The Weeknd performs onstage throughout the 67th GRAMMY Awards.
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As anticipated, The Weeknd‘s new album Hurry Up Tomorrow debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, whereas Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars‘ “Die With a Smile” holds off a brand new Morgan Wallen observe to steer the Scorching 100. Elsewhere, the Grammys’ grubby little fingerprints are throughout Billboard‘s greatest charts, because the night time’s breakout winners — Beyoncé, Chappell Roan, Doechii and others — submit big chart beneficial properties.
TOP ALBUMS
The Weeknd is among the twenty first century’s most dependable hitmakers, and he is spent months rolling out singles from his new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. So it is no shock that the file has had a dominant first week, because it enters this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1. The truth is, its streaming numbers alone can be sufficient to land it on high of the chart — and its gross sales numbers greater than doubled its streaming numbers. It is the largest week an album has had since Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Division final spring.
The Weeknd and his workforce labored laborious to run up the rating. Hurry Up Tomorrow was out there in quite a lot of bodily codecs (CD, vinyl, cassette, deluxe field units and signed editions) and deep-discounted digital variations. And this yr The Weeknd ended his Grammys boycott — launched within the wake of the 2021 awards, during which he obtained zero nominations for one in every of 2020’s most profitable albums — so as to carry out a shock medley of “Cry for Me” and “Timeless (feat. Playboi Carti)” throughout the telecast, simply two days after Hurry Up Tomorrow‘s launch.
The gambit clearly paid off: “Cry for Me” debuts on this week’s Scorching 100 at No. 12, whereas “Timeless” leaps from No. 18 to No. 7. And Hurry Up Tomorrow is No. 1 by a large margin, greater than quintupling the mixed sales-and-streaming numbers posted by the album at No. 2, Unhealthy Bunny‘s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which had held down the highest spot as not too long ago as final week.
All three of final week’s high 10 debuts — Teddy Swims‘ I’ve Tried The whole lot However Remedy (Half 2), Kane Brown‘s The Excessive Highway and Central Cee‘s Cannot Rush Greatness — take massive tumbles this time round, to No. 22, No. 32 and No. 49, respectively. Taking their place within the high 10 are The Weeknd and two different artists with sturdy presences on the Grammys telecast: greatest new artist winner Chappell Roan, whose The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess leaps from No. 14 to No. 6, and Taylor Swift, who did not win any awards however was an omnipresent face within the crowd. The Tortured Poets Division climbs from No. 11 to No. 9.
TOP SONGS
Final week, Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars’ blockbuster duet “Die With a Smile” noticed its four-week reign at No. 1 finish, due to the chart-topping debut of “4X4,” by the rapper Travis Scott. This week, “Die With a Smile” returns to the highest of the charts for a fifth now-nonconsecutive week, whereas “4X4” free-falls all the best way to No. 57. Scott had had 5 songs hit No. 1 in his phenomenally profitable profession, however he is by no means had one spend greater than a single week on the high of the Scorching 100.
Although it could not fairly crack the highest spot, one other debut replaces “4X4” within the high 10, and it is by one other chart heavyweight. Morgan Wallen’s new single “I am the Downside,” the primary single from a forthcoming album bearing the identical title, debuts at No. 2. Wallen’s songs have a tendency to stay round longer than Scott’s: The nation singer nonetheless has three different songs within the high 30 (“Love Someone,” the Put up Malone collaboration “I Had Some Assist” and “Smile”), so “I am the Downside” appears destined to stay round for some time.
Standard suspects spherical out the highest 10, together with one extraordinarily venerable track: Benson Boone‘s “Lovely Issues,” which leaps from No. 15 to No. 9 — in its 54th week on the Scorching 100 — on the energy of his gymnastic efficiency on the Grammys. Talking of which…
WORTH NOTING
It is change into a typical chorus, each awards season, for somebody or different to declare that entertainment-industry honors just like the Grammys do not matter. However, simply because the Oscars can drive a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} in field workplace, the Grammys have a clear-cut affect on the cocktail of gross sales, airplay and streaming that drives the Billboard charts.
A couple of examples of the “Grammy bump” have already popped up above. The Weeknd would definitely have hit No. 1 with or with out his Grammy-night medley — it actually did not damage — however would “Lovely Issues” be again within the high 10? The album that spawned it, Fireworks & Rollerblades, leaps from No. 49 to No. 23, too.
As famous above, Chappell Roan’s album returned to the highest 10 on the energy of her Grammy efficiency — in addition to her greatest new artist win and the viral speech that adopted. “Pink Pony Membership,” which she carried out on the present, leaps from No. 45 to a brand new peak at No. 18, whereas “Good Luck, Babe!” rebounds from No. 30 to No. 23. Roan’s Grammy bump is simple.
Different Grammy standouts soared this week:
- Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us” received file and track of the yr, and now jumps from No. 29 to No. 15. (Subsequent week, we’ll see how his songs carry out on the charts within the wake of Lamar’s headlining efficiency within the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.)
- Doechii, who received greatest rap album for Alligator Bites By no means Heal, was one of many night time’s viral performers, and the charts bear that out. Her track “Denial Is a River” leaps from No. 55 to a brand new peak at No. 27, whereas the album blazes from No. 62 to No. 14.
- Billie Eilish has already been floating round close to the highest of the charts for ages, however “Birds of a Feather” — the track she carried out early within the telecast — climbs from No. 7 to No. 4.
- We’re many months faraway from Brat Summer time, however Charli xcx‘s album zips from No. 52 to No. 26 on the Billboard 200.
- Woman Gaga had to purchase advert time to get the track heard on the Grammys’ telecast — she and Bruno Mars carried out The Mamas and the Papas‘ “California Dreamin'” as a substitute — however her new single, “Abracadabra,” debuts at No. 29.
- Lastly, Beyoncé’s long-awaited, first-ever win for album of the yr was certain to kick-start the chart run of Cowboy Carter, which had been hovering within the Billboard 200’s decrease areas — and even slid off the chart fully final week. This week, it re-enters at No. 19.