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Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 14), rising 3-1, notching a 16th nonconsecutive and total week atop the list. It earned 74,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 5 (up 2%), according to Luminate.
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One Thing at a Time continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since Adele’s 21 logged 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2011-12.
One Thing at a Time debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 18 and spent it first 12 weeks atop the list. It stepped aside for two weeks, and then returned for another three weeks in a row at No. 1 (June 24-July 8-dated charts). Now in its 31st week on the chart, the album has yet to depart the top four.
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Ed Sheeran collects his seventh top 10-charting effort — all of which have reached the top five — as his latest release Autumn Variations debuts at No. 4. It’s his second top five debut of 2023, following – (Subtract) in May.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 14, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of One Thing at a Time’s 74,500 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 5, SEA units comprise 71,500 (equaling 97.56 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 36 songs), album sales comprise 2,000, and TEA units comprise 1,000.
One Thing at a Time’s 74,500-unit sum is the smallest total for a No. 1 album in nearly a year-and-a-half, since Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry debuted atop the chart dated May 7, 2022, with 55,000 units.
Rod Wave’s Nostalgia falls to No. 2 in its third week on the chart (71,000 equivalent album units; down 20%), after spending its first two weeks atop the list. Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Guts dips 2-3 with 67,000 (down 23%).
Sheeran logs his seventh top 10 charting album on the Billboard 200 — all of which have debuted in the top five — as his new studio set Autumn Variations bows at No. 4 with nearly 62,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 46,500 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 18.78 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 14 songs) and TEA units comprise 500.
Autumn Variations was announced on Aug. 24, a little over a month before the album was released on Sept. 29. The album’s arrival comes only five months after Sheeran last bowed on the chart, when his previous studio effort, – (Subtract), launched at No. 2 on the May 20-dated tally.
Four former No. 1s follow Sheeran on the new Billboard 200, as Zach Bryan’s self-titled release is a non-mover at No. 5 (59,000 equivalent album units; down 11%), SZA’s SOS is stationary at No. 6 (48,000; down 3%), Travis Scott’s Utopia is steady at No. 7 (46,000; up 4%) and Taylor Swift’s Midnights rises 10-8 (43,000; up 2%).
Rounding out the top 10 of the Billboard 200 is Doja Cat’s Scarlet, falling 2-9 in its second week (41,000 equivalent album units; down 42%), and Peso Pluma’s Génesis, dipping 9-10 (41,000; down 5%).
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.
Staind returns with its first studio album in more than a decade, as Confessions of the Fallen debuts at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 7), securing the group its sixth top 10 on the tally. The new set sold 11,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 28, according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the latest releases from Kylie Minogue, The Rose, Tom MacDonald & Adam Calhoun and Cannibal Corpse all arrive.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
The Confessions album was preceded by a pair of hits on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, “Lowest In Me” and “Here and Now.” The former hit No. 1 in August, spending two weeks in charge, and it marked the band’s fifth No. 1 and first leader since 2011’s “Not Again” ruled for seven weeks.
Of Confessions’ first-week sales, physical sales comprise 7,000 (5,000 on CD and 2,000 on vinyl) and digital downloads comprise a little over 4,000.
Confessions marks the first studio release for the group on BMG, after its six studio albums from 1999 through 2011 were all released through either Elektra or Atlantic.
While Staind hasn’t issued a studio set since Sept. 2011, its frontman, Aaron Lewis, has been busy notching hits on Billboard’s since the spring of 2011. Lewis has scored a total of five solo albums on Top Album Sales, including the chart-topping Sinner in 2016. His most recent solo release, Frayed at Both Ends, debuted and peaked at No. 5 last year.
At No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts spends a third straight week atop the list with 23,000 copies sold (down 49%).
Kylie Minogue’s new studio album Tension bows at No. 2 with 19,500 sold – her biggest sales week in nearly 20 years. It’s the third top 10-charting effort for Minogue.
