Chart Beat
Page: 34
Amyl and The Sniffers are turning heads on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, debuting at No. 2 with their high-energy third album, Cartoon Darkness.
It’s a big moment for the Melbourne punk rockers, who’ve managed to climb even higher than their self-titled debut in 2019, which landed at No. 22, and almost match their 2021 release Comfort To Me, which peaked at No. 2. Their chart presence, paired with three ARIA Awards (including Best Group in 2022), marks them as a fierce force in the Australian music scene.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
While Amyl and The Sniffers were poised to snatch the top spot, it was hip-hop innovator Tyler, The Creator who claimed No. 1 with Chromakopia. Released on an unusual Monday schedule, Tyler’s album marks his seventh studio effort and his first ARIA Albums Chart topper, narrated by none other than his mother, Bonita Smith. The record features the hit single “Noid,” debuting at No. 13, alongside four other tracks in the Top 50. Tyler’s star power in Australia continues to rise, building on his previous top 10 albums, with Igor reaching No. 3 in 2019 and Call Me If You Get Lost landing at No. 2 in 2021.
Trending on Billboard
Meanwhile, Aussie favorites Sheppard re-enter the chart at No. 10 with their fourth album, Zora, which had earlier peaked at No. 8, meaning they’ve now locked in four consecutive Top 10 albums.
Green Day makes a throwback splash, too, with the 20th-anniversary edition of American Idiot hitting No. 12. The 2004 classic, which spent two weeks at No. 1 upon its initial release, is proving its staying power, especially as fans celebrate its recent reissue.
On another nostalgic note, Powderfinger’s Parables For Wooden Ears re-enters the chart at No. 36 for its 30th anniversary. Originally peaking at No. 51 in 1994, the album now returns as fans reflect on Powderfinger’s legacy, including six No. 1 albums and a massive 18 ARIA Awards to their name.
On the singles front, Rosé and Bruno Mars continue their reign at the top with “APT.,” making history as Rosé becomes the first solo Korean artist to hold the No. 1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for more than a week since PSY’s “Gangnam Style” in 2012.
Bruno Mars also holds steady at No. 4 with his duet with Lady Gaga, “Die With A Smile,” showing his consistent staying power in the Australian market.
With Cartoon Darkness, Amyl and The Sniffers remind us that punk is alive, well, and making serious waves on the charts. Their gritty, unfiltered sound is resonating louder than ever, bringing fresh energy to the Australian rock scene and showing that they’re here to stay.
Karol G tallies a seventh consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” rules the Oct. 26-dated ranking. The song lengthens the third-longest command in 2024, following the 11-week coronation by Valentino Merlo and The La Planta’s “Hoy” and Mesita, Nicki Nicole, Tiago PZK and […]
One of the most successful regional Mexican groups, Calibre 50 is no stranger to leading the pack, and the group is at again with its record-extending 26th No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart, as “El Amor De Mi Vida” jumps 2-1 to lead the Nov. 2-dated list. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts […]
One of hip-hop’s earliest hitmakers is back on the Billboard charts, returning with his first new song to reach the rankings in more than two decades. Young MC’s “Fun Part,” released on the rapper’s Disco Theory label, lands a No. 38 debut on the Rhythmic Airplay chart and gives its creator his first visit to a Billboard chart with a new song since “Heatseeker” in 2002. Among other placements, “Heatseeker” reached No. 6 on the Hot Singles Sales chart and No. 92 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
“It feels exhilarating and nerve-wracking at the same time,” Young MC tells Billboard upon his new track’s entrance to the charts. “On the one hand, it’s a validation for all the hard work I’ve put in over decades to grow as an artist and a producer. But at the same time, I feel the pressure to keep the momentum going. I’m looking forward to the challenge.”
Trending on Billboard
[embedded content]
Born Marvin Young, the artist who later became Young MC first came to prominence as a songwriter on two 1989 hits for Tone-Loc that broke barriers as some of hip-hop’s earliest crossover success stories on the charts. “Wild Thing” soared to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 – at the time, the genre’s highest peaking hit on the flagship chart – while “Funky Cold Medina” nearly duplicated the feat, reaching a No. 3 best.
