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Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” adds a 19th week atop Billboard’s streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart (dated June 24), matching his longest command among seven career No. 1s. “Last Night” retains the Hot Country Songs penthouse as it concurrently dominates Country Airplay for a seventh week (33 million impressions, down 2%). It also […]
Taylor Swift extends her record-run atop the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated June 24), as she rises from No. 2 to No. 1, leading as the top musical act in the United States for a 69th total week.
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Swift returns to the top thanks to the continued success of her latest album Midnights, plus eight additional charting sets on the Billboard 200.
Here’s a recap of her current Billboard-charting titles:
Rank, Title:
No. 4, Midnights
No. 10, Lover
No. 15, Folklore
No. 20, 1989
No. 24, Reputation
No. 25, Red (Taylor’s Version)
No. 39, Evermore
No. 42, Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
No. 43, Speak Now
Also contributing to Swift’s reign are four songs on the latest Billboard Hot 100: current Midnights single “Karma” featuring Ice Spice (No. 9), former eight-week leader “Anti-Hero” (No. 12), Lover cut “Cruel Summer” (No. 39) and “Hits Different” (No. 84).
“Cruel Summer” was recently announced as an official single, four years after its release. It’s now the fifth promoted single from 2019’s Lover. It’s one of Swift’s 107 career top 40 Hot 100 hits, the most among women and second overall only to Drake (174).
As the song is now generating radio play, the track debuts at No. 33 on Pop Airplay (up 147% in plays). It becomes her 41st career entry at the format, tying Justin Bieber for the third-most in the chart’s 30-year archives, after Rihanna (51) and Nicki Minaj (44).
Niall Horan re-enters the Artist 100 at No. 3, powered by his new third solo LP, The Show. The album debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (80,000 equivalent album units), becoming his third top five solo album. One Direction, with him as a member, has scored five top five albums, including four No. 1s.
Noah Kahan debuts at No. 6 on the Artist 100, thanks to the new expanded version of his third studio album, Stick Season. The new version contains six new tracks, plus one extended version of a previously released song, helping the set vault from No. 100 to No. 3 on the latest Billboard 200, becoming his first top 10 album. One track, “Dial Drunk,” debuts at No. 43 on the Hot 100, earning him his first appearance on the chart.
Kahan also lands a whopping 18 songs on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, all of which appear on Stick Season. He’s just the fifth act to chart at least 18 or more songs in a single week, after David Bowie, Linkin Park, Swift and Zach Bryan.
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.
El Alfa scores his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 (chart dated June 24), as his new collaboration with Peso Pluma, “Plebada” debuts at No. 68.
The song, released June 8 through El Jefe Records, debuts with 7.8 million official streams, 336,000 radio airplay audience impressions and 1,000 downloads sold June 9-15, according to Luminate. It also debuts at No. 12 on Hot Latin Songs and No. 129 on the Billboard Global 200.
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El Alfa (real name: Emanuel Herrera Batista) has been churning out Billboard-charting hits since 2017. He notched his first chart appearance on Sept. 2, 2017, when his debut full-length Disciplina debuted at No. 11 on Latin Rhythm Albums and No. 45 on Top Latin Albums.
Since then, he’s charted his four additional studio sets on Top Latin Albums: El Hombre (No. 7 peak in 2018), El Androide (No. 9, 2020), Sabiduria (No. 16, 2022) and Sagitario (No. 28, 2022).
