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11 May 2026 Music Now!

Ella Langley Takes Top 2 on Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Choosin’ Texas’ & ‘Be Her’

The former reigns for a ninth week. Plus, Tame Impala & JENNIE’s “Dracula” hits the top 10.

Ella Langley makes more chart history as “Choosin’ Texas” continues for a ninth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and “Be Her” ascends to a new No. 2 high.

Langley becomes the first woman known for primarily recording country music to claim the Hot 100’s top two spots simultaneously over the chart’s 67-year history. Among all core-country acts, only Morgan Wallen has also achieved the feat, for a week last May.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Tame Impala and JENNIE’s “Dracula” blasts to No. 10 — becoming the first top 10 for each act — and women hold eight spots in the region, marking a run of prominence last linked nearly a dozen years ago.

Read on for details of this week’s entire top 10 on the Hot 100.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated May 16, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 12. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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4 May 2026 Music Now!

Noah Kahan Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 with ‘The Great Divide’

Plus: Kehlani’s self-titled set debuts in the top five, while Michael Jackson’s Thriller returns to the top 10.

Noah Kahan achieves his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as The Great Divide debuts atop the list dated May 9. The set, Kahan’s fourth full-length studio project, earned 389,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 30, according to Luminate.

That marks Kahan’s biggest week by units, the largest week for a rock album by units since the chart began measuring by units at the end of 2014 and the third-biggest week of 2026 among all albums.

Further, The Great Divide lands 2026’s largest streaming week of any album. It also claims the biggest vinyl sales week for a rock album in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). (Rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.)

The Great Divide is Kahan’s fifth charted effort on the Billboard 200 and his second top 10. He previously topped out at No. 2 with Stick Season, in 2024. That set returns to the top 10, rising 11-10 in its 179th week on the chart.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Kehlani captures her fourth top 10 with the No. 4 debut of her self-titled effort, while Michael Jackson’s chart-topping Thriller re-enters the chart at No. 7 following the debut of the Michael biopic in movie theaters.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 9, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 5. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of The Great Divide’s 389,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 212,000 (equaling 215.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, Kahan’s best streaming week and the biggest streaming week of 2026; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 175,000 (his best sales week; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 2,000.

With 389,000 equivalent album units earned, The Great Divide scores the biggest week for a rock album since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in December 2014. It surpasses the previous high by a rock set in that span, by the No. 1 debut of Dave Matthews Band’s Come Tomorrow, with 292,000 units (June 23, 2018). Plus, with 175,000 copies sold in pure album sales, the set notches the largest sales week for a rock album in nearly seven years, since Tool’s Fear Inoculum bowed at No. 1 with 248,000 (Sept. 14, 2019).

Vinyl purchases comprise 118,000 of The Great Divide’s first week, which is both Kahan’s best week ever on vinyl and the best sales week on vinyl for a rock album in the modern era.

The Great Divide was announced on Jan. 28, and the album’s release on April 24 was preceded by its title track, which spends an 11th week at No. 1 on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart this week (the most weeks atop the chart this decade). The track debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the all-genre multi-metric Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (Feb. 14-dated list), marking Kahan’s highest-charting hit ever.

The album’s first week got a boost from its availability across nine vinyl variants (including a signed edition and a Target-exclusive set with two bonus live tracks), three CD editions (including a signed edition and a Target-exclusive with two bonus live tracks) and a deluxe digital download and streaming version that added four bonus studio songs (dubbed The Great Divide: The Last of the Bugs).

Kahan will launch his The Great Divide Tour on June 11 in Orlando, Florida.

A pair of former No. 1s follows Kahan on the latest Billboard 200, as Ella Langley’s Dandelion drops a spot to No. 2 (112,000 equivalent album units, up 6%) and Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem dips 2-3 (81,000, down 3%).

