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Finneas is back with his sophomore album, For Cryin’ Out Loud, which arrived on Friday (Oct. 4). The project was preceded by the title track, “Cleats” and “Lotus Eater,” and follows the Grammy-winning producer’s 2021 debut album, Optimist. “This album, I was like, I want to sit across the table from people and talk right […]
Coldplay has officially gone into orbit with Moon Music, the group’s 10th studio album that arrived on Friday (Oct. 5). The project is led by LP’s first single, “feelslikeimfallinginlove,” as well as follow-up tracks “All My Love” and “We Pray,” a collaboration with Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and TINI. Moon Music also features two […]
Rich Homie Quan died Sept. 5 at 33 years old. At the time of his death, he was reportedly working on a new album, so his family took it upon themselves to complete his vision with the release of Forever Goin In. The late Atlanta rapper’s first posthumous LP hit streaming services on Friday (Oct. […]
Katy Perry lands her sixth top 10-charting set on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 5), as her latest studio album, 143, debuts at No. 2 with 38,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 26 – her best sales week since 2017.
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She previously visited the top 10 with her five earlier major label full-length studio releases: Smile (No. 3 in 2020), Witness (No. 1, 2017), Prism (No. 1, 2013), Teenage Dream (No. 1, 2010) and One of the Boys (No. 9, 2008).
Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Chappell Roan lands her biggest sales week yet – and first week at No. 1 – as The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess jumps 6-1. Meanwhile, the latest releases from P1Harmony, Lil Tecca, Keith Urban, Future, Grateful Dead and Seether arrive in the region.
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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. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Perry’s first-week sales were aided by 143’s availability across eight vinyl variants (including a signed edition), four CD variants (including a signed edition), a cassette tape and multiple digital download variants (including two exclusive to her webstore, each with bonus tracks).
As for Roan at No. 1, her album garnered a 328% week-over-week sales increase, selling 56,000 copies. The growth is owed to the release of four new vinyl variants and a cassette tape in celebration of the album’s first anniversary on Sept. 22. Of the album’s sales, vinyl comprises 50,000 – easily Roan’s best week on vinyl and the sixth-largest week for any vinyl album in 2024.
P1Harmony collects its best sales week yet, as Sad Song starts at No. 3 with 28,000 copies sold. It’s also the third top 10-charting set for the pop ensemble. The first-week sales were helped by the album’s availability across 24 collectible CD variants, a vinyl edition and a cassette. All variants contain branded paper ephemera like photocards and postcards.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet rises one spot to No. 4 with 15,000 sold (up 1%).
Lil Tecca nabs his best sales week ever, and first top 10, as his new album Plan A arrives at No. 5 with 13,000 sold. Previously, the rapper had never sold more than 4,500 copies of an album in a week. The new set’s sales were encouraged by two CD variants (including a signed edition) and multiple digital download variants (including three exclusive to the artist’s webstore, two of which included bonus tracks).
Keith Urban clocks his ninth top 10 on Top Album Sales as High bows at No. 6 with 12,000 sold. Its first week was helped by four vinyl variants, three CD variants – with some retail-exclusives containing branded paper ephemera.
Future’s Mixtape Pluto enters at No. 7 with 10,000 sold – his best sales week since 2020. Nearly 7,500 of that sum was driven by vinyl sales – aided by three vinyl variants. The set was also available on CD and as a digital download. The album was issued as an 11-song standard album (on vinyl, CD and download) and as an expanded 17-song set (on download).
Stray Kids’ former No. 1 ATE rises one rung to No. 8 with nearly 8,000 sold (down 13%).
Rounding out the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart are debuts from the Grateful Dead’s expansive archival live boxed sets, Friend of the Devils: April 1978, which starts at No. 9 (7,500) and Seether’s The Surface Seems So Far at No. 10 (just over 7,000).
The Dead package – sold exclusively via the band’s official webstore – captures eight concerts staged in April 1978 and is available either as a digital download or 19-CD boxed set, with pricing ranging from $159.98 to $199.98.
For Seether, the new Surface marks the band’s ninth studio album and seventh top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales.
LISA is back with a brand new single, the swoon-worthy “Moonlit Floor,” which arrived on Thursday (Oct. 3). The BLACKPINK singer has been teasing the track on TikTok leading up to its release, and debuted it live at Global Citizen Fest last month. The song interpolates Sixpence None the Richer‘s hit “Kiss Me,” which reached […]
DDG and Halle Bailey are going their separate ways. DDG announced that the couple has split with an Instagram Story post on Thursday evening (Oct. 3).
