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Taylor Swift Dominates Australia’s Charts With ‘Midnights’
Taylor Swift is the queen of Australia’s music charts, as Midnights (via Universal) darts to No. 1 with the biggest volume week of any album in five years. Midnights bows atop the latest ARIA Chart, with more combined sales than any title since Swift released Reputation, also No. 1 back in 2017. It’s her 10th No. 1 ARIA Album. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news With Midnights setting the albums chart alight, records tumble. Swift enjoys a record-setting haul on the national singles survey, capturing nine of the top 10 positions, led by “Anti-Hero” at No. 1, with “Lavender Haze” and “Snow On The Beach,” featuring Lana Del Rey, respectively completing the top 3. According to Universal Music Australia, Midnights is the most-streamed album in a week i...
Taylor Swift Is Blazing to a U.K. Chart Double
Midnights is on the brink of earning Taylor Swift a rare U.K. chart double. Swift’s 10th studio album dropped last Friday (Oct. 21) and immediately caught fire on streaming platforms, smashing Spotify’s global 24-hour record. There’s a lot of love for Midnights (via EMI) in the U.K., with the album pushing past 140,000 combined sales in just three days, good enough for the best opening-week result for any title this year. Midnights should dominate the singles chart, too. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Based on midweek sales and streaming data captured by the Official Charts Company, Swift is on the brink of a 1-2-3. Currently, Midnights track “Anti-Hero” leads the chart blast, ahead of “Lavender Blaze” and “Snow on the Beach,” respectively. Sw...
The 1975 Extends U.K. Chart Streak With ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’
The 1975 lands at No. 1 on the U.K. albums chart with Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the British alternative rock outfit’s fifth consecutive leader. Led by Matt Healy, the Cheshire, England band previously led the Official U.K. Chart their self-titled 2013 set, 2016’s I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, 2018’s A Brief Enquiry Into Online Relationships, and 2020’s Notes On A Conditional Form. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news With their fast start, the 1975 enter the premium class of artists to have taken top spot with all five of their studio albums, drawing level with Ed Sheeran. The leader of that particular tally is Noel Gallagher, whose unbroken streak across Oasis and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Bird...
Stormzy Rushes U.K. Top 10 With ‘Hide & Seek’
Stormzy secures a 26th top 10 as “Hide & Seek” (via Def Jam) storms the U.K. singles chart, while Sam Smith and Kim Petras complete a full month atop the survey with their “Unholy” collaboration. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Hide & Seek,” lifted from Stormzy’s upcoming third album This Is What I Mean, is new at No. 7, giving the homegrown hip-hop star the week’s top debut. This Is What I Mean is due out Nov. 25. Meanwhile, Anne-Marie and Aitch’s “Psycho” (Atlantic) collab is on the climb. After chasing a top 5 spot on the midweek survey, some five weeks after its release, “Psycho” finishes the chart week up 9-6. No less than seven singles make a splash in the U.K. top 40 for the first time, including British rapper Central Cee, whos...
Lil Baby Lands Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘It’s Only Me’
Lil Baby lands his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Oct. 29) as It’s Only Me debuts atop the tally. The set earned 216,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 20, according to Luminate. It also claims the third-largest streaming week for an album in 2022. Lil Baby previously topped the list with The Voice of the Heroes (a collaborative set with Lil Durk in 2021) and My Turn (2020). The latter finished 2020 as Luminate’s most popular album of that year. It’s Only Me was announced in early September and marks the rapper’s sixth top 10, all consecutive, on the Billboard 200. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ second album of 2022, Return of the Dream Canteen, enters at No. 3; The 1975’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language star...
How Taylor Swift’s Recent Album Releases Tell a Story of the ‘Midnights’ Rollout
Taylor Swift has been a regular fixture at the top of the Billboard 200 since 2008, when she notched her first No. 1 album with Fearless. Since then, she’s continued to break records, rack up No. 1s — 10 so far — and score eye-popping first-week unit totals. While it’s difficult to compare debut-week performances of any single artist’s albums over time — owed to changes in market conditions and music consumption patterns — it’s enlightening to take a look back at Swift’s last five charted releases, from 2019’s Lover through 2021’s Red [Taylor’s Version], and at what fueled their debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The marketing and promotion techniques applied to those five releases likely informed the rollout plan of Swift’s 10th studio album, Midn...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Off to Record-Breaking Start in U.S.
