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Taylor Swift scores an explosive week on the latest, Nov. 5, 2022-dated Billboard charts.
Following the Oct. 21 release of her latest studio album Midnights, Swift makes history as the first artist in the Billboard Hot 100’s 64-year history to occupy the entire top 10 in a single week. She also passes Madonna for the most top 10 hits among women (40).
Midnights opens as Swift’s 11th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as it soars in with 1.578 million equivalent album units earned in the Oct. 21-27 tracking week, according to Luminate. The set sports the largest one-week total since the debut week of Adele’s 25 (3.482 million) on the chart dated Dec. 12, 2015.
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Midnights is already the top-selling album of 2022, with 1.140 million copies sold in its first week. It also shatters the record for the biggest vinyl week – 575,000 copies sold on vinyl – since Luminate began tracking vinyl sales in 1991.
Here’s a recap of where all 20 songs from Midnights – 13 from the set’s original version and seven more from its “3am Edition” – launch on the Hot 100:
Rank, Title:No. 1, “Anti-Hero”No. 2, “Lavender Haze”No. 3, “Maroon”No. 4, “Snow on the Beach,” feat. Lana Del ReyNo. 5, “Midnight Rain”No. 6, “Bejeweled”No. 7, “Question…?”No. 8, “You’re on Your Own, Kid”No. 9, “Karma”No. 10, “Vigilante Shit”No. 13, “Mastermind”No. 14, “Labyrinth”No. 15, “Sweet Nothing”No. 20, “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”No. 21, “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”No. 26, “The Great War”No. 32, “Paris”No. 33, “High Infidelity”No. 41, “Glitch”No. 45, “Dear Reader”
With 20 debuts, Swift ups her career total to 188 charted Hot 100 songs, passing Lil Wayne for the third-most, after Drake (278) and the Glee Cast (207).
Swift also brings her career totals to 24 top five Hot 100 hits (tying Janet Jackson for the fifth-most); 40 top 10s (the second-most after Drake’s 59); 67 top 20 hits (also the second-most after Drake’s 100); and 104 top 40 hits (likewise the second-most after Drake’s 158).
This week marks the 15th frame in which an artist has landed at least 20 songs on the Hot 100, and Swift’s second. Here’s a look at every such occurrence:
Most Concurrent Hot 100-Charting Songs:27, Drake, July 14, 201826, Taylor Swift, Nov. 27, 202125, Lil Baby, Oct. 29, 202224, Drake, July 21, 201824, Drake, April 8, 201723, Kanye West, Sept. 11, 202122, Bad Bunny, May 21, 202222, Lil Uzi Vert, March 28, 202022, Lil Wayne, Oct. 13, 201821, Drake, Sept. 18, 202121, Drake, April 15, 201720, Taylor Swift, Nov. 5, 202220, Bad Bunny, May 28, 202220, Lil Uzi Vert, March 21, 202020, Drake, May 21, 2016
Further, thanks to Midnights and “Anti-Hero,” Swift is now the first artist to debut atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously on four separate occasions. She became the first to achieve such a double-up with Folklore and “Cardigan” in August 2020 and repeated the feat with Evermore and “Willow” in December 2020 and Red (Taylor’s Version) and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” in November 2021.
Taylor Swift scores one of the most historic weeks in the 64-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as she becomes the first artist to claim the survey’s entire top 10 in a single frame.
Swift surpasses Drake, who logged nine of the Hot 100’s top 10 for a week in September 2021.
Leading the way for Swift on the Hot 100, “Anti-Hero” launches at No. 1, marking her ninth career leader.
All 10 songs in the Hot 100’s top tier are from Swift’s new LP Midnights, which, released Oct. 21 on Republic Records, blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the biggest week for any release in seven years.
Swift also surges past Drake and The Beatles for the most titles from the top of the Hot 100 in a single week, as her monopoly of the top 10 bests those acts, each of whom infused the top five for a week each in 2021 and 1964, respectively.
Meanwhile, as Swift adds 10 new Hot 100 top 10s, she now boasts the most top 10s among women in the chart’s history, with 40 (surpassing Madonna’s 38). Among all acts, she trails only Drake (59 top 10s).
Plus, Midnights becomes the first album ever with as many as 10 Hot 100 top 10s, besting the nine from Drake’s Certified Lover Boy in 2021.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Nov. 5, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 1). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Here’s a rundown of Swift’s unprecedented week on the Hot 100.
