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]]>The Tortured Poets Department easily debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with 2.61 million album equivalent units. Album sales comprise 1.914 million, including record-breaking 859,000 vinyl copies, while SEA units comprise 683,000 and TEA units comprise 14,000.
This makes Tortured Poets the second-biggest-selling album on the Billboard 200 chart, behind Adele’s 25, which earned 3.482 million units in 2015. It also scored the largest streaming week for an album, after generating 891.37 million official streams across 31 songs featured on the album’s standard edition and deluxe edition The Anthology.
Swift also made history on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where she claimed the top 14 positions with her songs from Tortured Poets. Her Post Malone collaboration “Fortnight” debuted atop the chart, helping her tie Ariana Grande’s record for most No. 1 debuts among female artists. She also made history as the first woman with over 50 songs in the top ten, with 59.
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]]>The post Sabrina Carpenter Scores Her First Top Ten Hit With “Espresso” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Espresso” hit the shelves on April 12, just in time for Carpenter’s performance at Coachella, and drew 19.8 million streams, 5.1 million in airplay audience, and sold 4,000 in its first week. It debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the week’s highest-charting new song, in addition to being Carpenter’s first single to enter the top ten.
In addition to finding success in the US, “Espresso” also entered the top ten in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, becoming her highest-charting song in these territories.
Carpenter recently revealed that the lyrics for “Espresso” came together pretty quickly when she was in France, and she could feel how fun the song would be from the very start.
“I think for me, there was something really exciting about the fact that there was so much personality throughout the entire song because those are the ones that are really, really fun to sing live with a crowd,” Carpenter told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe.
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]]>The post “Too Sweet” Becomes Hozier’s First No. 1 Single on Billboard Hot 100 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Too Sweet” managed to reach to top of the summit after attracting 35.6 million streams, 14.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, and selling 6,000 copies during its latest week on the chart. It initially debuted at No. 5 following its release on March 22, becoming his second song to reach the top ten following his breakout hit “Take Me to Church”.
“Too Sweet” has been slowly climbing up the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but it already hit No. 1 in several other countries in the meantime. It became Hozier’s first chart-topping single in the UK and also climbed to No. 1 in Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Hozier, who’s currently touring the world with his latest album Unreal Unearth, thanked fans for the outpouring of love he received since releasing “Too Sweet”.
“I’ve been both thrilled and taken massively by surprise by such a staggering reaction. It means the world that you’re enjoying this song so much. Thank you all so much,” he said in a video on Instagram.
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]]>The post Future, Metro Boomin, & Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” Scores Third Week at No. 1 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Like That” attracted 40 million streams, 14 million radio airplay audience impressions, and sold 3,000 units during its latest week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This song became Future and Lamar’s third No. 1 single and Metro Boomin’s first as a billed recording artist when it initially debuted atop the chart.
“Like That” was released as one of the songs from Future and Metro Boomin’s collaborative album We Don’t Trust You, which hit the shelves on March 26. Its follow-up We Still Don’t Trust You was released in less than a month, on April 12, and it’s projected to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, just like its predecessor.
It was also a huge week for Hozier’s “Too Sweet”, which climbed to No. 2 to match his previous peak on the Hot 100 chart with his breakout hit “Take Me To Church”. J. Cole’s “7 Minute Drill” was the highest debut of the week at No. 6 after being released as a part of his new mixtape Might Delete Later.
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]]>The post Hozier Scores His Second Top 10 Single With “Too Sweet” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Too Sweet” hit the shelves on March 22, as one of the four songs on Hozier’s new EP Unheard. According to the singer’s statement, this body of work consists of songs “that might’ve made it to the circles of gluttony, limbo, violence, and the outward ‘ascent’… but could not for different reasons,” referring to his latest studio album Unreal Unearth, which drew inspiration from Dante’s Inferno.
“Too Sweet” managed to attract 28.8 million streams, 268,000 in airplay audience, and 4,000 in sales during its first week on the chart, debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It became his second top-ten song on the Hot 100 nearly a decade after his breakout hit “Take Me to Church”, which peaked at No. 2 in 2014.
As for the rest of the Billboard Hot 100 for this week, Future and Metro Boomin hit No. 1 with their latest collaboration “Like That” ft. Kendrick Lamar. Five songs from their album We Don’t Trust You made it to the top ten, including “Type S–T” ft. Travis Scott and Playboi Carti at No. 2.
