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Ren scores his first U.K. No. 1 as Sick Boi, his independently released sophomore album, starts at No. 1.
The Welsh hip-hop artist (full name: Ren Erin Gill) times his chart race to perfection, overcoming a midweek deficit to Rick Astley’s ninth studio album Are We There Yet? (BMG), before putting on the afterburners to roar home in first place.
In the end, it wasn’t even close. Sick Boi had opened-up a 6,000-unit advantage when the Official U.K. Albums Chart was published Oct. 20, thanks in part to a “spectacular push” in the final 24 hours of the cycle, the Official Charts Company reports.
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Sick Boi is released through The Other Songs, founded five years ago by brothers Alastair and Billy Webber, formerly of Island Records and Warner Records, respectively, according to the OCC. It’s the indie entertainment company’s first ever U.K. top 10.
Ren’s crown “sees him join a long list of Welsh album chart-toppers,” notes OCC CEO Martin Talbot, “from Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler and Shakin’ Stevens to Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and Duffy, among many others – should not be under-estimated, especially given that it’s been achieved as a wholly-independent artist.”
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Astley, meanwhile, misses out on collecting a third leader with Are We There Yet?, which arrives at No. 2. It’s the Brit’s seventh top 10 appearance on the national albums tally.
The previous week’s leader, Drake’s For All The Dogs (OVO/Republic Records), slips 1-3.
Also new to the Official Chart this week is Troye Sivan’s Something To Give Each Other (Polydor), bowing at No. 4. That’s a U.K. career high for the Aussie pop artist, eclipsing 2015’s EP Wild (No. 5 peak) and 2018 LP Bloom (No. 8), for his third top tier slot. Something To Give Each Other is the week’s best-seller on wax in the U.K.
Completing the top 5 is 2022 BRITs Rising Star winner Holly Humberstone with Paint My Bedroom Black, her first full length effort. It’s new at No. 5.
Mike Skinner’s The Streets lands its seventh U.K. top 10 album with The Darker the Shadow (Rhino), new at No. 7, while British blues act When Rivers Meet, the husband-and-wife duo of Grace and Aaron Bond, snag a first top 10 album appearance with Aces Are High (One Road), new at No. 9.
Further down the list, new releases from Scouting for Girls (A Place We Used to Meet at No. 17 via Sony Music CG), CMAT (Crazymad, for Me at No. 25 via Cmatbaby), Creeper (Sanguivore at No. 29 via Spinefarm) and Death of Guitar Pop (Be Lucky at No. 30 via Ska Club Essex) make an impression.
Bad Bunny claims his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 28), as Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana starts atop the tally. The set earned 184,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 19, according to Luminate. Almost all of the album’s opening week was driven by streaming activity of its songs. Nadie was announced on Oct. 9 and released Oct. 13.
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: Freefall bows at No. 3, while Offset’s Set It Off starts at No. 5.
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 Oct. 28, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 24. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana’s 184,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 19, SEA units comprise 176,000 (making it the most streamed album of the week, equaling 239.56 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 7,500 (it was only available to purchase as a digital download album) and TEA units comprise 500.
Bad Bunny previously led the Billboard 200 with Un Verano Sin Ti (for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2022) and El Ultimo Tour del Mundo (one week in 2020).
As the Nadie album is essentially all-Spanish, it is the 21st mostly non-English language album to hit No. 1, and the fourth all-Spanish album to reach No. 1. Bad Bunny has three of the four all-Spanish No. 1s, while Karol G has the fourth (Mañana Será Bonito, this March).
Drake’s For All the Dogs falls to No. 2 (164,000 equivalent album units; down 59%) after debuting at No. 1 a week ago.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER lands its fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as The Name Chapter: Freefall debuts at No. 3 with 114,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 106,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 8,000 (equaling 11.53 million on-demand official streams of the set’s nine songs) and TEA units comprise 500.
Zach Bryan’s self-titled former No. 1 rises 5-4 with 73,000 equivalent album units earned (up 37%), owed to the album’s release on vinyl and CD on Oct. 13. Of the album’s 73,000 units earned, album sales comprise 24,000 (up 2,686%).
Offset nabs his third top 10-charting title on the Billboard 200 — all of which have debuted in the top five — as Set It Off debuts at No. 5. It bows with 70,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 44,500 (equaling 59.14 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 21 songs), album sales comprise 25,000 and TEA units comprise 500. (Migos, with Offset as a member, notched three top 10 sets, including two No. 1s.)
Five former No. 1s round out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, as Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time falls 2-6 (69,000 equivalent album units; down 4%), Rod Wave’s Nostalgia descends 3-7 (53,000; down 10%), Taylor Swift’s Lover rises 10-8 (52,000; up 36%), Swift’s Midnights dips 7-9 (51,000; though up 20%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts falls 4-10 (49,000; down 16%).
