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Women artists etched some of the most vaunted records ever on Billboard’s charts over the first quarter of the 21st century, sparking their status among the 100 Top Women Artists of the 21st Century, based on performance on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.
Among their honors, Taylor Swift claimed the entire top 14 titles on the Hot 100 last May the week that her album The Tortured Poets Department launched atop the Billboard 200, marking the most Hot 100 hits from No. 1 on down in a single week. The set also became her 14th Billboard 200 No. 1, the most among women and tying for the most among soloists in the chart’s history.
In 2019, Mariah Carey became the first artist to top the Hot 100 in four distinct decades, dating to the 1990s, thanks to the enduring appeal of her seasonal chestnut “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Plus, Adele’s 21 ruled the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks in 2011-12, the longest No. 1 run ever for an album by a woman, and Katy Perry notched five Hot 100 No. 1s from 2010’s Teenage Dream, making the set the first by a woman to land that many leading songs.
Essentially, over the first quarter of the 21st century on Billboard’s charts, girls ran the world.
Ahead of 2025’s Women in Music celebration, to be held Saturday, March 29, at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, Billboard has ranked the top-performing artists, albums and songs of the first 25 years of the century since 2000. Below, we’re counting down all 100 Top Women Artists of the 21st Century (including soloists, all-women groups and groups with prominent women’s vocals), to be revealed — 20 per day — on March 13, 14, 17, 18 and 19.
Plus, check out Top Artists of the 21st Century, Top Billboard 200 Albums of the 21st Century and Billboard’s Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century charts, as well as all coverage of Billboard’s 21st Century charts here.
Billboard’s Top Artists, Top Billboard 200 Albums and Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century recaps reflect performance on weekly charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. The Top Artists category, including the Top Women Artists of the 21st Century recap, ranks the best-performing acts in that span based on activity on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100. (Titles released prior to mid-1999 are excluded, although such entries that appeared on the Billboard 200 or Hot 100 in that span contribute to the calculation of the Top Artists chart.)
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LISA’s first full-length studio album, Alter Ego, debuts No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 15). The set sold 28,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending March 6, according to Luminate.
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LISA is the second member of the quartet BLACKPINK to notch a solo No. 1 on Top Album Sales, following ROSÉ’s rosie, which bowed atop the list dated Dec. 21, 2024. BLACKPINK itself has logged three top 10s, including two No. 1s: The Album (in 2020) and BORN PINK (2022).
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
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During the album’s release week, LISA performed on the Academy Awards (March 2), taking part in a tribute to the music of the James Bond film series, where she performed Wings’ “Live and Let Die.” She recently made her acting debut in the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus (which premiered on Feb. 16).
Alter Ego was available to purchase as a standard 12-song album (digital download, CD and vinyl), a 15-song set (with three bonus tracks, as a digital download) and a 19-track set (with three additional remixes and a voice note from the artist, sold as a digital download exclusively on LISA’s official webstore). The set was issued across nine CD variants (including a signed edition; with all containing collectible paper ephemera such as randomized photocards), six deluxe CD boxed sets (each containing a copy of the album on CD and a branded piece of clothing) and two vinyl variants (including one signed edition).
LISA’s Alter Ego is the lone debut in the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart. Notably, a third member of BLACKPINK could capture her first entry on the chart next week (on the list dated March 22), as JENNIE’s Ruby was released on March 7.
Morgan Wallen reaches another Billboard chart milestone, as his latest studio album, One Thing at a Time, collects its 100th nonconsecutive week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 15). It’s his second album to notch at least 100 weeks in the region, following his previous studio set, Dangerous: The Double Album, which surpassed 100 weeks on the Dec. 24, 2022-dated chart, and currently has 158 total weeks in the region – the most of any album by a singular artist.
Wallen is the only singular act with two albums (or even one album) with at least 100 weeks in the top 10.