El Alfa has also charted 18 total titles on the Hot Latin Songs chart to-date, all since 2018. Here’s a recap, ranked by peak positions:
Peak Position, TitleNo. 9, “La Mama De La Mama,” with CJ X Chael Produciendo/feat. El Cherry ScomNo. 12, “La Romana” (Bad Bunny feat. El Alfa)No. 12, “Plebada,” with Peso PlumaNo. 13, “Que Calor” (Major Lazer & J Balvin feat. El Alfa)No. 14, “Pam,” with Justin Quiles and Daddy YankeeNo. 22, “Bebe,” with CamiloNo. 24, “Fulanito,” with Becky GNo. 26, “Gogo Dance”No. 27, “!Wow BB!,” with Natti Natasha and ChimbalaNo. 30, “Coronao Now,” with Lil PumpNo. 32, “Pikete,” with Nicky JamNo. 33, “Bombon,” with Daddy Yankee and Lil JonNo. 34, “Curazao,” with FarrukoNo. 36, “Wow!,” (Bryant Myers, Nicky Jam & Arcangel feat. Darell & El Alfa)No. 42, “Mi Mami,” feat. Cardi BNo. 46, “Singapur,” with Farruko, Myke Towers, Chencho Corleone and Justin QuilesNo. 47, “Xoxa,” with FarrukoNo. 50, “Ten Cuidado,” with Pitbull, Iamchino, Farruko and Omar Courtz
Among his other chart appearances, El Alfa has scored four entries on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, including one top 10: “Que Calor,” with Major Lazer and J Balvin, reached No. 6 in 2019. Radio-wise, he logged eight hits on Latin Airplay, 11 on Latin Rhythm Airplay, four on Latin Pop Airplay and one on both Pop Airplay and Rhythmic Airplay.
On June 5, El Alfa announced his La Leyenda del Dembow Tour in the U.S., set to run this October through December.
Noah Kahan is officially a Billboard Hot 100-charting artist, as his new track “Dial Drunk” debuts at No. 43, the highest debut on the chart this week.
“Dial Drunk,” released June 9 via Mercury/Republic Records, debuts on the latest chart dated June 24 with 9.5 million U.S. streams, 583,000 radio airplay audience impressions and 1,000 downloads sold in the June 9-15 tracking week, according to Luminate.
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The song appears on the new expanded edition of Kahan’s third LP Stick Season, first released in October. The new version, released June 9 and amended to Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever), contains six additional songs, plus an extended version of the set’s original “The View Between Villages,” on top of the original’s 14 tracks.
Thanks to the re-release, the album (with all versions combined into one listing for charting and tracking purposes) vaults from No. 100 to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 (in its 29th total week on the chart) with 71,000 equivalent album units earned. Stick becomes Kahan’s first top 10 on the all-genre chart, while also hitting No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts for the first time.
Kahan, 26, has maintained a familiar presence on Billboard’s charts since 2018; he logged his first chart appearance on Jan. 27, 2018, when his EP Hurt Somebody debuted at No. 22 on Heatseekers Albums. The same week, the EP’s title track with Julia Michaels debuted at its No. 24 high on Hot Rock Songs and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. Three months later, it entered Adult Pop Airplay, peaking at No. 35 that May.
Kahan has landed six songs on Adult Alternative Airplay: “False Confidence” (No. 8 peak in 2019), “Mess” (No. 26, 2019), “Cynic” (No. 30, 2019), “Stick Season” (No. 2, 2022), “Homesick” (No. 7, 2023) and “We’re All Gonna Die,” with Joy Oladokun (at a new No. 17 high on the latest chart).
Before this week, Kahan had charted seven songs on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, with “Stick Season” reaching his career-high peak of No. 12 in November. This week, he nearly triples that tota, landing a whopping 18 songs on the chart — including five in the top 10, with “Stick Season” at a new No. 8 best. Here’s a recap (all of which are debuts, except where noted):
Rank, TitleNo. 3, “Dial Drunk”No. 7, “You’re Gonna Go Far”No. 8, “Stick Season” (re-entry)No. 9, “Call Your Mom”No. 10, “The View Between Villages”No. 11, “No Complaints”No. 16, “Paul Revere”No. 19, “Your Needs, My Needs”No. 20, “Northern Attitude” (re-entry)No. 23, “All My Love” (up from No. 47)No. 28, “Homesick” (up from No. 45)No. 31, “She Calls Me Back”No. 32, “Orange Juice” (re-entry)No. 35, “Growing Sideways” (re-entry)No. 36, “Everywhere, Everything”No. 38, “New Perspective”No. 45, “Come Over”No. 48, “Strawberry Wine”
(His one other song to have hit the chart that doesn’t re-enter this week is “Hurt Somebody,” which reached No. 24 in 2018.)
