Over on the Billboard 200, Young Thug scores his third #1 album with Punk. That gives Columbia Records a monopoly on the chart’s top three spots with three separate acts, the first time one label has achieved such a feat since Def Jam Music Group did it with Kanye West and Jamie Foxx’s “Gold Digger,” Nickelback’s “Photograph,” and Mariah Carey’s “Shake It Off.” (Today I learned that Nickelback were part of Def Jam Music Group.) The rest of the top 10: Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like” at #4, Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” at #5, the Drake/Future/Young Thug hit “Way 2 Sexy” at #6, Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u” at #7, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” at #8, Sheeran’s “Shivers” at #9, and Doja Cat and SZA’s “Kiss Me More” at #10. The Kid Laroi and Justin Biber’s “Stay” is at #2, followed by last week’s chart-topper “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow at #3. It also debuts at #4 on Billboard‘s Radio Songs chart, the highest-ever debut ranking since the chart’s inception as a measurement of all radio formats in 1998. It’s Adele’s fifth American chart-topper and seventh top-10 hit overall, and according to Billboard it makes the eighth-largest leap from elsewhere on the chart to #1. Now, in its first full week on the charts, the song easily soars to #1.
Last week Adele’s “Easy On Me” debuted at #68 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 after being released just five hours before the end of the tracking period. Acts going that route this year include Michael Bublé (a super deluxe 10th anniversary limited edition box set of Christmas), She & Him (a 10th anniversary deluxe reissue of A Very She & Him Christmas), Ingrid Michaelson (a deluxe Songs For The Season), Billy Idol (a re-release of Happy Holidays with one new song) and Shaggy (a deluxe Christmas In The Islands featuring Shaggy’s new best friend Sting on “Silent Night”). Deluxe, Deluxe, Deluxeįor artists already deep in the Xmas game, one simple way to feed the fan base with fresh yuletide content is releasing a deluxe edition of a pre-existing Christmas release. And the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour will assemble assorted lineups of this moment’s real-deal pop stars including Dua Lipa, Jonas Brothers, Doja Cat, Lil Nas X, and Megan Thee Stallion - supposedly Ed Sheeran too, but again, he has COVID now, so. So is violinist Lindsey Stirling, who is bringing her Christmas Program to cities across North America. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, whose live show is not nearly as rockin’ as that “Carol Of The Bells” would suggest, are back at it. In this post-vaccine world, Christmas tours are back up and running.
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