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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“Heat Waves” rises further among the longest-leading No. 1s ever by British groups.

Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth week, after completing a record 59-week climb to No. 1.

Meanwhile, Justin Bieber‘s “Ghost” reaches the Hot 100’s top five, rising from No. 6 to No. 5 to become his milestone 20th top five hit, and Doja Cat‘s “Woman” enters the top 10 (12-9), marking her fifth top 10 and the third from her album Planet Her.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated April 2, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 29). 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 66.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 1%) and 15.1 million U.S. streams (essentially even week-over-week) and sold 2,900 downloads (down 7%) in the March 18-24 tracking week, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data.

The single, the first Hot 100 No. 1 (and entry on the chart) for the British quartet, adds a third week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; rebounds from No. 4 to its No. 3 high on Streaming Songs; and holds at No. 20 on Digital Song Sales, where it reached No. 13.

Notably, with its fourth week atop the Hot 100, “Heat Waves” ties for the ninth-longest reign among songs by British groups in the chart’s 63-year history. The song boasts the longest command by a British group (since its second week at No. 1) since Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” also led for four weeks just over 25 years ago.

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, “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
4, “Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, March 12, 2022
4, “Wannabe,” Spice Girls, Feb. 22, 1997
4, “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II),” Pink Floyd, March 22, 1980
4, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” Queen, Feb. 23, 1980
4, “Stayin’ Alive,” Bee Gees, Feb. 4, 1978
4, “My Love,” Paul McCartney and Wings, June 2, 1973
4, “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?,” Bee Gees, Aug. 7, 1971
4, “Honky Tonk Women,” The Rolling Stones, Aug. 23, 1969
4, “Yesterday,” The Beatles, Oct. 9, 1965
4, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” The Rolling Stones, July 10, 1965

(The Bee Gees’ members 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 27th 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 (60.4 million, down 7%) and rebounds 13-8 on Streaming Songs (11.3 million, down 2%). The track has spent all 37 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’s now only a week from potentially tying Post Malone’s “Circles” for the longest consecutive run in the top 10 from a debut, as “Circles” logged its first 38 weeks on the list in the tier in 2019-20.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” is stationary at its No. 3 Hot 100 high, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a 10th week each, and GAYLE’s “abcdefu” holds at No. 4, after reaching No. 3.

Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” rises 6-5 for a new Hot 100 high, becoming his landmark 20th top five hit. He’s only the 10th act to reach the threshold.

Most Top Five Hot 100 Hits
29, The Beatles
28, Madonna
27, Mariah Carey
27, Drake
24, Janet Jackson
23, Rihanna
21, Elvis Presley (with the start of his career having predated the chart’s inception)
20, Justin Bieber
20, Michael Jackson
20, Stevie Wonder
19, Whitney Houston
19, Elton John
19, Taylor Swift

Meanwhile, with “Stay” and “Ghost,” Bieber is the first artist with two songs in the Hot 100’s top five simultaneously in over six months, since Drake, on the Sept. 18, 2021, chart, when he joined The Beatles as the only acts ever to infuse the entire top five in a single week.

“Ghost” holds at its No. 3 high on Radio Songs (58.6 million, down 2%) and returns to its best rank (32-22) on Streaming Songs (9 million, up 1%).

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto, slips 5-6 on the Hot 100 after 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, continues its command on Streaming Songs, where it leads for a 12th week (19.3 million, down 13%), tying for the ninth-longest rule since the chart began in January 2013.

Imagine Dragons and JID’s “Enemy” pushes 8-7 on the Hot 100 and Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” lifts 9-8, as both songs reach new best ranks. The former wins the chart’s top Airplay Gainer award for a sixth consecutive week (up 13% to 47.7 million), the longest such streak since Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” also claimed the honor for six weeks in a row in June-July 2021.

Doja Cat’s “Woman” hits the Hot 100’s top 10, climbing 12-9, led by its 7-6 advance on Radio Songs (53.1 million, up 8%).

The song is Doja Cat’s fifth Hot 100 top 10 and third from her 2021 album Planet Her, following “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA (No. 3, July 2021), and “Need to Know” (No. 8, November 2021). She previously reached the region with “Say So,” featuring Nicki Minaj (No. 1, one week, May 2020), and as featured, with Megan Thee Stallion, on Ariana Grande’s “34+35” (No. 2, January 2021).

“Woman” concurrently crowns the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a fourth week.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Adele’s “Easy on Me” drops 7-10, after it collected 10 weeks at No. 1.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated April 2), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 29).

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Imagine Dragons earn their fifth top 10 and first since 2018.

Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week, after completing a record 59-week climb to No. 1.

Meanwhile, Imagine Dragons and JID‘s “Enemy” enters the Hot 100’s top 10, jumping from No. 12 to No. 8.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated March 26, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 22). 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 67.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 15.2 million U.S. streams (up 1%) and sold 3,100 downloads (down 9%) in the March 11-17 tracking week, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data.

The single, the first Hot 100 No. 1 (and entry) for the British quartet, logs a second week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; dips to No. 4 from its No. 3 high on Streaming Songs; and falls 16-20 on Digital Song Sales, where it reached No. 13.

As “Heat Waves” reigns in its 61st total week on the Hot 100, it ties as the fifth-longest-charting No. 1 in the list’s history (and is almost assured of moving into second place within two months).

