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Post Malone’s ‘Circles’ Sets More Records With Run to No. 1 on Adult Contemporary Chart
Post Malone’s “Circles” adds more honors to its chart résumé, as it reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary radio airplay ranking (dated Aug. 8). With the coronation, Post Malone becomes the first artist to have topped both the AC and Rap Airplay charts as the sole lead artist on each No. 1. On Rap Airplay, he reigned with “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, for two weeks in 2017. Plus, “Circles” rules in its 41st week on the AC chart, completing the longest climb to No. 1 by a solo male in the chart’s 59-year history. It falls shy of the overall record by one week: matchbox twenty’s “Unwell” hit the top in its 42nd frame in October 2001. On the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “Circles,” rel...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ CD Gets Early Release In U.K.
Game on. Taylor Swift has pulled out the big guns in her battle with Fontaines D.C. for the U.K. chart title. Swift’s latest album Folklore blasted to No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart last week, based on streams and downloads alone (37,000 combined chart sales in total). Though at the midway stage in the chart cycle, Folklore had slipped behind Irish rockers Fontaines D.C.’s sophomore album A Hero’s Death (Partisan) and Creeper’s Sex Death & The Infinite Void (Roadrunner). {“nid”:”9428399″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Fontaines D.C. Push Taylor Swift From Midweek U.K. Albums Chart Summit”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/news\/9428399\/fontaines-dc-taylor-swift-midweek-uk-albums-chart\/”,”...
Marshmello Is One of the Most Adaptable Stars in Modern Music — And the Charts Prove It
Let’s start with a clunky but (arguably) relevant comparison, and say that while marshmallows seem to have only one fairly specific use as a food, the pillowy treats go well with a number of other desserts, and are enjoyed by a wide and diverse segment of humanity. The same can be said of the EDM producer named for and styled in homage to these fireside snacks. Since emerging in the EDM scene circa 2015, Marshmello has become a dominant brand not only in mainstream dance music, but in a grab bag of genres including hip-hop, rock, pop and country. Having worked with everyone from Tyga and Chris Brown to Chvrches to Svdden Death and Blackbear to Kane Brown to Bastille, the artist has scored hits on Billboard’s Hot 100, Country Songs, Rap Songs, Alternative Songs, Rock & Alter...
One Direction Streams, Sales Spike In U.K. Following 10th Anniversary
The 10-year anniversary celebrations for One Direction were a lightning rod for the pop band’s sales and streams in the U.K., new data reveals. According to data published by the Official Charts Company, almost 25 million streams of the group’s songs were generated in the days leading to and following the July 23 anniversary date. As previously reported, three of their catalog albums — Take Me Home, Made in the A.M. and Four — last week returned to the Official U.K. Albums Chart Top 40. {“nid”:”9427696″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”One Direction Re-Enters Social 50 Chart After Celebrating 10th Anniversary”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9427696\/one-direction-return-soc...
Fontaines D.C. Push Taylor Swift From Midweek U.K. Albums Chart Summit
Move over Taylor Swift, Fontaines D.C. is ready for the chart crown. The Irish pop-punk outfit leads the midweek U.K. sales chart with A Hero’s Death (Partisan), their sophomore album. A Hero’s Death is at No. 1 on the Official Chart Update, racking up more than half its sales in vinyl, according to the Official Charts Company. Almost certainly, A Hero’s Death will eclipse the rockers’ personal best, a No. 9 peak for their 2019 debut LP Dogrel. {“nid”:”9427594″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Folklore\u2019 Reigns In U.K.”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/news\/9427594\/taylor-swift-folklore-reigns-uk\/”,”media”:{“width”:1280,”height”:720,&#...
Taylor Swift Charts 16 Songs From ‘Folklore’ on Billboard Hot 100
As Taylor Swift’s “Cardigan” launches at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, all 16 songs on the standard edition of parent album Folklore debut on the chart (dated Aug. 8). Folklore soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 846,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, as Swift becomes the first artist ever to debut at No. 1 on both the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 in the same week. Swift sets a new high among women for the most simultaneous Hot 100 debuts with her 16 new entries, breaking her own record: 14 songs of hers debuted on Sept. 7, 2019, when her prior LP Lover launched atop the Billboard 200. Among all acts, Drake (July 14, 2018) and Lil Wayne (Oct. 13, 2018) share the mark with 22 entrances each in a single week. {“nid...
