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Ray LaMontagne reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart for a third time as “Step Into Your Power” ascends to the top of the Aug. 17-dated tally. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The singer-songwriter last ruled with “Strong Enough” for seven weeks beginning in […]
Tones And I makes it two in a row as Beautifully Ordinary opens at No. 1 on Australia’s albums chart.The five-times ARIA Award winner opens at the top of the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Aug. 9, with Beautifully Ordinary, her sophomore album.
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Beautifully Ordinary is Tones’ second album, and the followup to Welcome To The Madhouse, which also debut at No. 1 in 2021. The one-time busker’s debut EP The Kids Are Coming peaked at No. 3 in 2019. Though it didn’t climb the chart mountain, The Kids Are Coming did house “Dance Monkey,” Tones’ breakthrough hit which reigned over the charts in more than 30 countries, including a record, 24-week stint atop the ARIA Chart.
Tones owns the second consecutive ARIA No. 1 by an Australian act, following Lime Cordiale’s drought-breaking leader last week with Enough Of The Sweet Talk.
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“Well, when it rains, it pours,” notes ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. “Tones has given us two Australian No. 1s two weeks in a row. A huge congratulations to Tones and her team on this incredible achievement. We’re absolutely thrilled for you and all of your accomplishments across an outstanding career so far.”
Also new to the top tier of the national chart is the collaborative project of Bernard Fanning (former frontman of Powderfinger) and Paul Dempsey (Something For Kate). Fanning Dempsey National Park’s The Deluge arrives at No. 3.
Prior to disbanding in the 2010, Powderfinger landed six ARIA No. 1 albums, all consecutive, while Something For Kate bagged two leaders, according to ARIA. Also, two of Fanning’s four solo albums have led the chart (Tea & Sympathy and Departures) while two of Dempsey’s three solo albums have peaked at No. 5.
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign earn a top 10 debut with Vultures 2, which swoops in at No. 4.
Aussie punk rockers Dune Rats drop in at No. 29 with their fifth album, If It Sucks, Turn It Up. It’s the followup to 2022’s Real Rare Whale, which peaked at No. 6.
It’s winter in Australia, though Charli XCX’s Brat summer is sweeping through the ARIA Charts. Following the release of a remix featuring Billie Eilish, Brat album track “Guess” debuts at No. 1 on the singles tally, for her first solo leader.
“Guess” is Charli’s fifth top 10 hit in Australia, after “I Love It” (with Icona Pop) in 2012 and “Fancy” (with Iggy Azalea), “Bloom Clap” and “Break The Rules” in 2014. Charli also takes a bite out of the chart with “Apple” at No. 18, and “360” moves 27-24.
Everyone’s Getting Involved, the star-studded tribute album celebrating Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense concert film, debuts atop Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart (dated Aug. 10) thanks to the set’s arrival on CD and vinyl. The effort boasts acts such as Miley Cyrus, Lorde and Paramore covering songs performed by Talking Heads in its celebrated 1984 film […]
Australian duo Royel Otis earns its first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Aug. 10) thanks to its viral cover of The Cranberries’ classic single “Linger.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Released May 31 as part of a live session for SiriusXM’s Alt Nation, […]
Maluma solidifies his status as a winner on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart thanks to “Por Qué Será,” his first partnership with Grupo Frontera, as the song jumps from No. 3 to rule the Aug. 10-dated survey.
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“Por Qué Será” was released May 9 as the fourth single from Grupo Frontera’s album Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada, its second studio album, which earned the Texas group a first top 10 debut (among two top 10s overall) on both Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums in May, at No. 10 and at No. 6, respectively.
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On Regional Mexican Airplay, “Por Qué Será” lifts from No. 3 in its eighth week after a 23% gain in audience impressions, to 7.4 million, in the tracking week of July 26-Aug. 1, according to Luminate. The move sends Becky G and Oscar Maydon’s “Mercedes” to No. 4, with 4.9 million impressions, which translates to a 23% decline from the prior week.
With the new champ Frontera captures its 10th No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay, and ties with Grupo Firme for the ninth-most among groups since the chart launched in 1994. The song follows and equal winner, “(Entre Paréntesis),” with Shakira, which earned the pop icon her first leader on a regional Mexican tally (May 18-dated list).
