A look back at Drake’s scorching summer, and more, on the charts.

For months, he’s just been too good.

As previously reported, Drake’s “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla, claimed the title of top song of the summer, having outperformed every other hit on the Billboard Hot 100between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

“One Dance” also made history on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it reigns for a record 18th week (on the chart dated Sept. 17). On the Sept. 10 tally, the track bested the command of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” featuring T.I. and Pharrell, which led for 16 weeks in 2013. In third place, Mary J. Blige’s “Be Without You” ruled for 15 weeks in 2006.

(For the purposes of this research, and Drake’s record run at No. 1, data goes back to Oct. 20, 1958, when Billboard unveiled the first all-encompassing R&B songs ranking, aka, the present-day Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.)

With Drake having dominated summer ’16, here’s a look at 10 other honors he’s recently achieved.

•  Drake has led the Billboard Artist 100 chart for 21 weeks overall, the most among males. That’s second overall only to Taylor Swift’s 31 weeks on top (dating to the chart’s July 2014 inception).

•  Drake’s album Views has spent 12 total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the most time in charge for an album by a male artist since Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All logged 17 weeks at No. 1 in 1992.

•  Views boasts the third-most total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 ever for a hip-hop album. It trails only MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (21 weeks, 1990) and Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme (16 weeks, 1990-91). Notably, Views has led the Billboard 200 longer than any other hip-hop album since Nielsen Music data began powering the chart in May 1991.

•  Views has drawn more than 2.3 billion on-demand audio streams for its tracks in the U.S. (through Sept. 1), according to Nielsen Music. That’s the biggest streaming total ever for an album’s songs, and Views is the only album with more than 2 billion streams earned by its tracks. (The count includes plays by Views songs released before the album’s arrival, including “Hotline Bling.”)

•  “One Dance” and Views combined to give Drake the longest control, among solo males, of both the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously with one song and one album: nine weeks. Drake passed Michael Jackson’s seven-week run of “Billie Jean” and Thriller leading both lists at the same time in 1983. Among all artists, Drake’s total is second only to the Whitney Houston’s 12-week stretch in 1992-93, which the late legend earned thanks to “I Will Always Love You” and the soundtrack to The Bodyguard.

•  Drake foreshadowed his steamy summer ’16 by making history on the Hot 100 May 21 (the week that Views bowed atop the Billboard 200), when he charted a record-breaking 20 titles on the Hot 100 at once, the most that any act has posted in one week.

•  Drake has linked the most consecutive weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10 among all male artists: 51 (and counting!), as of the Sept. 17 chart. Only Katy Perry, with 69 straight weeks in the top 10 in 2010-11, has scored a longer streak.

•  Drake has totaled a record 17 No. 1s on Billboard‘s Hot Rap Songs chart. Puff Daddy is second with 10. Drake also has earned a record 53 top 10 hits on Hot Rap Songs. Lil Wayne ranks second, with 42. Drake’s latest Hot Rap Songs leader is the chart’s current topper “Too Good,” featuring Rihanna, which has spent three weeks at No. 1 (through the Sept. 17 chart).

•  Drake has earned 51 top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Since his first, “Best I Ever Had,” debuted on May 2, 2009, the runner-up has roughly half that sum, as Lil Wayne follows with 28 in that span.

•  Drake is close to becoming the soloist with the most entries ever on the Hot 100. He’s up to 126, trailing only Lil Wayne, who has 132. Among all acts, they are bested only by the cast of Fox’s Glee, with 207.

Perhaps he’s saving those superlatives, and likely others, for fall ’16, and beyond.

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“No. 1 on the dance chart … and I don’t dance,” Iglesias quips to Billboard. “Quite amazing, if you ask me!”

Enrique Iglesias breaks out of a tie for the most No. 1s among solo male artists in the 40-year history of Billboard‘sDance Club Songs chart, earning his 14th topper with “Duele El Corazon,” featuring Wisin, who earns his first leader. The track rises 2-1 on the chart dated Sept. 17.

“I’m one lucky guy! ‘Duele El Corazon’ keeps surprising me in all senses,” Iglesias tells Billboard. “The song is quite simple and profound at the same time. And, in the end, all we need is love. That give-and-take feeling that moves the world.

“No. 1 on the dance chart … and I don’t dance. Quite amazing, if you ask me!”

Iglesias passes Dave Aude and Pitbull, each with 13 No. 1s. Among all artists, he ties Lady Gaga for 10th place; Madonna leads with 46 No. 1s.

Dating to the Dance Club Songs chart’s Aug. 28, 1976, inception as a national survey, here’s an updated look at the acts with the most No. 1s:

46, Madonna
27, Rihanna
22, Beyonce
19, Janet Jackson
17, Mariah Carey
16, Jennifer Lopez
16, Kristine W
15, Katy Perry
15, Donna Summer
14, Lady Gaga
14, Enrique Iglesias
13, Dave Aude
13, Whitney Houston
13, Kylie Minogue
13, Pitbull

Iglesias’ new No. 1, remixed in Spanish and English by Aude, C-Rod and Tracy Young, among others (with added vocals by Tinashe and Javada), is the first leader with a foreign-language title since (the French) “Deja Vu,” by Giorgio Moroderfeaturing Sia (Aug. 1, 2015). “Duele” is the first Spanish-language No. 1 since Iglesias’ last leader, “Bailando,” featuring Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona (Oct. 18, 2014).

