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Manuel Turizo’s “La Bachata” spends an eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart (dated Oct. 29). The song enters a tie with Bizarrap and Quevedo’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” for the second-most weeks at No. 1 in 2022, trailing only Tiago PZK’s “Entre Nosotros,” with LIT Killah, Nicki Nicole and Maria Becerra, which ruled for nine weeks this year (16 weeks overall).
Shakira and Ozuna earn the highest debut of the week as their first partnership, “Monotonía,” debuts at No. 7. While the former earns her second top 10, the latter collects his ninth. Meanwhile, Wisin & Yandel clock their first top 10 as a duo with their latest single “Besos Moja2” with Rosalía, which lifts 11-8. The Spaniard adds a sixth top 10 to her career board.
Argentinians DJ Tao and Callejero Fino earn their highest debut since both scored their first entry in 2021 as “DJ Tao Sessions #723” bows at No. 21.
Taylor Swift scores six debuts on the current chart, all stemming from her latest No. 1 album, Midnights. It’s the most simultaneous entries for a non-Spanish-speaking artist since the chart launched in 2018 (among all acts Bad Bunny continues to lead with a mammoth 17 entries on the same week). Swift’s “Anti-Hero” leads the pack at No. 40. Meanwhile, “Lavender Haze” starts at No. 70, “Snow on The Beach,” with Lana Del Rey, follows at No. 84, “Midnight Rain” at No. 94, “You’re on Your Own, Kid” at No. 98, while “Maroon” arrives at No. 100.
Back up the tally, Negro Dub claims his first entry as “El Último Romántico,” with L-Gante and Dt.Bilardo, opens ta No. 43.
Further, Maluma takes the Greatest Gainer honor of the week as “Junio” rallies 67-49.
Elsewhere, two South Korean groups score their first entry: (G)i-Dle’s “Nxde” bows at No. 52, while girl group Le Sserafim arrives at No. 74 with “Antifragile.” Plus, Estelares notch its second chart entry as “Encantan, featuring Enjambre,” opens at No. 79.
Meanwhile, Coldplay benefits from its Buenos Aires tour dates with a debut and a re-entry: “Yellow” arrives at No. 81, while “My Universe”, with BTS, rebounds at No. 86, after its No. 36 high in Oct. 2021.
The week’s other debuts include Coral’s “Mejor Que Tu Amor,” featuring Jorge Serrano, at No. 91, and Ozuna’s “Hey Mor,” featuring Feid, at No. 96.
Tank banks his second No. 1 of 2022 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart as “Slow,” featuring J. Valentine, tops the list dated Nov. 5. The single advances from the runner-up spot after a strong 17% surge in plays that made it the most-played song on U.S. monitored radio stations in the week ending Oct. 30, according to Luminate.
“Slow” gives Tank his seventh career No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay, and his rate of chart-toppers has accelerated in recent years. After capturing two No. 1s in the 16 years from his 2001 chart debut until 2017, he has logged five leaders in the past five years. Consistency, too, has become a standard, with only two of his seven chart entries since 2017 – “I Don’t Think You’re Ready” (No. 3) and a featured turn on J. Brown’s “Don’t Rush” (No. 7) missing the top spot.
As “Slow” reigns, here’s a look at Tank’s seven No. 1s on Adult R&B Airplay:
“Please Don’t Go,” No. 1 for 10 weeks, beginning May 19, 2007“Next Breath,” one, June 16, 2012“When We,” 11, Nov. 18, 2017“Dirty,” three, April 20, 2019“Can’t Let It Show,” two, July 3, 2021“I Deserve,” one, March 19, 2022“Slow,” one (to date), Nov. 5, 2022
Featured artist J. Valentine, meanwhile, achieves his first Adult R&B Airplay with his debut chart appearance.
“Slow” likewise unlocks more achievements for Tank in the latter stages of his recording career. Thanks to “I Deserve” and “Slow,” the singer-songwriter claims multiple No. 1s on Adult R&B Airplay for the first time in the same year. Plus, as “Can’t Let It Show,” “Deserve” and the current champ all spring from his final studio album, R&B Money, released in September, the album is Tank’s first to produce multiple leaders on the radio list.
Elsewhere, “Slow” improves 18-17 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by audience listenership across both adult R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio stations. There, the song registered a 15% increase in weekly audience to 7.5 million in the week ending Oct. 30. “Slow” marks Tank’s seventh top 20 effort on this chart, with the previous six comprising all of his Adult R&B Airplay No. 1s, sans “Next Breath,” which peaked at No. 27.
