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Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated March 30), after debuting atop the tally a week ago. The set earned 100,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the tracking week ending March 21 (down 56%), according to Luminate. It’s the third Grande album to have logged a personal-best two weeks at No. 1. Her last two full-length studio sets, Positions (in 2020) and Thank U, Next (2019), both spent their first two weeks at No. 1.
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Eternal Sunshine debuted at No. 1 on the March 23-dated list with 227,000 units earned.
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Plus, Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well starts at No. 2 with her biggest week ever by both equivalent album units and traditional album sales, while Justin Timberlake’s Everything I Thought It Was launches at No. 4.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 30, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (March 26). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Eternal Sunshine’s 100,000 units earned in the tracking week ending March 21, SEA units comprise 87,000 (down 41%, equaling 115.05 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 13,000 (down 56%) and TEA units comprise 500 (down 84%).
Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well makes a splash, as it debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 97,000 equivalent album units earned — her biggest week, by units, since the chart began ranking by that measurement in December 2014. Further, of the album’s first-week units, traditional album sales comprise 66,000 — Musgraves’ biggest sales week ever.
Of Deeper Well’s first-week unit sum of 97,000, traditional album sales comprise 66,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 38.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000.
Deeper Well is Musgraves’ highest-charting album since her debut effort, Same Trailer Different Park, debuted and peaked at No. 2 in 2013.
Deeper Well is the fifth top 10-charting effort for Musgraves, and all of them have started in the top four of the ranking. She previously visited the region with Star-Crossed (No. 3, 2021), Golden Hour (No. 4, 2018), Pageant Material (No. 3, 2015) and Same Trailer Different Park (No. 2, 2013).
Deeper Well’s first-week unit sum surpasses Musgraves’ previous high, by units earned, when Star-Crossed debuted with 77,000 units. And, Deeper Well’s first-week sales figure is her best sales frame ever, beating the 55,000 that Pageant Material sold in its first week.
The new album was led by a pair of charting tracks on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart: the title track (reaching No. 26 in February) and “Too Good To Be True” (No. 41 earlier in March). Deeper is Musgraves’ first album since 2021, while in 2023 she scored her biggest chart hit ever on the Hot Country Songs and all-genre Billboard Hot 100 charts, when Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” on which she’s featured, topped both tallies. The song, her first leader on both lists, was released on Bryan’s self-titled 2023 album, but is not on Deeper.
Musgraves supported the album launch with appearances on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (March 14), NBC’s Today (March 15) and SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show (March 18). Prior to the album’s release on March 15, Musgraves was the musical guest on the March 2 episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
Deeper Well’s first-week sales were supported by its availability across nine vinyl variants, including eight different-colored versions and exclusive editions for Amazon, Spotify and Target. In total, the album sold 37,000 copies on vinyl — the top-selling vinyl set of the week, Musgraves’ biggest sales week ever on vinyl, the largest vinyl week of 2024, and the fourth-largest week for a country album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. (The only bigger sales weeks on vinyl for country sets were all registered by Taylor Swift’s re-recordings.)
Deeper Well was also issued in four different CD versions, three different digital editions (two were exclusive to her webstore — one with a bonus track, and another with the same bonus track an alternate cover art) and as a cassette tape.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time slips 2-3 on the new Billboard 200, pushed down with a 3% gain to 70,000 equivalent album units earned.
Justin Timberlake returns to the Billboard 200 with his first album in over six years, as Everything I Thought It Was starts at No. 4. The set opens with 67,000 equivalent album units earned and marks Timberlake’s sixth consecutive top five-charting effort — the entirety of his solo releases, which includes four No. 1s.
Of Everything’s first-week unit sum of 67,000, traditional album sales comprise 41,000, SEA units comprise 24,000 (equaling 31.13 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 2,000.
The new album was led off by the single “Selfish,” which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Feb. 10. The track has also reached the top 20 of the Radio Songs, Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay, Adult Contemporary and Rhythmic Airplay charts.
