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13 Jun 2021 Music Now!

Lil Baby & Lil Durk’s ‘The Voice of the Heroes’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

Plus: Tomorrow x Together bows in top five.

Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s collaborative album, The Voice of the Heroes, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, scoring the former his second leader and the latter his first.

The album bows with 150,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 10, according to MRC Data, driven nearly entirely by streaming activity of the its songs. The hip-hop set, which was released on June 4, also boasts guest turns from a quartet of acts who have all had their own No. 1 albums: Travis Scott, Meek Mill, Young Thug and Rod Wave.

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 June 19, 2021-dated chart (where Voice debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on June 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Voice’s 150,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending June 10, SEA units comprise 144,000 (equaling 197.71 million on-demand streams of the album’s 18 tracks), album sales comprise slightly more than 4,000 and TEA units comprise a little over 1,000.

Lil Durk is the sixth act to get their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in 2021, following Olivia Rodrigo, Moneybagg Yo, Rod Wave, Morgan Wallen and Playboi Carti. (The lattermost debuted at No. 1 on the Jan. 9-dated chart with his Dec. 25, 2020 release, Whole Lotta Red.)

Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour is steady at No. 2 for a second week, earning 143,000 equivalent album units (down 23%). Two more former leaders are next, as Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album rises 4-3 with 50,000 units (down 4%) and J. Cole’s The Off-Season dips 3-4 with 44,000 units (down 25%).

South Korean pop quintet Tomorrow x Together notches its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as The Chaos Chapter: Freeze debuts at No. 5 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000, SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 6.42 million on-demand streams of the album’s eight tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Like most K-pop releases, the CD edition of the album was issued in multiple collectible packages (four, including a Target-exclusive edition), each with assorted internal paper goods and randomized elements (photocard, postcard). A hefty 96% of the album’s sales came from the CD editions, while the remaining 4% were from the digital album.

Tomorrow x Together had previously gone as high as No. 25 with 2020’s Minisode1: Blue Hour (Nov. 21, 2020-dated chart).

Moneybagg Yo’s former No. 1 A Gangsta’s Pain falls 5-6 on the new Billboard 200 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%) while Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia slips 6-7 with 35,000 units (though up 2%). Taylor Swift’s Evermore falls 1-8 with 31,000 units (down 85%) after its 74-1 jump a week ago.

The top 10 is rounded out by two former No. 1s: The Weeknd’s After Hours (holding at No. 9 with 29,000 equivalent album units; down 1%) and Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get (a non-mover at No. 10 with 28,000 units; down 2%).

Source: billboard.com

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7 Jun 2021 Music Now!

BTS’ ‘Butter’ on a Roll, Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

Olivia Rodrigo’s former leader “Good 4 U” holds at No. 2.

BTS‘ “Butter” adds a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, a week after it soared in at the summit, becoming the South Korean superstar group’s fourth leader on the list.

The song again fends off Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” which holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it launched at No. 1.

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

“Butter,” released May 21 on HYBE/BigHit Entertainment/Columbia Records, drew 19.1 million U.S. streams, down 41%, and sold 140,200 downloads, down 42%, in the week ending June 3, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 22.4 million radio airplay audience impressions, up 24%, in the week ending June 6.

The track logs a second week atop the Digital Song Sales chart, drops 4-10 on Streaming Songs and rises 39-32 on Radio Songs.

First two weeks at No. 1: “Butter” is the 23rd title to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and post a second consecutive week on top, among 54 total No. 1 arrivals, making for a 43% second-week success rate. It’s the third among seven such songs this year, after Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” spent its first eight weeks at No. 1 (encompassing its entire reign) and Polo G’s “Rapstar” ruled in its first two frames (also covering its total time on top).

Of BTS’ three No. 1 Hot 100 debuts, two have now led for multiple weeks from the start (and overall): Its first, “Dynamite,” spent its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1 in September 2020 (among three total weeks in command). “Life Goes On” led in its debut frame in December.

Extra ‘Butter’: Sales for “Butter” in its second week reflect availability for its original and instrumental versions released May 21, and a “Hotter” remix released May 28, all discounted to 69 cents in both frames. Those versions, plus “Cooler” and “Sweeter” remixes released June 4, also priced at 69 cents, will impact the song on next week’s Hot 100, dated June 19 and reflecting sales in the June 4-10 tracking week.

(Two other versions of “Butter” on sale via BTS’ U.S. webstore, a 7-inch vinyl single, for $7.98, and a cassette single, for $6.98, will count for chart tabulation only once they are shipped to consumers, expected to be on June 18.)

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it debuted at No. 1. It notches a third week atop Streaming Songs (49.5 million, down 21%) and enters Radio Songs at No. 35 with 20.2 million impressions, up 75%, good for the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award.

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2, and “Leave the Door Open” by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, rises 5-4, after two nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The latter adds an eighth week atop Radio Songs (91.2 million, up 3%), while ruling Hot R&B Songs for an 11th week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a sixth frame; both multi-metric charts use the same methodology as the Hot 100.

The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” climbs 7-5 on the Hot 100, after two weeks at No. 1. After the pair performed it on the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards, broadcast live on Fox, May 27, the song claims top Streaming and Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100, up 10% to 21.2 million streams and 33% to 10,600 sold in the week ending June 3. (The Weeknd also won for male artist of the year during the iHeart festivities.)

