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Miley Cyrus’ ‘Midnight Sky’ Makes Its Move on U.K. Singles Chart
Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” (RCA) is looking to climb high on the U.K. singles chart this week as 24kGoldn’s “Mood” (Black Butter) featuring Iann Dior gets set for a second week at No. 1. Miley’s latest single races 11-5 on the Official Chart: First Look, which measures sales and streaming activity for the first 48 hours in the chart cycle. Based on early data published by the Official Charts Company, “Mood” continues at the top of the leaderboard, ahead of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” (Atlantic) and “Ain’t It Different” (Relentless) by Headie One, AJ Tracey and Stormzy, respectively. Last Friday, “Mood” ended the three-week reign of “WAP.” 24kGoldn could land another track in the Top 10. The rising British rapper is a guest artist on Clean Bandit’s “Tick Tock” (Atlantic),...
24kGoldn’s ‘Mood’ Ends ‘WAP’ Reign In U.K. as Pop Smoke Makes Chart History
24kGoldn is in a right mood. With “Mood” (Black Butter), the British rapper’s collaboration with Iann Dior, 24kGoldn dethrones Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion as the U.K.’s chart champion. After a six-week climb “Mood” lifts 2-1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, after finishing the week more than 7,000 chart sales ahead of “WAP,” snapping its three-week streak at No. 1. According to the Official Charts Company, “Mood” snags 61,000 chart sales, including 7.8 million streams. “WAP” (Atlantic) dips 1-2, as Justin Bieber grabs the highest new entry with “Holy” (Def Jam) featuring Chance The Rapper. “Holy” is new at No. 10 for Bieber’s 21st Top 10 single, and the Chicago hip-hop star’s fifth. Also impacting the current frame is Sam Smith’s “Diamonds” (Capitol), which starts at No. 22, for the...
Metallica Rules Top Facebook Live Videos Chart With Final #MetallicaMondays Video
The rock band’s upload of its March 3, 2017, Mexico City concert leads the way for August 2020. Metallica’s final installment of Metallica Mondays on Facebook Live finds the band going out on top, as the rockers rule Billboard’s Top Facebook Live Videos chart for August 2020. The chart, the latest of which recaps August 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. Posted Aug. 25, Metallica’s final (at least for now) Metallica Mondays video featured the band’s March 3, 2017, concert from Mexico City. Metallica’s upload paced the field for August 2020 in first-seve...
Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ Tops Rhythmic Songs Chart
Cardi B brings “WAP,” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Songs airplay chart as it jumps from No. 5 to lead the list dated Sept. 26. The pop-culture phenom single becomes the most-played tune at the Rhythmic radio format through a 20 percent surge in plays in the week ending Sept. 20, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The 5-1 jump makes “WAP” one of only 10 songs to rise directly to No. 1 from No. 5 or lower since the Rhythmic Songs chart began in 1992, and the first since Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” went 5-1 in July 2019. “WAP” gives Cardi her seventh Rhythmic Songs leader. Here’s a full rundown of her collection to date: Song Title, Artist (if other than Cardi B), Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1“Bodak Yellow (Money Moves),” four, Oct. 7, 2017“No Limit,” G-Eaz...
El Fantasma Collects Eighth Top 10 on Regional Mexican Albums Chart With ‘Guárdame Esta Noche’
Plus, Reik’s De México Arrives top 10 on Latin Pop Albums chart. Guárdame Esta Noche, El Fantasma’s sixth studio album, bows at No. 7 on the Regional Mexican Albums chart (dated Sept. 26). The 12-track set was released Sept. 11 via AfinArte and produced by Bruce Torrescano and El Fantasma. Guárdame Esta Noche starts with 3,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 17, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, mostly attributed to streaming activity. “Having one’s album on the Billboard charts is truly an honor and a blessing,” El Fantasma tells Billboard. “It is another recognition for the work one does with so much effort and love. It feels very nice to know that your music continues, album after album, making the listeners happy.” Guárdame Esta Noche is El Fantasm...
Christian Nodal’s ‘Ayayay!’ Hits No. 1 on Regional Mexican Albums Chart
The set surges 15-1 the chart after release of its deluxe edition. Christian Nodal nabs his third straight No. 1 on the Regional Mexican Albums chart as a deluxe reissue of his Ayayay! album pushed the set 15-1 on the Sept. 26 survey. The original album was released on May 29. The deluxe version adds new tracks, and all versions combine together for tracking and charting purposes. “(The deluxe version of) Ayayay! is a production designed for all people in love, in pain and for those who want to party,” Nodal tells Billboard. “’Ayayay!’ is a Mexican cry tailored to a person’s feeling. One can shout ‘ayayay!’ and it can be interpreted based on one’s mood, therefore this album is tailored to all those hearts searching for comfort or a way to get t...
