Taylor Swift storms in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Nov. 27 with Red (Taylor’s Version), her re-recording of her 2012 album, Red, which led the list for seven weeks in 2012-13.

The new 30-track release, which adds a bevy of previously unheard “From the Vault” songs, gives Swift a milestone 10th No. 1 on the chart, making her just the second woman with 10 No. 1s in chart’s 65-year history. Barbra Streisand has the most No. 1s among women, with 11.

Red (Taylor’s Version) earned 605,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 18, according to MRC Data. That marks the second-largest week of the year, trailing only the debut frame of Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which racked up 613,000 units in the week ending Sept. 9. Red (Taylor’s Version) also launches with the best week of the year in terms of traditional album sales: 369,000.

Red (Taylor’s Version) is Swift’s second re-recorded album, following Fearless (Taylor’s Version), which also debuted at No. 1, in April.

Also in the new top 10: Silk Sonic — the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak — enters at No. 2 with their debut collaborative project, An Evening With Silk Sonic; TWICE’s Formula of Love: O+T=<3 starts at No. 3; and Jason Aldean’s Macon 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. 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 Nov. 27, 2021-dated chart (where Red [Taylor’s Version] debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 23. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Red (Taylor’s Version)’s 605,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 18, album sales comprise 369,000, SEA units comprise 227,000 (equaling 303.23 million on-demand streams of the set’s 30 tracks), and TEA units comprise 9,000 units.

Red (Taylor’s Version) contains new versions of the original album’s 16 songs, along with its four deluxe edition bonus tracks and the 2012 charity single “Ronan.” Nine additional “From the Vault” recordings complete the new project: six previously unreleased tracks that were written for Red, a 10-minute version of the album’s “All Too Well,” and Swift’s solo renditions of the songs “Better Man” and “Babe.” The latter two tracks were written for Red, but not released by Swift at the time and later recorded and released by Little Big Town and Sugarland, respectively.

Red (Taylor’s Version) was announced on June 18 for release on Nov. 19. On Sept. 30, the release date was moved up a week to Nov. 12. Swift ushered in the album with appearances on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Meyers (both on Nov. 11), followed by a performance on Saturday Night Live on Nov. 13. On the latter, she performed the 10-minute version of the album’s “All Too Well.”

“All Too Well” also garnered its own 15-minute short film, which doubled as its music video, directed by Swift and starring Dylan O’Brien and Sadie Sink. Swift dropped an official video for one of the album’s “From the Vault” tracks “I Bet You Think About Me,” featuring Chris Stapleton. The clip was directed by Blake Lively and co-stars Miles Teller.

Swift additionally partnered with Starbucks, where the coffee giant promoted Swift’s favorite Starbucks beverage while also playing her music inside stores. The chain did not sell the CD, however (although Starbucks used to regularly sell CDs in its stores). Customers could order Swift’s fave Starbucks drink: a Grande Caramel Nonfat Latte … by asking for a Taylor’s Latte or a Taylor’s Version.

Let’s take a look at some of the feats that Swift achieves with the debut of Red (Taylor’s Version):

10 No. 1 Albums: Red (Taylor’s Version) is Swift’s 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. She becomes just the second woman to achieve 10 No. 1s, following Barbra Streisand, who has 11.

Among all acts, The Beatles continue to have the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, with 19, dating back to when the list began regularly publishing on a weekly basis in March of 1956.

Most Billboard 200 No. 1s:
19, The Beatles
14, Jay-Z
11, Bruce Springsteen
11, Barbra Streisand
11, Taylor Swift
10, Drake
10, Eminem
10, Elvis Presley
10, Kanye West

Swift garnered her first No. 1 with Fearless, her second studio LP, which debuted atop the chart dated Nov. 29, 2008.

Fastest Accumulation of Four No. 1 Albums by a Solo Artist: Swift has… swiftly earned four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, in just a little under 16 months (or, 68 weeks). That’s the fastest that a solo artist has accumulated four No. 1s since the Billboard 200 began regularly publishing on a weekly basis in March of 1956.

Previously, among soloists, Elton John earned four No. 1s the fastest, with just 69 weeks between his final four No. 1s in 1974-75.

Swift’s four-pack of No. 1s began slightly less than a year and four months ago, when Folklore debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Aug. 8, 2020. She followed it with the chart-topping arrivals of Evermore (Dec. 26, 2020-dated chart), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (April 24, 2021) and now Red (Taylor’s Version) (Nov. 27, 2021).

John’s hot-streak of four No. 1s (of his total seven), started with Caribou (July 14, 1974) and was followed by Greatest Hits (Nov. 30, 1974), Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (June 7, 1975) and Rock of the Westies (Nov. 8, 1975). (All seven of John’s No. 1s came between July 15, 1972 and Nov. 8, 1975.)

Among all artists, including duos and groups, the last act to collect four No. 1s faster than Swift was The Monkees in 1967. The quartet collected all four of its No. 1s in just 13 months (55 weeks).

The made-for-TV band notched all four of its No. 1s in quick succession, with its self-titled album (it peaked at No. 1 on Nov. 12, 1966), More of the Monkees (Feb. 11, 1967), Headquarters (June 24, 1967) and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones LTD. (Dec. 2, 1967).

Largest Sales Week of 2021: With 369,000 copies sold, Red (Taylor’s Version)  logs the biggest sales week for any album in 2021. The previous largest sales week of the year was held by Swift’s latest studio album of all-original material, Evermore, when it sold 192,000 copies in the week ending June 3, following its release on vinyl LP.

Helping sales of Red (Taylor’s Version) is its release on CD, digital download and vinyl LP all on Nov. 12. That’s unlike Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Evermore, which both saw staggered releases for its formats, with their hefty-selling vinyl LPs arriving months after the album’s original release.

Sales of Red (Taylor’s Version) were also enhanced by the availability of CDs signed by Swift in her official webstore and at independent retailers.

Modern-Era Record Vinyl Sales Week… Again: Red (Taylor’s Version) sold 114,000 copies on vinyl in the week ending Nov. 18 — a new single-week record for a vinyl album since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991. It beats the previous record, set when Swift’s own Evermore sold 102,000 copies on vinyl LP in the week ending June 3.

The vinyl sales are particularly impressive, as the Red (Taylor’s Version) vinyl release is a 4-LP set that sells for hefty $49.99. It was available in two editions: a standard black release and a red-colored variant sold exclusively through Target stores. The vinyl LP went up for pre-order in Swift’s webstore in August.

