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27 Aug 2023

Dua Lipa Shimmies to U.K. No. 1 With ‘Dance The Night’

Thirteen is the lucky number for Dua Lipa as “Dance The Night” (via Warner Records) completes its coronation on the Official U.K. Singles Chart.

Lifted from the Barbie soundtrack, “Dance The Night” rises 2-1 for its first stint at the summit, doing so in its 13th week on the national tally, published Friday, Aug. 25.

With that effort, Lipa becomes just the sixth British female solo artist to bag four leaders, drawing level with Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora and Spice Girl Geri Halliwell. Only Jess Glynne (seven) and Girls Aloud’s Cheryl (five) have more No. 1s, the Official Charts Company reports.

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Lipa previously led with 2017’s “New Rules,” 2018’s “One Kiss” with Calvin Harris, and 2021’s “Cold Heart” with Elton John and Australian electronic production outfit Pnau.

The last British female artist to reign over the U.K. singles chart was Kate Bush, with her 1985 classic “Running Up That Hill,” which exploded off the back of Stranger Things season four.

“Dance The Night” replaces another hit from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made” (Interscope/Atlantic) which dips 1-2. The podium is completed by Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Vampire” (Interscope), unchanged at No. 3.

Meanwhile, Doja Cat makes an impressive leap on the chart with “Paint The Town Red” (RCA), up 15-4 for a new high. “Paint The Town Red” is the new No. 1 in Australia.

Continuing the Girl Powered look of the U.K. singles chart in recent weeks, female artists lead the top seven tracks, and eight of the top ten.

There’s a notable entry for Oliver Anthony Music‘s divisive Billboard Hot 100 leader “Rich Men North of Richmond,” which cracks the U.K. top 40 for the first time. The independently-released country music hit single is up 64-23 on the Official Chart.

Finally, the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on the Disney+ streaming platform has a measurable impact on the Official U.K. Singles Chart as Florence + The Machine’s “Dog Days” (Island), which appears on the Marvel franchise’s soundtrack, re-enters the top 40. “Dog Days” drops in at No. 27, not far from its peak position of No. 21.

27 Aug 2023

Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’ Spends a Month at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

Travis Scott’s Utopia makes it a month at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Sept. 2), as the set spends a fourth total and consecutive week in the lead. The effort earned 161,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 24 (down 13%), according to Luminate. Utopia surpasses Astroworld as Scott’s album with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

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Utopia is also the first rap album to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in five years, since Drake’s Scorpion logged all five of its weeks at No. 1, from its debut frame (July 14-Aug. 11, 2018). The last rap set with four weeks at No. 1, in total, was Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which tallied five nonconsecutive frames at No. 1 between Sept. 18 and Nov. 6, 2021.

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Hozier scores his third top 10-charting album as Unreal Unearth launches at No. 3, while J-Hope’s year-old Jack in the Box album reaches the top 10 for the first time, as it re-enters the list at No. 6 following its expanded reissue and debut on CD in multiple collectible iterations.

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. 2, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 29. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Utopia’s 161,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 24, album sales comprise 92,000 (down 7%), SEA units comprise 69,000 (down 20%, equaling 92.07 million on-demand official streams of the streaming set’s 19 songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (down 19%). For a second week in a row, the album’s sales profit from a promotional offer in Scott’s official webstore, which deep-discounted the Utopia vinyl LP (available in multiple variants) from $50 to only $5 for a limited time. Of Utopia’s 92,000 sales for the week, vinyl accounted for 89,000.

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 91,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%).

Hozier captures his third top 10-charting set — all of which have reached the top five — as Unreal Unearth debuts at No. 3. The album bows with 62,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000, SEA units comprise 23,000 (equaling 29.58 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 16 songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album was preceded by the hit single “Eat Your Young,” which marked Hozier’s third No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart (May 20-dated list).

Unreal Unearth’s first-week album sales were bolstered by vinyl sales, which accounted for 60% of its opening-week sales figure (23,000 of 39,000). The album was released in five different vinyl iterations, including exclusive color variants for Amazon, independent record stores and Hozier’s official webstore.

