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J Hus bags the U.K. chart crown with Beautiful and Brutal Yard, new at No. 1.
The leader at the halfway mark, Beautiful and Brutal Yard (via Black Butter) becomes the Stratford, England-born rapper and singer’s second leader, following 2020’s Big Conspiracy, and his third career top 10 placing (his 2017 debut Common Sense peaked at No. 6).
Three tracks from Beautiful and Brutal Yard appear in the current U.K. singles chart top 40: “Who Told You” with Drake (down 4-5), “Militerian” featuring Naira Marley (new at No. 23), and “Masculine” with Burna Boy (new at No. 24).
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Taylor Swift continues to swamp the U.K. albums chart, led by Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), down 1-2. It’s one of six Swift titles on the climb in the top 20 (all via EMI), no doubt fueled by the excitement surrounding the ticket onsale for the 2024 U.K. leg of The Eras Tour. Further down the Official U.K. Albums Chart, 2022’s Midnights is up 9-5, 2014’s 1989 gains 10-8, 2019’s Lover improves 12-9, 2017’s Reputation lifts 21-15 and 2019’s folklore spikes 25-16.
Rita Ora’s return with You & I (BMG) nets her a second top 10 entry. The British artist’s new album bows at No. 6, for her highest-charting LP in over a decade. Her 2012 debut ORA peaked at No. 1, and its 2018 followup Phoenix hit No. 11.
Further down the list, British-born Canadian singer and songwriter Lauren Spencer Smith just misses out on a top 10 debut with Mirror (Island), new at No. 11; while Glasgow, Scotland singer and songwriter Gerry Cinnamon nabs his third top 40, with Live at Hampden Park (Little Runaway) appearing at No. 12. The live collection is the week’s best-seller on wax.
Also impacting the albums survey for the first time are titles from DJ and producer Joel Corry (Another Friday Night at No. 24 via Atlantic); U.S. pop band Pvris (EVERGREEN at No. 25 via Hopeless); New York rapper and singer Lil Tjay (222 at No. 26 via Columbia) and British singer-songwriter Mahalia (IRL at No. 31 via Atlantic).
It’s a great week for BTS‘s Jung Kook, who establishes a chart record in the U.K. with “Seven.”
The K-pop star’s hit lands at No. 3 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, published July 21, for the highest-charting debut by a solo Korean act.
The singer’s hot start with “Seven” (via BigHit Entertainment) surpasses the first-week bows by BTS bandmates j-hope and Jimin, the Official Charts Company reports.
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 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.
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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.
With his podium finish, Jung Kook matches BTS’ best U.K. chart positions so far — 2020’s “Dynamite,” plus “Butter” and “My Universe” with Coldplay (both from 2021) all debuted and peaked at No. 3.
The highest-charting U.K. solo single by a Korean act belongs to Psy, whose “Gangnam Style” dropped in September 2012 at No. 61, then climbed to No. 1 in its fourth week on the tally. The viral hit clocked 55 weeks on the chart, last appearing in 2014.
“Seven,” which features vocals from U.S. rapper Latto, and blasts to No. 2 on Australia’s ARIA Chart, is pipped in the U.K. by Dave and Central Cee’s hip-hop hit “Sprinter” (Live Yours/Neighbourhood), which races to a seventh consecutive chart title. Following a tight three-way race at the top, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” (Geffen) flies in at No. 2, unchanged from the previous week.
Finally, U.S. pop star Billie Eilish lands her ninth U.K. top 10 single with “What Was I Made For?” (Interscope). The new release, lifted from the Barbie movie soundtrack, is new at No. 10.
Taylor Swift’s third re-recorded album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated July 29). It’s the first time a re-recorded Swift album has spent its first two weeks at No. 1. The pop superstar’s re-recorded Fearless and Red each bowed at No. 1 in 2021, and then fell from the top slot in their second frames — though the former returned to No. 1 six months later after its release on vinyl and signed CD.
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) earned 121,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 20 (down 83%), according to Luminate.
Swift leads a quiet top 10, where the region hosts zero debuts for the first time in six months. The top 10 was last absent of debuts on the Jan. 28-dated list, when SZA’s SOS led the chart for a sixth week.
