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Hozier earns his fifth straight No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart as “Nobody’s Soldier” lifts two spots to the top of the Nov. 2-dated survey.
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The song continues a streak that also includes “Eat Your Young” and “Francesca” in 2023 and “Too Sweet,” for 10 weeks beginning in May, plus his co-lead turn on Noah Kahan’s “Northern Attitude,” for five weeks starting in January.
With five rulers in a row, Hozier is one away from the chart’s all-time best run, held by U2, which strung together six from 2001’s “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” through 2005’s “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own.”
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In all, Hozier now boasts seven No. 1s on Adult Alternative Airplay, first reigning with “Take Me to Church” in 2014. He also led with “Nina Cried Power,” featuring Mavis Staples, in 2018.
Hozier is the first soloist to score three new Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1s in a single year, thanks to “Nobody’s Soldier,” “Too Sweet” and “Northern Attitude.” Only two groups previously achieved the feat, dating to the chart’s January 1996 launch: Coldplay with “Violet Hill,” “Viva La Vida” and “Lost!,” featuring Jay-Z, in 2008, and Dave Matthews Band with “I Did It,” “The Space Between” and “Everyday” in 2001.
Concurrently, “Nobody’s Soldier” ranks at No. 39 on Alternative Airplay, after reaching No. 37. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it rises 23-22 with 1.4 million audience impressions, up 7%, in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Luminate.
“Nobody’s Soldier” debuted at its No. 16 best on the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart dated Aug. 31 following its release on Hozier’s EP Unaired. The song has also been appended to the deluxe edition of his 2023 album Unreal Unearth, with the latest edition – Unreal Unearth: Unending – due Dec. 6 as a three-LP deluxe edition and a one-LP companion version.
All Billboard charts dated Nov. 2 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Marshmello and Kane Brown’s “Miles on It” rises two spots to No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Nov. 2). The song increased by 14% to 31.5 million audience impressions Oct. 18-24, according to Luminate.
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Marshmello reigns in his rookie Country Airplay appearance. The prominent DJ notches the first debut No. 1 at the format since Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” began its seven-week domination in August.
Brown banks his 12th Country Airplay leader. It’s also his seventh in succession, the longest active streak among all artists. Notably, behind Brown with five consecutive career-opening chart-toppers is Jelly Roll, whose latest single, “I Am Not Okay,” holds at its No. 2 high (30.3 million, up 3%).
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Prior to “Miles on It,” Brown last topped Country Airplay for one week in March with “I Can Feel It.” He first led with “What Ifs” (featuring Lauren Alaina) for a week in October 2017.
Meanwhile, “Miles on It” isn’t the first Marshmello and Brown collaboration. The two topped the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart with “One Thing Right” for a week in October 2019. They are among the co-writers of their new leader, which has hit No. 4 on the ranking and which introduces Brown’s LP The High Road, due Jan. 24, 2025.
Dasha Kicks Up First Top 10
Dasha’s co-penned “Austin” ascends 12-9 on Country Airplay (16.4 million, down 1%). The breakthrough single by the San Luis Obispo, Calif., native becomes the first freshman entry by a woman to hit the top 10 since Megan Moroney’s “Tennessee Orange,” which reached No. 4 in July 2023.
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Plus, Thomas Rhett earns his 24th top 10 as“Beautiful as You” climbs 12-10 (16.1 million, up 7%). The single follows “Mamaw’s House” (featuring Morgan Wallen), which in March became Rhett’s 20th No. 1.
BLACKPINK’s ROSÉ has become the highest-charting female solo K-pop act ever on the U.K. Singles Charts. The singer lands at No. 4 with “APT.”, her collaborative single with Bruno Mars, and marks only her third solo single release. She previously peaked at No. 43 in 2021 with single “On the Ground.” Her BLACKPINK bandmates JISOO […]
Kylie Minogue has scored her 10th No. 1 album on the U.K. Official Albums Chart.
The Aussie singer’s Tension II, a sequel to her September 2023 album of the same name, is her 17th studio album and features contributions from Diplo, Bebe Rexha and The Blessed Madonna.