Top 10: Streams, Airplay & Sales
As Swift swoops in with a clean sweep of the Hot 100’s top 10, here’s a look at the songs’ official streams, radio airplay and sales in the U.S. in the Oct. 21-27 tracking week that drove their chart debuts:
Rank, Title: Streams / Airplay Audience / Sales:No. 1, “Anti-Hero”: 59.7 million streams / 32 million in airplay audience / 13,500 soldNo. 2, “Lavender Haze”: 41.4 million / 2.4 million / 2,800No. 3, “Maroon”: 37.6 million / 471,000 / 2,900No. 4, “Snow on the Beach,“ feat. Lana Del Rey: 37.2 million / 615,000 / 2,600No. 5, “Midnight Rain”: 36.9 million / 449,000 / 2,200No. 6, “Bejeweled”: 35.5 million / 1.6 million / 16,100No. 7, “Question…?”: 31 million / 425,000 / 21,400No. 8, “You’re on Your Own, Kid”: 34.1 million / 498,000 / 1,500No. 9, “Karma”: 33 million / 1.9 million / 3,400No. 10, “Vigilante Shit”: 32.2 million / 424,000 / 6,400
With her total takeover of the Hot 100’s top 10 (with assistance from Lana Del Rey at No. 4), Swift passes Drake, who claimed nine of the top 10 (all except for No. 6) on the chart dated Sept. 18, 2021, when nine songs, all from his album Certified Lover Boy, bounded into the region, led by “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, at No .1, as the set opened atop the Billboard 200.
Meanwhile, Swift passes Drake and The Beatles for the most titles from the top of the Hot 100 in a single week. Before Drake’s top five tally on Sept. 18, 2021, The Beatles held Nos. 1-5 on the chart dated April 4, 1964.
Swift’s Nine Hot 100 No. 1s
Here’s a recap of Swift’s nine Hot 100 No. 1s, notched over a span of just over 10 years:
“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” three weeks at No. 1, beginning Sept. 1, 2012“Shake It Off,” four weeks, beginning Sept. 6, 2014“Blank Space,” seven weeks, beginning Nov. 29, 2014“Bad Blood,” feat. Kendrick Lamar, one week, June 6, 2015“Look What You Made Me Do,” three weeks, beginning Sept. 16, 2017“Cardigan,” one week, Aug. 8, 2020“Willow,” one week, Dec. 26, 2020“All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” one week, Nov. 27, 2021“Anti-Hero,” one week to-date, Nov. 5, 2022
Swift becomes one of 16 acts with nine or more Hot 100 No. 1s, and one of seven solo women, joining Mariah Carey (19), Rihanna (14), Madonna (12), Whitney Houston (11), Janet Jackson (10) and Katy Perry (nine). The Beatles lead all acts with 20 Hot 100 No. 1s.
Swift’s Fifth No. 1 Hot 100 Debut
Swift debuts atop the Hot 100 with a fifth title, as “Anti-Hero” (the 64th single to enter at No. 1) follows the chart-topping premieres of “Shake It Off,” “Cardigan,” “Willow” and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version).” With her latest, she ties Ariana Grande for the most No. 1 entrances among women.
Overall, Drake leads with seven No. 1 Hot 100 debuts, followed by BTS, Grande, Swift (five each) and Justin Bieber (four).
Record-Extending Simultaneous Billboard 200 & Hot 100 debuts
Thanks to Midnights and “Anti-Hero,” Swift is the first artist to have debuted atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously as many as four times. (The Billboard 200 began on March 24, 1956, and the Hot 100, on Aug. 4, 1958.)
Swift became the first act to launch with such a double when Folklore and “Cardigan” began atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, respectively, on Aug. 8, 2020. She repeated the feat with Evermore and “Willow” (Dec. 26, 2020) and Red (Taylor’s Version) and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” (Nov. 27, 2021).
Drake, with two, is the only other act with multiple such simultaneous starts on the surveys.
Top 10 Streamed, Sold Songs Are by Swift
As on the Hot 100, Swift holds the entire top 10 on Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts. Swift is the first artist to triple up with the top 10 on all three charts simultaneously; no other act had previously claimed Nos. 1-10 in a single week on the Hot 100 or Digital Song Sales, while only Drake had swept the tier on Streaming Songs (Sept. 18, 2021).
