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Gracie Abrams’ Emily in Paris synch earns the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for September 2024.
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 2024.
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“Close to You” appears in the fourth-season finale of Emily in Paris, the Lily Collins-starring Netflix series. The full season premiered Sept. 12.
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The song earned 21.7 million official on-demand U.S. streams and sold 3,000 downloads in September, according to Luminate. It peaked at No. 49 on the June 22-dated Billboard Hot 100 and ranks at No. 90 on the most recently published, Oct. 19-dated chart.
Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain,” which appears in the debut season of fellow Netflix series Nobody Wants This, places at No. 2 on Top TV Songs. It racked up 16.4 million streams and sold 2,000 in September.
The track, from her album Anti, is heard in the third episode of the series, which stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. The single hit No. 5 on the Hot 100 in 2017.
The song is one of three from Nobody Wants This on the 10-position Top TV Songs chart, joined by Frank Sinatra’s “Theme From New York, New York” (No. 8; 3.4 million streams, 1,000 sold) and HAIM’s “Now I’m In It” (No. 10; 515,000 streams).
Netflix continues its domination of Top TV Songs’ top three with Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” at No. 3 after playing in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. The song, a No. 2 Hot 100 hit in 1987, drew 8.1 million streams and sold 2,000 in September.
The classic also reaches Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart dated Oct. 19 (with older songs eligible to make Billboard’s multimetric song charts if ranking in the top half and with meaningful reasons for their resurgences). It enters at No. 16 and finds its way onto Rock Digital Song Sales at No. 14 and Alternative Streaming Songs at No. 23.
Milli Vanilli’s “Blame It on the Rain,” also featured in Monsters, likewise hits Top TV Songs, at No. 6 (3.4 million streams, 2,000 sold). Catalog gains for the duo — multiple songs by the pair are featured in Monsters — drives its 4 EP onto the Billboard 200 at No. 197 with 8,000 equivalent album units. It marks Milli Vanilli’s first appearance on the chart in nearly 34 years, since the chart dated Oct. 27, 1990.
See the full Top TV Songs top 10, also featuring music from The Penguin, Tell Me Lies and Agatha All Along, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)1. “Close to You,” Gracie Abrams, Emily in Paris (Netflix)2. “Love on the Brain,” Rihanna, Nobody Wants This (Netflix)3. “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” Crowded House, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix)4. “9 to 5,” Dolly Parton, The Penguin (HBO)5. “Ms. Jackson,” OutKast, Tell Me Lies (Hulu)6. “Blame It on the Rain,” Milli Vanilli, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix)7. “Heads Will Roll,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Agatha All Along (Disney+)8. “Theme From New York, New York,” Frank Sinatra, Nobody Wants This (Netflix)9. “The Promise,” When in Rome, The Penguin (HBO)10. “Now I’m In It,” HAIM, Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” earns a second week at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, while five songs – four of them debuts – break into the top 10 of the Oct. 19-dated ranking.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Oct. 7-13. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Maps,” from Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2003 album Fever to Tell, peaked at No. 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2004. Its TikTok resurgence has pushed the song to new heights on chart-reporting music streaming services; the song racked up 1.9 million official U.S. streams in the week ending Oct. 10, up 23%, according to Luminate.
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The tune remains driven by a pair of trends on TikTok. One is a dance, while the other features creators using a filter to remove their facial features, only to have said features float back onto their face, sometimes in the wrong spot. A sped-up version of “Maps” has contributed to the song’s success on TikTok as well.
Alphaville’s “Forever Young,” which reigned on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 dated Oct. 5, rebounds 3-2 on the latest list, followed by a debut in John Mackk’s “Pose for Me,” featuring Natalie Nunn, which bows at No. 3.
“Pose for Me” was originally released in March, but a remix dropped on Sept. 6 that has driven the lion’s share of the activity since. With its eponymous command, the song has spurred a variety of pose-related dance moves on TikTok, generally centered on Nunn’s verse that continues, “Baddies, pose for me/ A– fat, slim thick, no tummy.”
“Pose for Me” marks the first appearance on a Billboard chart for both Mackk and Nunn. The song earned 736,000 streams in the week ending Oct. 10.