The crossover smash also remains No. 1 for a 12th (nonconsecutive) week onBillboard‘s Hot Latin Songs chart, where Iglesias has tallied a record 27 leaders.

Additional reporting by Leila Cobo

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The track led the weekly Songs of the Summer chart each week from start to finish.

Summer ’16 officially belonged toDrake, as the superstar’s “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla, isBillboard‘s No. 1 song of the summer of 2016.

The collab crowns Billboard‘s annualSongs of the Summer chart, which tracks the most popular hits based on cumulative performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

Impressively, “Dance” led Songs of the Summer for all 14 of the survey’s weeks this year. It’s the third song this decade to rule from start to finish, following Iggy Azalea‘s “Fancy,” featuring Charli XCX, in 2014, and Katy Perry‘s “California Gurls,” featuring Snoop Dogg, in 2010.

Drake earns his first summer chart championship. He previously ranked in the season’s final top 10 with his debut hit “Best I Ever Had” (No. 4, 2009) and “Find Your Love” (No. 9, 2010).

Last year, Wiz Khalifa‘s “See You Again,” featuring Charlie Puth, had led Songs of the Summer most of the season (for 13 of the chart’s first 15 tracking weeks), before OMI‘s “Cheerleader” (which ranked at No. 16 on the season’s first Songs of the Summer survey) pushed to the pinnacle to win the season’s title.

“Dance” first hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated May 21. The Songs of the Summer running tally covered the weeks dated June 18 through Sept. 17 this year; on June 18, “Dance” was in its fourth of 10 weeks atop the Hot 100, and the song would remain in the Hot 100’s top 10 for the entire summer tracking period, currently placing at No. 9.

“Dance” dominates as the top song of the summer of 2016 thanks in large part to radio airplay, as it was the most-heard song on U.S. airwaves during the chart’s tracking period, accumulating a monstrous 2 billion in radio audience in that span, according to Nielsen Music.

Justin Timberlake‘s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” is the No. 2 song of the summer. The track debuted atop the May 28 Hot 100 (before the Songs of the Summer tracking span) and spent the first 10 weeks of the seasonal chart’s tracking period in the Hot 100’s top five.

Timberlake lands his second runner-up ranking for the summer and first as a soloist; back in 2000, *NSYNC finished the season at No. 2 with “It’s Gonna Be Me” (below Matchbox Twenty‘s “Bent”).

And, while it ends summer as the No. 2 song of the season overall, “Feeling” was the top-selling song in that stretch: 1.28 million downloads sold (of 2 million total to date). (The track could have a new life ahead: It’s from the movie Trolls, not due in theaters until November.)

The Chainsmokers‘ “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, is the No. 3 song of the summer of 2016, and Sia‘s “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, is No. 4. The latter song began at No. 19 on the first Songs of the Summer chart and finishes the season in the top five fueled by its four-week reign atop the Hot 100 (Aug. 6-Aug. 27). Calvin Harris‘ “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, wraps as the No. 5 song of the summer.

Just beyond the Songs of the Summer’s final top five of 2016, Desiigner‘s “Panda” places at No. 6 and rules as the most-streamed song of the season: 302.7 million U.S. streams over the June 18-Sept. 17 tracking period.

Rounding out the Songs of the Summer’s top 10 are Rihanna‘s “Needed Me” (No. 7); Twenty One Pilots‘ “Ride” (No. 8); Fifth Harmony‘s “Work From Home,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign (No. 9); and Adele‘s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” (No. 10).

Check out the entire Songs of the Summer chart’s top 20 for 2016 here.

After performing “Closer” on the MTV Video Music Awards Aug. 28, The Chainsmokers & Halsey reign again. Plus, VMAs-related gains for Rihanna, who re-enters the top 10 with “Needed Me.”

The Chainsmokers and featured artist Halsey top the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Sept. 17) for a third week with “Closer.” The song makes gains following the acts’ performance of it at the MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast live on the network from Madison Square Garden in New York on Aug. 28.

Also benefitting from the VMAs spotlight: Rihanna, who re-enters the top 10 with “Needed Me.”

Let’s run down the Hot 100’s top 10 and more. The Hot 100 and all charts will post on Billboard’s websites tomorrow, Sept. 7 (one day later than normal, due to the Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday in the U.S.)

“Closer,” released on Disruptor/Columbia Records, and the first No. 1 for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall) and alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a fourth week atop the Digital Songs chart with 208,000 downloads sold (up 45 percent) in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music, after the acts’ performance of it at the VMAs.