Everything’s release was ushered in by a much-buzzed-about one-off concert at The Wiltern in Los Angeles (March 13). The show featured a surprise reunion with his *NSYNC bandmates, with the group playing a medley of hits and the new Everything track “Paradise.” Timberlake also turned up on NPR’s Tiny Desk series on March 15 for a half-hour-long concert. Earlier in the week, on March 11, he performed the album’s “No Angels” on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Everything’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across four different vinyl variants (including exclusives for Amazon, Target and his webstore), four different deluxe CD boxed sets (each with a piece of branded clothing and a CD) and a standard CD.
Noah Kahan’s Stick Season falls 3-5 on the new Billboard 200 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). Five former No. 1s round out the rest of the top 10, as SZA’s SOS dips 5-6 (43,000; down 4%), Swift’s Lover climbs 9-7 (41,000; up 6%), Bryan’s self-titled album falls 6-8 (40,000; down 2%), Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) descends 8-9 (nearly 40,000; up 3%) and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 drops 4-10 (39,000; down 13%).
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Isn’t it interesting that while we’re in this Eternal Sunshine/pre-Cowboy Carter period, Ariana Grande and Beyoncé have exactly the same tallies of No. 1s, top 10s and overall Billboard Hot 100 entries (as of the chart dated March 23)?
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Pablo NelsonOakland, Calif.
Hi Pablo,
Fun observation that the two superstars are neck-and-neck when it comes to career Hot 100 stats, reflecting each’s sustained chart success.
Ariana Grande: nine No. 1s / 22 top 10s / 85 overall hits
Beyoncé: nine No. 1s / 22 top 10s / 85 overall hits
(Déjà vu, to quote Beyoncé.)
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Meanwhile, both Grande and Beyoncé have siblings who have hit Billboard’s charts, and each has family members from different generations who have reached rankings – and made history regarding their ages.
First, Frankie Grande, Ariana’s brother, and Solange, Beyoncé’s sister, have each made surveys.
Plus, Grande’s grandmother, Nonna, 98 years young, this week becomes the oldest living artist ever to have hit the Hot 100. Conversely, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, became the youngest artist ever billed on a Billboard chart when Jay-Z’s “Glory,” featuring a then-minutes-old “B.I.C.” debuted on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2012.
Among other coincidences, Grande and Beyoncé have each charted Hot 100 hits consisting of numbers and no words: Grande with “34 + 35” and Beyoncé with both “1+1” and “7/11.”
Further, and fittingly, given their numerous accomplishments, Beyoncé sent “Run the World (Girls)” onto the Hot 100 in 2011. In 2019, Grande charted as featured on 2 Chainz’s “Rule the World.”
(To get extra playful, both Grande and Beyoncé have hit the Hot 100 with songs named after games. Grande boarded the chart with “Monopoly” in 2019, while Beyoncé buzzed in with “Family Feud,” the survey said in 2017.)
As for another chart-topping achievement on the Hot 100 for Beyoncé, prior to Grande’s latest coronation, and spotlighting other acts with impressive longevity …
No. 1, Topped 40
Hi Gary,
Beyoncé led the Hot 100 for two weeks beginning on the chart dated March 2 with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” at age 42. A week later, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) reached No. 1 with his collaborative hit “Carnival,” at age 46.
In the youth-centered music industry, it’s rare for artists to rule the Hot 100 in their 40s, or later. Billboard has previously covered some of the few that have achieved the feat, including such legends as Louis Armstrong, Cher, Eminem, Aretha Franklin, Madonna and Paul McCartney.
Has an artist 40 or older ever replaced another at No. 1 on the Hot 100 before this week?
(That’s excluding the recent holidays, when Mariah Carey and Brenda Lee twice switched off atop the Hot 100, with “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” respectively. Both are over 40 now, but were well under that age when those songs were originally released.)
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Jesse RifkinWashington, D.C.
Thanks, Jesse.
Beyoncé and Ye – and Ty Dolla $ign – mark just the third set of soloists over age 40 (again, not counting the holiday hits above, given when they were recorded) leading the Hot 100 back-to-back.
