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21 Feb 2024

Billboard Explains: NewJeans’ Fast Rise on the Charts

With honorees from the across the globe, the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards are a true international affair. Repping Seoul, South Korea, is NewJeans, a chart-topping K-pop girl group comprised of Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin and Hyein.

Earning this year’s Group of the Year award, NewJeans spent 2023 lighting up the Billboard charts and proving that they were the correct choice for the honor. The quintet debuted back in 2022, and their Jersey club-inflected sound has helped them become one of the hottest new acts across radio and streaming around the world.

In 2023, the group scored five entries on the Billboard Hot 100, led by “Super Shy” at No. 48. Their other entries include “OMG” (No. 74), “ETA” (No. 81), “Ditto” (No. 82) and “Cool With You” (No. 93). Over on the Billboard Global 200, “Super Shy” (No. 2), “Ditto” (No. 8) and “OMG” (No. 10) all reached the top 10. “Super Shy,” one of the group’s biggest singles, also made appearances on Pop Airplay (No. 37), Streaming Songs (No. 32) and Digital Song Sales (No. 45). On World Digital Song Sales, NewJeans boasts six consecutive top five hits.

NewJeans’ success is not limited to the singles chart. In 2023, Get Up — the group’s sophomore EP — debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (chart dated Aug. 5, 2023), edging out the star-studded Barbie soundtrack by just 500 units. Get Up also hit No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Tastemaker Albums and World Albums (10 weeks).

Proving their dominance across both albums and singles, NewJeans’ fast rise up the Billboard charts made them a clear choice for the Group of the Year honor at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards.

After the video, catch up on more Billboard Explains videos and learn about how Beyoncé arrived at Renaissance, the evolution of girl groups, BBMAs, NFTs, SXSW, the magic of boy bands, American Music Awards, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, the Hot 100 chart, how R&B/hip-hop became the biggest genre in the U.S., how festivals book their lineups, Billie Eilish’s formula for success, the history of rap battles, nonbinary awareness in music, the Billboard Music Awards, the Free Britney movement, rise of K-pop in the U.S., why Taylor Swift is re-recording her first six albums, the boom of hit all-female collaborations, how Grammy nominees and winners are chosen, why songwriters are selling their publishing catalogs, how the Super Bowl halftime show is booked and why Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” was able to shoot to No. 1 on the Hot 100.

21 Feb 2024

Tyla’s ‘Water’ Springs to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart

A month after Tyla’s “Water” ran its course at No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, the hit reaches the top of the Adult R&B Airplay list dated Feb. 24. The track, released on FAX Records/Epic Records, jumps 4-1 following a 25% surge in plays that made it the most played song on U.S. monitored adult R&B radio stations in the tracking week of Feb. 9-15, according to Luminate. Thanks to the rapid rise, “Water” also takes the Greatest Gainer award, given weekly to the song with the largest increase in plays.

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“Water” gives 22-year-old Tyla her first Adult R&B Airplay No. 1 with her first appearance. The breakthrough single is a crossover smash, having reigned on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart for eight non-consecutive weeks beginning in December, and for one week on Rhythmic Airplay the same month. Radio coronations continue a winning stretch for the South African singer, who took home the first-ever Grammy Award for best African music performance – for “Water” – earlier this month.

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Elsewhere, “Water” takes its sixth, non-consecutive week at No. 2 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. The single remains essentially even in audience, compared with last week, but has been blocked from the top slot by a historic title: SZA’s “Snooze” adds an unprecedented 31st week at No. 1 to its dominating run, the longest command song in the chart’s 31-year history.

Cementing that crossover appeal, “Water” heads the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart for a third week and improves 8% in plays in the latest tracking week. It also holds at its No. 8 peak on Pop Airplay for a third consecutive frame, adding 3% more plays in the same period.

With “Water” opening the floodgates, Tyla’s second single has landed on radio rankings. “Truth or Dare” starts at No. 40 on Rhythmic Airplay (up 207% in plays) and at No. 44 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay (173,000 in audience, a 185% gain). Both “Water” and “Truth or Dare” will appear on the singer’s self-titled debut album, which arrives March 22.

