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Doja Cat is unmoved from the U.K. singles chart crest, where “Paint the Town Red” (via Ministry of Sound) enters a third week at No. 1.
Lifted from the U.S. singer, rapper and producer’s fourth studio album Scarlet, which dropped last Friday, Sept. 22, “Paint the Town Red” was the U.K.’s most-streamed song during the latest cycle, with 6.2 million plays, the Official Charts Company reports.
The leader at the midweek stage, “Paint the Town Red” holds off Olivia Rodrigo’s former leader “Vampire” (Geffen), which is unchanged at No. 2.
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Meanwhile, South Africa-born, U.K.-raised singer, songwriter and producer Kenya Grace is rising fast with “Strangers,” up 12-3 in its third week on the tally, published late Friday. “Strangers” is Grace’s major label debut, via Warner Music sublabel FFRR, and first single to impact the Official U.K. Singles Chart.
Tate McRae has the highest debut this week with her viral number “Greedy” (Ministry of Sound). It’s new at No. 8, for the Canadian artist’s third U.K. top 10 single. Previously, McRae landed at No. 3 with 2020’s “You Broke Me First” and at No. 8 with 2022 Tiësto collaboration “10:35”.
Also completing a top 10 start is Drake and SZA’s collab “Slime You Out” (OVO/Republic/RCA), new at No. 10. Taken from Drake’s forthcoming eight studio album For All the Dogs, “Slime You Out” is Drake’s 41st U.K. top 10 single, and SZA’s fourth. It’s one of two SZA songs in the top 40; “Snooze” (RCA/Top Dawg) leaps 48-18, a new peak, following the release of a new acoustic cut with Justin Bieber.
Johannesburg, South Africa-born Afrobeats artist Tyla makes a splash on the U.K. top 40 for the first time with “Water” (Epic/Fax), rising 55-24.
Finally, drum ‘n’ bass veterans Chase & Status bag a new top 40 entry with “Liquor & Cigarettes” (EMI), a team-up with English producer Hedex and rapper ArrDee. It’s new at No. 31 for Hedex’s first-ever top 40 placing, ArrDee’s ninth, and Chase & Status’s 11th.
Busted blast to a first-ever U.K. No. 1 with Greatest Hits 2.0 (via Juno Music).
The British pop-punk trio, comprising James Bourne, Charlie Simpson and Matt Willis, debuts at No. 1 with their career retrospective, released more than two decades after their self-titled debut.
Greatest Hits 2.0 goes one better than the lads’ previous best. Indeed, Busted has hit No. 2 on three separate occasions (2002’s Busted, 2003’s A Present for Everyone and 2019’s Half Way There) but, until now, never visited the chart penthouse.
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The new collection is the best seller on vinyl and downloads with physical sales accounting for 78% of its total, the Official Charts Company reports.
The leader at the midweek stage, Greatest Hits 2.0 includes a “Guest Features Edition,” with cuts reworked by the likes of Jonas Brothers, All Time Low, Simple Plan, Dashboard Confessional, Hanson and You Me At Six.
With Busted bowing at No. 1, Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore album Guts (Geffen) is relegated to second place. Guts dips 1-2 in its second-week, but remains the U.K. most-streamed LP during the latest cycle, the OCC reports. It’s one of two Rodrigo albums in the top 5; the U.S. pop phenomenon chart-topping debut from 2021, Sour, lifts 8-5.
The Weeknd’s The Highlights (Republic Records/XO) improves 4-3 in its 137th week on the chart.
Also new to the top tier is Mitski’s The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans), new at No. 4. That’s a career best chart position for the U.S. artist, beating the No. 6 peak for her 2022 effort Laurel Hell.
Meanwhile, veteran Northern Irish rock act Ash collects a highest charting title in almost 20 years with Race the Night (Fierce Panda), new at No. 14. It’s the indie band’s ninth top 40 appearance on the Official U.K. Albums Chart and best since 2004’s Meltdown hit No. 5.
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor earns a second solo top 20 album with CMF2 (BMG), new at No. 17. It’s the followup to 2020 CMFT, which peaked at No. 11. As a member of Slipknot, Taylor has three U.K. No. 1 albums: 2001’s Iowa, 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind and 2022’s The End So Far.
Also on the latest tally, published Friday, Sept. 22, new releases from Thirty Seconds to Mars (It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day at No. 20 via Concord), the Pretenders (Relentless at No. 25 via Parlophone); Madison Beer (Silence Between Songs at No. 28 via RCA) and Sleepy Hallow (Boy Meets World at No. 32 via Columbia) debut in the top 40.
Rod Wave captures his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Sept. 30) as his latest release, Nostalgia, opens atop the tally. The set bows with 137,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 21, according to Luminate — the rapper/singer’s biggest week yet by units earned. Nearly all of the album’s first-week sum was driven by streaming activity of the set’s 18 tracks.