Tension II is a continuation of the dancefloor-focused electronic sound that she’s found success with in recent years. Her 2023 single “Padam Padam” from Tension reached the top 10 on the U.K. Official Singles Chart.
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With her 10th No. 1 album in the U.K., Kylie joins only a handful of acts to reach double figures, drawing level with Coldplay, Queen, Michael Jackson and ABBA.
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Kylie now trails only The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Robbie Williams, Elvis, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Eminem and U2 for No. 1s on the Albums Chart.
The pop icon has previously topped the chart with Kylie (1988), Enjoy Yourself (1989), Greatest Hits (1992), Fever (2001), Aphrodite (2010), Golden (2018), Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (2019), DISCO (2020) and Tension (2023).
Rag’n’Bone Man re-enters with his third consecutive top 3 album with What Do You Believe In? The British solo artist topped the Albums Chart on his previous two outings, 2017’s Human and 2021’s Life By Misadventure.
Australian-born, London-based dance group Confidence Man land their first top 10 album with 3AM (LA LA LA), their first after signing to Polydor. Their third album comes in at No. 9 in this week’s edition.
All five of One Direction’s albums have returned to the charts following the death of member Liam Payne, who died earlier this month at age 31. Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Made In The A.M. (2015) and Four (2015) all chart in the top 40.
Fans worldwide have been holding vigils for the late singer, who died following a fall from a hotel balcony. Zayn Malik recently postponed his first ever solo tour following the news, while his 1D bandmates have paid tribute to their late friend.
See the full list at the Official Albums Chart website.
On Oct. 27, 1984, Alabama’s “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas” rose to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The classic was co-written by Murry Kellum and Dan Mitchell and produced by the band and Harold Shedd.
Formed near Fort Payne, Ala., in the early ‘70s, Alabama was initially billed as Wildcountry, consisting of cousins Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen. They recruited drummer Mark Herndon in 1979.
Starting with Alabama’s 1980 Hot Country Songs No. 1 “Tennessee River” and through its featured turn on Brad Paisley’s “Old Alabama” in 2011, the band banked 33 leaders, among 51 top 10s, both the most among duo/groups. Also beginning with “Tennessee River,” Alabama rattled off a record 21 No. 1s in a row (counting proper, nonseasonal singles) through 1987.
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“We were lookin’ for a song that would use a fiddle,” “Texas” co-producer Shedd shared in Tom Roland’s The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits. “After ‘Tennessee River’ and [Alabama’s ninth No. 1, 1983’s] ‘Dixieland Delight,’ it became a trademark, so we wanted to do some of those things. If it’s working, you don’t want to get too far away from that. You gotta touch your home base. [“Texas”] was something we could out a fiddle on that would not sound manufactured or contrived.”
“Texas” was released as the third of four singles – all of which topped Hot Country Songs – from Alabama’s eighth LP, and fourth Top Country Albums No. 1, Roll On. It followed “Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)” and “When We Make Love” and preceded “(There’s A) Fire in the Night.”
In 2015, Southern Drawl, Alabama’s first set of new music since 2001, arrived at its No. 2 peak on Top Country Albums. It became the group’s 26th top 10 set, a sum that includes 11 No. 1s logged between 1981 and 2006.
Alabama was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Cook passed away on Nov. 8, 2022, at his home in Destin, Fla. He was 73. Currently touring, the band makes its next stop in St. Augustine, Fla., on Nov. 8.
Kylie Minogue, the queen of pop, is crowned on Australia’s albums chart with Tension II.
The new collection is Kylie’s ninth leader on the ARIA Chart, fifth in succession, and second in a year; its predecessor, Tension, logged one week at the summit in September 2023.
Tension II (via Mushroom Music) is the Melbourne-raised pop icon’s 17th studio album, and with its fast start on the chart, pushes Kylie to No. 9 on the list of acts with the most No. 1s in Australia, a tally that includes Light Years (from 2000), Fever (2001), X (2007), Kiss Me Once (2014), Golden (2018), Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (2019), Disco (2020) and Tension.
