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Karol G makes history this week on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart (dated Aug. 26), as the woman with the most entries in the list’s history, which dates to 1986, as she lands nine debuts, all from her fifth-studio album, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season). The Colombian now has a total of 60 chart appearances, outpacing the previous recordholder among women, Ednita Nazario, with 53-career entries. (Overall, Bad Bunny continues in command with 148 total entries).
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Hot Latin Songs ranks the most popular Latin songs of the week, blending airplay, steams, and digital sales.
“Mi Ex Tenía Razón” leads the new haul bursting in at No. 1. The song traces its high start to 15 million official U.S. streams earned in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Luminate. The sum yields a No. 14 start on the overall Streaming Songs chart and an equal No. 1 launch on Latin Streaming Songs. It also sold 2,000 copies, allowing for a No. 1 debut on Latin Digital Song Sales.
“Mi Ex Tenía Razón” makes a mark on radio airplay in line with its big streaming and sales splash. It’s the only new song from Bichota Season to debut on the overall Latin Airplay, at No. 28, with 4 million in audience impressions earned during the same tracking week.
Meanwhile, “Qlona,” Karol G’s first collab with Peso Pluma, takes off at No. 2 with 12 million official U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads sold.
Those two tracks join “S91” in the chart’s top 10. The latter previewed Bichota Season as the first single, debuting at No. 10 in July. On the current ranking, it rises 20-6 with the Greatest Gainer Sales/Streaming honors, fueled by 8.9 million streams, up 73%. It also re-enters at No. 37 on the overall Streaming Songs list, and rallies 25-6 on Latin Streaming Songs.
Three other tracks outside Bichota hold steady on Hot Latin Songs, making a total of 13 simultaneous songs on the current ranking. Here’s the recap:
No. 1 “Mi Ex Tenía Razón” (debut)No. 2 “Qlona,” with Peso Pluma (debut)No. 6, “S91”No. 12, “Una Noche En Medellín (Remix)” with Cris MJ & Ryan Castro (debut)No. 13, “TQG,” with ShakiraNo. 15, “Okidoki” (debut)No. 18, “Amargura”No. 19, “Me Tengo Que Ir,” with Kali Uchis (debut)No. 22, “Dispo,” with Young Miko (debut)No. 26, “Bichotag” (debut)No. 29, “Gatita Gangster,” with Dei V (debut)No. 36, “Provenza (Remix),” with Tiesto (debut)No. 44, “Watati,” featuring Aldo Ranks
Karol G’s new personal records arrive amidst her Mañana Será Bonito tour, in support of the eponymous album which scored her the best performance on the Billboard 200, and the first all-Spanish-language record by a female artist to debut at No. 1.
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Just four months after Karol G crowned Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart, she is back at No. 1 with her fifth studio album, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), which debuts atop the Aug. 26-dated list. The Colombian captures her third champ following KG0516 (2021) and Mañana Será Bonito (2023); the latter, the 17-track set that gave her a first Billboard 200 hit, ruled the Latin albums ranking for five weeks between March and April 2023.
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The five-and-a-half-month gap between the two Mañana albums hitting No. 1 is the shortest span between new No. 1s for a living woman on Top Latin Albums. Jenni Rivera had a quicker succession of No. 1s — between La Misma Gran Señora and Joyas Prestadas: Pop (less than three months apart, between Dec. 19, 2012 and March 16, 2013).
Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season) was released in three different formats, a nine-track standard wide digital album, a 10-track digital and streaming album and a 10-track CD and vinyl LP. The three 10-track formats include nine standard songs plus one bonus track.
Bichota Season arrives at the summit with 67,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. during the Aug. 11-17 tracking week, according to Luminate. As with all Karol G releases, streaming powers most of the album’s first week, with a total of 49,000 units from the consumption method. That figure equals to 68.26 million on-demand official streams for the album’s 10 songs. Traditional album sales contribute 17,000 units, while track-equivalent album units comprise 1,000 units.
An equivalent album unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album (track equivalent album units, TEA), or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album (streaming equivalent album units, SEA).
With Bichota Season part of Karol G’s collection of hits, here’s the list of all her top 10s on Top Latin Albums, three of which debuted at No. 1:
Debut Position, Album, Debut Date
No. 2, Unstoppable, Nov. 18, 2017
No. 2, Ocean, May 8, 2019
No. 1, KG0516, April 10, 2021
No. 1, Mañana Será Bonito, March 11
No. 1, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), Aug. 26
Further, Bichota Season joins three other sets on Top Latin Albums this week, Mañana Será Bonito at No. 4, KG0516 at No. 18 and Ocean at No. 42.
