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Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s joint project Vultures 1 debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Feb. 24), giving Ye his 11th leader and Ty his first. The set earned 148,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Luminate, following its release on Feb. 10.
Plus, Usher scores his highest charting album on the Billboard 200 in over a decade, as his latest studio release Coming Home bows at No. 2 with 91,000 units earned.
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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 Feb. 24, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 21, one day later than usual, owed to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. on Feb. 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Vultures 1’s 148,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 15, SEA units comprise 129,000 (equaling 167.78 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 18,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.
Vultures 1 was only initially available via streaming services and as a digital download album for purchase. The original 16-track set was available through all major streamers, and sold through leading digital retailers, as well as Ye’s own official webstore. Physical versions of the album on CD and vinyl are expected to be released at a later date, and Ye’s store is accepting pre-orders for both presently. The set’s first-week sales were boosted by aggressive sale pricing.
The album boasts appearances from collaborators Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chris Brown, though none are given billed artist credit on the tracklist. Ye’s 10-year-old daughter North also contributes vocals to the set’s “Talking.”
Vultures 1 is the first studio album for both Ye and Ty released outside of the major label system, and arrived on Feb. 10 via Ye’s own label YZY after a number of delays (it was originally slated for release last October). Vultures 1 is Ye’s first album since his string of hate speech and antisemitic remarks, which resulted in companies like Adidas and Def Jam Recordings distancing themselves from Ye. (Def Jam released all of Ye’s previous studio albums, including his last widely released album, 2021’s Donda.)
Vultures 1 was issued on Feb. 10 and had a bumpy first-week in the marketplace. Its initial independent distributor, FUGA, took down the project on Feb. 15. The set then found a home with another indie, Label Engine (part of Create Music Group), that same day.
Meanwhile, one of tracks initially included on the Vultures 1 — “Good (Don’t Die)” — was removed from the streaming edition of the album on Feb. 14 on Spotify, and then other streamers and digital retailers on Feb. 15. The song appears to interpolate elements of Donna Summer’s 1977 single “I Feel Love,” which Summer’s estate claimed West used without permission and alleged “copyright infringement.” On Feb. 15, with “Good” removed from the album’s tracklist, the album was no longer purchasable in digital retailers like the iTunes Store and Amazon. (It was, however, still available to buy, with “Good” intact, through Ye’s official webstore.)
Ye ties Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand with 11 No. 1s each. Ahead of them are only The Beatles (a record 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z (14), Drake and Taylor Swift (each with 13). Vultures 1 is Ye’s 11th consecutive charting album to debut at No. 1, the most of any artist. (Overall, Jay-Z has the most debuts at No. 1, with 14, but they were not consecutive.)
For Ty, Vultures 1 brings him his first leader and second top 10-charting effort. He’s logged a total of eight entries on the list, going as high as No. 4 in 2020 with Featuring Ty Dolla $ign.
Vultures 1 was preceded by the single “Vultures,” featuring Bump J, which reached No. 38 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in December.
At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Usher achieves his highest-charting album in over a decade, as his new studio set Coming Home starts in the runner-up slot. The album was released on Feb. 9 and earned 91,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 15. Of that sum, album sales comprise 53,000, SEA units comprise 34,500 (equaling 45.82 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 3,500.
Coming Home’s release date was announced last September, hot on the heels of news that Usher would headline the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 11.
The 2024 Super Bowlitself was the most-watched broadcast in American TV history, with 123.4 million viewers across CBS and the game’s simulcasts across Nickelodeon, Univision, Paramount+ and other digital platforms. Usher didn’t perform any material from the new album during the halftime show, focusing instead on familiar favorites from the past, such as “My Boo” (with Alicia Keys), “U Got It Bad” (with H.E.R.) “OMG” (with will.i.am) and the show-closing “Yeah!” (with Lil Jon and Ludacris).
Coming Home marks Usher’s ninth top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 and his highest-ranking set since Looking 4 Myself debuted at No. 1 in June of 2012. He then charted with Hard II Love (No. 5 in 2016) and the collaborative set A with Zaytoven (No. 31 in 2018).