Kehlani captures her fourth top 10-charted album on the Billboard 200 as her self-titled set debuts at No. 4 with 69,000 equivalent album units earned — the biggest debut for an R&B album by a woman in 2026. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 45,000 (equaling 45.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 24,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

The new album was preceded by a trio of top 10s on the Hot R&B Songs chart, including the five-week No. 1 “Folded,” also her first top 10 on the all-genre Hot 100, reaching No. 6 in January. Kehlani was released on five vinyl variants (including a signed edition), six CD variants (including multiple signed editions), and via a standard digital and streaming edition and a deluxe “Uncut” digital download edition with 10 additional tracks.

BTS’ former No. 1 ARIRANG falls 4-5 on the latest Billboard 200 (56,000 equivalent album units, down 8%), while Justin Bieber’s SWAG slips 5-6 (47,000, down 22%).

Michael Jackson’s Thriller re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 7 with 45,000 equivalent album units earned (up 425%), following the April 24 release of the Michael biopic in movie theaters and its blockbuster opening weekend at the U.S. and Canada box office. Thriller, which spent 37 weeks at No. 1 in 1983-84 — the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a singular artist — was last in the top 10 on the Dec. 3, 2022-dated chart, when it jumped 115-7 after its 40th anniversary reissue.

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls 6-8 on the latest Billboard 200 (43,000 equivalent album units, down 7%), Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time drops 10-9 (39,000, down 2%) and Kahan’s Stick Season steps 11-10 (38,000, down 2%).

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27 Apr 2026 Music Now!

Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drop Dead’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

The song starts as her fourth leader, with all having arrived at the summit.

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead” begins its chart life at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It arrives as her fourth leader, with all having launched in the top spot.

The singer-songwriter first reigned with “Drivers License” for eight weeks in January-March 2021. She followed with “Good 4 U” for a week in May 2021 and “Vampire” for two weeks in July-September 2023.

Already the first artist to debut the lead singles from her first two studio albums at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Rodrigo extends her mark, with “Drop Dead” ushering in her third LP, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, due June 12. “Drivers License” revved anticipation for her first set, Sour (with “Good 4 U” also from the album), and “Vampire” introduced Guts.

Further helping build buzz for “Drop Dead,” Rodrigo released multiple versions of the song and videos for it and performed it live April 18 at Coachella.

Read on for deeper details of this week’s Hot 100 top 10.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated May 2, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, April 28. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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20 Apr 2026 Music Now!

Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ No. 1 on Hot 100 for 7th Week as ‘Dandelion’ Debuts Atop Billboard 200

Langley joins Taylor Swift as the only women to top the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 with country titles simultaneously.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It became her first leader on the chart in mid-February.

Concurrently, parent album Dandelion sprouts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Langley becomes just the second woman to lead the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously with country titles (defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Hot Country Songs or Top Country Albums charts). Taylor Swift first doubled up with “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” and Red (Taylor’s Version) on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 for a week in November 2021. With Swift earning the honor via re-recorded material, Langley is the first woman to claim the mark with all-new music.

Meanwhile, fellow Dandelion track “Be Her” bounds 8-4 for a new Hot 100 high, marking Langley’s second top five hit. She becomes the first woman artist that has primarily recorded country music to chart her initial two top five songs in the region simultaneously.

On the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart, “Choosin’ Texas” reigns for a 21st week and “Be Her” holds at its No. 2 best (with both in the top 10 on Country Airplay). Langley cowrote and coproduced both songs.

“It was such a crazy moment,” the Alabama native told Billboard about finding out that “Choosin’ Texas” had first topped the Hot 100. “My label called, with my team on speaker, and it was just surreal. We loved the song when we wrote it, but none of us thought that it would be the song to do everything it’s doing. It keeps giving us a reason to celebrate new ­milestones.”

Read on for details of this week’s Hot 100 top 10, which again features a prominent presence by women artists overall.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated April 25, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, April 21. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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19 Apr 2026 Music Now!

Ella Langley Achieves First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 with ‘Dandelion’

Plus: Justin Bieber and Sabrina Carpenter return to the top 10 after headlining Coachella’s first weekend.

