“First Class” adds a second week atop the Hot 100; Bad Bunny debuts four songs in the top 10, led by “Moscow Mule” at No. 4; and Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” jumps to No. 9.

Jack Harlow‘s “First Class” reclaims the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, rebounding from No. 3, for a second total week on top. Four weeks earlier, it piloted to No. 1 in its debut frame. The song introduced the rapper’s LP Come Home the Kids Miss You, which opens at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

The track oversees a top 10 that includes five songs new to the region, as Bad Bunny debuts four songs in the tier — all from his new album, Un Verano Sin Ti, which launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – led by “Moscow Mule” at No. 4, while Lizzo‘s “About Damn Time” leaps 19-9.

Notably, Bad Bunny’s four new Hot 100 top 10s are historic, as four all-Spanish-language songs rank in the region simultaneously for the first time in the chart’s 63-year history.

Plus, Harry Styles‘ “As It Was,” which holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after three weeks at the summit, becomes the most-heard hit on U.S. radio and Styles’ first No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated May 21, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 17). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“First Class,” released on Generation Now/Atlantic Records, drew 47.9 million radio airplay audience impressions – up 31%, as it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a fourth consecutive week – and 31.1 million streams (up 21%) and sold 8,000 downloads (up 14%) in the May 6-12 tracking week, according to Luminate.

The track rises 3-2 on Streaming Songs, after three weeks at No. 1, and 10-8 for a new high on Radio Songs. It dips 6-7 on Digital Song Sales, after a week on top, despite its sales gain.

“First Class,” performed by Harlow at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night (May 15), concurrently returns for a fourth week each atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

Harry Styles’ “As It Was” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after three weeks at No. 1, with 65.9 million in airplay audience (up 12%), 23.2 million streams (down 9%) and 7,500 sold (down 54%; a week earlier, it surged by 78% in sales, aided by the May 4 release of a download option with alternate artwork).

A week after the single hit No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, becoming Styles’ third leader, after “Sign of the Times” and “Watermelon Sugar,” in 2017 and 2020, respectively, “As It Was” jumps 3-1 on Radio Songs, where it’s likewise Styles’ first chart-topper, after “Adore You” and “Watermelon” each reached No. 2 in 2020.

“As It Was,” the lead single from Styles’ third LP, Harry’s House, due Friday (May 20), further takes over atop the Pop Airplay chart, marking his third No. 1, after “Adore” and “Watermelon” reigned for one week and seven weeks, respectively, in 2020.

Future’s “Wait for U,” featuring Drake and Tems, slips to No. 3 on the Hot 100, a week after it launched at No. 1. Still, it spends a second week atop Streaming Songs (31.5 million, down 21%).

Bad Bunny debuts four songs on the Hot 100 in the top 10, all from his new Billboard 200 leader Un Verano Sin Ti, paced by “Moscow Mule” at No. 4 (driven by 30.4 million streams). It’s followed in the bracket by “Tití Me Preguntó” at No. 5 (25.1 million), “Después De La Playa” at No. 6 (24.9 million) and “Me Porto Bonito,” with Chencho Corleone, at No. 10 (23.7 million).

The star Puerto Rico native doubles his top 10 Hot 100 total to eight – all of which have debuted in the region – after he previously hit the top 10 with “I Like It,” with Cardi B and J Balvin (one week at No. 1, July 2018); “MIA,” featuring Drake (No. 5, October 2018); “Dákiti,” with Jhay Cortez (No. 5, December 2020); and “Yonaguni” (No. 10, June 2021). Corleone collects his first Hot 100 top 10.

Meanwhile, Bad Bunny logs the seventh week in which an act has posted four or more concurrent top 10 Hot 100 debuts, a week after Future arrived with four. Before that, Drake blasted in with a record nine top 10 chart entrances (Sept. 18, 2021), after J. Cole (May 29, 2021), Juice WRLD (July 25, 2020), Lil Wayne (Oct. 13, 2018) and Drake (July 14, 2018) each debuted four songs in the top 10 simultaneously.

Bad Bunny also single-handedly makes history in the Hot 100’s top 10, as four all-Spanish-language songs place in the region simultaneously for the first time in the chart’s 63-year archives.

Plus, “Moscow Mule” debuts atop the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart, becoming Bad Bunny’s 10th No. 1, and his fifth to premiere on top.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” dips 5-7 on the Hot 100, after five weeks at No. 1, as it rules the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 34th week each, and Latto’s “Big Energy” backtracks 6-8 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 3.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” vaults 19-9. After it debuted at No. 50 on the April 30-dated chart, it fell to No. 60, before surging the last two weeks as its profile swelled on TikTok, with users dancing to the song (although some not quite up to Lizzo’s standards, she teased. “I’ve never had a viral dance song before … y’all got my eyes sweatin,” she added in a caption accompanying a compilation of dances on the platform after the song soared 60-19 on the Hot 100. “S/O to everyone doing the dance to ‘About Damn Time’ … y’all helped it shoot up 41 spots on @billboard!”)

The track gained by 50% to 16.9 million streams and 72% to 17,500 sold in the tracking week, as it climbs 21-15 on Streaming Songs and holds at its No. 3 high on Digital Song Sales and earns top Streaming and Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100. It also flies 44-28 on Radio Songs (21 million, up 32%).

Lizzo lands her fourth Hot 100 top 10, following “Truth Hurts” (seven weeks at No. 1 beginning in September 2019), “Good as Hell” (No. 3, November 2019) and “Rumors,” featuring Cardi B (No. 4, August 2021).

“Time,” from Lizzo’s album Special, due July 15, also pushes 2-1 on the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart, becoming her second leader on the list, after “Good as Hell” (10 weeks, 2019).

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

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Plus: Jack Harlow, Arcade Fire and Eslabon Armado debut in the top 10.

Bad Bunny notches his second chart-topping album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest release, Un Verano Sin Ti, debuts at No. 1 (on the May 21-dated chart) with the year’s biggest week for any album: 274,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 12, according to Luminate. It’s also Bad Bunny’s best week ever in terms of units earned.