Coming Home is Usher’s first independently distributed album after a career with majors BMG and Sony (through the labels LaFace, Arista and RCA). The new project was released via mega (Usher’s own company in partnership with L.A. Reid) and Gamma (helmed by Larry Jackson), and distributed by Vydia (part of the Gamma organization).
Coming Home was available to purchase in its first week as a standard digital download, a standard CD, five different vinyl variants, two deluxe boxed sets and a deluxe digital album with a bonus track and alternative cover art. The latter was promoted as a SKIMS exclusive (alongside Usher’s new starring role in a SKIMS campaign) and sold for a limited time via SKIMS’ official store and Usher’s own webstore. Like Vultures 1, the Coming Home digital album was deeply discounted during its first week.
Coming Home was preceded by the single “Good Good,” with Summer Walker and 21 Savage. The track peaked at No. 25 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 in November, marking Usher’s first top 40 since 2017, and highest-charting track since 2015, when “I Don’t Mind,” featuring Juicy J, reached No. 11.
Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbs 5-3 on the Billboard 200, matching its peak rank, spurred by the release of its new deluxe edition. Stick Season surges with 85,000 equivalent album units earned (up 74% — its best week yet by units earned), following the bow of a deluxe edition of the album on Feb. 9 with nine additional tracks. That deluxe iteration is dubbed Stick Season (Forever) and added collaborations with Post Malone, Kacey Musgraves and others. The original Stick Season album debuted in 2022 with 14 tracks, was deluxed last June with an additional seven tracks (which prompted its jump from No. 100 to No. 3), and then deluxed again on Feb. 9 with nine more tracks. All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting purposes.
The rest of the top 10 on the new Billboard 200 is comprised of former No. 1s: Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time falls 2-4 (64,000 equivalent album units earned; down 1%); SZA’s SOS dips 3-5 (51,000; down 4%); Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) rises 8-6 (50,000; up 3%); Swift’s Lover moves 9-7 (48,000; up 7%); Swift’s Midnights falls 5-8 (46,000; down 9%); Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits tumbles 1-9 (46,000; down 31%); and Drake’s For All the Dogs descends 6-10 (45,000; down 8%).
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.
Papa Roach notches its 10th career No. 1, and its fourth from its 2022 album Ego Trip, on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, as “Leave a Light On” leaps 4-1 on the Feb. 24-dated survey.
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Papa Roach becomes the 11th act to achieve 10 of more rulers in the chart’s 43-year history. Shinedown leads all acts with 19 No. 1s.
Speaking of Shinedown, Papa Roach joins the band as one of only seven acts with at least four Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s from a single album. Eight sets in all have reached the milestone, with two belonging to Shinedown. The Black Crowes first did so in 1992 via The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. Prior to Papa Roach, Linkin Park joined the elite club thanks to a fourth No. 1 from its 2003 album Meteora, with “Lost” leading from the set’s 20th-anniversary deluxe version.
Albums With Four or More Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s:5, The Sound of Madness, Shinedown, 2008-11: “Devour,” “Second Chance,” “Sound of Madness,” “The Crow & the Butterfly,” “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)” (the lattermost song was added for the album’s 2010 deluxe release)4, Ego Trip, Papa Roach, 2021-24: “Kill the Noise,” “No Apologies,” “Cut the Line,” “Leave a Light On”4, Meteora, Linkin Park, 2003-04; 2023: “Somewhere I Belong,” “Numb,” “Lying From You,” “Lost” (the lattermost song was added for the album’s 2023 20th anniversary reissue)4, F8, Five Finger Death Punch, 2020-21: “Inside Out,” “A Little Bit Off,” “Living the Dream,” “Darkness Settles In”4, When Legends Rise, Godsmack, 2018-20: “Bulletproof,” “When Legends Rise,” “Under Your Scars,” “Unforgettable”4, Attention Attention, Shinedown, 2018-20: “Devil,” “Get Up,” “Monsters,” “Attention Attention”4, Immortalized, Disturbed, 2015-16: “The Vengeful One,” “The Light,” “The Sound of Silence,” “Open Your Eyes”4, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, The Black Crowes, 1992: “Remedy,” “Sting Me,” “Thorn in My Pride,” “Hotel Illness”
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Papa Roach first topped Mainstream Rock Airplay in 2009, for six weeks with “Lifeline.” The band’s history on the chart stretches back to 2000, when its debut entry “Last Resort” hit No. 4.
