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13 Aug 2024

Rachel Dratch Interrupts Jimmy Fallon Monologue With Hilarious Raygun Breakdancing Impression

After going viral for her performance at the 2024 Olympics, Australian breakdancer Raygun has now been immortalized on late night television thanks to Rachel Dratch’s hilarious impression of her on The Tonight Show Monday (Aug. 12).

During his monologue, host Jimmy Fallon only needed to mention that breakdancing made its Olympic debut at the Paris games this month for the live audience to start laughing in anticipation of where the segment was headed. After laughing at competition clips of the real-life dancer born Rachael Gunn — who scored zero points against the other country’s breakers — viewers got an extra surprise when Dratch entered the studio dressed as the Aussie breaker, mimicking some of her unorthodox moves.

The Saturday Night Live alum didn’t say anything the entire sketch, keeping up a bit that Raygun only expresses herself through dance moves. These included impressions of the Olympian’s kangaroo-like hopping and rolling on the floor. After wordlessly convincing Fallon to dance with her, Dratch boogied her way offstage and left.

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The skit comes amid reports that breaking will not be invited back to the Olympics in 2024, possibly marking the end of a very short lifespan for the sport’s recognition by the Games. This year, Japan’s Ami Yuasa won the women’s gold medal in breaking, followed by silver-winner Dominika Banevic from Lithuania and bronze-earner Liu Qingyi from China. The men’s category saw Canada’s Philip Kim take gold while France’s Danis Civil and the United States’ Victor Montalvo finished with silver and bronze, respectively.

Watch Dratch dance to the beat of Raygun’s drum on The Tonight Show above.

13 Aug 2024

John Oates Will Be Honored With BMI’s 2024 Troubadour Award

Singer-songwriter John Oates will be feted for his contributions to the art of songwriting when he is honored with BMI‘s Troubadour Award on Sept. 16 in Nashville.

The accolade recognizes a songwriter who has made “a profound impact on the creative community as their craft continues to set the pace for generations to follow,” according to a release from BMI. The upcoming invitation-only event will include tribute performances and commemorative speeches from special guests, in addition to a cocktail reception and dinner.

“John Oates has enriched Nashville and its music scene with his special blend of soulful storytelling and guitar playing,” BMI Nashville’s VP of Creative, Clay Bradley said in a statement. “His influence has elevated our community to be more accepting and open to all genres of music. We are proud to honor him as this year’s BMI Troubadour.”

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Oates began his BMI affiliation in 1972, and he has previously been named a BMI Icon for his influence on generations of music crafters. Among his accolades are 10 BMI pop awards and 30 BMI Million-Air Awards for songs including “Maneater,” “I Can’t Go For That,” “Out of Touch” and “Sara Smile.” As a member of Hall & Oates, he has recorded 21 albums and earned six Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers. Hall & Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

Oates moved to Nashville in 2010 and embedded himself in Nashville’s Americana music community, releasing several solo projects, including 2020’s Live in Nashville and his most recent, 2024’s Reunion. He also teamed with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James to curate the Bonnaroo SuperJam in 2013 and was the creator and executive producer for the 7908 Aspen Songwriters Festival, which evolved into the national streaming charity fundraising event Oates Song Fest 7908.

Oates will join the ranks of previous BMI Troubadour Award honorees including Billy Gibbons, John Hiatt, John Prine, Robert Earl Keen and Lucinda Williams. The event honoring his BMI Troubadour Award will take place on the eve of this year’s AmericanaFest.

13 Aug 2024

De La Soul Announces NYC Show Featuring ‘Choose-What-You-Pay’ Ticketing Model

De La Soul announced plans for a New York City concert at the top of 2025, and they’re taking an atypical approach to ticketing options for the show.

The Grammy-winning crew has employed a “Choose-What-You-Pay” model for fans looking to purchase tickets to the Jan. 17 show at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. According to the Lincoln Center’s website, fans are suggested to pay $35 per ticket, but will have options to pay more and less depending on what they want to do.

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“To make the arts more accessible, tickets are available on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis,” the website reads. “There is a suggested ticket price of $35.00, as well as options to pay more or less.”

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Per Brooklyn Vegan, it’s De La Soul’s first NYC show in 16 months. Pre-sale tickets will go on sale starting on Sept. 5 with the general public having their chance on Sept. 12.

