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Foo Fighters’ ‘Medicine at Midnight’ Opens Huge Lead In U.K. Chart Race
The dream for No. 5 is very much alive for Foo Fighters, as the rockers take a massive lead in the U.K. chart race with Medicine at Midnight (Columbia). The Foos’ latest studio album dropped last Friday (Feb. 5), and by midweek it’s outselling the rest of the U.K. Top 10 combined, according to the Official Charts Company Medicine has chalked up the most physical and digital sales in the week so far, to lead the Official Chart Update. If it keeps its momentum, it’ll be the Foos’ fifth No. 1 in the U.K., following One By One (2002), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007), Wasting Light (2011) and Concrete & Gold (2017). 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. Ge...
Ariana Grande Replaces Herself Atop Pop Airplay Chart as ’34+35′ Dethrones ‘Positions’
Prior to Grande, four acts supplanted themselves atop Pop Airplay, which ranks weekly plays, as tabulated by MRC Data, on a panel of over 160 mainstream top 40 radio stations. Halsey last swapped songs at No. 1 when “Eastside,” with Benny Blanco and Khalid, replaced her own “Without Me” in March 2019. Grande was involved in the last such switch before Halsey’s, as Grande’s “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea, took over for Azalea’s “Fancy,” featuring Charli XCX, in July 2014. Previously, OutKast’s “The Way You Move,” featuring Sleepy Brown, ended the Pop Airplay reign of the pair’s “Hey Ya!” in 2004, while Mariah Carey’s “One Sweet Day,” with Boyz II Men, replaced her own &#...
The Kid Laroi Sets Australian Chart Record
F*ck Love (Savage) debuted at No. 3 in August 2020 under its original title, F*ck Love, and returned to that peak position in November after the release of the deluxe edition, F*ck Love (Savage). “Huge congratulations to The Kid Laroi on hitting the top of the ARIA Albums Chart,” comments ARIA’s newly appointed CEO, Annabelle Herd. “This is an incredible feat for an artist of any age and, with audiences around the world embracing his music, it is obviously just the beginning.” The mixtape climbs to the top for the first time in its 28th week on the chart. Also, The Kid Laroi (real name Charlton Howard) becomes the second male indigenous solo artist to top the chart after Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu did so in April 2018 with his posthumous release Djarimirri (Child Of The Rainbow). The...
Celeste Snags U.K. No. 1 With ‘Not Your Muse’
With her hot start, Celeste becomes the first British female artist to top the tally with their debut album in more than five years, since Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh in November 2015. Not Your Muse leads an all-new Top 4. Celeste’s debut holds off Money Can’t Buy Happiness (Since 93), the second album from London rapper Fredo. It’s new at No. 2 and is the U.K.’s most-streamed album of the week. Also new is singer, songwriter and poet Arlo Parks’ first LP Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive), which starts at No. 3, while Steven Wilson’s The Future Bites (SW Records) opens at No. 4. Harry Styles completes the Top 5 with Fine Line (Columbia), up 6-5. U.K. rapper Chip bags a Top 10 entry with his new mixtape Snakes & Ladders, new at No 7, while post-punk outfit Goat Girl ...
Morgan Wallen’s Airplay Continues to Plummet, Streams Steady, Sales Surge
AIRPLAY Wallen’s airplay has collapsed to a nominal amount since the TMZ video was posted. Looking at the last seven days of airplay (Jan. 30-Feb. 5), his song catalog was averaging 1,500 to 1,600 plays daily on reporters to Billboard’s Country Airplay chart through Feb. 2, according to MRC Data. On Feb. 3, as multiple radio groups dropped his music, his catalog fell by 74% in plays that day. His totals have since cratered to a relatively miniscule 55 and 25 plays on Feb. 4 and 5, respectively. Among stations that report to the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 and Radio Songs charts (including country outlets, as well as pop- and adult-formatted stations, where Wallen receives some play), his music plummeted from an average of 2,100 to 2,200 plays daily from Jan. 3...
BRS Kash’s ‘Throat Baby’ Shoots Into Top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
Already a radio hit, “Throat Baby” improves its standing on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, ascending 6-5. The track climbs to 15.1 million in format audience in the week ending Jan. 31, a 5% bump from the prior tracking week. Despite the gains in consumption metrics, the original version of “Throat Baby” slightly outperforms the remix in weekly activity on the chart, which combines sales, streams and airplay. Thus, DaBaby and City Girls do not receive billing on the chart, though the situation could change in future weeks if the remix version provides the majority share of the pair. Elsewhere, “Throat Baby” maintains its status as the third-most played song on MRC Data’s monitored R&B/hip-hop radio stations as it retains a No. 3 rank on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. Yet, thou...