Elsewhere, Bichota Season bows in the top five on the all-genre Billboard 200, at No. 3, her second top 10 on the tally, after Mañana Será Bonito launched at No. 1 in March. The album also earns Karol G her second top 15 entry on Vinyl Albums, at No. 14, following Mañana Será Bonito’s No. 6 debut and peak in July.
As Bichota Season arrives, nine tracks of the album debut on the multimetric Hot Latin Songs chart. The album’s new recruits join the set’s first single, “S91,” which rises 20-6 as the Greatest Gainer Sales/Streaming of the week with 8.9 million streams earned during the same period. Plus, it re-enters at No. 37 on the overall Streaming Songs list, and flies 25-6 on Latin Streaming Songs.
With three other tracks outside Bichota holding strong on Hot Latin Songs, Karol G places 13 simultaneous titles on the current tally. Here’s the recap:
No. 1 “Mi Ex Tenía Razón” (debut)
No. 2 “Qlona” with Peso Pluma (debut)
No. 6, “S91”
No. 12, “Una Noche En Medellín (Remix)” with Cris MJ & Ryan Castro (debut)
No. 13, “TQG,” with Shakira
No. 15, “Okidoki” (debut)
No. 18, “Amargura”
No. 19, “Me Tengo Que Ir” with Kali Uchis (debut)
No. 22, “Dispo” with Young Miko (debut)
No. 26, “Bichotag” (debut)
No. 29, “Gatita Gangster” with Dei V (debut)
No. 36, “Provenza (Remix)” with Tiesto (debut)
No. 44, “Watati,” featuring Aldo Ranks
Oliver Anthony makes a historic first visit to the latest Billboard Hot 100 (dated Aug. 26).
The singer-songwriter, billed as Oliver Anthony Music (his real name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford) scores his first two entries on the chart with “Rich Men North of Richmond,” which launches at No. 1, and “Aint Gotta Dollar” at No. 82.
“Richmond,” which Anthony self-released Aug. 11, soars in with 17.5 million U.S. streams and 147,000 downloads sold in the tracking week ending Aug. 17, according to Luminate. Not being promoted to radio, it also tallied 553,000 radio airplay audience impressions (with 516,000 on country stations). The song concurrently debuts at Nos. 1 and 4 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales and Streaming Songs charts, as well as No. 1 on the multimetric Hot Country Songs survey.
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Anthony is just the sixth artist to debut a first solo Hot 100 entry at No. 1, after Zayn (“Pillowtalk” in 2016 – his first solo single after leaving One Direction); Baauer (the viral “Harlem Shake” in 2013), Carrie Underwood (“Inside Your Heaven” in 2005, after she won American Idol), Fantasia (“I Believe” in 2004, also after she won Idol) and Clay Aiken (“This Is the Night” in 2003, following his second-place finish on Idol).
“Dollar,” self-released in September 2022, debuts with 3.5 million U.S. streams (up 1,222%) and 17,000 sold (up 2,300%). It also starts at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales and No. 21 on Hot Country Songs.
Before this week, Oliver Anthony had never appeared on a Billboard chart, making him the first such act to open at No. 1 on the Hot 100. The radiowv YouTube account, which spotlights unsigned Americana and country acts in the Virginia/West Virginia region, posted “Richmond” Aug. 11. The song — with lyrics detailing inflation, taxes, child trafficking and welfare abuse — has drawn both praise from the right and opposition from the left.
The song’s virality has also increased interest in Anthony’s other releases. He debuts 13 tracks on Digital Song Sales chart, led by “Richmond” at No. 1. He’s the only living solo male artist to have charted at least 13 songs in the top 50 of the survey.
On the country-specific Country Digital Song Sales chart, Anthony also charts 13 songs, including six in the top 10. He’s just the fourth artist to log that many titles in the top 10 simultaneously, after Kenny Rogers (seven in April 2020, after his death); Taylor Swift (seven in November 2010 powered by the chart arrival of her LP Speak Now); and Luke Combs (six in November 2020, as his album What You See Is What You Get debuted).
