Taylor Swift, seen onstage in Amsterdam in July in the course of the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour, has damaged one other report along with her newest album The Tortured Poets Division.
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This week, Kendrick Lamar enjoys a resurgence: His very catchy Drake diss monitor, “Not Like Us,” has rebounded to the highest spot on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 singles chart for the primary time since its launch week again in Could. Taylor Swift has outdone her personal report on the Billboard 200 albums chart and a gifted upstart named Bruce Springsteen has made a chart debut. (For actual.)
TOP SONGS
It was in all probability the discharge of the intelligent official video on the Fourth of July that did it: Kendrick Lamar’s sneering Drake diss monitor “Not Like Us” is again at No. 1, 9 weeks after it debuted within the prime spot.
Since then, it has been meandering between the second and sixth place. In contrast, none of Drake’s personal diss tracks towards Ok-Dot are at the moment anyplace within the Sizzling 100; his collaboration with rapper Sexyy Crimson, “U My The whole lot,” is at the moment at No. 76. So far as sheer recognition goes, Kendrick is the clear winner on this spherical of beef.
In the meantime: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” has dipped again right down to No. 2 after one week within the prime spot, adopted by Submit Malone’s “I Had Some Assist,” that includes Morgan Wallen, at No. 3, Tommy Richman’s “Million Greenback Child” at No. 4 and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” rounding out the highest 5 (her follow-up, “Please Please Please,” is at No. 6).
TOP ALBUMS
Effectively, people, she did it: With The Tortured Poets Division at No. 1 for a twelfth consecutive week, Taylor Swift has set one other chart milestone. Not solely has Tortured Poets beat the 11-week report of two of Swift’s different albums (1989 and Fearless), however it’s now the one album by a feminine artist to debut within the prime spot and stay there for thus lengthy. (The earlier report was held by Whitney Houston, for her 1987 album Whitney.)
As Billboard notes, solely two different albums have remained at No. 1 for his or her first 12 weeks after being launched: Stevie Surprise’s iconic Songs within the Key of Life, which was launched in 1976 and spent 14 weeks in first place, and present nation star Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time, which in complete spent 19 weeks within the prime spot.
In a giant upward sweep, one other modern prince of nation, Zach Bryan, moved from seventeenth place final week to No. 2 along with his album The Nice American Bar Scene. (Bear in mind how we mentioned this regarded prefer it was going to be a giant summer season for nation music?)
Seventeen of the album’s 19 tracks have additionally made it into the Sizzling 100. Why the massive bounce this week? The explanation why Bar Scene didn’t chart larger final week is that was solely commercially out there for at some point of the final chart-tracking interval.
Rounding out the highest 5 on the Billboard 200: Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time has tripped right down to No. 3, adopted by Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Laborious and Gentle and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
WORTH NOTING
Final week’s Billboard 200 chart place for The Nice American Bar Scene doesn’t inform the complete story of this album’s successes thus far. Bryan’s album is at the moment atop numerous Billboard charts: Prime Streaming Albums, Prime Nation Albums, Prime Rock Albums, Prime Rock & Different Albums and Americana/People Albums. Bryan’s multi-genre dominance additionally helped has additionally made some room to introduce one other singer-songwriter to the nation music chart: Bruce Springsteen. (Bruce Springsteen! In 2024! 49 years after his first Billboard chart look with 1975’s “Born to Run”!)
Performing as a featured artist on Bryan’s music “Sandpaper,” The Boss has made his debut on the Sizzling Nation Songs chart, at No. 26. “Sandpaper” additionally landed at No. 76 on the Sizzling 100 this week — Springsteen’s first look on the general singles chart since “Engaged on a Dream” in 2009. It simply goes to point out: With a number of effort and a imaginative and prescient, a gifted singer-songwriter can accomplish something!
