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Simone Biles is in her Reputation era, and the world isn’t ready for it — Taylor Swift included. After the celebrated gymnast used “…Ready for It?” in her show-stopping floor routine at Day 1 of the 2024 Olympic Trials in Minneapolis last week, the pop star sang her praises with a tweet Saturday (June 29) […]
There are two things the English cannot live without: soccer and Glastonbury. The legendary summer festival that took place over the weekend drew 200,000 to see sets by headliners Dua Lipa, LCD Soundsystem, Coldplay, SZA and Burna Boy, even as England was fighting for its life in a thrilling elimination game against Slovakia in the […]
The Kansas City Chiefs star was also filmed hanging with Julia Roberts in the VIP section at Sunday’s (June 30) show.
Gracie Abrams has secured her first-ever No. 1 album on the Official UK Albums Chart with her sophomore release, The Secret Of Us.
The Californian singer-songwriter’s second studio album follows her debut Good Riddance, which peaked at No. 3 in 2023.
Abrams celebrated her chart-topping success after a surprise appearance at Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour at London’s Wembley Stadium, where they performed “us.” from her new album.
“Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for somehow making my album The Secret Of Us No. 1 in the UK. I can’t wrap my head around that. This is the first time that anything I’ve ever done, ever, anywhere has gone No. 1.”
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“Thank you for believing in the album, thank you for listening to it, and thank you for letting it into your lives. This means so much to me, and to the people I’m lucky enough to have made these songs with. I can’t wait until we’re all in the same place, to sing these songs together at a show and to dance. I’ll be crying! I love you, thank you so much,” Abrams told Official Charts.
The Secret Of Us also tops the Official Record Store Chart and the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, making it the best-selling record of the week on vinyl in the U.K.
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Meanwhile, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department drops to No. 2 after seven non-consecutive weeks at the top, bolstered by her U.K. tour dates. Six of Swift’s albums, including Lover (No. 7), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (No. 9), Midnights (No. 12), reputation (No. 15), folklore (No. 16), and Red (Taylor’s Version) (No. 37), remain within the U.K. top 40.
Chappell Roan’s debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, reaches a new peak at No. 6. Alt-rock band The Mysterines secure their second Top 40 entry with Afraid Of Tomorrows, landing at No. 11.
Foo Fighters’ hits collection The Essential climbs to No. 13, driven by their ongoing U.K. stadium tour. Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism rises to No. 27 ahead of her Glastonbury Pyramid Stage performance, while Benson Boone’s debut Fireworks & Rollerblades ascends to No. 28 following his support slot on Taylor Swift’s tour.
Green Day’s 2017 compilation Greatest Hits: God’s Favorite Band re-enters the U.K. top 40 at No. 29. Avril Lavigne’s Greatest Hits returns to the Top 40 at No. 33, ahead of her own Glastonbury set. Ed Sheeran’s X (Multiply) leaps 97 spots to No. 34 following its 10th anniversary reissue.
Sabrina Carpenter’s hit single “Please Please Please” (via Island) holds strong at the top of the Official UK Singles Chart for the second consecutive week, logging an impressive 8.6 million streams and remaining the most-streamed song in the country.
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The track, produced by Jack Antonoff, is the second single from Carpenter’s sixth studio LP, Short ‘n’ Sweet, which was released June 6, following her previous U.K. No. 1 hit with “Espresso.”
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Following her record-breaking ascent last week, Carpenter has again set a new milestone, becoming the youngest female artist to achieve two consecutive weeks at No. 1 and No. 2, with “Espresso” holding steady at No. 2. This surpasses Ariana Grande’s previous record.
Another rising star, indie-pop sensation Chappell Roan, makes her debut in the U.K. top 10 with “Good Luck, Babe!” landing at No. 7.
Additionally, two more singles from her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, have entered the Top 40: “HOT TO GO!” at No. 33 and “Red Wine Supernova” at No. 40.
U.S. viral sensation Tommy Richman secures his second U.K. top 40 single with “DEVIL IS A LIE,” debuting at No. 21. Coldplay’s latest single, “feelslikeimfallinginlove,” produced by Max Martin, is this week’s highest new entry at No. 25, marking the band’s 28th U.K. top 40 hit. Chris Martin and Co. made history at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday by becoming the first band to headline the event for a fifth time, besting the Cure’s old mark of four.
Meanwhile, Charli XCX continues to climb the charts with “girl, so confusing,” entering at No. 28, boosted by a viral remix featuring Lorde. This gives Charli her 17th U.K. top 40 hit and Lorde her fifth. Jordan Adetunji’s “KEHLANI” becomes the Belfast alt-hip-hop star’s first-ever Top 40 entry, landing at No. 29.
Post Malone and Blake Shelton’s collaboration “Pour Me A Drink” debuts at No. 34, marking Posty’s 23rd U.K. top 40 single and Shelton’s first.
