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Taylor Swift Scores Record-Breaking 15th No. 1 on Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Lover: Live From Paris’

Taylor Swift secures her 15th No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 25), as her 2023 set Lover: Live From Paris reenters the list following its reissue on vinyl, as well as its first release as a download album.

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With a 15th No. 1 on Top Album Sales, she surpasses JAY-Z for the most No. 1s on the 33-year-old list. The latter racked up 14 leaders between 1998-2017. 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.

The new Jan. 25-dated Top Album Sales chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 22.

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Lover: Live From Paris was exclusively available through Swift’s official web store and sold 202,500 copies in the United States in the tracking week ending Jan. 16, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 161,000 were vinyl sales — the largest sales week for a live album in the format since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.

The eight-song live project was initially released back in 2023 exclusively as a limited-edition heart-shaped, color double-vinyl set, sold only through Swift’s web store. It spent one week on Top Album Sales at No. 5 and on the Billboard 200 at No. 58 in 2023. The project commemorates Swift’s City of Lover concert in Paris at the Olympia on Sept. 9, 2019 — her final live show until the kickoff of The Eras Tour in March 2023.

Earlier in January 2025, Lover: Live From Paris was briefly restocked on vinyl in Swift’s web store, with an expected ship date to fans on or before Jan. 20. The set’s sales in the latest tracking week were also bolstered by its limited availability (for the last six hours of the chart’s tracking week) on four digital album variants in Swift’s web store, with three of those each boasting one unique bonus live track culled from The Eras Tour.

Did Ariana Grande Respond to Carrie Underwood’s Performance at Trump Inauguration? | Billboard News

Carrie Underwood had to sing a cappella at Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the Internet had a lot to say. Even Ariana Grande liked an Instagram post seemingly shading the performance. Keep watching for the full story!

Tetris Kelly:

Did Ariana Grande just shade Carrie Underwood’s inauguration performance after she was forced to go a cappella? After receiving online backlash, American Idol Carrie Underwood performed “America the Beautiful” for Donald Trump’s inauguration. When the music didn’t start, she was forced to sing a cappella. Did the song still land? Several online users have questioned Kamala Harris and her husband Doug’s reactions, as well as pointed out that Carrie skipped out on shaking Kamala’s hand. But Wicked’s Glinda, Miss Ariana Grande, has got the internet buzzing. Ariana liked a post saying Kamala Harris’ reaction is saying “Girl, find the note…”

Do you think Underwood’s performance fell flat? Let us know in the comments.

Bad Bunny Secures No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Taylor Swift Is No. 2 | Billboard News

Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos barely takes the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 after Taylor Swift released a vinyl version of Lover: Live From Paris, landing her at No. 2. Keep watching to see the numbers!

Tetris Kelly:
Bad Bunny just barely grabs a No. 1 from Taylor Swift after she releases a vinyl from her past Lover album in a stiff competition. We have the story. Following its first full week of activity, Bad Bunny’sDebí Tirar Más Fotos climbs two to one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, scoring the superstar his fourth leader on the list with 203,500 equivalent album units. And only 1,000 albums behind at No. 2? Taylor Swift’s Lover: Live From Paris. A popular heart-shaped rerelease of the 5-year-old album earned 202,500 equivalent album units, with many during the week thinking she would nab the top spot from Señor Bunny. Meanwhile, can we just get a collab from you two?

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Travis Scott Debuts ‘4×4,’ LiAngelo Ball Performs ‘Tweaker’ & More | Billboard News

Travis Scott debuted his new track “4×4” at the College Football Playoff National Championship halftime show, LiAngelo Ball performed “Tweaker” live for the first time, Caitlin Clark and Taylor Swift attended a Chiefs game and more! Keep watching to see your fave artists mixing into sports! 

Tetris Kelly:
There was a lot going down this weekend in the world of music and sports. From Travis Scott’s new track to LiAngelo Ball’s debut performance to Caitlin Clark hanging with Taylor Swift, and we can’t forget Coco Jones bringing the house down. Here’s a roundup of everything you need to know!

First up, Travis Scott performed high atop the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta during the College Football Playoff National Championship halftime show, where he debuted his new track “4×4.” Along with “4×4”’s debut, Scott also announced that he is releasing special merch in which 100% of the proceeds will go to the California Wildfire Response Fund. Also at the CFP National Championship, R&B songstress Coco Jones brought the house down with her rendition of the national anthem. And on Saturday, making his live performance debut, LiAngelo Ball performed his viral hit “Tweaker” in Detroit at the Lions vs. Commanders game. Finally, Caitlin Clark was spotted kicking it at the Kansas City Chiefs game with none other than Taylor Swift. Caitlin even defended her Chiefs’ fandom on the Kelce brothers’ New Heights podcast.

