Drake broke a 32-year record for the most American Music Awards nominations with 13 nods, beatingMichael Jackson‘s previous high mark of 11 from 1984. The “Hotline Bling” rapper leads all 2016 American Music Awards nominees with nods in categories including Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Album, Favorite Rap Artist, Favorite Rap Song and Favorite R&B song, among others. If he wins in any of the categories it will make his first AMA win.

Rihanna was just behind Drizzy with seven nominations for the show that will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Adele and Justin Bieber picked up five nominations each, followed by four nods each for Beyoncé and The Chainsmokers and three for Bryson Tiller, Twenty One Pilots, Carrie Underwood, Fetty Wap and the Weeknd.

Drake will go up against Adele, Beyoncé, Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Twenty One Pilots, Underwood and The Weeknd for Artist of the Year; the 10 nominees will be narrowed to five based on the votes received through Monday, November 14 at 8:59 a.m. PT. Voting for Artist of the Year will close on Thursday, November 17 at 8:59 p.m. PT. The winner will be determined by the total votes received throughout the entire voting period. If Bieber wins the award he will tie current record hold Taylor Swift for the most wins (3). With eight past wins and this year’s five nominations, Bieber needs just one win to become one of the top 10 AMA winners of all time.

The Chainsmokers will face a formidable group of acts for the coveted New Artist of the Year crown, including DNCE, Alessia Cara, Shawn Mendes and Zayn Malik. American Music Awards nominees are based on key fan interactions as reflected in Billboard Magazine and on Billboard.com, including album and digital song sales, radio airplay, streaming, social activity and touring. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound. Winners are voted entirely by fans, with voting opening today (Oct. 10) in all categories except New Artist of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile, which will open on November 2^nd.

Fans can vote for all category once per day, per platform in one or both of the below ways. For New Artist of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile, fans can vote 100 times per day, per platform at AMAvote.com or by posting a tweet that includes the nominee’s Twitter handle, the category name and #AMAs within the post(s). The2016 American Music Awards is produced by dick clark productions. Allen Shapiro and Mike Mahan are executive producers. Larry Klein, Barry Adelman and Mark Bracco are producers.

See the full list of nominees below:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• Adele
• Beyoncé
• Justin Bieber
• Drake
• Selena Gomez
• Ariana Grande
• Rihanna
• Twenty One Pilots
• Carrie Underwood
• The Weeknd

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR UN-LEASHED BY T-MOBILE

• Alessia Cara
• The Chainsmokers
• DNCE
• Shawn Mendes
• ZAYN

COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR

• The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya “Don’t Let Me Down”
• Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”
• Fifth Harmony Featuring Ty Dolla $ign “Work From Home”
• Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
• Meghan Trainor Featuring John Legend “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”

TOUR OF THE YEAR

• Beyoncé
• Madonna
• Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

• Justin Bieber “Sorry”
• Desiigner “Panda”
• Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK

• Justin Bieber
• Drake
• The Weeknd

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK

• Adele
• Selena Gomez
• Rihanna

FAVORITE DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK

• The Chainsmokers
• DNCE
• Twenty One Pilots

FAVORITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK

• Adele 25
• Justin Bieber Purpose
• Drake Views

FAVORITE SONG- POP/ROCK

• Adele “Hello”
• Justin Bieber “Love Yourself”
• Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY

• Luke Bryan
• Thomas Rhett
• Blake Shelton

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY

• Kelsea Ballerini
• Cam
• Carrie Underwood

FAVORITE DUO or GROUP – COUNTRY

• Florida Georgia Line
• Old Dominion
• Zac Brown Band

FAVORITE ALBUM – COUNTRY

• Luke Bryan Kill the Lights
• Chris Stapleton Traveller
• Carrie Underwood Storyteller

FAVORITE SONG – COUNTRY

• Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
• Tim McGraw “Humble And Kind”
• Thomas Rhett “Die A Happy Man”

FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP

• Drake
• Fetty Wap
• Future

FAVORITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP

• Drake Views
• Drake & Future What A Time To Be Alive
• Fetty Wap Fetty Wap

FAVORITE SONG – RAP/HIP-HOP

• Desiigner “Panda”
• Drake “Hotline Bling”
• Fetty Wap “679”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B

• Chris Brown
• Bryson Tiller
• The Weeknd

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B

• Beyoncé
• Janet Jackson
• Rihanna

FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B

• Beyoncé Lemonade
• Rihanna Anti
• Bryson Tiller T R A P S O U L

FAVORITE SONG – SOUL/R&B

• Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”
• Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
• Bryson Tiller “Don’t”

FAVORITE ARTIST – ALTERNATIVE ROCK

• Coldplay
• Twenty One Pilots
• X Ambassadors

FAVORITE ARTIST – ADULT CONTEMPORARY

• Adele
• Rachel Platten
• Meghan Trainor

FAVORITE ARTIST – LATIN

• J Balvin
• Enrique Iglesias
• Nicky Jam

FAVORITE ARTIST – CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL

• Lauren Daigle
• Hillsong UNITED
• Chris Tomlin

FAVORITE ARTIST – ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM)

• The Chainsmokers
• Calvin Harris
• Major Lazer

TOP SOUNDTRACK

• Purple Rain
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Suicide Squad: The Album

Source: billboard.com

Solange earns her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, A Seat at the Table, arrives atop the tally. It beats out Bon Iver’s 22, A Million, for No. 1 — an album that wasinitially forecast to bow in the penthouse. It debuts at No. 2.

