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Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats ascend to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Dec. 7 with “Call Me (Whatever You Like).”
Band leader Rateliff now boasts seven Adult Alternative Airplay leaders overall – six with the Night Sweats and one, “And It’s Still Alright,” in 2020 as a soloist. Rateliff, with the band and on his own, slots into a tie for the eighth-most No. 1s on Adult Alternative Airplay, which began in January 1996.
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Most Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1s:14, U213, Coldplay11, Jack Johnson11, Dave Matthews (solo and with Dave Matthews Band)8, The Black Keys8, Death Cab for Cutie8, John Mayer7, Cage the Elephant7, Sheryl Crow7, Counting Crows7, Hozier7, The Lumineers7, Nathaniel Rateliff (solo and with Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)7, R.E.M.
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“Call Me (Whatever You Like)” is Rateliff and the Night Sweats’ second Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1 in a row, after “Heartless” led for three weeks beginning in July. The band first topped the tally with its initial entry, “S.O.B.,” for four weeks in 2015.
Concurrently, “Call Me (Whatever You Like)” holds at its No. 30 high on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 1.1 million audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.
The song is the second single, following “Heartless,” from South of Here, the band’s fourth studio album. The set reached No. 37 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart in July and has earned 30,000 equivalent album units to date.
Luis Angel “El Flaco” achieves a career milestone with his first No. 1 as a solo singer on a Billboard chart thanks to “Amor Bonito,” which climbs 6-1 to lead the Regional Mexican Airplay ranking (dated Dec. 7).
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“Amor Bonito,” released on Sept. 19 via Sony Music Latin, lands at the summit with the Greatest Gainer honors of the week thanks to a 53% gain in audience impressions — up to 8 million — earned in the U.S. for the tracking week of Nov. 22-28, according to Luminate. The song trades places with last week’s champ, Jessi Uribe’s “Si Ya Me Voy,” which dips 1-6 due to a 24% drop in impressions.
While “Amor Bonito” gives Angel his first No. 1 as a solo singer — dating to his first visit to a Billboard radio chart in 2021 — the Mexican singer has been part of many No. 1s in the past. While he was the lead singer of Banda Los Recoditos, the group achieved 13 No. 1s across various Latin rankings (both albums and songs) during a 13-year career with the band.
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Beyond his first champ on Regional Mexican Airplay as a soloist, El Flaco has claimed six other top 10s, nearly missing the No. 1 slot with the No. 2-peaking “Una Julio 70” in 2022. In total, he’s landed seven times in the upper region among 10 career performances.
“Amor Bonito” also gives El Flaco his second top 10 on the overall Latin Airplay chart, where it surges 12-2 for his best placement to date. “Una Julio 70” took him to his first top 10, peaking at No. 6, in December 2022.
El Flaco’s first No. 1 song, produced by Arturo Gárate and written by Meño Segovia, concurrently earns him a maiden appearance on the Emerging Artists chart with a No. 42 debut. The chart ranks the most popular developing artists of the week, using the same formula as the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multiple Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200.
El Flaco’s breakthrough arrives on the heels of the banda singer’s Latin Grammy award nomination for best música banda album for Yo Te Extrañaré.
Dexter and the Moonrocks’ first entry on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart, “Sad in Carolina,” rises a spot to No. 1 on the Dec. 7-dated ranking. “Sad in Carolina” is the Texas rockers’ first song on any Billboard chart. They’re the second act to earn a first Alternative Airplay No. 1 in 2024, following Myles Smith, […]
Jelly Roll has now gone 4-for-4 atop Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, rising to No. 1 on the tally dated Dec. 7 with “Liar.”
With the coronation, all four of Jelly Roll’s Mainstream Rock Airplay entries have reached No. 1. He first led with “Dead Man Walking” in 2022, followed by “Need a Favor” in 2023 and “All My Life,” with Falling in Reverse, this July.
Jelly Roll’s feat of sending four initial Mainstream Rock Airplay chart entries to No. 1 equals the record first set by The Pretty Reckless, which reigned with “Heaven Knows,” “Messed Up World,” “Follow Me Down” and “Take Me Down” in 2014-16.
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Concurrently, “Liar” bullets at No. 7, after hitting No. 6, on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3.7 million audience impressions (up 7%) in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.
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Like “Need a Favor,” “Liar” is a dual rock and country radio single, as the latter rises 30-26 on the latest Country Airplay survey. Last year, “Need a Favor” became the first song in Billboard history to top both the Mainstream Rock Airplay and Country Airplay charts.