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 July 29, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (July 25). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’s 121,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 20, SEA units comprise 73,000 (down 65%, equaling 95.6 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 22 songs), album sales comprise 47,000 (down 91%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 72%).
For a second week in a row, Swift has four albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. A week ago, she became the first living artist to chart four albums in the top 10 at the same time since 1966. On the latest chart, those same four sets (all former No. 1s) are still in the top 10, as Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is joined by Midnights (rising 5-4 with 51,000 units; down 7%), Lover (7-6 with 44,000; down 2%) and Folklore (a non-mover at No. 10 with 34,000; up 5%).
Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 One Thing at a Time is stationary at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 105,000 equivalent album units (up 2%). One Thing at a Time has earned in excess of 100,000 equivalent album units in all 20 of its chart weeks. It extends its own record as the album with the most weeks of 100,000-plus units since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by units in December of 2014.
Peso Pluma’s Génesis returns to its peak, rising 4-3 (55,000 equivalent album units; down 5%); Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album climbs 6-5 (48,000; up 3%); SZA’s SOS ascends 8-7 (43,000; down 1%); Lil Uzi Vert’s former leader Pink Tape dips 3-8 (40,000; down 34%); and Gunna’s A Gift & a Curse is steady at No. 9 (nearly 40,000; down 6%).
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.
Luke Combs’ version of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 Billboard Hot 100 top 10 “Fast Car” rules Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated July 29) for a fourth week. It drew 34.8 million in audience, up less than 1%, July 14-20, according to Luminate.
The cover now solely boasts the longest Country Airplay domination among remakes of pop hits. It passes two three-week leaders: Brooks & Dunn’s cover of “My Maria,” the duo’s ninth of 20 chart-toppers, led for three weeks in May 1996. The song was originally a No. 9 Hot 100 hit for B.W. Stevenson in 1973. Plus, Alan Jackson’s interpretation of Eddie Cochran’s early rock anthem “Summertime Blues” topped Country Airplay for three frames starting in July 1994. Cochran’s original reached No. 8 on the Hot 100 in 1958.
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After Chapman provided Billboard with a statement revealing how “honored” she was to have a No. 1 on the chart (July 6), Combs replied in kind. “Oh man, ‘Fast Car’ has surprised me more than you can imagine. Tracy Chapman wrote this perfect song that that I first heard with my dad and it has stayed with me since,” Combs told Billboard. “I have played it in my live show now for six-plus years and everyone – I mean everyone – across all these stadiums relates to this song and sings along. That’s the gift of a supernatural songwriter. The success of my cover is unreal, and I think it’s so cool that Tracy is getting recognized and has reached new milestones. I love that she is out there feeling all the love and that she gave me a shout-out! Thank you, Tracy!”
“I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there,” Chapman told Billboard. “I’m happy for Luke and his success and grateful that new fans have found and embraced ‘Fast Car.’ ”
Meanwhile, Combs’ official concert video for his cover premiered July 18.
‘Wings’ Flies
Elsewhere, Thomas Rhett banks his 22nd Country Airplay top 10 as “Angels Don’t Always Have Wings” rises from No. 11 to No. 10. In the July 14-20 tracking week, the song increased by 1% to 17.7 million impressions.
The Valdosta, Ga., native co-penned the track with Julian Bunetta, Teddy Swims and Josh Thompson. It’s the third single from Rhett’s LP Where We Started, which began at its No. 2 Top Country Albums high in April 2022, becoming his sixth top 10.
The song follows Rhett’s “Half of Me” (featuring Riley Green), which became his 18th Country Airplay No. 1 last November. Before that, “Slow Down Summer,” the lead single from Where We Started, peaked at No. 2 in May 2022.
Rhett’s third of his 29 entries, “It Goes Like This,” became his first Country Airplay top 10 and first leader. It reigned for three weeks starting in October 2013.
When Tony Bennett died at age 96 on the morning of July 21, 2023, the world lost one of the last vocal titans of the Great American Songbook. Bennett – who was born Antonio Dominick Benedetto in Long Island, NY back when Calvin Coolidge was president – enjoyed an illustrious career that spanned nine decades. […]
More than half of the debuts on this week’s July 22-dated Billboard global charts come from Taylor Swift, as she lands 22 new entries from Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). But despite her record-tying haul, she doesn’t score the highest new entry on either list.