The ranchera “Por Qué Será,” meanwhile, gifts Maluma his third champ. The Colombian singer topped the tally twice before, through “Cada Quien,” with Grupo Firme, for two weeks in charge in 2022, and with Carin León on “Según Quién” in Dec. 2023.
“Por Qué Será” joins one other song from its parent album Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada, that reached the summit on Regional Mexican Airplay: “Ya Pedo Quién Sabe,” with Christian Nodal, topped the radio ranking for one week in May.
Further, “Por Qué Será” also gains terrain on the overall Latin Airplay chart, pushing 5-2.
The list includes a broad range of artists, from hard rock and metal to contemporary Christian music and K-pop.
Ghost’s soundtrack to its film Rite Here Rite Now makes a splash across multiple Billboard album charts (dated Aug. 10), as the live concert set makes top 10 bows on Top Album Sales (No. 2), Top Hard Rock Albums (No. 1), Vinyl Albums (No. 1), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 1), Soundtracks (No. 2), Independent Albums (No. 3), Top Rock Albums (No. 5) and Top Rock & Alternative Albums (No. 6). It also arrives at No. 21 on the overall Billboard 200 – the band’s sixth top 40-charting set on the tally.
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The live set, recorded over two nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., in 2023, includes one studio-recorded track: “The Future Is a Foreign Land.”
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Rite Here Rite Now arrives with 27,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 1, according to Luminate, with 26,000 of that sum in traditional album sales – supported by its availability across 10 vinyl variants (whose combined sales totaled a little over 16,000). It’s the sixth top 10-charting set for the rock band on the Top Album Sales chart.
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.
Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Rock Albums and Soundtracks rank, respectively, the week’s most popular rock and alternative, rock, hard rock, and soundtrack albums by equivalent album units. Vinyl Album tallies the week’s top-selling vinyl releases. Indie Store Album Sales measures the top-selling titles at independent and small chain record stores. Independent Albums ranks the most popular independently released albums of the week, by units.
As for the rest of the top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart… Stray Kids’ ATE holds at No. 1 for a second week (48,000 sold; down 79%), Grateful Dead’s latest live archival set Dave’s Picks, Volume 51: Scranton Catholic Youth Center, Scranton PA (4/13/71) debuts at No. 3 (21,000), ENHYPEN’s Romance: Untold falls 3-4 (15,000; down 42%), Ice Spice’s debut set Y2K! enters at No. 5 (12,000), Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department climbs 12-6 (nearly 12,000; up 34%), The Red Clay Strays’ Made by These Moments debuts at No. 7 (11,000), Forrest Frank’s debut album Child of God enters at No. 8 (10,000), the Deadpool & Wolverine soundtrack starts at No. 9 (nearly 10,000) and Jimin’s MUSE falls 2-10 in its second week (nearly 10,000; down 87%).
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This week: a big new remix and bigger new video help a bonus Brat cut become the era’s biggest song yet, while a 2010 pop classic gets a bump from an unexpected fan and the Minions‘ esteemed musical representative strikes again.
Charli XCX’s ‘Guess’ Aiming for Big Hot 100 Bow After Streaming Boom
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Among the many tidings of Brat Summer has been the return of Charli XCX as a fixture on the Billboard Hot 100, a full decade after she helped engineer top 10 hits like Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” Icona Pop’s “I Love It” and her own “Boom Clap.” Brat hits like “360” (No. 44) and “Apple” (No. 66) have been climbing the chart after achieving varying states of virality, while the Lorde-assisted remix of “Girl, So Confusing” powered the song to No. 63 upon its June release.
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Those tracks have yet to crack the chart’s top 40 – but “Guess,” which is featured on the deluxe edition of Brat, almost certainly will next week. That’s largely thanks to Billie Eilish hopping on the track for the bonus cut’s remix — capturing the attention of the Internet with lyrics like “Charli likes boys, but she knows I’d hit it,” as well as for Eilish joining Charli on a mountain of underwear in the new version’s official music video (10,000 pairs of which were donated to the charity I Support The Girls following the video shoot).
