Harry Styles’ Harry’s House debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 4) with a massive 521,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 26, according to Luminate. It’s the largest week of 2022 for any album and only the fourth album in the last 18 months to earn at least 500,000 units in a single week. It logs the biggest week for an album since Adele’s 30 debuted with 839,000 units in the week ending Nov. 25, 2021 (chart dated Dec. 4, 2021). (Styles and Adele also are labelmates — both are on Columbia Records.) Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Harry’s House is Styles’ third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — the entirety of his solo releases. And all three have bowed at No. 1. He also topped the list with 2019’s ...
Kendrick Lamar lands his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest release, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, launches atop the list (dated May 28). He’s debuted at No. 1 with each of his last four albums. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers charges in with 295,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 19, according to Luminate — the largest week of the year for any album. It’s the third straight week in which that benchmark has been crushed. A week ago, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti did the trick with its No. 1 debut of 274,000, and in the week before that, Future’s I Never Liked You bowed at No. 1 with 222,000. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers was announced on April 1...
After holding at No. 2 for three consecutive weeks, Official HIGE DANdism’s “Mixed Nuts” rises to take the No. 1 spot on this week’s Japan Hot 100, dated May 18. The opener for the animated series SPYxFAMILY is at No. 1 for streaming for the fourth straight week (from 9,145,511 to 9,521,583 weekly streams). In other metrics, the song slips to No. 2 for downloads (from 19,062 to 15,946 units) and rises to No. 5 for video views (from 1,383,391 to 1,514,729 views). Powered by these three metrics, “Mixed Nuts” hits No. 1 on the Japan Hot 100 five weeks after debuting on the chart. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news [embedded content] Kenshi Yonezu bows at No. 2 with “M87,” the theme of Shin Ultraman, the reimagined new Ultraman movie by Hideaki Anno a...
Future earns his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as I Never Liked You debuts atop the list with the year’s largest week for any album. It earned 222,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 5, according to Luminate. That also marks Future’s largest week for a solo album, by units earned. His only album to post a bigger week was his collaborative set with Drake, What a Time to Be Alive, which bowed at No. 1 with 375,000 units in 2015. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In total, I Never Liked You is Future’s 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200. He previously topped the chart with High Off Life (2020), Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD (2019), HNDRXX (2017), Future (2017), Evol (2016), What a Time to Be Alive (2...
Record Store Day 2022’s fingerprints are all over Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated May 7), as six of the top 10 have sales owed to a special release for the annual indie retailer holiday. Leading the pack at No. 1 is Childish Gambino’s Kauai EP, which debuts atop the list with 17,000 sold in the U.S. in the week ending April 28, according to Luminate. It’s his first No. 1 on the chart, and third top 10. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Kauai was originally released in 2014 as digital download at retail, and charted for five weeks that year. It was issued on vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day (April 23) and nearly all of the album’s sales in the week ending April 28 were from its vinyl LP. Kauai was pressed on three surprise co...
Tyler, the Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 30), as the set’s release on vinyl LP prompts its jump from No. 120 to No. 1. It’s the album’s second nonconsecutive week atop the list; it debuted at No. 1 on the July 10, 2021-dated chart. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Call Me earned 59,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 21 (up 507%), according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. Of that sum, 51,000 were in traditional album sales — almost entirely vinyl LP sales. The vinyl edition of Call Me was sold exclusively through the artist’s webstore and sold 49,500 copies, making it the largest sales week for a hip-hop album on vinyl, or for a solo male album on vin...
Lil Durk’s 7220 returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second nonconsecutive week, as the set steps 2-1 on the April 23-dated list with a little over 47,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 14 (down 8%), according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. The album bowed atop the chart dated March 26 and spent the next three weeks in the runner-up position. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Plus, four more albums debut in the top 10: Jack White’s Fear of the Dawn, 42 Dugg and EST Gee’s Last Ones Left, Fivio Foreign’s B.I.B.L.E. and Camila Cabello’s Familia. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, ...
The TikTok-to-charts pipeline yields another success story as JNR Choi and Sam Tompkins‘ “To the Moon!” breaks into the top 10 of Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The collaboration rises from No. 12 to No. 10 on the list dated April 16 as the song reaches new highs in radio airplay. “Moon” surfaced on TikTok beginning last August. The drill single’s origins are double-layered: It samples Sam Tompkins’ cover of Bruno Mars‘ 2010 release “Talking to the Moon” – a situation that temporarily led to its removal from streaming services, as JNR Choi detailed in his Billboard Chartbreaker profile earlier this month. JNR Choi and Tompkins each earn their first top 10 with their first entry on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Notably, Mars, credited as a songwriter on “Moon,” collects his 10th ...
Madonna and Sickick surge to the top 10 of Billboard‘s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated April 16) with “Frozen” (12-10). It’s Madonna’s third top 10, and first in nearly seven years, on the chart, which premiered in January 2013. It follows two 2015 Diplo co-productions: “Living for Love” (No. 9, that February) and “B**** I’m Madonna” (No. 5, July). It’s Sickick’s first top 10. “Frozen,” a 2021-remixed, Sickick-produced version of Madonna’s No. 2-peaking 1998 Billboard Hot 100 hit (which she wrote with Patrick Leonard and produced with Leonard and William Orbit) from her Ray of Light album, debuted at No. 20 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in December after going viral. Since, Madonna and Sickick have released two additional remixes, complete with new vocals and offic...
Charli XCX cruises into the top 10 of Billboard‘s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated April 2) as “Beg for You,” featuring Rina Sawayama, bounds from No. 16 to No. 10. The track boasts top Streaming and Sales Gainer honors, up 79% to 1.7 million official U.S. streams and 193% to 800 downloads sold, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. It’s the seventh chart hit and third top 10 for Charli XCX, after her featured turn on Icona Pop’s “I Love It” (No. 1 for two weeks, 2013), and “Out Out,” with Joel Corry, Jax Jones and Saweetie (No. 9, 2021). “Beg” is the second entry and first top 10 for Sawayama; her collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Free Woman (Clarence Clarity Remix),” reached No. 20 last September. Speaking of that month, “Beg” is built around Eurodance singer Septembe...
SixTONES’ sixth single “Kyomei” blasts into No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 9, putting an end to Aimer’s seven-week streak at the top of the tally. The six-member Johnny’s boy band scores its sixth No. 1 with this track, which is the opener for the ongoing anime series Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon season 2. “Kyomei” sold 402,093 copies in its first week to rule the metric (though about 100,000 copies short of its previous single, “Mascara”), while also coming in at No. 1 for look-ups and radio airplay. The track also did well on Twitter (No. 4) and came in at No. 53 for video views, so the two physical metrics of the chart’s methodology (sales and look-ups) fueled the song to No. 1 this week. Explore Explore SixTONES See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos,...
The Encanto soundtrack enchants in the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 12) for an eighth nonconsecutive week. The set earned 80,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 3 (down 11%), according to MRC Data. In the last five years, only three albums have spent at least eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Encanto, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (10 weeks), and Taylor Swift’s Folklore (eight weeks). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Also in the top 10, new albums from Kodak Black, Tears for Fears and Avril Lavigne all debut in the region. 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 unit...