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Here Are the Answers to the Latest Billboard x VersusGame Matchups: Jack White, Harry Styles & More
Last week’s Billboard and VersusGame matchups challenging your chart-predicting prowess featured Jack White’s new album Fear of the Dawn, Camila Cabello’s new LP Familia and Harry Styles’ Billboard Hot 100-topping single “As It Was.” Billboard and VersusGame have joined forces to bring music fans a one-of-a-kind, user-generated experience with games that test knowledge of pop culture for a chance to win prizes. Billboard is hosting bi-weekly head-to-head challenges on entertainment and pop culture gaming app VersusGame, where fans can vote on their favorite artists and songs and wager on who will top the charts and more. VersusGame data shows that fans have predicted correct chart outcomes nearly three out of four times so far. Explore See lates...
Digga D Heading For U.K. Chart Title
Digga D is on track for his first U.K. leader with Noughty By Nature (via CGM/EGA). The 21-year-old drill artist is new at No. 1 on the midweek chart with Noughty, his third mixtape. If it holds its position, Noughty will be the London rapper’s first chart topper and second Top 10 appearance after 2021’s Made in the Pyrex, which hit No. 3. Based on the chart blast, a string of hits collections should impact the top tier, including Fleetwood Mac’s 50 Years – Don’t Stop (up 11-4 via Rhino), Little Mix’s Between Us (up 12-6 via RCA) and The Police’s Greatest Hits (No. 9 via A&M), which enjoys a sales lift thanks to a vinyl reissue. Further down the list, U.S. slacker-rock master Kurt Vile is eying a Top 20 berth with Watch My Moves, his ninth studio record and first through Fiction....
Harry Styles ‘As It Was’ On Track For Third Week Atop U.K. Chart
Harry Styles’ U.K. chart supremacy with “As It Was” should continue for a third week, at least. The English pop star’s comeback track edged out Jack Harlow’s “First Class” for the race to No. 1 last week, and, based on early sales and streaming data, Styles is likely to stay there. “First Class” is the leader in the United States and Australia, but it can’t seem to get past Styles “As It Was” in the U.K., which leads the chart blast, with Harlow’s hit holding at No. 2. In the absence of any new arrivals in the Top 20, Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran’s “Bam Bam” continues to rise, potentially lifting 10-9, for a new U.K. chart peak. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Further down the chart update, tracks from Tate McRae (“She’s All I Wanna Be” u...
Jack Harlow Flies ‘First Class’ to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Jack Harlow‘s “First Class” takes flight in style, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The single starts as Harlow’s second Hot 100 leader and first on his own, as well as his first to debut at No. 1, after Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby,” with Harlow, ascended to the summit for a week in October 2021. “First Class” – which interpolates Fergie’s 2007 two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Glamorous,” featuring Ludacris – soars in with the biggest streaming week tallied this year. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The track also marks the second song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2022; Harry Styles’ “As It Was” bounded in on top a week earlier, with the year’s previous best weekly streaming total, and ranks at No. 2 in its second we...
Jack Harlow’s ‘First Class’ Flies to No. 1 In Australia
Jack Harlow is living it up on Australia’s singles chart as “First Class” blasts to No. 1. “First Class” (via Atlantic/Warner) is the U.S. rapper’s first leader and second solo Top 10 on the ARIA Singles Chart, following “Whats Poppin,” which peaked at No. 8 in July 2020. The top tier this week is bracketed by Harlow numbers, as his collaboration with Lil Nas X, “Industry Baby,” holds at No. 10, and his previous single, “Nail Tech” reenters the chart at No. 26, just four places below its peak position. Following the release of her third and latest album Familia, Camila Cabello’s “Bam Bam” (Warner/Sony) continues to climb. “Bam Bam,” a collaboration with Ed Sheeran, lifts 15-11 in its sixth week on the survey. Familia (via Epic/Sony) debuts at No. 27 this week on the national albums li...
Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ Enters Second Week at No. 1 In U.K.
Harry Styles‘ “As It Was” (via Columbia/Sony) won’t be budged from the summit of the Official U.K. Singles Chart. The former One Direction star enters a second week at No. 1 with “As It Was,” the first track lifted from his forthcoming third studio album, Harry’s House. The Brit’s hit single blows away the competition with a market-leading 7.6 million U.K. streams, according to the OCC. That competition is led this week by Jack Harlow, whose “First Class” (Atlantic) debuts at No. 2, for the Kentucky rapper’s first U.K. Top 10 appearance. “First Class,” which samples from Fergie’s 2007 track “Glamorous,” is the new No. 1 in Australia this week. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Further down the list, there are notable climbs for Cat Burns’ “Go” (u...
Lil Durk’s ‘7220’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
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, ...
JNR Choi & Sam Tompkins’ ‘Moon’ Lands in Top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
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 ...
Sakurazaka46 Rises to No. 1 as Tani Yuuki Scores First Top 10 Hit on Japan Hot 100
Sakurazaka46 hits No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated April 13, with its latest track “Samidareyo.” The J-pop girl group’s fourth single sold 452,752 copies in its first week to rule physical sales, and also comes in at No. 2 for look-ups, No. 19 for downloads, No. 27 for streaming, No. 18 for radio airplay, and No. 6 for Twitter mentions. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Samidareyo” launched with about 45,000 more CDs than the group’s previous single called “Nagaredama,” which sold 407,334 first-week copies. The new single also improved in streaming (600k more weekly streams) compared to the previous single, but fell short by about 5,000 units in downloads. [embedded content] Last week’s No. 1 song, Snow Man’s “Brother ...
Madonna & Sickick’s ‘Frozen’ Heats Up in Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart’s Top 10
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...
Thomas Rhett & Katy Perry Get ‘Started’ on Billboard Country Charts
Thomas Rhett‘s sixth full-length, Where We Started, bounds onto Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart (dated April 16) at No. 2. In its first frame, the set, released April 1, earned 29,000 equivalent album units according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. Rhett earns his sixth total and consecutive top five entry on the survey. The album, released on Valory/Big Machine Label Group, follows his Country Again (Side A), which entered at its No. 2 Top Country Albums high last May. Rhett banked his second No. 1 in June 2019 with Center Point Road, which launched atop both Top Country Albums and the all-genre Billboard 200, marking his second and latest leader on each list. Life Changes opened atop the tallies in September 2017 (with 123,000 units, including 94,000 sold, his biggest week in both m...
Why Are There So Few New Hits in 2022?
If you’ve been looking to catch up on the hottest new songs released in 2022, you wouldn’t find them towards the top of the Billboard Hot 100 lately. While the Hot 100 measures the biggest songs in the country every week, recently the chart has been absolutely dominated by holdovers from 2021 — some of which didn’t begin their chart runs in 2022, some of which have only hit their peaks in 2022, and some of which have just continued to hang around the listing many months (a couple even close to a year) after reaching their chart apex. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In fact, if you look at last week’s chart, dated April 9, more than three months into the calendar year, you’ll find more songs in the both the top 10 (Glass Animals’ “Heat W...