Second-Largest Streaming Week for an Album by a Woman: Red (Taylor’s Version) debuts with 227,000 SEA units — totaling 303.23 million on-demand streams of the album’s 30 tracks. That’s the largest streaming week of 2021 for an album by a woman, and the second-largest ever for a female artist. Among women, only the debut frame of Ariana Grande’s 2019 album Thank U, Next scored a bigger week, with 307.1 million streams for its songs in its opening frame. (Notably, Thank U, Next’s streaming sum was powered by only 12 songs on its tracklist, whereas Red [Taylor’s Version] had a whopping 30 tracks assisting its streaming total.)

Red (Taylor’s Version) also now holds the biggest streaming week for a country album, surpassing the debut frame of Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album in January (240.18 million from its 30 tracks).

Biggest Sales Week for a Country Album in Eight Years: Red (Taylor’s Version) sold 368,000 copies in its first week — the largest sales week for a country album since Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party sold 528,000 copies in its opening week (chart dated Aug. 31, 2013).

Red (Taylor’s Version) also logs the biggest week for a country album since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by equivalent album units (instead of just pure album sales) in December of 2014.

Three country albums have topped the Billboard 200 in 2021: Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (which reigned for 10 weeks), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and now Red (Taylor’s Version). (Country albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.)

Swift’s original Red album spent 16 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and finished 2012 and 2013 as the year-end Top Country Album.

Silk Sonic arrives at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with the pair’s first album, An Evening With Silk Sonic. The set bows with 104,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the fourth top 10 for Mars, all of which have reached the top three on the list. It’s the second top 10, and highest charting album yet, for Anderson .Paak, who previously hit a No. 4 high with Ventura in 2019.

Of An Evening With’s starting sum of 104,000, SEA units comprise 60,000 (equaling 82.6 million on-demand streams of the set’s nine tracks), album sales comprise 42,000 and TEA units comprise 2,000.

Coincidentally, Mars’ last two albums both debuted at No. 2 — and one of them also arrived behind a Swift album. Mars’ 24K Magic debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Dec. 10, 2016-dated chart, behind Metallica’s also-debuting Hardwired… To Self-Destruct. Before that, Mars’ Unorthodox Jukebox debuted at No. 2 on the Dec. 29, 2012-dated chart behind Taylor Swift’s Red, which was in its fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1. Unorthodox Jukebox eventually climbed to No. 1, on the list dated March 16, 2013.

An Evening With was preceded by a trio of top 20-charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100: “Leave the Door Open” (No. 1 for two weeks in April), “Skate” (No. 14) and “Smokin Out the Window” (No. 8).

TWICE captures its second top 10 album on the Billboard 200, and highest charting effort yet, as Formula of Love: O+T=<3 debuts at No. 3 with 66,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 58,000, SEA units comprise 8,000 (equaling 12 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Like many K-pop releases, the CD edition of the new album was issued in multiple collectible packages (six, including two Target-exclusive editions).

The South Korean girl group hit the top 10 earlier in 2021 with the No. 6-peaking Taste of Love: The 10th Mini Album.

The new album was preceded by the track “The Feels,” which became the group’s first charting effort on the Hot 100, spending a week at No. 83 on the Oct. 16-dated list.

Summer Walker’s Still Over It falls from No. 1 to No. 4 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 64,000 equivalent album units (down 61%). Drake’s former No. 1 Certified Lover Boy dips 3-5 with 57,000 units (down 8%), Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album descends 5-6 with 45,000 units (though up 5%) and Ed Sheeran’s former No. 1 = drops 4-7 with 38,000 units (down 25%).

Jason Aldean’s Macon debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, marking his ninth top 10 on the chart. Macon launches with 37,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 19,000, SEA units comprise 16,000 (equaling 21.62 million streams of the set’s 15 tracks) and TEA units comprise 2,000 units.

Macon was led by the No. 1 Country Airplay hit “If I Didn’t Love You,” with Carrie Underwood, which has spent three weeks atop the list (as of the most recently published chart, dated Nov. 20). It’s Aldean’s first three-week No. 1 since 2014’s “When She Says Baby” also logged three weeks at No. 1. (All told, “If I Didn’t Love You” is Aldean’s 24th No. 1, as well as Underwood’s 16th leader.)

Rounding out the Billboard 200’s new top 10 are Kanye West’s former No. 1 Donda, up 13-9 with nearly 37,000 equivalent album units, up 46% thanks to its Nov. 13 deluxe reissue with additional tracks, and Doja Cat’s Planet Her, falling 6-10 with 35,000 units (down 5%).

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Plus: ABBA and Key Glock debut in the top 10.

Summer Walker earns her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the singer’s second studio LP, Still Over It, arrives atop the list. The 20-track set was released on Nov. 5 and launches with 166,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 11, according to MRC Data. Over 90% of the album’s first-week units were driven by streaming activity. Still Over It marks both the first R&B album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 in more than five years and the largest streaming week ever for an R&B album by a woman.

Also in the top 10, ABBA returns with the group’s highest-charting album ever – and first top 10 – as its new studio album, Voyage, bows at No. 2. Plus, rapper Key Glock lands his highest-charting set, as Yellow Tape 2 begins at No. 7.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Nov. 20, 2021-dated chart (where Still Over It debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 16. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Of Still Over It’s 166,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 11, SEA units comprise 153,000 (equaling 201.1 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 12,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000 units.

Still Over It is Walker’s third top 10 on the Billboard 200. It follows her 2020 EP, Life on Earth (No. 8), and her debut full-length studio album, Over It, in 2019 (No. 2). Over It has spent more than 100 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and finished 2020 as the No. 2 title on Billboard’s year-end Top R&B Albums recap. The set has earned over 2.5 million equivalent album units in the U.S.

The new album was announced on Oct. 4 and led by the single “Ex for a Reason,” with JT (of City Girls). The track debuted at No. 6 on the Hot R&B Songs chart and in the top 20 of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (both dated Oct. 30).

Let’s take a look at some of the feats that Walker achieves with the debut of Still Over It:

First No. 1 R&B Album by a Woman in Over Five Years: Still Over It is the first R&B album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 since Solange’s A Seat at the Table ruled for one week on Oct. 22, 2016-dated chart. The last R&B album by any artist to be No. 1 on the Billboard 200 was The Weeknd’s After Hours, more than a year ago; it logged its fourth and final week at No. 1 on the April 25, 2020 chart. (R&B albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart.)