21 Feb 2024

Myke Towers Collects His 11th No. 1 on Latin Airplay Chart as ‘La Falda’ Takes Over

Myke Towers pounces to No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart as “La Falda” races from No. 5 to lead the list dated Feb. 24. The song, announced on Towers’ X account in November, is the focus track from his 23-song album LVEU: Vive La Tuya… No La Mía, which debuted and peaked at No. 9 on Top Latin Albums on the Dec. 9-dated list.

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With the new leader, Towers collects his 11th Latin Airplay No. 1 and second in 2024, after the Yandel collab, “Borracho y Loco” (Feb. 17 chart). “La Falda” likewise ascends to No. 1 on Latin Rhythm Airplay, securing the Puerto Rican rapper and singer also an 11th champ there.

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For the tracking week Feb. 9-15, “La Falda” registered 10.54 million audience impressions in the U.S., up 47% from the week prior, according to Luminate, and takes the Greatest Gainer honors.

Towers’ run of Latin Airplay No. 1s began just a little more than three years ago, when “Caramelo,” with Ozuna and Karol G, peaked at No. 1 in late 2020, where it remained for three weeks. Here’s a look at his collection of wins on the overall radio ranking:

Title, Artist, Peak, Weeks at No. 1

  • “Caramelo,” with Ozuna & Karol G, Aug. 15, 2020, three
  • “Mi Niña,” with Los Legendarios & Wisin, Jan. 16, 2021, one
  • “La Nota,” with Manuel Turizo & Rauw Alejandro, Jan. 23, 2021, one
  • “Travesuras,” with Nio Garcia, Casper Mágico, Ozuna, Wisin, Yandel & Flow La Movie, March 6, 2021, one
  • “Bandido,” with Juhn, June 19, 2021, one
  • “Pareja Del Año,” with Sebastián Yatra, Aug. 14, 2021, one
  • “Bésame,” with Luis Fonsi, Nov. 27, 2021, one
  • “Ulala,” with Daddy Yankee, April 8, 2023, one
  • “Lala,” Sept. 23, 2023, two
  • “Borracho Y Loco,” with Yandel, Feb. 17, 2024, one
  • “La Falda,” Feb. 24, 2024

Thanks to its radio haul, “La Falda” pushes 18-12 on the multimetric Hot Latin Songs chart, which blends streaming activity, digital sales, and radio airplay.

“La Falda” rises to new peaks on both Global charts as well. It lifts 85-75 on Billboard Global 200, powered largely by with 24 million worldwide streams. Meanwhile, it pushes 56-47 on Global Excl. U.S. supported in great part by 20 million clicks outside the U.S.

21 Feb 2024

Chart Rewind: In 2004, Toby Keith Paid Tribute to the ‘American Soldier’

On Feb. 21, 2004, Toby Keith’s “American Soldier” started a four-week command on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, marking his 13th No. 1 on the survey.

Keith wrote the tribute song with Chuck Cannon and produced it with James Stroud.

“American Soldier” was released as the second single from Keith’s LP Shock’n Y’all, which ruled Top Country Albums for 13 weeks and the all-genre Billboard 200 for one frame. It yielded two other Hot Country Songs chart-toppers: “I Love This Bar” and “Whiskey Girl.”

Keith, who died Feb. 5 at age 62 after a battle with stomach cancer, was born July 8, 1961, in Clinton, Okla. He was a football star at Moore High School, where he played defensive end. He went on to play semi-pro ball for the Oklahoma City Drillers.

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Starting in 1993, Keith rolled up 76 Hot Country Songs hits, including 20 No. 1s among 42 top 10s. On Top Country Albums, he banked 10 leaders among 24 top 10s.

Outspoken with his political opinions and a strong supporter of the military, Keith played events for multiple presidents. He also performed more than 200 shows in Iraq and Afghanistan for the USO.

On Nov. 1, 2021, Keith was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Following Keith’s passing, his 2008 LP 35 Biggest Hits vaulted to No. 1 on both the Top Country Albums and Billboard 200 charts (dated Feb. 17). Plus, a single-week record nine of his songs ranked in the top 10 of the Country Digital Song Sales chart.