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.
Bizarrap extends his No. 1 record on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as his latest release, “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 57” with Milo J, surges 35-1 on the Oct. 21-dated ranking.
“Vol. 57” ejects Luck Ra’s “La Morocha,” featuring BM, from its five-week domination, with a 1-2 dip.
With the move, 16-year-old rapper Milo J claims his first champ among 15 entries. The Argentinian previously reached a No. 11 high through “Dispara***,” with Nicki Nicole (July 15-dated list). Bizarrap, meanwhile, captures his ninth No. 1 on the tally and extends his record for the most champs since the chart launched in 2018. Let’s look at the leaderboard:
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Further, Bizarrap and Milo J join forces with four debuts. El “Fruto” leads the new recruits as the week’s Hot Shot Debut, at No. 11. “Toy En El Mic” follows at No. 15, “No Soy Eterno” at No. 21, and “Penas De Antaño” No. 31.
Continuing with the top 10, Emilia’s “GTA.Mp3” falls 2-3, Grupo Frontera and Ke Personajes’ “Ojitos Rojos” holds at its No. 4 high for a second week, while Myke Towers’ “Lala” completes the top 5 with a 6-5 jump.
The week’s Greatest Gainer goes to Marka Akme, Migrantes, Lauty Gram, Peipper, and DJ Tao’s “Linda” which rallies up 66 ranks, from No. 91 to No. 25.
Three other songs arrive on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 list this week: Darell adds his 10th career entry with “Lollipop” at No. 53. Further, BM, Big One and Tini’s latest team-up, “Lágrimas I CROSSOVER #4,” debuts at No. 69. Lastly, WOS clocks his sixth entry with “Morfeo” at No. 77.
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Morgan Wallen banks his 10th leader on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Thinkin’ Bout Me” ascends from No. 2 to No. 1 on the ranking dated Oct. 28. The single increased by 5% to 32.5 million audience impressions Oct. 13-19, according to Luminate. The song was written by John Byron, Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips and Charlie Handsome, […]
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NCT 127 lands its fourth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 21) as the Korean pop ensemble’s new release, Fact Check: The Fifth Album, starts atop the list with 29,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 12, according to Luminate.
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Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the latest releases from (G)I-DLE, Sufjan Stevens, Van Halen, Drake, Reba McEntire and Roger Waters all debut.
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.
(G)I-DLE notches its third top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales, and its highest charting set yet, as Heat bows at No. 2 with 20,000 sold. Sufjan Stevens also logs his highest charting album, and fourth top 10, as Javelin pierces the chart at No. 3 with 14,000 sold. Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Guts dips 2-4 with 13,000 (down 13%). Van Halen’s boxed set The Collection II starts at No. 5 with 11,000 sold. The package contains remastered editions of the band’s four Sammy Hagar-era studio albums, along with a disc of rarities.
Drake’s For All the Dogs starts at No. 6 with 10,000 sold, Reba McEntire’s Not That Fancy flies in at No. 7 with 9,000 and Taylor Swift’s former leader Lover rises 12-8 with 8,500.
Roger Waters’ The Dark Side of the Moon Redux debuts at No. 9 with just over 8,000 sold. It’s a cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, with additional lyrics. Rounding out the top 10 is Swift’s chart-topping Midnights, rising 15-10 with 8,000 sold (up 5%).
In the week ending Oct. 12, there were 1.671 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 1.4% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.355 million (down 1%) and digital albums comprised 316,000 (down 3.2%).
There were 598,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Oct. 12 (up 4.3% week-over-week) and 747,000 vinyl albums sold (down 4.8%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 26.758 million (up less than 1% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 35.629 million (up 18.6%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 77.191 million (up 5.5% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 62.802 million (up 9.8%) and digital album sales total 14.388 million (down 9.8%).
“The enthusiastic acceptance of the new Hot 100 pop singles chart as the standard of the industry since its inception three months ago has made it possible for The Billboard to complete its plans to streamline its record research operation,” a story announced in the Oct. 20, 1958, issue of Billboard (to be formal, then The Billboard).
“Record dealers, disk jockeys and music machine operators have made it abundantly clear that their prime need in the pop singles area is the freshest possible data about breakout singles as well as established best-sellers,” the story continued. “This singles information is completely provided by The Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.”
After the Billboard Hot 100 began with the Aug. 4, 1958, listing, two new genre charts arrived: Hot C&W Sides and Hot R&B Sides, ranking 30 titles apiece. Today, they thrive as Hot Country Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, each 50 positions deep and incorporating the same streaming-, airplay- and sales-based methodology as the Hot 100.