Data and insights company Luminate, which provides data for Billboard’s charts, has partnered with airplay monitoring service Mediabase, and the latter’s radio tracking data will begin fueling Billboard surveys reflecting airplay activity dated Nov. 12.
Luminate previously provided radio data for Billboard airplay charts as monitored by BDS.
Airplay charts (based on audience and/or plays) finalized Monday, Nov. 7 (dated Nov. 12), will be the first using Mediabase data. Individual-format airplay charts dated Nov. 12 will reflect airplay tracked Monday, Oct. 31, through Sunday, Nov. 6. The Nov. 12-dated Radio Songs chart, which serves as the airplay chart component to the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100 (which also blends streaming and sales data, as compiled by Luminate), and reflects a Friday-Thursday cycle, will incorporate BDS data for Oct. 28-30 and Mediabase data for Oct. 31-Nov. 3 (with Mediabase data to power Radio Songs thereafter).
Billboard will continue to maintain unique charts and reporter panels, separate from Mediabase’s, for all formats. Upon the change, Billboard will continue to incorporate all current reporting stations that are also monitored by Mediabase for Billboard’s charts. Billboard and Mediabase aim to add additional reporting stations going forward.
Meanwhile, weekly and year-end Billboard charts will continue to be compiled via the same parameters previously applied with BDS data. (Year-end airplay rankings will continue to reflect songs’ activity while on corresponding weekly charts.)
Along with Radio Songs, Billboard’s United States-based airplay charts encompass: Pop Airplay (Mainstream Top 40); Adult Pop Airplay (Adult Top 40); Adult Contemporary; Country Airplay; Rock & Alternative Airplay; Alternative Airplay; Adult Alternative Airplay (Triple A); Mainstream Rock Airplay; R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay; Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay; Adult R&B Airplay; Rap Airplay; Rhythmic Airplay; Latin Airplay; Regional Mexican Airplay; Latin Pop Airplay; Latin Rhythm Airplay; Tropical Airplay; Christian Airplay; Christian AC Airplay; Gospel Airplay; Dance/Mix Show Airplay; Smooth Jazz Airplay; and the seasonal Holiday Airplay chart. (View all Billboard charts here.)
Click here for more information, via Luminate, about the BDS/Mediabase transition (for Luminate subscribers with access to Luminate’s Music Connect platform).
“Mediabase has proven itself to be the most trusted and referenced radio data provider in today’s fast-moving, ever-changing music industry,” said Luminate CEO Rob Jonas in a statement earlier this year. “At Luminate, we pride ourselves in being able to provide our clients – whether they be major record labels, tech companies, film studios, TV networks or indie music powerhouses – with the absolute best information they need to operate and grow their businesses. This new partnership allows us to do just that.”
Said Mediabase president and CEO Philippe Generali, “This new strategic partnership allows us the opportunity to be innovative in our approach to radio monitoring and to further ours and Luminate’s positions as undisputed experts in music data.”
MercyMe banks its 12th No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums survey as its new studio album, Always Only Jesus, blasts in atop the chart dated Nov. 5.
The 10-song set released on Oct. 21 earned 9,000 equivalent album units with 7,000 in sales during the tracking week ending Oct. 27 according to Luminate.
On Top Christian Albums Always Only Jesus follows Inhale (Exhale) which entered at No. 3 in May 2021 with 11,000 units, granting the group with its 14th of 15 career top 10s.
Prior to Inhale, I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best of Mercy Me opened at No. 3 in March 2018 then hit No. 1 in its second week, dominating for 19 frames. That set included two versions of “I Can Only Imagine,” the 1999 original and 2018’s “I Can Only Imagine (The Movie Session).”
The LP was released in conjunction with the movie I Can Only Imagine which starred J. Michael Finley as MercyMe frontman Bart Millard with Dennis Quaid as his father. The film chronicled the story of the band from its inception in the mid 1990s.
MercyMe’s run of 12 leaders began in 2001 with its first entry Almost There which debuted at No. 12 prior to its nine-week reign beginning in August 2003.
With a dozen No. 1s on Top Christian Albums MercyMe has the most of all duos and groups with Passion second (nine); then Casting Crowns and Hillsong United are next with eight leaders each. Currently on tour, MercyMe’s next stop will be at Boston’s Wang Theatre on Nov. 4.
STRYPER’S ‘FINAL BATTLE’
Also on Top Christian Albums the iconic Christian hard rock outfit Stryper’s new LP The Final Battle rockets onto the tally at No. 3. It earned 7,000 units in its first week and 6,000 in sales.