A Seat at the Table launches with 72,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 6, according to Nielsen Music — a stronger-than-expected start. Of that sum, 46,000 were in traditional album sales. Bon Iver’s 22, A Million, bows at No. 2 with 71,000 units (58,000 in traditional album sales).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Oct. 22-dated chart (where A Seat at the Table bows at No. 1) will be posted in full toBillboard’s websites on Tuesday, Oct. 11.

On Oct. 4, industry prognosticators suggested that A Seat at the Table would earn around 60,000 units in its first week — perhaps 5,000 behind 22, A Million. Solange’s set continued to build steam as the tracking week came to a close, surpassing its first-week forecast.

As previously noted, traditional album sales comprised 46,000 of A Seat at the Table’s total equivalent album units earned in its first week. In addition, it brought in another 3,000 in track equivalent album units, and 24,000 in streaming equivalent album units. That latter sum translates to 35.7 million on-demand streams for the album’s songs on streaming services. (It was the second-most streamed album of the week on the chart, beaten only by Drake’s streaming powerhouse Views, with 51.9 million streams for its songs.)

As for Bon Iver’s 22, A Million, it debuts with 71,000 units (comprised of 58,000 in pure album sales, 1,000 in track equivalent album units and 12,000 in streaming equivalent album units). Its 12,000 streaming equivalent units figure represents 17.5 million streams of the album’s songs for the week.

22, A Million is the top selling album of the week, and starts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. The list ranks the week’s best-selling albums by pure album sales.

The set was released on Sept. 30 through Jagjaguwar Records on CD, vinyl LP, digital download, cassette; and through streaming services. It follows Bon Iver’s self-titled release in 2011, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 off a start of 104,000 copies sold. The set won the 2011 Grammy Award for best alternative album, the same year the band took home the best new artist trophy.

As for A Seat at the Table, its release was only announced on Sept. 27, and it reached digital retailers and streaming services three days later on Sept. 30. It was released by Saint Records (Solange’s own label) through Columbia Records. A physical CD release of the album is scheduled for Nov. 18.

Solange made her Billboard 200 chart debut on the Feb. 8, 2003-dated list, withSolo Star, which debuted and peaked at No. 49 that same week. Five years later, she notched her first top 10 album, with Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams, which bowed and peaked at No. 9 on the Sept. 13, 2008 list. A little more than four years after that, her True album debuted and peaked at No. 157 on the Dec. 15, 2012.

As Solange and her sister Beyonce have now both earned No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, they are among the few pairs of solo siblings to have scored No. 1s. Previously, Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson managed the feat, as did Master P and his brother Silkk the Shocker.

Beyonce has logged six previous No. 1s, most recently with 2016’s Lemonade. Michael Jackson tallied six No. 1s (from Thriller in 1983 to the This Is It soundtrack in 2009). Janet Jackson has seven No. 1s (from 1986’s Control through 2015’sUnbreakable).

Master P topped the list in 1997 with Ghetto D, and followed it up in 1998 with MP Da Last Don. Silkk the Shocker led the list once, in 1999, with Made Man.

Notably, Solange and Beyonce both earned No. 1s in the same calendar year, just as Michael and Janet did in 2001 (with Invincible and All For You, respectively).

Drake’s former No. 1, Views, slips one rung to No. 3 with 47,000 units (down 7 percent) while the Suicide Squad soundtrack dips one position to No. 4 with 38,000 units (down 9 percent).

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ The Getaway zooms back into the top 10, rising from No. 24 to No. 5 with 33,000 units (up 112 percent), courtesy of sales of the album bundled with tickets to the band’s upcoming concert tour. The album sold 31,000 copies during the tracking week — up 133 percent. The group promoted the ticket/album bundle offer through its social networks and via email blasts to fans, thus prompting the robust sales surge.

Shawn Mendes’ Illuminate falls from No. 1 to No. 6 in its second week, earning 29,000 units (down 80 percent). Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman rises 10-7 with 27,000 units (up 17 percent) and Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface falls 7-8 with a little more than 25,000 units (down 3 percent).

Van Morrison claims his third top 10 album — and highest charting album ever — with the arrival of Keep Me Singing at No. 9 with 25,000 units (nearly 25,000 in traditional album sales). It is the singer/songwriter’s 36th studio album, and follows his previous top 10s Born to Sing: No Plan B (No. 10 peak in 2012) and Keep It Simple(No. 10 in 2008). Keep Me Singing is also Morrison’s 20th top 40-charting effort. His first came in 1970 with the No. 29-peaking Moondance.

Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight rounds out the top 10, descending 6-10 with 24,000 units (down 12 percent).

A week after Twenty One Pilots completed a then-record 75-week rise to the summit, Mendes reigns at last in his 86th week on the list.

Shawn Mendes is the top musical act in the United States for the first time, jumping 4-1 to take the crowning spot on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Oct. 15). The Artist 100 measures artist activity across Billboard‘s most influential charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Top Album Sales and the Social 50. The Artist 100 blends data measuring album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.

A week after Twenty One Pilots set the record for longest climb to No. 1 on the Artist 100 (75 weeks), Mendes breaks it, reigning for the first time in his 86th week on the chart. (The chart began on July 19, 2014.) He takes over at the top as his new album, Illuminate, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with 145,000 equivalent album units, and Top Album Sales, with 121,000 sold in its first week (ending Sept. 29), according to Nielsen Music.