21 Feb 2024

Hot 100 First-Timers: North West & Bump J Debut With Features on Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Vultures 1’

North West and Bump J are both officially Billboard Hot 100-charting artists thanks to their featured appearances on Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s new album, Vultures 1. The set by the pair debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Feb. 24) with 148,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week (Feb. 9-15, following its Feb. 10 release), according to Luminate.

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North West is featured on the album’s “Talking,” which debuts at No. 30 on the Hot 100 with 12.33 million official U.S. streams.

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At just 10 years old, North, the eldest child of Ye and Kim Kardashian (who divorced in 2022), is now one of the youngest acts ever to reach the chart. Among other precocious charted talents, Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter hit the Hot 100 at just 7 years old in 2019, thanks to her featured turn on Beyoncé, Saint Jhn and Wizkid’s “Brown Skin Girl.” She made her overall chart debut just after making her debut in the world, as her coos are heard on Jay-Z’s “Glory,” featuring B.I.C. (her initials). The song hit Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2012, making her the youngest billed artist ever on any Billboard chart.

“Talking” isn’t just North West’s first entry on the Hot 100, but on any Billboard list. She also debuts at No. 32 on the Emerging Artists chart.

As for Bump J, the Chicago rapper hits the Hot 100 for the first time thanks to his featured credit on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Vultures,” also featuring fellow Chi-Town rapper Lil Durk. The song debuts at No. 34 with 12.28 million streams.

Bump J (real name Terrance Boykin) has been releasing music for more than two decades. After releasing multiple mixtapes, he signed a deal with Atlantic Records in 2005 and released his solo single “Move Around,” which Ye produced. The track reached No. 91 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in March 2005. His career was detoured in 2007 when he was arrested for an armed robbery. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2009 and was released through a plea deal in 2017.

Since then, he’s released two full-length projects: 606 God in 2018 and I Don’t Feel Rehabilitated in 2019. Plus, he teamed with Chicago rapper G Herbo in 2017 for “Crown” and again in 2021 on “Revolutionary,” also with Hit-Boy. The latter track is from Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album, which hit No. 1 on the Soundtracks chart and No. 12 on the Billboard 200.

21 Feb 2024

Pop Tops Genres, Women Vocals Soar Powered by Taylor Swift: The State of the Hot 100’s Top 10 for 2023

What were some of the most notable trends on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart during 2023?

Hit Songs Deconstructed, which provides compositional analytics for top 10 Hot 100 hits, has released its year-end 2023 State of the Hot 100 Top 10 report.

Here are three takeaways from Hit Songs Deconstructed’s latest in-depth research.

Pop on Top, Country Climbs

Pop reigns as the most common primary genre in the Hot 100’s top 10 throughout 2023, contributing to 29% of all top 10 hits. Taylor Swift tallied the most top 10s (11) among all acts between January and December, as well as the most No. 1s (three).

Over the past five years, pop previously led in 2021 and 2019, though with heftier 39% and 47% showings, respectively, in those years.

Hip-hop/rap ranked second among primary genres for 2023 with a 23% take of Hot 100 top 10s. Similar to pop, hip-hop/rap is down from first-place finishes of 38% in 2022 and 41% in 2020.

Cutting into pop and hip-hop/rap’s shares, country surged to a 15% claim of Hot 100 top 10s in 2023 among primary genres. “Country songs nearly quadrupled in prominence from 2022 to 2023,” Hit Songs Deconstructed’s report notes. “This was largely thanks to Morgan Wallen, who accounted for nearly half of country’s representation.” Wallen posted five top 10s in 2023, including “Last Night,” the No. 1 song on the Hot 100’s year-end recap.

Country as a primary genre accounted for 4% of all Hot 100 top 10s in both 2022 and 2021, following totals of 5% in 2020 and 2% in 2019.

Women and Sung Vocals Vault in Top 10

Swift also helped spark the rise of women vocals in the Hot 100’s top 10 in 2023.

“Male-led songs accounted for a slight majority of top 10 hits at just over half – 52%,” Hit Songs Deconstructed’s report indicates. “However, female-led songs have been on the rise, increasing to 38% of songs in 2023, their highest level since way back in 2014. This is largely thanks to Swift.”