“Closer” marks not only a new personal best for both artists for digital song sales in a week (surpassing last week’s sum), but also the first song to sell more than 200,000 downloads in a week in more than three months, since Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” debuted with 379,000 on the May 28 chart. The total is the best by a duo or group in more than year, since One Direction’s “Drag Me Down” launched with 350,000 (Aug. 22, 2015).

“Closer” tops the Streaming Songs chart for a third week, up by 28 percent to 36.8 million U.S. streams. Spotify streams mark the greatest share (44 percent) of the song’s total clicks; its only official video so far is a lyric video (ahead of an expected proper clip). “Closer” also leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart for a fourth week (22.9 million on-demand streams, up 24 percent).

On Radio Songs, “Closer” climbs 15-11 (79 million in airplay audience, up 31 percent). It adds the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award, while winning top Streaming Gainer honors for a third week. “Closer” additionally tops Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a third week.

Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Bieber and MO, keeps at its No. 2 Hot 100 peak. It stays at No. 3 on Streaming Songs (where it spent its first three weeks at No. 1) with 19.8 million U.S. streams (down 1 percent). It dips 4-6 on Digital Songs (which it led for a week, upon its debut), with 54,000 sold (down 7 percent), but rises 8-7 on Radio Songs (99 million, up 14 percent).

Notably, for a second week, “Closer” and “Cold Water” rank at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on both the Hot 100 and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs simultaneously. Until last week, the top two on the charts had never before synched up, dating to the latter list’s January 2013 launch.

Twenty One Pilots ascend to a new Hot 100 high with “Heathens” (4-3). The song, from the Suicide Squad: The Album soundtrack, holds at No. 2 on Digital Songs (82,000, essentially even week-over-week) and Streaming Songs (20 million, also largely unchanged from a week ago), while bounding 27-18 on Radio Songs (55 million, up 34 percent). It scores a fourth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Twenty One Pilots’ other song in the Hot 100’s top 10, “Ride,” from their albumBlurryface, falls from its No. 5 peak to No. 7, but the duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) continues its control of two radio formats, as, for a second week, “Heathens” tops Alternative Songs and “Ride” rules Pop Songs. Until last week, no act had led the radio airplay tallies simultaneously with different songs.

Between “Heathens” and “Ride” on the Hot 100, Sia’s former four-week No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, descends 3-4, while remaining the most-heard song on U.S. radio, inking a fifth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (148 million, down 5 percent); The Chainsmokers’ second song in the top 10, the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, rises 7-5; and Calvin Harris’ “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, holds at No. 6 after reaching No. 3.

Back to The Chainsmokers: the act becomes only the fourth duo with simultaneous top five Hot 100 hits, although the second in two weeks, following Twenty One Pilots. As noted last week, when Twenty One Pilots joined the exclusive club, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (2013) and OutKast (2003-04) first achieved the feat.

Shawn Mendes’ “Treat You Better” rises 10-8 on the Hot 100. The track retreats 3-5 on Digital Songs (54,000, down 15 percent; it’s back to its regular $1.29 price tag following a 69-cent sale in the iTunes Store); lifts 10-9 on Radio Songs (90 million, up 10 percent); and holds at No. 16 on Streaming Songs (10.3 million, up 2 percent).

“Better,” Mendes’ second Hot 100 top 10, following last year’s No. 4 hit “Stitches,” is from his second full-length album, Illuminate, due Sept. 23.

Drake’s “One Dance” drops 8-9 on the Hot 100. Still, it posts an 18th week atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, extending the longest reign of his 16 No. 1s on the chart. “Dance” has ruled the Songs of the Summer chart each week this season. Will it finish first? Check Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 7) when we reveal the final rankings of the top songs of the summer.

And, as Drake remains in the Hot 100’s top 10, he has now spent 51 consecutive weeks in the bracket, padding his record among solo males. Only Katy Perry has linked a longer run: 69 consecutive weeks in the top 10 in 2010-11. Drake’s nearly year-long streak began on the Oct. 3, 2015, Hot 100, when “Hotline Bling” hiked 16-9. (He has been credited as the lead artist on songs in 40 weeks of his 50-week top 10 stretch.)

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Rihanna’s “Needed Me” returns to the region (11-10) after reaching No. 7. It leaps 27-22 on Digital Songs with a 14 percent increase to 30,000 after Rihanna performed the song as part of her four-segment medley of hits (in the third section) at the VMAs; Rihanna was also honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her catalog of hits and the career impact of her videos.

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. 7), 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. 9).

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The icon extends her record as the woman with the most No. 1 albums in chart history.

Barbra Streisand achieves her 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, enters atop the list.

Her newest leader extends her record for the most No. 1 albums among women, and ties her with Bruce Springsteen for the third-most among all acts. The only artists with more No. 1s are The Beatles, with a record 19 chart-toppers, andJay Z, with 13.

Among women, Streisand outpaces Madonna, the runner-up with eight Billboard 200 No. 1s.

Encore was released on Aug. 26 through Columbia Records, and starts with 149,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music. That’s a stronger-than-expected launch for the set, which was forecast by industry sources to start in the No. 2 slot, behind Florida Georgia Line’s new Dig Your Roots. The latter album enters in the runner-up position, with 145,000 units.

