Members of the Okay-pop group of Stray Children attend the 2024 Met Gala in New York Metropolis. The group’s newest album, ATE, topped the Billboard 200 album chart in its opening week.
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This week’s have a look at the pop charts is highlighted by an enormous second for Okay-pop music — the highest two spots on the Billboard 200 are each occupied by South Korean artists for the primary time ever — in addition to the highest-charting film soundtrack of 2024 up to now. Over on the songs chart, our Very Shaboozey Summer time continues.
TOP ALBUMS
Korean pop music has topped the Billboard 200 albums chart many occasions lately, however this week represents a milestone: For the primary time in chart historical past, Okay-pop artists maintain the chart’s high two spots. With Ate, Stray Children is now the first-ever group to make its debut atop the Billboard 200 with its first 5 charting releases, whereas BTS member Jimin enters the Billboard 200 at No. 2 together with his new album, Muse.
It’s a serious present of power for Okay-pop. The competitors is robust — final week’s No. 1, Eminem’s The Loss of life of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace), drops to No. 3, whereas Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division holds regular at No. 4 — although subsequent week’s numbers shall be important, given the frequency with which Okay-pop albums drop down the charts after sturdy debuts. (Final week’s large Okay-pop debut, Enhypen’s Romance: Untold, plunged from No. 2 to No. 21 this week.)
The opposite debut on this week’s Prime 10 marks a milestone of its personal: The country-laden 29-song soundtrack to the blockbuster catastrophe film Twisters enters the Billboard 200 at No. 7, making it the highest-charting soundtrack of the 12 months up to now — and the primary predominantly country-music soundtrack to hit the Prime 10 since January 2014, when the chart was enriched by the presence of the Duck Dynasty-adjacent vacation album Duck the Halls: A Robertson Household Christmas. (The final country-filled film soundtrack to hit the Prime 10 was the Gwyneth Paltrow automobile Nation Robust, which reached No. 6 in 2011.)
Rounding out the Prime 10 are Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene (which drops from No. 3 to No. 5), Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time (from No. 5 to No. 6), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (from No. 7 to No. 8), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Laborious and Gentle (from No. 6 to No. 9) and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (holding at No. 10).
TOP SONGS
Not like the albums chart, the songs chart seems unusually static this week.
For the second week in a row (and third week general), the Scorching 100 is topped by nation singer Shaboozey and his unbeatable “A Bar Music (Tipsy).” The observe appears to be gaining steam as July turns to August: It’s at or close to the highest of many Billboard charts, together with people who monitor radio airplay, streaming, gross sales, nation music, pop music and extra. And it’s solely the second music by a Black artist, after Beyoncé’s “Texas Maintain ’Em” earlier this 12 months, to high each the Scorching 100 and the Scorching Nation Songs charts on Billboard.
“A Bar Music (Tipsy)” isn’t the one nation juggernaut to dominate this week: Publish Malone’s “I Had Some Assist,” which options Morgan Wallen, holds at No. 2 after six weeks atop the chart earlier in the summertime. In reality, the whole Prime 5 is a repeat of final week, with Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” at No. 3, Tommy Richman’s “Million Greenback Child” at No. 4 and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” at No. 5.
The remainder of the Prime 10 provides minimal motion, as effectively: Hozier’s “Too Candy” rises from No. 7 to No. 6, switching locations with Carpenter’s “Please Please Please”; Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” holds at No. 8, marking its twenty eighth straight week within the Prime 10; Benson Boone’s “Lovely Issues” holds at No. 9; and Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” returns to No. 10 after dipping to No. 11 final week. (Roan has a personal-best six songs on this week’s Scorching 100, with notable climbs for “Scorching To Go!,” “Purple Wine Supernova,” “Pink Pony Membership,” “Informal” and new chart entry “Femininomenon.”)
WORTH NOTING
There’s an alternate universe — maybe one the place it’s nonetheless 2013? — by which Katy Perry’s “Girl’s World” is battling to be the cliché-festooned empowerment anthem of the summer season. Alas, that outpost of the multiverse is nowhere in sight, as Perry’s lavishly dunked-on, co-produced-by-Dr. Luke single plummets following final week’s anemic debut (at No. 63!) and drops off the Scorching 100 completely.
Perry certainly envisioned “Girl’s World” because the soundtrack to a woman-led political rebellion — form of the best way her hit “Roar,” Sara Bareilles’ “Courageous” and Rachel Platten’s “Struggle Music” turned up at Hillary Clinton rallies in 2016. As an alternative, a minimum of for now, the music soundtracking that second is … from 2016, on this case Beyoncé’s “Freedom.” Buoyed by its Beyoncé-approved presence in Kamala Harris’ rallies and marketing campaign advertisements, the music may effectively resurface on the charts in future weeks because the Democratic Nationwide Conference approaches.
