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The all-star Disney rock covers set A Whole New Sound debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Kid Albums and Compilation Albums charts (dated Sept. 21). The 12-track set boasts rock acts like Yellowcard (featuring Chrissy Costanza), New Found Glory, Simple Plan and Mayday Parade covering such classic Disney tunes as “A Whole New World” (from […]
David Gilmour lands his first No. 1 on Billboard’s 33-year-old Top Album Sales chart, as his first studio album in nine years, Luck and Strange, debuts atop the tally dated Sept. 21. The set, which also marks his third top 10-charting effort on the list, sold 30,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 12, according to Luminate.
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Gilmour has reached the Top Album Sales chart seven times as a soloist, beginning with 2006’s No. 6-peaking On an Island. He reached the top 10 a second time with 2015’s No. 4-peaking Rattle That Lock.
Also arriving in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart are the newest releases from TZUYU, George Strait, Paris Hilton, LL COOL J and xikers.
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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. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Luck and Strange’s first-week sales of 30,000, physical sales comprise 25,000 copies (14,500 on CD; 8,500 on vinyl and about 2,000 on Blu-ray Audio) and digital download sales comprise 5,000. The album’s first-week vinyl sales were bolstered by its availability across four variants, helping it debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. The set was also a sturdy seller at independent record stores, with nearly 4,500 sold through that retail sector. It debuts at No. 2 on the Indie Store Album Sales chart.
Luck and Strange additionally starts at No. 3 on Top Rock Albums, No. 4 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums. Top Rock Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums rank, respectively, the week’s most popular rock albums, and rock and alternative albums, by equivalent album units.
On the Billboard 200, Luck and Strange arrives at No. 10, marking Gilmour’s third top 10 set on the ranking. Gilmour is also a member of Pink Floyd, and all 10 of Pink Floyd’s top 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200 (from 1973’s No. 1 The Dark Side of the Moon through 2014’s The Endless River) reached the region after Gilmour joined the band in 1967.
TZUYU sees her debut solo project abouTZU arrive at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with nearly 23,000 copies sold. The TWICE member’s album sold 22,000 physical copies (16,000 on CD and 6,000 on vinyl) and about 1,000 digital downloads. The set’s opening-week sales was bolstered by its availability across 11 CD variants and two vinyl variants, all containing branded paper ephemera such as photocards, stickers, and posters.
George Strait’s Cowboys and Dreamers debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with 22,000 copies sold. The set was available across three CD variants (two containing branded paper ephemera), a deluxe CD boxed set containing a branded T-shirt, three vinyl variants and a digital download.
Paris Hilton’s second album – and first in 18 years – Infinite Icon, debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales with 16,000 copies sold. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet slips 2-5 with 15,000 sold (down 45%). LL COOL J’s first studio album in over 10 years, THE FORCE, arrives at No. 6 with 12,000 sold, bolstered by the availability of signed editions.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess moves down 5-7 (11,000 sold; down 17%), LE SSERAFIM’s CRAZY falls 1-8 in its second week (10,000; down 74%) and Stray Kids’ former leader ATE dips 6-9 (8,000; down 24%).
Closing out the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart is xikers’ House of Tricky: Watch Out, 4th Mini Album, debuting at No. 10 with nearly 8,000 sold. It’s the third top 10-charting set for the group. Its first-week sales were largely driven by CD sales, enhanced by the set’s availability across 18 variants (all containing branded paper ephemera).
Already one of the most successful and prolific Latin music artists in Boxscore history, Luis Miguel has re-entered the record books with his ongoing world tour. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Luis Miguel Tour 2023-24 has grossed $318.2 million and sold 2.2 million tickets in its first 146 shows. That makes it the highest grossing tour ever among Latin acts.
At an Aug. 28 show in Caracas, Venezuela, Miguel slid past Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour ($314.1 million) and Karol G’s Manana Sera Bonito Tour ($313.3 million) for the Latin Boxscore record and extended it a few days later with a concert in Juarez, Mexico.
