Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
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Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE JUNE 28, 2021 Page 1 of 24 INSIDE Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ Returns to • BTS’ ‘Butter’ Leads Hot 100 for Fifth No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart Week, Dua Lipa’s ‘Levitating’ Becomes BY KEITH CAULFIELD Most-Heard Radio Hit livia Rodrigo’s Sour returns to No. 1 on five frames (charts dated Jan. 23 – Feb. 20). (It’s worth • Executive of the the Billboard 200 chart for a second total noting that Dangerous had 30 tracks aiding its SEA Week: Motown Records Chairman/ week, as the album steps 3-1 in its fifth and TEA units, while Sour only has 11.) CEO Ethiopia week on the list. It earned 105,000 equiva- Polo G’s Hall of Fame falls 1-2 in its second week Habtemariam Olent album units in the U.S. in the week ending June on the Billboard 200 with 65,000 equivalent album 24 (down 14%), according to MRC Data. The album units (down 54%). Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s former • Will Avatars Kill The Radio Stars? debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated June 5. leader The Voice of the Heroes former rises 4-3 with Inside Today’s Virtual The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular 57,000 (down 21%). Migos’ Culture III dips 2-4 with Artist Record Labels albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric 54,000 units (down 58%). Wallen’s Dangerous: The consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Double Album is a non-mover at No. 5 with 49,000 • eOne’s Gina Miller Is Teaching Nashville Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums units (down 2%). How to Improve Its (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each Singer-songwriter H.E.R. collects her first top C+ Grade In Equality unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Back of My sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 Mind bows at No. 6 with 36,000 equivalent album • Global Dance Music Industry’s paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise a Value Slides to streams generated by songs from an album. The new little over 29,500 (equaling 39.62 million on-demand 10-Year Low: 2021 July 3, 2021-dated chart (where Sour returns to No. 1) streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise IMS Business Report will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on June 29. 5,500 and TEA units comprise 1,000 units. The top • Roblox and Twitch For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboard- 10 arrival continues a banner year for the artist, Are Gaming the charts on both Twitter and Instagram. who won the Academy Award for best original song System Against Sour is the second album in 2021 to earn in excess in April, and took home two more Grammy Awards, Songwriters of 100,000 units in each of its first five weeks, follow- upping her total Grammy total to four. (Guest Op-Ed) ing Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, Though Back of My Mind is billed as H.E.R.’s debut which also collected 100,000-plus weeks in its first (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. 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Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia rises 11-7 on Fifth Week, Dua The track posts a fifth week atop the Digi- the new Billboard 200 with 32,000 equiva- tal Song Sales chart, rebounds 24-18 lent album units earned (down 5%), Money- Lipa’s ‘Levitating’ on Streaming Songs and rises 25-22 on bagg Yo’s former No. 1 A Gangsta’s Pain ris- Radio Songs. es 9-8 with 31,000 units (down 9%), Bo Becomes Most- Sales for “Butter” in its fifth week reflect Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) falls 7-9 availability for its original and instrumental with 30,000 units (down 18%) and J. Cole’s Heard Radio Hit versions released May 21; a “Hotter” remix former leader The Off-Season holds at No. 10 released May 28; “Cooler” and “Sweeter” with nearly 30,000 (down 13%). BY GARY TRUST remixes released June 4; and an “alternate single cover” digital single released June TS’ “Butter” tallies a fifth week 24 in the group’s webstore (sparking the at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot song’s top Sales Gainer award on the Hot 100 songs chart, encompassing 100 this week), all discounted to 69 cents its entire run on the chart so far, throughout their availability. Two other Bdating to its debut in the top spot. versions on sale via BTS’ U.S. webstore, a Plus, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featur- 7-inch vinyl single, for $7.98, and a cassette ing DaBaby, at No. 3 on the Hot 100 after single, for $6.98, are scheduled to count for reaching No. 2, takes over as the most-heard next week’s charts, dated July 10, a week song on U.S. airwaves, hitting No. 1 on later than originally expected due to a shift the Radio Songs chart. in their shipping schedules. The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. stream- Notably, “Butter” has sold at least 100,000 ing (official audio and official video), radio in each of its first five weeks (128,400, after airplay and sales data. All charts (dated July 111,400, 138,400, 140,200 and, in its debut 3) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow week, 242,800). It’s the first song to link (June 29). For all chart news, you can follow such a streak since Luis Fonsi and Daddy @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Yankee’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Twitter and Instagram. Bieber, cleared 100,000 in 12 consecutive “Butter,” released on HYBE/BigHit weeks in May-August 2017. “Butter” is the Music/Columbia Records, drew 12.4 million first song to sell more than 100,000 in each AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS Congratulations, 2021 BILLBOARD COUNTRY POWER PLAYERS Including our very own Diane Pearson and Lori Badgett. Diane Pearson Lori Badgett SVP and Team Leader SVP and Team Leader Entertainment Division, Entertainment Division, Nashville Nashville Discover The way up® at cnb.com. City National Bank Member FDIC. City National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. ©2021 City National Bank. All Rights Reserved. 431479 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 13, 2020 | PAGE Page 4 5 OF of 1924 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] IN BRIEF SamHunt’s Southside Rules Top Country of itsA firstlbu fivems; weeks of releaseBrett since EdY oungDua Lipa’s ‘Catc “Levitating,”h’-es featuring Fifth DaBaby, Grande’s Airplay “Save Your Tears” is steady at No. Sheeran’s “Shape of You,” which did so in its holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching 7, after two weeks at No. 1; and Lil Nas X’s first five framesLea inder; March-April Travis 2017. No.Denning 2, as it ascends to No. Makes 1 on Radio Songs, History former one-week leader “Montero (Call Me Meanwhile, “Butter” has spent its first with 80.7 million in audience, down 1% (its by Your Name)” rises 9-8. five weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1. Of the 54 second-best weekly total, after reaching Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Rodri- Samtitles Hunt that ’shave secondlaunched studio full-length, at No. 1, “Butter” and first in over81.1 five million years, Southsidea week earlier). sales Lipa (up 21%) lands in theher tracking go’s week. “Deja On CountryVu” rebounds Airplay, 10-9, it hops after 18-15 reaching (11.9 mil- (MCAis just Nashville/Universal the 11th to spend Music at least Group its firstNashville), five debutssecond at No. Radio1 on Billboard Songs’s leader, lion audienceafter “Don’t impressions, No.up 16%). 3, and Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut in the Topweeks Country on the Albums chart chartat the dated summit. April It’s18. 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