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The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week (for the upcoming charts dated May 5), it’s the sales of Agust D’s debut LP vs. the streams for Morgan Wallen’s 36-track juggernaut in a race for the Billboard 200 crown.
Agust D, D Day (Big Hit): Just a few weeks ago, the top debut on the Billboard 200 came from a BTS alum: Jimin, who debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 with his single “Like Crazy” and came one spot from doing the same on the Billboard 200 with the album FACE. This week, the biggest new release may again come from the K-pop superstars’ ranks, as Suga releases his much-anticipated first LP, D-Day, under his Agust D alias.
The album is expected to sell well – helped by a variety of physical releases, which like FACE, came out the same day as the album’s digital release. (Recent album releases from BTS groupmates RM and J-Hope initially arrived as digital-only.) D-Day is available as multiple different collectible CDs (including exclusive editions for Target, Walmart and the Weverse store) — once again with both standard elements (including a sticker, postcard and poster) and randomized photo cards — plus four digital albums (one standard, plus three alternative cover editions sold in Agust D’s official webstore).
The 10-track album will have to sell very well to compete with the continued streaming dominance of Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time – which posted 166,000 equivalent album units in its seventh week at No. 1, boosted by sales of a new vinyl edition of the 36-track album. But if D-Day can get in range of FACE’s first-week numbers (164,000 units), it could be Wallen’s Time to vacate the top spot.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Don’t Try This at Home (Never Broke Again/Motown/UMG): He’s back. Three months after his first album of 2022, January’s I Rest My Case, YoungBoy returns with his second full-length release for Motown, Don’t Try This at Home. There’s no physical release yet for the 33-track set, but the tracklist is his longest yet, and features big-name features from Nicki Minaj, Post Malone, The Kid LAROI and Mariah the Scientist — which may help the new album pass the somewhat underwhelming No. 9 Billboard 200 peak for I Rest My Case earlier this year.
Taylor Swift, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (Republic): Taylor Swift already has two albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 this week with 2022’s Midnights and 2019’s Lover, and she may add another next week with the Record Store Day-only Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions. The vinyl RSD release of the 17-track set — consisting of acoustic live performances of the tracks from Swift’s Grammy-winning Folklore album, previously featured in Swift’s Disney+ special of the same name and available to purchase digitally as part of the Folklore deluxe edition — is limited to 75,000 copies, but that alone would likely be enough to secure a debut in the top 10 if it to sells out, as anything Swift-related seems to do in 2023. (Other titles by the big-name likes of Pearl Jam, Elton John and The 1975 may also factor on the chart next week.)
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Mac DeMarco, One Wayne G (Mac’s Record Label): There aren’t many albums on the Billboard 200 you could fall asleep listening to and still be hearing when you wake up the next morning – but Mac DeMarco’s nine-and-a-half hour (!!) new collection is certainly one. The epic set, mostly consisting of instrumentals and demos, is unsurprisingly unavailable for physical release and is probably unlikely to produce a breakout hit. But with 199 tracks, its streaming numbers should still be enough to make it a factor on the Billboard 200 next week.
Twenty One Pilots, MTV Unplugged (Fueled by Ramen): Alt-pop duo Twenty One Pilots are no stranger to the top of the Billboard 200, which they topped with 2015’s Blurryface and revisiting the top three with follow-ups Trench (2018) and Scaled and Icy (2021). The outfit might not get quite so high with MTV Unplugged, but the duo has maintained a devout fanbase since their mid-’10s breakthrough and may see good sales for the CD and LP-released set.
Everything But the Girl, Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin): It’s been nearly a quarter-century since the last album from genre-bending U.K. duo Everything But the Girl, who notched a trio of acclaimed albums in the top half of the Billboard 200 in the ‘90s — most recently 1999’s No. 65-peaking Temperamental. This month’s Fuse looks to make it four in a row, with a variety of vinyl and CD options for purchase, and reviews as strong as the pair received at their commercial peak three decades ago.
YOASOBI’s “Idol” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated April 26, dominating three metrics of the chart’s measurement this week.