“Anti-Hero” debuts at No. 1 on Streaming Songs with the biggest streaming week for a song (59.7 million) in 2022, passing Jack Harlow’s “First Class” (54.6 million; April 23). No song has logged more weekly streams since Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy” soared in with 67.3 million (Sept. 18, 2021).
Swift adds her sixth Streaming Songs No. 1, tying Bieber for the second-most, after Drake’s 14.
On Digital Song Sales, Swift’s “Question…?” debuts at No. 1, marking her record-extending 24th leader. (Rihanna ranks second with 14.) Helping its coronation, “Question…?” was made available for sale in Swift’s webstore on the last day of the chart’s tracking week (Oct. 27) in its original and instrumental form, each for 69 cents, as was “Bejeweled,” new at No. 4 on Digital Song Sales.
Notably, the streams for Swift’s songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 were strong enough that all 10 tracks would’ve ranked in the region even without any chart points from sales or radio airplay.
‘Anti-Hero’ Roars at Radio
Speaking of radio reach, “Anti-Hero,” the first promoted single from Midnights, debuts at No. 13 on Radio Songs, the highest debut this year and Swift’s best opening rank among 45 career entries.
The song concurrently places at No. 11 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, No. 13 on Adult Contemporary and No. 16 on Pop Airplay following its first full week of availability.
Swift Up to 40 Hot 100 Top 10s, the Most Among Women
By instantly adding 10 Hot 100 top 10s, Swift now sports the second-most, 40, in the chart’s history. Previously tied with Michael Jackson, Swift leapfrogs Madonna – as she now claims the most top 10s among women – The Beatles and Rihanna.
Swift first hit the Hot 100’s top 10 with “Love Story” on the chart dated Oct. 4, 2008.
Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s:59, Drake40, Taylor Swift38, Madonna34, The Beatles31, Rihanna30, Michael Jackson29, Elton John28, Mariah Carey28, Stevie Wonder27, Janet Jackson26, Justin Bieber25, Lil Wayne25, Elvis Presley (with the start of Presley’s career having predated the Hot 100’s inception)
Similar to Swift’s timeline, Drake earned the first of his record 59 top 10s in July 2009 and most recently ranked in the bracket this August.
Midnights Clocks Most Hot 100 Top 10s From an Album
Upon its chart start, Swift’s Midnights becomes the first album to generate as many as 10 Hot 100 top 10s. It passes Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which landed nine, likewise all in the same week (Sept. 18, 2021) that the set started atop the Billboard 200.
Swift previously ran up a personal-best five Hot 100 top 10s from an album, via 1989 in 2014-15.
Janet Jackson leads with three albums that have each yielded at least five Hot 100 top 10s, while Drake and now Swift are the only acts with at least two such sets. (Jackson plays into the success of Midnights: “Snow on the Beach” includes the lyric: “I’m all for you like Janet.”)
Swift’s No. 1s as a Writer, Producer
Swift co-wrote and co-produced “Anti-Hero” with Jack Antonoff.
Swift has co-written all nine of her Hot 100 No. 1s. She has co-produced three of her leaders, as “Anti-Hero” follows “Look What You Made Me Do” and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version).”
Antonoff achieves his third Hot 100 No. 1 as a co-writer, after “Look What You Made Me Do” and “We Are Young,” featuring Janelle Monae; the latter led for six weeks in 2012 for fun. (comprising, Antonoff, Andrew Dost and Nate Ruess). Antonoff also adds his third No. 1 as a producer, all tallied with Swift, after “Look What You Made Me Do” and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version).”
Autumn Happiness: Del Rey’s Best Rank
As “Snow on the Beach” debuts at No. 4 on the Hot 100, Lana Del Rey, featured on the song (which she co-wrote with Swift and Antonoff), lands her highest Hot 100 placement. She scored one prior top 10: “Summertime Sadness,” with Cedric Gervais, hit No. 6 in September 2013.
‘Hero’-ic Hits
“Anti-Hero” is the third Hot 100 No. 1 with “hero” in its title, and the first since Mariah Carey’s “Hero” in 1993-94.