Billboard had presented various rankings for the two genres previously, with R&B first measured by the Harlem Hit Parade, starting in the Oct. 24, 1942, issue. Country popularity was first reflected by the Most Played Juke Box Folk Records listing, beginning on Jan. 8, 1944.
The makeover in 1958, as noted that issue, marked “a new and expanded form of service,” with Hot C&W Sides and Hot R&B Sides the first all-encompassing song rankings for each genre. “Hot C&W Sides provides the fastest and most accurate coverage available on country music records, with the emphasis on ‘traditional’ rather than pop-style disks,” Billboard noted that issue. “The other new chart, Hot R&B Sides, performs the same service for the rhythm and blues field.”
The first track atop Hot C&W Sides? Ray Price’s “City Lights,” which reigned for 13 weeks. Multiple covers have been recorded, with Mickey Gilley’s likewise a No. 1 in 1975. Price amassed over 100 entries on Billboard’s country singles charts in 1952-89, including six Hot Country Songs leaders among 33 top 10s.
Bobby Day’s “Rock-in’ Robin” flew in atop the inaugural Hot R&B Sides chart, leading for three weeks. It, too, became a hit in a new form, as Michael Jackson’s version reached No. 2 in 1972. Like Price, Day was born in Texas; “Rock-in’ Robin,” however, stands as Day’s only charted R&B single.
Sixty-five years on, Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” leads the latest Hot Country Songs chart (dated Oct. 21, 2023). “Flashing signs invite a broken heart to lose itself in the glow of city lights,” a lonesome Price sang in his hit; sings Combs, “Won’t have to drive too far, just across the border and into the city …”
Meanwhile, Drake’s “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole, launches as Drake’s record-extending 30th No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. On the Hot 100, it’s Drake’s 13th leader, tying him with Jackson for the most among solo males.
Troye Sivan long-overdue return to music with Something To Give Each Other (EMI), his third studio album, is an instant success in his homeland.
Something To Give Each Other starts at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Oct. 20, for his first leader. That result eclipses the No. 6 peak for Sivan’s debut LP from 2015, Blue Neighbourhood, and the No. 3 best for 2018’s sophomore effort Bloom.
At the same time, several singles from Something To Give Each Other are heading north on the ARIA Singles Chart, with the gold-accredited “Rush” up 43-26, “Got Me Started” lifting 45-27, and “One Of Your Girls” bowing at No. 28.
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Sivan won two ARIA Awards earlier in his career, and has six more chances to add to his collection at the 2023 ARIAs, set to be held Nov. 15 in Sydney.
“Troye Sivan is truly a once-in-a-generation artist, representing Australia on a truly global scale, with 22 billion streams worldwide and a career that’s pushed boundaries across music, screen and fashion,” comments ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. “On behalf of ARIA, I am absolutely thrilled to congratulate him on his first No. 1 album at home, and can’t wait to celebrate at the ARIA Awards in a few weeks.”
The albums podium is completed by Drake’s For All The Dogs (down 2-1 via Republic/Universal) and Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts (down 2-3 via Geffen/Universal), while The Living End’s eponymously-titled debut full length album returns to the chart at No. 4, thanks to a 25th anniversary edition released through BMG/ADA. The Living End originally logged two weeks at No. 1 following its release in 1998.
Further down the latest list, South Korean boyband Tomorrow x Together’s The Name Chapter: Freefall (ING) arrives at No. 31. It’s the K-pop outfit’s first top 100 album in Australia, ARIA reports.
There’s no change at the top of that national singles tally as Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (RCA/Sony) enters week nine at No. 1. That breaks the tie with Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” for the second longest-reigning leader of 2023. At the top of that particular list is Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers,” at 12 weeks.
There’s a double result for U.S. country artist Zach Bryan as “I Remember Everything” (Universal/Warner) with Kacey Musgraves lifts 7-6 and his solo number “Something In The Orange” (Warner) cracks the top 10 for the first time in 66 weeks on the tally, up 11-8.
Finally, South African artist Tyla impacts the ARIA top 10 for the first time with “Water” (Sony) flowing 20-9. The Afrobeats artist’s breakout number recently broke into the U.K. top 10.
Sexyy Red, one of rap’s biggest breakout stars of 2023, lands her first top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart through a guest spot on Drake’s “Rich Baby Daddy,” which also features SZA. The track is one of 21 Drake arrivals as his For All the Dogs album cuts flood the list.