Still Over It also logs the biggest week, by units earned, for an R&B album by a woman since Beyoncé’s Lemonade earned 202,000 units in its third week (May 28, 2016 chart). (Lemonade bowed with 653,000 units and then earned 321,000 units in its second week.)

Biggest Week for an R&B Album in 2021: Still Over It scores the biggest week, by units, for an R&B album in 2021. The last R&B set to tally a larger week was The Weeknd’s After Hours (444,000 in its debut week; April 4, 2020 chart).

Largest Streaming Week Ever for an R&B Album by a Woman: Still Over It bows with 153,000 SEA units – totaling 201.1 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks. It earns the largest streaming week ever for an R&B album by a woman, surpassing Walker’s own Over It (154.7 million in its debut week).

Still Over It also captures the second-biggest streaming week ever for any R&B album, trailing only the debut frame of The Weeknd’s After Hours (220.7 million; chart dated April 4, 2020).

Fourth-Biggest Debut by a Woman in 2021: Still Over It notches the fourth-largest debut week of 2021 by a woman. The only larger debuts in 2021 registered by women were the opening weeks of Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (with 291,000 units; April 24 chart), Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (295,000; June 5) and Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever (238,000; Aug. 14).

Pop legends ABBA earn their highest charting album ever, and first top 10, as Voyage debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The set was released on Nov. 5 and is the quartet’s first new studio album since 1982’s The Visitors.

Until this week, ABBA’s highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 was 1978’s The Album, which peaked at No. 14 on the July 22, 1978-dated chart. (The Album contains the hit single “Take a Chance on Me,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart. The Album was the follow-up to Arrival, which peaked at No. 20 and includes the act’s lone No. 1 Hot 100 hit, among four top 10s, “Dancing Queen.”)

In total, Voyage marks ABBA’s 14th charting album on the Billboard 200 and seventh to reach the top 40. (Not counted among those are the two Mamma Mia! film soundtracks, which consist of covers of ABBA tunes by their respective film’s actors. Both albums found great success, with the first Mamma Mia! soundtrack hitting No. 1 in 2008 and the sequel film’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again! soundtrack reaching No. 3 in 2018.)

Voyage starts with 82,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 11. Of that sum, album sales comprise 78,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week and the largest sales week for an album by a group in 2021); SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 4.9 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), and TEA units comprise a negligible number.

Drake’s former No. 1 Certified Lover Boy falls 2-3 on the new Billboard 200 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8%), while Ed Sheeran’s = descends 1-4 in its second week with 51,000 units (down 57%). Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album dips 3-5 with 43,000 units (though up 4%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her drops 4-6 with 37,000 units (down 6%).

Rapper Key Glock lands his highest-charting album with the No. 7 debut of Yellow Tape 2. The set, which marks his third top 10-charting effort, bows with 36,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 26,500 units (equaling 35.8 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 9,500 and TEA units comprise a negligible figure.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour (6-8 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned; down 2%), YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s chart-topping Sincerely, Kentrell (7-9 with 31,000 units; down 11%) and Lil Nas X’s Montero (8-10 with 27,000 units; down 9%).

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“Easy on Me” continues its command and “Heat Waves” rises 13-10.

Adele‘s “Easy on Me” leads the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a third week.

Plus, Glass Animals wrap an unprecedented climb to the Hot 100’s top 10, as “Heat Waves” ascends from No. 13 to No. 10. The song, the group’s first Hot 100 top 10, reaches the region in its 42nd week on the chart, completing the longest trip to the tier in the list’s 63-year history.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Nov. 13) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 9). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Easy on Me,” released Oct. 14 on Columbia Records, drew 70 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 12%) and 25.8 million U.S. streams (down 19%) and sold 15,800 downloads (down 32%) in the Oct. 29-Nov. 4 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The ballad leads the Streaming Songs chart for a third week; rebounds 3-2 after a week atop Digital Song Sales; and advances 4-2 on Radio Songs.

Among individual radio formats (and reflecting airplay in the week ending Nov. 7), “Easy on Me” hits No. 1 on Adult Contemporary, becoming Adele’s sixth leader on the list. It reaches the top spot in just its fourth week, completing the quickest coronation for a non-holiday song since her own “Hello” also needed just four weeks to reign in November 2015. (Only one non-holiday track has led AC more quickly since MRC Data information began fueling the chart in July 1993: Bob Carlisle’s Father’s Day/wedding song classic “Butterfly Kisses,” in just its third week in May 1997.)

“Easy on Me” also rises 5-3 on Adult Pop Airplay; holds at its No. 4 high on Adult Alternative Airplay; and lifts 9-8 on Pop Airplay, 17-11 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay (helped by remix spins) and 13-12 on Adult R&B Airplay.

The Kid LAROI and Bieber’s “Stay” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1, as it tops Radio Songs for an eighth week (89.5 million, down 3%). “Stay” concurrently leads Pop Airplay for an 11th week, tying for the second-longest reign since the chart began in October 1992.

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it led the listing. It adds an 11th week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” rises 5-4 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2, and his “Shivers” pushes 7-6 for a new high. Both songs are from his new album =, which launches as his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

In between Sheeran’s two songs, Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like” dips 4-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3. It rules the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 17th week and becomes Hayes’ first No. 1 on Country Airplay.

Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, drops 6-7 on the Hot 100, following its No. 1 start in September; Doja Cat’s “Need to Know” rises 9-8 for a new best; and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” slips 8-9, after it dominated in its debut week in May.

At No. 10 on the Hot 100, Glass Animals enter the top 10 for the first time with “Heat Waves.” The song drew 30.8 million in airplay audience (up 29%) and 15.1 million streams (down 5%) and sold 2,800 (down 11%) in the tracking week.

Jumping 13-10, the single completes the lengthiest ascent ever to the Hot 100’s top 10: 42 weeks, dating to its debut (as Glass Animals’ first Hot 100 hit) at No. 100 on the Jan. 16 chart.