Un Verano Sin Ti marks the second all-Spanish-language album to reach No. 1 on the 66-year-old chart. The first was Bad Bunny’s last album, 2020’s El Último Tour del Mundo.

The new album’s release date of May 6 was announced on May 2 via an Instgram post, after Bad Bunny had teased hints about the project for months.

Also in the Billboard 200’s new top 10, Jack Harlow scores his highest-charting album yet as Come Home the Kids Miss You debuts at No. 3, Arcade Fire claims its fifth top 10 with We and Eslabon Armado reaches the top 10 for the first time with the No. 9 debut of Nostalgia.

With both Un Verano Sin Ti and Nostalgia all-Spanish-language albums, this marks the first time that two all-Spanish albums have placed in the top 10 simultaneously. Further, Nostalgia is the first regional Mexican album to reach the top 10.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, 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 May 21, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 17. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Un Verano Sin Ti’s 274,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 261,000 (equating to 356.55 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 23 tracks), album sales comprise 12,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Un Verano Sin Ti logs the largest week, by equivalent album units, for any album since Adele’s 30 earned 288,000 units in the week ending Dec. 2, 2021 (the album’s second week), and the biggest debut for an album since 30 debuted with 839,000 a week earlier.

Un Verano Sin Ti had a blockbuster streaming debut, as the album bows with 261,000 SEA units – totaling 356.66 million on-demand official streams for its songs in its first week. That’s the largest streaming week ever for a Latin album, the biggest streaming week of 2022 for any album of any genre, and the biggest streaming week for any album since Drake’s Certified Lover Boy debuted with 743.67 million on-demand official streams on the chart dated Sept. 18, 2021.

In total, Un Verano Sin Ti is Bad Bunny’s seventh charting album on the Billboard 200 and fifth top 10.

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200 is Future’s I Never Liked You, which falls from No. 1 in its second week with 116,000 equivalent album units earned (down 47%).

Jack Harlow clocks his highest charting album yet on the Billboard 200, as his new studio set Come Home the Kids Miss You bows at No. 3. The album earned 113,000 equivalent album units, of which SEA units comprise 103,000 (equaling 137.05 million on-demand official streams for set’s songs), album sales comprise 8,000 and TEA units comprise 2,000. Come Home is Harlow’s second top 10 album, following the No. 5-peaking Thats What They All Say in 2020.

Come Home was led by the hit single “First Class,” which gave Harlow his second No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and his first unaccompanied by another act. (His first leader was “Industry Baby,” a co-billed collaboration with Lil Nas X, in 2021.)

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album falls 3-4 with 53,000 equivalent album units earned (up 6%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Sour is a non-mover at No. 5 with 32,000 units (down 6%).

Rock band Arcade Fire collects its fifth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as We debuts at No. 6. The set starts with nearly 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 26,500 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 6.43 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500.

Lil Durk’s former leader 7220 falls 6-7 with 31,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%), and the chart-topping Encanto soundtrack dips 7-8 with 30,000 units (down 8%).

Eslabon Armado lands its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as Nostalgia debuts at No. 9 with 29,500 equivalent album units earned. The all-Spanish-language album is also the first top 10-charting regional Mexican album ever on the Billboard 200. (Regional Mexican albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Regional Mexican Albums chart.)

Nearly all of the set’s starting sum was driven by SEA units — 29,000, equaling 42.82 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 14 songs.

The band has been making waves on the Billboard charts for the past few years, scoring four consecutive No. 1s on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Albums chart (the entirety of the act’s charting efforts). All four of those also reached the top 10 on the all-Latin genre Top Latin Albums chart, with 2020’s Vibras de Noche hitting No. 1. The latter album was the only top 40-charting effort for the band on the all-genre Billboard 200 until this week.

Rounding out the Billboard 200’s top 10, Drake’s former leader Certified Lover Boy dips 9-10 with 28,000 equivalent album units (down 5%).

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Plus: Miranda Lambert and NoCap debut in top 10.

Future earns his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as I Never Liked You debuts atop the list with the year’s largest week for any album. It earned 222,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 5, according to Luminate. That also marks Future’s largest week for a solo album, by units earned. His only album to post a bigger week was his collaborative set with Drake, What a Time to Be Alive, which bowed at No. 1 with 375,000 units in 2015.

In total, I Never Liked You is Future’s 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200. He previously topped the chart with High Off Life (2020), Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD (2019), HNDRXX (2017), Future (2017), Evol (2016), What a Time to Be Alive (2015) and DS2 (2015).

Also in the new top 10: The Weeknd’s Dawn FM surges 35-2 after the release of its vinyl LP and boxed sets, Miranda Lambert’s Palomino debuts at No. 4, and NoCap’s Mr. Crawford bows at No. 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, 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 May 14, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of I Never Like You’s 222,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 214,000 (equating to 283.75 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 6,500 and TEA units comprise 1,500. (I Never Liked You’s standard edition was released on April 29 with 16 tracks, and then expanded in the middle of its first week of release with six additional cuts.)

I Never Liked You’s starting sum of 222,000 units is the largest week for any album since Adele’s 30 logged 288,000 units in the week ending Dec. 2, 2021, and the biggest debut for an album since 30 launched with 839,000 a week earlier. I Never Liked You has the biggest week for any R&B/hip-hop album since Drake’s Certified Lover Boy moved 236,000 in its second frame (week ending Sept. 16, 2021), and the biggest R&B/hip-hop debut since Certified launched with 613,000. In fact, in the last 12 months, only three albums have posted a week as large as I Never Liked You: Certified, Ye’s (formerly Kanye West) Donda (it debuted with 309,000 in the week ending Sept. 2, 2021) and J. Cole’s The Off-Season (debuting with 282,000 in the week ending May 20, 2021).

I Never Liked You boasts guests including Drake, EST Gee, Gunna, Kodak Black, Tems and Ye (all on its standard and expanded editions).

