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Six months after earning its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, Daughtry now has its second, as “Pieces” lifts to the top of the Sept. 7-dated tally. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Pieces” reigns following the one-week rule of “Artificial” in February. The […]
Cage the Elephant’s “Rainbow” leaps three spots to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Sept. 7. The six-piece adds its seventh leader and second in a row, after “Neon Pill” ruled for four weeks beginning in March. The group enters a four-way tie for the eighth-most No. 1s in the Adult Alternative […]
Post Malone’s “Pour Me a Drink” featuring Blake Shelton hops three spots to No. 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Sept. 7). It increased by 18% to 18.6 million audience impressions Aug. 23-29, according to Luminate.
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Post Malone adds his second Country Airplay top 10, after “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, led for four weeks beginning in June. Both singles are from his first country LP, F-1 Trillion, which soared in at No. 1 on the Aug. 31-dated Top Country Albums chart and the all-genre Billboard 200 with 250,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States. It scored the second-biggest week for a country title this year, after Beyoncé’s maiden release in the genre, Cowboy Carter, arrived with 407,000 in April.
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Shelton banks his 36th Country Airplay top 10 and his first since “Minimum Wage” hit No. 9 in June 2021. He ties fellow Oklahoman Reba McEntire for the ninth-most top 10s; Kenny Chesney and George Strait lead all acts with 61 each dating to the chart’s 1990 start, followed by Tim McGraw with 60.
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Post Malone boasts two concurrent Country Airplay top 10s, as “I Had Some Help” holds at No. 2 (28.1 million in audience). Plus, newest F-1 Trillion single “Guy for That,” featuring Luke Combs, ranks at No. 41 (2.6 million).
Shaboozey Cracks Open Six-Pack
Shaboozey rules Country Airplay for a sixth total and consecutive week with “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” The track, which drew 28.8 in reach among chart reporters (down 3%), is only the second country career-establishing No. 1 to reign for as many as six weeks (counting acts’ first Country Airplay entries as a lead artist or their initial songs promoted to country radio); Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel” logged six weeks on top in early 2006.
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” added a seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Aug. 31, claiming outright 2024’s longest reign, surpassing the six nonconsecutive weeks on top for Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help.” Shaboozey’s hit has likewise logged the sole longest command this year on the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart, its 11 weeks at No. 1 having bested Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which ruled for 10 weeks in February-April.
All charts dated Sept. 7 will update on Billboard.com Wednesday, Sept. 4 (a day later than usual due to the Labor Day holiday Sept. 2).
Sabrina Carpenter collects her third No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart as “Please Please Please” ascends to the top of the list dated Sept. 7. The song follows her “Espresso,” which ruled for three weeks in July, and “Feather,” which led for a week in April. “Please Please Please,” released on Island Records and […]
Life is sweet for Sabrina Carpenter, as the U.S. pop star lands at No. 1 on Australia’s albums chart and completes a top-three sweep of the national singles tally.
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Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet (via Island/Universal) debuts at the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Aug. 30, for her first leader in the land Down Under.
Short n’ Sweet is her sixth album, and first to crack the top 10. Previously, her highest-charting LP was Emails I Can’t Send, which peaked at No. 27 in 2022.
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With that hot start, Carpenter breaks a four-week unbroken stand at the summit by Australian acts (Lime Cordiale, Tones & I, Amy Shark and Cold Chisel).
Sabrina’s domination doesn’t end there. Her latest single, “Taste,” debuts at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, ahead of “Please Please Please” and “Espresso,” respectively, for a rare trifecta. All three tracks have now logged time at the chart summit.
According to ARIA, Carpenter is the first artist to swamp the top three since April 2024, when bestie and touring partner Taylor Swift did so. On that occasion, TayTay owned the entire top 10 with tracks from The Tortured Poets Department, an historic feat. Carpenter lands another seven tracks in the top 50, and becomes the first act to secure three ARIA No. 1s in the same calendar year, since Drake did it in 2018.
Coming in at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart is Aussie indie act Teenage Dads’ Majordomo (Chugg/MGM), their second album, while Sydney pop punk outfit Stand Atlantic completes an all-new top three Was Here (Hopeless Records/RKT), new at No. 3. Both are career best chart positions.
