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Trending on Billboard Sombr made his Saturday Night Live debut as the musical guest on Nov. 8. The 20-year-old singer-songwriter performed two songs — “12 to 12” and “Back to Friends” — from his debut album, I Barely Know Her, which reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200 in September. Dressed in a sharp red […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers weren’t the only winners in town this week. Returning to City of Angels for the first time since 2022, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ushered in a new class of inductees during its 40th annual induction ceremony Saturday night (Nov. 8).
“Welcome to the second-best thing to happen to Los Angeles in the past week,” said John Sykes, chairman of the R&R Hall of Fame, welcoming the audience at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is officially middle aged and to celebrate the 40th induction ceremony, a 10-minute sizzle reel spanning the four decades played prior to the official start of the proceedings, which, thanks to a more streamlined process when honoring the musical excellence and non-performer categories, came in at a relatively brisk four-and-a-half hours.
Beamed live on Disney +, the Rock Hall honored Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, Soundgarden and The White Stripes in the performer category, Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon for musical influence; Thom Bell, Nicky Hopkins and Carol Kaye for musical excellence, and longtime Warner Records executive Lenny Waronker with the Ahmet Ertegun Award (named after the Atlantic Records co-founder). A primetime trimmed- down special will air on ABC on Jan. 1, 2026.
Many of the 2025 honorees were not in attendance: Of course, Zevon, Cocker, Hopkins and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell were inducted posthumously, and legendary Wrecking Crew bassist Kaye declined in advance to attend. Though the White Stripes’ Jack White referenced her and even dedicated part of his speech to her, his former bandmate, Meg White, did not attend. At 84, Checker was still doing what he does best and passed up his induction to keep a regularly scheduled paying gig, though he delivered his acceptance speech from the show before going into a shortened version of his biggest hit, “The Twist.” After initially hoping to attend and even reunite with his band Bad Company, lead singer Paul Rodgers pulled out for health reasons.
But there was still a dazzling amount of star power in the room from the honorees who were present and the nearly 40 artists who helped induct them.
Below are nine highlights from the evening.
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Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst has unveiled a deeply personal new EP, A Hundred Years or More, recorded while undergoing treatment for stage three pancreatic cancer.
The celebrated drummer and songwriter, 70, collaborated with longtime bandmates Jim Moginie and Hamish Stuart, and enlisted his daughters Gabriella and Lex Hirst to contribute vocals on the emotionally resonant four-track release.
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The EP was created in pockets of time when Hirst felt well enough to sing and strum, following a major gastro bypass operation earlier this year. “It’s completely replumbed the inside because the tumour was pushing against the guts and I couldn’t eat,” he shared as per news.com.au. Despite the challenges, the sessions became a space of defiant creativity and familial healing.
Gabriella, an artist based in Berlin, delivers the lead vocal on the EP’s title track—a tender, melancholic ballad inspired by Hirst’s diagnosis. “May you live to be a hundred years or more,” she sings, with her father joining for the final line: “May you take another turn around the sun.”
“I was just working it up at home with an incomplete lyric and Ella was out for a while looking after me and checking up on all her arty friends in Sydney and she came in and said ‘Dad, I really like this song you’re singing and I said, ‘Well, here’s the rough lyric, you sing it,’” Hirst said.
Lex Hirst lends backing vocals to the opening track, “First Do No Harm,” while Hoodoo Gurus bassist Rick Grossman makes a surprise appearance on the EP as well.
Hirst, who co-founded Midnight Oil in the 1970s, has also led acclaimed side projects like Ghostwriters, The Break, and Backsliders. The band played their final show in October 2022 at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion.
A Hundred Years or More follows 2023’s Red Continent and will be released Nov. 14.
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Meg White missed the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which honored the the White Stripes — her iconic duo with Jack White — at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles Saturday night (Nov. 8). But the bookends of Jack’s speech were all about Meg, who’d edited most of it.
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“I spoke with Meg the other day,” he said at the podium, sharing, “She wanted me to tell you she’s very grateful to all the folks who supported her through all the years. It really means a lot to her tonight.”
“She checked it for me,” he added of the speech he was about to give on behalf of the pair. “A lot of punctuation corrections, too.”
Though White’s emotion was palpable throughout the speech, it was most felt in the poem he brought to the room, one that he said he was going to send to Meg ahead of time but hadn’t.
Instead, he noted, “I thought I’d read it to you all tonight.”