Here’s a look at the highest-charting such Hot 100 hits:No. 1 (one week to-date), “Anti-Hero,” Taylor Swift, 2022No. 1 (four), “Hero,” Mariah Carey, 1993-94No. 1 (two), “Billy, Don’t Be a Hero,” Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, 1974No. 2, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome),” Tina Turner, 1985No. 2, “Theme From ‘Greatest American Hero’ (Believe It or Not),” Joey Scarbury, 1981No. 3, “Hero,” Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott, 2002No. 3, “Hero,” Enrique Iglesias, 2001
As Swift dominates the Hot 100’s top 10, Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” falls to No. 11, a week after it ascended to the summit. It was the most-streamed (24.3 million, down 4%) and top-selling song (11,300, down 40%) not by Swift in the tracking week, while boasting a 23% gain to 26.7 million in radio audience.
Steve Lacy’s fellow former Hot 100 leader “Bad Habits” drops from No. 2 to No. 12, followed by three more Swift songs – as the entirety of Midnights‘ 13-song standard edition debuts in the top 15. “Mastermind” begins at No. 13, “Labyrinth” enters at No. 14 and “Sweet Nothing” starts at No. 15.
Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Nov. 5), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 1).
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Rihanna ended her years-long music drought last week with the release of “Lift Me Up.” When the next U.K. chart is published, the pop superstar could be rewarded with a crown.
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The Barbadian singer is flying with “Lift Me Up,” which will appear in the upcoming Marvel film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Based on sales and streaming data from the first 48 hours in the chart cycle, “Life Me Up” is the No. 2-ranked song. The leader in the early stages is Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” which bowed at No. 1 last Friday (Oct. 28) for TayTay’s second U.K. chart leader.
According to the Official Charts Company, the race to No. 1 is “incredibly close,” with former leader “Unholy,” by Sam Smith and Kim Petras, at No. 3 on the First Look survey.
Heading into the second half of the week, less than 300 chart sales separate the top three.
If “Lift Me Up” does indeed lift to the top it would be Rihanna’s 10th U.K. No. 1, and first since 2017’s “Wild Thoughts,” with DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller. It will, almost certainly, give RiRi her 31st U.K. top 10 appearance.
Elsewhere on the chart blast, several tracks eye new peaks inside the U.K. top 10 — Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz’s “Miss You,” and Stormzy’s “Hide & Seek” (No. 6), while Venbee & Goddard are chasing a first appearance in the top flight with “Messy In Heaven” (No. 10).
SZA’s own comeback track, “Shirt,” could wear a top 20 debut. It’s on target for a No. 15 start.
Finally, Meghan Trainor “Made You Look” is the biggest gainer on the chart blast, the OCC reports, up 28-18.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Singles Chart is published this Friday.
It’s a Taylor Swift takeover on the U.K. charts, as Midnights (via EMI) clocks up exceptional first-week numbers for her 10th No. 1.
Midnights and Arctic Monkeys The Car (Domino Recordings) fought an epic battle which, at the midnight point, saw both LPs surge past 100,000 chart sales.
There could be only one winner. Midnights made it a win for the ages and a personal best for TayTay.
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According to data published by the Official Charts Company, Midnights notches 204,000 U.K. chart sales, a volume that’s more than double her previous personal best of 90,300, for 2014’s 1989.
The first week tally for Midnights easily beats the previous best for 2022, Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, which accumulated 113,000 chart sales, and it’s the best first-week result for any title since Adele’s 30 raked-up 261,000 chart sales in November 2021.
Midnights was a streaming juggernaut too, racking up 72.5 million streams in its first seven days. That too is a year-best, overhauling the 53.9 million U.K. week-one streams for Harry’s House.
Swift now moves up the all-time leaderboard. With nine consecutive U.K. No. 1 albums, she overtakes Madonna to set a new chart record, by doing so in faster succession than any female artist, the OCC reports.
It took Swift just 10 years to achieve the feat, the time between her first leader with Red, in October 2012, and now Midnights, whereas Madonna took 21 years to reach double digits. The boss in that particular frame is the Beatles, with, nine chart leaders in just 5 years and 7 months, the time between the release of their debut album Please Please Me in May 1963 and The White Album in December 1968.
Also, Swift overtakes Kylie Minogue for outright second place in the list of female artists with the most U.K. No. 1 albums. Madonna leads that ranking, with 12. And Taylor extends her lead as the female solo artist with the highest tally of No. 1 albums this century.
With Midnights and “Anti-Hero” debuting at No. 1 on the respective charts, Swift becomes the first female artist to complete the chart double in nine years (Miley Cyrus was the last to do it, in August 2013).
Arctic Monkeys’ streak of six U.K. No. 1s comes to a screeching halt, thanks to Midnights. The Sheffield, England rockers’ latest album The Car revs up for 100,000-plus first week combined sales, an effort that would easily land the chart crown on most weeks.
