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Drake is off to the races in the U.K. with For All The Dogs (via OVO/Republic Records).
The Canadian hip-hop giant leads the midweek chart, and appears set to score his sixth U.K. No. 1 — and second in less than a year, following 2022’s collaborative effort Her Loss with 21 Savage.
Drizzy’s delayed eighth solo studio dropped at 6am ET last Friday, Oct. 6, the culmination of nearly 10 months of teasing and delays.
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Spread across 23 songs, the LP features assists from SZA, J. Cole, Chief Keef, Sexyy Red, Snoop Dogg, Sade, Teezo Touchdown, Bad Bunny, Yeat, 21 Savage, Lil Yachty and PARTYNEXTDOOR. His U.K. albums chart leaders to date include Views (2016), Scorpion (2018), Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020) and Certified Lover Boy (2021); his last solo full-length recording, Honestly, Nevermind, peaked at No. 2 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart in June 2022.
Eyeing a No. 2 debut on the national survey is Nines with Crop Circle 3 (Zino). If it holds its course, Crop Circle 3 would become the British rapper’s second top 10 album in less than six months, after Crop Circle 2 hit No. 2 in May.
Roger Waters’ Dark Side of the Moon Redux (Cooking Vinyl) has come into view on the midweek chart, and is set to spin in at No. 3. The reissue celebrates the legacy of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece Dark Side Of The Moon from 1973, which has logged 560 weeks on national chart and is recognized as one of the most successful British albums of all time.
Pink Floyd has six U.K. No. 1 albums, though Dark Side isn’t one of them; it peaked at No. 2 in 1973.
Completing an all-new top four on the Official Chart Update is Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty). If Javelin flies in at No. 4, it would give the veteran U.S. indie singer and songwriter his career best chart position in the U.K., bettering the No. 6 for 2015’s Carrie & Lowell.
Finally, Joel Corry‘s Another Friday Night (Atlantic) is set for a new peak position, up 45-6 on the chart blast, while new releases from Stornoway (Dig The Mountain! at No. 14 via Cooking Vinyl), MC Slim (Still Working 2 at No. 16 via Warner Records) and Joe Bonamassa (Blues Deluxe: Volume 2 at No. 19 via Provogue) should land U.K. top 40 debuts.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Albums Chart is published late Friday, Oct. 13.
Jung Kook and Jack Harlow’s “3D” soars in at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. songs charts (dated Oct. 14). Jung Kook earns the second solo leader for a BTS member on each survey, following his “Seven,” featuring Latto.
Elsewhere, Iñigo Quintero’s breakthrough viral hit “Si No Estás” vaults 129-9 on Global Excl. U.S., becoming his first top 10.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
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‘3D’ Jumps Out at No. 1 on Global 200
Jung Kook and Jack Harlow’s “3D” launches at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, with 104.3 million streams and 119,000 sold worldwide Sept. 29-Oct. 5, following its Sept. 29 release. (The song’s original, “Alternate” and instrumental versions were released that day, while its A.G. Cook remix and clean, sped up and slowed down mixes arrived Oct. 2.)
Jung Kook, from South Korea, achieves the second solo Global 200 No. 1 for a BTS member, after his “Seven,” featuring Latto, reigned for seven weeks beginning upon its July debut. (Both tracks will appear on Jung Kook’s first solo album, Golden, due Nov. 3.)
As “3D” debuts, here’s a rundown, ranked by peak position, of BTS members’ nine Global 200 top 10s (including two No. 1s) outside the act, with BTS as a group having tallied 11 top 10s (including seven No. 1s):
“3D,” Jung Kook & Jack Harlow, No. 1 (one week to date), beginning October 2023
“Seven,” Jung Kook feat. Latto, No. 1 (seven weeks), July 2023
“Like Crazy,” Jimin, No. 2, April 2023
“Slow Dancing,” V, No. 4, September 2023
“Left and Right,” Charlie Puth feat. Jung Kook, No. 5, July 2022
“That That,” PSY feat. SUGA, No. 5, May 2022
“Set Me Free, Pt. 2,” Jimin, No. 8, April 2023
“Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022),” Jung Kook, No. 9, December 2022
“The Astronaut,” Jin, No. 10, November 2022
Harlow, from Louisville, Ky., notches his first Global 200 No. 1, among three top 10s.
Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” drops to No. 2 after four weeks atop the Global 200; Jung Kook’s “Seven,” featuring Latto, backtracks 2-3; Tate McRae’s “Greedy” holds at its No. 4 high, with 51.9 million streams (up 34%) and 4,000 sold (up 63%) worldwide; and Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” slides to No. 5 from its No. 3 high.
‘3D’ Debuts Atop Global Excl. U.S., Iñigo Quintero Hits Top 10
Jung Kook and Jack Harlow’s “3D” concurrently premieres at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 91 million streams and 70,000 sold outside the U.S. in its first week.
As on the Global 200, Jung Kook claims the second solo Global Excl. U.S. No. 1 for a BTS member, after his “Seven,” featuring Latto, ruled for nine weeks beginning upon its July chart start.
As “3D” enters, here’s a rundown, ranked by peak position, of BTS members’ 13 Global Excl. U.S. top 10s (including two No. 1s) outside the group, while BTS totals 11 top 10s (including seven No. 1s):
“3D,” Jung Kook & Jack Harlow, No. 1 (one week to date), beginning October 2023
“Seven,” Jung Kook feat. Latto, No. 1 (nine weeks), July 2023
“Like Crazy,” Jimin, No. 2, April 2023
“Left and Right,” Charlie Puth feat. Jung Kook, No. 2, July 2022
“That That,” PSY feat. SUGA, No. 2, May 2022
“Slow Dancing,” V, No. 4, September 2023
“Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022),” Jung Kook, No. 4, December 2022
“Love Me Again,” V, No. 6, August 2023
“The Astronaut,” Jin, No. 6, November 2022
“Rainy Days,” V, No. 8, August 2023
“Set Me Free, Pt. 2,” Jimin, No. 8, April 2023
“Stay Alive,” Jung Kook, No. 8, February 2022
“Vibe,” TAEYANG feat. Jimin, No. 9, January 2023
Harlow tallies his first Global Excl. U.S. No. 1, among three top 10s.
Jung Kook’s “Seven,” featuring Latto, holds at No. 2 after spending its first nine weeks on the Global Excl. U.S. chart at No. 1 – and with his “3D” at No. 1, Jung Kook becomes the first soloist to rank at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously on the survey; overall, he joins only BLACKPINK (“Shut Down” and “Pink Venom”; Oct. 1, 2022) and BTS (“Life Goes On” and “Dynamite”; Dec. 5, 2020) in scoring such a double domination.
Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” tumbles to No. 3 after two weeks atop Global Excl. U.S.; Tate McRae’s “Greedy” becomes her first top five hit on the chart, jumping 7-4; and Kenya Grace’s “Strangers” dips to No. 5 from its No. 3 high.
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Plus, Iñigo Quintero’s breakout Global Excl. U.S. entry, “Si No Estás,” skyrockets 129-9, with 32.8 million streams (up 190%) outside the U.S. The piano-pop song becomes the first top 10 for the Spanish singer-songwriter, who, benefiting from buzz on TikTok and Instagram, became a first-timer on Billboard’s charts a week earlier. The single also becomes his first No. 1 on the Spain Songs chart.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Oct. 14, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 10). For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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*NSYNC’s first single since 2002, “Better Place,” brings the group back to the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 14) for the first time since that year, following the song’s first week of release.
The track, released Sept. 29 on DreamWorks/RCA Records from the Trolls Band Together soundtrack, due Oct. 20 (ahead of the movie’s expected Nov. 17 premiere), starts at No. 25 on the Hot 100. It tallied 29 million radio airplay audience impressions and 4.8 million official streams and sold 17,000 downloads in the United States in the tracking week ending Oct. 5, according to Luminate.
Notably, “Better Place” ties *NSYNC’s highest Hot 100 start: the group’s debut hit, “I Want You Back,” began at No. 25 on the March 7, 1998-dated chart.
The new single concurrently begins at No. 2 on the Digital Song Sales chart and No. 21 on Radio Songs. The latter marks the highest entrance for a song by a group since Radio Songs began including all-format airplay in 1998; second-best for a group in a lead role in that span? *NSYNC’s “Pop” (No. 24, 2001).