“After much reflection and heartfelt conversations, Halle and I have decided to go our separate ways,” he began. “This decision was not easy, but we believe it’s the best path forward for both of us. I cherish the time we’ve spent together and the love we’ve shared.”
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The “Moonwalking in Calabasas” rapper and Halle Bailey went public with their relationship in January 2022. They welcomed a son, Halo, late in 2023 and announced his birth back in January.
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DDG and the Little Mermaid star gave the public its first glimpse of Halo when sharing photos of their baby boy in July following a trip to Italy.
Despite the split, DDG maintains that they will remain “best friends” and have plenty of love for one another as they navigate this co-parenting journey.
“Despite the changes in our relationship, our love for each other remains deep and true,” he continued. “We are still best friends and adore each other. As we focus on our individual journeys and our roles as co-parents, we cherish the bond we’ve build and the beautiful moments we’ve shared.”
The couple was swarmed with break-up rumors in April when DDG and Halle Bailey allegedly unfollowed each other on Instagram and took down some of the photos they had together, per Elle.
In the same month, Halle opened up about the “severe” postpartum depression she was experiencing as a mother. “It’s hard for me to be separated from my baby for more than 30 minutes at a time before I start to kind of freak out,” she said on Snapchat. “When I look at him, I cry because of how special he is.”
More recently, DDG and Halle attended Usher’s Past Present Future Tour in Los Angeles together last week.
The 26-year-old and Bailey are requesting fans’ “understanding and support” as they figure out what’s next for themselves. “As we navigate this transition, we ask for your understanding and support,” DDG concluded. “Thank you for your love and encouragement.”
Find the full statement from DDG below.
Halle Bailey and DDG have separated:“After much reflections and heartfelt conversations, Halle and I have decided to go our separate ways.” pic.twitter.com/Am5trZNlfn— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 3, 2024
For a fourth straight year, Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s Kid Albums chart, largely powered by vinyl album sales. The set rises one spot on the Oct. 5-dated list, which ranks the week’s top-selling kid albums in the United States according to Luminate. The […]
The Boss has spoken. Bruce Springsteen took to social media on Thursday (Oct. 3) to officially announce that in the upcoming presidential election, he will be voting for the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ticket. “We are shortly coming up on one of the most consequential elections in our nation’s history,” he explains in the […]
Tommy Richman sent Rap Twitter into a frenzy last night (Oct. 2.) The singer out of Virginia — whose single “Million Dollar Baby” went viral and was on its way to dominating the summer until the Kendrick and Drake battle thwarted those dreams — sent out a now-deleted tweet seemingly distancing himself from the genre […]
Demi Lovato and Penn Badgley got deep on the latest episode of Podcrushed, with the 32-year-old singer/actress opening up about her ongoing eating disorder treatments, gender presentation and more in an interview posted Thursday (Oct. 3).
Sitting across from the You actor, Lovato gave an update on how they’re currently managing their body image and mental health — all things the Camp Rock star has previously been open about. “I have a treatment team that I work with that helps me stay in recovery, and I’ve been in recovery from bulimia for five, going on six, years now,” she said. “I’m trying to learn body acceptance rather than body positivity, because body positivity feels like, ‘I can’t even reach that yet.’ I have a nutritionist and a therapist that specializes in eating disorders.”
Adding that cooking meals at home feels like “the biggest ‘F— you’” to her eating disorder, Lovato continued that “the main thing that I’m working on is just body acceptance, and looking in the mirror and being like, ‘This body is strong … This body saved my life and fought for my life when I overdosed. This body is a miracle.’”
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The interview comes a few weeks after the Sept. 17 premiere of Lovato’s Child Star Hulu documentary, on which the vocalist further explored their past struggles and interviewed fellow celebrities — Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore and Jojo Siwa, to name a few — about their own experiences with child fame. Lovato also recently dropped a companion single for the self-directed film titled “You’ll Be OK, Kid.”
But while Badgley had Lovato in his presence, there was another song he wanted to sing with her: 2021’s emotional ballad “Anyone” from Dancing With the Devil. In a clip posted to Podcrushed‘s Instagram, the Gossip Girl alum starts out the song before listening in awe as the “Cool for the Summer” artist took the floor.
Elsewhere in Badgley’s interview with Lovato, the Princess Protection Program star opened up about feeling more comfortable balancing masculinity with femininity as it pertains to their gender presentation. “I came out as nonbinary [in 2021]. I really shed that image of that hyper-feminine pop star that I had been for so many years. I cut all my hair off and it was really freeing for me.”
“I feel masculine and feminine,” Lovato continued. “I have both energies in me. At that point in my life, I really shunned the feminine energy in me, and now I’m able to embrace both.”
Watch Badgley interview Lovato above, and check out their mini-duet below.