In addition to its all-format radio reach (10.9 million impressions), “Liar” drew 6.7 million official U.S. streams and sold 3,000 downloads Nov. 22-28.
“Liar” is the newest single from Beautifully Broken, Jelly Roll’s 10th studio album. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 26 and has earned 603,000 equivalent album units to date. The set’s “I Am Not Okay” topped Country Airplay for three weeks in November. Also being promoted to pop and adult radio, “I Am Not Okay” holds at its No. 8 best on the Dec. 7-dated Adult Pop Airplay chart.
Kendrick Lamar has his sixth No. 1 – and third of 2024 – on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart, as “Squabble Up” debuts atop the Dec. 7-dated ranking.
“Squabble Up” bows with 52 million official U.S. streams earned in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.
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Each of Lamar’s No. 1s also debuted at the top of the list, third-most of any act behind Taylor Swift (seven) and Drake (15). Both acts are also the only artists ahead of him on the all-time No. 1s ranking since Streaming Songs’ 2013 inception (Swift with nine total rulers, Drake with 20); Lamar sits in a tie for third all time with Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber.
Lamar first reigned in 2017 with “Humble.,” followed by leads as a featured act on Lil Wayne’s “Mona Lisa” in 2018 and on “N95” in 2022. 2024 marks the first time he’s led more than once in a year, with “Squabble Up” joined by his own “Not Like Us” and Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” on which he’s also a lead artist.
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In all, Lamar occupies the entire top nine of the Dec. 7-dated Streaming Songs and 12 of the top 17. That gives him 32 career top 10s, good for a tie for fourth all time with 21 Savage and The Weeknd (Drake leads all acts with 99).
Lamar becomes the first act not named Taylor Swift or Drake to make up the whole top nine of Streaming Songs; Swift (Nov. 5, 2022; Nov. 11, 2023; May 4, 2024) and Drake (Sept. 18, 2021; Nov. 19, 2022; Oct. 21, 2023) have done so three times apiece.
As for having nine songs in the top 10, Lamar joins a list that also includes 21 Savage and J. Cole in addition to Swift and Drake.
Concurrently, as previously reported, “Squabble Up” debuts at No. 1 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100, one of seven songs from new album GNX in the top 10, while GNX itself bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is leading the way for No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart midweek update (Dec. 2), following the release of its 2024 Ultimate Mix.
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Released to mark Band Aid’s 40th anniversary, the new version was produced by Trevor Horn [Spandau Ballet, Pet Shop Boys] and features vocalists from the 1984 original, 2004’s Band Aid 20, and 2014’s Band Aid 30. All three versions have topped the charts in the U.K., as did 1989’s Band Aid II.
Over the past few decades, the charity single has raised over £140 million ($178 million) for the Band Aid Charitable Trust, which seeks to benefit causes such as poverty in Africa. It was written by Bob Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure following a BBC report into famine in Ethiopia, and has since become one of the U.K.’s best-selling singles of all-time.
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All three previous incarnations of the song contribute to the Ultimate Mix, which features a wealth of artists including George Michael, Sting, Chris Martin, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, One Direction, Bono and Sinead O’Connor, among others.
The push for the top spot follows the release of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” on physical formats this past Friday (Nov. 29), with proceeds benefitting the Band Aid Charitable Trust. The CD and vinyl variants also feature the original, 20th and 30th anniversary editions and 1985’s Live Aid version from Wembley Stadium.
The song and music video’s depiction of Africa, however, has drawn criticism over the years.
Following his decision to turn down featuring on the 2014 version of Band Aid, earlier today (Dec. 3), British-Ghanian Afrobeats artist Fuse ODG further clarified his stance via The Guardian. “While the British public’s generosity in 1984 was genuine, and the aim of Band Aid was to address a specific humanitarian crisis, the way it depicted Africa did more long-term harm than good,” he wrote. “It inadvertently contributed to a broader identity crisis for Africans, portraying the entire continent as one monolithic, war-torn, starving place.” Ed Sheeran previously said that Band Aid were using his vocals without permission and that he otherwise would have declined to be involved again.
Elsewhere, Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True” – which has remained at the summit for the past four weeks – stands at No.2, followed closely by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT” at No. 3. “Defying Gravity” by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the emotional centerpiece of the recent Wicked soundtrack, comes in at No. 6.
A festive theme continues throughout the Top 10, with three more Yuletide hits heading towards the top of the chart. Wham!’s “Last Christmas” is on track for its first Top 5 appearance of 2024 at No. 5, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” appears at No. 7, and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” is currently at No. 9.
