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Sabrina Carpenter notches her first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as “Feather” flies to No. 37, from No. 56, on the chart dated Feb. 3. The song drew 22.7 million in radio airplay audience (up 24%) and 7.8 million official streams (up 14%) in the U.S. Jan. 19-25, according to Luminate. Newly […]
And just like that, James Arthur is the frontrunner in the race for the U.K. albums chart crown.
Arthur, the former X Factor U.K. champion, enters the lead with Bitter Sweet Love (Columbia), his fifth studio album, following the release of a “Digital Deluxe” version on Saturday (Jan. 27), including three live recordings cut in Hamburg with the Lufthansa Orchestra, and four bonus tracks.
The pop singer promoted his new release on the weekend, performing the title track for Michael McIntyre’s Big Show on BBC One.
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What a difference a day makes. Prior to the Official Chart Company’s latest update, Radiohead spin-off the Smile was in pole position with Wall of Eyes (XL Recordings), which held a lead of just 200 chart units over indie rockers the Reytons’ Ballad of a Bystander (The Reytons), in second spot.
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Now, Arthur’s Bitter Sweet Love roars ahead with an additional 5,000 chart units collected overnight, mostly physical sales, the OCC reports. With its rocket boosters on full blast, Bitter Sweet Love moves 4,000 chart units ahead of its nearest competition, the Smile’s Wall of Eyes.
The winner of X Factor back in 2012, Arthur has cracked the top 3 with all his previous releases including a leader with 2016’s Back From the Edge, a collection that featured his No. 1 single “Say You Won’t Let Go.”Arthur also entered the U.K. top 10 with his 2013 self-titled debut (at No. 2), 2019’s You (No. 2) and his most recent LP, 2021’s It’ll All Make Sense In The End (No. 3).
As it stands, a slew of new releases are on track for top 10 berths, including Future Islands‘ People Who Aren’t There Anymore (at No. 6 via 4AD), Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes‘ Dark Rainbow (No. 8 via International Death Cult), New Model Army’s Unbroken (No. 9 via Ear Music), and Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys‘s Sadness Sets Me Free (No. 10 via Rough Trade).
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Albums Chart is published Friday, Feb. 2.
Eladio Carrión shines bright with the highest debut of the week on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums and Latin Rhythm Albums charts, as Sol María, his sixth studio set, launches at No. 6 and No. 3, respectively, on the Feb. 3-dated rankings.
Sol María, a tribute to his mother, starts with 18,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 25, according to Luminate. The 17-track set blends trap, Afrobeats, reggae and ’90s pop, all genres that resonate with his mother. The set was originally set for a Dec. 23 release, but finally dropped Jan. 19, the first day of the chart’s tracking week.
Of Sol María’s 18,000-unit sum, 17,000 stem from streaming activity, which equals to 23.6 million official on-demand U.S. clicks of the album’s songs in its opening week. Album sales comprise 1,000 units, while a negligible amount of activity derived from track-equivalent units.
On Top Latin Albums, one unit equals to one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.
With Sol María’s No. 6 entrance on Top Latin Albums, the new father of twins Carrión captures his fifth top 10, out of seven visits, on the Top Latin Albums tally and bests his album debut Sauce Boyz’s No. 8 debut and peak in 2020. Three other sets have peaked in the list’s upper region: Sauce Boyz 2 at No. 2 (2021), SEN2 KBRN, Vol. 2 at No. 4 (2022), and 3MEN2 KBRN at No. 3 (2023).
Beyond its top 10 debut on Top Latin Albums, Sol María gifts Carrión his fourth entry on the overall Billboard 200 chart, at No. 37. Plus, with Sol María, the Puerto Rican-American rapper notches his sixth top 10 on Latin Rhythm Albums, as it bows at No. 3 – matching the debut and peak of his last entry, 3MEN2 KBRN in April 2023.
As Sol María arrives, three of its tracks launch on the Hot Latin Songs chart –which blends streaming data, sales, and airplay– led by “Hey Lil Mama,” with Rauw Alejandro, at No. 36. The song is mostly powered by streaming activity, with 2.52 million clicks in its first week.