Gracie Abrams’ “I Love You, I’m Sorry” isn’t new to the TikTok Billboard Top 50, rising as high as No. 34 in September. But the Oct. 19 ranking finds it reaching new heights, re-entering the chart at No. 4. That’s concurrent with a return to Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart; it re-entered at No. 49 on the Oct. 12 list and vaults to a new peak of No. 23 on the latest ranking, thanks to 11.5 million streams, up 41%.
Its resurgence is partially tied to a new version of the song; Abrams played a live take of the song for Vevo Extended Play, uploading it to her YouTube on Oct. 2. Recent TikTok uploads again zero in on Abrams’ “lay on the horn to prove that it haunts me” lyric, with the majority relating in some way to relationships past and present.
KSI’s “Thick of It,” which features Trippie Redd, debuts at No. 6 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, concurrent with the song’s debut at No. 84 on the Hot 100. Some say all publicity is good publicity, and in the case of “Thick of It,” many of the top-performing TikTok uploads reference the negative reviews the song has received.
Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” bows at No. 7, albeit a remix of the song that was featured in the trailer for the film Wrath of Man. Its usage on TikTok in the latest tracking week revolves around uploads showcasing the devastation of Hurricane Milton in the U.S. (and previously that of Hurricane Helene).
It’s Cash’s second top 10 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 in 2024; “The Chicken in Black” peaked at No. 6 in May.
The final top 10 debut of the week belong’s to Akon, whose “Akon’s Beautiful Day” starts at No. 8. It’s a new song from the veteran singer-songwriter, released on Oct. 4 after being teased on TikTok in the weeks leading up. Many of the top uploads are from Akon himself, along with other usages.
@akon Wow, thank you for all the amazing videos you’re creating to ‘Akon’s Beautiful Day’! Can’t wait to share the official release with the world on October 4th. Let’s keep the gratitude flowing! ♬ Akon’s Beautiful Day – Akon
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Liam Payne, who segued from One Direction star to successful soloist, died Wednesday (Oct. 16) at age 31. According to police, Payne died after falling from a third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After forming in 2010 on the U.K. version of The X Factor, One Direction — Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik (who left the group in 2015), Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson — became one of the most prominent forces on the Billboard charts in the 2010s, with Payne subsequently forging his own chart-topping solo career.
One Direction boasts four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200: Up All Night and Take Me Home, both in 2012; Midnight Memories (2013); and FOUR (2014). Made in the A.M., the most recent album by the group, which went on hiatus in 2016, reached No. 2 in 2015.
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The act tallied six top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100: “What Makes You Beautiful” (No. 4, 2012); “Live While We’re Young” (No. 3, 2012); “Best Song Ever” (No. 2, 2013); “Story of My Life” (No. 6, 2013); “Drag Me Down” (No. 3, 2015); and “Perfect” (No. 10, 2015).
One Direction crowned Billboard’s 2014 year-end Top Artists chart. The group also placed at No. 5 for 2015, No. 8 for 2013 and No. 10 for 2012. The act has drawn 15.4 billion in radio audience for its songs and 11.8 billion on-demand U.S. song streams, according to Luminate. It has sold 30.3 million song downloads and 8.3 million albums in the U.S.
According to Billboard Boxscore, One Direction grossed $583.6 million on tour and sold 7.1 million tickets. Its Where We Are Tour finished atop the 2014 year-end Top Tours chart, with a gross of $290.2 million and 3.4 million in ticket sales.
Payne quickly translated One Direction’s massive and loyal fanbase support to solo stardom. His debut entry on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart, “Strip That Down,” featuring Quavo, reigned for two weeks in October 2017.
Notably, after One Direction tallied four Pop Airplay top 10s, reaching a No. 3 best with “What Makes You Beautiful,” Payne became the group’s third member, in short order, to hit No. 1 — directly supplanting Niall Horan’s “Slow Hands”; Zayn first led solo with “Pillowtalk” in May 2016. Styles has scored four solo leaders on the list (in 2020-22).
“Strip That Down” also hit No. 10 on the Hot 100.
