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The Last Dinner Party feasts on the U.K. chart as Prelude to Ecstasy (via Island) blasts to No. 1.
The outright leader at the midweek point, Prelude to Ecstasy clocks 32,800 chart units in its first week, the Official Charts Company reports.
That’s the biggest opening week for a debut album by a band since 2015, when electronic pop act Years & Years accumulated 55,000 with their debut, Communion.
Also, according to the OCC, the Last Dinner Party’s first-week result includes more than 14,000 vinyl copies, for the fastest-selling debut album by a group on vinyl of the century, and the highest sales week for a vinyl album since Oasis’ The Masterplan remaster dropped last November.
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Based in London, the indie-rock five-piece (Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci) has some serious hype behind it.
The group snagged this year’s BRITs Rising Star Award and the BBC Sound Of 2024 poll, a brace that assures the Last Dinner Party status as the next big thing in music.
Prelude to Ecstasy features “Nothing Matters,” their breakthrough debut single which charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Official U.K. Singles Chart.
Also new to the Official U.K. Albums Chart, published Friday, Feb. 9, is Jamie Webster’s 10 For The People (Modern Sky), at No. 2. With that effort, the Liverpool, England singer and songwriter boasts a new career high, outdoing 2022’s Moments, which peaked at No. 3.
Glasgow, Scotland singer and songwriter Dylan John Thomas enjoys a top 40 debut with his self-titled debut album (via Ignition), new at No. 21, while Britpop-era psychedelic rock act Kula Shaker nabs a fourth U.K. top 40 whose latest release Natural Magick (Strange Folk), new at No. 22.
Finally, Taylor Swift fever spreads on the U.K. chart following the announcement of The Tortured Poets Department, her forthcoming 11th studio album. Several of Swift’s recordings spike on the tally, including 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (up 8-5), Midnights (up 15-6), Folklore (up 18-10), Lover (up 17-13), reputation (up 20-14), and Evermore (up 51-40), all through EMI. Announced during the 2024 Grammys broadcast, The Tortured Poets Department is due out April 19.
It has been more than a year since SZA’s SOS was released on Dec. 9, 2022, but the album continues to mine new records on the Billboard charts. Now, the album’s hit single “Snooze” earns an unprecedented 30th week at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, the most by any song in the list’s 31-year history.
“Snooze” scores its record-breaking moment on the chart dated Feb. 17 through a 2% increase to 22 million in audience for the tracking week of Feb. 2 – 8, according to Luminate. With its 30th week atop R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, the song breaks from a tie with Chris Brown and Young Thug’s “Go Crazy” to solely claim first place in the archives. “Go Crazy” dominated for 29 weeks in 2020-21.
As “Snooze” shuffles the leaderboard, here’s a recap of the songs with the most weeks at No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, which launched in 1993.
Weeks at No. 1, Song Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 130, “Snooze,” SZA, July 1, 202329, “Go Crazy,” Chris Brown & Young Thug, Aug. 22, 202027, “No Guidance,” Chris Brown featuring Drake, Aug. 24, 201927, “Essence,” Wizkid featuring Justin Bieber & Tems, Sept. 4, 202123, “Adorn,” Miguel, Sept. 22, 201222, “Free Mind,” Tems, Nov. 12, 202218, “Leave the Door Open,” Silk Sonic, April 24, 202116, “Boo’d Up,” Ella Mai, June 23, 201815, “Be Without You,” Mary J. Blige, Jan. 7, 200615, “Hotline Bling,” Drake, Oct. 24, 2015
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Notably, the top six tunes on the list above belong to RCA Records. The label has particularly shored up its ranks in recent years; “Snooze” marks the third time in the last four years that the record for most weeks at No. 1 has changed hands, though it has remained within the RCA family. After Miguel’s “Adorn” set a then-record 23 weeks atop the radio ranking in April 2013, it held until Brown’s “No Guidance,” featuring Drake, took the title in February 2020, before its own displacement, to “Go Crazy,” in April 2021.
As with most of the preceding titleholders, “Snooze” achieved the record through its cross-format strength at both mainstream R&B/hip-hop and adult R&B stations, whose combined audience totals are what makes up the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart . The single began a four-week, nonconsecutive run at No. 1 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay in July 2023 and has remained in the top five each week. At the same time, “Snooze” has been steadily climbing Adult R&B Airplay and is nearing the top slots, climbing 6-5 on the newest chart.
