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Sabrina Carpenter is making the U.K. and Ireland a home away from home. Following her recent BRITs performance and the commencement of the European leg of her tour in Dublin, Carpenter’s album Short n’ Sweet returned to No. 1 on the Official Albums Chart on Friday (March 7). It makes for Short n’ Sweet’s fourth […]
Chappell Roan scored her first No. 1 single in the U.K. with “Pink Pony Club” on Friday (March 7). The song was first released in 2020 and featured on her 2023 debut, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. The song ends Roan’s quest for a U.K. No. 1 after her singles “Hot to Go!” […]
John Morgan’s “Friends Like That,” featuring Jason Aldean, hits the top 10 of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated March 15), rising two spots to No. 10. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news During the Feb. 28-March 6 tracking week, the single advanced by 6% to 16.8 million audience […]
A Day to Remember’s Big Ole Album, Vol. 1 jumps 27-5 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 8) — and is the only title on the list charting solely from physical album sales. The set was surprise released on Feb. 18 exclusively on CD and vinyl, with its digital download and streaming versions slated for a March 21 release. (The March 8 chart reflects the sales week ending Feb. 27.)
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In the tracking week ending Feb. 20, the album sold about 4,000 copies in the U.S., according to Luminate and yielded debuts on Top Album Sales (No. 27) and Indie Store Album Sales (No. 4). All sales generated in the Feb. 18-20 frame were from brick-and-mortar stores.
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Then, in the week ending Feb. 27, as mail order sales kicked in, it sold nearly 10,000 copies (up 205%), largely from vinyl sales (almost 8,000). The set surges 27-5 on Top Album Sales, 4-2 on Indie Store Album Sales and bows at No. 4 on Vinyl Albums, No. 6 on Top Hard Rock Albums, No. 19 on Top Alternative Albums, No. 24 on Top Rock Albums and No. 30 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums. It also debuts at No. 155 on the all-genre Billboard 200 as the only title on the list charting from solely physical sales.
With the 27-5 jump on Top Album Sales for A Big Ole Album, Vol. 1, A Day to Remember earns its third top 10-charting effort on the list. The rock band also visited the top 10 with 2021’s You’re Welcome (peaking at No. 3) and 2016’s Bad Vibrations (No. 1).
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.
As for the rest of the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart, Tate McRae’s new So Close To What leads the pack, as it debuts atop the list with 71,000 copies sold. Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX is a non-mover at No. 2 with 19,000 (down 37%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet falls 1-3 with 17,000 (down 77%). Chappell Roan’s former No. 1 The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbs 5-4 with nearly 10,000 (down 15%).
The Weeknd’s chart-topping Hurry Up Tomorrow is stationary at No. 6 with 9,000 sold (down 16%) and Stray Kids’ former No. 1 HOP is steady at No. 7 with 8,000 (down 8%).
Rock act Killswitch Engage debuts at No. 8 with This Consequence, selling nearly 7,000 copies. It’s the eight top 10-charting set for the group.
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft falls one spot to No. 9 with 6,000 sold (down 23%) and G-DRAGON logs his first top 10 with Übermensch bowing at No. 10 with nearly 6,000 sold.
James Brown, the trailblazing Godfather of Soul who passed in 2006, places a new song on a Billboard chart for the first time since 1993 as his co-billed collaboration with 310babii, “Bad,” reaches No. 37 on the Rhythmic Airplay chart dated March 8. The new single samples Brown’s “The Boss” from his 1973 album, Black Caesar.
“Bad,” released on HIGH IQ/EMPIRE, is the fourth Rhythmic Airplay hit for rapper 310babii, born Kameron Milner. His debut entry, “Soak City,” ruled the list for two weeks in March-April 2024. His follow-up track “Rock Your Hips” peaked at No. 2 last December, and his collaboration with Jaydon, “Ah! Ah!,” reached a No. 19 best last week (it slides seven spots to No. 26 on the current list.)