“Idol” continues to soar powered by the popularity of the anime series for which it serves as the opening theme, Oshi no Ko. The track rules streaming (20,366,113 streams, up by 130 percent from the week before), video views (8,388,791 views, up by 94 percent), and downloads (30,505 units, up by 4 percent). It also comes in at No. 4 for radio airplay and No. 52 for karaoke to stay at No. 1 on the Japan Hot 100 for the second week in a row, with over double the total points from the song at No. 2.
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Hinatazaka46’s “One Choice” is this week’s No. 1 song for physical sales with 538,086 copies sold. While the group’s ninth single fared relatively well in the other metrics, coming in at No. 27 for downloads, No. 98 for streaming, and No. 32 for radio, the total wasn’t enough to overturn the huge difference between “Idol,” which racked up points in an extraordinary way this week. “One Choice” launches at No. 2 on the Japan Hot 100.
The girl group’s previous single, “Tsuki to Hoshi ga Odoru Midnight,” launched with 459,613 copies, so the new single tops it by approximately 17 percent, indicating the group’s steadily growing popularity.
Spitz’s “Utsukushii Hiré” (“Beautiful Fin”) is down a notch to No. 3 this week but holds at No. 1 for radio, where it’s rare for any song to stay at the top for consecutive weeks. The theme of the latest Case Closed (Detective Conan) movie also rises 7-2 for streaming with 8,585,967 streams (up by 69 percent) and continues to hold in the top 3 after debuting on the chart at No. 2 last week.
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from to Apr. 17 to 23, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
Metallica’s 72 Seasons debuts atop multiple Billboard charts dated April 29, including the Top Rock & Alternative Albums survey.
In its first tracking week (April 14-20), Seasons earned 146,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 134,000 units were via album sales.
It’s Metallica’s fifth No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, which began in 2006. The rockers first ruled with Death Magnetic in 2008 and then with 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (the band’s last proper LP prior to Seasons) and 2020’s S&M2 with the San Francisco Symphony, along with a first week at No. 1 in 2021 for 1991’s Metallica upon its 30th anniversary.
The new set’s 146,000-unit start marks the best single-week sum on Top Rock & Alternative Albums this decade. It’s the biggest since Tool’s Fear Inoculum soared in with 270,000 units on the Sept. 14, 2019, ranking.
Seasons is also Metallica’s fifth No. 1 on both Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums.
The set bows at No. 1 on Top Album Sales with its 134,000-unit sales count, becoming Metallica’s eighth leader dating to 1991’s self-titled album. On Vinyl Albums, it’s likewise No. 1 thanks to 43,000 first-week vinyl copies sold, marking the group’s sixth champ, tying the band with The Beatles and Jack White for the second-most, after Taylor Swift with nine.
On the all-genre, mult-metric Billboard 200, Seasons debuts at No. 2, behind Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which earned 166,000 units. The band adds its 12th top 10 on the chart, a run that began with …And Justice for All in 1988.
Concurrently, multiple songs from Seasons reach Billboard song charts, with the entire album’s tracklist infusing Hot Hard Rock Songs. It’s led by the title track and current radio single, which leaps 12-2 thanks to 2.7 million radio audience impressions, 2.4 million official U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads sold. “Shadows Follow” is next at No. 6 (1.8 million streams).
Twelve songs at once on Hot Hard Rock Songs is the most since the chart’s 2020 inception, surpassing Deftones‘ 10 songs on the Oct. 10, 2020, ranking.
“72 Seasons” jumps 8-6 on the latest Mainstream Rock Airplay survey. It’s Metallica’s 26th top 10, placing the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers in a tie with Van Halen for the sixth-most since the chart began in 1981. Preceding single “Lux Æterna” reigned for 11 weeks beginning in December, while fellow teaser song “Screaming Suicide” (not promoted to radio) spent one week on the tally at No. 40 in February.
Billboard has more than 200 different charts on its roster, encompassing numerous genres and formats.
While A-list artists often compete for a spot on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and Billboard 200 albums ranking, which track the most popular songs and albums of the week, respectively, up-and-coming talents typically start off on genre-specific lists.
Here’s a look at 10 acts who appear on surveys for the first time on the April 29-dated charts.