Taylor Swift Breaks Record for Most Billboard Hot 100 Hits Among Women, Thanks to ‘Folklore’
Taylor Swift breaks the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries among women in the chart’s 62-year history. Now with 113, as of the chart dated Aug. 8, she passes Nicki Minaj, with 110. Swift’s “Cardigan” launches at No. 1 on the Hot 100, as all 16 songs on the standard edition of parent album Folklore debut on the chart, lifting her total from 97 to 113 career charted titles. {“nid”:”9428548″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Taylor Swift Debuts at No. 1 on Hot 100 With 'Cardigan,' Is 1st Artist to Open Atop Hot 100 & Billboard 200 in Same Week”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9428548\/taylor-swift-cardigan-folklore-debut-number-one\/”,”...
Harry Styles Tops Pop Songs With ‘Watermelon Sugar,’ Is First One Direction Member to Top Tally Twice
Harry Styles becomes the first member of One Direction to notch multiple No. 1s on Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, as “Watermelon Sugar” ascends from No. 2 to No. 1 on the list dated Aug. 8. Styles first ruled the ranking with “Adore You” on the list dated April 11. Both songs are from his second solo LP, Fine Line, released on Erskine/Columbia Records. (With “Adore You” at No. 5, he joins 25 other acts historically by placing a record two songs in the top five simultaneously.) Four members of One Direction have topped Pop Songs. No other group has more than two members with solo No. 1s. Here’s a look at all the Pop Songs No. 1 by members of One Direction. (Zayn departed the act, which is currently on hiatus, in 2015.) Harry Styles...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Reigns In U.K.
Taylor Swift has a fifth consecutive U.K. chart-leader as Folklore (EMI) blasts to No. 1. Swift’s eighth album leads the Official U.K. Albums Chart on debut, notching up 37,000 chart sales, with two-thirds of those from streams and the remainder from downloads, the OCC reports. With that fast start, Folklore is 2020’s most-downloaded album in its first week, eclipsing the opening tally of Eminem’s Music to be Murdered By. The full rollout of Folklore on CD and vinyl is yet to come. {“nid”:”9428290″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Taylor Swift Achieves Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart & Biggest Week of 2020 With 'Folklore'”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9428290\/tayl...
Taylor Swift Sets Records, Completes Chart Double In Australia
Taylor Swift is the absolute champion of Australia’s charts this week as Folklore (Republic/Universal) bows at No. 1 on the national albums survey and its lead track “Cardigan” rules the singles tally. “Cardigan” opens at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart, giving Swift her sixth leader and her first since “Look What You Made Me Do” hit the top in September 2017. Swift trails only Rihanna (7), Delta Goodrem (9), P!nk (9), Kylie Minogue (10) and Madonna (10) in the list of female solo artists with the most chart toppers, according to ARIA, and she’s the only artist among them to land five No. 1s the last decade. {“nid”:”9427594″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Folklore\u2019 Reigns In U.K.”,”rel...
Taylor Swift Achieves Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart & Biggest Week of 2020 With ‘Folklore’
Taylor Swift’s Folklore flies in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, capturing the biggest week for any album since Swift’s last release, 2019’s Lover. Folkore was released with little advance notice on July 24 and earns Swift her seventh No. 1 album. Folklore starts with 846,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 30, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. That marks the largest week registered for any album since Swift’s own Lover, which debuted at No. 1 on the Sept. 7, 2019-dated chart with 867,000 units. Further, in the last four years, the three biggest weeks for any album have been racked up by Swift. Dating back to July of 2016, the three largest frames for any album are: Swift’s Reputation (1.24 million units, Dec. 2, 2017-dated chart), Lover (86...
Covers Are Nothing New: Remakes Keep Hitting Rock Radio Charts, Led By Chris Cornell’s Guns N’ Roses Redo
Updates of Martika’s ‘Toy Soldiers’ and Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ also debut. Three remakes debut on Billboard‘s rock radio charts dated Aug. 1, joining a host of other updates of older material on various rock airplay rankings. Leading the way among debuting tracks is the late Chris Cornell‘s version of Guns N’ Roses‘ “Patience,” which bows at No. 16 on Mainstream Rock Songs and No. 36 on Alternative Airplay. Cornell appears on both charts posthumously for the first time, following his May 2017 death. He’d last hit Alternative Airplay with “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart,” which reached No. 18 in December 2015. On Mainstream Rock Songs, he had last charted in May-June 2016 with anoth...
