Taylor Swift’s album The Tortured Poets Department has now held onto number one for nine consecutive weeks since debuting on the May 4 chart. TTPD is only the sixth album to have ever pulled this feat off. The other five albums are Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time (12 weeks) and Dangerous: The Double Album (10 weeks), Drake’s Views (nine weeks), Whitney Houston’s Whitney (11 weeks), and Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (13 weeks).
Total sales figures looked a lot similar to last week’s. Streaming numbers continue to slow, but album sales increased to 33,000—10,000 more than last week—thanks to two new CD versions that went up for preorder in early June and shipped out later.
Billie Eilish’s album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT remains at number two with total sales at 84,000 units, placing it third in streaming and fifth in album sales.
The best debut of the week goes to Don Toliver for his album HARDSTONE PSYCHO, coming in at number three. All four of Toliver’s albums to date have entered the top 10—his 2021 release, Life of a DON, reached as high as number two—but his latest album is actually his best-performing, having been streamed just shy of 76 million times and selling 20,000 copies for a combined total of 77,000 album equivalent units.
Sabrina Carpenter’s single “Please Please Please” debuted at number two last week and has now made it to the summit as the Hot 100 number one, her first ever. Carpenter has, however, entered the chart on five separate occasions: in 2021 with “Skin” (number 48), in 2023 with “Nonsense” (56), and this year with “Feather” (21), “Espresso” (three), and at last, now, her first number one hit. “Espresso,” meanwhile, is still around, at number four. Carpenter co-wrote “Please Please Please” with Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff. Jack Antonoff also produced the track, making “Please” his eighth number-one song where he contributed as both songwriter and producer. His first was “We Are Young” as a member of fun., while the remaining six are all Taylor Swift songs.
The rise of “Please Please Please” to number one was accompanied by a slight increase in streams this week, helping it stay afloat above the 50-million mark. This week’s chart is issued for the week of June 14 through 20, during which time—on June 18, specifically—a number of different versions of the song were released, including acoustic, a cappella, instrumental, sped-up, and slowed-down variations, all helping to give it a bump.
Carpenter’s song also pushed Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s single “I Had Some Help” down to number two after its five-week reign atop the chart. “Some Help” still ranks an impressive second in streaming, third in sales, and second in radio airplay—the latter a jump up from last week. In fact, it’s top of its genre, sitting at number one on the Country Airplay chart. Climbing to the top that particular chart in just seven weeks is practically unheard of. The last song to do the same was “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw, all the way back in 2004. Looking at figures for the 2020s, the average time to the top of the Country Airplay chart is 33 weeks. Although streams of “Some Help” have gone down, the increase in airplay means the duo may still find themselves at the top of the Hot 100 again.
Sabrina Carpenter’s dominating the global charts this week as well. “Please Please Please” debuted at number two on the Global 200 last week and made it all the way to number one this week. It swapped places with another of Carpenter’s singles, “Espresso.”
Thanks to this, the singer has achieved two new records. First, she’s only the second artist in history, and the first woman ever, to occupy the top two spots of the Global 200 for two consecutive weeks—a feat first achieved by Peso Pluma last June. Second, Carpenter is only the second artist to achieve a number one on the chart and follow it up immediately with another song in the same position, something Taylor Swift did in November with “Cruel Summer” and “Is It Over Now?” Carpenter achieved this without any featured artists and by rising up with a track that was already number two, making it a very special moment indeed.
“Please” is now also number one on the Global Excl. US chart after debuting at number five last week. As with the Global 200, it bumped “Espresso” down to number two, which makes Carpenter the only female soloist to have ever occupied both numbers one and two. Jung Kook did it for two weeks, while BLACKPINK and BTS have each done it for one. That also makes Carpenter the first artist outside the K-pop sphere to join the exclusive club.
Dominating both numbers one and two across the Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts is something only Carpenter, Jung Kook, and BLACKPINK can lay claim to, each having accomplished it just the once. True to the global label, “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” are also the top two songs on both the UK and Australian charts for the week.
NAYEON’s second solo album, NA, has debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200, moving 47,000 units, 43,000 of which came from album sales. The remainder comes from roughly 5.41 million streams. Fifteen different CD versions and two on vinyl were released, which combine to place NAYEON at the very peak of the Top Album Sales chart. More specifically, NA sold 34,500 copies on CD, 7,500 on vinyl, and 1,000 digital. In 2022, her debut EP, IM NAYEON, kicked off exactly the same way: number seven on the Billboard 200 and number one for Top Album Sales. The EP moved 57,000 units, with 52,000 coming from album sales. Meanwhile, ATEEZ’s album GOLDEN HOUR: Part 1 is at number 69 in its third week.
Following NAYEON at number one on the Top Album Sales chart are ATEEZ (GOLDEN HOUR, number 10), TOMORROW X TOGETHER (minisode 3: TOMORROW, 16), SEVENTEEN (17 IS RIGHT HERE, 33), and RM (Right Place, Wrong Person, 41).
NAYEON returned to the Artist 100 at number nine, having previously peaked at number five. ATEEZ dropped from their former position of number eight last week to number 31, while TOMORROW X TOGETHER sat at 67.
On the Global 200, NAYEON’s single “ABCD” debuted at number 54 on the Global 200 and currently sits at number 34 on the Global Excl. US chart. Here’s how K-pop artists are looking on the Global 200 this week:
Finally, BOYNEXTDOOR is at number 24 on the Emerging Artists chart. The Emerging Artists chart is calculated the same way as the Artist 100 chart, but it only includes artists who have never ranked in the top 25 of either the Hot 100 or the Billboard 200.