Taylor Swift spends a record-extending 77th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Aug. 26), thanks to the continued success of her latest album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), as well as 10 additional albums on the Billboard 200 and five songs on the Billboard Hot 100.
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The set ranks to No. 5 in its sixth week on the Billboard 200 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned Aug. 11-17, according to Luminate, after spending its first two weeks at No. 1. It became Swift’s first re-recorded album, of three that she’s released so far, to notch its first two weeks at the summit.
Also boosting Swift’s Artist 100 standing are 10 additional albums on the Billboard 200. This is the sixth week (all consecutive) that Swift has landed 11 titles on the survey. Five weeks ago, she became just the third act – and first woman – to chart at least 11 in a single week, following The Beatles and Prince.
Here’s a recap of Swift’s current Billboard 200-charting titles.
Rank, Title:
No. 5, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
No. 6, Midnights
No. 7, Lover
No. 9, 1989
No. 11, Folklore
No. 17, Reputation
No. 18, Red (Taylor’s Version)
No. 24, Evermore
No. 26, Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
No. 145, Taylor Swift
No. 191, Speak Now
Swift also boasts four albums in the Billboard 200’s top 10 for a fourth time, after becoming the first living artist to achieve the feat in nearly 60 years last month.
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On the Hot 100, Swift charts five songs: “Cruel Summer” (down from its No. 3 high to No. 4), “Karma” featuring Ice Spice (13-14), “Anti-Hero” (18-20), “Blank Space” (49-46, after re-entering last week) and “I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)” (63-71).
Elsewhere on the Artist 100, Oliver Anthony Music debuts at No. 3, thanks to his viral song “Rich Men North of Richmond.” The track launches at No. 1 on the Hot 100, driven by 17.5 million official streams and sold 147,000 downloads in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Luminate, while another track of his, “Aint Got a Dollar,” debuts at No. 82. He’s the first act to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 after never previously appearing on any Billboard ranking in any form.
Rounding out the Artist 100’s top five, Travis Scott holds at No. 2, Morgan Wallen falls 3-4 and Luke Combs drops 4-5.
The Artist 100 measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay and streaming to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
It’s tight at the top of the midweek U.K. chart, as singles by Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo joust for the crown.
As it stands, Lipa’s Barbie cut “Dance The Night” (via Warner Records) leads Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” (Interscope) and Rodrigo’s “Vampire” (Geffen), respectively.
According to the Official Charts Company, less than 1,000 chart units currently separate the top three.
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Lupa will hope for a different result from last week, when “Dance The Night” led on the chart blast, only to be pipped by Eilish in the finals days of the chart week.
If it holds its spot, “Dance The Night” would give Lipa a fourth U.K. chart topper, and her first as a solo artist since “New Rules” back in 2017.
If “Vampire” takes flight and snatches the crown, it would give Rodrigo a third leader after “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U,” both from 2021.
“What Was I Made For?” last Friday (Aug. 18) became Elish’s second U.K. No. 1 single, following her Academy Award-winning James Bond single, “No Time To Die.” And it led an historic tally, on which the top six singles were all recorded by solo female artists.
The Official Chart Update is Girl Powered once again, as female solo artists rule positions 1-6, including Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” (holding at No. 4 via EMI), Peggy Gou’s “(It Goes Like) Nanana” (up 6-5 via XL Recordings) and Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (Ministry of Sound) set to rise 19-6, for a new high.
Also, Becky Hill’s “Disconnect” (Polydor) with Chase & Status is on the brink of a new peak, up 9-7 on the chart blast, while Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua’s “Barbie World” (Atlantic/Capitol/Republic) dips 7-9, bringing to eight the total of female-led singles in the midweek top 10.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Singles Chart is published Friday, Aug. 25.
Hozier is headed for his first U.K. chart crown as Unreal Unearth (via Island) establishes a solid lead.
The third album from the Irish singer and songwriter, Unreal Unearth starts at No. 1 on the Official Chart Update, and is set to eclipse his 2014 self-titled debut, which peaked at No. 3 and featured his trans-Atlantic hit single “Take Me to Church.” Hozier’s followup, 2019’s Wasteland, Baby, peaked at No 6.
Based on midweek sales and streaming data published by the Official Charts Company, Scottish indie-rockers the View is set for a No. 2 start with Exorcism Of Youth (Cooking Vinyl), their sixth album. Exorcism should give the band their fourth U.K. top 10 album, and highest peak since their 2007 debut, Hats Off to the Buskers, led the chart. Hats Off to the Buskers contained the band’s first and only top 10 single, “Same Jeans,” which reached No. 3 in the year of release.
