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Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart After Vinyl Release
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 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 Sept. 4, 2021-dated chart (where Sour returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 31. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Of Sour’s 133,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 26, album sales comprise 84,000 (up 1...
Lorde Powers Australia’s Albums Chart
The Aucklander will support the new LP in these parts with a tour of Australia, set for March 2022. Also new to the survey this week is Hello My Beautiful World (Wonderlick/Sony), the fourth album from Sydney alternative rock outfit Holy Holy. It’s new at No. 4, for the duo’s career chart peak. Hello My Beautiful World is the act’s fourth album and the followup to the ARIA Award-nominated effort My Own Pool Of Light, which reached No. 14 following its release in August 2019. Melbourne blues rock outfit Tropical F**k Storm sweeps into the Top 10 with Deep States (TFS/Universal), new at No. 7, for a new chart best. It’s the third album from the “supergroup,” comprised of members from The Drones, High Tension, MOD CON, Harmony, and Palm Springs. U.S. rapper Trippie Redd makes his first appear...
Los Bukis’ 25-Year Reunion Tour: Here Are 7 Chart Hits in the First Show’s Setlist
The Una Historia Cantada tour crosses off another milestone for Los Bukis, as Friday’s (Aug. 27) first date sold out within minutes, as reported by Live Nation, also making the act the first Latin band to sell out the 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. A second show, also sold out, is set for Saturday (Aug. 28). Seven more shows are scheduled: Sept. 4 and 5 at Soldier Field in Chicago (sold out); Sept. 15 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; Sept. 18 at NRG Stadium in Houston; Sept. 25 at the Alamodome in San Antonio; and Oct. 1 and 2 at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland (sold out). Notably, most ticket buyers for the first two concerts were among 25-35 years old, according to Live Nation, a relatively youthful range given the band’s 1975 formation by Solís an...
The Killers Nab Second Top Rock Albums No. 1 in Under a Year With ‘Pressure Machine’
Released Aug. 13, Pressure Machine earned 26,000 equivalent album units in its first week, ending Aug. 19, according to MRC Data. The Killers add their fourth No. 1 on Top Rock Albums (which began in 2006), as prior to Pressure Machine and Imploding the Mirage, Wonderful Wonderful launched on top in October 2017 and Battle Born began in the lead in October 2012. Concurrently, the rootsy Pressure Machine debuts as the band’s first No. 1 on Americana/Folk Albums and starts at No. 2 on Alternative Albums. On the all-format Billboard 200, the set starts at No. 9, marking The Killers’ seventh top 10. Each of their studio albums has hit the chart’s top 10, dating to their debut album Hot Fuss, which peaked at No. 7 in May 2005. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are l...
Jennifer Hudson’s ‘Respect’ Soundtrack Debuts in Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart
Also on Top Album Sales: Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever holds at No. 1 for a third straight week (23,000 sold; down 35%). It becomes the first album with three weeks in a row at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s Folklore spent its first five weeks atop the list (Aug. 8-Sept. 5, 2020-dated charts). Meanwhile, new albums from The Killers, Dan + Shay, Ben Platt, Luke Hemmings and $uicideboy$ debut in the top 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 MRC Data. Pure album sales were the measurement solely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart thr...
Anne Wilson Tops Christian Airplay With ‘My Jesus’
Among all No. 1s by acts with their first charted titles on Christian Airplay, “My Jesus” is the first since “Rise Up” (Lazarus)” by trio Cain, which began a four-week stay in the penthouse last December. As for women in all billings, Wilson is the first to rule Christian Airplay on a first try since Vanessa Campagna led in a featured role on Michael W. Smith’s “Waymaker” for three weeks in May 2020. (Also notably, Hillary Scott & the Scott Family’s debut entry “Thy Will” led Christian Airplay for three frames in 2016. The group’s frontwoman is one of the members of threesome Lady A, a country chart staple since 2007.) “My Jesus” concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot Christian Songs chart f...
Moneybagg Yo Scores First R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay No. 1 With ‘Wockesha’
Moneybagg Yo ousting Silk Sonic also gets revenge for the Memphis rapper, after his previous single “Time Today” stalled at No. 2 for two weeks behind “Door” last month. On the current list, “Time” exits the top 10 after 12 weeks in the region and dips to No. 12. With “Wockesha,” Moneybagg Yo cements his status as one of the hottest acts on R&B/hip-hop radio in the past year. After none of his first five entries on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart as a lead act reached the top 20, the rapper has scored four consecutive top 10s: “1 2 3,” featuring Blac Youngsta (No. 6), “Said Sum” (No. 5), “Time Today” and “Wockesha.” In tandem with its R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay coronation, “Wockesha” also climbs 2-1 to rule the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which measures the most-played son...