Justin Bieber’s former one-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, keeps at No. 6; Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, ascends 8-7, after reaching No. 5; Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” drops to No. 8 from its No. 3 high; and Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut in the Ocean” floats 10-9, after hitting No. 6, as it leads the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart for a third week.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s former one-week leader “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” returns to the region, pushing 13-10. It also hits the Radio Songs top 10 (11-8; 44.1 million, up 17%), becoming his second such hit, after “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, reached No. 2 in June 2019 (and ruled the Hot 100 for a record 19 weeks).

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

Source: billboard.com

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6 Jun 2021 Music Now!

Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

Plus: Juice WRLD’s ‘Goodbye & Good Riddance’ returns to top 10 after its anniversary reissue and DMX’s posthumous ‘Exodus’ bows at No. 8.

Taylor Swift’s Evermore returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for a fourth nonconsecutive week on top, as the set vaults 74-1 with 202,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 3 (up 1,709%), according to MRC Data. Of that sum, album sales comprise 192,000 (up 8,307%) — marking the biggest sales week of 2021. It surpasses the previous largest sales week of the year, when Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) sold 179,000 in its first week (chart dated April 24).

Evermore’s sales surge in the week ending June 3 was fueled by a number of drivers, including modern-era record-breaking vinyl LP sales (102,000), Swift-signed CDs and deep discounting on its digital album.

Meanwhile, with Evermore’s fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1, Swift’s cumulative total weeks atop the Billboard 200, across all of her No. 1 albums, climbs to 53 weeks. She breaks out of a tie with Garth Brooks (52 weeks at No. 1) as the artist with the third-most weeks at No. 1. The Beatles have the most weeks at No. 1, with 132, while Elvis Presley is in second place with 67.

Evermore was last No. 1 five months ago, on the Jan. 16-dated chart. It’s the first album to wait that long between weeks at No. 1 since last November, when Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get returned to No. 1 after nearly a year. Evermore was released in December 2020 and spent its first two weeks at No. 1, on the charts dated Dec. 26, 2020 and Jan. 2, 2021.

Evermore’s 74-1 move is the biggest positional jump to No. 1 since the Jan. 19, 2008, chart, when Radiohead’s In Rainbows flew 156-1 after street date violation sales pushed it onto the chart a week early. It’s worth noting that since In Rainbows hit No. 1, three albums have re-entered the chart at No. 1: Chris Stapleton’s Traveller (Nov. 21, 2015), Prince’s The Very Best of Prince (May 7, 2016) and Bon Jovi’s This House Is Not for Sale (March 10, 2018).

Also in the new top 10: Juice WRLD’s Goodbye & Good Riddance jumps 30-7 after its third-anniversary reissue with two new tracks while DMX’s first posthumous album, Exodus, 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 June 12, 2021-dated chart (where Evermore returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on June 8. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Evermore’s 202,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending June 3, album sales comprise 192,000 (up 8,307%), SEA units comprise 9,000 (up 7%, equaling 12.4 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The majority of the album’s sales came from web-based sellers (136,000 of 192,000), including Swift’s official webstore.

As earlier reported, Evermore broke the record for the biggest sales week for a vinyl album in the U.S. since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991. Released on May 28, the vinyl edition of the album sold 40,000 copies in its first three days, and went on to sell 102,000 in the week ending June 3. That smashes the MRC Data-era weekly sales record for a vinyl album, previously held by the debut frame of Jack White’s Lazaretto, with 40,000 sold in the week ending June 15, 2014. (MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991, with the company was known as SoundScan.)

Evermore was initially released digitally and through streamers on Dec. 11, 2020, but its vinyl edition was not issued until May 28. Evermore’s huge vinyl sales are helped greatly by five months of banked pre-orders, as the vinyl version of the album was announced in mid-December, and went up for pre-order at the same time.

The LP was available widely across all retailers, and in two green-colored variants, as well as a Target-exclusive red-colored vinyl. The latter was promoted in Target’s circular (for $24.99) while the company also offered a 20% discount on the set (in-stores) on June 3.

After one week, Evermore is the second-biggest selling vinyl album of 2021, trailing Harry Styles’ Fine Line, with 109,000. Swift has two of the top 10 best-selling vinyl albums of 2021, as Folklore is No. 6, with 74,000 sold. (Folklore remains exclusively available on vinyl via Swift’s webstore and through Target.)

While vinyl LP sales comprise 102,000 of Evermore’s 192,000 sales for the week, CD sales contributed 69,000 (up 3,705%), digital downloads comprise 21,000 (up 5,197%) and cassette tapes comprise a little under 1,000 (up 578%). Evermore’s CD sales were bolstered by the availability of CDs signed by Swift in her webstore (that went up for pre-order earlier in May) and at independent retailers. Evermore’s digital album sales were goosed by the digital deluxe edition of the album being sale priced to $6.99 at iTunes and in Swift’s webstore from May 28-June 2. Then, on June 3, the price of all digital versions of Evermore dropped to $4.99, while Swift also introduced four “digitally autographed fan edition” versions of the album on her webstore, each with alternative cover art and a new bonus track, the 90’s trend remix of “Willow.”

Evermore displaces Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, which falls to No. 2 in its second week with 186,000 units earned (down 37%). It’s the first time in two years that women have gone back-to-back at No. 1, since P!nk’s Hurts 2B Human debuted at No. 1 on the May 11, 2019, chart, displacing Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which notched its second non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the May 4-dated chart.

