Travis Scott, seen right here performing within the Netherlands in 2024, scored his fifth No. 1 pop hit this week with “4X4.” Of these 5 hits, 4 topped Billboard‘s Sizzling 100 of their first week after being launched.
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There is a new No. 1 music within the nation, as Travis Scott‘s “4X4” turns into the 83rd monitor in Sizzling 100 historical past to debut atop the chart. Over on the Billboard 200, Unhealthy Bunny‘s album Debí Tirar Más Fotos stays at No. 1 whilst three new hit data — by Teddy Swims, Kane Brown and Central Cee — debut within the prime 10.
TOP ALBUMS
There is a logjam on the prime of this week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, as three sturdy hits — Unhealthy Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, SZA‘s SOS Deluxe: LANA and Kendrick Lamar‘s GNX — sit stubbornly at Nos. 1, 2 and three, respectively. Unhealthy Bunny stays entrenched on the prime for a 3rd consecutive week, whereas Lamar slides up a spot to take the place of Mac Miller‘s Balloonerism, which debuted at No. 3 final week however drops to No. 21 this time round.
Fortuitously, three outstanding debuts shake up the highest 10’s the rest.
Teddy Swims, whose music “Lose Management” has spent 76 weeks on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and nonetheless sits within the prime 10, simply launched a sequel to his 2023 album I’ve Tried All the things however Remedy (Half 1), titled — get this — I’ve Tried All the things however Remedy (Half 2). Half 1, just like the hit music it comprises, has been a mainstay on the charts since its launch; it is nonetheless at No. 25 after peaking at No. 17. Out of the gate, Half 2 is doing even higher, debuting at No. 4.
The nation singer Kane Brown hits the highest 10 for a fifth time in his profession, as The Excessive Street — fueled by the hits “I Can Really feel It” and his multi-platinum Marshmello collaboration “Miles on It” — enters the chart at No. 7.
And the London rapper Central Cee — whose mixtapes have been mainstays on the U.Ok. charts, and who landed his Lil Child collaboration “Band4Band” within the U.S. prime 20 final 12 months — has cracked the Billboard 200 for the primary time in his profession. His official debut album, Cannot Rush Greatness, which incorporates “Band4Band” and contributions from Younger Miko and 21 Savage, enters the chart at No. 9.
One different debut outdoors the highest 10 that is price noting: FKA twigs‘ new album, Eusexua, at No. 24. That is a brand new profession peak for the ingenious singer, who’s by no means climbed increased than No. 30 — and that was together with her debut, LP1, again in 2014.
Many if not all of this week’s debuts are more likely to slide subsequent week, attributable to a mix of the second-week blues, a bump for artists featured on Sunday night time’s Grammys telecast and the sure-to-be-lofty debut of The Weeknd‘s new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow.
TOP SONGS
For the previous 4 weeks, Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars‘ grandiose ballad “Die With a Smile” has held down the highest spot on the Billboard Sizzling 100. However this week, it is compelled down a spot by a recent chart-topper: Rapper Travis Scott debuts atop the Sizzling 100 together with his closely promoted new single, “4X4.”
The monitor is Scott’s fifth No. 1 music — following “Sicko Mode,” “Highest within the Room,” “The Scotts” and “Franchise” — and all however “Sicko Mode” debuted on the prime spot. In different phrases, Scott has been a part of 4 of the 83 songs in Sizzling 100 historical past which have pulled off that feat. Extra on this in a second.
Two duets that includes Bruno Mars spherical out the highest three, as “Die With a Smile” slides to No. 2 and “APT.,” Mars’ collaboration with ROSÉ of BLACKPINK, holds at No. 3. As curiosity round Scott’s new single wanes — the rapper has by no means had a music keep at No. 1 for a second week — Mars stands an honest likelihood of locking down the highest two spots subsequent week. However to do it, he’ll need to fend off the 22 songs on The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow that’ll probably rush the chart subsequent week.
However again to Bruno. Amazingly, “Die With a Smile” and “APT.” aren’t the one Bruno Mars duets to hit this week’s Sizzling 100: They have been joined by “Fats Juicy & Moist,” a collaboration with rising rapper Sexyy Pink that debuts at No. 17. Relying on how the music’s chart trajectory unfolds — it is fairly filthy for radio, however so was “WAP,” and that monitor hit No. 1 — it isn’t laborious to think about a chart much more top-loaded with Bruno Mars collaborations. Not dangerous for a man who hasn’t launched a full-length album of his personal since 2016.
WORTH NOTING
The Billboard Sizzling 100 dates again to August 1958, and within the chart’s lengthy historical past, as talked about above, 83 songs have debuted at No. 1. As is so typically the case with Billboard milestones, it is a phenomenon that started comparatively just lately — and has solely grown extra frequent within the streaming period.
For a few years, the Billboard Sizzling 100 had a rule the place songs needed to be formally launched as singles with a purpose to chart. However within the ’90s, labels started to determine methods to make use of that rule to their benefit, typically by delaying songs’ launch till they’d discovered an viewers on the radio. (Billboard modified that rule in 1998.) There have been different elements — from launch schedules that did not sync up neatly with the charts to adjustments in programs for measuring gross sales and airplay — however the ’90s laid the groundwork for extra songs to realize on the spot gratification at present.
The very first music to debut at No. 1, again in September 1995, was Michael Jackson‘s blockbuster ballad “You Are Not Alone.” Earlier than the month was over, one other music had joined the membership: Mariah Carey‘s “Fantasy.” By the top of the 12 months, Whitney Houston‘s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” had debuted at No. 1, adopted shortly thereafter by Carey’s Boyz II Males collaboration “One Candy Day,” which topped the chart for a then-record 16 weeks.
Nonetheless, simply 10 songs debuted at No. 1 within the ’90s — most of them trendy requirements like Celine Dion‘s “My Coronary heart Will Go On” and Aerosmith‘s “I Do not Wish to Miss a Factor.” The early 2000s have been even slower; in actual fact, the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and 14th songs to debut at No. 1 have been all American Idol coronation songs (bear in mind these?), doled out one per 12 months from Clay Aiken to Taylor Hicks. However as soon as we hit the 2010s — and, by extension, the streaming period — it was open season.
Earlier than 2020, a complete of 35 songs debuted at No. 1. Prior to now 5 years, as streaming algorithms have made on the spot chart success extra frequent — and as anybody with a smartphone or laptop can try any new music immediately with out paying for it or requesting it on the radio — 48 extra have joined the membership. There’d be much more than that, have been it not for the truth that songs are additionally staying at No. 1 for longer than ever earlier than. The streaming period has made the Billboard charts extra unstable and extra predictable, which often is the biggest feat of all.
