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Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Is In Pole Position on Midweek U.K. Chart
Swift’s ninth studio album leads the way on downloads and album streams, according to the Official Charts Company, and three tracks from it are poised to enter the singles chart Top 20, led by “Willow,” new at No. 3 on the midweek survey. With Christmas just around the corner, a pair of orchestral albums are climbing the chart. The biggest physical seller in the week so far is Neil Diamond’s Classic Diamonds (Capitol) with the London Symphony Orchestra, new at No. 2 on the midweek tally, while Johnny Cash and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Johnny Cash and the RPO (Legacy Recordings) lifts 15-4. Manchester indie rock band James are on track for a 10th U.K. Top 10 album as live recording Live In Extraordinary Times (Nothing But Love Music) starts at No. 10. Also making an impact on ...
Shawn Mendes Is the Youngest Artist Ever to Top the Billboard 200 With Four Full-Length Studio Albums
1. Miley Cyrus – 16 years, five months, one week: The onetime Disney star landed her fourth No. 1, Hannah Montana: The Movie, a film soundtrack, on May 2, 2009. Her first three No. 1s were Hannah Montana (a TV soundtrack), the double-disc Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus (half TV soundtrack, half studio album) and Breakout. 2. Justin Bieber – 18 years, four months and one week: The Biebs landed his fourth No. 1, Believe, on July 7, 2012. That made him the youngest male solo artist and the youngest solo artist who was born outside of the U.S. to land four No. 1s — records he still holds. His first three No. 1s were My World 2.0, Never Say Never: The Remixes (a seven-song remix album) and Under the Mistletoe. FYI, Bieber was 21 years, nine months and one week old...
Shawn Mendes Achieves Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Wonder’
Of Wonder’s 89,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Dec. 3, album sales comprise 54,000, SEA units comprise 34,000 (equaling 46.92 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000. All four of Mendes’ full-length studio albums have now debuted at No. 1. He began his chart career with his introductory project, The Shawn Mendes EP, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Aug. 16, 2014-dated chart. He followed it up with his debut full-length studio set, Handwritten (No. 1 on May 2, 2015), and then his next studio effort, Illuminate (No. 1, Oct. 15, 2016). He then charted two live albums (Live at Madison Square Garden, No. 200 on Jan. 14, 2017, and MTV Unplugged, No. 71 on Nov. 25, 2017) before seeing his self-titled third studio...
Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Hits U.K. No. 1 For First Time
“All I Want” reaches the summit in its 104th week. According to the Official Charts Company, no other song in history has spent as many weeks in the U.K. Top 40 before eventually reaching No. 1. Another song that makes an annual pilgrimage up the U.K. chart but has never reached the top is Wham’s 1984 hit “Last Christmas” (RCA). This week, it’s at No. 2, agonizingly-close to creating its own piece of history. The Queen of Christmas leads a festive U.K. chart which features 23 holiday-themed songs in the Top 40, including six in the Top 10: The Pogues featuring Kirsty Maccoll’s “Fairytale Of New York” (up 8-4 via Warner Bros), Shakin’ Stevens’ “Merry Christmas Everyone” (14-6 via RCA), Michael Bublé’s “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas” (13-7 via Reprise), Band Aid’s “Do They Know...
AC/DC Hold Off Shawn Mendes For Australia’s Chart Crown
Also this week, Swift folklore vaults 5-3, thanks to the debut of her Disney Plus special and the rollout of its vinyl version, which sees the isolation recording rule the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart. British indie heroes Arctic Monkeys bow at No. 4 with Live At The Royal Albert Hall, the followup to their chart-topping 2018 studio album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. The live compilation becomes the Sheffield band’s seventh top five ARIA album, including all six of their studio albums. Rounding out the Top 5 is Miley Cyrus’ Plastic Hearts, down 3-5, while Yungblud’s U.K. No. 1 Weird! starts at No. 6 in the land Down Under. Michael Buble spreads festive cheer on the ARIA Albums Chart with Christmas, up 14-7. It leads a list of holiday-themed albums climbing the chart, including...
Charley Pride’s Biggest Billboard Hits: ‘Kiss an Angel Good Mornin” & More
Pride, who hailed from Sledge, Miss., played professional baseball before committing to a career in country music and signed to RCA Records in September 1965. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. Pride leaves a bounty of hits of legendary status. Between 1967 and 1988, he posted 29 No. 1s among 52 top 10s on Hot Country Songs. He also notched 12 No. 1s among 27 top 10s on Top Country Albums. Here is a recap of Pride’s 40 biggest hits on Hot Country Songs. Charley Pride’s 40 Biggest Billboard HitsRank, Title, Peak Position, Year 1, “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’,” No. 1 (five weeks), 19712, “(I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again,” No. 1 (three weeks), 19693, “Is Anybody Goin’...