As previously reported, “Better Place” bounds in at No. 12 on Adult Pop Airplay, No. 13 on Adult Contemporary and No. 16 on Pop Airplay.
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*NSYNC adds its 13th Hot 100 hit, and 11th top 40 entry, and first since “Girlfriend,” featuring Nelly, spent its last week on the chart (dated June 22, 2002).
Here’s an updated recap of *NSYNC’s top 40 Hot 100 hits:
No. 1 peak (two weeks), “It’s Gonna Be Me,” July 29, 2000No. 2, “Music of My Heart” (with Gloria Estefan), Oct. 16, 1999No. 4, “Bye Bye Bye,” April 15, 2000No. 5, “Girlfriend (feat. Nelly), April 6, 2002No. 5, “This I Promise You,” Dec. 2, 2000No. 8, “(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You,” Feb. 27, 1999No. 11, “Gone,” Nov. 24, 2001No. 13, “I Want You Back,” May 2, 1998No. 19, “Pop,” June 16, 2001No. 25 (to date), “Better Place,” Oct. 14, 2023No. 29, “God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You” (Alabama feat. *NSYNC), Aug. 21, 1999
(*NSYNC missed another likely another top 40 Hot 100 hit with “Tearin’ Up My Heart,” which peaked at No. 59 in December 1998; although promoted to radio, the song was not released as a stand-alone single for purchase and, thus, was ineligible to chart on the Hot 100 until that month, when such a restriction was lifted. The song, from the group’s self-titled debut album, rose to No. 15 on Radio Songs in October 1998.)
Ahead of the release of “Better Place,” the group’s Justin Timberlake shared on Instagram a behind-the-scenes look at the quintet back in the studio. “So many stars aligned and that’s why I hit y’all and was like, ‘Hey, something came up,’ ” he is heard telling the act. “If we do this song, it’s a love letter to our fans. I would be honored to have the group on this song.”
All charts dated Oct. 14 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Oct. 10.
As Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” with its prominent sample of Dionne Warwick’s “Walk on By,” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for the third nonconsecutive week (on the chart dated Oct. 14), you may be wondering how many weeks “Walk on By” spent at No. 1. Would you believe none? The Burt Bacharach/Hal David […]
Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” tops the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a third week.
Plus, SZA’s “Snooze,” which holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, ascends to the top of the Radio Songs chart, becoming her first leader on the airplay ranking, and Jung Kook and Jack Harlow’s “3D” debuts at No. 5 on the Hot 100. “3D” becomes Jung Kook’s second Hot 100 top 10 – making him the first BTS member with multiple solo top 10s – and Harlow’s fourth.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Oct. 14, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 10). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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“Paint the Town Red,” released on Kemosabe/RCA Records, drew 61.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 18%) and 23.3 million streams (down 15%) and sold 6,000 downloads (down 9%) in the Sept. 29-Oct. 5 tracking week, according to Luminate. It wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a third consecutive frame.
The single falls to No. 2 on the Streaming Songs chart following a week at the summit and to No. 4 on Digital Song Sales following two weeks on top; and rises 7-5 on Radio Songs, becoming Doja Cat’s seventh top five hit. It concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a sixth and seventh week, respectively.
Doja Cat triples her prior Hot 100 command, as “Say So,” featuring Nicki Minaj, led for a week in May 2020.
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SZA’s “Snooze” repeats at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, with 75.8 million in radio audience (up 4%), 16.5 million streams (down 5%) and 2,000 sold (down 5%). It ascends 3-1 on Radio Songs, where it’s SZA’s first leader, among four top 10s; “Kill Bill” hit No. 2 in April, following her featured turns on Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More” (No. 2, 2021) and Maroon 5’s “What Lovers Do” (No. 5, 2017). “Snooze” concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for an 11th week.
(With “Paint the Town Red” at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and “Snooze” at No. 2, RCA ranks in the top two spots for a second consecutive week; until the last two weeks, RCA hadn’t infused the top two simultaneously under the label’s current organizational structure within Sony Music, which dates to the early 2010s.)
Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” climbs 4-3 on the Hot 100, returning to its best rank. Thanks to “Paint the Town Red,” “Snooze” and “Cruel Summer,” the chart’s top three consists entirely of women for the first time in over seven months, since the March 4-dated ranking, when Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” placed at No. 1, followed by SZA’s “Kill Bill” at No. 2 and PinkPantheress and Ice Spice’s “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2” at No. 3. The latest list marks the first top three each by a single female artist since a month before that, with SZA and Swift again involved; on the Feb. 4 chart, Cyrus’ “Flowers” was No. 1, followed by “Kill Bill” at No. 2 and Swift’s “Anti-Hero” at No. 3.
Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s No. 6-peaking 1988 Hot 100 classic “Fast Car” backs up 3-4, following eight weeks at its No. 2 high. The latter adds a third week at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart.
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Jung Kook and Jack Harlow’s “3D” launches at No. 5 on the Hot 100, with 13.6 million streams, 3.1 million in radio audience and 87,000 physical and digital singles sold combined, following its Sept. 29 release. (The song’s original, “Alternate” and instrumental versions were released that day, while its A.G. Cook remix and clean, sped up and slowed down mixes arrived Oct. 2.)
“3D” is Jung Kook’s second Hot 100 top 10 – making him the first BTS member with multiple solo top 10s – while Harlow adds his fourth.
Here’s a recap of all six top 40 Hot 100 entries so far by BTS members apart from the group, ranked by peak position. All seven of the act’s members have reached the chart overall with solo songs: J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jung Kook, RM, Suga and V. (As a group, BTS boasts 15 top 40 hits, including 10 top 10s and six No. 1s.)
Peak Pos., Date, Artist, Title:
No. 1, one week, July 29, 2023, Jung Kook feat. Latto, “Seven”
No. 1, one week, April 8, 2023, Jimin, “Like Crazy”
No. 5 (to date), Oct. 14, 2023, Jung Kook & Jack Harlow, “3D”
No. 22, July 9, 2022, Charlie Puth feat. Jung Kook, “Left and Right”
No. 29, Dec. 25, 2021, Juice WRLD & Suga, “Girl of My Dreams”
No. 30, April 1, 2023, Jimin, “Set Me Free, Pt. 2”
“3D” opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where Jung Kook and Jack Harlow each earn a third leader.
Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves, descends 5-6 on the Hot 100, after it led for a week upon its debut in September. It rebounds for a fourth week atop Streaming Songs (25.2 million, down 5%) and paces the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs charts for a sixth week each.
Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” dips 6-7 on the Hot 100, following 16 weeks at No. 1 starting in March, the most ever for a non-collaboration; Gunna’s “Fukumean” is steady at No. 8, after hitting No. 4; and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” falls at 7-9, following two nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in July.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” drops 9-10, after reaching No. 3. It rules the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for a record-extending 58th week.
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BTS star Jung Kook bags the top debut on the U.K. singles chart, and with it, a piece of history.
Jung Kook’s “3D” (via BigHit Entertainment) with Jack Harlow bows at No. 5 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, published Friday, Oct. 6, behind the weeks-long leader, Doja Cat‘s “Paint The Town Red” (Ministry of Sound).
With that strong start for “3D,” Jung Kook becomes the first Korean solo act to score two top 5 singles in the U.K.; his debut solo single, “Seven,” featuring Latto, debuted at No. 3 earlier this year, setting a chart record.
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Both tracks will appear on the K-pop artist’s first solo album GOLDEN, due out Nov. 3.
As a group, BTS has landed four singles in the U.K. top 10, including three No. 3s — for 2020’s “Dynamite,” “Butter” and Coldplay collaboration “My Universe” (both from 2021). All seven members of the K-pop phenomenon – Jin, Jimin, Suga, Jung Kook, RM, V and J-Hope – have shared solo material, with Jimin setting the bar with a first top 10 for “Like Crazy” (peaking at No. 8) in March; he separately secured a top 40 appearance with “Set Me Free Pt. 2,” hitting No. 30.
J-Hope was the first member of BTS to bag a U.K. top 40 single, thanks to his J. Cole collaboration “On The Street” peaking at No. 37.