BTS’ ‘Butter’ Continues Atop Songs of the Summer Chart, Ed Sheeran’s ‘Bad Habits’ Hits Top 10
“Butter,” a nine-week No. 1 on the Hot 100 (at No. 8 on the latest list), holds at No. 1 on the Songs of the Summer chart over a stationary top five, followed by Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, and The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save Your Tears” at Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. One title enters the Songs of the Summer top 10, as Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” rises 11-10 in its fifth frame on the chart. It concurrently climbs to a new No. 2 best on the Hot 100. Sheeran scores his latest summer success, as his “Shape of You” wrapped as the No. 5 season-ending hit on the 2017 Songs of the Summer chart and “I Don&#...
Dan + Shay’s ‘Good Things’ Debuts in Top 10 on Billboard 200 & Top Country Albums Charts
The new set arrives with multiple hit singles, as “Glad You Exist” led the Country Airplay chart dated Aug. 21, marking the duo’s eighth No. 1; it spends a second week at its No. 2 high on the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart. Newest single “Steal My Love” debuts at No. 26 on Hot Country Songs and ranks at No. 42 on Country Airplay with 1.9 million in radio-reach. The LP also includes Dan + Shay’s Justin Bieber collab “10,000 Hours,” which ruled Hot Country Songs for 21 weeks (or a still-impressive 3,528 hours) beginning in October 2019 and topped Country Airplay for two weeks starting in January 2020, and “I Should Probably Go to Bed,” which reached Nos. 4 and 2 on the respective rankings this January. ‘CHASING’ L...
Lorde Challenges Olivia Rodrigo For U.K. No. 1 Album
Sour leads on physical sales and streams, and is on track for a fifth non-consecutive week at No. 1. Lorde’s previous albums Pure Heroine (2013) and Melodrama (2017) reached No. 4 and 5, respectively, though the latter ruled the Billboard 200 chart following its release. In a midweek Top 10 stacked with new releases, Jake Bugg’s Saturday Night (RCA) bows at No. 3, and is poised to be his fifth straight Top 10 album; Brentford MCs Kurupt FM are on track for a Top 5 debut with their first LP, The Greatest Hits (Part 1) (via Polydor) at No. 4; while Irish indie-folk act Villagers complete the Top 5 with their sixth and latest studio album Fever Dreams (Domino Recordings), which is set to be their first Top 10 album. Elsewhere, new sets from Jane McDonald (Let The Light In at No. 6 via JM...
Elton John Returns to Billboard Hot 100 After 21 Years With Dua Lipa Collab ‘Cold Heart’
John makes his first Hot 100 appearance since the chart dated July 29, 2000, when “Someday Out of the Blue” ranked at No. 99 after reaching No. 49. “Cold Heart” is his 68th career entry, a run that began on the Aug. 15, 1970, tally, when “Border Song” bowed at No. 93. John boasts nine Hot 100 No. 1s, from “Crocodile Rock” in 1973 to “Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight,” his longest-leading hit (14 weeks), in 1997-98. He has notched 27 top 10s (tied for the ninth-best total in the chart’s 63-year archives), among 57 top 40 hits (the sixth-best sum; plus, he ranked in the top 40 in a record 30 consecutive years, from 1970 through 1999). Meanwhile, Lipa, who earns her 17th Hot 100 hit...
Ed Sheeran’s ‘Visiting Hours’ on Course For High Debut In U.K.
“Visiting Hours” is no ordinary record. Sheeran wrote while in quarantine en route to Gudinski’s state memorial in Melbourne on March 24, and he premiered the emotional number on the night. Also joining Sheeran on stage that evening was Gudinski’s good friends and signings Kylie Minogue and Jimmy Barnes. Both are credited as backing singers on the single. Following his passing March 2, aged 68, Gudinski, the founder and chairman of the indie powerhouse Mushroom Group, was crowned Billboard’s International Power Player. Sheeran has described the Aussie entrepreneur as a “father figure” and a “tornado of joy,” and those memories will pour out in the new album, due out Oct. 29. The forthcoming LP is “a really personal record and one that means a lot to me,” ...
