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The Moana 2 soundtrack debuts in the top 10 across three Billboard album charts, as the set arrives at No. 2 on Kid Albums, No. 10 on Soundtracks and No. 10 on World Albums (all charts dated Dec. 7, reflecting activity in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Nov. 28). The blockbuster animated movie […]
Kendrick Lamar is back with another massive week on Billboardâs charts, thanks to his new surprise album, GNX.
Released without advance notice Nov. 22 on pgLand/Interscope/ICLG, GNX blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Dec. 7) with 319,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week, according to Luminate. It becomes his fifth leader, following Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022), DAMN. (2017), untitled unmastered. (2016) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).
Concurrently, all 12 GNX tracks enter the Billboard Hot 100, all in the top 30 with seven in in the top 10 â including the entire top five. He joins Taylor Swift, Drake and The Beatles as the only acts to dominate the entire top five in the same week.
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Kendrick Lamar GNX Songs on the Hot 100 (dated Dec. 7):No. 1, âSquabble UpâNo. 2, âTV Off,â feat. Lefty GunplayNo. 3, âLutherâ with SZANo. 4, âWacced Out MuralsâNo. 5, âHey Now,â feat. Dody6No. 8, âReincarnatedâNo. 9, âMan at the GardenâNo. 11, âDodger Blue,â feat. Wallie the Sensei, Siete7x & Roddy RicchNo. 13, âPeekaboo,â feat. AzChikeNo. 14, âHeart Pt. 6âNo. 24, âGNX,â feat. Hitta J3, YoungThreat & PeysohNo. 27, âGloria,â with SZA
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âSquabble Upâ earns Lamar his fifth Hot 100 No. 1, after âNot Like Usâ and âLike That,â with Future and Metro Boomin (both earlier in 2024), âHumble.â (2017) and as featured on Swiftâs âBad Bloodâ (2015). He also ups his career counts to 87 total Hot 100 entries, 57 top 40 hits, 22 top 10s and 14 top five titles.
Thanks to their featured appearances on the album, Lefty Gunplay, Dody6, Wallie the Sensei, Siete7x, AzChike, Hitta J3, YoungThreat and Peysoh all score their first career Hot 100 placements.
Meanwhile, Roddy Ricch returns to the Hot 100 for the first time in two years thanks to his featured turn on âDodger Blue.â The rapper has notched two No. 1s: âThe Boxâ and as featured on DaBabyâs âRockstar,â both in 2020.
Rock and country veterans Van Zant â the duo of brothers Donnie and Johnny Van Zant â make their initial appearance on Billboardâs Top Christian Albums chart as the pairâs first spiritually themed LP, Always Look Up, enters the Dec. 7-dated tally at No. 4.
Released Nov. 22, the collection earned 5,000 equivalent album units, almost all from album sales, in the U.S. Nov. 22-28, according to Luminate.
The 12-song set is a mix of classic rock and country that has defined the siblingsâ careers, along with Southern gospel.
Donnie Van Zant, 72, co-founded 38 Special in 1974 and was a member until he retired in 2013. The longtime successful touring act logged nine entries on the Billboard 200, including the top 10 Special Forces in 1982. The band banked nine top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits, led by the top 10s âCaught Up in Youâ (No. 10, 1982) and âSecond Chanceâ (No. 6, 1989).
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Johnny Van Zant, 64, still tours with Lynyrd Skynyrd, which he has helmed since the loss of older brother Ronnie Van Zant, who, along with five others, was killed in a plane crash in October 1977. Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. The band boasts three Billboard 200 top 10s and the No. 8-peaking 1974 Hot 100 classic âSweet Home Alabama.â The group followed with fellow signature hit âFree Birdâ (No. 19, 1975).
The duo Van Zant has made two appearances on Top Country Albums: Get Right With the Man entered at its No. 2 peak in 2005 and My Kind of Country hit No. 10 in 2007. The twosomeâs third entry, Red White & Blue (Live), arrived at its No. 39 high in 2016. On Hot Country Songs, the pairâs âHelp Somebodyâ hit No. 8 in 2005.
Of Van Zantâs rookie Christian LP, Donnie Van Zant stated, âThis has been on our bucket list for some time. Weâre big believers in Jesus Christ, and with Always Look Up, weâre sharing that faith through our music.â
Adams Unlocks Third No. 1 With âDoorsâ
Yolanda Adams earns her third Gospel Airplay leader with âChurch Doors.â The song increased by 4% in plays during the latest tracking week.
The single was authored by Donald Lawrence and Sir the Baptist and is from Adamsâ album Sunny Days, which opened at its No. 9 best on Top Gospel Albums in September, awarding Adams her 17th top 10.
Adamsâ new Gospel Airplay chart-topper is her second in a row, following âIn Him There Is No Sorrow,â her collaboration with Donald Lawrence & Co. and Twinkie Clark that ruled for a week in April. She first led with âBe Blessedâ for three weeks in 2005.