Before returning home to New York in January, De La has a handful of festival dates that will take the Long Island-bred group to the West Coast and north of the border as well as across the pond for shows in the U.K., France, Belgium and more.

2023 proved to be an emotional rollercoaster of a year with the passing of co-founder Trugoy the Dove (born David Jolicoeur) at the age of 54. Following years of internal conflicts and label issues, De La Soul’s first six studio albums hit streaming services for the first time in March 2023.

The crew made a splash with their streaming debut while registering 12.5 million official on-demand U.S. song streams in the week ending March 9 and sold 28,000 albums, according to Luminate.

13 Aug 2024

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Share Video of Super-Chill Vacation Helicopter Leap Into Ocean

Some people opt for the happy hour glass-bottom pontoon boat tours around the bay or a ride on one of those bouncing banana boats that seem like a great idea until your aunt falls off right away and the coast guard has to come save her.

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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom clearly took the easy way out on a recent vacation, where, according to Perry’s Instagram feed, they spent a leisurely afternoon jumping out of a helicopter into the ocean. You heard that right. On Monday (August 12), Perry posted photos and video of the engaged couple getting hyped before leaping out of the chopper into the sea. Perry soundtracked the clip with a her current single, “Lifetimes,” and captioned it with a few lines from the dance banger whose Ibiza-shot video has a similarly beach-y, endless summer vacation theme.

“Like the stars are in the sky/ You and I will find each other / In every single life,” Perry wrote in the caption to the heli-hop post.

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Perry recently revealed the track list for her upcoming 11-track 143 album (Sept. 20), which will feature “Lifetimes” and previous single, “Woman’s World,” as well as: “I’m His He’s Mine,” “Crush,” “Nirvana,” “All the Love,” “Truth” and “Wonder,” as well as three songs with as-yet-undisclosed features, “Gorgeous,” “Gimme Gimme” and “Artificial.”

The couple, who’ve dated since 2016 and got engaged in 2019, share three-year-old daughter Daisy Dove. The dive was not super surprising for Bloom, who risked life and limb in his recent Peacock series, Orlando Bloom: To The Edge, in which he went for a wingsuit flight, did a lung-busting free dive in the Bahamas and climb to the top of a 400-foot tower in Utah to stand on a tiny platform.

Check out Perry and Bloom’s daredevil adventure below.

13 Aug 2024

Juvenile & Mannie Fresh Show Some Love to Eminem for Sampling Their Song ‘Ha’

During an appearance on Hot 97 with DJ Drewski, Juvenile and Mannie Fresh talked about Eminem sampling their classic track “Ha” on his song “Road Rage” featuring Dem Jointz & Sly Pyper from his latest album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce.)

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“Shout out to Eminem. He just took ‘Ha,’” Juvenile said after being asked how he felt about artists sampling his records. “We can’t do nothing with these songs sitting down, right? We can’t make no money with these songs just sitting down. So, I applaud the artists — especially the artists that are real good at it that got talent. Hey, man, go take a sample. I am not trippin’. I’m not one of those cats and I love the new artists, I’m not hatin’ on none of them.”

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Drewski then asked Mannie if he still had to give his permission for acts to use songs he’s produced. “Yeah, those records still gotta be cleared through me because they was my records and I think it’s the biggest homage anybody can pay to you when it’s a credible artist,” he answered. “When somebody like Eminem uses your song or when Jay jumped on ‘Ha,’ that’s like, ‘Wow.’ It’s incredible because if you’re sitting down in a barber shop and we talking, you can stick your chest out and be like, ‘But did Eminem ever rap on any of your beats? Did Jay ever rap on any of your beats?’”

Juvenile also discussed his relationship with Eminem and how he found out the song was being used by him: “Em is my dude because when my career started, Em was one of them guys that kinda like reached out. He showed us love in the beginning, so he’s my guy,” he revealed. “But I didn’t expect that. We knew it was coming out but I didn’t hear it.”

The subject of a Hot Boys reunion was also broached and Big Juvie remains optimistic. “We’ve had conversations about it. Will it really happen? I’m hopeful,” he said. “We just all gotta be on the same page and we can’t be on the Internet going at each other’s throats. That’s gotta stop.”

Watch a clip from the interview below.

13 Aug 2024

Who Could Be the Video Vanguard Recipient at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards? Our Eight Best Guesses

The recipient of the MTV lifetime achievement award is expected to be announced later this week.