Coming in at No. 3 on the fresh chart, published Oct. 28, is South London rapper Loyle Carner with Hugo (EMI), new at No. 3 for an equal career high.
Scottish ‘80s new wave legends Simple Minds start at No. 4 with Direction of the Heart (BMG), their 12th top 10 appearance; Kylie’s Impossible Princess (BMG) enjoys a return to the chart and a new peak position following its 25th anniversary reissue. Impossible Princess pushes to No. 5, surpassing its peak position of No. 10 in 1998.
Finally, alternative-rock outfit Dry Cleaning start at No. 11 with their sophomore album Stumpwork (4AD), while Norwegian ‘80s pop trio a-ha earn a No. 12 debut with True North (Music For Nations).
It’s Taylor Swift time on the U.K. charts, as the pop superstar bags a rare chart double.
Following the release of her album Midnights (via EMI), Swift cleans up on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, bagging the No. 1 with “Anti-Hero,” and respectively taking out positions 3 and 4 with “Lavender Haze” and “Snow On The Beach,” featuring Lana Del Rey.
“Anti-Hero,” which Swift has said described as “one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written,” is also a favorite among Brits, as it becomes just her second U.K. chart-leader following 2017’s “Look What You Made Me Do.”
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With Midnights also rocketing to No. 1, Swift becomes the first female artist in nine years to simultaneously debut atop the Official Albums and Singles Charts, according to the Official Charts Company. Miley Cyrus was the last to do it, when Bangerz and “Wrecking Ball” both arrived at No. 1 on the Official Charts back in August 2013.
The single that stops a Swift trifecta on the latest chart, published Oct. 28, is Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” (EMI), down 1-2, while David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s former chart-topper “I’m Good (Blue)” dips 2-5.
Meanwhile, the only non-Midnights track to enjoy a top 10 gain is Oliver Tree and Robin Schultz’s viral EDM release “Miss You” (Atlantic), up 9- 8, while Southstar’s version of the song slips 23-27 via B1/Ministry of Sound.
Following the release of their seventh studio album, The Car (via Domino Recordings), Arctic Monkeys park two tracks in the top tier, with “Body Paint” accelerating 60-22, while “I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am” enters one place below at No. 23, for the Sheffield, England alternative rock band’s 18th U.K. top 40 appearance.
Finally, U.S. singer Meghan Trainor lands her first U.K. top 40 single in four years with “Made You Look” (Epic), new at No. 28; Australian singer and songwriter Dean Lewis climbs with the teary “How Do I Say Goodbye” (Universal Music Australia), up 35-31; and Joel Corry and Tom Grennan debut with “Lionheart (Fearless)” (via Atlantic), new at No. 37.
Taylor Swift achieves her 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Nov. 5) as Midnights arrives with the biggest week for any album in nearly seven years. The set launches with 1.578 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate. The last album to tally a larger week was the debut frame of Adele’s 25, when it bowed with 3.482 million units (Dec. 12, 2015-dated chart).
Midnights was released on Oct. 21 after being announced two months earlier by Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards (Aug. 28). No music from the album was released until the set dropped on Oct. 21, when she also issued the music video for Midnights’ first single, “Anti-Hero.” Midnights is Swift’s 10th full-length studio album and initially bowed as a 13-track standard release. Three hours after Midnights’ arrival, Swift released a deluxe version of the album (its “3am Edition”) with seven bonus tracks.
Swift now ties Barbra Streisand for the most No. 1 albums among women. Swift is also the sixth act with more than 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 since the chart began regularly publishing on a weekly basis in 1956. She joins The Beatles (who lead with a record 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z (14), Drake, Bruce Springsteen and Streisand (each with 11).
Midnights is already the year’s top-selling album by overall sales through the year, and tallies the largest sales week for an album since her own reputation debuted in 2017, the third-largest streaming week ever for an album, and the biggest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991).
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200: albums from Arctic Monkeys, YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Jeezy and DJ Drama debut.
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 Nov. 5, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (Nov. 1). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of Midnights’ 1.578 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 1.140 million, SEA units comprise 419,000 (equaling 549.26 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 20 total tracks) and TEA units comprise 19,000.