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Abraham Alexander
The Nigerian R&B/soul/rock singer-songwriter, based in Fort Worth, Texas, via Athens, Greece, arrives on Billboard’s charts with his new LP, SEA/SONS. The set, released April 14 on Dualtone Music Group, debuts at No. 42 on Top Current Album Sales and No. 83 on Top Album Sales with 2,000 copies sold through April 20, according to Luminate. The collection includes features from Gary Clark Jr. and Mavis Staples and sparks Alexander’s No. 23 debut on the Emerging Artists chart. Although this is his first solo chart entry, he contributed to one prior charted album: his cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s classic “Bridge Over Troubled Water” is on the Truth to Power Project, whose proceeds benefit multiple non-profits empowering Black communities. The set reached No. 20 on Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart in 2021. Alexander opened for Leon Bridges on the latter’s Gold-Diggers Sound Tour in 2021 and is currently on the road supporting Wilder Woods.
Poppy Baskcomb
The Londoner scores her first chart appearance, as her featured credit on Meduza’s “Upside Down” debuts at No. 26 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. The track, released April 14 on AETERNA Records, arrives with 526,000 official U.S. streams in its first week. Baskcomb previously collaborated with acts including Jess Bays, Joel Corry, Dimension and Tiësto. Baskcomb is credited as a songwriter on Corry and Mable’s “I Wish,” which reached No. 22 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in 2021 and No. 17 on the Official U.K. Singles chart in 2022.
Diamond Pynk
The Houston native and Berklee College of Music student achieves her first appearance on Billboard’s charts with her new track “Stuck” with singer-songwriter Gene Noble. The collab, released March 3 via Chicago Creed Music Group, debuts at No. 30 on Adult R&B Airplay, up 28% in weekly plays.
Seth Parker Woods
The Grammy-nominated cellist notches his first chart entry, thanks to his new album Difficult Grace. The set, released April 14 on Cedille Records, debuts at No. 9 on Classical Crossover Albums. Woods is a member of the music ensemble Wild Up, whose recording “Stay on It,” on Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy, earned a 2023 Grammy nomination for best orchestral performance. He’s also on the faculty of USC Thornton School of Music, as an assistant professor of practice, string chamber music and cello. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Buffalo, University of Chicago, Dartmouth College and the Chicago Academy of Arts. He also contributed to the soundtrack to the 2022 PBS documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein.
Scottie, Sunny Laurent & Andez Santana
All three artists attain their first chart hit thanks to “Comeria Besos.” The collaboration, released via Digital Dior, debuts at No. 6 on Latin Pop Digital Song Sales, No. 7 on Latin Rhythm Digital Song Sales and No. 19 on the all-Latin-encompassing Latin Digital Song Sales charts. Digital Dior is an independent label founded by Sunny Laurent in South Florida. Scottie provides vocals on “Comeria Besos,” while Andez Santana produced the track.
Lola Indigo
The Spanish singer-songwriter has already charted several songs in Spain and Argentina, but she claims her first on an official Billboard chart as “El Tonto,” with Quevedo, debuts at No. 138 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart with 11.7 million streams worldwide. The song, released April 14 on Universal Music Spain, appears on her third studio album, El Dragon.
Artimus Wolz
The musician-filmmaker-comedian arrives on Billboard’s charts thanks to his breakout track “Saddy Daddy-O.” The song, released through SOMNITECT, debuts on the Alternative Digital Song Sales chart at No. 17 (600 sold).
Creeds
The DJ’s “Push Up” opens at No. 45 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. Released on Rave Alert/B1/Ministry of Sound/Arista Records, it tallied 416,000 U.S. streams in the tracking week.
DeeBaby
The rapper’s new album Junkie Mode begins at No. 13 on Heatseekers Albums (4,000 units). He released the LP via Black Diamond Entertainment/Create Music Group.
Odetari
The DJ enters Billboard’s charts thanks to his viral hit “Narcissistic Personality Disorder.” The song, which he self-released, debuts at No. 11 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with 2.3 million U.S. streams.
