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Fuerza Regida makes a splash across Billboard‘s charts with the arrival of 111XPANTIA, the group’s ninth studio album, which debuts at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Top Regional Mexican Albums and Top Latin Albums charts (dated May 17), respectively. The 12-track set also opens at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, becoming the highest charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group ever.
111XPANTIA was released May 2 as a 12-song album on Street Mob/Rancho Humilde/Sony Music Latin. It starts at No. 1 on the Top Regional Mexican Albums with 76,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the tracking week ending May 8, according to Luminate.
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Of the 76,000 units for the week, streaming contributes 37,000, which translates to 50.4 million official on-demand streams. The remaining 39,000 units are nearly all from album sales, with a negligible number of track-equivalent units.
111XPANTIA marks Fuerza Regida’s sixth No. 1 overall on Top Regional Mexican Albums and third No. 1 debut in just under six years. The group’s No. 1 run began in July 2019, when Del Barrio Hasta Aquí debuted at the summit, becoming its longest-leading set to date, with an 18-week domination. There, 111XPANTIA joins three other Fuerza Regida’s albums, two still in the top 10: Pa Las Baby’s y Belikeada at No. 9, Mala Mía (EP), their joint effort with Grupo Frontera, at No. 10, and Dolido Pero No Arrepentido at No. 19.
111XPANTIA also sees its No. 2 debut on Top Latin Albums, matching the group’s previous No. 2 start with Pa’ Las Baby’s Belikeada –which eventually dominated for three weeks in 2024.
As reported, on May 2, 111XPANTIA was released in both on physical formats and as a digital download for purchase, and via streaming platforms. The physical albums were sold exclusively through the group’s webstore. A deluxe edition of the album, featuring three bonus tracks—including collaborations with Anuel AA and Bellakath—followed shortly after on May 5, available via digital download and streamers.
15 Simultaneous Songs: On a song front, all 12 songs from 111XPANTIA arrive on the multimetric Hot Latin Songs chart. “Peliculiando” leads the new cuts, with most of it debut driven by 5.3 million official U.S. streams in the tracking week. (Hot Latin Songs blends streams, airplay and sales.) The set was previewed by its first single “Por Esos Ojos,” which rallies 10-3 with the Greatest Gainer/ Streaming honors, after registering 7.3 million official streams, up 36%. Those songs join two other tracks with Grupo Frontera, as well as one with Clave Especial, for a total of 15 concurrent entries on the tally.
Let’s dive into Fuerza Regida’s lineup on this week’s Hot Latin Songs chart:
No. 2, “Me Jalo,” with Grupo FronteraNo. 3, “Por Esos Ojos”No. 11, “Peliculiando”No. 14, “Marlboro Rojo”No. 16, “GodFather”No. 22, “Ansiedad”No. 25, “Tu Sancho”No. 26, “Ayy weyy”No. 31, “Caperuza”No. 32, “Como Capo,” with Clave EspecialNo. 34, “Nocturno”No. 35, “Chavalitas”No. 37,” Chaka”No. 38, “Chufulas”No. 40, “Coqueta,” with Grupo Frontera
Elsewhere, 111XPANTIA also bows at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200, marking the highest charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group ever, surpassing Maná’s Amar Es Combatir (No. 4 in 2006). Plus, it scores the largest week, by units, for any Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and by a regional Mexican album, since the chart began ranking by units in December 2014.
All charts (dated May 17, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 13. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
On May 9, Beyoncé wrapped a historic run of five shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Cowboy Carter Tour kick-off grossed $55.7 million and sold 217,000 tickets.
Beyoncé’s $50 million-plus run in Los Angeles is the biggest reported single-venue engagement of 2025 so far, eclipsing multiple stops on Coldplay’s tour through Asia and Shakira’s seven-night stay in Mexico City. Further, it’s the fifth-highest grossing tour stop in Boxscore history, only behind two legs of U2’s Sphere residency in Las Vegas (2023-24), Harry Styles’ 15 shows at Madison Square Garden in New York (2022), and eight nights of Take That at Wembley Stadium in London (2011). Notably, it’s the highest-grossing reported single-venue engagement ever by a woman.
