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23 Jan 2024

Here Are 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Ivan Cornejo | Billboard

Ivan Cornejo reveals five things you didn’t know about him!

Ivan Cornejo
Hey, what’s up guys? It’s Ivan Cornejo, and here’s five things you guys probably didn’t know about me.

Ivan Cornejo
First one is I hate olives. I’m allergic to mushrooms. If I wasn’t a singer, I would have been working to try to be an actor. I love history. I love watching all documentaries about like, war and stuff and just learning about the past. And I love Michael Jackson. And those are five things you probably didn’t know about me.

22 Jan 2024

Kali Uchis Scores First No. 1 on Top Album Sales With ‘Orquideas’

Kali Uchis scores her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 27), as Orquídeas arrives atop the list with her biggest sales week ever – 31,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 18, according to Luminate. Of that sum, vinyl sales accounted for 20,000 – marking the largest week for a Spanish-language album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. The effort also launches at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums ranking, No. 1 on Top Latin Albums (her first leader there) and starts at a career-high No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

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Elsewhere in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Jimin’s former No. 1 FACE re-enters at No. 4 following its vinyl release and Kid Cudi’s new album Insano starts at No. 5.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. All of Billboard’s new Jan. 27, 2024-dated charts will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 23. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of the 31,000 copies sold of Orquídeas, physical sales comprise 30,000 (20,000 on vinyl, 10,000 on CD and negligible sum on cassette) and digital download album sales comprise 1,000. Its sales were bolstered by its availability across seven vinyl variants and four CD editions, including exclusive versions sold through independent record stores, Target, Urban Outfitters and the artist’s webstore.

Six Taylor Swift albums populate the top 10, all former No. 1s, led by Folklore, which pushes 3-2 with 19,000 (up 92%, owed to a replenishment of CD stock at retail). 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 1-3 (13,000; down 20%), Midnights dips 2-6 (8,000; down 29%), Lover descends 5-8 (7,000; down 28%), Evermore falls 7-9 (6,000; down 8%) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) drops 6-10 (5,000; down 25%).

Jimin’s FACE re-enters at No. 4 with nearly 10,000 sold (up 3,501%) following the set’s release on vinyl. It sold 8,000 copies on vinyl in the week ending Jan. 18,  and enters at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart. FACE was issued in only one vinyl edition, and included a photo book, postcard and photocard inside its packaging.

Kid Cudi scores his sixth top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales, as his latest studio album Insano starts at No. 5 with 8,500 sold. Of that sum, physical sales comprise 7,000 (about 5,500 on vinyl and 1,500 on CD) and digital downloads comprise 1,500. The album’s sales were enhanced by its availability across four vinyl variants and four CD editions.

Stray Kids’ chart-topping ROCK-STAR falls 4-7 on Top Album Sales, with nearly 8,000 sold (down 19%).

In the week ending Jan. 18, there were 1.083 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 9.3% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 822,000 (down 12.1%) and digital albums comprised 261,000 (down 0.6%).

There were 370,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Jan. 18 (down 15.7 week-over-week) and 449,000 vinyl albums sold (down 8.8%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 1.316 (down 27.2% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 1.566 million (down 45.9%).

Overall year-to-date album sales total 3.694 million (down 35.5% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 2.895 million (down 38.8%) and digital album sales total 799,000 (down 19.5%).

22 Jan 2024

21 Savage Charts 14 Songs From ‘American Dream’ on Hot 100, Reaches Historic Milestone

21 Savage has a huge week on Billboard’s charts, thanks to his new album, American Dream.

The set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Jan. 27) with 133,000 equivalent album units earned in its opening week (Jan. 12-18), according to Luminate, while all 14 chart-eligible songs from the LP enter the Billboard Hot 100, including two in the top 10.

The 14 debuts up 21 Savage’s total to 103 career Hot 100-charting hits. He becomes just the 16th artist to amass 100 entries or more over the chart’s 65-year history.

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Here’s a look at all of 21 Savage’s entries (includes two previously-charting songs) on the latest Hot 100.