That same year, the rapper also touched a third classic, but this time, as the main attraction. “Bust a Move,” which features the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea on drums, flew to No. 7 on the Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award for best rap performance. The single has lived on with countless uses in pop culture, including in films such as Dude, Where’s My Car? and The Blind Side, a 1997 commercial for Priceline in which William Shatner recited some of the song’s lyrics, and moments on TV’s Glee and The Big Bang Theory.
Thirty-five years on from his first hit, landing a new one in a new generation of hip-hop isn’t lost on the pioneer. “It’s wild to think that many of the people listening to ‘Fun Part’ weren’t even born when I released ‘Bust a Move’,” he says. “I’m finding the delicate balance of appealing to them while not alienating those people who were fans of ‘Bust a Move’ when it was out and still come to shows to see it today.”
[embedded content]
An underlying reason for Young MC’s return? Last year’s celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of hip-hop’s creation, dating to its accepted 1973 origin in New York City, and virtually every major music publication and organization’s salute to the genre’s expansion from a potential fad to a world-conquering sound. “I can only speak for myself, but I was impacted by seeing all the Hip-Hop 50 stuff flying around. I reflected on what I had personally given to hip-hop during the 50 years and if I could possibly give more.”
And he isn’t the only one of his generation back in the game. LL Cool J wrapped a decade-long hiatus from music with the September release of The Force album, his first since 2013. Its current single, the Eminem-assisted “Murdergram Deux,” begins at No. 39 on Rhythmic Airplay, directly below “Fun Part.” The dual resurgences, to Young MC, feel connected. “I can relate to all the legacy artists putting out new music today – for most of us, it’s a ‘want to’ more than a ‘have to,’” he explains.
But at least the response to his latest song gives him peace over those concerns about whether he still had more to offer: “’Fun Part’” proves to me that the answer to that question is a resounding ‘yes!’”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” becomes the fifth song in the 13-month history of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart to reign for at least four weeks, spending its fourth straight frame at No. 1 via the Nov. 2-dated ranking, while A.J. & Big Justice’s social media smash “We Bring the Boom” is one of the week’s top debuts.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Oct. 21-27. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Maps” joins similar reigns by Alek Olsen’s “Someday I’ll Get It” and Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me,” both in 2024, for four weeks each; Mitski’s “My Love Mine All Mine” ruled for six weeks in 2023; while the all-time leader, Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby,” secured the top spot for 10 weeks beginning in May.
Trending on Billboard
Released in 2003 on Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ debut LP Fever to Tell, “Maps” reigns via a pair of trends on TikTok, one involving a dance while the other has creators using a filter to remove their facial features and have them cascade back down onto their countenance in the clip. While the original version of the song has been widely used, a sped-up remix has also contributed to the success of “Maps” on the chart.
The top three of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 remains intact from the previous week (Oct. 26), with Alphaville’s “Forever Young” and Akon’s “Akon’s Beautiful Day” following at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. While it’s Akon’s second week at No. 3, Alphaville has now stood at No. 2 for three weeks in a row and hasn’t fallen below No. 3 since mid-September.
Vines’ “Being Loved Isn’t the Same As Being Understood,” following its No. 8 debut on the Oct. 26 survey, crashes the party as the lone new entrant in the top five, jumping to No. 4 in week two. The song, self-released in March by the artist known also as Cassie Wieland, continues its ascent thanks to a trend on TikTok where the user posts about either themselves or someone they know, usually as a photo collage, to “sum up the kind of person” they are or were. Some of the top-performing clips discuss a person who has since died.
“Being Loved Isn’t the Same As Being Understood” sported a 99% leap in official U.S. streams to 116,000 in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Luminate.
Gigi Perez’s “Sailor Song,” following its first week in the top 10 (No. 10) on the Oct. 26 chart, also rises four spots, leaping 10-6. The 2024 tune, which leapt another 4% in streams to 13.5 million in the week ending Oct. 24, has benefited from a variety of trends since it first began exploding on TikTok in the summer, often relationship- and romance-related.