Stryper first reached Top Christian Albums with The Yellow and Black Attack which debuted in November 1984 and reached No. 10 the following June, marking the foursome’s first of 12 top 10s.
Battle, which sports 11 songs, follows the group’s first No. 1, Even the Devil Believes, which started atop the ranking with 10,000 units in September 2020.
The California based Stryper is fronted by founding member Michael Sweet (lead vocals, guitar); his brother Robert Sweet (drums); Oz Fox (guitar, vocals); and Perry Richardson (bass, vocals).
Singer-songwriter Colton Dixon scores his first No. 1 on Billboard’s streaming-, airplay and sales based Hot Christian Songs survey as well as Christian AC Airplay (both charts dated Nov. 5).
The 31-year-old Murfreesboro, Tenn. native’s latest single “Build a Boat” ascends 2-1 on both lists. The song hits the Hot Christian Songs summit as it drew 1.2 million U.S. streams and sold 1,000 downloads in the Oct. 21-27 tracking week, according to Luminate.
“Boat” rebounds 2-1 on Christian Digital Song Sales for a sixth frame at No. 1 after first reaching the apex on Sept. 17, becoming his third leader.
On Christian Airplay “Boat” floats 4-2 for a new best. It increased by less than 1% to 6.6 million impressions in the week ending Oct. 30. On Christian AC Airplay the single climbs 2-1 with a 3% increase in plays. Dixon earns his first No. 1 on both Hot Christian Songs and Christian AC Airplay. It’s his 14th Hot Christian Songs entry which includes two additional top 10s. His first appearance “You Are” reached No. 10 in 2013 and 2014’s “More of You” hit No. 9 that September. On Christian AC Airplay “Boat” follows “Miracles” which reached No. 8 in October 2020, giving Dixon his third of four top 10s.
“Boat” was co-written by Dixon, Pete Becker, Mikey Gormley, Johan Linbrandt and Seth Mosley.
“To anyone who had anything to do with this song, thank you,” Dixon tells Billboard. “Even more than having my No. 1 across these formats, I’m so grateful that so many people have applied the meaning of this song to their own story. Faith looks crazy sometimes, but the reward waiting on the other side far outweighs the sacrifice.”
Dixon, who competed during season 11 of American Idol in 2012, performed “Build a Boat” during his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry on Oct. 24.
For the second time in the nine-year history of Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart, the same artist occupies the entirety of the ranking’s top 10.
Songs from Taylor Swift’s new album Midnights make up the top 10 of the ranking dated Nov. 5, led by “Anti-Hero,” which bows at No. 1 with 59.7 million official U.S. streams earned in the tracking week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate.
Only one other act has held down the entire top 10 of the tally at once: Drake, whose songs from 2021’s Certified Lover Boy swept the top 10 dated Sept. 18, 2021, paced by “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, at 67.3 million streams.
Swift’s perfect score exceeds the previous best by any woman, eight of the top 10, achieved by Olivia Rodrigo on the ranking dated June 5, 2021.
Midnights’ Streaming Songs domination extends beyond the top 10. The album claims the entire top 13, following Drake as the second act to do so. Drake holds the all-time record, as Certified Lover Boy appeared in the entire top 14 in September 2021.
One thing Swift managed that Drake couldn’t: having the entirety of one’s standard-edition album appear on Streaming Songs before any other act’s songs. Midnights boasts 13 songs, with seven added to the deluxe 3am version. The No. 13 on the chart, “Sweet Nothing,” bows with 25.4 million streams, just over 1 million ahead of the next-closest song, Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy,” at No. 14 (24.3 million).
Drake’s Certified, meanwhile, was 21 songs long, with its streak broken up by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” at No. 15 (27.7 million).
The remainder of Midnights’ deluxe edition still appear on Streaming Songs, led by “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” at No. 17 (15.9 million).
Swift ultimately has 16 of the chart’s top 20, the most by any woman (surpassing her own mark Aug. 8, 2020, upon the release of her album Folklore, and Rodrigo’s on June 5, 2021 – both 11 apiece) and the third-most all time, following Drake’s 17 on July 14, 2018 (after the release of Scorpion), and his 19 after Certified.
She’s also the first woman to have at least 20 of the chart’s 50 positions, thanks to each of the 20 tracks from Midnights – standard and deluxe – reaching the ranking. Drake’s Scorpion week leads all acts with 28.
With 10 new top 10s, Swift now boasts 32 since the tally began in 2013, third-most among all acts behind Lil Baby (34) and Drake (73).