The Barbie soundtrack is steady at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 55,000 equivalent album units (down 15%), while Taylor Swift’s former leader Midnights climbs one spot to No. 5 with 53,000 units (down 8%).

J-Hope’s year-old Jack in the Box album bounces back onto the list for its first week in the top 10 (and second week on the chart), as it re-enters at No. 6 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5,107%). The album was originally released on July 15, 2022, and debuted and first peaked at No. 17 on the July 30, 2022, chart. It was reissued with additional bonus tracks on — and on CD for the first time — on Aug. 19, 2023. The set initially was released only as a digital download album and through streaming services.

Of the set’s 50,000 units earned in the week ending Aug. 24, album sales comprise 47,000 (up 13,238%), SEA units comprise 2,000 (up 250%, equaling 2.99 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 44,125%). The CD edition of the album was available in four collectible editions, including exclusive versions for Target and Walmart, all containing assorted branded merchandise (some of which was randomized).

J-Hope is the third member of BTS to score a top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200, following his bandmates RM and Jimin. RM reached the top 10 in 2022 with Indigo (peaking at No. 3) and Jimin reached No. 2 with Face earlier this year. BTS itself has logged seven top 10s, with six reaching No. 1.

Two more chart-topping Swift sets follow J-Hope, as Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) falls 5-7 (48,000 equivalent album units earned; down 21%) and Lover dips 7-8 (46,000; down 14%). Peso Pluma’s Génesis descends 8-9 (nearly 45,000; down 4%) and Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is steady at No. 10 (43,000; down 3%).

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.

25 Aug 2023

Avatar Scores First Billboard Chart No. 1 With ‘The Dirt I’m Buried In’

Avatar reaches No. 1 on a Billboard chart for the first time with “The Dirt I’m Buried In,” which tops the Mainstream Rock Airplay ranking dated Sept. 2.

The song rises from the runner-up spot in its 31st week on the survey, completing the longest journey to No. 1 in over 20 years. It ties for the second-longest trip to the top in the chart’s 42-year history, alongside Young Guns’ “Bones.” Trapt’s “Headstrong” boasts the steadiest such ascent.

Longest Rise to No. 1, Mainstream Rock Airplay:

  • 40 weeks, “Headstrong, “Trapt” (reached No. 1 on chart dated July 26, 2003)
  • 31, “The Dirt I’m Buried In,” Avatar (Sept. 2, 2023)
  • 31, “Bones,” Young Guns (March 23, 2013)
  • 28, “Paralyzer,” Finger Eleven (Aug. 11, 2007)
  • 27, “Just Pretend,” Bad Omens (March 11, 2023)
  • 26, “Masterpiece,” Motionless in White (Oct. 22, 2022)
  • 25, “S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun),” The Glorious Sons (Jan. 19, 2019)
  • 25, “Tired,” Stone Sour (Jan. 25, 2014)

“The Dirt I’m Buried In” marks, by far, the Swedish band’s best rank on Mainstream Rock Airplay. The group logged a previous best by reaching No. 16 twice, with “The Eagle Has Landed” in July 2016 and “Colossus” in December 2020.

Avatar first appeared on Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Smells Like a Freak Show,” which hit No. 32 in April 2013.

Concurrently, “The Dirt I’m Buried In” climbs 12-10 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.9 million audience impressions, up 17%, Aug. 18-24, according to Luminate. It’s Avatar’s first top 10 on the list; its only other entry, “The Eagle Has Landed,” peaked at No. 48.

“The Dirt I’m Buried In” is the lead single from Dance Devil Dance, Avatar’s ninth studio set. It debuted at No. 18 on the Top Hard Rock Albums tally in March and has earned 19,000 equivalent album units to date.

25 Aug 2023

Oliver Anthony Music’s ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Debuts on Country Airplay Chart

Anthony Oliver Music’s viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” arrives on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Sept. 2) at No. 45. In the tracking week ending Aug. 24, the song, released Aug. 11 (after the singer-songwriter had previewed it on TikTok), drew 2 million audience impressions, up 294%, according to Luminate.