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On the March 15, 2025-dated chart, One Thing at a Time holds at No. 9, while Dangerous climbs 15-12. Both titles debuted atop the list, with One Thing at a Time spending 19 weeks at No. 1 in 2023-24, and Dangerous notching 10 weeks in the lead in 2021.
Since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis, with the March 24, 1956-dated chart, the album with the most weeks in the top 10 is the original cast recording of the stage musical My Fair Lady, with 173 weeks in the top 10 between 1956-60. Of the six albums with at least 100 weeks in the top 10, four are either cast recordings or film soundtracks.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric 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.
Albums With Most at Least 100 Weeks in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 Chart
Weeks in Top 10, Artist, Title, Year First Reached Top 10173, Original Cast, My Fair Lady, 1956158, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album, 2023109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965106, Soundtrack, West Side Story, 1962105, Original Cast, The Sound of Music, 1960100, Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time, 2023(March 24, 1956-March 15, 2025-dated charts)
Because of how the Billboard 200 chart is now compiled, where streaming activity is blended with album sales and track sales, albums tend to spend a longer time on the list thanks to continued streaming activity. The chart only began utilizing streaming information in its methodology in December 2014. Previous to then, the chart was based solely on traditional album sales.
Also, a lengthy tracklist with multiple popular songs can help accrue large streaming totals, so albums like One Thing at a Time and Dangerous (each with more than 30 songs apiece) benefit from the continued weekly streams of their long tracklists.
Further, older albums (known as catalog albums; generally defined today as titles at least 18 months old), were mostly restricted from charting on the Billboard 200 from May 25, 1991-Nov. 28, 2009. After that, catalog and current (new/recently released) albums chart together on the Billboard 200. In turn, older albums now regularly spend hundreds of weeks on the chart. On the March 15, 2025-dated list, for example, there are more than 30 albums with least 400 total weeks on the chart. Before the rule change in December 2009, allowing catalog albums back onto the chart, only three albums had spent more than 400 weeks on the list – led by Pink Floyd’s chart-topping The Dark Side of the Moon. Today, it continues to hold the record for the most weeks on the list, with 990.
No need to panic, but there’s a double dose of “Anxiety” for Doechii on the Billboard charts (dated March 15), as the rapper/singer appears on two different, but related, versions of the similarly named track, thanks to a saga that also involves Will Smith, Gotye and Detroit rapper Sleepy Hallow.
Rewind to 2019, when Doechii recorded the song “Anxiety” and shot a video of the recording in her bedroom for her Coven Music Session, Vol .1 mixtape. “Anxiety” prominently samples Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” featuring Kimbra, a 2012 hit that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks, was that year’s No. 1 Hot 100 song and won two Grammy Awards, including record of the year, in February 2013.
At the time, when Doechii’s “Anxiety” was only available via YouTube, Sleepy Hallow lifted the song’s hook for the chorus of his own “A N X I E T Y” track. Billed to Sleepy Hallow featuring Doechii, it arrived in 2023, and upon release, reached No. 44 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and No. 3 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.
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After a year of dormancy, the song experienced a TikTok-led revival in recent weeks, as users soundtracked the “A N X I E T Y” chorus to a famous scene of Will Smith and Tatyana Ali dancing from an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the Smith-led sitcom that aired on NBC from 1990-96. User @mimeemzyy posted on Feb. 21 what appears to be the trend’s kick-off clip, which has swelled to 2.8 million views on TikTok through March 12.
Growing virality fueled “A N X I E T Y” streams to new highs. While the song hovered between roughly 600,000-700,000 U.S. official on-demand streams each week for the last six months, the total cracked new levels in the last four frames: 890,000 streams in the week ending Feb. 13; 882,000 (Feb. 20), 2.8 million (Feb. 27) and 10.5 million (March 6), according to Luminate. The latest week’s viral-backed surge prompted “A N X I E T Y” to debut on several charts this week, including a No. 45 launch on the Hot 100, at No. 11 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and No. 8 on Hot Rap Songs.