Here’s a look at all three such instances.
March 16, 2024: “Carnival” by Ye, 46, and Ty Dolla $ign, 41 (feat. Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti), replaced “Texas Hold ‘Em” by Beyoncé, 42
May 27, 2017: “Despacito” by Daddy Yankee, then 40 (with Luis Fonsi and feat. Justin Bieber), replaced “I’m the One” by DJ Khaled, then 41 (feat. Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne).
Dec. 27, 1980: “(Just Like) Starting Over” by the late John Lennon – who was 40 when the song was released, just weeks earlier, prior to his Dec. 8 passing – replaced “Lady” by Kenny Rogers, then 42.
Ye, Ty Dolla $ign and Beyoncé, thus, mark the first grouping of as many as three solo artists all over 40 topping the Hot 100 consecutively.
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With age comes invaluable experience and perspective. In unveiling the cover art for her new LP, Cowboy Carter, on Instagram March 19, Beyoncé shared, “This album has been over five years in the making. It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world, while also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history.
“I feel honored to be the first Black woman with the number one single on the Hot Country Songs chart,” she added. “That would not have happened without the outpouring of support from each and every one of you. My hope is that years from now, the mention of an artist’s race, as it relates to releasing genres of music, will be irrelevant.”
Bubbling Under the Hot 100 (and Bubbling Under the Bubbling Under Chart)
Hi Gary,
I’ve noticed a few current songs that haven’t made the Hot 100 yet – or even the Hot 100’s Bubbling Under chart. Some are on American Top 40 With Ryan Seacrest and SiriusXM’s Hits 1 The Weekend Countdown, as I follow those charts closely.
Among them:
“Kissing Strangers,” Usher
“Make You Mine,” Madison Beer
“Not My Fault,” Renee Rapp & Megan Thee Stallion
“Not the 1975,” Knox
“Paradise,” Justin Timberlake feat. *NSYNC
“Pick Up the Phone,” Henry Moodie
“Yes I’m a Mess,” AJR
Hope to see them on the Hot 100, as well!
Thanks,
Robert Wien
Thanks, Robert.
Two of those songs are currently on the Hot 100’s Bubbling Under chart, which ranks the top 25 tracks yet to make the all-genre, multimetric Hot 100: “Not My Fault,” at No. 19 (after reaching No. 2), and “Make You Mine,” at No. 24 (after hitting No. 9). Plus, “Kissing Strangers” rose to No. 5 in February.
Per your musical tastes, all seven songs above have either hit Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart or made inroads at top 40 radio, on which the list is based. “Not My Fault” ascends to No. 16 on the latest chart, followed by “Not the 1975” (No. 25), “Kissing Strangers” (No. 32) and “Make You Mine,” a debut No. 36. “Yes I’m a Mess” reached No. 24 in January, while “Pick Up the Phone” and “Paradise” – the latter newly released (March 15) on Justin Timberlake’s album Everything I Thought It Was – are building support.
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Says Larry Blackford, who discovered Knox on Instagram, noting the opening line in “Not the 1975,” “With lyrics like ‘Vodka soda and baggy jeans/ Using none of that art degree,’ how could [radio] not love it?”
Hardy nets his third leader as a recording artist, and his first unaccompanied by any other acts, on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Truck Bed,” released on Big Loud, rides 2-1 on the survey dated March 30. The song increased by 13% to 31 million audience impressions March 15-21, according to Luminate.
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Hardy (full name Michael Wilson Hardy), 33, from Philadelphia, Miss., co-authored the song with Ashley Gorley, Ben Johnson and Hunter Phelps; Joey Moi produced it. It’s from Hardy’s LP The Mockingbird & the Crow, which launched as his first No. 1 on Top Country Albums in February 2023.
