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Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Brutal’ Bows at No. 1 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart
Concurrently, “Brutal” debuts at No. 1 on Hot Alternative Songs and Alternative Streaming Songs, and at No. 5 on the all-format Streaming Songs chart, behind three other songs from Sour; “Good 4 U” leads at No. 1, followed by “Deja Vu” at No. 2 and “Traitor” at No. 3. On the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “Brutal” begins at No. 12. Sour has produced Rodrigo’s first two Hot 100 No. 1s: “Drivers License,” for eight weeks beginning in January, and “Good 4 U,” which opened atop the tally last week. (“Deja Vu” and “Good 4 U” are Rodrigo’s current singles being properly promoted to radio, to pop and adult stations. On Pop Airplay, they climb to Nos. 13 and 25, respectivel...
Luke Combs Continues Career-Opening No. 1 Streak on Country Airplay Chart With ‘Forever After All’
“It’s pretty crazy having this song go No. 1,” Combs marvels. “It’s all thanks to the fans [and] we have a really great team, from management, to label, to band and crew. And, we’ve been lucky that country radio has embraced us, which means the world to me. I’m forever grateful to everybody that’s helped get my songs out there. Thanks to everybody, and I never take it for granted.” The single, which Combs wrote with Drew Parker and Robert Williford, follows “Better Together,” which ruled for five weeks beginning in January; “Lovin’ on You” (four weeks, starting last September); “Does to Me,” featuring Eric Church (two, May 2020); “Even Though I’m Leaving” (five, November 2019);...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Breaks Modern-Era Record for Biggest Vinyl Album Sales Week
Evermore’s record-breaking vinyl sales add to the great music-on-vinyl comeback story for the once-dormant format. 2020 marked the single-largest year for U.S. vinyl album sales in MRC Data history (27.54 million copies) and the 15th consecutive year of growth for vinyl (up 46.2%). Further, vinyl LPs accounted for 27% of all albums sold in 2020. Vinyl albums were once the dominant format for album purchases in the U.S., up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD format flourished and became the leading format for album sales. Evermore, again, was initially issued to streaming services and as a commercial digital album on Dec. 11, 2020, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album’s CD, cassette and vinyl editions followe...
Forever No. 1: B.J. Thomas’ ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’
“When the film was released, I was highly critical — how did the song fit with the film? There was no rain,” Redford told USA Today in 2019, a half-century later. “At the time, it seemed like a dumb idea. How wrong I was.” “Raindrops…” was hardly the most sophisticated song that Burt Bacharach and Hal David — the duo who’d penned many of the most pristine and affecting pop songs of the late ’50s and ’60s, including most of Dionne Warwick’s signature smashes — ever wrote. But it may have been their most universal, a song that everybody who has ever had a bad day or a rough patch could relate to. David’s lyric has a dash of whimsical humor (“So, I just did me some talkin’ to the sun/ And I said I didn’t like the way he got things done...
Olivia Rodrigo Smashes Records En Route to U.K. Chart Double
That’s also the biggest opening week for a debut album in two years, since Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent dropped in May 2019. Sour racks up 45.7 million track streams over the seven-day cycle — or 30,945 streaming-equivalent sales — for the most first-week streams for a debut album, eclipsing Capaldi’s record, according to the OCC. The last artist to score the double with their debut was Sam Smith, who achieved the feat six years ago with2015’s In The Lonely Hour and “Lay Me Down”. The big numbers keep coming, as “Good 4 U” gives Rodrigo her second leader following “Drivers License” back in January. “Good 4 U” generates 117,000 chart sales in seven days — including 13.5 million str...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Good 4 U’ Is On Track to Extend U.K. Chart Reign
Olivia Rodrigo should extend her stay atop the Official U.K. Singles Chart for at least another week with “Good 4 U” (Geffen). The teenage U.S. artist and actor last Friday (May 28) set a handful of new records as her debut album Sour opened at No. 1 and “Good 4 U” climbed to the top of the national singles survey, for her second leader. Rodrigo’s latest hit single rules the First Look chart, which ranks tracks based on the first 48 hours of sales and streaming activity, while her second single “Déjà Vu” (No. 5) and her debut “Drivers License” (No. 6) are impacting the Top 10. 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. ...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With 2021’s Biggest Week
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 5, 2021-dated chart (where Sour debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Wednesday, June 2 (one day later than usual due to the May 31 Memorial Day holiday in the U.S.). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Of Sour’s 295,000 equivalent album ...