V’s Layover falls 2-3 with 12,000 sold (down 45%). The Rose nabs its first top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales as Dual launches at No. 5 (10,500), Tom MacDonald and Adam Calhoun join forces for their second top 10 set as The Brave 2 launches at No. 6 (10,000) and Cannibal Corpse rocks in at No. 7 with Chaos Horrific (8,500; the band’s third top 10).
Rounding out the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart is three former No. 1s: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (9-8 with 7,500; down 18%), Swift’s Midnights (11-9 with just over 7,000; down 8%) and NewJeans’ 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ (holding at No. 10 with 7,000; down 16%).
In the week ending Sept. 28, there were 1.559 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 6.6% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.232 million (down 7.8%) and digital albums comprised 327,000 (down 2.1%).
There were 537,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Sept. 28 (down 6.5% week-over-week) and 686,000 vinyl albums sold (down 8.8%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 25.586 million (up 0.6% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 34.099 million (up 19.4%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 73.825 million (up 6.1% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 60.080 million (up 10.5%) and digital album sales total 13.745 million (down 9.7%).
Tim McGraw adds his milestone 60th top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, as “Standing Room Only” pushes from No. 11 to No. 10 on the list dated Oct. 14. In the tracking week ending Oct. 5, the single gained by 4% to 18.7 million impressions, according to Luminate. The song was written by Tommy […]
*NSYNC’s first single since 2002, “Better Place,” soars onto multiple Billboard radio airplay charts (dated Oct. 14), following its first week of release.
The song, released Sept. 29 on DreamWorks/RCA Records from the Trolls Band Together soundtrack, due Oct. 20 (ahead of the movie’s expected Nov. 17 premiere), starts at No. 12 on Adult Pop Airplay, No. 13 on Adult Contemporary and No. 16 on Pop Airplay, encompassing airplay Sept. 29-Oct. 5.
(The charts reflect plays on reporting adult pop, adult contemporary and pop-formatted stations, respectively. Airplay is monitored by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
On both Adult Pop Airplay, which began in Billboard’s pages in March 1996, and Pop Airplay, which originated in October 1992, the entrances are the highest ever for a song by a group. On Adult Contemporary, the arrival is the highest for a group, excluding holiday fare, since Luminate data began powering the chart in July 1993.
Notably, participating pop and adult pop iHeartMedia and Audacy stations played “Better Place” every other hour during the song’s release day, while Cumulus reporters spun it hourly over eight hours that day.
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Upon the chart start of “Better Place,” the song is *NSYNC’s highest charting career hit on Adult Pop Airplay, its No. 12 opening rank surpassing the group’s prior No. 19 best with “Bye Bye Bye” in 2000.
On Adult Contemporary, the act has tallied three top 10s, including the Richard Marx-penned 13-week No. 1 “This I Promise You” in 2000-01.
On Pop Airplay, *NSYNC logged has nine top 10s, from “I Want You Back” in 1998 through “Gone” in 2002. Two songs hit No. 1: “Bye Bye Bye” (for 10 weeks) and “It’s Gonna Be Me” (five), both in 2000.
Meanwhile, the group’s Justin Timberlake bullets with two songs in the current Pop Airplay top 20, as “Keep Going Up!” with Timbaland and Nelly Furtado rises to No. 20. Timberlake notches his first top 20 entry on the chart in three-and-a-half years; as a soloist, he boasts 18 career Pop Airplay top 10s, including eight No. 1s.
Beyond the debut of “Better Place” on individual-format airplay charts, the song is in line to debut on other rankings (dated Oct. 14), including the all-genre multimetric Billboard Hot 100, highlights of which will be announced Monday, Oct. 9.
Ahead of the track’s release, Timberlake shared on Instagram a behind-the-scenes look at the quintet back in the studio. “So many stars aligned and that’s why I hit y’all and was like, ‘Hey, something came up,’” he is heard telling the act. “If we do this song, it’s a love letter to our fans. I would be honored to have the group on this song.”
All charts dated Oct. 14 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Oct. 10.