The Weeknd’s Dawn FM jumps from No. 35 to No. 2 — matching its debut and peak position — following the release of its vinyl LP, cassette and deluxe boxed sets on April 29. The album earned 57,000 equivalent album units (up 241%), of which album sales comprise 44,000 (up 2,282% — making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 13,000 (equaling 17.72 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. 77% of Dawn FM’s sales were from its vinyl LP, which was available in multiple variants, including a Target-exclusive edition pressed on translucent silver vinyl. In total, Dawn FM sold nearly 34,000 copies on vinyl — the largest sales week for an R&B album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album falls 2-3 with 50,000 equivalent album units (down 3%).

Miranda Lambert notches her seventh top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as Palomino debuts at No. 4 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned. The set is the highest-debuting country album of 2022 and gallops in with the year’s largest debut, by units, for a country effort. Of the album’s 36,000 units earned, album sales comprise 24,000; SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 14.35 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

A trio of chart-topping albums is next on the Billboard 200, as Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour falls 4-5 (34,000 equivalent album units; down 6%), Lil Durk’s 7220 descends 3-6 (33,000; down 15%) and the Encanto soundtrack dips 5-7 (32,000; down 7%).

NoCap nets his first top 10 effort with his debut studio release Mr. Crawford, as the album debuts at No. 8 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. Effectively all of that sum was driven by SEA units (equaling 40.07 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks). The rapper (real name: Kobe Vidal Crawford) has charted three previous efforts on the chart, going as high as No. 31 with Steel Human in 2020. Before the release of Mr. Crawford, NoCap had accumulated 1.48 billion on-demand official streams with his catalog of songs in the U.S., according to Luminate. The Steel Human album accounted for 332 million of those streams.

Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (7-9 with 29,000 equivalent album units; down 4%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her (6-10 with nearly 29,000; down 5%).

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Future adds his second No. 1, Drake scores his milestone 10th & Tems achieves her first.

Future‘s “Wait For U,” featuring Drake and Tems, soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The track debuts as Future’s second Hot 100 leader – and his first in a lead role. It’s Drake’s landmark 10th No. 1 and Tems’ first.

“Wait For U” is from Future’s new LP I Never Liked You, which launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The track joins three others from the set that debut in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Puffin on Zootiez,” at No. 4, and “712PM,” at No. 8, and “I’m Dat N***a,” at No. 10.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated May 14, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 10). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Wait For U” was released on Future’s album I Never Liked You on April 29, via Freebandz/Epic Records, while its official video premiered May 5. The track arrives as the 1,137th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 63-year history, and the 61st to enter on top.

Streams, airplay, & sales: “Wait For U” bows with 40.2 million streams, 7.9 million radio airplay audience impressions and 6,400 downloads sold in the April 29-May 5 tracking week, according to Luminate.

The track opens at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, where it’s Future’s second leader, following his, and Young Thug’s, featured turn on Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” which reigned for a week upon its debut (Sept. 18, 2021). “Wait For U” is Drake’s record-extending 12th Streaming Songs No. 1 and Tems’ first. On Digital Song Sales, the cut debuts at No. 7.

Future’s 2nd Hot 100 No. 1: Future claims his first Hot 100 No. 1 as a lead artist and second overall, following, again, his and Young Thug’s featured roles on Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” which opened atop the Sept. 18, 2021, chart.

Drake’s 10th Hot 100 No. 1: Drake collects his milestone 10th Hot 100 No. 1, and first since “Way 2 Sexy.” He first led as featured on Rihanna’s “What’s My Name?,” for a week in November 2010, and first ruled as a lead artist with “One Dance,” featuring Wizkid and Kyla, for 10 frames beginning in March 2016.

Drake becomes the 10th act in the Hot 100’s history with at least 10 No. 1s (an elite club that last inducted Rihanna, thanks to her 10th leader, of 14 to-date, “S&M,” featuring Britney Spears, on the chart dated April 30, 2011). Among solo males, Drake joins only Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder for the achievement.

Most Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s
20, The Beatles
19, Mariah Carey
14, Rihanna
13, Michael Jackson
12, Madonna
12, The Supremes
11, Whitney Houston
10, Drake
10, Janet Jackson
10, Stevie Wonder

“Wait For U” is additionally Drake’s 55th Hot 100 top 10, 146th top 40 hit and 261st overall entry on the chart, record-extending sums in all three categories.

Meanwhile, Drake solely claims the record for the most No. 1 debuts on the Hot 100, as “Wait for U” is his sixth. He one-ups BTS and Ariana Grande, each with five.

Tems’ 1st Hot 100 No. 1: Tems tallies her first Hot 100 leader and second top 10, after Wizkid’s “Essence,” on which she and Justin Bieber are featured, hit No. 9 in October. Tems (like Wizkid, from Lagos, Nigeria) has also hit the Hot 100 as featured on Drake’s “Fountains” (No. 26 peak, September).

Future debuts atop Billboard 200 & Hot 100: Future’s I Never Liked You blasts in atop the Billboard 200, with 222,000 equivalent album units earned, becoming his eighth leader, concurrent with the Hot 100-topping entrance of “Wait for U.” He makes the seventh such double debut; Taylor Swift first achieved the feat in August 2020 and, with three such starts, is the only artist to earn the honor multiple times.

Simultaneous Artist Debuts Atop the Billboard 200 & Hot 100
Future: I Never Liked You & “Wait for U,” feat. Drake & Tems, May 14, 2022
Taylor Swift: Red (Taylor’s Version) & “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” Nov. 27, 2021
Drake: Certified Lover Boy & “Way 2 Sexy,” feat. Future & Young Thug, Sept. 18, 2021
Justin Bieber: Justice & “Peaches,” feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon, April 3, 2021
Taylor Swift: Evermore & “Willow,” Dec. 26, 2020
BTS: BE & “Life Goes On,” Dec. 5, 2020
Taylor Swift: Folkore & “Cardigan,” Aug. 8, 2020

Three more Future top 10s: Below “Wait for U,” Future debuts three other tracks from I Never Liked You in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Puffin on Zootiez,” at No. 4, “712PM,” at No. 8, and “I’m Dat N***a,” at No. 10. They start at Nos. 2, 5 and 6 on Streaming Songs with 26.3 million, 22.1 million and 20 million streams, respectively.

