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Lewis Capaldi Blasts to No. 1 In U.K. With ‘Forget Me’
Lewis Capaldi completes his comeback as “Forget Me” (Vertigo) blasts to No. 1 in the U.K. The Scottish singer and songwriter’s first release in three years is also his third song to hit No. 1, following “Someone You Loved” (from 2019) and “Before You Go” (2020). “Forget Me” racks up more than 56,000 first-week chart sales, according to the Official Charts Company, and it’s the most purchased (physical and digital downloads) single during the latest cycle. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news It’s the third single to start at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Chart this year, after Dave’s “Starlight” and Harry Styles’ “As It Was.” Brits certainly haven’t forgotten Capaldi. As he collects the singles chart crown, his debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hell...
Ozzy Osbourne Earns First No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Patient Number 9’
Ozzy Osbourne achieves his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, as his latest studio effort, Patient Number 9, debuts atop the 31-year-old tally. The set sold 52,500 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Luminate. The album also opens at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Rock Albums, Top Current Album Sales, Tastemaker Albums and Vinyl Albums. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news 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 Luminat...
Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ Has Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Since 2016
Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti holds at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Sept. 24), notching an 11th nonconsecutive week atop the list. That marks the most total weeks at No. 1 in nearly six years, since Drake’s Views logged 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016 (May 21-Oct. 8 charts). Un Verano Sin Ti earned 97,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. (down 3%) in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Luminate. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, NAV’s Demons Protected by Angels debuts at No. 2, Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number 9 arrives at No. 3, Kane Brown’s Different Man starts at No. 5, YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Realer 2 jumps 71-6 after its first full charting week and Yeat’s Lyfe bows at No. 10. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the wee...
Manuel Turizo Scores First No. 1 on Billboard Argentina Hot 100 With ‘La Bachata’
Manuel Turizo banks his first No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as “La Bachata” rises from No. 3 to lead the Sept. 10-dated ranking. The track trades places with Bizarrap and Quevedo’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52,” which dips 1-2 after its eight-week coronation. The current chart week boasts slight movement within the top 10, starting with Rosalia’s “Despechá,” which drops 2-3. Meanwhile, Rei and Callejero Fino’s “Tu Turrito” holds strong at No. 4 for a fifth week after its No. 3 high (Aug. 13-dated survey). Plus, Duki’s “Givenchy” remains steady at No. 5 for a fourth week, while Shakira and Rauw Alejandro’s “Te Felicito” re-enters the upper region with an 11-10 jump. Callejero Fino places a second entry thanks to his team-up with Alan Gómez in “Mission 10,” the ...
YUNGBLUD Scores First Top 10 on Billboard’s Album Sales Chart
YUNGBLUD lands his first top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Sept. 17) – and his best sales week yet – as his self-titled third studio album debuts at No. 3 with 13,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Luminate. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The set also makes a splash across further Billboard album charts, bowing in the top 10 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Top Current Album Sales, Tastemaker Albums and Vinyl Albums. 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 moni...
Hot 100 First-Timers: Armani White Arrives With ‘Billie Eilish’ Ode
Armani White earns his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Sept. 17) thanks to his breakthrough single “Billie Eilish.” The ode to the superstar singer-songwriter, released in May via Legendbound/Def Jam Recordings, debuts at No. 99 with 4.4 million U.S. streams (up 19%), 4.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 40%) and 1,000 downloads sold (up 5%) in the Sept. 2-8 tracking week, according to Luminate. In addition to its Eilish shout-out, the song boasts familiarity via its sample of N.O.R.E.’s “Nothin’,” which reached No. 10 on the Hot 100 in 2002. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news [embedded content] White’s first song to reach a Billboard chart is building at multiple radio formats. It rises 24-23 on Rap Airplay and 29-...