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. 17-dated chart (where Encore debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Wednesday, Sept. 7 (one day later than normal, due to the Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday in the U.S).

Encore follows Streisand’s previous No. 1 albums: Partners (2014), Love Is the Answer(2009), Higher Ground (1997), Back to Broadway (1993), The Broadway Album (1986),Guilty (1980), Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1979), A Star Is Born (1977),The Way We Were (1974), and People (1964).

Further, Streisand surpasses her own record for the longest span between No. 1s on the Billboard 200. Encore arrives 51 years, 10 months and 17 days after her first No. 1, People, spent its initial week at No. 1 (Oct. 31, 1964). People ruled the tally for five consecutive weeks. Streisand previously set the record for the longest span between No. 1s when she topped the chart in 2014 with Partners — 49 years, 11 months and 14 days after People.

One more fun fact: Streisand continues to be the only act to have achieved No. 1 albums in the last six decades — the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

Encore is an all-star collaborative affair, and pairs Streisand with a range of actors to cover songs from Broadway. For example, Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) team up with Streisand for “At the Ballet,” from A Chorus Line; Jamie Foxx guests on “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” (from The Sound of Music) and Melissa McCarthy duets on “Anything You Can Do” (from Annie Get Your Gun).

Nearly all of Encore’s first-week unit total was comprised of traditional album sales — 148,000. And of that figure, physical album sales (CDs and vinyl LPs) equated to 126,000 — the largest sales week for a physical album in 2016. Previously, Blink-182’s California held the biggest physical week for an album this year, when it started with 107,000 sold.

Encore’s physical sales were bolstered by the availability of a deluxe edition of the set sold through Target, which came with four bonus solo Streisand performances.

In addition, the album benefits from a promotion with Streisand’s recent concert tour, where tickets purchased online were bundled with an offer for a CD copy ofEncore.

For ticket/album bundle offers where the purchase price of a ticket includes an album, only those albums that are actively redeemed by a customer count towards the charts. (The redemption rate is usually low for these offers, but can vary depending on the type of artist and how effectively they promote the ticket/album offer to their fans.)

Streisand is one of many acts that have employed a ticket/album bundle offer to sell music. Others include Kanye West (who sold The Life of Pablo with tickets to his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show), Justin Bieber, Duran Duran, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Michael Buble, Cyndi Lauper, Tom Petty, Bon Jovi and many more.

Streisand supported Encore by doing a number of big media appearances, including a sit-down chat and two performances on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Aug. 25. She was joined by one of her Encore partners, Alec Baldwin, on the show, and also did a humorous duet with Fallon (who impersonated Donald Trump). In addition, Streisand was interviewed on NPR’sWeekend Edition (Aug. 20), CBS Sunday Morning (Aug. 28) and CNN (Aug. 29).

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Justin Bieber is presented by Guinness World Records with certificates celebrating his record-breaking achievements before one of his sold-out shows on the Purpose World Tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Justin Bieber just made the latest edition of the Guinness World Records book, and, no, it’s not for the artist who left behind the most fans when he split Instagram. According to Guinness, Bieber is now the proud owner of eight new titles thanks to his smash success on Spotify and his chart domination.

The Guinness World Records 2017 edition honors Bieber, 22, for landing the most streamed track on Spotify in one week (“What Do You Mean?,” 30,723,708 times), as well as the most streamed album on Spotify in one week (Purpose, 205 million times), the most simultaneous tracks on the Billboard Hot 100 (17) in December 2015 and for being the first act to fill three top slots simultaneously on the U.K. singles chart: (“Love Yourself” (No. 1), “Sorry” (No. 2) and “What Do You Mean?” (No. 3).

He was also noticed for having the most simultaneous new entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (13), the most Twitter followers (82,235,563) and YouTube subscribers of any male (20,711,202) and the most viewed YouTube music channel (10,478,651,389).

The Chainsmokers’  “Closer,” featuring Halsey, reigns for a second week, Twenty One Pilots double up in the top five & Mendes reaches the top 10 with “Treat You Better.”

The Chainsmokers and featured artist Halsey lead the Billboard Hot 100(dated Sept. 10) for a second week with “Closer.”

Plus, Twenty One Pilots reach the top five with “Ride,” joining icons The Beatles and Elvis Presley for a piece of chart history; and Shawn Mendes scores his second top 10, as “Treat You Better” lifts from No. 12 to No. 10.

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 No. 1 for both EDM duo The Chainsmokers (Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall) and alt/pop singer-songwriter Halsey, spends a third week atop the Digital Songs chart with 143,000 downloads sold (up 23 percent) in the week ending Aug. 25, according to Nielsen Music, marking a new personal best for the act for digital song sales in a week (surpassing last week’s sum).

“Closer” tops Streaming Songs for a second week, up by 24 percent to 28.6 million U.S. streams. Spotify streams mark 46 percent of the song’s total clicks; its only official video so far is a lyric video (ahead of an expected proper clip). “Closer” leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart for a third week (18.4 million on-demand streams, up 13 percent).