“Leave a Light On” is the sixth song from Ego Trip to reach Mainstream Rock Airplay. In addition to its four rulers, “Swerve” peaked at No. 35 in September 2021 and “Stand Up” reached No. 12 in April 2022.
Concurrently, “Leave a Light On” lifts 25-22 on Alternative Airplay. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it ranks at No. 12, after hitting No. 10, with 3.3 million audience impressions, up 2%, Feb. 9-15, according to Luminate.
Ego Trip, Papa Roach’s 11th studio LP, debuted at No. 6 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in April 2022 and has earned 125,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated Feb. 24 will update on Billboard.com Wednesday, Feb. 21, a day later than usual due to the Presidents’ Day holiday (Feb. 19) in the U.S.
Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run stages a return to Billboard’s charts (dated Feb. 17) following the set’s 50th anniversary reissue on Feb. 2. The album re-enters the Top Album Sales chart at No. 5, debuts at No. 7 on the Vinyl Albums tally, re-enters at No. 6 on Tastemaker Albums and debuts at No. 37 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums. On the overall Billboard 200 chart, where the album hit No. 1 in 1974, the set re-enters at No. 156 – its first appearance on the chart since Jan. 1, 2011.
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Band on the Run was reissued in a variety of formats, including a single-LP vinyl release cut at half-speed, a double-LP vinyl set at half-speed with a bonus “underdubbed” version of the album, and as a double-CD set (also with the underdubbed mixes). The 50th anniversary reissues are combined with the original album for sales tracking and charting purposes.
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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. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Top Rock & Alternative Albums ranks the week’s most popular rock and alternative albums by equivalent album units. Vinyl Album tallies the week’s top-selling vinyl releases. Tastemaker Albums measures the top-selling titles at independent and small chain record stores.
Band on the Run sold 8,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 8 (up 14,681%) according to Luminate.
Elsewhere on Top Album Sales, Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returns to No. 1 for a seventh nonconsecutive week, climbing two spots with 12,000 copies sold (up 18%). Swift has a clean sweep of the top three, as former No. 1 Midnights bolts 8-2 (11,000; up 91%) following its double win at the Grammy Awards (Feb. 4) for album of the year and best pop vocal album, plus Swift’s chart-topping Lover rises 4-3 with nearly 11,000 sold (up 51%).
Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits re-enters at No. 4 on Top Album Sales with nearly 11,000 sold (up 3,251%) following his death on Feb. 5 of stomach cancer.
Phish’s Round Room, originally released in 2002, re-enters at No. 6 with 6,000 sold (up 2,789%) following its release on vinyl on Feb. 2.
Stray Kids’ chart-topping ROCK-STAR is steady at No. 7 with 6,000 (down 1%).
The soundtrack to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes debuts at No. 8 with 6,000 sold following its release on CD and vinyl on Feb. 2. The album was initially released via digital download and streaming services on Nov. 17, 2023.
Rounding out the top 10 is Green Day’s former leader Saviors, slipping 5-9 with nearly 6,000 (down 20%) and Swift’s chart-topping Folklore, rising 15-10 with almost 6,000 (up 48%).
In the week ending Feb. 8, there were 1.168 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 4.5% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 829,000 (up 0.2%) and digital albums comprised 339,000 (up 16.6%).
There were 391,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 8 (down 3.2% week-over-week) and 433,000 vinyl albums sold (up 3.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 2.499 million (down 31.7% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 2.847 million (down 46.3%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 7.082 million (down 35.8% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 5.373 million (down 40.4%) and digital album sales total 1.709 million (down 15.8%).