Miguel’s current tour kicked off with a bang last summer, with 10 shows at Buenos Aires’ Movistar Arena, and then another 10 at the venue of the same name in Santiago, Chile. Those 20 kick-off dates brought in a combined $28.1 million and sold 227,000 tickets, already establishing it as the third highest grosser of his storied career. After that, he toured through the U.S., Mexico and Latin America, back to the U.S., over to Spain, and most recently, back to LatAm.
Miguel’s run in the U.S. was fruitful ($49.8 million), but the turn to his native Mexico was even bigger, bringing in $57.5 million in 20 shows. By the end of 2023, he had earned $141 million – still a way’s away from the all-time high, but enough to handily pass his own Mexico Por Siempre Tour from 2018-19 ($101.4 million) as his biggest tour yet.
Across stadiums in Latin America, Miguel added another $73 million in the early months of 2024, and another $65.6 million in North American arenas through mid-June. Twelve shows in Spain packed in $27.6 million, and his return to Central America padded the tour with another $10.7 million in five shows in August.
Not only is this Miguel’s highest-grossing tour, it’s his best-seller. At 2.194 million tickets so far, he has doubled (and then some) his previous run, where he moved 965,000 tickets. On the all-time leaderboard, he still trails Karol G’s 2.326 million, though he will easily pass that mark by the end of the month.
While Bad Bunny and Karol G had earned their all-time highs exclusively in stadiums around the world, Luis Miguel has mixed arenas and stadiums, with more than double the show count.
Already in unprecedented waters, Miguel has played another seven as-yet-unreported shows in Mexico and Las Vegas, with another 30 scheduled in Mexico through Nov. 25. The centerpiece of his remaining shows is a 10-show run at Mexico City’s Arena Ciudad de Mexico between Oct. 8-24. Seven shows at the same venue grossed $14.6 million last November, so his extended stint is expected to surpass that and be the entire tour’s biggest engagement.
Miguel’s 20 shows in Mexico last year averaged $2.873 million per date. Applying the same logic, the remaining dates (including September shows that he has played but not yet reported) could add another $100 million and make him the first Latin artist to stage a $400 million tour.
Dating back to a November 1991 concert at New York’s The Paramount, Miguel has grossed $633.1 million and sold 6.3 million tickets over 701 reported shows.
Over the course of Billboard Boxscore’s 40-year history, Latin music artists have made their mark on stage with sold-out tours across the Americas. Here, Billboard is running down the 10 highest-grossing concert tours by Latin acts – here, defined by artists eligible for Billboard’s Top Latin Albums and Hot Latin Songs charts – in the […]
back number’s “to new lovers” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Sept. 18, scoring its second week atop the tally.
The theme song of the drama series Umi no Hajimari (“beginning of the sea”) was released digitally on July 15 and hit No. 1 on the chart dated July 24 after topping downloads (24,432 units) and radio airplay and coming in at No. 4 for streaming (7,532,578 weekly streams). The veteran three-man band’s latest hit gradually slipped 5-7-8-9-14-16 on the list, then returned to the top ten last week at No. 7. The CD single dropped Sept. 11 and powered the track back to the top spot with 25,170 copies sold in its first week. Other metrics for the poignant ballad have gone up as well, with streams at 102%, radio at 489%, video views at 154%, and karaoke at 112% week-over-week.
WEST.’s “Maaikka!” debuts at No. 2. The 23rd single by the seven-member boy band that celebrated its tenth anniversary on Apr. 23rd topped sales with 246,731 copies sold. The track also ranked No. 36 for radio and No. 73 for video.
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Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Lilac” slips to No. 3 after scoring its second week at No. 1 last week. While it drops a few rungs on the tally, overall points for the track have increased, with downloads at 102%, radio at 193%, and video at 101% compared to the week before.
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Bowing at No. 4 is OCHA NORMA’s “Chihayaburu.” The Hello! Project girl group’s fourth single sold 108,690 copies to hit No. 4 for sales, while coming in at No. 19 for downloads and No. 100 for radio.
HKT48’s 18th single “Boku wa yatto kimi wo shinpai dekiru” (“I can finally worry about you”) launches at No. 5, selling 152,017 copies to hit No. 2 for sales, but didn’t enter the top 100 in any of the other metrics of the chart’s methodology.