On Radio Songs, “Closer” climbs 19-15 (60 million in airplay audience, up 19 percent). It adds the Hot 100’s top Digital and Streaming Gainer awards for a second week each. “Closer” also crowns Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a second week.

Major Lazer’s “Cold Water,” featuring Bieber and MO, returns to its No. 2 Hot 100 peak, up from No. 3. (The song has yo-yoed up and down from No. 2 in its first five weeks; after debuting at No. 2, it’s ranked at Nos. 5-2-3-2.) On Streaming Songs, it falls 2-3 after spending its first three weeks at No. 1 (19.9 million U.S. streams, down 1 percent). The track regresses 3-4 on Digital Songs (58,000, down 9 percent), which it led for a week (upon its debut), but rises 10-8 on Radio Songs (86 million, up 12 percent).

EDM fans take note: with “Closer” and “Cold Water” at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on both the Hot 100 and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs simultaneously, it’s the first time that the top two have matched on the two charts, dating to the latter list’s January 2013 launch.

Sia’s former four-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, dips 2-3. Still, the collab remains the most-heard song on U.S. radio, logging a fourth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (154 million, down 3 percent). It drops 5-6 on Digital Songs (51,000 downloads sold, down 9 percent) and 9-12 on Streaming Songs (12.2 million, down 3 percent).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top five are two songs by Twenty One Pilots, who hold at their No. 4 high with “Heathens,” from the Suicide Squad: The Album soundtrack, and hit the top five with “Ride” (6-5), from their 2015 album Blurryface. That results in this honor: Twenty One Pilots are just the third rock act with simultaneous top five Hot 100 hits in the chart’s 58-year history, following only The Beatles and Elvis Presley (!) They’re the first rock act to do so in 47 years, as The Beatles totaled 18 weeks with at least two concurrent top five hits in 1964-66 and 1969; Presley ranked in the top five with two titles on the chart dated April 20, 1959: “I Need Your Love Tonight” and “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” (released on two sides of the same vinyl single), at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively. (Of note, Presley’s career predated the Hot 100’s inception by two years.)

Twenty One Pilots (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) are also just the third duo with simultaneous top five Hot 100 hits. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis doubled up in the top five concurrently with “Thrift Shop” (featuring Wanz) and “Can’t Hold Us” (featuring Ray Dalton) for three weeks in 2013, and OutKast did so with “Hey Ya!” and “The Way You Move” (featuring Sleepy Brown) for 14 frames in 2003-04.

“Heathens” holds at No. 2 on Digital Songs (82,000, essentially even week-over-week); slips 3-4 on Streaming Songs (although with a 2 percent gain to 20 million); and bounds 42-27 on Radio Songs (41 million, up 40 percent), winning the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer prize. It also notches a second week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart. “Ride” rises 3-2 on Radio Songs (133 million, down 1 percent) and retreats 11-13 on Streaming Songs (11.4 million, down 4 percent) and 13-15 on Digital Songs (35,000, down 9 percent).

Twenty One Pilots’ Hot 100 action adds to its already impressive chart week. Aspreviously reported, “Ride” rolls 2-1 on Pop Songs and “Heathens” jumps 3-1 on Alternative Songs, making the act the first to top the radio airplay tallies simultaneously with different songs.

Calvin Harris’ “This Is What You Came For,” featuring Rihanna, descends 5-6 on the Hot 100 after peaking at No. 3, while The Chainsmokers’ other song in the top 10, the No. 3-peaking “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, rebounds 8-7.

Drake’s “One Dance” drops 7-8 on the Hot 100. Still, it posts a 17th week atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, extending the longest reign of his 16 No. 1s on the chart. “Dance” also rules the Songs of the Summer chart for a 13th week, having led the seasonal running tally each week since the list relaunched; with one week left in the summer tracking period (for the chart dated Sept. 17), we’ll find out next week if the song is officially crowned the top song of the summer.

And, as Drake remains in the Hot 100’s top 10, he has now spent 50 consecutive weeks in the bracket, padding his record among solo males. Here’s an updated look at the artists to spend the most weeks in-a-row in the top 10 in the Hot 100’s history:

69 weeks, Katy Perry, 2010-11
50 weeks, Drake, 2015-16
48 weeks, Ace of Base, 1993-94
46 weeks, Rihanna, 2010-11
45 weeks, The Weeknd, 2015

Drake’s streak began on the Oct. 3, 2015, Hot 100, when “Hotline Bling” jumped 16-9. (He has been credited as the lead artist on songs in 39 weeks of his 50-week run.)

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” returns to its peak (10-9) and Shawn Mendes reaches the top 10, as “Treat You Better” rises 12-10. Mendes’ latest also enters the Radio Songs top 10 (11-10; 82 million, up 12 percent) and lifts 4-3 on Digital Songs (64,000, up 5 percent, boosted in part by 69-cent sale-pricing in the iTunes Store) and 17-16 on Streaming Songs (10.1 million, up 1 percent). Mendes earns his second Hot 100 top 10, after “Stitches” hit No. 4 last November. (He also scores his second top 10 on Radio Songs, where “Stitches” reached No. 3.)

