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Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” has twirled its way to a second week at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart (March 14). The song first hit the top spot last week, almost five years after its initial release in 2020 and more than 18 months on from the release of her debut album, […]
Lady Gaga’s Mayhem has stormed to No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart to give the pop icon her fifth chart-topper (March 14).
The new LP now joins The Fame (2009), Born This Way (2010), Artpop (2013) and Chromatica (2020) as No. 1 hits in the U.K. 2018’s A Star Is Born film soundtrack also hit the top spot on upon release, but is credited as a cast recording, according to the Official Charts Company.
The triumph follows a flurry of activity on release week from the U.S. star, which included pulling double duty on Saturday Night Live March 8, and the announcement of tour dates in Singapore and Mexico over the coming months. She’s also set to play a huge free concert in Brazil on Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Copacabana Beach on May 3.
Two singles from the record, “Die With a Smile” and “Abracadabra,” have peaked at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart during the album’s rollout.
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Speaking to Billboard’s Stephen Daw, Lady Gaga discussed the carefree approach to making Mayhem and defying industry expectations. “I do think that I felt a lot of pressure, over the years, to prove myself as a musician,” she said. “And that sometimes stopped me from having fun. So, I tried to have a lot of fun making this record.”
Elsewhere on this week’s charts, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet falls one place to No. 2 as her U.K. and Ireland tour comes to a close, while her 2022 LP Emails I Can’t Send rises 27 spots to No. 40, the first time the album has made it into the top 40.
BLACKPINK member JENNIE’s debut solo album, Ruby, finishes the week at No. 3, and is the highest charting solo LP by any of the group’s members. ROSÉ’s 2024 record, rosie, finished at No. 4, and LISA’s recent Alter Ego peaked at No. 20.
Tate McRae’s So Close To What rises two places to No. 4, and Sam Fender’s People Watching stays strong for a third consecutive week in the top five, ending the week at No. 5.
On March 14, 2020, Maren Morris’ “The Bones” rose a spot to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, becoming her first leader on the list.
The song, which Morris co-wrote with Laura Veltz and Jimmy Robbins, and Greg Kurstin produced, reached the Hot Country Songs penthouse in its 53rd chart week, beginning a 19-week domination. It also led Country Airplay for two frames in February 2020, becoming her fourth leader, and proceeded to be a crossover hit, dominating Adult Pop Airplay for a week that April and Adult Contemporary for a week in September. It also reached the top 20 on Pop Airplay and, boosted by a remix with Hozier, Adult Alternative Airplay.
“The fans have spoken on this one,” Morris told Billboard upon “The Bones” crowning Country Airplay. “It’s a real, gritty love song. I couldn’t be more proud that it’s become one of the biggest songs of my career to date.”
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Morris, from Arlington, Texas, sent her debut single, “My Church,” which pays homage to the Grand Ole Opry, to No. 5 on Hot Country Songs in March 2016, marking her first of nine top 10s.
In 2016, Morris won the best new artist trophy at the Country Music Association Awards. In both 2020 and 2021, she earned female vocalist of the year honors, while “The Bones” won for song of the year in 2021.
Morris, who has been an outspoken advocate for fellow female artists in country music, as well as the LGBTQ+ community, announced in 2023 that she was shifting to pop. In August 2024, she made that segue with the five-song set Intermission.
Now 34, Morris tours next on July 12 in Quebec, with more dates scheduled through September.
Lady Gaga’s Mayhem has debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, marking her fifth chart-topping album in Australia.
The highly anticipated release stormed to the top spot, reinforcing the singer’s enduring popularity Down Under.
Gaga’s latest album joins an impressive list of past No. 1s on the ARIA chart, including The Fame Monster, which spent three weeks at No. 1 back in 2010, Born This Way (2011), A Star Is Born soundtrack (2019-20), and Chromatica (2021). Mayhem also leads the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart this week, underscoring strong demand from collectors and fans alike.
It comes after Gaga hinted at impending Australian tour dates, which would mark her first in the country since 2014.
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She appeared on Australian radio network The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick program on March 6 to discuss the release of her nascent Mayhem record, while also providing a hint as to whether she might be announcing her first Australian tour dates in over a decade.
“I can’t formally announce anything, but I can tell you that I’m going to be announcing… some things,” she responded with a laugh, before reflecting on her time in the country. “I miss my fans there so much, I really do. I have such fond memories of being in Australia, it’s a beautiful place and I really do want to come back soon.”
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The Mayhem era has already proven to be a commercial success, with the album’s lead single, “Die With A Smile”—a collaboration with Bruno Mars—soaring to No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart this week after rebounding from No. 7. The track’s resurgence follows the album’s release, driving renewed interest in Gaga’s discography.
Elsewhere on the charts, BLACKPINK’s Jennie makes a strong debut at No. 2 with her first solo album Ruby, marking the second consecutive week that a BLACKPINK member has landed in the Top 5. Meanwhile, Rosé’s APT., a collaboration with Bruno Mars, holds the No. 1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for its 14th non-consecutive week, tying with ABBA’s 1976 hit Fernando as the fourth-longest-running No. 1 in ARIA history.
Other notable debuts include American singer-songwriter Daniel Seavey, who enters the chart at No. 7 with his first full-length album, Second Wind.
Additionally, Australian rock legends The Cruel Sea return with Straight Into The Sun, which lands at No. 18 and marks their first studio album in over two decades.
La T y La M’s “Amor The Vago,” featuring Malandro de América, leads the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart for a 10th consecutive week (chart dated March 15). The song, released Aug. 23 on Zelaya Producciones/ Grace Music, is the second one to rule the tally in 2025, after Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera […]
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.