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Charli XCX’s “Guess,” featuring Billie Eilish, soars to No. 1, from No. 16, on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated Aug. 17).
The song surged by 758% to 20.4 million official streams and 515% to 5,000 downloads sold in the United States Aug. 2-8, according to Luminate. It also drew 182,000 in radio audience.
“Guess” gains following the Aug. 1 arrival of its remix with Eilish, which accounted for the bulk of the song’s overall consumption in the tracking week. The cut was first released by Charli XCX solo on June 10 on her Brat and It’s the Same but There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not deluxe version of her Atlantic Records album Brat, which was originally released on June 7.
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Charli notches her second No. 1 since Hot Dance/Electronic Songs began in January 2013, after Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” on which she’s featured, led for two weeks that May. Eilish reigns with her first entry on the chart.
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“Guess” concurrently debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard Global 200 and No. 5 on Billboard Global Excl. U.S. On the U.S.-based, all-genre multimetric Billboard Hot 100, it opens at No. 12, marking Charli XCX’s highest rank (and first top 40 placement) since she arrived with three consecutive top 10s in 2013-14: “I Love It” (No. 7 peak, May 2013); Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” (No. 1 for seven weeks, beginning in June 2014); and “Boom Clap” (No. 8, October 2014).
Meanwhile, Charli’s presence on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs extends beyond “Guess,” as she boasts six songs in the top 10. Only Drake and Rihanna have each logged as many or more top 10s simultaneously, led by Drake’s eight on the July 2, 2022, chart, when his LP Honestly, Nevermind launched its 20-week run at No. 1 on Top Dance/Electronic Albums.
Brat rules Top Dance/Electronic Albums for a ninth week, having led in each week on the survey since its debut. It earned 56,000 equivalent album units, up 39%, and wins the list’s Greatest Gainer award for a third consecutive week.
Eight tracks from Brat have hit the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs top 10 to date. Here’s a recap, ranked by their peak positions:
No. 1 (one week to date), “Guess,” feat. Billie Eilish
No. 2, “360”
No. 3, “Girl, So Confusing,” with Lorde
No. 4, “Apple”
No. 5, “Talk Talk”
No. 7, “Von Dutch”
No. 8, “365”
No. 10, “Sympathy Is a Knife”
Also notably, Charli has claimed at least one of the Greatest Gainer ribbons on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in nine of the last 10 weeks, spread among five tracks from Brat:
Aug. 17: “Guess,” streaming & sales; “360,” airplay
Aug. 10: “Guess,” streaming & sales; “360,” airplay
Aug. 3: “Apple,” streaming & sales
July 27: “Apple,” streaming
July 13: “360,” airplay
July 6: “Girl, So Confusing,” streaming & sales
June 29: “Guess,” streaming
June 22: “360,” streaming; “Von Dutch,” sales
June 15: “360,” streaming & sales
As “Guess” takes the week’s top headlines among Brat songs, “360” continues its climb as the set’s promoted radio single. It bounds 35-27 in its second week on the Pop Airplay chart. Charli has tallied two No. 1s on the ranking: “Fancy” and “Boom Clap” led for three weeks each in 2014.
Jack White scores his seventh solo top 10-charting set on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart as his latest release, No Name, debuts at No. 8 on the chart dated Aug. 17. The effort was initially secretly released on July 19 as a free, unlabeled vinyl to unsuspecting customers at Third Man Records stores in Detroit, Nashville and London. It was then commercially released on Thursday, Aug. 1 as a blue-colored vinyl LP, exclusive to independent record stores, and then widely as a digital download album on August 2.
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In the tracking week of Aug. 2-8 (all Billboard album charts reflect a Friday-Thursday tracking week), No Name sold 7,000 copies – with nearly 4,500 on vinyl. (In the week ending Aug. 1, the album sold about 1,000 copies – all on vinyl.)
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No Name will garner a wider release on Sept. 13 when a standard black vinyl and a CD are due out.
Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department returns to No. 1 for a seventh nonconsecutive week, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 debuts at No. 2, Red Velvet’s Cosmic starts at No. 6, Orville Peck’s Stampede gallops in at No. 9 and X’s Smoke & Fiction launches at No. 10.
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 Twitter and Instagram.
The Tortured Poets Department jumps 6-1 on Top Album Sales with a 606% gain to 84,000 copies sold. The set’s sales were bolstered by a number of drivers during the tracking week. It was released in five new digital album variants via Swift’s official webstore for a limited time, each containing the standard album’s 16 songs, along with one exclusive bonus track for $4.99 each (one album contained a “first draft phone memo” version of “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” while the other four contained one live track each from recent stops during her The Eras Tour). In addition, for a limited time, the store restocked three previously available digital album variants with exclusive bonus cuts, and a signed CD edition. Her store also staged a brief sale pricing promotion, whereby 16 previously available physical variants of the album were all discounted by 13% (as 13 is Swift’s favorite number).
At No. 2 on Top Album Sales, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s delayed Vultures 2 lands with 60,500 sold in its first week. The set’s opening-week sales were aided by its availability across a widely available standard explicit edition, and a late-in-the-week-released clean edition (on Aug. 8), but no physical formats. Vultures 2 was originally slated for release on March 8, but was released with little advance warning on Saturday, Aug. 3.
Ye’s official webstore also issued five additional explicit digital album variants of Vultures 2 on Wednesday (Aug. 7) and Thursday (Aug. 8), each containing the standard album’s 16 tracks, along with one exclusive studio bonus track per album. All digital albums on Ye’s webstore sold for $5 each. The Vultures 2 album, both clean and explicit, was also discounted to $4.99 in the iTunes Store in the tracking week.
Stray Kids’ ATE falls 1-3 on Top Album Sales in its third week after spending its first two weeks atop the chart. ATE sold a little more than 26,000 copies in the latest tracking frame (down 41%). ENHYPEN’s Romance: Untold is a non-mover at No. 4 with just over 12,000 sold (down 20%).
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft climbs 11-5 with nearly 10,500 sold and a 35% increase – the set’s first weekly sales gain in its 12 weeks of release. (The gain is largely owed to sales generated by non-traditional retailers, inclusive of Internet-based sellers like Eilish’s official webstore.)
Red Velvet claims its first top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales as Cosmic debuts at No. 6 with 8,500 sold – the group’s best sales week yet. The Korean pop ensemble previously got as high as No. 40 in 2020 with The Reve Festival: Finale. Cosmic was released as a digital download album, and through streaming services, on June 24. Its physical release, across five CDs, came on Aug. 2. The CD variants include collectible paper ephemera, including a photocard, sticker and a poster (some randomized).
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess returns to the top 10 after three weeks, as the album bolts 17-7 with nearly 8,500 (up 34%). The album’s ascent comes after Roan’s rousing reception at Lollapalooza on Aug. 1.
Orville Peck notches his second top 10 on Top Album Sales as his new studio effort Stampede bows at No. 9 with 6,500 sold in its first week. The set’s sales were bolstered by its availability across eight vinyl variants, which collectively sold nearly 4,500 – enabling its debut at No. 4 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
Closing out the top 10 on the new Top Album Sales chart is X’s new studio album Smoke & Fiction, debuting at No. 10 with the veteran band’s best sales week in the modern era (since 1991, when Luminate began tracking sales), nearly 6,500 sold. It’s also the first top 10 for the act on the Top Album Sales chart. The new set is promoted as the final studio album from the band, which first dented a Billboard chart in 1981 when Wild Gift reached No. 165 in June of that year on the Billboard 200. Smoke & Fiction’s first-week sales were aided by the set’s availability across five vinyl variants, which collectively sold a little over 4,000 copies (enabling its debut at No. 6 on the Vinyl Albums chart).
Chase & Status and Stormzy are making a bold move on the U.K. Official Singles Chart this week with their explosive new track “BACKBONE.”
The track, a blend of Chase & Status’s dark drum and bass beats and Stormzy’s commanding flow, has surged to the top of the midweek chart. It marks a major moment for the duo, who could be on the brink of landing their first-ever collaborative U.K. No. 1 single.