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British pop singer and songwriter Birdy could snag a career best on the Official Albums Chart with Portraits (Warner Music U.K.), her fifth album. It’s new at No. 3 on the chart blast. Completing an all-new top four on the midweek tally is U.S. artist Renee Rapp, who is set to open her U.K. chart account with Snow Angel (Interscope), her debut LP. It’s new at No. 4 on the chart blast.
Further down the list, post punk favorites Talking Heads is eyeing a new peak for Stop Making Sense (Parlophone), their live album which returns with an expanded edition to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The set could reeenter at No. 13, bettering its previous peak of No. 24 back in 2000.
As previously reported, Talking Heads members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison will appear together publicly next month for the first time since their 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction at an upcoming 40th anniversary celebration of the live concert film, from which the album is cut.
Finally, English boyband Here At Last’s EP 1 (Halo Army) is set to make a top 40 splash, new at No. 22, while BTS member J-Hope could snag his own top 40 with Jack In The Box (Polydor), following the release of an expanded physical version. It’s set to reenter at No. 28 on the midweek survey.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Albums Chart is published Aug. 25.
As previously reported, Oliver Anthony Music’s breakout viral song “Rich Men North of Richmond” soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts (dated Aug. 26).
Officially released Aug. 11, the track drew 17.5 million streams and sold 147,000 downloads in the U.S. through Aug. 17, according to Luminate. Not being promoted to radio, the song also tallied 553,000 radio airplay audience impressions, the bulk on country stations.
“Richmond” concurrently debuts at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, and No. 4 on Streaming Songs.
It’s one of a whopping 13 tracks by the unsigned, Farmville, Va.-based singer-songwriter to debut on the 50-position Digital Song Sales chart, as “Richmond” has sparked interest in his overall catalog of songs (all released since 2022).
Here’s a look at his haul on the latest list:
No. 1, “Rich Men North of Richmond” (147,000 sold Aug. 11-17)
No. 2, “Aint Gotta Dollar” (17,000)
No. 5, “Ive Got To Get Sober (12,000)
No. 10, “I Want To Go Home” (8,000)
No. 11, “Virginia” (6,000)
No. 15, “Rich Mans Gold” (5,000)
No. 19, “Always Love You (Like a Good Ole Dog)” (4,000)
No. 21, “Feeling Purdy Good” (4,000)
No. 23, “Doggonit” (3,000)
No. 24, “Stuck Living in the New World” (3,000)
No. 29, “90 Some Chevy” (3,000)
No. 37, “Hell on Earth” (2,000)
No. 43, “Between You & Me” (2,000)
The 50 top-selling songs Aug. 11-17 sold 375,000. Anthony’s 13 songs above sold 216,000 – a 58% share.
“Richmond,” meanwhile, outsold the Nos. 2-18 songs on Digital Song Sales combined.
Looking at Anthony’s week-over-week gains for his previously-released songs – all except for “Richmond” above – those 12 charted tracks sold 73,000 Aug. 11-17, a 2,054% vault from 3,000 Aug. 4-10.
Beyond the Digital Song Sales chart, Anthony has 16 song releases available for purchase, with the three that did not make the survey (“Cobwebs and Cocaine,” “Long Gone” and “Vcr Kid”) upping his total to 220,000 downloads sold Aug. 11-17. Industry-wide, he sold 7.8% of all songs in the tracking week (220,000 of 2,813,000).
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Plus, Anthony is the first living solo male to chart as least 13 titles in the top 50 of Digital Song Sales at once. (The chart was formerly 75 positions-deep.) Among all acts, five previously reached that mark in a single week, led by Prince with 21 on the May 14, 2016, list, following his passing that April 21. The only other solo male prior to Anthony with at least that many simultaneous top-50 entries was Michael Jackson, with a personal-best 17 on the July 25, 2009, after he died that June 25.
The other acts to have amassed at least 13 concurrent tracks in the top 50 on Digital Song Sales: BTS (18; March 7, 2020, as the group’s album Map of the Soul : 7 premiered atop the Billboard 200), Taylor Swift (16; Nov. 5, 2022, concurrent with the No. 1 Billboard 200 start of her album Midnights) and Rihanna (14; Feb. 25, 2023, following her halftime show performance at Super Bowl LVII Feb. 12).