Taylor Swift’s Midnights is off to a record-breaking start in the U.S. after its first day in release. According to initial reports to Luminate, the album, which was released on Oct. 21, has sold more than 800,000 copies in the U.S. through its first day across all available formats (multiple digital album download, CD, vinyl and cassette variants). It has already logged the largest sales week for any album since 2017, is the top-selling album of 2022 year-to-date, and has set a modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales. Luminate’s data powers Billboard’s weekly charts. 2022’s Top-Selling Album After One Day: Midnights’ initial sales sum already makes it the biggest-selling album of 2022 year-to-date. Previously, 2022’s top-selling album, year-to-date, was Harry Styles’...
Ask Billboard: Taylor Swift’s Career Streaming, Airplay & Sales, Ahead of the Chart Debut of ‘Midnights’
Submit questions about Billboard charts, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com. Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and country, if outside the U.S. Or, tweet @gthot20. Let’s open the latest mailbag. Hi @gthot20, Taylor Swift will release her 10th album next friday. Could you update her Top 10 most streamed/best selling songs in the US? We will be very grateful ❤️ — Taylor Swift Charts (@TChartSwift) October 14, 2022 Taylor Swift’s Career Streaming, Airplay & Sales Totals There’s a good chance you’re listening to Midnights if you’re reading this, so let’s not make this too much of an interruption and get right to it. Here is a rundown of Taylor Swift‘s career album sales and top songs measured by on-demand official strea...
The 1975 Dominate Australia’s Chart With ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’
The 1975 score a third leader in Australia as Being Funny In A Foreign Language (via Dirty Hit/RKT) blasts to the top. Being Funny debuts at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, following the British band’s best-sellers Notes On A Conditional Form (from 2020) and I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It (2016). Produced by Jack Antonoff, Being Funny should hang around the national chart for a little while yet. Matt Healy and Co. will head Down Under for their At Their Very Best tour next April, with shows booked for Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news With their latest chart crown, The 1975 hold off The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Return of the Dream Canteen (Warner), the U.S. rock lege...
Rosa Linn Makes Hitting No. 1 a ‘Snap’ on Adult Alternative Airplay Chart
TikTok standout and Eurovision entry “Snap” becomes Rosa Linn‘s first No. 1 on a Billboard chart, ascending to the top of the Adult Alternative Airplay tally dated Oct. 22. The song was initially released as the Armenian entry for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest and subsequently went viral on TikTok. “Snap” is one of a trio of songs in the Adult Alternative Airplay top 10 to score significant buzz on TikTok, alongside Steve Lacy‘s “Bad Habit” at No. 7 and Noah Kahan‘s “Stick Season” at No. 10. Linn is the first act to reign with a first charted song on Adult Alternative Airplay since Mitski, whose “The Only Heartbreaker” led in March. “I grew up listening to good music,” Linn told SiriusXM’s Billboard Live on Oct. 18. “My mom loves jazz and my dad is a Beatles fan … Deep Purple, Led Zeppe...
Grupo Frontera’s ‘No Se Va’ Continues Hot Streak Across Billboard Latin Charts
Grupo Frontera scores a first top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart as “No Se Va” climbs 12-4 on the Oct. 22-dated ranking. The song’s fresh success comes after it topped Latin Digital Song Sales for one week and became the fifth regional Mexican song to hit the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 over its 64-year history. “No Se Va” pushes to the upper region on Hot Latin Songs mainly on the strength of streaming activity. It logged 8.9 million official U.S. streams during the tracking week ending Oct. 13, according to Luminate. It yields a No. 26 debut on Streaming Songs and takes home the Greatest Gainer honors on Latin Streaming Songs with a 9-4 lift. Meanwhile, sales drop by 22%, to 1,000. On Latin Digital Songs Sales, the song cedes the throne back to Bad Bunny’s “Titi Me Preguntó” wit...
Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’ Runs Back Up Charts After Wide Vinyl Release
Beyoncé’s Renaissance runs back up Billboard’s album charts (dated Oct. 22) following its wide vinyl release on Oct. 7. The set surges 69-2 on Top Album Sales and returns to No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top R&B Albums and Vinyl Albums, and hits No. 1 on Tastemaker Albums for the first time. On the Billboard 200, the former No. 1 climbs 6-3. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Renaissance sold 47,500 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 13 (up 2,401%) according to Luminate. Of that sum, vinyl sales comprised 45,500 (up from a negligible sum the week prior) – marking the largest week for an R&B album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. It’s also Beyoncé’s single-largest week on vinyl ever. Renaissance was initi...