Cowboy Carter Tour launched on Monday, April 28, with successive performances on May 1, 4, 7, and 9. On average, Beyoncé grossed $11.1 million per night, playing to more than 43,000 fans at each show. In completing this week-long run, she has now played more shows at SoFi Stadium than any other artist in the venue’s history – eight, including three in 2023 – since its opening at the beginning of the decade.
The L.A.-area shows may not even remain the tour’s peak, as an upcoming five-night stay at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (13 miles from New York) could challenge that $55 million take. Beyoncé will have her longest run at one venue in London with six nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, though ticket prices overseas often fall below the surging rates in the United States.
Using Cowboy Carter Tour figures in the Los Angeles area as a guide, with city-by-city comparisons to previous tours, it appears that Beyoncé’s 2025 run is barreling toward Billboard’s initial projections of $300 million. It will out-gross all of her previous tours with the lone exception of 2023’s Renaissance World Tour, which ran for 56 shows compared to Cowboy Carter Tour’s current routing of 32. According to Live Nation, total ticket sales will eclipse one million.
The initial reports for Cowboy Carter Tour push Beyoncé’s reported career Boxscore earnings past $1.4 billion, with 11.9 million tickets sold. Those totals will continue to rise until the trek closes on July 26 at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium.
Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200. A week earlier, the song became the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the chart.
Meanwhile, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” scores a 17th week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. survey. The ballad first hit No. 1 on the list last September.
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.
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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.
“Ordinary” leads the Global 200 with 65.9 million streams (essentially even week-over-week) and 11,000 sold (down 9%) worldwide May 2-8.
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 beginning 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 in February-April 2024.
“Die With a Smile” adds a 17th week at No. 1 on Global Excl. U.S., with 64.8 million streams (down 3%) and 3,000 sold (down 5%) outside the U.S. The song holds the second-longest rule in the chart’s archives:
19 weeks at No. 1, “APT.,” ROSÉ & Bruno Mars (2024-25)
17 weeks, “Die With a Smile,” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (2024-25)
14 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (2021-25)
13 weeks, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus (2023)
13 weeks, “As It Was,” Harry Styles (2022)
“Ordinary” rises 3-2 for a new Global Excl. U.S. best; “APT.” drops 2-3; JENNIE’s “like JENNIE” keeps at No. 4, after hitting No. 3; and “Birds of a Feather” repeats at No. 5, following three weeks at No. 1 last August.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated May 17, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 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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Say your prayers: Christian music is making a serious comeback.
On the Billboard Hot 100, dated May 10, two Christian songs are making waves: Brandon Lake’s “Hard Fought Hallelujah” ranks at No. 44 in its 11th week on the chart (after reaching No. 40 last week) and Forrest Frank’s “Your Way’s Better” jumps from No. 72 to No. 62 in its second week.
Lake and Frank have both emerged as breakout stars in the Christian music world, thanks in part to their growing popularity across social media platforms like TikTok.
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Lake has charted 42 songs on the Hot Christian Songs chart, all since 2019. Nine of those reached the top 10 and six hit No. 1. Three of those hits, including “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” spent 20-plus weeks on top.
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Frank, meanwhile, first broke onto Billboard’s charts in 2020 as half of the pop duo Surfaces (alongside Colin Padalecki), thanks to their viral hit “Sunday Best.” The TikTok-friendly song climbed to No. 19 on the Hot 100 and even found success at radio, reaching the top 10 of Pop Airplay. Since then, Frank has pivoted to Christian music and quickly became a force in the genre. He’s logged 34 entries on the Hot Christian Songs chart, including six top 10s: “Good Day” (No. 2 peak in 2024); “Up!,” with Connor Price (No. 8, 2024); “Never Get Used to This,” with JVKE (No. 6, 2024); “The Present” (No. 9, January); “Nothing Else,” with Thomas Rhett (No. 4, March); and “Your Way’s Better.” No other artist has charted more songs on the ranking since the beginning of 2022. He also finished 2024 as Billboard’s No. 1 top new Christian artist.