Marco ‘Mag’ Borrero Debuts at No. 1 on Hot 100 Producers Chart, Thanks to Bad Bunny Hits
Here’s a look at all seven of Mag’s production credits on the Hot 100. Rank, Artist Billing, Title (producers in addition to Mag)No. 60, “Te Mudaste” (Mr. Naisgai, Caleb Calloway)No. 64, “Yo Visto Asi”No. 72, “Haciendo Que Me Amas”No. 74, “Te Deseo Lo Mejor”No. 78, “Booker T”No. 87, “Maldita Pobreza”No. 94, “La Droga” (M. De La Cruz) Bad Bunny himself lands 11 songs on the Hot 100, the most among all artists this week. Thanks to his co-writing credits on each track, he ranks at No. 2 on Hot 100 Songwriters. Mag also tops the Latin Producers chart for the first time, thanks to nine entries (all by Bad Bunny) on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Bad Bunny concurrently leads Latin Songwriters for a record...
Five Burning Questions: Bad Bunny Makes History With His No. 1 Album Debut
1. Bad Bunny’s El Último Tour del Mundo has become the first all-Spanish album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200. On a scale of 1-10, how significant is that specific accomplishment? Andrew Unterberger: Let’s say a 7.5. The accomplishment itself is of course major, but it’s hard to rate it as an eight or higher because it’s not even a real new peak for Bad Bunny, let alone all of Latin pop — his YHLQMDLG album actually put up much better first-week numbers (179,000 equivalent album units to 116,000 for El Último), but just had the misfortune of debuting the same week that Lil Baby’s My Turn juggernaut bowed at No. 1. It’s one for the record books, no doubt, but it just shows how major Latin pop in general, and Bad Bunny in particular, ha...
Bad Bunny Lands Fifth No. 1 on Top Latin Albums With ‘El Último Tour del Mundo’
El Último Tour del Mundo, which dropped Thursday, Nov. 26 at 11 p.m. ET via Rimas, opened at No. 20 (Dec. 5-dated survey) after just one hour of activity (the sales and streaming tracking week for the Top Latin Albums chart runs Friday through Thursday each week). As previously reported, El Último Tour del Mundo earned Bad Bunny his first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and made history as the first all-Spanish album to claim a spot atop the tally since its inception in August 1963. On Top Latin Albums, with 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 3, according to Nielsen Music/ MRC Data, El Último Tour del Mundo nabs the second biggest week in terms of overall units for a Latin release since Billboard began ...
The Year in Live Streams 2020: StageIt Helps Artists Connect and Monetize
StageIt was founded in 2009 as a livestream platform but has seen a, wait for it, unprecedented surge in activity since March. A leader in providing a platform for artists to host ticketed livestreams, they helped acts monetize live performances (both in ticket sales and tips during broadcasts) when the most lucrative piece of artists’ business was on pause. Perhaps the most successful artist on the platform was Blue October. The Texan rock band played a series of livestreams centered around different albums from their discography and collectively grossed more than $506,000 across 10 streams. This achievement is, in part, due to the group’s engagement with fans, walking a thin line between selling tickets on the platform in order to earn a living and respecting the delicate financial polit...
Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez Top Billboard’s Global Charts, Mariah Carey & Wham! Jingle to Top Five
Chart rankings are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations. ‘Dakiti’ Ties for Most Weeks Atop Global 200 Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez’s “Dakiti” rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 with 121.4 million streams, up 13%, and 3,000 downloads sold, down 8%, globally in the week ending Dec. 3. The streaming sum is the third-best in a week since the chart began, trailing only the weekly highs for BTS’ “Life Goes On̶...
Ariana Grande Edges Mariah Carey on U.K. Singles Chart
With three more weeks until Christmas, there’s plenty of time for Carey to snag the title. There’s Christmas cheer up and down the chart, as Wham’s “Last Christmas” (RCA) flies 20-3, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s “Fairytale of New York” (Warner Bros) zooms 26-8, and 18 more holiday hits impact the Top 40, the Official Charts Company reports. The highest new entry on the chart this week belongs to Liam Gallagher, with his charity fundraising singer “All You’re Dreaming Of” (Warner Records) opening at No. 35. It’s the former Oasis frontman’s fourth solo Top 40 single. Proceeds of the single will benefit Action For Children, a charity that protects and supports vulnerable children and young people across the U.K. Over on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, Barlow’s...