Following the release of the song and video last Thursday (Aug. 1), streams for “Guess” exploded: in its first four full days of tracking (Aug. 2-5), the song scored 12.27 million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate, after earning just 651,000 streams during the same period the previous week (July 26-29) prior to the remix release. Meanwhile, Eilish’s “Guess” appearance is pumping up the other Brat songs around it, with the album (minus “Guess”) up 12% in streams over that same period (from 23.3 million streams to 26.2 million). Don’t be shocked if “Guess” crashes the top 20 of the Hot 100 next week — and if Brat stays strong in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. – JASON LIPSHUTZ
Kodak Black Brings Back “Bulletproof” With La Roux Singalong Clips
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Not many folks would’ve guessed Florida rapper Kodak Black as the artist to spark a revival of U.K. electro-poppers La Roux’s surprise 2010 crossover smash “Bulletproof.” But perhaps that’s why it created such newfound interest in the now decade-and-a-half-old pop classic, as footage of Kodak (who’d previously showed his love for the song and its video on an IG live) singing and beating his bare chest along to the cathartic chorus (while standing on his car and brushing his teeth) went viral across social media. Videographer Don James’ clip of the singalong, posted on July 21, attracted 2.6 million likes on TikTok, with countless fans complimenting the aura of the genre-crossing artist.
Many of those fans have seemed unable to get the song out of their head since, as evidenced by its ballooning streaming numbers in the past couple weeks. After “Bulletproof” amassed just under 700,000 official on-demand U.S. streams for the tracking week ending July 18, that number spiked 147% to 1.7 million for the next week, according to Luminate – and another 101% for the period after that, with the song racking up nearly 3.5 million spins for the week ending Aug. 1. Now that the Kodak Black Bump is a real thing, maybe other turn-of-the-’10s alt-pop favorites will look to enlist his help – Kate Nash, perhaps? Neon Trees? – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Pharrell Eyes Another ‘Despicable Me’ Hit With ‘Double Life’
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Pharrell Williams has been a dependable hitmaker for decades – and a fixture of the Minions-verse since his “Happy” (from Despicable Me 2) became one of the biggest pop hits of the 2010s. Both runs continue for Pharrell with “Double Life,” his breakout hit from the Despicable Me 4 soundtrack.
Originally released on June 14 – about a month before the film hit theaters — “Double Life” earned some early traction due to some listeners interpreting the track as a lowkey diss to Drake (who threw shots at Skateboard P with his verse on Travis Scott’s “Meltdown” last summer). During the week of the film’s release (July 5-11), “Double Life” rose a staggering 141% in streams versus the week prior (June 28-July 4), logging 2.57 million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate.
A few micro trends helped the song continue to increase in streams week after week, including a dance trend courtesy of Dossan Bell & Oliver Hincy, and another small trend built on its “I know you heard the rumors/ You must get over to it right away” lyric. During the week of July 26-Aug 1, the song earned its biggest streaming boost since the film’s release, jumping nearly 40% to 5.2 million official on-demand streams. That boost was due in large part to yet another trend built around the song’s lyrics: In essence, users playfully pretend to be living a double life by sharing a screenshot that appears to confirm them running both their personal TikTok account and that of a celebrity or brand, like Kamala HQ or Mr. Clean. As the photo set transitions from either a stock image of a question mark or a selfie of the user into the accounts that they “run,” Pharrell croons, “Who will you be tonight? That’s the question.”
On TikTok, the official “Double Life” sounds boast a combined 486,000 clips, while two additional unofficial sounds built around the “that’s the question” snippet soundtrack a further 282,7000 clips. And on Tuesday (Aug. 7), shortly before announcing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris’ official campaign TikTok (@kamalahq) posted a teaser of her announcement using the “that’s the question” trend – with the clip scoring a whopping 2.2 million views. – KYLE DENIS
The highest new entry – the Hot Shot Debut – on the Aug. 10-dated Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart and Billboard Global 200 is *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye,” new at Nos. 16 and 18, respectively. The song with the biggest weekly increase in overall consumption – the Greatest Gainer – is the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris,” up more than 30 spots on each list, hitting new peaks of Nos. 55 and 58.