Billy Joel is back in the top 10 of Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart (dated Feb. 24) as “Turn the Lights Back On” – his first single release in 17 years – rises to No. 10.
Joel achieves his 24th Adult Contemporary top 10 and first since his version of Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love” hit No. 9 in August 1997.
Notably, Joel logs his latest Adult Contemporary top 10 a week shy of the 50th anniversary of his first appearance on the chart: On the list dated March 2, 1974, he debuted at No. 48 with his breakthrough classic “Piano Man,” which went on to become his first top 10, peaking at No. 4 that April.
Among Joel’s 24 Adult Contemporary top 10s, he has sent eight songs to No. 1, from “Just the Way You Are” in 1978 to “The River of Dreams” in 1993.
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Following its release at 7 a.m. ET Feb. 1 on Columbia Records, “Turn the Lights Back On” debuted at No. 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart (dated Feb. 10) and held at the rank in its second week on the survey. As previously reported, the piano ballad, which Joel performed on the Grammy Awards Feb. 4, returned him to the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Feb. 17) for the first time as a recording artist since 1997.
The song’s official video arrived Feb. 16.
“Turn the Lights Back On” was written by Joel, Arthur Bacon, Wayne Hector and Freddy Wexler.
“I started the song with Arthur and Wayne,” Wexler told Billboard. “Billy and I met some time later in Sag Harbor, NY. We became close friends, and we started quietly working on his unfinished material from over the years. This period was about a year and a half during which Billy, unbeknownst to nearly anyone, started to dip his toe into writing again. I travelled with him to many of his shows and, eventually, I showed him ‘Turn the Lights Back On.’ He helped me finish it at a studio and, as I suspect he does with anything, he made it much better.”
Below (and mirroring the time-travel effects of his new video), browse all 24 of Joel’s Adult Contemporary top 10 hits.
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Pop and R&B/hip-hop superstar Beyoncé made a surprise announcement during Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11, releasing two tracks noticeably different in sound from the bulk of her catalog: “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.”
The former is officially being promoted to country radio, as announced in a Columbia Nashville email to stations Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. ET, and arrives as Beyoncé’s first entry on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Feb. 24), starting at No. 54 with 1.1 million in audience via 100 stations at the format in the tracking week ending Feb. 15.
The Country Airplay survey reflects songs’ audience impressions on nearly 150 U.S country radio stations as monitored by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate.
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“We immediately added it a sub-power rotation, which is where we put top-trending new music,” Alpha Media-owned KBAY San Jose, Calif., program director Bo Matthews tells Billboard of “Texas Hold ‘Em.” “I want people to hear it. One of the biggest artists in the world delivered a great country record for us to have fun with, and the song is really good. We are in the business of creating excitement for our listeners and I’m embracing the moment. Plus, there is plenty of room for great artists, even from other genres. It’s a big country tent.”
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Beyoncé has banked eight No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and seven No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 as a soloist, starting in 2003. Plus, Destiny’s Child, with her as a member, logged four leaders on the Hot 100 and two on the Billboard 200, beginning in 1999.
As a soloist, Beyoncé boasts 12 career No. 1s on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, 11 on Rhythmic Airplay, seven on Pop Airplay, five on Dance/Mix Show Airplay and three on Adult R&B Airplay.
Concurrent with its Country Airplay entrance, “Texas Hold ‘Em” opens at No. 38 on Pop Airplay, with its plays on 98 chart reporters translating to 1.3 million audience impressions at the format.
Notably, Rhiannon Giddens plays banjo and viola on “Texas Hold ‘Em.” She hit No. 6 on Country Airplay in 2017 as featured on Eric Church’s “Kill a Word.” (She has charted one No. 1 on the Americana/Folk Albums list, Tomorrow Is My Turn, in 2016, and, as part of Carolina Chocolate Drops, two leaders on Bluegrass Albums.)
“We put the Beyoncé directly into a strong rotation so it can be heard. I want the station to sound as interesting as possible, because the opposite is boring,” muses Dave Parker, pd of Sinclair’s WUSH Norfolk, Va. “This song is sounding great and doesn’t sound like anything else. Plus, the feedback from listeners and even fellow staffers so far has been very positive.”
