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Maximo Park on Track For First U.K. No. 1 With ‘Nature Always Wins’
Just 2,500 chart sales separate the Top 5 on the chart blast. Maximo Park crashed through with their 2005 Warp debut A Certain Trigger, which caught the attention of the NME and earned a Mercury Music Prize nomination. Their sophomore album Our Earthly Pleasures, from 2007, peaked at No. 2 on the Official Albums Chart and is their only Top 10 album to date. Nature leads an all-new Top 7. Cooper’s Detroit Stories could become the shock-rock legend’s highest position on the U.K. chart since 1989’s Trash peaked at No. 2. Detroit Stories is the best-selling album on CD at the halfway mark. Meanwhile, metalcore group Architects could snag their first U.K. Top 10 album with For Those That Wish To Exist (Epitaph), new at No. 3 on the Chart Update. It’s the most downloaded LP over the p...
Kali Uchis Trusted Her Instincts & Got Her First No. 1 Album: ‘A Lot of People Didn’t Want Me to Make This Album’
Uchi’s sophomore effort rises to the top in its 15th chart week with 10,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 25, up 129%, according to MRC Data. The surge concurrently takes the set to a No. 3 high on Top Latin Albums, a new peak. It previously topped out at No. 8 on the Dec. 5, 2020-dated chart, the week following its debut at No. 21 (from two days of tracking activity in the week ending Nov. 19). As Sin Miedo rises to the top of Latin Pop Albums, Uchis becomes the first female solo act to rule with her first Latin Pop Albums entry since Rosalía’s El Mal Querer in November 2018. Sin Miedo traces its surge to “Telepatía’s” streaming gain across services like YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music, sparked by its popularity on TikTok. (TikTok itself...
Ask Billboard: Justin Bieber’s Biggest Albums & Songs, 2021 Birthday Edition
Happy birthday, Justin Bieber! In his honor, and in anticipation of his forthcoming album Justice, let’s update his career U.S. album sales, most-streamed songs and most-heard hits on radio, in lead or co-lead roles, according to MRC Data (with all data current through Feb. 25). Best-Selling Albums3.4 million, My World 2.02.1 million, My World (EP)1.9 million, Purpose1.7 million, Believe1.6 million, Under the Mistletoe946,000, Never Say Never: The Remixes (EP)841,000, My Worlds Acoustic424,000, Believe: Acoustic205,000, Changes Most-Streamed Songs (on-demand audio and video combined; in lead or co-lead roles)1.4 billion, “Sorry”1 billion, “Love Yourself”938 million, “What Do You Mean?”651 million, “I Don’t Care” (Ed Sheeran & ...
Mogwai, Olivia Rodrigo Rule U.K. Charts
Released independently through the act’s label Rock Action, Every Country’s Sun ends the chart week some 2,900 combined sales ahead of the second-placed effort, Ghetts’ new arrival Conflict of Interest (Warner Records), the OCC reports. “It is 25 years this week since the release of our first single ‘Tuner/Lower,’ the first release on our own label Rock Action Records,” reads a statement from Mogwai. “We didn’t start the band or the label to get into the charts. None of us ever envisaged either the band or the label being in a position where having a No. 1 record would be a possibility.” Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (Warner Records) continues to climb following the release of its “Moonlight Edition.” It’s up 4-3, while The Weeknd’s The Highlights (Republi...
Tash Sultana Lands First Australian No. 1 With ‘Terra Firma’
“I’ve had the most incredible, emotional and overwhelming week after releasing Terra Firma and I’m just really lost for words that it’s No. 1. Like I really am lost for words.” comments Sultana, the Melbourne-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. “I was really unsatisfied with the work I’ve done in the past prior to Terra Firma and my mission for this record was to try to be better than I was the day before, the month before, the year before,” they continue. “I produced, arranged, composed, co-engineered and played everything on this record and did it all in my own studio. This was my mission, my entire soul, the air in my lungs and to have it received this way is so much more than I ever expected.” Further down the national albums chart, Ariana Grande’s Positions...
Junior H Rules Regional Mexican Albums Chart With ‘$ad Boyz 4 Life’
The Regional Mexican Albums chart ranks the most popular regional Mexican albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). $ad Boyz 4 Life, released Feb. 12 via JHRH/Warner Latina, registered 6,000 SEA in its first tracking week, which equates to 8.3 million on-demand streams generated by the songs on the album. The 16-track set earns the 18-year-old his second Regional Mexican Albums No. 1 and fourth top five, all of which launched in less than a year, as Atrapado En Un Sueño, his sophomore debut and first entry on any Billboard album chart, debuted and peaked at No. 2 in April 2020 with 4,000 equivalent...