Frank’s album Child of God has also dominated the Top Christian Albums chart, spending 34 weeks and counting at No. 1, making it the fifth-longest-leading No. 1 album this century. He released the set’s follow-up, Child of God II, Friday (May 9).
Christian music has historically had a limited presence on the Hot 100. Dating to when Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart adopted its current multimetric methodology on Dec. 7, 2013 — blending U.S. streams, radio airplay and sales — 52 Christian songs have charted on both the Hot 100 and Hot Christian Songs. But there are some important caveats.
Of those 52 songs, 34 were by Kanye West from his albums Jesus Is King or Donda and one was by DJ Khaled featuring West and Eminem (“Use This Gospel [Remix]”) — both were, of course, already long-established hip-hop acts with a core fanbase outside of Christian music. Another six were religious-themed holiday songs (Carrie Underwood’s “Silent Night,” for example).
That leaves us with just 11 Christian songs that are not tied to the holidays or crossover rap acts:
Artist, Title, Peak Year on the Hot 100:
Carrie Underwood, “Something in the Water,” 2014Craig Wayne Boyd, “The Old Rugged Cross,” 2014Hillsong UNITED, “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail),” 2014Jordan Smith, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” 2015NEEDTOBREATHE feat. Gavin DeGraw, “Brother,” 2015Jordan Smith, “Mary Did You Know,” 2016Avril Lavigne, “Head Above Water,” 2018NF, “Let You Down,” 2018Lauren Daigle, “You Say,” 2019Brandon Lake, “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” 2025Forrest Frank, “Your Way’s Better,” 2025
And there may be more on the way. Two additional Christian tracks are climbing Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 ranking — which lists the 25 songs just below the Hot 100 that haven’t yet debuted: Elevation Worship’s “Praise,” featuring Brandon Lake, Chris Brown and Chandler Moore (No. 20; currently No. 3 on Hot Christian Songs) and Forrest Frank’s “Good Day” (No. 23; peaked at No. 2 on Hot Christian Songs last year).
What makes this specific chart week extra notable for Christian music, though, is that it’s just the second time (since 2013) that two Christian songs are charting simultaneously. It only happened once before on Dec. 27, 2014, when Underwood’s “Something in the Water” and Boyd’s “The Old Rugged Cross” charted together. The latter song, however, spent a week on the chart before dropping off. Unlike that week, Lake’s hit has significant longevity and Frank’s is still on the rise.
For Provident Label Group, which finished 2024 as Billboard‘s No. 1 Top Christian Label and whose roster included Lake and genre powerhouse Elevation Worship, pivoting their marketing efforts to younger demographics has been key to their success.
“Over the past few years, we’ve focused on investing in the future of the genre instead of just seeking to repeat past successes,” said marketing & brand strategy vp Mat Anderson. “For Christian music to thrive in the next 5-10 years, we must attract younger audiences seeking sonically diverse music that authentically reflects their faith and life experiences. We’ve partnered with young artists who offer unique perspectives, enabling them to shape the genre’s future rather than molding them to fit its past. This approach by Provident and others has been highly successful, as the genre’s rapid growth over the past three years demonstrates that Christian music is resonating with new audiences and reengaging previous ones.”
Christian music has, in fact, been rising — and it’s part of a broader trend. According to Luminate’s 2024 year-end report, Christian/Gospel is one of the fastest-growing genres among young audiences in the U.S., with the average listener is spending 19% more time with Christian/Gospel music than in 2022.
Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a 12th total and consecutive week.
Dating to the Hot 100’s Aug. 4, 1958, start, “Luther” now solely boasts the most weeks spent at No. 1 among duets by co-billed lead solo men and women. It breaks out of a tie with Puff Daddy and Faith Evans’ “I’ll Be Missing You” (featuring vocal group 112), which led for 11 weeks in 1997.