Longest-Charting Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s
90 weeks on Hot 100 (an overall record), “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd (2019-21; four weeks at No. 1)
68 weeks, “Party Rock Anthem,” LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock (2011-12; six weeks at No. 1)
65 weeks, “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele (2010-12; seven weeks at No. 1)
63 weeks, “Save Your Tears,” The Weeknd & Ariana Grande (2020-22; two weeks at No. 1; still on chart)
61 weeks, “Heat Waves,” Glass Animals (2021-22; three weeks at No. 1 to-date; still on chart)
61 weeks, “Circles,” Post Malone (2019-20; three weeks at No. 1)
60 weeks, “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),” Los Del Rio (1995-97; 14 weeks at No. 1)

“Heat Waves” concurrently tops 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 26th week each.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” rebounds 5-2 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. It holds at No. 2 on Radio Songs (64.5 million, up 1%); slips 8-13 on Streaming Songs (11.5 million, essentially even week-over-week); and re-enters Digital Song Sales at No. 46 (1,800, up 21%). The track has spent all 36 of its weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10, dating to its entrance at No. 3 on the July 24, 2021, chart; only Post Malone’s “Circles” has linked a longer consecutive run in the top 10 from a debut: 38 weeks, in 2019-20.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” is steady at its No. 3 Hot 100 high, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a ninth week each, and GAYLE’s “abcdefu” keeps at No. 4, after reaching No. 3. “abcdefu” concurrently crowns the Adult Pop Airplay radio chart; it previously led Pop Airplay for two weeks.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto, drops 2-5 on the Hot 100 after 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, continues its command on Streaming Songs, where it leads for an 11th week (22.2 million, down 11%).

Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” hits a new No. 6 Hot 100 high, up from No. 7, swapping spots with Adele’s “Easy on Me” (6-7), which spent 10 weeks at No. 1.

Imagine Dragons and JID’s “Enemy” surges 12-8 on the Hot 100, with 42 million in radio airplay audience (up 17%, good for the chart’s top Airplay Gainer award for a fifth consecutive week), 10.6 million streams (down 3%) and 4,000 sold (up 3%). The song is showcased at the beginning of each episode of Netflix’s animated series Arcane: League of Legends, which premiered Nov. 6, 2021 (with the track having topped Billboard‘s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for November).

Imagine Dragons notch their fifth Hot 100 top 10, following “Radioactive” (No. 3, July 2013); “Demons” (No. 6, December 2013); “Believer” (No. 4, August 2017); and “Thunder” (No. 4, December 2017). Rapper/singer JID earns his first top 10.

“Enemy” also enters the top 10 on both Radio Songs (14-10) and Digital Song Sales (13-10). Imagine Dragons score their seventh Radio Songs top 10 and first since “Natural” in 2018; “Enemy” reaches the top 10 in just its fifth week on the chart, marking the group’s fastest flight to the tier, one-upping the six-week trip for “Thunder,” its lone leader on the list. The band adds its 11th top 10 on Digital Song Sales. JID reaches the top 10 of both charts for the first time.

“Enemy” is drawing support at multiple radio formats, as it rules Alternative Airplay for a seventh week, having become Imagine Dragons’ seventh No. 1 on the chart; pushes 10-9 on Adult Pop Airplay; and holds at No. 10 on Pop Airplay.

Also notably, the top three titles on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (“Heat Waves,” “abcdefu” and “Enemy,” at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, this week) appear in the Hot 100’s top 10 simultaneously for the first time since Hot Rock & Alternative Songs was revamped in June 2020.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to its best rank (10-9) and Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” descends 8-10, after reaching No. 2.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated March 26), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 22).

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Plus: Ghost, Rex Orange County and for KING & COUNTRY debut in top 10.

Lil Durk scores his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 26) as 7220 debuts in the top slot. The rapper previously topped the list with The Voice of the Heroes, a collaborative set with Lil Baby, for one week in 2021.

7220 launches with 120,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 17, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data – Lil Durk’s best week for a non-collaborative project. 7220 was released on March 11 via Alamo Records.

After eight weeks in a row at No. 1 – and nine weeks in total on top – the Encanto soundtrack is pushed down to No. 3 with 64,000 units (down 12%).

Also in the top 10, Ghost debuts at a career-high No. 2 with Impera – which launches with the largest sales week of any album in 2022 – while Rex Orange County collects his second top five effort with the debut of Who Cares? and for KING & COUNTRY lands its second top 10 with What Are We Waiting For?

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 March 26, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 22. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 7220’s 120,500 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 117,500 (equaling 164.81 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,500 and TEA units comprise 500.

7220 is Lil Durk’s fifth top 10 album – and all of them have reached the top five. The set opens with Lil Durk’s largest week, by units, for a non-collaborative album. His previous solo best was logged when The Voice jumped 5-2 with 86,000 units on the Feb. 13, 2021 chart, after the album was reissued with 14 additional tracks.

7220 also lands the third-largest week for an album in the 2022 tracking year. Only the debut frames of Gunna’s DS4Ever (105,300; week ending Jan. 13) and The Weeknd’s Dawn FM (148,000; the same week) posted larger weeks in 2022.

7220 is the third No. 1 for Alamo Records, and first since Sony Music Entertainment acquired the company last June.

Ghost lands a career-high placing on the Billboard 200, as the rock band’s new album Impera debuts at No. 2. The set also earns the group its biggest week both in terms of equivalent album units earned (70,000) and traditional album sales (62,500). The set additionally logs the largest sales week of any album in 2022, bolstered by its availability across multiple vinyl LP variants, as well as CD, cassette and digital download. Impera was released on March 11 via Loma Vista/Concord.

Impera is the first new full-length studio album from Ghost since Prequelle, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the June 16, 2018 tally (the band’s previous chart high). All told, Impera marks the third top 10 album – and fifth top 40-charting set – for the act.

Of Impera’s 70,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 62,500; SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.11 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500. The band’s previous biggest week, both in units earned and album sales, was the opening frame of Prequelle (66,000 units, of which 61,500 were album sales).

Impera is the highest-charting rock album on the Billboard 200 in nearly eight months, since John Mayer’s Sob Rock debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the July 31, 2021-dated list. Impera is the highest-charting hard rock set in a year and four months, since AC/DC’s Power Up spent a week at No. 1, debuting atop the list dated Nov. 28, 2020. (Rock and hard rock albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums chart, respectively.)