Having been spotted together at her Eras Tour and his Kansas City Chiefs games, among other buzzy joint appearances, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce share space in a new locale this week: Billboardâs Adult Contemporary chart. Swift ranks at No. 7 on the radio airplay survey dated Dec. 7 with her former seven-week No. 1 […]
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats ascend to No. 1 on Billboardâs Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Dec. 7 with âCall Me (Whatever You Like).â
Band leader Rateliff now boasts seven Adult Alternative Airplay leaders overall â six with the Night Sweats and one, âAnd Itâs Still Alright,â in 2020 as a soloist. Rateliff, with the band and on his own, slots into a tie for the eighth-most No. 1s on Adult Alternative Airplay, which began in January 1996.
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Most Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1s:14, U213, Coldplay11, Jack Johnson11, Dave Matthews (solo and with Dave Matthews Band)8, The Black Keys8, Death Cab for Cutie8, John Mayer7, Cage the Elephant7, Sheryl Crow7, Counting Crows7, Hozier7, The Lumineers7, Nathaniel Rateliff (solo and with Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)7, R.E.M.
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âCall Me (Whatever You Like)â is Rateliff and the Night Sweatsâ second Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1 in a row, after âHeartlessâ led for three weeks beginning in July. The band first topped the tally with its initial entry, âS.O.B.,â for four weeks in 2015.
Concurrently, âCall Me (Whatever You Like)â holds at its No. 30 high on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 1.1 million audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.
The song is the second single, following âHeartless,â from South of Here, the bandâs fourth studio album. The set reached No. 37 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart in July and has earned 30,000 equivalent album units to date.
Luis Angel âEl Flacoâ achieves a career milestone with his first No. 1 as a solo singer on a Billboard chart thanks to âAmor Bonito,â which climbs 6-1 to lead the Regional Mexican Airplay ranking (dated Dec. 7).
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âAmor Bonito,â released on Sept. 19 via Sony Music Latin, lands at the summit with the Greatest Gainer honors of the week thanks to a 53% gain in audience impressions â up to 8 million â earned in the U.S. for the tracking week of Nov. 22-28, according to Luminate. The song trades places with last weekâs champ, Jessi Uribeâs âSi Ya Me Voy,â which dips 1-6 due to a 24% drop in impressions.
While âAmor Bonitoâ gives Angel his first No. 1 as a solo singer â dating to his first visit to a Billboard radio chart in 2021 â the Mexican singer has been part of many No. 1s in the past. While he was the lead singer of Banda Los Recoditos, the group achieved 13 No. 1s across various Latin rankings (both albums and songs) during a 13-year career with the band.
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Beyond his first champ on Regional Mexican Airplay as a soloist, El Flaco has claimed six other top 10s, nearly missing the No. 1 slot with the No. 2-peaking âUna Julio 70â in 2022. In total, heâs landed seven times in the upper region among 10 career performances.
âAmor Bonitoâ also gives El Flaco his second top 10 on the overall Latin Airplay chart, where it surges 12-2 for his best placement to date. âUna Julio 70â took him to his first top 10, peaking at No. 6, in December 2022.
El Flacoâs first No. 1 song, produced by Arturo GĂĄrate and written by MeĂąo Segovia, concurrently earns him a maiden appearance on the Emerging Artists chart with a No. 42 debut. The chart ranks the most popular developing artists of the week, using the same formula as the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multiple Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200.
El Flacoâs breakthrough arrives on the heels of the banda singerâs Latin Grammy award nomination for best mĂşsica banda album for Yo Te ExtraĂąarĂŠ.
Dexter and the Moonrocksâ first entry on Billboardâs Alternative Airplay chart, âSad in Carolina,â rises a spot to No. 1 on the Dec. 7-dated ranking. âSad in Carolinaâ is the Texas rockersâ first song on any Billboard chart. Theyâre the second act to earn a first Alternative Airplay No. 1 in 2024, following Myles Smith, […]
Jelly Roll has now gone 4-for-4 atop Billboardâs Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, rising to No. 1 on the tally dated Dec. 7 with âLiar.â
With the coronation, all four of Jelly Rollâs Mainstream Rock Airplay entries have reached No. 1. He first led with âDead Man Walkingâ in 2022, followed by âNeed a Favorâ in 2023 and âAll My Life,â with Falling in Reverse, this July.
Jelly Rollâs feat of sending four initial Mainstream Rock Airplay chart entries to No. 1 equals the record first set by The Pretty Reckless, which reigned with âHeaven Knows,â âMessed Up World,â âFollow Me Downâ and âTake Me Downâ in 2014-16.
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Concurrently, âLiarâ bullets at No. 7, after hitting No. 6, on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3.7 million audience impressions (up 7%) in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.
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Like âNeed a Favor,â âLiarâ is a dual rock and country radio single, as the latter rises 30-26 on the latest Country Airplay survey. Last year, âNeed a Favorâ became the first song in Billboard history to top both the Mainstream Rock Airplay and Country Airplay charts.