Metallica’s 72 Seasons opens at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated April 29) with the largest sales week in over three-and-a-half years for any rock or hard rock album. The set bows with 134,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending April 20, according to Luminate. It’s the eighth No. 1 on Top Album Sales for the band.
72 Seasons marks the group’s first original album in nearly seven years, since 2016’s chart-topping Hardwired… To Self-Destruct.
Also on Top Album Sales, Waterparks notches its highest charting set and best sales week ever – as Intellectual Property bows at No. 2. Plus, Yung Bleu and Prof both log their first top 10s with the arrivals of Love Scars II and Horse, respectively.
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.
72 Seasons bows with the biggest sales week for any rock or hard rock album since Fear Inoculum’s debut with 248,000 sold (No. 1, chart dated Sept. 14, 2019).
Of 72 Seasons’ 134,000 sold, physical sales comprise 106,500 (59,000 on CD, 42,500 on vinyl and 5,000 on cassette) and digital download sales comprise nearly 27,500. The vinyl sales sum marks Metallica’s largest sales week for an album on the format since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.
Waterparks collects its highest-charting set and best sales week yet as Intellectual Property debuts at No. 2 with 16,000 copies sold. It’s the third top 10 for the rock act. Melanie Martinez’s former No. 1 Portals falls 2-3 with 13,000 sold (down 33%), Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Midnights climbs 5-4 with nearly 13,000 (down 6%) and Morgan Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time vaults 15-5 with 12,000 (up 102%) after a new vinyl edition of the album was released.
Yung Bleu bows at No. 6 with Love Scars II, scoring his first top 10 and best sales week yet, as the album starts with 10,000 sold. Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. falls 4-7 with 9,000 sold (down 35%). Rapper Prof achieves his first top 10 and best sales week with the No. 8 start of Horse (9,000 sold). TWICE’s former No. 1 Ready to Be dips 8-9 with nearly 9,000 (down 18%) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Name Chapter: Temptation slips 9-10 with nearly 8,000 (down 14%).
In the week ending April 20, there were 2.023 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 0.4% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.675 million (up 0.4%) and digital albums comprised 348,000 (up 0.4%).
There were 693,000 CD albums sold in the week ending April 20 (up 0.3% week-over-week) and 965,000 vinyl albums sold (up 0.4%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 10.464 million (up 3.8% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 14.487 million (up 27.7%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 30.786 million (up 9.7% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 25.116 million (up 16.4%) and digital album sales total 5.670 million (down 12.6%).
Harry Belafonte, who died on Tuesday (April 25) at age 96, made history in March 1956, becoming the first artist to top Billboard’s weekly album chart, now known as the Billboard 200. He achieved the feat with his sophomore album Belafonte, which held the top spot for six consecutive weeks.
With Belafonte’s death, just four Billboard 200-topping artists from the years before The Beatles’ explosive arrival in 1964 are still living.
In addition, a handful of artists who were featured on Billboard 200-topping original cast albums and soundtracks between 1956 and 1964 are still living, but those albums weren’t credited to them individually. Most notably, the legendary Julie Andrews, 87, was featured on the cast albums to My Fair Lady, which topped the chart for 15 nonconsecutive weeks starting in July 1956, and Camelot, which topped the chart for six consecutive weeks in June and July 1961. Andrews, of course, was also featured on two Billboard 200-topping soundtracks, Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, which were released after The Beatles arrived.
Mitzi Gaynor, 91, was featured on the South Pacific soundtrack, which topped the chart for 31 nonconsecutive weeks starting in May 1958. Future EGOT recipient Rita Moreno, 91, was featured on the West Side Story soundtrack, which topped the chart for 54 nonconsecutive weeks starting in May 1962. And Anna Maria Alberghetti, 86, was featured on the cast album to Carnival, which topped the chart for a single week in July 1961.
For the record, Billboard published album charts starting in 1945, but the chart didn’t become a regular, weekly feature until March 1956. A total of 51 albums that were credited to an artist topped the chart between Belafonte and The Singing Nun’s The Singing Nun, the final No. 1 of the pre-Beatles era. (Those years officially ended when Meet the Beatles! hit No. 1 on Feb. 15, 1964.)