Impera also lands the largest week, by units, for a rock album since Sob Rock’s debut week (84,000) and the biggest for a hard rock set in over a year, since the opening week of Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight (70,000; Feb. 20, 2021, chart).

Impera has the biggest week, by album sales, for any album in the 2022 tracking year so far, surpassing the 37,000 copies sold of The Weeknd’s Dawn FM after its CD was released (week ending Feb. 3). Further, Impera has the largest sales week for a rock or hard rock album since the debut of Medicine at Midnight (64,000).

The Encanto soundtrack falls from No. 1 to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 after eight straight weeks on top, and a total of nine nonconsecutive weeks in the lead. It earned 64,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (down 12%).

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album falls 3-4 on the Billboard 200 with 46,000 equivalent album units (though up 1%).

Dangerous: The Double Album has now accumulated 61 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. It ties Celine Dion’s Falling Into You (1996-97) for the third-most weeks in the top 10 among all albums released since 1990. Ahead of them are only Adele’s 21, with 84 weeks in the top 10 (2011-16), and Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, with 72 weeks in the top 10 (1995-97).

Rex Orange County notches his second top five-charting album, as Who Cares? bows at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 20,000; SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 19.61 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The artist (born Alexander James O’Connor) previously visited the top 10 with Pony, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 (Nov. 9, 2019 chart).

The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights is a non-mover at No. 6 with 34,000 equivalent album units (up 4%).

for KING & COUNTRY lands its second top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as the duo’s latest release, What Are We Waiting For?, bows at No. 7 with nearly 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 28,000; SEA units comprise 3,500 (equaling 5.08 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500. The act (brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone) previously visited the top 10 with 2018’s Burn the Ships, which debuted and peaked at No. 7 (Oct. 20, 2018, chart).

Gunna’s chart-topping DS4Ever falls 5-8 with 31,500 units (down 9%), Drake’s former leader Certified Lover Boy is steady at No. 9 with 31,000 equivalent album units (up less than 1%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her is stationary at No. 10 with 30,000 units (up 1%).

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The track concurrently takes over atop the Radio Songs chart.

A week after Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” wrapped a record 59-week climb to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song spends a second week at the chart’s summit.

A week after Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” wrapped a record 59-week climb to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song spends a second week at the chart’s summit.

The track concurrently reaches 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 March 19, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 15). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

The track concurrently reaches 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 March 19, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 15). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

The track concurrently takes over atop the Radio Songs chart.

Airplay streams & sales: “Heat Waves,” released on Wolf Tone/Polydor/Republic Records, drew 65.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (essentially even week-over-week) and 15.1 million U.S. streams (up 1%) and sold 3,500 downloads (up 20%) in the March 4-10 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The single, the first Hot 100 No. 1 (and entry) for the British quartet, likewise becomes its first leader in the band’s first visit to the Radio Songs chart; rises 5-3 for a new high on Streaming Songs; and jumps 25-16 on Digital Song Sales, where it reached No. 13.

Alternative to all-format No. 1: Notably, “Heat Waves” topped the Alternative Airplay chart for three weeks in March-April 2021. It becomes just the 15th Alternative Airplay No. 1 to have led the all-genre Radio Songs survey over the 31-plus years that the charts have coexisted, a feat that just 4% of all Alternative Airplay leaders have achieved.

Alternative Airplay No. 1s to Have Topped Radio Songs
“Semi-Charmed Life,” Third Eye Blind, hit No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart dated Sept. 6, 1997
“Fly,” Sugar Ray, Oct. 18, 1997
“Tubthumping,” Chumbawamba, Nov. 29, 1997
“Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, Aug. 1, 1998
“Slide,” Goo Goo Dolls, Feb. 27, 1999
“Kryptonite,” 3 Doors Down, Oct. 7, 2000
“Hanging by a Moment,” Lifehouse, July 14, 2001
“We Are Young,” fun. feat. Janelle Monae, April 21, 2012
“Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye feat. Kimbra, June 2, 2012
“Royals,” Lorde, Nov. 2, 2013
“Feel It Still,” Portugal. The Man, Oct. 28, 2017
“Thunder,” Imagine Dragons, Dec. 2, 2017
“Happier,” Marshmello & Bastille, Nov. 24, 2018
“High Hopes,” Panic! At the Disco, Dec. 1, 2018
“Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, March 19, 2022

As “Heat Waves” hit No. 1 on the Alternative Airplay chart dated March 20, 2021, and ascends to No. 1 on the Radio Songs ranking dated March 19, 2022, its one-year wait to the top of the latter tally is the greatest among the 15 songs to lead both lists. Previously, Lifehouse’s “Hanging by a Moment” took the longest to cross from hitting No. 1 on Alternative Airplay to leading Radio Songs: five months and two weeks, in January to July 2001.

British groups at No. 1: Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” is the first song by a British group to have topped the Hot 100 for multiple weeks in just over 25 years: since Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” led for four weeks beginning Feb. 22, 1997. (In between, the only other British group to reign – Coldplay – notched two No. 1s that led for a week each: “Viva La Vida,” in June 2008, and “My Universe,” with BTS, in October 2021.)

Among all British acts prior to Glass Animals, Adele most recently dominated for 10 weeks beginning in October with “Easy on Me.”

Zero to 60: Meanwhile, “Heat Waves” becomes just the 20th title to have spent 60 or more weeks on the Hot 100 (among around 30,000 total entries since the chart originated in August 1958).

It’s the seventh No. 1 to chart for 60 or more weeks, joining The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (an overall-record 90); LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem,” featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock (68); Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” (65); The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” (62; still charting); Post Malone’s “Circles” (61); and Los Del Rio’s “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (60).