In addition to its all-format radio reach (10.9 million impressions), âLiarâ drew 6.7 million official U.S. streams and sold 3,000 downloads Nov. 22-28.
âLiarâ is the newest single from Beautifully Broken, Jelly Rollâs 10th studio album. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 26 and has earned 603,000 equivalent album units to date. The setâs âI Am Not Okayâ topped Country Airplay for three weeks in November. Also being promoted to pop and adult radio, âI Am Not Okayâ holds at its No. 8 best on the Dec. 7-dated Adult Pop Airplay chart.
Kendrick Lamar has his sixth No. 1 â and third of 2024 â on Billboardâs Streaming Songs chart, as âSquabble Upâ debuts atop the Dec. 7-dated ranking.
âSquabble Upâ bows with 52 million official U.S. streams earned in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.
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Each of Lamarâs No. 1s also debuted at the top of the list, third-most of any act behind Taylor Swift (seven) and Drake (15). Both acts are also the only artists ahead of him on the all-time No. 1s ranking since Streaming Songsâ 2013 inception (Swift with nine total rulers, Drake with 20); Lamar sits in a tie for third all time with Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber.
Lamar first reigned in 2017 with âHumble.,â followed by leads as a featured act on Lil Wayneâs âMona Lisaâ in 2018 and on âN95â in 2022. 2024 marks the first time heâs led more than once in a year, with âSquabble Upâ joined by his own âNot Like Usâ and Future and Metro Boominâs âLike That,â on which heâs also a lead artist.
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In all, Lamar occupies the entire top nine of the Dec. 7-dated Streaming Songs and 12 of the top 17. That gives him 32 career top 10s, good for a tie for fourth all time with 21 Savage and The Weeknd (Drake leads all acts with 99).
Lamar becomes the first act not named Taylor Swift or Drake to make up the whole top nine of Streaming Songs; Swift (Nov. 5, 2022; Nov. 11, 2023; May 4, 2024) and Drake (Sept. 18, 2021; Nov. 19, 2022; Oct. 21, 2023) have done so three times apiece.
As for having nine songs in the top 10, Lamar joins a list that also includes 21 Savage and J. Cole in addition to Swift and Drake.
Concurrently, as previously reported, âSquabble Upâ debuts at No. 1 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100, one of seven songs from new album GNX in the top 10, while GNX itself bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Band Aidâs âDo They Know Itâs Christmas?â is leading the way for No. 1 on the U.K.âs Official Singles Chart midweek update (Dec. 2), following the release of its 2024 Ultimate Mix.
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Released to mark Band Aidâs 40th anniversary, the new version was produced by Trevor Horn [Spandau Ballet, Pet Shop Boys] and features vocalists from the 1984 original, 2004âs Band Aid 20, and 2014âs Band Aid 30. All three versions have topped the charts in the U.K., as did 1989âs Band Aid II.
Over the past few decades, the charity single has raised over ÂŁ140 million ($178 million) for the Band Aid Charitable Trust, which seeks to benefit causes such as poverty in Africa. It was written by Bob Geldof and Ultravoxâs Midge Ure following a BBC report into famine in Ethiopia, and has since become one of the U.K.âs best-selling singles of all-time.
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All three previous incarnations of the song contribute to the Ultimate Mix, which features a wealth of artists including ââGeorge Michael, Sting, Chris Martin, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, One Direction, Bono and Sinead OâConnor, among others.
The push for the top spot follows the release of âDo They Know Itâs Christmas?â on physical formats this past Friday (Nov. 29), with proceeds benefitting the Band Aid Charitable Trust. The CD and vinyl variants also feature the original, 20th and 30th anniversary editions and 1985âs Live Aid version from Wembley Stadium.
The song and music videoâs depiction of Africa, however, has drawn criticism over the years.Â
Following his decision to turn down featuring on the 2014 version of Band Aid, earlier today (Dec. 3), British-Ghanian Afrobeats artist Fuse ODG further clarified his stance via The Guardian. âWhile the British publicâs generosity in 1984 was genuine, and the aim of Band Aid was to address a specific humanitarian crisis, the way it depicted Africa did more long-term harm than good,â he wrote. âIt inadvertently contributed to a broader identity crisis for Africans, portraying the entire continent as one monolithic, war-torn, starving place.â Ed Sheeran previously said that Band Aid were using his vocals without permission and that he otherwise would have declined to be involved again.
Elsewhere, Gracie Abramsâ âThatâs So Trueâ â which has remained at the summit for the past four weeks â stands at No.2, followed closely by ROSĂ and Bruno Marsâ âAPTâ at No. 3. âDefying Gravityâ by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the emotional centerpiece of the recent Wicked soundtrack, comes in at No. 6.
A festive theme continues throughout the Top 10, with three more Yuletide hits heading towards the top of the chart. Wham!âs âLast Christmasâ is on track for its first Top 5 appearance of 2024 at No. 5, Mariah Careyâs âAll I Want For Christmasâ appears at No. 7, and Brenda Leeâs âRockinâ Around The Christmas Treeâ is currently at No. 9.