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Meanwhile, concurrent with hip-hop/rap’s smaller share of Hot 100 top 10s among primary genres in 2023 than in prior recent years, hits “featuring exclusively sung deliveries took the lead in 2023 for the first time since 2019, with 53% of songs,” Hit Songs Deconstructed points out. Sung/rapped top 10s followed at 42%, while entries “with exclusively rapped deliveries continued to be few and far between, accounting for just 4% of songs.”

Different Drums

Looking at trends among instruments in Hot 100 top 10s, acoustic drums snared a key gain in 2023.

“While still in the minority, the use of primarily acoustic drums/percussion increased significantly from 2022 to 2023, rising from just 8% to 21%” of Hot 100 top 10s, recaps Hit Songs Deconstructed. The year-end report cites acoustic-driven hits that “spanned an array of genres,” including country, thanks to such songs as Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves; Latin (Eslabón Armado and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola”); R&B/soul (SZA’s “Kill Bill”); and rock (Olivia Rodrigo’s “Bad Idea Right?”).

Concurrently, “the use of primarily electronic drums/percussion notably plunged between 2022 and 2023, dropping from 64% of [Hot 100 top 10s] to just 45%, [their] lowest level in a decade.”

21 Feb 2024

Taylor Swift Crowned IFPI’s Global Recording Artist For Record Fourth Time

It’s official: Taylor Swift is the biggest-selling recording artist on the planet, again.

The pop music superstar is crowned on the IFPI’s 2023 Global Recording Artist of the Year Award, an honor that recognizes the top artist across physical sales, downloads and streaming.

The dominance of K-pop is on display, as four acts from the genre crack the IFPI’s top 10: SEVENTEEN (No. 2), Stray Kids (No. 3), TOMORROW X TOGETHER (No. 7) and NewJeans (No. 8). Also, IVE and NCT Dream make their first appearances in the IFPI Global Artist Chart Top 20, at No. 12 and No. 15, respectively.

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However, it’s Swift who takes back-to-back titles and the glory.

And, as she tends to do, Swift makes history by becoming the first artist to top the IFPI tally on four occasions — doing so in 2014, 2019, 2022 and now 2023.

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According to the trade body, the artist award and chart is the first and only ranking to accurately capture the popularity of artists across streaming channels, alongside digital and physical album and singles sales on a global basis, across the calendar year.

Swifties propelled their hero to a “stellar year” during which she ignited charts around with globe with her Midnights LP and the “Taylor’s Version” releases of the Speak Now and 1989 LPs. Also, her record-breaking The Eras Tour, which is currently midway through a seven-stadium run in Australia, helped “lift engagement with her entire catalog on streaming platforms around the world,” reads a statement.

This “phenomenon,” notes the IFPI, was demonstrated by the second life given to “Cruel Summer,” which initially dropped with 2019’s Lover but took flight on charts as she toured the globe.

“We are immensely proud to award the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award to Taylor Swift for the fourth time, as she continues to redefine the limits of global success,” comments Lewis Morrison, director of charts and certifications at IFPI. Swift “is a singular talent and her commitment to her craft and her fans is truly phenomenal.”

The IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award is now celebrating its 11th year, and is presented to the leader of the IFPI’s Global Artist Chart, also released today.

Top 20 IFPI Global Recording Artist Chart 2023

1 — Taylor Swift
2 — SEVENTEEN
3 — Stray Kids
4 — Drake
5 — The Weeknd
6 — Morgan Wallen
7 — TOMORROW X TOGETHER
8 — NewJeans
9 — Bad Bunny
10 — Lana Del Rey
11 — Ed Sheeran
12 — IVE
13 — SZA
14 — Eminem
15 — NCT DREAM
16 — Zach Bryan
17 — Travis Scott
18 — Kanye West
19 — Post Malone
20 — King & Prince

Previous IFPI Global Recording Artist Chart No. 1 Artists

2022 — Taylor Swift
2021 — BTS
2020 — BTS
2019 — Taylor Swift
2018 — Drake
2017 — Ed Sheeran
2016 — Drake
2015 — Adele
2014 — Taylor Swift
2013 — One Direction

21 Feb 2024

Five Usher Albums Shake Up Billboard 200 After Super Bowl

Following Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 11, four of his catalog albums surge on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Feb. 24), alongside the debut of his new release, Coming Home, at No. 2.