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“Truck Bed” follows “Wait in the Truck” (featuring Lainey Wilson), which hit No. 2 on Country Airplay last April, becoming his third of four top 10s. He boasts two No. 1s: “Beers on Me,” with Dierks Bentley and Breland, dominated for one week in April 2022 after “One Beer” (featuring Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson) ruled for one frame in December 2020.
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As a songwriter, “Truck Bed” marks Hardy’s 12th Country Airplay No. 1, a run that began with Morgan Wallen’s “Up Down” (featuring Florida Georgia Line) for a week in June 2018.
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Jordan Davis earns his eighth consecutive career-opening Country Airplay top 10 as “Tucson Too Late,” which he co-penned, rises 11-9 (18.9 million, up 8%). It follows “Next Thing You Know,” which hit No. 2 last July, and “What My World Spins Around,” which reigned for two weeks in January 2023, marking his fourth No. 1.
Plus, Tyler Hubbard (half of Florida Georgia Line, with Brian Kelley), notches his third solo top 10 as “Back Then Right Now” jumps 13-10 (18.8 million, up 10%). It follows “Dancin’ in the Country,” which reached No. 2 last May, and “5 Foot 9,” which became his first leader on his own for one week in November 2022.
Ariana Grande shines over Australia’s albums chart for a second consecutive week with Eternal Sunshine, as Benson Boone extends his reign over the national singles survey with “Beautiful Things.”
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Eternal Sunshine (via Universal) last week became Grande’s fifth No. 1 when it bowed at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.
On the latest tally, published Friday, March 22, Grande’s seventh studio album leads a trio of Taylor Swift titles, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Lover and Folklore (all via Universal), respectively.
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The top debut on the latest frame belongs to Peter Garrett, frontman with ARIA Hall of Fame inducted rock legends Midnight Oil, who checks in at No. 17 with his second solo album, The True North (Sony). Its predecessor, A Version Of Now, peaked at No. 3 in 2016. As frontman with the Oils, as they’re affectionately known in these parts, Garrett landed seven No. 1 albums, from Red Sails In The Sunset in 1984 to Resist in 2022.
Further down the list, Justin Timberlake drops in with his sixth album, Everything I Thought I Was (RCA/Sony), new No. 23. All of JT’s five previous albums reached the top 10 in Australia, with FutureSex/LoveSounds logging one week at No. 1 in 2006 and The 20/20 Experience leading the chart for two weeks in 2013, ARIA reports. EITIW is the followup to 2018’s Man Of The Woods, which peaked at No. 2.
Also making a top 40 appearance is U.S. country star Kacey Musgraves with Deeper Well (Mercury/Universal). It’s new at No. 26. Deeper Well is her fifth non-seasonal studio album, four of which have charted here, with her most LP, 2021’s Star-Crossed, becoming her first top 10 album in Australia, with a No. 9 peak.
Meanwhile, Benson Boone enters a third week at No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with “Beautiful Things” (Warner) ahead of Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine cut “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” and Djo’s “End Of Beginning” (AWAL).
The top new release belongs to Dasha, as her independently-released viral track “Austin” opens its account at No. 23. Based in Nashville, via San Luis Obispo, Calif., Dasha is behind a line-dance trend that has turned the song into a U.S. country — and now ARIA Chart — hit.
Finally, “Fri(end)s” (BigHit/Universal) by BTS’s V (real name: Kim Tae-hyung) cracks the ARIA Top 50 at No. 49. With that effort, he becomes the fourth member of BTS to enjoy a solo hit in Australia, following Jimin, Jin and Jung Kook.
Luis Figueroa secures his eighth top 10 on Billboard’s Tropical Airplay chart as “A Escondidas” surges 14-7 on the March 23-dated list.
“A Escondidas” lands in the upper region on the tropical radio ranking as the Greatest Gainer of the week, thanks to a 57% gain in audience impressions, to 1.67 million, earned in the U.S. during the March 8-14 tracking week, according to Luminate.
“A Escondidas” follows Figueroa’s last top 10, the two-week No. 1 “Bandido,” which crowned the Oct. 21-28, 2023-dated charts; the only salsa to lead the list that year. All of the other No. 1s were bachatas, a merengue track and one mambo tune.