Payne added four more Pop Airplay entries as a soloist: “Get Low,” with Zedd (No. 23, 2017); “Bedroom Floor” (No. 35, 2017); “For You (Fifty Shades Freed),” with Rita Ora (No. 37, 2018); and “Familiar,” with J Balvin (No. 25, 2018).
Payne’s debut solo album, LP1, topped Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart in December 2019.
As a soloist, Payne garnered 3 billion in radio audience for his songs and 897 million on-demand U.S. song streams. His solo catalog also includes 125,000 song download sales in the U.S.
—Additional reporting by Trevor Anderson and Eric Frankenberg
Intocable rounds up its 20th No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart, as “Mi Castigo” rises a spot on the survey dated Oct. 19.
The track reigns via 5.9 million audience impressions among reporting stations in the week ending Oct. 10, according to Luminate.
The song is the second Regional Mexican Airplay champ for Intocable in 2024, after “Ojalá Estuvieras Aquí” led for a week in March. The band, which formed in Zapata, Texas, in the early 1990s, earned dual No. 1s in two previous years: “El Poder de Tus Manos” and “Suena” in 2002 and “Dame un Beso” in 2007.
The group continues to have the third-most Regional Mexican Airplay No. 1s since the list began 30 years ago this month. Here’s the top of the leaderboard:
25 No. 1s, Calibre 5021, Banda MS de Sergio Lizarraga20, Intocable18, Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga18, La Arrolladora Banda el Limon de Rene Camacho17, Christian Nodal17, Los Tigres del Norte
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Meanwhile, Intocable takes independent label Good Music to its seventh Regional Mexican Airplay No. 1, all recorded by Intocable.
The song hits No. 1 amid the band’s 30 Aniversario tour, which launched July 20 in Hermosillo, Mexico, with sold out-shows across Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio and Phoenix. It’s set to wrap Dec. 7 in Monterrey, Mexico.
“Mi Castigo” is one of 16 songs on Intocable’s LP Modus Operandi, which is up for best norteño album at the 25th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, to be held Nov. 14 at the Kaseya Center in Miami.
Cardinals at the Window: A Benefit for Flood Relief in Western North Carolina, a massive 136-track digital download album benefiting victims of Hurricane Helene, makes a big debut on Billboard‘s charts. The set, which is sold exclusively by Bandcamp for $10, sold nearly 12,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 10, according to Luminate — the biggest sales week for a non-soundtrack compilation album in four years.
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Among the acts on the collection, which was released on Oct. 9, are The Decemberists, Iron & Wine, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Phish and R.E.M.
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Cardinals debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart, and in the top 10 on both Top Album Sales (No. 5) and Americana/Folk Albums (No. 8) — all charts dated Oct. 19.
According to the Bandcamp website, all of the proceeds from the album will be split evenly among Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) and BeLoved Asheville.
The last time a non-soundtrack compilation album sold more in a single week was four years ago, when another benefit album sold via Bandcamp, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2, sold 13,500 copies in its first week (debuting at No. 1 on the Compilation Albums chart dated Oct. 17, 2020).
On Top Album Sales, Cardinals is the highest charting non-soundtrack compilation of 2024.
Rounding out the top five of the latest Top Album Sales chart: Coldplay’s Moon Music debuts at No. 1 (104,000), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is a non-mover at No. 2 (13,000; down 27%), The Smile’s Cutouts enters at No. 3 (13,000) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is steady at No. 4 (nearly 13,000; down 10%).
Leon Bridges’ Leon bows at No. 6 (10,000), Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works, Volume II debuts at No. 7 (9,000), Stray Kids’ ATE is stationary at No. 8 (nearly 9,000; up 23%), Toosii’s Jaded debuts at No. 9 (8,000) and Finneas’ For Cryin’ Out Loud! bows at No. 10 (8,000).
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 units and streaming equivalent album units.
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This week: A new Gracie Abrams hit bumps a similarly titled old favorite, Lil Baby scores a viral hit with an unlikely guest verse and The Penguin starts to show its value as a TV synch source.
