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Crowder crowns Billboard’s Christian Airplay and Christian AC Airplay charts, dated May 4, with “Grave Robber.” The song is his fifth and third leader on the lists, respectively. The single drew 5.8 million audience impressions among Christian Airplay reporting stations April 19-25, according to Luminate. It gained by 1% in plays among Christian AC Airplay […]
Vinyl releases from Noah Kahan, Olivia Rodrigo, Paramore, Pearl Jam and more were among the top-sellers from Record Store Day (RSD) 2024 in the United States, according to data tracking firm Luminate.
The annual independent record store celebration was held on April 20 this year and boasted a bevy of unique and limited-edition albums and singles (mostly vinyl pressings) created for the festivities. More than 350 titles were released for RSD 2024 at independent record stores across the United States.
Kahan does double-duty with both the top-selling RSD single and album, according to Luminate (see lists, below). The top-selling RSD-exclusive single was a joint effort from Kahan and Rodrigo: a two-song, 7-inch colored-vinyl. The single features Rodrigo’s cover of Kahan’s “Stick Season” and Kahan’s cover of Rodrigo’s “Lacy,” both recorded in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. The top-selling RSD-exclusive album was a blue-colored vinyl pressing of Kahan’s 2021 sophomore album I Was/I Am.
The Nos. 2 to 5-biggest selling RSD-exclusive albums were: Paramore’s This Is Why / Re: This Is Why (double vinyl set, bone and ruby red-colored vinyl), Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter (on yellow and black ghostly-colored vinyl), Paramore’s Re: This Is Why (on ruby red-colored vinyl) and Talking Heads’ Live at WCOZ 77 (double vinyl). (Paramore was also the RSD 2024 Ambassador, following in the footsteps of such recent previous RSD Ambassadors as Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires (2023), Taylor Swift (2022), Fred Armisen (2021), Brandi Carlile (2020) and Pearl Jam (2019).
While most RSD 2024 titles had a fairly limited pressing — under 5,000 each — a few titles this year earned larger production runs (such as I Was/I Am and the Kahan/Rodrigo single, which each had a run of more than 30,000).
Top-Selling Record Store Day 2024 Exclusive Albums at Independent Record Stores in the U.S.Rank, Artist, Title1. Noah Kahan, I Was/I Am (blue-colored vinyl)2. Paramore, This Is Why / Re: This Is Why (Standard + Remix) (bone and ruby red-colored double vinyl)3. Pearl Jam, Dark Matter (yellow and black ghostly-colored vinyl)4. Paramore, Re: This Is Why (ruby red-colored vinyl)5. Talking Heads, Live at WCOZ 77 (double vinyl)6. The 1975, The 1975 Live at Gorilla (white-colored double vinyl)7. The Weeknd, Live at SoFi Stadium (triple vinyl)8. ATEEZ, The World EP.Fin: Will [X. Ver.] (clear or black-colored vinyl + 7-inch vinyl)9. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (picture disc vinyl)10. David Bowie, Waiting in the Sky (Before the Starman Came to Earth) (vinyl)11. Wallows, Nothing Happens (5th Anniversary Edition) (aqua splatter and aqual with white splatter-colored double vinyl)12. Young Thug, Jeffery (vinyl)13. Team Sleep, Team Sleep (gold-colored double vinyl)14. Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Fuckin’ Up (clear-colored double vinyl)15. Ramones, The 1975 Sire Demos (vinyl)16. Gorillaz, Cracker Island (Deluxe Vinyl Version) (pink and magenta-colored double vinyl)17. The Replacements, Not Ready for Prime Time: Live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL, January 11, 1986 (double vinyl)18. Grateful Dead, Nightfall of Diamonds (180 gram four vinyl LP set)19. Soundtrack, Lost in Translation (Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack [Deluxe Edition]) (double vinyl)20. The Cure, The Top (picture disc vinyl)21. Bill Evans, Everybody Digs Bill Evans (180 gram vinyl)22. Lil Uzi Vert, Luv Is Rage (vinyl)23. The Doors, Live at Konserthuset, Stockholm, September 20, 1968 (triple vinyl)24. Various Artists, South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert (Towelie-Blue-colored triple vinyl)25. John Lennon, Mind Games EP (140 gram glow-in-the-dark-colored vinyl)Source: Luminate, for the week ending April 25, 2024
