The soundtrack to this summer time’s Netflix juggernaut KPop Demon Hunters lastly hits No. 1 in its twelfth week on the Billboard 200.
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In its twelfth week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters lastly hits No. 1 — within the course of displacing Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, which drops to No. 2. Elsewhere on the charts, Justin Bieber zooms again into the highest 10 because of a deluxe version, sombr’s debut makes a transfer and Hamilton’s decade-celebrating victory lap pays chart dividends.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, Sabrina Carpenter’s new album Man’s Greatest Good friend not solely debuted atop the Billboard 200, but in addition helped ship its predecessor (final 12 months’s Quick n’ Candy) careening again into the highest 10. This week, the preliminary sugar excessive wears off only a bit, as Man’s Greatest Good friend slips to No. 2 and Quick n’ Candy drifts again all the way down to No. 11.
Changing Man’s Greatest Good friend within the high spot? Why, it is the soundtrack to this summer time’s Netflix juggernaut KPop Demon Hunters, which lastly hits No. 1 in its twelfth week on the Billboard 200. A lot of the soundtrack’s chart presence has been a product of streaming, nevertheless it’s lastly beginning to profit from the discharge of a bodily CD — to not point out a deluxe reissue that is loaded with bonus tracks (sing-alongs, instrumentals, a cappella variations, the works). With only some weeks left till Taylor Swift’s The Lifetime of a Showgirl begins vaporizing every little thing in its path, KPop Demon Hunters can ceaselessly name itself a chart-topper.
Elsewhere within the high 10, Justin Bieber advantages from a deluxe reissue of his personal, as SWAG — which he lately expanded from 21 to 44 tracks — leaps from No. 17 to No. 4. The brand new songs technically belong to a bundle dubbed SWAG II, however for chart functions, all of it feeds the chart beast often known as SWAG. In contrast to KPop Demon Hunters, SWAG has by no means hit No. 1 (it debuted at No. 2 a pair months in the past), however a minimum of it is again within the high 5.
A extra modestly sized album joins SWAG/SWAG II in crashing the highest 10: sombr’s I Barely Know Her ticks up from No. 12 to No. 10 in its third week on the Billboard 200. Given how typically albums peak at their debut chart place, it speaks to sombr’s momentum that he is solely now cracking the highest 10 — thanks, a minimum of somewhat bit, to his efficiency finally week’s MTV Video Music Awards.
TOP SONGS
There’s not a ton of earth-shattering information on this week’s Sizzling 100 singles chart: HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from KPop Demon Hunters, continues to lock down the highest spot for a fifth nonconsecutive week, whereas the soundtrack itself as soon as once more locations 4 songs within the high 10 concurrently. (Due to Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop,” it is acquired three of the week’s high 5 songs.)
In any other case, this week’s high 10 appears to be like a good bit like final week’s, albeit with one notable exception: Thanks partly to the streaming enhance it acquired upon the discharge of SWAG’s expanded version, Justin Bieber’s “Daisies” rises a spot to No. 10.
The tune with which it swaps locations? That’d be Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management,” which — a minimum of for the second — ends its run within the high 10 at a record-demolishing 77 weeks. In second place is Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy),” with 66 weeks, which ought to present a touch of the bigger theme in play: Yearlong runs within the high 10 had been completely unheard-of previous to the streaming period. (By the way, “A Bar Tune” holds at No. 16 in its 74th week on the Sizzling 100.)
Swims must console himself with the extension of one other all-time report. Previous to “Lose Management,” the longest-ever run within the Sizzling 100 belonged to Glass Animals’ 2020 earworm “Warmth Waves,” which charted for 91 depressing weeks. This week, by comparability, “Lose Management” notches its 108th week on the Sizzling 100.
WORTH NOTING
Talking of unkillable popular culture phenomena, one thing’s happening with the 2015 authentic solid recording of Hamilton. The Broadway-and-beyond stage phenomenon has skilled chart booms prior to now: It is risen as excessive as No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart, throughout a run that is now hit its 520th week — or, for many who want their milestones rounder than that, precisely 10 years.
This week, Hamilton rises from No. 33 to No. 13, thanks partly to that 10-year anniversary. In an effort to each acknowledge and monetize the milestone, Walt Disney Photos launched a theatrical model of Hamilton — the identical recording that dropped by way of Disney+ again in 2020 — on Sept. 5. The theatrical launch debuted at No. 2 (behind The Conjuring: Final Rites) and has grossed greater than $15 million, which is not unhealthy for a filmed efficiency that is been extensively obtainable for years.
America has undergone a collection of profound political shifts since Hamilton debuted on Broadway 10 years in the past, and critics have continued to reassess the work, its politics and its blind spots. However, on the identical time, audiences have not stopped embracing the musical’s blockbuster solid album, to the purpose the place it is presently and improbably the thirteenth hottest album within the nation a full decade after it got here into existence.