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She also has 10 No. 1 singles in Australia, from “Locomotion” in 1987 to “2 Hearts” in 2007, ARIA reports, and she’s on the brink of a 10th No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.
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“It is so awesome to see Australia’s OG pop queen continuing to dominate globally and at home, bringing joy and disco into our lives,” comments ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. “Huge congratulations to her and her team for such a phenomenal career, five consecutive No. 1 albums, and continuing to represent Australia on the world stage.”
Also new to the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Oct. 25, is Dean Lewis’ The Epilogue (Island/Universal), at No. 2. It’s a third top 10 for the triple ARIA Award winner, a tally that includes a No. 1in 2019 with A Place We Knew.
Meanwhile, New South Wales indie rock duo Skegss start at No. 4 with Pacific Highway Music (Concord/Universal), their third full-length album. Skegss now have four top 10s under their belts: 2015 EP 50 Push Ups For A Dollar peaked at No. 4; My Own Mess hit No. 2 in 2018, and 2021’s Rehearsal went all the way to No. 1.
ARIA Award winner Thelma Plum’s lands in the top 10 with I’m Sorry, Now Say It Back (Warner Music Australia), new at No. 7. It’s the Brisbane singer and songwriter’s followup to debut Better In Blak, which peaked at No. 4 in 2019.
Confidence Man impact the top 40 with 3AM (La La La) (via I Oh You/Mushroom), on which the Aussie electro-pop act takes a time-machine back to ’90s rave and clubland. 3AM (La La La) is new at No. 40.
It’s a Melbourne double on the ARIA Charts as Rosé opens at No. 1 on the singles tally with her Bruno Mars collaboration, “APT.” (via Atlantic/Warner). That’s a record-breaking feat, making Rosé the first solo female K-pop artist to lead the chart. She’s just the second solo K-pop singer to rule the ARIA Chart after PSY’s “Gangnam Style” spent six weeks at the top back in 2012.
Rosé was born in Auckland and raised in Melbourne, before making the move to South Korea, where she joined Blackpink and smashed records everywhere. In Australia, the foursome owns the highest-debuting single by a K-pop group in ARIA Chart history, when “Pink Venom” went to No. 1 in 2022.
GloRilla nabs her second top 10-charting effort on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 26), and with her best sales week yet, as Glorious debuts at No. 6. The title arrives at No. 6 with nearly 12,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 17, according to Luminate. The album was available in both a standard and bonus track digital download edition, as well as a signed CD edition.
GloRilla previously visited the top 10 with Anyways, Life’s Great… in 2022, debuting and peaking at No. 6.
Glorious additionally opens in the top 10 across multiple other charts: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (No. 2), Top Rap Albums (No. 2), Top Streaming Albums (No. 4) and the Billboard 200 (No. 5) – all with her best ranks yet on each chart.
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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.
Elsewhere on the Top Album Sales chart, Jelly Roll racks up his best sales week ever, and first No. 1, as Beautifully Broken bows atop the list with 114,000 sold. The album’s opening week sales were bolstered by its availability across seven vinyl variants, three CD variants (the CDs sold a combined 65,000, including a signed edition sold through the artist’s webstore), a cassette tape and three download album variants (the downloads sold 32,000). Net profits from pre-orders of the CD and vinyl in his webstore benefitted four charity organizations.
Charli XCX’s Brat flies 25-2 with 48,000 (up 1,281%) for its highest rank and best sales week yet. The surge follows the album’s two deluxe reissues released in the week ending Oct. 17. All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting purposes. For the deluxe reissues (dubbed Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat), the album’s original tracklist was supersized on Oct. 11 to add in 16 remixes of the set’s songs (with guests including The 1975 and Ariana Grande; available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital download). Then, on Oct. 14, the deluxe was plussed, adding a remix of “Spring Breakers” featuring Kesha (available as a digital download purchase).
Chappell Roan’s former No. 1 The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess dips 2-3 (14,000; up 6%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is steady at No. 4 (14,000; up 6%), Coldplay’s Moon Music falls 1-5 in its second week (12,000; down 89%), Stray Kids’ chart-topping ATE rises 8-7 (9,000; up 7%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft jumps 12-8 (8,000; up 14%) and ENHYPEN’s chart-topping Romance: Untold rises 13-9 (7,000; up 10%).