Coming Home arrives on the list with 91,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Luminate. Of that sum, album sales comprise 53,000 – making it the top-selling album of the week, and the largest sales week for any R&B album in more than four years.

Four more Usher albums dot the Billboard 200: his former No. 1 Confessions, released in 2004, flies 92-15 with 33,500 units (up 199%), 2010’s chart-topping Raymond V Raymond re-enters at No. 68 (14,000; up 154%), 2001’s 8701 re-enters at No. 122 (10,000; up 187%) and 1997’s My Way re-enters at No. 197 (8,000; up 175%). The four albums house songs that Usher performed during his halftime show.

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.

In total, Usher’s catalog of albums, including Coming Home, earned 145,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 15 – up 428% compared to the previous week (27,500 units). Removing Coming Home from the equation, his albums earned 54,500 units for the week – up 98% compared to the previous week (27,500 units).

Meanwhile, Usher’s halftime closer, “Yeah!,” featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, re-enters the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart at No. 20 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at No. 8. It’s the single’s first appearance on either chart since 2004, when the Confessions’ smash spent 12 weeks atop the Hot 100 and eight weeks leading the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally. In the week ending Feb. 15, “Yeah!” earned 13.4 million official streams (up 142%), 8.7 million in airplay audience (up 66%) and sold 11,000 downloads (up 636%).

20 Feb 2024

Fuerza Regida’s ‘Dolido Pero No Arrepentido – EP’ Debuts in Top 10 on Top Latin Albums & Regional Mexican Albums

Fuerza Regida earns its sixth top 10 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart as Dolido Pero No Arrepentido – EP debuts at No. 7 on the list dated Feb. 24. The romantic six-track set also starts at No. 3 on Regional Mexican Albums.

According to Luminate, Dolido Pero No Arrepentido, released Feb. 9 via StreetMob/Rancho Humilde/Sony Music Latin, starts with 14,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 15.

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One unit equals to one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.

Most of the album’s opening sum derives from SEA units, which equates to 18.44 million official on-demand U.S. clicks of the album’s songs in its first week.

As the EP arrives, Fuerza Regida captures its sixth top 10 on Top Latin Albums and its ninth on Regional Mexican Albums. Here’s a look at the San Bernardino, Calif.-based group’s six visits to the upper region on the overall Latin albums tally:

Peak, Title, Peak Date
No. 8, Del Barrio Hasta Aquí, July 20, 2019
No. 4, Adicto, April 25, 2020
No. 2, Sigan Hablando.: II, Jan. 28, 2023
No. 3, Pa Que Hablen.: I., April 15, 2023
No. 2, Pa Las Baby’s Y Belikeada, Nov. 4, 2023
No. 7, Dolido Pero No Arrepentido – EP, Feb. 24

Further, as Dolido debuts on Top Latin Albums, it joins another Regida album in the top tier: Pa Las Baby’s Y Belikeada, which holds strong at its No. 2 debut for a third week.

Regida also stirs up things on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs ranking, as the complete new EP debuts. In total, the five-member group scores 37 chart visits, the most for a regional Mexican ensemble this decade. Only one other regional Mexican act has collected more in the ‘20s: Peso Pluma, with 44 total entries.

Dolido’s six new tracks join seven other Regida songs. Here’s the countdown on Hot Latin Songs which blends radio airplay, streaming data, and downloads:

No. 4, “Harley Quinn,” with Marshmello
No. 9, “Que Onda,” with Calle 24 and Chino Pacas
No. 14, “Tu Name” (debut)
No. 18, “Brillarosa” (debut)
No. 20, “Excesos”
No. 22, “Crazyz”
No. 24, “Barbiez”
No. 26, “Enculada” (debut)
No. 27, “Una Cerveza,” with Manuel Turizo
No. 30, “Tacata (Remix), with Tiagz & El Alfa
No. 32, “Falsa” (debut)
No. 35, “Oye” (debut)
No. 44, “PXTXS” (debut)

In addition to its top 10 premieres on Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums, Dolido begins at No. 69 on the all-genre Billboard 200, Regida’s second-highest debut among four entries, after the No. 14 debut and peak by Pa Las Baby’s Y Belikeada last Nov.

