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Zach Bryan’s self-titled album spends a second week atop Billboard 200 chart (dated Sept. 16), as the set earned 115,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 7 (down 42%) according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, the late Jimmy Buffett — who died on Sept. 1 — returns to the top five as his best-of collection Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hit(s) re-enters the list at No. 4. It marks the album’s highest rank ever — and first week in the top 10, or even top 40, dating to its release in 1985 — and Buffett’s 13th top 10-charting album.
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 Sept. 16, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Sept. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of Zach Bryan’s 115,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 7, SEA units comprise 111,000 (down 77%, equaling 144.08 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 16 songs), album sales comprise 3,000 (down 50%), and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 36%).
Bryan’s genre-blending album is categorized as country, Americana/folk and rock on Billboard’s charts. It is the first rock effort to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in seven years — since the Suicide Squad soundtrack logged its first two weeks at No. 1 (Aug. 27-Sept. 3, 2016 charts). It’s the first Americana/folk project to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 since Chris Stapleton’s Traveller also ruled in its first two frames in 2015 (Nov. 21 and 28). Country, Americana/folk and rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Country Albums, Americana/Folk Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, respectively.
A pair of former No. 1s trails Bryan, as Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time climbs 3-2 (84,000 equivalent album units; up 1%) and Travis Scott’s Utopia dips 2-3 (72,000; down 21%).
The late Buffett’s first best-of compilation, the 1985 release Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hit(s), re-enters the Billboard 200 at a new peak of No. 4. The album initially peaked at No. 100 the year of its release.
In the tracking week ending Sept. 7, Songs You Know by Heart earned 52,000 equivalent album units (up 2,122%) following the singer-songwriter’s death on Sept. 1 at age 76. It marks the 13th top 10-charting album for Billboard’s most famous alumnus. Buffett was a Nashville-based reporter for Billboard in 1969-70, before the release of his first album.
Songs You Know by Heart contains Buffett’s only Billboard Hot 100 top 10-charting hit, “Margaritaville,” which reached No. 8 in 1977. It also houses the top 40-charting tunes “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “Come Monday” and “Fins.”
Like Bryan’s latest album, Buffett’s Songs You Know by Heart is also categorized as a country, Americana/folk and rock album. In turn, with Wallen’s own country set One Thing at a Time at No. 2, there are three country albums in the top four on the Billboard 200 for the first time in over a decade. The feat last happened when the entire top three were country efforts on the Nov. 20, 2010-dated list, with Swift’s Speak Now, Jason Aldean’s My Kinda Party and Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine at Nos. 1-3, respectively.
Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Midnights falls 4-5 on the new Billboard 200 (45,000 equivalent album units; down 8%), SZA’s former leader SOS descends 5-6 (nearly 45,000; down 7%), the Barbie soundtrack drops 6-7 (42,000; down 11%), Peso Pluma’s Génesis slips 7-8 (42,000; down 3%), Swift’s former No. 1 Lover falls 8-9 (41,000; down 3%), and Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 10 (nearly 41,000; up 1%).
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.
Tyler, the Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost finds its way back to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Sept. 9), as the album vaults 76-1 following a new vinyl release of the set. It’s the album’s third week at No. 1 in as many years, following one-week visits to the top in 2022 and 2021.
The album’s return is owed to the Aug. 25 release of the first vinyl pressing of the deluxe edition of the album, dubbed Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale. The deluxe edition was originally issued via streamers and digital retailers in March 2023. The triple-LP set was pressed on blue-colored vinyl. In total in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 31, all retail versions of the album combined – old and new – sold just over 29,000 copies (up 1,397%), according to Luminate. Vinyl sales comprised nearly all of that sum.
Call Me If You Get Lost previously hit No. 1 for one week in 2022 (April 30-dated chart) after the original album’s release on vinyl, and for one week in 2021 (July 10, its debut frame).
In total in the U.S. through the week ending Aug. 31, Call Me If You Get Lost has sold 328,000 copies on vinyl across its multiple vinyl editions.
Elsewhere in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Zach Bryan’s self-titled set launches at No. 3, and The Turnpike Troubadours’ A Cat In the Rain debuts at No. 5.
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.
Travis Scott’s chart-topping Utopia falls to No. 2 after four weeks at No. 1 (selling 29,000 copies; down 68%), while Bryan’s self-titled album bows at No. 3 with 17,000 sold (all from digital downloads, as it has yet to be released on any physical format). NewJeans’ former No. 1 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ rises 7-4 with 13,000 (down 17%), while The Turnpike Troubadours’ A Cat in the Rain starts at No. 5 with nearly 13,000 sold.
Taylor Swift’s former leader Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) rises 8-6 (nearly 13,000; down 19%), NCT DREAM’s ISTJ: The 3rd Album falls 6-7 (12,500; down 49%), and J-Hope’s Jack in the Box falls 2-8 (12,000; down 74%). Swift’s former No. 1 Midnights climbs 11-9 (10,000; down 12%), and JIHYO’s Zone (The 1st Mini Album) falls 4-10 (10,000; down 73%).
