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Playboi Carti has landed his first-ever No. 1 album in the U.K. with Music (March 21).
It marks Carti’s first LP in just more than four years, following December 2020’s Whole Lotta Red, which peaked at No. 17. The Atlanta rapper, born Jordan Terrell Carter, also previously saw success on the Official U.K. Albums Chart with 2018’s Die Lit (No. 27).
The sprawling 30-track effort features cameos from an all-star guestlist, including Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert and Jhené Aiko. The record was announced less than a week prior to its release, following years of development purgatory — from its title changing multiple times to a protracted recording process.
Two songs from Music also appear in the top 10 — “Evil J0rdan” (No. 7) and “Rather Lie” with The Weeknd (No. 10), taking Carti’s all-time Top 10 tally to four. Upon release, it became Spotify‘s most-streamed album in a single day in 2025 so far.
As the Short n’ Sweet Tour continues to roll through the U.K. and Europe, Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth LP lands at No. 2 this week. The 2025 BRITs Global Success award winner first topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart in September 2024, with Short n’ Sweet going on to become the third-biggest album of last year in the country.Songwriter and Porcupine Tree founder Steven Wilson follows at No. 3, matching his previous solo career-best with eighth studio collection The Overview. Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM slips three spots to No. 4, while Tate McRae rounds out the Top 5 with So Close To What.
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Following its release on Blood Records white powder-filled vinyl, Charli XCX’s Brat remix LP makes its Top 40 debut this week (No. 40). Titled Brat & It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, the collection’s initial streaming release in November 2024 pushed its parent album to No.1 in the U.K. for the first time.
After taking this week’s No. 1 single with “Ordinary,” breakout U.S. singer-songwriter Alex Warren is on the cusp of his first-ever Top 40 album with You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1). Initially released in September, the record has jumped 13 spots to a new No. 41 peak.
Influencer-turned-musician Alex Warren has secured his first No. 1 single in the U.K. with the viral hit “Ordinary” (March 21). The song ends the week as the most-streamed track in the country (5.6 million streams).
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It knocks Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” from the summit, which hit No. 1 on March 7, almost five years after its initial release in 2020. The track gave Roan her first-ever chart-topper in the U.K., besting her previous high of No. 2 with “Good Luck, Babe!” in 2024.
Warren, meanwhile, is on something of a hot streak in his musical journey. Having started his career in the mid 2010s as a YouTuber before becoming a co-founder of the collaborative TikTok group The Hype House during lockdown, the 24-year-old made his debut on the Official U.K. Singles Chart last year with “Before You Leave Me” (No. 80), and by the close of 2024, he’d netted two top 40 hits — “Carry You Home” (No. 23) and “Burning Down” (No. 33).
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“Ordinary,” his first release of 2025, began its ascent at the start of March after catching fire on TikTok. “Thank you to the U.K. for the No. 1 single of the week. I promise I won’t let you down — I’ll make you proud,” Warren said in a statement issued via the Official Charts Company.
Warren also appears twice more further down the chart. The aforementioned “Carry You Home” climbs to No. 20, while “Burning Down” finishes at No. 28.
Elsewhere, Roan scores this week’s highest new entry with “The Giver” landing at No. 2. The country-pop bop becomes her fourth U.K. top 10 single, and her first to debut inside the top 10 upon release.
Doechii’s “Anxiety” scales a new peak at No. 3, marking the rapper’s highest charting single in the U.K. to date. Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” follows at No. 4, while Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” rounds out the top five. Other notable appearances include alt-metal group Sleep Token, who celebrates its first-ever entry into the chart as “Emergence” hits No. 17. Following her first BRIT Awards win as a solo act, JADE’s “FUFN (F–k You for Now)” debuts at No. 25, while Ravyn Lenae’s breakout hit “Love Me Not’ earns a new peak of No. 26.
Balu Brigada’s first song on a Billboard chart is a No. 1, as “So Cold” rises to the top of the March 29-dated Alternative Airplay survey.
“So Cold” debuted on the list in October, marking the New Zealand act’s first appearance on any Billboard ranking.
Balu Brigada is signed to ARRO, an imprint co-founded by Twenty One Pilots’ Tyler Joseph and the Ohio duo’s manager, Chris Woltman, through a joint venture with Atlantic Records. Balu Brigada is currently opening for Twenty One Pilots on tour.