Gracie Abrams, fresh off her first U.K. No. 1 album, adds another accolade with “us..,” her duet featuring Taylor Swift, entering the chart at No. 37.
Finally, Ariana Grande’s “the boy is mine” makes a significant leap, climbing 25 places to enter the top 40 at No. 39, following the release of a remix featuring Brandy and Monica. This marks Grande’s 35th U.K. top 40 single.
Taylor Swift‘s stage didn’t perform as planned at the start of “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” during Saturday’s show in Dublin.
As the pop icon launched into the first few lines of the track from The Tortured Poets Department — “Was any of it true/ Gazing at me starry-eyed/ In your Jehovah’s Witness suit/ Who the f— was that guy?” — concertgoers noticed the stage was malfunctioning. The elevated section Swift stood on had failed to lower when it was supposed to, leaving her momentarily stranded.
Swift didn’t flinch over the glitch.
Fortunately, she didn’t have to wait long for one of her dancers, Jan Ravnik, to lend a hand and help her down.
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In a closeup video from Swift’s Tortured Poets set of the concert posted by a fan, it looks and sounds like the pop star’s trying to hold in laughter as Ravnik offers assistance.
The show must go on, and Swift’s three-and-a-half-hour show did.
Swift’s international Eras Tour was at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium for three concerts this weekend. Next, she’ll take the tour to Amsterdam for a trio of dates at Johan Cruijff Arena from July 4-6.
On Sunday, Billboard announced Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department remains at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a 10th consecutive, and total, week.
At this point, Swift has played the majority of the 31-track collection live on The Eras Tour at least once. The Tortured Poets section of the show includes tracks “But Daddy I Love Him,” a small taste of “So High School,” ‘Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” and “Down Bad,” which transitions to “Fortnight.” It wraps up with “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” (usually with a functioning stage) and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.”
Other tracks from the album have had their live debut in Swift’s acoustic section, in which she offers two surprise-song performances. This weekend’s firsts included “The Albatross” on Saturday and “Clara Bow” on Sunday for Stevie Nicks, who was in the VIP tent and filming Swift’s song with her cell phone.
See clips of Swift expertly handling the Saturday stage malfunction below.
Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks reunited in Dublin on Sunday (June 30), with The Eras Tour headliner dedicating the night’s acoustic section to the iconic Fleetwood Mac singer.
With Nicks in attendance, it was the perfect occasion for Swift to perform The Tortured Poets Department‘s “Clara Bow” live for the first time ever; she names Nicks on the second verse of “Clara Bow,” singing: “You look like Stevie Nicks/ In ’75, the hair and lips/ Crowd goes wild at her fingertips/ Half moonshine, a full eclipse.”
“I’ve never played this song live at all,” Swift noted before “Clara Bow,” which was one of two acoustic performances at her Aviva Stadium concert Sunday, her third date in Ireland.
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“The reason I want to play this tonight is because a friend of mine is here who is watching the show,” Swift hinted. She praised this friend for paving the way for her, saying she’s “one of the reasons why I get to do what I get to do” — and that she’s been a guiding hand to many female artists.
Added Swift, “She’s a hero of mine. I could tell her any secret; she’d never tell anybody.”
“I’m talking about Stevie Nicks,” Swift announced, leading the audience in a massive round of applause.
Playing on guitar, Swift worked lyrics from “The Lucky One” — her 2012 Red song with a theme that parallels that of “Clara Bow” — into the live debut of “Clara Bow” during her surprise song set.
Swift then played “You’re on Your Own, Kid,” from her 2022 Midnights album, on piano. At Sunday’s show, there was an unsaid reason for her choice of song: it has personal meaning to Nicks.
In May 2023, Nicks expressed her gratitude to Swift for writing the song, at it’s helped her mourn the late Christine McVie, Nicks’ dear friend and bandmate who passed away in November 2022. “Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing a favor for me, and that is writing a song called ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid.’ That is the sadness of how I feel,” she said on stage last year.
“Never an argument in our entire 47 years,” Nicks said of her deep connection with McVie. “The two of us were on our own, kids. We always were. And now, I’m having to learn to be on my own, kid, by myself. You helped me to do that. Thank you.”
The rock icon was first spotted by fans in the Dublin stadium earlier at Swift’s show on Sunday, walking to and from the VIP tent that’s set up for Swift’s guests.
Nicks, in town for her own tour (with a date in Dublin on July 3), is directly connected to Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, which rules at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a 10th consecutive week. The singer-songwriter penned a poem “for T — and me…” that appeared on the album art for physical copies of the set, Swift’s 11th studio album.