Most Weeks Ever to Hot 100’s Top 10:
42, “Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, reached top 10 on chart dated Nov. 13, 2021
38, “Before He Cheats,” Carrie Underwood, June 2, 2007
36, “Higher,” Creed, July 8, 2000
34, “I Hope,” Gabby Barrett feat. Charlie Puth, Aug. 29, 2020
31, “Radioactive,” Imagine Dragons, April 13, 2013
30, “Better,” Khalid, April 20, 2019
30, “Rockstar,” Nickelback, Sept. 15, 2007
30, “Amazed,” Lonestar, Feb. 26, 2000
30, “This Kiss,” Faith Hill, Oct. 10, 1998

Like nearly all the songs above, “Heat Waves,” released on Wolf Tone/Polydor/Republic Records, has made its steady Hot 100 ascent as a crossover airplay hit. It topped Alternative Airplay for three weeks in March-April and, after reaching the top 20 on both Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay in June, continues to scale the formats, as it re-enters the latest charts at new highs of Nos. 15 and 18, respectively.

Further reflecting the era in which it’s become a hit, “Heat Waves” surged on TikTok, playing off the song’s “all I think about is you” lyrical hook. It trended especially strongly in late summer, including via a clip from the band itself.

The track concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a seventh week each.

Glass Animals formed in 2010 in Oxford, England. “Heat Waves,” which frontman Dave Bayley solely wrote and produced, is from the group’s third studio album, Dreamland, which became its first Top Rock Albums No. 1 upon its debut in August 2020. It also became the act’s first Billboard 200 top 10 with a simultaneous No. 7 entrance.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Nov. 13), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 9).

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Plus: Megan Thee Stallion debuts in top five.

Ed Sheeran scores his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest studio album, =, bows atop the list (dated Nov. 13). The set, which was released on Oct. 29, earned 118,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 4, according to MRC Data. Over half of that sum was driven by album sales.

Sheeran previously led the list with No. 6 Collaborations Project (in 2019), ÷ (in 2017) and x (in 2014). Each of his previous chart-topping albums also debuted at No. 1.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Nov. 13, 2021-dated chart (where = debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 9. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of =’s 118,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 4, album sales comprise 68,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 46,500 (equaling 61.69 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise 3,500. Sheeran bumps Drake’s Certified Lover Boy down to No. 2 with 67,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%).

Morgan Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album falls 2-3 with 42,000 units (down 1%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her slips 3-4 with 40,000 units (down 4%).

Megan Thee Stallion clocks her fourth top 10 charting album on the Billboard 200, as her new release Something for the Hotties debuts at No. 5. The 21-track album compiles previously released freestyles and some unheard tracks from the artist’s vault, along with her recent hit single “Thot S—.” The latter debuted and peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 26. Megan Thee Stallion previously hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with Good News (No. 2 in 2020), Suga (No. 7, 2020) and Fever (No. 10, 2019).

A pair of former No. 1s are next up on the new Billboard 200, as Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour falls 5-6 with 35,000 equivalent album units (down 7%) and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Sincerely, Kentrell drops 4-7 with 34,000 units (down 12%). Lil Nas X’s Montero rises 9-8 with 30,000 units (down 9%), The Kid LAROI’s chart-topping F*ck Love climbs 11-9 with 28,000 units (down 4%) and Moneybagg Yo’s former leader A Gangsta’s Pain slides 6-10 with 27,000 units (down 26%).

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Doja Cat adds her third Hot 100 top 10.

Adele‘s “Easy on Me” rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a second week.

Plus, Doja Cat‘s “Need to Know” rises from No. 11 to No. 9 on the Hot 100, becoming her third top 10 entry.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Nov. 6) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 2). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Easy on Me,” released at 7 p.m. ET Oct. 14 on Columbia Records, drew 61.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 4%) and 31.8 million U.S. streams (down 41%) and sold 23,100 downloads (down 69%) in the Oct. 22-28 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The ballad leads the Streaming Songs chart for a second week; drops to No. 3 after a week atop Digital Song Sales; and keeps at its No. 4 best on Radio Songs (down in audience in the Oct. 22-28 tracking frame, after multiple chains gave it concentrated play Oct. 14-15, helping lead to its record arrival on the airplay ranking).

A week earlier, the song vaulted 68-1 on the Oct. 30-dated Hot 100, following its first full week of tracking.

Notably, all five of Adele’s Hot 100 No. 1s have led for multiple weeks, as “Easy on Me” follows “Rolling in the Deep” (seven, 2011), “Someone Like You” (five, 2011), “Set Fire to the Rain” (two, 2012) and “Hello” (10, 2015-16). Adele spends her 26th cumulative week atop the chart (thus, the equivalent of six total months at the summit). Dating to her first week at No. 1 (May 21, 2011), Adele ties Rihanna for the most weeks atop the chart among women in that span; overall, they trail only Drake (52) and Justin Bieber (32).

The Kid LAROI and Bieber’s “Stay” keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1, as it rules Radio Songs for a seventh week (90.8 million, up 1%).

“Stay” concurrently crowns the Pop Airplay chart for a 10th week, becoming just the 15th song to reign for double-digit weeks since the survey began in October 1992, among exactly 400 total toppers. It’s the first title to achieve the feat since Post Malone’s “Circles” (10 weeks, November 2019-February 2020).

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” repeats at No. 3 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it led, as it logs a 10th week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like” is steady at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3, as (like whipped cream atop an Applebee’s Oreo Shake) it leads the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 16th week.

Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” is stationary at No. 5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2; Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, drops 5-6, following its No. 1 entrance in September; Sheeran’s “Shivers” pushes 9-7 for a new high; and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” drops 7-8, after it dominated in its debut week in May.

Doja Cat’s “Need to Know” ascends to the Hot 100’s top 10, rising 11-9. The track holds at No. 10 on Streaming Songs (13.2 million, down 2%), climbs 14-12 on Radio Songs (44.1 million, up 14%) and stays at No. 35 on Digital Song Sales (2,600, up 1%).

Doja Cat collects her third Hot 100 top 10, after “Say So,” featuring Nicki Minaj, ruled for a week in May 2020 and “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, hit No. 3 this July. Her two latest top 10s are from her album Planet Her, which debuted as her second top 10 on the Billboard 200 (at its No. 2 peak) in July; the set has spent its first 18 weeks on the chart in the top 10, jumping 7-3 on the latest list.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” dips 8-10, after hitting No. 2. It adds a 41st week in the top 10, the second-longest such run in the chart’s history. The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” leads with 57 weeks in the top 10 (February 2020-April 2021).

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Nov. 6), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 2).

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Plus, Lana Del Rey and Elton John debut in the top 10.

Drake‘s Certified Lover Boy returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 6) for a fifth nonconsecutive week on top, as the set rebounds from No. 2. It earned 74,000 equivalent album units (down 10%) in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 28, according to MRC Data.