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The new single, the third song on Figueroa’ EP Voy a Ti, nominated for a Grammy for best tropical Latin album in 2023, was co-written by Figueroa and Lenier.
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As mentioned, with “A Escondidas,” Figueroa collects his eighth top 10 on Tropical Airplay. Here’s a recap of his top 10 collection:
Peak, Peak Date, Title, Weeks at No. 1No. 1, July 31, 2021, “Hasta El Sol De Hoy,” oneNo. 6, Oct. 30, 2021, “Si Tú Me Dices Ven”No. 3, Aug. 13, 2022, “Todavía Te Espero”No. 7, Sept. 10, 2022, “Vienes”No. 4, Feb. 4, 2023, “Fiesta Contigo”No. 7, June 3, 2023, “La Luz”No. 1, Oct. 21, 2023, “Bandido,” twoNo. 7, March 23, 2024, “A Escondidas”
Notably, Figueroa earned his first top 10 on Tropical Airplay less than three years ago, placing two or more in every year since, when the one-week champ “Hasta El Sol De Hoy” ruled the July 31, 2021-dated list.
Further, with eight top 10s on his account since 2021, the Puerto Rican breaks out of a tie with Victor Manuelle for the fourth-most top 10s on the decade of the ‘20s. He now trails Prince Royce who continues to lead the pack with 12 top 10s this decade, Romeo Santos’ with 10, and Marc Anthony with nine.
The new chart achievement arrives as Figueroa embarks on his first tour with Victor Manuelle this spring.
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Tenacious D’s version of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” is No. 1 on a Billboard chart.
The rendition, recorded for Tenacious D member Jack Black’s new movie Kung Fu Panda 4, starts at No. 1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales survey dated March 23.
The act’s “…Baby One More Time” reigns with 4,000 downloads sold in the U.S. March 8-14, its first week of release, according to Luminate.
Tenacious D notches its first No. 1 on Rock Digital Song Sales, which began in 2010. In fact, it becomes the duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass’ first No. 1 on any Billboard songs chart, with the pair’s previous commands logged on album surveys – including two leaders on Top Rock & Alternative Albums in 2006’s The Pick of Destiny and 2012’s Rize of the Fenix.
“…Baby One More Time” is also the tandem’s first top 10 on the all-format Digital Song Sales chart, debuting at No. 9, exceeding the No. 36-peaking “The Pick of Destiny” in 2006.
On the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, “…Baby One More Time” enters at No. 26. In addition to its sales, it earned 2.5 million official U.S. streams and 84,000 radio audience impressions.
Tenacious D charts its second entry on the ranking, after another cover, of Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games,” hit No. 27 last year.
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Spears’ original earned its own bump in consumption from the cover, rising 11% to 1.7 million streams March 8-14. The classic became Spears’ breakout hit (and Max Martin’s, as a writer and producer), ruling the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning in January 1999.
Tenacious D’s version is heard in the credits of Kung Fu Panda 4, which premiered March 8 and stars Black as main character panda Po.
Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” tops the Billboard Japan Hot 100 again this week on the chart dated March 20.
Now in its eighth straight week atop the Japan song chart, the MASHLE season 2 opener has surpassed Gen Hoshino’s “Koi” and is tied with Official HIGE DANdism’s “Subtitle” for consecutive weeks at No. 1. (The current record for the longest consecutive stay atop the Japan Hot 100 is 21 weeks, held by YOASOBI’s “Idol.”)
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On the chart tallying the week ending March 17, “BBBB” returns to No. 1 for downloads with 21,307 units (though down by about 4.4%) and continues to rule streaming with 24,945,758 weekly streams (up 17%). The rap banger also rises to No. 1 for video views by a margin of more than 6.4 times over the song at No. 2 (12,089,850 views) and moves 2-1 for karaoke, dominating four metrics of the chart’s methodology this week. Creepy Nuts dropped the CD version of the song on Wednesday (March 20) and is set to kick off its nationwide tour on Friday (March 22), and it doesn’t look like the duo’s biggest hit to date will be slowing down anytime soon.