Here are the four artists who hit No. 1 before that date who are still living:
Johnny Mathis
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Age: 87
Notes: Mathis’s Johnny’s Greatest Hits reached No 1 in June 1958, becoming the first greatest hits album to top the chart. It remained on top for three nonconsecutive weeks and remained on the Billboard 200 for a then-record 490 weeks. The album featured songs that have made listeners swoon ever since, including “Chances Are,” “It’s Not for Me to Say,” “The Twelfth of Never” and “Wonderful! Wonderful!.” Mathis’ Heavenly first hit No. 1 in November 1959 and remained on top for five consecutive weeks. That album featured Mathis’ exquisite reading of “Misty.” One listen to that track and you’ll agree, the album title was no hype.
Bob Newhart
Age: 93
Notes: Newhart is best known as a legendary TV star, one of the few to star in multiple long-running and much-admired series (The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart). But in the early 1960s he was a hit recording act, with back-to-back No. 1 albums, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (which first hit No. 1 in July 1960 and remained on top for 14 non-consecutive weeks) and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! (which had a single week on top in January 1961). These were the first two comedy albums to reach No. 1. Both albums won Grammys. The former was the first comedy album to win album of the year.
Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul & Mary)
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Ages: 84 (Yarrow); 85 (Stookey)
Notes: The folk-pop trio had a pair of No. 1 albums in 1962-63, Peter, Paul & Mary and In the Wind. The former album topped the chart for seven non-consecutive weeks beginning in October 1962. The latter topped the chart for five consecutive weeks in November 1963. Peter, Paul & Mary included “Lemon Tree,” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” In the Wind drew its title from the trio’s hit version of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.” The album also included “Tell It on the Mountain!” and Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” (In case you’re wondering why Dylan isn’t on this list, he didn’t land a No. 1 album until 1974’s Planet Waves, a collaboration with The Band.) Mary Travers, the third member of the legendary trio, died in 2009 at age 72.
Little Stevie Wonder
Age: 72
Notes: Wonder was just 13 when he landed his first No. 1 album in August 1963 with Little Stevie Wonder/The 12-Year Old Genius. It was the first album to ascend to No. 1 since Billboard combined its separate mono and stereo album charts in the previous issue (where Andy Williams’ Days of Wine and Roses logged a 16th and final week on top). The two stars shared a long history: Williams hosted all three Grammy telecasts on which Wonder became the first (and still the only) artist to win album of the year with three consecutive studio albums — Innervisions, Fulfillingness’ First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life. Wonder’s 1963 album included “Fingertips – Pt 2,” which was his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to singing, Wonder played bongos and harmonica on the explosive track.
Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor” paces Billboard’s Hot Trending Songs chart, powered by Twitter, for April 29.
Billboard’s Hot Trending charts, powered by Twitter, track global music-related trends and conversations in real-time across Twitter, viewable over either the last 24 hours or past seven days. A weekly, 20-position version of the chart, covering activity from Friday through Thursday of each week, posts alongside Billboard’s other weekly charts on Billboard.com each Tuesday, with the latest tracking period running April 14-20.
“Floor,” released April 21, is Latto’s first weekly Hot Trending Songs ruler, eclipsing the No. 20 peak of “FTCU,” featuring GloRilla and Gangsta Boo, last December.
The song crowns the latest list following pre-release teases of the track on the rapper’s social media; she initially announced the new single via its artwork on April 19.
Latto reigns over Grupo Frontera and Bad Bunny’s new collaboration “Un x100to,” which bows at No. 2. The duet was released April 17 and quickly shot toward the top of multiple charts; on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs tally dated April 29, the song starts at No. 3 despite just four days of streaming, sales and radio data. It earned 19.9 million official U.S. streams, 52,000 radio audience impressions and 4,000 downloads from April 14-20, according to Luminate.
More chart appearances for both “Floor” and “x100to” are likely upon the Billboard rankings dated May 6, which will incorporate April 21-27 data.
Music from Stray Kids, Drake, Salman Khan and Devi Sri Prasad round out the latest Hot Trending Songs survey’s top five.