Historically, the only other Korean solo artist to have bagged two U.K. top 10 singles is PSY, with 2012’s “Gangnam Style” (No. 1) and 2013’s “Gentleman” (No. 10).
Meanwhile, Doja Cat checks in for a fifth straight week at No. 1 with “Paint The Town Red,” which holds off a feisty challenge from Kenya Grace’s “Strangers” (FFRR), unchanged at No. 2, and Tate McCrae’s “Greedy” (Ministry of Sound), up 5-3 for a new peak position.
South African singer Tyla enjoys her first U.K. top 10 as “Water” (RCA) rises 16-10, while Nigeria-born Afrobeats star Burna Boy is moving on up with “City Boys” (Atlantic), his 13th top 40. “City Boy” improves 17-14.
U.S. singer and songwriter Mitski is close behind and climbing fast with “My Love Mine All Mine” (Dead Oceans), rocketing 34-15 for a new peak.
Finally, Ed Sheeran has his 62nd U.K. top 40 hit with “American Town” (Gingerbread Man), new at No. 27. It’s lifted from his seventh and latest studio album Autumn Variations, the current U.K. No. 1 LP.
Ed Sheeran extends his perfect U.K. albums chart record as Autumn Variations (via Gingerbread Man) debuts at No. 1.
Produced with the National’s Aaron Dessner, Autumn Variations bows at the summit of the Official U.K. Albums Chart, published Friday, Oct. 6, for the Brit’s seventh straight leader.
The leader at the halfway stage, when it dominated its nearest competitor by more than two-combined-sales-to-one, Autumn Variations is Sheeran’s second leader this year. It finishes the U.K. chart week as the best-seller on wax, and follows national No. 1s with his 2011 debut + (plus), 2014’s x (multiply), 2017’s ÷ (divide), 2019’s No. 6 Collaborations Project, 2021’s = (equals) and 2023’s – (subtract).
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Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore LP Guts (Geffen) holds at No. 2 for a third consecutive week, while Jorja Smith enjoys a podium finish with her second studio album Falling Or Flying (FAMM), new at No. 3. Smith, the 2018 BRITs Critics Choice award winner, has now landed three titles in the U.K. top 10, a tally that includes her 2018 debut Lost & Found (No. 3) and 2021 EP Be Right Back (No. 9).
Also new to the top tier is The Harmony Codex (SW Records), the third solo album from Porcupine Tree‘s Steven Wilson. It’s new at No. 4 on the U.K. chart, matching the peak of his previous effort, 2021’s The Future Bites (2017’s To the Bone reached No. 3).
Meanwhile, U.S. rock act Black Stone Cherry nabs a fourth U.K. top 10 album with Screamin’ at the Sky (Mascot), new at No. 6.
Further down the list, British synth-wave outfit Gunship rides to a new career peak position with Unicorn (Horsie In The Hedge), bowing at No. 26; U.K. Eurovision 2023 rep Mae Muller scores her first U.K. top 40 album with Sorry I’m Late (Capitol), arriving at No. 33, and British soul veteran Beverley Knight nabs an eighth with The Fifth Chapter (Tag8), starting at No. 39.
Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 14), rising 3-1, notching a 16th nonconsecutive and total week atop the list. It earned 74,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 5 (up 2%), according to Luminate.
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One Thing at a Time continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since Adele’s 21 logged 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2011-12.
One Thing at a Time debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 18 and spent it first 12 weeks atop the list. It stepped aside for two weeks, and then returned for another three weeks in a row at No. 1 (June 24-July 8-dated charts). Now in its 31st week on the chart, the album has yet to depart the top four.
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Ed Sheeran collects his seventh top 10-charting effort — all of which have reached the top five — as his latest release Autumn Variations debuts at No. 4. It’s his second top five debut of 2023, following – (Subtract) in May.
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. 14, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of One Thing at a Time’s 74,500 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 5, SEA units comprise 71,500 (equaling 97.56 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 36 songs), album sales comprise 2,000, and TEA units comprise 1,000.
One Thing at a Time’s 74,500-unit sum is the smallest total for a No. 1 album in nearly a year-and-a-half, since Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry debuted atop the chart dated May 7, 2022, with 55,000 units.
