Dangerous Bunny on stage in Miami in Might 2024. The Puerto Rican singer’s newest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, topped Billboard‘s album chart this week.
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It may not strictly be a shock that Dangerous Bunny looms massive on this week’s Billboard charts, as his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, in its second week since launch, climbs to No. 1, and three of its songs rank among the many week’s prime 10. But it surely confronted stiff competitors: Taylor Swift gave him a left-field run for his cash on the album chart, whereas the week’s prime music nonetheless belongs to Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, a hard-fought battle for No. 1 got here down to 2 debuts: Lil Child‘s WHAM and Dangerous Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Dangerous Bunny confronted just a few disadvantages — his album got here out on a Sunday with little warning, whereas Lil Child’s report dropped two days earlier and shortly expanded to incorporate a handful of extra tracks — and thus entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2.
This week, WHAM slides from No. 1 to No. 5, whereas Debí Tirar Más Fotos claims the highest spot in its first full week of launch. However Dangerous Bunny’s climb to No. 1 did not come with out fierce competitors. Even with a 67 % improve in Dangerous Bunny’s streaming numbers from week to week, the race for chart dominance got here down to simply 1,000 “equal album models” — that is Billboard‘s metric for the cocktail of gross sales and streaming that informs every week’s charts.
The album at No. 2, with 202,500 equal album models to Dangerous Bunny’s 203,500? That’d be Lover: Dwell From Paris, a 2019 recording of a live performance by none apart from Taylor Swift. (The recording chronicles the final present Swift carried out to advertise her album Lover; an formidable tour was deliberate however canceled as a result of pandemic, paving the way in which for the record-breaking Eras Tour.)
That eight-song stay set had truly charted earlier than, after a restricted vinyl-only launch through Swift’s internet retailer in 2023; it debuted at No. 58 after which instantly dropped off the Billboard 200, making it — till now — the lowest-charting title within the singer’s monumentally profitable catalog.
So how did a two-year-old album containing a five-year-old recording of a stay live performance wind up contending for No. 1 this week, particularly when you think about that it is by no means been accessible on streaming platforms in any respect? Swift made it accessible for buy for a restricted time from her personal internet retailer, as a heart-shaped vinyl LP and a digital obtain, and followers responded.
Now that it is now not accessible for buy — at the very least for the second — search for Lover: Dwell From Paris to vanish from the Billboard charts shortly. However this week’s burst of exercise does give the singer yet one more spherical of bragging rights: Swift has had 20 recordings hit the Billboard 200, and now each one among them has hit the highest 20. Eighteen of them have hit the highest 10, with solely The Taylor Swift Vacation Assortment and Converse Now: World Tour Dwell CD + DVD developing brief.
Do not be too shocked if these albums sooner or later get heart-shaped, Goal-exclusive, “Taylor’s Model”-branded vinyl editions, simply to assist her full the twentyfecta.
TOP SONGS
Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” continues to fend off all challengers atop the Billboard 100, because the music holds at No. 1 for a 3rd consecutive week. However there’s loads of motion to report, as Dangerous Bunny’s dominance — and the aforementioned 67 % improve in streaming of his new album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos — shakes up this week’s chart.
Final week, all 17 of the songs on Dangerous Bunny’s album hit the Billboard Sizzling 100 singles chart, although none of them cracked the highest 10. That adjustments dramatically this week, as each music from Debí Tirar Más Fotos climbs, in a number of circumstances dramatically. “DTMF,” for instance, zooms from No. 38 to No. 2. “Baile Inolvidable” rises from No. 28 to No. 3. “Nuevayol” rounds out his appearances within the prime 10, because it speeds from No. 27 to No. 8. Dangerous Bunny has now charted 13 Spanish-language songs within the prime 10 — that is probably the most non-English-language hits for any artist, ever.
The sudden introduction of three new Dangerous Bunny songs has naturally created a little bit of a shakeup within the prime 10, as a number of long-running standbys tumble: Shaboozey‘s “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” will get crowded out of the No. 2 spot and slides to No. 4; Billie Eilish‘s “Birds of a Feather” plunges from No. 3 to No. 7 and Teddy Swims‘ “Lose Management” fades from No. 6 to No. 9.
