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Shinedown Scores Record 18th Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1 With ‘Daylight’
Shinedown retakes sole possession of the record for the most No. 1s in the history of Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, as “Daylight” tops the Aug. 20-dated survey. The song is Shinedown’s 18th No. 1 and lifts the band out of a tie with Three Days Grace for the most rulers since the chart began in 1981. Shinedown and Three Days Grace have traded the record since February 2020, when the former scored its 15th No. 1 with “Attention Attention.” Shinedown pulled into the lead by itself with its 16th No. 1, “Atlas Falls,” that August, and the back-and-forth continued with Three Days Grace’s 16th No. 1, “So Called Life,” this February; Shinedown’s 17th, “Planet Zero,” in March; and Three Days Grace’s 17th, “Lifetime,” in July. “Daylight” is also Shinedown’s eighth consecutive Mainstream...
Bad Bunny & Chencho Corleone Do It Again: ‘Me Porto Bonito’ Rules Latin Airplay Chart
Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone’s “Me Porto Bonito” leads another Billboard Latin chart as the track ascends from No. 9 to lead the Latin Airplay ranking dated Aug. 20. It comes just three weeks after Bad Bunny topped the list with “Moscow Mule,” which jumped 11-1 on the July 30 chart (it’s No. 4 on the new chart). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Me Porto” rallies 9-1 on Latin Airplay in its fifth week, the fastest trek to the top between Bad Bunny’s collection of 18 No. 1s among 36 career appearances. On the tracking week ending in Aug. 14, “Me Porto” earned 9 million in audience impressions, up 35%. With 18 leaders on his account, Bad Bunny breaks a tie with Ricky Martin as the act with the eighth-most No. 1s on Latin Airplay. Here’s th...
Kasabian Is Cruising to U.K. No. 1 With ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’
Kasabian is creating U.K. chart gold with The Alchemist’s Euphoria. The British alternative rock outfit leads the midweek U.K. chart with Euphoria (via Columbia), and does so with considerable ease. The LP is outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined, the Official Charts Company reports, and is cruising to a sixth U.K. crown for the Leicester band. The Alchemist’s Euphoria is Kasabian’s seventh studio set, and first to feature founding guitarist player Sergio Pizzorno on lead vocals, following the July 2020 departure of frontman Tom Meighan in controversial circumstances. It’s the followup to 2017’s chart-leader For Crying Out Loud. Every studio set from Kasabian has gone to No. 1 in their homeland since their sophomore effort Empire, from 2006 (the band’s self-titled debut from 2004 reach...
Here Are All the Hot 100 Records That Drake Has (And Hasn’t) Broken
Every new Drake release brings its share of Billboard chart history, and his new collaboration with DJ Khaled and Lil Baby, “Staying Alive,” is no different. Earlier this year, he became the first solo male in history to debut atop the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously twice, thanks to his latest LP Honestly, Nevermind and its single “Jimmy Cooks,” featuring 21 Savage. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Now, he secures the honor of the artist with the most top five hits in Hot 100 history, with 30, as DJ Khaled’s “Staying Alive,” on which he and Lil Baby are featured, debuts at No. 5 on the latest, Aug. 20-dated chart. Drake passes The Beatles, who have 29, for sole ownership of the record over the list’s 64-year history. ...
Harry Styles, Bizarrap & Quevedo Top Billboard Global Charts
Harry Styles‘ “As It Was” rebounds for a record-extending 13th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart, while Bizarrap and Quevedo‘s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” spends a fourth consecutive and total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. survey. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Meanwhile, two collaborations by three stars each debut in the Global 200’s top 10: benny blanco, BTS and Snoop Dogg‘s “Bad Decisions,” at No. 6, and DJ Khaled‘s “Staying Alive,” featuring Drake and Lil Baby, at No. 10. The former also starts at No. 7 on Global Excl. U.S. The two charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The B...
LF System’s ‘Afraid to Feel’ Enters Week 6 Atop U.K. Singles Chart
LF System feels like a champion for another week, as the Scottish electronic production duo extends its chart reign with “Afraid to Feel” (via Warner Records). The disco-chaneling tune has now led the Official U.K. Singles Chart for six unbroken weeks, and it’s again the most-streamed single in the country, racking up more than 5.5 million plays, the OCC reports. “Afraid to Feel” holds off Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” (Columbia) which stays at No. 2 in its eighth week, for its equal best position. With its runner-up finish, Beyonce again misses out on a chart double as her LP Renaissance enters a second week atop the national albums survey. The highest new entry on the latest U.K. singles chart, published Aug. 12, belongs to KSI and Tom Grennan with “Not Over Yet” (Atlantic) new No. 4. ...