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AKB48’s “Karakon Wink” debuts at No. 2 this week. The 63rd single by the long-running girl group is off to a great start, launching with 463,564 copies to top sales. The song celebrates the “graduation” of member Yuki Kashiwagi, who will be leaving after 17 years of being one of the most beloved and well known members of the group in its 19th year.
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Number_i’s “GOAT” stays in the top 10 at No. 5 this week, selling 19,459 copies in its second week of CD release to surpass 500k copies total. The track is at No. 2 for sales, No. 11 for downloads (3,926 units), No. 36 for streaming (3,109,214 streams), No. 8 for video views (1,151,338 views) and holds at No. 1 for radio airplay.
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Fujii Kaze’s “Michi Teyu Ku (Overflowing)” debuts at No. 8 after dropping March 15. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter performed his latest single, written for the Japanese movie April Come She Will, on the premiere episode of NHK’s tiny desk concerts JAPAN series broadcast on March 16. In its first week, the track reached No. 3 for downloads (11,394 units), No. 20 for streaming (4,067,422 streams), No. 7 for video (1,208,331 views), and No. 12 for radio.
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The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from March 11 to 17, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
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Djo takes “End of Beginning” back to No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, jumping 3-1 on the March 23-dated tally.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity March 11-17. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50. As previously noted, titles that are part of Universal Music Group’s catalog are currently unavailable on TikTok.
“End of Beginning” previously reached No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 list dated March 2, becoming the first Billboard ruler for Djo (real name Joe Keery, also well known as an actor in Stranger Things, Fargo and more).
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Its return to No. 1 coincides with its rise to the top of Billboard’s Alternative Streaming Songs ranking. The tune racked up 16.7 million official U.S. streams March 8-14, a jump of 21%, according to Luminate. It also achieves a new peak of No. 21 on the multi-metric, all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
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Trends utilizing the “End of Beginning” sound are paced by the “If I won the lottery” theme, which helped the song rise to No. 1 on its initial ascent and continues well into March.
Unlike the March 16-dated TikTok Billboard Top 50, in which the top five remained completely static from the previous frame, the chart’s upper reaches experiences some shakeup below Djo, as Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” leaps 11-2.
It’s a new peak for “Beautiful Things,” which debuted at No. 6 on the Feb. 10 survey and has bounced around the top 20 since. While the song’s initial debut was largely thanks to being teased on TikTok for weeks prior to its official release (Jan. 18), its latest jump is via a proliferation of newly released lip-synching clips featuring the track, concurrent with its rise on the Hot 100, returning to its peak of No. 3 on the March 23 tally.
Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnival,” No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the previous two weeks, falls to No. 3, while Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” returns to the top five, blasting 39-4, and Bobby Caldwell’s previous No. 1 “What You Won’t Do for Love” dips 2-5. The “Texas Hold ‘Em” dance trend is what continues to fuel No. 4, with many users donning cowboy garb as well to celebrate Beyonce’s country turn. The song had fallen off the chart briefly due to being removed from the platform but has since returned.
Dasha’s “Austin” is the only song of the week to reach the top 10 for the first time, leaping to No. 6 after debuting at No. 15 March 16. Its ascent gives the chart two country songs in the top 10 (alongside “Texas Hold ‘Em”), the first time that’s happened since the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s September 2023 inception.
Like “Texas Hold ‘Em,” “Austin” benefits from a line dance-inspired trend, with Dasha herself leading the pack via a variety of uploads.
“Austin” sports a 65% jump in official U.S. streams to 6.7 million March 8-14, allowing for Dasha’s first appearance on the Hot 100 at No. 74, as previously reported.
The top debut of the week on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 belongs to Don Toliver, whose “Bandit” premieres at No. 14. “Bandit” was initially released Feb. 1 and has sported a swift rise on TikTok following its use in multiple viral clips over the past few weeks.