Top-Selling Record Store Day 2024 Exclusive Singles at Independent Record Stores in U.S.Rank, Artist, Title1. Olivia Rodrigo & Noah Kahan, Stick Season (Rodrigo) / Lacy (Kahan), Live from the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge (7-inch colored vinyl)2. David Byrne & Paramore, Hard Times / Burning Down the House (12-inch vinyl)3. U2, Atomic City (Live at Sphere, Las Vegas) / Atomic City (Mike WiLL Made-It Remix) (10-inch transparent red-colored vinyl)4. 100 Gecs, Hey Big Man / Torture Me / Runaway (10-inch vinyl)5. Daft Punk, Something About Us / Veridis Quo / Voyager (Dominique Torti’s Wild Style Edit) (12-inch vinyl)6. The Beatles, She Loves You (3-inch vinyl)7. G.B.I., The Regulator (7-inch vinyl)8. Lil Peep, Star Shopping / Star Shopping (Live in London) / Star Shopping (Live in Belgium) (7-inch vinyl)9. Holly Humberstone/MUNA, Into Your Room (with MUNA) (7-inch vinyl)10. Chappell Roan, Pink Pony Club / Naked in Manhattan (7-inch baby pink-colored vinyl)Source: Luminate, for the week ending April 25, 2024
Bluegrass duo Darin & Brooke Aldridge have earned their first Billboard chart No. 1 with their new album Talk of the Town (released via Billy Blue Records), which debuted at the pinnacle of Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums chart for the week dated May 4. The duo has previously notched five top 10 albums on Bluegrass Albums, […]
Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up column, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: Tommy Richman’s new internet-conquering smash looks on its way to being a star-making breakthrough, Daya enjoys a revived pop favorite from a decade ago and hitmakers from Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Nigeria join forces for a new global hit.
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“Baby” It’s You: Tommy Richman’s Breakout Single Goes Viral, Boosts Back Catalog
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If you weren’t previously familiar with Virginia singer-rapper Tommy Richman, it’s officially time to get acquainted. The Brent Faiyaz signee (to his ISO Supremacy agency) and tour opener first made impressions as a guest on Faiyaz’s Larger Than Life cut “Upset,” but now he’s got a breakout hit bigger than even anything on that acclaimed set: “Million Dollar Baby,” which after building buzz on TikTok, has debuted as an instantly viral streaming hit.
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Upon its release on Friday (Apr. 26), “Million Dollar Baby” racked up 4.6 million on-demand U.S. audio streams, according to Luminate – an eye-popping number for a solo single by an artist with relatively unestablished commercial history. And after an inevitable decline in those totals for the rest of the weekend, the song surged again on Monday, capturing nearly 4.8 million streams, with the song racking up 16.6 million streams in total over a four-day period. (It also sold nearly 2,100 streams over that period, also a tremendous number for a new single from a newer artist.)
With these early numbers, Richman should be due for an impressive Hot 100 bow with his first crossover hit – and he’s already seeing the benefits from the new smash across the rest of his catalog, as well. For the four day period of Apr. 26-29, his discography (not including “Baby”) posted nearly 2.1 million on-demand U.S. audio streams, a gain of 106% from the four-day period before. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Daya’s ‘Hide Away’ Gets Found by TikTok, Nearly a Decade Later
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Back in 2015, Daya, a 16-year-old pop singer-songwriter out of Pittsburgh, scored a surprise top 40 hit on the Hot 100 when debut single “Hide Away” reached No. 23 on the chart. Daya has since followed her lamentation over the lack of clearly visible high-quality guys with a handful of other hits, most notably the smash Chainsmokers collaboration “Don’t Let Me Down” — but nearly a decade after getting her start, “Hide Away” is back, picking up in streams thanks to (what else?) a TikTok trend.