The single, which the Farmville, Va.-based artist (born Christopher Anthony Lunsford) solely wrote, marks his first chart entry. On the Aug. 26-dated charts, “Richmond” launched at No. 1 on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100, as well as Hot Country Songs. He became the first artist with no prior chart history in any form to soar in at the summit of each survey.

The former factory worker’s song, a lightning rod for media coverage from both left- and right-leaning media outlets and pundits (and which sparked the opening talking point in the first Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday, Aug. 23), drew 17.5 million streams and sold 147,000 downloads in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Aug. 17.

In the past week, many media outlets have been wondering if country radio would get behind the breakout hit. Although the song is not being promoted to radio, at least yet, one programmer giving avid support is Bo Matthews, program director at Alpha Media’s KBAY, San Jose, Calif. It “simply sounds great on the radio,” he tells Billboard. With 32 plays, “Richmond” was the Country Airplay-reporting station’s 16th most played song Aug. 18-24.

“We haven’t gotten any negative feedback for playing it, and I think we are merely meeting the expectations of our listeners,” Matthews muses. “In fact, I have been impressed and proud of the positive feedback we’ve received from people in the industry and the record community expressing their thanks that we’re supporting it. Finally, it’s obvious that radio listeners are becoming the real gatekeepers for the music we decide to play.”

25 Aug 2023

What Oliver Anthony Music’s ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Has in Common – and Doesn’t – With 2023’s Other Hot 100 No. 1s

Thanks to only guitar and vocals, and lyrics that have commanded the attention of the both the right and left politically, Anthony Oliver Music’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Aug. 29).

How do the song’s characteristics compare to those of other hits that have topped the Hot 100 this year?

Here is a comparison of the nine songs that have notched their first weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2023, including “Richmond,” noting both key commonalities and – more so – differences between the first eight No. 1s and the latest leader.

Most similarities and variances apply to all Hot 100 top 10s, not just No. 1s, this year, as well.

First, here are this year’s Hot 100 No. 1s, listed chronologically, per their first weeks atop the chart:

  • “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus
  • “Die for You,” The Weeknd & Ariana Grande
  • “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen
  • “Like Crazy,” Jimin
  • “Kill Bill,” SZA
  • “Vampire,” Olivia Rodrigo
  • “Seven,” Jung Kook feat. Latto
  • “Try That in a Small Town,” Jason Aldean
  • “Rich Men North of Richmond,” Oliver Anthony Music

Commonalities Between “Rich Men North of Richmond” and the Other 2023 Hot 100 No. 1s:

  • “Richmond,” at a brisk 118 beats per minute, is in line with the average tempo of a 2023 Hot 100 No. 1 song: 106 BPM. Of this year’s No. 1s, 67% are over 100 BPM.
  • Its short run time – 3:05 – fits with that of other No. 1s this year. It’s just four seconds shorter than the 3:09-length average among leaders.
  • The song has a familiar and easy-to-follow song structure: Verse – pre-chorus – chorus – turnaround – verse – pre-chorus – chorus – outro.
  • The first chorus in “Richmond” hits 32 seconds into the song, only eight seconds earlier than the average No. 1.
  • The song’s title appears in the chorus, where the listener commonly expects to find it. The titles of all but two No. 1s this year are heard in the chorus – Jimin and SZA don’t sing the lyrics “like crazy” or “kill Bill,” respectively, in those songs at all.