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But that wasn’t the only impact: New attention for “A N X I E T Y” sent fans scrambling to Doechii’s solo, YouTube-only version, prompting Doechii to release her track to all digital and streaming retailers on March 4. After the midweek expansion, “Anxiety” spiked to 5.3 million U.S. streams and 2,000 downloads in the latest tracking week (Feb. 28-March 6), sparking a push to No. 3 on the Hot 100’s Bubbling Under chart.
Early signs point to an impending “Anxiety” explosion after its full tracking week. According to preliminary reports submitted to Luminate, the song registered 11.2 million official on-demand U.S. streams for March 7-10. (Next week’s charts, dated March 22, will reflect activity from the tracking week of March 7-13.) Should “Anxiety” reach the Hot 100, it will give Doechii her seventh entry on the list, and with at least a No. 44 start, become her best debut.
The “Anxiety” blowup adds to Doechii’s latest string of triumphs. The rapper won a Grammy Award for best rap album on Feb. 2, for her Alligator Bites Never Heal mixtape. Between the victory and Doechii’s performance on the telecast, the mixtape surged to No. 14 on the Billboard 200. Two singles have also gained traction in recent weeks: “Denial Is a River” cruised to a No. 21 Hot 100 peak in February, while “Nissan Altima” reached No. 73. And Doechii’s already lined up her next big honor: Later this month, the newly minted Grammy winner will be crowned 2025 Woman of the Year at Billboard‘s Women in Music celebration in Los Angeles.
Travis Japan’s “Say I do” debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 12.
This song is being featured as the theme song for Honnou Switch, the drama series starring member Kaito Miyachika and actress Wakana Aoi, and is the first CD single by the seven-member boy band. The track launched with 147,896 copies to rule sales, top downloads, and came in at No. 53 for streaming to give the group its first-ever No. 1 on the Japan Hot 100.
Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Lilac” continues to hold at No. 2, extending its stay in the top 10 to 47 weeks. The Oblivion Battery opener rules streaming for the 27th week with 10,034,805 weekly streams, tops karaoke, and comes in at No. 7 for downloads and No. 2 for video views.
Sakanaction’s “Kaiju” also holds at No. 3. Streaming for the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth opener stays at No. 2 (83% week-over-week), and comes in at No. 4 for downloads (54%), No. 4 for radio, and No. 16 for video.
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Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Darling” rises two notches to No. 4. The track is currently at No. 3 for streaming and has stayed in the top 3 for the metric since its debut on the list. The former No. 1 hit is at No. 19 for downloads, No. 6 for video, No. 16 for karaoke, and moves 74-36 for radio (160%).
SEVENTEEN’s “Shohikigen” returns to the Japan Hot 100 for the fifth time after the CD sold 94,151 copies this week. Kenshi Yonezu’s “BOW AND ARROW” rises 19-6 after the accompanying music video featuring superstar figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu powered the track to No. 1 for video. Aimyon’s “Sketch,” the theme song for the latest Doraemon feature film, Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Art World Tales, soars 69-7. The single rules radio, comes in at No. 5 for sales with 9,217 copies sold, No. 13 for video, and No. 90 for streaming.
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from March 3 to 9, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.
The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week, for the upcoming Billboard 200 dated Mar. 22, we look at whether the latest album from one of the century’s greatest pop stars will return her to the top of the chart for the first time in five years.
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Lady Gaga, Mayhem (Interscope): For the first time since 2020, Lady Gaga has returned with a new album of original material. The long-anticipated Mayhem follows the pandemic-released Chromatica, and arrives on the back of a trio of advance singles: the solo top 30 Billboard Hot 100 hits “Disease” and “Abracadabra,” which lead off the new set, and the Hot 100-topping Bruno Mars duet “Die With a Smile,” which is included as the album’s closer.
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The well-reviewed album also comes following an absolute avalanche of 2025 promotional appearances, including performances at the Grammys, the FireAid benefit concert and the SNL 50th Anniversary Homecoming Concert, and video interviews with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Sean Evans of Hot Ones and Billboard’s own Stephen Daw, among many others. Gaga capped her epic Mayhem promo run last weekend by pulling double duty on Saturday’s SNL, both hosting the show and serving as its musical guest, delivering captivating performances of both “Abracadabra” and “Killah” off the new set.
