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Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats’ “Heartless” ascends to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated July 20. The song reigns as the Rateliff-fronted act’s first leader since “Survivor” ruled for six weeks in 2021. In between “Survivor” and “Heartless,” Rateliff & the Night Sweats reached Adult Alternative Airplay with two tracks, paced […]
Falling in Reverse and Jelly Roll’s “All My Life” rises to No. 1 from No. 4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated July 20, becoming each act’s third leader on the list and completing a brisk five-week trip to the summit.
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Both acts wrap their quickest coronation on any Billboard airplay survey. Falling in Reverse’s two previous radio rulers, “Popular Monster” and “Zombified” (both on Mainstream Rock Airplay), took 16 weeks to No. 1 in 2020 and 2022, respectively.
Jelly Roll soars past his prior fastest run to No. 1 on a radio chart, as “Need a Favor” needed 18 weeks to lead Mainstream Rock Airplay in 2023; he boasts three No. 1s on Mainstream Rock Airplay and four on Country Airplay.
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“All My Life” wraps the second-quickest flight to No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay this year; Pearl Jam’s “Dark Matter” led in its fourth frame in March.
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Each of Jelly Roll’s entries has led Mainstream Rock Airplay, with “All My Life” and “Need a Favor” preceded by “Dead Man Walking,” a one-week No. 1 in 2022. He becomes the first act to send three initial entries to No. 1 since The Pretty Reckless, which racked up a streak of four out of the gate in 2014-16 via “Heaven Knows,” “Messed Up World,” “Follow Me Down” and “Take Me Down.”
Concurrently, “All My Life” jumps 8-5 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.9 million impressions in the week ending July 11, up 8%, according to Luminate. It’s Falling in Reverse’s best-charting song on the survey, having surpassed the No. 11-peaking “Last Resort (Reimagined),” a cover of Papa Roach‘s original, last year. Jelly Roll’s best remains “Need a Favor,” which reached No. 3. Assisting the success of “All My Life” is support on alternative radio, as it’s currently bubbling under the Alternative Airplay survey.
On the most recently published multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (dated July 13, reflecting data in the week ending July 4), “All My Life” ranked at No. 2 after three weeks at No. 1. In addition to its radio airplay, it drew 3.2 million official U.S. streams and sold 1,000 downloads.
“All My Life” previews Popular Monster, Falling in Reverse’s fifth studio album, due Aug. 16.
All Billboard charts dated July 20 will be updated on Billboard.com on Tuesday, July 16.
There are just two film or TV soundtracks on the current Billboard 200 album chart – and neither is from a 2024 film. Barbie: The Album, which drops to No. 172 in its 50th week on the chart, was tied to last summer’s box-office juggernaut. Moana, which drops to No. 173 in its 379th week, is the soundtrack to a film that was released way back in 2016.
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This is the first time that the highest-ranking soundtrack on the Billboard 200 has ranked as low as No. 172 in the more than seven years that the Billboard 200 and the Top Soundtracks chart have adhered to the same chart formula.
Both charts rank 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).
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Everything is the music business is cyclical, and this seems to be especially true with soundtracks. They have years where they dominate the Billboard 200 and years where they hardly make a dent.
From Feb. 11, 2017, the week that the two charts first adhered to the same formula, through the chart dated Sept. 23, 2017, at least one soundtrack appeared in the top 20 every week, thanks to such winners as La La Land, Fifty Shades Darker, Trolls, Moana, Beauty and the Beast, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, Purple Rain and Descendants 2.
What’s more, at least one soundtrack appeared in the top 100 every week through April 24, 2021. After that, the ongoing pandemic slowed the flow of hit films, and as a consequence, hit soundtracks. There were 22 weeks in 2021 in which no soundtracks appeared in top 100.
The picture for soundtracks brightened considerably in 2022, thanks largely to Encanto and Elvis. At least one soundtrack appeared in the top 100 every week that year. In 33 of those weeks, at least one soundtrack appeared in the top 20.
There were seven weeks in 2023 in which no soundtracks appeared in the top 100. There have been nine such weeks so far in 2024.