“One time, a girl climbed a tree, and in that tree was a boy — her brother, she thought. And the tree looked so glorious and beautiful, but it was just an oak tree. And these two so loved the world that they brought forth a parade float, one they built in their garage behind the oak tree with their own bare hands. And the boy looked at this giant peppermint on wheels and felt pride. Pride that it was produced in the Motor City just like in the big factories, but it was just in their garage.
He looked at the girl, his sister, he thought, and like the Little Rascals, they said, ‘Let’s put on a show.’ And they paraded this float through the Cass Corridor, standing atop the Peppermint, pulled by white horses or maybe it was a red Econoline van. And many of the blocks they traveled were empty, but some had people.
And some of those people cheered and some laughed and some even threw stones. And with their bare hands, the two started to clap and sing and make up songs. And some people kept watching and swaying and moving, and then one person even smiled. And the boy and the girl looked at each other, and they also smiled.
And they felt, they both felt the sin of pride, but they kept on smiling, smiling from a new freedom, knowing that they had shared and made another person feel something. And they thought the person smiling at them was a stranger, someone they didn’t even know. But it wasn’t just a stranger, it was God.”
Jack and Meg released six studio albums, including the Grammy-winning Icky Thump, together as the White Stripes before parting ways in 2011. Meg now stays out of the spotlight.
Following Jack’s speech, Olivia Rodrigo and Feist performed a sweet duet of the band’s “We’re Going to Be Friends” (2002) and 21 Pilots took on “Seven Nation Army” (2003), in tribute to the honorees.
Jack White and Olivia Rodrigo attend the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Peacock Theater on Nov. 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif.
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Rodrigo’s been vocal about the White Stripes being her favorite band: “I was so obsessed with Jack White’s guitar, and I made my mom take me to guitar lessons so I could learn how to play all of his songs,” she said in a 2021 interview. “Fell in Love With a Girl” was one of the first songs she learned to play. Rodrigo first met her hero in 2022.
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honored the White Stripes as well as Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast and Soundgarden in the performer category; Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon for musical influence; Thom Bell, Nicky Hopkins and Carol Kaye for musical excellence, and Lenny Waronker with the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
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Hayley Williams’ tour dates for 2026 have been added to her official website’s homepage, which currently features a design reminiscent of a ’90s computer desktop.
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An image file titled “oops.jpg” offers a peek at a snapshot of a Macbook screen that shows a tour announcement preview with a “NOT FOR RELEASE” watermark — suggesting that Williams leaked the itinerary early. The picture has a list of 20 cities she’s scheduled to visit on the At a Bachelor Party Tour.
The Paramore frontwoman’s solo trek kicks off in the United States with a concert in Atlanta, Ga., on March 28 and runs through June 29 in Dublin, Ireland. Williams will make it to several U.S. markets — plus Toronto, Canada, and select cities in Europe.
Information about ticket on-sale dates is not yet available.
Williams’ tour will be in support of her latest album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party — which arrived unsequenced and scattered across her website, and then on streaming services, in August, but just got a physical CD and vinyl release on Friday, Nov. 7, with an added track (“Showbiz,” embedded below). (Read more about her unique release strategy in Billboard‘s interview with Williams’ co-manager Leah Hodgkiss.)
See the list of Williams’ 2026 tour dates:
March 28 – Atlanta, Ga. (Tabernacle)March 31 – Toronto, Canada (Massey Hall)April 3-4 – Boston, Mass. (Citizens House of Blues)April 6-7 – Philadelphia, Pa. (Franklin Music Hall)April 9-10 – New York, NY (Hammerstein BallroomApril 14 – Baltimore, Md. (The Lyric)April 18 – Minneapolis, Minn. (Fillmore)April 21-22 – Chicago, Ill. (Chicago Theater)April 25, 27 – Nashville, Tenn. (Ryman Auditorium)May 2 – Austin, Texas (ACL Live at the Moody Theater)May 5 – Phoenix, Ariz. (Van Buren)May 7, 9 – Oakland, Calif. (Fox Theater)May 12-13 – Los Angeles, Calif. (The Wiltern)June 5 – Milan, Italy (Alcatraz)June 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (Paradiso)June 10 – Cologne, Germany (Live Music Hall)June 15 – Berlin, Germany (Tempodrom)June 16 – Copenhagen, Denmark (Poolen)June 22 – Manchester, U.K. (Academy)June 26 – Glasgow, Scotland (O2 Academy)June 29 – Dublin, Ireland (National Stadium)
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Pierce the Veil leads Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart for a second time, lifting a spot to No. 1 on the Nov. 15-dated survey with “So Far So Fake.”
The veteran rockers from San Diego previously led with “Emergency Contact” for a week in August 2023.
