Two Spanish-language albums prime charts for the primary time : NPR

Unhealthy Bunny‘s DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS and Fuerza Regida’s 111XPANTIA maintain down the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on this week’s Billboard 200, making this the primary week in historical past with Spanish-language albums within the chart’s prime two spots. Over on the Sizzling 100 singles chart, Kendrick Lamar‘s “Luther (feat. SZA)” sits at No. 1 for a twelfth straight week, whereas Shaboozey and Teddy Swims both set or lengthen a pair of all-time data.

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Final week, the Swedish hard-rock band Ghost landed its first-ever No. 1 album, as Skeletá debuted within the prime spot. This week, Skeletá drops to No. 58, because it makes means for a brand new milestone: For the primary time within the historical past of the Billboard 200 — which dates all the way in which again to 1956 — Spanish-language albums maintain the chart’s prime two spots.

On prime is a document that is been there earlier than: Unhealthy Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS zips from No. 7 again to No. 1, because of the album’s first-ever launch on vinyl. The Puerto Rican singer made copies out there for almost $30 a pop completely by way of his webstore and shipped almost 48,000 data throughout the chart’s eligibility interval. That was sufficient to ship DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS to No. 1 for a fourth nonconsecutive week.

Although Unhealthy Bunny is not any stranger to No. 1, the album at No. 2 now holds the best chart place within the historical past of regional Mexican music. Fuerza Regida’s 111XPANTIA‘s debut at No. 2 surpasses the mark set by Peso Pluma’s Génesis, which debuted — and peaked — at No. 3 again in 2023. (That album has been on the chart for 98 weeks now, and nonetheless sits at No. 89.)

Fuerza Regida has landed on the Billboard 200 many instances earlier than: 111XPANTIA is its sixth album to crack the chart, with its predecessor (2023’s Pa Las Child’s y Belikeada) reaching No. 14. However that is the primary week in its profession that the California band has reached the highest 10.

Elsewhere on the chart, the standard suspects spherical out the highest 5 — SZA, Morgan Wallen, Kendrick Lamar — whereas rapper Key Glock lands his fourth-ever prime 10 hit, as Glockaveli enters the Billboard 200 at No. 8.

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Over on the Sizzling 100 singles chart, the milestones are all longevity-based. Kendrick Lamar’s “Luther (feat. SZA)” holds off Alex Warren‘s fast-rising “Extraordinary” for one more week, which makes it 12 consecutive weeks for 2025’s largest tune thus far. That streak units a document for [takes deep breath] the longest-ever run at No. 1 by a duet between co-billed solo women and men, breaking its tie with 1997’s “I will Be Lacking You,” which discovered The Now-On-Trial Artist Previously Recognized As Puff Daddy working alongside Religion Evans, with an added help from 112.

Okay, whenever you kind it out like that, it does not seem to be that large a milestone. However on a chart with as little motion as this one, we’ll take what we will get. And 12 weeks at No. 1 is a hell of a run, even within the streaming period.

In any other case, this week’s prime 10 represents a shuffling of final week’s prime 10, albeit with a number of all-time data value noting. For one, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” has simply damaged the document for many weeks within the prime 5 — 45 weeks! — because it surpasses The Weeknd‘s 44 weeks within the prime 5 with “Blinding Lights” again in 2020 and 2021. For an additional, Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” extends its document for the most-ever weeks within the prime 10, with 61. It is now been on the Sizzling 100 for 90 weeks, which locations it only a week away from tying the all-time document set by Glass Animals‘ execrable “Warmth Waves” again in 2021 and 2022 (a.ok.a. the worst years). Even for these whose relationship with “Lose Management” has gone from indifference to Stockholm Syndrome to resentment and again round to indifference, it is gonna really feel good to see “Warmth Waves” erased from the document books.

WORTH NOTING

In assembling its weekly charts, Billboard takes many components into consideration, together with gross sales, streaming, radio airplay and social-media attain by way of apps similar to TikTok. It is a sophisticated method.

With all these components getting into into the equation, it is too simple to lose sight of a further — and downright huge — consider driving an artist’s recognition: touring.

Final 12 months, it was not possible to overlook the superior energy of Taylor Swift as a touring juggernaut. Her Eras Tour did not simply gross billions of {dollars} as she landed most of her albums on the Billboard 200 all 12 months lengthy. She additionally helped spark huge profession progress (and perennial chart placement) for her varied opening acts — Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter and Gracie Abrams amongst them.

In 2025, the significance of touring will be felt within the Billboard 200’s prime 5 — the place blockbuster tourmates Kendrick Lamar and SZA have taken up residence week in and week out — in addition to within the chart’s decrease reaches, the place Beyoncé has been surging within the wake of her Cowboy Carter tour’s launch on April 28. In simply the previous few weeks, the album has risen from No. 193 to No. 64 to No. 54, as followers have attended her reveals, posted to social media and in any other case pushed renewed curiosity within the Grammys’ reigning album of the 12 months.

After all, a lack of touring will be equally consequential. Within the run-up to the long-awaited launch of Bon Iver‘s new album SABLE, fABLE, singer Justin Vernon introduced that he’d forgo touring in 2025, citing a mixture of fatigue and anxiousness round dwell efficiency. The transfer was each comprehensible and admirable: Extra artists ought to have the chance to guard their psychological well being in such a way.

However the lack of touring as a promotional car comes with a price. 4 weeks in the past, SABLE, fABLE debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 11. The next week, it plunged to No. 142. Final week, it fell off the chart completely.