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Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE APRIL 20, 2020 Page 1 of 27 INSIDE The Weeknd Returns to No. 1 on • The Weeknd Makes Billboard Hot 100, Doja Cat Hits It a Month at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Top 5, Post Malone Ties Top 10 Record Chart • UMG First Quarter BY GARY TRUST Revenues Up 13% as COVID-19 So Far Has The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” rebounds from No. Music/MRC Data. It returns to No. 1, from No. 4, for a ‘Limited Impact’ on 2 to No. 1 the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart to log a third total week atop Digital Song Sales, despite a 1% Vivendi Earnings third total week in the top spot. drop to 21,000 sold in the week ending April 16, and • Concert The track dethrones Drake’s “Toosie Slide,” which holds at No. 3 on Streaming Songs, down 6% to 25.4 Subscriptions, Care dips to No. 2 following its debut at No. 1 a week ago. million U.S. streams in the same span. Packages & More: Plus, Doja Cat notches her first top five Hot 100 hit, The track concurrently rises 2-1 for a third week atop How Indie Promoters as “Say So” jumps 8-5, and Post Malone’s “Circles,” the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and rules Hot Are Weathering the at No. 7, ties the record for the most weeks (33) ever for an eighth frame. (Both rankings employ Crisis R&B Songs spent in the chart’s top 10. the same multi-metric formula as the Hot 100.) • MSG Entertainment Let’s run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, As previously reported, “Lights” parent album After Begins Life as Public which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay Hours spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the Bill- Company, Names and sales data. All charts (dated April 25) will update board 200 chart. CFO on Billboard.com tomorrow (April 21). Drake’s “Toosie Slide” slips from No. 1 to No. 2 on • Will Grammys, With a third week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, “Blind- the Hot 100, while leading Streaming Songs for a sec- Oscars & More Go ing Lights,” released on XO/Republic Records, ties ond week, with 37.2 million streams, down 33% from On in the Next Year “Can’t Feel My Face” (in August-September 2015) for its opening week. It ascends 3-2 on Digital Song Sales, Amid Coronavirus? The Weeknd’s second-longest reign of his five leaders. although with a 37% decline to 16,000 sold, and surges Awards Show Organizers Want to He’s led longer only with “The Hills,” for six weeks (in 22-14 on Radio Songs (47.8 million, up 38%), winning Know Too October-November 2015). the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award. It leads the “Lights” leads the Radio Songs chart for a second multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart for a second week. week, with 108.6 million audience impressions, up Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” holds at No. 3 on the Hot 4%, in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen (continued) ACCESS THE BEST IN MUSIC. A DIGITAL VERSION OF EVERY ISSUE, FEATURING: COVER STORIES . SPECIAL REPORTS . CHARTS . REVIEWS INTERVIEWS . EVENT COVERAGE & MORE AVAILABLE FREE TO CURRENT BILLBOARD SUBSCRIBERS billboard.com/iPad Page 3 of 27 IN BRIEF 100, which it dominated for 11 weeks, and 32, “Closer,” The Chainsmokers feat. billboardcharts on both Twitter and Insta- Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now” is steady at Halsey, 2016-17 gram. And again, be sure to visit Billboard. No. 4, after reaching No. 2. 32, “How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes, 1997- com tomorrow (April 21), when all charts, Doja Cat pounces to her first top five Hot 98 including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will 100 hit, as “Say So” bounds 8-5. It likewise 31, “Uptown Funk!,” Mark Ronson feat. refresh. lifts 8-5 on Radio Songs (78.6 million, up Bruno Mars, 2014-15 14%) and rises 10-8 on Streaming Songs (15.2 30, “Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish, 2019 million, up 4%) and 25-21 Digital Song Sales 30, “Smooth,” Santana feat. Rob Thomas, The Weeknd (6,000, up 1%). 