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Olivia Rodrigo & BTS Hold Atop Global Charts, Maneskin Adds New Top 10
Billboard‘s two global charts (the latest of which are dated June 26) began last September and rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by MRC Data. The Billboard Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the U.S. Chart rankings are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations. ‘Good’ Still Best on Gl...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Good 4 U’ Extends U.K. Chart Reign
Meanwhile, 2021 Eurovision winners Måneskin from Italy now have a U.K. Top 10 with “I Wanna Be Your Slave” (Columbia), which lifts 12-7. British singer and songwriter Mimi Webb has this week’s highest new entry with “Dumb Love” (Epic), new at No. 12. It’s Webb’s second Top 20 single following “Good Without,” which holds at No. 9 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart this week. New Zealand singer and songwriter Lorde returns to the chart with “Solar Power” (Virgin), which powers in at No. 17 for her third Top 20 appearance. Also notable this week is the return of the “3 Lions” soccer anthem by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds. “3 Lions” typically comes home to the U.K. singles chart when the national team competes in a major tournament. Such i...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Good 4 U’ On Track for Another U.K. Chart Crown
Close behind “Good 4 U” is KSI’s summer release “Holiday,” which debuts at No. 2 on the chart update. Co-written with Jake Gosling and Digital Farm Animals, KSI’s latest will appear on the rapper’s album All Over The Place, due out July 16 via BMG/RBC Records. Meanwhile, 2021 Eurovision Song Contest champs Måneskin could snag a third U.K. Top 20, as their cover of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’ “Beggin’” lifts 56 places to No. 17 on the chart blast. The Italian rockers’ “I Wanna Be Your Slave” lifted to No. 7 last Friday while their Eurovision-winner “Zitti E Buoni” peaked at No. 17. Finally, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & Lightning Seeds score another goal with “Three Lions,” their evergreen soccer anthem. Originally released in 1996, the song climbs 22-7 as the England t...
Polo G Lands First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Hall of Fame’
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 June 26, 2021-dated chart (where Hall of Fame debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on June 22. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Of Hall of Fame’s 143,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending June 17, SEA units comprise 12...
Myke Towers & Juhn’s ‘Bandido’ Hits No. 1 on Latin Airplay Chart
Song Title, Artist (if other than Myke Towers), Weeks at No. 1, Peak Date “Caramelo,” with Ozuna and Karol G, three, August 8, 2020 “Mi Niña,” with Los Legendarios & Wisin, one, Jan. 16 “La Nota,” with Manuel Turizo & Rauw Alejandro, one, Jan. 23 “Travesuras,” with Nio García, Casper Mágico, Ozuna, Wisin & Yandel, Flow La Movie, one, March 6 “Bandido,” with Juhn, June 19. Beyond its Latin Airplay coronation, “Bandido” pushes 8-1 on Latin Rhythm Airplay. Towers’ fifth leader there and also Juhn’s first. “Bandido” also sees progress on the airplay-, digital sales- and streaming-blended Hot Latin Songs, climbing 10-9 with a 41% gain in sales and 4 million streams (up 1%) earned in the week ending June 10. Despite its streaming gain, the song dips 11-12 on Latin Streaming Son...
Sonora Ponceña Scores First Billboard Top 10 Since 1992: ‘It’s Truly Gratifying’
The eight-track Hegemonía was released June 4 via La Buena Fortuna/Sony Music Latin. It earns the band — co-founded by Lucca’s late father, Enrique “Quique” Lucca Carballo, in 1954 — its fourth top 10 and first in more than 28 years, when Guerreando peaked at No. 10 in 1992. “Although we started recording Hegemonía before the pandemic, we were able to capitalize on and turn the tough episode into something good.” Lucca adds. “We spent too many hours recording differently, with masks and making adjustments. We laughed a lot at the new dynamic, we also cried for our lost brothers and friends, but it’s all a continuous learning experience and we ought to walk forward with optimism.” Sonora earned its first Tropical Albums entry in 1985 — the same year the t...
Olivia Rodrigo Extends Reign Over Australia’s Charts
Polo G bags a new chart best as Hall of Fame (Columbia/Sony), his third album, starts at No. 3. The U.S. rapper’s previous best was a No. 10 for his most recent, sophomore set The Goat, from 2020. Meanwhile, ‘90s alternative rock favorites Garbage earn a seventh Top 10 with their comeback album, No Gods No Masters (Liberator Music/Universal). It’s new at No. 5. No Gods is the followup to 2016’s Strange Little Birds, which went to No. 9 on the ARIA Chart, and it continues the Shirley Manson-led outfit’s run of having all their studio albums enter the Top 10, dating back to their 1996 self-titled debut. With Rodrigo extending her reign over the ARIA Singles Chart, the U.S. singer and songwriter has now logged 10 weeks at No. 1 on the survey this year, a feat that includes six straight ...