Daddy Yankee & Marc Anthony’s ‘De Vuelta Pa’ La Vuelta’ Hits No. 1 on Latin Airplay Chart
With 23 home runs, dating back to “Rompe” leading for 15 weeks in 2005, Yankee breaks away from a tie with Ozuna to become the third among all acts in terms of No. 1s, standing only behind Enrique Iglesias’ 31 leaders and J Balvin’s 27. Here’s the leaderboard of acts with at least 20 No. 1s on Latin Airplay: 31, Enrique Iglesias27, J Balvin23, Daddy Yankee22, Ozuna20, Maluma Marc Anthony, who ups his career count to 12, captures his first No. 1 since 2015 when “La Gozadera” ruled for one week in August. Over on Hot Latin Songs, which blends airplay, digital sales and streams, “De Vuelta” remains at No. 9 for a second week. It concurrently makes a dent in the sales realm, as it rebounds 8-6 on Latin Digital Song Sales with a little over 500 downloads sold. “Telepatía” Arrives: Back on Hot L...
Yung Bleu Scores First Top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
Yung Bleu achieves a rookie career milestone as his song “You’re Mines Still” reaches the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Feb. 27). The track, which features Drake, ascends from No. 11 to crack the upper tier in its 14th week on the list. With the move, Yung Bleu, the 26-year-old singer-rapper from Mobile, Alabama, collects his first top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with his initial chart entry. Drake, meanwhile, adds his record-extending 80th visit to the region, further outpacing runner-up James Brown, who has 57. 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, shar...
Cardi B’s ‘Up’ Hits No. 1 on Top Triller U.S. Chart
The rapper’s new single debuted at No. 10 on release week before vaulting nine spots to the top. A week after debuting on the tally at No. 10, Cardi B’s “Up” vaults to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Triller U.S. chart dated Feb. 27, while Shreya Ghoshal and Soumyadeep Ghoshal’s “Angana Morey” spends its first week atop the Top Triller Global tally. The Top Triller U.S. and Top Triller Global charts highlight the biggest songs on Triller based on a formula blending the amount of views of videos containing a respective songs, the level of engagement with those videos and the raw total of videos uploaded featuring each song, according to Triller. Data for the charts is represented on a Friday-Thursday tracking week, with the latest period running Feb. 12-18. “Up” rules in its second full week of tr...
Ciara Scores First Top 10 on Hot Gospel Songs Chart With Tasha Cobbs Leonard Collab
Leonard lands her 12th Hot Gospel Songs top 10, extending her mark for the most among women. Among all artists, she ties Marvin Sapp for the second-best sum. Kirk Franklin leads with 16, dating to the chart’s 2005 launch. The track is Ciara’s first Hot Gospel Songs entry, following her run of secular hits in the 2000s and ’10s. She arrived on the Billboard Hot 100 with five consecutive career-opening top three hits in 2004-05, among eight total to-date: “Goodies,” featuring Petey Pablo (her lone No. 1, for seven weeks); “1, 2 Step,” featuring Missy Elliott (No. 2); “Oh,” featuring Ludacris (No. 2); “Lose Control,” by Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fat Man Scoop (No. 3); and “Like You,” by Bow Wow featuring Cia...
‘Love Story,’ ‘The Twist,’ ‘Unchained Melody’ & More Re-Recorded Hot 100 Hits
The original was released from Swift’s second LP, 2008’s Fearless. The new take is from her forthcoming re-recording of the album, Fearless (Taylor’s Version). (Re-recordings of older songs or albums are treated separately from their originals, with independent chart histories for each version.) “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” is the second single ever to top Hot Country Songs in separate forms, after Dolly Parton’s iconic “I Will Always Love You” led in 1974 and, in a second take, in 1982. On the Hot 100, Swift’s new entry is the latest to chart more than once as re-recorded in-studio by an artist that previously made it a hit. Here’s a look at 20 other memorable such singles, listed chronologically by their updated ve...
The Pretty Reckless Earn First No. 1 on Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Death by Rock and Roll’
The Pretty Reckless previously logged top 10s on Top Album Sales with Who You Selling For (No. 8, 2016) and Going to Hell (No. 5, 2014). Death by Rock and Roll also enters an array of other album charts, including the Billboard 200 (No. 28), Top Rock Albums (No. 3), Hard Rock Albums (No. 2), Tastemaker Albums (No. 3) and Independent Albums (No. 5). The album’s title track reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in August of 2020, marking the fifth leader for the band. The set’s latest radio single, “And So It Went,” featuring Tom Morello, climbs 9-8 (a new peak) on the most recently published chart (dated Feb. 27). Back on the new Top Album Sales chart, Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight falls 1-2 in its second week (15,000 sold; down 77%), while Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Ever...