While Sour gets bumped to No. 2 on the Billboard 200, it does so with the third-smallest percentage decline for a No. 1 debut in 2021, following Justin Bieber’s Justice (down 35% in its second week) and Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain (36.8%). Additionally, Sour is the first album in over a year to see its first two weeks each earn over 185,000 units. The last album to start as strong was Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake (288,000 and 247,000 in its first two weeks, respectively, on the charts dated March 21-28, 2020).

A trio of former No. 1s follow Sour on the new Billboard 200, as J. Cole’s The Off-Season falls 2-3 (58,000 equivalent album units earned; down 37%), Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 4 (52,000; down 5%) and Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain is steady at No. 5 (43,000; down 12%). Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia rises one spot to No. 6 with 34,000 (down 2%).

Juice WRLD’s Goodbye & Good Riddance returns to the top 10 for the first time in over 18 months, as the set jumps 30-7 following its third-anniversary reissue on May 28 (32,000 equivalent album units earned; up 71%). The set was reissued with two bonus tracks: “734” and a remix of the hit single “Lucid Dreams” with Lil Uzi Vert. Goodbye peaked at No. 4 on the Aug. 11, 2018-dated chart and was last in the top 10 on the Dec. 21, 2019-dated list (No. 6).

DMX’s first posthumous album, Exodus, debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 16,000 (equaling 22.12 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise 14,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000. The set features an array of guest stars, including Bono, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, Moneybagg Yo, Nas, Snoop Dogg and Usher. Exodus marks DMX’s eighth top 10 album on the Billboard 200.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are two former No. 1s: The Weeknd’s After Hours (12-9 with 30,000 equivalent album units; up 5%) and Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get (11-10 with 29,000; down 1%).

Source: billboard.com

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1 Jun 2021 Music Now!

BTS’ ‘Butter’ Blasts In at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

Plus, Oliva Rodrigo is the first act ever to chart three simultaneous top 10s on the Hot 100 from a debut album.

BTS‘ “Butter” bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

The song marks the superstar South Korean septet’s fourth Hot 100 No. 1, all in the last nine months, marking any act’s quickest accumulation of four initial leaders since Justin Timberlake a decade-and-a-half ago. Among groups, BTS has landed its first four No. 1s the fastest since the Jackson 5 in 1970.

Plus, Olivia Rodrigo charts three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, as “Good 4 U,” which a week earlier premiered at the summit, ranks at No. 2; “Deja Vu” hits a new high at No. 3; and “Traitor” begins at No. 9. All three songs are from her debut LP Sour, which soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with the biggest week for an album so far in 2021.

Thanks to her three top 10s this week, Rodrigo makes history as the first artist to chart three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 simultaneously all from a debut album.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated June 5) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 2, a day later than usual due to the May 31 Memorial Day holiday in the U.S.) For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Butter,” released on HYBE/BigHit Entertainment/Columbia Records, is the 1,125th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year history, and the 54th to enter on top. Here’s a deeper look at its launch.

Streams, sales & airplay: Following its May 21 release, “Butter” drew 32.2 million U.S. streams and sold 242,800 downloads in the week ending May 27, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 18.1 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending May 30.

The track debuts atop the Digital Song Sales chart, where it’s BTS’ seventh No. 1, extending the act’s record for the most among groups. Meanwhile, the song’s 242,800 sold mark the most in a week since BTS’ own “Dynamite” opened with 300,000 (Sept. 5, 2020).

“Butter” also begins at No. 4 on Streaming Songs and No. 39 on Radio Songs; it’s the act’s second entry and top start on the latter list, after “Dynamite,” which entered at No. 49 last September and hit No. 10 in December.

BTS’ 4th Hot 100 No. 1: “Butter” arrives as BTS’ fourth Hot 100 No. 1. Here’s a recap.

“Dynamite,” three weeks at No. 1, beginning Sept. 5, 2020
“Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, one week, Oct. 17, 2020
“Life Goes On,” one week, Dec. 5, 2020
“Butter,” one week to-date, June 5, 2021

As “Dynamite,” “Life Goes On” and “Butter” have all debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100, BTS is the first group with a trio of No. 1 entrances; no other group has more than one. Ariana Grande leads all acts with five No. 1 starts.

Fastest first 4 No. 1s since …: BTS has achieved its first four Hot 100 No. 1s over a span of exactly nine months, from charts dated Sept. 5, 2020, through June 5, 2021. That’s the quickest accumulation of four initial leaders since Justin Timberlake earned the honor over seven months and two weeks in 2006-07.

Among groups, BTS wraps the fastest run to four initial Hot 100 No. 1s since the Jackson 5 in 1970.

Here’s a look at the elite seven acts to land their first four Hot 100 leaders in under a year (dating to each act’s first week at No. 1):

The Beatles, four months (Feb. 1-May 30, 1964)
The Supremes, seven months and one week (Aug. 22, 1964-March 27, 1965)
Justin Timberlake, seven months and two weeks (Sept. 9, 2006-April 21, 2007)
The Jackson 5, eight months and two weeks (Jan. 31-Oct. 17, 1970)
BTS, nine months (Sept. 5, 2020-June 5, 2021)
Mariah Carey, nine months and three weeks (Aug. 4, 1990-May 25, 1991)
Paula Abdul, one year (Feb. 11, 1989-Feb. 10, 1990)

Among all quartets of Hot 100 No. 1s, not just acts’ first four leaders, BTS has earned its four the fastest since Rihanna also earned four over nine months in 2010-11, after four over eight months all in 2010. (She had already tallied five No. 1s before 2010, in 2006-08.)