In April, TikTok users began posting videos of themselves performing a three-person dance routine, with each of the first three lines of the “Hide Away” chorus soundtracking each member’s respective moves. As the trend proliferated, “Hide Away” started earning seven-figure weekly streams: the song scored 3.13 million U.S. on-demand streams from Apr. 19-25, according to Luminate, an increase of more than 600% from its streaming total three weeks earlier (431,000 from Mar. 29-Apr. 4).
Meanwhile, Daya, who released a string of new singles last year, seems to be enjoying the revival of her first: “Never saw the second life of this song coming 9 years in but here we are lol,” she wrote last week on Instagram. “‘Hide Away’ forever.” – JASON LIPSHUTZ
Rvssian, Rauw Alejandro & Ayra Starr Make It Christmas in May with Fast-Rising New Single ‘Santa’
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What happens when Jamaica, Nigeria and Puerto Rico join forces? A streaming smash is born, of course. As the 2024 song of the summer race continues to heat up, Jamaican producer Rvssian, Puerto Rican Latin Grammy winner Rauw Alejandro and Nigerian Grammy nomineee Ayra Starr are throwing their collective hat in the ring with their new “Santa” collaboration.
The seductive collaboration combines notes of Afrobeats and reggaeton, with Rauw and Ayra trading verses about steamy trysts and undeniable sexual attraction. According to Luminate, “Santa” earned over 4.28 million official on-demand U.S. streams during the period of April 19-25. That figure marks a whopping 207% increase in streaming activity from two weeks prior (April 5-11), during which “Santa” collected around 1.39 million official streams.
After hitting DSPs early last month (April 4), “Santa” quickly exploded on TikTok, with an unofficial sound uploaded by Rvssian’s official account amassing over 378,000 posts. Much of the song’s TikTok traction has been sourced from a viral dance trend created by user @cornbreadjapan. The simple-yet-infectious choreography has been mimicked by hundreds of thousands of users since it first hit the algorithm on April 11. Several musicians have also participated in the trend, including members of K-Pop girl group ITZY and Rauw Alejandro and Ayra Starr themselves. On YouTube, the official “Santa” music video has been viewed over 10 million times in less than a month.
Although both Rvssian and Rauw have already notched Billboard Hot 100 entries, “Santa” could be the first for Ayra Starr, should its consumption continue to grow. To her credit, the “Bloody Samaritan” singer has already scored several top 10 hits on the U.S. Afrobeats Songs Chart, including 2022’s “Rush,” which finished at No. 7 on the 2023 Year-End U.S. Afrobeats Songs ranking. — KYLE DENIS
Anne Wilson’s Rebel, which fuses Christian and country music, arrives at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart dated May 4. It also opens at No. 10 on Top Country Albums.
In its launch week (April 19-25), Rebel earned a weekly career-best 16,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., with 10,000 in album sales, according to Luminate.
The set is the first to premiere in the top 10 of both Top Christian Albums and Top Country Albums simultaneously since March 2021, when Carrie Underwood’s My Savior bowed in the penthouse on both charts.
Wilson co-authored all 16 tracks on her new LP, the Lexington, Ky., native’s second full-length.
Wilson recently told Billboard, “Writing [Rebel], producing it and releasing it in, like, five weeks was very fast, but it’s been cool to see the reaction and how my music has been able to go to both country and Christian platforms and be appreciated in both.”
Wilson’s first full project, My Jesus, entered Top Christian Albums at No. 1 in May 2022 with 13,000 equivalent album units. It followed her introductory live EP, My Jesus: Live in Nashville, which arrived at No. 17 in August 2021 and hit No. 12 that October.
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The first Christian radio single from Rebel is “Strong,” which ranks at its No. 3 high on Christian Airplay with 5.7 million audience impressions. On the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Christian Songs chart, “Strong” holds at its No. 4 best, also driven by 1.7 million official U.S. streams (up 12%).