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For Brown, who died in 2006 at age 73, “Bad” is the icon’s maiden appearance on the Rhythmic Airplay chart, which launched in October 1992. It’s his first new recording on any Billboard songs chart since 1993’s “Can’t Get Any Harder,” which netted a No. 76 high on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Some of his best-known recordings, including “I Got You (I Feel Good),” “Living in America” and “Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto” banked time on digital song sales or other charts in recent years due to commercial syncs or holiday-fueled consumption.
In addition, Brown charted for one week in 2012 on the now-defunct Hot Singles Sales chart with a Record Store Day-exclusive vinyl single release of two previously unreleased live recordings from 1972 — “There It Is” and “Pass the Peas.”
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“Bad” adds another piece to Brown’s legendary career on the Billboard charts. To scratch the surface of his many accomplishments, the oft-proclaimed “hardest working man in show business” logged 57 top 10 entries on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, a record that stood from 1969 until 2018, when Drake surpassed the mark. Among them, 17 titles topped the chart, a run that spans from “Try Me” in 1959 to “Papa Don’t Take No Mess (Part I)” in 1974 and contains classics such as “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World,” “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” and “Get on the Good Foot.” His crew of No. 1s is the fourth-most among all acts, with only Drake (30), Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder (20 each) above him.
From 1958-1986, Brown accumulated his 91 Billboard Hot 100 hits, with a No. 3 career high through “I Got You (I Feel Good)” in 1965. Thanks to his storied career, Brown was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s inaugural 1986 class alongside legends such as Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.
And while Brown more than merits his spot with the all-time greats, his legacy credentials only swell with his catalog’s prolific sampling for new generations. In the past few decades, Brown, via sampling, has collected songwriting credits on plenty of top 20 Hot 100 hits, including Mary J. Blige’s “Everything” (No. 24) in 1997, Jennifer Lopez’s “Get Right” (No. 12) in 2005, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Otis,” featuring Otis Redding (No. 12) in 2011 and Beyoncé’s “Church Girl” (No. 22) in 2022.
La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho collects its 19th No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart with “Una Historia Mal Contada.” The Sinaloans achieve the feat on the ranking dated March 8, as the song rises from No. 2 for its first week atop.
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“Reaching No. 1 on Billboard today confirms we are on the right path, that we are doing the great job instilled by (band founder) Don René Camacho, always moving forward,” Julio Haro, one of the act’s three vocalists, Julio Haro, one of the act’s three vocalists, tells Billboard.
“Una Historia Mal Contada” jumps 2-1 on Regional Mexican Airplay after an 8% improvement in audience impressions, to 6.2 million, earned in the U.S. during the Feb. 21-27 tracking week, according to Luminate.
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The song, composed by Horacio Palencia and Diego Bollella, and produced by Fernando Camacho, gives La Arrolladora its 19th champ in 24 years. The group breaks from a tie with Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga for the fourth-most wins since the chart launched in 1994. It trails only Calibre 50 (27), Banda MS (21) and Intocable (20) on the overall leaderboard.
“This new No.1 is for all our Arrollafans!” Haro adds. “‘Una Historia Mal Contada’ is a song that relates with us. We like facts, and with this achievement, it’s obvious that there is Arrolladora for a while.”
“Una Historia Mal Contada” also enters the top 10 on the overall Latin Airplay chart, at No. 7, for the group’s 24th top 10 there.
The song is the title track of the band’s upcoming album expected for March 16 release on Ferca/Disa/UMLE.
A First for Xavi:Xavi checks a career milestone as his Manuel Turizo collab, “En Privado,” debuts at No. 6 on the Tropical Airplay chart, marking the Mexican artist’s first appearance on the ranking and his first top 10 there.(Xavi has charted five entries on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart, including four No. 1s.)
The bachata “En Privado” gives Turizo’s his fifth straight top 10 and second of 2025, after “Que Pecao,” with Kapo reached No. 4 in February.
“En Privado” is the Hot Shot Debut of the week on Tropical Airplay with 3.2 million audience impressions earned in the week ending Feb. 27.
The song also debuts at No. 39 on the overall Latin Airplay chart.
Naniwa Danshi’s “Doki it” blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 5.