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The artist previously led the Billboard 200 with his last two full-length projects, Beautiful Mind (2022) and SoulFly (2021). He’s only the second artist, following Taylor Swift, to have notched a new No. 1 album in each of the last three years. In total, Nostalgia is his sixth top 10-charting effort — the entirety of his entries on the Billboard 200.
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 Sept. 30, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (Sept. 26). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of Nostalgia’s 137,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 21, SEA units comprise 135,000 (equaling 187.51 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 18 songs — the third-largest debut streaming week for an R&B/hip-hop album in 2023), album sales comprise 1,500 (it was only available to purchase as a digital download album) and TEA units comprise 500.
Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts falls to No. 2 after debuting atop the tally, as the set earned 134,000 in its second week (down 56%). Four more former No. 1s round out the top six, as Zach Bryan’s self-titled album is a non-mover at No. 3 (79,000; down 17%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is stationary at No. 4 (76,000; down 3%), SZA’s SOS rises 6-5 (53,000; up 17%) and Travis Scott’s Utopia falls 5-6 (47,000; down 16%).
Peso Pluma’s Génesis is steady at No. 7 (46,000 equivalent album units; up 7%), Swift’s chart-topping Midnights stands still at No. 8 (42,000; up 1%) and Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album holds at No. 9 (38,000; down 2%). The Barbie film soundtrack closes out the top 10, as it steps 11-10 with 36,000 units (down 4%).
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.
Belinda Carlisle charts her second new song of 2023, as “If U Go” debuts at No. 30 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary survey (dated Sept. 30).
The single is from Carlisle’s EP Kismet, released in May on BMG. Diane Warren wrote all five tracks on the set, reviving a partnership between the two talents. Carlisle sent the Warren-penned “I Get Weak” to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and to the Adult Contemporary top 10 in 1988. (Warren has written 32 Hot 100 top 10s, including nine No. 1s.)
Earlier in 2023, Carlisle extended her Billboard chart history by entering Digital Song Sales with another Warren composition, “Gonna Be You.” The all-star song, from the comedy 80 for Brady, brought Carlisle together with Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan and Debbie Harry.
“I can’t say ‘no’ to her,” Carlisle mused to Billboard about Warren upon the release of Kismet. “The fact that she gave me these amazing songs is like a gift.”
Warren wrote “If U Go” with Carlisle in mind. Making for a partial team-up of The Go-Go’s, it features Charlotte Caffey on backing vocals. The song even sports a “go, go” echo, although Carlisle said that Warren didn’t originally plan for two members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band to sing that line.
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Carlisle appears on a Billboard airplay chart for the first time since 1990, when “Summer Rain” reached Adult Contemporary. She boasts four top 10s on the tally: “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” (No. 7, 1987); “I Get Weak” (No. 9, 1988); “Circle in the Sand” (No. 5, 1988); and “Leave a Light On” (No. 8, 1989). (She last appeared on a chart that blends airplay data when “Do You Feel Like I Feel?” hit the Hot 100 in 1991.)
“I always said that if I was going to record pop in the same vein that I did in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, it would have to be on par with those songs,” Carlisle told Billboard. “I’m not going to record a song just to record it.”
Of Kismet’s songs, Carlisle said, “This was five out of five.” Warren “didn’t show me anything else, and I loved them all.”
All charts dated Sept. 30 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Sept. 26.
Luck Ra secures his second No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as “La Morocha,” featuring BM, ascends 3-1 to lead the Sept. 23-dated ranking. The song ejects Myke Towers’ “Lala” from the summit, with a 2-1 dip, after six weeks in charge.
Luck Ra previously landed in the penthouse for one week through “Ya No Vuelvas,” featuring La K’Onga and Ke Personajes (chart dated Feb. 18). BM, meanwhile, dominated for three weeks with “M.A. (Mejores Amigos),” with Callejero Fino, La Joaqui and Lola Indigo, in April.
BM also pushes 5-3 with “Ni Una Ni Dos” for his second top 10 song on the current chart.
This week’s Hot Shot Debut goes to Emilia’s “GTA.Mp3,” at No. 11. With the new recruit, the Argentinian achieves her 24th entry, the fifth-most among all women. Here’s the recap of the female acts with the most entries on Billboard Argentina Hot 100:
43, Maria Becerra33, Karol G30, Nicki Nicole30, Tini24, Emilia
Rappers YSY A and Bhavi add three new career entries each, all belonging to their latest joint album, Tu Duo Favorito. “Flechazo En El Centro” with Milo J, leads the debuts at No. 41. Meanwhile, Chilean rapper DrefQuila scores his first entry through the three-way collab “Tuuuyo” at No. 79, while “Sonido del Año” with Duki, bows at No. 81.
Elsewhere, Mesita captures his fourth entry with “Una Foto” at No. 71.
Further, Ke Personajes score the Greatest Gainer honors as “Entre Beso y Beso” climbs 14 places, from No. 92 to No 78.
Lastly, Diego Torres returns to the chart with “Mejor Que Ayer” at No. 93.