Wilson has earned one No. 1, among four top 10s, on Hot Christian Songs and two leaders on Christian Airplay. Her freshman single, “My Jesus,” dominated the former for four frames and the latter for six weeks beginning in August 2021. Her holiday track “I Still Believe in Christmas” followed, leading Christian Airplay for a week and peaking at No. 15 on Hot Christian Songs.
So far, one Rebel single has been introduced to country radio: “Rain in My Rearview,” being promoted by EMI Nashville (while Wilson’s Christian songs are being worked by Capitol Christian). Both are under the Universal Music Group Nashville umbrella.
Calibre 50 continues its domination on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart as “Días Buenos, Días Malos” climbs from No. 7 to lead the list dated May 4. With the new win, The Sinaloan group adds its record-extending 25th No. 1 to its account.
According to Luminate, “Días Buenos, Días Malos” accrued 7.1 million audience impressions in the U.S. during the tracking week ending in April 25, with a 33% increase in audience from the week prior. The song also takes over with the Greatest Gainer honors, awarded weekly to the song with the largest increase in plays among the ranking’s 40 titles. (The previous week’s No. 1, Oscar Ortiz and Edgardo Nuñez’s “First Love,” falls to No. 2 with 6.9 million in audience, down 13%.)
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“Días Buenos, Días Malos” completes its journey to No. 1 in 13 weeks, having debuted on the chart at No. 20 in February. Thus, it ties with three other songs which needed 13 weeks or more to arrive at the summit in the past year.
Here’s a recap of the songs that required the most weeks to top the chart, dating to April 2023:
Weeks to No. 1, Title, Artists, Peak Date13, “Bipolar,” Peso Pluma, Jasiel Nuñez & Junior H, Nov. 25, 202313, “Según Quién,” Maluma & Carín León, Dec. 16, 202313, “Vas A Querer Volver,” Banda Los Recoditos, Jan. 613, “Días Buenos, Días Malos,” Calibre 50, May 414, “Neta Que No,” La Fiera de Ojinaga, Jan. 2016, “Ahí No Era,” Gerardo Ortiz, Feb. 17
As “Días Buenos” takes over Regional Mexican Airplay, Calibre 50 cements its winning appeal with 25 total champs, stepping further from its next competitor, Banda MS, with 19 No. 1 songs since the tally launched in 1994.
Notably, dating to 2013, when Calibre 50 scored its premiere leader with “Ni Que Estuvieras Tan Buena,” all, except for “Decepciones,” with Alejandro Fernández (2020), have been unassisted rulers.
Elsewhere, “Días Buenos” takes Calibre 50 to its 28th top 10 on the overall Latin Airplay ranking, as the song surges 14-7, breaking a tie with Marco Antonio Solis for the most No. 1s for a regional Mexican act overall.
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The buzziest rap beef of 2024 continues to light up Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as Drake’s “Push Ups” debuts at No. 2 on the list dated May 4. The song, released April 19 through OVO/Republic Records, is widely seen as a direct response to Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s collaboration “Like That,” on which the lattermost’s verse included rhymes that many interpreted as insults to Drake and J. Cole.
“Push Ups” first came to wide attention through demo leaks that surfaced online as early as April 13, with some speculating the track was a product of artificial intelligence. Following its official release, “Push Ups” earned 28.6 million official U.S. streams in the April 19 – 25 tracking week, according to Luminate. Thanks to the sum, “Push Ups” starts at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart to secure Drake’s record-extending 24th leader on the list. He’s now tripled the No. 1 total of every other artist on that chart, with The Weeknd – who also receives some perceived sting in “Push Ups” – in second place, with eight champs.
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While streams contribute most of the “Push Ups” activity, the song also sold 4,000 downloads in the tracking week, allowing for a No. 2 entrance on R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales. It also generated significant radio airplay, with 5.4 million audience impressions in the same period. The early radio support prompts the track’s debuts on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay (No. 34) and Rhythmic Airplay (No. 36) charts.