Plus, Lana Del Rey‘s Blue Banisters debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, marking her eighth top 10 album, and Elton John‘s The Lockdown Sessions launches at No. 10, starting as his 21st top 10 and granting him a span of over 50 years of appearing in the chart’s top tier.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new, Nov. 6, 2021-dated chart (on which Certified returns to No. 1) will post in full on billboard.com Nov. 2. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Certified‘s 74,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 28, SEA units comprise 73,000 (down 10%, equaling 99.9 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs); album sales account for less than 1,000 (down 21%); and TEA units also contribute less than 1,000 (down 9%).

Notably, the set matches the total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 of Drake’s prior proper LP, Scorpion, in 2018. Of his 10 No. 1s, the two trail only the reign of Views, which spent 13 weeks at the summit in 2016.

Morgan Wallen’s former 10-week Billboard 200 No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album pushes 8-2 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%); Doja Cat’s Planet Her climbs 7-3 (41,000, down 1%); YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s former one-week leader Sincerely, Kentrell lifts 6-4 (39,000, down 11%); and Olivia Rodrigo’s five-frame topper Sour ascends 9-5 (38,000, down 5%).

Moneybagg Yo’s former two-week Billboard 200 No. 1 A Gangsta’s Pain zooms 34-6, up 128% to 36,000 units following an expanded reissue Oct. 22 with seven additional tracks.

Young Thug’s Punk drops to No. 7 a week after debuting atop the Billboard 200 (34,000, down 62%).

Lana Del Rey achieves her eighth Billboard 200 top 10, and her second of 2021, as Blue Banisters steps in at No. 8 with 33,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 19,000; SEA units total 14,000 (equaling 18.6 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs); and TEA units make for a nominal sum.

Del Rey visited the Billboard 200 top 10 earlier this year with Chemtrails Over the Country Club, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the April 3-dated chart. All told, Blue Banisters is Del Rey’s eighth consecutive, and total, top 10. After her only charting effort to miss the bracket, her self-titled set which reached No. 20 in January 2012, she began her active top 10 streak with Born to Die, which opened and peaked at No. 2 in February 2012.

Lil Nas X’s Montero rises 10-9 on the Billboard 200 with 33,000 units, down 8%.

Rounding out the Billboard 200’s top 10, Elton John lands his 21st top 10 album, as his all-star, all-collaborative release The Lockdown Sessions debuts at No. 10 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 17,000; SEA units total 10,000 (equaling 13.1 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs); and TEA units account for 2,000.

Lockdown includes John’s latest top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit, “Cold Heart” (Pnau Remix), with Dua Lipa, as well as collaborations with a variety of artists, including Young Thug and Nicki Minaj (“Always Love You”), Charlie Puth (“After All”), Eddie Vedder (“E-Ticket”), Stevie Wonder (“Finish Line”) and Stevie Nicks (“Stolen Car”).

John notched his first Billboard 200 top 10 over 50 years ago, when his self-titled album climbed 11-7 on the Jan. 30, 1971-dated chart; it peaked at No. 4 a week later (Feb. 6, 1971). (Breaking down his 21 top 10s by decade: 13 in the ’70s, two in the ’90s, one in the ’00s, four in the ’10s and now one in the ’20s.)

John is in the select group of acts with at least 20 top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, from March 24, 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis, through the new, Nov. 6, 2021, survey. Here’s an updated leaderboard.

Most Billboard 200 Top 10s:
37, The Rolling Stones
34, Barbra Streisand
32, The Beatles
32, Frank Sinatra
27, Elvis Presley
23, Bob Dylan
22, Madonna
21, Elton John
21, Paul McCartney/Wings
21, Bruce Springsteen
21, George Strait
20, Prince

(The Kidz Bop Kids music brand has collected 24 top 10s, in 2005-16, with its series of kid-friendly covers of hit singles. The franchise’s early albums were performed mostly by anonymous studio singers, although later releases focused on branding named talent.)

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The ballad becomes her fifth leader and first since “Hello” in 2015-16.

Adele‘s “Easy on Me” skyrockets to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, following its first full week of tracking. A week earlier, it debuted at No. 68 from its first five hours of availability.

The ballad becomes Adele’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1 and first since “Hello” ruled for 10 weeks in 2015-16.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Oct. 30) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 26). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Easy on Me” is the 1,131st No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 63-year history. It drew 65 million radio airplay audience impressions and 53.9 million U.S. streams and sold 74,000 downloads in the week ending Oct. 21, according to MRC Data.

The track debuts atop the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts and at No. 4 on Radio Songs.

Let’s roll deeper into its coronation.

First, after its first full week: Released on Columbia Records at 7 p.m. ET Thursday, Oct. 14, “Easy on Me” entered the Hot 100 dated Oct. 23 at No. 68 thanks to its activity from its premiere through midnight ET Oct. 14, with that chart’s tracking week having spanned Oct. 8-14. It debuted with 3.1 million streams, 3.1 million in radio audience and 14,800 sold in its first five hours of availability.

The song blasts to No. 1 on the Oct. 30-dated Hot 100, which reflects its first full tracking week, covering Oct. 15-21.

Biggest jumps to No 1: “Easy on Me” makes the eighth-greatest vault to No. 1 in the Hot 100’s history. It logs the biggest jump since Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” surged 77-1 in September 2017, also after its first full tracking week.

Here’s a recap of the Hot 100’s loftiest leaps to No. 1:

97-1, “My Life Would Suck Without You,” Kelly Clarkson, Feb. 7, 2009
96-1, “Womanizer,” Britney Spears, Oct. 25, 2008
80-1, “Live Your Life,” T.I. feat. Rihanna, Oct. 18, 2008
78-1, “Crack a Bottle,” Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent, Feb. 21, 2009
77-1, “Look What You Made Me Do,” Taylor Swift, Sept. 16, 2017
72-1, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” Taylor Swift, Sept. 1, 2012
71-1, “Whatever You Like,” T.I., Sept. 6, 2008
68-1, “Easy on Me,” Adele, Oct. 30, 2021

Adele’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1: “Easy on Me” becomes Adele’s fifth Hot 100 leader. Here’s a rundown:

“Rolling in the Deep,” for seven weeks beginning May 21, 2011
“Someone Like You,” five, beginning Sept. 17, 2011
“Set Fire to the Rain,” two, beginning Feb. 4, 2017
“Hello,” 10, beginning Nov. 14, 2015
“Easy on Me,” one, to-date, beginning Oct. 30, 2021

“Easy on Me” is also Adele’s seventh Hot 100 top 10. In addition to her five No. 1s, “Skyfall” and “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” each reached No. 8, in October 2012 and September 2016, respectively.

