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Eminem, performing right here through the Tremendous Bowl LVI Halftime Present at SoFi Stadium in 2022, returns to the highest 10 of the Billboard Scorching 100 chart this week with “Houdini.”
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This week’s dive into the pop charts is a reminder that nostalgia is one highly effective journey, from a brand-new single that explicitly references each 1982 and 2002 to a viral cowl of a 2006 hit. In the meantime, Taylor Swift nonetheless continues to reign supreme on the albums chart.
TOP SONGS
Submit Malone’s “I Had Some Assist,” that includes Morgan Wallen, is holding robust with a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart.
We now have a brand new entrant at No. 2, nevertheless: rapper Eminem’s “Houdini” — which, I ought to hasten to notice, bears no relation to vampy siren Dua Lipa’s music of the identical title, launched a mere seven months in the past. (An entire eon in the past in cultural reminiscence, apparently.)
This “Houdini” is stuffed stuffed with old school musical magic tips that urge it in direction of success. Not solely does Em reference his 2002 hit “With out Me” — “Guess who’s again, again once more?” — however he interpolates Steve Miller Band’s hit “Abracadabra,” which itself went to No. 1 on the Scorching 100 in September of 1982. (You realize what sort of music numerous individuals actually like? Music that they know they already actually like.)
Rounding out the Billboard 100 high 5: Tommy Richman’s “Million Greenback Child,” Shaboozey’s “Tipsy (A Bar Tune)” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
TOP ALBUMS
Taylor Swift continues her reign at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, scoring a seventh week within the high spot. As Billboard notes, nevertheless, her equal album gross sales have continued to fall, notching 148,00 items this week.
It’s nonetheless sufficient to carry off everybody else, no less than for now. As on the songs chart, we have now newcomers within the second slot on the 200: the eight-member Ok-Pop band Ateez, with their EP (or, as they wish to name it, the “mini-album”) Golden Hour: Half.1. Curiously, Ateez did not crack the Scorching 100, regardless of the worldwide success of their single “Work,” which pays tribute to the each day grind. (A short musicological criticism: the “Work” video opens with one character — buried as much as his neck in grime — pretending to play a flute, though the precise observe makes use of the sound of a clarinet. Since we’re discussing cycles of nostalgia and historical past this week, I need to notice that this is rather like the Jason Derulo “Speak Soiled” video, that includes fashions “enjoying” the trumpet, another time — the place the precise music used saxophones, courtesy of a pattern of the band Balkan Beat Field. Additionally, the much less stated concerning the method employed by the faux instrumentalists in each movies, the higher.)
Ateez is adopted by two returners: Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Comfortable, which this week slipped down one spot to No. 3, and Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time at No. 4. This week, Shaboozey debuted on the albums chart at No. 5 together with his The place I’ve Been, Is not The place I am Going, which was launched on Could 31 — an comprehensible development given the recognition of his “Tipsy (A Bar Tune),” which launched this album.
WORTH NOTING:
Simply in case anybody doubted a selected social media platform’s skill to maneuver the cultural needle, Billboard has been charting the TikTok High 50 each week since final September “primarily based on creations, video views and consumer engagement.”
It is most likely no shock that Tommy Richman’s “Million Greenback Child,” which first discovered its viewers on TikTok, has been main this chart for the previous 5 weeks. However the TikTok chart is filled with extra offbeat singles than the Billboard 100, together with a relatively maudlin cowl of Gnarls Barkley’s “Loopy,” courtesy of a Canadian comic, actor and singer named Stephen Kramer Glickman and that includes cellist Marza Wilks. (Simply to drive his level dwelling, Glickman made a Joker-themed video for this music.) This model of “Loopy” entered the TikTok chart this week at No. 6. (Say it with me: You realize what sort of music numerous individuals actually like? Music that they know they already actually like.)
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