The J-pop boy band’s eighth single is being featured as the theme song for AOKI’s “Freshers Fair” commercial starring the seven members. The single launched with 336,529 copies to rule sales, while coming in at No. 4 for downloads and No. 9 for radio airplay. This is the band’s third single after “UBU LOVE” and “The Answer” to hit No. 1 (and the fourth week, as “UBU LOVE” stayed atop the chart for two weeks). and “The Answer”).
Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Lilac” follows at No. 2. Streaming and video for the track are down from the previous week, but downloads gained by 104%, radio by 117%, and karaoke by 107%. The Oblivion Battery opener has coasted along in the top 5 for the 46th consecutive week, with six of them at No. 1.
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Sakanaction’s “Kaiju” slips a notch to No. 3. While overall points for the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth opener have decreased, streaming rises 3-2 (up 119%) and radio jumps 4-1 (up 147%).
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=LOVE’s “Tokubechu, shite” shoots to No. 4 from No. 56. The track marked the girl group’s highest first week sales with 302,589 copies, coming in at No. 2 for the metric.
timelesz’s “Rock this Party” debuts at No. 5. This is the first new song by the now eight-man group formerly known as Sexy Zone, after five new members joined through the audition called timelesz project. It’s also the first digital release by the boy band since their debut as Sexy Zone. The buzz around the new-member audition powered the track to No.1 for downloads, No. 8 for streaming, No. 53 for radio, and No. 86 for video. In addition, the release of the introductory digital compilation album Hello! We’re timelesz including songs from the group’s Sexy Zone years has sent “RUN” and “Jinsei Yugi” back into the Japan Hot 100. It’s been about four and a half years since the former entered the charts (No. 57 this week), and about a year and three months for the latter (No. 95).
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 Feb. 24 to Mar. 2, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.
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This week: The Oscars leads to gains for songs from winners Anora and Emilia Perez, Bob Dylan gets another wave of A Complete Unknown gains (as does the guy who plays him in the movie), and listeners say farewell to one of the greatest pop, soul and jazz singers of the 20th century.
Oscars Boost ‘El Mal,’ Take That’s ‘Anora’ Anthem And… Indie Band Yuck
The 97th Annual Academy Awards may have been the rare Oscars telecast to shrug off any performances of the best original song nominees, but that doesn’t mean some wide-ranging tunes didn’t benefit from their ties to Hollywood’s biggest night. For one, the song that actually did emerge victorious in that category — “El Mal,” from Emilia Pérez — did earn a major streaming bump. The spiky rap-rock track, performed in the French musical by Zoe Saldaña and written by Clément Ducol, Camille and director Jacques Audiard, experienced more than a 2,000% increase in official on-demand U.S. streams thanks to the Oscar win, according to initial data from Luminate – from fewer than 1,000 streams on the Monday before the awards ceremony (Feb. 24) to nearly 20,000 streams the day after the Oscars (Mar. 3).
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Meanwhile, the enormous night for indie dramedy Anora — five Academy Awards, including Best Picture — coincided with an uptick for Take That’s “Greatest Day”: the 2008 single received a euphoric remix from Robin Schulz and Calum Scott in 2023, and the reworked version appears multiple times in Anora. As director Sean Baker enjoyed his “Greatest Day” with a record-tying four Oscar wins in a single night, the updated Take That track shot up 500% in daily streams, from 6,000 on Feb. 24 to 41,000 one week later. Elsewhere, Shirley Bassey’s “Diamonds Are Forever” earned a similar percentage bump thanks to Doja Cat’s performance of the classic during a James Bond medley at the Oscars; “Diamonds” was up 441% on the day after the Oscars, from over 3,000 streams to over 18,000 streams.
Yet the most surprising recipient of an Oscars streaming increase is Yuck, the noise-rock-leaning indie band that released three albums between 2011 and 2016; as astute blogosphere scholars pointed out on Sunday night, Daniel Blumberg, the composer who won the Best Original Score Oscar for his work on The Brutalist, used to be Yuck’s frontman before he pivoted to the film world. As a result, Yuck’s streaming catalog soared 432% post-Oscars, from 7,000 total streams on Feb. 24 to nearly 39,000 streams on Mar. 3. That’s probably not quite enough to convince Blumberg for a reunion, but indie rock diehards can dream. – JASON LIPSHUTZ
Despite Oscars Shutout, ‘A Complete Unknown’ Continues to Boost Tracks From Its Stars – And From Bob Dylan Himself
Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown may have lost all eight of its nominations at Sunday night’s Academy Awards (March 2), but the film is pulling off a few notable wins on streaming and in sales.