Adele adds her 11th top 40 Hot 100 hit, dating to her debut entry “Chasing Pavements,” which rose to No. 21 in February 2009.

(While “Easy on Me” is a piano ballad, it’s not a vocal-and-piano-only song like “Someone Like You,” which became the first Hot 100 No. 1 with exclusively vocals and piano. The new leader features Adele’s vocals, as well as bass, kick drum and piano by Greg Kurstin and strings arranged and conducted by David Campbell; Adele and Kurstin co-wrote it and Kurstin solely produced it.)

Adele notches her fifth No. 1 on Digital Song Sales and second on Streaming Songs and her ninth top 10 on Radio Songs.

British soloists with the most Hot 100 leaders: The London-born Adele becomes one of six British-born soloists with at least five Hot 100 No. 1s (with Liverpool-formed The Beatles pacing all acts with 20 leaders).

Adele also ties Olivia Newton-John for the most Hot 100 No. 1s among women born in the U.K. (Newton-John was born in Cambridge and moved to Australia during childhood.)

Here’s an updated leaderboard of the most Hot 100 No. 1s by British-born solo acts:

9, Elton John
9, Paul McCartney
8, George Michael
7, Phil Collins
5, Adele
5, Olivia Newton-John

Plus, with England’s Coldplay having debuted atop the Oct. 9-dated Hot 100 with its BTS team-up “My Universe,” this month marks the first in which multiple British acts have risen to No. 1 since February 1992, when George Michael and Elton John hit the top of the Feb. 1 chart with “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” and were succeeded on the Feb. 8 survey by fellow UK act Right*Said*Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy” (a song that continues to reverberate on the ranking).

3 albums, 3 No. 1 lead singles: Adele has sent the first single from each of her three most recent albums to No. 1 on the Hot 100, with “Easy on Me” following “Hello” and “Rolling in the Deep.”

“Easy” is the lead single from 30, Adele’s fourth studio album, and first in six years, due Nov. 19. It follows 25, which houses “Hello” and topped the Billboard 200 for 10 weeks beginning in December 2015. 21, which includes her first three Hot 100 No. 1s, led the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks starting in March 2011 and reigns as the top title in the chart’s entire history. (Her debut LP, 19, entered the Billboard 200 in June 2008 and reached a No. 4 high in March 2012.)

Record radio start: As “Easy on Me” launches at No. 4 on Radio Songs, it makes the highest debut since the chart became an all-format ranking in December 1998. In that span, it bests the No. 6 start of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” in February 2011.

(From the chart’s December 1990 inception through November 1998, Radio Songs was largely based on pop airplay, and three songs in that stretch entered in the top five: Madonna’s “Erotica,” at No. 2 in October 1992; Mariah Carey’s “I’ll Be There,” No. 4, May 1992; and Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes,” No. 4, May 1993.)

Among individual formats (and reflecting airplay in the week ending Oct. 24), “Easy on Me” jumps 6-4 on Adult Contemporary, a week after it became the first non-holiday song to bow in the top 10 since the chart adopted MRC Data information in 1993; 14-6 on Adult Pop Airplay; 33-6 on Adult Alternative Airplay; 21-14 on Pop Airplay; and 29-20 on Adult R&B Airplay.

Over 50 million streams: “Easy on Me” is the fifth song released in 2021 to log more than 50 million U.S. streams in a single week. It follows Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License,” which began with 76.1 million (Jan. 23) and drew 59.7 million in its second frame; Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug (67.3 million, Sept. 18); Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” (62.7 million, June 5); and Polo G’s “Rapstar” (53.6 million, April 24).

No. 1 in two metrics: “Easy on Me” is the top song of the week in both streaming and sales. A week earlier, Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 and also led in streaming and sales.

In the previous 36 weeks, however, no Hot 100 No. 1 led in more than one metric each week, a record run since the Streaming Songs chart began in January 2013. Until the past two weeks, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” likewise last led in streaming and sales as it topped the Hot 100 dated Feb. 6.

(That nearly nine-month drought suggests a widened gap among the three metrics, with streaming and sales often reflective of largely immediate listener behavior and programmed radio airplay more research-based.)

No. 1 by a 2-to-1 margin: Further reflecting its dominance, “Easy on Me” sports slightly more than a 2-to-1 margin in Hot 100 chart points over The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” at No. 2. The former is the 25th song to run away with such a lead, and the first since Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License,” dating to when MRC Data information began powering the chart in November 1991.

As ‘Easy’ as 1-2-3 for Columbia: With “Easy on Me” at No. 1, The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” at No. 2 and Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” at No. 3 on the Hot 100, Columbia Records ranks in the top three spots via three acts that the label promotes: Adele, The Kid LAROI and Lil Nas X.

Columbia is the first label to monopolize the Hot 100’s top three thanks to a trio of acts credited on three titles since Oct. 22, 2005, when Island Def Jam Music Group ranked at No. 1 with Kanye West’s “Gold Digger,” featuring Jamie Foxx; No. 2 with Nickelback’s “Photograph”; and No. 3 with Mariah Carey’s “Shake It Off.”

(Multiple labels have since held Nos. 1-3 on the Hot 100 simultaneously through one or two acts, most recently Republic Records on Sept. 18, all due to Drake.)

‘Easy’ does it: Meanwhile, “Easy on Me” is the first song with “easy” in its title to top the Hot 100. Its hard-fought victory passes the prior No. 2 such best for Philip Bailey’s “Easy Lover,” with Phil Collins, in 1985.

Here’s a look at the highest-charting hits with “easy” in their titles:

“Easy on Me,” Adele, No. 1 (one week to-date), 2021
“Easy Lover,” Philip Bailey with Phil Collins, No. 2, 1985
“Easy,” Commodores, No. 4, 1977
“It Don’t Come Easy,” Ringo Starr, No. 4, 1971
“Easy to Be Hard,” Three Dog Night, No. 4, 1969
“It’s So Easy,” Linda Ronstadt, No. 5, 1977

Chart-watcher Paul Nelson of Oakland, Calif., emailed noting the connection between Adele’s “Easy on Me” and the Commodores’ “Easy,” after she and the group’s former lead singer Lionel Richie each topped the Hot 100 with songs titled “Hello.” Not to look too far ahead, but could Adele’s follow-up album to 30 include a song about dancing on a ceiling all night long (all night)?