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“Emergency Contact” and “So Far So Fake” are both on the same album, 2023’s The Jaws of Life. So why the two-plus-year gap between Alternative Airplay reigns? While not initially a promoted single, “So Far So Fake” was serviced to radio this summer after it went viral on shortform video platforms such as TikTok, spurred by a dance challenge set mostly to its instrumental break.
Boosted by that buzz, “So Far So Fake” debuted on the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart in August, eventually rising to No. 8 later that month. It also became the band’s first Billboard Hot 100 entry, reaching No. 64.
In between “Emergency Contact” and “So Far So Fake,” Pierce the Veil made Alternative Airplay once via its No. 27-peaking cover of Radiohead’s “Karma Police” in June 2024. The band’s only other charter, “Circles,” hit No. 31 in 2016.
On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “So Far So Fake” jumps 6-4 with 3.7 million audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 6, up 14%, according to Luminate. It’s Pierce the Veil’s highest-charted song on the tally, having surpassed “Emergency Contact” (No. 10).
“So Far So Fake” ranked at No. 16 on the most recently published Hot Rock & Alternative Songs tally (dated Nov. 8, reflecting data accumulated Oct. 24-30). In addition to its radio airplay, it drew 3.1 million official U.S. streams.
The Jaws of Life debuted at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in February 2023 and has earned 371,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated Nov. 15 will update Tuesday, Nov. 11, on Billboard.com.
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KISS, technically, retired this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still rock and roll all night with the greasepaint and pyro legends. The band announced the upcoming release of a huge box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of their landmark Alive! concert album.
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The Super Deluxe version of the album will feature 4 CDs + Blu-Ray audio, an Alive! track list t-shirt with 120 tracks, including 88 previously unreleased tracks. The first CD features the original album on one disc for the first time ever, newly remastered from the original 1975 stereo analog master tapes. In addition, CDs two and three will feature two full-length concerts from the 1975 Dressed to Kill tour at the RKO Orpheum Theatre in Davenport, Iowa on July 20, and the Wildwood Convention Hall in Wildwood, N.J. on July 23, newly remixed by the legendary engineer Eddie Kramer from the original multi-track analog tapes with no overdbubs.
The fourth CD will pull together five rehearsal tracks from the Davenport show, including an impromptu jam and another six songs from Cleveland Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio on June 21, 1975, remixed by Kramer from the original multi-track recordings. The Blu-Ray audio disc will contain a new Alive! mix from Kramer from the original album multi-track analog tapes in Dolby Atmos and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround, as well as newly remastered stereo in 192 KHZ 24-bit and 96 KHZ 24-bit PCM stereo set to a new visualizer with unreleased photos and tape box images.
The Super Deluxe version ($400.48) has a number of other extras, including a 100-page hardcover book with extensive liner notes by Ken Sharp and new interviews with singer/guitarist Paul Stanley, bassist/singer Gene Simmons and other notable Alive!-era KISS team members, as well as a number of unreleased photos and rare images. In addition, it will fold in an Alive! 1975 press kit with: four black and white glossy photos, an Alive! tour program, album cover lenticular, t-shirt iron-on, four live color glossy photos, a Peter Criss drum head litho, a number of concert posters, ticket stubs and backstage passes, coasters, guitar picks, bumper stickers and a track-by-track interview with Kramer discussing nearly all the tracks in the collection.
The anniversary edition will also come in a 4-CD box set version with a t-shirt ($287.55), a deluxe picture disc edition with sweatshirt ($251.89) and a premium color vinyl version with a sweatshirt ($125.98). All the editions are slated to ship on Nov. 21, with Kiss Army members eligible for pre-order now here.
Alive! was KISS’ fourth album and their first live LP, as well as a kind of standard-bearer for live rock albums going forward. Though they’d released three albums by that point, the band rose to a new level of fame thanks to the double concert album that collected songs from the theatrical group’s 1974 self-titled debut, as well as that year’s Hotter Than Hell and 1975’s Dressed To Kill, including such future stone-cold live staples as “Deuce,” “Strutter,” “Firehouse,” “Black Diamond,” Cold Gin” and “Rock and Roll All Nite.” (Click here for a taste of Sharp’s extensive history of the making of Alive!)
The album features the indelible work of late founding guitarist Ace Frehley, who died last month at the age of 74 following injuries from a fall in the studio. Frehley will become only the third person to receive the Kennedy Center Honor posthumously when KISS collect the award at a ceremony slated to tape on Dec. 7 and air on CBS on Dec. 23.
Check out the track list for the Alive! 50th anniversary box set below.
