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Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Back at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart for Eighth Week
Of Folklore’s 77,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Oct. 22, album sales (as noted above) comprise 57,000 (up 709%), SEA units total 20,000 (down 7%, equaling 26.35 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise a little under 500 (up 2%). With another 57,000 copies sold in the latest tracking week, Folklore’s total album sales jump past 1 million (to 1.038 million), making it the first album to sell a million copies in 2020. It’s also the first album released in 2020 to sell a million. Folklore is Swift’s ninth album to sell at least 1 million copies in the U.S. Those nine albums include all eight of her studio efforts, along with her Christmas release The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection. Folklore’s eighth week at No. 1 also marks its third total visit to...
Anitta’s Gaming Livestreams Dominate Top Facebook Live Videos Chart
Anitta’s streams take up the entire top three and five spots of the top 10 for September. Anitta’s gaming livestreams on Facebook are a hit, with three of the streams taking the top three spots on Billboard’s Top Facebook Live Videos chart for September 2020. The chart, the latest of which recaps September 2020 activity, is a monthly look at the widest-reaching and most-reacted-to videos posted by musicians on Facebook Live, as tracked by media analytics company Shareablee. Rankings are determined by a formula that blends reactions, comments, shares and first-seven-days views. Anitta’s streams find her playing video games such as Grand Theft Auto V, sometimes with special guests. In fact, the top video of the month, aired Sept. 6, featured popular gaming streamer Nobru. You Deserve to Make...
Trey Songz Scores Third No. 1 on Top R&B Albums With ‘Back Home’
As mentioned above, Home marks Songz’s third leader on the Top R&B Albums chart, following Trigga, a five-week champ in 2014 and Tremaine The Album, which led for one week in 2017. Notably, the Top R&B albums chart began in 2012, seven years after Songz’s first charted albums landed in 2005. On the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, which encompasses the singer’s entire career, Back Home enters at No. 9 to secure his 10th top 10 album there. Here’s a full rundown of his top 10 collection: Album Title, Peak Position, Peak DateI Gotta Make It, No. 6, Aug. 13, 2005Trey Day, No. 2, Oct. 20, 2007Ready, No. 2, Sept. 19, 2009Passion, Pain & Pleasure, No. 1 (one week), Oct. 2, 2010Inevitable (EP), No. 4, Dec. 17, 2011Chapter V, No. 1 (one week), Sept. 8, 2012Trigga, No. 1 (three weeks),...
City Girls’ ‘Twerk’ Rules Top Triller U.S. & Global Charts for First Time
“Twerk” rises to No. 1 on the U.S. list in its 12th week on the tally. After 12 weeks on Billboard’s Top Triller U.S. chart, City Girls’ “Twerk,” featuring Cardi B, hits No. 1 for the first time, shooting 19-1 on the list dated Oct. 24. 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 Oct. 9-15. “Twerk” marks City Girls’ first Top Triller U.S. No. 1 in three entries. The group previously peaked at No. 7 with “Act Up” last month. You Deserve t...
Prince Royce Replaces Himself at No. 1 on Tropical Airplay Chart With ‘Loteria’
The last time an artist ranked first and second in the same chart week was Marc Anthony with “Lo Que Te Di” at No. 1 and “Parecen Viernes” at No. 2 (Jan. 25-dated lists). The last act, however, to replace himself at No. 1 was Nicky Jam in January 2018. Romeo Santos’ “Bella y Sensual,” which features Jam and Daddy Yankee, ceded its five-week reign to “Cásate Conmigo,” his collaboration with Silvestre Dangond (Jan. 27, 2018-dated list). “Lotería” leads the list dated Oct. 24, advancing from the runner-up position, thanks to a 34% gain in audience impressions, to 4 million, earned in the week ending Oct. 18, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The tune helps the bachata singer-songwriter up his career No. 1 count to 19, extending his third-most record in the chart’s 26-year history. (Royce s...
Stevie Nicks Tops Hot 100 Songwriters Chart Thanks to Fleetwood Mac ‘Dreams’ Resurgence
“Dreams” has surged thanks to the viral TikTok video featuring the song, in which Idahoan Nathan Apodaca rides his longboard while drinking a large bottle of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice. The video became so popular that the band’s Mick Fleetwood and Nicks have since created their own tribute clips. Ocean Spray even gifted Apodaca a red pickup truck (filled with bottles of Ocean Spray juice). As a member of Fleetwood Mac and as a soloist, Nicks has a longstanding history on Billboard‘s charts. She sports a songwriting credit on two Hot 100 No. 1s: “Dreams” and Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious” in 2001, as the latter samples Nicks’ 1982 hit “Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove).” Nicks also recei...