Caitlin Clark:
People think I’m like a bandwagon Chiefs fan, but no. I was there before Patrick and Travis. 

Tetris Kelly:
And those are some of the happenings in sports and music. For more, stay tuned here at Billboard.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Countdown for Jan. 25, 2025 | Billboard News

Can Bad Bunny take No. 1 from Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga?

Tetris Kelly: 
Bad Bunny is back with the Hot 100 takeover, but can he grab the No. 1 spot? This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated Jan. 25. Gracie Abrams slides to 10, as does Teddy Swims to No. 9. Bad Bunny’s first top 10 this week is at eight, while “Birds of a Feather” slips to seven. “Luther” is at No. 6. ROSÉ and Bruno are holding on to five. Shaboozey drops from two to four. Bad Bunny’s, “Baile Inolvidable” is at No. 3, and his “DTMF” is at No. 2, and keeping hold on the No. 1 spot are Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.

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Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ Climbs to No. 1 on Billboard 200

Following its first full week of activity, Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos climbs 2-1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 25), scoring the superstar his fourth leader on the list. Bunny’s album was released on an off-cycle Sunday (Jan. 5), and, thus, it arrived on the chart a week ago with only five days of activity (as the chart’s tracking week runs Friday through Thursday).

In the tracking week ending Jan. 16, Debí Tirar Más Fotos earned 203,500 equivalent album units (up 67%) in the U.S., according to Luminate — largely driven by streaming activity. The set was only available as a standard 17-song streaming album, and as a digital download for purchase (widely through all digital retailers, as well as Bunny’s official webstore). Traditional album sales drove just under 8,000 of the album’s activity for the week.

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Bunny previously led the Billboard 200 with Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana (in 2023), Un Verano Sin Ti (2022) and El Último Tour del Mundo (2020).

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Taylor Swift’s 2023 album Lover: Live From Paris reenters, with 202,500 equivalent album units earned, all from album sales, following its reissue on vinyl (161,000 sold for the week), as well as its first release as a digital download album. The album was exclusively available only to purchase as either a vinyl LP or download in Swift’s webstore. It marks the 18th top 10-charting effort for Swift and the highest-charting live album in over five years. It’s the top-selling album of the week, and also scores the single-largest sales week for a live album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.

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 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 25, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 22 (one day later than usual, owed to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the U.S. on Jan. 20). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ 203,500 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 16, SEA units comprise 195,000 (up 72%, equaling 264.03 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it holds at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart for a second week), traditional album sales comprise 7,500 (down 3%, falling 6-8 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 123%).

The 264.03 million streams of the album’s songs mark the largest streaming week for any album since Kendrick Lamar’s GNX arrived with 379.72 million (Dec. 7, 2024 chart), and the largest for any Latin music album since Bunny’s own Un Verano Sin Ti debuted with 356.55 million (May 21, 2022 chart).

Like in its opening chart week, Debí Tirar Más Fotos was sale priced for $4.99 in the iTunes Store, as well as in Bunny’s webstore.

As Debí Tirar Más Fotos is mostly in the Spanish language, it is the 28th mostly non-English-language album to hit No. 1, and the first of 2025. Four mostly non-English titles topped the list in 2024, and all were Korean-language efforts. Of the 28 mostly non-English-language albums to reach No. 1, 18 are mostly Korean, six mostly (or all) Spanish, one mostly Italian, one entirely French and two mostly a blend of Spanish, Italian and French.

Taylor Swift’s Lover: Live From Paris returns to the Billboard 200, reentering at No. 2 with 202,500 equivalent album units earned (up from nothing the week previous). The eight-song set was recorded in 2019 and had a limited release on vinyl in 2023 (exclusively through Swift’s webstore), and spent one week on the Billboard 200 that March, at No. 58.

Lover: Live From Paris is the highest-charting live album on the Billboard 200 in over five years, since Lionel Richie’s Hello From Las Vegas debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Aug. 31, 2019-dated chart. Further, as Lover: Live From Paris marks Swift’s 18th top 10-charting set, she ties with Mariah Carey for the third-most top 10s among women in the history of the Billboard 200. Only Madonna (with 23) and Barbra Streisand (34) have more among women. (Meanwhile, all 20 of Swift’s Billboard 200 chart entries, dating to her 2006 debut, have now peaked in the top 20.)

Lover: Live From Paris is Swift’s second top 10-charting live set, following Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (No. 3 in May 2023).