Anuel AA & Ozuna Celebrate ‘Los Dioses’ Debuting at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums Chart
“It was a process in which we had a lot of fun,” Ozuna tells Billboard. “We supported each other with the lyrics and the creative process. When you are comfortable and enjoy what you do, time passes, and great things happen like this album.” Los Dioses was released Jan. 22 via Aura/Real Hasta La Muerte/Sony Music Latin. It starts with 29,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 28, according to MRC Data. Out of the set’s opening sum, 6,000 derive from sales and the bulk of the remainder from streaming activity. The Top Latin Albums chart ranks the most popular Latin albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent a...
State of Mine’s Garth Brooks Cover ‘Rolls’ to No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs
The track is the first cover to top Hot Hard Rock Songs dating to the tally’s June 2020 inception. Covers have been more common, however, atop Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, where Trans-Siberian Orchestra‘s “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24,” first recorded by TSO members in the band Savatage, led over the 2020-21 holiday season. Before that, Nickelback‘s take on The Charlie Daniels Band‘s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” reigned last August. Similarly, Phoebe Bridgers and Maggie Rogers‘ update of Goo Goo Dolls‘ “Iris” topped Rock Digital Song Sales in November 2020. Brooks’ original “Thunder,” which he co-wrote with Pat Alger and released on his second LP, 1990’s No Fences, ruled Hot Country So...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Motors to Third Week Atop U.K. Chart
Coming in at No. 3 in Nathan Evans, the former postman-turned-viral star, whose remix of sea shanty “Wellerman” (Polydor), featuring 220 Kid & Billen Ted, catches a wave for a No. 3 bow. It’s the highest-charting debut single by a Scottish artist on the Official Chart in nearly a decade, since Emeli Sande also hit No. 3 with “Heaven” back in 2011, according to the OCC. Further down the list, London rapper Fredo grabs his ninth Top 40 single with “Back To Basics” (Since 93), new at No. 20, while U.S. singer and songwriter Sabrina Carpenter impacts the Official Chart for the first time with “Skin” (Island), new at No. 28. Billie Eilish snags her ninth Top 40 with “Lo Vas A Olvidar” (Columbia/Interscope). It’s the first for her collaborator, Spanish artist Rosalia. Over of the ...
Olivia Rodrigo, Bluey Rule Australia’s Charts
Tones And I’s “Fly Away” continues to spread its wings, rising 8-6, a new peak in its fourth week in the Top Ten. Another track enjoying a boost from Triple J’s annual poll is Spacey Jane’s “Booster Seat,” new at No. 8 for their first appearance in the ARIA chart. The Perth group’s track came in at No. 2 in the Hottest 100, one of four Spacey Jane tracks to crack the countdown. Meanwhile, Bluey is off the leash on the ARIA Albums Chart as Bluey The Album debuts at No. 1. The soundtrack to the Emmy-winning show becomes the first Australian children’s album to top the ARIA Albums Chart. Bluey holds off another Aussie artist, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love (Savage), up 3-2; while Bring Me The Horizon’s U.K. chart-leader Post Human: Survival Horror soars 124-3 following its all-format release. The ...
Fredo Challenges Olivia Rodrigo In U.K. Chart Race
Olivia Rodrigo takes an early lead in U.K. singles chart race with “Drivers License,” which has already logged three straight weeks at No. 1. Based on weekend sales and streaming activity, “Drivers License” remains the country’s best seller, though Rodrigo faces a stiff challenge from Fredo. The London rapper’s “Money Talks,” featuring Brit Award winning hip-hop artist Dave, is set for the highest new entry with a No. 2 arrival on the First Look chart. 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, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Olivia Rodrigo Doubles Up on Global Charts as ‘All I Want’ Joins ‘Drivers License’
A year before her new stand-alone single arrived, Rodrigo released “All I Want,” from Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, in which she starred. The song dented the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, reaching No. 90 in January 2020; comparatively, and as on the global charts, “Drivers License” has topped the Hot 100 in its first two frames. Now, with steamrolling momentum for “Drivers License,” “All I Want” is enjoying a resurgence, most evident on the global rankings. “All I Want” climbs to No. 119 in its second week on the Global 200 and debuts on the Global Excl. U.S. chart at No. 148. In the week ending Jan. 21, it gained by 7% to 13.3 million streams globally and by 27% to 8.3 million outside...