All the Times 40-Plus-Year-Old Albums Made the Top 10 On the Billboard 200
Two of these albums, Rumours and The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, won Grammys for album of the year. All four of these bands have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All of them except Fleetwood Mac have received lifetime achievement awards from the Recording Academy — and the mighty Mac received MusiCares’ person of the year accolade in 2018. Chart flashback: The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Led Zeppelin II, two of the albums on this list, held the top two spots on the Billboard 200 for 15 consecutive weeks from Nov. 22, 1969, to Feb. 28, 1970. The lead in this epic chart battle went back and forth five times. More than 50 years later, these two legendary bands are still dominating Billboard charts and recaps. Here are all the 40-plus-year-old albu...
Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ Returns to Billboard 200 Top 10 — 42 Years Later
After a 42-year wait, Fleetwood Mac’s former Billboard 200 No. 1 album Rumours returns to the top 10 this week, as the set jumps 13-7. The album, released in 1977, is basking in the glow of sales and streaming increases spurred on by publicity generated from a viral TikTok video set to the album’s song “Dreams.” 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 Oct. 24-dated chart (w...
Headie One and Internet Money Duel for U.K. Singles Chart Crown
Featuring AJ Tracey & Stormzy, “Ain’t It Different” last week improved to a peak of No. 2, and it’s poised to go one better. Nothing is guaranteed. U.S. rap collective Internet Money is close place behind with “Lemonade” featuring Gunna, Don Toliver & Nav. The margin after the weekend’s sales and streaming activity is just 123 combined sales. Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” is set for a new chart peak, rising 6-3 on the chart blast. Further down the list, two songs are targeting some Top 20 action. Sam Smith’s “Diamonds” is up 23-15, and Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” improves 22-16. It’s early days, but the highest new entry could come belong to Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco, as their ballad “Lonely” starts at No. 19 on the First Look survey. The Official U.K. Singles Chart...
24kGoldn’s ‘Mood’ Holds Top Spot on U.K. Chart
Meanwhile, teenage Canadian singer and songwriter Tate McRae bags her first Top 5 single as “You Broke Me First” (Ministry of Sound) improves 7-5, while Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” (RCA) rises 8-6, a new high. Further down the list, Fleetwood Mac enjoy a dream return to the Top 40 with a 43-year-old song. The Hall of Famers can thank a man with a skateboard and a bottle of cranberry juice, and a long list of TikTok copycat videos as their classic song “Dreams” (Rhino/Warner Bros) lifts 55-37. The track last appeared in the Top 40 in 1977. Over on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, Headie One starts at the summit with his debut album, inspired by and named after his late mom. Another British rap debut album starts at No. 2, D-Block Europe’s The Blue Print (D-Block Europe), while John Lennon’s ...
Linkin Park Top Australia’s Albums Chart With ‘Hybrid Theory’ 20th Anniversary Edition
The nu-metal act has also topped the national survey with Minutes To Midnight (May 2007) and A Thousand Suns (September 2010). Queen + Adam Lambert’s Live Around The World collection dips 1-2, while Sydney rapper Chillinit bags a second career Top 10 with Full Circle, new at No. 3. Completing this week’s Top Five are Keith Urban’s The Speed Of Now Part 1 and Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, respectively. Headie One’s debut album Edna opens at No. 1 in the U.K. this week and it cracks the Top 40 in Australia, where it’s new at No. 22. The unveiling of nominations for this year’s ARIA Awards has fueled chart spikes for several featured acts. Sydney rapper The Kid Laroi bags three ARIA nominations, and his debut mixtape F*ck Love lifts 34-26 on the current frame. Also, Lime C...
John Prine Makes First Billboard Airplay Chart Appearance on Kurt Vile’s ‘How Lucky’ Cover
The track debuts at No. 28 on Adult Alternative Songs. Six months after his death, storied singer-songwriter John Prine ranks on a Billboard airplay chart for the first time. Prine debuts on the Adult Alternative Songs tally dated Oct. 17 at No. 28, credited on Kurt Vile‘s cover of Prine’s 1979 song “How Lucky,” for which Prine recorded new vocals last December. Prine’s chart history includes 15 entries on the Billboard 200 albums survey over a career that began with his first entry, his self-titled debut, in 1972. From then through his April 2020 passing, his music appeared solely on album-based lists. After he died, multiple songs of his reached Billboard tallies as fans celebrated the Americana/folk icon. A posthumous release, “I Remember Everyth...