According to initial data from Luminate, streams for Dylan’s catalog rose 15% during Oscar weekend. From Feb. 21-24, Dylan’s catalog earned 7.02 million official on-demand U.S. streams. For the similar period the following week (encompassing Oscars weekend), his catalog pulled 8.11 million streams. His digital song sales also nearly doubled over that period, shooting from 1,600 to over 3,200.
A Complete Unknown was accompanied by an official soundtrack, featuring covers of Dylan and Joan Baez classics sung by Oscar-nominated stars Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro. “It Ain’t Me Babe,” the 1964 classic notably performed by the duo in the film, has steadily risen in streams over the past month. During the period of Feb. 7-13, the cover pulled just 177,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. Two weeks later, that figure exploded by 310% to over 727,000 streams earned during the period of Feb. 21-27.
And it’s still rising, as both the song and the movie continue to find new fans. Over that Feb. 28-Mar. 3 period, the song’s streams leapt nearly 80% over the equivalent period the prior week, from 315,000 to over 565,000. – KYLE DENIS
Roberta Flack’s Catalog Up Over 400% in Streams, 4,600% in Sales Following Her Death
The great pop, soul and jazz singer Roberta Flack died from cardiac arrest at age 88 on Feb. 24. Flack was a four-time Grammy winner – including back-to-back record of the year wins in 1973 (“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”) and 1974 (“Killing Me Softly With His Song”), making her the first artist to ever win the award in consecutive years. She also topped the Billboard Hot 100 with both of those singles, in ‘72 and ‘73, respectively, as well as with “Feel Like Makin’ Love” in ‘74 – making her the first woman to score No. 1s on the chart in three straight years.
Following her passing last week, fans of course flocked to DSPs and retailers to stream and buy her classic hits. Her catalog more than quintupled in official on-demand U.S. streams for the tracking week ending Feb. 27 – up from just over a million streams the week before to over 5.4 million, according to Luminate – and also rose nearly 4,600% in digital sales, from under 400 total to over 18,000. The biggest risers included those two record of the year winners, “The First Time” (up 284% to 769,000 streams and over 5,000% to 5,900 in sales) and “Killing Me Softly” (up 220% to 1.3 million streams and nearly 4,900% to 6,700 in sales), as well as one of her signature Donny Hathaway duets, 1978’s “The Closer I Get to You” (up 244% to 584,000 streams and over 4,600% to 1,900 in sales). – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Bhad Bhabie Rides New Feud to a Catalog-Reviving Surprise Hit Diss Track
Seven years after scoring her first Billboard Hot 100 entry, Bhad Bhabie could be gearing up for her first appearance of the 2020s on the chart. Taking a page out of Kendrick Lamar’s book, Bhad Bhabie has spun a legitimate streaming hit out of her beef with Alabama Barker, daughter of blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.
On Feb. 25, Bhad Bhabie dropped “Ms. Whitman,” a blistering diss track that samples Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnival” and accuses Barker of a litany of things, including an unconfirmed abortion from a Tyga pregnancy. During its first full week of release (Feb. 25-March 3), “Ms. Whitman” earned 7.8 million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to initial data from Luminate – essentially working out to a little over a million streams a day.
“Ms. Whitman” is also boosting Bhad Bhabie’s back catalog, which includes the Hot 100 hits “These Heaux” (No. 77), “Gucci Flip Flops” (No. 79, with Lil Yachty) and “Hi Bich” (No. 68). During the week of Feb. 14-20, Bhad Bhabie’s discography pulled 1.7 million official on-demand U.S. streams. The following week (Feb. 21-27), streaming activity for her catalog more than doubled to over 3.57 million streams. With streams still pouring in and the beef still active, “Ms. Whitman” could very well threaten to become Bhad Bhabie’s highest-peaking Hot 100 hit yet. – KD
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