For Stormzy, it would add yet another milestone to his impressive career, giving him his fourth No. 1 hit. He first hit No. 1 in 2019 with “Vossi Bop” and later that year with “Own It,” featuring Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy, and “Take Me Back to London” also with Sheeran.
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However, the battle for the top spot is far from over.
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Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” has shown remarkable staying power, jumping back to No. 2. Roan’s track, a catchy pop anthem with an irresistible hook, has been a fan favorite, and its resurgence suggests it still has the potential to challenge for No. 1 by the end of the week.
Meanwhile, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s “Guess” has slipped to No. 3, but with its pulsating beats and the star power of both artists, it remains a strong contender in this week’s chart race. The song, which previously held the top spot, still remains a replay among listeners, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see it make a late push back towards No. 1.
Beyond the top three, the charts are bustling with activity.
At No. 4, Billie Eilish continues to hold strong with Birds of a Feather. The track has shown remarkable staying power on the charts, maintaining its position near the top for 13 weeks. Meanwhile, Myles Smith is sitting comfortably at No. 5 with Stargazing, a track that has steadily climbed the charts over the past 14 weeks.
“Kisses,” the breakout summer hit from Bl3SS, CamrinWatsin, and bbyclose, continues its ascent, now perched at No. 6. The track’s smooth, laid-back vibe has made it a summer staple, and it’s edging ever closer to cracking the Top 5.
In a surprise move, Jade’s “Angel Of My Dreams” is set to re-enter the U.K. Top 10 at No. 8. The song, with its ethereal vocals and haunting melody, has been given new life by the release of its S.A.D. (Slow. Angelic. Dramatic.) version.
Further down the chart, Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, and D.O.D.’s “Somedays” is making a significant leap, climbing 19 places to land at No. 12. The track, a club-ready anthem with a driving beat, is vibing with listeners as we head deeper into summer.
This week’s chart battle is shaping up to be one of the most exciting in recent memory. With “BACKBONE” currently leading the charge, the pressure is on for Chase & Status and Stormzy to maintain their momentum and secure that No. 1 spot.
But with strong competition from Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, and Billie Eilish, anything could happen by the time the U.K. Singles Chart is revealed.
Beabadoobee is on track to secure her first-ever U.K. Official Chart No. 1 album with This Is How Tomorrow Moves.
The Filipino-English artist, whose real name is Bea Kristi, has already made an impact with her previous releases—Fake It Flowers (No. 8 in 2020) and Beatopia (No. 4 in 2022). Now, her third album, crafted with legendary producer Rick Rubin, is leading the midweek chart.
Rubin, known for his work with artists like Lady Gaga, Adele, Travis Scott, and The Strokes, brings his signature touch to Beabadoobee’s latest effort.
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Hot on her heels at No. 2 is Will Young, the original Pop Idol, with his ninth studio album, Light It Up. Should the album maintain its position, it would mark Young’s 11th Top 10 album in the U.K. Young has previously topped the Official Albums Chart four times, with records like From Now On (2002) and 85% Proof (2015).
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Blues singer-songwriter Elles Bailey is also making waves, with her latest album Beneath The Neon Glow projected to debut at No. 5. This would be Bailey’s first U.K. Top 10 album. She told Official Charts, “Thank for you so much for all the love for this record. The response to the new tracks in the build-up has been unbelievable and I just want to thank my incredible fans for joining me on my journey in the most meaningful of ways.”
Afrobeats star Asake is aiming for his first Top 10 album with Longu Boy, currently sitting at No. 8. The album’s lead single, “Wave,” featuring Central Cee, is also dominating the Official Afrobeats Chart at No. 1.
Outside the Top 10, Calvin Harris is set to debut at No. 11 with his new compilation album, 96 Hours. The album features a string of hits from the past eight years, including the U.K. No. 1 singles “One Kiss” with Dua Lipa and “Promises” with Sam Smith.