However two newer songs are clearly gaining floor — and stand to climb additional as soon as Dangerous Bunny’s streaming surge subsides. One is Kendrick Lamar‘s “Luther (feat. SZA),” which has confirmed to be GNX‘s most sturdy single; it is the one music within the prime 10 not by Dangerous Bunny to rise this week. (Lamar is a seven-time nominee on the Grammy Awards on Feb. 2, and he’ll carry out on the Tremendous Bowl per week later, so he is extraordinarily well-positioned to stay round on the charts for the foreseeable future.)
The opposite music that is booming proper now’s “APT.,” which holds at No. 5. The music, by BLACKPINK‘s ROSÉ and Bruno Mars, appears primed to develop into one among 2025’s signature hits. Simply have a look at the three songs instantly forward of it on the chart: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” is, for all that music’s charms, lengthy overdue to start its sluggish chart descent. Dangerous Bunny’s “DTMF” and “Baile Inolvidable” are driving excessive off a post-release streaming surge that is certain to subside within the days to return.
In the meantime, “APT.” is the week’s top-selling music. It is gaining floor on the radio charts, whereas many of the tracks forward of it signify the fossilized stays of 2023 and 2024 — stuff like Benson Boone‘s “Lovely Issues,” Hozier‘s “Too Candy” and Swims’ “Lose Management.” And on streaming, “APT.” is firmly within the prime 10, pushed down solely as a result of The Dangerous Bunny Impact. The basics of “APT.” are stronger than ever, so do not be shocked if Bruno Mars and his collaborators wind up holding down the Sizzling 100’s prime two songs within the weeks to return.
WORTH NOTING
Let’s shut out with another notice about Bruno Mars — who, it must be famous, can be nominated for 2 main Grammy Awards this 12 months. (“Die With a Smile” is up for music of the 12 months and pop duo/group efficiency.)
As “Die With a Smile” holds at No. 1 for a 3rd week, Mars has now, cumulatively, been the proprietor of the nation’s prime music for 37 weeks — a complete that seems more likely to rise as “Die With a Smile” dominates, “APT.” looms and an as-yet-unannounced full-length album finally/inevitably drops. That whole pulls him right into a tie for the eighth-most weeks at No. 1 for any artist in Billboard Sizzling 100 historical past. Additionally with 37 weeks at No. 1? Michael Jackson — although, to be truthful to Jackson, that whole excludes his work within the Jackson 5. Left in Mars’ mud with a mere, piddling 36 weeks? Taylor Swift.
As soon as he surpasses MJ, Mars will nonetheless have a methods to go if he needs to maintain climbing the all-timers record. Listed below are the seven acts who’ve posted probably the most weeks at No. 1, in ascending order:
7. Beyoncé, 46 weeks. The Grammy-winningest Grammy winner ever to win a Grammy, Beyoncé has posted nearly a whole calendar 12 months at No. 1 over the course of her profession, and that is not counting her work in Future’s Youngster.
6. Usher, 47 weeks. Final 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl headliner is working neck-and-neck with Queen Bey.
5. Boyz II Males, 50 weeks. Two of the longest-running chart-toppers of all time — “One Candy Day” and “Finish of the Highway” — account for 29 of these 50 weeks.
4. Drake, 56 weeks. If we have been counting songs about Drake, he’d be doing even higher!
3. The Beatles, 59 weeks. The Beatles, it seems, are very talked-about. Who knew?
2. Rihanna, 60 weeks. One other latest Tremendous Bowl headliner. Simply assume what number of extra weeks she might spend atop the chart if she’d simply launch a brand new report…
1. Mariah Carey, 97 weeks. If you happen to have been born earlier than 1990, when “Imaginative and prescient of Love” grew to become her first chart-topper, then practically two full years of your life have been spent with a Mariah Carey music at No. 1. “All I Need for Christmas Is You” (18 weeks and counting) and “One Candy Day” (her collaboration with the aforementioned Boyz II Males) account for 34 of these 97 weeks on their very own. Extremely, she’d nonetheless be the chart queen even with out them.
