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08 Nov 2024

‘SUNSET BLVD.’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Cast Albums Chart

The new SUNSET BLVD: The Album musical cast recording, led by Nicole Scherzinger, debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Cast Albums chart dated Nov. 9.

The Cast Albums chart ranks the top-selling cast recordings of the week in the United States, based on traditional album sales, according to data tracking firm Luminate. The Nov. 9-dated list reflects the tracking week ending Oct. 31.

SUNSET BLVD. is a new reimagined revival of the stage musical Sunset Boulevard, which had its London West End premiere in 1993 and arrived on Broadway in New York the following year. The musical — with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black — is based on the Academy Award-winning 1950 film Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson as faded screen star Norma Desmond.

The new revival of SUNSET BLVD. opened at London’s Savoy Theatre in the West End on Oct. 21, 2023, starring Scherzinger (Desmond), Tom Francis (Joe Gillis), Grace Hodgett-Young (Betty Schaefer) and David Thaxton (Max Von Mayerling). The West end production ran until Jan. 6, 2024. The production, with its four lead actors, moved to Broadway’s St. James Theatre in New York and opened there on Oct. 20.

SUNSET BLVD: The Album was recorded live at the Savoy Theatre during the show’s acclaimed run and was released on Oct. 25 on CD, vinyl and digital download for purchase.

SUNSET BLVD. won seven Olivier Awards in 2024, including best musical revival, best actress in a musical (Scherzinger), best actor in a musical (Tom Francis), best director (Jamie Lloyd) and outstanding musical contribution (Alan Williams, for music directing and music supervising).

SUNSET BLVD. on Broadway has performances scheduled through July 6, 2025.

07 Nov 2024

Andrea Bocelli’s ‘Duets: 30th Anniversary’ Bows in Top 10 on Album Sales, No. 1 on Classical Charts

Andrea Bocelli lands his 12th top 10-charting effort on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 9) with his new compilation, Duets: 30th Anniversary. The star-studded set — which includes previously released collaborations as well as newly-recorded pairings — enters the chart at No. 6 with 20,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending Oct. 31, according to Luminate.

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Duets: 30th Anniversary also debuts atop Billboard’s overall Classical Albums chart and Classical Crossover Albums chart. It marks his 22nd and 16th leaders on the lists, respectively, extending his record for the most No. 1s in each chart’s history. On the Billboard 200, the new Duets set enters at No. 24, landing Bocelli his 21st top 40-charting set on the all-genre ranking.

The project, which celebrates Bocelli’s 30th anniversary in music, includes new performances with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Gwen Stefani and Shania Twain, alongside previously released duets with Sarah Brightman, Céline Dion, Ed Sheeran and many others.

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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 units and streaming equivalent album units.

The Classical Albums chart ranks the most popular classical albums of the week, ranked by equivalent album units. The Classical Crossover Albums chart ranks the top-selling classical crossover titles of the week.

The rest of the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart is filled with debuts and re-entries – only one title is a holdover from the previous week.

Tyler, the Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA bows at No. 1 with 142,000 copies sold (his best sales week ever and third No. 1) while Halsey’s The Great Impersonator debuts at No. 2 with 81,000. Both albums’ sales were bolstered by an array of boxed sets and variants in their first week of availability.

Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) re-enters at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with 37,000 sold (up 1,954%) following its release on vinyl and cassette. Kelsea Ballerini’s Patterns opens at No. 4 with 35,000 sold (her second-largest sales week), aided by multiple physical and digital variants (including a signed CD and a signed vinyl).

Grateful Dead’s latest live archival project, Dave’s Picks, Volume 52: The Downs at Sante Fe, Santa Fe, NM – 9/11/83, bows at No. 5 with 20,000 sold. SEVENTEEN’s chart-topping SPILL THE FEELS falls 1-7 in its second week (18,000; down 72%).

iTZY lands its sixth top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales as GOLD debuts at No. 8 with 14,000 sold. The album’s sales were supported by its availability across 11 collectible CD variants, each containing collectible paper ephemera. Aespa’s Whiplash starts at No. 9 with nearly 14,000 sold, marking the sixth top 10 for the act. Whiplash was issued in five different CD variants.

Rounding out the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart is Green Day’s chart-topping American Idiot, which re-enters at No. 10 with nearly 13,000 sold (up 1,989%). The album was first released in 2004, and was reissued on Oct. 25 for its 20th anniversary in an array of deluxe editions, some containing a wealth of bonus tracks. American Idiot spent three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2004-05.