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Why are these songs, both chart-toppers upon their original releases a quarter-century ago, surging worldwide? Both tracks are featured in Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine, the biggest movie in the world. The superhero flick has brought in $852.1 million since its July 26 release, according to Box Office Mojo, becoming the year’s second highest-grossing film in a matter of 11 days. The film and its soundtrack are drenched in catalog songs, employing classic hits from the 80s, 90s and 2000s to juice its nostalgic appeal.
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“Bye Bye Bye” debuts on the back of 35.8 million streams and 5,000 downloads sold worldwide in the week ending Aug. 1, according to Luminate. From the previous week, before the release of Deadpool & Wolverine, those numbers mark an 879% increase in global streams, and a more than 1,000% increase in sales.
While consumption is up across the board, “Bye Bye Bye” sees bigger gains internationally, up 1,083% in non-U.S. streams compared to its still-massive 494% bump stateside. The song pops up on four of Billboard’s Hits of the World charts. It’s particularly strong in Asia, at No. 7 on Malaysia Songs with appearances on rankings for Hong Kong and Singapore. Additionally, it debuts at No. 16 on Peru Songs.
This is *NSYNC’s third appearance on the Global 200, following their perennial holiday-season run for “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,” and last year’s reunion track, “Better Place.” Those have reached as high as Nos. 97 and 128, respectively, immediately outpaced by the group’s Total Request Live-era classic. “Bye Bye Bye” topped the Pop Airplay tally for 10 weeks in the spring of 2000. (Billboard’s global charts launched in 2020).
The Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” crowned the same list for four weeks in July and August of 1998. Originally written for the City of Angels soundtrack, it’s fitting that another summer blockbuster has sent the song surging 26 years later.
“Iris” has been a constant on the global charts, logging its 48th week on the Global 200 since debuting in May 2022. But while the track has enjoyed a consistent on-and-off-the-chart presence, its Deadpool & Wolverine sync sparks its highest rank yet. It’s up by 23% to 21.3 million streams worldwide in the latest tracking week.
One more song featured in the film debuts on this week’s global charts. Madonna arrives with “Like A Prayer,” starting at No. 181 on the Global 200 and No. 189 on Global Excl. U.S. Back in 1989, the track topped the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks.
This isn’t Madonna’s first Deadpool-inspired bump. “Like A Prayer” was featured in the film’s official trailer, yielding a 49% blast in global streams (to 4.3 million) in the week of April 19-25. So while the song’s usage in the film may not have been a surprise to moviegoers, it still led to a 175% increase, nearly tripling its post-trailer count at 12.3 million.
“Like A Prayer” is Madonna’s second entry on the global charts. “Popular,” her collaboration with The Weekend and Playboi Carti for HBO’s The Idol, debuted last June, before reaching No. 13 on both lists in February of this year. That makes “Like A Prayer” the first of Madonna’s solo catalog to crack the lists. She has charted 58 songs on the Hot 100, including 38 top 10s and 12 No. 1s, but her storied career mostly pre-dates the 2020 launch of the global charts.
The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week, for the upcoming Billboard 200 dated Aug. 10, Ye looks for his 12th consecutive charting album to debut at No. 1 – but he’ll have to get past a familiar longtime foe first.
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Ye & Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures 2 (YZY): We must be nearing the 15th anniversary of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, because Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Taylor Swift are mixing it up again. This time, it’s not particularly personal: Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has been the album to beat on the Billboard 200 for over three months now, and Ye & Ty’s typically long-expected and long-delayed sequel o set Vultures 2, originally set for March, finally saw release last Saturday (Aug. 3), after being announced for the day before.
Nevertheless, the race is now on, and Ye and Ty are in it to win it. As is typical of last-second new Ye releases of the past decade, Vultures 2 is not available for physical purchase upon its release – it is available only in digital format, on iTunes and Amazon and at his webstore, and is currently being sold for just $5. Late on Tuesday night (Aug. 6), Ye released a new deluxe edition to the album as a webstore exclusive, featuring a new song currently not available on streaming, “Take Off Your Dress.”