In the 14-year history of the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, Kahan is just the fifth act to chart at least 18 songs in a single week, after David Bowie, Linkin Park, Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan.
As for Kahan’s other Billboard chart appearances, “Need Your Love,” with Gryffin and Seven Lions reached No. 12 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in 2019, while his debut studio album Busyhead reached No. 57 on Top Album Sales in June 2019.
Kahan is currently on the road on his Stick Season Tour, which runs through September.
BTS’ “Take Two” bounds in at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated June 24). The song, released in honor of the South Korean pop superstars’ first decade as a group, is BTS’ record-extending seventh leader on each list.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, which started 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.
‘Two’ = No. 1 on Global 200
BTS’ “Take Two” blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, with 60.2 million streams and 64,000 sold worldwide from its release June 9 through June 15.
The song is BTS’ record-padding seventh Global 200 No. 1; Bad Bunny is next with three leaders. Here’s a recap:
“Take Two,” one week at No. 1 to-date, June 24, 2023
“My Universe,” with Coldplay, one, Oct. 9, 2021
“Permission To Dance,” one, July 24, 2021
“Butter,” two weeks, beginning June 5, 2021
“Life Goes On,” one week, Dec. 5, 2020
“Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, one, Oct. 17, 2020
“Dynamite,” four, beginning Oct. 3, 2020
BTS also becomes the first act to have sent a new song to No. 1 on the Global 200 each year since the chart originated in 2020. (Mariah Carey is the only other act to have led Global 200 lists dated in all four years, thanks to her perennial classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”)
“Take Two” is a 10th-anniversary nod to BTS’ “second chapter” and an “ode to their fans,” according to a statement from HYBE. Even ahead of its commercial release, it topped Billboard’s Hot Trending Songs chart.
Eslabon Armada and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola” drops to No. 2 on the Global 200, following five weeks at No. 1 starting in April; Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma’s “La Bebe” rebounds 5-3, after reaching No. 2; Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” rises 6-4, after 12 weeks at No. 1 starting in January; and Bad Bunny’s “Where She Goes” rebounds 5-4, three weeks after it opened at No. 1.
BTS Also ‘Take’s Top Spot on Global Excl. U.S.
BTS’ “Take Two” concurrently debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 54.3 million streams and 48,000 sold outside the U.S. June 9-15.
As on the Global 200, the track is BTS’ record-extending seventh Global Excl. U.S. No. 1; BLACKPINK follows with three. Here’s a rundown:
“Take Two,” one week at No. 1 to-date, June 24, 2023
“Yet To Come,” one, June 25, 2022
“My Universe,” with Coldplay, one, Oct. 9, 2021
“Permission To Dance,” one, July 24, 2021
“Butter,” five weeks, beginning June 5, 2021
“Life Goes On,” one, Dec. 5, 2020
“Dynamite,” eight, beginning Oct. 3, 2020
Meanwhile, BTS is the only act to have ranked at No. 1 on Global Excl. U.S. each year since the chart began in 2020.
YOASOBI’s “Idol” holds at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S., two weeks after it became the first song originally performed in Japanese to top the tally; Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma’s “La Bebe” pushes 5-3, after four weeks at its No. 2 best; Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” ascends 6-4, following 13 weeks at No. 1 (tying Harry Styles’ “As It Was” for the chart’s longest rule); and Fifty Fifty’s “Cupid” falls 3-5, after two weeks on top starting in May.
Elsewhere in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, Bizarrap and Peso Pluma’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 55” falls to No. 6, a week after it hit No. 1.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated June 24, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 21), a day later than usual due to the Juneteenth holiday in the United States yesterday (June 19). 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 Twitter and Instagram.
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Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” adds an 11th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.
Plus, Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s classic “Fast Car” accelerates to No. 3, from No. 4, on the Hot 100. Thanks to “Last Night” and “Fast Car,” two country hits share space in the chart’s top three for the first time since March 2000, and for only the second time in over 42 years.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated June 24, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 21), a day later than usual due to the Juneteenth holiday in the United States yesterday (June 19). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Wallen’s “Last Night,” released on Big Loud/Mercury/Republic Records, drew 69.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and 29.6 million streams (down 4%) and sold 7,000 downloads (down 6%) in the June 9-15 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The song, which initially led the Hot 100 in March, becoming Wallen’s first leader on the survey, posts a 13th week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart; rises 4-3 on Digital Song Sales, following a week on top; and keeps at its No. 4 high on Radio Songs.
