There's a new No. Bad Bunny stays entrenched at the top for a third consecutive week, while Lamar slides up a spot to take the place of Mac Miller 's Balloonerism , which debuted at No. Part 1 , like the hit song it contains, has been a mainstay on the charts since its release; it's still at No. Out of the gate, Part 2 is doing even better, debuting at No. And the London rapper Central Cee β whose mixtapes have been mainstays on the U. That's a new career peak for the inventive singer, who's never climbed higher than No.
Many if not all of this week's debuts are likely to slide next week, due to a combination of the second-week blues, a bump for artists featured on Sunday night's Grammys telecast and the sure-to-be-lofty debut of The Weeknd 's new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. But this week, it's forced down a spot by a fresh chart-topper : Rapper Travis Scott debuts atop the Hot with his heavily promoted new single, "4X4. The track is Scott's fifth No. In other words, Scott has been part of four of the 83 songs in Hot history that have pulled off that feat.
More on this in a moment. As curiosity around Scott's new single wanes β the rapper has never had a song stay at No. But to do it, he'll have to fend off the 22 songs on The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow that'll likely rush the chart next week. But back to Bruno. Depending on how the song's chart trajectory unfolds β it's pretty filthy for radio, but so was " WAP ," and that track hit No. Not bad for a guy who hasn't released a full-length album of his own since The Billboard Hot dates back to August , and in the chart's long history, as mentioned above, 83 songs have debuted at No.
As is so often the case with Billboard milestones, it's a phenomenon that began relatively recently β and has only grown more common in the streaming era. For many years, the Billboard Hot had a rule where songs had to be officially released as singles in order to chart. But in the '90s, labels began to figure out ways to use that rule to their advantage, often by delaying songs' release until they'd found an audience on the radio.
Billboard changed that rule in There were other factors β from release schedules that didn't sync up neatly with the charts to changes in systems for measuring sales and airplay β but the '90s laid the groundwork for more songs to achieve instant gratification today.
