THAT is popularity, when people are still listening to your music weeks, months after it came out, and it continues to gain a new audience from more casual listeners.Īnd don’t think for a second Billboard is “bias”. They’re the ones who are buying it and listening to it week 1, but regular music listeners aren’t picking up the slack the next week or the week after that like they do with all the aforementioned pop and hip-hop songs that stick around the charts for months.ĭrake’s “God’s Plan” is STILL in the top 10, and “Nice For What” is back at #1. “Kpop” isn’t #1, a few hardcore, very mouthy fans have made it seem like it is even though Kpop basically sucks. So where’s this “Explosion”? Seems more like a small bottle rocket going off during a massive fireworks display of North American pop and hip-hop. Girl’s Generation, EXO, BTOB, Blackpink, or Twice. The other BTS album in this chart is being beaten by a classic rock album that came out nearly 40 years ago, and in a week when none of their members even died. Two spots up at #137 by the way? AC/DC’s Back in Black.
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That’s not a typo, just 31,000 measly units. #10 was Shawn Mendes’ most recent album, notching 31,000 units. This week, we returned to the year 1996 with Dave Matthews Band (YES, Dave Matthews Band) taking the #1 album with just under 300,000 “equivalent albums” moved (this includes streams, they have an algorithm for how many streams equal an album “sale”). We don’t have all the data for the entire chart, but we do have what Billboard’s willing to share, which is the top 10.
Consider how well (or really how poorly) something has to perform to make the top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 in this day and age, when album sales are in the toilet and streaming is supreme. For something considered “popular”, these are pretty weak numbers.