“Luther” is also now solely the longest-leading R&B/hip-hop No. 1 on the Hot 100 this decade, surpassing the 11 weeks on top for Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” in 2020. (R&B/hip-hop songs are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.)
“Luther,” whose title is a tribute late R&B luminary Luther Vandross (who is sampled on the song), became Lamar’s sixth Hot 100 No. 1 and SZA’s third. Lamar and SZA each extend their longest career commands on the chart with the song.
Plus, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” spends a record-breaking 44th week in the Hot 100’s top five and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” adds a 90th week in the chart overall, moving to within a week of potentially tying for the longest run all-time.
Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.
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 May 17, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 13. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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It’s a historic week for Latin music on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart. For the first time in the chart’s 69-year history, Spanish-language albums are Nos. 1 and 2 at the same time.
Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos returns to the top, jumping 7-1 on the May 17-dated chart after its vinyl release, while Fuerza Regida achieves its highest-charting album ever, as the band’s new 111XPANTIA debuts at No. 2.
Fuerza Regida also lays claim to the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, or a regional Mexican music album, ever.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos adds a fourth total week atop the list, as it previously spent three weeks at No. 1, consecutively, on the Jan. 25-Feb. 8-dated charts.
The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March 1956.
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 17, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 13. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
In the tracking week ending May 8, Debí Tirar Más Fotos earned 84,500 equivalent album units in the United States — with album sales comprising 48,000 (essentially all vinyl purhases), according to Luminate. As for 111XPANTIA, it earned 76,000 units — and of that, 39,000 were album sales.
Let’s take a look at some of the major milestones achieved this week by the teaming of Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida in the top two slots of the Billboard 200.
Biggest Sales Week for a Latin Music Album in Nearly Six Years:
Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, jumping 7-1 on the May 17-dated chart, following the set’s release on vinyl. It’s the fourth total week atop the list for the Spanish-language project, which spent three consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Jan. 25-Feb. 8-dated charts. In the tracking week ending May 8, Debí Tirar Más Fotos earned 84,500 equivalent album units (up 123%) in the United States, with more than half of the sum driven by vinyl purchases, according to Luminate.
It’s a historic week for Latin music, as Fuerza Regida — Billboard’s year-end top duo/group in both 2024 and 2023 — achieves its first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 with the band’s 111XPANTIA bowing at No. 2. In turn, for the first time in the 69-year history of the all-genre chart, Spanish-language albums are Nos. 1 and 2 at the same time. Further, 111XPANTIA marks the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and the highest-charting regional Mexican music album.
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Plus, rapper Key Glock notches his fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Glockaveli premieres at No. 8.
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 17, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 13. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ 84,500 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 8, album sales — essentially all vinyl — comprise a little over 48,000 (up 15,099%, it reenters Top Album Sales for its first week at No. 1), SEA units comprise just over 36,000 (down 3%, equaling 50.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it falls 5-6 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise under 500 units (down 8%).
The album’s 48,000 sold marks the largest single-week sales for a Latin music album in nearly six years, since Santana’s Africa Speaks sold 57,000 copies in its first week (June 22, 2019-dated chart), driven by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for the act’s then-upcoming tour. Such offers are no longer chart-eligible.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos surges back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after its vinyl shipments to customers impacted the tracking week — to the tune of nearly 48,000 copies. That’s the largest sales week for a Latin album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991). It surpasses the previous record, held by the opening week of Kali Uchis’ Orquídeas (20,000 sold across seven variants; on the Jan. 27, 2024-dated chart).
Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ lone vinyl edition — on blue-colored double-vinyl in a gatefold package — was sold exclusively via Bad Bunny’s official webstore for $29.98. It went up for pre-order in early February and was then (per the store) “estimated to ship on/around the end of April 2025.” The vinyl is currently sold out on the artist’s webstore, and it has not been announced if the vinyl will be restocked, or sold through any other seller. (The blue-colored vinyl is the only physical format on which the set has been released. It has yet to be issued on CD or any other physical format, and has only been available to purchase as a download.)