07 Nov 2024

Tyrese Plants ‘Wildflower’ at No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart

Tyrese ends a nine-year absence from the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart as “Wildflower” rules the list dated Nov. 9. The single rises from the runner-up slot and becomes the most played song on U.S. monitored adult R&B radio stations in the tracking week of Oct. 25 – 31, according to Luminate. “Wildflower “jumped 17% in plays during the tracking week, winning the song the weekly Greatest Gainer award as the title with the largest increase in plays.

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“Wildflower,” released on Voltron Recordz/Create, takes the throne from Chris Brown’s “Sensational,” featuring Davido and Lojay, which spent an eighth, nonconsecutive week at No. 1 last week.

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The new champ gives Tyrese his fourth No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay. He first reigned in 2003 with the four-week leader “How You Gonna Act Like That” and followed with “Stay,” an 11-week No. 1 in 2011-12 and with the 16-week domination of “Shame,” in 2015-16.

Released in August, “Wildflower” is a reworking of a 1973 track by The New Birth, with Tyrese adding an interlude in tribute to his mother, who died in 2022. The New Birth’s original rendition peaked at No. 17 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and at No. 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Elsewhere, “Wildflower” pushes 16-14 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by combined audience totals from adult R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop stations. The single surged 18% in format audience to reach 6.5 million audience impressions for the tracking week. Thanks to the two-spot jump, “Wildflower” is Tyrese’s best showing on the chart since “Shame” peaked at No. 13 in 2015.

The radio gains for “Wildflower,” in turn, improve the song’s fortunes on the multimetric Hot R&B Songs chart, which combines radio airplay with streaming and sales data for its rankings. There, “Wildflower” debuts at No. 22 and secures Tyrese’s second appearance on the 12-year-old chart, after “Shame” (No. 10).

07 Nov 2024

Tyler, the Creator Lands His First Streaming Songs No. 1 With ‘St. Chroma’

Tyler, the Creator earns his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart with “St. Chroma,” featuring Daniel Caesar, which debuts atop the Nov. 9-dated ranking.

“St. Chroma,” which was released on Oct. 28, earned 24.3 million official U.S. streams in the tracking week ending Oct. 31, according to Luminate. That means the song was able to reign despite having three fewer days of tracking than the vast majority of its competition.

The rapper’s previous top-performing songs on Streaming Songs, which began in 2013, had been “Earfquake” and “Wusyaname” (the latter featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Ty Dolla $ign), both of which peaked at No. 3 in 2019 and 2021, respectively.

In fact, two songs from Chromakopia, Tyler, the Creator’s new album, top his previous bests. “Noid,” the album’s lone pre-release single (it premiered Oct. 21), appears at No. 2 with 23.2 million streams in its first full frame.

It’s the first time since the Sept. 7-dated Streaming Songs that the same act holds the top two of the chart. Sabrina Carpenter did so with “Taste,” which debuted at No. 1 that week, followed by “Please Please Please” at No. 2.

As for Caesar, “St. Chroma” is the singer’s second No. 1 on Streaming Songs, both coming as a featured act and also as No. 1 debuts; he previously appeared on Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” alongside Giveon, which ruled for a week in 2021.

In all, Tyler, the Creator boasts 13 songs – including five of the top 10 on the latest Streaming Songs list. Only Chromakopia’s “I Hope You Find Your Way Home” misses the 50-position survey.

“St. Chroma” also becomes his second leader on R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs, following the one-week reign of “Wusyaname.”

Concurrently, as previously reported, “St. Chroma” sports Chromakopia’s top rank on the Billboard Hot 100 – No. 7 – and the album bows atop the Billboard 200.

07 Nov 2024

A.J. & Big Justice’s ‘We Bring the Boom!’ Reaches TikTok Billboard Top 50’s Top 10

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” tops the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for a fifth week, while social media stars A.J. & Big Justice snag their first top 10 on a Billboard chart with “We Bring the Boom!” on the Nov. 9-dated ranking.

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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Oct. 28-Nov. 3. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.

“Maps” leads Alphaville’s “Forever Young” and Akon’s “Akon’s Beautiful Day” at Nos. 1-3, respectively, maintaining a hold on the top three that’s persisted for the past three weeks (while the top two has remained intact for even longer, a four-week run).

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The rest of the chart’s top 10, however, sees movement – including TikTok stars’ A.J. & Big Justice’s “We Bring the Boom!,” which jumps 15-7 in its second week on the tally. The father-and-son duo’s catchphrase-addled theme song was uploaded to streaming services in early July, with remixes adding new verses from affiliated stars like The Rizzler coming last month.