Billy Joel could see his Piano Man – The Very Best of Billy Joel re-enter the U.K. Top 40 for the first time in 14 years, landing at No. 28 after his recent Cardiff performance. Meanwhile, Paul Weller’s Fly On The Wall – B-Sides & Rarities is projected to debut at No. 34, marking the former The Jam frontman’s 29th Top 40 album.
This week’s chart race is shaping up to be an exciting one, with Beabadoobee’s potential chart-topping achievement leading the way. Stay tuned for the final results when the Official Albums Chart is announced on Friday (Aug. 16).
*NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” bounds to the top 10, to No. 8 from No. 16, on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart. The song, originally a smash in 2000, is newly fueled by its synch in the box office blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine, which has grossed over $1 billion globally since it premiered July 26.
The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020 – where Billie Eilish rules the roost with “Birds of a Feather” – 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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“Bye Bye Bye” scales Global Excl. U.S. with 42.4 million streams (up 50%) and 3,000 sold (up 5%) outside the U.S. Aug. 2-8, sparked by its placement in the early moments of Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. The track debuted a week earlier, marking the group’s first entry on the chart.
Beyond holiday hits, “Bye Bye Bye” – which ruled Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart for 10 weeks and the all-format Radio Songs ranking, and hit No. 4 on the multimetric, U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 in 2000 – is the second-oldest title to reach the Global Excl. U.S. top 10; Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” originally from 1985, reigned for a week in July 2022, initially revived by its synch in Netflix’s Stranger Things and subsequently promoted as a single.
(Now in third place, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” from 2001, hit No. 9 on Global Excl. U.S. this February, renewed thanks to its appearance in the film Saltburn, along with buzz on TikTok.)
“Bye Bye Bye” also jumps 18-12 on the Global 200 and re-enters the Hot 100 at No. 45. It drew 10 million official streams (up 31%), 4.8 million in radio airplay audience (up 8%) and 2,000 in sales in the U.S. Aug. 2-8.
To date, the anthem boasts 4.8 billion in radio reach, 517 million official on-demand streams and 1.3 million downloads sold in the U.S. It won for best pop video at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards (where *NSYNC performed the song) and scored a record of the year Grammy nomination.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 17, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 13. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Billie Eilish earns her first No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts as “Birds of a Feather” rises from the runner-up spot to perch atop each survey.
Eilish also debuts in the top five of each chart as Charli xcx’s “Guess,” on which she’s featured, starts at No. 3 on the Global 200 and No. 5 on Global Excl. U.S.
The 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.
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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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“Birds of a Feather” tops the Global 200 with 78.8 million streams (up 2%) and 7,000 sold (up 11%) worldwide Aug. 2-8. The singer-songwriter previously peaked as high as No. 2 on the chart with “What Was I Made For?” in August 2023 and “Therefore I Am” in November 2020.
Plus, Charli xcx’s “Guess,” featuring Eilish, debuts at No. 3 on the Global 200 with 60.3 million streams and 9,000 sold worldwide. The song surged by 999% and 848% in the respective metrics following the Aug. 1 arrival of its remix with Eilish; it was first released June 10 on Charli xcx’s Brat and It’s the Same but There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not, the deluxe version of her album Brat, released June 7. Charli xcx notches her first top 10 since the Global 200 began, while Eilish adds her eighth.
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Elsewhere in the Global 200’s top five, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” rebounds 3-2, following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in June; Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” holds at No. 4, after reaching No. 3; and Jimin’s “Who” falls to No. 5 after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1.
“Birds of a Feather” concurrently climbs 2-1 on Global Excl. U.S., with 57.3 million streams (up 3%) and 3,000 sold (up 18%) outside the U.S. Aug. 2-8. Eilish previously reached a No. 2 peak with “Lunch” in June and “Therefore I Am” in 2020. Both “Birds of a Feather” and “Lunch” are from her newest album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
Charli xcx’s “Guess,” featuring Eilish, opens at No. 5 on Global Excl. U.S. with 40.1 million streams and 4,000 sold globally. As on the Global 200, Charli xcx claims her first Global Excl. U.S. top 10, while Eilish ups her count to eight.