Rod Wave’s Nostalgia falls to No. 2 in its third week on the chart (71,000 equivalent album units; down 20%), after spending its first two weeks atop the list. Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Guts dips 2-3 with 67,000 (down 23%).
Sheeran logs his seventh top 10 charting album on the Billboard 200 — all of which have debuted in the top five — as his new studio set Autumn Variations bows at No. 4 with nearly 62,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 46,500 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 18.78 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 14 songs) and TEA units comprise 500.
Autumn Variations was announced on Aug. 24, a little over a month before the album was released on Sept. 29. The album’s arrival comes only five months after Sheeran last bowed on the chart, when his previous studio effort, – (Subtract), launched at No. 2 on the May 20-dated tally.
Four former No. 1s follow Sheeran on the new Billboard 200, as Zach Bryan’s self-titled release is a non-mover at No. 5 (59,000 equivalent album units; down 11%), SZA’s SOS is stationary at No. 6 (48,000; down 3%), Travis Scott’s Utopia is steady at No. 7 (46,000; up 4%) and Taylor Swift’s Midnights rises 10-8 (43,000; up 2%).
Rounding out the top 10 of the Billboard 200 is Doja Cat’s Scarlet, falling 2-9 in its second week (41,000 equivalent album units; down 42%), and Peso Pluma’s Génesis, dipping 9-10 (41,000; down 5%).
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Staind returns with its first studio album in more than a decade, as Confessions of the Fallen debuts at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 7), securing the group its sixth top 10 on the tally. The new set sold 11,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the latest releases from Kylie Minogue, The Rose, Tom MacDonald & Adam Calhoun and Cannibal Corpse all arrive.
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.
The Confessions album was preceded by a pair of hits on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, “Lowest In Me” and “Here and Now.” The former hit No. 1 in August, spending two weeks in charge, and it marked the band’s fifth No. 1 and first leader since 2011’s “Not Again” ruled for seven weeks.
Of Confessions’ first-week sales, physical sales comprise 7,000 (5,000 on CD and 2,000 on vinyl) and digital downloads comprise a little over 4,000.
Confessions marks the first studio release for the group on BMG, after its six studio albums from 1999 through 2011 were all released through either Elektra or Atlantic.
While Staind hasn’t issued a studio set since Sept. 2011, its frontman, Aaron Lewis, has been busy notching hits on Billboard’s since the spring of 2011. Lewis has scored a total of five solo albums on Top Album Sales, including the chart-topping Sinner in 2016. His most recent solo release, Frayed at Both Ends, debuted and peaked at No. 5 last year.
At No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts spends a third straight week atop the list with 23,000 copies sold (down 49%).
Kylie Minogue’s new studio album Tension bows at No. 2 with 19,500 sold – her biggest sales week in nearly 20 years. It’s the third top 10-charting effort for Minogue.
V’s Layover falls 2-3 with 12,000 sold (down 45%). The Rose nabs its first top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales as Dual launches at No. 5 (10,500), Tom MacDonald and Adam Calhoun join forces for their second top 10 set as The Brave 2 launches at No. 6 (10,000) and Cannibal Corpse rocks in at No. 7 with Chaos Horrific (8,500; the band’s third top 10).
Rounding out the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart is three former No. 1s: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (9-8 with 7,500; down 18%), Swift’s Midnights (11-9 with just over 7,000; down 8%) and NewJeans’ 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ (holding at No. 10 with 7,000; down 16%).
In the week ending Sept. 28, there were 1.559 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 6.6% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.232 million (down 7.8%) and digital albums comprised 327,000 (down 2.1%).
There were 537,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Sept. 28 (down 6.5% week-over-week) and 686,000 vinyl albums sold (down 8.8%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 25.586 million (up 0.6% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 34.099 million (up 19.4%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 73.825 million (up 6.1% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 60.080 million (up 10.5%) and digital album sales total 13.745 million (down 9.7%).
Tim McGraw adds his milestone 60th top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, as “Standing Room Only” pushes from No. 11 to No. 10 on the list dated Oct. 14. In the tracking week ending Oct. 5, the single gained by 4% to 18.7 million impressions, according to Luminate. The song was written by Tommy […]