Girl Gaga’s Mayhem, which enters the chart on the prime spot after an extended windup that is included three prime 40 singles.
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As anticipated, Girl Gaga‘s Mayhem storms to a No. 1 debut on the Billboard albums chart, displacing Kendrick Lamar‘s GNX from the highest spot. However Lamar’s “Luther (feat. SZA)” stays at No. 1 on the Scorching 100 singles chart for a fourth consecutive week — the longest run of the rapper’s profession. And Doechii pulls off a uncommon feat, as she lands two variations of her track “Nervousness” on the Scorching 100 — and scores the highest-charting hit of her profession within the course of.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, only one album debuted within the prime 50 of the Billboard albums chart — LISA‘s Alter Ego, which premiered at No. 7 — amid the continuing dominance of Kendrick Lamar’s GNX at No. 1. This time round, GNX is displaced by one of many 12 months’s most hotly anticipated albums: Girl Gaga’s Mayhem, which enters the chart on the prime spot after an extended windup that is included three prime 40 singles (together with the chart-topping Bruno Mars duet “Die With a Smile”).
Gaga has saved busy within the 5 years since her final full-blown pop album, Chromatica, in 2020: She starred in a doomed Joker sequel, launched two underperforming Joker spinoff albums (Harlequin and an official soundtrack, launched per week aside), acquired nominated for an Oscar (for “Maintain My Hand,” from High Gun: Maverick), launched one other Grammy-winning album of duets with Tony Bennett and extra. All of that work has served to each maintain Gaga within the public eye and ramp up anticipation for her return to maximalist pop kind.
The result’s her eleventh album to hit the highest 10 relationship again to her debut album, The Fame, in 2008 — and her seventh album to hit No. 1. Mayhem‘s streaming numbers are the largest of the famous person’s profession to this point, which bodes properly for the album’s possibilities of sticking round on the charts for some time, whilst heavy-hitting competitors looms.
Talking of competitors, one more member of BLACKPINK dropped a solo album the identical day Mayhem got here out; this week, JENNIE’s Ruby debuts at No. 7. Coincidentally sufficient, a unique BLACKPINK member debuted at No. 7 final week, however LISA’s Alter Ego drops from No. 7 to No. 62 as JENNIE’s album enters the image.
Subsequent week, the final member of BLACKPINK and not using a solo chart hit within the U.S., JISOO, appears to hitch JENNIE, LISA and ROSÉ (whose solo debut rosie peaked at No. 3 this previous December) on the Billboard albums chart. JISOO’s debut EP, AMORTAGE, acquired a bodily launch this previous Friday.
If Girl Gaga hopes to carry at No. 1 for a second week, she’ll have to beat stiffer competitors than simply the members of BLACKPINK. On Friday, the rapper Playboi Carti surprise-dropped MUSIC, which guarantees to be certainly one of 2025’s largest hip-hop data. With a whopping 30 tracks, it is already cleared one milestone: the largest particular person streaming day on Spotify of any album this 12 months to this point.
TOP SONGS
The arrival of Mayhem has additionally shaken up the Scorching 100 singles chart, however not sufficient to carry upheaval to the highest 10: “Die With a Smile,” her duet with Bruno Mars, holds at No. 2, however that track has been driving excessive alongside Kendrick Lamar for months now. “Abracadabra” does leap from No. 29 to No. 19; after that, Mayhem‘s next-highest-charting track does not flip up till “Backyard of Eden,” which debuts at No. 52.
With out an enormous Gaga surge, the highest 10 comprises the very same songs as final week’s chart, with Lamar’s “Luther (feat. SZA)” holding at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive week. That is the longest any Lamar track — or any SZA track, for that matter — has ever held down the highest spot, surpassing each “Not Like Us” (three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1) and “Like That” (his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin, which topped the chart for 3 weeks final 12 months).
The milestones do not cease there. The Billboard Scorching 100 dates again to 1958, and in that point 9 artists have landed three or extra songs within the prime 5 concurrently: Ariana Grande and 21 Savage (as soon as every); Sabrina Carpenter and 50 Cent (twice every); Taylor Swift (3 times); and Justin Bieber (5 instances) all reside on that checklist, as do The Beatles, who maintain the report with eight. This week, Kendrick Lamar has risen on that checklist; he is now posted six weeks with three songs within the prime 5, as “Luther” is joined by “Not Like Us” (which holds at No. 3) and “TV Off (feat. Lefty Gunplay),” which slips from No. 4 to No. 5. The opposite artist to land three songs within the prime 5 the identical week on six completely different events? That’d be Kendrick Lamar’s nemesis, Drake.
WORTH NOTING
Rapper Doechii pulls off a uncommon feat this week, because the Scorching 100 comprises two completely different variations of her track “Nervousness.” Sometimes, completely different variations of a track get mixed for the needs of Billboard chart metrics — which is how, for instance, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” loved a chart enhance with the discharge of a model that includes Dolly Parton. However Billboard retains variations separate on the uncommon events after they’re billed to completely different lead artists, which is what’s occurred with “Nervousness.”
The story of “Nervousness” begins in 2019, when Doechii launched it by way of YouTube. The track acquired a second life in 2023, when one other rapper — Brooklyn’s Sleepy Hallow — used its hook in his personal track, which is titled (and stylized as) “A N X I E T Y.” Nonetheless, Sleepy Hallow’s observe did not chart till final week, when it acquired a lift from a TikTok pattern through which customers play the track over an archival clip from The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air. Final week, “A N X I E T Y” by Sleepy Hallow (that includes Doechii) debuted at No. 45; this week, it slides to No. 59.
Sensing the chance supplied by TikTok, Doechii — whose latest album Alligator Bites By no means Heal nonetheless sits at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 — lastly launched “Nervousness” to streaming companies and on-line retailers on March 4. This week, the track’s six-year shelf life (an inauspicious debut on YouTube, the Sleepy Hallow interpolation, the unusual secret sauce of TikTok) lastly provides as much as… the most effective chart efficiency of any track in Doechii’s profession. “Nervousness” enters this week’s Scorching 100 at No. 13.
Oh, and there is yet one more postscript. All of this chart success is sweet information for the Belgian-born Australian singer-songwriter Gotye, who’s greatest recognized — by far — for the 2011 smash “Anyone That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra).” Gotye has largely receded from public view since that track dominated worldwide radio playlists in 2011 and 2012. However the Doechii track interpolates “Anyone That I Used to Know” — and the Sleepy Hallow track is a veritable Russian nesting doll of interpolations, because it’s interpolating an interpolation.
Gotye has been teasing a brand new album for years now — he hasn’t launched one since Making Mirrors in 2011 — so contemplate this his long-awaited opening. The place have you ever gone, Gotye? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