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Outside of perhaps only video of the year, no award at the MTV Video Music Awards is more revered — nor its announcement more anticipated — than the Video Vanguard.

The lifetime achievement award, which dates back to the first-ever VMAs in 1984 and has been given out annually since (with occasional gaps, most recently for the pandemic-stricken first two years of the 2020s), is given to reward “outstanding contributions” and “profound impact” on music videos and popular culture. It’s named after Michael Jackson, arguably the most outstanding artist in music video history, and has been handed out over the decades to video luminaries ranging from David Bowie and The Rolling Stones to Beyoncé and Missy Elliott. Most recently, the Video Vanguard has been awarded to rap icon Nicki Minaj (2022) and global pop superstar Shakira (2023).

Who will be the 2024 recipient? While MTV has already revealed the nominations for most of the competitive categories in this year’s VMAs, they have not yet divulged the Video Vanguard honoree — though the announcement is expected to come some time this week. Before that, we at Billboard decided to take a crack at predicting the award’s recipient this year. We started with some of the biggest and most legendary artists yet to receive the award, and filtered our list through factors like contemporary relevance, promotional considerations and the simple likelihood of the artist being willing to show up to deliver a speech and career-spanning medley performance, as has been customary of honorees for most of the past decade.

Here are our eight best guesses for this year’s Video Vanguard recipient, ranked (roughly) from least to most likely.

13 Aug 2024

Rihanna Shows Off Baby Riot Rose’s Crawling Skills in Adorable Fenty Video

Rihanna‘s youngest son Riot Rose crawled his way onto the superstar’s Instagram feed recently.

In a video posted on Sunday (Aug. 11), the one-year-old speedily crawls across the floor, pushing a miniature Target shopping cart in an adorable cameo during one of her Fenty promo posts. Rih is known for dressing Riot and 2-year-old RZA — her first-born son with partner A$AP Rocky — in trendy outfits. In this case, the baby boy’s diaper peeks out of a chic grey sweatsuit.

The “We Found Love” singer also shared a photo of her posing next to the cart filled with travel-size versions of her Fenty Beauty products. “more minis are on the way to @ultabeauty in @target,” she captioned the post.

The adorable announcement comes about a week after Rih attended the Crop Over Festival in her home country of Barbados, stunning the crowd in a bedazzled carnival outfit complete with multi-color feathered wings. Before that, she watched Manchester City’s match against AC Milan at Yankee Stadium and met star players Christian Pulisic, Jack Grealish and Yunus Musah. While there, one young fan snubbed her by asking her to take a photo of him with the soccer pros, seemingly not recognizing the billionaire nine-time Grammy winner right in front of him.

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As some fans joked after a video of the interaction went viral, the fact that Rih hasn’t released an album in eight years could very well be the reason certain kids don’t know who she is anymore. The mogul herself previously addressed the matter in a hilarious message to GloRilla, a screenshot of which the “TGIF” rapper posted on Instagram in July: “I know dis wild hypothetical, but when the album drop?”

To date, Rihanna has been coy about a release date or vibe for her untitled ninth album, the follow-up to 2016 album Anti. In June, after fans got scared by a T-shirt she sported reading “I’m Retired,” the singer promised fans, “I’m not retired. I just like that dress. I got it as a gift and I loved it. They didn’t read the second line, I’m not retired, I’m just retired from dressing up — it’s a lot of effort.” She also noted at the time that she’s “starting over” when it comes to her music.

“But I don’t want to neglect the songs that I have, so I actually want to go back and listen to stuff with new ears, with my new perspective and then see what applies and what I’m still in love with,” she said.

Watch Riot Rose crawl like a champ below.

13 Aug 2024

R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Lexa Gates, Real Boston Richey & Leon Bridges

Nobody drew higher approval ratings than Snoop Dogg in his employee of the month campaign as a correspondent for NBC at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

The Doggfather put a bow on his Olympic debut in Paris this weekend when hitting the stage at the Closing Ceremony where he performed Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and brought out his former Death Row Records running mate Dr. Dre as a special guest for “The Next Episode.”

H.E.R. sang the National Anthem at the ceremony, which served as the first transfer of power as the United States gears up to switch the scene to Los Angeles for 2028. Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers also performed.

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Elsewhere in the hip-hop world, Ye’s No. 1 album streak came to an end when Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department held atop the Billboard 200, with West and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 album debuting at No. 2 on the chart with 107,000 total album units moved in its first week.

