Shaboozey and Sabrina Carpenter dominate charts as The Weeknd approaches: NPR

Sabrina Carpenter, seen here performing at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, NY, has three hits in the top 10 of the singles charts this week. Your album Short and sweet spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the album charts.

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The billboard Topping the charts are two of 2024's biggest breakthrough artists: Shaboozey and Sabrina Carpenter's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” are No. 1 on the Hot 100 for the 13th consecutive year Short and sweet returns to the top billboard 200 album chart after a two-week absence. But a few acts with longer chart pedigrees are making their move as fall wears on.

TOP ALBUMS

Last week three new albums stormed the top 10: Future's Mixtape Pluto (No. 1), Katy Perry's 143 (No. 6) and Lil Teccas Plan A (No. 9). This week, two of those records are seeing precipitous drops: Perry falls to No. 76 – more on that below – while Tecca falls to No. 63. Such is life for most upper echelons billboard 200 debuts.

Future also slips – modestly, as it turns out, coming in at No. 3 this week – while Sabrina Carpenter resumes her position at the top of the charts. Short and sweet climbs from No. 3 back to No. 1 and Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess stays at No. 2 for another week. (She's now been bumped from No. 1 by four different artists: Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Post Malone and Future.) Morgan Wallens One thing at a time rises from No. 5 to No. 4, while Billie Eilish's Hit me hard and soft rises from No. 8 to No. 5. It's a big week all around for Eilish, benefiting from a recent tour start as well as the release of an official video for “Birds of a Feather.”

The bottom half of the top 10 is full of old reliables: Post Malones F-1 trillion falls from #4 to #6, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department stays at number 7, Noah Kahan's Embroidery season climbs from No. 10 to No. 8, Zach Bryan's The great American bar scene rises from No. 11 to No. 9 and Morgan Wallens Dangerous: The double album improves by two places to 10th place.

Among the less promising chart news is the new album from country singer Luke Bryan – not to be confused with country singer Zach Bryan billboard 200 at No. 51. Ghost of a country boy of course has time to rise, but Bryan's last album (2020s). Born here, live here, die here) reached the Top 5 and his last six studio albums have landed in the Top 10, topping the charts three times. Bryan is still a live draw and a perennial favorite American Idol Judge — and “Love You, Miss You, Mean It” is a hit on the country charts — but its first-week numbers look bleak this time around.

TOP SONGS

Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” remains unstoppable, staying at No. 1 for the 12th week in a row (and 13 weeks in total). It has long since cemented its status as the biggest chart hit of 2024, but there are more milestones to come Before: It now has the third-longest chart-topping streak of the decade so far, trailing only Morgan Wallen's “Last Night” (16 weeks last year) and Harry Styles' “As It Was” (15 weeks this year 2022). Although there's stiff competition this week, the song is in truly distinguished company as one of only 16 songs in the chart's history to spend 13 weeks at No. 1.

The rest of the top 10 is seeing some movement after a few weeks of near-total stagnation. Buoyed by the release of the official video, Billie Eilish's “Birds of a Feather” jumps from No. 6 to a new high at No. 2. And the top 10 finally gets a new debut in the form of The Weeknd and Playboi Carti's “Timeless” at No. 3 With the song topping the streaming charts this week and already being added to many radio playlists, it promises to stick around for a while – especially given the way streaming algorithms (and radio stations, for that matter) tend to work to give listeners more of what they were already looking for.

It's hard to imagine The Weeknd reaching a new chart milestone given how high the bar has been set with his previous songs and given the fact that he remains the biggest artist on Spotify in terms of monthly listenership is. But “Timeless” marks the highest chart debut of any song in his career. And yes, that includes “Blinding Lights,” which debuted at No. 11 at the end of 2019 and was on its way to a chart run that spanned an incredible 90 weeks — including a record-breaking 57 weeks in the Top 10. “Timeless” is the Weeknd 19. Top 10 hit and the first of the upcoming ones Hurry up tomorrow. (The album's first single, “Dancing in the Flames,” peaked at No. 14 a few weeks ago and is now at No. 37.)

From there, most of last week's deck will be reshuffled in the top 10. Thanks to the arrival of “Timeless” and the jump of “Birds of a Feather,” Post Malone's “I Had Some Help” featuring Morgan Wallen slips from its long-held No. 2 to No. 4. Sabrina Carpenter becomes one of only seven artists ever have placed three songs in the top 10 for six weeks, with “Espresso” falling from #3 to #5, “Taste” staying at #9 and “Please Please Please” slipping from #1. 8 to No. 10. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' “Die With a Smile” (No. 5 to No. 6), Chappell Roan's “Good Luck, Babe!” (No. 4 to No. 7) and “Lose Control ” by Teddy Swims (No. 7 to No. 8) fill out the rest of the top 10.

Remarkable

Luke Bryan isn't the only veteran chart-topper to experience some humiliating chart news this week. Lady Gaga harlequin – a jazz and standards-filled companion album to the maligned supervillain musical Joker: Folie à Deux – enters the billboard 200 at number 20, marking the lowest chart peak of any album in Gaga's discography (excluding remix collections and compilations). Granted, jazz and standards aren't usually chart-toppers, but Gaga's two album-length collaborations with Tony Bennett (2014) are. Cheek to cheek and 2021 Love for sales). good.

Nor was it a banner year for another of 21st century pop music's most decorated hitmakers. Katy Perry's new album, 143has spawned three singles so far, and only the first – the terrible “Woman's World” – has cracked the Hot 100, posting a lonely week at No. 63. Now, after a mediocre debut at No. 6 last week, 143 She falls a whopping 70 spots to land at No. 76. There's still time for a rebound, especially as Perry prepares for a world tour in 2025, but momentum isn't on her side.