Additionally, “Last Night” tops Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, which employs the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 19th week – tying “You Proof” (May-December 2022) for Wallen’s longest command among his seven Hot Country Songs No. 1s.
“Last Night” concurrently leads the Country Airplay chart for a seventh week, enters the top 10 on Adult Pop Airplay (11-8) and pushes to No. 9 on Pop Airplay. It’s Wallen’s ninth No. 1 on Country Airplay and his first top 10 on the latter two lists.
“Last Night” also notches a third week atop Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart, which returned two weeks earlier.
Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after eight weeks at No. 1 beginning upon its debut in January. It tacks on an 18th week atop Radio Songs (85.9 million in audience, down 1%) – matching the second-longest reign since the chart began in December 1990.
Here’s a recap of the chart’s longest-leading hits:
Most Weeks at No. 1 on Radio Songs:
26, “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd, 2020
18, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus, 2023
18, “Iris,” Goo Goo Dolls, 1998
16, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, 2018
16, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
16, “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt, 1996-97
15, “Easy On Me,” Adele, 2021-22
Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” (which hit No. 6 on the Hot 100 in August 1988) drives to a new No. 3 Hot 100 high, from No. 4. It wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a fourth consecutive week (42.5 million, up 24%), as it advances 14-10 on Radio Songs, becoming Combs’ second top 10, after “Forever After All” (No. 10, June 2021). The remake hits the Country Airplay top five (No. 5) and continues scaling the top 25 on Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay. The song is also up 1% to 20.4 million streams and 14% to 10,000 sold.
Notably, Chapman, who solely wrote “Fast Car,” ties her highest Hot 100 rank as a songwriter: “Give Me One Reason,” which she also penned solo, and which became her other top 10 as a recording artist, hit No. 3 in June 1996.
Meanwhile, with Wallen’s “Last Night” at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and Combs’ “Fast Car” at No. 3, two country hits (as defined by titles that have hit Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, where they currently place at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively) rank in the Hot 100’s top three simultaneously for the first time since the chart dated March 11, 2000, when Lonestar’s “Amazed” held at No. 1 and Faith Hill’s “Breathe” took the No. 3 spot. (Before that, such a double-up had not occurred since March 7, 1981, when Eddie Rabbitt’s “I Love a Rainy Night” and Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” ranked at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively.)
A pair of country songs appearing in the Hot 100’s top five for the first time in nearly a quarter-century continues the genre’s surge this year; as analyzed by Hit Songs Deconstructed, country tied pop as the most prominent primary genres in the chart’s top 10 in Q1 2023, marking country’s best such showing in over a decade.
Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” dips to No. 4 from its No. 3 Hot 100 high. It tops the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for a 42nd week, extending the longest reign since the ranking began over a year ago (in partnership with music festival and global brand Afro Nation).
Lil Durk’s “All My Life,” featuring J. Cole, holds at No. 5 on the Hot 100, after it launched at its No. 2 peak. It tops the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fourth week each.
Toosii’s “Favorite Song” ascends 7-6 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5, and SZA’s “Kill Bill” drops 6-7, after it became her first No. 1, for a week in April. The latter leads the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a 26th week.
Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and 21 Savage’s “Creepin’ ” rises 9-8 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 3; Taylor Swift’s “Karma,” featuring Ice Spice, rebounds 10-9, two weeks after it vaulted to its No. 2 high following the release of its remix with Ice Spice; and Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola” recedes 8-10 after reaching No. 4 – the best rank ever for a regional Mexican song – as it logs an 11th week at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart.
Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated June 24), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 21).
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Life is full of whats, ifs, and maybes. Just ask Tom Grennan, who’s on the brink of another U.K. chart crown.
The English singer and songwriter’s third studio album What Ifs & Maybes (via Insanity) leads an all-new top 4 on the midweek chart. If it holds its place, Grennan will bag a second leader, following 2021’s Evering Road, and third consecutive top 10, dating back to his 2018 debut Lighting Matches, which peaked at No. 5.
