Taylor Swift's “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, is in its second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs (appropriate given its title).
A week earlier, Swift made history by soaking up the top 14 spots on the Hot 100, all from her new Republic Records LP. Department of Tormented Poetswhich simultaneously adds a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Swift claims three Hot 100 top 10s in the set's second frame, with “Fortnight” joined by “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” at No. 9 and “Down Bad” at No. 10.
Additionally, three acts climb to their first top five appearances on the Hot 100: Tommy Richman's “Million Dollar Baby” debuts at No. 2. Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is 27-3; after starting at No. 36 two weeks earlier. and Sabrina Carpenter's “Espresso” rises 22-4, two weeks after entering the chart at No. 7, becoming her first top 10.
The Hot 100 combines all-genre US streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, with the latter metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers. Digital single sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) websites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated May 11, 2024) will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 7. For all the new charts, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Below is a summary of the Hot 100's most recent top 10s.
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'Fortnight' = 2 Weeks
“Fortnight” spends two weeks atop the Hot 100. The song has amassed 38.2 million official streams (down 50%) and 33.3 million radio impressions (up 7%) and sold 6,000 (down 68%) on USA April 26- May 2.
The single sinks to No. 2 on the Streaming Songs chart and No. 4 on Digital Song Sales, a week after topping each chart, and gains 14-11 on Radio Songs.
(The two-week reign for “Fortnight” follows the equally fitting one-week reign for 1998's No. 1 Barenaked Ladies.)
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Swift Up to 36 Weeks Career at No.1
Swift boasts the ninth-most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 among her top 12 combined, with “Fortnight” moving her out of a tie with Adele, Elton John and Bruno Mars for the time spent at the summit.
Most Weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100:
- 93, Mariah Carey
- 60, Rihanna
- 59, The Beatles
- 56, Drake
- 50, Boyz II Men
- 47, Usher
- 46, Beyoncé
- 37, Michael Jackson
- 36, Taylor Swift
- 34, Adele
- 34, Elton John
- 34, Bruno Mars
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Richman collects
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Tommy Richman scores his first Hot 100 hit as “Million Dollar Baby” lands at No. 2 with 38 million streams, 302,000 in radio audience and 4,000 in sales since its April 26 release after he teased it on TikTok . He scored his only before Advertising sign chart entry as featured on Brent Faiyaz's “Upset” (also featuring Felix), which peaked at Nos. 12 and 33 on the multimetric Hot R&B Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, respectively, last November.
Fueled by his association with the Faiyaz label, Richman marks the highest debut for a first Hot 100 hit by an artist with no prior history on the chart since last August, when fellow Virginian Oliver Anthony Music became the first act that topped the Hot 100. There was no previous chart history as “Rich Men North of Richmond” roared to No. 1.
“Million Dollar Baby” debuts concurrently at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs. (While its raw stream total is the week's second-highest behind “Fortnight,” “Million Dollar Baby” tops Streaming Songs due to weighting applied to all on-demand streams and supporting all titles paid/subscription and ad-supported/radio streams.)
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Shaboozey raises the bar
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Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” jumps 27-3 on the Hot 100 with 35 million streams (up 67%), 1.4 million in radio play (up 741%) and 21,000 sold (up 50%), as wins the chart's top Streaming and Sales Gainer awards. It rebounds for a second week in digital song sales and posts a second frame at the top of the Hot Country Songs multi-metric chart.
The single, which intersperses 2004's No. 2 Hot 100 hit “Tipsy” by J-Kwon, marks the first top 10 on the chart for yet another Virginia-born artist (born Collins Obinna Chibueze).
Shaboozey guests on two tracks on Beyoncé's new LP Cowboy Carter, the pair of which debuted on the Hot 100 in April: “Spaghettii” (also featuring Linda Martell; No. 31 peak) and “Sweet * Honey * Buckiin” (No. 61). He said recently Advertising sign that he's “so happy to have such a powerhouse of an artist choose to make this trip across the country, so it's amazing to be a part of that.”
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The Carpenter stirs up the first top hit
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Sabrina Carpenter's “Espresso” jumps 22-4 on the Hot 100, two weeks after entering the chart at No. 7, becoming her first top 10. The track has garnered 30.8 million streams (up 27%), 13, 9 million in airplay audience (up 73%) and 4,000 sold (up 13%) in the last week of tracking.
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New names in the Top 10 of the Hot 100
Elsewhere in the Hot 100's top 10, Benson Boone's peaking No. 2 “Beautiful Things” rebounds 15-5 and Teddy Swims' former one-week No. 1 “Lose Control” jumps 18-6 as it tops radio songs for a fourth week (70.4 million viewers, up 1%).
Notably, thanks to Richman, Shaboozey, Carpenter, Boone and Teddy Swims, five songs from artists each scoring their first Hot 100 top 10s share space in the region for the first time in nearly two years. On the chart dated June 25, 2022, five such songs ranked at Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 respectively: Kate Bush's “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” Glass Animals' “Heat Waves” , Latto's 'Big Energy', Chencho Corleone's 'Me Porto Bonito' (with Bad Bunny) and Joji's 'Glimpse of Us'.
Hozier's “Too Sweet” jumps 16-7 on the Hot 100, two weeks after peaking at No. 1, as it adds a sixth week each atop the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs polymetric charts.
Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar's former three-week Hot 100 leader, “Like That” charges 17-8 as it rules the Hot Rap Songs polymetric for a sixth week.
Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Swift's “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” falls 3-9 and “Down Bad” sinks 2-10.
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