21 Savage on the Jan. 27, 2024-dated Hot 100:
Rank, Title
No. 5, “Redrum”
No. 10, “Née-nah,” with Travis Scott & Metro Boomin
No. 18, “All of Me”
No. 19, “N.H.I.E.,” with Doja Cat
No. 31, “Pop Ur Sht,” with Young Thug & Metro Boomin
No. 33, “Sneaky”
No. 35, “Dangerous,” with Lil Durk & Metro Boomin
No. 40, “Should’ve Wore a Bonnet,” with Brent Faiyaz
No. 43, “Prove It,” with Summer Walker
No. 48, “Good Good,” with Usher & Summer Walker (down from No. 34, after hitting No. 25)
No. 50, “Surround Sound” (JID featuring 21 Savage & Baby Tate) (down from No. 40 peak)
No. 57, “Red Sky,” with Tommy Newport & Mikky Ekko
No. 59, “Letter to My Brudda”
No. 66, “See the Real”
No. 67, “Just Like Me,” with Burna Boy & Metro Boomin
No. 70, “Dark Days,” with Mariah The Scientist

Thanks to his appearance on “Red Sky,” Tommy Newport scores his first entry on not just the Hot 100, but any Billboard chart. Mikky Ekko, also on the song, returns to the Hot 100 for the first time as a recording artist since his featured appearance on Rihanna’s “Stay” in 2013., Ekko co-wrote “Stay” – as well as Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which holds at its No. 8 high a week after reaching the top 10.

With 103 total Hot 100 entries, 21 Savage passes The Weeknd (98), Eminem (96), Bad Bunny (93), Young Thug (93) and James Brown (91) for the 16th-most career hits.

Here’s an updated look at every act that has charted 100 or more Hot 100 entries.

Most Career Billboard Hot 100 Hits (through Jan. 27, 2024):
328, Drake
232, Taylor Swift
207, Glee Cast
186, Lil Wayne
168, Future
147, Nicki Minaj
141, Kanye West
138, Lil Baby
116, Chris Brown
113, Travis Scott
109, Elvis Presley (whose career predates the Hot 100’s inception)
108, Lil Uzi Vert
105, Justin Bieber
105, Jay-Z
104, YoungBoy Never Broke Again
103, 21 Savage

Of 21 Savage’s 103 total songs to have made the Hot 100, 53 have reached the top 40; 17 have hit the top 10; and two, via featured roles, hit No. 1: Post Malone’s “Rockstar” (2017) and Drake’s “Jimmy Cooks” (2022).

Before 21 Savage, the last artist to join the 100 Hot 100 hits club was Travis Scott, last August after releasing his album Utopia. Two other acts achieved the feat in 2023: Lil Uzi Vert in July, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again in May.

While it’s rare for artists to chart triple-digit entries on the Hot 100, it has become a more regular occurrence since the ranking began including streaming figures in 2007. As such, some artists have been able to chart a high number of songs on the Hot 100 after releasing high-profile albums. The model contrasts with prior decades, when acts generally promoted one single at a time in the physical-only marketplace and on radio. That shift in consumption helps explain why artists have been able to chart many songs over short spans in recent years.

22 Jan 2024

Here Are Five Things You Didn’t Know About Laufey | Billboard

Laufey reveals five things you didn’t know about her!

Laufey
Hi, I’m Laufey, and here are five things you don’t know about me.

Laufey
No. 1, I don’t like pickles. I don’t know why I don’t like pickles. No. 2, I grew up figure skating and doing ballet. So I’m quite flexible. No. 3, my ultimate dream is to write the James Bond song. No. 4, I studied Danish for seven years, and speak a bit of Danish, but I can read, I can read Danish. No. 5 I really want to learn trumpet. I love trumpet. I love Chet Baker, and I feel like my life won’t be completely complete until I learn trumpet. And those are five things you don’t know about me.

18 Jan 2024

Billboard Explains: Green Day’s Chart Success

Ahead of the release of Green Day’s 14th studio album Saviors, Billboard is looking back at the band’s biggest chart achievements. This is Billboard Explains: Green Day’s Chart Success.

Alyssa Caverley:
Green Day has been a staple on the Billboard charts. Throughout their decades-long career, they’ve appeared multiple times on numerous charts, and with the release of their 14th studio album, Saviors, let’s look back at their biggest chart achievements. This is Billboard Explains: Green Day’s Chart Success.