The poem, in part, reads: “She looked back from her future/ And shed a few tears/ He looked into his past/ And actually felt fear/ For both of them/ The answers — would never be/ Everclear/ Don’t ask questions now/ Do that later/ She brings joy/ He brings Shakespeare/ It’s almost a tragedy/ Says she/ Don’t endanger me/ Don’t endanger me.”
In the next stanza, Nicks writes: “He really can’t answer her/ He’s afraid of her/ He’s hiding from her/ And he knows — that he’s hurting her.”
More than 14 years ago, at the 2010 Grammy Awards, Swift and Nicks sang a medley of Fleetwood Mac’s 1976 hit “Rhiannon” and Swift’s 2009 hit “You Belong With Me.”
LISA‘s “Rockstar” has topped this week’s new music poll that features artists in various genres of music.
Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (June 28) on Billboard, choosing the BLACKPINK rapper, singer and dancer’s new solo single as their favorite new music release of the past week.
“Rockstar” brought 73% of the vote on the poll, securing a notable edge ahead of new releases from Camila Cabello (C,XOXO), Megan Thee Stallion (Megan), Imagine Dragons (Loom), Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan (“Cowboys Cry Too”), and others.
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“Rockstar” was released under the new partnership between RCA Records and LISA’s management company, LLOUD Co., which she founded earlier this year. The song was first teased on TikTok earlier this month when LISA joined the social media site and set a Guinness World Record by gaining 1 million followers in just over two hours.
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LISA co-wrote “Rockstar” with Brittany Amaradio, James Essien, Lucy Healey, Ryan Tedder and Sam Homaee and was produced by Tedder and Homaee.
“Gold teeth sitting on the dash, she a rockstar/ Make your favorite singer wanna rap, baby, la la/ ‘Lisa, can you teach me Japanese?’ I said, ‘Hai hai’/ That’s my life life, baby I’m a rockstar,” LISA raps on the chorus.
LISA went to her native Thailand to shoot the dance-heavy music video, taking over the streets of Bangkok for the shoot. The clip features Thai transgender influencers Chinnawat Promsri, Bruze Kachi-sarah and Aëffy.
Trailing behind “Rockstar” on this week’s poll is the “other” category, with 16% of the vote, followed by Camila Cabello’s fourth studio album, C,XOXO, which brought in nearly 5% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s poll below. Check out Billboard‘s Friday Music Guide to catch up with more must-hear releases from this week.
Six different women are in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 6), marking the first time that’s happened in nearly five years — and the first time this decade. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department holds at No. 1 for a 10th consecutive week, Gracie Abrams‘ The Secret of […]
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department achieves a 10th consecutive and total week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated July 6). With a 10th week atop the list, Swift has now collected three albums with at least 10 weeks at No. 1, as it joins 1989 and Fearless, each with 11 weeks on top.
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Swift is just the fifth act with three or more albums to spend 10 or more weeks at No. 1, standing alongside Whitney Houston (three albums, in 1986-93), The Beatles (four, 1964-67), The Kingston Trio (three, 1959-69) and Elvis Presley (four, 1956-61). Swift is the only act with three albums to spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1 this century.
The Tortured Poets Department earned 115,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending June 27 (down 9%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated May 4 and has yet to relinquish the No. 1 slot.
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Swift adds her 79th career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Gracie Abrams lands her first top 10-charting set and best week ever by units, as The Secret of Us bows at No. 2. Plus, Peso Pluma captures his second top five-charting effort with the No. 5 arrival of Éxodo.
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 July 6, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 2. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 115,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 87,000 (down 7% — it’s No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a 10 th week; its SEA units equal 113.21 million on-demand official streams of the deluxe edition’s 31 songs), album sales comprise 28,000 (down 16%) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (up 24%).
As noted above, Swift is the fifth act with three or more albums to spend 10 or more weeks at No. 1. She joins Whitney Houston (her self-titled album with 14 weeks in 1986, Whitney with 11 in 1987 and The Bodyguard soundtrack with 20 weeks in 1992-93); The Beatles (Meet the Beatles! with 11 in 1964, A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack with 14 in 1964, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with 15 in 1967 and Abbey Road with 11 in 1969-70); The Kingston Trio (The Kingston Trio at Large with 15 in 1959, Sold Out with 12 in 1960 and String Along with 10 in 1960); and Elvis Presley (his self-titled album with 10 in 1956, the Loving You soundtrack with 10 in 1957, the G.I. Blues soundtrack with 15 in 1960-61 and the Blue Hawaii soundtrack with 20 in 1961-62).
As The Tortured Poets Department has spent its first 10 weeks at No. 1, it joins just four other albums that have achieved that same feat: Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time (first 12 weeks at No. 1, of its total 19 weeks at No. 1 in 2023-24); Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (all 10 of its weeks at No. 1 were from its debut atop the chart, 2021); Whitney Houston’s Whitney (all 11 of its weeks at No. 1 were from its debut atop the chart, 1987); and Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (first 13 weeks at No. 1, of its total 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1976). (For context, today it’s common for albums to debut at No. 1. However, before 1991, when the Billboard 200 began utilizing Luminate’s electronically monitored tracking information, only six albums debuted at No. 1, including Whitney and Songs in the Key of Life.)
