Billboard Hot 100: 07/02/2022

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Morgan Wallen Scores Sixth No. 1 on Country Airplay Chart With ‘Wasted on You’
Plus, Luke Combs' latest debuts at No. 2 on Hot Country Songs.


BY JIM ASKER

MMorgan Wallen achieves his sixth No. 1 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart as “Wasted on You” ascends to the top of the list dated July 2. In the tracking week ending June 26, the song gained by 4% to 29.4 million in audience, according to Luminate.

Wallen wrote the song with ERNEST, Josh Thompson and Ryan Vojtesak.

Concurrently, “Wasted” rules the multi-metric Hot Country Songs tally for a seventh frame. It corralled 12.2 million U.S. streams (up 2%) and sold 5,000 downloads (up 13%) in the week ending June 23.

The 29-year-old Wallen, from Sneedville, Tenn., last led Country Airplay with “Sand in My Boots” for a week in February. He first topped the survey with “Up Down” (featuring Florida Georgia Line) for a frame in June 2018 and reigned again with “Whiskey Glasses” for three weeks starting in June 2019, “Chasin’ You” (one week, May 2020) and “More Than My Hometown” (one, November 2020).

Meanwhile, “Wasted” parent set Dangerous: The Double Album leads Top Country Albums for a record-extending 63rd week, with 52,000 equivalent album units (up less than 1%).

Notably, “Wasted” will be promoted to pop and adult pop radio beginning July 11.

Concurrently, ERNEST’s “Flower Shops” (Big Loud), featuring Wallen, pushes 19-18 on Country Airplay (7.9 million).



‘Make’-ing Headlines
Luke Combs’ new single “The Kind of Love We Make” blasts onto Hot Country Songs at No. 2. It drew 11 million streams and sold 12,000 downloads in its first full tracking week. On Country Airplay, the song, which Combs co-wrote, climbs 18-15 (9.5 million, up 8%).

The song opens at No. 1 on both Country Streaming Songs and Country Digital Song Sales, awarding Combs his fourth and eighth leader on the respective lists.

Combs rolls up his 16th Hot Country Songs top 10 overall and makes his second-highest debut. “Forever After All” became Combs’ fourth No. 1 when it debuted atop the survey dated Nov. 7, 2020, for its first of 10 weeks on top. The song dominated Country Airplay for six weeks starting in June 2021, becoming Combs’ 11th of 14 consecutive career-opening No. 1 singles, a record streak that his latest could extend.

“Make” is the lead single from Combs’ album Growin’ Up. Released June 24, the 12-song set will impact the Top Country Albums survey dated July 9.

Also notably, the track tallies the second No. 2 debut on Hot Country Songs in as many weeks, following Bailey Zimmerman’s “Rock and a Hard Place” on the list dated June 25. (It ranks at No. 12 on the July 2 ranking.)



Two Guys and a ‘Bar’
Chris Young scores his 17th Country Airplay top 10, as “At the End of a Bar,” with Mitchell Tenpenny, who adds his second top 10, lifts 11-10 (14.9 million, up 7%). The pair penned the song with Chris DeStefano.

For Young, “Bar” follows his duet with Kane Brown, “Famous Friends,” which became Young’s 10th Country Airplay No. 1 and wrapped as the top title on the 2021 year-end Country Airplay chart.

“Bar” is Tenpenny’s first Country Airplay top 10 since his first of six entries, “Drunk Me,” which hit No. 2 in December 2018. Meanwhile, his latest solo single, “Truth About You,” rises 15-14 (9.9 million, up 11%).

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1 in Every 60 U.S. Streams Last Week Was Drake
'Honestly, Nevermind' had five or the top 10 most-streamed tracks in the U.S. last week, boosting the hip-hop star's industry-leading market share.


BY GLENN PEOPLES

DDrake accounted for one in every 60 on-demand streams in the U.S. last week, according to Billboard analysis of Luminate data. Already the most-streamed artist in the country, the hip-hop star boosted his numbers further with the surprise release of his seventh studio album, Honestly, Nevermind, on June 17.

Honestly, Nevermind — which tops this week’s Billboard 200 albums chart — alone accounted for about 1 of every 100 on-demand streams in the U.S. in the week ending June 23. Released by OVO Sound and Republic Records without pre-release singles, the 14-track album earned 251.7 million on-demand streams in its first week of release. That was 1.04% of the 24.2 billion on-demand streams from platforms such as Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music in the U.S. that week.

In terms of album equivalent units, Honestly, Nevermind accounted for 205,000 units — or 1.1% of total consumption — in its first week of release. (To measure equivalent units, Luminate converts track sales and streams into album units.) The album accounted for 2.9% of U.S. digital album sales and 0.5% of U.S. digital track sales in its first week of release (the album was not released in CD or vinyl LP formats).

Honestly, Nevermind added more popularity to the country’s most popular artist in terms of music consumption. Drake accounted for 1 in every 125 on-demand streams in 2021 and is on a similar pace for dominance this year. In 2020, through June 23, he had 1 of every 152 on-demand streams — and that’s likely to get a boost from the new material.


With the release of his new album, Drake fans streamed just as much old music while diving headfirst into his new release.

Across his entire catalog, Drake’s share of album equivalent units grew from 0.6% the week ending June 23 to 1.7% the week after releasing his new album. And Honestly, Nevermind streams only boosted fans’ streaming of other Drake tracks: The week before he dropped the new album, Drake had 149 million on-demand streams. Outside of Honestly, Nevermind, Drake’s catalog had 155 million on-demand streams last week — adding another 6 million streams on top of the new album’s 251.7 million.

A week earlier, BTS went about dominating the Billboard 200 differently. Proof, released June 10, topped the Billboard 200 with 315,000 album equivalent units — 1.7% of all album consumption, far surpassing the 1.1% share of Honestly, Nevermind. But Proof rode to No. 1 on the strength of fans’ purchases and was far weaker than Honestly, Nevermind in terms of streams. Whereas Honestly, Nevermind accounted for 0.5% of total album sales last week, Proof’s 266,000 first-week album sales represented 16.3% of the U.S. total. BTS fans also purchased 121,000 tracks from Proof in its first week — 3.9% of total track sales — while Honestly, Nevermind racked up just 16,000 track sales in its first week.

Drake dominates U.S. streaming by a wide margin so far in 2022. Through June 23, Drake had 4.16 billion on-demand streams, 37.3% more than YoungBoy Never Broke Again at No. 2 (with 3.37 billion) and 23.5% more than Taylor Swift at No. 3 (with 3.03 billion). Last week, all 14 tracks on Honestly, Nevermind were among the top 32 most-streamed audio tracks in the U.S. and the album accounted for half of the top 10.