Ava Max’s ‘Heaven & Hell’ Leads Action-Packed Midweek U.K. Chart
Ava Max’s debut album Heaven & Hell (Atlantic) blasts into an early lead in what’s shaping as a classic U.K. chart race. Heaven & Hell leads an action-packed midweek chart, ahead of Live At The Roundhouse (Sony Music CG), the 2019 live recording from Saucerful of Secrets, the prog-rock supergroup of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. The top five is bunched tight at the halfway point. According to the Official Charts Company, just 1,700 chart sales separate Heaven & Hell from the current fifth-ranked album, Potter Payper’s Training Day 3 (2020 Potter Payper). Also cracking the lead pack, at No. 3, is Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ Tea For The Tillerman 2 (UMC), a rerecording of the veteran singer-songwriter’s 1970 set which originally peaked at No. 20. Hip-hop outfit Run The Jewels reen...
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Make Australian Chart History With ‘WAP’
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” grabs a piece of chart history as it snags a fifth week at No. 1 in Australia, while Marilyn Manson bags his second leader on the national albums chart with We Are Chaos. The controversial “WAP” is just the third female-led hip-hop song to rule Australia’s singles chart. And with its streak now extending past a month, it stands tall as the longest-running leader in that category, eclipsing Salt-N-Pepa’s “Let’s Talk About Sex.” In its seventh week on the survey, Joel Corry & MNEK’s “Head & Heart” rises 4-3, a new peak. The club track recently logged six weeks at No. 1 in the U.K. Staying in Australia, hip-hop collective Internet Money vault 47-13 with “Lemonade,” featuring guest appearances with Gunna, Don Toliver and Canadian rappe...
Justin Bieber Aiming For U.K. Top 10 Berth With ‘Holy’ Featuring Chance The Rapper
Justin Bieber could extend his run of U.K. Top 10 singles to 21 with “Holy,” though another No. 1 appears out of his reach for now. The Canadian pop singer’s collaboration with Chance The Rapper is the highest new entry on the Official Chart: First Look, starting at No. 10. The First Look survey captures sales and streaming data from the first 48 hours in the weekly chart cycle. At the top of the leaderboard is 24kGoldn’s “Mood” featuring Iann Dior, the most streamed track over the weekend. “Mood” usurps the current champion, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP,” which has lorded over the Official U.K. Singles Chart for three weeks. Also eying new chart peaks are Paul Woolford & Diplo’s “Looking For Me” featuring Kareen Lomax (No. 4); Jason Derulo’s “Take You Dancing” (No. 7); and M...
YOASOBI Logs Fifth Week at No. 1 on Japan Hot 100 After Leading Streaming & Video for 15 Weeks
YOASOBI’s “Yoru ni kakeru” returns to No. 1 for the fifth time on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Sept. 7 to 13. The long-running hit that has hovered near the top of the chart for weeks leads streaming and video views for the 15th week, respectively, while also coming in at No. 2 for karaoke and No. 6 for downloads. “Yoru ni kakeru” sees a slight dip in figures for streaming (from 9,259,480 to 9,011,832 streams) and also a decrease in video views (from 7,871,642 to 6,430,177 views), but both are far greater than the track at No. 2 for each metric. Depending on how CD sales play out in the coming weeks, the song could still extend its record at the top of the list. [embedded content] The song at No. 1 for physical sales this week is BOYS AND MEN’s “Oh Yeah,” which sold 55,996 copies in ...
ACM Awards Spark Sales Gains for Old Dominion, Eric Church & More
The Academy of Country Music Awards (Sept. 16) sparked sizable 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 CBS-TV show sold 57,000 downloads in the U.S. on Sept. 16-17, up 544% compared to the 9,000 sold on Sept. 14-15. The sales numbers include the original versions of songs covered on the show (such as Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” covered by Carrie Underwood) and those heard in part during medleys, but not the brand new Keith Urban and P!nk track “One Too Many,” which was released on the day of the awards. Of the performed songs, the biggest seller on Sept. 16-17 was Old Dominion’s “One Man Band,” which was performed as part of an eight-song medley during the show. The track also to...
Hey Mr. DJ, It’s the 20th Anniversary of Madonna’s ‘Music’: See What We Wrote About It In 2000
As the high priestess of pop, Madonna has administered the holy sacrament of Putting a Record on to Dance With Your Baby since 1983. Today, we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of a key piece of 21st century dancefloor canon: her eighth album, Music. Coming two years after the brooding, mature Ray of Light, Music was a conscious effort to lighten up. “Life would be such a drag if it was deep and probing all the time,” Madonna told Billboard of Music in the Aug. 5, 2000 issue. “I didn’t feel the need to be so introspective…. I felt like dancing. And that’s reflected in these songs.” That much is clear from the catchphrase-loaded lead single/title track, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 just two days prior to the album’s Sept. 18, 2000 rele...
