73,000 were so large, the album would have been No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week from just vinyl sales alone, as the No. 2 title, The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love, earned 65,000 equivalent album units (down 23%). Happier’s vinyl sales start of 73,000 marks both the second-largest sales week, and debut week, for a vinyl album since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991. The only larger week was registered by the arrival of Swift’s Evermore on vinyl earlier this year (102,000; chart dated June 12).

Evermore’s vinyl release on May 28 trailed the wide digital release of the album by five months, as the digital and streaming editions were released on Dec. 11, 2020. Evermore’s vinyl debut was aided by five months of banked pre-orders (the vinyl went up for sale in mid-December), while Eilish had three months of pre-orders (her pre-order went live at the end of April). And lastly, Evermore was initially available in three vinyl variants for its May 28 release, as compared to Eilish’s eight vinyl variants.

The 19-year-old Eilish replaces another teenager at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as Happier bumps F*ck Love, by the 17-year-old The Kid LAROI, down to No. 2 after one week in the lead. F*ck Love earned 65,000 equivalent album units (down 23%).

The top three of the Billboard 200 albums chart is ruled by teens, as 18-year-old Olivia Rodrigo is No. 3 with her former No. 1 Sour. It dips 2-3 in its 11th week on the list.

Prince’s archival studio album Welcome 2 America debuts at No. 4, marking the 20th top 10 for the legend and his highest charting new release since 2009. (Prince died in 2016.) Recorded in 2010, but not released until July 30 of this year, Welcome starts with 55,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise just over 50,000 (bolstered by an array of available configurations), SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 5.9 million on-demand streams of the set’s 12 songs) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.

Welcome 2 America is the late legend’s highest charting new album since 2009’s Lotus Flow3r/MPLSound/Elix3r (with Bria Valente) debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the April 18, 2009-dated chart. (Prince charted higher since then, but only with previously released titles following his death in 2016, including the No. 1 The Very Best of Prince.)

Doja Cat’s Planet Her falls 3-5 on the new Billboard 200 (55,000 equivalent album units earned; down 4%) and Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album dips 4-6 (44,000 units; up less than 1%).

Rapper Isaiah Rashad lands his first top 10 album and third charting effort as The House Is Burning debuts at No. 7 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned. The album is his first since 2016’s The Sun’s Tirade, which debuted and peaked at No. 17 (Sept. 24, 2016-dated chart). Of House’s starting sum of 41,000 units, SEA units comprise 36,000 (equaling 46.89 million on-demand streams of the album’s 16 tracks), album sales comprise 5,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200: Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s former No. 1 The Voice of the Heroes (6-8 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned; down 6%), Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (10-9 with 29,000 units; up 2%) and Polo G’s former leader Hall of Fame (8-10 with 27,000 units; down 7%).

Source: billboard.com