“TQMQA” follows at No. 39 1.7 million streams, and make progress in the radio realm. It rallies 41-31 on Latin Airplay with 4 million audience impressions (up 20%).
Meanwhile, the last of the album’s three debuting cuts on Hot Latin Songs, “Bendecido,” opens at No. 49, largely from its 2.1 million streams logged in the tracking week.
Carrión’s fresh chart achievements arrive on the heels of his first Latin Grammy win for “Coco Channel,” his Bad Bunny collab named best rap/hip-hop song at the awards in November.
Benson Boone’s new single “Beautiful Things” bounds onto Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart (dated Feb. 3) at No. 5. Released Jan. 19, the song drew 15.7 million official U.S. streams through Jan. 25, according to Luminate. The track, on Night Street/Warner Records, marks the 21-year-old Monroe, Wash., native’s first entry on Streaming Songs. Prior to its […]
Billboard launched the Artist 100 chart exactly 500 weeks ago — on the list dated July 19, 2014. In the nearly 10 years since, the chart has measured artists’ activity across key metrics of music consumption—album sales, track sales, radio airplay, and streaming. Using a methodology comprising those metrics, the chart provides a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
In that span, only one artist has spent all 500 weeks on the chart: Drake.
Drake ranks at No. 4 on the latest Artist 100 (dated Feb. 3), up from No. 6, thanks to eight albums on the Billboard 200 and five songs on the Billboard Hot 100. His titles on the Billboard 200: For All the Dogs (No. 3), Take Care (No. 25), Certified Lover Boy (No. 42), Her Loss with 21 Savage (No. 44), Scorpion (No. 50), Views (No. 61), More Life (No. 85) and Nothing Was the Same (No. 156).
The only artist with more titles on the latest Billboard 200 is Taylor Swift – who crowns the Artist 100 for a record-extending 96th week – with 10 charting sets.
Drake also posts the following hits on the Hot 100: “Rich Baby Daddy,” featuring Sexyy Red and SZA (No. 21); “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole (No. 34); “You Broke My Heart” (No. 60); “IDGAF,” featuring Yeat (No. 64); and “Virginia Beach” (No. 93). (The only artist with more entries is Drake’s frequent collaborator, 21 Savage, with 12.)
Of Drake’s 500 total weeks spent on the Artist 100, he has tallied 38 at No. 1, the second most after Swift.
Here’s a look at the acts who have spent the most weeks on the Artist 100 since its inception (through the chart dated Feb. 3, 2024):
Most Weeks Spent on the Artist 100:
500, Drake
496, Taylor Swift
493, Ed Sheeran
478, Bruno Mars
466, Justin Bieber
464, Eminem
455, Imagine Dragons
450, Jason Aldean
446, The Weeknd
431, Chris Stapleton
427, Metallica
425, Ariana Grande
In his closest call from dropping off the Artist 100, Drake ranked at No. 95 on the Dec. 23, 2017-dated chart.
As for other longevity records on the Artist 100, Swift has spent the most time in the top five (195 weeks, ahead of runner-up Drake’s 188), while Drake boasts the most weeks in both the top 10 (313, ahead of Swift’s 256) and top 40 (484, over Swift’s 448).
NMIXX is officially the top up-and-coming artist in the United States as the group re-enters Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart (dated Feb. 3) at No. 1, thanks to its new EP, Fe3O4: Break.
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The project, released Jan. 15 via JYP Entertainment/Imperial/Republic Records, debuts at No. 2 on the World Albums chart and No. 171 on the Billboard 200 with 8,000 equivalent album units earned in in the U.S. in its opening week (Jan. 19-25), according to Luminate.
Emerging Artists marks the first currently active Billboard chart that NMIXX has topped. (The group hit No. 1 on the since-discontinued Hot Trending Songs chart in March 2023 with “Young, Dumb, Stupid.” The group charted five other songs on the ranking during its run.)