Grennan will be closely watching the form of Queens of the Stone Age, whose eighth studio album In Times New Roman (Matador) is set to start at No. 2. QOTSA already has five U.K. top 10 LPs.
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Completing the podium at the midweek stage is Pet Shop Boys’ career retrospective SMASH: The Singles 1985-2020 (Parlophone). It’s new at No. 3, and should give the synthpop duo an 18th U.K. top 10 appearance on the chart proper.
Coming in at No. 4 on the Official Chart Update is Far From Saints’ eponymously titled LP (via Ignition). It’s the first release from the group, led by Kelly Jones, frontman of Welsh rockers Stereophonics, plus Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker of U.S. band The Wind and The Wave.
Also new to the top 10 on the chart blast is K-pop group ATEEZ, with The World Ep.2: Outlaw (KQ Entertainment), new at No. 6; Texas’s hits collection The Very Best Of – 1989-2023 (PIAS Recordings) at No. 7; and English singer, songwriter and composer Ben Howard’s Is It? (Island), new at No. 8.
A 20th anniversary reissue of Girls Aloud’s Sound of the Underground (Polydor/UMR) could see the band’s debut return to the top 10. It blasts to No. 9 on the chart update. The first full-length LP from Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl Tweedy, Kimberley Walsh and the late Sarah Harding peaked at No. 2 following its release in 2003.
Just outside the top 10 is Dannii Minogue’s Neon Nights (London Stream Music), which also enjoys a lift due to a 20th anniversary treatment. The Australian pop singer’s fourth studio set, which peaked at No. 8 following its original release, sits at No. 11 on the midweek chart.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Albums Chart is published late Friday, June 23.
Leigh-Anne’s solo career should get away to a good start with “Don’t Say Love”.
The Little Mix singer’s debut solo single dropped last Friday, June 16, and is poised for a top five bow on the U.K. chart.
Based on midweek sales and streaming data captured by the Official Charts Company, “Don’t Say Love” (via Warner Records) could start at No. 4, for what should be the highest new arrival.
As a member of Little Mix, Leigh-Anne has already collected 19 top 10 appearances in her homeland, including five leaders.
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There’s jostling at the front of the chart race. Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding’s “Miracle” (Columbia) appeared to be on track for a ninth non-consecutive week at No. 1, following the first 48 hours in the chart cycle.
Now, at the halfway point, it’s Dave and Central Cee’s “Sprinter” (Live Yours/Neighbourhood) which retakes the lead. “Sprinter” has led the chart for the past two weeks, opening with an all-time record volume of streams for a rap track.
Completing the midweek podium is J Hus and Drake’s “Who Told You” (Black Butter/OVO/Republic), dipping 2-3.
Meanwhile, Kylie Minogue’s comeback is gathering pace as the slinky “Padam Padam” (BMG) moves on up the Official Chart Update. The Aussie pop veteran’s electronic number rises 12-8 on the chart blast. You’d have to go back to 2010’s “All The Lovers” – and its No. 3 peak position – to find a Kylie track that has performed better on the U.K. chart.
Germany-based, South Korean DJ and producer Peggy Gou could snag her first appearance in the U.K. top 40 with the throwback house track “(It Goes Like) Nanana” (XL Recordings). It’s new at No. 20 on the chart blast.
Finally, Doja Cat could pounce on a 14th top 40 appearance with “Attention” (Ministry of Sound). It’s new at No. 36 on the chart update.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Singles Chart is published late Friday, June 23.
Niall Horan earns his third straight No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated June 24) – the entirety of his solo studio releases – as The Show debuts atop the tally. The set bows with just over 68,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending June 15, according to Luminate.
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Horan’s first two albums, Heartbreak Weather (in 2020) and Flicker (in 2018) both debuted at No. 1.
The Show was released on June 9 via Neon Haze/Capitol Records.
Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Noah Kahan, P1Harmony, Janelle Monae and Extreme all make waves with their latest releases.