Doja Cat snags her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart with “Paint the Town Red,” which lifts 3-1 on the Oct. 7-dated tally. It earned 27.5 million official U.S. streams in its eighth week on the survey, a boost of 3%, according to Luminate. “Paint the Town Red” lands its first week at […]
It’s Ed Sheeran season on Australia’s albums chart as Autumn Variations (via Gingerbread Man) debuts at No. 1.
Produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner, Autumn Variations is Sheeran’s second leader on the ARIA Chart in 2023, and his seventh in total – all consecutive. Autumn Variations follows + ( plus from 2012), X (multiply from 2014), ÷ (divide from 2017), No. 6 Collaborations Project (2019), = (equals from 2019) and – (subtract from 2023) in hurtling all the way to the top.
Australians have adopted Sheeran like one of their own. Earlier this year, the British singer and songwriter completed another lap of stadiums in these parts – and broke several more records – for his Mathematics Tour.
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When the “Shape Of You” singer last toured Australia, in 2018, also with Frontier Touring, he shifted more than 1 million tickets, a feat that wiped Dire Straits’ record for a single trek (950,000) that had stood for since the 1980s.
On the latest ARIA Albums Chart, the podium is completed by Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts (at No. 2 via Geffen/Universal) and the Weeknd’s The Highlights (at No. 3 via Universal), both unmoved from the previous week.
Meanwhile, U.S. pop-rock outfit Lany makes its first appearance on the ARIA Top 50 with A Beautiful Blur (Virgin/Universal), new at No. 4. That result crushes Lany’s previous best result, No. 53 for their 2017 self-titled debut LP.
Country music has been hot on Australia’s charts this year, and homegrown singer James Johnston gets in on the action with Raised Like That (Ditto Music), his debut album. Raised Like That starts at No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart, published Oct. 6. Its title track dropped in 2021 and became the fastest-ever debut single by an Australian country singer to reach one million streams, ARIA reports.
Also new to the top tier is Kimosabè, the fourth studio album by Angus Stone’s Dope Lemon project. It’s new at No. 9, and follows Rose Pink Cadillac (No. 2 in 2022), Smooth Big Cat (No. 2 in 2019) and Honey Bones (No. 11 in 2016). As a member of sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone, he claimed No. 1s with Down The Way in 2010 and Angus & Julia Stone in 2014, and, as a solo artist, reached No. 2 with 2012’s Broken Brights.
On Thursday Oct. 5, BMG announced it had acquired the Dope Lemon recordings catalog from Stone, in a deal that included those three earlier album and the 2017 EP Hounds Tooth. BMG released Kimosabè through a new recording deal.
Last week’s leader, Kylie Minogue‘s 16th studio album Tension (Liberator Music/BMG), tumbles 1-10.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (RCA/Sony) enters a seventh week at No. 1, ahead of Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (up 3-2 for a new peak via RCA/Sony), and Kenya Grace’s “Strangers” (down 3-2 via Warner).
“Paint The Town Red” moves up the list of longest-reigning No. 1 tracks this year. Doja’s hit draws level with Dave and Central Cee’s “Sprinter” for third on a tally that’s led by Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” (12 weeks), and Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” (eight weeks).
Finally, BTS’ Jung Kook has the top debut on Australia’s singles chart this week with “3D” (Warner/Universal) featuring Jack Harlow. It’s new at No. 7. The K-pop star’s “Seven” featuring Latto peaked at No. 2 earlier this year, and impacts the top 40, holding at No. 38. Harlow now has a fourth top 10 in Australia, a list that includes “What’s Poppin” (No. 8 in 2020), “Industry Baby” with Lil Nas X (No. 4 in 2021) and “First Class,” which flew all the way to No. 1 for a two-week stint in 2022.
