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Gabby Barrett, Dan + Shay, Morgan Wallen & More Gain in Sales After CMA Awards
The Country Music Association Awards on Nov. 11 prompted notable immediate sales gains for the songs performed on the show, according to initial reports to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Collectively, the songs performed on the three-hour show sold 29,000 downloads on Nov. 11 in the U.S. — a gain of 770% compared to the 3,000 they sold on Nov. 10. More gains could be collected in the days following the show. (News on any further significant sales gains, as well as streaming gains for the performed songs will be reported in the coming days.) The sales numbers include the original and popularized versions of songs covered on the show (such as Elvis Presley’s rendition of the Mac Davis-penned “In the Ghetto” and Johnny Lee’s “Lookin’ for Love,” which were performed on the CMA Awards by R...
David Guetta & Sia’s ‘Let’s Love’ Leads Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart
David Guetta and Sia rise to No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart (dated Nov. 14) with “Let’s Love.” Guetta adds his ninth leader, the second-most since the chart’s August 2003 inaugural; only Calvin Harris and Rihanna have more, with 12 each. “Love” is Sia’s first Dance/Mix Show Airplay No. 1 among 15 charted titles, spanning back to “Clap Your Hands” (No. 23, 2010). She’d previously charted as high as No. 2 in 2012 as featured on Guetta’s “Titanium.” {“account_id”:”1125911414″,”id”:””,”title”:””,”featured_media”:””} Airplay leaders on “Love” include core-dance affiliates KMVQ-HD2 San Fr...
For King & Country Snare No. 2 Debut on Top Christian Albums Chart With ‘A Drummer Boy Christmas’
The 13-track effort is the act’s first holiday LP and includes two new original songs: “The Carol of Joseph (I Believe in You)” and “Heavenly Hosts.” NEEDTOBREATHE is featured on “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and rising country artist Gabby Barrett duets on “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” The twosome have scored one Top Christian Albums No. 1 among their six top 10s: Burn the Ships bowed in the penthouse in October 2018. For King & Country’s new chart honor follows their first Billboard Music Awards win (Oct. 14), taking top Christian song for the 2019 hit “God Only Knows.” LOCKETT’S FIRST LEADER: Keyondra Lockett logs her first Gospel Airplay No. 1 as “Trouble Won’t Last” hops 4-1, up 18% in play...
Kylie Minogue’s ‘Disco’ Dances to Lead on Midweek U.K. Chart
Coming in at No. 2 on the midweek chart is Confetti, just 2,200 combined sales behind Disco. It’s the most streamed album so far, and the biggest-selling title on CD, the OCC reports. Little Mix, winners of ITV’s The X Factor back in 2011, have hit the Top 5 with all their first five albums, with Glory Days from 2016 going to No. 1. Completing an all-new top three is Shirley Bassey’s farewell set I Owe It All To You (Decca) at No. 3. It’s shaping up to be the veteran Welsh singer’s highest-charting album in more than 40 years. Another Welsh artist is aiming for a Top 10 debut, Aled Jones. The classical singer’s Blessings (BMG) is new at No. 8, while Birmingham rapper Dutchavelli (real name Stephan Allen) is one place behind with his debut mixtape Dutch From The 5th (Parlophone). Over...
24kGoldn & iann dior’s ‘Mood’ Swings Back to No. 1 on Hot 100; Ariana Grande, Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez Debut in Top 10
Plus, Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez bound onto the Hot 100 at No. 9 with “Dakiti.” The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Nov. 14) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 10). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. “Mood,” released on RECORDS/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both 24kGoldn and iann dior, drew 19.2 million U.S. streams (essentially even week-over-week) and sold 7,000 downloads (down 10%) in the week ending Nov. 5, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also tallied 84.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 7%) in the week ending Nov. 8. The track spends a second week at No. 1 o...
Ariana Grande Bags Chart Double In U.K.
Over on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, “Positions” enters a second week at No. 1, while two more tracks from the LP crack the Top 40. Grande’s “34+35” is new at No. 9 and “Motive” featuring Doja Cat is at No. 16, extending her list of U.K. Top 40 hits to 28. She’s the fourth artist to achieve the chart double in 2020 (Drake, Eminem and Stormzy are the others), and the first female artist to score consecutive chart double wins in almost ten years (Rihanna did it in 2011). Thanks to Grande’s chart domination, Sam Smith misses out on top spot with Love Goes (Capitol), new at No. 2 on the albums survey. It’s the end of a golden streak for Smith, whose previous two albums hit the summit of the national albums survey. Veteran singer Cliff Richard rounds out an all-new Top 3 with Music… The Air...