“So Cold” marks the third song to top Alternative Airplay in 2025 by an act scoring a first No. 1 on the chart. It follows Justice and Tame Impala’s “Neverender” (the first ruler for both) earlier in March and Almost Monday’s “Can’t Slow Down” in February. Of those, Justice also led with its first Alternative Airplay entry, like Balu Brigada.
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That said, since Justice had made multiple Billboard lists prior to the success of “Neverender,” Balu Brigada is the first act to hit No. 1 on Alternative Airplay with a first charted song overall since Dexter and the Moonrocks, whose “Sad in Carolina” led for eight weeks beginning in December.
Concurrently, “So Cold” bullets at No. 9, after reaching No. 7, on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3.2 million audience impressions earned in the week ending March 20, according to Luminate.
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“So Cold” is currently a stand-alone single. Balu Brigada released another track, “The Question,” earlier this year.
All Billboard charts dated March 29 will update Tuesday, March 25, on Billboard.com.
Morgan Wallen rolls up his 19th top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “I’m the Problem” rises two spots to No. 9 on the tally dated March 29. It gained by 7% to 19 million audience impressions March 14-20, according to Luminate. The song follows “Love Somebody,” which became Wallen’s 16th Country Airplay No. […]
Sabrina Carpenter claims her fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart as “Bed Chem” cozies up to the top spot on the radio ranking dated March 20.
The song, released on Island Records and promoted to radio by REPUBLIC, follows Carpenter’s “Taste,” which ruled Pop Airplay for six weeks in December-January; “Please Please Please” (two weeks, September); “Espresso” (three weeks, July); and “Feather” (one week, April).
With “Bed Chem,” “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” all from Carpenter’s 2024 album Short n’ Sweet, the set becomes the first to spin off at least four Pop Airplay No. 1s in nearly a decade — since Taylor Swift’s 1989 generated five in 2014-15. (Carpenter opened for 25 dates on Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023-24.)
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Since the Pop Airplay chart originated in 1992, a select five albums have yielded four or more No. 1 singles each. Here’s a recap.
Albums With 4 or More No. 1s on Billboard’s Pop Airplay Chart:
Sabrina Carpenter, Short n’ Sweet, four: “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” “Taste,” “Bed Chem” (2024-25)
Taylor Swift, 1989, five: “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Bad Blood” (feat. Kendrick Lamar), “Wildest Dreams” (2014-15)
Katy Perry, Teenage Dream, six: “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg), “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.” (feat. Kanye West), “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” “The One That Got Away” (2010-12) (*The album’s The Complete Confection reissue generated an additional No. 1, “Wide Awake.”)
Lady Gaga, The Fame, four: “Just Dance” (feat. Colby O’Donis), “Poker Face,” “LoveGame,” “Paparazzi” (2009)
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds, four: “SexyBack,” “My Love” (feat. T.I.), “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” “Summer Love” (2006-07)
“I called it Short n’ Sweet for multiple reasons,” Carpenter mused to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe ahead of the album’s release. “It was not because I’m vertically challenged [“5 feet, to be exact,” she confirms in “Taste”]. It was really, like, I thought about some of [my] relationships, and how some of them were the shortest I’ve ever had, and they affected me the most.”
Meanwhile, Carpenter has collected all her Pop Airplay No. 1s in her five most recent trips up the chart. She links the longest streak of leaders since Swift’s five from 1989 in 2014-15. The longest uninterrupted runs of No. 1s — six each — belong to Katy Perry with her haul from Teenage Dream, and Lady Gaga, whose four from The Fame were followed by two in 2010: “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” (featuring Beyoncé).
The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.
All charts dated March 29 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 25.
Playboi Carti has landed his first-ever No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with Music, the rapper’s third studio album and most ambitious release to date.
The 30-track project not only marks his first chart-topper in Australia, but also his first entry into the ARIA top 10, following previous peaks at No. 49 with Die Lit (2018) and No. 15 with Whole Lotta Red (2020).
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Music features an all-star lineup of guest collaborators, including Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Future, Young Thug, and Jhené Aiko, adding to the hype that’s surrounded the long-anticipated release.