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]]>The post Teddy Swims Tops Billboard Hot 100 Chart With “Lose Control” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>With 59.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, 23.2 million streams, and 8,000 sold downloads, “Lose Control” finally managed to rise to the top. It ascended to No. 1 during its 32nd week on the Hot 100 chart, setting a new record for the longest run to No. 1 by weeks on the chart for a male solo artist.
Swims released several versions and remixes of “Lose Control” that eventually helped it climb to the top. Its recent success can be credited to a Tiësto remix, released on March 19, and a radio edit, released on March 21.
“Lose Control” was released as the second single from Swims’ debut album I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1), and he described it as a song about the addictive power of love.
“It’s about losing yourself and losing control when it all starts to cave in and thinking that the only way out is through being with that person, chasing that feeling over and over again,” he said in a statement accompanying the song’s release last summer.
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]]>The post Ariana Grande Tops Billboard Charts With “Eternal Sunshine” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>With 227,000 equivalent album units earned on its debut, Eternal Sunshine scored the largest week of 2024 for any album so far. It’s Grande’s sixth studio album to hit No. 1, following the success of Yours Truly (2013), My Everything (2014), Sweetener (2018), Thank U, Next (2019), and Positions (2020).
Grande promoted the release of her latest LP with the second single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”, which did pretty well on the Hot 100 chart. It blasted in at No. 1 with 32.6 million streams and 4.6 million radio airplay audience impressions during its debut week, setting several Hot 100 milestones along the way.
“We Can’t Be Friends” marks Grande’s seventh No. 1 debut on the Hot 100 chart, breaking the record previously held by Taylor Swift. She’s also the first female artist to have two albums produce multiple No. 1 debuts on the Hot 100, after previously topping the chart with “Yes, And?”
Eternal Sunshine came out on March 8, and it also hit No. 1 in several other countries, including the UK and Australia.
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]]>The post Beyoncé Tops Billboard Hot 100 Chart With Country Song “Texas Hold ‘Em” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Texas Hold ‘Em” hit No. 2 following its release on February 11, but managed to reach the top of the summit during its second week. It hit No. 1 with 29 million streams, 16.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 29,000 downloads during the February 16-22 tracking week.
It’s quite historic to see Beyoncé climb to the top of the Hot 100 with “Texas Hold ‘Em”, which just happens to be the first country song by a Black female artist to hit No. 1 on this chart. It was released as the lead single from her upcoming country album Renaissance Act II, set to hit the shelves on March 29.
“Texas Hold ‘Em” joins the likes of “Break My Soul” and “Single Ladies” as Beyoncé’s ninth single as a solo artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She also has an additional four No. 1 songs with Destiny’s Child, bringing her all-time total to 13 chart-topping hits.
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]]>The post Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss” Becomes Her First No. 1 Solo Single appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Hiss” debuted atop the Hot 100 chart with 29.2 million first-week streams, 2.9 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 104,000 downloads sold during its debut week. It’s Stallion’s first solo single to achieve this feat and third overall, joining A-list collaborations “Savage” ft. Beyoncé and “WAP” ft. Cardi B.
Seeing “Hiss” hit No. 1 is just the latest in the series of amazing news that the rapper shared with her fans in recent weeks. She also revealed that she’ll embark on Hot Girl Summer Tour later this year, and announced a distribution deal with Warner Music shortly after her chart-topping single hit the shelves.
“Hiss” won a pretty tight race to debut at No. 1, defeating Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me”, which dipped to the No. 2 spot this week. Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer”, Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”, and Tate McRae’s “Greedy” joined them in the top five, while Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” broke into the top ten.
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]]>The post “Lovin on Me” Becomes Jack Harlow’s Longest-Running No. 1 Single appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>With 74 million radio airplay audience impressions, 27.4 million streams, and 6,000 downloads in the January 19-25 tracking week, “Lovin on Me” returned to No. 1. This marks the rapper’s longest reign on the chart, surpassing the three-week run of “First Class” in 2022.
“Lovin on Me” returned to No. 1 only a week after narrowly losing the top spot to Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?” This is its fourth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but this number could’ve been much higher if “Loving on Me” wasn’t blocked from reaching the top by several Christmas songs throughout the holiday season, including Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”.
The Billboard Hot 100 experienced a major shakeup this week, with “Yes, And”? falling all the way down to No. 6 after debuting atop the chart. It was beaten by Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer”, Tate McRae’s “Greedy”, Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”, and Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything” ft. Kacey Musgraves in the top five.