Third-Biggest Streaming Week Ever: Midnights logs the third-largest streaming week ever for an album, by total on-demand official streams. It also captures the biggest streaming week for a non-R&B/hip-hop album and any album by a woman. The Nos. 1 and 2 biggest streaming weeks were logged by the debut frames of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million) and Certified Lover Boy (743.67 million), respectively.
Previously, Swift’s biggest streaming week for an album was tallied by the first week of Red (Taylor’s Version), with 303.23 million in 2021.
2022’s Top-Selling Album: With 1.140 million sold, Midnights is easily 2022’s top-selling album already. Previously, 2022’s top-seller — adding up all sales generated through the year — was Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, with 633,000 copies sold through Oct. 27. (In terms of total equivalent album units, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti is 2022’s biggest album, with 2.911 million units earned.)
Breaking down Midnights’ first-week sales of 1.140 million, physical sales comprise 980,000 (575,000 on vinyl, 395,000 on CD and 10,000 on cassette) and digital album downloads comprise 161,000.
Biggest Sales Week Since Swift’s Own reputation: The 1.140 million sales number for Midnights marks the largest sales week for any album since Swift’s own reputation debuted with 1.216 million copies sold (chart dated Dec. 2, 2017).
Swift Has Five Albums With Million-Plus Sales Weeks: Midnights is the 22nd album to sell at least 1 million copies in a single week since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. In total, there have been 24 instances — by 22 different albums — in which an album sold at least 1 million copies in a week. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks. Swift is the only artist with five different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week in the Luminate era — Midnights, reputation, 1989, Red, and Speak Now.
Further, now with five, Swift remains the only act with at least three different albums that hit the million-sales weekly threshold. Three acts have a pair of albums that each managed a million-plus sales week: Backstreet Boys, Eminem and *NSYNC.
New Modern-Era Vinyl Sales Record: Midnights handily breaks the modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales in the U.S. with 575,000 vinyl LPs sold. That’s the largest week for an album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. It surges past the previous high, set earlier this year, when Harry’s House debuted with 182,000 vinyl copies (week ending May 26, 2021).
Midnights is also already 2022’s top-seller on vinyl year-to-date. Previously, the year’s top-seller on vinyl was Harry’s House, with 377,000 sold through the year.
Midnights’ 395,000 in CD sales is the largest sales week for an album on CD since reputation launched with 507,000 copies sold.
Midnights arrived after months of pre-release promotion and pre-orders — and its sales figure is bolstered by an array of available versions and variants of the album. It is available to purchase in a standard digital album (both clean and explicit); a deluxe digital album (clean and explicit, each with seven additional songs); an iTunes-exclusive version with a bonus spoken word track (clean and explicit); four standard CD editions (each with a different cover, both clean and explicit); four vinyl LP editions (each with a different cover and colored vinyl); and a cassette tape. Target is also selling an exclusive “Lavender” edition of the album on CD and colored-vinyl LP, with the CD boasting three bonus tracks.
Plus, in the weeks leading up to release, Swift’s webstore sold pre-orders of signed copies of the four standard CD albums and the four standard vinyl LPs. Midnights is also available in deluxe boxed set with a CD edition of the album and a Swift-branded T-shirt, exclusively for Capital One cardholders.
Some superfans may have also been enticed to purchase all four variants of the album on either CD or vinyl, as the back covers of the four albums fit together like a puzzle to display a clock face (a literal reference to Midnights!). Swift shared the news through her social media in mid-September, saying: “If you put all the back covers together, she’s a clock. It’s a clock… It makes a clock.” (Swift’s official webstore sells hardware to hold the four CDs or the four vinyl LPs together as a wall clock.) The idea of assembling multiple versions of an album’s back cover (or cover) together to reveal a larger complete image isn’t unique to Swift, as other acts (frequently in the K-pop world) have employed a similar marketing idea.
It’s not unusual for many artists to offer variants of an album, from multiple color vinyl editions to collectible CD packages and beyond. Swift herself has rolled out albums in a similar fashion in the past — she had four different Target-exclusive variants for Lover in 2015. In 2022, acts ranging from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ozzy Osbourne to BLACKPINK and Madonna have all leaned in to the practice of offering multiple iterations of a physical album where usually the only difference is in packaging or the color of a vinyl LP.
Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (110,000 equivalent album units; down 49%) after debuting atop the list a week earlier. Bad Bunny’s chart-topping Un Verano Sin Ti drops out of the top two for the first time since its release, as the set moves 2-3 with 67,000 units (down 7%). When the album hit its 18th week in the top two, it became the first set to spend its first 18 weeks in the top two since the chart since August of 1963, when Billboard combined its separate stereo and mono album charts into one single album chart. (See more history on the Billboard 200, which began publishing as a regular, weekly fixture in March of 1956.)
Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 4 with 43,000 equivalent album units (down 4%) and The Weeknd’s The Highlights is stationary at No. 5 with 39,000 (down less than 1%).
Arctic Monkeys score their fourth top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as The Car drives in at No. 6 in its first week. It earned 37,500 equivalent album units; of that sum, album sales comprise 28,500, SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 11.76 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Ma’ I Got a Family starts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that, SEA units comprise 36,500 (equaling 52.54 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs). The new set is the 12 th top 10-charting effort for the prolific rapper, and his fifth top 10 in 2022 — the most of any act this year. He made his Billboard 200 debut in 2017 and got his first top 10 in 2018 with Until Death Call My Name. In total, his latest debut is the artist’s 25th charting effort.
Styles’ Harry’s House is a non-mover at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%).
Jeezy and DJ Drama’s Snofall starts at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, marking the 11th top 10 for the former and the first for the latter. It bows with 31,000 equivalent album units earned. SEA units comprise 28,000 (equaling 38.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,500 and TEA units comprise 500.
Rounding out the new top 10 is Beyonce’s former No. 1 Renaissance, which falls 6-10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%).
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Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners claims three positions, including the No. 1 spot, on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for September 2022.
Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of September 2022.
“I Really Want to Stay At Your House” by Rosa Walton ranks at No. 1 after its inclusion in the debut series’ second episode, released alongside the rest of the premiere season on Sept. 13.
In September 2022, “House” earned 7.6 million on-demand official U.S. streams and 4,000 downloads, according to Luminate. The metrics helped the song, originally released as part of the Cyberpunk 2077: Radio, Vol. 2 soundtrack in 2020, to reach multiple Billboard charts, including a No. 16 peak so far on the multi-metric Hot Alternative Songs list dated Oct. 8 (it appears at No. 20 on the latest, Oct. 29-dated survey).
“House” is joined by fellow Cyberpunk songs “Who’s Ready for Tomorrow” by Rat Boy and IBDY at No. 6 (2.5 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and “Let You Down” by Dawid Podsiadlo at No. 9 (1.5 million streams, 1,000 downloads) on the 10-position chart.
An additional new series, Disney+’s She Hulk: Attorney at Law, also claims three positions on the list, paced by Megan Thee Stallion’s “Body,” from the third episode (Sept. 1), which appears at No. 2 (9.5 million streams, 2,000 downloads).
See the full top 10 below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
“I Really Want to Stay At Your House,” Rosa Walton, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix)“Body,” Megan Thee Stallion, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+)“Wildest Dreams,” Taylor Swift, Fate: The Winx Saga (Netflix)“Seize the Power,” Yonaka, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+)“Home,” John Legend, Good Trouble (Freeform)“Who’s Ready for Tomorrow,” Rat Boy & IBDY, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix)“ZOOM,” Jessi, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+)“Nite and Day,” Al B. Sure, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)“Let You Down,” Dawid Podsiadlo, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix)“Turtles All the Way Down,” Reservation Dogs (Hulu)
Manuel Turizo’s “La Bachata” notches a seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart (dated Oct. 22). The song joins two other tracks that have topped the tally in 2022 for at least seven frames: Tiago pzk’s “Entre Nosotros,” with LIT Killa, Nicki Nicole and Maria Becerra (nine weeks) and Bizarrap and Quevedo’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” (eight weeks).
While there’s slow movement in the chart’s upper region, two new top 10s emerge: Argentinian La Joaqui scores her first top 10 among five entries, as “Butakera,” with Alan Gómez and El Noba, lifts 17-9. Meanwhile, Argentinian reggae singer-songwriter Dread Mar-I (Mariano Javier Castro) and producer Big One (Daniel Ismael Real) earn their first top 10 thanks to “Perfecta,” their team-up with Rusherking, which climbs 34-10.
Elsewhere on the chart, Rauw Alejandro and Baby Rasta’s “Punto 40” claims the Hot Shot Debut of the week, at No. 57. Further, the Greatest Gainer of the week goes to Maluma’s “Junio,” which rallies 96-67.