“Rich Baby Daddy” debuts at No. 10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list dated Oct. 21. The premiere gives Sexyy Red her first top 10 in her fifth visit, following her breakthrough viral hit “Pound Town” with Tay Keith, which, after a remix release with Nicki Minaj, peaked at No. 21; “SkeeYee” (No. 17); “Looking for the Hoes (Ain’t My Fault)” (No. 49); and “Hellcats Srts 2,” with Lil Durk (No. 40).
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Fellow featured act SZA nabs her 16th career top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, while, between “Rich Baby Daddy” and six further top 10 debuts this week, Drake ups his total to a record-extending 128 top 10s on the tally. The triple-digit total pushes him further into his own stratosphere, now 71 ahead of the second-place act, James Brown, who boasts 57 top 10s (dating to October 1958, when the chart became the first all-encompassing songs survey for the genre).
In the Oct. 6-12 tracking week, “Rich Baby Daddy” registered 24.3 million official U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads sold. The former allows for a No. 8 start on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart, while the latter sparks a No. 12 bow on R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales. In addition, the track opens at No. 28 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay thanks to 3 million audience impressions at the format.
As mentioned above, “Rich Baby Daddy” appears on Drake’s new album, For All the Dogs, released Oct. 6. The set’s tracks storm the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, with 21 debuts from the project and the previously released, former one-week champ “Slime You Out,” featuring SZA, at No. 6 in its fourth week on the list. The domination includes a second Dogs No. 1, “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole, which grants Drake a record-extending 30th No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. With his latest champ, he moves 10 ahead of the nearest competitors, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder, each with 20 leaders.
BNYX re-enters Billboard’s Hot 100 Producers chart (dated Oct. 21) at No. 1, becoming the top producer in the U.S. for the first time, thanks to his work on Drake’s new No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, For All the Dogs.
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BNYX (known off-stage as Benjamin Saint Ford) is credited as a producer on six songs on the latest Billboard Hot 100: five from For All the Dogs and one from Travis Scott’s Utopia. Leading the pack is the Dogs track “IDGAF,” featuring Yeat, at No. 2. BNYX solely produced the song, helping boost his chart points on Hot 100 Producers.
Here’s a look at all of BNYX’s production credits on the current Hot 100, all of which contribute to his points total on Hot 100 Producers.
Hot 100 Rank, Artist Billing, Title (co-producers in addition to BNYX):No. 2, Drake feat. Yeat, “IDGAF”No. 11, Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA, “Rich Baby Daddy” (Gordo, Johannes Klahr, LIOHN, The Loud Pack, UV Killin Em, Dougie F)No. 18, Drake, “What Would Pluto Do” (Lil Yachty, GENT!, Bangs)No. 26, Drake feat. Chief Keef, “All the Parties” (Maneesh Bidaye, Harley Arsenault, Boi-1da, Jdolla, Fierce, Coleman)No. 32, Drake, “Away From Home” (Lil Yachty, Sad Pony, Justin Raisen, Lukas Levine)No. 59, Travis Scott feat. Drake, “Meltdown” (Boi-1da, Vinylz, Tay Keith, Coleman)
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BNYX also re-enters at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Producers and Rap Producers charts, leading the former for the first time and the latter for a second time.
BNYX has produced seven additional Hot 100-charting songs in his career, including his first two top 10s. Here’s a recap, listed chronologically by peak date:
Artist Billing, Title (Peak Position, Peak Date):Yeat, “Talk” (No. 42, Sept. 17, 2022)Yeat feat. Lil Uzi Vert, “Flawless” (No. 77, Sept. 24, 2022)Yeat, “No More Talk” (No. 77, March 11, 2023)Drake, “Search & Rescue” (No. 2, April 22, 2023)Lil Uzi Vert feat. Travis Scott, “Aye” (No. 31, July 15, 2023)Travis Scott, Bad Bunny & The Weeknd, “K-Pop” (No. 7, Aug. 5, 2023)Lil Tecca & Kodak Black, “Hvn on Earth” (No. 88, Oct. 7, 2023)
BNYX concurrently debuts at No. 3 on Hot 100 Songwriters, as he’s also credited as a co-writer on all six of the charted songs that he produced. Drake returns to No. 1 on the chart for a 12th week.
Looking at other Drake collaborators on this week’s Hot 100 Producers chart, 40 re-enters at No. 4, OZ at No. 6, Lil Yachty at No. 7, Harley Arsenault at No. 9 and Jahaan Sweet at No. 10.
Billboard’s weekly Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot 100. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings). Billboard launched its Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts, as well as genre-specific rankings for country, rock & alternative, R&B/hip-hop, R&B, rap, Latin, Christian, gospel and dance/electronic in June 2019. Alternative and hard rock joined in 2020, along with seasonal holiday rankings in 2022.