‘Butter’ & churn at No. 1: “Butter” is the 10th song to score its first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2021. This year marks the first in which at least 10 songs have hit No. 1 by the first chart dated in June since the Hot 100 began using MRC Data (formerly Nielsen Music) information in November 1991. It follows 2020’s total of 20 new No. 1s, likewise the most in a year since 1991.

“Butter” is also the seventh song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2021. A record 12 titles launched at the summit last year after no more than four did in any previous year.

‘Hotter’ forecast: Sales for “Butter” in its first week reflect availability for its original and instrumental versions, both discounted to 69 cents. Those versions, plus a “hotter” remix released May 28, also priced at 69 cents, will impact the song on next week’s Hot 100, dated June 12 and reflecting sales in the May 28-June 3 tracking week.

(Two other versions of “Butter” on sale via BTS’ U.S. webstore, a 7-inch vinyl single, for $7.98, and a cassette single, for $6.98, will count for chart tabulation only once they are shipped to consumers, expected to be later this month.)

Olivia Rodrigo claims three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, led by “Good 4 U” at No. 2, a week after debuting at No. 1. The track sports gains in all metrics, at it spends a second week atop Streaming Songs (62.7 million, up 45%).

Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” darts 13-3 on the Hot 100, surpassing its prior No. 8 peak registered upon its April 8 debut. Leading its lift, it charges 20-2 on Streaming Songs for a new high, up 79% to 32.8 million streams.

(Chart déjà vu: The lyrics of Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” shout out Billy Joel and his hit “Uptown Girl,” and both songs now boast No. 3 Hot 100 peaks. Joel’s classic reached the rank in November 1983. Rodrigo also sings about Glee in “Deja Vu.” The cast of the 2009-15 Fox TV series logged 207 entries, the second-most all-time after Drake’s 233, and is now mentioned in a hit ranking one spot higher than its best: the Glee Cast reached a No. 4 high, among three top 10s, with its breakthrough cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” which hit No. 4 in June 2009.

Plus, Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” becomes the highest-charting Hot 100 hit by that title. Now at No. 3 after previously reaching No. 8, it surpasses Beyoncé’s song of the same name, featuring Jay-Z, a No. 4 hit in 2006, as well as J. Cole’s, which reached No. 7 in 2016.)

Rounding out Rodrigo’s three simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s, “Traitor” debuts at No. 9. Thanks to “Good 4 U,” “Deja Vu” and “Traitor,” all from her debut album Sour, Rodrigo is the first artist in the Hot 100’s history to chart three concurrent songs in the top 10 all from a first LP.

Meanwhile, Rodrigo ups her count to four career Hot 100 top 10s, as “Good 4 U,” “Deja Vu” and “Traitor” follow “Drivers License” (also on Sour), which debuted at No. 1 in January and spent eight weeks on top.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, dips 3-4 after reaching No. 2 and “Leave the Door Open” by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, descends 4-5 after two nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The latter adds a seventh week atop Radio Songs (89 million, down 1%), while ruling Hot R&B Songs for a 10th week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a fifth frame; both multi-metric charts use the same methodology as the Hot 100.

Justin Bieber’s former one-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, keeps at No. 6; The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” rebounds 9-7 after two weeks at No. 1; Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, rises 10-8 after reaching No. 5; and, below Rodrigo’s “Traitor,” Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut in the Ocean” climbs 11-10 after hitting No. 6, as it leads the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart for a second week.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated June 5), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 2).

Source: billboard.com

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30 May 2021 Music Now!

Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart with 2021’s Biggest Week

Plus: Twenty One Pilots and 42 Dugg debut in top 10.

Olivia Rodrigo captures the biggest week of 2021 for an album, as her debut release, Sour, opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 27, according to MRC Data.

Sour also launches with the second-largest streaming week ever for a non-R&B/hip-hop album, and second-biggest for an album of any genre by a female artist.

Sour is the singer-songwriter and actress’ debut album, and was preceded by a trio of top 10 hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier in 2021, including two No. 1s: “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U.” Before “Drivers License” debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in January, Rodrigo broke through with roles on Disney Channel’s Bizaardvark in 2016 and Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series in 2019 – along with contributions to those shows’ soundtrack albums.

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 June 5, 2021-dated chart (where Sour debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Wednesday, June 2 (one day later than usual due to the May 31 Memorial Day holiday in the U.S.). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Sour’s 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending May 27, SEA units comprise 218,000 units (equaling 300.73 million on-demand streams of the album’s 11 tracks), album sales comprise 72,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week) and TEA units comprise 4,000.

Sour was released on May 21 via Geffen Records/Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA). It’s the second No. 1 for Geffen this year, following Rod Wave’s SoulFly (Alamo/Geffen/IGA, April 10-dated chart).

Biggest Week of 2021 for an Album: With 295,000 units, Sour surpasses 2021’s previous biggest-week, tallied by Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) when it bowed 291,000 units (April 24-dated chart). (Swift herself has a writing credit on Sour, as the track “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” samples the Swift-penned “New Year’s Day,” from Swift’s 2017 Reputation album.)

Dominant Debut: Sour captures the largest week, by units, for an act’s debut charting effort since the Billboard 200 transitioned from an album-sales only ranking to an equivalent album units-based chart on the Dec. 13, 2014 survey. It beats Cardi B’s debut studio set, and first Billboard 200 entry, Invasion of Privacy, which opened at No. 1 on the April 21, 2018 chart with 255,000 units. Rodrigo is also the first woman to see her debut charting album open at No. 1 since Invasion of Privacy.