“Better” is from Mendes’ second full-length album, Illuminate, due Sept. 23.

Just outside the Hot 100’s top 10, Charlie Puth’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” featuring Selena Gomez, surges to a new high, 18-13 (likewise helped by a 69-cent iTunes sale tag); DJ Snake’s “Let Me Love You,” featuring Justin Bieber, rebounds 19-16 after debuting at No. 12 two weeks ago; and two songs hit the top 20: D.R.A.M.’s “Broccoli,” featuring Lil Yachty (21-19) and Kiiara’s “Gold” (23-20).

Find out more Hot 100 news in Billboard’s new weekly original video series, Charts Center, featuring chart information and commentary, interviews with artists, exclusive performances and more, posting this week. Also look for the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 30), when all rankings, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

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Frank Ocean earns his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the arrival of Blonde. The set, which was released on Aug. 20, bows atop the list with 276,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 25, according to Nielsen Music.

Blonde logs the third-largest debut of 2016, behind only the arrivals of Drake’sViews and Beyonce’s Lemonade.

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. 10-dated chart (where Blonde bows at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

Of Blonde’s start of 276,000 units, 232,000 were in traditional album sales, while the rest were SEA (44,000 units).

Only two albums started bigger than Blonde in 2016: Drake’s Views (1.04 million units earned in its debut frame) and Beyonce’s Lemonade (653,000). Blonde also logs the third-biggest sales start — behind, again, just Views (852,000 copies sold in its first week) and Lemonade (485,000).

Blonde was available exclusively to stream via the Apple Music service and for sale through the iTunes Store (but only as a full album — none of its tracks were sold a la carte). The songs on the Blonde album generated 65.4 million streams during the week. It was the second-most streamed album on the chart, behind only Drake’sViews, with 67.5 million streams.

Blonde arrived two days after Ocean released the long-form video Endless (which many have referred to as a visual album). It is available exclusive to stream via Apple Music.

Both releases are Ocean’s first full-length offerings since his debut album, Channel Orange, which came out in 2012. The set debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold 131,000 copies in its first week. It was released on July 10, 2012, initially exclusively through iTunes, and a week before its advertised street date of July 17.

The bulk of Channel Orange’s first-week sales were digital, though there were some on physical CD, as brick-and-mortar retailers began selling the title mid-week following iTunes’ exclusive launch.

Blonde is the third independently distributed No. 1 album in 2016. It follows Blink-182’s California and The Lumineers’ Cleopatra.

California was released on Blink-182’s own Viking Wizard Eyes LLC, licensed to BMG and distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA). Cleopatra was released on Dualtone Records, which is also distributed by ADA.

Blonde is different from both albums in that it was released by Ocean himself directly to Apple and iTunes — bypassing a traditional distribution company. The last set to reach No. 1 in the same manner was Garth Brooks’ 2013 box set, Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences. The hefty box (six CDs and two DVDs) was issued through Brooks’ Pearl Records and sold exclusively through Walmart stores. It debuted at No. 2 with 164,000 sold, and rose to No. 1 the following week — for one frame — selling 146,000.

Before Brooks, Pearl Jam’s Backspacer also hit No. 1 (in 2009) without a traditional distributor. The set, which bowed with 189,000 sold, was released on the band’s Monkeywrench label, and initially sold exclusively through Target, iTunes, Pearl Jam’s website and independent retailers. Slightly less than two years earlier, Eaglesflew in at No. 1 with its self-released Long Road Out of Eden, exclusively sold through Walmart. It debuted with 711,000 copies sold on the Nov. 17, 2007-dated chart.

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Drake’s Views holds at No. 2 with 77,000 units (up 9 percent) and the Suicide Squad soundtrack falls from No. 1 to No. 3 with 76,000 units (down 18 percent).

Tory Lanez arrives at No. 4 with his debut studio album, I Told You, earning 52,000 units (32,000 in pure album sales). The album follows a pair of top 10-charting singles for Lanez on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where he has reached No. 10 with “Say It” and No. 9 (so far) with the still-building “Luv.” Both cuts are available on the new album, which also starts at No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Lindsey Stirling claims her second top 10 album, as her new Brave Enough launches at No. 5 with 49,000 units (45,000 in traditional album sales). It follows the violinist’s 2014 effort, Shatter Me, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 56,000 copies sold in its first week. The new effort also leads the Classical Albums, Classical Crossover Albums and Top Dance/Electronic Albums charts — her third No. 1 on all three lists. The classical-meets-EDM artist previously led all three charts with Shatter Me and her self-titled debut.

Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface dips 5-6 on the Billboard 200 (33,000 units; down 19 percent), Adele’s 25 rises one rung to No. 7 (28,000 units; down 1 percent),Rihanna’s Anti climbs 9-8 (just over 27,000 units; down 2 percent) and DJ Khaled’sMajor Key slips 6-9 (27,000 units; down 19 percent). The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton closes out the top 10, as it ascends 11-10 with 23,000 units (down 3 percent).

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The Chainsmokers and Halsey each earn their first Hot 100 leader with a 6-1 jump to the top.

EDM duo The Chainsmokers and featured alt-pop singer-songwriterHalsey crown the Billboard Hot 100(dated Sept. 3), as “Closer” leaps 6-1 in its third week on the chart. The song marks each act’s first trip to the Hot 100’s summit.

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” concurrently hits the top of the Streaming Songs chart for the first time (3-1), where it’s also The Chainsmokers’ and Halsey’s first No. 1 each, up by 24 percent to 23.1 million U.S. streams. Spotify streams mark more than half (51 percent) of the song’s total clicks; its only official video so far is a lyric video (ahead of an expected proper clip). “Closer” leads the audio subscription services-based On-Demand Songs streaming chart for a second week (16.3 million on-demand streams, up 16 percent).

On Radio Songs, the collab leaps 35-19 (49 million in airplay audience, up 41 percent), sweeping the Hot 100’s top Digital, Streaming and Airplay Gainer awards; it’s the first song to claim all three honors simultaneously since Drake‘s “One Dance” (featuring WizKid and Kyla) on May 21, likewise its first week at No. 1 (of 10 total).

The Chainsmokers, the duo of Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, have charted higher with each successive Hot 100 hit since arriving in 2014 with the kitschy, No. 16-peaking “#Selfie.” In 2016, they’ve added their first three top 10s: “Roses,” featuring Rozes, which reached No. 6 in February, and “Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Daya, which climbed to No. 3 in July; this week it holds at No. 8.

Meanwhile, Halsey, in her third Hot 100 visit (all since September 2015), has far outpaced the No. 60 peak of her breakthrough single “New Americana” and the No. 31 high of Justin Bieber’s “The Feeling,” on which she’s featured.

“Closer” additionally crowns Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (3-1), where it becomes The Chainsmokers’ fourth No. 1, passing Calvin Harris (three) for the most in the list’s brief three-year history. “#Selfie” led for two weeks; “Roses,” for 14; and “Don’t Let Me Down,” for 12.

Notably, “Closer” is just the second track to have topped both Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and the Hot 100; Baauer‘s “Harlem Shake” ruled the charts for eight and five weeks, respectively, beginning March 2, 2013. Unsurprisingly, most Hot 100 leaders in that span have been pop or R&B/hip-hop-leaning: of the 33 Hot 100 No. 1s between “Shake” and “Closer,” 12 topped Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs; just one ruled Hot Rock Songs (Lorde’s “Royals), while no No. 1s on Hot Country Songs or Hot Latin Songs also led the Hot 100 in that span.

Meanwhile, The Chainsmokers are the first duo to top the Hot 100 since 2013, when Macklemore & Ryan Lewis notched two career-opening No. 1s: “Thrift Shop” (featuring Wanz; six weeks) and “Can’t Hold Us” (featuring Ray Dalton; five). On a related note, The Chainsmokers are the first duo or group to pace the Hot 100 in more than two years, since MAGIC! led for six weeks in July and August 2014 with “Rude.”  In between that song and “Closer,” 19 songs by soloists (lead and featured acts) held the top spot. That’s the longest run of soloists’ No. 1s since 24 led in-a-row in 2006-07 (from Nelly‘s “Grillz,” featuring Paul Wall, Ali and Gipp, through Avril Lavigne‘s “Girlfriend”).

As for its title, “Closer” is the first Hot 100 No. 1 by that name; next, well, closest, isNe-Yo‘s “Closer,” which reached No. 7 in 2008. The word “closer” previously got closest to the top when Roberta Flack closed in on the summit with “The Closer I Get to You,” with Donny Hathaway, which hit No. 2 in 1978. (The word “close” has appeared in the titles of three No. 1s: Next‘s “Too Close” (1998); Maxi Priest‘s “Close to You” (1990); and The Carpenters’ “(They Long to Be) Close to You” (1970).

And, by reaching No. 1 in its third week, “Closer” makes the fastest climb to the top of the Hot 100 (for a non-No. 1-debuting song, excluding four No. 1 starters in 2015-16) since Taylor Swift‘s “Blank Space,” which also needed just three weeks to reign (Nov. 29, 2014). Plus, the 6-1 jump for “Closer” is the greatest to the top since Swift’s “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, which vaulted 53-1 (June 6, 2015), following the premiere of its video on ABC’s broadcast of the 2015 Billboard Music Awards.

“Closer” dethrones Sia‘s “Cheap Thrills,” featuring Sean Paul, after four weeks atop the Hot 100 (1-2). Still, the song remains the most-heard song on U.S. radio, posting a third week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart (155 million, up 2 percent). It rebounds 6-5 on Digital Songs (56,000 downloads sold, down 8 percent) and keeps at No. 9 on Streaming Songs (12.5 million, down 4 percent).