Green Day’s first song to debut on Billboard charts was “Longview” in 1994. The track climbed all the way to No.1, becoming their first of 12 No. 1s today. And since then, they’ve left their mark on many other Billboard charts, including the Hot 100. The rock band has two top 10 hits, including “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” which peaked at No. 2 in 2005, and “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” which reached No. 6 also in 2005.

The band has earned three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart, including 2004’s American Idiot, 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown, and 2016’s Revolution Radio, which features “Bang Bang.”

Green Day also holds a number of Billboard chart records. They are tied with Foo Fighters and Linkin Park for the second most No. 1s in Alternative AirPlay history with 12 after the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they’re tied with the Chili Peppers for the fourth most appearances on Alternative AirPlay with 37. Plus, they have the third most top 10s and Alternative AirPlay history with 25, and the second most No. 1s on Rock and Alternative AirPlay with seven.

There’s no doubt that Green Day has left a record-making mark on the charts.

18 Jan 2024

Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ Surpasses 2 Million in U.S. Sales

Taylor Swift claims her ninth album to reach 2 million in U.S. sales, as 1989 (Taylor’s Version) surpassed the threshold in the week ending Jan. 11. According to data tracking firm Luminate, the album sold 17,000 copies that week, uppping its total sales figure since its release in October to 2.014 million. (Sales are traditional album purchases – inclusive of all physical configurations [CD, vinyl, cassette] and digital album downloads.)

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1989 (Taylor’s Version) is the only album released in 2023 to have sold 2 million copies in the U.S. — it’s also the only album to have surpassed 1 million copies in 2023 (It cleared the million-mark in its debut week, ending Nov. 2.) The last-released album to cross both marks was Swift’s own Midnights, which was released in October of 2022. Midnights sold more than a million copies in its first week, and then reached the 2 million-mark in February of 2023.

Here’s a recap of Swift’s nine albums that have sold at least 2 million copies each, ranked by largest total sales: Fearless (7.285 million), 1989 (6.472 million), her self-titled album (5.871 million), Speak Now (4.817 million), Red (4.582 million), Midnights (2.814 million), Reputation (2.478 million), Folklore (2.289 million) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (2.014 million).

Swift has four more albums that have sold at least 1 million each, lifting her sum of million-selling albums to a lucky 13.

Swift’s continued strong sales should come as no surprise, as she was the year’s top-selling act in the U.S., by album sales, in each of the last five years (2019-23). And, she’s done so while an increasing number of music fans have adopted streaming as a primary means of music consumption. Swift, like many acts, has leaned in to creating additional versions of an album for purchase by superfans, which helps increase sales figures. Her albums sold spectacularly on vinyl as well, and was the configuration’s top-seller in 2023 when she accounted for one of every 15 vinyl albums sold.

On Billboard’s latest Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 20), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) spends a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 1, with its 17,000 copies sold (down 28%). Swift has a total of seven albums in the top 10, as 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is joined by six other former Swift leaders in the region. She ties her own record for the most concurrent titles in the top 10 by a single act.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Swift’s other six titles in the Jan. 20-dated top 10 on Top Album Sales are: Midnights (rising 3-2 with 11,000; down 14%), Folklore (4-3 with 10,000; down 21%), Lover (6-5 with 9,000; down 25%), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (8-6 with 7,000; down 30%), Evermore (5-7 with nearly 7,000; down 47%) and Red (Taylor’s Version) (14-10 with nearly 6,000; down 18%).

As for the non-Swift titles in the top 10, they are: Stray Kids’ former No. 1 ROCK-STAR (falling 2-4 with a little over 9,000; down 39%), Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Guts (7-8 with 6,000; down 41%) and ATEEZ’s The World EP.Fin: Will (holding at No. 9 with nearly 6,000; down 34%).

In the week ending Jan. 11, there were 1.195 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 15.6% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 936,000 (down 17.7%) and digital albums comprised 259,000 (down 6.8%).

There were 439,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Jan. 11 (down 13.6 week-over-week) and 492,000 vinyl albums sold (down 21.1%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 946,000 (down 25.5% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 1.117 million (down 44%).