Future logs the sixth week in which an act has posted four or more concurrent top 10 Hot 100 debuts, and the first since Drake bounded in with a record nine top 10 chart entrances (Sept. 18, 2021). Before that, J. Cole (May 29, 2021), Juice WRLD (July 25, 2020), Lil Wayne (Oct. 13, 2018) and Drake (July 14, 2018) each debuted four songs in the top 10 simultaneously.

Future ups his career total to nine Hot 100 top 10s, as well as 149 entries on the chart overall, as all 16 tracks from the standard edition of I Never Liked You enter the list. He moves up to the fifth-most Hot 100 appearances in the chart’s archives, after Drake (262), Glee Cast (207), Lil Wayne (180) and Taylor Swift (166). Ye, with 138, now places sixth.

(Also among the Hot 100 debuts from I Never Liked You, “I’m on One,” featuring Drake, begins at No. 11 and “Keep It Burnin,” featuring Ye, starts at No. 15.)

Winning ‘Wait’s: After a bit of a wait, Future, Drake and Tems bring the third song with “wait” in its title to No. 1 on the Hot 100. “Wait for U” follows “Right Here Waiting,” by Richard Marx (for three weeks in August 1989), and “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” by Aretha Franklin and George Michael (two weeks, April 1987).

(Honorable mention, not to be missed: John Waite led with “Missing You” for a week in 1984.)

No. 1 R&B/hip-hop, rap: “Wait for U” also premieres atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. Future earns his second No. 1 on each ranking, after “Way 2 Sexy”; Drake notches his record-extending 24th leader on each list; and Tems scores her first No. 1 on each chart.

Harry Styles’ “As It Was” dips to No. 2 on the Hot 100, after three weeks at No. 1, with 60 million in airplay audience (up 14%), 25.7 million streams (down 9%) and 16,300 sold (up 78%, good for top Sales Gainer honors). The track hits No. 1 on Digital Song Sales – becoming Styles’ third leader, after “Sign of the Times” and “Watermelon Sugar” (for a week each in April 2017 and August 2020, respectively) – aided by the May 4 release of a download option with alternate artwork.

Jack Harlow’s “First Class” falls 2-3 on the Hot 100, three weeks after it launched at No. 1. It wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award, as it flies 23-10 in just its second week on Radio Songs (37 million, up 41%), as it completes the quickest climb to the chart’s top 10 this year.

Notably, 20 weeks into 2022, sparked by Future’s four arrivals joining Styles and Harlow’s hits, the Hot 100 hosts six songs in the top 10 that were released in 2022, marking the first week that more than half the top 10 consists of songs released this year.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” drops 3-5 on the Hot 100, after five weeks at No. 1, as it leads the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 33rd week each, and Latto’s “Big Energy” descends 4-6 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 3.

Imagine Dragons and JID’s “Enemy” backtracks to No. 7 from its No. 5 Hot 100 high as it leads Radio Songs for a second week (65.9 million, down 1%).

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slips 6-9, after seven weeks at No. 1.

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

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Harlow takes off with his second Hot 100 leader, and first on his own, with the biggest streaming week of 2022.

Jack Harlow‘s “First Class” takes flight in style, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

The single starts as Harlow’s second Hot 100 leader and first on his own, as well as his first to debut at No. 1, after Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby,” with Harlow, ascended to the summit for a week in October 2021.

“First Class” – which interpolates Fergie’s 2007 two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Glamorous,” featuring Ludacris – soars in with the biggest streaming week tallied this year.

The track also marks the second song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2022; Harry Styles’ “As It Was” bounded in on top a week earlier, with the year’s previous best weekly streaming total, and ranks at No. 2 in its second week.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated April 23, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 19). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“First Class” was released April 8 on Generation Now/Atlantic Records, after Harlow initially teased it on Instagram March 31. The song, which also went viral on TikTok ahead of its official premiere, previews the 24-year-old Louisville, Ky.-born rapper’s second full-length, Come Home the Kids Miss You, due May 6. The set follows his LP Thats What They All Say, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in December 2020, as well as his seven-song release Sweet Action, which reached No. 20 in July 2020.

(Harlow is also set to star in a remake of the 1992 sports comedy White Men Can’t Jump, in the role originally portrayed by Woody Harrelson. “We got a classic to do justice to,” Harlow told Billboard of the film at the Grammy Awards on April 3.)

“First Class” becomes the 1,136th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 63-year history, and the 60th to enter on top.

Streams, airplay, & sales: “First Class” punches its ticket to the top of the Hot 100 with 54.6 million streams, 4.1 million radio airplay audience impressions and 10,600 downloads sold in the April 8-14 tracking week, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data.

The track opens at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, where it’s Harlow’s second leader (after “Industry Baby,” for two weeks last August and October), with the best streaming week achieved in 2022. It lands the biggest frame since Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, roared in with 67.3 million atop the Sept. 18, 2021, survey. (“First Class” narrowly surpasses Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well [Taylor’s Version],” which drew 54.4 million in its first frame, as reflected on the Nov. 27, 2021, chart, and Adele’s “Easy on Me,” which ran up 53.9 million in its first full week, as it topped the Oct. 30, 2021, tally.)

“First Class” also bows at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, marking Harlow’s second leader (again, after “Industry Baby,” for a week last October), while bubbling under Radio Songs. (It enters the Rap Airplay chart at No. 21, Rhythmic Airplay at No. 23 and Pop Airplay at No. 35.)

Harlow’s second No. 1: “First Class” follows “Industry Baby,” with Lil Nas X, as Harlow’s second Hot 100 No. 1. The latter debuted at No. 2 on the Aug. 7, 2021, chart and rose to the top of the Oct. 23 tally.

Harlow adds his third Hot 100 top 10. His debut entry, “Whats Poppin,” featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne, climbed to No. 2 in July 2020.

(Meanwhile, previously released Come Home the Kids Miss You track “Nail Tech” rebounds 58-40 on the Hot 100, up 43% to 9.5 million streams, good for top Streaming Gainer honors. It debuted at its No. 18 high on the March 5 chart.)