The original Broadway cast recording of Wicked reaches the top 40 of the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time, nearly 21 years after its release in December 2003. The set jumps 79-33 on the chart dated Dec. 7, following continued buzz generated by the recently released film adaptation of the long-running stage show.
The Broadway show, which opened in New York in October 2003, launched with Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in the lead roles of Glinda and Elphaba (played by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the film).
Wicked is just the seventh musical cast album to reach the top 40 of the Billboard 200 in the last 25 years, following Bruce Springsteen’s solo show Springsteen on Broadway (2018) and the original Broadway cast recordings of Dear Evan Hansen (2017), Hamilton: An American Musical (2015), If/Then (2014), The Book of Mormon (2011) and Disney’s The Little Mermaid (2008).
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The new Wicked film opened in U.S. theaters on Nov. 22 and has earned more than $260 million at the U.S. and Canada box office. Its soundtrack debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, marking the highest debut for a soundtrack of a big-screen adaptation of a stage musical.
In the tracking week ending Nov. 28, as reflected on the Dec. 7-dated Billboard 200 chart, the Wicked Broadway cast recording earned 22,000 equivalent album units (up 60%) while the Wicked film soundtrack starts with 139,000 units.
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 Dec. 7, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday, Dec. 3.
The original Broadway cast recording of Wicked had previously peaked at No. 66 on the Billboard 200 in March of 2014. Chenoweth and Menzel starred in the Broadway show from its opening through July 2004 and January 2005, respectively. Wicked has continued to play on Broadway since its premiere in 2003, and with more than 8,100 performances, it is the fourth-longest running show in Broadway history.
The original Broadway cast recording of Wicked also spends a 350th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Cast Albums chart, which ranks the week’s top-selling musical stage show albums. Wicked has the second-most weeks at No. 1 on Cast Albums since the list began in January of 2006. The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical leads the pack with 411 weeks at No. 1.
The Wicked cast album also debuts on the Top Streaming Albums chart at No. 38, where the Wicked movie soundtrack debuts at No. 4.
ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” rules both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a sixth week. The song debuted as the stars’ second leader on each survey.
Plus, Kendrick Lamar debuts five songs in the Global 200’s top 10 and one in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, all from his new album, GNX; Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” dashes back into the Global Excl. U.S. top 10; and two other tracks debut in the Global Excl. U.S. top tier: G-DRAGON’s “Home Sweet Home,” featuring TAEYANG and DAESUNG, and Stromae and Pomme’s “Ma Meilleure Ennemie.”
The Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
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Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
“APT.” tops the Global 200 for a sixth week with 160.6 million streams (up 21% week-over-week) and 20,000 sold (up 49%) worldwide Nov. 22-28. The duet debuted with 224.5 million global streams and logged 207.5 million in its second frame, becoming the first title since the chart started to have amassed at least 200 million streams globally in multiple weeks.
“APT.” also now boasts six of the top seven streaming weeks on the Global 200 among songs released in 2024:
224.5 million, “APT.,” ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, Nov. 2
207.5 million, “APT.,” Nov. 9
176.8 million, “Fortnight,” Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone, May 4
162.2 million, “APT.,” Nov. 16
160.6 million, “APT.,” Dec. 7
146.4 million, “APT.,” Nov. 23
132.7 million, “APT.,” Nov. 30
Lady Gaga and Mars’ “Die With a Smile” holds at No. 2 on the Global 200, following eight weeks at No. 1, the most for any song this year, beginning in September. It drew 115.7 million streams (up 1%) worldwide Nov. 22-28 and has tallied over 100 million streams globally in each of the last 13 weeks, the longest such streak since the chart began.
Lamar debuts five songs in the Global 200’s top 10, all from his album GNX, which blasts in at No. 1 on the U.S.-based Billboard 200: “Squabble Up” (No. 3; 82.6 million streams), “Luther,” with SZA (No. 4; 78.1 million), “TV Off,” featuring Lefty Gunplay (No. 5; 74.9 million), “Wacced Out Murals” (No. 6; 60.9 million) and “Hey Now,” featuring Dody6 (No. 10; 48.8 million). Lamar ups his total to 11 top 10s since the Global 200 began. SZA adds her seventh top 10, while Lefty Gunplay and Dody6 each earn their first. (“Luther” samples Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn’s 1982 cover of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s 1967 single “If This World Were Mine.”)
“APT.” concurrently commands Global Excl. U.S. for a sixth week, with 141 million streams (up 20%) and 13,000 sold (up 44%) outside the U.S. Nov. 22-28.
“Die With a Smile” holds at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S. following eight weeks at No. 1 starting in September; Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” keeps at No. 3, after three weeks at No. 1 beginning in August; and Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True” rises 5-4 for a new high.