No. 1 Rock, Alt: “Heat Waves” concurrently leads 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 25th week each.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto, holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after 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 10th week (24.9 million, down 6%), dips 4-6 on Digital Song Sales (5,600, down 9%) and drew 8.7 million in all-format radio audience (down 1%) in the tracking week.

As previously reported, the Encanto soundtrack tops the Billboard 200 albums chart for a ninth week.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” hits a new No. 3 Hot 100 high, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for an eighth week each.

GAYLE’s “abcdefu” retreats to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 best and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” keeps at No. 5, after seven weeks at No. 1.

Adele’s “Easy on Me” is steady at No. 6, after 10 weeks atop the Hot 100; Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” holds at its No. 7 highpoint; and Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” rises 9-8, after reaching No. 2, and his “Shivers” slides 8-9, after hitting No. 4.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to the tier, pushing 11-10 after climbing to No. 9.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated March 19), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 15).

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Plus: King Von’s posthumous album debuts at No. 2 & DaBaby and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s collaborative set starts in the top 10.

The Encanto soundtrack snags a ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 19). The set earned 72,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 10 (down 9%), according to MRC Data.

Encanto also surpasses 1 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S., as the latest tracking week brings its to-date sum to 1.03 million. The soundtrack album was released on Nov. 19, before the film arrived in U.S. theaters on Nov. 24. The movie was released via the Disney+ streaming service a month later (Dec. 24). The album spent its first week at No. 1 on the Jan. 15, 2022-dated chart.

In the last five years, only two albums have spent at least nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Encanto and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (10 weeks in 2021).

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 MRC Data. 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 March 19, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Encanto’s 72,500 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 63,000 (down 8%, equaling 93.03 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 8,000 (down 14%) and TEA units comprise 1,500 (down 12%).

King Von’s posthumous album What It Means to Be King debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the late rapper’s first release since his death at the age of 26 on Nov. 6, 2020. Of King’s 59,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 55,000 (equaling 79.06 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 4,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The 19-track set features guests such as 21 Savage, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, Lil Durk and Moneybagg Yo.

The new album is the second top 10 for King Von, who first reached the top 10 with his debut studio album, Welcome to O’Block, which climbed 13-5 (its peak) on the Nov. 21, 2020-dated chart, following news of his death.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, with 45,000 equivalent album units (up 7%).

Dangerous: The Double Album has now accumulated 60 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. It surpasses Taylor Swift’s 1989 for the second-most weeks in the top 10 among albums released since 2000, trailing only Adele’s 21, with 84 weeks in the top 10.

Kodak Black’s Back for Everything falls from No. 2 to No. 4 on its second week on the Billboard 200 with 37,000 equivalent album units (down 38%). Gunna’s chart-topping DS4Ever slips 4-5 with 34,500 units (down 8%), and The Weeknd’s The Highlights falls 5-6 with 33,000 units (down 2%).

Olivia Rodrigo’s former leader Sour is steady at No. 7 with 31,000 equivalent album units earned (down less than 1%), Drake’s chart-topper Certified Lover Boy falls 6-8 with 31,000 units (down 2%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her bumps 10-9 with 30,000 units (up 4%).

Closing out the new top 10 is DaBaby and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s collaborative effort Better Than You, debuting at No. 10 with 28,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 27,500 (equaling 40.35 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs) while album sales and TEA units comprise the remaining 1,000 units. Better is the fourth top 10 for DaBaby and the ninth top 10 for YoungBoy Never Broke Again.

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The song reigns in 59th week on the Hot 100, having conquered platforms from TikTok to radio.

A song released in 2020, and about late nights in the middle of June, reaches No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 2022.

Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” hits No. 1 on the Hot 100, completing a record-breaking rise to the summit, leading in its 59th week on the chart. It shatters the prior mark of 35 weeks on the survey needed to reign, set by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in December 2019.

Over its unprecedented run, “Heat Waves” has ruled multiple radio formats and become prominent on TikTok and streaming services.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated March 12, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 8). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Heat Waves,” released on Wolf Tone/Polydor/Republic Records, becomes the 1,134th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 63-year history. It’s the first leader (and entry) on the chart for the quartet, which comprises Dave Bayley, Edmund Irwin-Singer, Drew MacFarlane and Joe Seaward. The band is nominated for the best new artist Grammy Award this year; it formed in Oxford, England, in 2010 and first appeared on Billboard‘s charts in 2014.

Here’s an in-depth look at the song’s record-rewriting Hot 100 coronation.

Airplay, streams & sales: “Heat Waves” drew 66.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 3%) and 14.8 million U.S. streams (up 1%) and sold 2,900 downloads (down 4%) in the Feb. 25-March 3 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The single holds at its No. 2 high on the Radio Songs chart, rebounds, 6-5, to its best rank on Streaming Songs and dips 23-25 on Digital Song Sales, where it reached No. 13.

Record run to No. 1: “Heat Waves” tops the Hot 100 in its 59th week on the chart, soaring past the prior mark for the lengthiest climb to No. 1.

Longest Climbs to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
59 weeks, “Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, hit No. 1 March 12, 2022
35 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, Dec. 21, 2019
33 weeks, “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),” Los Del Rio, Aug. 3, 1996
31 weeks, “Amazed, Lonestar, March 4, 2000
30 weeks, “All of Me,” John Legend, May 17, 2014
27 weeks, “With Arms Wide Open,” Creed, Nov. 11, 2000
26 weeks, “Everything You Want,” Vertical Horizon, July 15, 2000
25 weeks, “Red Red Wine,” UB40, Oct. 25, 1988

All eight songs above except for “With Arms Wide Open” and “Everything You Want” logged their journeys to No. 1 over interrupted runs. “Heat Waves” debuted on the Jan. 16, 2021-dated Hot 100; after two weeks off the chart, the song returned on the Feb. 6 survey and has remained on since.