Second-Largest Streaming Week for a Non-R&B/Hip-Hop Album: Sour starts with 218,000 SEA units – totaling 300.73 million on-demand streams of the album’s 11 tracks. That marks the second-largest streaming week for both a non-R&B/hip-hop album and second-biggest for an album by a woman of any genre. Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next continues to hold the record for the largest streaming week for a non-R&B/hip-hop set, and any album by a woman, with 307.07 million streams for its 12 tracks in its first week (chart dated Feb. 23, 2019).

Sour’s Short and Sweet Arrival: With just 11 tracks in total on Sour, the album is the shortest No. 1, by track count, since BTS’ eight-track Be debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 5, 2020-dated chart. It’s fairly unusual for such a short album to crown the Billboard 200. Of the 27 No. 1 albums in the past 12 months (from June 6, 2020-onwards), 20 of them had at least 15 tracks in their opening week, and 11 of those had at least 20. (Some albums will garner a reissue in their first week of release, adding further tracks beyond their standard core tracklist. And many albums typically get reissued weeks and months later, with additional tracks. So far, Sour only has 11 tracks across all retailers and streamers.)

One last note on Sour’s debut: It brings just the second person named Olivia to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Before Olivia Rodrigo, the only Olivia to top the chart was Olivia Newton-John, with two No. 1 albums in 1974 and 1975 (If You Love Me Let Me Know and Have You Never Been Mellow).

J. Cole’s The Off-Season falls 1-2 in its second week on the Billboard 200 with 92,000 equivalent album units earned (down 67%).

Twenty One Pilots score their third top five-charting Billboard 200 entry, as the rock act’s latest studio album, Scaled and Icy, bows at No. 3 with 75,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 51,000, SEA units comprise 24,000 (equaling 33 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 4 with 55,000 equivalent album units (up 4%), while Moneybagg Yo’s previous chart-topper A Gangsta’s Pain falls 3-5 with 49,000 units (down 12%). Pooh Shiesty’s Shiesty Season returns to the top 10, vaulting 32-6 with 35,000 units (up 97%) after the album was reissued on May 21 with four additional tracks. The album was initially released on Feb. 5 with 17 tracks and peaked at No. 3 on the March 20-dated chart.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia slips 5-7 on the Billboard 200 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned (down 16%).

42 Dugg scores his first Billboard 200 top 10, and second charting album, as Free Dem Boyz bows at No. 8 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 31,000 (equaling 43.56 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible total. The album features his recent Hot 100 hit “4 Da Gang,” with Roddy Ricch.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Justin Bieber’s former leader Justice (7-9 with 31,000 equivalent album units; down 10%) and Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (holding at No. 10 with 30,000 units; down 1%).

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24 May 2021 Music Now!

Olivia Rodrigo Scores Second Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with Debut of ‘Good 4 U’

Plus, J. Cole debuts four songs in the top 10, led by “my.life” at No. 2.

Olivia Rodrigo notches her second No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as “Good 4 U” soars in at the summit. It follows her smash “Drivers License,” which reigned for eight weeks beginning upon its debut in January.

Both songs, as well as “Deja Vu,” which opened at its No. 8 Hot 100 high in April, are from Rodrigo’s debut album Sour, released Friday (May 21) and due on next week’s Billboard 200 chart. Notably, the set is the first debut album with two No. 1 Hot 100 debuts.

Plus, J. Cole‘s “my.life,” with 21 Savage and Morray, launches at No. 2 on the Hot 100, marking J. Cole’s highest career rank, as he posts a record-tying four simultaneous top 10 debuts. All four tracks are from his album The Off-Season, which bounds in at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200.

Notably, the five songs debuting in the Hot 100’s top 10 mark a new weekly high in the chart’s history, besting the mark of four in a single frame previously accomplished three times.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated May 29) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 25). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Good 4 U,” released on Geffen/Interscope Records, is the 1,124th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year archives, and the 53rd to enter on top. Here’s a deeper dive into its dominant debut.

Streams, sales & airplay: Following its May 14 release, “Good 4 U” drew 43.2 million U.S. streams and sold 12,000 downloads in the week ending May 20, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 3.8 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending May 23.

The track debuts atop the Streaming Songs chart, where it’s Rodrigo’s second leader, after “Drivers License” ruled for four weeks, and starts at No. 5 on Digital Song Sales. While it falls shy so far of the all-genre Radio Songs chart, the track opens at No. 33 on the Pop Airplay survey, which measures plays on mainstream top 40 radio, where the song is being actively promoted (along with “Deja Vu”; “Drivers License” led Pop Airplay for five weeks, while “Deja Vu” this week hits a new No. 16 high).

Two No. 1s from a debut album: Both “Good 4 U” and “Drivers License” are from Rodrigo’s debut album Sour, released May 21. It’s the first debut studio set to spin off a pair of Hot 100 No. 1s since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ 2012 LP The Heist yielded “Thrift Shop,” featuring Wanz, and “Can’t Hold Us,” featuring Ray Dalton, in 2013.

Among women, Sour is the first debut album to generate two Hot 100 No. 1s since Lady Gaga (Rodrigo’s Interscope labelmate) arrived with 2008’s The Fame, which produced the leaders “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O’Donis, and “Poker Face” (as well as the top 10s “LoveGame” and “Paparazzi”).

As Sour has yet to debut on the Billboard 200, where it will enter on next week’s, June 5-dated chart, it’s the first album with two Hot 100 No. 1s before its Billboard 200 debut since Drake’s Scorpion, which bowed atop the July 14, 2018, chart after its tracks “God’s Plan” and “Nice for What” had already led the Hot 100. (Scorpion‘s third No. 1, “In My Feelings,” topped the Hot 100 beginning the week after the set started on the Billboard 200.)