Elsewhere on the chart, Southern All Stars’ “Jeanne d’Arc ni yoroshiku” debuts at No. 11. The theme song for TBS Sports 2024 topped downloads and radio this week.
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 Sept. 9 to 15, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.
For the second time in 2024, Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack” reigns on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), this time following its synch in the first season of Apple TV+’s Time Bandits.
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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 August 2024.
“Return of the Mack” can be heard in the eighth episode of Time Bandits, which premiered on Aug. 14 (as did episode seven). It earned 19.5 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 2,000 downloads in August 2024, according to Luminate.
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“Return of the Mack” previously ruled Top TV Songs this year when it was heard in an episode of The Equalizer in May. It also led the November 2015 survey via a synch in Master of None.
The song was Morrison’s breakthrough in America, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1997.
In all, Time Bandits boasts three appearances on the 10-song Top TV Songs ranking. The Cardigans’ “Lovefool” and Spice Girls’ “Wannabe,” both also featured in episode eight, rank at Nos. 6 and 7, respectively; “Lovefool” earned 12.1 million streams and 1,000 downloads in August, while “Wannabe” racked up 8.7 million streams and 1,000 downloads.
The success of Time Bandits on the chart comes despite its recent cancellation by Apple TV+; after one season, its final episodes aired Aug. 21.
Kaos is the other top performer on the latest Top TV Songs ranking, with songs heard in the Netflix series’ first season (all of which premiered Aug. 29) taking Nos. 2 and 3.
Rupert Holmes’ “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” appears at No. 2 via 7.2 million streams and 1,000 downloads, while Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” is at No. 3 thanks to 6.4 million streams and 2,000 downloads.
See the full top 10, also featuring music from Reasonable Doubt, The Umbrella Academy and Industry, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
“Return of the Mack,” Mark Morrison, Time Bandits (Apple TV+)
“Escape (The Pina Colada Song),” Rupert Holmes, Kaos (Netflix)
“Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits, Kaos (Netflix)
“Sativa,” Jhene Aiko feat. Swae Lee, Reasonable Doubt (Hulu)
“This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody),” Talking Heads, The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
“Lovefool,” The Cardigans, Time Bandits (Apple TV+)
“Wannabe,” Spice Girls, Time Bandits (Apple TV+)
“C.R.E.A.M.,” Wu-Tang Clan, Reasonable Doubt (Hulu)
“Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money),” Pet Shop Boys, Industry (HBO)
“Ambitionz Az a Ridah,” 2Pac, Reasonable Doubt (Hulu)
After three weeks at No. 2 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, Surf Curse’s “Disco” rises to No. 1 for the first time, reigning on the tally dated Sept. 21.
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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 Sept. 9-15. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Disco” takes over the top spot from Clean Bandit’s Zara Larsson-featuring “Symphony,” which drops to No. 3 after reigning for three weeks.
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The dominant trend sparking the rise of “Disco,” which was initially released in 2019, continues to be a dance challenge. Though it usually features two people, with one leaning in toward the other for a few beats with the other leaning back, and vice versa, the trend has also seen three or more dancers in the same video – and sometimes even just one.
“Disco” concurrently debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 91, Surf Curse’s first appearance on the ranking. It also lifts 18-17 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. In the week ending Sept. 12, it earned 5.4 million official U.S. streams, up 20%, according to Luminate.
Behind “Disco” comes a slew of songs new to the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10, including three debuts. Topping that group: BabyChiefDoit’s “Rollin’,” which bows at No. 2. “Rollin’” marks the Chicago rapper’s first chart appearance, buoyed mostly by lip-synchs set to the song’s “Don’t slip, don’t trip, don’t fall/ Come to the crib and take off your drawers” lyric.
Released in 2023, “Rollin’” has scored strong subsequent streaming gains, leaping 211% to 481,000 listens in the week ending Sept. 12.
