Chart Beat
BTS Scores First Rock Airplay Charts Appearance With Coldplay Collab ‘My Universe’
On Alternative Airplay, it’s Coldplay’s 29th entry and follows the No. 4-peaking “Higher Power” in June. Meanwhile, on Rock & Alternative Airplay, the song bows with 925,000 audience impressions, according to MRC Data. “My Universe” starts on both lists despite just three days of airplay toward the charts, having been released Sept. 24 (the tracking week for airplay tallies ended Sept. 26). Further gains are likely on the Oct. 9-dated Billboard charts, where “My Universe” could see a high debut on the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Billboard Hot 100. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards...
NCT 127 Nets Third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Sticker: The 3rd Album’
Of Sticker: The 3rd Album’s sales of 58,000, physical album sales comprise 57,000 (all from CD sales) and 1,000 via digital download. Like many K-pop releases, the CD edition of the album was issued in multiple collectible packages and boxed sets (nine, including a Target-exclusive edition). NCT 127 previously led Top Album Sales with NCT #127: Neo Zone, The 2nd Album in 2020 and NCT #127 We Are Superhuman: The 4th Mini Album in 2019. Lil Nas X’s first full-length album, Montero, arrives at No. 2 with 22,000 copies sold, all via digital download. Rock band Spiritbox sees its debut full-length set Eternal Blue bow at No. 3 with 19,000 sold. Of that sum, 10,000 were sold via vinyl LP while the rest were mostly split between CD and digital download sales. The album’s vinyl sales were rob...
Five Burning Questions: Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart
1. No. 2 and 126,000 equivalent album units is obviously an excellent performance for a debut album by just about anyone — but if you’re Lil Nas X, are you smarting a little bit that you’re held at the runner-up spot for your big week, both by Drake’s Certified Lover Boy on the Billboard 200 and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” on the Billboard Hot 100? And which do you think has a better shot of eventually climbing to No. 1, Montero or “Industry Baby”? Rania Aniftos: I’m sure with all the build-up leading to the album release, Lil Nas X was hoping for the top spot on the charts, but he knows better than anyone that any big Hot 100 hit eventually gets dethroned. S...
Chart Rewind: In 1991, Garth Brooks Lassoed History With ‘Ropin’ the Wind’
After moving 300,000 in its first week, Ropin’ the Wind has sold 9.6 million to date. Remarkably, Brooks, then 29, achieved these feats without the benefit of pop crossover airplay. Rather, it was his electric live concerts and a string of modern country classics from his first two albums, Garth Brooks and No Fences, that helped rocket his third album to a No. 1 launch and propel country radio to new ratings highs in the early ’90s. Ropin’ the Wind, which yielded five Hot Country Songs top 10 singles, including the No. 1s “Shameless” (written by Billy Joel), “What She’s Doing Now” and “The River,” became the first of nine No. 1 albums that Brooks has landed on the Billboard 200. With 73.2 million albums sold in the U.S. since 1991...
The Lathums Set to Oust Drake From U.K. Chart Throne
Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (OVO/Republic Recordings) beat Lil Nas X’s Montero (Columbia) by the tightest of margins on last Friday’s chart, but don’t bet on either winning the current race. Drizzy’s latest drops to No. 3 and Lil Nas X’s debut album dips to No. 6. Meanwhile, Australian pop singer Natalie Imbruglia is on track for her first U.K. Top 10 album in 14 years with Firebird (BMG), new at No. 4, while Tom DeLonge’s Angels & Airwaves are flying high with Lifeforms (Rise Records), new at No. 7. If it keeps its altitude, Lifeforms will give the U.S. alternative rock outfit their first Top 10 in 15 years. Also aiming for Top 20 debuts this week are sets by Sleep Token (This Place Will Become Your Tomb at No. 11 via Spinefarm), Nao (And Then Life Was Beautiful at No. 16 via RCA), Tr...
Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Beats Lil Nax X’s ‘Montero’ In Tight U.K. Chart Race
Blasting in at No. 5 on the latest chart is Tion Wayne’s debut Green With Envy (Atlantic), bowing just ahead of Bob Dylan’s Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (Sony Music CG), new at No. 6. With its sprightly arrival, Springtime becomes Dylan’s 41st Top 10 album, as it racks up the most physical sales of the week. English prog-rock veterans Genesis bag their first Top 10 album in seven years with the career retrospective The Last Domino (UMC/Virgin), new at No. 9, while Birmingham drill rapper M1llionz completes the top 10 with his debut mixtape Provisional License (Ten Percent). There’s a notable appearance this week by NCT 127, whose third Korean-language album Sticker (Virgin Music) gives the K-pop boyband their first U.K. Top 40 appearance. It’s new at No. 40. Meanwhile...