Mendes sports a 134 percent week-over-week increases in overall activity, with album sales marking 68 percent of his points total. Airplay is his next greatest metric, with Illuminate lead single “Treat You Better” lifting 5-4 on the Radio Songs chart (118 million in audience, up 5 percent) and holding at its No. 6 high on the Hot 100.

Rounding out the Artist 100’s top five, Twenty One Pilots descend to No. 2; Drakedrops 2-3; The Chainsmokers slip a notch to No. 4 from their No. 3 peak; andRihanna holds at No. 5.

Just beyond the Artist 100’s top five, The Weeknd surges 17-6 as his new single “Starboy,” featuring Daft Punk, blasts 40-3 on the Hot 100; Niall Horan debuts at No. 11 on the Artist 100, as his debut solo single “This Town” bows at No. 63 on the Hot 100 (after one day of sales and streaming measurement following its Sept. 29 release); and Bruce Springsteen hits a new Artist 100 high, re-entering at No. 19 as his new set Chapter and Verse launches at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums, No. 3 on Top Album Sales and No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

Check out this week’s entire Artist 100 here.

Source: billboard.com

“Closer” continues its reign, while The Weeknd’s new single, featuring Daft Punk, soars 40-3. Plus, Niall Horan’s “This Town” debuts.

The Chainsmokers rule the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 15) for a seventh week with “Closer,” featuring Halsey.Meanwhile, The Weeknd blasts from No.  40 to No. 3 with his new single “Starboy,” featuring Daft Punk, and “This Town,” the first solo offering from One Direction‘s Niall Horan, debuts at No. 63.

As we do every Monday when the chart is compiled, let’s run down the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on Billboard.com each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday.

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both The Chainsmokers (Drew Taggart and Alex Pall) and Halsey, spends an eighth week atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 137,000 downloads sold (down 16 percent) in the week ending Sept. 29, according to Nielsen Music. “Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week, with 37.8 million U.S. streams (down 3 percent), and the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart (21.6 million on-demand clicks, down 2 percent) for an eighth frame.

“Closer” concurrently crowns the Radio Songs chart, climbing 2-1 with 138 million in airplay audience, up 9 percent. It, thus, commands the Hot 100 and all three of the Hot 100’s main component charts (Digital Song Sales, Streaming Songs and Radio Songs), as well as On-Demand Songs, simultaneously, becoming the first song to do so since Adele‘s “Hello” (Nov. 28, 2015, its first of 10 weeks atop the Hot 100). Prior to “Hello,” Mark Ronson‘s “Uptown Funk!,” featuring Bruno Mars, led all the lists simultaneously for eight weeks in February-April 2015 (on its way to earning the No. 1 spot on the 2015 year-end Hot 100). Dating to the Streaming Songs’ inception in January 2013, only one other song has topped all four charts at the same time: Iggy Azalea‘s “Fancy,” featuring Charli XCX, on June 28, 2014.

Meanwhile, “Closer” bests the six-week reigns of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis‘ “Thrift Shop” (featuring Wanz) in 2013 and LMFAO‘s “Party Rock Anthem” (featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock) in 2011 to become the longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 by a duo in more than 12 years: since OutKast’s “Hey Ya!,” which ruled for nine weeks in 2003-04.

“Closer” additionally tops Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a seventh week and the Pop Songs radio airplay chart for a second frame.

Twenty One Pilots‘ “Heathens” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as the duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) remains at its best rank (with its “Stressed Out” having peaked at No. 2 in February). “Heathens” regresses 2-3 on Streaming Songs (19.9 million, down 5 percent); keeps at No. 3 on Digital Song Sales (77,000, down 9 percent); and pushes 6-5 on Radio Songs (107 million, up 14 percent). The track tallies an eighth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart.

The Weeknd vaults 40-3 on the Hot 100 at No. 40 with “Starboy,” featuring Daft Punk. Released Thursday Sept. 22, the song debuted on the Oct. 8-dated Hot 100 with 28,000 in sales, 2.9 million U.S. streams and 36 million in airplay audience (data that encompassed the song’s first day of sales and streaming and first four days of airplay, per the chart’s tracking periods for each metric). On the new Oct. 15-dated Hot 100, following its first full week of tracking, “Starboy” zooms 22-2 on Digital Song Sales (88,000), enters Streaming Songs at No. 2 (22.8 million) and bounds 37-16 on Radio Songs (64 million), powered in part by the release of its official video Sept. 28 (the second-to-last day of the sales and streaming tracking week).

The Weeknd earns his fifth Hot 100 top 10, and first since “The Hills” became his second No. 1, after “Can’t Feel My Face,” in late 2015. Daft Punk notches its second top 10; its “Get Lucky,” featuring Pharrell Williams, peaked at No. 2 for five weeks in 2013.

Notably, “Starboy” makes the biggest jump into the Hot 100’s top five (or top three) since Taylor Swift‘s “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, leapt 53-1 on the June 6, 2015, chart, following its first full week of tracking after its video premiered to open the 2015 Billboard Music Awards.

“Starboy” additionally surges 12-1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it’s The Weeknd’s fourth No. 1, as well as Daft Punk’s first (in the duo’s first visit to the ranking).

“Starboy” is the lead single from The Weeknd’s forthcoming album of the same name, due Nov. 25. He performed the song, as well as fellow Starboy preview track “False Alarm,” on the season premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live Oct. 1.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five are two tracks featuring Justin Bieber. MajorLazer‘s “Cold Water,” featuring Bieber and MO, dips 3-4 after reaching No. 2. It stays at No. 3 on Radio Songs (120 million, down 1 percent) and dips 3-5 on Streaming Songs (16.5 million, down 17 percent) and 10-11 on Digital Song Sales (36,000, down 17 percent).