Fergie was ‘First’: “First Class” interpolates Fergie’s “Glamorous,” which became her second of three Hot 100 No. 1s, all from her debut solo album The Dutchess, for two weeks beginning on the March 24, 2007, chart. (She also made three trips to the summit as a member of The Black Eyed Peas in 2009-10.)

“First Class” is the first Hot 100 No. 1 to rework another song – as well as a former leader – since Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” which ruled the Sept. 18, 2021, chart in its debut week; the latter reimagines Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy,” which reigned for three weeks in February 1992.

‘First’ things first: “First Class” is the fourth Hot 100 No. 1 with, aptly, the word “first” in its title. Here’s an updated rundown, with the … first … having led just over 50 years ago:

“First Class,” Jack Harlow, one week to-date at No. 1, beginning April 23, 2022
“The First Night,” Monica, five weeks, beginning Oct. 3, 1998
“The First Time,” Surface, two weeks, beginning Jan. 26, 1991
“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Roberta Flack, six weeks, beginning April 15, 1972

Head of the ‘Class’ at R&B/hip-hop, rap: “First Class” also lifts off atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. Harlow earns his second No. 1 on each ranking, after “Industry Baby” dominated for 18 and 19 weeks, respectively, beginning upon its debut last August.

Harry Styles’ “As It Was” descends to No. 2 on the Hot 100 following its chart-topping launch. It also dips to No. 2 on Streaming Songs (32.3 million, down 26%) and 2-5 on Digital Song Sales (7,800, down 24%), while jumping 19-14 on Radio Songs (33.8 million, up 25%), as it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award; it charges 14-9 on the Pop Airplay chart and 17-10 on Adult Pop Airplay.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” retreats 2-3 after five weeks atop the Hot 100. The track adds a sixth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (63.4 million, up 1%), while ruling the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 30th week each.

Latto’s “Big Energy” slip to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 best, as it becomes her first Pop Airplay No. 1; Imagine Dragons and JID’s “Enemy” holds at its No. 5 Hot 100 high; and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” backtracks 4-6, after seven weeks at No. 1. “Stay” becomes the first title in the Hot 100’s history to have spent its first 40 weeks on the chart all in the top 10.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” drops 6-7 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3; Doja Cat’s “Woman” keeps at its No. 8 best, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a seventh week; and Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” falls 7-9 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” holds at No. 10, after hitting No. 8, as it concurrently becomes his first No. 1 on Adult Pop Airplay.

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Plus: New albums from Jack White, 42 Dugg & EST Gee, Fivio Foreign and Camila Cabello debut in the top 10.

Lil Durk’s 7220 returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second nonconsecutive week, as the set steps 2-1 on the April 23-dated list with a little over 47,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 14 (down 8%), according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. The album bowed atop the chart dated March 26 and spent the next three weeks in the runner-up position.

Plus, four more albums debut in the top 10: Jack White’s Fear of the Dawn, 42 Dugg and EST Gee’s Last Ones Left, Fivio Foreign’s B.I.B.L.E. and Camila Cabello’sFamilia.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric 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 April 23, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 7220’s 47,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 46,000 (down 9%; equating to 68.56 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise a little under 1,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

7220 has the lowest-unit sum for a No. 1 album in over three years, since A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN collected about 46,500 units atop the list dated Feb. 16, 2019.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album rises 4-2 on the new Billboard 200 with about 46,500 units (up 4%), while the chart-topping Encanto soundtrack is steady at No. 3 with 45,000 units (down 9%).

Jack White’s Fear of the Dawn is the Billboard 200’s top debut of the week, arriving at No. 4 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week); SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.15 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs); and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Fear of the Dawn is White’s fifth top 10 effort as a soloist, and he’s also claimed top 10s as a member of the bands The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather and The White Stripes (three each).

Over half of Fear of the Dawn’s first-week units were driven by vinyl album sales (24,000 sold) – not surprising considering White’s popularity with the format and his continued championing of vinyl. (White also owns the Detroit-based Third Man Pressing plant.)

Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Sour is a non-mover at No. 5 with 39,000 equivalent album units (down 2%) while Drake’s former leader Certified Lover Boy climbs 8-6 with 30,500 units (down 1%).

42 Dugg and EST Gee’s collaborative set Last Ones Left debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the second top 10 for both acts. Of the album’s units earned, SEA units comprise 26,500 units (equaling 36.84 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 3,500 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Doja Cat’s Planet Her bumps 10-8 on the Billboard 200 with 29,500 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).

Fivio Foreign’s debut full-length studio album B.I.B.L.E. bows at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s his first top 10 and second charting effort, following the 800 B.C. mixtape, which spent one week on the chart at No. 159 in 2020. Of the new set’s 29,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 27,500 units (equaling 37.75 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise 500.

Rounding out the new top 10 of the Billboard 200 is Camila Cabello’s third studio effort Familia, which debuts at No. 10 with 27,500 equivalent album units earned. All three of her solo studio projects have debuted in the top 10. Of the album’s starting sum, SEA units comprise 14,500 (equaling 20.26 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 11,500 and TEA units comprise nearly 1,500.

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Styles scores his second Hot 100 leader, after “Watermelon Sugar” in 2020.

Harry Styles‘ “As It Was” soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

The track opens as Styles’ second Hot 100 leader, and his first to debut at No. 1, after “Watermelon Sugar” rose to the top for a week in August 2020.

“As It Was” is also the first song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 by any act in 2022, and bows with the biggest streaming week tallied this year.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated April 16, 2022) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday (April 12). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“As It Was” was released Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. ET on Erskine/Columbia Records. It’s the first single from Styles’ third album, Harry’s House, due May 20. His eponymous first LP debuted atop the Billboard 200 albums chart in June 2017 and Fine Line likewise launched at No. 1 in December 2019 and led for two weeks.

“As It Was” becomes the 1,135th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 63-year history, and the 59th to enter on top.