Ella Langley achieves her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as her sophomore studio set Dandelion debuts atop the list dated April 25. The effort launches with 169,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending April 16, according to Luminate. That marks the largest week for a country album by a woman in two years, and the biggest week of 2026 for any woman.

Dandelion was preceded by the smash crossover hit “Choosin’ Texas,” which has spent 20 weeks at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, six weeks atop the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 and three weeks at No. 1 on Country Airplay.

With Dandelion’s No. 1 Billboard 200 debut following the No. 1 bow of Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 on the March 7-dated chart, there have been two No. 1 country albums by two different solo women in a calendar year for the first time in more than a decade. It last happened in 2012, when Taylor Swift’s Red and Carrie Underwood’s Blown Away both reigned. (Honorable mention to 2021, which saw two country No. 1s, but by the same artist, with Swift’s Fearless [Taylor’s Version] and Red [Taylor’s Version].)

Also notable, Dandelion and Cloud 9 are both the first No. 1s for Langley and Moroney. The chart last saw a pair of first No. 1s that were country albums by solo women in the same year nearly 20 years ago. In 2007, Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood both got their first No. 1s, with Reba Duets and Carnival Ride, respectively.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 25, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 21. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of Dandelion’s 169,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 128,000 (equaling 130.46 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, Langley’s best streaming week; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 39,000 (her best sales week; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise the remaining sum.

Dandelion claims the largest week for a country album by a woman in two years, and the biggest week of 2026 for any woman. The set also scores the largest streaming week for an album by a woman in 2026, and the biggest streaming week for a country album by a woman in two years. Among country albums by women, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tallied the last larger week by units (407,000 in its debut week; April 13, 2024, chart) and streams (136.08 million in its second week; April 20, 2024, chart).

Country albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

Dandelion is Langley’s first top 10 on the Billboard 200, and her second chart entry, following her Hungover debut. That set arrived on the chart in August 2024 but didn’t hit the top 40 until this January and peaked at No. 20 a week ago (April 18 chart), in its 80th week on the list.

Dandelion was issued as a standard album at streaming services and at retail as a digital download, CD and vinyl (in two variants, one signed).

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 I’m the Problem holds at No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200, with 83,000 equivalent album units earned (up 4%). In turn, country albums are Nos. 1 and 2 for the second time in 2026, following the Jan. 24-dated list, when Zach Bryan’s With Heaven on Top debuted at No. 1 and I’m the Problem fell 1-2. Before that, it last happened on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart, when Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits re-entered the chart at No. 1 following his death and Wallen’s One Thing at a Time fell to No. 2.

Back on the latest Billboard 200, BTS’ ARIRANG slips 1-3 in its fourth week on the list, earning 78,000 equivalent album units (down 37%). The set spent it first three weeks atop the chart. Don Toliver’s chart-topping OCTANE is a non-mover at No. 4 (48,000, down 15%), Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is steady at No. 5 (nearly 48,000, down 5%), and Bad Bunny’s former leader DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS rises 7-6 (44,000, down 3%).

Justin Bieber’s SWAG zooms 55-7 following his headlining performance during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The set surges with 43,000 equivalent album units earned, a gain of 160% compared to the previous week. The increase was largely owed to streaming activity, as SWAG’s songs generated 42,000 SEA units (up 158%), equaling 41.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — across both its SWAG and deluxe SWAG II reissue that contained additional songs. (All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting.)

Bieber headlined the second night of both weekends of the festival, taking the stage on April 11 and 18, which was also livestreamed on Coachella’s YouTube channel.

Luke Combs’ The Way I Am falls 6-8 on the Billboard 200 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (down 9%) and Wallen’s One Thing at a Time rises 9-8 with 40,000 units (up 5%).

