Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE MAY 10, 2021 Page 1 of 26 INSIDE DJ Khaled Lands Third • The Weeknd & Ariana Grande Hold Atop Hot 100; No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart Billie Eilish, The Kid LAROI & Miley Cyrus With ‘Khaled Khaled’ Hit Top 10 BY KEITH CAULFIELD • TuneCore Owner Believe Begins IPO Process, J Khaled nets his third No. 1 album May 15-dated chart (where Khaled Khaled debuts at With Plans to on the Billboard 200 chart as Khaled No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on Raise €500M Khaled debuts atop the list. May 11. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @ The 14-track album was released on billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. • Streaming Prices, New Revenue & DApril 30 via We the Best/Epic Records and features Of Khaled Khaled’s 93,000 equivalent album units More: 5 Highlights a galaxy of guest stars, ranging from Drake and Jay- earned in the tracking week ending May 6, SEA units From WMG’s Z to Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber. Khaled comprise 76,000 (equaling 106.87 million on-demand Earnings Call Khaled starts with 93,000 equivalent album units streams of the album’s tracks), album sales com- • ‘Vax Live’ Concert earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 6, accord- prise 14,000 and TEA units comprise 3,000. Khaled Raises $302 ing to MRC Data.Khaled Khaled follows DJ Khaled’s Khaled was preceded by a pair of top 10-charting Million, Exceeds previous leaders, Grateful (in 2017) and Major songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, both featuring Vaccine Goal Key (2016), both of which also boasted a bevy of A- Drake: “Popstar” and “Greece,” which reached Nos. 3 • How ‘Vax Live’ list collaborators. and 8, respectively, on the Aug. 1, 2020-dated chart. Came Together The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular The next five albums on the Billboard 200 are all (And Exceeded albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric former No. 1s. Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain slips Its Goals) consumption as measured in equivalent album units. 1-2 in its second week (70,000 equivalent album • How Netflix Series Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums units earned; down 37%), Morgan Wallen’s Dan- — Both Originals (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each gerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 3 & Reruns — Are unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks (53,000; down 2%), Justin Bieber’s Justice rises 5-4 Propelling the Music sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 (42,000; down 12%), the Slime Language 2 project led of Latin Icons paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video by Young Thug falls 2-5 (40,000; down 34%) and Rod Up the Charts streams generated by songs from an album. The new (continued) 250 SPEAKERS FREE FESTIVAL REGISTER TODAY TIMBALAND MERCK MERCURIADIS NILE RODGERS CHRIS BLACKWELL BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE DEBRA RATHWELL Award-Winning Record GRAMMY®-Winning Founder, Singer, Songwriter CEO/Founder ® EVP, Global Touring & Producer, Rapper, DJ, Composer, Producer, Island Records Oscar -Winning Composer Singer, and Songwriter Hipgnosis Songs Ltd. 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Song?” which marked his 16th No. 1 on The album debuted at No. 4 on the April the Country Airplay chart (dated March Hold Atop Hot 11, 2020-dated chart, then spent two more 27) and his second leader on the Hot Coun- weeks in the top 10 (April 18-25) before try Songs chart. 100; Billie Eilish, falling out of the region until the Feb. 27, Country Again (Side A) is the fifth top 10 2021-dated chart, when it began its current album for Rhett, all consecutive, from his The Kid LAROI top 10 streak. debut full-length project It Goes Like This in Future Nostalgia is the only album by a 2013 (which peaked at No. 6). & Miley Cyrus woman in the top 10 this week. It’s just the The 11-track Country Again (Side A) proj- second time in 2021 where the top 10 has ect is the first of a two-part project from Hit Top 10 held just one album by a woman. On the Rhett, with Country Again (Side B) set to Feb. 20-dated list, Ariana Grande’s Posi- arrive later this year. BY GARY TRUST tions was the only set by a leading lady in the top 10. (The last time the top 10 did not he Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s have an album credited to a woman was the “Save Your Tears” spends a second Nov. 7, 2020 chart. It’s worth noting that week at No. 1 on the Billboard week’s top 10 did feature the multi-artist Hot 100 songs chart. The track, original Broadway cast recording of Hamil- Toriginally released solely by The Weeknd on ton: An American Musical, which boasted a his 2020 album After Hours, topped the tally number of female performers.) for the first time a week earlier following Pop Smoke’s former No. 1 Shoot for the the release of its remix with Grande. Stars Aim for the Moon rises 10-8 on the new Plus, Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More,” featur- Billboard 200 with 32,000 equivalent album ing SZA, hits the Hot 100’s top five, rising units earned (down 2%). The Weeknd’s 6-5; Billie Eilish debuts at No. 9 with “Your previous leader After Hours dips 7-9 with Power”; and The Kid LAROI and Miley nearly 32,000 units (down 18%). Cyrus soar from No. 23 to No. 10 with Thomas Rhett rounds out the new top “Without You,” following the arrival of 10 with the No. 10 debut of his latest studio its remix with Cyrus. album Country Again (Side A). Of that sum, The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. stream- SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 19.34 ing (official audio and official video), radio AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS SONG OF THE YEAR SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR CELEBRATE WITH US ..................................................... ­ MUSIC MOVES OUR WORLD ­ BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 13, 2020 | PAGE Page 4 5 OF of 1926 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] IN BRIEF SamHunt’s Southside Rules Top Country airplayA lbuand salesms; data. 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