Meanwhile, in the digital era (since the advent of downloads and streaming), in which multiple songs are regularly released before their parent albums, Sour is the first debut album by any act to generate two Hot 100 No. 1s before the set’s Billboard 200 entrance.

Albums with two songs to debut at No. 1: Billboard awards editor and Chart Beat founder Paul Grein notes that Rodrigo’s Sour makes history as the first debut album to include two songs that have entered the Hot 100 at No. 1, thanks to “Drivers License” and now “Good 4 U.” The only previous albums to house two tracks that each premiered on top were by then-well-established stars: Mariah Carey’s Daydream (“Fantasy” and “One Sweet Day,” with Boyz II Men, in 1995-96); Drake’s Scorpion (“God’s Plan” and “Nice for What,” 2018); and Grande’s Thank U, Next (“Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings,” 2018-19). Those were, in each case, those artists’ fifth proper LPs.

J. Cole’s “my.life,” with 21 Savage and Morray, vaults in at No. 2 on the Hot 100, with 41.1 million streams, 1.3 million in airplay audience and 2,800 sold.

J. Cole achieves his highest Hot 100 rank, besting the No. 4 peak of “Middle Child” in February 2019. He ups his count to 10 career top 10s, as he also debuts with “amari” at No. 5, led by its 37.8 million streams; “pride.is.the.devil,” with Lil Baby, at No. 7 (35.1 million); and “95.south” at No. 8 (34 million). J. Cole’s four new Hot 100 top 10s are all from his new Billboard 200 No. 1 The Off-Season. The set joins the ranks of albums with at least five Hot 100 top 10s each as, a week earlier, the release’s “Interlude” debuted at No. 8.

J. Cole is the fourth artist to tally a record-tying four simultaneous top 10 debuts, following Drake (July 14, 2018), Lil Wayne (Oct. 13, 2018) and Juice WRLD (July 25, 2020).

Meanwhile, with “my.life,” 21 Savage scores his fourth Hot 100 top 10 and Morray earns his first. Thanks to “pride.is.the.devil,” Lil Baby logs his seventh top 10.

“my.life” opens at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs, both of which use the same methodology as the Hot 100. It’s the first No. 1 on each genre chart for J. Cole and Morray and the second on each list for 21 Savage, following his featured turn on Post Malone’s “Rockstar” in 2017-18.

Back on the Hot 100, Rodrigo’s No. 1 debut with “Good 4 U” and J. Cole’s quartet of new top 10s make for a new weekly-record five concurrent top 10 debuts. Previously, as many as four songs entered in the top 10 together three times, in the frames noted above by Drake, Lil Wayne and Juice WRLD.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, dips to No. 3 from its No. 2 high and “Leave the Door Open” by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, falls to No. 4 a week after adding its second week at No. 1. The latter logs a sixth week atop Radio Songs (89.9 million, up 3%), while ruling Hot R&B Songs for a ninth week.

Justin Bieber’s former Hot 100 leader “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, slides 3-6; The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” drops 4-9 after two weeks at No. 1; and Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, backtracks to No. 10 from its No. 5 high.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated May 29), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 25).

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23 May 2021 Music Now!

J. Cole Collects Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with ‘The Off-Season’

Plus: Nicki Minaj, The Black Keys and Alan Jackson debut in top 10.

J. Cole’s The Off-Season barges in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 2021’s biggest week for a hip-hop release, as the set launches with 282,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 20, according to MRC Data. The Off-Season was released via Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope on May 14 and also scores the year’s largest streaming week for any album.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 29, 2021-dated chart (where The Off-Season debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 25. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of The Off-Season’s 282,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending May 20, SEA units comprise 243,000 (equaling 325.05 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise 37,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week) and TEA units comprise 2,000.

In terms of total units earned, The Off-Season has the largest week of 2021 for a hip-hop album, and the second-biggest overall to only the debut frame of Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) with 291,000 units (April 24-dated chart).

The Off-Season starts with 243,000 SEA units, totaling 325.05 million on-demand streams of the album’s 12 tracks — that sum marks the biggest streaming week for an album in 2021. It surpasses the previous high-water mark for the year, when Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album debuted with 240.18 million streams for its 30 songs in its first week (chart dated Jan. 23). The Off-Season keeps up J. Cole’s hot streak on the chart, as all six of his studio albums have reached No. 1.

The Off-Season follows the chart-topping KOD (2018), 4 Your Eyez Only (2016), 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014), Born Sinner (2013) and Cole World: The Sideline Story (2011). (All but Born Sinner also debuted at No. 1. Born bowed at No. 2, and then rose to No. 1 a week later.) J. Cole’s only chart entry to miss the top slot was a live album, 2016’s Forest Hills Drive: Live, which reached No. 71.

Nick Minaj’s Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 80,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 63,000 (equaling 85.57 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise 11,000 and TEA units comprise 6,000.

Beam Me Up Scotty is Minaj’s fifth album to reach the top two on the Billboard 200 – the entirety of her charting efforts. Beam Me Up Scotty was initially released for free in 2009, but was not commercially issued or distributed to streaming services until May 14, 2021. The new version of the album houses most of the tracks from the 2009 release and adds three new cuts: “Seeing Green,” with Drake and Lil Wayne, “Fractions” and “Crocodile Teeth” (remix) with Skillibeng.

Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain falls 1-3 in its fourth week on the chart, earning 55,000 equivalent album units (down 10%), and Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album dips 2-4 with 53,000 units (up 2%).

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is a non-mover at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, but posts a 14% gain in equivalent album units earned to 41,000. Its surge is owed mostly to vinyl LP sales, as of its nearly 7,000 total albums sold for the week (up 261%), vinyl LPs represent 5,000 of that sum (up 841%). (The album’s expanded deluxe edition, dubbed The Moonlight Edition, was issued on vinyl on May 14.)

The Black Keys nab their fifth top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as the duo’s new blues covers project Delta Kream bows at No. 6 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 30,000, SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 6.22 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible number.

Justin Bieber’s former No. 1 Justice falls 4-7 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned (down 9%), while DJ Khaled’s previous leader Khaled Khaled descends 4-8 with 32,000 units (down 30%).

Alan Jackson captures his 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as his new studio effort Where Have You Gone debuts at No. 9. The set earned just under 32,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 27,000, SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 6.04 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Rounding out the new top 10 is Pop Smoke’s former No. 1 Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, falling 8-10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%).

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19 May 2021 Music Now!

Silk Sonic – Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak – Returns to No. 1 on Hot 100 with ‘Leave the Door Open’

Plus, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” hits a new No. 2 high & J. Cole’s “Interlude” debuts at No. 8.

“Leave the Door Open” by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1 for its second week atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Plus, Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, rises from No. 4 to No. 2 on the Hot 100, a new high for the song and tying Lipa’s best career Hot 100 rank, and J. Cole‘s “Interlude” debuts at No. 8, launching as the week’s most streamed song.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Door,” released on Aftermath/Atlantic Records, first reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated April 17 (five weeks ago). It returns to the top as it drew 17.8 million U.S. streams (down 4%) and sold 14,200 (up 38%, helped by its placement in the iTunes Store’s 69¢ Pop Hits sale) in the week ending May 13, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 87 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 8%) in the week ending May 16.

The track adds a fifth week atop the Radio Songs chart, pushes 3-2 on Digital Song Sales and keeps at No. 10 on Streaming Songs.

Notably, the four-week absence from No. 1 on the Hot 100 for “Door” is the longest for a song since Post Malone’s “Circles” waited four frames between its second and third weeks on top on the charts dated Dec. 7, 2019, and Jan. 11, 2020. The two tracks’ breaks between weeks at No. 1 mark the longest since Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” reigned for two weeks and then spent eight frames at No. 2 (below Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass”) before returning for two more weeks on top in September-November 2014.

“Door” concurrently leads Hot R&B Songs for an eighth week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a fourth frame; the latter two charts use the same methodology as the Hot 100.

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, elevates from No. 4 to No. 2 on the Hot 100, a new best rank for the song and matching Lipa’s best career placement on the chart. She previously reached a No. 2 high with “Don’t Start Now” in March 2020.

“Levitating” landed 21.9 million U.S. streams (up less than 1%) and sold 19,900 (up 83%) in the week ending May 13, the latter total good for the Hot 100’s top Sales Gainer nod. It also attracted 59.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 18%) in the week ending May 16. All three sums mark the highest weekly totals yet for the song.

The track climbs from No. 2 to No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where it becomes the first leader for both Lipa and DaBaby. It holds at its No. 4 high on Radio Songs and lifts 6-5 for its first week in the top five on Streaming Songs.

Multiple gains in the latest tracking week, following those in recent weeks, helped “Levitating” ascend again, including a half-dozen versions of the song all being discounted to 69 cents in the iTunes Store (with the DaBaby version included in the 69¢ Pop Hits special). The song was originally released, in solo form, on Lipa’s second LP, Future Nostalgia, in March 2020; its DaBaby remix arrived in October. (All versions of the song are combined for the Hot 100.)

Lipa and DaBaby performed “Levitating” during the Grammy Awards March 14, as part of a medley with “Don’t Start Now,” and the song has also surged as a soundtrack to numerous TikTok clips over the last month.

Meanwhile, “Levitating” has experienced an atypical resurgence at radio. It hit a prior weekly high of 55.5 million in audience as reflected on the Radio Songs chart dated Feb. 13 and then steadily descended to 31.2 million (April 3). This week, with its new high of 59.7 million, the song boasts its seventh consecutive week since with an audience gain. Leading the way at radio, it returns to its No. 4 high on the mainstream top 40-based Pop Airplay chart, which it had previously reached in January, with Greatest Gainer honors.

Justin Bieber’s fellow former Hot 100 leader “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, keeps at No. 3. The song receives the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a seventh consecutive week (up 14% to 80.6 million), tying Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” (January-March) for the longest streak since Pharrell’s “Happy” claimed the honor for eight straight weeks in February-March 2014. “Peaches” also becomes Bieber’s eighth No. 1 on Pop Airplay, and the first each for Caesar and Giveon.

The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” falls to No. 4 on the Hot 100 after two weeks at No. 1; Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, holds at its No. 5 high; Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut in the Ocean” rises 7-6 for a new best, as it notches its first week at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart; and Polo G’s “Rapstar” descends 6-7 on the Hot 100 after arriving and spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1.

J. Cole’s “Interlude” bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 8, fueled by its No. 1 entrance on Streaming Songs with 26.6 million streams, following its May 7 release. The song marks his sixth Hot 100 top 10 and fifth to debut in the region, as well as his first Streaming Songs leader.

