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Carín León places his second No. 1 of the year, and fourth overall, on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart, as “Ahí Estabas Tú” ascends 3-1 on the May 24-dated list. The new achievement comes only two months after his most recent triumph with “El Amor de Mi Herida.”
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“Ahí Estabas Tú” claims the top spot on the overall Latin Airplay chart with 8.2 million audience impressions earned in the U.S. during the May 9-15 tracking week, according to Luminate –that’s a 21% gain from the previous week. The Greatest Gainer-awarded track of the week trades places with Gerardo Coronel ‘El Jerry’’s “No Se Dice,” after the latter drops 1-3 with a 5% dip in impressions (to 8.23 million).
“Ahí Estabas Tú” marks León’s second champ of 2025. Previously the Hermosillo, Sonora-born singer-songwriter took command of Latin Airplay for one week through “El Amor de Mi Herida” (March 22-dated list).
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With a second ruler in 2025, León is only the second soloist to have two No. 1s on Latin Airplay this year unaccompanied by another act. Earlier in 2025, Bad Bunny topped the chart twice with his solo tracks “El Clúb” and “Baile Inolvidable,” each reigning for two weeks in February and March, respectively.
In total, four artists have secured two No. 1 hits in 2025 so far. Between Benito’s two chart-toppers, Myke Towers claimed the No. 1 spot with “Otra Noche” featuring Darell, for one week in February. He followed up with another No. 1 hit, “Degenere,” which features benny blanco, leading for one week on the May 3 chart. Meanwhile, Colombian Kapo placed back-to-back champs as “Más Que Tú,” with Ozuna, ceded its place to “Imagínate,” with Danny Ocean, on the April 26 list, both one-week rulers.
Beyond his Latin Airplay coronation, León also takes “Ahí Estabas Tú” to the summit on Regional Mexican Airplay, where it jumps 2-1, his eighth No. 1 overall. He ties Eden Muñoz for the fourth-most rulers among soloists in the 2020s decade. They trail Christian Nodal who leads with 17 No. 1 this decade, Gerardo Ortiz follows with 13, and Alejandro Fernández with 12 leaders.
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Summer Walker’s “Heart of a Woman” beats the competition on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart this week as the single rules the list dated May 23. The new leader, released and promoted through LVRN/Interscope/ICLG, climbs from No. 2 and was the most-played song on U.S. panel-contributing adult R&B radio stations in the tracking week of May 9-15, according to Luminate.
As “Heart of a Woman” rises, it ejects Leon Thomas’ “Mutt” from the chart’s prime spot after a two-week lead. “Mutt” retreats to No. 3 after a 12% slide in plays for the week. (Between the current and former leader, 803Fresh’s “Boots on the Ground” pushes 4-2; the track, best known for soundtracking a viral line dance, enjoys an 9% gain in weekly play count.)
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With “Heart of a Woman,” Walker captures her fourth Adult R&B Airplay No. 1. She first reigned through a featured role on Trey Songz’s “Back Home,” a three-week champ in November-December 2020, followed with her own “Unloyal,” featuring Ari Lennox, for one week in September 2022 and logged six weeks in charge thanks to “Good Good,” a collaboration with Usher and 21 Savage, in November-December 2023.
Improvements in the adult R&B sector help “Heart of a Woman” maintain its top-five status on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by combined audience totals from adult R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio stations. There, the single spends a fourth consecutive week at No. 5 – after having previously reached a No. 3 best – but falls to 12.7 million in total audience, a 6% drop from the prior week’s total.
Elsewhere, “Heart of a Woman” slides 8-12 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart (down 14%).
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Beyond “Heart of a Woman,” Walker enjoys a second current chart single, new track “Spend It.” The song, released May 2, opened at No. 12 on the Hot R&B Songs chart (dated May 17) and at No. 30 on the corresponding Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ranking.
“Heart of a Woman” and “Spend It” preview Walker’s forthcoming studio album, Finally Over It. The set, which was announced last October, is the third installment of the singer’s album series, following Over It (2019) and Still Over It (2022).
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Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” is the biggest song in the world, as it adds a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, while topping the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. survey for the first time.
The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
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“Ordinary” leads the Global 200 with 69.5 million streams (up 5% week-over-week) and 12,000 sold (up 6%) worldwide May 9-15.
The entire Global 200’s top five holds in place from a week earlier: “Die With a Smile” at No. 2, after 18 weeks at No. 1 starting last September (second only to the 19 weeks at No. 1 for Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” since the chart began); ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” at No. 3, after 12 weeks at No. 1 starting in November; Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” at No. 4, following three weeks at No. 1 last August; and Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” at No. 5, after it logged seven weeks on top beginning in February 2024.
Elsewhere in the Global 200’s top 10, The Weeknd and Playboi Carti’s “Timeless” soars 28-10, thanks to a 35% surge to 37.9 million streams worldwide after a remix adding Doechii was released May 9. The song peaked at No. 3 upon its debut last October.
“Ordinary” ascends 2-1 on Global Excl. U.S. with 49.1 million streams (up 7%) and 5,000 sold (up 2%) outside the U.S. As on the Global 200, Warren earns his first leader on Global Excl. U.S.