Meanwhile, DJ Snake‘s “Let Me Love You,” also featuring Bieber, retreats to No. 5 from its No. 4 high on the Hot 100, although with gains in all metrics. The collab slips 5-6 on Streaming Songs but with a 1 percent gain to 14.8 million; holds at No. 7 on Digital Song Sales (46,000; up 2 percent); and hits the Radio Songs top 10 (12-9; 84 million, up 16 percent). The track is Bieber’s eighth Radio Songs top 10 and DJ Snake’s third.

Shawn Mendes‘ “Treat You Better” is steady at its No. 6 high on the Hot 100, while parent album Illuminate launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200; Sia‘s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, drops 5-7 (and departs the Radio Songs summit after eight weeks as the most-heard song on U.S. radio; 126 million, down 3 percent); and D.R.A.M.‘s first Hot 100 top 10, “Broccoli,” featuringLil Yachty, holds at its No. 8 peak.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, The Chainsmokers’ other song in the region, “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, slides 7-9 and Calvin Harris‘ No. 3-peaking “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, remains at No. 10.

Just outside the Hot 100’s top 10, two songs, both by artists in their first appearances on the chart, hit the top 15, reaching new peaks: gnash’s “I Hate U I Love You,” featuring Olivia O’Brien, jumps 19-13 and Kiiara‘s “Gold” climbs 16-15.

The Hot 100’s top debut of the week belongs to One Direction’s Niall Horan, whose first solo “This Town” begins at No. 63. Released Thursday (Sept. 29), the track launches at No. 6 on Digital Song Sales with 48,000 sold, while adding 679,000 million domestic streams and 11 million in radio audience. Like The Weeknd’s “Starboy” the week before, “Town” starts with one day each of sales and streaming data and four days of airplay measurement; “Town” should soar on the Oct. 22-dated Hot 100 following its first full week of tracking.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 4), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The Hot 100 and other charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale Friday (Oct. 7).

Pop singer/songwriter Shawn Mendesnotches his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with the arrival ofIlluminate. The set, which was released on Sept. 23 through Island Records, earned 145,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 29, according to Nielsen Music. It also launches with 121,000 in traditional album sales – Mendes’ best sales week yet.

Illuminate is Mendes’ second full-length album, following Handwritten, which debuted at No. 1 in 2015.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Oct. 15-dated chart (where Illuminate bows at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Oct. 4.

As Illuminate arrives atop the Oct. 15-dated list, that gives Mendes two No. 1 albums at just 18 years of age. More precisely, based on the new chart’s date, Mendes achieves his second No. 1 at only 18 years, two months and seven days old. He was born on Aug. 8, 1998.

Only five artists scored their first two No. 1 albums at such a young age: Justin Bieber claimed his second leader, Never Say Never: The Remixes, at 17 years and four days old in 2011. Miley Cyrus was just 14 years, seven months and 21 days old when Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus debuted at No. 1 in 2007. Hilary Duffwas 17 years, 11 months and six days old when Most Wanted launched at No. 1 in 2005. And, LeAnn Rimes was a sprightly 15 years and 30 days old when You Light Up My Life – Inspirational Songs hit No. 1 in 1997.

In addition, Mendes is the first artist to have their first two full-length studio albums hit No. 1 since nearly a year ago, when 5 Seconds of Summer bowed at No. 1 with Sounds Good Feels Good. (It followed the band’s self-titled debut the previous year.)

Mendes is the first male artist to claim the distinction since 2015, when A$AP Rocky bowed atop the list with At.Long.Last.A$AP, following 2013’s Long.Live.A$AP.

Meanwhile, Drake’s Views slips from No. 1 to No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 with 50,000 units (down 5 percent) and the Suicide Squad soundtrack holds at No. 3 with 42,000 units (down 9 percent).

The second debut in the new top 10 is Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour… Here’s to the Farmer EP, which bows at No. 4 with 34,000 units (32,000 in traditional album sales). The digital-exclusive set marks Bryan’s ninth top 10 album, and eighth top 10 in a row.

All eight of Bryan’s charting albums from 2011’s Tailgates & Tanlines to 2016’s Here’s to the Farmer have debuted in the top 10. He charted one additional top 10, 2009’sDoin’ My Thing (which peaked at No. 6).

Bruce Springsteen’s new Chapter and Verse is the third and final debut in the new top 10, as it launches at No. 5 with 29,000 units (27,000 in traditional album sales). It is Springsteen’s 19^th top 10 album. The compilation effort is a companion piece to Springsteen’s new memoir, Born to Run. The 18-track album features five previously unreleased songs, along with familiar hits like “The River,” “Born to Run” and “Born in the U.S.A.”

Travis Scott’s former No. 1, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight rises one rung to No. 6 with 27,000 units (down 15 percent), while Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface is also up one position to No. 7 with 26,000 units (down 6 percent). Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know falls two spots to No. 8 with 24,000 units (down 36 percent), Rihanna’s Antijumps 12-9 with 23,000 units (down 4 percent) and Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman ascends a slot to No. 10 with almost 23,000 units (down 7 percent).

“Closer” continues its command, while D.R.A.M.’s Lil Yachty-featuring debut hit enters the top 10.

The Chainsmokers top the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 8) for a sixth week with “Closer,” featuring Halsey. Meanwhile, D.R.A.M. hits the top 10 with his debut hit “Broccoli,” featuring Lil Yachty, and three high-profile songs debut in the top 40.