She also now has 104 career Streaming Songs entries, tied with Lil Baby for the third-most behind Future (108) and Drake (208). Those four are the only acts to top 100 entries in the chart’s history.
Concurrently, as previously reported, Midnights crowns the Billboard 200 and occupies the entirety of the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100’s top 10.
OneRepublic‘s “I Ain’t Worried,” from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack, ascends to No. 1 on Billboard‘s Adult Pop Airplay chart (dated Nov. 5).
The song marks the Ryan Tedder-fronted group’s fourth leader on the list and first since “Counting Stars” spent seven weeks at No. 1 in 2013-14. Before that, the act reigned with “Good Life,” for four weeks in 2011, and as featured on its first entry, Timbaland’s “Apologize,” which ruled for six weeks in 2008.
In August, “I Ain’t Worried” became OneRepublic’s 12th Adult Pop Airplay top 10. In between the song and “Counting Stars,” the group reached the top 10 with “Lose Somebody,” with Kygo (No. 8, 2020); “Connection” (No. 9, 2018); “I Lived” (No. 10, 2015); and “Love Runs Out” (No. 4, 2014).
Meanwhile, Tedder adds his 11th Adult Pop Airplay No. 1 as a co-writer. In addition to OneRepublic’s four leaders, he’s topped the chart as a co-author of: Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Want” (2022); Jonas Brothers’ “Sucker” (2019); Maroon 5’s “Maps” (2014) and “Love Somebody” (2013); Gavin DeGraw’s “Not Over You” (2012); Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone” (2009-10); and Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” (2008).
On the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “I Ain’t Worried” has so far reached No. 6, marking OneRepublic’s fourth top 10 and first since “Counting Stars” in 2014.
“I Ain’t Worried” is the second hit from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack. The set’s “Hold My Hand” by Lady Gaga rose to No. 12 on Adult Pop Airplay in July.
Both Bizarrap and Quevedo can check off a new career milestone as “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart (dated Nov. 5) — the first No. 1 for both acts. The new achievement lands after their team-up led both, the Billboard Global 200 chart (six weeks) and the Global Excl. U.S. chart (four weeks) starting the July 30-dated rankings.
“Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” advances to the top slot in its seventh week on Latin Airplay thanks to an 8% gain, to 9 million, earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 30, according to Luminate.
With the move, Bizarrap and Quevedo join four other acts who have notched their first champ through their first showing on the list in 2022. Here are this year’s new winners:
Artist, Title, Accompanied Artists, Peak DateVictor Cárdenas, “El Incomprendido,” with Farruko & DJ Adoni, Jan. 29DJ Adoni, El Incomprendido,” with Farruko & Victor Cárdenas, Jan. 29Lisa, “SG,” with DJ Snake, Ozuna & Megan Thee Stallion, April 2Megan Thee Stallion, “SG,” with DJ Snake, Ozuna & Lisa, April 2Bizarrap, “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52,” with QuevedoQuevedo, “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52,” with Bizarrap
The collaboration between Argentinian Bizarrap and the Spaniard Quevedo outs another pairing, Romeo Santos and Justin Timberlake’s “Sin Fin,” after its one-week command.
Meanwhile “Vol. 52” leads Latin Rhythm Airplay for a second week.
Elsewhere, “Vol. 52” steps 12-11 on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart despite a decline in both streams and sales. The song dips 5 in U.S. streams with 4.1 million logged in the week ending Oct. 27. It also falls 7% in downloads sold in the same period.
The Bocelli family, Debbie Gibson, Crowder and Thomas Rhett all continue to ring in the holiday season, leading a parade of debuts on Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart (dated Nov. 5).
A Family Christmas by Andrea Bocelli and his children Matteo and Virginia Bocelli enters Top Holiday Albums at No. 2 with 6,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate. Andrea Bocelli spent eight weeks atop the chart in the 2009-10 holiday season with My Christmas. While Virginia Bocelli makes her Billboard chart arrival with the new set, Matteo logged 14 weeks at No. 1 in 2018-19 on the Classical Digital Song Sales chart with “Fall on Me,” with his father.
The list’s second-highest debut of the week belongs to Gibson’s first seasonal collection, Winterlicious, at No. 17. Says the pop singer-songwriter, “I put a lot of thought into making a universal album inclusive of non-denominational songs, Christmas songs and even an original Hanukkah song, which highlights the strength and devotion of the Jewish community.”
The set also includes duets “with my two favorite Joes: Daddy Joe [Gibson’s father] on ‘White Christmas’ and Joey McIntyre on ‘Heartbreak Holiday.’ “
Gibson, who broke through with her hit debut single, “Only in My Dreams,” and album, Out of the Blue, in 1987, muses, “Getting the call to say I’ve charted in Billboard never gets old.”