Five Burning Questions: OneRepublic Hits the Top 10 With ‘Top Gun’ Soundtrack Hit ‘I Ain’t Worried’
It’s been the summer of Top Gun: Maverick, a proper old-school film blockbuster that’s set all kinds of box office records and generally taken over pop culture — just like Maverick, Goose, Iceman and the rest of the original Top Gun crew did 36 years earlier. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Now, the sequel lives up to its predecessor in one more way: a top 10 hit soundtrack single. While the first new song released from the movie, Lady Gaga’s much-hyped power ballad “Hold My Hand,” topped out at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100, ’00s and ’10s pop-rock hitmakers OneRepublic have scored a proper crossover smash with the breezy “I Ain’t Worried.” The song, which features in a beach football scene in Maverick, jumps from 14-8 on the Hot...
Lewis Capaldi Heading For U.K. Chart Title With ‘Forget Me’
The Brits haven’t forgotten Lewis Capaldi. The Scottish singer and songwriter is on track for another U.K. chart crown with “Forget Me” (via Vertigo), his first single in nearly three years. Produced by TMS, Capaldi’s comeback track leads the midweek chart, and is en route to becoming his third leader following “Someone You Loved” and “Before You Go,” both from 2019. He has five top 10s to his name, a figure that almost certainly will rise to six when the Official U.K. Singles Chart is published. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In a quirky open-letter which accompanied the release of “Forget Me,” Capaldi admitted to nerves — expressed in his own self-deprecating way. “All joking aside, I’m really excited to be back and get this song out there. ...
Robbie Williams Racing to 14th U.K. No. 1 With ‘XXV’
With 13 U.K. No. 1 albums to his name, Robbie Williams knows life through a lens better than most. The superstar British singer is about to add another chart crown, this time with XXV (via Columbia). Williams’ 13th solo studio album leads the midweek chart by what a handy margin. According to the Official Charts Company, it’s outselling the rest of the top 10 combined, on its way to what should be Robbie’s 14th leader. XXV celebrates the former Take That singer’s quarter-century as a solo artist, by collecting some of his most popular numbers, newly-orchestrated and recorded with the Metropole Orkest of the Netherlands. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Though Williams never scaled great commercial heights in the United States, he can fill arenas...
Nicki Minaj Is Queen of Australia’s Singles Chart
Nicki Minaj is the queen of Australia’s singles chart, while Yungblud cuts his first national chart crown with his self-titled third studio LP. Yungblud (via Interscope/Universal) blasts to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, the followup to the British alternative rock star’s 2020 sophomore effort Weird, which peaked at No. 6. Yungblud does enough to deny Megadeth a week in the spotlight, as the U.S. thrash metal legends’ 16th studio album The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead (USM/Universal) arrives at No. 2. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Also new to the ARIA Chart this week is The Butterfly Effect, which spreads its wings for a No. 4 debut with IV (Ditto Music), the homegrown indie act’s long-awaited fourth studio album. IV is the band’s first new...
Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ Hits 10th Week at No. 1, Most Weeks Atop Billboard 200 in Over a Year
Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Sept. 17 (rising 2-1) for a 10th nonconsecutive week atop the list. It now solely has the most weeks at No. 1 in 2022, surpassing the nine weeks logged by the Encanto soundtrack. Further, Un Verano Sin Ti has the most weeks at No. 1 in over a year, since Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album spent 10 weeks (all consecutive, from its debut) at No. 1 (Jan. 23-March 27, 2021, charts). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Un Verano Sin Ti earned 99,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. (down 6%) in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Luminate. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Megadeth notches its eighth top 10 with the No. 3 debut of The Sick, the ...
Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Breaks Top 10 Longevity Record on Billboard 200 Chart
Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album has broken the record for the most weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart among albums by a singular artist. The former No. 1 set collects an 86th nonconsecutive week in the top 10 on the chart (dated Sept. 17, rising from No. 5 to No. 2), surpassing the 85 nonconsecutive weeks tallied by Peter, Paul and Mary’s self-titled album in 1962-64. The latter album spent seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1962-63 and included the top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit “If I Had a Hammer.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Dangerous debuted atop the Jan. 23, 2021-dated chart and spent its first 10 weeks at No. 1. It has only fallen out of the weekly top 10 once since its arrival on the list. It include...