Put in further perspective, “Heat Waves” is just the 23rd title to have even spent 59 or more weeks on the Hot 100 overall, regardless of peak position; that’s out of around 30,000 entries in the chart’s archives.

On the Nov. 13, 2021, Hot 100, “Heat Waves” wrapped a record 42-week trek to the top 10, while on the Jan. 15, 2022, chart it completed a record 51-week rise to the top five. The song has made its steady progress as a crossover airplay hit, having topped the Alternative Airplay chart for three weeks in March-April 2021 and Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay for two weeks each this January and February. Dating to its release in June 2020, the song also gained prominence on TikTok, playing off its “all I think about is you” lyrical hook. It trended especially strongly on the platform in late summer 2021, including via a clip from the band. (Activity on TikTok itself does not factor into any Billboard charts.)

“Glass Animals have songs that have real longevity in them, because they’re brilliant songs and Dave [Bayley] is a brilliant songwriter, but there’s a lot of nuance in them,” the group’s manager, Amy Morgan, told Billboard in January. “Heat Waves” “has a lot of interesting chords underneath the main melody, and there’s a lot of complexity in what sounds, from the outside, quite simple. And those songs – those that are not straight out-of-the-box, obvious songs – take a while to grow.”

Single writer & producer at No. 1: Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley solely wrote and produced “Heat Waves,” making it the first Hot 100 leader written and produced by a single talent since Pharrell Williams wrote, produced and performed “Happy,” which reigned for 10 weeks beginning eight years ago this week (March 8, 2014). Before that, will.i.am wrote and produced, and is featured on, Usher’s “OMG,” which led for four weeks in May-June 2010.

The last group to top the Hot 100 with a song solely written and produced by one of its members before Glass Animals? Boston, whose “Amanda” led for two weeks in November 1986. The band’s frontman, Tom Scholz, wrote and produced the rock ballad.

Started from the bottom: As “Heat Waves” debuted on the Jan. 16, 2021-dated Hot 100 at No. 100, the track completes a rare 100-to-1 odyssey on the Hot 100.

Here’s a recap of all 11 singles that have summited the chart after starting on the first step (an eclectic list whose previous two entries, coincidentally, belong to Wiz Khalifa).

Hot 100 No. 1s That Debuted at No. 100
“Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, hit No. 1 March 12, 2022
“See You Again,” Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth, April 25, 2015
“Black and Yellow,” Wiz Khalifa, Feb. 19, 2011
“Kiss Kiss,” Chris Brown feat. T-Pain, Nov. 10, 2007
“Can’t Help Falling in Love,” UB40, July 24, 1993
“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” Vicki Lawrence, April 7, 1973
“When a Man Loves a Woman,” Percy Sledge, May 28, 1966
“Go Away Little Girl,” Steve Lawrence, Jan. 12, 1963
“Michael,” The Highwaymen, Sept. 4, 1961
“Teen Angel,” Mark Dinning, Feb. 8, 1960
“Kansas City,” Wilbert Harrison, May 18, 1959

Notably, the soundtrack to Disney’s Encanto crowns the Billboard 200 albums chart for an eighth week. As the set debuted at No. 197, this week marks the first in which the Hot 100’s top song is a title that bowed at No. 100 and the Billboard 200’s top album is one that began as low as No. 197. That marks an extreme outlier in an era in which titles regularly debut at No. 1 on both charts; of the 58 singles ever to have launched atop the Hot 100, 23 have done so since April 2020, while on the Billboard 200, 23 releases premiered at No. 1 in 2021, after 29 did so in 2020 and 37 did in both 2019 and 2018.

Alternative route to No. 1: “Heat Waves” also marks an uncommon Hot 100 No. 1 that previously led Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart. The song is the first to have topped both tallies since Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy,” which led the Alternative Airplay charts dated Aug. 10 and 17, 2019, and the Hot 100 dated that Aug. 24. Before Eilish, Lorde led both lists with “Royals” in 2013.

Until this week, no group had ruled Alternative Airplay and the Hot 100 with the same song since fun., with “We Are Young” in 2012. (That track topped the Hot 100 before Alternative Airplay; “Heat Waves” is the first song by a group to lead Alternative Airplay and, subsequently, the Hot 100 since Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” in 2001.)

Meanwhile, “Heat Waves” is just the 10th Hot 100 No. 1 to have topped Alternative Airplay, dating to the latter list’s launch in September 1988. (The elite 10 Hot 100 No. 1s are among 413 total Alternative Airplay leaders to-date, placing “Heat Waves” in the company of just 2% of all Alternative Airplay No. 1s to achieve such a double domination.)

Hot 100 No. 1s That Have Also Led Alternative Airplay
“Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, 2021-22
“Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish, 2019
“Royals,” Lorde, 2013
“We Are Young,” fun. feat. Janelle Monae, 2012
“Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye feat. Kimbra, 2012
“Viva La Vida,” Coldplay, 2008
“How You Remind Me,” Nickelback, 2001-02
“Butterfly,” Crazy Town, 2001
“One Week,” Barenaked Ladies, 1998
“Nothing Compares 2 U,” Sinead O’Connor, 1990

“Heat Waves” concurrently crowns 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 24th week each.

British acts at No. 1: Glass Animals continue a recent trend of British artists leading the Hot 100. Half of the last six No. 1s, dating to October, include British acts, as “Heat Waves” follows Adele’s “Easy on Me,” which reigned for 10 weeks, and “My Universe,” by England’s Coldplay and South Korea’s BTS, a one-week No. 1.

Fellow British acts Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Dua Lipa join Glass Animals and Adele in the current Hot 100’s top 10 (see all other ranks below).

“Breaking in the U.S. is as important and coveted as ever,” mused Martin Talbot, CEO of the U.K.’s Official Charts Company, in November. “The U.S. is where blues and then rock n’ roll were born, and many of the heroes of music fans and creators hail from America’s rich music culture.”