Sabrina Carpenter’s former No. 1 Man’s Best Friend jumps back into the top 10, climbing 18-10, following her headlining turn at Coachella. She reigned over the first night of both weekends, on April 10 and 17. Man’s Best Friend flies up the list with 40,000 equivalent album units earned, up 44%. Like SWAG, Man’s Best Friend mostly gained from streaming increases — it earned 34,000 SEA units (up 60%), equaling 34.39 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs. Carpenter’s set was also streamed live on Coachella’s YouTube channel.

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30 Mar 2026 Music Now!

BTS’ ‘Swim’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

The song marks the reunited superstars’ seventh leader on the list.

BTS’ “Swim” makes the splashiest of starts, at No. 1, on the Billboard Hot 100. The song becomes the superstar South Korean pop group’s seventh career leader and first since 2021; the following year, the septet announced a hiatus.

“Swim” is from ARIRANG, BTS’ first studio album of new material since 2020. The set blasts in atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, where it’s likewise the group’s seventh No. 1.

BTS continues to boast the most Hot 100 No. 1s among groups since it first led, with “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, in October 2020. In fact, BTS has the most No. 1s among groups in nearly half a century — since the Bee Gees banked its nine career chart-toppers in 1971-79. As for the most No. 1s among groups since the chart began in August 1958, the Beatles lead all acts with 20, followed in the category by the Supremes (12), Bee Gees, the Rolling Stones (eight) and BTS.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated April 4, 2026, will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 31. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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30 Mar 2026 Music Now!

BTS Earns 7th No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 with ‘ARIRANG’

Plus, Luke Combs captures his seventh top 10 album with The Way I Am.

BTS’ ARIRANG debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 4), scoring the reunited pop group its seventh leader. The set opens with 641,000 equivalent album units earned — the largest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014. Of that sum, 532,000 are in pure album sales (purchases of physical and digital albums), landing BTS the biggest sales week for an album by a group in more than a decade.

ARIRANG follows BTS’ previous No. 1s Proof (2022), BE (2020), MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 (2020), MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA (2019), Love Yourself ‘Answer’ (2018) and Love Yourself ‘Tear’ (2018).

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, Luke Combs captures his seventh top 10 set, as The Way I Am bows at No. 2.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 4, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 31. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of ARIRANG’s 641,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, pure album sales comprise 532,000 (the group’s biggest sales week ever; it debuts as BTS’ seventh No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 95,000 (equaling 99.10 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, BTS’ biggest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise the remainder.

BTS claims the biggest week for an album by units earned since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl debuted at No. 1 with an historic 4.002 million units on the Oct. 18, 2025-dated chart. BTS has the biggest week for any album by a group, by units, since the Billboard 200 began ranking by equivalent album units in December 2014.

By pure album sales (purchases of physical and digital download albums), BTS has the biggest sales week for any album since Showgirl started with 3.48 million copies sold. The last group to have a larger sales week was One Direction, with the debut week of Midnight Memories (547,000 sold, Dec. 14, 2013-dated chart).

ARIRANG’s first-week sales number was largely powered by physical sales (516,000) bolstered by its availability across 17 vinyl variants and nine CD editions, all of which have the same tracklist. (All contain collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters.) Vinyl sales accounted for 208,000 — BTS’ best sales week on vinyl and the largest by a group in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). It’s also the sixth-largest vinyl sales week for an album in the modern era; Taylor Swift has the top five. The biggest week for a vinyl set in the modern era was registered by the opening week of Showgirl, with 1.334 million.

ARIRANG’s release date of March 20 was announced on Jan. 1, though its title was not revealed until Jan. 16. The album was ushered in alongside the global live Netflix special BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG on March 21. The set’s lead single, “SWIM,” was released simultaneously with the album, and the track’s music video premiered the same day. Later in the release week, BTS performed on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, on March 25 and 26.

Next month, the BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ will launch on April 9 in Goyang, South Korea, and arrive in the United States on April 25 in Tampa, Fla. The trek will continue through the U.S. and Mexico through May 28, before heading overseas. The tour returns to the U.S. on Aug. 1 and is set to wrap its U.S./Canada dates Sept. 6 in Inglewood, Calif.

