This week’s top 10 songs and albums on the Billboard charts (09/10 issue).
Hot 100
01. (01) The Chainsmokers – “Closer” ft. Halsey (*2 weeks*)
02. (03) Major Lazer – “Cold Water” ft. Justin Bieber & MØ
03. (02) Sia – “Cheap Thrills” ft. Sean Paul
04. (04) twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
05. (06) twenty one pilots – “Ride”
06. (06) Calvin Harris – “This Is What You Came For” ft. Rihanna
07. (08) The Chainsmokers – “Don’t Let Me Down” ft. Daya
08. (07) Drake – “One Dance” ft. Wizkid & Kyla
09. (10) Adele – “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”
10. (12) Shawn Mendes – “Treat You Better”
As “Closer” remains at the top for a second week with steady increases in points (in particular 143,000 downloads sold, up 23% and 28.6 million streams, up 24%), twenty one pilots post two of their songs in the top 5 this week. It hadn’t happened since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis did it with “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us” in 2013.
Shawn Mendes reaches the top 10 this week with “Treat You Better”(64,000 in digital sales). It’s Mendes’ 2nd top 10 hit following “Stitches,” which peaked at #4.
Billboard 200
01. (–) Frank Ocean – Blonde
02. (02) Drake – VIEWS
03. (01) Soundtrack – Suicide Squad: The Album
04. (–) Tory Lanez – I Told You
05. (–) Lindsey Sterling – Brave Enough
06. (05) twenty one pilots – Blurryface
07. (08) Adele – 25
08. (09) Rihanna – ANTI
09. (06) DJ Khaled – Major Key
10. (11) Broadway Cast – Hamilton: An American Musical
Frank Ocean debuts at #1 with Blonde, the album sold exclusively as a body of work on iTunes and available for streaming only at Apple Music. Blonde totaled 232,000 copies sold, the third largest debut of 2016 (behind Drake and Beyoncé respectively) and was the second most-streamed album of the week, behind Drake’s Views.
Emerging R&B singer Tory Lanez debuts at #4 with I Told You, which sold 32,000 copies. Lindsey Sterling’s Brave Enough is the new entry at #5 with 45,000 copies sold. Dolly Parton misses the top 10 at #11 with her new album Pure & Simple. The album is, however, top 10 in album sales (20,000 sold).
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
01. (01) Drake – “Controlla” (*4 weeks*)
02. (02) Rihanna – “Needed Me”
03. (03) DJ Khaled – “For Free” ft. Drake
04. (04) Drake – “One Dance” ft. Wizkid & Kyla
05. (05) Usher – “No Limit” ft. Young Thug
06. (07) Tory Lanez – “Luv”
07. (08) Dae Dae – “Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)
08. (09) DJ Khaled – “I Got the Keys” ft. Jay Z & Future
09. (14) DJ Drama – “Wishing” ft. Chris Brown, Skeme & Lyquin
10. (12) Kanye West – “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1”
Kanye West earns his first top 10 in quite a while with the Life of Pablo single “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1.” The song is the first of the album’s tracks to gain enough traction at radio to reach the top portions of the charts.
Beyoncé’s “Hold Up” advances to the top 30, jumping to #29 this week.