It’s the latter that drives the lion’s share of the activity for “We Bring the Boom!,” with a dance trend highlighting The Rizzler’s verse among the most-engaged-with uploads in recent weeks. A.J. & Big Justice’s original dance to the song also continues to trend on the platform.

In the tracking week ending Oct. 31, “We Bring the Boom!” earned 434,000 official U.S. streams, a boost of 33%, according to Luminate.

Ahead of “We Bring the Boom!,” The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” leaps into the top five of the chart for the first time, lifting 9-4. The 1981 track from the band’s album Psychedelic Jungle sports a yearly gain around Halloween these days, particularly after its synch in the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday, but this year it scores additional prominence thanks to a trend where a creator is running from a serial killer or some sort of danger, only to turn back around (and often beginning to disrobe) when learning that their pursuer is attractive.

“Goo Goo Muck” earned 1.9 million streams in the week ending Oct. 31, with its gain of 126% also attributable to general Halloweentime jumps.

Two songs debut within the top 10, led by 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s “Runnin,” which debuts at No. 5. The Savage Mode II track, released in 2020, benefits from a photo collage-based trend involving misdirection (example: “he didn’t like my red hair, so I went brown,” but the user choosing a new significant other who has brown hair).

“Runnin” is up 4% in the Oct. 25-31 tracking week to 2.7 million streams. It debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2020.

A brand new song in Tyler, the Creator’s “Like Him” joins “Runnin” in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10, debuting at No. 6. It’s one of 14 new songs from the rapper’s album Chromakopia released Oct. 28, with “Sticky” also joining it on the latest survey at No. 50.

“Like Him” is driven by a TikTok trend featuring edits showing often complicated relationships between children and their parents, fictional or otherwise, while others use the tune to make comparisons between athletes past and present.

The Lola Young-featuring song debuts at No. 45 on the Hot 100, as previously reported, via 12.4 million streams in its first four days of availability.

And while the latest TikTok Billboard Top 50 is inundated with Halloween-themed material (Crystal Knives and Lex Allen’s “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” ranks at No. 11, while The Party Cats’ “This Is Halloween” cover shows up at No. 25, some users got a head start on the Christmas season, as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” bows at No. 17, followed by Wham!’s “Last Christmas” at No. 48. Carey’s holiday standard reigned for two weeks last year, while “Last Christmas” peaked at No. 2.

See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.

07 Nov 2024

Halsey’s ‘The Great Impersonator’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Alternative Albums Chart

Halsey’s The Great Impersonator debuts atop Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts dated Nov. 9.

The set earned 93,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Oct. 31, according to Luminate. That sum includes 81,000 via traditional album sales.

Halsey previously ruled Top Alternative Albums for a week each with If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power in 2021 and Badlands in 2015.

The new LP is Halsey’s first No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums since the chart in 2022 became inclusive of releases that are alternative-leaning but not firmly within the rock genre.

As previously reported, The Great Impersonator starts at No. 2 on both the all-genre Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales charts. Of its sales total, 26,000 are from vinyl, sparking its No. 3 start on Vinyl Albums.

Leading up to the collection’s Oct. 25 release, Halsey posted photos on social media impersonating artists and the album’s songs that they inspired, including David Bowie, Cher, Dolly Parton, Britney Spears and Bruce Springsteen.

Two tracks from The Great Impersonator appear on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. “Panic Attack” debuts at No. 25, led by 2.7 million official U.S. streams, while “Ego,” the set’s current radio single, ranks at No. 30 with 2.8 million radio audience impressions, 1.4 million streams and 1,000 downloads sold. (The latter debuted at its No. 24 high in September.)

“Ego” has reached No. 25 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart and No. 28 on Pop Airplay. Preceding single “Lucky” spent a week on the latter list at No. 40 in August.

06 Nov 2024

‘Bluey: Rug Island’ Soundtrack Debuts at No. 1 on Kid Albums Chart

Bluey: Rug Island bows atop Billboard’s Kid Albums chart (dated Nov. 9), powered by vinyl sales of the set. The soundtrack was released Oct. 25 and is the companion to the hit animated series Bluey. The project includes music from all three seasons of the show, which premiered in 2018. In the United States, Bluey airs through Disney’s television and streaming services.

Bluey: Rug Island takes its name from the 10th episode of the second season of Bluey. The music on the album was created largely composed by Joff Bush, who also produced the set.

