Shaboozey, seen right here on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York, has spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the pop chart together with his first hit, the smash “A Bar Track (Tipsy).”
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The Billboard Sizzling 100 is trapped in some type of purgatory, because it’s topped by the identical 10 songs as final week, albeit in a unique order. A beneficiary of this stagnation is the music that’s at No. 1 for a ninth consecutive week and tenth general: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy).” Within the course of, it joins a notable membership. Over on the albums chart, Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy holds at No. 1 for a 3rd straight week, the highest six stay the identical, and notable debuts embody albums from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, nation legend George Strait and … Paris Hilton.
TOP ALBUMS
You possibly can often type the entries on any given Billboard 200 albums chart into two sorts of data: 1) mainstays that linger and linger, typically for years on finish; and a couple of) one-, two- or three-week wonders that debut excessive, solely to plummet shortly thereafter. All however one entry on this week’s high 10 is firmly entrenched, to the purpose the place the highest six titles reside on the actual spots they held final week: Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy is No. 1 for the third week in a row, adopted by Put up Malone’s F-1 Trillion, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Gentle. The following few titles are on the rise — that’d be Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene (No. 8 to No. 7), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (No. 9 to No. 8) and Morgan Wallen’s Harmful: The Double Album (No. 11 to No. 9) — however they’re probably not “rising” a lot as “filling the vacuum left as final week’s debuts plunge.”
Plunging how steeply, you ask? Nicely, the Ok-pop woman group LE SSERAFIM’s Loopy EP drops from No. 7 to No. 54, whereas Destroy Lonely’s Love Lasts Ceaselessly crashes from No. 10 all the way in which right down to No. 118. A crueler observer may make a joke about “lasting without end” right here; thank goodness you’re in such tender, empathetic arms.
With that dichotomy established, it’s laborious to get too connected to this week’s debuts, which start at No. 10 with Luck and Unusual, the primary solo album from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour since 2015. Lord is aware of Pink Floyd’s albums have been recognized to linger on the charts for some time, so perhaps he’s in it for the lengthy haul.
From there, George Strait’s Cowboys and Dreamers enters the chart at No. 14; it’s the thirty first studio album by the nation legend, who’s racked up dozens of platinum data in his illustrious profession, so it’d be silly to write down him off, both. (His 2004 greatest-hits assortment, 50 Quantity Ones — sure, he’s had that many chart-topping nation singles, after which some — remains to be floating round, at No. 121.)
4 extra wildly totally different albums enter this week’s Billboard 200 within the high 50. Tzuyu, of the Ok-pop group Twice, is at No. 19 with abouTZU: The first Mini Album. Jessie Murph, who obtained a distinguished showcase on final week’s VMAs, is at No. 24 with That Ain’t No Man That’s the Satan. Paris Hilton (!!!) is at No. 38 together with her second album, Infinite Icon (launched 18 years after her debut). Lastly, LL Cool J, who additionally carried out on the VMAs, is at No. 50 with The FORCE.
TOP SONGS
As soon as once more, there’s little movement to talk of in this week’s Sizzling 100 high 10; just a few entries slide up or down, however the songs themselves stay the identical. The headline right here is that Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” has entered an unique membership: It’s one in all 45 songs in Sizzling 100 historical past — as in, going all the way in which again to August 1958 — to high the chart for no less than 10 weeks.
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Wanting over the whole record of songs to take pleasure in that distinction, it’s laborious to not choose up on the truth that this type of longevity was once far much less widespread than it’s grow to be in recent times. In truth, previous to 1992, the record contained solely two songs — Debby Boone’s “You Gentle Up My Life” in 1977 and Olivia Newton-John’s “Bodily” in 1982 — and people two songs “solely” topped the chart for 10 weeks every. (Oddly sufficient, the record doubled in ’92, as Boyz II Males’s “Finish of the Highway” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will At all times Love You” held the No. 1 spot for 13 and 14 weeks, respectively.)
Within the final decade, although, a seemingly contradictory phenomenon has occurred: There’s extra new music to select from — and extra methods to devour it — than ever, and but it’s gotten tougher to dislodge dominant songs from the highest of the charts. Simply final yr, Morgan Wallen’s “Final Night time” sat at No. 1 for 16 weeks; that’s the second-longest run of all time, behind solely Lil Nas X’s 2019 run with “Outdated City Highway,” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus. Should you observed that each of these songs are no less than country-music-adjacent, keep in mind that it weren’t for Shaboozey, Wallen’s duet with Put up Malone, “I Had Some Assist,” can be giving “Final Night time” and “Outdated City Highway” a run for his or her cash. Nation music continues to do large enterprise on the pop charts.
Talking of which, “I Had Some Assist” holds at No. 2 this week; it’s adopted by one other maintain at No. 3, for Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.” Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars climb from No. 6 to No. 4 with “Die With a Smile,” whereas Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” rises from No. 7 to No. 5. Carpenter nonetheless has three songs within the Prime 10, however “Style” dips from No. 5 to No. 6 and “Please Please Please” drops from No. 4 to No. 8. Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” ascends from No. 8 to No. 7, whereas two chart mainstays spherical out the chart by holding regular: Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” is at No. 9, whereas Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” is at No. 10.
WORTH NOTING
Seven years after it started an indefinite hiatus following the dying of singer Chester Bennington, Linkin Park lately introduced that it’s gotten again collectively and recorded new music with two new members, together with singer Emily Armstrong. A brand new album, From Zero, is due out Nov. 15, and its first single (“The Vacancy Machine”) enters this week’s Sizzling 100 at No. 21.
Should you’re on the lookout for extra indicators of the general public’s curiosity in Linkin Park, look no additional than the Billboard 200, the place the band’s first two albums are on the rise — 2003’s Meteora climbs from No. 62 to No. 47, whereas 2000’s Hybrid Principle re-enters the chart at No. 51 — and its 2024 best hits set Papercuts re-enters the chart at No. 119.
It stays to be seen how a lot of the surge is pushed by pleasure vs. curiosity vs. nostalgia, but it surely bodes properly for From Zero’s launch in a pair months.