Close behind is Irish alternative rock outfit Fontaines D.C. with their fourth album Romance (XL/Inertia), new at No. 6. That’s a serious uplift from the Dubliners’ 2020 effort A Hero’s Death, which peaked at No. 26, and Skinty Fa, which topped out at No. 24 in 2022.
Finally, Travis Scott lassos a top 10 spot with Days Before Rodeo (Epic/Sony), new at No. 9. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Houston, TX rapper reissues his 2014 mixtape with additional material, across new formats, including streaming platforms for the first time. The original mixtape didn’t impact the ARIA Chart, though Scott has three ARIA top 10 albums to his name, including No. 1s for Astroworld (from 2018) and Utopia (2023).
Foster the People score their third top 10-charting set on Billboard’s Top Album Sales ranking as the act’s latest studio effort, Paradise State of Mind, debuts at No. 8.
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The set sold nearly 7,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 22, according to Luminate. The new album was preceded by the top 20-charting Alternative Airplay hit “Lost In Space.”
Also new in the top 10 on Top Album Sales: Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion drives in at No. 1, Falling in Reverse scores its highest charting album and first top 10 with Popular Monster arriving at No. 2, KATSEYE’s debut project SIS (Soft Is Strong) bows at No. 6 and virtual YouTuber Mori Calliope visits the top 10 for the first time with Phantomime debuting at No. 9.
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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.
Of the 7,000 copies sold by Paradise State of Mind in its first week, physical album sales comprise 6,000 (about 3,000 each for CD and vinyl) and download album sales comprise 1,000. The set was supported by its availability across six vinyl editions.
Post Malone’s first country album F-1 Trillion starts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales with 80,000 sold in its first week – the second-largest sales week for a country album in 2023. (Only Beyoncé’s own debut country set, Cowboy Carter, roped a bigger week, when it arrived with 168,000 earlier this year.)
F-1 Trillion’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across four vinyl editions (a standard black vinyl and three color variants; which combined to sell 25,000 – Post Malone’s best week on vinyl), a cassette and a CD, in addition to explicit and clean digital download albums for the standard 18-song version and the 27-song “Long Bed” version.
Rock band Falling In Reverse debuts at No. 2 with Popular Monster, scoring the rock act its highest-charting effort and first top 10. The album sold nearly 18,000 copies in its first week – the act’s best sales week since 2015’s Just Like You debuted with 24,000 sold. The new set’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across eight vinyl variants, a signed CD, and a deluxe CD boxed set containing a branded T-shirt.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is a non-mover at No. 3 with 15,000 sold (up 5%), Stray Kids’ chart-topping ATE falls 2-4 with 14,000 (down 25%) and ENHYPEN’s former leader Romance: Untold dips 4-5 with 10,000 (down 3%).
SIS (Soft Is Strong), the debut project from girl group KATSEYE, arrives at No. 6 with 8,000 sold. The act was formed on the 2023 YouTube series The Debut: Dream Academy. SIS’ first-week sales were bolstered by eight collectible CD variants and two vinyl albums.
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft falls 5-7 with nearly 8,000 sold (down 18%).
Mori Calliope, a virtual YouTuber with more than 2 million subscribers on that platform, debuts at No. 9 with Phantomime, selling 6,000 copies. It’s the artist’s first top 10 on the tally, and the set was supported by its availability across five collectible CD variants.
Falling from No. 1 to No. 10 is Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department with nearly 6,000 sold (down 79%).
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This week: Addison Rae’s major label debut might become a breakout hit, Oasis’ daily streams soar thanks to news of their comeback, and Sabrina Carpenter looks to collect another Short n’ Sweet hit.
Addison Rae Eyes Major Pop Breakthrough With “Diet Pepsi”
It’s been a few years since she was popping and locking on TikTok — now, we’re the closest we’ve ever been to witnessing Addison Rae’s breakthrough pop star moment. After first capturing the ears of pop listeners with “2 Die 4” and her audacious remix of Charli xcx’s “Von Dutch,” Rae has unleashed “Diet Pepsi,” her major label debut single.