Streams, airplay, & sales: “As It Was” debuts with 43.8 million streams, 27.2 million radio airplay audience impressions and 10,300 downloads sold in the April 1-7 tracking week, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. (On its March 31 release day, the song drew 3 million streams and 1.4 million in radio reach and sold 3,500.)

The track opens at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, where it’s Styles’ first leader (and first top 10), with the best streaming week tallied in 2022. It lands the biggest frame since Brenda Lee’s chestnut “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” topped the Jan. 1 tally (encompassing the Dec. 17-23, 2021, tracking week) with 47.5 million streams. “As It Was” boasts the most streams for a song in its first full week since Adele’s “Easy on Me” drew 53.9 million in its first full frame, as reflected on the Oct. 30, 2021, chart.

“As It Was” posts the biggest streaming week for a song by a male since Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, roared in with 67.3 million (atop the Sept. 18, 2021, ranking).

“As It Was” leaps 16-2 on Digital Song Sales, marking Styles’ fifth top 10, and debuts at No. 19 on Radio Songs. On the latter list, the bow is the best since “Easy on Me” made a record arrival at No. 4. It’s the highest for a male in a lead role since Eminem’s “Just Lose It” charged in at No. 17 on the Oct. 9, 2004, chart.

Styles’ second No. 1: “As It Was” follows “Watermelon Sugar” as Styles’ second Hot 100 No. 1. The latter completed a 20-week trip to the top on the Aug. 15, 2020, chart.

Styles adds his fourth Hot 100 top 10. “Sign of the Times” bounded in at No. 4 (his previous best starting point), its peak, in April 2017 and “Adore You” climbed to No. 6 in April 2020.

1D solo No. 1s: Thanks to “As It Was” and “Watermelon Sugar,” Styles is the first member of One Direction to tally multiple Hot 100 No. 1s. He one-ups Zayn, whose “Pillowtalk” ruled in its debut week (Feb. 20, 2016).

Sparking history, Styles and Zayn make One Direction the first group with two members that have debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with solo songs.

One Direction, which Zayn departed in 2015 and is on an indefinite break, has charted six Hot 100 top 10s, reaching a No. 2 high with “Best Song Ever” in August 2013. The group has scored four No. 1s on the Billboard 200.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” descends to No. 2 after five weeks atop the Hot 100. The track adds a fifth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (63.3 million, down 2%); dips from its No. 3 high to No. 4 on Streaming Songs (15 million, up 1%); and jumps 24-13, returning to its best rank, on Digital Song Sales (4,100, up 45%, good for the Hot 100’s top Sales Gainer award), after the band was nominated for best new artist at the Grammy Awards, held April 3.

Back-to-back British No. 1s: Notably, Styles — born in Redditch, Worcestershire, England — and Glass Animals, who formed in Oxford, England, combine for the first set of back-to-back Hot 100 No. 1s by British acts in lead roles in over 30 years. They follow George Michael and Elton John, whose “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down Me” topped the Feb. 1, 1992, chart and was supplanted by Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy,” which began a three-week reign on the Feb. 8 survey.

British acts at Nos. 1 and 2: Meanwhile, British acts add more highlights, holding the top two spots on the Hot 100 simultaneously for the first time in over five years, with the last such occurrence also invoking a One Direction member gone solo. On the March 4, 2017, chart, Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” notched its fourth of 12 weeks at No. 1 and Zayn’s “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker),” with Taylor Swift, rose to its No. 2 peak.

“Heat Waves” concurrently rules the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 29th week each.

Latto’s “Big Energy” holds at its No. 3 Hot 100 high. It becomes her first No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (12,600, down 2%) and surges 6-3 on Radio Songs (58.3 million, up 12%) and 14-6 on Streaming Songs (11 million, up 16%), as it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay and Streaming Gainer ribbons for a second straight week. The April 1-7 tracking week reflects the first full frame following the March 28 arrival of the song’s remix with Mariah Carey and featuring DJ Khaled. (Carey and DJ Khaled remain not listed on “Big Energy” on the Hot 100, as the remix did not account for the majority of the song’s overall consumption during the tracking week.) Carey sings a portion of her 1995 eight-week No. 1 “Fantasy” in the remix; both songs interpolate Tom Tom Club’s classic “Genius of Love,” which hit No. 31 on the Hot 100 in April 1982.

“Big Energy” also crowns the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a second week each.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slips 2-4 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. As the track has spent all 39 of its weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10, dating to its entrance at No. 3 on the July 24, 2021, chart, it passes Post Malone’s “Circles” for the longest consecutive run in the top 10 from a debut; “Circles” logged its first 38 weeks on the list in the tier in 2019-20.

Imagine Dragons and JID’s “Enemy” keeps at its No. 5 Hot 100 high; Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” drops 4-6 after reaching No. 3; and Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” retreats 6-7 after hitting No. 5.

Doja Cat’s “Woman” rises 10-8 for a new Hot 100 best. It leads the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a sixth week.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, GAYLE’s “abcdefu” falls 7-9, after reaching No. 3, and Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” backtracks 9-10, after hitting No. 8.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated April 16), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 12).

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The band’s No. 1 with ‘Unlimited Love’ marks its second leader and first chart-topping effort since 2006’s ‘Stadium Arcadium.’

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Unlimited Love leaps onto the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 16) at No. 1, marking the band’s second leader and first chart-topping effort since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. The new set was released on April 1 and bows with 97,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 7, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. In total, the group has tallied eight top 10 albums on the Billboard 200.

Unlimited Love replaces Machine Gun Kelly’s Mainstream Sellout atop the chart (the latter falls to No. 9 in its second week), giving the list back-to-back rock albums at No. 1 for the first time in over four years. It last happened when The Killers’ Wonderful Wonderful debuted at No. 1 on the Oct. 14, 2017 chart, a week after Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold opened at No. 1. (Rock albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top Rock Albums 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, 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 April 16, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Unlimited Love’s 97,500 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 82,500 (it’s the top-selling album of the week); SEA units comprise 14,500 (equaling 18.96 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs); and TEA units comprise 500.