Anthony’s 13 songs listed above also all debut on the 25-position Country Digital Song Sales chart, from “Richmond” at No. 1 to “Between You & Me” at No. 25. He ties the record for the most simultaneous top-25 entries; 13 titles by Kenny Rogers reached the ranking dated April 4, 2020, following his passing that March 20.
Meanwhile, with all 16 of Anthony’s song releases in the country genre, 37.3% of all country track sales last week were by Oliver Anthony Music (220,000 of 591,000).
All charts dated Aug. 26 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Aug. 22.
Jung Kook’s “Seven,” featuring Latto, notches a fifth week at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 26). Four weeks earlier, the song became the first leader on the lists for a member of BTS as a soloist.
Also on the Global 200, Oliver Anthony Music’s viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” – new at No. 1 on the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 – and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Bad Idea Right?” launch at Nos. 2 and 7, respectively.
On Global Excl. U.S., V’s “Love Me Again” debuts at No. 6 and “Rainy Days” begins at No. 8, as he becomes the fifth member of BTS to have hit the chart’s top 10 solo.
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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‘Seven’ Adds 5th Week Atop Global 200
Jung Kook’s “Seven,” featuring Latto, claims a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, with 104.3 million streams (down 7%) and 4,000 sold (down 9%) worldwide Aug. 11-17.
The song is just the second of 2023 to debut atop the Global 200 and spend at least its first five weeks at No. 1, after Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” tallied its first six weeks on the chart at the summit beginning in January.
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Oliver Anthony Music’s breakout hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” debuts at No. 2 on the Global 200. Officially released Aug. 11, the song by the Farmville, Va.-based singer-songwriter drew 20.2 million streams and sold 156,000 worldwide through Aug. 17.
Notably, and not unexpectedly, given the song’s lyrical focus on Anthony’s take on the current state of America, the bulk of its consumption – 88% of its streams and 95% of its sales – was domestic in its opening week; the song totaled 2.8 million streams and sold 9,000 outside the U.S., and does not make the Global Excl. U.S. chart.
Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” returns to its No. 3 Global 200 high, from No. 5, while two songs from the Barbie soundtrack, Barbie: The Album, round out the top five: Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?,” down to No. 4 from its No. 2 high, and Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night,” which dips to No. 5 from its No. 3 best.
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Elsewhere, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Bad Idea Right?” debuts at No. 7 on the Global 200, with 43.5 million streams and 5,000 sold worldwide. Rodrigo scores her sixth top 10, and second from her second LP, Guts (due Sept. 8), after “Vampire” bowed in July as her third No. 1.
BTS’ Jung Kook & V in Global Excl. U.S. Top 10
Jung Kook’s “Seven,” featuring Latto, concurrently crowns the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for a fifth week, with 95.1 million streams (down 7%) and 3,000 sold (down 4%) outside the U.S. Aug. 11-17.
As on the Global 200, the song is only the second this year to begin atop Global Excl. U.S. and spend at least its first five weeks at No. 1, following Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” (six weeks, starting in January).
Myke Towers’ “LaLa” keeps at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S., after it led the list for a week in July; Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” holds at its No. 3 high; Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” repeats at its No. 4 best; and NewJeans’ “Super Shy” is steady at No. 5, after reaching No. 2.
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Also in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, V’s “Love Me Again” and “Rainy Days” debut at Nos. 6 and 8, respectively. The former starts with 37.3 million streams and 19,000 sold outside the U.S., the latter, with 36 million streams and 18,000 sold.
V becomes the fifth member of BTS to hit the Global Excl. U.S. top 10 solo. Here’s a recap, ranked by peak position, of BTS members’ 11 top 10s (including one No. 1) on the chart outside the group – with BTS having tallied 11 top 10s (including seven No. 1s) on the survey:
“Seven,” Jung Kook feat. Latto, No. 1 (five weeks to date), 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
“Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022),” Jung Kook, No. 4, December 2022
“Love Me Again,” V, No. 6 (to date), August 2023
“The Astronaut,” Jin, No. 6, November 2022
“Rainy Days,” V, No. 8 (to date), 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
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The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 26, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 22). 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.
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.
Oliver Anthony Music’s breakout viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. Among other chart achievements for the singer-songwriter, he’s the first artist ever to launch atop the list with no prior chart history in any form.