Glass ceiling: Thanks to Glass Animals, the word “glass” shines atop the Hot 100 in an act’s name for the second time: Looking Glass led with “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” nearly 50 years ago, on the Aug. 26, 1972, chart.

Let’s also not gloss over the three songs with “glass” in their titles to top the Hot 100: “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses),” by John Fred and the Playboys, in 1968; “Heart of Glass,” by Blondie, in 1979; and “Raise Your Glass,” by P!nk, in 2010.

Meanwhile, chart-watcher Paul Nelson notes that another Glass-named animal act almost hit No. 1 on the Hot 100: Glass Tiger leapt to No. 2 with “Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” in 1986. Nelson also points out that Martha & the Vandellas’ “Heat Wave” hit No. 4 in 1963, while Linda Ronstadt’s cover rose to No. 5 in 1975. Plus, famed R&B group Heatwave notched three Hot 100 hits in 1977-78: “Boogie Nights” (No. 2), “Always and Forever” (No. 18) and “The Groove Line” (No. 7).

This week also marks the first in which a song with the word “heat” in its title is hottest on the Hot 100. (The word “hot” last appeared in a Hot 100 No. 1 thanks to Mims’ “This Is Why I’m Hot” in 2007.)

Below “Heat Waves,” “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto, slips to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after 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 ninth week (26.3 million, down 12%) and rises 5-4 on Digital Song Sales (6,100, down 8%), while gaining by 12% to 8.9 million in all-format radio audience.

Meanwhile, as “Bruno” was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and “Heat Waves” by Dave Bayley, the Hot 100 sports back-to-back solo-penned No. 1s for the first time in nearly 22 years: Vertical Horizon’s “Everything You Want,” written by the group’s Matt Scannell, and Matchbox Twenty’s “Bent,” authored by the band’s Rob Thomas, led consecutively in July 2000.

(“Normally, writing a song takes a good day to get into shape, but [“Heat Waves”] happened in an hour late at night,” Bayley recalled in early 2021.)

GAYLE’s breakthrough hit “abcdefu” holds at its No. 3 Hot 100 best. It spends a third week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (10,500 sold, up 27%), keeps at its No. 5 high on Radio Songs (61.3 million, up 6%) and lifts 9-8 on Streaming Songs (12.8 million, down 4%).

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” hits a new No. 4 Hot 100 high, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a seventh week each. As previously reported, parent album Back For Everything opens at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1, and Adele’s “Easy on Me” drops 4-6, after 10 weeks on top. The latter leads Radio Songs for a 15th week (67.8 million, down 8%), extending Adele’s longest stay atop the tally. It’s also one of only six titles to have ruled Radio Songs for at least 15 weeks, dating to the list’s December 1990 inception; The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” reigned for a record 26 weeks in April-October 2020.

The rest of the songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 repeat their ranks from a week earlier, with Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” at its No. 7 highpoint (as it becomes his fifth No. 1 on Adult Pop Airplay) and Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” at No. 8, after hitting No. 4, and “Bad Habits” at No. 9, after reaching No. 2.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Elton John and Dua Lipa’s “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” is steady at No. 10, after rising to No. 7. John expands his span of top 10s to 51 years, one month and two weeks, dating to his first frame in the top 10 with “Your Song” (Jan. 23, 1971), the longest such span among all acts not involving holiday titles. “Cold Heart” leads the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 21st week.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated March 12), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 8).

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Plus: Kodak Black, Tears for Fears and Avril Lavigne debut in top 10.

The Encanto soundtrack enchants in the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 12) for an eighth nonconsecutive week. The set earned 80,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 3 (down 11%), according to MRC Data.

In the last five years, only three albums have spent at least eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Encanto, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (10 weeks), and Taylor Swift’s Folklore (eight weeks).

Also in the top 10, new albums from Kodak Black, Tears for Fears and Avril Lavigne all debut in the region.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by MRC Data. 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 March 12, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 8. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Encanto’s 80,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 68,000 (down 11%, equaling 101.16 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 10,000 (down 16%) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 10%).

Kodak Black collects his fourth top five-charting album on the Billboard 200, as his latest release, Back for Everything, bows at No. 2 with 60,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 57,000 (equaling 84 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 3,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

The new album was preceded by the hit single “Super Gremlin,” which has reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Jan. 29) — the rapper’s highest charting song unaccompanied by another act. (He’s charted higher only with “ZEZE,” featuring Travis Scott and Offset, which peaked at No. 2 in 2018.)

Kodak Black notched his first Billboard 200 No. 1 with his prior top 10, Dying to Live, in 2018.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is stationary at No. 3, with 42,000 equivalent album units (up 3%).

Dangerous: The Double Album has now accumulated 59 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 — surpassing Taylor Swift’s Fearless for the most weeks in the top 10 among country albums in the chart’s history. Fearless clocked 58 weeks in the region in 2008-10.

Among all albums released since 2000, Dangerous ties Swift’s 1989 for the second-most weeks in the top 10, trailing only Adele’s 21, which captured 84 weeks in the region.

Gunna’s former No. 1 DS4Ever falls from No. 2 to No. 4 with 38,000 equivalent album units (down 9%), The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights dips 4-5 with 34,000 units (though up 3%), Drake’s chart-topping Certified Lover Boy rises 7-6 with 32,000 units (down less than 1%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s former leader Sour falls 5-7 with just over 31,000 units (down 2%).

Tears for Fears hit the top 10 for the first time in more than 30 years, as the act’s new album, The Tipping Point, debuts at No. 8 — the duo’s highest debut ever. The set is Tears for Fears’ first new studio album since 2004’s Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, and first top 10 since 1989’s The Seeds of Love peaked at No. 8. In total, The Tipping Point is the third top 10 album on the Billboard 200 for the duo (Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith) — the act also spent five weeks at No. 1 in 1985 with Songs From the Big Chair.