The new Feb. 24, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 21, one day later than usual, owed to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. on Feb. 19.

20 Feb 2024

All 16 Songs on Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Vultures 1’ Debut on Hot 100

Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign have a monumental week on Billboard’s charts (dated Feb. 24), thanks to the pair’s new collaborative album, Vultures 1.

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The set by the pair, billed collaboratively as ¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 148,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week (Feb. 9-15, following its Feb. 10 release), according to Luminate. Ye earns his 11th No. 1 album — as he passes Eminem for the third-most among rappers, after Jay-Z (14) and Drake (13) — and Ty Dolla $ign scores his first.

Meanwhile, all 16 songs on the album — Ye’s first following his string of hate speech and antisemitic remarks, which resulted in companies including Adidas and Def Jam Recordings distancing themselves from him — debut on the Billboard Hot 100, led by “Carnival” at No. 3. Ye notches his 21st top 10 hit, and Ty Dolla $ign his third, and first in a lead role.

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Here’s a look at every song, all debuts, by Ye and Ty Dolla $ign on the latest Hot 100.

Rank, Title:
No. 3, “Carnival”
No. 23, “Fuk Sumn”
No. 26, “Back to Me”
No. 30, “Talking,” feat. North West
No. 33, “Burn”
No. 34, “Vultures,” feat. Lil Durk & Bump J
No. 39, “Stars”
No. 52, “Do It”
No. 53, “Paid”
No. 55, “Keys to My Life”
No. 64, “Paperwork”
No. 65, “Beg Forgiveness”
No. 67, “Hoodrat”
No. 79, “Problematic”
No. 93, “Good (Don’t Die)”
No. 94, “King”

With 16 debuts on the latest Hot 100, Ye ups his total to 157 career entries. He boasts the sixth-most in the chart’s 65-year history, after Drake (328), Taylor Swift (232), the Glee Cast (207), Lil Wayne (186) and Future (168). Ty Dolla $ign pushes his sum to 46 entries.

Thanks to their featured appearances, North West and Bump J both earn their first career Hot 100 hits. At just 10 years old, North West, the eldest child of Ye and Kim Kardashian (who divorced in 2022), is now one of the youngest acts ever to reach the chart. Among other precocious charted talents, Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, hit the Hot 100 at just 7 years old in 2019, thanks to her featured turn on Beyoncé, Saint Jhn and Wizkid’s “Brown Skin Girl.” She made her overall chart debut just after making her debut in the world, as her coos are heard on Jay-Z’s “Glory,” featuring B.I.C.. The song hit Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2012, making her the youngest billed artist ever on any Billboard chart.

Stevie Wonder is the youngest credited artist to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, as he was 13 when “Fingertips (Part II)” led in 1963. Overall, Jordy is the youngest billed artist to have appeared on the chart, at just over 5 years old with “Dur Dur D’être Bébé (It’s Tough To Be a Baby)” in 1993.

Also notable is the debut of “Good (Don’t Die).” The song was removed from Spotify after less than four days on the streaming service, as it includes an uncleared interpolation of Donna Summer’s 1977 top 10 Hot 100 hit “I Feel Love.” The song has since been removed from all other streaming services and for purchase. Hours after the release of Vultures 1, Summer’s estate claimed “copyright infringement” and disapproved of the use of the alleged sample. “Kanye West … asked permission to use Donna Summer’s song I Feel Love, he was denied … he changed the words, had someone re sing it or used AI but it’s I Feel Love … copyright infringement!!!,” the estate posted in an Instagram Story on the official Donna Summer account Feb. 10.

That isn’t the only sampling issue regarding the album. Ozzy Osbourne called out Ye and labeled him an antisemite after an earlier version of “Carnival” included a live performance of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” Plus, R&B artist Dijon posted to Instagram Stories Feb. 9, a day before the album’s release, suggesting that he was unaware that his song “Good Luck” was being sampled on the track “Stars.”