Elsewhere, “Push Ups” also opens at No. 2 on the Hot Rap Songs chart. On both that ranking and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, “Push Ups” is second only to … “Like That,” which reigns for a fifth week on each list. While “Push Ups” beats “Like That” in the sales and streaming races, the latter’s huge airplay advantage – 22.4 million in audience impressions, nearly 17 million more than “Push Ups” – powers the latter across the finish line.
After “Push Ups” premiered, Drake dropped a second diss track, “Taylor Made Freestyle,” exclusively as an audio file on his X (formerly known as Twitter) and Instagram channels the same day. The track drew controversy for its use of artificial intelligence to imitate Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg’s voices. The former’s estate threatened to sue Drake on April 24, leading to the track’s removal the next day. As “Taylor Made Freestyle” was available only through social media channels and did not appear on streaming services, digital retailers or receive radio play, the song did not generate any activity to contribute to Billboard’s charts.
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With “Like That” and “Push Ups” already in the chart archives, the next bout of the latest installment of the Drake – Lamar saga could arrive soon. On April 30, Lamar premiered a new song, “euphoria,” on his YouTube channel. The track, over six minutes long, takes several shots assumed to be at Drake, referencing the Canadian MC’s previous beefs with other rappers and alleging that Drake resorted to legal means to attempt to squash the “Like That” momentum, rapping: “Try cease and desist on the ‘Like That’ record/ Oh, what? You ain’t like that record.” Following the YouTube premiere, the song reached other streaming services and digital retailers hours later.
Thirty-eight years after it first became a hit, The Outfield’s “Your Love” is back on Billboard’s charts.
Originally a No. 6-peaking single on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1986, the pop-rock classic climbs from No. 199 to No. 189 in its second week on the Billboard Global 200, dated May 4. It gained by 6% to 13.4 million official streams worldwide April 19-25, according to Luminate. (At the beginning of February, the song was drawing over 8 million weekly streams globally.)
Meanwhile, a new version debuts on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs: “Your Love (Remix),” by The Outfield and Diplo, enters at No. 48. It also opens at No. 6 on the Dance/Electronic Song Sales chart.
Thanks to the song’s reimagination, The Outfield charts a newly-released entry on Billboard’s surveys for the first time since 1992, when “Closer to Me” became the band’s eighth Hot 100 hit. The group logged five top 40 Hot 100 titles in 1986-91, with “Your Love” followed by “All the Love in the World” (No. 19, August 1986), “Since You’ve Been Gone” (No. 31, August 1987), “Voices of Babylon” (No. 25, May 1989) and “For You” (No. 21, January 1991).
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“Your Love (Remix)” is from Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley: The Mixtape, released April 26.
The original was released on The Outfield’s debut LP Play Deep, which rose to No. 9 on the Billboard 200 in June 1986. (The mid-‘80s were teeming with baseball-themed chart hits, with “Your Love” among a lineup of songs also including John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days.”)
Meanwhile, other favorites are enjoying new lives via dance makeovers. Here’s a rundown of six such tracks on the latest Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart:
No. 10, “Whatever,” Kygo with Ava Max / reworks “Wherever, Whenever” by Shakira (No. 9 peak in 2001 on the Hot 100)
No. 19, “Thank You (Not So Bad),” Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike x Tiesto x W&W & Dido / “Thank You,” Dido (No. 3, 2001, Hot 100)
No. 21, “The Sound of Silence (CYRIL Remix),” Disturbed / “The Sound of Silence,” Disturbed (No. 3, 2016, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs; Simon & Garfunkel’s original hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 for two weeks in 1966)
No. 27, “Somebody (2024),” Gotye, Kimbra, Fisher, Chris Lake & Sante Sansone / “Somebody That I Used To Know,” Gotye feat. Kimbra (No. 1, eight weeks, 2012, Hot 100)
No. 42, “It’s Not Right (But It’s Ok),” Mr. Belt & Wezol / “It’s Not Right But It’s Ok,” Whitney Houston (No. 4, 1999, Hot 100)
No. 48, “Your Love (Remix),” The Outfield & Diplo / “Your Love,” The Outfield (No. 6, 1986, Hot 100)
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The Outfield formed in London and comprised guitarist John Spinks, vocalist/bassist Tony Lewis and drummer Alan Jackman. After Spinks died in 2014, the group disbanded. Lewis passed in 2020.