Kid Albums ranks the week’s top-selling kid albums in the U.S. according to Luminate. The latest chart reflects the tracking week ending Oct. 31.

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Nearly 60% of Bluey: Rug Island’s 3,000 first-week sales came from vinyl purchases, with the set made available on wax in a sunset orange-colored edition or as a picture disc. It was also available to buy as a CD and as a digital download.

Elsewhere on the Kid Albums chart, Vince Guaraldi has three of the top five titles, as a trio of his chart-topping TV soundtracks dot the region: A Charlie Brown Christmas (falling 1-2), It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (holding at No. 3) and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (2-5). Meanwhile, Disney’s former No. 1, the rock compilation A Whole New Sound, is steady at No. 4.

With the Nov. 9 chart reflecting the week ending on Halloween (Oct. 31), two more spooky-sounding titles rank in the top 10 in addition to The Great Pumpkin, and both are from Kidz Bop Kids. The 2022 Kidz Bop Halloween album re-enters at No. 7 (a new peak) while Halloween Party! slips 9-10.

06 Nov 2024

Quincy Jones’ Catalogue Up 1,229% After Legendary Producer’s Death

Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. 
 
This week: The legendary Quincy Jones’ catalog sees a big bump after his passing, a ’70s hitmaker officially becomes one of the big names of spooky-season streaming, a 2003 pop-rock jam gets a big horror synch and more.

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Quincy Jones Catalog Explodes on Streaming Following Legend’s Passing 

Late Sunday night (Nov. 3), Quincy Jones, a 28-time Grammy-winning giant who played a key role in some of the world’s most impactful works of art across the music, film, television and the stage, passed away surrounded by family in his Bel Air home. In commemoration of Jone’s near-unquantifiable legacy, fans have found solace in some of his biggest musical contributions. 

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According to Luminate, Jones’ entire catalog is up 1,229% in streaming activity, earning nearly 1.25 million official on-demand streams on the first full-day following his passing (Nov. 4). On the Monday prior (Oct. 28), Jones’ catalog collected just under 94,000 streams. 

“Just Once,” a Grammy-nominated single from Jones’ The Dude LP that introduced the world to James Ingram is up 632%, earning 77,000 official on-demand streams on Nov. 4 versus 10,500 streams on Oct. 28. “One Hundred Ways” — another Jones-Ingram team-up from The Dude (this one actually won its Grammy category) — saw a similar bump, jumping 626% in streaming activity from a little over 8,000 official on-demand streams on Oct. 28 to over 60,000 streams on Nov. 4. About two decades before The Dude, Jones composed the massively influential “Soul Bossa Nova” instrumental, which has been used as the theme song for everything from 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery to the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Streaming activity for “Soulful” leapt a whopping 755% from 11,500 official on-demand streams (Oct. 28) to just over 98,000 streams (Nov. 4). 

Of course, “We Are the World,” the Billboard Hot 100-topping charity single that won record and song of the year at the 1986 Grammys, is a towering part of Jones’ far-reaching legacy. That classic is up 146% in streams from 37,500 official on-demand streams (Oct. 28) to over 92,000 streams (Nov. 4). With a career spanning seven decades, Jones hits also included Lesley Gore’s timeless 1963 Hot 100 chart-topper “It’s My Party.” That iconic track jumped 17% in streaming activity, going from 33,000 official on-demand streams (Oct. 28) to just over 39,000 streams (Nov. 4). 

As a producer, Jones’ sprawling catalog also includes three of the most seminal albums in pop history: Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982) and Bad (1987). Jones-related gains for Thriller and Bad are a bit complicated because both house Halloween anthems (the title track for Thriller and “Smooth Criminal” for Bad). Nonetheless, Off the Wall – Jackson’s first Jones-helmed LP – is up 10%, pulling 794,000 official on-demand U.S. streams (Nov. 4) versus 720,000 streams (Oct. 28).  

Jones’ oeuvre also includes the classic soundtracks for The Color Purple and The Wiz. The former is up 290%, collecting over 41,000 official on-demand U.S. streams on Nov. 4, while the latter is up 219%, earning over 47,000 official on-demand U.S. streams on the same day. 

Jones passing is a particularly painful one for global pop culture, but he’s left behind an incredibly rich catalog for us to continue to revisit and learn from. – KYLE DENIS

Andrew Gold: The New King of Halloween?