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Bailey Zimmerman scores his third career-launching leader on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Religiously” surges from No. 4 to No. 1 on the list dated Sept. 30. In the Sept. 15-21 tracking week, the single increased by 16% to 28.4 million impressions, according to Luminate. The track — which the 23-year-old from Louisville, Ill., wrote […]
Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” breaks a pair of records on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart. The single adds a 25th week at No. 1 on the ranking (dated Sept. 30), solely claiming the longest command for a song by a woman, surpassing Adele’s “Easy on Me” in 2021-22. Meanwhile, with both hits on Columbia Records, “Flowers” passes […]
Summer turns to fall Saturday (Sept. 23), but Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” continues going strong. Swift ties her longest rule on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart, as “Cruel Summer” rebounds for a seventh week at No. 1, on the ranking dated Sept. 30. She first dominated for seven weeks with “I Knew You Were Trouble” in […]
On Sept. 24, 1988, Dan Seals’ “Addicted” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. It became the eighth of his 11 career leaders on the list.
Cheryl Wheeler wrote the song following a conversation with her sister, who was deciding whether or not to stay in a relationship. “‘Addicted’ came really fast to me,” Wheeler has said. “I’d just hung up the phone with the person the song is about, after she’d said, ‘I feel like I’m addicted to a real bad thing.’ Chordally (is that a word?), it has a lot more going on than most of my stuff.”
Wheeler first released “Addicted” on her 1987 LP Half a Book. In addition to Seals, Blake Shelton also recorded the ballad, for the iTunes deluxe edition of his 2011 album Red River Blue. Wheeler added a second Hot Country Songs top 10 as a writer via Suzy Bogguss’ version of “Aces” (No. 9, 1992), while Garth Brooks reworked her song “If It Were Up to Me” in 1999.
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Seals’ “Addicted” was released as the first of three singles from his LP Rage On, his third of three top 10s on the Top Country Albums chart. Second single “Big Wheels in the Moonlight” topped Hot Country Songs for a week and “They Rage On” hit No. 5.
“Addicted” became Seals’ eighth of nine straight No. 1 singles in 1985-89, a streak that started with his first leader, “Meet Me in Montana,” with Marie Osmond.
Born in McCamey, Texas, on Feb. 8, 1948, Seals was first known as half the duo England Dan & John Ford Coley. The pair notched four top 10s on the Billboard Hot 100, with 1976’s “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight” its strongest showing (No. 2). Meanwhile, Seals & Crofts, comprised of Seals’ older brother Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, tallied three Hot 100 top 10s, starting with “Summer Breeze” in 1972.
Dan Seals was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008. Following treatments, including a stem cell transplant, he passed in 2009 at age 61.
Australians just love Olivia Rodrigo‘s Guts.
The U.S. pop phenomenon’s sophomore album starts a second consecutive week at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, holding off LPs by The Weeknd (The Highlights unchanged at No. 2 via Universal) and Taylor Swift (1989 up 9-3 via Big Machine/Universal).
Rodrigo just misses out on a chart double, again, as Guts (via Geffen/Universal) track “Vampire” holds at No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart, behind Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red.”
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The top new entry on the albums tally belongs to Teddy Swims (real name: Jaten Dimsdale), whose debut I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) (via Warner) bows at No. 4. The Atlanta, GA vocalist completed a national headline tour last month, produced by Frontier Touring.
The current ARIA top five is completed by Travis Scott’s former leader Utopia (Epic/Sony), down 3-5.
Also new to the top frame is Jared Leto’s Thirty Seconds To Mars with It’s The End Of The World But It’s A Beautiful Day (Concord/Universal), new at No. 9. The U.S. alternative rock outfit’s career-best chart position in Australia is a No. 4 peak for 2013’s Love, Lust, Faith And Dreams.
Further down the list, Mitski lands her second title on the ARIA Chart with The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We (Dead Oceans/Inertia), new at No. 13. The Japanese-American artist previously cracked the top 10 with 2022’s Laurel Hell, peaking at No. 7.
U.S. rapper Sleepy Hallow, meanwhile, bags his first appearance on the ARIA Chart with Boy Meets World (RCA/Sony), his second studio LP. It’s new at No. 32.
Over on the national singles tally, published Friday, Sept. 22, Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (via RCA/Sony) enters a fifth week at the summit. “Paint The Town Red” is lifted from the U.S. artist and producer’s fourth solo studio album Scarlet, which arrived earlier today.
The top five is completed by Swift’s “Cruel Summer” (up 4-3), Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” (up 5-4 via Republic/Universal) and Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (RCA/Sony), new at No. 5 for the week’s top debut. That’s a career high for the Canadian artist, whose previous best was No. 7 in 2020 for “You Broke Me First.”
Kenya Grace’s “Strangers” (Warner) is making a strong connection with Australian audiences. The South Africa-born, U.K.-based artist’s major label debut bounces 30-6 in its third week on the survey.
Finally, Drake and SZA’s “Slime You Out” (Universal) slides to No. 12 on debut.