The R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay record furthers a major week for “Snooze,” following its Grammy Award win for best R&B song on Sunday (Feb. 4). The trophy was one of SZA’s three victories, with best pop duo/group performance for her “Ghost in the Machine,” collaboration with Phoebe Bridges and best progressive R&B album for SOS.
The Black Keys return to the top of Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart for an eighth time with “Beautiful People (Stay High),” which reigns on the Feb. 17-dated survey.
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“Beautiful People” rules in its fourth week on the tally, sporting the quickest rise to the chart’s peak in 2024 so far and fastest since The Beatles’ “Now and Then” also took four frames in December 2023.
It’s the duo’s first No. 1 since “Wild Child” reigned for four weeks beginning in April 2022. Between “Wild Child” and “Beautiful People,” the band also appeared with “It Ain’t Over,” which peaked at No. 5 in September 2022.
The Black Keys first led with “Lonely Boy,” a seven-week topper beginning in December 2011.
With eight No. 1s, the band moves into a three-way tie for the fifth-most rulers in the history of Adult Alternative Airplay, which published its first chart in 1996, alongside Death Cab for Cutie and John Mayer. U2 leads all acts with 14 No. 1s.
Most No. 1s, Adult Alternative Airplay14, U213, Coldplay11, Dave Matthews (solo and with Dave Matthews Band)11, Jack Johnson8, Death Cab for Cutie8, John Mayer8, The Black Keys7, Counting Crows7, R.E.M.7, Sheryl Crow
Concurrently, “Beautiful People” jumps 5-3 on Alternative Airplay and 30-26 on Mainstream Rock Airplay. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, the track bullets at its No. 3 peak with 5.3 million audience impressions, up 9%, according to Luminate.
“Beautiful People (Stay High)” is the lead single from Ohio Players, The Black Keys’ 12th studio album, scheduled for release on April 5. The band’s last album, Dropout Boogie, debuted at No. 2 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated May 28, 2022, and has earned 146,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated Feb. 17 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Daughtry reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart for the first time as “Artificial” lifts 2-1 on the Feb. 17-dated ranking.
“Artificial” follows 17 years of appearances on Mainstream Rock Airplay for Daughtry, which first made the survey with “It’s Not Over,” a No. 5-peaking track in March 2007. The band boasts eight entries in all.
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That stretch between first appearance and first No. 1 is the longest since Jeff Beck, who set the all-time record when he went 37 years between “People Get Ready” charting in 1985 and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Patient Number 9,” on which he’s featured, reaching No. 1 in 2022.
As Daughtry is the lead artist on “Artificial,” the previous longest as a lead act went to Disturbed frontman David Draiman, who went 19 years between his solo track “Forsaken” in 2002 and “Dead Inside,” a co-lead with Nita Strauss, which hit No. 1 in 2022.
Prior to “Artificial,” Daughtry’s highest ranking song on Mainstream Rock Airplay had been “Heavy Is the Crown,” which peaked at No. 4 in 2021.
While it’s Daughtry’s first Mainstream Rock Airplay ruler, the Chris Daughtry-fronted band boasts multiple No. 1s over the years on other Billboard’s airplay charts. That includes four leaders on Adult Pop Airplay between 2007 and 2009 (“It’s Not Over,” “Home,” “Feels Like Tonight” and “No Surprise”) and one reign apiece on Pop Airplay (“It’s Not Over”) and Adult Contemporary (“Home”).
Daughtry’s output generally performed better on pop airplay formats early in the band’s career, to the point where it experienced a nearly 13-year break from Mainstream Rock Airplay between “Crashed” in 2007 and its return to the ranking, “World on Fire,” in 2020.
Concurrently, “Artificial” rises 14-13 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.7 million audience impressions, up 13%, according to Luminate. It reaches its peak so far, No. 12, on the Jan. 13 tally.
The most recent multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs list (Feb. 10) found “Artificial” at No. 12. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 346,000 official U.S. streams Jan. 26-Feb. 1.
“Artificial” is currently a standalone single for Daughtry. Its last album, Dearly Beloved, debuted at No. 4 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart dated Oct. 2, 2021, and has earned 88,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated Feb. 17 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Nate Smith’s “World on Fire” continues its command on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, ranking at No. 1 for a ninth week. It drew 31.4 million in airplay audience Feb. 2-8, according to Luminate.