Notably, Unlimited Love is Red Hot Chili Peppers’ first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in nearly 16 years — since Stadium Arcadium spent its first two weeks atop the list (May 27-June 3, 2006 charts). The last act to go longer between No. 1 albums was Celine Dion, who waited 17 years and nearly eight months between A New Day Has Come (one week at No. 1 on April 13, 2002) and Courage (one week at No. 1 on Nov. 30, 2019).

Unlimited Love notches the largest week, by equivalent album units and album sales, for any rock album in over a year. The last larger week by a rock set was registered by Paul McCartney’s McCartney III when it debuted at No. 2 on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated chart with 107,000 units — of which album sales comprised 104,000.

Unlimited Love’s first-week sales were boosted by its availability across multiple color vinyl LP variants and special editions (including versions for Target, Walmart, Amazon, independent record stores and the band’s official webstore). All told, the set sold 38,500 copies on vinyl — the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in 2022, and the second-biggest sales week for a rock album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. Only the debut frame of Jack White’s Lazaretto (40,000) posted a larger week for a rock album on vinyl (June 28, 2014 chart) since 1991. Thus, Unlimited Love claims the largest week on a vinyl for a rock album by a group in that 31-year span.

Unlimited Love was ushered in by the No. 1 hit “Black Summer” on the Alternative Airplay chart — the band’s 14th leader on the tally. The new album is the group’s first with guitarist John Frusciante since Stadium Arcadium in 2006. The new set’s release was celebrated with some Los Angeles-specific celebrations — appropriate, since the band formed in L.A. The group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 31, staged a surprise show at the Fonda Theater on April 1 and played an in-store performance at Amoeba Music in Hollywood on April 7 (the store’s first in-store performance in over two years, and first at its new location). The group’s Flea even played “The Star-Spangled Banner” on bass guitar at the Los Angeles Lakers’ home game against the Denver Nuggets on April 3. (No doubt Lakers fans were also delighted to know that Unlimited Love was also pressed on limited edition purple and gold vinyl.)

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Lil Durk’s chart-topping 7220 holds in the runner-up spot with 51,000 equivalent album units earned (down 18%). A trio of other former No. 1s is next, with the Encanto soundtrack steady at No. 3 (50,000; down 14%), Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album stationary at No. 4 (44,500; down less than 1%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour a non-mover at No. 5 (40,000; up 20% following her multiple Grammy Award wins on April 3, as well as her performance of “Drivers License” on the CBS-TV awards broadcast).

The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights is likewise steady at No. 6 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned (up 2%).

Yeat’s 2 Alive returns to the top 10, bolting from No. 69 to No. 7 with 31,500 units (up 141%), following its deluxe reissue on April 1 with additional bonus tracks. The album debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the March 5-dated chart.

Drake’s former leader Certified Lover Boy falls 7-8 with nearly 31,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%), Machine Gun Kelly’s Mainstream Sellout falls 1-9 in its second week (30,500; down 67%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her is pushed down 9-10 (30,000; up 4% following her televised Grammy Award win on April 3 for best pop duo/group performance for the album’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA).

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Plus, “Enemy” becomes Imagine Dragons’ fourth top five Hot 100 hit.

Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” burns bright atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth week. Four weeks earlier, it completed a record 59-week climb to No. 1. Meanwhile, Latto soars to her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Big Energy” blasts from No. 11 to No. 3.

Plus, Imagine Dragons and JID‘s “Enemy” enters the Hot 100’s top five, rising 7-5.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated April 9, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 5). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Heat Waves,” released on Wolf Tone/Polydor/Republic Records, drew 65.1 million radio airplay audience impressions and 14.8 million U.S. streams (down 2% in each metric) and sold 2,800 downloads (down 3%) in the March 25-31 tracking week, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data.

The single, the first Hot 100 entry for the British quartet, adds a fourth week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; keeps at its No. 3 high on Streaming Songs; and drops 20-24 on Digital Song Sales, where it reached No. 13.

Solo-written No. 1s for 10 weeks: Notably, songs each authored by a single writer have topped the Hot 100 for 10 consecutive weeks. Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley wrote “Heat Waves,” which succeeded the five-week Encanto ensemble No. 1 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. (See more on the latter anthem below.)

The 10-week streak of the Hot 100’s top spot being held by solo-written songs is the longest since Pharrell ruled for 10 weeks in March-May 2014 with his self-penned “Happy.” (The longest such streak in the Hot 100’s 63-year history? 17 straight weeks in August-November 1994, thanks to two No. 1s: Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories’ ” Stay [I Missed You],” written by Loeb [three weeks on top], and Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You,” authored by Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds [14].)

Bayley, Miranda, Richie & Lennon: Meanwhile, “Heat Waves” and “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” mark the first set of solo-written songs to top the Hot 100 consecutively for at least five weeks each in over 41 years. The pair is the first since Kenny Rogers’ “Lady,” written by Lionel Richie, ruled for six weeks and John Lennon’s self-written “(Just Like) Starting Over” (a posthumous No. 1 for the legend) led for five frames in November 1980-January 1981.

Bests by British groups: Plus, with its fifth week atop the Hot 100, “Heat Waves” becomes one of only nine No. 1s by British groups to reign for at least that long in the chart’s archives (with five involving Paul McCartney, via The Beatles or Wings). The song boasts the longest command by a British group since UB40’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” which led for seven weeks in 1993.

Longest-Leading Hot 100 No. 1s by British Groups
Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1
9, “Hey Jude,” The Beatles, Sept. 28, 1968
8, “Every Breath You Take,” The Police, July 9, 1983
8, “Night Fever,” Bee Gees, March 18, 1978
7, “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” UB40, July 24, 1993
7, “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” The Beatles, Feb. 1, 1964
5, “Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, March 12, 2022
5, “Silly Love Songs,” Wings, May 22, 1976
5, “Get Back,” The Beatles (with Billy Preston), May 24, 1969
5, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” The Beatles, April 4, 1964

(The Bee Gees were born on the Isle of Man and moved to the U.K. proper, Australia and back to the U.K.; The Police and Wings featured British frontmen and British and American members.)