Valentino Merlo and The La Planta hold steady atop the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as “Hoy,” their first partnership, rules the July 13-dated ranking for a second week. As the song rose 2-1 the week prior (list dated July 6), Argentinian Merlo became the youngest act to score a No. 1 since the chart […]
Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, commands Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated July 20) for a fourth week, becoming the first song to lead that long among the 15 singles that have scored their initial weeks atop the tally in 2024.
The collaboration increased by 1% to 33 million audience impressions July 5-11, according to Luminate.
The song became Post Malone’s first Country Airplay No. 1 (and Wallen’s 13th), after he notched 10 leaders on Rhythmic Airplay and five on Pop Airplay beginning in 2016. His new album, F-1 Trillion, is due Aug. 16; second single “Pour Me a Drink,” featuring Blake Shelton, ranks at No. 34 on Country Airplay (3 million, up 37%).
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Post Malone “deserves to be a superstar in country music, primarily because he is being real,” WJVC Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y., program director Phathead tells Billboard. “He’s put together a team that created one of the best songs we’ve heard, while singing it with the biggest act in the format. And he has a monster to follow with Shelton. A good boss in any business is only as good as the people around them. Great to see Post put his ego aside.”
Wallen 1, 2 for 3rd Week
For the first time in Country Airplay’s 34-year history, an act has ranked at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously for three weeks, as Wallen’s “Cowgirls,” featuring Ernest, holds at its No. 2 high (31.6 million, up 4%). Luke Bryan locked up the top two spots for two weeks in May-June 2014, while Luke Combs landed such a double-up for a week in September 2023.
Speaking of Combs, he earns his 21st consecutive career-opening top 10 single on Country Airplay as “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” pushes 11-10 (17.5 million, up 8%). The song introduces the soundtrack to the film Twisters, with both due July 19.
Baldridge Makes History
Drew Baldridge’s “She’s Somebody’s Daughter (Reimagined)” rises 10-8 on Country Airplay (19.3 million, up 5%). After becoming only the second self-released single ever to reach the top 10, it’s now the sole highest-charting, passing Aaron Watson’s “Outta Style,” which peaked at No. 10 in 2017.
“‘Flowers’ is one of those songs that has stood the test of time at multiple formats,” says Jon Zellner, iHeartMedia president, programming operations/digital music, of Miley Cyrus’ smash single. “It’s a mass-appeal song with a very strong hook and sounds like a song you already knew the first time you heard it.” A year and […]
On July 13, 2019, Blanco Brown’s “The Git Up” began a 12-week reign on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
Brown’s debut entry, released as the first single from his album Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs, was sparked by a viral dance challenge on TikTok and YouTube. He helped spur the craze by personally posting a tutorial.
“I grabbed spoons, tambourine, anything I could find that made a nice sound,” Brown told Billboard in 2019 of solely writing “The Git Up.” “When I got finished, it was so full of joy. I was doing the dance as I was writing it. I said, ‘This is going to be a song that makes people dance and brings joy.’ ”
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While the single marked Brown’s first hit as a recording artist, he had previously produced songs for pop acts including Chris Brown, Fergie and Pitbull.
Brown followed “The Git Up” with “Just the Way,” his collaboration with Parmalee that led Country Airplay in March 2021 and hit No. 3 on Hot Country Songs.
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In 2020, Brown, who hails from Athens, Ga., was involved in a motorcycle accident, breaking his wrists, arms, legs and pelvis, resulting in a 12-hour surgery. “I was broken, but it didn’t break my spirit,” he told Billboard in his first interview after the accident six months later.
In June, Brown released a four-song EP, Cedar Walls & Whiskey. “I’m gonna keep on manifesting everything I do in life,” he mused to Billboard at the 2024 ACM Awards on May 16. “I’m gonna stay positive no matter what and just keep thriving and striving to get where I need to go.”
Billie Eilish is back in charge in Australia, as Hit Me Hard And Soft bounces 2-1 for its fifth non-consecutive week atop the leaderboard.
The U.S. pop sensation has now logged 15 weeks at the ARIA Chart summit. That career result includes eight non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2019-20 with her debut LP, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, while her sophomore album Happier Than Ever logged two weeks at the penthouse following its release in 2021.