Says Tim Roberts, pd of Audacy’s WYCD Detroit, of “Texas Hold ‘Em”: “I think it’s a good record, and country is so popular right now, it’s great that she wants to be here. Just like we do with any song on our playlist, now the listeners will decide.”
All charts dated Feb. 24 – including the Hot 100, reflecting songs’ streaming, airplay and sales Feb. 9-15 – will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Feb. 20 (a day later than usual due to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. Feb. 19).
Nate Smith’s “World on Fire” leads Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Feb. 24) for a 10th week, tying for the longest domination in the survey’s 34-year history. It matches Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof,” which began its rule in October 2022.
Previously, two hits shared the mark for the longest Country Airplay command – eight weeks each – for nearly 20 years: Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” in 2003, and Lonestar’s “Amazed,” in 1999.
In the Feb. 9-15 tracking week, “World on Fire,” released on Arista Nashville/RCA Nashville, drew 30.8 million in audience, according to Luminate.
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The song, which Smith wrote with Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips and Lindsay Rimes, the lattermost of whom solely produced it, is the second straight career-opening Country Airplay leader for Smith. The Paradise, Calif., native first ruled with “Whiskey on You” for two weeks last February. Both songs are on the deluxe edition of his debut self-titled LP. The set arrived at its No. 6 high on Top Country Albums last May.
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“The crazy thing about this song is that it wasn’t even supposed to come out!,” Smith recently told Billboard. “It was starting to gain a lot of traction on social media and the demand was high. I’m so lucky to have a team that knew how to strategically release it alongside my debut album by releasing the deluxe version the same day [April 28, 2023] that the debut dropped. This song completely anchored the album.”
Smith, meanwhile, debuts at No. 40 (2.5 million) on the latest Country Airplay chart with his newest single, “Bulletproof,” released Feb. 8.
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Also notably, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton debut at No. 35 on Country Airplay with “Purple Irises” (2.7 million). The song is the pair’s third collaboration to have hit the chart, following two No. 1s in 2020: “Nobody but You” (for two weeks that May) and “Happy Anywhere” (one week, that December).
Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” rules Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for January 2024 after it received a synch in Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
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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 January 2024.
“Levitating,” a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for Dua Lipa in 2021 and the No. 1 song on the year-end version of the chart that year, appeared in the sixth episode of the Disney+ series’ first season. It premiered on Dec. 19, 2023, and the episode featuring “Levitating” aired Jan. 16.
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In January 2024, “Levitating” earned 18.9 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 3,000 downloads, according to Luminate.
“Levitating” reigns over Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man,” which appears at No. 2 after being heard in Reacher, Amazon Prime Video’s action series. “Simple Man” appeared in the eighth episode of the show’s second season; it premiered Jan. 19.
“Simple Man” earned 12.4 million streams and racked up 3,000 downloads in January 2024. Its 1,000-download week in the wake of the episode’s release allowed the song to return to Billboard’s Rock Digital Song Sales chart dated Feb. 3 at No. 7.
It’s one of three entries on the latest Top TV Songs list from Reacher. Soul Coughing’s “Super Bon Bon” ranks at No. 4 (638,000 streams, 3,000 downloads) after appearing in episode seven, while Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” is No. 10 (3.4 million streams, 2,000 downloads) after, like “Simple Man,” being heard in episode eight.
A flurry of songs from True Detective also make the chart after the HBO series’ fourth season premiere, paced by Billie Eilish’s “Bury a Friend” at No. 5, thanks to 4.8 million streams and 2,000 downloads.
See the full top 10 below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
“Levitating,” Dua Lipa, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney+)
“Simple Man,” Lynyrd Skynyrd, Reacher (Amazon Prime Video)
“Midnight City,” M83, For All Mankind (Apple TV+)
“Super Bon Bon,” Soul Coughing, Reacher (Amazon Prime Video)
“Bury a Friend,” Billie Eilish, True Detective (HBO)
“Twist and Shout,” The Beatles, True Detective (HBO)
“Seven Devils,” Florence + the Machine, True Detective (HBO)
“Sing Sing,” The Bones of JR Jones, True Detective (HBO)
“Inside,” Chris Avantgarde & Red Rosamond, True Detective (HBO)
“White Rabbit,” Jefferson Airplane, Reacher (Amazon Prime Video)
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign land at No. 1 in Australia with Vultures 1.