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. The new June 24, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on June 21, one day later than usual, owed to the Juneteenth holiday in the United States on June 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of The Show’s 68,000 copies sold in its first week, physical sales comprise 62,000 (33,700 on vinyl; 22,900 on CD and 500 on cassette) and digital album sales comprise 6,000. That nearly-34,000 sum on vinyl represents Horan’s biggest week on wax, and the largest sales week for any vinyl album released by Capitol Records in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking data in 1991). Unsurprisingly, The Show debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart – Horan’s first No. 1 on the list.
The Show’s sturdy sales start was bolstered by an array of available physical editions: eight deluxe boxed sets containing a CD and branded merch, a signed CD sold through Horan’s webstore, a Target-exclusive CD with an alternative cover and a poster packaged inside, a zine CD package sold through his webstore, six vinyl variants (including color variants for Target, Spotify, Urban Outfitters and his webstore) and a cassette.
Notably, Horan equals the No. 1 count of his One Direction bandmate Harry Styles, who also saw his first three solo studio efforts all debut at No. 1 on Top Album Sales (his self-titled release in 2017, Fine Line in 2019 and Harry’s House in 2022). One further member of One Direction has topped the tally: Zayn, with his debut set Mind of Mine in 2016. (One Direction itself notched four No. 1s on Top Album Sales.)
Stray Kids’ 5-STAR falls to No. 2 in its second week on Top Album Sales, with 46,000 copies sold (down 81%).
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s latest release, Weathervanes, bows at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with 28,000 sold. It’s the sixth top 10-charting title for Isbell on the tally.
Noah Kahan’s Stick Season re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 3 following its deluxe reissue with seven bonus tracks, and its first pressing on vinyl, on June 9. The set sold 23,000 copies in the week ending June 15 – up 3,080%. The album originally debuted and peaked at No. 57 on the list dated Oct. 29, 2022. Vinyl comprises most of Stick Season’s sales for the week – 20,500. It bows at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart. It had a relatively slim vinyl release – just three vinyl variants were issued for the set.
Korean pop group P1Harmony makes its debut on Top Album Sales with Harmony: All In, 6th Mini Album, bowing at No. 5 with 20,500 sold. Effectively all of that figure is CD album sales, thanks to the six-track set’s availability across 21 different collectible versions of the album, including some that were signed by the act. All of the iterations contain a standard set of branded merchandise items, along with randomized merch (photo cards and post cards).
ENHYPEN’s Dark Blood falls 2-6 on Top Album Sales in its second week on the list, selling 19,000 (down 78%).
Janelle Monae returns to the top 10 of Top Album Sales for the first time in over five years, as her new studio release The Age of Pleasure premieres at No. 7. The album sold 19,000 copies. She last debuted on the chart in May of 2018 with Dirty Computer, which bowed and peaked at No. 3. In total, Pleasure is her third top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales.
Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Midnights dips 6-8 on Top Album Sales with 17,000 sold (down 29%) while Foo Fighters’ But Here We Are falls 4-9 in its second week with 13,000 (down 77%).
Closing out the top 10 on Top Album Sales is a band that’s been absent from the top 10 for over 30 years – Extreme. The rock group’s new album Six bows at No. 10 with 12,500 copies sold. The set marks the band’s first studio album since 2008. The act was last in the top 10 with III Sides to Every Story, which debuted and peaked at No. 10 on the Oct. 10, 1992-dated chart.
In the week ending June 15, there were 1.924 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 8.5% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.587 million (down 8.4%) and digital albums comprised 337,000 (down 8.9%).
There were 711,000 CD albums sold in the week ending June 15 (down 25.9% week-over-week) and 865,000 vinyl albums sold (up 13.5%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 16.192 million (up 4.5% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 21.963 million (up 24.5%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 46.956 million (up 9.2% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 38.403 million (up 15.1%) and digital album sales total 8.553 million (down 11.1%).
On June 19, 1993, Patty Loveless’ “Blame It on Your Heart” rose to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, where it dominated for two weeks. It became her third of five leaders among 20 top 10s and 44 entries, logged between 1985 and 2004. Authored by Harlan Howard and Kostas, the song was released as […]