Taylor Swift, seen onstage in Amsterdam in July throughout 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 observe, “Not Like Us,” has rebounded to the highest spot on Billboard’s Scorching 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 observe “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 Okay-Dot are at the moment anyplace within the Scorching 100; his collaboration with rapper Sexyy Pink, “U My Every thing,” 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 Track (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
Nicely, 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 whole spent 19 weeks within the prime spot.
In an enormous upward sweep, one other up to date prince of nation, Zach Bryan, moved from seventeenth place final week to No. 2 together with his album The Nice American Bar Scene. (Keep in mind how we stated this seemed prefer it was going to be an enormous summer time for nation music?)
Seventeen of the album’s 19 tracks have additionally made it into the Scorching 100. Why the massive leap this week? The rationale why Bar Scene didn’t chart greater final week is that was solely commercially out there for in the future 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 Onerous and Mushy 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 total story of this album’s successes to date. Bryan’s album is at the moment atop quite a lot of Billboard charts: High Streaming Albums, High Nation Albums, High Rock Albums, High Rock & Various 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 track “Sandpaper,” The Boss has made his debut on the Scorching Nation Songs chart, at No. 26. “Sandpaper” additionally landed at No. 76 on the Scorching 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 quite a lot of effort and a imaginative and prescient, a gifted singer-songwriter can accomplish something!