“Thrills” concurrently tops the Pop Songs airplay chart for a fifth week, tying Justin Bieber‘s “Love Yourself” for the chart’s longest reign of 2016, and rises 3-1 to crown Adult Pop Songs, where it’s both Sia and Paul’s first No. 1.

Major Lazer‘s “Cold Water,” featuring Bieber and MO, slips to No. 3 from its No. 2 peak in its fourth week on the Hot 100. It falls to No. 2 after spending its first three weeks atop Streaming Songs, although with a 3 percent gain to 20.2 million U.S. streams; lifts 4-3 on Digital Songs (63,000, down 4 percent); and holds at No. 10 on Radio Songs, logging a 15 percent burst to 75 million.

Twenty One Pilots hold at their No. 4 high on the Hot 100 with “Heathens,” from the Suicide Squad: The Album soundtrack, which spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The track is steady at No. 2 on Digital Songs (82,000, down 8 percent); slips 2-3 on Streaming Songs (although with a 2 percent gain 19.6 million); and debuts on Radio Songs at No. 42 (29 million, up 33 percent). “Heathens” notches a second week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart.

Meanwhile, Twenty One Pilots’ “Ride,” from the duo’s 2015 album Blurryface, rebounds from No. 7 back to its No. 6 peak. Thus, for a second week, the act boasts two concurrent top 10s; on the Aug. 27 Hot 100, the pair (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) made history as the first alternative duo or group ever with two simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s. (Among all alt acts, only Lorde previously doubled up in a week, for three weeks in February 2014 with “Royals” and “Team.”)

In between Twenty One Pilots’ two Hot 100 top 10s, “This Is What You Came For,” by this past weekend’s Hot 100 Fest headliner Calvin Harris (featuring Rihanna), descends to No. 5 from its No. 3 peak. It stays at No. 2 on Radio Songs (134 million, down 1 percent) and No. 7 on Streaming Songs (13.6 million, down 6 percent).

Drake’s “One Dance” drops 5-7 on the Hot 100. Still, it adds a 16th week atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, extending the longest command of his 16 No. 1s on the chart. “Dance” also rules the Songs of the Summer chart for a 12th week, having led the seasonal running tally each week since the list relaunched.

And, as Drake remains in the Hot 100’s top 10, he has now spent 49 consecutive weeks in the bracket, padding his record among solo males and claiming the second-longest streak among all acts all to himself (passing Ace of Base). Here’s an updated look at the artists to spend the most weeks in-a-row in the top 10 in the Hot 100’s history:

69 weeks, Katy Perry, 2010-11
49 weeks, Drake, 2015-16
48 weeks, Ace of Base, 1993-94
46 weeks, Rihanna, 2010-11
45 weeks, The Weeknd, 2015

Drake’s streak began on the Oct. 3, 2015, Hot 100, when “Hotline Bling” soared 16-9. (He has been credited as the lead artist on songs in 38 weeks of his 49-week run.)

Capping the Hot 100’s top 10, as noted above, The Chainsmokers’ “Don’t Let Me Down” keeps at No. 8; Justin Timberlake‘s former No. 1 “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” stays at No. 9; and Adele‘s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” returns to the tier (11-10), after reaching No. 9 on the Aug. 13 chart. “Send” becomes Adele’s fifth top five on Radio Songs (following four No. 1s), rising 6-4 (126 million, up 11 percent).

Just outside the Hot 100’s top 10, Shawn Mendes‘ “Treat You Better” hits a new high, rising 14-12; Drake’s “Too Good,” featuring Rihanna, reaches the top 15 (17-14); and Flume‘s “Never Be Like You,” featuring Kai, enters the top 20 (25-20). Plus, one song enters the top 40 for the first time: Daya‘s “Sit Still, Look Pretty” (56-36), marking her third top 40 Hot 100 in three tries (all this year), following her debut single “Hide Away” (No. 23 in March) and “Don’t Let Me Down.”

Find out more Hot 100 news in Billboard’s new weekly original video series, Charts Center, featuring chart information and commentary, interviews with artists, exclusive performances and more, posting this week. Also look for the weekly “Hot 100 Chart Moves” column later this week and visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 23), 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 (Aug. 26).

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he Suicide Squad soundtrack is on course for a second week atop the Billboard 200 chart, according to industry forecasters. Those in the know suggest the set could earn upwards of 85,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 18 — of which around 50,000 could be in traditional album sales. The album opened at No. 1 on the Aug. 27-dated list, tallying 182,000 units (and 128,000 in sales).

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The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based onmulti-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the new Sept. 3-dated Billboard 200 chart — where Suicide Squad may hold at No. 1 — is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, Aug. 21.

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As for the rest of next week’s top 10, watch for Justin Moore’s Kinda Don’t Care and PARTYNEXTDOOR’s PARTYNEXTDOOR3 (P3) to both possibly bow in the region. Moore could start with over 40,000 units, while PARTYNEXTDOOR may launch with around 40,000 as well.