“Die With a Smile” drops to No. 2 after 17 weeks atop Global Excl. U.S. starting last September. Only “APT.” by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars, which holds at No. 3, has led longer: 19 weeks, beginning in November.
“Birds of a Feather” rises 5-4 on Global Excl. U.S., following three weeks at No. 1 last August, and JENNIE’s “like JENNIE” slips 4-5, after hitting No. 3.
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Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” logs a lucky 13th total and consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The single is one of just 15 to have led for at least that long dating to the survey’s Aug. 4, 1958, start. “Luther,” whose title is a tribute late R&B legend […]
Sleep Token scores its first No. 1 album, and first top 10, on the Billboard 200 with the chart-topping arrival of its fourth full-length studio release, Even in Arcadia.
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The set, which is the English rock band’s major-label debut, bows atop the list dated May 24 with 127,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 15, according to Luminate — marking the act’s best week by units ever. It’s also the biggest week by units for any rock album in nearly a year, and the biggest for any hard rock album in two years. Further, the set’s streaming numbers are so big that it scores the largest streaming week ever for a hard rock album.
Sleep Token released its first single in 2016 and made its overall Billboard chart debut in 2019. The band previously scored one entry on the Billboard 200 with Take Me Back to Eden in 2023, debuting and peaking at No. 16. That set has earned 819,000 units in the U.S. to date, and its dozen songs (six of which were top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart) have generated 935 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. The band was among Billboard’s year-end top 10 on Top Hard Rock Artists in both 2024 (No. 8) and 2023 (No. 5).
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In early 2024, the act signed to RCA Records after previously releasing music on the indie label Spinefarm. The masked band — whose members have remained anonymous through the group’s career — made its debut on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in March with the new album’s “Emergence.” Two more pre-release songs from the set debut on the tally: “Caramel” (a career-best No. 34 high for the band) and “Damocles.”
Sleep Token’s No. 1 debut coincidentally comes just two weeks after another masked hard rock band from Europe, the Swedish act Ghost, landed its first leader with the chart-topping debut of Skeletá (May 10 chart).
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Kali Uchis achieves her third top 10-charting set with the debut of Sincerely, at No. 2.
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 May 24, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Even in Arcadia’s 127,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 73,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 53,000 (equaling 68.89 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 500. Sales of the album were bolstered by its availability across six vinyl variants, a standard CD, two deluxe CD boxed sets (containing a CD and a branded hoodie) and a standard digital download album. All configurations contained the same 10 songs.
Even in Arcadia is just the fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2025, of 13 total, to also simultaneously be No. 1 on both Top Album Sales and Top Streaming Albums, following Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM (March 22), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX (Feb. 22) and The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow (Feb. 15).
Prior to Even in Arcadia, the last rock album to have a larger week, by equivalent album units earned, was Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene, in its first full week of release, with 137,000 units (July 20, 2024-dated chart). The last hard rock album to score a larger week was Metallica’s 72 Seasons, which debuted with 146,000 units on the April 29, 2023 chart.
In terms of streaming numbers, Even in Arcadia posts an eye-popping — and historic — sum for a hard rock set. Its SEA figure of 53,000 equates to 68.89 million on-demand official streams of its 10 songs. That’s the biggest weekly streaming sum for any hard rock album ever. The last rock album overall with a bigger streaming week was The Great American Bar Scene, when it tallied 77.76 million during its fifth week on the chart, dated Aug. 10, 2024.
Even in Arcadia sold 73,500 copies — with vinyl comprising 47,000 of that figure. That’s the largest vinyl sales week for the band, and the biggest for a hard rock album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991). (It trumps the previous record, set only two weeks ago by the debut of Ghost’s Skeletá with 44,000.) It’s also the second-largest sales week in the modern era for a rock album, following the opening week of blink-182’s One More Time… (49,000; Nov. 4, 2023).
With Even in Arcadia debuting at No. 1 just two weeks after another hard rock album was tops — when Skeletá debuted at No. 1 on the May 10 chart — there have been two No. 1 hard rock albums in less than a month. That hasn’t happened in more than a decade. The chart last had two hard rock No. 1s in less than a month’s time nearly a dozen years ago, when Queens of the Stone Age’s …Like Clockwork and Black Sabbath’s 13 debuted at No. 1 in successive weeks (June 22-29, 2013).
Rock and hard rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts, respectively.
Finally, Sleep Token is the fifth act in 2025 to score a first No. 1 this year, following Ghost (with Skeletá), Ken Carson (More Chaos), Tate McRae (So Close To What) and PARTYNEXTDOOR (with the Drake collaboration set $ome $exy $ongs 4 U). In all of 2024, there were five acts that got their first No. 1s: Ty Dolla $ign (with the Ye collab Vultures 1), TWICE (With YOU-th), Sabrina Carpenter (Short n’ Sweet), Jelly Roll (Beautifully Broken) and Yeat (Lyfestyle).
Going back another year, there were also five acts in 2023 that got their first No. 1s that year: TOMORROW X TOGETHER (The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION), Karol G (MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO), NewJeans (2nd EP ‘Get Up’), Zach Bryan (Zach Bryan) and ATEEZ (THE WORLD EP.FIN: WILL).
