Saturday, June 16, 2018

Kanye West Crowns Billboard 200 & Post Malone Moves to No. 1 on Hot 100



Kanye West's Ye launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 16), marking his record-tying eighth consecutive leader and sparking his first week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart.

Plus, Post Malone notches his second No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Psycho," featuring Ty Dolla $ign, who earns his first.

1. As West's Ye rules the Billboard 200, all seven songs from the set debut in the Hot 100's top 40. Click here for the rundown.

2. From The Beatles to JAY-Z to Bruce Springsteen and more, West ranks among the acts with the most No. 1 albums in the Billboard 200's history. Click here for a look at the all-time leaders.



3. The soundtrack to The Greatest Showman becomes 2018's first million-selling album in U.S., according to Nielsen Music. Click here for this week's Billboard 200 Chart Moves.


4. Ariana Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry" reaches a milestone and Florida Georgia Line debuts with its new single, "Simple." Click here for this week's Hot 100 Chart Moves.

5. Looking ahead to next week's Billboard 200, Dave Matthews Band's Come Tomorrow is bounding toward a likely No. 1 bow. Click here for the projection.

6. Plus, Kids See Ghosts and Dierks Bentley are aiming to enter in the top three on the Billboard 200 next week. Click here for more details.



7. On next week's Hot 100, Juice WRLD's "Lucid Dreams" could surge to No. 1, powered by its likely jump to No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart. Click here for a deeper dive.

8. This week's Chart Beat Podcast finds hosts Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson time-traveling back 28 years for a countdown of the Hot 100's top 20 this week in 1990, with special guest Per Gessle of Roxette, who reigned that year with its classic ballad "It Must Have Been Love." Click here to listen.

9. On the Pop Shop Podcast, Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson chat with Chromeo about the act's Head Over Heels album, recruiting The-Dream and more. Click here to listen.

10. BTS becomes the first K-pop act to have charted at least two hits on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart, as "Fake Love" debuts. Click here to read about the superstar boy band's latest chart achievement.

11. Weezer's "Africa" and Bad Wolves' "Zombie" are leading rock radio's cover craze. Click here for a look, and listen.

12. You can call him … an unlikely visitor to the Dance/Electronic Album Sales chart, as Paul Simon's Graceland: The Remixes debuts at No. 3. Click here for the story.

13. P!nk's Beautiful Trauma Tour has already earned $100 million and could gross $275 million overall.

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