‘Scott Pilgrim’ Song Puts Brie Larson Back on Billboard Charts, 16 Years After Her Debut
The song premiered in the 2010 Edgar Wright film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The fictional band The Clash at Demonhead performs the song in the movie, with Brie Larson (as Envy Adams) as the lead singer. The track makes its chart debut a week after Wright, who co-wrote, produced and directed the film, announced a new extended edition of the soundtrack, which is set to be released July 9 in celebration of the movie’s 10th anniversary. The new soundtrack features demos from other artists in the film, plus the version of “Black Sheep” featuring Larson (as opposed to the original recording of the song, which uses vocals from Metric singer Emily Haines). The version featuring Larson’s vocals arrived on DSPs June 4 for the first time (although it lurked in bootleg form o...
Five Burning Questions: Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s ‘The Voice of the Heroes’ Tops the Billboard 200
1. Lil Durk and Lil Baby move an impressive 150,000 units of their near-surprise album Voice of the Heroes in its first week. Is that 150k number mostly attributable to their combined star power at this point, or is there something else the album does particularly well to poise it for such a strong bow? Carl Lamarre: Combined star-power propelled Heroes to top chair and leader on the Billboard 200. If you remember, Lil Baby himself was coming off a dominant 2020 campaign where he logged almost 200,000 first-week album-equivalent units with his sophomore project My Turn. Now, you couple his torrid success with Durk’s growing mainstream appeal (Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later” going No. 2 on the Hot 100 and netting a No. 2-peaking project on...
Lil Baby & Lil Durk Chart 16 Songs on Hot 100 From ‘The Voice of the Heroes’
Of the new release’s 18 songs, 16 land on the Billboard Hot 100, led by “Hats Off,” with Travis Scott, at No. 16. Here’s a rundown (all are debuts except where noted; Lil Baby and Lil Durk are co-billed on each track): Rank, TitleNo. 16, “Hats Off,” with Travis ScottNo. 21, “Voice of the Heroes” (up from No. 81; new peak)No. 31, “2040”No. 34, “How It Feels”No. 43, “Still Runnin,” with Meek MillNo. 46, “Who I Want”No. 56, “Still Hood”No. 58, “Okay”No. 60, “Man of My Word”No. 67, “Medical”No. 68, “Rich Off Pain,” with Rod WaveNo. 70, “Lying”No. 73, “That’s Facts”No. 79, “Please”No. 80, “Up t...
Noel Gallagher Flying to No. 1 on U.K. Albums Chart
Back The Way We Came is on track to give the rocker his fourth leader with his post-Oasis band. Including his releases with Oasis, Gallagher has ruled the Official U.K. Albums Chart on 11 occasions. Also new to the Official Chart Update is Garbage with No Gods No Masters (Infectious Music). It’s new at No. 3, and is on course for the alternative rock outfit’s highest charting set since 1998’s leader Version 2.0. Meanwhile, a deluxe edition release of Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure (Virgin) returns the album to the survey at No. 4, while U.S. rapper Polo G completes the Top 5 with his third LP, Hall Of Fame (Columbia). American rap trio Migos land at No. 7 on the midweek chart with Culture III (Motown/Quality Control); Marina could snag her fifth Top 10 with Ancient...
Wolf Alice Snags U.K. No. 1 With ‘Blue Weekend’
Some 14,700 units of Blue Weekend (41% of the total) were on vinyl, a market-leading tally. With Wolf Alice reaching the summit for the first time, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (Geffen), the week’s most-streamed album, is bumped 1-2 on the main chart. Coming in at No. 3 is James with All The Colours of You (Nothing But Love Music), for the Manchester act’s 10th Top 10 album. Dua Lipa, the most popular act across the U.K.’s airwaves in 2020, according to a report published last week by collecting society PPL, stages a return to the Top 5 with her Brit and Grammy Award-winning sophomore album Future Nostalgia (Warner Records). It lifts 8-4 in its 63rd week on the chart. Rounding out the Top 5 is U.S. rappers Lil Baby & Lil Durk’s collaborative album The Voice of the Heroes (Motown/Quality...
