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Ariana Grande achieves her sixth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as Eternal Sunshine bows atop the list (dated March 23), launching with 227,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 14, according to Luminate. Eternal’s opening frame also marks the largest week of 2024 for any album.
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Grande previously led the tally with Positions (in 2020), Thank U, Next (2019), Sweetener (2018), My Everything (2014) and Yours Truly (2013).
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 March 23, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Of Eternal Sunshine’s 227,000 units earned in the tracking week ending March 14, SEA units comprise 148,000 (equaling 194.92 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 77,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week) and TEA units comprise 2,000. Eternal’s first-week start is the largest of 2024 so far, surpassing the debut of Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1, which bowed with 148,000 (chart dated Feb. 24).
Eternal’s first-week sales were bolstered by the set’s availability across 12 physical configurations (six vinyl and six CD offerings, all with the same tracklist), a standard digital download (in clean and explicit versions) and a “slightly deluxe” digital download (clean and explicit, which added four bonus tracks – all remixes and alternative versions of songs on the standard album).
All six of the vinyl editions were ruby red-colored, and five offered alternate cover art. (Of the latter five editions, four were sold exclusively through Grande’s official webstore, and one of them was exclusive to Target.) Combined, her vinyl sales totaled 33,000 — her largest week on vinyl ever, surpassing the 32,000 first-week sales of Positions in 2021. As for the CD editions, there was a widely available standard CD, four variants (all with alternate cover art) sold in Grande’s webstore, and a signed edition (also sold via her webstore).
Eternal was released March 8 and led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Yes, And?,” which debuted atop the tally dated Jan. 27. Grande announced the new album on Jan. 17 and ushered in the set’s release as the musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live (March 9) and appeared as a presenter at the Academy Awards (March 10).
Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is pushed down to No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, despite a gain (less than 1%) to 68,000 equivalent album units earned. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season dips 2-3 (48,000; down 9%), Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s chart-topping Vultures 1 falls 3-4 (45,000; down 14%) and SZA’s former No. 1 SOS descends 4-5 (nearly 45,000; down 3%).
The rest of the top 10 on the new chart comprises former No. 1s: Zach Bryan’s self-titled set rises 8-6 (41,000 equivalent album units; up 8%), Drake’s For All the Dogs slips 5-7 (39,000; down 6%), Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 6-8 (38,500; down 2%), Swift’s Lover drops 7-9 (nearly 38,500; down less than 1%) and Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album falls 9-10 (just over 38,000; up 2%).
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.
Cage the Elephant tops Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart for the first time in nearly four years, as “Neon Pill” rises to No. 1, from No. 2, on the survey dated March 23. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Neon Pill” is the act’s first No. 1 […]
The Black Keys snag their seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart via “Beautiful People (Stay High),” which rises to the top of the March 23-dated tally. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The song becomes the duo’s first ruler since “Wild Child” led for two […]
Thomas Rhett’s “Mamaw’s House,” featuring Morgan Wallen, crowns Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated March 23). It increased by 13% to 29.4 million audience impressions March 8-14, according to Luminate.
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The song marks Rhett’s milestone 20th Country Airplay No. 1 and Wallen’s 11th.
“For me, each No. 1 is incredibly special, but to have 20 on the Billboard chart is really mind-blowing,” Rhett says. “It means that fans are connecting with the music we make, and that is a feeling that never goes old. It means the world to me.”
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“House” is on the digital version of Rhett’s 20 Number Ones, which arrived on Top Country Albums at its No. 7 high in October 2023, becoming his seventh top 10. Rhett, who is currently working on a new LP, and Wallen co-wrote the song with Matt Dragstrem and Chase McGill.
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Jumping 5-1 on Country Airplay, “House” makes the biggest leap to the summit since Rhett’s last leader, “Angels Don’t Always Have Wings,” flew 6-1 in September 2023. He first reigned with “It Goes Like This” in October 2013.
Rhett ties Brooks & Dunn, Toby Keith and Brad Paisley for the ninth-most Country Airplay leaders, dating to the chart’s 1990 launch. Kenny Chesney leads with 32 No. 1s.
Wallen last topped Country Airplay with “Thinkin’ Bout Me,” which started a five-week command in October 2023. Meanwhile, his “Man Made a Bar” featuring Eric Church pushes 7-6 (23.7 million, up 11%).
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Sam Hunt posts his 12th Country Airplay top 10 as “Outskirts” hops 14-10 (18.8 million, up 22%). The song, which he co-wrote, is his first to reach the region since his Ingrid Andress team-up “Wishful Drinking” hit No. 4 in November 2022.