Taylor Swift’s juggernaut The Tortured Poets Department is down 1-2, while U.S. country star Zach Bryan enjoys the top debut this week with his fifth studio album The Great American Bar Scene, new at No. 3. Hailing from Oklahoma, Bryan bagged a No. 2 peak with his self-titled collection from 2023, and No. 54 on the ARIA Chart with his 2022 effort American Heartbreak.
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Also making a splash on the latest ARIA Chart, published Friday, July 12, is Eves Karydas‘ Burnt Tapes, new at No. 23. That’s a new career high and an impressive improvement on the No. 75 peak for Summerskin, from 2018, the Cairns, Australia-born singer-songwriter’s first album.
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Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” logs a second consecutive week at No. 1, doing so in its 12th week on the tally. Sabrina Carpenter completes an unchanged podium with “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” respectively. Both are former chart leaders in these parts.
Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar’s controversial diss track “Not Like Us” rebounds from 9-5, its equal peak position.
Morgan Wallen scores his fifth top 50 single in Australia as “Lies Lies Lies” debuts at No. 35. The U.S. country superstar’s career tally includes two No. 1s: “Last Night,” which spent eight weeks at No. 1 in 2023, and “I Had Some Help,” his collaboration with Post Malone, which logged a single week at the top in May. “I Had Some Help” dips 5-6 on the latest frame.
Finally, Eminem stashes another top 40 with “Tobey,” featuring Big Sean and BabyTron. It’s the latest single release from Em’s new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), which dropped early Friday.
Nickelback’s catalog sports sizable gains following the June 16 U.S. Netflix premiere of the band’s career-spanning documentary, Hate to Love: Nickelback, with one of its signature songs ruling a Billboard chart dated July 13.
“How You Remind Me,” the group’s breakthrough 2001 hit, bounds in at No. 1 on the Hot Hard Rock Songs tally, as well as No. 12 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. (Older songs are eligible to rank on Billboard’s multimetric charts if placing in the top half and with a meaningful reason for their re-entries.)
In the tracking week ending July 4, “How You Remind Me” earned 5.1 million official U.S. streams, up 12%, and sold 2,000 downloads, up 171%, according to Luminate.
The song makes its first appearance on Hot Hard Rock Songs, which began in 2020, and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, which started in 2009. “How You Remind Me” was released on Nickelback’s third studio album, Silver Side Up, and became its to-date only No. 1 on the all-format Billboard Hot 100, ruling for four weeks in 2001-02.
While “How You Remind Me” is the only song from Nickelback’s catalog to reach the newest multimetric Billboard charts, the band’s music dots other surveys. “Rockstar,” from 2005’s All the Right Reasons, crowns Hard Rock Digital Song Sales (2,000 sold), where it’s followed by “How You Remind Me” at No. 2; “Photograph,” also from All the Right Reasons, at No. 4; “Someday,” from 2003’s The Long Road, at No. 8; and “Savin’ Me,” likewise from All the Right Reasons, at No. 9.
“How You Remind Me” also leads a pair of Nickelback tracks on Hard Rock Streaming Songs, lifting 4-3 as the survey’s Greatest Gainer. “Rockstar” follows as a re-entry at No. 23 via 3.1 million streams.
On the Top Hard Rock Albums tally, The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1, released in 2013, rises 3-2 thanks to 18,000 equivalent album units earned, a 30% jump. The 19-song compilation features each of the aforementioned tracks.
In all, Nickelback’s catalog received 28 million official on-demand U.S. streams in the week ending July 4, up 22% from 22.9 million in the week ending June 27.
Hate to Love: Nickelback premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2023 prior to its Netflix arrival.
The four-piece’s most recent album, Get Rollin’, was released in November 2022 and debuted at its No. 2 high on the Top Hard Rock Albums survey. It has earned 149,000 equivalent album units to date and spawned a No. 2-peaking Mainstream Rock Airplay hit in “San Quentin.”
Marc Anthony banks his record-extending 37th No. 1 on Billboard’s Tropical Airplay chart as “Ale Ale”rises to rule the chart dated July 13. The single from the salsa juggernaut lands atop Tropical Airplay – after five consecutive weeks in the runner-up slot – with 6.1 audience impressions on reporting stations to the chart in the […]