STAR BANDZ’s “Bigger Better Badder” starts at No. 4, another rapper making one of her first chart appearances. The similarities to BabyChiefDoit don’t stop there; “Bigger Better Badder” has also risen thanks to lip-synch clips highlighting the song’s “bigger, better, badder” refrain.
In the week ending Sept. 12, “Bigger Better Badder” accumulated 193,000 official U.S. streams, a leap of 353%.
The final top 10 debut of the week is from a veteran artist: Ashanti’s “Rain on Me,” which breaks onto the ranking at No. 5. Where did the 21-year-old song, which peaked at No. 2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 2003, come from? Mostly from users posting photos, clips and memes from the long-running Nickelodeon series Henry Danger, which aired for five seasons between 2014 and 2020.
Though the streaming gains of “Rain on Me” are not as substantial as the preceding two songs, it’s nothing to sniff at: 676,000 streams in the week ending Sept. 12, up 15%.
Level’s “Dumb D*#k,” which features Ms. Trill, isn’t a debut, but it’s already in the top 10 in its second week on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, leaping 32-6. Released in 2016, “Dumb D*#k” did not appear on a Billboard chart until its TikTok Billboard Top 50 appearance, thanks to a dance trend.
And then there’s Chappell Roan’s “Casual.” So far, the The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess cut had been a meager presence on the chart; after debuting at No. 44 on the Aug. 17 survey, it returned at No. 48 on Sept. 7 and remained there Sept. 14.
But “Casual” zooms 48-9 on the latest tally, becoming Roan’s first TikTok Billboard Top 50 top 10 (let alone top 40, for that matter). That’s because of a new trend featuring creators uploading photos and video following the prompt of “casual things we did before we started dating”
“Casual” has peaked so far at No. 59 on the Hot 100, coming on the Aug. 24 rankign. It appears at No. 72 on the most recent survey.
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.
Eighteen years after releasing her debut self-titled studio album, Paris Hilton is back on Billboard’s album charts with her follow-up project Infinite Icon.
The album debuts at No. 38 on the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated Sept. 21) with 18,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week (ending Sept. 12), according to Luminate. It features A-list collaborations with Meghan Thee Stallion, Rina Sawayama, Meghan Trainor and Sia.
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Her first album, Paris, reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in September 2006, and included “Stars Are Blind,” her debut single that climbed to No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 a month prior.
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While Hilton hasn’t charted an album since then, she hasn’t been totally absent from the charts. She’s charted three songs on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, all since 2013: “Good Time” featuring Lil Wayne (No. 19 peak in 2013), “High Off My Love” (No. 35; 2015) and “B.F.A. (Best Friend’s Ass)” with Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike (No. 45; 2019). She’s also released other collaborations with Sia, Steve Aoki, Kim Petras and Lil Wayne, among others.
For Infinite Icon, Hilton recruited a team of top-level producers and songwriters to pull the project together. Jesse Shatkin is credited as a producer on all 12 of the album’s tracks. He’s previously worked with Sia, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus and Ellie Goulding, among others. Notably, he co-producer Sia’s “Chandelier” and One Direction’s “Perfect,” which both reach the top 10 of the Hot 100 (at Nos. 8 and 10, respectively).
Greg Kurstin worked on Hilton’s Sia collaboration “Fame Won’t Love You.” Kurstin is perhaps best recognized for his work with Adele (including her No. 1s “Hello” and “Easy On Me”), but he’s also produced and written songs for Kelly Clarkson (including her No. 1 “Stronger [What Doesn’t Kill You]”), P!nk, Tate McRae, Miley Cyrus and Halsey. He’s also spent 14 total weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Producers chart.
Alex Frankel is also credited as a producer on six songs from Infinite Icon. Frankel is half of the synthpop indie duo Holy Ghost!, and has also worked on music with fellow indie acts the Juan MacLean and U.S. Girls.
Other producers on the project include Kid Harpoon, Banx & Ranx, Dallas Caton, House of Wolf and Naliya.
Juice WRLD (born Jarad Higgins) died on Dec. 8, 2019 at age 21 due to an accidental oxycodone and codeine intoxication. Since then, his estate has consistently released new music from the late musician to the degree that he’s charted more songs since he died than he did while he was alive.
