Ok-pop surges on the album chart, and Shaboozey ties an all-time document : NPR

You need milestones? We have milestones, beginning with Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” matching the longest-ever run at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, 19 weeks. Over on the albums chart too, with three Ok-pop information within the prime 10 concurrently for the primary time ever. And BTS has a brand new feather in its cap that’ll be awfully exhausting for different teams — Ok-pop or in any other case — to duplicate going ahead.

TOP ALBUMS

Some weeks supply little in the way in which of chart motion, as juggernauts (your Taylor Swifts, your Beyoncés, your Morgan Wallens) lock down the highest spots for weeks and even months at a time. And a few weeks are like this one, the place half of the highest 10 turns over and new entries rule the day.

Amid all that volatility, there are three Ok-pop information within the Billboard 200 prime 10 for the primary time ever. At No. 1, the boy band Ateez banks its sixth consecutive prime 10 album with GOLDEN HOUR: Half.2, the success of which is derived virtually fully from gross sales (179,000 copies offered) moderately than airplay or streaming. BTS’s Jin debuts at No. 4 together with his first solo album, Joyful. And the boy band ENHYPEN returns to the Billboard 200 at No. 7 with ROMANCE: UNTOLD, which debuted at No. 2 in July, dropped off the chart as summer season rolled on and now returns, because of a deluxe reissue that features two new bonus tracks.

There’s one other Ok-pop milestone to be present in that paragraph: With the arrival of Joyful at No. 4, all seven members of BTS have now charted a solo album within the Billboard prime 10. The members of the group have been on a deliberate break as they pursue solo careers and full their necessary army service in South Korea, however they’re scheduled to reunite subsequent 12 months, making BTS appear like one of many surest bets for chart success in 2025.

Talking of certain bets, Linkin Park returns to the highest 10 with its first album for the reason that loss of life of singer Chester Bennington in 2017. From Zero, which includes a new drummer (Colin Brittain) and singer (Emily Armstrong), debuts at No. 2. And the Puerto Rican star Rauw Alejandro has scored his first-ever prime 10 album, as Cosa Nuestra debuts at No. 6.

The quintet of recent albums forces the holdovers within the prime 10 to slip right down to make room: Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia (from No. 1 to No. 3); Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy (from No. 3 to No. 5); Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us (from No. 4 to No. 8); Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Smooth (from No. 5 to No. 9); and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (from No. 6 to No. 10). Naturally, some will rebound subsequent week because the mud settles, however they’re nonetheless going to must make room for Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, which dropped final Friday and is prone to carve out a big footprint when subsequent week’s chart rolls round.

TOP SONGS

He did it, y’all: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” has formally tied the all-time document of 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, set in 2019 by Lil Nas X’s “Previous City Highway (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus).” Contemplating that the previous few weeks of Lil Nas X’s run have been boosted by star-studded remixes — keep in mind the “Seoul City Highway Remix” with RM from BTS? — it is outstanding to see Shaboozey pull off 19 weeks with no featured visitor vocalists.

Not like Lil Nas X’s record-setting run, Shaboozey’s journey on the prime has been interrupted. Twice, in actual fact: “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” was bumped from the highest spot by one-week boomlets for Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” (which surged upon the discharge of its official video) and Morgan Wallen’s “Love Anyone” (which debuted at No. 1 a number of weeks in the past earlier than sliding to the again half of the highest 10). These momentary displacements may show consequential to Shaboozey’s probabilities of breaking the document outright, as a result of there is a winter storm brewing courtesy of Mariah Carey, Brenda Lee, Wham! and firm. (Extra on that under.)

If there may be certainly yet one more Christmas-less week at No. 1, “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” has a stable shot at stretching its run to twenty weeks, as a result of it is nonetheless managing to carry off a crop of sturdy perennials. In truth, this week’s prime 10 is just about similar to final week’s: Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars nonetheless cannot crack the highest spot collectively, as “Die With a Smile” holds at No. 2 but once more, whereas Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” sits entrenched at No. 3. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” is someway surging in its forty fifth week within the prime 10 — that is the second-most weeks of all time, behind The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” with 57 — because it rises from No. 5 to No. 4, switching locations with Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.”

Then, it is a complete lotta stasis: Gracie Abrams’ “That is So True,” Put up Malone’s “I Had Some Assist” (that includes Morgan Wallen), Sabrina Carpenter’s “Style,” Benson Boone’s “Stunning Issues” and Wallen’s “Love Anyone” spherical out the highest 10, in that precise order, for a second straight week.

However not for lengthy…

WORTH NOTING

…as a result of, look, the “winter is coming” gags write themselves. Should you’ve grown weary of this explicit iteration of the highest 10 singles within the U.S., you will not have to attend for much longer for them to get replaced en masse by one other gaggle of acquainted faces.

Final week, we acquired our first trace of the deluge to return, as Wham!’s 1984 staple “Final Christmas” — maybe deriving a little bit of a lift from its fortieth anniversary — re-entered the Sizzling 100 at No. 38. This week, it climbs to No. 24, and it is introduced a good bit of firm alongside for the journey: Mariah Carey’s “All I Need For Christmas Is You” (No. 16), Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” (No. 23), Andy Williams’ “It is the Most Great Time of the Yr” (No. 47) and Burl Ives’ “Holly Jolly Christmas” (No. 48) all re-enter the chart this week. (This is a Sizzling 100 bookkeeping curiosity: Billboard solely permits outdated vacation songs to return to the chart in the event that they’re within the prime 50; in different phrases, the one method a vacation track can chart between No. 51 and No. 100 is when it hits the Sizzling 100 for the primary time.)

It is change into one thing of a vacation cliché to view Mariah Carey’s 1994 staple “All I Need for Christmas Is You” — which celebrates a round-numbered anniversary of its personal this 12 months — because the default vacation chart-topper. However within the 2023 vacation season, fueled partly by a brand new video (and help from TikTok customers), Brenda Lee’s 1958 track “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” really took the highest spot for a number of weeks. So anticipate a contemporary spherical of jockeying for supremacy this 12 months, together with a possible surge for “Final Christmas.”

And, no, none of us are allowed to go on and on about how sick we’re of any of those songs till at the very least, say, December 1. After that, they’re honest recreation. (Lookin’ at you, “Jingle Bell Rock.”)