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The song is now solely the second-longest-leading hit in the Country Airplay chart’s 34-year history, one week from tying Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof,” which dominated for 10 frames starting in October 2022.
“Fire” – released on Arista Nashville/RCA Nashville, and which Smith co-wrote with Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips and Lindsay Rimes, the lattermost of whom solely produced it – passes three eight-week No. 1s: Wallen’s “Last Night” (beginning in May 2023), Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” (August 2003) and Lonestar’s “Amazed” (July 1999).
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“Fire” is Smith’s second straight career-opening Country Airplay No. 1, after “Whiskey on You” led for two weeks last February.
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Thomas Rhett’s “Mamaw’s House,” featuring Morgan Wallen, hits the top 10 on Country Airplay, pushing 11-9, up 20% to 19.8 million audience impressions.
“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 “House” with Matt Dragstrem and Chase McGill.
Rhett adds his 23rd Country Airplay top 10. “House” follows “Angels Don’t Always Have Wings,” which led for a week in September, becoming his 19th leader. Rhett’s third of 30 chart entries, “It Goes Like This,” became his first top 10 and his maiden leader when it dominated for three frames starting in October 2013.
Wallen banks his 13th Country Airplay top 10. “House” follows “Everything I Love,” which peaked at No. 3 in December, and “Thinkin’ Bout Me,” which started a five-week command in November, becoming his 10th chart-topper. He logs an additional song on the Feb. 17-dated list: “Man Made a Bar,” featuring Eric Church, rises 15-13 (14.7 million, up 20%).
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Parker McCollum’s “Burn It Down” (MCA Nashville) climbs 13-10 (16 million, up 13%). The single, which McCollum co-penned, becomes his fourth consecutive career opening top 10.
It follows “Handle on You,” which peaked at No. 2 last May. Before “Handle on You,” McCollum’s scored two straight leaders; his first entry “Pretty Heart” led in December 2020 followed by “To Be Loved By You,” which reigned in March 2022.
Taylor Swift blocks-out the entire top 5 on Australia’s albums chart, as Swifties fire-up her catalog just days out from the start of her tour Down Under.
The U.S. pop superstar leads the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Feb. 9, with 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (via Universal), which clocks its 14th non-consecutive week at No. 1, tying with Midnights as her longest-running leader.
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It’s all TayTay from there, as Midnights (Universal) holds at No. 2, Lover (Universal) lifts 8-3, Reputation (Big Machine/Universal) holds at No. 4, and Folklore (Republic/Universal) fires 8-5.
It’s not the first Swift Sweep of the ARIA Chart. The “Wildest Dreams” singer completed what was then an unprecedented lock-up of the top 5 last July, led by Midnights, followed by Lover, 1989, Reputation, and Folklore, respectively.
On that occasion, Swift-mania was triggered by the general ticket on sale for her The Eras Tour of Australia in 2024, produced by Frontier Touring.
The time has come. Swift will play her hits across seven concerts at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Sydney’s Accord Stadium, starting from next Friday (Feb. 16) at the MCG.
No other artist has come close to commanding the ARIA top 5. The late Michael Jackson was the standard-bearer before Swift, once landing the top three albums on the chart a week following his death in 2009.
The top new release on the latest ARIA Albums Chart is Prelude To Ecstasy (Island/Universal), the debut LP from the critically-lauded British group The Last Dinner Party. It’s new at No. 35.
Prelude To Ecstasy zoomed ahead on the midweek U.K. chart, and should give the London five-piece group a No. 1 there, adding to their growing collection of trophies which includes the BRITS Rising Star Award and the BBC Sound of… 2024 poll.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Noah Kahan sticks a second week at No. 1 with “Stick Season” (Universal), ahead of Jack Harlow’s former leader “Lovin On Me” (Atlantic/Warner), holding at No. 2.
U.S. viral star Benson Boone has a new career high with “Beautiful Things” (Warner), which improves 9-3. Until “Beautiful Things,” his ARIA Chart best was No. 34 for 2022’s “Into The Stars.”
Finally, Dom Dolla marches into the top 10 for the first time with “Saving Up” (Sony). A standout on the triple j Hottest 100 poll, where it dropped in at No. 3, “Saving Up” lifts 11-10 on the ARIA Chart.
“Saving Up” is one of 11 homegrown recordings in the top 100, ARIA reports, including cuts by Royel Otis, Troye Sivan, Vance Joy, Ocean Alley, FISHER with Kita Alexander and Flume with Kai.