Of Lover: Live From Paris’ 202,500 units earned in the tracking week ending Jan. 16, album sales comprise the entire number (it reenters at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), with vinyl sales accounting for 161,000 (the largest sales week for a live album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991) and digital download sales accounting for the remaining sales. The set has no SEA or TEA units powering its reentry, since the album was not available on streaming services (thus, customers could not stream songs from the album directly), or through digital retailers such as iTunes, so customers couldn’t purchase songs from the album directly.

The Lover: Live From Paris album commemorates Swift’s The City of Lover live show on Sept. 9, 2019, at the Olympia in Paris. It was the only concert that Swift held to promote the 2019 album Lover, after her planned 2020 Lover Fest trek was cancelled due to COVID-19. Swift didn’t return to live shows until the career-spanning The Eras Tour kicked off in March 2023.

The City of Lover live gig was turned into an ABC-TV special on May 17, 2020 (titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover), and included only the eight songs that are also on the Lover: Live From Paris album. The album was initially released as a double-vinyl set, on heart-shaped color vinyl, in early 2023, exclusively through Swift’s webstore. The limited-pressing sold 13,500 copies in its one and only week of availability, and debuted and then-peaked at No. 58 on the Billboard 200 (March 4, 2023-dated chart).

Earlier in January 2025, Lover: Live From Paris was restocked on Swift’s webstore, for a limited time, on the same double-vinyl set, on heart-shaped color vinyl. At the time, customers were informed that the set would ship on or before Jan. 20.

In addition to the vinyl release, Lover: Live From Paris saw its debut as a digital download album, exclusively through Swift’s webstore, for a limited time. On Jan. 16, the final day of the latest chart’s tracking week, the set was made available in Swift’s store across four variants for six hours only, each priced at $4.99. One was the standard eight-song album, and the other three each contained the standard eight songs plus one unique live bonus track of a Lover album cut performed during The Eras Tour (“False God,” “I Think He Knows” and “Paper Rings”).

No version of the Lover: Live From Paris album was available during the tracking week on streaming services, nor through any digital retailer outside of Swift’s webstore. The album’s core eight songs were released as stand-alone tracks in May 2020 (the same week as the premiere of Taylor Swift: City of Lover TV special) widely through digital retailers and streamers.

As for the rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 chart, four former No. 1s are at Nos. 3-6. SZA’s SOS is steady at No. 3 (102,000 equivalent album units earned; down 10%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX is a non-mover at No. 4 (64,000; down 4%), Lil Baby’s WHAM falls 1-5 in its second week (55,000; down 60%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet slips 5-6 (48,000; down 6%).

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is stationary at No. 7 (40,000 equivalent album units earned; down 7%), the Wicked film soundtrack falls 6-8 (39,000; down 15%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time dips 8-9 (nearly 39,000; down 4%) and Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us descends 9-10 (36,000; down 4%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Talk ‘Prototype’ Release, ‘Superficial’ & ‘I’ll Do It’ Success | MYSK | Billboard News

Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt went viral overnight after losing their home in the LA wildfires. The couple talk about Heidi’s newfound success in music with her album, ‘Superficial,’ and “I’ll Do It” making its way up various charts, her new song “Prototype,” how Beyonce helped spice up date nights and more!

Heidi Montag:

I can’t thank everyone, not for playing it, for making videos, for streaming it, for like, helping our families

Tetris Kelly:

From losing their home in a devastating wildfire, to fans, returning a 15 year old song and album to the top. And today, releasing brand new music. We talked to Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt on TikTok Live about everything from the tragedy to new music and Taylor Swift to Beyonce.

Spencer Pratt:

We’ve actually… Heidi’s played more Beyonce. 

Tetris Kelly:

We break it all down in this week’s ‘Music You Should Know.’ 

Spencer Pratt:

The audience is… it’s like its own American Idol they are making Heidi, this pop star, and it’s all audience driven. So it’s like a live reality show where the audience keeps pushing her to the top. And it’s like a weird glitch in the matrix.

Tetris Kelly:

After losing their home in the fire destroying large neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Spencer saw a huge boom in his social following.

Spencer Pratt:

Cheers. Thank you to a million followers on TikTok. Who would have thought all I needed is our house to burn down?

Tetris Kelly:

It happened in time with the 15th anniversary of Heidi’s album, ‘Superficial,’ and song, “I’ll Do It,” which hit No. 1 on iTunes, as fans and even celebs rallied behind the project, and they even got ‘Hill’s’ cast support. 

Keep watching for more!

John Legend Plays Our Favorite Things Game With Luna & Miles | Billboard Family

John Legend’s children Luna and Miles interview the singer to see if he knows their favorite things, from their favorite color to their favorite artists. Keep watching to see how well John Legend knows his kids!