B.J. Thomas’ Biggest Billboard Hits: ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’ & More
Thomas last sang a top 10 Billboard chart hit that was known to millions before it even became a single: “As Long as We Got Each Other,” credited to Steve Dorff & Friends, was sung by Thomas and fellow multi-decade pop star Dusty Springfield. Serving as the theme song to the hit ABC sitcom Growing Pains, it rose to No. 7 on Adult Contemporary in February 1989. Thomas initially appeared on a Billboard chart when his version, with The Triumphs, of Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” entered the Hot 100 dated Feb. 19, 1966. It reached No. 8 that April. He returned to the top 10 in January 1969 with the No. 5-peaking “Hooked on a Feeling,” later a No. 1 for Blue Swede in 1974. Thomas’ next top 10, “Raindrops Keep Fallin&#...
Olivia Rodrigo Completes Chart Double In Australia
According to ARIA, the last artist to have four or more singles in the Top Ten was Taylor Swift, who racked up five on the survey in August 2020. BTS enjoy a soft landing on the ARIA Chart with “Butter” (Big Hit Entertainment/Orchard), their multiple record-setting second English-language single. It’s new at No. 6. TikTok phenom Bella Poarch can now boast a Top 40 hit in Australia, as her debut single “Build a Bitch” starts at No. 36. The Asian-American influencer signed to Warner Records earlier this month. With Sour bowing at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Rodrigo becomes the first artist to achieve the double since Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber managed it in April 2021 with Justice and “Peaches.” She’s the first female solo artist to do it since compatriot Taylor Swift, with evermo...
Victor Manuelle & La India’s ‘Victimas Las Dos’ Hits No. 1 on Tropical Airplay Chart
The song is the first collaborative effort by the Puerto Ricans. “’Víctimas’ was inspired by all those manipulative and lying men women come across daily and I thought La India was the perfect interpreter to give drama to the story. We are aware it’s a common issue,” Victor Manuelle tells Billboard. As mentioned, the pair are the first male/female duo to lead Tropical Airplay in over a year. Natti Natasha and Romeo Santos last ruled with the 15-week champ “La Mejor Versión De Mi” (starting Oct. 26, 2019-March 21, 2020). “It’s definitely an honor to reach No. 1 on Tropical Airplay,” La India tells Billboard. “Grateful to all radio stations and Billboard for its continuous support with our tropical genre.” Thanks to the new champ, Manuelle collects his 29th No. 1, dating back to ...
J. Cole, The Black Keys & Alan Jackson Lead Busy Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart
At Nos. 2-9 on the new chart, there are debuting albums from The Black Keys, Alan Jackson, ENHYPEN, St. Vincent, Phoebe Bridgers featuring Rob Moose, Nicki Minaj, Yoko Yakahashi and Megumi Hayashibara and Myles Kennedy. 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 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 n...
New Around the World: Dominican-U.S. Collab ‘La Mama de La Mama’ Debuts
Of 47 songs that appear on this week’s Global 200 without crossing over to the Global Excl. U.S. chart, the ribald “Mama” is the only one not in English; it’s performed entirely in Spanish except for CJ’s verse, which is rapped in a mix of Spanish and English. It’s one of only three such titles with lead artists not from the U.S. or Canada, as Jamaica’s Skillibeng debuts at No. 182 alongside Nicki Minaj on “Crocodile Teeth” and Aussie rock legends AC/DC shred at No. 183 with “Thunderstruck.” “Mama” is the second Global 200 entry for El Alfa and CJ Both acts’ prior chart hits peaked on the Jan. 16-dated list, the latter’s “Whoopty” at No. 10 and the former’s “Bebe,” with C...