Scan the Hot 100 this week and you’ll see some of the most familiar names long associated with Halloween music: Michael Jackson (“Thriller,” No. 20), Ray Parker Jr. (“Ghostbusters,” No. 28), Bobby Boris Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers (“Monster Mash,” No. 30) and Danny Elfman – technically “The Citizens of Halloween” (“This Is Halloween,” No. 38). But finishing just below their ranks and outside the Hot 100 (for now) is a guy who is only come in recent years to be majorly associated with Spooky Season: ‘70s singer-songwriter and pop-rock hitmaker Andrew Gold. 

For most of his career, Gold (who died 2011) in was primarily associated with two singles: The heartrending story song “Lonely Boy” (a No. 7 hit in 1977) and the heartwarming “Thank You for Being a Friend” (a No. 28 hit in 1978 – though better associated with a Cynthia Fee cover version, used as the theme to the timeless ‘80s sitcom The Golden Girls). But thanks to some TikTok trending that first started at the end of the 2010s, Gold is now best known to younger fans as the guy behind 1996’s “Spooky, Scary Skeletons,” a cartoon-y Halloween number that has been remixed and memed to death over the past half-decade.

“Skeletons” racked up 11.2 million official on-demand U.S. streams for the week ending Nov. 2, according to Luminate – a massive number, and a bump of 1,146% from the 898,000 streams the song notched six weeks earlier. It’s not the only song of Gold’s to see such gains, either, as his entire ‘96 set Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music is way up, including his version of the classic theme to The Addams Family – which amassed 2.1 million streams for that same week. All in all, Gold totaled 14.7 million streams for the week, up 1,040% from his 1.3 million total the week of Sept. 19 – proving that Gold is on the verge of becoming the standard for Halloween-week streaming performance. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER

Joé Dwèt Filé Eyes Stateside Konpa Hit With “4 Kampé” 

The streaming era and increased globalization have largely leveled the playing field for more niche genres to make inroads in the U.S. market – and konpa could be up next. Popularized in the 1950s, konpa (sometimes spelled “kompa”) is a descendant of méringue music that is characterized by the prominent use of tanbou drum, buoyant horns and rhythmic guitars. 

With “4 Kampé,” Joé Dwèt Filé — a singer, songwriter and engineer of Haitian descent – is eyeing a hit single with notable crossover potential. During the period of Oct. 25-28, “4 Kampé” earned over 393,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. By the post-Halloween period of Nov. 1-4, consumption activity for the track rose 13%, collecting over 446,000 streams. 

Filé started teasing the song a week before its Oct. 25 release with a post that has since garnered over 1.6 million views and over 195,000 likes. Two more teasers followed, with each each video earning more views than the last. Currently, the official “4 Kampé” TikTok sound boasts nearly 190,000 posts, with many of them featuring users performing the kare dance that traditionally accompanies konpa music. In just 12 days, the official “4 Kampé” lyric video hit 3.4 million views on YouTube, while the track’s official music video crossed two million views in under a week. 

Although it is still early in the song’s run, these gains for “4 Kampé” look promising. – KD

So Yesteryear: Time Cut Offers Big Bump to ‘00s Hilary Duff Classic

Netflix’s time-traveling slasher flick Time Cut is currently the streaming service top-ranked film, with its ending proving to be a source of controversy for viewers. But before that was a source of debate for the movie, social media users were busy arguing about whether a scene from the movie released as a teaser on Netflix’s channels – a high-school hallway montage, meant to reflect teenage life in the year 2003 – was actually all that reflective of the fashion and styles of the time. One choice was pretty inarguable though: the use of Hilary Duff’s 2003 pop-rock hit “So Yesterday.”

“Yesterday,” which only peaked at No. 42 on the Hot 100 in Oct. 2003 (but was much bigger on MTV and Radio Disney-type platforms), is featured as the slow-motion scene’s soundtrack, evoking the cultural moment fairly effectively. Unsurprisingly, the clip sent nostalgic viewers heading to streaming services to play the period classic  – “Yesterday” totaled over 85,000 official on-demand U.S. streams combined for the first four days of November, a 49% gain over the previous four-day total in the prior tracking week. Not quite “Unwritten” numbers yet, but a good start for a song that has lived in the shadow of Duff’s bigger hit “Come Clean” for too long. – AU

06 Nov 2024

Karol G’s ‘Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido’ No. 1 on Billboard Argentina Hot 100 for Eighth Week

Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” orders an eighth round at No.1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart. The song, which became the singer’s fourth leader on the tally in September, extends the third-longest command in 2024, and moves to within three weeks of tying the second-longest domination this year.