As we do every Monday when the chart is refreshed, let’s look at the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on Billboard.com each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday.

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 leader for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Drew Taggart and Alex Pall) and featured alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a seventh week atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 162,000 downloads sold (down 5 percent) in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Nielsen Music.

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a sixth week, with 38.9 million U.S. streams (down 2 percent), and the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart (22.2 million on-demand clicks, down 5 percent) for a seventh frame. On Radio Songs, “Closer” climbs 4-2, drawing 127 million in airplay audience, up 12 percent.

“Closer” additionally tops Billboard‘s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a sixth week and takes over at No. 1 on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart. It’s the second Pop Songs topper for the duo, following “Don’t Let Me Down” (featuring Daya), which led for three weeks in July.

Twenty One Pilots’ “Heathens” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as the duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) remains at its best rank (“Stressed Out” peaked at No. 2 in February). “Heathens” keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (21 million, down 3 percent) and No. 3 on Digital Song Sales (85,000, down 7 percent), while reaching the Radio Songs top 10 (11-6; 94 million, up 15 percent), where it’s Twenty One Pilots’ third top 10. The track tallies a seventh week at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Justin Bieber and MO, is steady at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It stays at No. 3 on Radio Songs (121 million, up 5 percent) and Streaming Songs, where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1 (19.9 million, up 1 percent); its streaming sum benefits from a new “dance video” for the song, which arrived Sept. 15. “Water” falls 4-10 on Digital Song Sales, down by 40 percent to 43,000 sold (as its discount to 69 cents in the iTunes Store ended as of Sept. 16, the first day of the sales tracking week).

DJ Snake’s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Bieber, enters the Hot 100’s top five with a 6-4 advance. The track stays at No. 5 on Streaming Songs (14.6 million, essentially even week-over-week); rises 10-7 on Digital Song Sales (which it led upon its debut on the Aug. 27 chart), up by 8 percent to 45,000; and jumps 18-12 on Radio Songs (72 million, up 27 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, Sia’s former four-week No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, retreats 4-5, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, logging an eighth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (130 million, down 3 percent).

Shawn Mendes’ “Treat You Better” hits a new high on the Hot 100, pushing 8-6, and The Chainsmokers’ other song in the top 10, “Don’t Let Me Down” (as noted above), drops 5-7.

D.R.A.M. reaches the Hot 100’s top 10 with his debut entry “Broccoli,” featuring Lil Yachty, also in his first visit to the chart. Streaming is the song’s greatest driver, as it holds at No. 4 on Streaming Songs (17.3 million, down 1 percent). It descends 16-20 on Digital Song Sales (29,000, down 7 percent) but rises 43-40 on Radio Songs (31 million, up 14 percent). It leads the Hot Rap Songs chart for a third week and ascends 2-1 to top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for the first time.

“I had no idea that it was going to be a Billboard top 40 record,” D.R.A.M. (aka, Virginia native Shelley Marchaun Massenburg-Smith) told Billboard last month. “I thought it was gonna be just lit for the culture, lit for SoundCloud, for the Internet. But it just really grew, to our surprise. So nobody’s mad over here.”

The song is also the latest vegetable-name-checking hit in the Hot 100’s 58-year history, joining a menu of such prior top 10s as “Mashed Potato Time,” by Dee Dee Sharp (No. 2, 1962) and “Green Onions,” by Booker T. & the MG’s (No. 3, also in 1962). (Now, lettuce continue …)

Charlie Puth’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” featuring Selena Gomez, returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 at a new high of No. 9, up from No. 13 (and passing its prior No. 10 peak). Capping the top 10, Calvin Harris’ No. 3-peaking “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, slides 7-10.

Meanwhile, Harris debuts at No. 24 on the Hot 100 with his new single, “My Way.” The track starts at No. 4 on Digital Song Sales (53,000), No. 45 on Streaming Songs (6 million) and No. 46 on Radio Songs (27 million).

“My Way” is one of three songs to launch in the Hot 100’s top 40. The highest is the all-star “Forever Country,” by Artists of Then, Now & Forever, which bounds in at No. 21, as well as all the way at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart.

Plus, The Weeknd soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 40 with “Starboy,” featuring Daft Punk. Released early Thursday morning (Sept. 22), the song begins at No. 22 on Digital Song Sales (28,000) and No. 37 on Radio Songs (36 million) (data that encompasses one day of sales and four days of airplay, per the chart’s tracking periods for each metric); the song should surge on the Oct. 15-dated Hot 100 following its first full week of tracking.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and other posts later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 27), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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“Closer” reigns for a fifth week, while “Let Me Love You” surges from No. 12 to No. 6.

The Chainsmokers lead the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 1) for a fifth week with “Closer,” featuring Halsey. Meanwhile, DJ Snake hits the top 10 with “Let Me Love You,” featuring Justin Bieber.

As we do every Monday when the chart is refreshed, let’s look at the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on Billboard.com each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday.

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Drew Taggart and Alex Pall) and featured alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a sixth week atop the Digital Songs chart with 170,000 downloads sold (down 15 percent) in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Nielsen Music.

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fifth week, with 39.5 million U.S. streams (down 2 percent), and the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart (23.3 million on-demand clicks, down 4 percent) for a sixth frame. On Radio Songs, “Closer” jumps 9-4, drawing 113 million in airplay audience, up 24 percent; it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third week.

“Closer” additionally tops Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a fifth week.