It’s followed by Oscar Maydon and Fuerza Regida’s “Tu Boda,” which vaults 14-7, its first week in the top 10. The song has exploded on TikTok – as well as on streaming services – in recent weeks, particularly following the release of its music video on Oct. 14.
“Tu Boda” concurrently catapults 157% in streams to 15.2 million in the week ending Oct. 24, enough to blast the song to a No. 23 debut on the Billboard Hot 100.
The tune’s TikTok ecosystem includes edits and trends involving the 2005 movie Corpse Bride, plus lip-synch content.
The Cramps’ cover of “Goo Goo Muck” sports the week’s top TikTok Billboard Top 50 debut, starting at No. 9. Released in 1981 on the rockers’ album Psychedelic Jungle, the tune returned to prominence in 2022 when it was featured in the Netflix series Wednesday.
In recent weeks on TikTok, “Goo Goo Muck” has been embraced in a link to its status as a Halloween-time standard, following a trend where the user is running from danger but then runs back when realizing their pursuer is attractive, often starting to take off their shirt in the process.
Gabriela Bee’s “Maybe” is the third new entrant into the top 10, rounding it out at No. 10 after its No. 11 debut on Oct. 26. Usages of the song revolve around its “Maybe one day I’ll get married/ And you’ll be my maid of honor” lyric, with creators either remembering their own weddings or noting who they’d like to be the maid of honor at their wedding.
And A.J. & Big Justice bring the boom to the TikTok Billboard Top 50, with “We Bring the Boom!” debuting at No. 15. The father-and-son TikTok stars released what’s become their theme song to streaming services in July, and the tune has only risen as prominence as the duo (plus others often featured in their uploads, from family members to The Rizzler) has gained in popularity on the platform, currently boasting over 2 million followers.
The majority of the top-performing videos using “We Bring the Boom!” are from the A.J. & Big Justice account itself, though others have gotten in on the song’s accompanying dance as well — including professional athletes in game.
In the tracking week ending Oct. 24, “We Bring the Boom!” earned 327,000 streams in the U.S., up 24%.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Tyler, the Creator’s new era is already off to a strong start, as the rapper’s “Noid” storms onto Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Nov. 2) at No. 9, despite partial availability for the chart’s tracking week. The song was released Monday, Oct. 21, allowing for roughly four days of eligibility for the streaming, sales […]
BLACKPINK’s Rosé is crowned on Australia’s singles chart for the first time, a feat that etches her name in the history books.The New Zealand-born, Australia-raised superstar singer ends Sabrina Carpenter’s reign on the ARIA Single Chart, as “APT.” (via Atlantic/Warner), her collaboration with Bruno Mars, debuts at No. 1.With that, Rosé becomes the first solo female K-pop star to top the ARIA Chart. She’s just the second solo artist from South Korea to climb the chart ladder after PSY’s “Gangnam Style” spent six weeks on top back in 2012.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Born in Auckland and raised in Melbourne, Rosé (born Roseanne Park) made the move to South Korea aged 15, when the world of K-pop came calling. At her father’s suggestion, she auditioned for South Korean music company YG Entertainment. It was a shrewd move. The rest is music history.BLACKPINK – comprising Rosé, Jisoo, Jennie and Lisa — smash records for fun. In 2022, BLACKPINK set the mark for the highest-debuting single by a K-pop group in ARIA Chart History when “Pink Venom” hit No. 1, beating the No. 2 start for BTS’ 2020 hit “Dynamite.”BLACKPINK’s two studio albums, The Album (from 2020) and Born Pink (2022), both debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Australian albums survey. In support of Born Pink, the pop group last year embarked on an east coast arena tour of Australia. “APT.,” a reference to the Korean drinking game aparteu, or apartment in English, is the first single from Rosé’s debut album Rosie, which lands on Dec. 6. The track lands at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, and arrived at No. 4 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, setting a new record in the process.
Trending on Billboard
In the United States, “APT.” powers to No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. That too is a history-making achievement; Rosé becomes the first female solo artist prominent in K-pop (Korean pop) to hit the top 10.