Plus, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Bad Idea Right?” enters the Hot 100 at No. 10, marking her sixth career top 10.
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 Aug. 26, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Aug. 22). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Here’s a look at the coronation of “Rich Men North of Richmond,” the 1,153rd song to top the Hot 100 over the chart’s 65-year history, and the 69th to debut at No. 1.
Streams, sales & airplay: Officially released Aug. 11, “Rich Men North of Richmond” drew 17.5 million streams and sold 147,000 downloads in the tracking week ending Aug. 17, according to Luminate. Not being promoted to radio, the song also tallied 553,000 radio airplay audience impressions, the bulk on country stations.
The single also debuts at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, and No. 4 on Streaming Songs.
The track by the Farmville, Va.-based singer-songwriter and former factory worker, born Christopher Anthony Lunsford (whose stage name honors his grandfather, Oliver Anthony), first drew buzz online, including on TikTok, where he boasts 1.5 million followers, prior to its Aug. 11 posting on the radiowv YouTube account, which spotlights unsigned Americana and country acts in the Virginia/West Virginia region. (The radiowv recording features simply Anthony’s voice and a Gretsch guitar.)
The song has drawn both praise from the right and opposition from the left, with its lyrics referencing “your dollar taxed to no end ’cause of rich men north of Richmond,” as well as “the obese milkin’ welfare.” Stated Anthony in a video posted Aug. 7, “I sit pretty dead center down the aisle on politics and always have.” He added on Facebook Aug. 17, “I am sad to see the world in the state it’s in, with everyone fighting with each other.”
Anthony’s reaction: Says Anthony exclusively to Billboard, “The hopelessness and frustration of our times resonate in the response to this song. The song itself is not anything special, but the people who have supported it are incredible and deserve to be heard.”
“There was not a whole lot of planning involved,” Draven Riffe, Anthony’s manager, told Billboard Saturday (Aug. 19) of the song’s release. Riffe is also the sole producer of “Richmond,” as well as the co-founder of radiowv, which launched in 2018. “We just knew if we got the video out there, people were going to love the song and it would resonate with a lot of folks. There wasn’t some big, massive planning team around this. I had a few friends who helped us push the song out there, like my friend Josh [Baer], who has a page called Country Central. We all coordinated and Oliver’s following [did], as well; we just tried to push it out there all at once with our little group of friends and that’s how it happened.”
First No. 1, first chart appearance: Prior to this week, Oliver Anthony Music had not appeared on any Billboard chart in any form, making him the first such artist ever to debut atop the Hot 100.
He’s just the sixth artist ever to debut a first solo Hot 100 entry at No. 1, following Zayn, Baauer, Carrie Underwood, Fantasia and Clay Aiken. Zayn’s debut solo single “Pillowtalk” opened on top in 2016, after he had become established as a member of One Direction; Baauer’s viral hit “Harlem Shake” debuted a week after first appearing on dance/electronic rankings; and Underwood, Fantasia and Aiken soared in, driven by sales, after the season finales of American Idol in 2005 (when Underwood won), 2004 (when Fantasia won), and 2003 (when Aiken finished second). “Inside Your Heaven” brought Underwood to the Hot 100 in her first sole-credited role after she first charted via the group effort “When You Tell Me That You Loved Me,” billed to American Idol Finalists Season 4; “I Believe” marked Fantasia’s debut chart hit, although it reached rankings other than the Hot 100 the week before (as with Baauer’s Hot 100 arrival); and Aiken had charted prior to “This Is the Night” as a singer on the collaborative “God Bless the U.S.A.,” billed to American Idol Finalists.
Unsigned, undeterred: With Oliver Anthony Music doubling as the label credit for the self-released “Rich Men North of Richmond,” the singer-songwriter marks a rare unsigned artist at No. 1 on the Hot 100. Lisa Loeb became the first such act, when “Stay (I Missed You)” led in 1994, although the song was released on RCA Records, from the hit Reality Bites soundtrack. (Loeb subsequently signed with Geffen Records.)
“We are working on a full [lineup] of shows with bigger accommodations in the near future,” Anthony wrote on Facebook. “Everyone in the ‘industry’ is rushing me into signing something, but we just want to take things slow right now. I appreciate your patience.”
Solo-written No. 1: “Rich Men North of Richmond” is the first solo-written Hot 100 No. 1 since Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves,” penned by the band’s frontman, Dave Bayley, dominated for five weeks in March-April 2022.