As noted above, The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” ranks at No. 2 on the Hot 100, holding in place after seven weeks at No. 1, as it rules Radio Songs for a sixth week (90.9 million, up 3%).

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” drops to No. 3 on the Hot 100, a week after it led, as it spends a ninth week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like” dips to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 high, as it tops the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 15th week; Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” slips 4-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2; Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, drops 5-6, following its No. 1 arrival in September; and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” descends 6-7, after it debuted at No. 1 in May.

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” remains at No. 8 on the Hot 100, after rising to No. 2. It spends a 40th week in the top 10, overtaking Post Malone’s “Circles” (2019-20) for the second-longest top 10 run in the chart’s archives. The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” leads with 57 top 10 weeks (February 2020-April 2021).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” climbs 10-9 for a new high and Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, falls 7-10, after reaching No. 3.

Note: Effective with the Oct. 30-dated Billboard charts, streams from Boomplay is added to the data that informs the Hot 100, Billboard 200, Artist 100 and Billboard Global 200, as well as other Billboard U.S. and global surveys that include streaming data. The plays represent audio streams from Boomplay’s subscription tier and logged-in streams from its ad-supported tier, with streams from each tier weighted differently.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Oct. 30), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 26).

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Plus: Mac Miller, Coldplay and The Beatles make waves in the top five.

Young Thug achieves his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 30) as his latest release, Punk, debuts in the top slot. The set earned 90,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 21, according to MRC Data.

The 20-track Punk boasts an array of guest stars, including A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Doja Cat, Drake, Future, Gunna, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, Mac Miller, Nate Ruess and Travis Scott.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 30, 2021-dated chart (where Punk debuts to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 26. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Punk’s 90,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 21, SEA units comprise 77,000 (equaling 102 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 12,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000. Punk marks Young Thug’s third visit to No. 1. He previously topped the list by way of the Young Thug-led Slime Language 2 album earlier in 2021 and So Much Fun in 2019.

Drake’s former No. 1 Certified Lover Boy falls to the No. 2 slot after four nonconsecutive weeks in the lead. It earned 83,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 21 (down 12%).

Mac Miller’s Faces mixtape debuts at No. 3 with 67,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 34,000, SEA units comprise 33,000 (equaling 43.03 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Faces was initially released for free in 2014, but was not commercially issued or distributed to streaming services until Oct. 15, 2021.

Faces’ album sales was bolstered by its release on vinyl LP, which comprises 32,000 of its sales sum, while the remaining 2,000 were digital album sales. Faces is the seventh top 10 effort on the Billboard 200 for the late artist, who died in 2018.

Coldplay’s latest studio album, Music of the Spheres, starts at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, earning 57,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 37,000, SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 20.55 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 4,000. Music of the Spheres is the eighth top 10 effort for the band, and follows the 2019 album Everyday Life, which debuted and peaked at No. 7. The new album was led by the single “Higher Power,” which marked the group’s 14th top 10 on the Alternative Airplay chart. The album’s second single, “My Universe,” with BTS, debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, marking the second leader for Coldplay.

The Beatles’ former No. 1 Billboard 200 album Let It Be surges back onto the chart, re-entering at No. 5 following its deluxe special edition reissue on Oct. 15. The set earned 55,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 21 (up 3,899%). Of that sum, album sales comprise 48,000 (up 11,570%; making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 6,000 (up 589%; equaling 8.34 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 1,180%).

Let It Be was first released in 1970 as the final studio effort from the band. It spent four weeks atop the chart (June 13-July 4, 1970-dated charts). For its special edition, the album was reintroduced in a variety of expanded formats and editions, including many with previously unreleased tracks. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.

The Let It Be reissue precedes the arrival of director Peter Jackson’s upcoming documentary series The Beatles: Get Back. The three episodes will premiere, respectively, on Nov. 25, 26 and 27 exclusively on Disney+.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s former No. 1 Sincerely, Kentrell falls 3-6 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (down 15%), Doja Cat’s Planet Her is a non-mover at No. 7 with 42,000 units (down 1%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is stationary at No. 8 with just under 42,000 units (down 1%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s former leader Sour falls 5-9 with 40,000 units (down 9%). Lil Nas X’s Montero rounds out the top 10, as it falls 6-10 with 36,000 units (down 16%).

Effective with the Oct. 30-dated Billboard charts, streams from Boomplay will be added to the data that informs the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, Artist 100 and Billboard Global 200 charts, as well as other Billboard U.S. and global charts that include streaming data. The plays represent audio streams from Boomplay’s subscription tier as well as logged-in streams from its ad-supported tier, with streams from each tier weighted appropriately.

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Plus: Don Toliver scores highest-charting album yet with No. 2 debut of “Life of a Don.”

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy rebounds to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 23) for a fourth nonconsecutive week in the lead, as the set bumps up from No. 2 with 94,000 equivalent album units earned (down 14%) in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 14, according to MRC Data.

Certified Lover Boy spent its first three weeks at No. 1 (Sept. 18-Oct. 2-dated charts), and then stepped aside to the No. 2 slot for the past two weeks, as YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Sincerely, Kentrell debuted at No. 1 (Oct. 9-dated chart) and Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) returned to No. 1 (Oct. 16 chart).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 23, 2021-dated chart (where Certified Lover Boy returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Certified Lover Boy’s 94,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 14, SEA units comprise 92,000 (down 14%, equaling 125.77 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 1,000 (down 9%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 10%).

Don Toliver lands his highest-charting album yet, as Life of a Don debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 68,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 49,000 (equaling 64.13 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 18,000 (all from a digital download, as no physical product is available) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Life of a Don surpasses the No. 7 debut and peak of his one earlier charting album, Heaven or Hell (March 28, 2020 chart).

YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Sincerely, Kentrell climbs 4-3 with 51,000 equivalent album units earned (down 28%) while Meek Mill’s Expensive Pain falls 3-4 with 46,000 units (down 51%). Life of a Don, Sincerely and Expensive Pain were all released through Atlantic Records, giving the label three of the top four on the Billboard 200 for the first time since the Jan. 20, 2018, chart. That week, Atlantic held the Nos. 1, 2 and 4 slots with the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman, Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) and Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic, respectively. (Life of a Don was released via Cactus Jack/WeRunIt/Atlantic, Sincerely via Never Broke Again/Atlantic and Expensive Pain via Maybach/Atlantic.)