“We are astounded with the recent 10.4 million monthly Spotify listener milestone and wanted to say thank you for rocking with us in 2024,” a March post on the group’s official site reads; the band now boasts over 15 million listeners on the platform. “We will always have music as a safe place. All the love in the world.”
Bad Bunny’s Most Wanted Tour crowns the Top Tours chart for the month of March. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, it earned $64.6 million and sold 207,000 tickets over 13 shows.
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Bad Bunny logs his fifth month at No. 1, after topping the chart four times in 2022 — twice as part of the El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo in March and April, and then in August and September during World’s Hottest Tour.
Combined, those treks nabbed him the No. 1 spot on 2022’s year-end ranking, making him the first artist to primarily perform in any language other than English to crown the annual survey. The only other primarily-Spanish-singing act to lead the monthly chart is RBD, which topped the November 2023 list.
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Bad Bunny pulls out of a tie with Beyoncé and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to have the second-most monthly wins, trailing only Elton John with seven.
Bad Bunny’s biggest stops during March were in Los Angeles and Chicago. Three nights in each city score him Nos. 2-3 on Top Boxscores, with $20.2 million at the former’s Crypto.com Arena on March 13-15, and $13.4 million at the latter’s United Center on March 28-30. All of his shows earned more than $3 million.
The Most Wanted Tour began on Feb. 21 in Salt Lake City. The first handful of shows secured a No. 10 rank on February’s tally with $19.5 million in the bank. All told, the trek has earned $84.2 million and sold 282,000 tickets so far, with 30 dates left to report through two hometown shows on June 7-8 at San Juan’s Coliseo de Puerto Rico. At his current pace of more than $4 million per show, the tour is likely to sail across the $200 million threshold.
Zach Bryan follows closely behind at No. 2, with $62.3 million and 313,000 tickets, falling just 4% short of Bad Bunny’s winning gross.
Bryan is in the middle of The Quittin Time Tour, which launched on March 5 and managed 18 shows before the end of March. Its’ so-far total of $62 million is already far beyond the $43.9 million he earned on 2023’s 32-date Burn Burn Burn Tour. In fact, it only took 13 shows to pass that mark, representing a 150% increase in per-show earnings since just last year.
More specifically, last year Bryan played two shows in New York at Queens’ Forest Hills Stadium. For the Quittin Time Tour, he expanded to six, split between Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Belmont Park’s UBS Arena and Newark, N.J.’s Prudential Center. He didn’t visit Chicago in 2022 or 2023 but kicked off this year’s run with three sold-out shows at the United Center, generating $12.6 million in ticket sales for No. 5 on Top Boxscores.
Bryan has nearly 50 more shows on the books in 2024, one-third of which bring him to football stadiums. Already 50% beyond his 2023 grosses, he’s likely to join Bad Bunny in the $200 million club by year’s end.
Women dominate much of March’s top 10, with P!nk and Madonna at Nos. 3 and 4. The former banked $55.1 million and sold 543,000 tickets from 11 shows, scoring the month’s highest attendance count. The latter added $37.9 million to The Celebration Tour, which crossed $200 million in early April. The queen of pop’s tour wrapped last week (April 26 – except for one free show on May 4 in Brazil) with final numbers expected to be reported soon.
Karol G and Nicki Minaj represent Latin and hip-hop at Nos. 5 and 6, respectively. For Karol G, it’s a continuation of a winning streak that began with the kick-off of the Manana Sera Bonito tour last August. For Minaj, it’s her first monthly Boxscore appearance, with the first batch of shows on the Pink Friday 2 World Tour bringing in $26.9 million.
Three festivals appear on Top Boxscores, topped off by Pa’l Norte in Monterrey, Mexico at No. 1. The weekend-long festival grossed $26.2 million on March 29-31, nearly tripling its 2022 revenue of $9.3 million. At No. 6 is Esterio Picnic with $11.8 million. Both events are promoted by OCESA, helping the Mexican juggernaut rank at No. 3 on Top Promoters.
