Plus, Cardi B comes back in at no. 5 and Megan Thee Stallion jumps to no. 6.
Taylor Swift scores her landmark 40th overall week at no. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated August 22), thanks to the continued success of their new album, Folklore.
The set notches a third week at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 136,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Nielsen Music / MRC Data, two weeks after it debuted with 846,000 units, the largest sum of one week for each album since the last of Swift LP, Leaver, in September 2019.
Swift charts three songs at once Folklore on the latest Billboard Hot 100 (after all 16 tracks of the standard edition of the set debuted in their opening card week). “Cardigan” leads on no. 24, after going up to no. 1, followed by “The 1” on no. 50 and “exile”, with Bon Iver, at no. 61.
With her 40th week at the top of the Artist 100, Swift is expanding her record for most of the time spent at No. 1, dating to the launch of the map in 2014. Drake finished second with 31 weeks in lead, followed by The Weeknd (20), Post Malone (14) and Ariana Grande (13).
Among other Artist 100 chart moves, Cardi B re-enters at no. 5 and Megan Thee Stallion jumps 19-6 as her column single “WAP” launches at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with 93 million US streams, the most ever for a song in the first week of release. Cardi B collects her fourth Hot 100 No. 1 and Megan Thee Stallion adds her second.
The Artist 100 measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media interaction to deliver a weekly multidimensional ranking of artist popularity.