Rounding out the top 10 is Myles Kennedy with the arrival of The Art of Letting Go, bowing at No. 10 with nearly 7,000. It’s the sixth top 10 for the artist.
Is it really summer without The Rolling Stones on tour? The rock icons have toured North America, Europe, or both, for every summer but three in the last 12 years, consistently topping charts and setting records. After a break in 2023, the Stones returned for the Hackney Diamonds Tour, playing 18 shows in 15 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada from the end of April through the middle of July. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the trek earned $235 million and sold 848,000 tickets.
The tour was in support of the band’s Hackney Diamonds album, released in October 2023. The set marked the band’s first album of original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. Hackney Diamonds debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 – the group’s highest-charting album since Bang also hit No. 3 – and extended the band’s record for the most top 10s on the chart.
The Hackney Diamonds Tour kicked off at Houston’s NRG Stadium on April 28, 2024,, bringing the Stones to more than 40,000 fans. By the time the band wrapped at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 17, it had scored the highest-earning summer of its career. Sixty, its 2022 jaunt, earned $120.8 million, and the biggest of its four No Filter Tour legs brought in $177.8 million in 2019. While they’ve made more money on years-long treks, Mick Jagger & co. have never earned more than $200 million in a single season.
The Stones’ 2024 run was highlighted by double-headers in East Rutherford, N.J. (17 miles outside New York City), Chicago and Inglewood, Calif. (11 miles from downtown Los Angeles). Each of those engagements grossed more than $20 million, topped by the New Jersey shows at MetLife Stadium on May 23 and 26, which earned a combined $29.2 million and sold 105,000 tickets.
Those MetLife dates mark a career peak, setting the highest gross of the Stones’ 35-year Boxscore history. The Inglewood and Chicago dates also fall in the top 10, while Denver, Foxborough, Las Vegas and Philadelphia line up in the band’s all-time top 20, all between $15-16 million.
Every market on the tour delivered an eight-figure gross, with the lone exception of Glendale, Ariz., whose May 7 State Farm Stadium show grossed $8.4 million and sold 44,800 tickets.
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The Hackney Diamonds Tour sets a new high for The Rolling Stones and pushes the band further into uncharted Boxscore territory. This is its sixth tour to earn more than $200 million and 10th to gross more than $100 million. Both counts are Boxscore records, extending their lead for the most nine-figure tours, now three $100-million tours away from the group’s closest competitors.
Dating back to a report for two shows at Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium on Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 1989, The Rolling Stones have earned $2.873 billion and sold 28.9 million tickets.
Across Green Day’s 12 shows in September — 11 at stadiums, plus an amphitheater show in Austin, Texas — the band sold 415,000 tickets at an average ticket price of $114.71, combining for earnings of $47.5 million according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. That puts the California trio’s The Saviors Tour at No. 1 on Billboard’s monthly Top Tours ranking.
The Saviors Tour kicked off in June with a $33.8 million run in Europe, before crossing the Atlantic for a 26-city tour of the United States and Canada. Though Green Day had sprinkled stadiums late in the 2004-05 American Idiot World Tour and then committed fully to the venues with Fall Out Boy and Weezer on the 2021-22 Hella Mega Tour, this marks the band’s first solo headlining run to predominantly play stadiums.
The Saviors Tour is named after Green Day’s 14th studio album. The set debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 earlier this year and spawned “Dilemma,” which spent eight weeks atop Alternative Airplay. But the trek helped juice up the band’s reach by calling back to two of its landmark albums, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Dookie and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot by playing both LPs in full each night.
In September, Green Day hit a high for its entire North American leg, with $5.7 million and 47,800 tickets at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. That’s one of three entries for the band on Top Boxscores, at No. 24. Dates at San Francisco’s Oracle Park and San Diego’s Petco Park follow at Nos. 27 and 29, respectively.
