USA Billboard Report (excerpt) Taylor Swift spends two months atop Billboard 200 Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department holds atop the Billboard 200 chart for an eighth consecutive and total week. The set earned 128,000 equivalent album units earned in the
U.S. in the week ending June 13 (down 14%), according to Luminate. Poets is the first album to spend its first eight weeks at No. 1 since Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a Time led for its first 12 weeks a year ago (March 18-June 3, 2023-dated charts). Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 128,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 104,000 (down 14% — it’s No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for an eighth week; its SEA units equal 135.53 million on-demand official streams of the deluxe edition’s 31 songs), album sales comprise 23,000 (down 13%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 11%). Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft rises 3-2 on the Billboard 200 in its fourth week, matching its debut and peak position, with 106,000 equivalent album units earned (down 9%). Charli XCX achieves her second top 10 on the Billboard 200, and her highest-charting album yet, as Brat debuts at No. 3 with 82,000 equivalent album units earned (also her best week
by units). Of that sum, album sales comprise 45,000 (her largest sales week ever), SEA units comprise 37,000 (equaling 46.72 million on-demand official streams of its deluxe edition’s 18 songs; her biggest streaming week yet) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000. Charli XCX previously visited the top 10 with Crash, which debuted and peaked at No. 7 in 2022.  Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 with 72,000 equivalent album units earned (up 2%). Bon Jovi collects its 14th top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Forever starts at No. 5. The set earned 52,000 equivalent album units, of which album sales comprise 50,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week and debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.31 million on-demand official streams of the 12 songs on the streaming edition of the set) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.  Bon Jovi made its Billboard chart debut just over 40 years ago, when the single “Runaway” debuted on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated Feb. 11, 1984. Two weeks later, the band made its Billboard 200 debut with its self-titled album entering the Feb. 25, 1984-dated list at No. 178, on its way to a No. 43 peak that April. In total, Forever marks the 22nd charting album on the Billboard 200 for Bon Jovi. The band first reached the top 10 in 1986 with Slippery When Wet, their first of six No. 1s. They have notched new top 10s in the 1980s, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s (adding their latest leader with This House Is Not for Sale in 2016) and now the ‘20s. Bon Jovi is the fifth group to achieve a newly-charting top 10 album on the Billboard chart in each of the last five decades, joining AC/DC, Def Leppard, Metallica and U2. Ateez’s Golden Hour: Part.1 falls 2-6 in its second week on the Billboard 200 (45,000 equivalent album units earned, down 66%); Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album slips 6-7 (44,000; up 1%); Noah Kahan’s Stick Season dips 7-8 (42,000; down 1%); and Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going falls 5-9 in its second week (41,000; down 17%). Closing out the top 10 is a new arrival to the region, as Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess pounces 12-10 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (up 26%). The set posted double-digital percentage gains in album sales (8,000; up 87%), streaming equivalent album units (32,000; up 16%) and track equivalent album units (a negligible sum, though up 23%). Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, logs a fifth total and consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The song, Post Malone’s sixth leader and Wallen’s second, is the first to notch at least its first five weeks on the chart at No. 1 since Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” spent its first six weeks on the survey at the summit in January-March 2023. “I Had Some Help,” on Mercury / Republic / Big Loud, adds a fifth week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, with 66.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 12%), 43.3 million official streams (down 5%) and 12,000 sold (down 12%) in the U.S. June 7-13. The collaboration keeps at No. 2 after it led the Streaming Songs chart in its debut week; rises 5-3 on Radio Songs and dips 3-4 after two weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Sabrina Carpenter scores two songs in the Hot 100’s top three – marking her first appearances in the region – as “Please Please Please” debuts at No. 2, becoming her second top 10, and “Espresso” rises to a new No. 3 best. “Please Please Please” opens with 50.3 million streams, 533,000 in airplay audience and 7,000 sold in its first week. “Espresso” drew 47.7 million in radio reach (up 18%), 38.4 million streams (up 27%) and 28,000 in digital and physical sales (up 366%) in the same span. The former was released June 7, alongside its official video starring Carpenter’s boyfriend, Oscar-nominated Saltburn star Barry Keoghan. “Please Please Please” concurrently launches as Carpenter’s first Streaming Songs No. 1 and her second Digital Song Sales top 10 (No. 7), while “Espresso” wins the Hot 100’s top Streaming and Sales Gainer awards. Hozier’s “Too Sweet” holds at No. 7 on the Hot 100, following a week at No. 1 in April, as it becomes his first No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart (70.5 million in audience, up 7%). In his lone prior Radio Songs appearance, he peaked at No. 3 with his breakthrough hit “Take Me to Church” in 2015. Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” ascends 11-9 on the Hot 100. It drew 30.7 million streams (up 8%) and 3.2 million in airplay audience (up 221%) and sold 3,000 (up 9%) in the tracking week. Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” holds at No. 4 after reaching No. 3. Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” slips 3-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2, as it takes top Airplay Gainer honors (46.1 million in audience, up 31%) for a second week. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” descends 5-6 on the Hot 100, after led in its debut week in May. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Eminem’s “Houdini” falls to No. 8 a week after it debuted at No. 2 and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led for a week in March, drops 8-10.​