The 14-track LP is also available for sale in a wide variety of physical formats, including a stunning 14 different vinyl variants – some of which are signed and some of which include the bonus track “Can’t Stop the High,” along with a Target exclusive that features the extra cut “Kill for Love.” There are also four different CD editions, with the same options of bonus tracks and a Gaga signature, as well as a deluxe CD box set with a branded T-shirt and poster and even a cassette version.
It’s all likely to put the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar warring at the top of the Billboard 200 – which resulted in one of the closest races in recent years this week, with Lamar’s GNX ultimately reigning triumphant for a third nonconsecutive frame – to bed, as Mayhem seems a good bet to give Gaga her seventh No. 1 on the chart. It might end up falling short of the 274,000 units moved by Chromatica in its 2020 debut week – back then, merch and ticket bundles still counted towards Billboard chart calculations, and significantly boosted that album’s initial numbers – but it should still land comfortably in the six figures, and has a good chance of passing the 177,000 of Tate McRae’s So Close to What entrance for the best single-week performance for an album by a female artist in 2025.
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JENNIE, RUBY (Odd Atelier/Columbia): The recent rush of releases from BLACKPINK members reaches its end – presumably anyway – with the English-language solo debut LP from JENNIE. The star-studded RUBY includes collaborations with Dua Lipa, Dominic Fike, Childish Gambino, Kali Uchis, and of course Billboard Woman of the Year Doechii, whose “ExtraL” team-up with JENNIE graced the Hot 100 at No. 75 earlier this month. With a relatively muted streaming presence and no major breakout hits yet, RUBY is unlikely to challenge for the Billboard 200’s top spot, but should follow ROSÉ’s Number One Girl and Lisa’s Alter Ego to the chart’s top 10.
Jason Isbell, Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern): The latest effort from acclaimed Americana singer-songwriter Jason Isbell is his first in nearly 20 years to not include any contributions from his longtime backing band the 400 Unit. It’s not the only way he’s gone it solo recently, as the album was written in the wake of his divorce with former bandmate Amanda Shires, and was heavily influenced by the split. Isbell’s albums reliably sell well, and Foxes is available in both five vinyl variants and a pair of CD editions.
Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea (Pale Chord/Rise): Canadian heavy metal band Spiritbox turned a lot of chartwatchers’ heads four years ago when its debut set Eternal Blue managed a No. 13 debut on the Billboard 200 – a very impressive number for any hard rock band this decade, but particularly one without much history on the Billboard charts. This month, the now-Grammy-nominated quartet returns with Tsunami Sea, which is getting rave reviews and which is available for purchase on CD, cassette and at least nine vinyl variants.
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This week: A late R&B great sees massive gains for her stellar catalog, a rising singer-songwriter scores a potential breakthrough hit and a beloved TV actor gets a Netflix bump for his music.
Angie Stone’s Catalog Rises After Neo-Soul Icon’s Passing, Led by “No More Rain”
On March 1, neo-soul icon and The Sequence founding member Angie Stone tragically died in a car accident near Montgomery, Ala. at the age of 63. With a three-time Grammy-nominated catalog spanning hip-hop, neo-soul and southern R&B, Angie Stone amassed three Billboard Hot 100 hits and landed seven titles on the Billboard 200 throughout her career.
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According to Luminate, Stone’s catalog earned just over 621,000 official on-demand U.S. streams in the week preceding her passing (Feb. 21-27). During the week of her passing (Feb. 28-March 6), that figure exploded a whopping 1,263% to over 8.4 million official streams. 1999’s “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” was one of her biggest streamers during the week of her death, collecting 2.1 million official on-demand U.S. streams — a 538% boost from the week prior.