All charts dated March 23 will update Tuesday, March 19, on Billboard.com.
Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine (Universal) enjoys the brightest possible start in Australia, where it debuts at No. 1, for her fifth leader.
All seven of the U.S. pop star’s album have landed in the ARIA top 10, including No. 1s for My Everything (in 2014), Dangerous Woman (2016), Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019).
Eternal Sunshine also shines bright on the ARIA Singles Chart, yielding a string of new entries including “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love),” opening at No. 2 for the week’s top debut and her 20th top 10 appearance in these parts; “Bye” (No. 19); the title track (No. 22); “Supernatural” (No. 18); “True Story” (No. 39) and “Wish I Hated You” (No. 46), while her former No. 2 hit “Yes, And?” rockets 34-11.
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With her No. 1 start, Grande ends Taylor Swift’s weeks-long lockup of the top 5. Still, Swift dominates the pointy end of the albums chart, published Friday, March 15, with five of the top 10, led by 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (via Universal), holding at No. 2.
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Meanwhile, Australian singer and TV presenter Ricki-Lee bows at No. 3 with On My Own (AWAL), her fifth studio album and first in 10 years. That’s a new career peak for Ricki-Lee, whose albums have all impacted the ARIA top 40, with Fear & Freedom (from 2012) her previous best at No. 7. Ricki-Lee is host of Australia Idol, the long-running reality TV series on which she got her break as a contestant 20 years ago.
Controversial Australian rock act Sticky Fingers enjoy a new peak position for Caress Your Soul (Sureshaker/MGM), which reenters the chart at No. 11 following the release of a 10th anniversary edition. The album previously peaked at No. 39 back in 2013.
Legendary British heavy metal band Judas Priest bows at No. 16 with Invincible Shield (Columbia/Sony), their 19th studio album. Judas Priest has never cracked the top 10 on the ARIA Chart. The closest they got was with Firepower, which blasted to No. 12 in 2018.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, American viral star Benson Boone holds at No. 1 for a second week with “Beautiful Things” (Warner), ahead of Grande’s “We Can’t Be Friends” and Djo‘s “End of Beginning” (AWAL), respectively. “End of Beginning” lifts 5-3, a new peak position for Djo, the music project of Stranger Things star Joseph Keery.
Midway through Everything I Thought It Was, Justin Timberlake makes a callback that he knows his fans are going to love. “Hey fellas! Hey fellas!,” he crows during the dance barnburner “My Favorite Drug,” to which he’s greeted with a chorus of manly “Yeahhhh”s. Timberlake then goes, “I know I did it before, but I’ma do it again!” And after that, of course, he pivots to the ladies: “I know you came here alone, but you gon’ leave with a friend!”
The nod towards the classic call-and-response hook of Justified classic “Señorita” is intentional, and emblematic of what Timberlake has set out to accomplish on his first album since 2018’s Man of the Woods. That album dabbled in country, Americana, traditional R&B and funk through a dance-pop lens; parts of Man of the Woods were captivating, other parts didn’t quite land, and the experiment earned Timberlake some of the harshest critiques of his career.
Six whole years have passed since then, multiple full eras of popular music along with them, and Timberlake has re-emerged with an album that plucks him out of the woods and better understands his core appeal. Everything I Thought It Was finds Timberlake playing the hits to a degree — shimmering rhythmic pop; crackling, Timbaland-helmed beats; disco grooves that aren’t contained to radio-single lengths; even the return of *NSYNC — but also does not represent a retreat into safe territory. Timberlake may be squarely in his forties at this point, but he still aims to have every moment of a sprawling, 76-minute album be considered thrilling. He’s a consummate entertainer who knows what he’s best at, and still finds occasions to operate in the margins of his aesthetic.
Since his last album release, Timberlake has faced newfound public scrutiny, both in regard to his past relationship with Britney Spears as well as for his role in the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy; Timberlake has revisited these issues himself, while also declaring in concert that he’d like to “apologize to absolutely f–king nobody.” Everything I Thought It Was is bookended by a pair of songs, “Memphis” and “Conditions,” that dissect his relationship to celebrity and the pristine image that he maintained for many years in the spotlight before blemishes began to be highlighted (“I’m less Superman, more Clark Kent/ You want a hero, I don’t know where he went,” he admits on the latter track).
In between those two songs is more than an hour’s worth of finely crafted, wholly satisfying pop, but the beginning and ending stand out, and fascinate, amid renewed scrutiny. Timberlake is known to take roughly a half-decade to craft full-length statements, but let’s hope he comes back sooner next time, and continues to balance sumptuous radio fodder with self-reflection.
