pop charts

The British band hasn’t had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.

Two of 2024’s biggest new hitmakers consolidate their hold on the top of the pop charts, while a pair of stars from a previous generation — Katy Perry and Lady Gaga — both stumble with new work.

This week, the rapper Future hit #1 on Billboard‘s albums chart for a third time in the last six months. Meanwhile, on the songs, chart, stasis is becoming the coin of the realm.

A 10th week at the top of the Billboard pop chart is quite an accomplishment. Before the 2000s, that was the rarest of feats. In the days of streaming though, it’s become more common.

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

It’s still summer, but signs indicate that the season of Taylor Swift’s album chart dominance may be coming to an end. This week’s harbinger: a certain face-tattooed rapper-turned-country star.

After a short vacation from the pinnacle of the albums chart, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department reclaims the throne in a week filled with names and sounds that are awfully familiar.

The latest album by Korean pop group Stray Kids debuted at the top of this week’s Billboard 200 chart and another K-pop sensation, Jimin from BTS, landed at No. 2. Shaboozey keeps the week’s top song.

Every album the rapper has released since 2000 has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) extends his streak. Also: Shaboozey returns to the top of the singles chart.

Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has been the biggest album in the country for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that chart of her career.