Sabrina Carpenter, proven right here performs in the course of the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, N.Y., has three hits within the high 10 of the one chart this week. Her album Quick n’ Candy spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the album chart.
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The Billboard charts are topped by two of 2024’s greatest breakthrough artists, as Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” holds at No. 1 on the Scorching 100 — for a thirteenth nonconsecutive week — and Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy returns to the highest of the Billboard 200 albums chart after two weeks away. However a couple of acts with longer chart pedigrees are making their transfer as fall rolls on.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, three new albums stormed onto the highest 10: Future’s Mixtape Pluto (No. 1), Katy Perry’s 143 (No. 6) and Lil Tecca’s Plan A (No. 9). This week, two of these information take precipitous plunges: Perry falls to No. 76 — extra on that under — whereas Tecca drops to No. 63. Such is life for many upper-echelon Billboard 200 debuts.
Future additionally slips — modestly, it seems, as he lands at No. 3 this week — whereas Sabrina Carpenter resumes her place on the high of the chart. Quick n’ Candy climbs from No. 3 again to No. 1 and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess sits at No. 2 for one more week. (She’s now been blocked from No. 1 by 4 completely different artists: Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Put up Malone and Future.) Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time ticks up from No. 5 to No. 4, whereas Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Smooth rises from No. 8 to No. 5. It’s an enormous week throughout for Eilish, who’s reaping the advantages of a current tour launch, in addition to the discharge of an official video for “Birds of a Feather.”
The highest 10’s backside half is filled with previous reliables: Put up Malone’s F-1 Trillion dips from No. 4 to No. 6, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division holds at No. 7, Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbs from No. 10 to No. 8, Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene rises from No. 11 to No. 9 and Morgan Wallen’s Harmful: The Double Album ticks up two spots to No. 10.
In less-auspicious chart information, the brand new album by nation singer Luke Bryan — to not be confused with nation singer Zach Bryan — enters the Billboard 200 at No. 51. Thoughts of a Nation Boy has time to rise, after all, however Bryan’s final album (2020’s Born Right here Dwell Right here Die Right here) hit the highest 5, and he’s landed his final six studio albums within the high 10, with three chart-toppers. Bryan’s nonetheless a reside draw, in addition to a long-running American Idol choose — and “Love You, Miss You, Imply It” is a success on the nation charts — however his first-week numbers look grim this time round.
TOP SONGS
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” stays unstoppable, holding at No. 1 for a twelfth consecutive week (and 13 weeks total). It’s lengthy since cemented its standing as 2024’s greatest chart hit, however extra milestones loom: It’s now had the third-longest chart-topping run of the last decade to date, trailing solely Morgan Wallen’s “Final Night time” (16 weeks final 12 months) and Harry Types’ “As It Was” (15 weeks in 2022). Whilst sturdy competitors emerges this week, it’s entered really choose firm as one in every of solely 16 songs in chart historical past to submit a 13-week run at No. 1.
The remainder of the highest 10 sees a little bit of movement after a couple of weeks of near-total stasis. Buoyed by the discharge of its official video, Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” leaps from No. 6 to a brand new peak at No. 2. And the highest 10 lastly will get a recent debut within the type of The Weeknd and Playboi Carti’s “Timeless” at No. 3. Provided that the music tops this week’s streaming chart, and that it’s already been added to many radio playlists, it guarantees to stay round some time — particularly given the way in which streaming algorithms (and radio stations, for that matter) are likely to feed listeners extra of what they’ve already sought out.
It’s exhausting to think about The Weeknd posting a brand new chart milestone, given how excessive his earlier songs have set the bar, and given the truth that he stays the largest artist on Spotify when it comes to month-to-month listeners. However “Timeless” does mark the best chart debut of any music in his profession. And, sure, that features “Blinding Lights,” which debuted at No. 11 in late 2019 en path to a chart run that spanned an unbelievable 90 weeks — together with a record-setting 57 weeks within the high 10. “Timeless” is The Weeknd’s nineteenth high 10 hit, and the primary from the forthcoming Hurry Up Tomorrow. (The album’s first single, “Dancing within the Flames,” peaked at No. 14 a couple of weeks in the past and now sits at No. 37.)
From there, the highest 10 largely shuffles final week’s deck. Due to the arrival of “Timeless” and the bounce of “Birds of a Feather,” Put up Malone’s “I Had Some Assist,” that includes Morgan Wallen, slides from its long-held No. 2 spot to No. 4. Sabrina Carpenter turns into one in every of solely seven artists ever to put three songs within the high 10 for six straight weeks, as “Espresso” dips from No. 3 to No. 5, “Style” holds at No. 9 and “Please Please Please” slips from No. 8 to No. 10. Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” (No. 5 to No. 6), Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” (No. 4 to No. 7) and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” (No. 7 to No. 8) fill out the remainder of the highest 10.
WORTH NOTING
Luke Bryan isn’t the one veteran chart-topper to expertise a little bit of humbling chart information this week. Woman Gaga’s Harlequin — a jazz- and standards-filled companion album to the maligned supervillain musical Joker: Folie à Deux — enters the Billboard 200 at No. 20, marking the bottom chart peak of any album in Gaga’s discography (excluding remix collections and compilations). Granted, jazz and requirements aren’t usually chart-toppers, however Gaga’s two album-length collaborations with Tony Bennett (2014’s Cheek to Cheek and 2021’s Love for Sale) peaked at No. 1 and No. 8, respectively. As famous above, “Die With a Smile” stays within the high 10, so she’s hardly in free-fall, however October 2024’s box-office and streaming information has not been form to Woman Gaga.
Nor has it been a banner 12 months for one more one in every of Twenty first-century pop music’s most embellished hit-makers. Katy Perry’s new album, 143, has spawned three singles to date, and solely the primary — the dreadful “Girl’s World” — has cracked the Scorching 100, posting a solitary week at No. 63. Now, after a so-so debut at No. 6 final week, 143 tumbles a whopping 70 spots, touchdown at No. 76. There’s nonetheless time for a rebound, particularly as Perry prepares for a world tour in 2025, however momentum isn’t on her facet.