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Over on the Singles Chart, Doechii rises to No. 1 with “Anxiety,” marking her first-ever chart-topper in Australia. The viral hit samples Gotye and Kimbra’s 2011 smash “Somebody That I Used To Know,” which itself spent eight weeks at No. 1. Doechii also places at No. 23 with “Denial Is A River,” and is featured on Sleepy Hallow’s version of “A N X I E T Y,” currently at No. 41.
Australian singer-songwriter Mia Wray makes an impressive debut, landing at No. 26 on the albums chart with her first full-length release Hi, It’s Nice To Meet Me.
The Melbourne-based artist, who won the People’s Choice Award in the 2012 Telstra Road To Discovery program, has previously toured with acts like Vance Joy, The Rubens, The Teskey Brothers, and Maisie Peters.
Elsewhere on the Singles Chart, Alex Warren jumps into the top 5 for the first time as “Ordinary” rockets up the chart. Chappell Roan also continues her breakout run with “The Giver,” debuting strong, while her earlier single “Pink Pony Club” hits a new peak this week.
Lady Gaga has built one of the most impressive histories on Billboard’s charts, achieving seven No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and six No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, among other honors.
Her fiancé, Michael Polansky, has largely stayed out of the spotlight. The Harvard-educated businessman is the founder or co-founder of several tech companies, including Avos Capital Management, Hawktail and Outer Biosciences. He’s also a board member for the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Gaga’s makeup company, Haus Labs.
As of Billboard’s latest charts (dated March 22), he can now add another item to his résumé: Billboard-charting songwriter.
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Polansky is credited as a co-writer on seven songs on Gaga’s new album, MAYHEM, which debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Of those seven cuts, four are on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart. Here’s a recap:
Rank, Title (co-writers in addition to Polansky):
No. 4, “Vanish Into You” (Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt, Cirkut)
No. 5, “Disease” (Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt, Cirkut)
No. 9, “LoveDrug” (Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt, Cirkut)
No. 13, “Don’t Call Tonight” (Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt, Cirkut)
Thanks to those four charting hits, Polanksy debuts at No. 6 on the Dance/Pop Songwriters survey, marking his first appearance on a Billboard chart.
Gaga places at No. 3 on Dance/Pop Songwriters, while Cirkut and Watt tie at No. 1.
Polansky is also credited as a co-writer on MAYHEM tracks “How Bad Do U Want Me,” “The Beast” and “Blade of Grass.” Of those, “How Bad Do U Want Me” debuts at No. 69 on the Hot 100, “Disease” peaked at No. 27 on the Hot 100 in November, while “Vanish Into You” and “LoveDrug” debut on the latest list at Nos. 61 and 95, respectively.
Gaga has been vocal in recent interviews about Polansky’s role in creating MAYHEM, saying he encouraged her to return to her dance-pop roots. “Michael is the person who told me to make a new pop record. He was like, ‘Babe. I love you. You need to make pop music’,” she shared in a September interview with Vogue.
Polansky added, “Like anyone would do for the person they love, I encouraged her to lean in to the joy of it. On the Chromatica tour, I saw a fire in her; I wanted to help her keep that alive all the time and just start making music that made her happy.”
Gaga and Polansky met in 2019 and got engaged in 2024. In a March 7 interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, she said the pair include each other in their work. “He includes me in his business, as well. He’s really creative, he plays guitar — he’s like a beautiful musician. We have a really creative relationship.”
Spiritbox earns its second No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, debuting atop the survey with Tsunami Sea. The set bows with 22,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 13, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 16,000 units come from album sales, with 10,000 coming from a […]
For the first time in the five-month span of the Top Gabb Music Songs chart, a song stays at No. 1 for more than one month.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” crowns the February 2025 tally as the most-played song on Gabb Wireless phones that month, reigning for a second month in a row after debuting atop the January 2025 tally.
Billboard has partnered with Gabb Wireless, a phone company for kids and teens, to present a monthly chart tracking on-demand streams via its Gabb Music platform. Gabb Music offers a vast catalog of songs, all of which are selected by the Gabb team to include only kid- and teen-appropriate content. Gabb Music streams are not currently factored into any other Billboard charts.
“Die With a Smile” reigns after rules on the monthly chart for Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” KSI’s “Thick of It” (featuring Trippie Redd) and Jelly Roll’s “Run It” in October-December 2024, respectively.