In the first five weeks of 2024, Taylor Swift won two Grammy Awards (including a record-breaking fourth for album of the year, for Midnights), announced a new studio album (onstage at the Grammys!), got her ninth No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with the revived Lover hit “Cruel Summer,” topped Billboard’s annual Power 100 list for the first time, and saw two of her albums surpass the 2 million U.S. sales mark: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and Lover.
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1989 (Taylor’s Version), released in 2023, jumped past the 2 million mark – counting only traditional album sales (purchases of CD, vinyl, cassette and digital download copies) – in the week ending Jan. 11, according to Luminate. Meanwhile, Lover, released in 2019, flew past the 2 million threshold in the week ending Jan. 18. They mark her ninth and 10th albums to sell at least 2 million in the U.S.
Swift’s top-selling album in the U.S. is Fearless, with 7.286 million copies sold.
Plus, on the latest Top Album Sales chart, the former No. 1 Lover locks up its 200th nonconsecutive week on the tally, as it rises 8-4 on the list dated Feb. 10. It sold 8,000 copies in the week ending Feb. 1 (the tracking week captured on the Feb. 10-dated chart) – up 21% compared to its sales in the previous week. Only two other Swift albums have spent at least 200 weeks on Top Album Sales: her self-titled album, with 286 weeks (and counting), and Fearless, with 224 weeks.
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.
Elsewhere on the new Top Album Sales chart, Grateful Dead score its first No. 1 as Dave’s Picks, Volume 49: Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford U., Palo Alto, CA (4/27/85 & 4/28/85) debuts atop the list. It sold 21,000 in its first week. Rock supergroup The Smile sees its new album Wall of Eyes starts at No. 2 (14,500) while Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is steady at No. 3 (10,000; down 9%). Green Day’s Saviors slips 1-5 in its second week with 7,000 (down 82%), while Alkaline Trio’s Blood, Hair and Eyeballs bows at No. 6 with just over 6,000. Stray Kids’ chart-topping ROCK-STAR is stationary at No. 7 with 6,000 (down 2%) and Swift’s former leader Midnights falls 5-9 with nearly 6,000 (down 13%).
Two debuts close out the top 10, as Static-X’s Project Regeneration, Volume 2 launches at No. 9 with nearly 5,000, and Future Islands’ People Who Aren’t There Anymore bows at No. 10 with 4,000.
In the week ending Feb. 1, there were 1.118 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 1.3% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 827,000 (up 0.5%) and digital albums comprised 291,000 (up 3.6%).
There were 404,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 1 (up 3.9% week-over-week) and 418,000 vinyl albums sold (down 2.4%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 2.108 million (down 31% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 2.413 million (down 46.4%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 5.915 million (down 36.1% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 4.545 million (down 40.2%) and digital album sales total 1.370 million (down 17.7%).
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Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” Holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Feb. 7.
Streaming for the MASHLE season 2 opener gained about 20% from the previous week to 17,675,013 streams, also holding at No. 1 for the metric. Downloads rose 4-2 with 12,981 units, up 37%. The track debuted on the radio airplay and karaoke lists this week, at No. 9 and No. 63, respectively. Overall points are up 22% and the song continues to gain momentum, dominating the Japan Hot 100 with a huge lead over the song at No. 2.
In its 18th week on the chart, tuki.’s “Bansanka” stays at No. 2 for the second week in a row. While down by about 0.4% to 10,486,916 streams, the track holds No. 2 behind “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” for the metric. Downloads are down about 12% to 5,887 units, slipping 6-7, but moves 4-3 for karaoke, indicating that the song is further expanding its reach to the general public.
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Ado’s “Show” returns to the top 3, still racking up points in downloads, streaming, and video views to chart for the 22nd week. The “New Genesis” singer’s latest track “Chocolat Cadabra,” released digitally Jan. 31, debuts at No. 31 this week, coming in at No. 4 for downloads, No. 14 for radio, and No. 14 for video.
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Boku ga Mitakatta Aozora’s “Sotsugyo made” (“Until Graduation”) debuts at No. 8, powered by sales. The second single by the girl group launched with 47,086 copies, about 66.9% more than its debut single (28,204 first-week copies). The new song comes in at No. 2 for radio and the group is off to a good start for the year.
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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 Jan. 29 to Feb. 4, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
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