In the week ending Aug. 31, there were 1.666 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 12.6% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.333 million (down 15.3%) and digital albums comprised 334,000 (up 0.1%).
There were 552,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Aug. 31 (down 18.9% week-over-week) and 773,000 vinyl albums sold (up 12.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 23.283 million (up 1.8% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 31.147 million (up 20.4%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 67.201 million (up 6.9% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 54.788 million (up 11.6%) and digital album sales total 12.414 million (down 10%).
Zach Bryan has had a massive week on Billboard’s charts (dated Sept. 9), thanks to the arrival of his new self-titled LP.
Zach Bryan launches atop the Billboard 200, Top Country Albums, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts with 200,000 equivalent album units earned Aug 25-31, according to Luminate.
Concurrently, the collection’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs – becoming the first track ever to top all those tallies.
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All 16 songs from the set storm the Hot 100, and genre-specific charts for country and rock/alternative, helping Bryan hit No. 1 on four songwriter charts and four producer charts.
Here’s a recap of all the songwriter and producer charts on which Bryan is No. 1:
Hot 100 Songwriters (1st week at No. 1)Hot 100 Producers (1st week at No. 1)Country Songwriters (39th week at No. 1)Country Producers (1st week at No. 1)Rock & Alternative Songwriters (49th week at No. 1)Rock & Alternative Producers (1st week at No. 1)Rock Songwriters (49th week at No. 1)Rock Producers (1st week at No. 1)
Further, here is a recap of Bryan’s entries on the latest Hot 100:
No. 1, “I Remember Everything,” feat. Kacey MusgravesNo. 14, “Hey Driver,” feat. The War and TreatyNo. 17, “Spotless,” feat. The LumineersNo. 18, “East Side of Sorrow”No. 20, “Tourniquet”No. 22, “Overtime”No. 23, “Summertime’s Close”No. 24, “Fear and Friday’s”No. 29, “Ticking”No. 31, “El Dorado”No. 37, “Holy Roller,” feat. Sierra FerrellNo. 38, “Smaller Acts”No. 39, “Fear and Friday’s (Poem)”No. 41, “Jake’s Piano – Long Island”No. 44, “Tradesman”No. 47, “Oklahoman Son”No. 76, “Dawns,” feat. Maggie Rogers (holds in place; peaked at No. 42 in February)No. 88, “Oklahoma Smoke Show” (down from its No. 81 peak)
Bryan is the sole credited producer on all 16 songs on the new album (as well as “Dawns,” not on the set). He’s also the only credited songwriter on 14 songs on the LP (as well as “Oklahoma Smoke Show,” likewise not on the album). The only track above on which he is not billed as a producer is “Oklahoma Smoke Show,” which is credited to Eddie Spears.
Bryan is listed as a co-writer on “I Remember Everything” (with Musgraves), “Spotless” (with The Lumineers’ Wesley Keith Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites) and “Dawns” (with Rogers).
Bryan is just the third person to simultaneously top the Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts this year, after Taylor Swift (among eight total weeks leading the lists together) and Travis Scott.
Billboard launched the Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts, as well as genre-specific rankings for country, rock & alternative, R&B/hip-hop, R&B, rap, Latin, Christian, gospel and dance/electronic, in June 2019, while alternative and hard rock joined in 2020, along with seasonal holiday rankings in 2022. The charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot 100. The genre-based songwriter and producer charts follow the same methodology based on corresponding “Hot”-named genre charts. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings).
The full Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts and full genre rankings can be found on Billboard.com.
Kane Brown’s “Bury Me in Georgia” hops from No. 4 to No. 1 in its 29th week on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Sept. 16). In the tracking week ending Sept. 7, it increased by 11% to 29.3 million impressions, according to Luminate. Brown wrote the song with Josh Hoge, Matt McGinn and Jordan Schmidt. Brown […]
Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” struts its way to No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts, dated Sept. 16.
It also marks the second song from the Barbie: The Album soundtrack to top a radio airplay tally.
On Pop Airplay, Lipa lands her fifth No. 1, following “Levitating,” which led for three weeks beginning in June 2021; “Break My Heart” (one week, August 2020); “Don’t Start Now” (three weeks, starting in February 2020); and “New Rules” (four weeks, February 2018).
On Adult Pop Airplay, Lipa leads with her fourth title, following “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” with Elton John (one week, March 2022); “Levitating” (seven weeks, beginning in June 2021); and “Don’t Start Now” (three weeks, starting in April 2020).
The Pop Airplay chart reflects songs’ weekly plays, as tabulated by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate, on around 150 U.S. mainstream top 40 radio stations. Adult Pop Airplay spotlights airplay on around 80 adult top 40 stations.
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Meanwhile, “Dance the Night” is the second song from Barbie to hit No. 1 on a radio ranking; Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie Word,” with Aqua, rules Rhythmic Airplay for a fourth week.