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Meanwhile, Latto delivered her Sugar Honey Iced Tea album on Friday (Aug. 9), which is loaded with 17 tracks and star-studded features to go along with some more apparent shots at rival Ice Spice on the project closer. And August isn’t going to slow down for the rap world, with albums still on the way from Big Sean and A$AP Rocky later this month.

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from Monaleo and Rob49’s tequila-fueled block party to Real Boston Richey and GloRilla’s raunchy strip club anthem. Be sure to check out this week’s Fresh Picks in our Spotify playlist below.

Freshest Find: Lexa Gates, “Provider”

On the heels of the evocative “I Just Can’t Be Alone,” Lexa Gates returns a month later with her soulful “Provider” single. While the wins stack up in her ascension, the Queens rapper-singer candidly expresses the pressure that comes with being the family bread-winner. “I’m a provider/ Pay my mama rent, pay my sister phone bill,” she divulges. “Heat, gym, and electric plus the Wi-Fi.” A teaser for the track caught SZA’s eye, who lent her stamp of approval to Lexa: “Ionno what’s going on but yes to her,” the intrigued superstar singer captioned a repost of the clip to her Instagram Story. Gates will hit the stage for a one-off concert in Los Angeles this week. 

Monaleo & Rob49, “Don Who Leo (Añejo Remix)”

Monaleo turns the Texas heat up a couple notche,s with Rob 49 torching the new Añejo Remix for her viral hit “Don Who Leo.” The 23-year-old throws a block party for the visual, which doubles as a commercial for the semi-titular premium tequila company Don Julio. Monaleo’s boisterous chorus remains the same which somehow welds 2Pac, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Judge Judy into consecutive bars. 49 flies in from New Orleans to match her freak with a steamy assist. “Ain’t gon’ lie, that p—y extra bald, look like 2Pac owned it,” he quips. The liquor-friendly video remained inside the top 30 of YouTube’s trending section all weekend. 

Real Boston Richey feat. GloRilla, “Get in There”

For artists looking for a hit record, there’s no better call to make right now than heading to Memphis and banging GloRilla’s line. Real Boston Richey hopes to make it two-for-two on the charts after “Help Me” made the Freebandz rapper’s Billboard Hot 100 debut earlier in 2024. Richey throws on his Cartier shades and lets any girl dealing with him know they gotta treat him like a king. Big Glo takes the baton to continue her hot streak while riding the gloomy production and keeping things raunchy, but still maintaining a street edge. “I be ready to get down on one knee, a n—a make me squirt,” she admits in candid fashion. It’s only right the duo made it rain dollar bills in the famed Magic City strip club for the music video. 

Lynda Dawn, “Where You Are”

Blending the worlds of soul, jazz and funk, R&B singer Lynda Dawn has opened a new portal to her artistry. The North West London native launches into a groovy era with the arrival of her luscious “Where You Are” single, where Dawn teams up with producer and co-writer Al Dobson Jr. to capture the essence of a sun-kissed summer afternoon stroll in Hyde Park alongside her soulmate. “If I lived a thousand lives, I’d never find no better,” Dawn coos. “Where You Are” will land on Lynda Dawn’s forthcoming 11th Hour EP slated to arrive on Sept. 27.

Leon Bridges, “Peaceful Place”

While much of Leon Bridge’s upcoming Leon album was recorded in Nashville, the Grammy-nominated singer packs a punch of nostalgia taking it back to Bridges’ Forth Worth roots. As evidenced by the cover art featuring Bridges hanging lakeside in the open fields, the 35-year-old is in a “Peaceful Place.” A delectable guitar riff meshes with Bridges’ honeyed vocals for a serene lead single heading into the eponymous project, which is set to land via Columbia Records on Oct. 4.

Skylar Blatt, “Hold Me Down”

Skylar Blatt is always cool, calm and collected. No matter the tempo of a track, the Cincinnati-bred artist remains in control of the steering wheel. Blatt follows up her Chris Brown-assisted “Wake Up” with the contemplative “Hold Me Down,” which finds her in cruise control while dishing out a hypnotic chorus about the power of the dollar. “You know they say that money make the world go ’round/ You know that I be up until you holding me down,” she sings.

13 Aug 2024

Charli XCX & Billie Eilish’s ‘Guess’ Blasts to No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart

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.

“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.

13 Aug 2024

Jack White’s ‘No Name’ Nabs Top 10 Debut on Album Sales Chart

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).