Across the Pacific Ocean, Pitch Music & Arts Festival represents for Melbourne, Australia, at No. 16 with $8.4 million and 35,900 tickets sold between March 8-12. Otherwise, Oceania is bolstered by several appearances by P!nk, including top 10s for shows in Melbourne and Perth.
Asia sneaks onto the Boxscores ranking, with Ed Sheeran and SEVENTEEN rounding out the chart at Nos. 29 and 30. Both hover around $6 million, with Sheeran in Manilla, Philippines and SEVENTEEN in Incheon, South Korea.
Drake rockets to No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart (dated May 4) with “You Broke My Heart,” which flies from No. 8. The single reaches the chart’s summit after a 20% surge in weekly plays that made it the most-played song on U.S. monitored mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio stations in the tracking week of April 19 – 25, according to Luminate. The song, from the Scary Hours deluxe edition of his For All the Dogs album, reaches No. 1 in its 19th week on the chart – Drake’s longest climb to the top.
The new leader gives Drake a record-extending 46th No. 1 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. He remains far and away the all-time champ – Lil Wayne ranks a distant second, with 20 No. 1s. Here’s a recap of the acts with the most No. 1s on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay since the chart launched in 1993:
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46, Drake20, Lil Wayne19, Chris Brown17, Usher13, Beyoncé
As “You Broke My Heart” vaults seven spots to reach the summit, it scores the biggest jump to No. 1 in more than seven years, since Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” featuring Gucci Mane, also sprang 8-1 on the chart dated Dec. 3, 2016. In total, “You Broke My Heart” is the sixth of 440 champs on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay to jump from No. 8 or lower directly to No. 1.
Position Change, Song Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 131-1, “Before You Walk Out of My Life,” Monica, Jan. 13, 199619-1, “Anniversary,” Tony Toni Tone, Oct. 9, 19939-1, “No Diggity,” BLACKstreet featuring Dr. Dre, Sept. 14, 19968-1, “Bills Bills Bills,” Destiny’s Child, July 10, 19998-1, “Black Beatles,” Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane, Dec. 3, 20168-1, “You Broke My Heart,” Drake, May 4, 2024
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Despite Drake’s virtually automatic hitmaking status on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, where about one-third of the superstar’s 137 appearances have reached No. 1 and another 45 have finished in the top 10, “You Broke My Heart” endured the longest wait to No. 1 among his entire chart-topping collection. The single arrives at the top in its 19th week on the list, four weeks longer than his previous-slowest, “All Me,” featuring 2 Chainz and Big Sean, which wrapped a 15-week journey in January 2014. (Drake’s slow-but-steady climb to No. 1 with “You Broke My Heart” makes it the 13th song to take at least 19 weeks to reach No. 1. The longest trek? Tems’ “Free Mind,” which needed 33 weeks to enter the penthouse in 2022.)
The prolonged rise, however, partly traces to multiple Drake singles active at the format simultaneously. When “You Broke My Heart” debuted on the chart in December, it arrived amid two buzzing Drake singles: “Rich Baby Daddy,” featuring Sexyy Red and SZA, a track that had just peaked at No. 2 a couple weeks earlier and was gliding in the top five, and “First Person Shooter,” his Billboard Hot 100-topping collaboration with J. Cole, which was climbing inside the top 20. While both songs would be on the decline by February, a new contender entered the mix: Drake joined 4batz for a remix of the latter’s viral “act II: date @ 8,” with new promo efforts lifting the rising star’s breakthrough single. On the newest Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, where “You Broke My Heart,” reaches No. 1, “act ii: date @ 8” advances 6-4 with an 8% weekly play increase.
Elsewhere, the gains in plays help “You Broke My Heart” push 13-9 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by combined audience totals from adult R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop stations. There, the track improved to 9.7 million in audience for the week of April 19 – 25, up 17% from the previous period.