‘Sorry’ Not Sorry: Gracie Abrams’ Viral Hit Becomes Her Highest-Charting Hot 100 Entry
On Tuesday night, Gracie Abrams wrapped up the U.S. leg of her The Secret of Us tour in Philadelphia, which found the singer-songwriter playing to her biggest audiences yet following the June release of her sophomore album; three days after that final headlining show, she’ll be in Miami, back as an opener on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour through the stadium trek’s conclusion in December. Along with the two high-profile tours, Abrams has watched a pair of her songs — including her latest single from The Secret of Us — take off on U.S. streaming services, yielding what is now her biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit to date.
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The lilting strum-along “I Love You, I’m Sorry” has been a topic of discussion on social media for weeks — first with pop fans arguing over the quality of its official music video and Abrams’ gentle performance on the song, then with a TikTok trend supporting Abrams’ vocal take (literally called “whisper allegation beater”), and finally with a Vevo live performance of the track that fans rallied behind following its Oct. 2 release. The chatter has helped the song’s weekly U.S. on-demand streams soar from 7.38 million during the week ending Sept. 5 to 11.35 million during the week ending Oct. 10, according to Luminate.
As those streams have helped “I Love You, I’m Sorry” streak upward on the Hot 100 — moving up from No. 53 to No. 31 on this week’s tally, Abrams’ first solo top 40 entry — an older Abrams song, “I Miss You, I’m Sorry,” has also benefitted, thanks to longtime fans championing the 2020 track that belatedly received a titular callback. “I Miss You, I’m Sorry” earned 2.5 million streams during the week ending Sept. 5, but in the most recent tracking week, that number had jumped to 3.73 million — a 48% gain over those five weeks, not too far off from the 53% jump for “I Love You, I’m Sorry.” – JASON LIPSHUTZ
No Hate for Lil Baby’s Guest Verse on Italian Rapper’s ‘Canzone D’Odio’
Just a couple years after unquestionably being one of the most ubiquitous rappers in popular music, Lil Baby’s mainstream presence has been a little more sparse the past couple years. But now he might be on his way back to another viral hit with as a guest rapper – no surprise there, except for the artist he’s supporting: Italian MC Lazza, whose Italian-language single “Canzone D’Odio” (in English: “Hate Song”) Baby has turned up on, with a verse in English.
“Canzone” originally appeared on Lazza’s Locura album – the rapper’s third straight set to top Italy’s FIMI Albums Chart – before catching fire internationally online. Listeners were of course intrigued by hearing such a recognizable American voice on an otherwise Italian-language song, leading to the song climbing to No. 2 on Shazam’s United States top 200 chart. Fans have flooded the YouTube comments for the video in praise of Baby’s guest verse, with many wishing for a version of the song with just his part.
The song has also begun to ignite on streaming services as well. The song has grown by over 300% in official on-demand U.S. streams each of the last two weeks, according to Luminate, and posted over one million streams during the past tracking week, ending Oct. 10. That’s not enough yet to really threaten a Hot 100 bow – but if the song continues to grow from here, the new collaborators may be “cin cin”-ing to Lil Baby’s 142nd career entry on the chart before long. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
‘The Penguin’ Synchs March to Greater Streaming Numbers
Back in the ‘90s, a big Batman placement for a pop song was one of the surest paths to pop success: Just ask Seal, who had his lone Hot 100 No. 1 hit with a Batman Forever soundtrack single (“Kiss From a Rose” in 1995). While the Christopher Nolan-era Dark Knight trilogy of the early 21st century wasn’t as interested in creating big musical moments, Batman refound its pop footing in 2022 with The Batman, which created a chart hit out of grunge legends Nirvana’s once-deep cut “Something in the Way” – even getting the 30-plus-year-old Nevermind-closing ballad onto the Hot 100 for the first time.
Now, the Gothamverse is aiding the music world again, thanks to the well-received new HBO crime drama The Penguin, starring Colin Farrell as the titular villain (anti-hero?) and taking place after the events of the 2022 Batman. The bumps for songs featured are thusfar more modestly scaled than “Something in the Way” post-The Batman, but synth-pop outfit Floor Cry’s cover of the Turtles’ 1967 pop classic “Happy Together” spiked 616% to nearly 93,000 weekly official on-demand U.S. streams in the two weeks after the moody rendition was featured over the end credits to The Penguin’s second episode. Similarly, EDM duo Bob Moses’ seething electro-funk banger “Broken Belief” was up 1,779% for the week ending Oct. 10, to nearly 81,000 streams, after being featured in an episode three montage.
