The Grammy Awards present is influencing folks’s listening habits this week.
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Billboard charts, meet the Grammy bump. This week’s Billboard charts are out, and Dangerous Bunny is among the main movers. However when you had been pondering that’s due to Sunday’s large halftime present, assume once more. Stephen Thompson of NPR Music has extra.
STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: The Billboard charts are a snapshot of a second in time, and this week’s charts mirror the speedy aftermath of the current Grammy Awards. Which means we’re seeing the impact of Dangerous Bunny successful album of the yr, however his Tremendous Bowl halftime present will not be mirrored on the charts till subsequent week. Nonetheless, the Grammys alone had been sufficient to present Dangerous Bunny an enormous increase in streaming, and because of this, “DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS” takes a large leap up the charts from No. 9 to No. 2. On the identical time, his tune “DtMF” reenters the Scorching 100 singles chart at No. 10.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DTMF”)
BAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish).
THOMPSON: Nonetheless, an enormous leap in his numbers wasn’t sufficient for Dangerous Bunny to return to the highest of Billboard’s albums chart. That honor went to rapper Don Toliver, whose new album “Octane” has racked up a number of the largest first-week numbers of his profession.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “ATM”)
DON TOLIVER: (Rapping) Final week, we went again to the crib. Did spherical two. I do not even…
THOMPSON: Don Toliver has hit No. 1 earlier than, however solely as a member of the hip-hop collective JackBoys. As a solo artist, it is his first time on the prime of the Billboard 200. Elsewhere on the album’s chart, Dangerous Bunny is not the one star to obtain a Grammy Awards bump. Nation singer Jelly Roll reenters this week’s chart on the heels of his large wins, whereas Justin Bieber’s “Swag” leaps greater than 70 spots into the highest 25.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DAISIES”)
JUSTIN BIEBER: (Singing) The way in which you bought me all in my head. The way in which you bought me all in my head. Assume I might reasonably you in my mattress.
THOMPSON: Some rising stars did not even must carry out on the Grammys or win awards to derive no less than some profit from music’s largest evening. A video for Noah Kahan’s newest single “The Nice Divide” performed throughout the Grammys’ industrial time, and now that tune debuts on the Scorching 100 singles chart at No. 6.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “THE GREAT DIVIDE”)
NOAH KAHAN: (Singing) You inched your self throughout the nice divide, whereas we drove aimlessly alongside the Twin State line.
THOMPSON: Stephen Thompson, NPR Music.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “THE GREAT DIVIDE”)
KAHAN: (Singing) I heard nothing however the bass in each ballad that you just’d play, whilst you swore to God the singer learn your thoughts.
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