Morgan Wallen
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Welcome to Morgan Wallen Summer time, the place the nation famous person’s new album I am the Drawback reigns but once more. It is all around the Sizzling 100 singles chart, as effectively — three of its songs are nonetheless within the high 5 — at the same time as Alex Warren‘s “Atypical” sits at No. 1 for a second straight week. In the meantime, there is a candy little social-media boomlet price noting, as long-ago chart queen Connie Francis is gathering chart momentum for a track from 1962.
TOP ALBUMS
After a seemingly infinite run of advance singles, it is exhausting to imagine that we’re solely in week three of Morgan Wallen’s chart run for I am the Drawback. The album opened to blockbuster streaming and gross sales numbers — and, in fact, a spot at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — which then dropped a modest 42% week-over-week for the album to simply maintain on to the highest spot in its second go-‘spherical.
This time, the information is even higher, as I am the Drawback drops simply 14%, with the lion’s share of its numbers nonetheless coming from streaming. The album incorporates 37 songs, so there’s plenty of I am the Drawback to stream — however, extra to the purpose, streaming numbers are essential to any album’s chart longevity. Gross sales are nice, however they do not roll over from week to week (so far as the charts are involved), and streaming algorithms have a method of feeding listeners what they’ve already heard. All of which is to say that I am the Drawback is exceedingly probably to hang around within the high 10 for months — and perhaps even years, given the chart longevity of its predecessors. (Wallen’s One Factor at a Time, from 2023, nonetheless sits at No. 6.)
Two new albums debut within the high 5, however they arrive in effectively under I am the Drawback — we’re speaking lower than 20% of its general numbers. (Nonetheless, high 5 is high 5.) The Okay-pop favourite SEVENTEEN, whose albums and EPs routinely storm the highest of the charts, debuts at No. 2 with HAPPY BURSTDAY. However, with nearly all the album’s numbers generated by gross sales — thanks partly to a whopping 14 variant editions on CD — its run within the high 10 will probably be transient.
Debuting at No. 4 — however with higher streaming numbers — is Miley Cyrus‘ One thing Lovely, which is her fifteenth album to hit the highest 10, assuming you depend the work she put out as Hannah Montana again within the day. She launched the same old spherical of vinyl, CD and box-set variants to pump up her first-week numbers, so it will be fascinating to see how far One thing Lovely falls in its second week — particularly because it’s failed, not less than to date, to supply a success wherever close to as gigantic as 2023’s Grammy-winning “Flowers.”
The highest 5 has one different “new” entry, as Taylor Swift‘s 2017 album, Status, zooms from No. 78 to No. 5 within the wake of reports that Swift has acquired the rights to her first six albums. It speaks to the facility of her fan military that “Taylor Swift acquired some excellent news!” is sufficient of a chart catalyst to ship a 2017 album zooming into the highest 5 for the primary time in years.
But it surely additionally speaks to the business’s deep doldrums: Whenever you study the highest 10, you’ve got acquired Morgan Wallen lurching over the town like Godzilla, a pair of debuts that look to be short-timers within the chart’s higher reaches, a second of pleasure for Taylor Swift… after which a handful of the same old suspects (SZA, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, et al.), as they coast on chart momentum, aided by streaming algorithms that feed folks extra of what they’ve already heard.
TOP SONGS
Talking of doldrums, hoo buddy.
Alex Warren’s “Atypical” lastly hit No. 1 final week, which was good timing for the observe’s bid to change into 2025’s “track of the summer time.” And, lo and behold, it repeats at No. 1 this time round. With radio stations nonetheless including the track to their playlists, there’s room for additional progress, which is to say: This track’s gonna be round for some time.
How lengthy, you ask? Actually, taking a look at this week’s high 10, what even is time? Teddy Swims‘ “Lose Management” has been within the Sizzling 100 for an all-time report 94 weeks — with a record-setting 64 of these weeks within the high 10. Shaboozey‘s “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” spends its sixtieth week on the Sizzling 100, holding at No. 6. Benson Boone‘s “Lovely Issues” ticks up a spot to No. 9 in its 71st week on the chart. Nothing’s transferring; it is bleak on the market; rinse, repeat.
However, in fact, Morgan Wallen is aware of no doldrums. Three songs from I am the Drawback stay within the high 5: “What I Need (feat. Tate McRae),” “Simply in Case” and “I am the Drawback.” With the album’s streaming numbers holding as regular as they’re — 26 of I am the Drawback‘s 37 songs are nonetheless within the Sizzling 100 — all three of them are sure to stay round some time.
WORTH NOTING
We could not get many new songs on the highest of the charts — not less than by artists apart from Morgan Wallen — however not less than one previous one is having a second. That’d be “Fairly Little Child,” a Connie Francis observe from 1962.
“Fairly Little Child” wasn’t a success following its preliminary run — the track was by no means even launched as a single, whereas the album that spawned it (Connie Francis Sings ‘Second Hand Love’ & Different Hits) peaked at No. 111 — although Francis herself was a colossal best-seller within the late ’50s and early ’60s. Nonetheless, “Fairly Little Child” is having a second in 2025, because of that almost all mercurial moment-maker, TikTok.
The track hasn’t but cracked the Billboard Sizzling 100, although it is turned up on TikTok and Spotify charts in current weeks. TikTok customers have seen excerpts of the track tens of billions of instances, whereas high-profile content material creators akin to Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner have embraced “Fairly Little Child.”
Better of all, Francis herself is round to benefit from the second. The 87-year-old singer retired years in the past and is not able to embark on a promotional tour, however she’s simply discovered a extra applicable solution to embrace her unlikely success in 2025: Over the weekend, she joined TikTok.