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” sleigh-rides 14-5 on Global Excl. U.S, with 38.1 million streams (up 33%) and 2,000 sold (up 40%) outside the U.S. The modern Yuletide classic, originally released in 1994, has spent 13 weeks at No. 1 dating to the chart’s start, tying Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” (2023) and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” (2022) for the most frames on top. The carol holds at No. 9 on the Global 200, where it has spent a record 18 weeks at No. 1.
Three songs debut in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, led by Lamar’s “Luther” (34.1 million streams outside the U.S.) It’s the rapper’s fourth top 10 on the chart and SZA’s third.
G-DRAGON’s “Home Sweet Home,” featuring TAEYANG and DAESUNG, opens at No. 7 on Global Excl. U.S. with 29.2 million streams and 8,000 sold outside the U.S. The track brings together the three members of BIGBANG, which as a group hit No. 3 on the chart with “Still Life” in April 2022. G-DRAGON and DAESUNG each reach the top 10 as soloists for the first time, while TAEYANG previously ranked in the region with “Vibe,” featuring Jimin (No. 9, 2023).
Plus, Stromae and Pomme’s “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” debuts at No. 8 on Global Excl. U.S. with 32.3 million streams and 1,000 sold outside the U.S. Each act charts in the top 10 for the first time with the song from the second-season soundtrack to the Netflix animated series Arcane: League of Legends.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Dec. 7, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Dec. 2. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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The Holiday 100 makes its annual jolly jaunt back to Billboard’s charts menu. The survey ranks the top seasonal songs of all eras via the same formula used for the Billboard Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay and sales data.
Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – which surges six spots to No. 10 on the Hot 100 – rules the Holiday 100 for a 61st week of the chart’s 69 total weeks since the tally originated in 2011.
The only other Holiday 100 No. 1s to date: Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe,” for a week in the 2011-12 holiday season; Pentatonix’s “Little Drummer Boy” (one, 2013-14) and “Mary, Did You Know?” (two, 2014-15); Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” (one, 2014-15); and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” – which reigned for three weeks on both the Holiday 100 and Hot 100 last holiday season, granting the legendary singer a gift 65 years in the making, following the song’s 1958 release.
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Carey’s carol reigns with 26.8 million streams (up 52% week-over-week), 15.7 million airplay audience impressions (up 68%) and 2,000 sold (up 25%) in the United States Nov. 22-28, according to Luminate.
The song also boasts top honors on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.
“When I wrote [it], I had absolutely no idea the impact the song would eventually have worldwide,” Carey marveled of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in 2021; it was originally released 30 years ago. “I’m so full of gratitude that so many people enjoy it with me every year.”
Rounding out the Holiday 100’s top five are Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (No. 2); Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” which marks its 40th anniversary this year (No. 3); Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957 (No. 4); and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” which turns 60 this year (No. 5).
The entire latest Holiday 100, and all other seasonal charts – Top Holiday Albums, Holiday Streaming Songs, Holiday Airplay, Holiday Digital Song Sales, Holiday 100 Songwriters and Holiday 100 Producers – along with all additional rankings, will update on Billboard.com Tuesday (Dec. 3).
As Kendrick Lamar’s new LP, GNX, blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the superstar rapper rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs survey, where the set’s “Squabble Up” likewise launches at the summit.
The track becomes Lamar’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1, and his third of 2024 – the most among all artists this year. He previously led in 2024 with “Not Like Us,” for two weeks beginning in May, and “Like That,” with Future and Metro Boomin, for three weeks in April.
Lamar sweeps the Hot 100’s top five with four more debuts from GNX: “TV Off” (featuring Lefty Gunplay), “Luther” (with SZA), “Wacced Out Murals” and “Hey Now” (featuring Dody6) at Nos. 2-5, respectively. He joins only Taylor Swift, Drake and The Beatles in having placed at Nos. 1-5 in a single week.
Lamar also debuts in the Hot 100’s top 10 with fellow GNX tracks “Reincarnated” (No. 8) and “Man at the Garden” (No. 9), swelling his career count to 22 top 10 hits.
Below Lamar’s top five Hot 100 arrivals, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” falls to No. 6 a week after it logged a record-equaling 19th week at No. 1. Over the chart’s 66-year history, it remains tied for the longest reign with Lil Nas X’s 2019 smash “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
Plus, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” again decorates the Hot 100’s top 10, dashing 16-10. The modern classic, from 1994, has reigned for 14 total weeks dating to its first frame at the apex in 2019.
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Lamar Lands Fifth Hot 100 No. 1 With ‘Squabble Up’