“Interlude” is from J. Cole’s sixth studio album The Off-Season, released Friday (May 14) and due on next week’s Billboard charts (dated May 29).

The Kid LAROI and Miley Cyrus’ “Without You” slips to No. 9 from its No. 8 Hot 100 high, as it tallies a second week each atop the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X’s former No. 1 “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” dips 9-10.

Source: billoard.com

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16 May 2021 Music Now!

Moneybagg Yo’s ‘A Gangsta’s Pain’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

It’s a quiet week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain returns to No. 1 while no albums debut in the top 10 for the first time in two months.

A Gangsta’s Pain rises 2-1 in its third week, after earning 61,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 12 (down 12%), according to MRC Data. The album debuted atop the chart dated May 8 with 110,000 units.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 22-dated chart (where A Gangsta’s Pain returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 18. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

A Gangsta’s Pain’s 61,000 units earned are nearly all from streaming activity, as SEA units comprise 60,000 of its total for the week. Further, the album’s 61,000 units is the second-lowest total for a weekly No. 1 album in 2021. Only Taylor Swift’s Evermore has posted a smaller week at No. 1 this year, when it returned to the top for a third nonconsecutive week on the chart dated Jan. 16 with 56,000 units (earned in the week ending Jan. 7).

Zero albums debut in the top 10 on the new Billboard 200 — the first time that’s happened since the March 13-dated chart.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album rises 3-2 with 52,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%), DJ Khaled’s Khaled Khaled dips 1-3 in its second week with 46,000 units (down 51%), and Justin Bieber’s former leader Justice is steady at No. 4 with 38,000 units (down 10%).

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is next, as it rises 7-5 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the only album in the top 10 that gains in units, and it remains the lone album by a woman in the top 10. (It’s also the only album in the top 10 that’s yet to be No. 1. It peaked at No. 3 in March.)

Rod Wave’s SoulFly is a non-mover at No. 6 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%), the Young Thug-led Slime Language 2 project falls 5-7 with just over 31,000 units (down 22%), Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon is stationary at No. 8 with 31,000 units (down 3%), The Weeknd’s After Hours is steady at No. 9 with 29,000 units (down 9%), and Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get rises 11-10 with 27,000 units (down 2%).

Source: billoard.com

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10 May 2021 Music Now!

Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Tops Both Billboard Global Charts, Billie Eilish’s ‘Your Power’ Debuts in Top 10

Billboard’s two worldwide tallies rank songs based on streaming and sales data from more than 200 territories.

Lil Nas X‘s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” is the biggest song in the world, as it rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1 for its fourth week atop the Billboard Global 200 chart and scores its second week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. survey.

Plus, Billie Eilish‘s “Your Power” debuts in the top 10 of both global charts; The Kid LAROI and Miley Cyrus’ “Without You” zooms 30-10 on the Global 200 following the release of its remix with Cyrus; and Sebastián Yatra and Myke Towers’ “Pareja del Año” reaches the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, bounding 17-9.

Billboard‘s two global charts (the latest of which are dated May 15) began last September and rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by MRC Data. The Billboard Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the U.S.

Chart rankings are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.

‘Montero’ Back to No. 1 on Global 200

Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” lifts 2-1 for its fourth total week atop the Billboard Global 200 with 84.2 million streams (down 14%) and 5,900 sold (down 29%) worldwide in the April 30-May 6 tracking week.

Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, rises 3-2 on the Global 200 following its two-week reign; The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” drops to No. 3 after topping the chart a week earlier, following the April 23 release of its remix with Grande; Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, holds at its No. 4 high; and Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, repeats at its No. 5 best.

Elsewhere in the Global 200’s top 10, Billie Eilish’s “Your Power” debuts on the chart at No. 6 with 64.2 million streams and 8,200 sold worldwide in the April 30-May 6 tracking week, following its April 29 release. Eilish adds her second top 10 since the list launched, after “Therefore I Am” debuted and peaked at No. 2 in November. Both songs are from her album Happier Than Ever, due July 30.

Plus, The Kid LAROI and Miley Cyrus’ “Without You” blasts 30-10 on the Global 200. Following the April 30 release of its remix with Cyrus, the song surges with 36.9 million streams (up 85%) and 11,900 sold (up 155%) globally in the week ending May 6. The Kid LAROI, from Australia, and Cyrus (credited on the chart on “Without You” for the first time, as the remix accounted for the majority of the title’s overall activity in the tracking week) each make their first appearance in the top 10.

‘Montero’ Also No. 1 Outside U.S.

Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” adds its second week at No. 1 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 62.2 million streams (down 13%) and 3,000 sold (down 9%) in territories outside the U.S. in the April 30-May 6 tracking week.

Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, rebounds 3-2 after five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart; The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” slips to No. 3 from its No. 2 high; and Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, lifts 5-4 after reaching No. 3.

Billie Eilish’s “Your Power” debuts at No. 5 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart with 42.7 million streams and 4,000 sold outside the U.S. As on the Global 200, she scores her second Global Excl. U.S. top 10, after “Therefore I Am” reached No. 2 in November.

Additionally in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, Sebastián Yatra and Myke Towers’ “Pareja del Año” reaches the region, jumping 17-9 (42.7 million streams, up 27%). The former, from Colombia, achieves his first Global Excl. U.S. top 10, while the latter, from Puerto Rico, adds his third, following “Caramelo,” with Ozuna and Karol G (No. 10, September), and “Bandido,” with Juhn (No. 6, February).

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated May 15) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (May 11). For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard‘s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Source: billboard.com

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