This week’s Hot Shot Debut comes courtesy of NewJeans, starting at No. 2 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. rankings with “Super Shy.” For good measure, the South Korean group adds a second arrival, the eponymous “New Jeans,” at Nos. 32 and 19, respectively.
“Super Shy” starts with 63 million streams and 6,000 downloads sold worldwide in the week ending July 13, according to Luminate. Not only is it NewJeans’ highest-charting single yet, its first frame yields the biggest one-week streaming total of the group’s career, surpassing the 46.5 million clicks for “Ditto” in the week ending Jan. 5.
NewJeans’ new peak is another in a year of building success. The five-person group – Danielle, Haerin, Hanni, Hyein, and Minji – earned its first global chart hit when “Attention” debuted on the Aug. 13, 2022-dated Global Excl. U.S. listing at No. 174. “Hype Boy” debuted one week later, and “Cookie” the week after that, signaling the arrival of K-Pop’s new contenders.
At the turn of the year, “Ditto” and “OMG” hit the top 10 of both lists, with the former reaching as high as No. 4 on Global Excl. U.S.
Just before the one-year anniversary of NewJeans’ global chart debut, “Super Shy” extends the group’s peak, blocked from the top spot by Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” on the Global 200 and by Myke Towers’ “LaLa” on the Global Excl. U.S. tally.
NewJeans’ international strength continues to spread. The group’s roster of hits has performed well on Billboard’s Hits of the World charts, crowning lists across Asia, including multiple No. 1s in Singapore, Taiwan and its native South Korea. “Super Shy” debuts atop those rankings and marks the group’s first chart-topper in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Further, “Super Shy” is breaking ground in English-language markets as the first NewJeans track on Australia Songs, debuting at No. 22. In the U.S., it instantly becomes the group’s highest-charting entry on the Billboard Hot 100, arriving at No. 66.
Taylor Swift matches P!nk for the most No. 1s among soloists in the history of Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay chart, as “Karma” ascends to the top of the tally dated July 29. The song becomes her 10th leader. Among all acts, Swift and P!nk trail only Maroon 5, with a record 15 No. 1s. The […]
BTS star Jung Kook just misses out on his first solo chart crown in Australia, as “Seven” starts at No. 2.
Featuring rapper Latto, “Seven” (via ING/Universal) arrives on the ARIA Chart, published July 21, behind Dave and Central Cee’s “Sprinter” (Virgin Music Australia/Universal), which races away for its sixth non-consecutive week at No. 1.
That’s easily the best solo effort for the K-pop superstar, who featured on Charlie Puth’s 2022 release “Left And Right,” peaking at No. 19 on the national tally. Latto’s previous best was a No. 6 peak for 2021’s “Big Energy” featuring DJ Khaled.
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Also new to the ARIA Singles Chart is Billie Eilish, with “What Was I Made For?” (Interscope/Universal) from the soundtrack to the Barbie movie, which has opened in theaters countrywide. “What Was I Made For?” debuts at No. 8, for the U.S. pop star’s 14th top 10 single in these parts, a collection that includes her chart-leader from 2019, “Bad Guy.”
Two other Barbie numbers are on the climb this week: “Barbie World” by Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and AQUA (up 42-23) and Dua Lipa’s “Dance The Night” (up 40-27), both via Atlantic/Warner.
Australian pop artist Troye Sivan bags his 12th top 50 single with “Rush” (EMI), lifted from his forthcoming album, Something To Give Each Other, slated to drop in October. “Rush” is new at No. 12, and not far from his career best chart position, a No. 10 peak for 2014’s “Happy Little Pill.”
It’s all Taylor Swift on the ARIA Albums Chart as Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (via Universal) retains top spot for a second week. A week ago, Swift’s third and latest “Version” LP replaced her own Midnights album at the summit, a handover never seen before on the Australian chart.
The two-week stint for Swift’s recorded Speak Now album eclipses the one-week reign for its original, from 2010, ARIA reports.