Coldplay and BTS Tackle Ed Sheeran For U.K. No. 1
“My Universe” is lifted from Coldplay’s forthcoming album Music Of The Spheres, due out Oct. 15. So far, Coldplay has collected two No. 1 singles in their homeland (for “Viva La Vida” and “Paradise”), while BTS has a U.K. chart best of No. 3 (for “Dynamite” and “Butter”). Sheeran has ruled the chart for 13 consecutive weeks with “Bad Habits” and now “Shivers.” His latest track should enjoy a boost following the Brit’s performance for the return episode of BBC One’s The Graham Norton Show, which aired last Friday (Sept. 24). Further down the list is “Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)” by Nigerian artist CKay, which looks set to retain its Top 10 position for a second week. It’s currently at No. 9. The tune was first released in 2019 and has discovered a life of its own ...
Aaliyah’s Self-Titled Album Returns to Top 10 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
Streaming makes up the second-largest category, with 9,000 units from that sector, equal to 11.5 million on-demand plays of the album’s songs. The remaining 2,000 units derive from individual track downloads of the album’s songs. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.) The album rejoins the top 10 for the first time since the chart dated Nov. 10, 2001, when it ranked at No. 9. Aaliyah peaked at No. 2 for four nonconsecutive weeks that year – its first and second weeks on the chart (Aug. 4 and 11) and again on Sept. 15 and 22, with the latter pair owed to reaction after the singer’s death on Aug. 25 that ...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Score First Entry on a Billboard Latin Albums Chart With ‘Spanish Model’
“We remixed ‘This Year’s Girl’ for David Simon’s HBO series, The Deuce and I heard all sorts of untapped power and possibilities in the Attractions original playing,” Costello adds. “I went into a kind of reverie and imagined replacing my voice with people singing in Spanish. I asked Sebastian if he thought that was a crazy idea. He thought for a moment and said, ‘Yes, it is crazy, let’s do it’.’ I know he knew the singers with the spirit, the spit, the wit and integrity to do right and it has been a great pleasure to get to know those artists with whom I was not already familiar or regarded as friends.” Spanish Model launches with 2,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 16, according to MRC Data. Album sales makes up nearly all of t...
Here’s How the 2021 MTV VMAs Impact the Billboard 200 & Hot 100
Justin Bieber’s Justice notches a 6% increase (18,000 units; moving 26-27), Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall increase 15% (to 15,000; bumping 42-37) and Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) rises 4% (11,000; 75-64). Rounding out the gainers on the Billboard 200, among the show’s performers, are Jack Harlow’s Thats What They All Say (98-81; 10,000 units – up 8%), Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface (199-194; 7,000 – up 1%) and Foo Fighters’ Greatest Hits (re-entry at No. 196; 7,000 – up 2%). 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. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sol...
Five Burning Questions: Walker Hayes’ ‘Fancy Like’ Hits Top 5 on Hot 100
1. Completing a climb to the Hot 100’s top 5 is rare for any new single these days, let alone a country one. What’s been the key to Walker Hayes being able to grow this song into one of the year’s biggest crossover hits? Katie Atkinson: Any time you can get someone to accidentally listen to your song, you’ve won. Between the song’s TikTok omnipresence and its too-good-to-be-true (for Walker and the restaurant chain) placement in Applebee’s commercials, this song is basically inescapable. And with pop culture as splintered as it is these days, there aren’t a whole lot of ways to get this many people to listen to your song without specifically seeking it out. So… Applebee’s ads are the new radio, basically. Jason Lipshutz: He stumble...
Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Leads U.K. Chart Race
At the halfway stage, just 400 combined sales separate Montero from the No. 2-placed album, Bob Dylan’s Springtime in New York – Bootleg 16 (Sony Music CG), the market leader on physical sales. Springtime is on pace to be the legendary singer and songwriter’s 41st U.K. Top 10 album. Meanwhile, Drake’s former leader Certified Lover Boy (OVO/Republic Records) is at No. 3, while prog-rock titans Genesis bow at No. 4 with the career-retrospective The Last Domino (UMC/Virgin), which could give the British band their first Top 10 album in seven years. According to the OCC, just 2,500 combined sales separate Montero and the fifth-placed album Green With Envy (Atlantic), the debut from British rapper Tion Wayne. Also chasing top tier debuts are titles from Spiritbox (Eternal Blue at No. 8 via...