Twenty One Pilots’ “Heathens” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as the duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) keeps at its best rank; its “Stressed Out” peaked at No. 2 in February. “Heathens” remains at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (21.7 million, up 5 percent); drops 2-3 on Digital Songs, but with a 7 percent gain to 91,000; and hikes 15-11 on Radio Songs (82 million, up 21 percent). It logs a sixth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Justin Bieber and MO, is stationary at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs, where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1, with 19.6 million U.S. streams (up 2 percent) and slips 3-4 on Digital Songs, which it led for a week (upon its debut), but with a 27 percent gain to 71,000 sold (helped by a 69-cent price tag in the iTunes Store during the tracking week; as of Friday, Sept. 16, it went  back to the regular $1.29). It rises 4-3 on Radio Songs (115 million, up 7 percent). As previously reported, “Water” takes over at No. 1 on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart.

Notably, while an official lyric video was released for “Water” on July 21, a new“dance video” for the song arrived Sept. 15. The new clip could help the song’s fortunes on the Hot 100 going forward. (Keep reading for more Bieber news …)

Sia’s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, is a non-mover at No. 4, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, tallying a seventh week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (134 million, down 6 percent). Additionally, Sia’s new single, “The Greatest,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, soars 52-24 in its second week on the Hot 100; it takes top Streaming Gainer honors, fueled by its 177 percent streaming increase, to 10.2 million, following the Sept. 5 arrival of its official video.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Chainsmokers’ other song in the bracket, the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, stays at No. 5. (Thus, the top five is identical to last week, marking the first such repeat since the June 18-dated Hot 100.)

DJ Snake’s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Bieber, reaches the Hot 100’s top 10 in its sixth week on the chart, vaulting 12-6. The track retreats 4-5 on Streaming Songs (14.6 million, essentially even week-over-week) and falls 5-10 on Digital Songs (which it led upon its debut on the Aug. 27 chart), down by 10 percent to 41,000, although it charges 25-18 on Radio Songs (57 million, up 27 percent).

DJ Snake scores his third Hot 100 top 10, following two No. 4 hits: “Turn Down for What,” with Lil Jon (2014), and “Lean On,” with Major Lazer and featuring MO (2015). Bieber lands his 11th Hot 100 top 10, and his fifth song to rank in the region in 2016, pushing him past Drake for the most top 10s by any act this year. (Having notched his first top 10, “Baby,” featuring Ludacris, in 2010, Bieber boasts the third-most top 10s among male artists this decade, after Drake, with 15 in that span, and Bruno Mars, with 12. Bieber is in sixth place among all acts this decade; Rihanna leads with 17 Hot 100 top 10s in the 2010s.)

Calvin Harris’ No. 3-peaking “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, holds at No. 7 on the Hot 100, and Shawn Mendes’ “Treat You Better” roars back to the Hot 100’s top 10 at its peak (13-8), first set on the Sept. 24 chart. It bumps 8-5 on Radio Songs (104 million, up 10 percent) and 18-15 on Streaming Songs (10.6 million, up 1 percent). It tumbles 23-33 on Digital Songs (23,000, down 19 percent, following its second week back at $1.29 in the iTunes Store following its earlier 69-cent sale run).

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Twenty One Pilots’ second song in the Hot 100’s top 10, “Ride,” descends 6-9, after reaching No. 5, and Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” drops to No. 10 from its No. 8 highpoint.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and other posts later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 20), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Plus: a quartet of rockin’ new top 10 debuts from Bastille, The Head and the Heart, The Beatles and Jack White.

Jason Aldean earns his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with arrival ofThey Don’t Know. The set, which was released on Sept. 9 through Macon/Broken Bow Records, earned 138,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 131,000 were in traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Oct. 1-dated chart (where Aldean enters at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

They Don’t Know is also Aldean’s third consecutive No. 1 on the chart. His last two chart entries, which also happen to be his last two studio albums, likewise opened atop the list. His last album, 2014’s Old Boots, New Dirt, launched at No. 1 with 278,000 copies sold. Two years before that, Night Train rolled in at No. 1 with 409,000 sold.

In total, They Don’t Know is Aldean’s sixth top 10 effort, and seventh charting album. He previously hit the top 10 with My Kinda Party (No. 2 in 2010), Wide Open (No. 4 in 2009) and Relentless (No. 4 in 2007). His self-titled debut album peaked at No. 37 in 2005.

They Don’t Know is the first country album to rule the Billboard 200 late 2015, whenChris Stapleton’s Traveller spent two weeks atop the list on the Nov. 21 and Nov. 28-dated charts. (Traveller reentered the chart, straight in at No. 1 on the Nov. 21-dated list, following his big night on last year’s Country Music Association Awards.)

They Don’t Know is the first country album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in over a year — since Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights bowed in the penthouse on Aug. 29, 2015.

This year marks the first since 2001 that we’ve waited until a chart dated in October for a country album top the Billboard 200. That year, one country set reigned: Garth Brooks‘ Scarecrow, on the Dec. 1, 2001, chart.

Drake’s former No. 1, Views, rises one rung to No. 2 with 59,000 units. Streams of the set’s songs continue to drive the album’s high rank on the chart. In the latest tracking week, Views’ streaming equivalent units totaled 43,000. (That equals 63.8 million streams of Views’ songs.) Views was the most-streamed album of the week, by total streams of its songs. Comparably, Aldean’s They Don’t Know logged only 1.5 million streams for its tracks.