Luna: 
Who’s our favorite singers right now? 

John Legend:
Your favorite is Sabrina Carpenter. 

Luna:
Wrong. 

John Legend:
How is that incorrect? Because I am in the car when you’re picking songs. Daddy?

Luna:
After that, Sabrina Carpenter. 

John Legend:
OK. I’m ready. I know you well, and I know you well, too. 

Luna:
What’s our favorite color? 

John Legend:
So I think Luna’s favorite color is lavender. 

Luna:
Correct! 

John Legend:
And Miles’ is blue. What is it? 

Miles:
Neon and black. 

John Legend:
Neon what? 

Miles:
Green. 

John Legend:
Neon green and black are your favorite colors now? It used to be blue, though, right? 

Luna:
What’s our favorite hobbies? 

John Legend:
Favorite hobby — Luna’s favorite hobby is like drawing and crafting and doing artwork, building things, building things. And … 

Luna:
Wait — is gymnastics a hobby? 

John Legend:
Yeah, gymnastics is a hobby, and it’s a sport, too. And then Miles, your favorite is playing sports. So I would say football is your favorite. 

Miles:
Yeah, and there’s one more. 

Guest:
His iPad. 

John Legend:
Oho, your iPad. Playing games on your iPad. OK, fair enough.

Luna:
What’s our favorite songs on My Favorite Dream?

John Legend:
Luna’s favorite I already heard is “Always Come Back.” Miles’ favorite is “L-O-V-E.” 

Miles:
How did you know? 

John Legend:
I got it, yay.

Luna:
What’s our favorite thing that we do with you? 

John Legend:
Our favorite thing is drawing together, and our favorite thing is playing football in the backyard. 

Luna:
Yep! 

John Legend:
Yep.

Keep watching for more!

Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga & More to Perform At FireAid Benefit Concert | Billboard News

Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Lil Baby and more are gearing up to perform at the FireAid Benefit Concert to assist victims of those affected by the L.A. wildfires. Keep watching to see who else performing and how the funds will be used. 

Tetris Kelly:
Musicians like Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Jelly Roll and more are set to perform at a benefit concert for the L.A. wildfires. The “Birds of a Feather” singer and L.A. native, Billie Eilish is among the list of great artists performing at the FireAid Benefit Concert to help the victims of L.A.’s deadly wildfires.

Live Nation, who are one of the sponsors of the event, announced that proceeds from the concert will support a nonprofit created for the event, “dedicated to rebuilding infrastructure, aiding displaced families and improving fire prevention technologies and strategies to help L.A. better prepare for future fire emergencies.”

Also performing will be fellow California icon, the “Hollaback Girl” herself, Gwen Stefani. Lady Gaga’s bringing her “Poker Face” to the stage with a performance on Thursday, Jan. 30. Other big names set to the stage are Katy Perry, Lil Baby, Jelly Roll, P!nk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, John Mayer and more.

FireAid will take place on Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. EST at the Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif. It’s great to see the music industry coming together to support a great cause. For more news, stay tuned here at Billboard.

Reacting to Drake’s UMG Defamation Lawsuit & Def Jam Signing LiAngelo Ball | Billboard Unfiltered

In today’s episode of ‘Billboard Unfiltered,’ Billboard staffers Trevor Anderson, Kyle Denis and Damien Scott react to LiAngelo Ball signing a deal with UMG & Def Jam after “Tweaker” became a viral sensation, Drake’s defamation lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” and more!

Kyle Denis:

Like give to people who actually do this for real a million dollars versus giving it all to this one guy, for all we know, got lucky.

Trevor Anderson:

They’re calling it like the Pizzagate of, you know, the music industry. 

Damien Scott:

If you’re Drake, is that really what you want to be tied to? You really want to be tied to Pizzagate?

Trevor Anderson:

Gentlemen, glad to see you again. This is round two of 2025, how’re we feeling?

Kyle Denis:

We’re living. We’re living. I’ve been better, but also been worse. I can’t complain.

Trevor Anderson:

That’s a good way to put it.

Damien Scott:

We are here which feels like a triumph in and of itself. 

Trevor Anderson:

Yeah, a lot of things are going on. Before we really get into all news, analysis and commentary, I know we all want to make sure and start with the acknowledgement of what’s going on in the greater Los Angeles area. These wildfires that have just been devastating. So many people have lost their homes, have been forced to evacuate, just really upending normal life for a lot of folks. We want to offer our thoughts, prayers, support to everybody that has been affected by this in any way. I know there’s a lot of events that are planned around the Grammys, that’s what people are talking about in particular, which is supposed to come up on February 2nd. 

Keep watching for more!