Given the muscle it’s already showing with its synchs, it might only be a matter of time before The Penguin finds the right hit, new or old, to put back over the top – “Earth Angel,” perhaps? – AU
Rising rapper Real Boston Richey completes a career milestone by earning his first top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with “Help Me.” The single ascends 12-10 on the list dated Oct. 19 thanks to gains in radio airplay while maintaining its steady streaming results on the multimetric chart, which combines streaming, radio airplay and sales data for its rankings.
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For the tracking week of Oct. 4-10, “Help Me,” released through Freebandz/Epic Records, generated 7.9 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate, down 1% from the previous week. Despite the decline, “Help Me” climbs 14-12 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart, where it achieved a No. 7 best in late September. The track sold a negligible number of downloads in the week and does not appear on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales list.
In the airplay sector, “Help Me” registered 7.1 million audience impressions in the tracking period, a 12% improvement over the previous week. The increase aligns with the single’s 19-17 advance on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, sparked by a 16% boost for the week in format plays. “Help Me” repeats at its No. 23 best on Rhythmic Airplay, though it added 1% more plays.
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Elsewhere, “Help Me” drives 9-7 on the Hot Rap Songs chart and 56-53 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. As on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, the song marks the debut appearance for the 27-year-old rapper, who, despite his stage name, hails from Tallahassee, Fla.
Although “Help Me” secures Real Boston Richey’s breakthrough on the singles’ charts, the rapper has made inroads with prior mixtapes. His Public Housing mixtape debuted at No. 22 on the Top Rap Albums chart in 2022, while Public Housing 2 improved upon its predecessor and landed a No. 15 showing in January 2023. Later that year, his debut studio album, Welcome to Bubba Land, reached No. 42 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Ae! Group’s “Gotta Be” blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Oct. 16.
The title track of the quintet’s second single launched with 411,052 CDs in its first week to rule sales and also came in at No. 4 for radio airplay. Though the figure didn’t match the previous release, “A-Beginning” (782,835 copies in its first week), “Gotta Be” gives Ae! Group its first No. 1 on the tally.
NMB48’s “Ganbaranuwai” debuts at No. 2. The girl group’s 30th single sold 251,651 copies in its first week to hit No. 2 for sales.
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Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Lilac” follows at No. 3. The Oblivion Battery opener is still going strong in three metrics of the chart’s measurement: streaming (up 101%), downloads (up 112%), and karaoke (slight gain). The former No. 1 hit has coasted along in the top 3 for seven consecutive weeks and in the top 5 for 26 consecutive weeks. The three-man pop band recently launched its eight-day residency at K-Arena Yokohama, slated to run through Nov. 20.
Creepy Nuts’ “Otonoke” jumps 32-4. The opener for the anime series Dandadan dropped digitally on Oct. 4 and debuted at No. 32 last week. Streaming for the track increased by 337% compared to last week, downloads by 135%, and radio by 437%. The number of downloads has remained higher than that of the duo’s smash hit “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” in both the first and second weeks, so whether the pair’s latest release can also become a long-term hit is something to keep an eye on.
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Comparing the number of streams by country during the first week for each track, “BBBB” logged 33% of its plays from Japan and 16% from the U.S., while “Otonoke” accumulated 41% from Japan and 18% from the U.S., showing a slight increase in the U.S., according to Luminate. In other countries, “BBBB” was played more in Europe, such as in Germany and Spain, while “Otonoke” was played more in Southeast Asia and Latin America, including Mexico and Indonesia.
Official HIGE DANdism’s “Same Blue” rises 7-5. Streaming for the Blue Box opener gained 188% compared to the week before.
KID PHENOMENON’s “Unstoppable” debuts at No. 6, selling 66,499 copies and coming in at No. 3 for sales.
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 Oct. 7 to 13, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.