The new album’s title track peaked at No. 17 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart in January. The Tipping Point was ushered in with performances by Tears for Fears on ABC’s Good Morning America (Feb. 22), CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (Feb. 24) and a feature on CBS’ Sunday Morning (Feb. 20).

The Tipping Point launches with 31,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 29,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week); SEA units comprise 1,500 (equaling 2.04 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise about 500 units.

Avril Lavigne is back in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 for the first time since 2013, as her new album, Love Sux, bows at No. 9.

Love Sux is Lavigne’s sixth top 10 effort overall on the Billboard 200, and all seven of her chart entries have reached the top 15. 2022 marks Lavigne’s 20th anniversary on the chart, as well — her debut effort, Let Go, entered the list dated June 22, 2002, at No. 8, and peaked at No. 2 on the Sept. 28, 2002, chart. She boasts two No. 1s: Under the Skin (2004) and The Best Damn Thing (2007). She had last appeared in the top 10 with her No. 5-peaking eponymous set in 2013.

Love Sux starts with 30,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 19,000; SEA units comprise nearly 10,000 (equaling 12.61 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Rounding out the top 10 on the Billboard 200 is Doja Cat’s Planet Her, which falls 8-10 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned (up less than 1%).

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With five weeks at No. 1, “Bruno” now boasts more weeks at the summit than the other two leaders from Disney movies combined.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Disney’s hit animated film Encanto, rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fifth week.

The song, 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), extends its mark for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 ever for a hit from a Disney movie – and now claims more weeks on top than the other two leaders from Disney movies combined.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated March 5, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 1). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Bruno” drew 29.9 million U.S. streams (down 7%), 7.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 23%) and sold 6,600 downloads (down 12%) in the Feb. 18-24 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The ensemble anthem tops the Streaming Songs chart for an eighth week and rebounds 11-5 on Digital Song Sales, which it led for a week. (It pushes 26-24 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart and bullets again at No. 32 on Pop Airplay, up 25% and 28% in plays on each respective ranking.)

Upon its Hot 100 coronation four weeks ago, “Bruno” became the first No. 1 on the chart released on Walt Disney Records; the first leader for its sole writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda; and the second No. 1 from a Disney animated film, after Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, led for a week (March 6, 1993).

As “Bruno” tops the Hot 100 for a fifth frame, it furthers its mark as the longest-leading No. 1 from any Disney movie, animated or live action. The only No. 1 from a Disney film other than “Bruno” or “World,” “All For Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from the live action The Three Musketeers, led for three weeks in 1994. Thus, with five weeks at No. 1, “Bruno” now boasts more weeks at the summit than the other two leaders from Disney movies combined.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” ranks at its No. 2 Hot 100 high for a second consecutive week. It crowns 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 23rd week each.

Notably, the top two songs on the Hot 100 were written by a single writer each: as noted above, Lin-Manuel Miranda penned “Bruno,” while Glass Animals’ frontman Dave Bayley wrote “Heat Waves.” A week earlier, the songs marked the first solo-authored titles in the top two simultaneously since Matchbox Twenty’s “Bent,” written by the band’s Rob Thomas, and Vertical Horizon’s “Everything You Want,” written by the group’s Matt Scannell, placed at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the chart dated July 29, 2000.

As “Bruno” and “Heat Waves” add a second week at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, solo-written songs claim the Hot 100’s top two positions in consecutive weeks for the first time in over 25 years, since Toni Braxton’s Diane Warren-written “Un-Break My Heart” and R. Kelly’s self-written “I Believe I Can Fly” ranked at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, for four weeks (Dec. 21, 1996-Jan. 11, 1997). Before that, a seven-week such stretch occurred Aug. 20-Oct. 1, 1994, encompassing Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories’ “Stay (I Missed You),” written by Loeb; Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You,” penned by Babyface (Kenny Edmonds); and Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey’s “Endless Love,” written by Lionel Richie (who spent nine weeks at No. 1 with its original version, with Diana Ross, in 1981).

GAYLE’s breakthrough hit “abcdefu” hits a new Hot 100 best, rising 4-3. It concurrently ascends to No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart. The song, previously a stand-alone single, will be on GAYLE’s debut EP, A Study of the Human Experience Volume One, announced Feb. 23 and due March 18.

Adele’s “Easy on Me” dips 3-4 on the Hot 100, after 10 weeks at the summit. The ballad leads Radio Songs for a 14th week (71.5 million, down 4%), extending her longest stay atop the tally. It’s also one of just nine titles to have led Radio Songs for at least 14 weeks, dating to the list’s December 1990 inception; The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” reigned for a record 26 weeks in April-October 2020.

Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” rebounds from No. 6 to its No. 5 Hot 100 high, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a sixth week each; The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slips 5-6 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1; Bieber’s “Ghost” lifts 8-7 for a new highpoint; and Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” backtracks 7-8, after hitting No. 4.

Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” surges back to the Hot 100’s top 10 (14-9), after it reached No. 2 for two weeks in August-September 2021. It gained by 12% to 10.4 million streams and 48% to 4,200 sold in the Feb. 18-24 tracking week following the Feb. 17 release of its remix featuring Bring Me the Horizon, which the two British acts previewed with a performance Feb. 8 at the 2022 Brit Awards.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Elton John and Dua Lipa’s “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” also revisits the region (12-10), after it hit No. 7. John expands his span of top 10s to 51 years, one month and one week, dating to his first appearance in the top 10 with “Your Song” (Jan. 23, 1971), the longest among all acts not involving holiday songs. “Cold Heart” tops the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 20th week.

“Cold Heart” additionally hits No. 1 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, where John scores his first leader (after he previously peaked at a No. 4 best with “Blessed” in 1996, the year that the list launched) and Lipa lands her third. The song topped Dance/Mix Show Airplay for 14 weeks starting last October, the sixth-longest reign since the chart began in 2003.

