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Justin Bieber's 'Yummy' Launches at Radio, Ahead of Billboard Hot 100 Debut

#JustinBieber #Yummy  #BillboardCharts  The song has drawn airplay on multiple formats since its Friday release. Justin Bieber 's "Yummy" launches on multiple  Billboard  radio airplay charts (dated Jan. 11), following its Jan. 3 release. After its first three days of availability (from its release, on SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun/Def Jam, at midnight ET on Jan. 3 through Jan. 5), the track, Bieber's first solo material since his album  Purpose  in 2015, starts at No. 38 on the all-format  Radio Songs  chart with 26.7 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen Music. "Yummy" also charges onto the  Pop Songs  (No. 22),  Rhythmic Songs  (No. 28) and  Adult Pop Songs  (No. 29) format-specific airplay charts. Boosting the song's profile, participating iHeartMedia-owned stations played it hourly in its first day of release. The track is additionally scoring early support on a sampling of R&B/hip-hop st...

Travis Scott-led 'Jackboys' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200, As Christmas Albums Depart Chart

#TravisScott #Jackboys #BillboardCharts After a week in which  four of the top 10 albums  on the  Billboard 200  chart were Christmas efforts, the list shakes off the season in its top tier, and welcomes a new No. 1 from the  Travis Scott -led  Jackboys  project. The seven-track hip-hop set was released on Dec. 27, 2019, via Cactus Jack/Epic Records, and launches with 154,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 2, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 79,000 were in album sales -- with most of that number owed to sales driven by dozens of merchandise/album bundles sold via Jackboys’ official webstore. Jackboys comprise Scott,  Sheck Wes , Don Toliver and Chase B. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (S...

How Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” Became a Lightning Rod for Race, the Charts, and Country Music

#LilNasXs #OldTownRoad #CountryMusic #BillboardCharts #Rapper Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X is the country-trap star who never was. His viral hit, “Old Town Road,” was removed last week from  Billboard ’s Hot Country Songs chart, after just one week there. But it remains on the Hot 100 chart and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. First came ire from Nashville types—“‘Old Town Road’ is no more country than the Beastie Boys’ ‘High Plains Drifter,’” wrote  Saving Country Music  on March 23—before  Billboard  put its boot down. “Upon further review, it was determined that ‘Old Town Road’ by Lil Nas X does not currently merit inclusion on Billboard’s country charts,”  Billboard  said in a statement to  Rolling Stone . “When determining genres, a few factors are examined, but first and foremost is musical composition. While ‘Old Town Road’ incorporates references to country and cowboy imagery, it does not embrace enough elements of today’s country m...