Luke Combs collects his seventh top 10-charted album on the Billboard 200, as The Way I Am arrives at No. 2 with 101,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 76,000 (equaling 77.66 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 23,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise the rest.

The album was preceded by seven charted hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, three of which reached the top 10: “Back in the Saddle,” “Sleepless in a Hotel” and “Be by You.” All three have also reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart, with “Back in the Saddle” topping the list for two weeks in November.

The Way I Am adds to Combs’ top 10 total on the Billboard 200, following Fathers & Sons (No. 6 peak in 2024), Gettin’ Old (No. 4, 2023), Growin’ Up (No. 2, 2022), What You See Is What You Get (No. 1, 2019), The Prequel (No. 4, 2019) and This One’s for You (No. 4, 2018).

ARIRANG and The Way I Am are the only debuts in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200. Of the eight remaining titles in the top 10, just one is not a former No. 1 (Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving at No. 6).

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem falls 2-3 (76,000 equivalent album units earned, up 4%), Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. slips 1-4 in its third week (64,000, down 35%) and Don Toliver’s Octane rounds out the top five, rising 6-5 (55,000, down 2%).

Dean’s The Art of Loving climbs 7-6 (54,000 equivalent album units, down 2%), Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS falls 5-7 (53,000, down 7%), Bruno Mars’ The Romantic is a non-mover at No. 8 (45,000, down 16%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time rises 12-9 (38,000, up 7%) and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is steady at No. 10 (36,000, down 4%).

Source: billboard.com

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23 Mar 2026 Music Now!

Ella Langley Leaps Past Taylor Swift for Country History as ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Tops Hot 100 for 4th Week

Plus, Olivia Dean earns her second Hot 100 top 10 with “So Easy (To Fall in Love).”

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds for a historic fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song first led in mid-February and added its second week on top at the beginning of March.

“Choosin’ Texas” solely claims the most weeks ever spent atop the Hot 100 for a song by a woman that also hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, one-upping Taylor Swift’s three-week Hot 100 reign with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” in 2012.

Beyond “Choosin’ Texas” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” three No. 1 country hits by women topped the Hot 100 for two weeks each: Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” in 2024 and Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream,” with Kenny Rogers (1983), and “9 to 5” (1981).

Also of note among country classics by women: Parton wrote “I Will Always Love You,” with Whitney Houston’s cover ruling the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1992-93 (after Parton sent two of her versions to No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982). Plus, Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” dominated the Hot 100 for 10 weeks and hit No. 4 on Hot Country Songs in 1977 and Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” led the Hot 100 for four weeks in 1967 and made it to No. 17 on Hot Country Songs.

“Choosin’ Texas” concurrently crowns Hot Country Songs for a 17th week.

Also in the Hot 100’s top 10, Olivia Dean charts her second career hit in the tier as “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” lifts 11-9. It joins “Man I Need,” which keeps at its No. 2 high.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated March 28, 2026, will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 24. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

Source: billboard.com

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23 Mar 2026 Music Now!

Harry Styles Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200 with ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’

Plus, Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds and P1Harmony’s latest albums debut in the top 10.

Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 28), following its debut at No. 1 a week ago. In the latest tracking week, ending March 19, the set earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate. That’s down 77% compared to its opening sum of 430,000.

Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. is the first album to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl (Oct. 18 and 25, 2025).

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds’ Mutiny After Midnight and P1Harmony’s UNIQUE both debut.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 28, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 24. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’s 99,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 74,000 (down 47%, equaling 75.10 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it’s No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a second week), album sales comprise 24,500 (down 92%, falling 1-3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 500 (down 33%).

Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. is the first album to have two weeks in a row at No. 1 since The Life of a Showgirl logged its two most recent weeks atop the list on the charts dated Jan. 3 and 10. Since then, the No. 1 slot has been a revolving door of one-week No. 1s — seven weeks of No. 1 debuts and two weeks when former No. 1s from 2025 returned to the top for a week each (Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem on the Jan. 17 chart, and Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS on the Feb. 28 chart.