At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Kali Uchis’ Sincerely, debuts with 62,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the artist’s third top 10-charting effort, following Orquídeas (No. 2 in 2024) and Red Moon in Venus (No. 4 in 2023). Of the 62,000 units earned, album sales comprise 38,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 24,000 (equaling 32.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 18 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
The first-week sales of Sincerely, was aided by its availability across 10 vinyl variants (including signed editions), three CD variants (including a signed edition), a cassette and a standard digital download album (all containing the same tracklist), as well as a deluxe download with two bonus tracks.
A trio of former No. 1s is next on the Billboard 200, as SZA’s SOS is steady at No. 3 (51,000 equivalent album units; down 3%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 4 (48,000; up 6%), and PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U climbs 7-5 (47,000; up 17% following its vinyl release). Fuerza Regida’s 111XPANTIA falls 2-6 in its second week (just over 43,000; down 43%), while Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX dips 5-7 (43,000; down 4%), and Sabrina Carpenter’s former leader Short n’ Sweet falls 6-8 (40,000; down 2%).
The Weeknd’s former No. 1 Hurry Up Tomorrow vaults 27-9 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (up 82%), largely owed to sales generated by the release of new CD and vinyl editions of the album. Rounding out the top 10 of the Billboard 200 is Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which falls 1-10 with 38,000 units (down 55%), a week after it hopped back to the top following its release on vinyl.
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Alex Warren has achieved a rare chart feat on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart with his song “Ordinary” (May 16).
With its ninth week at No. 1, he is now the longest-running U.S. male solo chart-topper in over 70 years, surpassing Elvis Presley in the process. The King had an eight-week stay at the summit in 1960 with “It’s Now or Never,” one of 21 No. 1 singles in the U.K.
Florida-born artist Slim Whitman earned an 11-week stint at the top spot in 1955 with “Rose Marie,” the title track from the 1954 western epic starring Ann Blyth and Howard Keel.
In its 13th week on the Billboard Hot 100, “Ordinary” is now up to No. 2, closely trailing Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” which has had a 12-week stay at the summit. “Ordinary” has also hit the top spot on the Global 200 for a second consecutive week.
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Speaking to Billboard in January, Warren discussed using challenging moments in his personal life, including the passing of both of his parents and his stint of homelessness, in his material.
“I recently started doing this thing where I write about those [experiences], and I try to take control in a way,” he said. “For me, something really beautiful is taking something so sad and dark, and what most would view as something that ruined their life, and turn it into something that can help people.”
The remainder of the top five remains relatively unchanged with Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” (No. 2), Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” (No. 3), and WizTheMC and Bees & Honey’s “Show Me Love” (No. 4) all maintaining their positions from last week.
Sombr’s breakout hit “Undressed” is in the top five for the first time (No. 5), up one place from the previous week, while his song “Back to Friends” also rises three spots to No. 12.
The week’s highest new entry comes from Calvin Harris and Clementine Douglas, as their collaboration “Blessings” lands at No. 8. The feat gives Harris his 45th top 10 hit.
Sleep Token has secured its first U.K. No. 1 Album on the Official Albums Chart with Even in Arcadia (May 16). The masked metal band previously hit the No. 3 spot with their 2023 LP Take Me To Eden, and have three songs in this week’s U.K. top 40 singles. In June, the band are […]
Jonah Kagen reigns on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart for the first time, topping the May 24-dated survey with “God Needs the Devil.”
The song, which rises a spot, marks Kagen’s first ruler on any Billboard ranking, earned with his second charted title. Previously, Kagen spent a week on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in 2021 with the Matoma collaboration “Summer Feeling.”
Kagen becomes the sixth act to rule Alternative Airplay for the first time in 2025. Almost Monday accomplished the feat first in February (“Can’t Slow Down”), followed by Justice and Tame Impala (both on “Neverender” in March), Balu Brigada (“So Cold,” March) and Lola Young (“Messy,” April). Of that group, Justice, Balu Brigada and Young led in their first appearances on the list, like Kagen.
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Roughly halfway through 2025, the year is the best for acts notching inaugural Alternative Airplay No. 1s with their first entries on the chart in five years; in 2020, Absofacto, White Reaper, Sub Urban and All Time Low all reigned on their first tries.
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Kagen’s 29-week trip to No. 1 is the lengthiest since 2023, when Bad Omens’ “Just Pretend” took 32 weeks.
Concurrently, “God Needs the Devil” lifts 9-8 for a new high on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.6 million audience impressions, up 10%, in the week ending May 15, according to Luminate. The song peaked at No. 22 on Adult Alternative Airplay in November.
“God Needs the Devil” is on Kagen’s EP Black Dress, which was released in November and has earned 27,000 equivalent album units to date.
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Lola Young’s “Messy” makes a clean sweep across three Billboard airplay charts, tying a regal hit from more than a decade earlier for a rare achievement. “Messy” rises two places to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay chart (dated May 24). The song tops a third individual-format radio ranking, after it led Pop Airplay […]