In between Eilish’s concurrent top five Global Excl. U.S. hits, Jimin’s “Who” slips to No. 2 after logging its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1; Carpenter’s “Espresso” holds at No. 3, following eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in May; and Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” keeps at its No. 4 best.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 17, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 13. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” adds a fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Notably, the single, the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the Hot 100, is the first song to rule in streams, radio airplay and sales simultaneously since Adele’s “Easy on Me” in 2021. As “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” continues atop the Hot 100, it rebounds for a 10th week at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, notches a fourth week atop Streaming Songs and adds a second week atop Radio Songs.
Dating to the origin of Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart in January 2013 (when it joined Radio Songs, which began in 1990, and Digital Song Sales, which first published in 2005), “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” becomes one of only a dozen hits to have ruled in the Hot 100’s three metrics simultaneously.
Plus, as “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tops the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a ninth week, it’s the first song to reign in streams, airplay and sales while leading both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs.
“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood/EMPIRE (with country radio promotion by Magnolia Music), is from Shaboozey’s album Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going.
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The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 17, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 13. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
‘Tipsy’ Still Tops
Chappell Roan is finally crowned on the U.K. chart. Almost a year since its release, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island) lifts 4-1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, for its first stint at the top of the leaderboard. Roan’s ascent can be seen on charts around the globe, including the United States, Australia and now the U.K., where Midwest Princess completes its climb in its 17th week on the chart, published Friday, Aug. 9.Just last week, the Missouri artist broke the daytime attendance record for a performance at Lollapalooza Chicago. Also, her single “Good Luck, Babe” has become the highest-charting song in her career, entering the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Official U.K. Singles Chart, where it’s currently at No. 2. Originally dropping in September 2023, Midwest Princess enjoys a lift in the U.K. following its release on vinyl, with over half of its seven-day total made up of physical sales, the Official Charts Company reports.The “Popstar Edition” wax pressing leads this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart.Charli xcx’s BRAT summer continues to heat up, as her Mercury Prize-nominated Atlantic album returns to its previous peak, No. 2.Also new to the national tally is Vultures 2 (YZY) from Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign. Vultures 2 swoops in at No. 7. It’s the followup to their first collaborative record, Vultures, which peaked at No. 2 in February. Finally, Jack White nabs his seventh solo U.K. top 40 appearance with No Name (Third Man). It’s new at No. 33. No Name enjoyed a conventional release after vinyl versions of the album were handed out at three of White’s Third Man Records outlets.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers wrapped their multi-year, multi-continent tour with the biggest business of their multi-decade career. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Unlimited Love Tour sold 3.4 million tickets over 86 shows.
Among rock tours, it finishes as the third best-selling trek this decade, only behind Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour and Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.
Though not eligible for Boxscore reporting, the Red Hot Chili Peppers closed out this touring cycle with a performance tonight (Aug. 11) at the LA28 handover celebration at the Closing Ceremony of 2024 Olympics, where Paris passes the torch to the Chili Peppers’ hometown of Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Boxscore totals only include grosses for ticketed headline shows, whereas the Olympics performance is part of a larger televised event.
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The Unlimited Love Tour supported its namesake album, which was released in April 2022, as well as Return of the Dream Canteen, which followed in October of that year. Both sets led the Top Rock Albums chart, and the former crowned the all-genre Billboard 200.
The Unlimited Love Tour kicked off on June 4, 2022 with a performance at Estadio de La Cartuja in Sevilla, Spain. That show launched a 12-show leg in Europe that sold 659,000 tickets. Next was 19 shows in the U.S. and Canada, adding 807,000 tickets. That remains the highest-grossing and best-selling leg of the tour.
What followed was a parade of shows in Asia, Latin America, and Oceania, plus returns to Europe and North America before closing on July 30 in Maryland Heights, Mo. While the first stateside run claimed top honors for cumulative gross and attendance, the Chili Peppers’ string of eight shows in Australia and New Zealand (January-February 2023) boasted the best per-show ticket sales, averaging 47,326. Those dates were helped by the presence of Post Malone, joining while on his Twelve Carat Tour.