There’s a new No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart: Playboi Carti’s “Sky” takes the top spot on this week’s chart. Tetris Kelly:Playboi Carti “Sky” soars to the top of the TikTok Billboard Top 50, while Tate McRae makes a major move. Playboi Carti claims the top spot for the TikTok Billboard Top […]
Hip-hop continues its reign on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 as “Sky” by Playboi Carti vaults to No. 1 on the Oct. 7-dated survey.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50, which began three weeks ago, is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity Sept. 25-Oct. 1. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
Playboi Carti’s “Sky” is the chart’s third No. 1, following fellow rap songs “SkeeYee” by Sexyy Red (Sept. 16) and “Wassup Gwayy” by FamousSally & YB (Sept. 23 and 30).
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Released in 2020 as part of Playboi Carti’s Christmas Day-released album Whole Lotta Red, “Sky” peaked at No. 34 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart nearly a year later (Dec. 11, 2021).
The song often sports gains at the beginning of the month due to its “Wake up/ It’s the first of the month” lyric (Oct. 1 marked the end of the latest chart’s tracking week). This time around, multiple videos using “Sky” also reference the idea that using the sound at the beginning of each month spurs good luck for a poster for the rest of that month.
“Sky” is the latest song to reign over Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” which holds at No. 2 for a second straight week and third frame in all. The track, which concurrently returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, has not dropped below No. 3 in the four weeks of the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s existence.
Previous No. 1 “Wassup Gwayy” falls to No. 3, while Tate McRae’s “Greedy” leaps to No. 4 in its second week on the ranking. The pop singer’s runaway new hit, which concurrently jumps 33-24 in its second week on the Hot 100, was initially teased on TikTok on Aug. 5 and has only risen in popularity since its full release on all streaming platforms. The track earned 11.5 million official U.S. streams on those platforms Sept. 22-28, according to Luminate, a 1% boost.
Another Hot 100 success, Mitski’s “My Love Mine All Mine,” jumps into the top five of the TikTok Billboard Top 50, shooting 34-5. It was released as part of her album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We on Sept. 15, Mitski’s first full-length since the chart’s inception – though she is no stranger to success on the platform in the past, boasting viral moments with songs such as “Washing Machine Heart,” “Nobody” and more. The track concurrently debuts at No. 76 on the Hot 100.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 — featuring debuts from Ayo & Teo, Suicidal Idol, Girl in Red and more — here.
Bad Bunny extends his top 10 record on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart to 63 top 10s with “Un Preview,” as the song debuts at No. 8 on the Oct. 7-dated list.
After Benito dropped the Tainy, MAG and La Paciencia-produced track on his WhatsApp channel as a look of what’s coming in 2024, the song debuts in the upper region fueled almost entirely by streams.(He teased the track via WhatsApp on Sept. 20, followed by a wide release on Sept. 25.)
According to Luminate, “Preview” registered 7.6 million official U.S. streams in its first four days of activity as it was released Sept. 25 — four days after the launch of the Sept. 22 tracking week (ending Sept. 28).
The 7.6 million streams in its first week yields a No. 5 start on Latin Streaming Songs, also for his record-extending 68th top 10 on the streaming list.
Sales, meanwhile, concurrently assist “Preview’s” high start on the multimetric tally: It sold 1,000 downloads, enough for a No. 2 start on Latin Digital Song Sales.
Benito ups his top 10 career count to 63 on Hot Latin Songs, way ahead of Enrique Iglesias and Luis Miguel, who are tied for second place with 39 top 10s.
As Bad Bunny continues to lap the competition, here’s the scoreboard for the artists with the most top 10s on Hot Latin Songs since the chart launched in 1986:
63, Bad Bunny39, Enrique Iglesias39, Luis Miguel37, Daddy Yankee35, J Balvin35, Shakira29, Chayanne29, Cristian Castro29, Ozuna
Further, “Preview” debuts at No. 37 on Billboard Global 200 with 26.3 million streams worldwide, while logs 18.8 million outside the U.S. for a No, 42 on Global Excl. U.S.
