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We caught up with Muni Long, Becky G, JoJo Siwa and so many more on iHeartRadio’s red carpet to see who they’re most excited to see at Billboard Women in Music next Saturday, March 29.
Who are you most excited for? Let us know in the comments below!
Becky G:I mean, Doechii’s one of my favorite artists. I adore her.
James Charles:I’m a really big GloRilla fan right now.
Muni Long: Billboard Women in Music has been a goal of mine.
Becky G:I’m so happy for her. We actually funny enough, the year that I won the Impact Award, we were sharing a dressing room.
Tetris Kelly:Stop it.
Becky G:She was, she was performing, and I was receiving my Impact Award, and also performing and there, if you know, backstage, there’s not a lot of dressing rooms, and so we were like, musical chairs in there. And she’s just adorable.
Dara Reneé:I love Doechii so much. I’m such a fan of hers, like, I literally get so starstruck.
Dasha:Doechii is, like, one of my favorites. I haven’t met her, but I’m just such a fan. Her acceptance speech at the Grammys made me sob. Sob! Women at Billboard. Let’s go!
James Charles:Let me tell you. Like, b—h, I’m from Memphis, what you know about me? Big G-L-O in that GLE. I’m excited. I can’t wait.
Shinedown:I’m from Memphis, man, so, GloRilla that’s my girl.
Tetris Kelly: He said, “Yeah Glo!”
Shinedown:I’m 901 forever, man. I love that. I love it. I love that she’s out there doing it. That’s a big thing for Memphis, Tenn., too.
Tetris Kelly:Heck yeah.
BigXthaPlug:I got some stuff planned with GloRilla I’m hoping to get in there with her so.
Inayah:Muni Long can sing down, baby.
Tetris Kelly:Down.
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JENNIE’s debut studio album, Ruby, debuts at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 22). The set sold 26,500 copies in the U.S. in the week ending March 13, according to Luminate.
JENNIE is the second member of the quartet BLACKPINK to capture a solo top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales, following LISA’s Alter Ego (No. 1, March 15 chart) and ROSÉ’s rosie (No. 2, Dec. 21, 2024). BLACKPINK itself has logged three top 10s, including two No. 1s: The Album (in 2020) and BORN PINK (2022).
Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Lady Gaga lands her eighth No. 1 with the chart-topping bow of MAYHEM, while the newest releases from Jason Isbell, Spiritbox, Noah Kahan and tobyMac debut in the region.
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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 (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
Ruby was available in its first week as a nine-track widely available digital download album, and then an expanded 15-song physical set and a 15-track download edition. While the standard and physical albums have only one guest star (FKJ, on “JANE”), the 15-track download edition adds further special guests on a few tracks, including Doechii, Dua Lipa, Dominic Fike, Childish Gambino and Kali Uchis. Ruby’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across four CD variants (all containing collectible paper ephemera, some randomized), five deluxe CD boxed set editions (each containing a piece of branded clothing, a signed insert and a copy of the album) and two download editions (a widely available standard version with nine tracks and an expanded 15-song edition).
At No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM arrives, selling 136,000. The set’sfirst-week sales were bolstered by its availability across a gaggle of editions: 14 vinyl variants (some signed, and some include the bonus track “Can’t Stop the High,” while Target’s exclusive vinyl has the extra track “Kill for Love”), four CD editions (one signed, Target’s exclusive CD adds “Kill” while Gaga’s webstore carried a CD with the bonus track “Can’t Stop the High”), a cassette tape, a deluxe CD box set with a branded T-shirt and poster, and two widely available download albums (the standard 14-song album, and then a deluxe version exclusive to iTunes with the three music videos for “Disease,” “Die With a Smile” and “Abracadabra”).
Of MAYHEM’s opening-week sales, vinyl purchases comprise 74,000 – Gaga’s biggest week on vinyl ever.
Jason Isbell’s first entirely solo acoustic album, Foxes In the Snow, bows at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with nearly 18,000 copies sold. Vinyl sales comprise almost 9,500 copies of that sum – owed to its availability across five variants. It was also issued in a pair of CD editions.
Heavy metal band Spiritbox debuts at No. 4 with Tsunami Sea, selling 16,500 copies in its first week. The set was issued on CD, cassette and at least nine vinyl variants.
Noah Kahan’s Live From Fenway Park, which was previously only available to buy as a download album, made its debut on vinyl in the tracking week (across three variants), helping the set sell a total of 16,000 – and enabling its debut at No. 5 on Top Album Sales.
Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX falls 2-6 on Top Album Sales (15,000; down 7%), Sabrina Carpenter’s former leader Short n’ Sweet slips 5-7 (11,500; down 5%) and Chappell Roan’s No. 1 The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess descends 6-8 (nearly 9,000; up 6%). Doechii’s Alligator Bites Never Heal vaults 24-9 on Top Album Sales after the release of a new vinyl variant, selling a total of about 8,500 across all formats (up 188%).
Closing out Top Album Sales’ top 10 is the latest release from tobyMac, whose Heaven On My Mind enters at No. 10 with 7,000 copies sold. It was issued on two CD variants (including a signed edition) and three vinyl variants.
The cast of Moana 2 tests how well they know their knowledge of Disney hits by finishing the lyrics to “Let It Go,” “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” and so many more!
What did you think of the cast finishing the lyrics? Let us know in the comments!
Tetris Kelly:We like to play a game with a lot of our guests called Finish the Lyrics.
Awhimai Fraser: Oh no, I’m terrible!
I’m never going back/ The past is in the past.
They said we really hit it.
Emily Bear:I’m never going back/ The past is in the past.
Tetris Kelly: See? Come on!
Awhimai Fraser: That’s “A Whole New World,” but I can’t remember the rest.
Abigail Barlow:Soaring … No?
Tetris Kelly:OK, you’re getting- You’re on the way
Abigail Barlow:Soaring sideways and under.
Tetris Kelly: You were right with soaring. You started correctly.
Awhimai Fraser & Hualalai Chung: Indescribable feelings tumbling/ free wheeling.
Awhimai Fraser:We can hum it.
Abigail Barlow:Tumbling/ Free wheeling.
Tetris Kelly:There we go.
Abigail Barlow:In an endless diamond sky. That’s a crazy lyric
Tetris Kelly:It’s a crazy lyric. Even when I read it, I was like, well, that one caught me off guard.
Abigail Barlow:Yeah.
He told me that the man of my dreams.
Tetris Kelly: She’s got it.
Abigail Barlow:I don’t know what comes next.
Tetris Kelly:And someday be mine.
Emily Bear:I don’t know.
Abigail Barlow:It’s from Encanto.
Awhimai Frase:Ote, Mariano’s …
Hualalai Chung:She’s got the Māori version down.
Awhimai Frase:I know the Māori version.
Hualalai Chung:She knows the Māori version.
Awhimai Frase:Yeah yeah, OK.
Tetris Kelly:OK, do we got the song title?
Abigail Barlow:“We Don’t Talk About Bruno.”
Tetris Kelly:“We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” OK, I’ll give you a point for that.
Emily Bear:I’m sorry, that’s so embarrassing.
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