Meanwhile, 2002’s “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” — her most recent Hot 100 entry (No. 79) — rose 1,008% during the week of Feb. 28-March 6, collecting 1.44 million official on-demand U.S. streams. And 2001’s classic “Brotha,” a song and music video honoring and uplifting Black men, experienced one of the biggest streaming boosts in Stone’s catalog following her passing. During the week of Feb. 21-27, the song earned just over 42,000 official on-demand U.S. steams. The following week, that figure leapt 2,026% to over 907,000 official streams.
Notably, all three songs debuted in the top five of the R&B Digital Song Sales chart dated March 15: “No More Rain” bowed at No. 1, “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” followed at No. 2, and “Brotha” managed a No. 5 debut. All three songs mark her first entries on this particular ranking, which launched in November 2012. — KYLE DENIS
Streaming Wraps Its Arms Around Sydney Rose’s New Sad Girl Hit
If Drake’s new musical obsession is weepy singer-songwriter ballads with hard-hitting beat-switches, Sydney Rose has just the viral hit for him. The Georgia singer-songwriter, who previously achieved some streaming success with the independently released “Turning Page” in 2020, released her new song “We Hug Now” to DSPs in February. The post-relationship song starts as a gentle, echoing ballad, à la Rose’s musical hero Phoebe Bridges – but it’s the climax, after a switch to a more cathartic mid-tempo singalong, that has taken off on TikTok, with countless users connecting with the lyrics: “You’re just thinkin’ it’s a small thing that happened/ The world ended when it happened to me.”
The world now may just be opening up for Rose, who has signed to CAA for touring and released “Hug” through Mercury Records. Her new signature song has exploded on streaming, racking up nearly 4.3 official on-demand U.S. streams for the tracking week ending on March 6 – a gain of 345% from three weeks earlier, according to Luminate. As the song continues to grow and Rose herself continues to spread the word herself through edits and mashups shared on her TikTok, it might not be long until the 6 God is once again asking for a “Hug.” – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Gabby Petito Netflix Docuseries Revives 16-Year-Old Matt Berry Song
Last month (Feb. 17), Netflix released American Murder: Gabby Petito – a docuseries about the 2021 murder of travel vlogger Gabby Petito. At the close of the final episode, Matt Berry’s “Take My Hand” begins to play, which has ratcheted up the track’s streaming activity.
During the week of Feb. 14-20, “Take My Hand” earned just over 36,000 official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate. By the first full week since the release of the docuseries (Feb. 21-27), that figure jumped 866% to over 348,000 official streams. The following week (Feb. 28-March 6), that number rose a further 6%, reaching 579,000 official streams. Over the past two weeks, streaming activity for “Take My Hand” has risen over 1,505%.
“Take My Hand” served as the opening theme for Berry’s award-winning Toast of London comedy series, exemplifying the crossover between his acting and music careers. In 2022, there was a small wave of TikToks expressing shock that the What We Do in the Shadows actor also made music. The official “Take My Hand” TikTok song currently boasts over 10,000 posts.
Berry has yet to hit any Billboard chart, but that could soon change should “Take My Hand” maintain its streaming momentum. – KD
Chandler Moore earns third No. 1 overall, and his first without any billed collaborators, on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart, as the Maverick City Music member’s “Lead Me On” ascends a spot to the top of the tally dated March 15. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news During the […]
Carín León adds his seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart with his latest single, “El Amor de Mi Vida,” as the song jumps from No. 3 for its first week atop the ranking, dated March 15.
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“El Amor de Mi Vida” crowns Regional Mexican Airplay after a 40% surge in audience impressions, to 8.2 million, earned in the U.S. during the Feb. 28-March 6 tracking week, according to Luminate. That swell makes it the Greatest Gainer of the week, a weekly award for the song with the greatest increase in plays at the format.
Before “El Amor de Mi Vida,” León managed six other champs among 13 top 10s and a total of 17 career entries on Regional Mexican Airplay. His breakthrough cut “Me La Aventé” reached No. 6 high in 2019. He has placed at least one top 10 every year since.