The Suicide Squad soundtrack also rises a notch, to No. 3, with 52,000 units. UnlikeViews, the Suicide Squad soundtrack’s units are evenly distributed across traditional album sales (19,000 copies sold), track equivalent albums (16,000), and streaming equivalent albums (17,000).

At No. 4 is the second of five debuts in the top 10, as Bastille’s Wild World enters with 43,000 units (35,000 copies sold). It’s the band’s highest charting album, first top 10, and best sales week yet. It trumps the No. 11 debut and peak of its first album, Bad Blood, which arrived with 34,000 sold in its first week, back in 2013. Bastille also charted a pair of EPs, with Haunt (No. 104 in 2013) and Vs.: Other People’s Heartache Pt. III (No. 87 in 2014).

The Head and the Heart also score its highest-charting album yet, as Signs of Lightbows at No. 5 with 40,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales). The group previously hit the top 10 once, at No. 10, with its last album, Let’s Be Still in 2013 (42,000 sold in its first week — still the act’s best sales frame).

On the Top Rock Albums chart, which ranks the week’s best-selling rock albums, The Head and the Heart debut at No. 1 with Signs of Light, while Bastille’s Wild Worldenters at No. 2.

Back on the new Billboard 200, last week’s No. 1, Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, falls to No. 6 with 38,000 units (down 57 percent).

The Beatles notch their 32nd top 10 album, as Live at the Hollywood Bowl debuts at No. 7 with 36,000 units (35,000 in traditional album sales). The group last hit the top 10 in 2013 with On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2 (No. 7).

The Beatles boast the third-most top 10s in the Billboard 200’s history. The Rolling Stones lead with 36, followed by Barbra Streisand, with 34.

The new album — like its 1977 predecessor, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl — features songs from The Beatles’ three Hollywood Bowl performances in 1964 and 1965. The 1977 album peaked at No. 2, and eventually fell out of print.

The 1977 album’s 13 songs are on the new 2016 album, along with four bonus tracks. The 2016 set was newly mixed and remastered, and directly sourced from the original three track tapes of the concerts.

Jack White’s new archival compilation, Acoustic Recordings: 1998-2016, enters at No. 8 with 32,000 copies sold (30,000 in traditional album sales). The 26-song set includes alternative versions, mixes and previously unreleased recordings from White and his bands The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. Acoustic Recordings is the third top 10 set for White, following a pair of No. 1s: Lazaretto in 2014 andBlunderbuss in 2012.

The new set was a hot seller on vinyl LP, with 12,000 copies sold on the format, and a debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. Acoustic’s vinyl sales mark the biggest week for a vinyl set since Blink-182’s California started with 20,000 LPs sold back in July.

The sizable vinyl sales are usual for White, who is a fan of the format and set a vinyl sales record in 2013 with Lazaretto. That album launched with 40,000 vinyl LPs sold — the largest sales week for a vinyl LP since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales in 1991.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman (rising 11-9 with 30,000 units; up 19 percent) and Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots (dipping 5-10 with 30,000 units; down 29 percent).

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“Closer” rules for a fourth week, while “We Don’t Talk Anymore” climbs to No. 10.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey rule the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Sept. 24) for a fourth week with “Closer.” Meanwhile, Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez reach the top 10 with “We Don’t Talk Anymore.”

As we do every Monday when the chart is refreshed, let’s run down the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. Highlights of the airplay, sales and streaming-based Hot 100 post on Billboard.com each Monday, with all charts updated each Tuesday.

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 leader for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall) and featured alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a fifth week atop the Digital Songs chart with 199,000 downloads sold (down 4 percent) in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Nielsen Music.

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week, up by 10 percent to 40.5 million U.S. streams. It’s just the fourth song to pass 40 million domestic clicks in a week, joining Desiigner’s “Panda” (June 4); Rihanna’s “Work,” featuring Drake (two weeks earlier this year); Adele’s “Hello” (three weeks, 2015); and Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” (four weeks, 2013). “Closer” also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart for a fifth week (24.4 million on-demand streams, up 6 percent).

On Radio Songs, “Closer” reaches the top 10 (11-9; 91 million in airplay audience, up 16 percent); it adds the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a second week.

“Closer” additionally tops Billboard‘s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a fourth week.

Below “Closer,” Twenty One Pilots‘ “Heathens” hits a new Hot 100 high, rising 3-2. The duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) matches its best rank, as its “Stressed Out” peaked at No. 2 in February. “Heathens” holds at No. 2 on Digital Songs (85,000, up 4 percent) and Streaming Songs (20.6 million, up 3 percent), while climbing 18-15 on Radio Songs (68 million, up 23 percent). It logs a fifth week at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Dominant duos: With The Chainsmokers and Twenty One Pilots at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the Hot 100, duos claim the chart’s top two spots simultaneously for the first time in … more than 31 years. It’s the first such double-up by duos since June 8, 1985, when Tears for Fears and Wham! ranked at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and “Everything She Wants.” (The week before, those two ’80s classics ranked in the opposite order.) The only other instances of two twosomes holding the Hot 100’s top two at the same time: On Dec. 1, 1984, Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and Daryl Hall and John Oates’ “Out of Touch” placed at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively; the next week, the songs switched spots.

Major Lazer‘s “Cold Water,” featuring Justin Bieber and MO, drops to No. 3 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 peak. It stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1) with 19.2 million U.S. streams (down 3 percent); rebounds 6-3 on Digital Songs (which it led for a week, upon its debut), with 56,000 sold, up 4 percent (helped by a 69-cent price tag in the iTunes Store); and jumps 7-4 on Radio Songs (108 million, up 9 percent). “Water” also rises 2-1 on the Dance Club Songs chart.