CD ONE:
1. “Deuce”
2. “Strutter”
3. “Got To Choose”
4. “Hotter Than Hell”
5. “Firehouse”
6. “Nothin’ To Lose”
7. “C’mon And Love Me”
8. “Parasite”
9. “She”
10. “Watchin’ You”
11. “100,000 Years”
12. “Black Diamond”
13. “Rock Bottom”
14. “Cold Gin”
15. “Rock And Roll All Nite”
16. “Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll”
LIVE IN DAVENPORT, IOWA – RKO ORPHEUM THEATRE – JULY 20, 1975 – SECOND SHOW*
CD TWO:
1. “Deuce”
2. “Strutter”
3. “Got To Choose”
4. “Hotter Than Hell”
5. “Firehouse”
6. “She”
7. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo
8. “Nothin’ To Lose”
9. “C’mon And Love Me”
10. “100,000 years”
11. Peter Criss Drum Solo / “100,000 Years”
12. “Black Diamond”
13. “Cold Gin”
14. “Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll”
LIVE IN WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY – WILDWOOD CONVENTION HALL – JULY 23, 1975*
CD THREE:
1. “Deuce”
2. “Strutter”
3. “Got To Choose”
4. “Hotter Than Hell”
5. “Firehouse”
6. “She”
7. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo
8. “Nothin’ To Lose”
9. “C’mon And Love Me”
10. “100,000 years”
11. Peter Criss Drum Solo / “100,000 Years”
12. “Parasite”
13. “Black Diamond”
14. “Cold Gin”
15. “Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll”
BONUS LIVE
CD FOUR:
REHEARSALS – LIVE IN DAVENPORT, IOWA – RKO ORPHEUM THEATRE – JULY 20, 1975*
1. “KISS Jam”
2. “Room Service”
3. “Strange Ways”
4. “Rock Bottom”
5. “Watchin’ You”
LIVE IN CLEVELAND, OHIO – CLEVELAND MUSIC HALL – JUNE 21, 1975*
6. “She”
7. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo
8. “Nothin’ To Lose”
9. “C’mon And Love Me”
10. “100,000 Years”
11. Peter Criss Drum Solo / “100,000 Years”
BLU-RAY AUDIO – ALIVE!:
DISC FIVE:
[Dolby Atmos* / Dolby True HD 5.1* / 192kHz 24-bit & 96kHz 24-bit PCM Stereo]
1. “Deuce”
2. “Strutter”
3. “Got To Choose”
4. “Hotter Than Hell”
5. “Firehouse”
6. “Nothin’ To Lose”
7. “C’mon And Love Me”
8. “Parasite”
9. “She”
10. “Watchin’ You”
11. “100,000 Years”
12. “Black Diamond”
13. “Rock Bottom”
14. “Cold Gin”
15. “Rock And Roll All Nite”
16. “Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll”
* Previously unreleased
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Following Ozzy Osbourne’s July 22 death, the legendary rocker makes his presence known on the TouchTunes charts for the third quarter of 2025, paced by a No. 2 debut on the TouchTunes Artists Chart.
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The TouchTunes charts for the third quarter of the year track the most played songs and artists on TouchTunes jukeboxes from July 1 to Sept 30, with the Frontline ranking inclusive of music released in the last 18 months, followed by the Catalog tally for any music that was released more than 18 months ago. The TouchTunes Artists Chart tracks the same period, combining all of an artist’s plays across both rankings. TouchTunes has jukeboxes in over 60,000 locations worldwide. Its data is not factored into other Billboard charts.
Osbourne’s music had not been featured on TouchTunes’ charts since the songs-based rankings’ inception in the second quarter of 2024 or on the Artists survey since it began in the first quarter of 2025. But after his July death, he vaulted onto the Artists tally at No. 2, behind only Morgan Wallen, who has reigned for all three of the ranking’s iterations so far.
On the TouchTunes Catalog Chart, Osbourne appears three times, twice under his own name. “Mama, I’m Coming Home” leads the trio at No. 3, while “No More Tears” enters at No. 24. The former peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1992, while the latter reached No. 71 the same year, both via the 1991 album No More Tears.
The third Osbourne-related song to chart, meanwhile, is Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” which enters at No. 21. The 1970 track stems from Osbourne’s time fronting the rock band and is featured on its sophomore release, Paranoid.
Both Osbourne and the original iteration of Black Sabbath performed at a star-studded final concert, Back to the Beginning, on July 5 in Birmingham, England.