Differences Between “Rich Men North of Richmond” and the Other 2023 Hot 100 No. 1s:

  • “Richmond” is the only Hot 100 No. 1 of 2023 credited to a single writer, Oliver Anthony (real name Christopher Anthony Lunsford). Over the past decade, such leaders have been rare, although two reigned last year: Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” (written by frontman Dave Bayley) and the Encanto ensemble hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (Lin-Manuel Miranda).
  • “Richmond” sports raw, old-school, demo-like production, including clipping and background noise. While this notably contrasts with the more polished production of the other No. 1s, it provides an organic quality that bolsters the song’s emotional connection, along with Anthony’s emotive, passionate vocal performance.
  • It’s the only No. 1 this year to possess country-folk, singer-songwriter and Americana influences.
  • Controversial, political and lifestyle-themed lyrics are central to “Richmond.” “Try That in a Small Town” is the only other 2023 No. 1 that’s similar in that sense. The majority of the other leaders feature a tried-and-true love/relationships theme.
  • “Richmond” goes against the grain of short song titles. Over the past decade, only 6% of No. 1s have featured five or more words in their titles. However, this is a clever title, with the rhyming quality of “rich men” and “Richmond,” helping it to connect easily and be remembered.
  • It’s the only No. 1 this year that features only one instrument in the mix. And while acoustic guitar is featured in roughly half of 2023’s leaders, including the three country No. 1s (“Richmond,” “Last Night” and “Small Town”), it’s the only song that uses a resonator guitar (identified by its big metallic plate), which adds to its organic allure.
  • “Richmond” is the only No. 1 of 2023 that kicks off with a verse as opposed to an intro. However, the benefit is that it immediately grabs listeners’ attention and hooks them in with its striking opening lyrics (“I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day …”) Additionally, over the last decade only 5% of top 10s opened with a verse; in 2023, just one other song has: PinkPantheress and Ice Spice’s “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2.”
  • Plus, “Richmond” is the lone No. 1 this year that doesn’t include a “D” (departure) section in its framework, such as a bridge or a bridge surrogate section. A common core form of hit songs is: Verse – chorus – verse – chorus – D section – chorus, with the bridge being the post popular “D” section type.

David and Yael Penn are the co-founders of Hit Songs Deconstructed. In 2022, Hit Songs Deconstructed and fellow song analysis platform MyPart partnered to launch ChartCipher, a new platform analyzing hit songs, as defined by Billboard’s charts.

25 Aug 2023

Doja Cat Nabs No. 1 In Australia With ‘Paint The Town Red’

Doja Cat is purring along as “Paint The Town Red” (via RCA/Sony) climbs all the way to No. 1 in Australia.

The U.S. artist nabs her first leader in the land Down Under, as “Paint The Town Red” completes the leap 6-1 in its third week, eclipsing the No. 2 peak for her previous best, “Kiss Me More” featuring SZA, which hit No. 2 in 2020.

Luke Combs is currently on the road in Australia, and his fans reward him with bumps on the latest ARIA Charts, published Friday, Aug. 8. The U.S. country star’s cover of “Fast Car” (Columbia/Sony) motors 8-2, for a new peak position. “Fast Car” previously parked at No. 3 in June, topping Tracy Chapman’s original, which maxed-out at No. 4 in 1988.

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Several Combs tracks are on the up, including “The Kind Of Love We Make” (up 21-16) in its 62nd week on the chart, for a new peak; “When It Rains It Pours” (31-24); and “Beautiful Crazy” (39-34).

Completing the podium on the ARIA Singles Chart is Dave and Central Cee’s former leader “Sprinter” (Virgin Music Australia/Universal), down 2-3.

Over on the ARIA Albums Chart, Genesis Owusu, the Canberra, Australia-raised talent, secures a top 10 start and a new career high for his sophomore album, Struggler (AWAL).

Struggler bows at No. 4, besting the No. 27 peak for 2021’s Smiling With No Teeth, an album that snagged almost every award possible in these parts, including the Australian Music Prize, ARIA Awards, AIR Awards and more. Smiling With No Teeth peaked at No. 27 on the official, national tally.

Hozier returns with Unreal Unearth (Columbia/Sony), the Irish singer and songwriter’s third studio album. It’s new at No. 13, and follows the No. 3 peak for his debut, self-titled LP from 2014 and the No. 8 best for its followup, Wasteland, Baby from 2019.

Also new to the chart are albums by one-time ARIA male artist of the year Dan Sultan (Dan Sultan at No. 15 via Liberation/Universal), celebrated Aussie singer and songwriter Gretta Ray (Positive Spin at No. 17 via EMI) and K-pop boy band NCT Dream (ISTJ – The 3rd Album new at No. 20 via Universal).