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]]>The post Taylor Swift Shatters Billboard Records With “The Tortured Poets Department” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The Tortured Poets Department easily debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with 2.61 million album equivalent units. Album sales comprise 1.914 million, including record-breaking 859,000 vinyl copies, while SEA units comprise 683,000 and TEA units comprise 14,000.
This makes Tortured Poets the second-biggest-selling album on the Billboard 200 chart, behind Adele’s 25, which earned 3.482 million units in 2015. It also scored the largest streaming week for an album, after generating 891.37 million official streams across 31 songs featured on the album’s standard edition and deluxe edition The Anthology.
Swift also made history on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where she claimed the top 14 positions with her songs from Tortured Poets. Her Post Malone collaboration “Fortnight” debuted atop the chart, helping her tie Ariana Grande’s record for most No. 1 debuts among female artists. She also made history as the first woman with over 50 songs in the top ten, with 59.
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]]>The post Sabrina Carpenter Scores Her First Top Ten Hit With “Espresso” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Espresso” hit the shelves on April 12, just in time for Carpenter’s performance at Coachella, and drew 19.8 million streams, 5.1 million in airplay audience, and sold 4,000 in its first week. It debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the week’s highest-charting new song, in addition to being Carpenter’s first single to enter the top ten.
In addition to finding success in the US, “Espresso” also entered the top ten in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, becoming her highest-charting song in these territories.
Carpenter recently revealed that the lyrics for “Espresso” came together pretty quickly when she was in France, and she could feel how fun the song would be from the very start.
“I think for me, there was something really exciting about the fact that there was so much personality throughout the entire song because those are the ones that are really, really fun to sing live with a crowd,” Carpenter told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe.
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]]>The post “Too Sweet” Becomes Hozier’s First No. 1 Single on Billboard Hot 100 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Too Sweet” managed to reach to top of the summit after attracting 35.6 million streams, 14.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, and selling 6,000 copies during its latest week on the chart. It initially debuted at No. 5 following its release on March 22, becoming his second song to reach the top ten following his breakout hit “Take Me to Church”.
“Too Sweet” has been slowly climbing up the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but it already hit No. 1 in several other countries in the meantime. It became Hozier’s first chart-topping single in the UK and also climbed to No. 1 in Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Hozier, who’s currently touring the world with his latest album Unreal Unearth, thanked fans for the outpouring of love he received since releasing “Too Sweet”.
“I’ve been both thrilled and taken massively by surprise by such a staggering reaction. It means the world that you’re enjoying this song so much. Thank you all so much,” he said in a video on Instagram.
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]]>The post Future, Metro Boomin, & Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” Scores Third Week at No. 1 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Like That” attracted 40 million streams, 14 million radio airplay audience impressions, and sold 3,000 units during its latest week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This song became Future and Lamar’s third No. 1 single and Metro Boomin’s first as a billed recording artist when it initially debuted atop the chart.
“Like That” was released as one of the songs from Future and Metro Boomin’s collaborative album We Don’t Trust You, which hit the shelves on March 26. Its follow-up We Still Don’t Trust You was released in less than a month, on April 12, and it’s projected to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, just like its predecessor.
It was also a huge week for Hozier’s “Too Sweet”, which climbed to No. 2 to match his previous peak on the Hot 100 chart with his breakout hit “Take Me To Church”. J. Cole’s “7 Minute Drill” was the highest debut of the week at No. 6 after being released as a part of his new mixtape Might Delete Later.
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]]>The post Hozier Scores His Second Top 10 Single With “Too Sweet” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Too Sweet” hit the shelves on March 22, as one of the four songs on Hozier’s new EP Unheard. According to the singer’s statement, this body of work consists of songs “that might’ve made it to the circles of gluttony, limbo, violence, and the outward ‘ascent’… but could not for different reasons,” referring to his latest studio album Unreal Unearth, which drew inspiration from Dante’s Inferno.
“Too Sweet” managed to attract 28.8 million streams, 268,000 in airplay audience, and 4,000 in sales during its first week on the chart, debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It became his second top-ten song on the Hot 100 nearly a decade after his breakout hit “Take Me to Church”, which peaked at No. 2 in 2014.
As for the rest of the Billboard Hot 100 for this week, Future and Metro Boomin hit No. 1 with their latest collaboration “Like That” ft. Kendrick Lamar. Five songs from their album We Don’t Trust You made it to the top ten, including “Type S–T” ft. Travis Scott and Playboi Carti at No. 2.