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Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up column, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: A newly viral and unusually located Katy Perry live performance helps her 2019 single see big gains, 30 Seconds to Mars’ first big single gets boosted by a Chad Smith drum-along and Lay Bankz is on the verge of a TikTok-accelerated breakout hit.
Katy Perry Flushes Out New Streams With Viral Bathroom Performance
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Back when she was promoting her most recent album, 2020’s Smile, Katy Perry launched a series that she dubbed Potty Jams, in which the hit-maker belted out her pop songs in a bathroom (stars – they’re just like us!). “Never Really Over” and “Small Talk” also both received Potty Jams versions, but over the last few weeks, the powder-room performance of “Harleys in Hawaii” has gone viral, leading to renewed interest in the island-vibed fan favorite.
Part of the “Harleys” return comes from the Tiny Desk-esque effect of the bathroom performance, with Perry crooning the mid-tempo track while flanked by musicians and backup singers popping out of bathroom stalls and the acoustics affecting the sound of the song. And then there’s the way that Perry attacks the lyrical phrase “you and I” as “you and ayyyyyyeeeeeyeahhyeahhhhh!” in the clip — a go-for-broke melisma that’s belatedly turned into a meme, and earned millions of TikTok streams.
The revival began in earnest at the end of September, and as a result, weekly streams of “Harleys” nearly doubled: the track earned 1.11 million U.S. on-demand streams during the week ending Sept. 28, according to Luminate, up 93% from the previous frame. Perry kicks off the final month on her Play Las Vegas residency on Wednesday night (Oct. 4); “Harleys” hadn’t been a regular part of the set list, but maybe the Potty Jams renaissance will make it a late addition. – JASON LIPSHUTZ
Drum With Me, Drum With Me: 30 Seconds to Mars’ ‘The Kill” Lifts Off After Chad Smith Plays Along
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Though longtime Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith might not have been previously familiar with 30 Seconds to Mars’ 2006 breakout hit “The Kill,” by the time he finished his first listen, he’d helped the song have one of its best weeks on streaming. The guys behind the YouTube presence for drumming online education program Drumeo correctly predicted Smith’s lack of prior 30STM knowledge, and tested him (on video) by having him listen to the song for the first time — without drums — and do his best trying to play along with it.
Smith’s instinctive reading of the song’s drum part turned out to be pretty close to the real thing, resulting in a very cool look into the ways veteran musicians can feel a song from the inside out, adjusting to changes in dynamics and structure on the fly and even anticipating them before they happen. The video was widely shared, resulting in 4.5 million views since its Sept. 22 posting — many of whom apparently when on to go back and stream “The Kill,” which jumped 62% from under 1.4 million official on-demand U.S. streams for the week ending Sept. 21 to over 2.2 million the following week, according to Luminate.
Soon, other bands may be petitioning Smith to have not their own song be the next one he’s never heard before. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Lay Bankz Channels Her ‘Ick’ Into A Streaming Smash
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In a year largely defined by the dominance of female rappers and Jersey club’s hip-rocking dance trends, Lay Bankz emerges this month with “Ick,” a simultaneously cutting and danceable ode to all the things about guys that turn her off. From bad credit and foot fetishes to a part-time job at 7-Eleven and a “sassy man apocalypse,” Bankz spends the whole song – which she first teased back in June — lambasting men who are simply not up to her standards.
According to Luminate, “Ick” earned 2.19 million official on-demand U.S. streams during the period of Sept. 22-28. That’s a 56.8% jump from the period of Sept. 15-21, during which the song earned 1.39 million streams. Compared to two weeks ago, stream for “Ick” jumped a staggering 418.8% from just over 422,000 streams during the period of Sept. 8-14. The official TikTok sound for “Ick” boasts over 217,000 posts, most of which are people jamming along to the beginning of the second verse.
Meanwhile, the song’s official YouTube audio upload has garnered a little over half a million views in one month, and a six-day-old music video-lyric video has earned around 135,000 views. With various clips using the song still going viral across platforms, it seems that consumers aren’t getting the ick from “Ick.” – KYLE DENIS