10/30/2024
These artists scared up cinematic hits on the Boo-board Haunted 100.
10/30/2024
A little over eight months ago, Olivia Rodrigo had only headlined theaters. Flash forward to today, and she has sold out arenas on four continents and staged one of the year’s biggest tours. The pop phenom wrapped the Guts World Tour last week, bringing in $184.6 million from over 1.4 million tickets sold, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.
The Guts cycle began in June 2023, when Rodrigo unleashed “Vampire,” the Grammy Award-nominated single that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. The album followed, debuting atop the Billboard 200, landing its entire track list on the Hot 100, and earning two Grammy nominations of its own. After hedging bets with a theater tour following 2021’s gargantuan debut with Sour, the stage was set for an upgrade to arenas now that the sophomore slump had been avoided.
Rodrigo kicked off the Guts World Tour on Feb. 23 at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif. That show sold 9,998 tickets, marking the smallest attendance for any stop on the tour. Things picked up quickly, ending her first North American leg with four shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden, earning $10 million from 57,900 tickets between April 5-9.
Though the New York run stands as the highest-grossing engagement of the Guts World Tour, that was not the end of Rodrigo’s run. She played 29 shows across 19 cities in Europe before returning to the U.S. and Canada for another 20 dates. To cap things off, she hit six Asian markets, plus four-night runs in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.
During Rodrigo’s stint in Asia, her Oct. 5 performance at Manila’s Philippine Arena grossed $1.2 million and sold 48,800 tickets. It’s the best-selling single show of the entire tour – and her entire career – eclipsed only by four-night engagements in major markets like New York, London and Los Angeles. But out of 62 stops throughout 2024, it’s her third-lowest earner. That’s because she purposely kept tickets cheap, averaging $25.04 USD, which stands as less than a fifth the tour’s average of $128.81. Rodrigo is Filipino-American, and the show was a special stop – she is one of just seven artists to report concerts in Philippines this year – where all net proceeds went to local charity Jhpiego through the Fund 4 Good.
In terms of venue capacity and global reach, the Guts World Tour was a major step up for Rodrigo. While reporting for the Sour Tour was incomplete, its 16 reported shows averaged $415,000 and sold 5,517 tickets per show. Two years later, her nightly attendance is up 173% to 15,084, and her average gross jumped by 369% to $1.9 million. In 2022, she played 33 shows in North America and 16 in Europe. In 2024, those numbers bloated to 48 and 29, respectively, plus the 18 combined shows in Australia and Asia.
Still, there might be more room to grow. Co-manager Zack Morgenroth told Billboard that, per tour promoter Live Nation, demand indicated that Rodrigo could’ve packed stadiums just as well. Even at a low price, Rodrigo moved nearly 50,000 tickets in Manila, giving proof of concept.
The numbers are huge, but the tour’s greater impact extends beyond the accolades. Rodrigo’s Fund 4 Good led the way, in collaboration with HeadCount, the National Network of Abortion Funds and more. And then, there’s the secondhand buzz that helped guide Chappell Roan from the first leg’s opening act to industry noisemaker, eventually returning as a special guest in August, rousing the crowd with a choreographed sing-along of her own “Hot To Go.”
At 21 years old, Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour is the highest-grossing tour for someone of her young age (or younger) in a decade, dating back to when One Direction ruled the year-end Top Tours chart in 2014 with the Where We Are Tour. But that’s not enough – Rodrigo herself laments “When am I gonna stop being great for my age and just start being good” on Guts deep cut “Teenage Dream.” Her 2024 trek is now one of the 10 biggest pop tours of the decade so far, ranking among treks by peers like Harry Styles and icons like Madonna.
Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
This week: Tyler, the Creator’s new album already appears to be taking him to a new commercial level, Imogen Heap gets an unexpected video game bump and a dance trend helps a new rap single take off.