1999-2000 With “Say So” released on RCA Records, Plus, as “Circles” has logged all 33 of its Makes It a Doja Cat is the first woman on the label to weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10, dating to earn a first career top five Hot 100 hit in a its arrival at No. 7 on the Sept. 14, 2019-dat- Month at No. 1 lead role since Sia, whose “Cheap Thrills” ed chart, it matches Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of (featuring Sean Paul) led for four weeks in You” for the most weeks tallied in the region on Billboard 200 August 2016. Prior to Sia, Kesha reigned for from a song’s debut. nine weeks with her debut hit “TiK ToK” in Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Fu- Albums Chart January-February 2010. ture’s “Life Is Good,” featuring Drake, falls Harry Styles’ “Adore You” revisits its No. 6 5-8, after peaking at No. 2 for eight weeks; BY KEITH CAULFIELD Hot 100 high, climbing from No. 7. Justin Bieber’s “Intentions,” featuring Post Malone’s “Circles” descends 6-7 on Quavo, keeps at No. 9, after reaching No. 8; he Weeknd makes it a full month the Hot 100, after notching three weeks at and Billie Eilish’s “Everything I Wanted” is at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as No. 1, and ties the record for the most weeks stationary at No. 10, also after hitting No. 8. his After Hours album holds atop spent in the top 10 in the chart’s 61-year his- Just outside the Hot 100’s top 10, Camila the tally for a fourth straight week. tory, a mark that the rapper-singer already Cabello’s “My Oh My,” featuring DaBaby, TIt has refused to budge from the top spot shared: reaches a new best rank (13-12), as does Lil since its debut at No. 1 a month ago. It’s the Most Weeks in Billboard Hot 100’s Top 10 Mosey’s “Blueberry Faygo” (18-16), along first album to notch four consecutive weeks 33, “Circles,” Post Malone, 2019-20 with two country hits: Gabby Barrett’s “I at No. 1 since Drake’s Scorpion spent its first 33, “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Hope” (20-17) and Blake Shelton and Gwen five weeks at No. 1 in 2018 (July 13-Aug. 11). Spider-Verse),” Post Malone & Swae Lee, Stefani’s “Nobody but You” (24-18). After Hours is now one of five albums to 2018-19 Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard. spend at least four total weeks at No. 1 since 33, “Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 feat. Cardi com this week, and, for all chart news, you 2018. The last album to land four weeks in B, 2018-19 can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard’s Pop total was Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me 33, “Shape of You,” Ed Sheeran, 2017 Shop Podcast and This Week in Billboard for Being Antisocial, which accumulated 32, “Sicko Mode,” Travis Scott, 2018-19 News podcast and follow @billboard and @ four non-consecutive weeks atop the list DECISIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS BILL WITHERS 1938-2020 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there’s always tomorrow Lean on me, when you’re not strong And I’ll be your friend I’ll help you carry on Page 5 of 27 IN BRIEF (Dec. 21, 2019, and then three weeks in chart-topper My Turn is also a non-mover at Madonna’s Hard Candy, which bowed at No. 2020: Jan. 18, Feb. 8 and Feb. 22). No. 4 with 44,000 units (down 7%). 1 on the May 17, 2008 list, and moved 3-8-9 After Hours earned 75,000 equivalent Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG rises one spot before departing the top 10. album units in the U.S. in the week ending to No. 5 with 39,000 equivalent album units The last Warner Records album to April 16 (down 18%), according to Nielsen (down 10%), Post Malone’s former No. 1 notch its first four weeks in the top 10 was Music/MRC Media. Hollywood’s Bleeding climbs 9-6 with 36,000 Michael Bublé’s To Be Loved in 2013. It The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most units (down 2%) and Roddy Ricch’s Please debuted at No. 1 on the May 11, 2013 list, popular albums of the week in the U.S. based Excuse Me for Being Antisocial is stationary and then moved 2-4-8 in its second, third on multi-metric consumption as measured at No. 7 with just under 36,000 units (down and fourth weeks, before leaving the top 10. in equivalent album units. Units comprise 6%). The last Warner Records set by a woman to album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) The Strokes land their fifth top 10 album, spend its first four weeks in the top 10 was and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The as The New Abnormal opens at No. 8 with Madonna’s Hard Candy, which bowed at No. new April 25-dated chart (where After Hours 35,000 equivalent album units earned.