NMIXX is the first K-pop group to lead Emerging Artists in 2024. Nine K-pop acts reigned in 2023: BOYNEXTDOOR, (G)I-DLE, IU, NCT Dream, NewJeans, P1Harmony, The Rose, V and xikers.
NMIXX is also the first JYP act to hit No. 1 on Emerging Artists. The company’s other signees to reach the chart include Day6, Itzy, Stray Kids and Xdinary Heroes.
NMIXX previously charted on Billboard’s album rankings with its EP Expérgo. The set reached No. 5 on World Albums and No. 122 on the Billboard 200 in April 2023.
NMIXX, from South Korea, has been active since 2021. The group is comprised of members Bae, Haewon, Jiwoo, Kyujin, Lily and Sullyoon. Last April, Billboard named NMIXX a K-pop group to watch.
The Emerging Artists chart ranks the most popular developing artists of the week, using the same formula as the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multiple Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200. (The Artist 100 lists the most popular acts, overall, each week.) However, the Emerging Artists chart excludes acts that have notched a top 25 entry on either the Hot 100 or Billboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top 10s on Billboard’s “Hot” song genre charts and/or consumption-based “Top” album genre rankings.
“A talent to watch.”
In the Jan. 30, 1999, issue, Billboard reviewed Britney Spears’ debut album, …Baby One More Time, released on Jive Records. “The teenage heartthrob who cut through the fourth-quarter clutter with the pop/R&B single ‘…Baby One More Time’ delivers her debut album – a top 40-ready workout filled with hook-laden songs from the same bag as the title cut,” Billboard praised, noting that Spears “already tasted the limelight in a two-year run on Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club.”
“Blessed with a sweet voice and a wholesome, girl-next-door image,” the review continued, “Spears has hit a nerve among a teen fan base primed by the likes of Hanson, ‘N Sync and the Backstreet Boys.”
The same week, the album and its title cut concurrently hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 charts, respectively.
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The coronations sparked Spears’ robust chart-topping history. To date, she boasts six No. 1s on the Billboard 200: …Baby One More Time, Oops!…I Did It Again (2000), Britney (2001), In the Zone (2003), Circus (2008) and Femme Fatale (2011). She banked her 10th and most recent top 10 with Glory (No. 3) in 2016.
Spears has scored five No. 1s on the Hot 100: “…Baby One More Time,” “Womanizer” (2008), “3” (2009) and two in 2011, “Hold It Against Me” and as featured on Rihanna’s “S&M.” Spears added her 14th and latest top 10 with “Hold Me Closer,” with Elton John, in September 2022.
Spears’ initial Hot 100 No. 1 likewise marked the first as both a writer and producer for Max Martin. With the chart-topping launch of Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?” on the Jan. 27, 2024, survey, Martin passed George Martin for the most leaders among producers in the Hot 100’s history.
Spears’ memoir The Woman in Me arrived in October 2023. The book recaps Spears’ rise to fame, her relationship with Justin Timberlake and her life under a 13-year conservancy. According to the Associated Press, it sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S. in its first week.
“I’ve been involved with a lot of different projects over the years, and with Britney, we’ve got a real special artist here,” mused Jack Satter, then-Jive senior VP of pop promotion, in the Oct. 24, 1998, Billboard, issue. “I really feel that she’s like a young Madonna. Our goal is to make her into a huge pop-rhythm crossover artist. I think she’s got longevity.”
Noah Kahan season isn’t winding down anytime soon in the United Kingdom. Based on sales and streaming data published by the Official Charts Company, Kahan’s “Stick Season” (via Republic Records) is on track for a fifth straight week at No. 1. Should the Vermont singer and songwriter’s standout single hang on for another week at […]
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Calling all choreographers! Today, Billboard launches Dancing Up The Charts, a weekly dance challenge that invites fans to create a 10-second clip of choreo to a No. 1 song on one of Billboard’s charts. Judging the first round of submissions will be renowned choreographer JaQuel Knight, who is best known for his work with Beyoncé […]