Wallen’s reign on the Artists ranking, meanwhile, is assisted by music from his newest album, I’m the Problem, which was released in May, meaning the latest TouchTunes charts are the first full-quarter period the majority of the LP’s songs have been available. As such, one of the Frontline list’s big movers for the quarter is Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, which vaults 18 positions to No. 6 in its second quarter on the tally. Additionally, “I Got Better” and “20 Cigarettes” debut at Nos. 11 and 12, respectively.
In all, Wallen appears across the Frontline and Catalog charts 10 times this quarter — eight times on Frontline and twice on Catalog. That equals his count from the second quarter of 2025; “I Got Better” and “20 Cigarettes” replace “Lies Lies Lies” on Frontline, while “Last Night” departs from Catalog.
The Frontline and Catalog No. 1s are the same as they’ve been since their inception, as Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” reigns on the former while Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” tops the latter. A change is coming soon, though, as “A Bar Song” is approaching its move to catalog status 18 months removed from its release.
Other Frontline movement includes debuts for songs from Alex Warren, Blake Shelton, Jessie Murph, Cardi B, Justin Bieber and Gavin Adcock. Murph in particular starts at No. 21 with “Touch Me Like a Gangster,” while her “Blue Strips” lifts 7-4 for a new peak.
Finally, the genre check-in: according to TouchTunes, the rock genre accounted for 39% of its plays across both Frontline- and Catalog-eligible titles, a 1% increase over quarter two and again the dominant genre on the platform. Country is second at 22%, though its dominance of Frontline-eligible songs remains, accounting for 41% of plays, followed by pop (19%), rap (14%) and rock (12%).
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TouchTunes Frontline Chart
“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey (=)
“I’m the Problem,” Morgan Wallen (=)
“Pink Pony Club,” Chappell Roan (=)
“Blue Strips,” Jessie Murph (+3)
“I Never Lie,” Zach Top (-1)
“What I Want,” Morgan Wallen feat. Tate McRae (+18)
“I Had Some Help,” Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen (-2)
“You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley feat. Riley Green (-2)
“Just in Case,” Morgan Wallen (-1)
“All the Way,” BigXthaPlug feat. Bailey Zimmerman (+8)
“I Got Better,” Morgan Wallen (debut)
“20 Cigarettes,” Morgan Wallen (debut)
“Ordinary,” Alex Warren (debut)
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar (-5)
“Texas,” Blake Shelton (debut)
“Nokia,” Drake (-5)
“Messy,” Lola Young (-4)
“Love Somebody,” Morgan Wallen (-8)
“Luther,” Kendrick Lamar with SZA (-5)
“I’m a Little Crazy,” Morgan Wallen (-4)
“Touch Me Like a Gangster,” Jessie Murph (debut)
“Outside,” Cardi B (debut)
“Daisies,” Justin Bieber (debut)
“Last One To Know,” Gavin Adcock (debut)
“I Am Not Okay,” Jelly Roll (re-entry)
TouchTunes Catalog Chart
“Tennessee Whiskey,” Chris Stapleton (=)
“I Love This Bar,” Toby Keith (=)
“Mama, I’m Coming Home,” Ozzy Osbourne (debut)
“Lose Control,” Teddy Swims (-1)
“Friends in Low Places,” Garth Brooks (-1)
“Sweet Child o’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses (+11)
“Simple Man,” Lynyrd Skynyrd (-1)
“Brown Eyed Girl,” Van Morrison (+7)
“Neon Moon,” Brooks & Dunn (-4)
“Whiskey Glasses,” Morgan Wallen (-2)
“I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink,” Merle Haggard (-4)
“Drinkin’ Problem,” Midland (-3)
“Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle (-3)
“Family Tradition,” Hank Williams Jr. (-2)
“Fat Bottomed Girls,” Queen (-1)
“Rockstar,” Nickelback (-5)
“Thunderstruck,” AC/DC (+1)
“In the Air Tonight,” Phil Collins (+4)
“Cowgirls,” Morgan Wallen feat. ERNEST (=)
“Don’t Stop Believin’,” Journey (-7)
“War Pigs,” Black Sabbath (debut)
“Pour Some Sugar on Me,” Def Leppard (+2)
“Something in the Orange,” Zach Bryan (=)
“No More Tears,” Ozzy Osbourne (debut)
“Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” Toby Keith (debut)
TouchTunes Artists Chart
Morgan Wallen (=)
Ozzy Osbourne (debut)
Toby Keith (-1)
Chris Stapleton (-1)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (+1)
AC/DC (-2)
Zach Bryan (=)
Drake (=)
Shaboozey (-4)
George Strait (=)
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