Keep visiting Billboard.com for the constantly evolving Hot Trending Songs rankings, and check in each Tuesday for the latest weekly chart.
Grupo Frontera pick up their highest debut on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart with “un x100to,” their first team-up with Bad Bunny, which debuts at No. 3 on the April 29-dated ranking. The song arrives in the top five with only four days of activity. It’s the fourth top 10 for Grupo Frontera, while Bad Bunny adds his 60th top 10, extending his record among all acts.
“Un x100to” dropped April 17 via Rimas Entertainment, a surprise not only for fans, but for Frontera as well. Benito’s vocals were incorporated as Edgar Muñoz, composer of the song, revealed his participation as a surprise the day the norteño group shot the music video. “We did not hear Bad Bunny’s part in the song until the day of the video,” Adelaido “Payo” Solis III, lead vocalist, shared during an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “So when that part comes out and we were shooting the video, I froze. Having a song with Bad Bunny is just something that… It’s unexplainable.”
“Un x100to” starts at No. 3 on Hot Latin Songs, largely due to its surge in streams. As mentioned, because the song came with the track’s music video on April 17, it joins the upper region of the multimetric ranking with only four days of activity for its chart debut. According to Luminate, it generated 20 million official U.S. streams during the April 14-20 tracking week. That opening sum yields a No. 7 on the overall Streaming Songs chart, a first top 10 for Frontera there, and an equal No. 3 debut on Latin Streaming Songs.
“Un x100to” also registered 4,000 downloads in the same period, prompting a No. 1 launch on Latin Digital Song Sales. There, it becomes the third champ for Frontera and Bunny’s 13th chart topper.
Over on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart, Frontera’s new single makes its top 20 debut, at No. 15, the highest ranking for the McAllen-based group. For Benito, it becomes its highest chart appearance since “Moscow Mule” debuted and peaked at No. 4 in May 2022.
Back on Hot Latin Songs, “un x100to” marks Frontera’s fourth top 10. It follows “Bebe Dame,” with Fuerza Regida, which led for two weeks (Jan. 21 and March 4-dated lists).
Elsewhere, Frontera also earns career highs on both global charts. “Un x100to” bows at No. 5 on the Billboard Global 200 with 67 million streams, while it shoots to a No. 4 start on the Global Excl. U.S. with 48 million earned during the same period.
The news of the collab’s debut across Billboard charts arrives on the heels of Frontera’s El Comienzo Tour, which kicked off in San Antonio, Texas, on April 20 and will take the sextet through the U.S. with its last stop on Nov. 25 in L.A.
Grupo Marca Registrada is officially a Billboard Hot 100-charting act, as the quartet notches its first career entry on the April 29-dated ranking with its new Tejano collaboration with Grupo Frontera, “Di Que Si.”
The song, released Feb. 3 via Interscope Records/RB Music, debuts at No. 99 with 8.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 6%) and 5.1 million U.S. streams (up 15%) April 14-20, according to Luminate.
The track also ranks at No. 18 on Hot Latin Songs, after reaching No. 15 a week earlier. Radio-wise, it ascends to No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay, becoming Grupo Marca Registrada’s first leader (with its first entry) at the format, as well as Grupo Frontera’s second. On Latin Airplay, it pushes 5-3.
TikTok has been a big factor in the song’s growing profile, as a portion of it has been used in nearly 150,000 clips on the platform to-date. (TikTok does not directly contribute to Billboard’s charts.)
Grupo Marca Registrada has been churning out hits dating to its first chart entry in 2015, as “La Vida Ruina,” featuring Ariel Camacho, debuted and peaked at No. 5 on Regional Mexican Digital Song Sales. The Culiacán, Sinaloans have since charted five titles on Hot Latin Songs, with the previous four peaking in 2022: “El Rescate,” with Junior H (No. 18), “Puro Campeón,” with Luis R. Conriquez (No. 28), “Si Fuera Fácil” (No. 29) and “Solo Me Dejaste” (No. 40).