It’s uncommon for an act to be No. 1 on Top Tours without a similarly high placement on Top Boxscores. Throughout 2024, the highest-grossing touring act has always had at least one entry in the top 10 of Top Boxscores, with the same act ruling both charts in five of the right months before September.
Further, in the 51 editions of Billboard’s monthly Boxscore charts since Feb. 2019, the artist at No. 1 on Top Tours was in the top 10 of Top Boxscores 43 times. Of the eight instances where they did not overlap, four were by Trans-Siberian Orchestra during their annual December takeover. That group routinely rules Top Tours without making impact on Top Boxscores, assembling its massive monthly total by playing multiple shows per day, with the help of two coastal touring ensembles.
Though there is only one iteration of Green Day responsible for its September victory, the strategy is similar. The punk-rock icons have the month’s biggest tour by volume, playing 12 stadium shows between Sept. 1-28. The acts that lead Top Boxscores – Coldplay, Metallica, Bruno Mars – all held splashy multi-night engagements in international territories, but didn’t tour consistently throughout the month.
Timing also helps. In August, Green Day’s $47.5-million gross would have sat behind the entire top five, helmed by Zach Bryan above $90 million and Coldplay over $80 million. The former took September off and the latter wrapped its European leg on Sept. 2, clearing a path for Billie Joe & co. to claim their first monthly victory.
Still, the individual shows on The Saviors Tour mark the biggest of Green Day’s storied career. While the SoFi Stadium shows were the biggest of the North American leg, a June 29 show at London’s Wembley Stadium ($7.9 million; 76,000 tickets) topped the entire tour. It was also the highest-grossing and best-attended night of the band’s entire reported Boxscore history.
Further, Green Day’s 25 top-earning concert engagements all come from this year’s tour. In all, The Saviors Tour grossed $132.4 million and sold 1.2 million tickets, easily ending as the band’s highest-grossing and best-selling tour ever.
Directly following Green Day on Top Tours are two of the biggest R&B acts on the road. Bruno Mars is No. 2 with $43.8 million and Usher is No. 3 with $36 million. The former played in Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan (plus one show in Las Vegas). Three shows at Jakarta’s Beach City International Stadium account for nearly half of Mars’ total monthly gross, bringing in $21.5 million from 142,000 tickets.
Notably, Mars is not technically on a tour, rather playing one-off engagements around his ongoing residency at Las Vegas’ Dolby Live. His last trek was the 24K Magic World Tour, which earned $396.1 million and sold 3.6 million tickets in 2017-18. His current Vegas stint is among the top 10 residencies in Boxscore history, now up to $138.8 million.
Usher, on the other hand, is amidst his first proper headline tour since 2015, after closing out his own Vegas residency late last year. Usher: Past Present Future kicked off in August, averaging $2.3 million per show in September. Its biggest stop so far was a four-night run at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, which brought in $10.2 million and sold 58,000 tickets.
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Rock tours flood the rest of the top 10, with Metallica, Jeff Lynne’s ELO and Pearl Jam following at Nos. 4-5 and 8, respectively. Coldplay, Twenty One Pilots and the Eagles line up consecutively just outside the top 10.
While Green Day crowns Top Tours while missing the top 10 of Top Boxscores, Coldplay does the opposite, at No. 1 on the latter chart while sitting at No. 11 on the former. Coldplay only had two shows during September, but they made them count. The British quartet played four concerts at Dublin’s Croke Park – two on Aug. 29-30, which counted toward the August chart, and two on Sept. 1-2. The September dates grossed $24.8 million and sold 165,000 tickets.
Further down on Top Boxscores, Sebastian Maniscalco grossed $10.7 million across five nights at Madison Square Garden, earning the No. 8 entry. It’s the highest-grossing report for a comedian in Boxscore history. The number of comedy acts who can play one night at an arena is small, so consider Maniscalco one of very few who could sell out five.
Megan Thee Stallion nabs her fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart as “Mamushi,” featuring Yuki Chiba, captures the crown on the list dated Oct. 26. Despite a 4% drop in plays for the week compared to the week prior, “Mamushi” became the most played song on U.S. monitored rhythmic radio stations in the […]