The Tortured Poets Department is the first album by a woman to spend 10 weeks in a row at No. 1 since 2012, when Adele’s 21 strung together 10 straight weeks at No. 1 (of its total 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list) that January-March.
With 10 weeks at No. 1, The Tortured Poets Department is one week away from tying Swift’s personal record for her most weeks atop the list, as both 1989 and Fearless each notched 11 weeks at No. 1.
In the 21st century, only 11 albums including The Tortured Poets Department have spent at least 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Swift has three of them (1989 and Fearless, each with 11, and Poets with 10), Adele (21, with 24, and 25, with 10) and Wallen (One Thing at a Time, 19, and Dangerous: The Double Album, 10) each have two; and while Bad Bunny (Un Verano Sin Ti, 13), Drake (Views, 13), the Frozen soundtrack (13) and SZA (SOS, 10) represent the rest of the No. 1s with 10 or more weeks on top since the turn of the century.
Gracie Abrams scores her highest-charting album, and first top 10, on the Billboard 200 as her second full-length studio set, The Secret of Us, debuts at No. 2 with 89,000 equivalent album units earned, also her best week by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 50,000 (her best sales week ever — it’s the top-selling album of the week and debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 38,000 (equaling 47.57 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 13 songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000.
Abrams previously charted with her debut full-length effort, Good Riddance, which debuted and peaked at No. 52 in March of 2023. The recent Grammy nominee for best new artist made her Billboard Hot 100 songs chart arrival later in 2023, when Noah Kahan’s “Everywhere, Everything,” featuring Abrams, hit No. 79 in December. On the June 22, 2024-dated chart, the new album’s “Close to You” debuted at No. 49.
After Good Riddance debuted, Abrams joined her pal Swift as an opening act for 29 dates of the latter’s stadium-filling The Eras Tour between April and August 2023. She’ll rejoin Swift as an opening act come October, when The Eras Tour returns to the U.S. and Canada, staying on through the trek’s final show in Vancouver on Dec. 8.
During the new album’s release week, Abrams joined Swift onstage in London (June 23) at Wembley Stadium during The Eras Tour for the first live performance of the album’s “Us,” featuring Swift.
The first-week sales of The Secret of Us was supported by the album’s availability across seven vinyl variants (all color variations, two of which were signed and exclusive to Abrams’ webstore, as well as one that was exclusive to Target with an alternative cover). Vinyl sales accounted for 41,000 of the album’s total sales for the week — her best week on vinyl, and the sixth-largest week for a vinyl set in 2024.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises 4-3 on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 equivalent album units earned (up less than 1%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft dips 2-4 with 70,000 (down 17%).
Peso Pluma lands his second top five-charting album as Éxodo enters at No. 5 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise essentially all of that sum, equaling 87.51 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 24 songs. (Album sales and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 units combined; the album was available to purchase only as a digital download.) The guest-laden effort includes collaborations with Anitta, Cardi B, DJ Snake, Eslabon Armado, Junior H, Quavo and Rich the Kid, among many others.
The success story of Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess continues to add new chapters, as the album rises 8-6 (a new peak) on the Billboard 200 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (up 32%), a new single-week high in units for the artist. Of that sum, album sales comprise 15,000 (up 87%, her best sales week yet) and SEA units comprise 46,000 (up 21%, equaling 60.5 million official on-demand streams of the set’s 14 songs — its best streaming week yet).
Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album bumps 10-7 on the Billboard 200 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%). Ariana Grande’s chart-topping Eternal Sunshine returns to the top 10, vaulting 23-8 with 41,000 units (up 87% thanks largely to sales of a signed CD sold exclusively in Grande’s webstore for a limited time).
Rounding out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are Charli XCX’s Brat (holding at No. 9 with nearly 41,000; down 8%) and Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going (rising 12-10 with almost 41,000; up 1%).
With Swift, Abrams, Eilish, Chappell Roan, Grande and Charli XCX at Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 9, respectively, there are six albums by women in the top 10 for the first time since the Jan. 27-dated chart. That week, Kali Uchis, Nicki Minaj, SZA and Swift were in the top 10, with Swift holding three titles in the region. Further, this week marks the first time there are at least six different women (or women-led acts) in the top 10 in nearly five years. It last happened on the Sept. 21, 2019-dated chart, with Swift’s Lover (No. 1), Melanie Martinez’s K-12 (No. 3), Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You (No. 6), Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (No. 8), Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (No. 9) and all-women band The Highwomen’s self-titled album (No. 10).
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