Back on the latest Billboard 200, I’m the Problem rises 3-2 with 74,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).

Johnny Blue Skies (formerly Sturgill Simpson) & the Dark Clouds’ Mutiny After Midnight debuts at No. 3 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned — all from physical album sales. It’s the best week yet, by units earned or album sales, for the artist. It’s the second top 10-charting project for Simpson, following the No. 3-peaking A Sailor’s Guide to Earth in 2016. Mutiny After Midnight is currently only available on CD, vinyl and cassette. No release date has been announced for a streaming version or a digital download for purchase.

Mutiny After Midnight marks the first album exclusively available on physical formats to reach the top 10 in nearly three years. The last to do so was Taylor Swift’s Record Store Day-exclusive vinyl release Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions on the May 6, 2023-dated chart. That set, sold only at independent record stores, debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 75,000 copies sold (the entirety of its production run) in its first week.

Mutiny After Midnight’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across six vinyl variants (a standard widely available black LP, an indie store-exclusive red color edition and four further variants exclusive to the artist’s webstore). The album’s cassette edition was also sold exclusively via the artist webstore, while its CD was widely available.

Notably, the last widely available physical-only album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 came nearly a decade ago, when Garth Brooks’ archival five-CD box set The Anthology: Part I, The First Five Years, debuted at No. 4 on the Dec. 9, 2017 chart and spent three nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10.

P1Harmony earns its highest-charting album and second top 10 on the Billboard 200, as UNIQUE debuts at No. 4. The set earned 58,000 equivalent album units in its first week, the group’s best week by units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 56,000 (the act’s best sales week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.22 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

The group previously visited the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with EX in 2025, debuting and peaking at No. 9.

The new album’s first-week sales were boosted by its availability across 24 CD variants and five vinyl variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters, with some items randomized).

A pair of former No. 1s follows P1Harmony, as Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS falls 4-5 (57,000, down 14%) and Don Toliver’s OCTANE descends 5-6 (56,000, down 7%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving dips 6-7 (55,000, down 6%), and Bruno Mars’ chart-topping The Romantic drops 2-8 (54,000, down 32%).

Tate McRae’s former leader So Close to What surges 20-9 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (up 61%) after the release of its deluxe edition on vinyl and CD.

Rounding out the top 10 is the chart-topping KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, stepping 11-10 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (up 9%). The set notches its first gain in six weeks, following the movie’s double-win at the Academy Awards on March 15, when it won best animated feature and best original song (“Golden”).

Source: billboard.com

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16 Mar 2026 Music Now!

Ella Langley Tops Hot 100 for Third Week with ‘Choosin’ Texas,’ Tying Taylor Swift for Country History Among Women

The smash gets together with Swift’s first No. 1 in 2012.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” rebounds a spot for a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song first led the chart in February and added its second frame on top two weeks ago.

Notably, “Choosin’ Texas” ties for the most weeks ever spent atop the Hot 100 for a song by a woman that also hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, matching Taylor Swift’s three-week reign with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” her first Hot 100 leader, in 2012.

“Choosin’ Texas” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” stand above three other No. 1 country hits by women that led the Hot 100 for two weeks each: Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” in 2024, and Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream,” with Kenny Rogers (1983), and “9 to 5” (1981).

Honorable mentions: Parton wrote “I Will Always Love You,” with Whitney Houston’s cover crowning the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1992-93; Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” ruled the Hot 100 for 10 weeks and hit No. 4 on Hot Country Songs in 1977; and Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” led the Hot 100 for four weeks in 1967, although it peaked at No. 17 on Hot Country Songs.

“Choosin’ Texas” concurrently tops Hot Country Songs for a 16th week.

Also in the Hot 100’s top 10, Harry Styles’ “American Girls” debuts at No. 4 and his former No. 1 “Aperture” surges 29-9. Both are from his new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., which launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated March 21, 2026) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, March 17. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

Source: billboard.com

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