The Gaga/Mars duet concurrently reigned on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in February 2025, ruling the Feb. 1- and Feb. 15-dated lists, and appears at No. 2 on the most recent tally, dated March 22.
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Mars makes it a sweep of Top Gabb Music Songs’ top two, as his and ROSE’s “APT.” jumps 7-2 – a new peak after previously reaching No. 3 on the December 2024 ranking.
No song hits the chart’s top 10 for the first time, though Drake’s “God’s Plan” returns to the region, rising five spots to No. 7 (the song’s peak so far remains No. 4, achieved on the November 2024 tally).
In fact, though all but four songs make some sort of movement on the 25-song February 2025 list versus their January 2025 ordering, just one is a debut: Forrest Frank’s “Drop!,” which bows at No. 19. It’s the first song to appear on the chart that was released in 2025, as it premiered on Jan. 24. The tune started at No. 18 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs survey dated Feb. 8 and appears at No. 33 on the most recent ranking.
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Top Gabb Music Songs
“Die With a Smile,” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (=)
“APT.,” ROSE & Bruno Mars (+4)
“Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone (+1)
“Thick of It,” KSI feat. Trippie Redd (-2)
“Face 2 Face,” Juice WRLD (=)
“Run It,” Jelly Roll (-3)
“God’s Plan,” Drake (+5)
“Slow It Down,” Benson Boone (=)
“Please Please Please,” Sabrina Carpenter (+1)
“Stargazing,” Myles Smith (-1)
“Golden Hour,” JVKE (re-entry)
“Deja Vu,” Olivia Rodrigo (-1)
“Butterfly Effect,” Travis Scott (+3)
“Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” Luke Combs (-7)
“Too Sweet,” Hozier (-1)
“Love Somebody,” Morgan Wallen (-1)
“Heat Waves,” Glass Animals (re-entry)
“Let You Down,” NF (=)
“DROP!,” Forrest Frank (debut)
“Stressed Out,” Twenty One Pilots (+3)
“Bones,” Imagine Dragons (-4)
“Enemy,” Imagine Dragons (-1)
“Saturn,” SZA (+2)
“Wildflower,” Billie Eilish (-4)
“Hope,” NF (re-entry)
DROPS FROM JANUARY 2025: “Popular,” Ariana Grande; “Defying Gravity,” Ariana Grande feat. Cynthia Erivo; “I Always Wanted a Brother,” Braelyn Rankins, Theo Somolu, Aaron Pierre & Kelvin Harrison Jr.; “Lil Boo Thang,” Paul Russell
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This week: Amanda Seyfried and her dulcimer help introduce a new generation to Joni Mitchell, while TikTok revives an ’00s southern rap cult favorite and makes new breakout hits for Ravyn Lenae and Sombr.
Amanda Seyfried’s Viral Joni Mitchell Cover Has Listeners Going to ‘California’
Did you know that Amanda Seyfried plays the dulcimer? You would if you watched her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this month, as the Emmy-winning actress explained she picked up the lap-set fretted string instrument over the pandemic. She then performed a stunningly note-perfect cover of Joni Mitchell’s “California” – a homesick highlight from the singer-songwriter’s canonical 1971 album Blue, much of which was composed on the dulcimer – for an enraptured Fallon and audience.
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The clip unsurprisingly made headlines and quickly went viral, while also giving the original song a wave of TikTok momentum and sending younger audiences to revisit (or check out) the West Coast classic. For the tracking week ending March 13, Mitchell’s “California” amassed just over one million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate – up a massive 794% from just over 100,000 streams two weeks earlier, before the late-night clip aired. If film studios are looking to cast a lead for the eventual Joni Mitchell biopic – should be coming pretty soon after the success of A Complete Unknown, right? – Seyfried might have just nailed the audition. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Ravyn Lenae Snags Sleeper Hit With “Love Me Not”
As guitar-led, pop/rock-inflected R&B songs like Janet Jackson’s “Someone to Call My Lover” continue to experience a resurgence across socials, some of that love is spreading to more contemporary tracks. Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not,” a similarly bouncy guitar-based pop&B song about the ups and downs of romance, has emerged as the Chicago singer-songwriter’s breakout hit.