Also bowing on the latest Top Holiday Albums tally: Crowder’s Milk & Cookies: A Merry Crowder Christmas (No. 21); Rhett’s Merry Christmas, Y’all (No. 22); XTC frontman Andy Partridge’s My Failed Christmas Career, Volume One (No. 26); and Joss Stone’s Merry Christmas, Love (No. 26).
Meanwhile, the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas returns to the top of the tally for its 13th week at No. 1. It earned 9,000 units, up 23%, in the tracking week.
The Top Holiday Albums chart ranks the 50 most popular seasonal albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sales, 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. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. The seasonal Top Holiday Albums returned for another festive season with the Oct. 22-dated list and will continue as part of Billboard’s weekly chart menu until it dashes away in January 2023.
Rihanna’s Catalog Gets ‘Lift’ed With Comeback
Just one week after Taylor Swift’s Midnights was released to historic impact, we got an even longer-anticipated return from a global pop icon: Rihanna, who released her first new single in six years with the Def Jam-released Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ballad “Lift Me Up.” The song debuted with nearly eight million official on-demand U.S. streams and 16,000 in sales on Oct. 28, and racked up another 6.9 million streams and 11,000 sales over the next two days, all according to Luminate. Those numbers should portend a major Billboard Hot 100 debut for the single, though how deep it can strike into the Swift stronghold atop the chart currently remains to be seen. (A strong radio showing should also help: “Lift Me Up” registered 26.3 million in radio audience on pop, adult, rhythmic and R&B/hip-hop stations combined in its first three days (Oct. 28-30), 10 million better than even Swift’s Hot 100-topping “Anti-Hero” over the same period the prior week.)
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In the meantime, “Lift” has also raised the rest of Rihanna’s catalog, with her non-”Lift” streams bubbling up from 5.8 million last Monday (Oct. 24) to 6.8 million that Thursday as anticipation for the new song grew – then spiking another 24% to 8.4 million on Friday, after the song’s release. Gains for those songs – along with a Halloween-themed hike for her spooky smash “Disturbia” – should result in an increased presence for the Bad Gal on next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, including a likely gain for 2016’s ANTI (No. 122 this week) and a possible re-entry from 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Meghan Trainor’s New ‘Look’ Is Beguiling Listeners
With all the big pop names making splashes the last couple weeks, you might have missed that Meghan Trainor has enjoyed solid returns as well. As her new album on Epic Takin’ It Back debuts at No. 16 on the Billboard 200, giving the pop singer-songwriter her best showing since 2016’s Thank You started at No. 3, recent single “Made You Look” also becomes her first solo Hot 100 entry in four years as it starts at No. 95. Trainor is no stranger to the Hot 100 — her debut single “All About That Bass” topped the chart in 2014 — but “Made You Look” could become her biggest hit in a half-decade, thanks in part to a body-positive trend that is gaining traction on TikTok.
Upon the album’s release on Oct. 21, Trainor launched a dance challenge for the call-and-response doo-wop hook that highlights natural beauty regardless of style. Yet some TikTok users have gone viral for cleverly deploying “Made You Look” to soundtrack a rejection of the male gaze and society’s sexualization of female bodies. No matter which trend they’re encountering, listeners are responding to “Made You Look,” with its daily U.S. on-demand streams crossing the 1 million mark for three straight days beginning last Friday (Oct. 28), according to Luminate. Keep an eye on how top 40 radio, which was key in breaking Trainor with “Bass” eight years ago, adopts her latest offering: “Made You Look” is currently bubbling under Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay, with 266,000 in audience in its first three days. – JASON LIPSHUTZ
Get Down “Ton1ght” With Exøtix, j4m and Ludves
With the way TikTok trends have evolved toward addressing more serious issues, it almost feels like a refreshing throwback when a fun song unexpectedly gets popular on the back of a simple dance challenge. That’s basically what happened with rappers Exøtix and j4m’s haunting jam “Ton1ght,” with the song’s remix (featuring additional vocals from singer Luvdes) taking off on TikTok thanks to a series of videos of users doing a tricky and fast-paced footwork dance to it. The song, originally self-released via DistroKid on ExøtixWørld in October, racked up 615,000 on-demand U.S. streams on the week ending Oct. 27, a 664% gain, according to Luminate, topping Spotify’s Viral 50 – USA chart and making it feel like 2020 all over again – the more enjoyable parts, anyway. – AU