Another week at No. 1 for Shaboozey’s ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ as it joins an exclusive club – NPR | Music

Shaboozey, seen right here at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York, has spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the pop chart along with his first hit, the smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”

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The Billboard Hot 100 is trapped in some sort of purgatory, as it’s topped by the identical 10 songs as final week, albeit in a special order. A beneficiary of this stagnation is the music that’s at No. 1 for a ninth consecutive week and tenth total: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” In the method, it joins a notable club. Over on the albums chart, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet holds at No. 1 for a 3rd straight week, the highest six stay the identical, and notable debuts embody albums from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, nation legend George Strait and … Paris Hilton.

TOP ALBUMS

You can normally kind the entries on any given Billboard 200 albums chart into two sorts of data: 1) mainstays that linger and linger, generally for years on finish; and a couple of) one-, two- or three-week wonders that debut excessive, solely to plummet shortly thereafter. All however one entry on this week’s top 10 is firmly entrenched, to the purpose the place the highest six titles reside at the precise spots they held final week: Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is No. 1 for the third week in a row, adopted by Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft. The subsequent few titles are on the rise — that’d be Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene (No. 8 to No. 7), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (No. 9 to No. 8) and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (No. 11 to No. 9) — however they’re probably not “rising” a lot as “filling the vacuum left as last week’s debuts plunge.”

Plunging how steeply, you ask? Well, the Okay-pop lady group LE SSERAFIM’s Crazy EP drops from No. 7 to No. 54, whereas Destroy Lonely’s Love Lasts Forever crashes from No. 10 all the best way all the way down to No. 118. A crueler observer would possibly make a joke about “lasting forever” right here; thank goodness you’re in such tender, empathetic fingers.

With that dichotomy established, it’s laborious to get too connected to this week’s debuts, which start at No. 10 with Luck and Strange, the primary solo album from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour since 2015. Lord is aware of Pink Floyd’s albums have been identified to linger on the charts for some time, so possibly he’s in it for the lengthy haul.

From there, George Strait’s Cowboys and Dreamers enters the chart at No. 14; it’s the thirty first studio album by the nation legend, who’s racked up dozens of platinum data in his illustrious profession, so it’d be silly to write down him off, both. (His 2004 best-hits assortment, 50 Number Ones — sure, he’s had that many chart-topping nation singles, after which some — remains to be floating round, at No. 121.)

Four extra wildly totally different albums enter this week’s Billboard 200 within the prime 50. Tzuyu, of the Okay-pop group Twice, is at No. 19 with abouTZU: The 1st Mini Album. Jessie Murph, who acquired a outstanding showcase on final week’s VMAs, is at No. 24 with That Ain’t No Man That’s the Devil. Paris Hilton (!!!) is at No. 38 along with her second album, Infinite Icon (launched 18 years after her debut). Finally, LL Cool J, who additionally carried out at the VMAs, is at No. 50 with The FORCE.

TOP SONGS

Once once more, there’s little movement to talk of in this week’s Hot 100 prime 10; a couple of entries slide up or down, however the songs themselves stay the identical. The headline right here is that Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” has entered an exclusive club: It’s one in all 45 songs in Hot 100 historical past — as in, going all the best way again to August 1958 — to prime the chart for at least 10 weeks.

Looking over the complete list of songs to get pleasure from that distinction, it’s laborious to not decide up on the truth that this type of longevity was far much less frequent than it’s grow to be lately. In reality, previous to 1992, the record contained solely two songs — Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” in 1977 and Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical” in 1982 — and people two songs “only” topped the chart for 10 weeks every. (Oddly sufficient, the record doubled in ’92, as Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” held the No. 1 spot for 13 and 14 weeks, respectively.)

In the final decade, although, a seemingly contradictory phenomenon has occurred: There’s extra new music to select from — and extra methods to eat it — than ever, and but it’s gotten tougher to dislodge dominant songs from the highest of the charts. Just final 12 months, Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” sat at No. 1 for 16 weeks; that’s the second-longest run of all time, behind solely Lil Nas X’s 2019 run with “Old Town Road,” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus. If you observed that each of these songs are at least nation-music-adjoining, keep in mind that it weren’t for Shaboozey, Wallen’s duet with Post Malone, “I Had Some Help,” could be giving “Last Night” and “Old Town Road” a run for their cash. Country music continues to do large enterprise on the pop charts.

Speaking of which, “I Had Some Help” holds at No. 2 this week; it’s adopted by one other maintain at No. 3, for Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars climb from No. 6 to No. 4 with “Die With a Smile,” whereas Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” rises from No. 7 to No. 5. Carpenter nonetheless has three songs within the Top 10, however “Taste” dips from No. 5 to No. 6 and “Please Please Please” drops from No. 4 to No. 8. Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” ascends from No. 8 to No. 7, whereas two chart mainstays spherical out the chart by holding regular: Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” is at No. 9, whereas Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” is at No. 10.

WORTH NOTING

Seven years after it started an indefinite hiatus following the loss of life of singer Chester Bennington, Linkin Park not too long ago introduced that it’s gotten again collectively and recorded new music with two new members, together with singer Emily Armstrong. A brand new album, From Zero, is due out Nov. 15, and its first single (“The Emptiness Machine”) enters this week’s Hot 100 at No. 21.

If you’re trying for extra indicators of the general public’s curiosity in Linkin Park, look no additional than the Billboard 200, the place the band’s first two albums are on the rise — 2003’s Meteora climbs from No. 62 to No. 47, whereas 2000’s Hybrid Theory re-enters the chart at No. 51 — and its 2024 best hits set Papercuts re-enters the chart at No. 119.

It stays to be seen how a lot of the surge is pushed by pleasure vs. curiosity vs. nostalgia, however it bodes nicely for From Zero’s launch in a pair months.

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