Additionally, the movie and soundtrack’s “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish ranks at new highs of No. 20 on Alternative Airplay and No. 24 on Pop Airplay.
“The fact that [Barbie director and co-writer] Greta [Gerwig] saw this film almost as a musical, and was so involved with the soundtrack, was an absolutely critical factor in how and why the music [has] worked so well,” Kevin Weaver, Atlantic Records West Coast president and Barbie soundtrack co-producer, recently told Billboard. (Atlantic and Warner Records are co-promoting “Dance the Night” to radio.)
Since its release (through Aug. 31), “Dance the Night” has drawn 667 million in all-format radio audience and 127 million official on-demand streams and sold 56,000 downloads in the U.S., according to Luminate.
Barbie, meanwhile, leads all 2023 movie releases with a domestic haul north of $600 million and more than $1.38 billion worldwide, among other achievements.
All Billboard charts dated Sept. 16 will update on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
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Polaris rocks Australia’s albums chart with Fatalism, while Doja Cat extends her streak atop the national singles survey with “Paint The Town Red”.
Hailing from Sydney, melodic metalcore merchants Polaris powers to a first ever-leader with Fatalism (Resist Records/Orchard), bowing at the summit of the ARIA Chart, published Sept. 8.
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Fatalism is the band’s third studio album, and third appearance in the top 10. The five-piece landed at No. 6 with 2017 debut The Mortal Coil; peaked at No. 3 with its 2017 followup The Death Of Me, while 2016 EP The Guilt & The Grief reached No. 34.
Polaris this week kicked off its national tour in support of Fatalism, which will be followed with a return to the U.K. and Europe supporting While She Sleeps, with a North American headline run later in October (including a date at Aftershock Festival 2023).
Following the expansion of his stadium tour Down Under, the Weeknd’s catalog knuckles down on the ARIA Chart. The Highlights (Universal) rises 3-2, ahead of Travis Scott’s Utopia (Epic/Sony), while a second Weeknd record impacts the top 5, his former leader album Starboy, holding at No. 4.
Zach Bryan is one of several U.S. country stars enjoying hits on both main ARIA Charts this year. His self-titled fourth studio album Zach Bryan (Warner) dips 2-5, and he’s close to cracking the top 10 on the national singles chart with two tracks, his duet with Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” (Universal/Warner) up 19-11 in its second week, and “Something In The Orange” (Warner), unchanged at No. 12 in its 60th week on the tally.
At the pointy end of the ARIA Singles Chart is Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (RCA/Sony), the leader for a third successive week. Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” (No. 2 via Universal) and Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” (No. 3 via Republic/Universal) complete an unchanged podium.
Finally, Kylie Minogue cracks the ARIA Chart with “Tension” (Liberation), the title track from her forthcoming 16th studio album, due out Sept. 22. It’s the follow up to “Padam Padam,” which peaked at No. 19 on the ARIA Chart earlier in 2023, for her 56th top 100 chart appearance in her homeland. “Padam Padam” also cracked the top 10 in the U.K., for her 35th top tier effort in her adopted home.
Foo Fighters break the record for the most top 10s on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, as “Under You” climbs from No. 11 to No. 9 on the Sept. 9-dated survey.
“Under You” sprints to the top 10 in its fifth week on the chart, giving the Dave Grohl-led rockers 31 top career 10s.
That solely marks the most in the Mainstream Rock Airplay survey’s 42-year history, snapping Foo Fighters out of a tie with Shinedown.
Most Top 10s, Mainstream Rock Airplay31, Foo Fighters30, Shinedown29, Five Finger Death Punch28, Godsmack28, Tom Petty (solo and with the Heartbreakers)26, Disturbed26, Metallica26, Van Halen25, Papa Roach
Foo Fighters first hit the Mainstream Rock Airplay top 10 with their debut single “This Is a Call,” which reached No. 6 in August 1995. They currently have a streak of five straight top 10s going, dating to “Waiting on a War” in 2021.
Of those 31 top 10s, 12 have reached No. 1, most recently the six-week ruler “Rescued,” the single prior to “Under You” from Foo Fighters’ latest album, But Here We Are.
Previously, “Under You” extended Foo Fighters’ record for the most top 10s on Alternative Airplay (30) and gave the band sole possession of the most Rock & Alternative Airplay top 10s (16, dating to the chart’s 2009 inception).
Concurrently, “Under You” jumps 8-3 on Alternative Airplay and 29-20 on Adult Alternative Airplay. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it remains at its No. 2 high with 5.6 million audience impressions, up 16%, Aug. 25-31, according to Luminate.
On the multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs list, “Under You” rises 11-9, returning to the top 10 for the first time since it reached No. 8 on the June 17 ranking, when But Here We Are made its chart start. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 371,000 official U.S. streams Aug. 25-31.
But Here We Are, Foo Fighters’ 11th studio set, debuted at No. 1 on the Top Alternative Albums chart dated June 17 and has earned 127,000 equivalent album units to date.
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