According to Luminate, streams for “Love Me Not” have exploded nearly 120% over the past four weeks. On Feb. 7, Lenae shared a TikTok soundtracked by “Love Me Not” that played on feeling embarrassed over the man she wrote the song about. Lenae’s post came just as the song was naturally gaining traction on TikTok, easily becoming the most-viewed post on her profile with over 7.6 million views. During the week of Feb. 7-13, “Love” collected 1.86 million official on-demand U.S. streams, jumping 16% to over 2.15 million streams the following week (Feb. 14-20).
On Feb. 16, Lenae shared a post featuring a mysterious arm around her – commenters think it’s Steve Lacy – that became her third-most viewed TikTok ever, with 5.3 million views. Four days later (Feb. 20), she shared another clip with the official “Love Me Not” sound, earning over 6.4 million views and becoming her second-most viewed TikTok ever. During the week of Feb. 21-27, streams for “Love” hit 2.7 million, up 26% from the week prior.
By Feb. 27, Lenae shared yet another TikTok confirming that she’ll be opening up for Sabrina Carpenter’s new tour dates. Though she used “Espresso” in that clip, the post only helped her own profile and music earn more traction. During the week of Feb. 28-March 6, “Love Me Not” was up another 25%, collecting 3.42 million official on-demand U.S. streams. The following week (March 7-13), the song leapt a further 19% to over 4.08 million streams. Over on Spotify, the track currently ranks at No. 30 on the Viral 50 USA chart and at No. 1 as the most popular song on Lenae’s profile at the moment.
More recently, as Lenae has shared more clips of her live performances of the song, some TikTok users are discovering that she is, in fact, a Black woman. It’s become such a phenomenon that Lenae addressed it herself!
Last year, Billboard’s editorial staff named Bird’s Eye, which houses “Love Me Not,” the No. 3 best R&B album of 2024. The album didn’t chart upon debut – nor did any of its songs – but that could very well change should “Love” continue to grow. – KYLE DENIS
17-Year-Old Yung L.A. Song Experiences Money Spread-Led TikTok Revival
Another week, another ‘00s rap song goes viral on TikTok. This week, it’s Yung L.A.’s “Ain’t I,” a collaboration with Yung Bro and T.I. that served as ATL MC’s debut single.
At the top of March, TikTok user @lixanomerta shared a clip dancing to “Ain’t I,” that quickly evoked feelings of nostalgia from older Atlantans. Soon after, users started sharing clips from an old radio freestyle featuring Yung L.A. spitting “Ain’t I” a cappella and spreading a wad of crash. Taken by the apparent deterioration of his health, users made those clips go viral and eventually adapted the money spread into a mini-dance trend where users bop to the song before flaunting an obscene amount of cash (or weed baggies or fishing lures!).
During the week of Feb. 21-27, “Ain’t I” earned just over 270,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. By the following week (Feb. 28-March 6), that figure jumped 19% to over 325,000 official streams. By March 7-13 – the same week the trend exploded on TikTok — streams for “Ain’t I” leapt a whopping 190% to over 946,000 official streams. Over the past two weeks, “Ain’t I” has risen nearly 250% in streaming activity. – KD
Sombr Is Sparkling on Streaming With ‘Back to Friends’ Breakout
If you’re loving the wave of Sad Girl Anthems taking over TikTok lately and wondering where all their Sad Boy counterparts are at – well, you just found one of ‘em, anyway. Sombr, otherwise known as 19-year-old, Atlantic-signed singer-songwriter Shane Boose, has been taking over the app in the last month with his new single “Back to Friends.” Extensively teased and then extensively promoted by Boose on TikTok – with multiple videos of him singing along to the song garnering millions of plays – the explosive post-breakup song (if it was ever an official relationship in the first place) has struck a nerve with its cathartic “How can we go back to being friends/ When we just shared a bed” chorus shoutalong.
Now, the song is taking off on streaming. The song had been posting weekly official on-demand U.S. streams in the high six digits for most of 2025, but this month, that number has crossed into the millions – nearly 2.7 million for the most recent tracking week (ending March 13), a 160% gain from just two weeks earlier, according to Luminate. And as the song is only now starting to really break containment – it just made its first appearance on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs USA chart – Sombr is already onto the next one: His “Undressed” is due on Friday, and comes after an extensive TikTok rollout of its own. – AU