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Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE MAY 24, 2021 Page 1 of 30 INSIDE Olivia Rodrigo Scores Second • J. Cole Collects Sixth No. 1 Album Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 With on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘The Off-Season’ Debut of ‘Good 4 U’ • Universal Music’s BY GARY TRUST New Policy Presents a Speed Bump for livia Rodrigo notches her second No. 1 ficial audio and official video), radio airplay and sales Royalties Sales on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, data. All charts (dated May 29) will update on Bill- • Bruno Mars as “Good 4 U” soars in at the summit. board.com tomorrow (May 25). For all chart news, you Sells Part of Song It follows her smash “Drivers License,” can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Catalog to Warner Owhich reigned for eight weeks beginning upon Twitter and Instagram. Chappell Music its debut in January. “Good 4 U,” released on Geffen/Interscope Records, • Inside Track: UMG’s Both songs, as well as “Deja Vu,” which opened at is the 1,124th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year archives, Potential US Investor, its No. 8 Hot 100 high in April, are from Rodrigo’s and the 53rd to enter on top. Here’s a deeper dive FTC Knocks Back debut album Sour, (May 21) and due into its dominant debut. Ticketmaster Probe released Friday on next week’s Billboard 200 chart. Notably, the set is Streams, sales & airplay: Following its May 14 re- • Here Are All the first debut album with two No. 1 Hot 100 debuts. lease, “Good 4 U” drew 43.2 million U.S. streams and the Winners From Plus, J. Cole’s “my.life,” with 21 Savage and Morray, sold 12,000 downloads in the week ending May 20, the 2021 Billboard launches at No. 2 on the Hot 100, marking J. Cole’s according to MRC Data. It also attracted 3.8 million Music Awards highest career rank, as he posts a record-tying four radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending • The Weeknd, simultaneous top 10 debuts. All four tracks are from May 23. BTS & Other his album The Off-Season, which bounds in at No. The track debuts atop the Streaming Songs chart, Record-Setters on this week’s Billboard 200. where it’s Rodrigo’s second leader, after “Drivers at 2021 Billboard 1 Music Awards Notably, the five songs debuting in the Hot 100’s License” ruled for four weeks, and starts at No. 5 top 10 mark a new weekly high in the chart’s history, on Digital Song Sales. While it falls shy so far of the • Apple, Epic Grilled besting the mark of four in a single frame previously all-genre Radio Songs chart, the track opens at No. 33 by Antitrust Judge at accomplished three times. on the survey, which measures plays on App Store Trial Pop Airplay The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (of- (continued) TOTAL IMMERSION ESSENTIAL ANALYSIS of the latest business topics and trends formulated to give industry players the competitive advantage in a rapidly changing market. EXCLUSIVE QUARTERLY REPORTS that deliver in-depth, holistic reporting; case studies; and custom data designed to serve the industry. A DEEP DIVE LIBRARY stocked with intelligence on fan data, SUBSCRIBE TO BILLBOARD PRO FOR song catalog sales, TV synchs, Africa’s burgeoning music ACCESS TO NEW REPORTS business and the gaming industry’s embrace of artists. 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No. 1: Billboard awards editor and Chart following Drake (July 14, 2018), Lil Wayne Two No. 1s from a debut album: Both Beat founder Paul Grein notes that (Oct. 13, 2018) and Juice WRLD (July 25, “Good 4 U” and “Drivers License” are from Rodrigo’s Sour makes history as the first 2020). Rodrigo’s debut album Sour, released May debut album to include two songs that Meanwhile, with “my.life,” 21 Savage 21. It’s the first debut studio set to spin off have entered the Hot 100 at No. 1, thanks to scores his fourth Hot 100 top 10 and Morray a pair of Hot 100 No. 1s since Macklemore “Drivers License” and now “Good 4 U.” The earns his first. Thanks to “pride.is.the.devil,” & Ryan Lewis’ 2012 LP The Heist yielded only previous albums to house two tracks Lil Baby logs his seventh top 10. “Thrift Shop,” featuring Wanz, and “Can’t that each premiered on top were by then- “my.life” opens at No. 1 on Hot R&B/ Hold Us,” featuring Ray Dalton, in 2013. well-established stars: Mariah Carey’s Day- Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs, both Among women, Sour is the first debut dream (“Fantasy” and “One Sweet Day,” with of which use the same methodology as the album to generate two Hot 100 No. 1s since Boyz II Men, in 1995-96); Drake’s Scorpi- Hot 100. It’s the first No. 1 on each genre Lady Gaga (Rodrigo’s Interscope label- on (“God’s Plan” and “Nice for What,” 2018); chart for J. Cole and Morray and the second mate) arrived with 2008’s The Fame, which and Grande’s Thank U, Next (“Thank U, on each list for 21 Savage, following his produced the leaders “Just Dance,” featuring Next” and “7 Rings,” 2018-19). Those were, featured turn on Post Malone’s “Rockstar” Colby O’Donis, and “Poker Face” (as well as in each case, those artists’ fifth proper LPs. in 2017-18. the top 10s “LoveGame” and “Paparazzi”). J. Cole’s “my.life,” with 21 Savage and Back on the Hot 100, Rodrigo’s No. 1 de- As Sour has yet to debut on the Billboard Morray, vaults in at No. 2 on the Hot 100, but with “Good 4 U” and J. Cole’s quartet of 200, where it will enter on next week’s, with 41.1 million streams, 1.3 million in new top 10s make for a new weekly-record June 5-dated chart, it’s the first album with airplay audience and 2,800 sold. five concurrent top 10 debuts. Previously, two Hot 100 No. 1s before its Billboard 200 J. Cole achieves his highest Hot 100 rank, as many as four songs entered in the top 10 debut since Drake’s Scorpion, which bowed besting the No. 4 peak of “Middle Child” in together three times, in the frames noted atop the July 14, 2018, chart after its tracks February 2019. He ups his count to 10 career above by Drake, Lil Wayne and Juice WRLD. “God’s Plan” and “Nice for What” had top 10s, as he also debuts with “amari” at Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Dua already led the Hot 100. (Scorpion’s third No. 5, led by its 37.8 million streams; “pride. Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, dips No. 1, “In My Feelings,” topped the Hot 100 is.the.devil,” with Lil Baby, at No. 7 (35.1 mil- to No. 3 from its No. 2 high and “Leave the beginning the week after the set started on lion); and “95.south” at No. 8 (34 million). J. Door Open” by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno the Billboard 200.) Cole’s four new Hot 100 top 10s are all from Mars and Anderson .Paak, falls to No. 4 a Meanwhile, in the digital era (since the ad- his new Billboard 200 No. 1 The Off-Season. week after adding its second week at No. vent of downloads and streaming), in which The set joins the ranks of albums with at 1. The latter logs a sixth week atop Radio multiple songs are regularly released before least five Hot 100 top 10s each as, a week Songs (89.9 million, up 3%), while rul- AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE.