Chart Beat
BTS, Harry Styles, Mickey Guyton & More Sales Surge After 2021 Grammy Awards
Here are the top 10 selling songs performed on the show, on March 14, according to initial reports: BTS, “Dynamite” (10,500 sold on March 14; up 2,748%) Silk Sonic, “Leave the Door Open” (5,100; up 144%)Harry Styles, “Watermelon Sugar” (2,600; up 945%)Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (2,600; up 121%)Black Pumas, “Colors” (2,600; up 1,850%)Dua Lipa, “Don’t Start Now” (2,600; up 98%)Mickey Guyton, “Black Like Me” (1,600; up 13,225%)Cardi B, “Up” (1,600; up 5%)Billie Eilish, “Everything I Wanted” (1,300; up 812%)Maren Morris, “The Bones” (1,000; up 641%) Beyoncé was the biggest winner of the evening, taking home four Grammy Awards. Her total trophy count now stands at 28, making her the female artist with the most wins ever (a point noted during the television broadcast). Her 28th win was for best R&am...
Kings Of Leon Rule Australia’s Albums Chart With ‘When You See Yourself’
Also new to the ARIA Albums Chat this week is A Day To Remember’s You’re Welcome, at No. 9. It’s the American post-hardcore band’s second Top 10 on the ARIA Charts, having hit No. 1 with their previous album, 2016’s Bad Vibrations. The Smith Street Band return to the chart with Unplugged In Wombat State Forest, the Melbourne rock band’s third live release in 12 months. It’s new at No. 11 on the national all-albums survey, and it’s this week’s best-seller on the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart. Veteran Australia singer and songwriter Pete Murray impacts the chart for the first time since 2017 with The Night – EP, which starts at No. 22. Rising Australian funk/hip-hop artist Genesis Owusu makes his ARIA Top 50 debut with Smiling With No Teeth, bowing at No. 27. The Canberra artist collected AR...
Australia’s Chart Release Day Moves Forward to Friday
Every day, Australia enjoys the sunrise before most other countries. There’s a new dawn for the country’s official music charts, too, which are moving forward one day for a Friday publication. Starting From this Friday (March 19) the weekly ARIA charts will be published at 5pm, a full 24 hours earlier than usual. With the shift, Australia will be the first major market weekly charts available anywhere. “We hope this will provide more opportunities to promote the Australian market and local artists,” says a rep for ARIA, which compiles the charts. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, shari...
Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Spends Ninth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Most Since 2016
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 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 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 20, 2021-dated chart (where Dangerous is No. 1 for a ninth week) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 16. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Of Dangerous’ 78,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending March 11, SEA units compri...
Chart Rewind: In 2011, Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson Began Their ‘Stay’ at No. 1
Fort Worth, Texas, native Clarkson, 38, the winner of the inaugural season of American Idol in 2002, boasts two other Hot Country Songs top 10s, also collaborations: “Because of You,” with Reba McEntire, reached No. 2 on 2007 — after Clarkson’s original hit No. 7 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 in 2005 — and “Under the Mistletoe,” with Brett Eldredge, jingled to No. 10 in December 2020. “Stay” also crossed over to a No. 3 peak on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 9 on Adult Pop Airplay. It’s Aldean’s only top 10 on each tally and one of Clarkson’s 16 top 10s on each list. Clarkson, who has collected 11 Hot 100 top 10s including three No. 1s, is back for a seventh season as a coach on NBC’s The Voice, whose ...
Selena Gomez & Rauw Alejandro’s ‘Baila Conmigo’ Hits Latin Airplay Top 10
Selena Gomez grabs her second top 10 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart as “Baila Conmigo,” with Rauw Alejandro, surges 13-6 on the March 13 survey. The track ascends with a 16% gain in audience impressions, to 7 million, earned in the week ending March 7, according to MRC Data. “Baila Conmigo” is Selena’s first fully Spanish-language track to arrive in the list’s top 10. DJ Snake’s bilingual “Taki Taki,” where she is featured alongside Ozuna and Cardi B, earned her a first No. 1 as it landed atop Latin Airplay in 2018. Rauw Alejandro, meanwhile, collects his fifth top 10, three of which have led the tally for one week: “TBT,” with Sebastian Yatra and Manuel Turizo (July 2020), “Tattoo,” with Camilo (Sept. 2020), and “La Nota,” with Manuel Turizo and Myke Towers (Jan. 13-dated chart). You ...
Chart Rewind: In 2006, ‘High School Musical’ Started Something New
High School Musical went on to become the year’s best-selling album in the United States, according to Nielsen Music (with 3.7 million copies sold), while the movie spawned two successful sequels – High School Musical 2 in 2007 and the theatrical release High School Musical 3: Senior Year in 2008, which, in turn, produced two more chart-topping soundtracks. “I’m grateful for every bit of that early success,” actor Zac Efron told Billboard sister publication The Hollywood Reporter in 2014 about his career-launching High School Musical days. (In March 2006, he was just 18.) “It was, hands-down, the most honest, carefree, passionate experience of my life.” High School Musical also helped clear the path for similarly music-centric shows like Disney’s o...
Willie Nelson’s ‘That’s Life’ Debuts at No. 1 on Jazz Albums Chart
Nelson’s That’s Life is his second jazz covers set of songs made famous by Sinatra, following 2018’s My Way. On the all-genre Billboard 200, That’s Life bows at No. 58, marking Nelson’s 81st chart entry. That’s Life features familiar favorites like “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” “Luck Be a Lady” and “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.” Of That’s Life’s 12,500 units earned, 12,000 comprise album sales, 500 comprise SEA units (equating to 626,000 on-demand streams of the set’s songs in its first week) and a negligible number comprise TEA. Of the album’s 12,000 copies sold, 8,000 were via CD and 2,000 came via vinyl LP. The remaining 2,000 were digital albums. That’s Life also debuts at No. 18 on the Vinyl Albums chart and No...
Kings of Leon on Track For U.K. Chart Crown With ‘When You See Yourself’
It’ll take something special in the home straight for Kings of Leon to be denied. Their eighth studio album is outperforming the rest of the Top 5 combined. All five of the Followills’ previous studio albums hit No. 1 in the U.K.: Because of the Times (2007); Only By The Night (2008); Come Around Sundown (2010); Mechanical Bull (2013); and Walls (2016). Meanwhile, Japan are eyeing a career-best U.K. chart position with Quiet Life. The deluxe reissue of the new wave outfit’s third album from 1979 is at No. 3, well ahead of its No. 53 peak. Also jostling for Top 10 bows are Australian Britpop revivalists’ DMA’s‘ Live in Brixton collection (No. 4); Scottish rockers Mason Hill’s debut Against The Wall (No. 6); English singer-songwriter Jane Weaver’s Flock (No. 8); Scottish indie ro...
Architects Draw First No. 1 In Australia
For Those That Wish To Exist also rules this week’s ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart and it’s the best seller in the U.K. Coming in at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart is Sheppard’s third album Kaleidoscope Eyes. It’s the Brisbane pop band’s third straight Top Two album, having hit No. 2 with their 2014 debut album Bombs Away and No. 1 with 2018’s Watching The Sky. Rounding out an all-new Top Three this week is Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories. It’s the shock-rock legend’s highest-charting album in the ARIA charts era, equaling the peak of his 1977’s Lace And Whiskey. (The ARIA Charts were launched in 1983.) Detroit Stories becomes Cooper’s eighth Top Ten album in Australia and second successive Top Ten studio album, following Paranormal (No. 4 in August 2017). Also new to the chart th...
Drake’s ‘What’s Next’ In Striking Distance of U.K. No. 1
Just 800 chart sales separate “Wellerman,” the leader on the First Look chart, and Olivia Rodrigo’s third-placed song “Drivers License,” the OCC reports. Last Friday, “Drivers License” logged its eighth successive week at No. 1 with another strong set of streaming results. A lead change isn’t out of the question. All three tracks from Drake’s Scary Hours 2 EP are poised to impact the Top 10, with “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” at No. 4 and “Wants and Needs” at No. 5. If the Canadian hip-hop star holds his momentum, he’ll have his 24th, 25th and 26th Top 10 singles in the U.K. when the chart is published this Friday. Also new to the chart blast is “Leave The Door Open” by Silk Sonic, the new project from Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. It’s at No. 16. Mars already has 18th Top 20 singles, wh...
Kis-My-Ft2 Debuts at No. 1, Official HIGE DANdism Rises to No. 4 on Japan Hot 100
Kis-My-Ft2’s “Luv Bias” blasts in at No. 1 on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Feb. 22 to 28, selling 217,880 copies in its first week. The theme of the ongoing drama series Oh! My Boss! starring member Yuta Tamamori led physical sales, look-ups and Twitter mentions this week, and also performed well in radio airplay (No. 13) and video views (No. 15). Sales figures for the the seven-member Johnny’s boy band’s new single increased by about 37,000 copies from its previous release, “Endless Summer” (180,763 copies). You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharin...