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]]>The post Teddy Swims Tops Billboard Hot 100 Chart With “Lose Control” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>With 59.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, 23.2 million streams, and 8,000 sold downloads, “Lose Control” finally managed to rise to the top. It ascended to No. 1 during its 32nd week on the Hot 100 chart, setting a new record for the longest run to No. 1 by weeks on the chart for a male solo artist.
Swims released several versions and remixes of “Lose Control” that eventually helped it climb to the top. Its recent success can be credited to a Tiësto remix, released on March 19, and a radio edit, released on March 21.
“Lose Control” was released as the second single from Swims’ debut album I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1), and he described it as a song about the addictive power of love.
“It’s about losing yourself and losing control when it all starts to cave in and thinking that the only way out is through being with that person, chasing that feeling over and over again,” he said in a statement accompanying the song’s release last summer.
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]]>The post Ariana Grande Tops Billboard Charts With “Eternal Sunshine” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>With 227,000 equivalent album units earned on its debut, Eternal Sunshine scored the largest week of 2024 for any album so far. It’s Grande’s sixth studio album to hit No. 1, following the success of Yours Truly (2013), My Everything (2014), Sweetener (2018), Thank U, Next (2019), and Positions (2020).
Grande promoted the release of her latest LP with the second single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”, which did pretty well on the Hot 100 chart. It blasted in at No. 1 with 32.6 million streams and 4.6 million radio airplay audience impressions during its debut week, setting several Hot 100 milestones along the way.
“We Can’t Be Friends” marks Grande’s seventh No. 1 debut on the Hot 100 chart, breaking the record previously held by Taylor Swift. She’s also the first female artist to have two albums produce multiple No. 1 debuts on the Hot 100, after previously topping the chart with “Yes, And?”
Eternal Sunshine came out on March 8, and it also hit No. 1 in several other countries, including the UK and Australia.
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]]>The post Beyoncé Tops Billboard Hot 100 Chart With Country Song “Texas Hold ‘Em” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Texas Hold ‘Em” hit No. 2 following its release on February 11, but managed to reach the top of the summit during its second week. It hit No. 1 with 29 million streams, 16.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 29,000 downloads during the February 16-22 tracking week.
It’s quite historic to see Beyoncé climb to the top of the Hot 100 with “Texas Hold ‘Em”, which just happens to be the first country song by a Black female artist to hit No. 1 on this chart. It was released as the lead single from her upcoming country album Renaissance Act II, set to hit the shelves on March 29.
“Texas Hold ‘Em” joins the likes of “Break My Soul” and “Single Ladies” as Beyoncé’s ninth single as a solo artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She also has an additional four No. 1 songs with Destiny’s Child, bringing her all-time total to 13 chart-topping hits.
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]]>The post Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss” Becomes Her First No. 1 Solo Single appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Hiss” debuted atop the Hot 100 chart with 29.2 million first-week streams, 2.9 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 104,000 downloads sold during its debut week. It’s Stallion’s first solo single to achieve this feat and third overall, joining A-list collaborations “Savage” ft. Beyoncé and “WAP” ft. Cardi B.
Seeing “Hiss” hit No. 1 is just the latest in the series of amazing news that the rapper shared with her fans in recent weeks. She also revealed that she’ll embark on Hot Girl Summer Tour later this year, and announced a distribution deal with Warner Music shortly after her chart-topping single hit the shelves.
“Hiss” won a pretty tight race to debut at No. 1, defeating Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me”, which dipped to the No. 2 spot this week. Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer”, Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”, and Tate McRae’s “Greedy” joined them in the top five, while Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” broke into the top ten.
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]]>The post “Lovin on Me” Becomes Jack Harlow’s Longest-Running No. 1 Single appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>With 74 million radio airplay audience impressions, 27.4 million streams, and 6,000 downloads in the January 19-25 tracking week, “Lovin on Me” returned to No. 1. This marks the rapper’s longest reign on the chart, surpassing the three-week run of “First Class” in 2022.
“Lovin on Me” returned to No. 1 only a week after narrowly losing the top spot to Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?” This is its fourth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but this number could’ve been much higher if “Loving on Me” wasn’t blocked from reaching the top by several Christmas songs throughout the holiday season, including Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”.
The Billboard Hot 100 experienced a major shakeup this week, with “Yes, And”? falling all the way down to No. 6 after debuting atop the chart. It was beaten by Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer”, Tate McRae’s “Greedy”, Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”, and Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything” ft. Kacey Musgraves in the top five.
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