At the top of the tally, Barbie The Album (Atlantic/Warner) lifts 2-1, ahead of Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (via Universal) and the Weeknd’s The Highlights (Universal), respectively.

24 Aug 2023

Miley Cyrus & Selena Gomez on the Charts: Ahead of ‘Used to Be Young’ & ‘Single Soon,’ How Do They Compare?

As the Disney Channel alumni’s parallel careers meet again, Billboard looks back on both stars’ biggest chart achievements.

Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus

Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus during the 2008 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheater on August 3, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

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From ruling Disney Channel with Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place to dominating the 2023 Billboard Hot 100 with “Flowers” and “Calm Down,” Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez have been mainstays in the pop culture zeitgeist for the better part of two decades.

On Friday, the Grammy-nominated multi-hyphenates will both unleash their newest singles.

Cyrus’ “Used to Be Young” serves as her first piece of new music since the release of Endless Summer Vacation back in March. The song finds Miley getting self-reflective on her wilder days of yesteryear while allowing “sadness and joy to be happening simultaneously,” as she said in a snippet of her Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions) ABC special. Of the song’s creation, Cyrus revealed, “Although my work is done, this song will continue to write itself everyday. The fact it remains unfinished is a part of its beauty. That is my life at this moment… unfinished yet complete.”

Gomez’s “Single Soon” is her first non-soundtrack English-language solo single since 2020’s “Boyfriend.” Following the release of that track, which introduced the deluxe edition of her 2020 album Rare, Gomez earned her first Grammy nomination for her Latin pop EP Revelación; guested on songs from Camilo, Coldplay and Rema; and released “My Mind & Me,” a standalone single for her 2022 documentary of the same name. “Single Soon” finds Gomez reveling in the joy of not being in a relationship. The Emmy-nominated Only Murders in the Building actress even promoted the song with a Kim Cattrall-approved Sex and the City homage.

Both Cyrus and Gomez have played into the joint release date for their new singles. On her Instagram Story (Aug. 18), Gomez shared a clip of her guest appearance on Hannah Montana with the caption “@mileycyrus and I both have a SINGLE SOON and we are releasing on the same day. We have been friends since we USED TO BE YOUNG. Excited for August 25th!” Cyrus quote-tweeted the same clip on X (formerly Twitter), writing, “@selenagomez and I are both dropping our new SINGLEs SOON… I say we USED TO BE YOUNG.”

As Barbenheimer gives way to another pop-culture double-header, read up on all of Miley Cyrus’ and Selena Gomez’s most impressive Billboard chart achievements thus far.

24 Aug 2023

Every Solo Song by a BTS Member to Chart on the Billboard Hot 100

“DNA,” No. 67, Oct. 14, 2017
“Mic Drop,” featuring Desiigner, No. 28, Dec. 16, 2017
“Fake Love,” No. 10, June 2, 2018
“Idol,” featuring Nicki Minaj, No. 11, Sept. 8, 2018
“Waste It on Me” (Steve Aoki featuring BTS), No. 89, Nov. 10, 2018
“Make It Right,” featuring Lauv, No. 76, Nov. 2, 2019
“Boy With Luv,” featuring Halsey, No. 8, April 27, 2019
“Black Swan,” No. 57, Feb. 1, 2020
“On,” No. 4, March 7, 2020
“Filter,” No. 87, March 7, 2020
“My Time,” No. 84, March 7, 2020
“Dynamite,” No. 1, Sept. 5, 2020
“Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo, No. 1, Oct. 17, 2020
“Life Goes On,” No. 1, Dec. 5, 2020
“Fly to My Room,” No. 69, Dec. 5, 2020
“Blue & Grey,” No. 13, Dec. 5, 2020
“Telepathy,” No. 70, Dec. 5, 2020
“Dis-ease,” No. 72, Dec. 5, 2020
“Stay,” No. 22, Dec. 5, 2020
“Film Out,” No. 81, April 17, 2021
“Butter,” No. 1, June 5, 2021
“Permission To Dance,” No. 1, July 25, 2021
“My Universe,” with Coldplay, No. 1, Oct. 9, 2021
“Yet To Come,” No. 13, June 25, 2022
“Run BTS,” No. 73, June 25, 2022
“Bad Decisions,” with Benny Blanco & Snoop Dogg, No. 10, Aug. 20, 2022
“Take Two,” No. 48, June 24, 2023