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Arriving on Aug. 9, “Diet Pepsi” pulled over 3.05 million official on-demand U.S. streams in its first week of release, according to Luminate. That number rose by 4% the following week (Aug. 16-22), collecting over 3.17 million streams. Although its third week of release (Aug. 23-30) is not yet complete, “Diet Pepsi” is already on track to once again rise in week-over-week streaming activity. From Sunday (Aug. 25) to Monday (Aug. 26), the Elvira-produced track jumped 20.5% in streaming activity, going from approximately 537,000 streams to 647,000 streams. “Diet Pepsi” is currently playing in around 95,000 posts on TikTok, helping the track reach No. 8 on their Viral 50. The song has also topped Spotify’s USA Viral 50 chart and earned over 2.4 million YouTube views for its official music video. With a few dance trends seeking to truly take off, “Diet Pepsi” is off to a formidable start on streaming that could potentially lead to the social media star’s first commercial hit. – KYLE DENIS
Oasis’ Daily Streams Nearly Quadruple Thanks to 2025 Reunion Announcement
The nearly impossible, the previously unthinkable, is happening: Oasis has announced a reunion, with Liam and Noel Gallagher re-forming the British rock group that made them famous after 15 years and countless verbal jabs at each other. And over the past few days, U.S. music listeners have toasted the unlikely comeback by revisiting (or discovering) the band’s back catalog, nearly quadrupling their daily audio streams in the process.
Click here for the full story on Oasis’ soaring streams. – JASON LIPSHUTZ
“Good Graces” Continues Sabrina Carpenter’s Hot Streak
“Espresso” reigned as one of the songs of the summer, “Please Please Please” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and “Taste” is her latest smash – but Sabrina Carpenter isn’t letting up anytime soon. On the heels of the release of her new LP, Short n’ Sweet, Carpenter is eyeing an impressive fourth hit from the record.
“Good Graces” — an Ariana Grande-esque kiss-off jam produced by John Ryan and Julian Bunetta – has been getting a lot of attention on streaming, easily becoming one of the most-consumed album tracks upon the album’s full release (Aug. 23). In its first day of release, “Good Graces” earned nearly 3.5 million official on-demand U.S. streams. While the song has yet to cross the three million threshold in the days since, it has pulled over 2.4 million streams everyday this with, including an impressive 2.89 million streams on Monday (Aug. 26).
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Given how early it is in the song’s run, there’s no viral dance craze or can’t-miss trend set to its R&B-indebted groove just yet. Nonetheless, the song currently soundtracks over 16,000 clips on TikTok, a substantial portion of which finds fans gushing over how much they love the song. Notably, with 1.6 million views, “Good Graces” is also the Short n’ Sweet album track with the highest-viewed lyric video.
Between three consecutive smashes and a slew of choices for her next hit, Sabrina Carpenter certainly isn’t dealing with “Slim Pickins” when it comes to pushing Short n’ Sweet. – KYLE DENIS
Streams and sales of Beyoncé’s 2016 Kendrick Lamar-featuring song “Freedom” have continued to rise throughout the last month following its pick as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign theme song for her 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, capturing its biggest streaming day in a month on the day after Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination at the party’s national convention on Aug. 22.
On Aug. 23, streams of “Freedom” ballooned to 159,000 official on-demand U.S. listens, up 43% from 111,000 on Aug. 22, the final day of the Democratic National Convention, according to Luminate. (Incidentally, Aug. 22 was also the day Beyoncé was rumored to be performing at the Chicago convention, the whispers of which did not ultimately ring true.)
A week before on Aug. 16, “Freedom” pulled 49,000 such streams, making that gain far more pronounced: a 224% jump.
Kamala Harris’ Presidential Campaign Effect on Beyoncé’s ‘Freedom’
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Streams of the song accelerated once the convention began on Aug. 19. It earned 51,000 streams on day one, followed by sums of 87,000, 101,000 and 111,000 prior to the accumulation of 159,000 on Aug. 23.
That being said, the Aug. 23 count for “Freedom” isn’t its largest over the last month or so. On July 23, one day after Harris walked out to “Freedom” while visiting her newly minted campaign headquarters, the song scored 205,000 official on-demand streams, then a 646% boost over July 22’s sum of 27,000. It rebounded again on July 25 and 26 following the premiere of a campaign ad featuring the song on July 25, racking up 179,000 and 184,000 streams those two days, respectively.
