Taylor Swift performs onstage throughout the European leg of her Eras Tour on July 5 in Amsterdam.
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This week’s take a look at the pop charts finds Taylor Swift again on the prime of the Billboard 200 for a thirteenth nonconsecutive week — an indication of each her endurance and a dearth of main new releases. Elsewhere, nation music rises and Ok-pop falls, whereas the songs chart has nice information for you should you’re a fan of both Shaboozey or stasis.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, the Billboard 200’s two prime spots have been held by Ok-pop titans: Stray Children’ Ate and Jimin’s Muse made their chart debuts at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. It was a serious milestone for Ok-pop, which had by no means locked down the highest two till that second. The milestone, it seems, was short-lived: This week, Stray Children fell from No. 1 to a still-strong No. 6, whereas Jimin dropped from No. 2 to No. 17.
With final week’s debuts fading, the summer season doldrums underway and no juggernauts getting into this week’s chart — the loftiest debut belongs to Ice Spice’s Y2K! at No. 18 — the perennial powerhouses have settled again into their ordinary spots at or close to the highest of the chart.
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, which topped the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks earlier within the spring and summer season, jumps again to No. 1 after two weeks at No. 4, extending a number of of Swift’s all-time data: It’s posted probably the most weeks at No. 1 of any Swift album and it extends Swift’s document of most total weeks at No. 1 for any solo artist, with 82. (Elvis Presley, at No. 2, is a relative pauper amongst solo acts with 67; although not a solo act, The Beatles prime them each, holding the general document with 132.)
Provided that Swift’s fortunate quantity is famously 13, it’s an enormous week for her, even when, total, it feels mildly anticlimactic for these of us who make a sport of watching the charts. However the metrics that go into figuring out chart place — a mixture of airplay, streaming, gross sales, social media and extra — counsel that this was only a gradual week throughout.
One upside of every week with out fireworks is that the chart does present a way of the summer season’s most sturdy hits. Fueled by the slide of Stray Children and Jimin, amongst others, Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time leaps from No. 6 to No. 2, Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene climbs from No. 5 to No. 3, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess hits a brand new chart peak because it zooms up from No. 8 to No. 4, and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Delicate rounds out the High 5 with a climb from No. 9.
Rounding out the High 10 after Stray Children at No. 6, Eminem’s The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) sinks from No. 3 to No. 7, the Twisters soundtrack dips from No. 7 to No. 8, Charli XCX’s Brat climbs 5 spots to reenter the High 10 at No. 9, and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season stays immovable at No. 10.
TOP SONGS
Talking of immovable…
Final week, the highest 5 was a precise duplicate of the week earlier than; this week, solely the highest three stays the identical. That counts as progress, proper?
For the third week in a row (and fourth total), Shaboozey’s “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” sits atop the Billboard Scorching 100, adopted by Submit Malone’s “I Had Some Assist” — which options Morgan Wallen — and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” Notably for what’s in any other case been a gradual week on the charts, “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” continues to be experiencing progress on the Billboard charts that monitor radio airplay, which means that the tune received’t be simple to dislodge within the weeks to come back.
With a whopping six entries which have beforehand topped the chart this 12 months — and three of the remaining 4 nonetheless rising — the complete High 10 is actually a rundown of “tune of the summer season” finalists: Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” climbs from No. 5 to No. 4, switching spots with Tommy Richman’s “Million Greenback Child,” whereas Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” climbs from No. 8 to No. 6 and Hozier’s “Too Candy” dips from No. 6 to No. 7. Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” hits a brand new peak, climbing from No. 10 to No. 8; Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” drops from No. 7 to No. 9 and Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” jumps up a spot to reenter the highest 10.
WORTH NOTING
It is likely to be simple to overlook amid Swift’s dominance, however nation music is having one other huge summer season — particularly in case your title is Morgan Wallen, Shaboozey or Zach Bryan. Simply take a look at the Billboard 200 and the titles effervescent just below the High 10: Wallen’s newest album is at No. 2, as famous above, however his earlier document, Harmful: The Double Album, climbs from No. 13 to No. 11 after greater than three years on the chart. Shaboozey is proving to be no one-song surprise, as The place I’ve Been, Isn’t The place I’m Going jumps from No. 18 to No. 13 after reaching as excessive as No. 5 earlier within the 12 months. And Zach Bryan really has three albums climbing within the High 20, as his self-titled 2023 document rises from No. 19 to No. 14 and 2022’s American Heartbreak jumps from No. 23 to No. 19.
It’s an identical story over on The Scorching 100, the place the one songs to debut within the High 50 come within the type of nation duets: Submit Malone and Luke Combs’ “Man For That” enters the chart at No. 17, whereas mgk and Jelly Roll’s “Lonely Highway” makes its debut at No. 33. And songs by Wallen, Combs and Bryan are strewn everywhere in the decrease half of the High 20.
In the meantime, different like-minded acts are rising: The Crimson Clay Strays’ Made By These Moments enters the Billboard 200 at No. 29, with “Wanna Be Beloved” serving to the band graze The Scorching 100 — at No. 100! — for under the second time. And none of that is even taking into account what’s just about sure to be one of many 12 months’s largest nation albums: Submit Malone’s star-packed F-1 Trillion, which comes out August 16.