Back on the new Billboard 200, Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour climbs 6-5 with a little more than 43,000 equivalent album units earned (up less than 1%), Lil Nas X’s Montero dips 5-6 with 43,000 (down 5%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her is a non-mover at No. 7 with 42,000 units (down 2%).

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album rises 9-8 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (up 6%). The album debuted atop the chart 40 weeks ago, and has yet to depart the top 10. It has the fifth-most weeks in the top 10 among country albums all-time (with country albums defined as those that are eligible for Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart). Ahead of it are Swift’s Fearless (58 weeks), Shania Twain’s Come On Over (53), Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind (50) and Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All (43).

Dangerous is only the third country album to spend its first 40 weeks on the chart in the top 10, after Ropin’ the Wind spent its first 50 in the region (Sept. 28, 1991-Sept. 5, 1992-dated charts) and Some Gave All held in the top 10 for its first 43 weeks (June 6, 1992-March 27, 1993-dated charts).

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are a pair of former No. 1s: Kanye West’s Donda rises 10-9 (33,000 equivalent album units earned; down 12%) and The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love climbs 12-10 (32,000 units; down 4%).

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“Essence,” featuring Bieber and Tems, rises from No. 11 to No. 10.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber‘s “Stay” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, from No. 2, for a seventh week at the summit.

Plus, Walker Hayes‘ country crossover hit “Fancy Like” hits a new No. 3 high on the survey and Wizkid‘s “Essence,” featuring Bieber and Tems, reaches the top 10, rising 11-10.

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“Stay,” released on Raymond Braun/Columbia Records/Def Jam, drew 86.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 4%) and 23.2 million U.S. streams (down 6%) and sold 7,400 downloads (down 14%) in the week ending Oct. 7, according to MRC Data.

“Stay” scores a fourth week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; rises 4-3 on Streaming Songs, where it has spent six weeks on top; and drops 6-10 on Digital Song Sales, after reaching No. 3.

Meanwhile, as “Stay” tops the Hot 100 for a seventh week, it ties for the second-longest No. 1 run for a song by two or more co-billed solo male leads over the chart’s 63-year history. Here’s an updated look at such songs that have reigned for at least three weeks (and which excludes duos or groups known for regularly recording together).

Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artists, Peak date:
16, “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber), beginning May 27, 2017
7, “Stay,” The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber, beginning Aug. 14, 2021
7, “Ebony and Ivory,” Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder, beginning May 15, 1982
6, “Say Say Say,” Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, beginning Dec. 10, 1983
4, “Shake Ya Tailfeather,” Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee, beginning Sept. 6, 2003
3, “All for Love,” Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting, beginning Jan. 22, 1994

“Stay” concurrently hits No. 1 on the Adult Pop Airplay radio chart, where it’s The Kid LAROI’s second leader, after “Without You” dominated for a week in July, and Bieber’s fourth.

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” rebounds to its No. 2 Hot 100 best, from No. 3. The song, which debuted at No. 2 in August, keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (23.4 million, down 7%); climbs 6-5 on Radio Songs (58.1 million, up 15%); and falls 8-12 on Digital Song Sales (5,200, down 3%). It adds a seventh week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like” hits a new No. 3 Hot 100 high, ascending from No. 5, as it tops the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 13th week. Notably, the song is the fifth to have hit the Hot 100’s top three and led Hot Country Songs since the latter list adopted the same methodology as the former in October 2012, and three of the entries have scored such status in 2020-21. Here’s an updated rundown.

Hot 100 Peak, Title, Artist(s), Weeks atop Hot Country Songs; Year(s):
No. 1, three weeks, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” Taylor Swift, 10; 2012
No. 2, “Meant to Be,” Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line, (a record) 50; 2017-18
No. 2, “Forever After All,” Luke Combs, 10; 2020-21
No. 3, “I Hope,” Gabby Barrett feat. Charlie Puth, 27; 2020-21
No. 3, “Fancy Like,” Walker Hayes, 13; 2020-21

For four of the five songs above (except for Combs’), pop radio crossover airplay has assisted their Hot 100 performances. “Fancy Like” bullets at its No. 4 best on the Oct. 16 Country Airplay chart and improves 14-13 on Adult Pop Airplay, 17-16 on Pop Airplay and 22-21 on Adult Contemporary.

Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, following its No. 1 launch four weeks earlier, as it logs a fifth week atop Streaming Songs (23.4 million, down 15%); Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2; Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” pushes 7-6, after it debuted at No. 1 in May; and Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, rises 8-7, after reaching No. 3.

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” lifts 10-8 on the Hot 100, after hitting to No. 2. It spends a 38th week in the top 10, the third-longest run in the chart’s archives, after The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (57 weeks; 2020-21) and Post Malone’s “Circles” (39 weeks; 2019-20).

Drake’s “Knife Talk,” featuring 21 Savage and Project Pat, is stationary at No. 9 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Wizkid’s “Essence,” featuring Bieber and Tems, advances 11-10. It backtracks 7-9 on Radio Songs but with a 5% gain to 48.9 million; rises 26-21 on Streaming Songs (11.2 million, down 1%); and falls 17-24 on Digital Song Sales (3,200, down 8%).

Wizkid earns his second Hot 100 top 10, following his featured turn with Kyla, on Drake’s 10-week 2016 No. 1 “One Dance.” Tems (like Wizkid, from Nigeria) achieves her first top 10 with her first entry on the chart. (She added her second charted title as featured on Drake’s “Fountains,” which debuted at its No. 26 peak on the Sept. 18 survey.)

Bieber tallies his milestone 25th Hot 100 top 10, having joined Wizkid and Tems on the “Essence” remix released Aug. 13. Here’s an updated recap of the acts with the most top 10s, as Bieber matches the totals of Lil Wayne and Elvis Presley (with the chart having begun two years after Presley’s commercial breakthrough).

Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s:
54, Drake
38, Madonna
34, The Beatles
31, Rihanna
30, Michael Jackson
29, Taylor Swift
28, Mariah Carey
28, Stevie Wonder
27, Janet Jackson
27, Elton John
25, Justin Bieber
25, Elvis Presley
25, Lil Wayne

Additionally, Coldplay and BTS’ “My Universe” descends to No. 12 on the Hot 100 after it rocketed in at No. 1 a week earlier. It posts a second week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (42,600, down 54%) and slides 21-32 on Streaming Songs (8.8 million, down 23%), while sporting a 41% gain to 7.9 million in all-format airplay audience. The collaboration collects a second week atop the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts.

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

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