32% of “Freedom’s” on-demand official streams in the U.S., year-to-date, have occurred in the span of time between when Harris used the song at her first campaign event (July 22) and the day after she accepted the Democratic party’s nomination (Aug. 23). In those 33 days, the song garnered 2.8 million on-demand official streams – of the song’s total 8.8 million earned since the start of the year.
As for sales, “Freedom” jumped 216% in the week ending Aug. 22 to 2,000 downloads sold, spurring its coronation at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales chart dated Aug. 31. The song had never been No. 1 before; it debuted at No. 15 on the May 14, 2016, survey and had not charted since 2019 until it blasted onto the ranking at No. 2 Aug. 3 due to its initial affiliation with Harris’ campaign.
That 2,000-download count also puts “Freedom” at No. 25 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales list, its first time there since the chart dated May 21, 2016.
“Freedom” was released as part of Lemonade, Beyonce’s sixth studio album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated May 14, 2016. It peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year.
—Additional reporting by Keith Caulfield
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Seven years after its 2017 release, Clean Bandit’s Zara Larsson-featuring “Symphony” ranks at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart dated Aug. 31.
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“Symphony” debuts at No. 1, the first to do so since Bobby Caldwell’s “What You Won’t Do For Love” topped the tally in February.
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The seven-year-old song is trending on TikTok thanks to multiple edits using colorful photos and videos of dolphins, with captions and overlays that are generally funny and oftentimes demotivational. Others talk about seeing dolphin images in their everyday life since and being reminded of the new meme.
For her part, Larsson, who is currently on tour, changed the background video of her concert performances of “Symphony” to dolphins as a nod to the trend.
“Symphony” peaked at No. 10 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in 2017. In the week ending Aug. 22, it earned 784,000 official U.S. streams, up 7%, with more gains likely for the week ending Aug. 29.
The song reigns over Surf Curse’s “Disco,” which jumps from No. 7 to the runner-up spot on the TikTok Billboard Top 50. As noted in the article announcing the Aug. 24 chart, “Disco,” released in 2019, surges due to a dance trend sporting two creators facing each other while performing their moves.
“Disco” leaped 82% in streams in the week ending Aug. 22 to 1.7 million. It’s the second Surf Curse song to sport major attention on TikTok years after the song’s initial release, following “Freaks,” which found so much success that it became a radio single for the band, peaking at No. 15 on Alternative Airplay in 2021.
Jordan Adetunji’s “Kehlani,” which had led the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the preceding two weeks, falls to No. 3, while DJ Drama and Gucci Mane’s “Photo Shoot” and Hanumankind and Kalmi’s “Big Dawgs” round out the top five.
It’s worth noting too that Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby,” the chart’s longest-running No. 1 at 10 weeks earlier this year, drops 4-6, marking the first time in its 17 weeks on the survey (dating back to May) that it has not been in the chart’s top four.
Two other songs join “Symphony” as debuts within the top 10, and unlike the No. 1, the ensuing two are brand new songs: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” bows at No. 8, followed by Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” at No. 9.
“Die With a Smile” is the first TikTok Billboard Top 50 appearance (the chart began in September 2023) for both Gaga and Mars. The top-performing clip featuring the song so far is an upload on Mars’ own account showing a portion of the music video, while other early successes include fan edits of movies and TV (Tangled, Elemental and more), reaction videos to the song and music video, lip-synch renditions and more.
The tune concurrently debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 27.4 million streams, 13 million audience impressions and 21,000 sold, as previously reported.
“Taste,” meanwhile, hasn’t yet made any other Billboard charts – that’s because it was released on Aug. 23, alongside the rest of Carpenter’s new album, Short n’ Sweet. The song benefits from the tracking week for the TikTok Billboard Top 50 being a Monday-Sunday setup (Aug. 19-25) vs. the majority of Billboard’s other charts (Friday-Thursday), though it still needed a hefty amount of attention in those three days to even crack the ranking, let alone the top 10.
According to TikTok, creations using the main “Taste” sound have already surpassed 2 million, with one of the top-performing uploads a behind-the-scenes video of the “Taste” music video uploaded by Carpenter herself, asking, “Am I babygirl?” Others feature lip-synchs to the new track, whose full Billboard chart impact will be known on the tallies dated Sept. 7, utilizing data from Aug. 23 to 29.
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.