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Given these maneuvers and Ye’s history on the chart, Vultures 2 would seem a likely frontrunner for the No. 1 spot. However, the set’s performance on streaming has not been equivalent to the dominance of his and Ty’s first Vultures: On Apple Music, the album only claims three of the top 50 spots, and it only has a single entry in that range on Spotify: “Field Trip,” which appears to be the closest thing to a breakout hit on the album – and still nowhere near a threat to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 like runaway smash “Carnival” did off the preceding set. Add to that some middling notices from fans and critics, many of whom have deemed the album unfinished-sounding, as well as a partial first tracking week (thanks to the delayed Saturday release), and Vultures 2 is fighting an uphill battle to claim the 200’s top spot this week.
Still, with “Take Off Your Dress” drawing a highly positive fan response so far, the new deluxe edition of the album should help its numbers a decent amount. And the bar has been lower to clear with Tortured Poets in the last couple weeks than it was in the first few months – Swift’s album reigned last week with just 71,000 total units, the lowest total for a No. 1 album on the chart since March.
Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (Republic): It’s been a lucky 13 weeks now for Taylor Swift’s massive blockbuster atop the Billboard 200, as the set returned to the top spot in a slow release week after having bequeathed it to Eminem (The Death of Slim Shady) and Stray Kids (ATE), respectively, in the two prior frames. The album has already set a career-best mark for Swift, though it still has a way to go to match the 19 weeks notched by Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time for the longest-reigning No. 1 album of the decade.
Swift doesn’t appear to be giving up the fight just yet. She introduced a new digital variant of the album on her webstore over the weekend, with an exclusive bonus track: “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys (First Draft Voice Memo).” (At the same time, she re-released three of her previously available digital variants, each of which had a different first draft voice memo as their own exclusive bonus track.) She also held a sale on Aug. 4 where 16 previously available physical variants of the album (across CD, cassette and vinyl) were discounted by 13% — presumably in tribute to the album’s new landmark number of weeks ruling the chart – while also restocking the signed CD edition of the album on her webstore, which (as usual) quickly sold out.
If totals between Ye and Swift remain tight through these final two days of the tracking week, there may likely be more reissues and releases to come on both sides, as the two historic rivals look to gain an edge in one of pop’s preeminent battlefields.
Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (KRA/Amusement/Island/Republic): Don’t forget about the Midwest Princess! While Roan’s debut album is now nearly 10 months old, it continues to gain in overall momentum – climbing to a new peak of No. 4 on the Billboard 200 this week, as five of its tracks continue to slowly ascend the Hot 100. The ubiquitous Roan has also benefitted from additional headlines and exposure following her historically well-attended late-afternoon Lollapalooza set on Thursday, and even from the announcement of Minnesota governor and Nebraska native Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ running mate – with many pop fans dubbing him the “Midwest Prince(ss)” to Harris’ Brat, and even seeing parallels between their campaign hats with Roan’s own merch.
Rise and Fall was still well behind Tortured Poets this week in terms of overall units – 53,000 to 71,000, with the former actually dipping a little from the previous week, despite the chart gain – so it’s unlikely to bridge that gap in one or even a couple weeks. However, given the unstoppable growth of the album over the past four months, it seems practically inevitable that it will be a true contender for the top spot before long – particularly if Roan ever releases any kind of physical reissue or deluxe edition for the well-loved set.
Charli XCX, Brat (Atlantic/AG): And of course, you can’t talk about Midwest Princess this summer without mentioning its across-the-pond counterpart. While Brat has also been gradually gaining in public awareness throughout the warm-weather months – with breakout hits “360” and “Apple” bounding up the Hot 100 — this week it gets a particularly notable adrenaline shot: the release of a new Billie Eilish-featuring remix to Brat bonus cut “Guess,” which also received an extended rollout over the past week, including an eye-popping music video.
The “Guess” remix, which topped both the Spotify Daily Top Songs USA and YouTube’s Trending Music charts on Friday in its first full day of release, looks poised to become Charli’s biggest Hot 100 hit of the whole Brat era. It should give the album a major boost on the chart this week — though posing a true challenge to Swift’s juggernaut may also still be too lofty a goal for it at the moment.