The week’s other debut goes to Reik and Sech’s “5 Estrellas” which starts at No. 95. Lastly, two songs re-enter: Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” at No. 97, while BLACKPINK’s “Pink Venom” rebounds at No. 99.
As previously reported, Jerry Lee Lewis, the piano-pounding rock, country and pop culture icon, and the last surviving member of the inaugural (1986) class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died, at age 87. His passing was announced Friday (Oct. 28).
Also a 2022 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Lewis is one of just 16 talents to have been inducted into both the Country and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.
“No one wanted to follow Jerry Lee on stage,” Johnny Cash once said. “Not even Elvis.”
Born Sept. 19, 1935, in Louisiana, Lewis moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1956 and made his Billboard chart debut in 1957. That June, “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On” entered multiple surveys, reigning for two weeks beginning Sept. 9, 1957, on the C&W Best Sellers in Stores country chart. It also reached No. 3 on the all-genre Best Sellers in Stores and Top 100 charts.
Lewis followed with another signature classic, “Great Balls of Fire,” which also logged two weeks at No. 1 on C&W Best Sellers in Stores, starting Jan. 6, 1958. The song became his highest charting multi-genre hit, reaching No. 2 on Best Sellers in Stores and the Top 100.
Lewis landed one more all-format top 10, “Breathless,” which climbed to No. 7 on the Top 100 in 1958. Following the Aug. 4, 1958, inception of the Billboard Hot 100, Lewis charted 14 entries, led by the No. 30-peaking “What’d I Say” (billed as by Jerry Lee Lewis and His Pumping Piano) in 1961. He last appeared on the Hot 100 in June 1973.
On the Hot Country Songs chart, following his country crossover smashes “Shakin’ ” and “Fire,” Lewis led with “To Make Love Sweeter for You” (1969), “There Must Be More to Love Than This” (1970), “Would You Take Another Chance on Me” (1971) and “Chantilly Lace” (1972). From 1968 through 1981, Lewis notched 23 Hot Country Songs top 10s, from “Another Place Another Time” through “Thirty Nine and Holding,” while he continued to appear on the chart through 1989.
On the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart, Lewis’ span of entries stretches over 50 years, from 1964 through 2014. He tallied three top 40 titles on the chart in his lifetime: The Session (No. 37, 1973), Last Man Standing: The Duets (No. 26, 2006) and Mean Old Man (No. 30, 2010).
Lewis also logged 17 top 10s on the Top Country Albums chart, most recently rising to No. 4 with Last Man Standing: The Duets in 2006.
Murda Beatz rules Billboard‘s Rap Producers chart (dated Oct. 29) for the first time, thanks to his production work on three hits by Lil Baby on the latest Hot Rap Songs ranking.
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Lil Baby’s “California Breeze,” which Murda Beatz (real name Shane Lindstrom) co-produced with Mars (born Marcel Korkutata), leads the trio of tracks at No. 1, followed by “From Now On,” featuring Future (co-produced with Tay Keith), at No. 16 and “Double Down” at No. 20 (co-produced with Awavy, aka Adrian Nielsen). All three cuts appear on Lil Baby’s LP It’s Only Me, new at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 216,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate.
“California Breeze” earns Murda Beatz his second No. 1 as a producer on Hot Rap Songs, after Drake’s 2018 smash “Nice for What” (co-produced with Blaq N Mild).
Murda Beatz has been one of hip-hop’s go-to producers since 2016. He has produced 25 tracks that have charted on Hot Rap Songs, dating to his first entry, French Montana’s “No Shopping,” featuring Drake (No. 8 peak in 2016). Among others, he’s produced songs for Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott and SZA.
On the Billboard Hot 100, Murda Beatz has charted 39 songs as a producer, including five top 10s and one No. 1: “Nice for What,” for eight weeks in 2018. He has also earned one artist billing on the chart, as featured on 6ix9ine’s “FEFE,” also featuring Minaj (No. 3, 2018).
Meanwhile, Lil Baby tallies a 22nd week at No. 1 on the Rap Songwriters chart. Dating to the list’s June 2019 launch, only DaBaby (25 weeks at No. 1) and Drake (24) have spent more time on top. Lil Baby reigns thanks to 17 writing credits on the (25-position) Hot Rap Songs chart.
The weekly Rap Songwriters and Rap Producers charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot Rap Songs chart. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings).
The full Rap Songwriters and Rap Producers charts, in addition to all overall and genre rankings, can be found on Billboard.com.