“El Amor de Mi Vida” races to No. 1 in four weeks, the fastest for any track this year, and the fastest among all of León’s seven rulers on Regional Mexican Airplay. The next-fastest climb to No. 1 this year came when Calibre 50 reached the summit in six weeks, through “El Sueño Americano” (chart dated March 1). Four other songs captured the top spot in 2025, all in seven weeks or more.
Here’s a look at Leon’s collection of No. 1s, from the fastest to the slowest climb to the top:
Weeks to No. 1, Title, Artist, Peak Date, Weeks at No. 14, “El Amor De Mi Herida,” March 15, one (so far)six, “Que Vuelvas,” with Grupo Frontera, Jan. 28, 2023, sixsix, “Alch Si,” with Grupo Frontera, March 2, 2024, oneseven, “Ojos Cerrados,” with Banda MS, March 5, 2022, three12, “Indispensable,” Aug. 19, 2023, three13, “Según Quién,” with Maluma, Dec. 16, 2023, one14, “El Tóxico,” with Grupo Firme, Sept.11, 2021, two
Elsewhere, “El Amor de Mi Vida” rallies 11-2 on the overall Latin Airplay chart. There the single reached 8.2 million in audience, up 32%, León’s highest rank since “Según Quién,” with Maluma, parked at No. 1 for four weeks in December 2023.
Danny Ocean and Kapo nab the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Latin Pop Airplay chart thanks to their maiden collab, “Imagínate,” which advances 3-1 on the March 15-dated ranking. Kapo locks his first No. 1 on the tally, Ocean grabs his second.
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For the tracking week Feb. 28-March 6, “Imagínate” registered 6 million audience impressions in the U.S., sparked by 19% growth from the week prior, according to Luminate. The song takes the Greatest Gainer honors, awarded weekly to the song with the largest audience increase.
“Thank you all for the unconditional support and for helping us achieve this No. 1 with Kapo,” Ocean tells Billboard. “It’s so nice to see how a song that talks about taking that person you love to that place you miss so much connects so strongly with everyone.”
Ocean’s “Imagínate” was released Nov. 7, 2024, on Atlantic/ Warner Latina. It debuted at No. 14 last December and has spent 11 weeks in the top 10 out of its 12-week span.
“Extremely happy with everything surrounding ‘Imagínate,’” Kapo tells Billboard. “This is a song that we composed with great enthusiasm, that flows, and thank God we were able to connect so well with Danny. He’s an artist that I have admired and respected for a long time. It’s an honor to record a song with one of your favorite artists, and for it to become a hit.”
With “Imagínate,” Ocean takes his second Latin Pop Airplay chart topper in less than a year, after “Amor” ruled for two weeks in June 2024. In between the latter and “Imagínate,” the Venezuelan rose as high as No. 6 with “Ley Universal” last October. In sum, Ocean has managed five top 10s.
As for Kapo, “Imagínate” marks his maiden No. 1 on the Latin pop radio ranking. The Colombian launched his charts career in August 2024, when “Ohnana” populated the charts, snatching his first No. 1 on any Billboard ranking last November. The song ruled Latin Rhythm Airplay for 11 weeks. He soon placed four other top 10s, including “Imagínate” which lifts 7-5 on the current chart.
The song joins two other Kapo songs in the top 10 on Latin Rhythm Airplay, “Uwaie,” for its second week at No. 4 high and “Más Que Tú,” with Ozuna, a 9-8 jump.
“We are so proud of our fans, who are the ones who take us to No. 1,” Kapo adds. “This is incredible, and we are extremely thankful with the fans, our team and with Billboard.”
Kapo has much to celebrate this week. In addition to his first No. 1 on Latin Pop Airplay, he announced today (March 11) the launch of his first tour ‘Por Si Alguien Nos Escucha’ through CMN (Cárdenas Marketing Network). The 24-date run is set to start in Jacksonville, Fla., on Mar. 13 and wrap up in Chicago on May 25.