Only two other songs have reigned more in 2024: Valentino Merlo and The La Planta’s “Hoy” and Mesita, Nicki Nicole, Tiago PZK and Emilia’s “Una Foto (remix),” for 11 and 10 weeks in charge, respectively.

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The Hot Shot Debut of the week goes to Myke Towers’ “Degenere,” featuring Benny Blanco, after the latter’s No. 33 launch. Their first collaboration is part of Towers’ La Pantera Negra (Deluxe) album, whose original version debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Top Latin Albums chart in September. Further, it’s Towers’ second charting song from the set, as “También,” rises 84-72 on the current chart.

Argentinian rising star Yami Safdie and Venezuelan Lasso’s “En Otra Vida” takes home the Greatest Gainer trophy of the week, as the song climbs 31 spots, from No. 83 to No. 52 for its all-time best.

Four other songs debut this week, starting with Rusherking and Paulo Londra’s “Que Hicimo’’ at No. 84, and Aespa’s “Whiplash” at No. 92.

05 Nov 2024

Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Sweat Out $28 Million in Grosses With Sold-Out Arena Trek

Over the last year-and-change, Charli XCX and Troye Sivan launched two album campaigns, topped Billboard charts, earned Grammy Award nominations, and took their careers to new heights. The pinnacle of their synergized success was their North American co-headlining arena tour.

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Present: Sweat played 22 shows in the U.S. and Canada in September and October, wrapping with $28 million and 297,000 tickets sold, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. This surpasses Billboard’s own projections of $23.5 million and 270,000 from just last month.

From the tour’s April announcement, tickets gradually encroached on sell-out territory. Major markets like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco blew out immediately, but overall, the tour averaged 67% after the first weekend of sales. As Sivan toured Europe and Charli turned the summer green, sales grew to 70% by the end of May, 80% by mid-June, 90% by the end of July, and to 97% by opening night. With final numbers reported, the tour was completely sold out, even if Sivan once lovingly joked that they were “flopping” in Nashville.

Jared Braverman (SVP of Global Touring at Live Nation) commented to Billboard, “The Sweat Tour selling out all 22 shows is a true testament to both Charli and Troye as arena-level acts. We believed in their ability to fill these venues from the moment we announced the tour and went on sale back in April. The success reflects the strong fanbases they’ve built and how their music continues to connect deeply with fans live.”

Los Angeles was the highlight, where they played two nights at Inglewood’s Kia Forum, pulling in $3.2 million from 29,500 tickets sold. Closing night (Oct. 23) at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena scored the tour’s best single-night attendance (15,016), while the Sept. 23 show at New York’s Madison Square Garden posted the highest one-night gross ($1.7 million).

On average, the Sweat shows grossed $1.3 million and sold 13,479 tickets per show. That’s more than ten times either artist’s previous best as a solo headliner, even considering shows they played earlier this year.

It’s rare for artists who make pop and dance music to sell out arenas without an extensive slate of chart hits. In conversation with Zane Low, Charli reflected that “niche is being rewarded in a way that we haven’t seen for a while.” The world-building that each artist has done with their recent albums and throughout the Sweat tour with guest stars in their orbit like Addison Rae, Kesha and Lorde, super-served fans. In Charli’s words, “We just have to do it for them. And we have to make them feel so special, because they are, because they’ve championed me and us for so long.”

Live Nation’s Lesley Olenik (SVP, Global Touring) agreed, calling it “the can’t-miss live event of the year.” She continued, “What made it truly special was the energy — fans were free to express themselves in ways we haven’t seen in years, and Charli and Troye fed off that vibe every night. It was a no-judgment zone where everyone could unapologetically be themselves.”

That’s not to say that they have not broken through on a mainstream level before. Charli reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014 and even claimed that year’s Song of the Summer as a featured guest on Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy.” Sivan has four top 10s on the Billboard 200 and nine hits on the Hot 100. In the last year, both acts hit No. 1 on Top Dance/Electronic Albums and logged multiple top 10s on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, separately and together.

Both artists will return home for brief runs of shows in November. Sivan will re-up the Something to Give Each Other Tour with six shows throughout Australia and New Zealand. After hosting and performing on the Nov. 16 episode of Saturday Night Live, Charli will launch the Brat Tour with four shows in the U.K. Combined, they’ve already moved 419,000 tickets and earned $34 million on the road in 2024. By year’s end, those numbers will swell beyond 500,000 and $45 million.