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Plus, Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” ascends to No. 2, GAYLE’s “abcdefu” hits the top five and Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to the top 10.

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Disney’s hit animated film Encanto, leads the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fourth week.

The ensemble song – 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) – claims outright the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 ever for a hit from a Disney movie, animated or live action, as it passes the three-week reign of “All for Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from The Three Musketeers, in 1994.

Meanwhile, Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” rises to a new No. 2 Hot 100 high; GAYLE’s “abcdefu” reaches the top five, climbing 7-4; and Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to the top 10, pushing 12-9 for a new best.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Feb. 26, 2022) will update on Billboard.com Wednesday (Feb. 23, a day later than usual due to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. Feb. 21). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Bruno” tallied 32.2 million U.S. streams (down 10%), 6.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 18%) and 7,500 downloads sold (down 11%) in the Feb. 11-17 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The track tops the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week and falls 2-11 on Digital Song Sales, which it led for a week.

Record-breaking reign for a Disney movie song:  Three weeks ago, among other honors, “Bruno” became the first Hot 100 No. 1 released on Walt Disney Records; the first leader for its sole writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda; and the second No. 1 from a Disney animated film, after Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin, led for a week (March 6, 1993).

As “Bruno” rules for a fourth frame, it makes more history, solely achieving the longest Hot 100 command for a song from any Disney movie, animated or live action, one-upping the three-week reign of “All for Love,” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting, from the live-action The Three Musketeers, in January-February 1994.

Here’s a recap of the highest-charting Hot 100 hits from Disney movies, animated and live-action combined:

Peak position, Year Title, Artist, Disney production (* denotes live-action film) (Label)

• No. 1 (four weeks to-date), 2022, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto Cast, Encanto (Walt Disney)
• No. 1 (three weeks), 1994, “All for Love,” Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting, The Three Musketeers* (A&M)
• No. 1 (one), 1993, “A Whole New World,” Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle, Aladdin (Columbia)
• No. 4, 2009, “The Climb,” Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie* (Walt Disney/Hollywood)
• No. 4, 2006, “Breaking Free,” Zac Efron, Andrew Seeley & Vanessa Anne Hudgens, High School Musical* (Walt Disney)
• No. 4, 1995, “Colors of the Wind,” Vanessa Williams, Pocahontas (Hollywood)
• No. 4, 1994, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Elton John, The Lion King (Hollywood)
• No. 5, 2014, “Let It Go,” Idina Menzel, Frozen (Walt Disney)

Soundtrack & song No. 1 for fourth week simultaneously: As “Bruno” tops the Hot 100 for a fourth week, its parent album, the Encanto soundtrack, leads the Billboard 200 albums chart for a sixth week (and fifth in a row), with 98,000 equivalent album units (down 11%).

Encanto and “Bruno” mark the first soundtrack and corresponding song to have led the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for at least four weeks in 29 years, since Whitney Houston’s soundtrack to The Bodyguard and “I Will Always Love You” lined up atop the respective rankings for 12 weeks (Dec. 12, 1992-Feb. 27, 1993; coincidentally, “Always” was dethroned by “A Whole New World”).

Longest double domination for any album and song since 2018: Beyond soundtracks, Encanto and “Bruno” are the first album and corresponding song overall to have topped the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for as many as four weeks since Drake’s Scorpion and “In My Feelings” on the charts dated July 21-Aug. 11, 2018.

‘It’s like I hear him now …’: “Bruno” continues to scale the Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay charts, rising 31-26 (up 44% in plays) on the former and 40-32 (up 45%) on the latter.

The song’s all-format radio audience has risen from 1.5 million to 3.6 million (up 132%) to 5.5 million (up 53%) to 6.5 million (up 18%) over its Hot 100 reign.

WNEW New York led all Adult Pop Airplay chart reporters with 525,000 in audience for “Bruno” in the Feb. 11-17 tracking week, while KIIS Los Angeles paced all Pop Airplay panelists with 420,000 impressions.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” ascends 4-2 for a new Hot 100 best (after it charted as high as No. 3). The song reaches the runner-up spot in its 57th week on the chart, shattering the mark for the longest climb to the top two, previously held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (35 weeks, over multiple seasonal runs until the 1994 classic hit No. 1 for the first time in December 2019).

“Heat Waves” tops 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 22nd week each and spends a second week atop Adult Pop Airplay; it previously led Alternative Airplay for three weeks and Pop Airplay for two frames.

Adele’s “Easy on Me” holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after 10 weeks at the summit. It leads Radio Songs for a 13th week (77.3 million, down 7%), extending her longest stay atop the tally.

GAYLE’s breakthrough hit “abcdefu” reaches the Hot 100’s top five, pushing 7-4. It likewise enters the Radio Songs top five (8-5; 54.8 million, up 3%).

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” repeats at No. 5 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1; Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” holds at No. 6, after reaching No. 5, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fifth week each; and Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” rebounds 8-7 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 4.

Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” hovers at No. 8, up from No. 9, for a new Hot 100 best. As previously reported, it becomes his 10th Pop Airplay No. 1, the most among male soloists.

Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, advancing 12-9 for a new high. The song debuted at its previous No. 10 best on the Oct. 2, 2021, chart as parent album Montero opened at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The track (which has remained in the Hot 100’s top half each week since its debut) drew 52.3 million in radio reach and 8.6 million streams and sold 3,200 in the tracking week.

The single topped the Feb. 19-dated Pop Airplay chart, becoming the third No. 1 on the survey from Montero, after “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” and “Industry Baby,” the latter with Jack Harlow.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Gunna and Future’s “Pushin P,” featuring Young Thug, re-enters the tier (11-10). It spent three weeks at its No. 7 high starting upon its Jan. 22 debut.

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