Contributing to the group’s rise is a new label deal last year that aligned Grupo Marca Registrada’s indie label RB Music with Interscope Records. “From afar, I’ve admired what Ricardo Bobadilla and the entire RB Music team have done over the past few years,” Nir Seroussi, Interscope executive vp, said at the time. “Their impact with Grupo Marca Registrada is game-changing. They catalyzed the group’s evolution from a local favorite to an international contender. Together, we have the collective and combined platform to launch Grupo Marca Registrada into the stratosphere.”
Grupo Marca Registrada, which was listed as one of Billboard’s Latin and Spanish artists to watch in 2023, comprises Fidel Osvaldo Castro, Fidel Jiménez, Luis Fernando Medina and Ángel Mondragón.
Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj combine forces for a historic No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart as their collaboration, “Princess Diana,” becomes the first champ by two co-billed women in the list’s 34-year history.
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With the new champ, Ice Spice achieves her first career No. 1 on Hot Rap Songs upon her fourth visit to the chart. Minaj adds a 10th leader to her collection and becomes the first woman to reach the double-digit mark. On the overall count, she ties with Diddy and Kanye West for third place, while Drake (28) and Lil Wayne (11) occupy the top two slots.
“Diana” debuts at No. 1 on the April 29, 2023-dated Hot Rap Songs chart, which blends streaming, radio airplay and sales into its weekly rankings. The song was originally released as part of Ice Spice’s Like..? EP in January, before Minaj joined for the remix, which dropped on April 14. (All versions of the song are combined for tracking and chart purposes.)
In the latest tracking week of April 14 – 20, “Diana” scored 21.8 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate, up 1,554% from 1.3 million streams (of solely the Ice Spice version) the week before. The eight-figure sum sparks the track’s No. 2 start on the Rap Streaming Songs chart and a No. 6 arrival on the corresponding, all-genre Streaming Songs list.
“Diana” also begins with 77,000 downloads sales sold in the same period, the best sales week for any rap title since Minaj’s own “Super Freaky Girl” launched with 89,000 in sales in the tracking week of Aug. 12 – 18, 2022. (Along with Ice Spice’s solo version and the main version of the collaboration, “Diana” was also available in clean, explicit, extended, sped-up, slowed-down and instrumental versions of the Minaj remix for purchase in the tracking week.) As “Diana” debuts at No. 1 on the Rap Digital Song Sales chart, Ice Spice nabs her first leader there; she previously reached No. 2 with the Lil Tjay collab “Gangsta Boo” in February. Minaj, meanwhile, collects her 18th Rap Digital Song Sales No. 1, extending her record among women. Drake, the only act above her, leads with 22 champs.
On the radio front, “Diana” registered 2.4 million audience impressions in the same tracking period. The track has yet to make any Billboard radio chart, though it has not been officially promoted. Both acts have other active radio singles: “In Ha Mood” (Ice Spice) and “Red Ruby Da Sleeze” (Minaj).
With “Diana,” newcomer Ice Spice and established vet Minaj link up for the first equal-billed No. 1 collaboration by two women in Hot Rap Songs history, which dates to March 1989. Overall, “Diana” is the eighth leader featuring at least two solo women (including rappers and singers) in the chart’s archives. Here’s the full list:
“It’s a Shame,” Monie Love featuring True Image, two weeks at No. 1, beginning April 13, 1991
“4, 5, 6,” Sole featuring JT Money & Kandi, one, Nov. 20, 1999
“Hot Boyz,” Missy Elliott featuring Nas, Eve & Q-Tip, 18, Nov. 27, 1999
“Fancy,” Iggy Azalea featuring Charli xCX, 18, May 3, 2014
“Black Widow,” Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora, five, Oct. 18, 2014
“WAP,” Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion, eight, Aug. 22, 2020
“Rumors,” Lizzo featuring Cardi B, one, Aug. 28, 2021
“Princess Diana,” Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj, one (to date), April 29, 2023
Elsewhere, “Diana” starts at No. 2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and at No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
Plus, Ice Spice’s Like..? EP, surges in activity thanks to the new remix’s popularity. The EP earned 28,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week, sparking its No. 4 re-entry on the Top Rap Albums chart (after previously reaching No. 13 upon its debut), No. 5 return on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and 187-15 rally on the all-genre Billboard 200.