Future (seen right here in 2022) has launched three mixtapes since April of this yr which have all debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s album chart. Solely two different acts have put as many albums on the prime of the chart in a six month span earlier than.
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This week’s Billboard Scorching 100 singles chart presents extra of the identical — Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” holds at No. 1 for a whopping twelfth nonconsecutive week — however there’s main volatility atop the albums chart. Final week’s No. 1 album disappears from the Billboard 200 fully, making room for rapper Future, whose new Mixtape Pluto debuts atop the chart, making it his third new album to prime the Billboard 200 this yr.
TOP ALBUMS
On final week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, Travis Scott’s 2014 mixtape Days Earlier than Rodeo raced from No. 106 to No. 1 on the energy of its long-awaited vinyl launch. This week, with out the advantage of that vinyl surge, it plunges once more — dropping from No. 1 out of the Billboard 200 altogether — whereas one other rapper, Future, takes his place at No. 1.
Mixtape Pluto is Future’s third album of 2024, following We Don’t Belief You and We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You. These two collaborations with Metro Boomin every debuted at No. 1 simply three weeks aside again in April; the previous report’s track “Like That” really kicked off this yr’s ramped-up beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Naturally, three chart-topping data in six months places Future in choose firm: Solely two acts have duplicated that feat within the final 60 years, specifically The Beatles (in 1965-66) and… the forged of Glee, which pulled it off within the span of simply two months again in 2010.
Whereas we’re speaking milestones, Mixtape Pluto is Future’s eleventh No. 1 album, which ties him for fifth place all-time with Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and the rapper previously generally known as Kanye West. (Drake has 13 No. 1s, Taylor Swift and Jay-Z every have 14 and the aforementioned Beatles maintain the report with 19.)
This week, Future’s success comes on the expense of pop star Chappell Roan, who’d made a severe bid for No. 1 together with the one-year anniversary of The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’ launch. The album obtained 4 new variant editions on vinyl — and one on cassette — in a push to goose its gross sales. The bid labored up to some extent, as she bought roughly 50,000 vinyl copies, but it surely was solely sufficient to elevate her from No. 3 to her prior chart peak of No. 2, a place she held for 2 weeks in August, behind Taylor Swift after which Submit Malone.
Rounding out the highest 5 are Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy (swapping spots with Midwest Princess to land at No. 3), Submit Malone’s F-1 Trillion (holding at No. 4) and Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time (holding at No. 5). There are two chart debuts within the backside half of the highest 10 — Katy Perry’s 143 at No. 6 and Lil Tecca’s Plan A at No. 9 — whereas three outdated reliables spherical out the record: Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division (from No. 6 to No. 7), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Delicate (holding at No. 8) and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (from No. 9 to No. 10).
TOP SONGS
There’ve been plenty of latest weeks with little motion on the Scorching 100 singles chart, however that is getting ridiculous: This week’s prime 10 seems completely an identical to final week’s prime 10 at first look, besides if you discover that two of Sabrina Carpenter’s three hit singles (“Please Please Please” and “Style”) swap locations at No. 8 and No. 9, respectively. That’s it!
Positive, there are minor, iterative milestones to debate. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy),” which holds at No. 1 for a twelfth nonconsecutive week, is now tied for third-most weeks at No. 1 for any track this decade. Morgan Wallen’s “Final Night time” was No. 1 for 16 weeks simply final yr, whereas Harry Kinds’ “As It Was” topped the chart for 15 weeks in 2022. As for the track whose run of weeks atop the chart this decade ties “A Bar Track (Tipsy),” right here’s a touch: It could effectively hit No. 1 once more, beginning later this yr. (Okay, right here’s one other trace: It’s Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You.” That track has really been No. 1 for 14 weeks in all, however solely 12 of them befell throughout this decade.)
Carpenter has hit a contemporary milestone of her personal: She’s now the one solo girl ever to land three songs within the prime 10 concurrently for 5 consecutive weeks. (Cardi B as soon as did it 4 weeks in a row.) Along with “Please Please Please” and “Style,” “Espresso” holds at No. 3.
The remainder of the highest 10 is similar because it ever was — and, close to as I can inform, ever shall be: Submit Malone’s “I Had Some Assist,” that includes Morgan Wallen, is No. 2; Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” holds at No. 4; and Bruno Mars and Woman Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” sits at No. 5 but once more. Talking of “but once more,” Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” (No. 6), Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” (No. 7) and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” (No. 10) are additionally sedentary this week.
Additionally, although none of its songs hit the highest 10, Future’s Mixtape Pluto makes its presence felt throughout this week’s Scorching 100: Each one among its 17 songs has crashed the chart, starting from No. 21 to No. 85.
WORTH NOTING
For instance simply how stagnant the Billboard Scorching 100 has gotten close to the highest, right here’s the highest 10 for the week of June 1:
1. Submit Malone that includes Morgan Wallen, “I Had Some Assist”
2. Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”
3. Tommy Richman, “Million Greenback Child”
4. Shaboozey, “A Bar Track (Tipsy)”
5. Billie Eilish, “Lunch”
6. Sabrina Carpenter, “Espresso”
7. Teddy Swims, “Lose Management”
8. Benson Boone, “Stunning Issues”
9. Hozier, “Too Candy”
10. Taylor Swift that includes Submit Malone, “Fortnight”
Right here we’re, 19 weeks later, and eight of these 10 songs are nonetheless within the prime 13. “Stunning Issues,” “Million Greenback Child” and “Too Candy” have been hovering between 11 and 13 for weeks. And, whereas “Lunch” and “Fortnight” have slid significantly farther, the albums that spawned them stay within the prime 10; these tracks have merely been overshadowed by subsequent singles (“Birds of a Feather” and “I Can Do It With a Damaged Coronary heart,” respectively).
Think about this: Since that June 1 chart, solely eight songs have entered the highest 10 for the primary time. Zach Bryan’s “Pink Skies” had a short top-10 run in June, peaking at No. 6. Eminem’s “Houdini” bounced on and off the chart beginning in June, peaking at No. 2. Morgan Wallen’s “Lies Lies Lies” had a one-week cameo within the prime 10 in July, peaking at No. 7. The remaining 5 tracks — “Birds of a Feather,” “Please Please Please,” “Die With a Smile,” “Style” and “Good Luck, Babe!” — are nonetheless there. That… is just not loads of chart motion in 4 months.
For many who search one thing contemporary and modern — one thing never-before-heard — on the prime of the pop charts, take solace: If final yr’s charts are any indication, we’re simply eight quick weeks from the triumphant return of Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree.”