Ariana Grande, Midnight Oil Burn Bright on Australia’s Charts
The Makarrata Project features the band collaborating with Indigenous artists and First Nations people including Jessica Mauboy, Kev Carmody, Troy Cassar-Daley, Dan Sultan and Frank Yamma, and includes the previously-released numbered, “Gadigal Land.” It’s a bittersweet result for the politically-charged rock band. Bass player Bones Hillman, who joined the band in 1987 and has been with them ever since, died Saturday (Nov. 7) after a battle with cancer. With Peter Garrett and Co. claiming top spot, Ariana Grande has to settle for a No. 2 bow with Positions, though its title track enters a second week at No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart and is one of eight tracks from the LP to impact this week’s Top 50. The U.S. pop star previously ruled the albums survey with My Everything (September 2014)...
Miley Cyrus Takes on Ariana Grande For U.K. No. 1
Based on the first weekend’s activity, just 1,000 chart sales separate the two. Little Mix are targeting their tenth Top 5 single with “Sweet Melody,” which vaults 12-4 following the release of Confetti, the girl group’s sixth studio album. The highest new entries on the chart blast belong to Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue, with “Say Something” new at No. 16 and “Magic” at No. 19. Both tracks appear on Kylie’s 15th and latest album Disco, which dropped last Friday (Nov. 6). The Official U.K. Singles Chart is published late Friday, local time. 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...
The Weeknd Earns His First Adult Contemporary No. 1 With ‘Blinding Lights’
The track additionally topped the Pop Songs airplay chart for six weeks and this week spends its record-breaking 46th frame on the survey. It bests the 45-week runs of five other hits (most recently Harry Styles’ “Adore You”). The Weeknd concurrently debuts his newest AC charted title, as “In Your Eyes” opens at No. 29. Originally released, with “Lights,” on his album After Hours, the song is being promoted to AC radio via a version featuring Kenny G. As for the sax star, Kenny G adds his 27th AC entry, dating to his first, “Songbird,” in 1987. That song became his first of 10 top 10s on the tally, a sum that includes two No. 1s, both in 1993: “Forever in Love” and “By the Time This Night Is Over,” the latter fea...
Double Country Coronation: Luke Combs & Joey Moi Top Hot 100 Songwriters & Producer Charts
For Combs, leading his Hot 100 haul, “Forever After All” debuts at No. 2, the highest entrance ever for a song that has also appeared on Hot Country Songs by a solo male; the track concurrently opens atop the Hot Country Songs chart. The song is from the deluxe reissue of his LP What You See Is What You Get, which surges back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 109,000 equivalent album units, up 399 percent, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Here’s a look at all six of Combs’ songwriting credits on this week’s Hot 100. Rank, Title (songwriters in addition to Combs)No. 2, “Forever After All” (Rob Williford, Drew Parker)No. 30, “Better Together” (Dan Isbell, Randy Montana)No. 41, “Lovin’ on You” (Thomas Archer, Ray Ful...
In Honor of the 30th Anniversary of Rap’s First Hot 100 No. 1, A List of Hip-Hop Hot 100 Firsts
OK, so it probably wasn’t the seal-breaking No. 1 most hip-hop fans would’ve chosen: a pop-leaning, suburbs-courting, classic rock-sampling crossover anthem from the artist born Robert Van Winkle, a white MC of controversial credibility. Still, it was a crucial chart first in rap history: the culmination of a number of smaller breakthroughs over the previous decade, and the start of many historic hip-hop No. 1s to come. Here are 15 more of the most important rap firsts in Billboard Hot 100 history: 1. First rap Hot 100 hit: Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” (No. 36, 1/12/80) The first single to introduce hip-hop to the mainstream peaked in the Hot 100’s top 40 at the outset of the 1980s, portending the slowly building crossover influence the genr...
Ariana Grande on Track For U.K. Chart Double
Positions is the most streamed album of the week so far, the OCC reports, and if it wins the race, it’ll become Grande’s fourth consecutive U.K. No. 1 album following Dangerous Woman (2016), Sweetener (2018), and Thank U, Next (2019). Smith’s previous two albums In The Lonely Hour (2014) and The Thrill Of It All (2017) both debuted at the summit. Coming in at No. 3 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart Update is Cliff Richard’s 41st studio album Music… The Air That I Breathe (East West/Rhino). It’s the best-selling album in the first half of the week, and Breathe should become the veteran singer’s 46th Top 10 album. Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen’s latest album Letter to You (Columbia) dips 1-4, while The Style Council’s career retrospective Long Hot Summers (Polydor/UMC) starts at No. 5. ...