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Luck Ra and Khea’s “Hola Perdida” holds steady at No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart (dated March 16) for a third week. It’s the longest-leading song for Luck Ra who last ruled the 100-deep tally through “Además De Mi (Remix)” for one week in 2021. FloyyMenor and Cris MJ’s “Gata Only” climbs […]
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Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” extends its reign atop the Billboard Japan Hot 100 to seven weeks on the chart dated March 13.
Boosted by news of the MASHLE season 2 opener’s global hit, the track gained significant exposure during the tallying week, including an appearance on the long-running live TV program Music Station on March 8 and a performance on The First Take YouTube channel released the same day. The hip-hop banger holds at No. 2 for downloads (22,288 units, up about 39%) and No. 1 for streaming (21,313,095 streams, up 0.2%), while coming in at No. 2 for karaoke, No. 15 for radio airplay, and No. 34 for video views. Overall points are up by about 6.2% from the previous week.
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Returning to the top 10 after seven weeks, Number_i’s “GOAT” shoots 32-2 following its physical release on March 6. The CD sold 481,475 copies in its first week, hitting No. 1 for the metric, and the ambitious rap anthem also ruled downloads (24,601 units) and radio. In other metrics, the former No. 1 hit comes in at No. 4 for video with 1,439,615 views and No. 27 for streaming with 3,389,427 streams. While it missed the top spot on the Japan Hot 100 by a narrow margin, it racked up more than twice as many points as the track at No. 3.
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Debuting at No. 3 is Sexy Zone’s 26th single “puzzle,” the four-man boy band’s final release under its current name. The theme song for a new drama series starring member Kento Nakajima launched with 296,056 CDs, about 45% more than its predecessor, “Jinsei Yuugi.” The track hits No. 2 for sales, No. 20 for radio and No. 83 for video.
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Other first-time entries in the top 10 this week are =LOVE’s 16th single “Norotte Norotte” at No. 6, selling 233,478 copies to come in at No. 3 for sales, and SUPER★DRAGON’s major label debut called “New Rise” following at No. 7, selling 77,221 copies to come in at No. 4 for the metric.
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The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from March 4 to March 10, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
Young MC’s 1989 top 10 hit “Bust a Move” is No. 1 on a Billboard chart in 2024, reaching the top spot on the Top TV Songs chart, presented by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for February 2024.
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Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of February 2024.
“Bust a Move,” which peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1989, sported a synch in ABC’s The Rookie, sending it to No. 1 on Top TV Songs after being heard in the second episode of the series’ sixth season on Feb. 27.
In February 2024, “Bust a Move” earned 3.2 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads, according to Luminate.
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“Bust a Move” reigns over Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind,” which bows at No. 2 following a synch in Amazon Prime Video’s The Grand Tour on Feb. 16. The track snagged 3.7 million streams and 2,000 downloads in February 2024.
Like “Bust a Move,” “If You Could Read My Mind” was a top 10 hit on the Hot 100 (as well as the first top 10 for both acts), albeit earlier, peaking at No. 5 in February 1971.
A pair of songs from HBO’s True Detective round out Top TV Songs’ top four in Mazzy Star’s “Into Dust” and The Beatles’ “Twist and Shout” at Nos. 3 and 4, respectively. The former was in episode four of the fourth season (Feb. 4), while the latter followed in episode six (Feb. 18).
“Into Dust” racked up 802,000 streams and 1,000 downloads in February 2024, while “Twist and Shout” boasted 6.4 million streams and 1,000 downloads.
They’re not the only True Detective synchs on the latest chart. The show also appears at No. 9 via Billie Eilish’s “Everybody Dies,” also from episode four, via 1.3 million streams.
See the full top 10, also featuring music from Will Trent, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and One Day, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
“Bust a Move,” Young MC, The Rookie (ABC)
“If You Could Read My Mind,” Gordon Lightfoot, The Grand Tour (Amazon Prime Video)
“Into Dust,” Mazzy Star, True Detective (HBO)
“Twist and Shout,” The Beatles, True Detective (HBO)
“Gimme Three Steps,” Lynyrd Skynyrd, Will Trent (ABC)
“Sandstorm,” Darude, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Amazon Prime Video)
“This Is the Day,” The The, One Day (Netflix)
“Love Ballad,” LTD, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Amazon Prime Video)
“Everybody Dies,” Billie Eilish, True Detective (HBO)
“Feels Good,” Tony! Toni! Toné!, Will Trent (ABC)