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SEVENTEEN Soars to No. 1 on Japan Hot 100 With ‘Hitorijanai’
SEVENTEEN’s “Hitorijanai” soars to No. 1 on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Apr. 19 to 25, selling 372,913 CDs in its first week. The K-pop boy band’s third Japanese single had charted at No. 44 on the Hot 100 last week before the CD dropped on the 21st, powered by Twitter mentions, downloads, and streaming. The track comes in at No. 1 for physical sales and Twitter, while also jumping 53-24 for streaming this week. The single is off to a great start for the group about to celebrate its fourth anniversary since its Japan debut in May. NiziU’s “Take a Picture” continues to hold at No. 2. Three weeks have passed since the single’s release, and it still remains in the top 10 for sales, downloads, streaming, look-ups, and video views. The track has led video for four straight weeks, ...
Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae Debut on Dance/Electronic Charts With ‘You’
“‘You’ is a relatable and real love story for everyone in our lives,” Regard says. Plus, moves for Steve Aoki, Kiiara, Alesso & Armin van Buuren. Regard, Troye Sivan and Tate McRae debut at No. 4 on Billboard‘s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated May 1) with “You.” It ties for the highest start this year, after DJ Snake and Selena Gomez’s “Selfish Love” in March. “I still love ‘You’ as much as after I finished it,” Regard tells Billboard. “‘You’ is a relatable and real love story for everyone in our lives. Troye is such a talented artist and Tate has angelic vocals.” “You” is the third top 10 on the tally for Regard, following “Ride It.” (N...
The Offspring’s ‘Let the Bad Times Roll’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Albums Chart
First studio album in nearly a decade launches in the top 10 across multiple Billboard charts. The Offspring return to Billboard’s album charts with the band’s first studio effort in nearly a decade, as Let the Bad Times Roll debuts at No. 1 on the Alternative Albums chart (dated May 1). The set was released via Wabi Sabi/Concord on April 16 and earned 19,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 22, according to MRC Data. The Alternative Albums chart ranks the most popular alternative 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...
Eric Church’s Scores Third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Heart’
Of Heart’s debut sales of 40,000, physical album sales comprise nearly 25,000 of that figure (13,000 CDs and 12,000 vinyl LPs) while digital album sales comprise a little under 16,000. Heart is one of three new albums from Church, collectively referred to as Heart & Soul. Heart was released on April 16, the & album is available only to members of the artist’s Church Choir fan club, and Soul was released on April 23. Rock group Greta Van Fleet sees its new studio album The Battle at Garden’s Gate debut at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 39,000 copies sold. A sturdy 16,000 of that sum was on vinyl LP, and Battle also bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. A pair of former No. 1s are next on Top Album Sales, as Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) falls 1-3 in its second week wi...
Tom Jones on Track For U.K. No. 1 With ‘Surrounded By Time’
Coming in at No. 2 on the Official Chart Update is John Lennon’s first solo album Plastic Ono Band (Parlophone), which reenters the survey off the back of a 50th anniversary release. The late former Beatles great saw his LP peak at No. 8 following its release in 1971. Another legendary British act is on track for a return to the Top 5 as The Who’s third studio LP The Who Sell Out (Polydor) blasts to No. 4, just one spot behind the current chart leader, London Grammar’s California Soil (Ministry of Sound), down 3-1. The Who Sell Out peaked at No. 13 back in 1968. Meanwhile, veteran alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr. are chasing their first Top 10 album in almost thee decades with Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar). It’s new at No. 9 on the chart blast, just ahead of indie pop group Scouting For G...
Lil Nas X, London Grammar Rule U.K.’s Charts
Meanwhile, London rapper AJ Tracey bows at No. 2 with Flu Game (Revenge Records), his sophomore album. It’s the U.K.’s most-streamed album of the chart cycle, according to the OCC, and it’s Tracey’s career high, narrowly beating the No. 3 peak of his 2019 self-titled debut. Veteran U.S. rock outfit The Offspring complete an all-new Top 3 with Let The Bad Times Roll (Concord), their first album in almost a decade. Let The Bad Times Roll starts at No. 3 to give The Offspring their highest-charting to date in the U.K., easily eclipsing the No. 10 peak of Americana from 1998. Also new to the weekly albums survey is Irish rock singer Imelda May, whose sixth LP 11 Past The Hour (Decca) opens at No. 6, while U.S. rockers Greta Van Fleet enter the survey at No. 8 with The Battle at Garden’s Gate (...
Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Climbs to Australian Chart Summit
There’s a new leader on the ARIA Albums Chart as London Grammar’s Californian Soil (Dew Process/Universal) debuts in the top spot. It’s their first No. 1 in three tries. California Soil is the followup to Truth Is A Beautiful Thing, which hit No. 3 in June 2017, while their debut If You Wait reached No. 2 in September 2013. The British trio will tour these parts in February 2022. The Offspring narrowly miss out on a third crown with Let The Bad Times Roll (Concord/Universal), the U.S. punk veterans’ first LP in nine years. Bad Times rolls in at No. 2 for their eighth Top Ten in Australia. The Offspring previously ruled the ARIA Albums Chart with Smash (February 1995) and Americana (January 1999). Finally, international artists Alex Henry Foster and AJ Tracey make their ARIA Chart debu...
J Balvin & Khalid’s ‘Otra Noche Sin Ti’ Debuts Top 10 on Hot Latin Songs Chart
“Otra Noche” joins another Balvin track on Hot Latin Songs. His recently released “Tu Veneno” (March 19), which is also part of Balvin’s forthcoming album, holds at No. 9 for a second week after its No. 6 debut and peak (April 3-dated tally). Khalid, who secured his first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry with “Location” in 2017, makes his Hot Latin Songs chart debut with “Otra Noche Sin Ti.” He’s one of a number of primarily English-language recording artists to make their Hot Latin Songs debut straight into the top 10 in the past 12 months. He follows Snoop Dogg, Travis Scott, 6ix9ine, Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, Doja Cat and Sia. (All but 6ix9ine scored their debuts through a collaboration with an established Spanish-language recording artist.) “Otra Noche” concurrently debuts on both Billbo...
Aurora Achieving ‘Runaway’ Success on Billboard Global Charts Thanks to TikTok Trend
The song hits the Global Excl. U.S. chart’s top 40 and leaps 130-49 on the Global 200. In 2015, Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora released her debut EP, Running With the Wolves. She followed in 2016 with her first full-length, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, which reached No. 28 on Billboard‘s U.S.-based Top Rock Albums chart. Both sets begin with the song “Runaway.” Fast-forward to 2021 and the track is gaining more widespread worldwide recognition on the back of, what else? TikTok virality. On the latest lists, dated April 24, “Runaway” leaps 99-34 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart and 130-49 on the Billboard Global 200. “Runaway” received its own colorful interactive TikTok filter that dramatically changes the backlighting from da...
Ariana Grande’s ‘Positions’ Posts Big Vinyl Sales, Jumps 79-2 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart
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. The new April 24-dated Top Album Sales chart (where Fearless [Taylor’s Version] debuts to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both T...
London Grammar Hurtling to U.K. Chart Crown With ‘Californian Soil’
It’s an all-new Top 5 on the Official Chart Update, which sees AJ Tracey’s second studio album Flu Game (Revenge Records) at No. 2 (it’s the most-streamed album of the week so far); followed by The Offspring’s first new album in almost a decade, Let The Bad Times Roll (Concord); veteran Irish rock singer Imelda May’s sixth LP 11 Past The Hour (Decca); and blues-rock band Greta Van Fleet‘s sophomore LP, The Battle at Garden’s Gate (EMI), respectively. Taylor Swift’s current leader Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (EMI) looks likely to lose its crown after one week. It slumps 1-7 on the midweek chart. Meanwhile, a boxed set reissue of Jethro Tull’s A (Rhino) could catapult the 1980 album into the Top 10 for the first time. It’s at No. 8 on the chart blast. Rounding out the Top 1...
Miranda Lambert & Elle King Lead Top-Selling Songs Performed on 2021 ACM Awards
Here are the top 10 selling songs performed on the show, on April 18, according to initial reports: Elle King and Miranda Lambert, “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) (3,000 sold on April 18; up 267%)Gabby Barrett, “The Good Ones” (2,300; up 25%)Little Big Town, “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” (2,000; up 360%)Ryan Hurd and Maren Morris, “Chasing After You” (1,900; up 613%)Luke Combs, “Forever After All” (1,700; up 218%)Chris Stapleton, “Maggie’s Song” (1,600; up 887%)Thomas Rhett, “What’s Your Country Song” (1,600; up 348%)Alan Jackson, “You’ll Always Be My Baby” (1,100; up 994%)Carly Pearce and Lee Brice, “I Hope You’re Happy Now” (1,100; up 867%)Kenny Chesney, “Knowing You” (1,100; up 386%) The ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by MRC. MRC and Penske Media are co-par...