Among all British acts (duo/groups and soloists), Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!” (featuring American Bruno Mars) and Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight” share the longest Hot 100 domination: 14 weeks each, in 2015 and 1997-98, respectively.

“Heat Waves” concurrently rules the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 28th week each.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. It keeps at No. 2 on Radio Songs (61.5 million, up 2%) and lifts 8-7 on Streaming Songs (11 million, down 2%). As the track has spent all 38 of its weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10, dating to its entrance at No. 3 on the July 24, 2021, chart, it ties Post Malone’s “Circles” for the longest consecutive run in the top 10 from a debut; “Circles” logged its first 38 weeks on the list in the tier in 2019-20.

“Stay” further spends a record-extending 14th week at No. 2 on the Hot 100; 21st week in the top two; and 23rd week in the top three.

Latto leaps to her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Big Energy” vaults 11-3. It jumps 5-2 on Digital Song Sales (12,900, up 146%) and 7-6 on Radio Songs (52.7 million, up 8%) and debuts at No. 14 on Streaming Songs (9.5 million, up 36%), as it triples up with the Hot 100’s top Airplay, Sales and Streaming Gainer awards. (It’s the first song to sweep all three honors in a single week since Adele’s “Easy on Me,” following its first full week of tracking, atop the Oct. 30, 2021, chart.)

“Big Energy” bounds following the March 25 release of Latto’s second LP, 777, and the March 28 arrival of the song’s remix with Mariah Carey and featuring DJ Khaled. (Carey and DJ Khaled are not listed on “Big Energy” on the Hot 100, as the remix did not account for the majority of the song’s overall consumption during the tracking week.) Carey sings a portion of her 1995 eight-week No. 1 “Fantasy” in the remix; both songs interpolate Tom Tom Club’s classic “Genius of Love,” which hit No. 31 on the Hot 100 in April 1982.

“I fell in love with the beat,” Latto told Billboard in November of reimagining “Genius of Love” as “Big Energy.” “It’s so catchy. I knew it would bring a new audience and fanbase to my career.”

“Big Energy” concurrently surges to No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, becoming Latto’s first leader on each list.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” dips to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 high and Imagine Dragons and JID’s “Enemy” advances 7-5. Imagine Dragons notch their fourth top five Hot 100 hit (among five top 10s), following “Radioactive” (No. 3, July 2013); “Believer” (No. 4, August 2017); and “Thunder” (No. 4, December 2017). Rapper/singer JID earns his first top five hit on the chart.

Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” slips to No. 6 from its No. 5 Hot 100 high and GAYLE’s “abcdefu” falls 4-7, after reaching No. 3.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto, descends 6-8 on the Hot 100 after, as noted above, five weeks at No. 1, the longest reign ever for a song from a Disney film. The track, by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast, all singing as the characters that they voice in the movie, tops Streaming Songs for a 13th week (18.6 million, down 4%), tying for the sixth-longest rule since the chart began in January 2013.

Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” retreats to No. 9 from its No. 8 Hot 100 best and Doja Cat’s “Woman” backtracks to No. 10 a week after reaching the top 10, at No. 9. “Woman” concurrently crowns the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a fifth week.

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Plus: Daddy Yankee scores his highest-charting album ever on the Billboard 200 with ‘Legendaddy.’

Machine Gun Kelly’s Mainstream Sellout tops the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set enters atop the list dated April 9 with 93,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 31, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. It’s the artist’s second leader, following his last release, 2020’s Tickets to My Downfall. All told, Mainstream Sellout is his sixth top 10 on the tally.

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 April 9, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 5. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Mainstream Sellout’s 93,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 42,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week); SEA units comprise 50,000 (equaling 68.8 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), and TEA units comprise 1,000.

The album’s sales were enhanced by its availability in deluxe editions and boxed sets sold via Machine Gun Kelly’s official webstore. While Mainstream Sellout’s internet-based sales were sturdy, the album would have still been No. 1 without any sales from non-traditional sellers (which include web-based stores).

Mainstream Sellout is the first No. 1 rock album on the Billboard 200 in over a year, since AC/DC’s Power Up spent a week at No. 1, debuting atop the list dated Nov. 28, 2020. Mainstream Sellout also has the largest week, by units, for a rock album since Paul McCartney’s McCartney III launched with 107,000 units on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated chart (at No. 2). (Rock albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.)

Three former No. 1s are all non-movers on the latest Billboard 200 at Nos. 2-4, as Lil Durk’s 7220 (63,000 equivalent album units; down 23%), the Encanto soundtrack (58,000; down 1%) and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (45,000; down 4%) are steady at Nos. 2, 3 and 4, respectively.

Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Sour jumps 11-5 on the Billboard 200 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned. The set posts a 14% increase in units for the week, following the debut of her documentary film Driving Home 2 U (A Sour Film) on Disney+ on March 25 (the first day of the chart’s tracking week).

The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights is stationary at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with 33,000 equivalent album units earned (down 2%). and Drake’s former No. 1 Certified Lover Boy rises 8-7 with 31,000 units (down 1%).

Daddy Yankee returns to the top 10 on the Billboard 200 for the first time in nearly 15 years, as Legendaddy debuts at No. 8 – his highest charting album ever and second top 10. He previously hit the top 10 in June of 2007 with El Cartel: The Big Boss, debuting and peaking at No. 9.

The new 19-track Legendaddy is Daddy Yankee’s first studio album in nearly 10 years, and has been described as his final studio release. Legendaddy bows with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise nearly 27,000 (equaling 38.49 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,000 and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 units.

Legendaddy is the highest-charting Latin album, and first top 10, on the Billboard 200 since Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo bowed at No. 1 on the Dec. 12, 2020-dated chart and spent five nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10. Legendaddy also lands the largest debut week, by units, for a Latin album since El Ultimo debuted with 116,000 units. (Latin albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart.)

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200: Doja Cat’s Planet Her rises 10-9 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%), and Gunna’s former leader DS4Ever falls 9-10 with nearly 29,000 (down 6%).

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