Sia‘s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, is steady at No. 4, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, tallying a sixth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (143 million, down 3 percent). Sia also claims the Hot 100’s top debut of the week, as her new single “The Greatest,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, launches at No. 52.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five, The Chainsmokers’ other song in the region, the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, stays at No. 5.

Twenty One Pilots’ second song in the Hot 100’s top 10, “Ride,” rebounds 7-6, after reaching No. 5. It switches spots with Calvin Harris‘ No. 3-peaking “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna (6-7).

Adele‘s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” reaches a new high on the Hot 100, returning to the top 10 with an 11-8 jump. As previously reported, the track takes over atop the Pop Songs radio airplay chart, where it’s her fourth No. 1 and second from her album 25, following “Hello.”

Rihanna’s “Needed Me” rises 10-9 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 7, and rises 2-1 on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it’s her sixth leader. The track halts the record 18-week reign of Drake‘s “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla, atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. (Meanwhile, “Dance,” which led the Hot 100 for 10 weeks, departs the chart’s top 10, dropping 9-11, ending Drake’s streak of 51 consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10. Still, despite the run stopping a week shy of a full year, it’s the best streak ever by a male artist and is second among all acts only to Katy Perry’s 69-week run in 2010-11.)

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Charlie Puth’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” featuring Selena Gomez, reaches the top 10, lifting 12-10. The collab holds at No. 4 on Digital Songs (53,000, down 10 percent; it’s on sale for 69 cents in the iTunes Store); pushes 13-12 on Streaming Songs (11.9 million, up 3 percent); and backtracks 16-17 on Radio Songs, but with a 5 percent gain to 64 million.

Puth scores his second Hot 100 top 10 and first as a lead artist; he previously reached the tier as featured on Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 last year. Gomez achieves her sixth top 10 (and first in a featured role). (As for the song’s title, it’s the second “We Don’t Talk Anymore” to reach the Hot 100’s top 10; Cliff Richard’s same-named but different composition rose to No. 7 in 1980.)

Just beyond the Hot 100’s top 10, DJ Snake‘s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Bieber, returns to its No. 12 high (13-12), first reached upon its debut four weeks ago;D.R.A.M.‘s “Broccoli,” featuring Lil Yachty, leaps 18-14; and Ariana Grande boasts two songs, both from her album Dangerous Woman, in the top 20: “Into You,” which holds at No. 15 (after reaching No. 13), and “Side to Side,” featuring Nicki Minaj, which bounds 31-18 in its second week. Grande and Minaj’s collab soars into the Streaming Songs top 10 (17-8; 13.5 million, up 34 percent) and speeds 26-11 on Digital Songs (40,000, up 39 percent) following the first full week of tracking after the song’s video premiered Aug. 29; they performed it on the MTV Music Video Awards the night before.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column and other posts later this week, and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 13), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. The Hot 100 and other charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale Friday (Sept. 16).

It’s the fifth Apple/iTunes exclusive to hit No. 1 in 2016.

Travis Scott claims his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new effort, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, debuts straight in at No. 1. The set, which was released on Sept. 2 through Grand Hustle/Epic Records, earned 88,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 53,000 were in traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Sept. 24-dated chart (where Scott bows at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight is exclusively available through the Apple Music streaming service, and the iTunes Store for purchase. It’s the fifth album to hit No. 1 in 2016 initially as an Apple and iTunes exclusive, following Frank Ocean’s Blonde,DJ Khaled’s Major Key, Drake’s Views and Future’s Evol. (Scott, Khaled and Future also share the same label: Epic Records.)

The songs on Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight generated 50.2 million streams during its first tracking week, equating to 33,000 SEA units. The remainder of the album’s total units for the week were generated by track equivalent albums (TEA) — just 2,000 units. The TEA number is low because only one of the album’s songs is available or purchase a la carte from the album.

Scott’s new album follows his debut effort, Rodeo, which peaked at No. 3 on the tally in 2015. Rodeo launched with 85,000 units (70,000 in pure album sales).

Rock band A Day to Remember bows at a career-high peak of No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with Bad Vibrations, as the set starts with 67,000 units (62,000 in pure album sales). It’s also the best-selling album of the week, and debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

A Day to Remember previously reached No. 37 with Common Courtesy (on the chart dated Jan. 11, 2014), No. 11 with What Separates Me From You (Dec. 4, 2010) and No. 21 with Homesick (Feb. 21, 2009).

Bad Vibrations also enters at No. 1 on the Independent Albums chart — the group’s third leader on the tally. It previously led the list with What Separates Me From Youand Homesick.

Drake’s Views rises one rung to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 60,000 units (down 15 percent) — still driven mostly by SEA units (42,000). The Suicide Squad soundtrack climbs 6-4 with 55,000 units (down 12 percent).

Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots dips 2-5 in its second week, with 42,000 units (down 71 percent), while last week’s No. 1 album, Barbra Streisand’s Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, falls to No. 6 with 41,000 units (down 73 percent).

Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface rises 10-7 with just more than 30,000 units (down 1 percent), Rihanna’s Anti moves 9-8 with 30,000 units (down 6 percent) and Beyonce’s Lemonade falls 7-9 with nearly 30,000 units (down 21 percent).

Ocean’s Blonde rounds out the top 10, descending 5-10 with 29,000 units (down 58 percent).

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