The result, which answers a question on how international audiences would respond to Ye’s recent controversies, is his fifth ARIA Chart leader, following Yeezus (June 2013), Ye (June 2018), Jesus Is King (Nov. 2019) and Donda (March 2021), an album from which a record-setting 19 tracks flooded the singles tally.
The independently-released effort is a career best for Ty Dolla $ign (Universal), beating the No. 37 peak of Beach House 3 in 2017.
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Also new to the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Feb. 16, is Jessica Mauboy‘s Yours Forever, new at No. 10 for the homegrown pop star’s eighth top 10 album.
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Yours Forever is Mauboy’s first LP for Warner Music, and is the followup to 2019’s Hilda, her second ARIA No. 1 album.
A trio of leading ladies from the United States are in the market, or on the way. And the excitement around their live appearances are impacting the national charts.
Taylor Swift kicks off the Australia leg of her The Eras Tour tonight, with the first of three consecutive nights at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Currently, half of the top 10 titles on the ARIA Chart, and eight of the top 20, belong to TayTay. Produced by Frontier Touring, Swift’s tour of these parts wraps next week with a four-night stand at Sydney’s Accor Stadium.
Pink, meanwhile, is touring stadiums for Live Nation, a trek that sees her former leader Trustfall (RCA/Sony) return to the top 10, up 36-9.
And SZA’s SOS (RCA/Sony) spikes, following the announcement of an arena tour of these parts, also produced by LN. SOS lifts 10-5.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, published today, Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” (Universal) logs a third week at No. 1. “Stick Season” leads a podium ahead of Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” (Warner) and Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me” (Atlantic/Warner), respectively.
Benson Boone reaches No. 1 for the first time on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart, as “Beautiful Things” lifts 5-1 on the Feb. 17-dated ranking.
In the Feb. 2-8 tracking week, “Beautiful Things” earned 22.8 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate. That’s up 23% from the previous frame (Jan. 26-Feb. 1), when the song accumulated 18.5 million streams.
The song premiered at No. 5 on the Feb. 3-dated survey via 15.7 million streams, meaning the song has gained by at least 18% in streams in every week since its release so far (it debuted on streaming platforms on Jan. 18 following a multi-week tease on TikTok).
Boone’s No. 1 on Streaming Songs makes him the first act to snag their first ruler on the chart as a lead artist since Doja Cat, whose “Paint the Town Red” reigned in October 2023.
As Doja Cat had a multi-song history on Streaming Songs prior to her first No. 1, unlike Boone, Boone becomes the first to top the list in their first appearance as a lead act since Oliver Anthony Music, with “Rich Men North of Richmond,” in September 2023.
The other claim to fame for Boone is that “Beautiful Things” is the first song of 2024 to rise to No. 1 for its first reign on Streaming Songs rather than debuting there. The last song to do that was Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me,” which reached the top in its second week (Dec. 2, 2023) after debuting at No. 2 the week before.
Concurrently, as previously reported, “Beautiful Things” jumps 8-3 on the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100. In addition to its streams, the song earned 3.4 million radio audience impressions, (up 321%) and 9,000 downloads (up 15%). Early airplay success has been courtesy of the Adult Pop Airplay (No. 28) and Pop Airplay (No. 32) charts.
The tune also tops the Global 200 for the first time.
“Beautiful Things” is currently a standalone single for Boone, who’s released two EPs, Walk Me Home… (2022) and Pulse (2023).
Venezuelan singer Zhamira Zambrano nabs her first top 10 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Airplay chart with the Jay Wheeler collab “Extrañándote,” as the song rallies 12-4 on the Feb. 17-dated list. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Zambrano’s second single from her forthcoming debut album enters the […]