Publish Malone, who has spent the 12 months shifting his focus from hip-hop and pop towards nation music (scoring a No. 1 single within the course of) performs on July 16, 2024 in Nashville, Tenn. His first all-country album, F-1 Trillion, topped this week’s Billboard album chart.
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There’s new blood at or close to the highest of each the albums and singles charts this week. After 15 non-consecutive weeks during which Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division topped the Billboard 200 albums chart, there’s a recent juggernaut at No. 1: Publish Malone’s guest-packed nation epic F-1 Trillion, which knocks Swift all the way down to No. 3. Talking of “star-packed” and “No. 3,” that’s the place Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” enters the Sizzling 100 singles chart — a powerful debut, however not robust sufficient to displace the two-headed behemoth of Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” and Publish Malone’s “I Had Some Assist,” which options Morgan Wallen.
TOP ALBUMS
For the previous few weeks, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division has fended off challengers vying for the highest spot on the Billboard 200, thanks partially to her sales-boosting tactic of releasing discount-priced digital variant editions. This time round, there was by no means any doubt: No. 1 belongs to Publish Malone, whose F-1 Trillion dominated the competitors in its first week on the chart. The super-sized album — which grew from 18 songs to 27 when the singer dropped a particular “Lengthy Mattress” version the day F-1 Trillion got here out — is just the newest chart triumph for Publish Malone, one of many world’s most dependable hitmakers.
Publish Malone is popping everywhere in the charts this week, together with elsewhere on the Billboard 200: His greatest-hits set The Diamond Assortment (named for the RIAA certification of blockbuster singles, of which he owns greater than any artist ever) leaps from No. 161 to No. 17, suggesting {that a} brand-new 27-song dose of Publish Malone didn’t whet each urge for food by itself.
Publish Malone’s return arrived simply in time to freeze Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess out of the highest spot. Although that slowly-ascending album holds regular this week at No. 2, it lastly surpassed The Tortured Poets Division, which fell from No. 1 to No. 3. From there, many of the High 10 merely slides down a single spot to accommodate Publish Malone: Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time (No. 3 to No. 4), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Comfortable (No. 4 to No. 5), Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene (No. 5 to No. 6), Charli XCX’s Brat (No. 6 to No. 7), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (No. 7 to No. 8) and Morgan Wallen’s Harmful: The Double Album (No. 8 to No. 9). And Zach Bryan’s self-titled 2023 album holds at No. 10.
TOP SONGS
Main albums have come and gone all summer season, however the higher area of the Billboard Sizzling 100 has remained remarkably static, with solely minor fluctuations throughout the High 10 from week to week. However the newest chart lastly sports activities a brand new entry from two of the flashiest names within the enterprise: Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars have teamed up for “Die With a Smile,” a dramatic ballad that debuts at No. 3. For a summer season dominated by recent faces (Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter), nation (Publish Malone, Morgan Wallen) and recent faces in nation (Shaboozey), the presence of such honored chart-toppers can’t assist however really feel surprisingly reassuring.
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Nonetheless, even Gaga and Mars’ mixed powers couldn’t dislodge the 2 greatest hits of summer season 2024: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” sits at No. 1 for a seventh non-consecutive week — it’s now resided atop the Sizzling 100 for extra weeks than some other tune this 12 months — whereas Publish Malone and Morgan Wallen’s “I Had Some Assist” stays locked in at No. 2 but once more.
It feels foolish to explain Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars as “new blood,” given how typically they’ve dominated the Sizzling 100 (34 prime 10 hits between the 2 of them, not counting their new collaboration), however it’s nonetheless good to come across a giant, brand-new tune on the charts in spite of everything this time. You received’t discover such a factor wherever else on the High 10, both, as Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” slides from No. 3 to No. 4, Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” holds at No. 5 and Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” climbs from No. 7 to No. 6. Sabrina Carpenter holds down two of the High 10’s remaining spots — “Espresso” drops from No. 4 to No. 7 and “Please Please Please” slips from No. 8 to No. 9 — although she’s a candidate to rebound subsequent week because of the arrival of her new album Quick n’ Candy. Tommy Richman’s “Million Greenback Child” drops from No. 6 to No. 8, whereas Teddy Swims’ unkillable “Lose Management” slides from No. 9 to No. 10.
WORTH NOTING
Publish Malone didn’t simply make his presence felt on the albums chart; thanks to very large numbers of individuals streaming F-1 Trillion, he’s additionally completely in every single place on the Billboard Sizzling 100. You already learn about “I Had Some Assist,” which has sat at No. 2 lengthy sufficient to start out renting out resorts on the area. You may even be conversant in the album’s different singles, like “Man for That” with Luke Combs (which rises from No. 36 to No. 17) or “Pour Me a Drink” with Blake Shelton (up from No. 30 to No. 13).
However test this out: There are 100 spots on the Billboard Sizzling 100 — don’t test my math, I already counted — and Publish Malone occupies 19 of them. That’s the three aforementioned singles, plus Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” (which options his visitor vocal) and now a whopping 15 debuts, starting from No. 23 (“Flawed Ones,” that includes Tim McGraw) all the best way all the way down to the solo observe “Proper About You” at No. 88.
After all, given what number of of Publish Malone’s new songs have distinguished options by nation stars, the rise of F-1 Trillion has positioned all types of names again on the Sizzling 100. A few of them have been there fairly a bit in current months — ERNEST, Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton — whereas others, like Brad Paisley and Tim McGraw, return after longer absences. Whether or not or not you’re prepared for some soccer, probably the most seasonally applicable debut must belong to Hank Williams Jr., who seems on “Finer Issues” at No. 42.