24 Aug 2023

Myke Towers Captures Third Week Atop Billboard Argentina Hot 100

Myke Towers claims a third week atop the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as “Lala” crowns the Aug. 26-dated ranking. The song matches his three week-champ “La Jeepeta,” with Nio García, Anuel AA, Brray and Juanka, while “Bandido,” with Juhn, remains his longest-charting title to date, with seven weeks at the summit in 2021.

Maria Becerra’s “Corazón Vacío” trades places with one of her own, as the song rises 3-2 and sends “Los Del Espacio,” with LIT Killah, FMK, Rusherking, Duki, Emilia, Tiago PZK and Big One, to No. 3. Plus, BM’s “Ni Una Ni Dos” advances 5-4, while Quevedo’s “Columbia” dips 4-5.

The Hot Shot Debut of the week goes to La Delio Valdez and Ke Personajes whose collab “Adios Amor” starts at No. 50.

Meanwhile, Karol G adds new career entries as “Mi Ex Tenía Razón” bows at No. 60 and “S91” starts at No. 97. Both songs are part of her latest album, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season) which debuted at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums and earned the Colombian a second top 10 on the overall Billboard 200.

Elsewhere, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Matías Valdez and Argentinian La K’onga’s “Latidos” scores the week’s Greatest Gainer honor, as the collab climbs from No. 83 to No. 65.

Three other acts debut songs this week, starting with Trueno, who adds a 15th career placement with “Tranky Funky” at No. 76. American singer-songwriter and producer Jere Klein, makes his first chart visit with his Nicki Nicole team-up, “X Eso BB” at No. 83. Lastly, La China and ECKO’s “Pasatiempo” launches at No. 88.

24 Aug 2023

October London’s ‘Place’ Is at No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart

Nine weeks into his Billboard chart career, October London scores his first No. 1 on any chart as his single “Back to Your Place” crowns the Adult R&B Airplay chart. The track rises from No. 3 to head the list dated Aug. 26 thanks to a 10% boost in weekly plays that made it the most-played song on reporting U.S. monitored adult R&B radio stations in the week ending Aug. 17, according to Luminate.

October London becomes the third lead artist to top Adult R&B Airplay with a debut entry in 2023, following Ambré (“I’m Baby,” featuring Jvck James) and Ravyn Lenae (“Skin Tight,” featuring Steve Lacy), both of whom led for one week each in May. (Extending to featured roles, James and Brent Faiyaz, featured on Alicia Keys’ two-week leader “Trillions,” also earned their first champs in their first career chart appearances.)

Elsewhere, “Back to Your Place” lifts 16-14 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by combined audience totals from adult R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio stations. There, the song reached a new high of 7.8 million in weekly audience, an 11% improvement from the prior tracking week. Radio gains have driven the song’s fortunes on the Hot R&B Songs chart, which blends radio airplay with streaming and sales for a multi-metric view of the genre’s top songs each week; “Back to Your Place” also rises 16-14 there for a new high.

Alongside its radio gains, “Back to Your Place” has received corresponding gains in sales and streams. The single sold 1,000 downloads in the last tracking week, a 15% increase from the previous frame and sparking its No. 12 re-entry on the R&B Digital Song Sales chart. It also registered its best streaming week in the same tracking period, with 556,000 U.S. official on-demand streams in the same period, up 11% from the previous week.

Rising tides for “Back to Your Place” help October London scale the Emerging Artists chart, where he pushes 30-28 in his fourth week on the list. “Back to Your Place” appears on the singer-songwriter’s debut album, The Rebirth of Marvin, which was released in February.