“Richmond” is the first Hot 100 leader written entirely and sung by a soloist since Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” logged its last of six weeks at No. 1 in January 2018.
Hot 100 & Hot Country Songs No. 1s: “Rich Men North of Richmond” concurrently opens atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100.
The track marks the 23rd song to have topped both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs. With Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” having ruled the Hot 100 for 16 weeks, nonconsecutively, from March through last week (tied for the second-longest command in the survey’s history), and Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” leading for a week earlier this month, 2023 is the first year with at least three shared Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs leaders since 1975.
Plus, “Richmond” is the first song by a solo male to start atop both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs simultaneously. It’s the second overall, after Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” opened atop both rankings dated Nov. 27, 2021. (The charts have shared methodology since October 2012.)
Songs to Have Hit No. 1 on Both the Hot 100 & Hot Country Songs Charts:
“Rich Men North of Richmond,” Anthony Oliver Music, 2023
“Try That in a Small Town,” Jason Aldean, 2023
“Last Night,” Morgan Wallen, 2023
“All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” Taylor Swift, 2021
“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” Taylor Swift, 2012
“Amazed,” Lonestar, 1999-2000
“Islands in the Stream,” Kenny Rogers, duet with Dolly Parton, 1983
“I Love a Rainy Night,” Eddie Rabbitt, 1981
“9 to 5,” Dolly Parton, 1981
“Lady,” Kenny Rogers, 1980
“Southern Nights,” Glen Campbell, 1977
“Convoy,” C.W. McCall, 1975-76
“I’m Sorry,” John Denver, 1975
“Rhinestone Cowboy,” Glen Campbell, 1975
“Thank God I’m a Country Boy,” John Denver, 1975
“Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” Freddy Fender, 1975
“(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” B.J. Thomas, 1975
“The Most Beautiful Girl,” Charlie Rich, 1973
“Honey,” Bobby Goldsboro, 1968
“Harper Valley P.T.A.,” Jeannie C. Riley, 1968
“Big Bad John,” Jimmy Dean, 1961
“El Paso,” Marty Robbins, 1959-60
“The Battle of New Orleans,” Johnny Horton, 1959
Of the 23 songs listed above, 12 were concentrated in 1973-83. Meanwhile, Glen Campbell, John Denver, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers and Taylor Swift are the only acts with two songs each that have crowned both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs.
As Billboard reported July 6, country music has surged this year: consumption for the genre in the United States was up 20.3% year-over-year in the first 26 weeks of 2023, according to Luminate. (Comparatively, country grew by 2.5% over the same period in 2022.)
Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” adds a sixth week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, where it’s steady in rank, and Wallen’s “Last Night” falls to No. 3. Thanks to “Rich Men North of Richmond,” “Fast Car” and “Last Night,” country hits (as defined by those that have hit Hot Country Songs) claim the Hot 100’s top three spots in a single week for only the second time; Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” “Last Night” and “Fast Car” placed at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the Hot 100 dated Aug. 5.
“Last Night,” meanwhile, tops Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart for a 12th week, having led each week since the list returned.
Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” dips to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 high, and Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” descends 4-5, after reaching No. 3, as it posts a ninth week atop the Radio Songs chart (85.9 million, down 2%). “Calm Down” also tops the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for a 51st week, extending the longest reign since the ranking began over a year ago.
Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” holds at No. 6 on the Hot 100, six weeks after it debuted as her third No. 1, and Gunna’s “Fukumean” falls 5-7, after hitting No. 4, as it rules the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fifth week each.
Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” backtracks to No. 8 from its No. 7 Hot 100 best and Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie World,” with Aqua – also from the soundtrack Barbie: The Album – slips 8-9, after reaching No. 7, while winning top Airplay Gainer honors for a second consecutive week (36.8 million, up 41%).
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Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Bad Idea Right?” debuts at No. 10, with 19.7 million streams, 5.3 million in airplay audience and 4,000 sold.
The song is Rodrigo’s sixth top 10, with all having debuted in the region, following “Vampire”; “Drivers License” (No. 1 for eight weeks, beginning in January 2021); “Good 4 U” (No. 1, one week, May 2021); “Deja Vu” (No. 3, June 2021); and “Traitor” (No. 9, June 2021). Her first four top 10s are from her first LP, Sour, while her two latest are from follow-up Guts, due Sept. 8.
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