Overall year-to-date album sales total 2.611 million (down 34.1% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 2.073 million (down 36.9%) and digital album sales total 538,000 (down 20.4%).

18 Jan 2024

Here Are 5 Things You Didn’t Know About 6arelyhuman | Billboard

6arelyhuman reveals five things you didn’t know about him to Billboard!

6arelyhuman:
Hey guys, I’m 6arelyhuman. And this is five things that you didn’t know about me.

The first thing I would say that is kind of funny, that my very first song was actually about pizza. I think that’s pretty funny.

A lot of people don’t know that I have, like, a pretty big family. I have, like, three sisters and a brother. We’re all spread out across the United States.

A lot of people don’t know that I’m actually vegetarian and I’ve been vegetarian for, like, almost four years now, which is kind of crazy. And it’s, like, really hard to be vegetarian on tour, I’ll tell you that.

I hate like when people make noises with their mouth. Yeah. Like, I’m like, ‘OK, we get it.’ And some of my friends know that and then they’ll get up all up in my face. And they’re like, I’m like, ‘You’re done.’

I’m, like, obsessed with cats. I love cats so much. They’re just so cute and fluffy. Like, I don’t know what else to say. They’re just cute and fluffy. I love cats.

And those are five things you didn’t know about me.

17 Jan 2024

Kali Uchis Explains the Stories Behind the Photo | Billboard

Kali Uchis explains the stories behind these photos with Billboard.

Kali Uchis:
My name is Kali Uchis and this is Behind the Photos with Billboard.

Alright in this photo, I just finished part one of my Red Moon in Venus tour. My managers actually got me this purse as a little as a little gift congratulating me for the tour. I had also just gotten these things I was like gonna take a cute little pink outfit pic.

I was going on a trip with my man in this photo. He took this picture, but I don’t remember where we were going because this … this is like a … I think it’s like a year old. Yeah sorry pregnancy brain. Oh, this was actually after I turned in Orquídeas, right? Orquídeas or Red Moon in Venus — one of those. I don’t remember because I was working. I was working on both of them at the same time. So I really don’t remember. This was you know, for promotional purposes. You know, kind of like turned my album in, you guys, I’m here in the studio working.

17 Jan 2024

Here Are 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Odetari | Billboard

Odetari reveals five things you didn’t know about him to Billboard!

Odetari:
What up, guys! It’s Odetari, and here are five things you probably didn’t know about me.

First thing, I always have to keep the house at 55 degrees — it has to be freezing cold in my house. I get really annoyed when anyone touches the AC. I don’t care how cold you are, like, I have plenty of jackets in the house.

I have four cats too. That’s part of the reason I keep it cold because they like it that cold — I know they do.

In school I was in band. I was a percussionist — get a lot of my inspiration and rhythm from there.

Favorite food is … oh, shawarmas! I love shawarmas. Shawarmas are my favorite food of all time.

I have a fear of snakes. Yeah, I’m really scared of snakes, big snakes. Every time. Something weird is going on in my life. I have really weird dreams of big snakes.

And those are five things that you didn’t know about me.

16 Jan 2024

Here Are 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Sexyy Red | Billboard

Sexyy Red reveals five things you didn’t know about her to Billboard!

Sexyy Red:
What’s up? Dis your favorite hood hottest princess Sexyy motherf–kin Red, and these are five things you don’t know about me.

OK, one: I’m a great momma. Like whatever my son want, he get, he spoiled. I don’t whoop my kids. He can be real bad, tryin to fight me and everything. I ain’t goin’ to do nothing.

Two: I know how to draw and paint real good, like, I’m real crafty, like I like to do home stuff around the house.

Like, three: People probably don’t know that, but I cook really good, like, all my friends, whenever I’m cooking, they come over my house like, “You got some food?” and I get them a plate.

Four: I got a hidden talent.

Five: I hate wearing makeup. I could have a photo shoot video shoot, I’m not really gonna do my makeup. I just do like to a little clear lip, some lashes, some eyeliner and call it a day. I ain’t gonna put nothing on my cheeks, I don’t care how much my acne show. I just can’t do the makeup.

And that’s five things you don’t know about me.