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Juice WRLD’s estate released two new songs on Sept. 9 packaged together as part of the rapper’s The Pre-Party, titled “World Tour (Aquafina)” and “Lightyears” featuring Young Thug.
Both songs debut on Billboard’s latest Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Sept. 21) at Nos. 34 and 39, respectively. He’s now charted 87 total songs on the chart. Of those, only 29 debuted while he was living.
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Juice WRLD teased both songs on social media while he was still living. In 2018, he previewed “World Tour (Aquafina)” on Instagram Live, rapping “I’m a real n—a, nah, I’m not an actor/ Double cup with that red lean, I’ma sip classy/ Dior on my feet, I feel classy.” Juice and Young Thug both teased “Lightyears” before the COVID shutdown in February 2020.
Both songs are slated to appear on Juice’s forthcoming The Party Never Ends album, which Billboard reported is expected to be the rapper’s third and final posthumous album. His first posthumous LP, Legends Never Die, spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in July 2020. His second, Fighting Demons, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart in December 2021. While he was alive, Juice earned three top five albums on the Billboard 200: Goodbye & Good Riddance (No. 4; 2018), Future & Juice WRLD Present…WRLD on Drugs with Future (No. 2; 2018) and Death Race For Love (No. 1; 2019).
On the Billboard Hot 100, Juice has charted 80 total songs, most recently with “Lace It,” with Eminem and Benny Blanco, in December (No. 85 peak). Of those, 25 debuted while he was alive.
Of course, many other artists have posthumously debuted on Billboard’s charts. Eight artists even earned posthumous Hot 100 No. 1s, including: Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Jim Croce, John Lennon, The Notorious B.I.G., Soulja Slim, Static Major and XXXTentacion. On the Billboard 200, the late Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke landed his second No. 1 album in 2021 (with Faith) after he was murdered in 2020. 2Pac, who was murdered in 1996, earned eight top 10 albums following his death, including three No. 1s.
Despite more than a decade since LLCOOLJ last released an album, the rapper picks up right where he left off. His new project, THE FORCE, debuts at No. 9 on the Top Rap Albums chart, giving the hip-hop legend his fifth consecutive top 10 result on the list, which began in 2004.
THE FORCE, released through LL COOL J’s self-titled imprint and the Def Jam Recordings record label, earned 16,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week of Sept. 6 – 12, according to Luminate. Of that sum, traditional album sales contributed 11,500 units, making THE FORCE the top-selling rap title of the week. 4,000 units derive from streaming activity, with the remaining 500 coming through track-equivalent album units. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.)
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Robust sales likely trace to LL COOL J’s flurry of promotional performances during the tracking week, including an interview on CBS Mornings and a performance to celebrate the Def Jam label’s 40th anniversary during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, where the MC delivered a medley of his hits such as “Headsprung,” “Goin’ Back to Cali” and “Bring the Noise.”
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Released Sept. 6, THE FORCE marked the first project since 2013 for LL COOL J, the hip-hop pioneer who became one of the genre’s earliest crossover stars and, in 2017, became the first rapper to receive the Kennedy Center Honors. The album, largely produced by another rap icon, Q-Tip, of A Tribe Called Quest, boasts a strong supporting lineup, with Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross and Nas among the guest stars. Saweetie features on the set’s current single, “Proclivities,” which climbs 36-31 in its second week on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, while an Eminem feature on the album’s “Murdergram Deux” powers it to become the week’s top-selling (2,500 downloads) and most-streamed (2.3 million official U.S. streams) song on THE FORCE.
As noted, THE FORCE is the fifth consecutive top-10 effort for LL COOL J on Top Rap Albums. The streak began with The DEFinition, which reigned for one week in 2004, and followed with Todd Smith (No. 2, 2006), Exit 13 (No. 2, 2008) and Authentic (No. 4, 2013).
On the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, which began in 1958 and encompasses the rapper’s entire career, THE FORCE launches at No. 11. It becomes his 15th album to appear on the list, dating to his debut LP, Radio, in 1985.