The highest debut on the albums tally belongs to legendary Australian artist Tina Arena, whose new set Love Saves (Positive Dream/ADA) starts at No. 2. Arena now boasts nine top 10 albums, including No. 1s for 1994’s Don’t Ask and 1997’s In Deep. Earlier this year, Arena was the inaugural recipient of Rolling Stone Australia’s Icon Award, which she received during a ceremony in Sydney.
Swift secures three of the top 5, with Midnights holding at No. 3 and Lover unchanged at No. 4.
“Los Del Espacio” by LIT Killah, Tiago Pzk, Maria Becerra, Duki, Emilia, Rusherking, Big One and FMK rules the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart (dated July 15) for a sixth week. With the new week at No. 1, the song breaks from a tie for the second-longest command in 2023, trailing only Emilia, Big One and Callejero Fino’s “En La Intimidad” which ruled for seven weeks this year.
Meanwhile, Becerra places two other tracks in the top 10, starting with “Corazón Vacío,” which holds at its No. 2 high for a third consecutive week, while “Adiós,” with Ráfaga, dips 5-6.
Myke Towers earns his seventh top 10 as “LaLa” rallies up the chart from No. 12 to No. 3. It’s the Puerto Rican’s highest ranking since “Pareja del Año,” with Sebastián Yatra, peaked at No. 2 in May 2021.
The week’s Hot Shot Debut goes to “Atorrante,” the collab by Argentinians Emanero, Ulises Bueno and Migrantes, at No. 34.
Elsewhere, Quevedo adds his 11th entry with “Columbia” at No. 35, while 15-year-old Milo J picks up his eighth entry as “Rincón,” produced by Big One, bows at No. 43.
Singer-songwriter BM takes the week’s Greatest Gainer as “Ni Una Ni Dos” surges 90-47. Plus, the Argentinian scores another entry through his featured role in Luck Ra’s “La Morocha”, at No. 64.
Lastly, two other songs debut this week: Peso Pluma and Grupo Frontera’s“Tulum” at No. 93 and DJ Tao and Karina’s “DJ Tao Turreo Sessions #18” at No. 100.
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Gunna claims his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as “Fukumean” advances from the runner-up spot on the list dated July 22. The single, the breakout hit from his album, A Gift & a Curse, leads as it continues to improve in all three metrics that inform the chart – streaming, radio airplay and sales.
As Gunna captures his first champ on the genre chart, he outdoes his previous best of No. 2 for “Pushin P,” with Future and featuring Young Thug, from January 2022. “Fukumean,” likewise, takes the crown on the Hot Rap Songs chart – another first for the rapper – and ascends 8-7 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
“Fukumean,” released on Gunna/Young Stoner Life/300/3EE, traces most of its chart-topping week to a 23.7 million official U.S. stream haul in the week ending July 13, according to Luminate. Notably, the song has increased in streams each week since its release, having started with 15.2 million in its debut frame and risen to 18 million, 20.2 million and now 23.7 million in subsequent weeks. Before “Fukumean,” Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit” was the last Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 1 to begin with three consecutive weeks of streaming gains, from 5.3 million clicks in its first full week, to 9.7 million, 17.3 million and 18.5 million in succeeding frames.
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Thanks to its 23.7 million sum in the latest tracking window, “Fukumean” retains its crown for a third week on R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs. It likewise repeats, though at No. 4, on the all-genre Streaming Songs list.
In the sales market, “Fukumean” sold 1,000 downloads in the week ending July 13, up 37% from the prior frame. The gain pushes the song 23-16 on R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales.
For radio airplay, meanwhile, “Fukumean” registers for the first time on a Billboard airplay chart with its No. 40 arrival on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, where it climbed 45% in plays as it begins its official, label-promoted rollout. The track is being serviced to R&B/hip-hop and rhythmic radio stations, and, given its obvious popularity with listeners through streaming metrics, should be a strong contender for the upper reaches of radio ranks soon.
“Fukumean” appears on Gunna’s latest studio album, A Gift & a Curse, released on June 16. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and secured Gunna’s fourth consecutive champ. On the latest list, the set ranks at No. 3.