Since Debí Tirar Más Fotos debuted on the Jan. 18-dated Billboard 200 (at No. 2), it has yet to leave the top 10 after 18 weeks, with its chart fortunes largely fueled by continued strong streaming of its songs.
At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Fuerza Regida debuts with its highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as 111XPANTIA arrives with 76,000 equivalent album units earned — the band’s best week ever by units.
The set also becomes the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group (surpassing the No. 4 peak of Maná’s Amar Es Combatir in 2006), and for a regional Mexican music album (higher than the No. 3 peak of Peso Pluma’s Génesis in 2023).
111XPANTIA also earns the largest week, by units, for any Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and by a regional Mexican album, since the chart began ranking by units in December 2014. The previous high, in that span of time, for a Spanish language album by a duo or group was Santana’s Africa Speaks (57,000 in its opening week, in 2019), while the previous high for a regional Mexican title was Génesis (73,000 in its debut frame in 2023).
Of the 76,000 units earned by 111XPANTIA in its opening week, album sales comprise 39,000 (the band’s best sales week ever, and the biggest sales week for a regional Mexican album in the modern era; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 37,000 (equaling 50.44 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
With 39,000 copies sold, 111XPANTIA surpasses the previous largest sales week for a regional Mexican title, when Selena’s Amor Prohibido sold 36,000 copies on the chart dated May 6, 1995, in the wake of her death in March of that year.
111XPANTIA was released on May 2 as a 12-song standard album, widely available as a digital download for purchase and via streaming services. On May 5, a deluxe edition of the set, with three bonus tracks, was issued via download services and streamers. The band’s official webstore carried the only physical format editions of the album: the 12-song version on four color vinyl variants, a standard CD, a signed CD (by the group’s lead singer, Jesús Ortíz Paz) and four deluxe boxed sets (two containing a branded T-shirt and a signed CD, two with a branded hat and a signed CD).
The new album was preceded by its hit single “Por Esos Ojos,” which reached No. 5 on Hot Latin Songs (March 1 chart), No. 3 on Hot Regional Mexican Songs (May 10), No. 5 on Latin Streaming Songs (March 1) and No. 79 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (March 15).
111XPANTIA is the sixth charting effort on the Billboard 200 for Fuerza Regida, and the third to reach the top 40 (after PERO NO TE ENAMORES, No. 25 in 2024; and Pa las Baby’s y Belikeada, No. 14 in 2023). The group’s success has also extended to the Hot 100, where the act charted 13 song entries before the new album dropped.
Prior to the new album’s release, the group also logged eight top 10s (with one No. 1) on the Top Latin Albums chart, and 10 top 10s (with five No. 1s) on the Regional Mexican Albums chart.
Fuerza Regida’s success on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 over the past few years has been so significant that the act finished 2024 as the top duo/group artist of the year — among all genres — for the second year in a row. In 2023, the act made history when it became the year’s top duo/group — the first time an act that primarily records in Spanish had ever achieved the feat.
(Latin and regional Mexican albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Latin Albums and Top Regional Mexican Albums charts, respectively.)
Nos. 2-7 on the latest Billboard 200 are all former chart-toppers. SZA’s SOS slips 2-3 (52,000 equivalent album units, though up 1%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 4 (46,000; down less than 1%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX dips 3-5 (45,000; down 7%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet falls 5-6 (41,000; down 6%) and PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U descends 6-7 (40,000; down 7%).
Key Glock lands his fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 at Glockaveli debuts at No. 8 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 28,000 (equaling 37.28 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 12 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it enters at No. 9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Glockaveli was released on May 2 as a standard 18-song album, widely available as a digital download to purchase and via streaming services. The standard set was also available on CD (both signed and unsigned), vinyl (standard, color vinyl and signed color vinyl) and a deluxe boxed set containing a branded T-shirt and a CD. A deluxe edition of the album, with three bonus tracks, dropped mid-week — first via the artist’s webstore on May 4, and then wide the following day to general download services and streamers.
Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 are Morgan Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album (rising 10-9 with 33,500 equivalent album units; up 1%) and Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going (falling 8-10 with 32,000; down 8%).
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Volbeat tops Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart with “By a Monster’s Hand,” which rises a spot to No. 1 on the May 17-dated list.
The tune reigns as Volbeat’s 11th ruler on Mainstream Rock Airplay and first since “Shotgun Blues” led for three weeks beginning in December 2021.
With 11 leaders, Volbeat ties for the 10th-most No. 1s in the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart’s 44-year history.
Most No. 1s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:20, Shinedown18, Three Days Grace15, Five Finger Death Punch14, Foo Fighters14, Metallica13, Disturbed13, Godsmack13, Van Halen12, Linkin Park11, Papa Roach11, Volbeat
Volbeat first led Mainstream Rock Airplay in July 2012, for two weeks, with “Still Counting.” In between the commands of “Shotgun Blues” and “By a Monster’s Hand,” the band reached the chart twice, led by a No. 8 peak for “Temple of Ekur” in 2022.
Concurrently, “By a Monster’s Hand” remains at its No. 7 high on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.8 million audience impressions in the week ending May 8, according to Luminate.
On the most recently published multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (dated May 10, reflecting data from April 25 through May 1), “By a Monster’s Hand” ranked at No. 25, after reaching No. 10 in March. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 403,000 official U.S. streams.
“By a Monster’s Hand” is the lead single from Gods of Angels Trust, Volbeat’s ninth studio album, due June 6. Its predecessor, Servant of the Mind, debuted at No. 2 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in December 2021 and has earned 133,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated May 17 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, May 13.
Riley Green’s “Worst Way” becomes one of three new top 10s on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, dated May 17.
The track hops from No. 11 to No. 8 on the survey, up 10% to 16.6 million audience impressions May 2-8, according to Luminate.
With the song — from Green’s LP Don’t Mind If I Do, which entered Top Country Albums at its No. 8 best last November — he banks his sixth Country Airplay top 10. It follows his duet with Ella Langley, “You Look Like You Love Me,” which led for a week in December, becoming his second chart-topper. He first led as featured on Thomas Rhett’s “Half of Me” for a week in November 2022. “There Was This Girl” became his first top 10 (No. 3, 2019).
Notably, Green wrote “Worst Way” solo. It’s the first Country Airplay top 10 by one author since Cody Johnson’s “Dirt Cheap,” penned by Josh Phillips (No. 5 peak in August 2024). “Worst Way” is the first top 10 solo-penned by the artist who recorded it since Chayce Beckham’s “23,” which led for a week in April 2024.
Big ‘Heart’
Corey Kent lands his second Country Airplay top 10 as “This Heart” rises 12-9 (16.4 million, up 12%). The song, from the Bixby, Okla., native’s album Black Bandana, released last fall, follows “Wild as Her,” which hit No. 3 in May 2023.
‘Wind’ Blows In
Ella Langley achieves her second Country Airplay top 10 as “Weren’t for the Wind” gusts 13-10 (15.5 million, up 12%). The single, from her 2024 LP Hungover, follows her chart-topping Riley Green team-up “You Look Like You Love Me” (see above).
Ongoing ‘Problem’
Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” dominates Country Airplay for a fourth total and consecutive week (30.7 million, up 1%). The song marks the fifth of his 17 No. 1s to rule for four or more frames. His longest-leading hit, “You Proof,” reigned for 10 weeks beginning in October 2022. It’s tied for the longest command in the chart’s 35-year history with Nate Smith’s “World on Fire” (2023-24).
‘The Giver’ Debuts
Chappell Roan makes her Country Airplay debut as “The Giver” enters at the chart’s No. 60 anchor spot (512,000 in audience, up 1%). The pop star’s country turn launched at its No. 5 best on the Billboard Hot 100 in March and reached Nos. 32 and 37 on Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay, respectively, in April.
All charts dated May 17 will update on Billboard.com on May 13 (Tuesday).
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