As for individual engagements, the biggest was a double-header at England’s London Stadium on June 25-26, 2022. Those two combined for 142,000 tickets sold. Among one-night-stands, it’s the Nov. 10, 2023 concert at Estadio do Morumbi in Sao Paulo, where the band played to 71,000 fans.
These final figures represent an entirely new peak in the Chili Peppers’ career. Though the band had dabbled with stadium shows before, this was its first full tour in the top-capacity venues. The tour’s 3.4 million attendance total is about 3.5x the group’s previous best, when the By the Way World Tour sold 979,000 in 2002-03. On average, the tour paced 39,761 tickets per show, up from 14,291 on the 1995-96 One Hot Minute Tour.
Dating back to a 1985 Halloween show at New York’s The Ritz, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold 8.6 million tickets over 498 reported shows.
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department clocks a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 17), with 142,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 8 (up 98%) according to Luminate.
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The last album to spend at least 14 weeks at No. 1 was Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which logged 19 total nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023 and this March. The last album by a woman to spend at least 14 total weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on top in 2011-12.
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 debuts at No. 2 with 107,000 equivalent album units, marking the 13th Ye album to reach the top two (his entirety of charting releases), while Ty Dolla $ign ups his tally of top 10s to three.
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Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 142,000 units earned in the week ending Aug. 8, album sales comprise 84,000 (up 606%), SEA units comprise 57,500 (equaling 75.43 million on-demand official streams of the set’s widely available deluxe edition’s 31 songs) and TEA units comprise 500. Poets is No. 2 on the Top Streaming Albums chart (behind Wallen’s One Thing at a Time) and No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.
Poets’ album sales in the latest tracking week were bolstered by a number of drivers. The set was released in five new digital album variants via Swift’s official webstore for a limited time, each containing the standard album’s 16 songs, along with one exclusive bonus track for $4.99 each (one album contained a “first draft phone memo” version of “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” while the other four contained one live track each from recent stops during her The Eras Tour). In addition, for a limited time, the store restocked three previously available digital album variants with exclusive bonus cuts, and a signed CD edition. Her store also staged a brief sale pricing promotion, whereby 16 previously available physical variants of the album were all discounted by 13% (as 13 is Swift’s favorite number).
With Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200 — she adds her 83rd career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)
At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 swoops in with 107,000 equivalent album units earned. The album was released on Saturday (Aug. 3). It’s the long-awaited sequel to the chart-topping Vultures 1, which opened atop the Feb. 24-dated chart with 148,000 units. Of the new album’s first-week figure, album sales comprise 60,500 in album sales, SEA units comprise 46,000 (equaling 50.44 million on-demand official streams of the standard set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500 units. Vultures 2 also bows at No. 6 on the Top Streaming Albums chart and No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart.
The opening sales of Vultures 2 were aided by its availability across a widely available standard explicit edition, and a late-in-the-week-released clean edition (on Aug. 8). Ye’s official webstore also issued five additional explicit digital album variants on Wednesday (Aug. 7) and Thursday (Aug. 8), each containing the standard album’s 16 tracks, along with one exclusive studio bonus track per album. All digital albums on Ye’s webstore sold for $5 each. The Vultures 2 album, both clean and explicit, was also discounted to $4.99 in the iTunes Store in the tracking week.
Vultures 2 was originally slated for release on March 8.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbs to a new high, as it rises from its prior No. 4 best to No. 3 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned (up 20%). The album’s ascent comes after Roan’s rousing reception at Lollapalooza on Aug. 1.
Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time dips 2-4 with 63,000 equivalent album units (down 2%), while Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is steady at No. 5 with 57,000 units (up 8%).
Charli XCX’s Brat bolts 9-6 with 56,000 equivalent album units earned (up 39%), following the release of the album’s “Guess” remix with Eilish on Aug. 1.
Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene falls 3-7 (51,000 equivalent album units; down 16%), Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album rises 11-8 (just over 37,000; down less than 1%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season lifts 10-9 (a little more than 37,000; down 5%) and the Twisters: The Album soundtrack drops 8-10 (37,000; down 16%).
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