Chromakopiamania: Tyler, the Creator’s New Album Off to Huge Start, Results in Whole Catalog Gains
Though Tyler, the Creator essentially split his debut week in half for new album Chromakopia — releasing the album on Monday morning (Oct. 28) at 6:00 ET rather than the usually Friday midnight release — it still looks to be going down as one of the biggest first weeks of his career, and perhaps the very biggest. The tracks from Chromakopia blanketed the top 10 on the daily charts of both Spotify and Apple Music for Monday, with each track drawing streams in the millions — led by album opener “St. Chroma,” which racked up nearly 6.2 million official on-demand U.S. streams in its first day, according to Luminate. (By contrast, Morgan Wallen’s “Love Somebody” — the prior week’s No. 1 Streaming Song — notched just over 2 million streams on Monday.)
Trending on Billboard
What’s more, anticipation for Chromakopia reached such a fever pitch last week that even Tyler’s older songs were beginning to claim in streams. For the three-day period of Monday to Wednesday last week (Oct. 21-23) — with the rapper announcing the new album, along with the new song “Noid,” on Monday morning — his pre-Chromakopia catalog scored a combined 32.1 million streams, up 29% from the 25 million of the previous three-day period (Oct. 18-20). It seems like 15 years into his acclaimed career, Tyler, the Creator is still just climbing in popularity, with true superstardom maybe in reach as soon as this album cycle. — ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Imogen Heap’s ‘Headlock’ Gets the Gamer Bump, Triples in Streams
Speak for Yourself, the sophomore album by Imogen Heap, became a solo breakthrough upon its 2005 release, earning the idiosyncratic British singer-songwriter a Grammy nod for best new artist following her work as part of the group Frou Frou. And since its release, the album has had a funny way of reappearing in popular culture: “Hide and Seek” has soundtracked several dramatic TV sequences (most notably in The O.C.), Kelly Clarkson covered “Just for Now” for her 2013 holiday album, and Ariana Grande reworked “Goodnight and Go” for 2018’s Sweetener.
Now, the opening track on Speak for Yourself, “Headlock,” is the latest song from the album to be hoisted up years after its release — largely thanks to Mouthwashing, a psychological horror video game that was released last month. Over the past few weeks, TikTok users have been editing clips of the game together and utilizing “Headlock” as a soundtrack, and as a result, the song’s official streams have grown exponentially over the past few weeks.
After the Sept. 26 release of Mouthwashing, “Headlock” earned 555,000 U.S. on-demand streams during the week ending Oct. 10, according to Luminate; that weekly streaming total more than tripled to 1.72 million during the week ending Oct. 24. Heap has never charted on the Hot 100 before, so if the exponential growth of “Headlock” continues, we might see a long-overdue chart achievement; if not, we’ll have to wait for the next Speak for Yourself song to be resurrected (our vote is for “The Walk”!). – JASON LIPSHUTZ
OhThatsMizz Dances His Way to a Breakout Hit With ‘Bumbaaa’
Another week means another dance trend on some corner of TikTok is lifting a song to new streaming heights. According to Luminate, “Bumbaa” — a collaboration between rising rappers OhThatsMizz and SturdyYoungin – has grown 120% in streaming activity over the past two weeks. During the period of Oct. 4-10, the track pulled over 287,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. The following week (Oct. 11-17), that figure jumped by 72% to 495,000 streams earned. Streams for “Bumbaaa” then increased a further 28% during the period of Oct. 18-24, which saw the track pulling just under 635,000 streams.
Mizz first shared a snippet of the track to his official TikTok page on Sept. 9 to the tune of 80,000 likes and 460,000 views. By Sept. 12, user @kastackzzz created a dance – which largely mimes the song’s lyrics before morphing into a TikTok-ified take on New Orleans’ “trip out” move – and his post has since garnered over 100,000 views. While that number may seem relatively small, it was more than enough to help the dance blow up before the track’s official release on Oct. 4. The official “Bumbaa” TikTok sound now boasts over 580,000 posts, with the majority of them featuring users doing the viral dance. Some famous participants include Emmy-winning actress Storm Reid, 41’s leading lady Jenn Carter (who teased her own freestyle over the beat) and Milwaukee breakout rap star J.P.
Mizz has already posted about visiting the Capitol Records and 300 Entertainment offices for meetings, so who knows what the future may hold as “Bumbaa” continues to grow. — KYLE DENIS