Finally, as a potential precursor to future rankings, Sexyy Red’s “Get It Sexyy” and Cardi B’s “Enough (Miami)” start at Nos. 44 and 45, respectively, following their official releases March 15, meaning the tracks bow despite having just three days of tracking with the official sound (the TikTok Billboard Top 50 runs on a Monday-Sunday tracking period).
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
What were the most notable highlights regarding the sonic characteristics of hits on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart in 2023?
AI-powered hit song analytics platform ChartCipher released its latest report March 15, spotlighting key findings from Radio Songs surveys dated Jan. 7 through Dec. 30, 2023.
In October 2023, ChartCipher launched publicly, as announced jointly by MyPart and Hit Songs Deconstructed. The platform utilizes analytics from 10 of Billboard’s most prominent charts dating to the turn of the century: the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Pop Airplay, Country Airplay, Streaming Songs, Radio Songs and Digital Song Sales.
Here are three takeaways from Chart Cipher’s new report, reflecting the Radio Songs chart for 2023.
Pop Topped, But Dropped
“Pop was the top genre on the Billboard Radio Songs chart in 2023 with a 37% share” of all entries, ChartCipher’s report notes. “Country followed close behind at 31% and hip-hop/rap rounded out the top three at 23%. Rock, R&B/soul, dance/club/electronic and Latin trailed distantly, each accounting for 9% of songs or less.”
Still, ChartCipher’s research reveals, “While pop has consistently maintained the largest share of the chart for the past five years, its prominence dropped from 54% in 2022 to 37% in 2023 – a low not seen since the start of the 21st century.
“Conversely, country [up from 27% to 31% year-over-year] and hip-hop/rap [up from 13% to 23%] both saw gains in 2023.”
Despite its decline, pop boasts a dual domination, as it tied hip-hop/rap as the top primary genres on the Streaming Songs chart for 2023, each with a 27% share. Country claimed a 20% share and rock, 19%, followed by R&B/soul (9%), Latin (6%) and dance/electronic (3%).
To recap, by performance on each chart, here are the top three genres on both Radio Songs and Streaming Songs throughout 2023. Pop and country each sport higher shares on Radio Songs than Streaming Songs, while hip-hop/rap fared better on Streaming Songs than Radio Songs:
Pop: 37% share, Radio Songs / 27%, Streaming Songs
Country: 31%, Radio Songs / 20%, Streaming Songs
Hip-hop/rap: 23%, Radio Songs / 27%, Streaming Songs
Just Dance (Moderately)
“Radio Songs chart hits have been becoming more danceable the last few years,” ChartCipher reports.
Not that airwaves have been inundated by thumping, hi-NRG beats: “Those possessing moderate danceability rose from half of songs in 2021 to just over two-thirds in 2023,” per ChartCipher. “Conversely, songs with low danceability have been in decline over the same time period. On the other end of the spectrum, highly danceable songs (i.e., those that are club-ready) continue to be few and far between.”
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ChartCipher cites examples of dance-driven 2023 Radio Songs hits including Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” (high danceability), Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” (moderate) and Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie World,” with Aqua (low).
Meanwhile, with moderately danceable songs dominating, “Nearly two-thirds of Radio Songs chart hits [in 2023 had] tempos under 100 BPM,” according to ChartCipher. “Those with tempos under 79 BPM saw a notable increase in prevalence, from 29% of songs in 2022 to 39% in 2023, their highest level in over a decade.”
No Rhyme or Reason
Dissecting lyrics, “Rhyme density was a mixed bag in 2023, with a near-equal split of songs (sung in English) possessing low, moderate and high degrees of rhymes,” among Radio Songs hits, ChartCipher analyzes. “However, there has been a recent trend towards high and very high rhyme density, together accounting for nearly half of the chart in 2023, compared to one-third a few years earlier.”
ChartCipher references “chart-topping representatives on either end of the spectrum,” from Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” (low rhyme density) to Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” (“very high”).