Powered by TikTok, Eliza Rose’s ‘B.O.T.A’ Blooms on U.K. Chart Blast
Give it time, and Eliza Rose just might be the baddest of them all. The London-based DJ, vocalist and radio host is flying on the U.K. chart blast with “B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All),” which was sent into the Top 10 last Friday (Aug. 12) after it blew-up on TikTok. Based on sales and streaming data from the first 48 hours of the new chart title, the empowering dance anthem lifts 10-4. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news At the top of the First Look chart is LF System’s “Afraid To Feel,” which is on track for a seventh consecutive week at the summit, while George Ezra’s “Green Green Grass” could return to its peak position at No. 2. Also taking flight on the chart blast is OneRepublic, which is eyeing a No. 6 spot — a potential new peak — thank...
Beyonce Extends U.K. Chart Reign With ‘Renaissance’
Beyonce is still bossing the U.K. albums chart with Renaissance (Interscope/Parkwood Entertainment). The U.S. superstar singer enters a second consecutive week at No. 1 with her seventh and latest album, to stave off the challenge of Eminem and his latest hits compilation, Curtain Call 2 (Interscope). Bey’s hit new collection becomes her first since 2011’s 4 to spend more than a single week at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, the OCC reports; 4 reigned for a total of two cycles. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Renaissance is Beyonce’s fourth U.K. chart-topping solo LP following Dangerously In Love (from 2003), 4, and Lemonade (2016). The first of those, Dangerously In Love, is Bey’s longest-reigning leader, notching five weeks at the su...
100 Weeks of the Billboard Global Charts: The 100-Hits Playlist
The latest Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, dated Aug. 13, 2022, mark 100 weeks since the worldwide song lists launched in September 2020. This week, we’re running through the hits that topped, lingered on, and shaped the surveys throughout their first 100 weeks. Today, we conclude with a celebratory listening of 100 songs that have helped define the past 100 weeks of hit global music. The playlist below spotlights the biggest and most interesting stories in global music over the past 100 weeks. Mixing No. 1s with long-lasting smashes … with international crossovers … with evergreen catalog tracks … with re-worked remixes and covers … with social media sensations … it’s a trip around the world and through time. Back in September 2020, when the global charts laun...
Pop & Hip-Hop on Top, Latin Leaps: The State of the Hot 100’s Top 10 at Mid-Year 2022
What were some of the most notable trends on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in the first half of 2022? Hit Songs Deconstructed, which provides compositional analytics for top 10 Hot 100 hits, has released its State of the Hot 100 Top 10: Mid-Year 2022 report. (Click here for a recap of Hit Songs Deconstructed’s Q1 2022 analysis.) Here are three takeaways from Hit Songs Deconstructed’s latest in-depth research. Pop & Hip-Hop on Top, Latin Leaps In the first six months of 2022, pop and hip-hop tied as the most common primary genres in the Hot 100’s top 10, each contributing to 33% of all top 10 hits. Pop claimed the biggest share among Hot 100 top 10s over hip-hop for all of 2021 (39% to 34%), while the genres have traded victories in recent years. While pop led for all of 2021 and 20...
Beyonce Holds Off Eminem on Australia’s Albums Chart
Beyonce beats Eminem to score a second week on Australia’s chart throne, while a pair of Olivia Newton-John albums return to the top ten, just days after her death. On the new ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday (Aug. 12), Bey’s Renaissance (via Columbia/Sony) stays on top, to head off Eminem’s fast-starting Curtain Call 2 (Interscope/Universal), new at No. 2 for the week’s top debut. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Australians are showing their love for homegrown stage and screen icon Olivia Newton-John by turning to her greatest hits. ONJ’s career retrospective, Hopelessly Devoted: The Hits (Sony), bounces to No. 5 on the ARIA Albums Chart, while the 14-times platinum original soundtrack to Grease (Universal) flies to No. 8. Newton-John was r...
Forever No. 1: Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Magic’
Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer — a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single — by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor the late Olivia Newton-John, who died this week at age 73, with Joe Lynch, Billboard’s executive digital director, east coast, celebrating the fact that flops can beget bops, as was the case with 1980’s Xanadu and its hit single “Magic,” her fourth No. 1. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news At the outset of Xanadu, the Olivia Newton-John-starring musical that followed Grease by two years, we see the one-time Sandy Olsson in a role that’s ne...
